I'm leaning against my bed frame while looking at James, who is trying to figure out which vinyl he should play next.
"Why do you have so many of these? " He asks while inspecting one of Queen's albums.
"Because I like to collect them and I listen to many bands. I want to have every album of my favorite bands." I reply chuckling at him.
He walks back to my shelf and picks up a few more vinyl. "The Beatles, Eagles, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Abba." He starts reading the names and stops.
"We haven't listened to Abba." He holds up the vinyl for me to see. It's the Waterloo album.
"You're kidding me." I sit up from my bed "Surely I've shown Abba to you." I walk up to him.
"Nope," He takes the vinyl out of its cover "Not that I'm aware of."
I start putting some of my vinyls back into their place. I hear the familiar music start playing. Honey, Honey.
"Oh, that's my favorite song from the whole album!" I exclaim excitedly.
James grins at me and turns up the volume.
Honey, honey, how you thrill me, ah-hah, honey, honey
I start singing along.
Honey, honey, nearly kill me, ah-ha, honey, honey
I grab James by the arm towards myself.
I heard about you before
I point at James.
I wanted to know some more
And now I know what they mean, you're a love machine
Oh, you make me dizzy
James laughs and pulls me closer by my waist. His left hand holds my waist and right one moves up to my face. He pulls me into a sweet kiss.
Honey, honey, let me feel it, ah-hah, honey, honey
Honey, honey, don't conceal it, ah-hah honey, honey
The way that you kiss goodnight
We pull back and smile at each other.
"I didn't know that muggles made a song about me." He smirks.
I scoff "You're so cocky some times. You let everything get to your head"
"I'm not the one who pointed at you while singing this song." He teases.
I roll my eyes "Yeah, yeah, whatever."
We pull closer to each other and continue swaying to the music. James places his head on top of my head and hums along the song.
But I'm gonna stick to you, boy, you'll never get rid of me
There's no other place in this world where I rather be...
I wake up with a smile on my face. I can hear Honey, Honey still playing in my head.
I sit up from my bed and head towards the bathroom. I softly hum the song to myself.
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"And last but not least, Potter and Y/L." Professor Slughorn's voice brings me back from my train of thoughts.
"Huh, what?" I whisper to Lily.
"We're working in pairs today." Lily whispers back to me.
My eyes widen. "Who did you get paired up with?" I ask her hurriedly. I look around the class to see everyone pairing up with their partners.
"Remus." She answers with a shrug.
"Can we swap?" I try to give her my sweetest smile.
She rolls her eyes. "No way. Now go."
I groan and get up. I turn around to see where James is seated but bump into someone.
"Sorry!" The person apologizes.
I look up to see James standing right in front of me.
"Uh, hi," He says hesitantly.
"Hi," I reply with a slight smile.
He smiles back "My desk is free, we can work there." He suggests.
I nod and follow him to the back of the classroom.
"Okay, wait here, I'll go and get the supplies." He says and walks away.
I sit down and lean my hands on the table. Should I talk to him now? I could ask him to meet me after classes. I ponder by myself.
Suddenly the image of us kissing in my dream pops up in my head. Okay, no. I really don't want to see a picture of me and James kissing in my head, while I'm supposed to be working with him.
"What are you thinking about?" James suddenly asks besides me.
I jump a little, not expecting him to be back already.
"Oh, nothing. Just a dream I had." I brush it off.
"Oh, what did you dream of?" He looks at me curiously.
I'm caught off guard with the question. It would be weird if I was like 'Hey James, I had another dream of us kissing. You know, the usual.'
"Um, nothing important. We we're just in my room." I shrug.
"We? I was in your dream?" He questions, sounding a bit excited.
Well, shit. I didn't mean to say we.
"Yeah, you were there." I give him an awkward smile and open the book to distract myself.
James nods and starts adding the ingredients into the cauldron. "What were we doing in your dream?" He began again.
I cough "We were listening to one of my vinyls."
I start cutting some weird looking plant. James adds a few drops of some liquid into the potion.
"Do you remember what song we were listening to?" He continued.
Why does he have so many questions?
"It was Honey, Honey by Abba." I answer him.
He pauses and thinks for a moment "I don't think I know this song."
"I'm pretty sure you don't." I nod in agreement.
I pick up the cut up plant and throw it in the cauldron. The potion sizzles for a bit.
"Can you sing it?" James spoke up suddenly.
I turn to look at him confused "Huh?"
"The song. Could you sing it?" He looks straight at me.
"No way I'm going to sing to you. I'm terrible at singing." I laugh.
"Oh, come on, you sound great. I want to hear the song!" He grins back at me.
"Definitely not James. I can show you the song some time. But I'm not going to sing." I argue.
"Fine. You can show it to me." James sighs giving up.
I look at James. He has a concentrated look on his face. His hair is messy as always, his sleeves are rolled up to his elbows, and his tie is undone, not surprising.
"Your tie is undone." I point towards his tie.
He looks up at me and then down at his tie "Yeah, I still don't know how to do it." He grins sheepishly.
"Of course you don't." I laugh.
Guess who's back! Sorry, I had no time because of my exams and graduation. But at least now school is over!
Also, love the fact that there is a heat wave. Totally not dying because of the heat.
But on a serious topic. I'm so done with the US. They are taking away women's rights. This is not okay!
No uterus=no opinion
Why do women, people of color, and LGBT+ community have to fight for the same rights that white straight cis man have? We shouldn't have to fight for being who we are. We are just regular people.
I am so sorry for women who live in the US or Poland.