the_debt_of_time

Mia paled, and her fists clenched tight as she felt that emptiness inside of her fill
with something boiling hot. She tried to tell Mary to have at it and that Sirius was as good
as hers if she wanted, but the words would not come out.
Mary immediately took notice, gesturing in amusement. "See? Fine, fine. Sirius is
off limits."
"All my boys are off limits," Mia clarified, a strange sense of possession coming
over her. Visions of Lavender Brown eating Ron's face, and Cho Chang breaking Harry's
heart came to her, and she shook her head. Not this time.
Mary laughed, jumping on the bed so hard that she knocked Lily off the edge. "You
can't keep them all to yourself!"
"Fine, Lily can have James," Mia agreed, and Lily scrambled off of the floor, looking
at her furiously. Mia only smirked in reply but refused to take back the announcement.
"Alice likes James," Mary pointed out.
"Alice can have Frank," Mia insisted, folding her arms over her chest defiantly. Both
Mary and Lily giggled. "What? Tell me they're not perfect for each other, and I'll take it
back."
Lily raised a brow after genuinely thinking about it for a minute. "Wow, they really
are."
"Who's really what?" Alice asked as she walked out of the bathroom wearing a
flower-covered swimming costume.
"You and Frank, perfect for one another," Mary answered.
Suddenly, Alice blushed to the tips of her toes, and she covered her mouth. "How
did you know?"
Mary's eyes widened with the greed of a girl who breathed gossip as easily as oxygen.
"How did we know what, little Miss Brown?"
Alice shook her head and made to run for it, but Mary was too quick and tackled
her to the ground, straddling her waist and pinning her arms down beside her head, thus
preventing Alice from hiding the blush that crept over her cheeks and the silly grin forming
on her face.
"No way, you're not getting away! You've got a secret, and I will find out or die
trying!"
"I kissed him!" Alice finally blurted out, and the other three girls gasped.