: // I sit and WATCH, as tears go by \\ : {OPEN}

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie could tell Ted was still a tad drunk. He was acting funny, more reckless and completely silly than he usually would. As he nuzzled his nose into her neck, she grinned, before feeling dirty and vulgar for doing such and gently pulling his head up to give him a proper kiss. However, the next moment, she pulled away from him, startled by the noises going on up in the Boy's Dormitory. If the Head of Gryffindor House ever foudn out about whatever was going on up there, they'd have multitudes of points taken away.

She was led upstairs by an impatient and rather persistent Teddy, who had something like a vice-grip on her small, delicate hand. She didn't want to pull her hand away, simply because it felt rather good to be connected with him in such a loving way, but it was also hurting her hand, and she doubted it was good for her fragile bones. So, eventually, she pulled her hand out of his just as they entered Ted, Zane, and James' room, and her bottle-green eyes widened at the sight of a drunken Lily and Zane.

[Zane Lestrange]

"You like well can't remember can you Lils?" Zane laughed as he said this. Firewhiskey always provided a feeling of euphoria and a general high until the headache attacked the next morning. He waited for James to reply but when none came, Zane said, "I forgets Lils. You bin gone all day," he waved his hand in the air. He watched the firewhsikey bottle carefully, making sure he didn't take his eyes off it. There was no way that he would let James and Lily finish it without his knowledge. He stared into the bottle of his glass, willing it to refill without him having to cross the room to retrieve the bottle, sadly it didn't. He got to his feet and crossed the room, taking the bottle from Lily and carefully tried to refill his glass without spilling a drop. Smiling with the small achievement, he returned to his place and sat down, leaning against the bed.

As the door opened and Ted appeared, Zane stared at the opposite wall, not really taking in anything that he could see. A rather vacant expression was plastered across his face until he heard the word, "Lily!". He smiled as Rosie appeared, waving at the sober Gryffindors, with a large smile on his face.

[Lily Potter]

A huge Lily-smile spread across the young Gryffindor's face. Having already downed five or six possibly even seven glasses of firewhiskey, Lily was, well quite frankly, drunk. She looked up from her half full glass at Zane, who looked just as smashed as she did. Hardly hearing his question, she laughed. "No-nope. I can no remember it." she said, her face already beaming in happiness. Her hand, which was tightly grasping the bottle of firewhiskey Zane had handed her, found her chest as she suddenly hiccuped. Laughing again, she caught her brother's gaze. "Ands what have tow you boys benn doin'?" she saked, using one finger from her firewhiskey hand to point at James.
Lily felt the bottle she grasped in her left hand. Slowly, the young girl looked to the stealing theif who had taken her aclohol. She nearly burst into a fit of laughter when she saw Zane pouring himself another swig of whiskey. A girly giggle escaped her lips. "Whats the bloody hell was that?" she thought aloud. Shrugging, she watched Zane pour his glass. She kept her eyes on the bottle. When he finished, her hand darted out and snached the bottle back. "Yous got to been careful, Zaners." she slurred. Laughing, yet again, she shook her head. She felt like her brother, or possibly a drunken Zane, might ask her if she was trying to shake off her own drunkenness.
Hearing the creaking of the door behind her, Lily turned, however slow she wasn't sure, around. She saw Rosie and Teddy, who looked like he was in a deffensive pose, enter the room. "Why, lookies here! Tedders! Ima not gunna trust you anymore with my secrets. YOU told Zane I liked him, eh?" she said, to drunk to think about what could happen. "Hello to you too, Miss Rosieeeeeee!" she squealed, stumbling to her cousin. "You really need to try this! Right, Zaney?"

[Teddy Lupin]

Ted groaned as Lily reminded him that he did indeed tell Zane that she liked him. It's what happens when you get loaded drunk. When Lily offered Rosie some of the whiskey, which Ted was sure she wouldn't take, he grabbed the bottle from Lily and passed it to Rosie. "No more for anyone. I'm not dragging your sorry asses down to the Hospital Wing for alcohol posioning!" he told them before grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her over to his bed. "Sit." he commanded before opening his trunk, looking through it. Now in a more sober state he noticed a few pairs of his boxer shorts had dissappeared and could only assume House elves had stolen them after they had been washed. He didn't mind, they seemed to enjoy the little things like socks and mittens. he was sure a pair of his shorts would be like pants on one of the elves.

He finally found what he was looking for. The small gastly colored sweets. He placed a few in his hands and walked over to Lily. "Hey Lils, these taste even better then Firewhiskey, I swears on it." Ted said, offering her four of the candies. Althought these wouldn't make her completely sober, they would sure tone her drunkness down a tad.

[Lily Potter]

Lily felt the bottle being torn from her grip. "Whaaaaaat! Heys there Tedders, you can't just say no mores!" she said, feeling his grip on her arms as he ordered her to sit on a bed. She laughed softly. "Fine, Ted." she whispered as she sat down. She hiccuped again as she looked back a Zane, a goofy smile on her lips. "Wheres you bin all day?" she asked, laying back on her big brother's bed. Her eyes scanned the celing as she awaited Teddy's reuten. She caught him looking through his trunk. Whats that?" she thoguht aloud as he began to walk back to her side. "Nah. Nufings better than dat whiskey. Trsut me on dat." she said, pushing the candy away.

[James Sirius Potter]

It took a lot of drink to get James smashed so he held out for longer than the others. When Lily came in he was semi-smashed. He was going to protest but it was too late. When he heard that she had heard everything he thought that she should have something as Teddy had told Zane.

He wished that Noah wasn't interested in Zoey. He didn't mind Noah apart from the fact that he was in the DE, but now he hated him. He had to ask Zoey to the ball before Noah. He was unhappy about getting discovered by Rosie. He finished his firewhiskey and put down his glass wishing that he had more.

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie took the bottle dolefully from Ted, her bottle-green eyes fixed on her cousins and Zane. She was worried about the lot of them, especially Lily. She was barely fourteen and Rosie doubted a girl of her size should be drinking so much alcohol. In fact, she shouldn't be drinking any at ALL. That was the main reason Rosie didn't drink. She knew she was too small to keep down much without going completely insane, and she'd rather have her wits about her if someone attacked her or tried to hurt her friends and family.

When Lily wouldn't take the candy, Rosie took matters into her own hands, taking the small, oddly colored things from Teddy before stepping forward and gently prying open the girl's jaw, which was surprisingly easy, as Lily didn't exactly know what was going on and relented easier. After this, she popped the sweets into her mouth and held the girl's nose shut, forcing her to close her mouth. It would be much easier to make Lily cooperate if she didn't have air to fight with. "Swallow m'dear."

[James Sirius Potter]

James scowled looking at Rosie. Of course she was right. What was he doing letting Lily drink. He scowled and put his head in his hands "I'm such an idiot." he said taking deep breaths to suppress the anger he felt at himself "How did I get accepted into auror training." he added quietly thinking that no one could hear him. He put down his glass and felt tears of shame prick his eyes.

[Lily Potter]

Lily watched as Rosie took the candy from Teddy. She saw her hands opening her mouth. Before she could protest, the candies were in her mouth and she couldn't breath. Giving her cousin a look, Lily shook her head. "NO." she said, the word was muffled by the food in her mouth and the fingers pinching her nose together. Lily shook her head, being told what to do wasn't her thing. She looked at her brother, then to Zane. A helpless look on her face. Her air was running out, but she was still refusing to eat the candy.

[Zane Lestrange]

Zane sat quietly, leaning against the bed. He stared into space again, not really taking in what was going on around him. Now that the Firewhiskey bottle had disappeared, the high was beginning to wear off and the headache was on the horizon. He tried to get to his feet to help Lily but his legs wouldn't move. Instead his head lolled to the side and his eyes closed, gentle breathing soon followed. He lay on the floor, shielding his eyes from the light before eventually falling straight to sleep. Weird dreams frequented his consciousness, mostly involving Ted dressed like an old woman and talking with Rosie's voice. All very strange, but that was one of the side effects of too much firewhiskey.

[James Sirius Potter]

James saw Zane pass out and laughed slightly. Then he closed his eyes and took a deep breath trying to sober up sharpish. He looked up at Rosie and Ted and frowned. He was quite tempted to summon the firewhiskey bottle and finish it up getting himself completly smashed. He raised his wand and casted a non-verbal summoning charm and caught the bottle and downed the rest. He felt the world spin and smiled broardly.