Friends Forever

Chapter 1: Practice and Secrets

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Claire and James Potter are twins but James was born 5 minutes before Claire and is the splitting image of his father, messy black hair and blue eyes. Claire is also the splitting image of her mother has long, silky, straight, dirty blonde hair that was slightly shorter than Lily's and the most amazing violet eyes that everyone complements her on. In the Potter family there is four children. The twins are first and then there is Jake who is 9 with spiky blonde hair and blue eyes, and Christina who is 3 with black wavy hair and green eyes. The twins celebrate their birthday on the 11th June.

Sirius and Lily Black are twins (as well) and are very close since they were placed in Gryffindor and their family gave them a hard time about it ever since. Sirius was born 2 minutes before Lily and had longish shaggy black hair and green eyes, while Lily had long, layered, curly auburn hair that finished in the middle of her back and shining green eyes like her brother. They also celebrate their birthday on the 11th November.

Although they didn't like to admit it they looked like their parent but don't want to be like them and join the Dark Lord, and because of it they were outcasts and ran away from home in their 6th year of Hogwarts to stay with the Potters. The Potters accepted them into the family and are another addition to their already growing family.

Lily and Claire have been best friends since their first year together and to their amazement had so much in common. They also met another girl by the name of Ella Attard, who had shoulder length black hair and lovely hazel eyes, but had a very deep secret. She was a werewolf. When Lily and Claire found out in their second year they decided to help Ella by becoming illegal Animagi and stay with her during transformation. Lily's animal form was a cheetah and Claire was an ocelot, which was basically the same thing. These girls together were by far the most beautiful and popular girls at Hogwarts.

James Potter met Sirius Black in their first year and became best friends within ten minutes. They met to other young boys by the name Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.

Remus Lupin had light brown hair and brown eyes and was the smarter and more responsible one of the group but he was still good-looking all the same.

Peter Pettigrew was the least popular and not so attractive one of the group. He had sandy coloured hair and blue eyes but he was also slightly chubby compared to the others.

The fact that Remus was a werewolf brought the group closer and the boys transformed into illegal Animagi as well. James was a stag, Sirius a black dog and Peter a rat.

The boys didn't know about the secret the girls were hiding and it was the same for the girls. This group of boy were (like their sisters and to Remus and Peter, friends,) were the most popular and good looking boys at Hogwarts but they call themselves the Marauders, being the biggest troublemakers Hogwarts has seen yet.

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James, Sirius and Remus were sitting in the lounge room of the Potter Mansion playing a game of Exploding Snap, while Lily and Claire were upstairs waiting for their other best friend, Ella to arrive so they could practice their dance routine for the Welcoming Feast in a week.

Professor Dumbledore asked them to do a little performance and the Welcoming Feast seeing as thought they were the best dancers in Hogwarts. No one knows about the performance they will be doing as Professor Dumbledore wanted it to be a surprise.

Lily changed into a thin black track pants that outlined her already slim body clinging to her thighs that spread below the knees and a sky blue singlet top.

Claire changed into the same style pant except they were sky blue and her top was black. They both tied their hair into a high ponytail.

The only times you will ever see one of them with their hair in a ponytail is when they are doing something important or are upset. The only people who know about this theory are their twin brothers and Ella.

The two girls finished changing and went downstairs to check on the boys. When they got down stairs they found James and Sirius on the floor wrestling each other and Remus sitting on the couch reading not paying attention to them as though he was use to it.

The girls exchanged glances and started laughing which caught the boys' attention and they jumped apart smiling.

James and Lily finally decided to stop fighting and be friends which it easier for the rest of the group and they actually found they have a lot in common. But as their friendship grew Lily was beginning to develop feelings for James and finally realised that she wants to be more than friends. The only problem was that she didn't want to get hurt and was unsure of what to do. Sirius was still trying to get Claire to go out with him but she kept playing 'hard to get' and it was driving him crazy. No one except for Lily knew how much he likes her and he even stopped dating other girls for 2 months which is a new record for Sirius.

"Hey, having fun?" Lily said after she finally stopped laughing.

"What can't you tell?" James replied slightly out of breath but smiling all the same.

"Well usually you too are covered in scratches and bruises and we have to heal them for you, but you don't have any of that" Claire said as she sat down on the kitchen counter and started to eat ice cream straight out of the container.

"That is because they started like 5 minutes before you walked in" Remus said putting his book down and walking over to the group standing in the middle of the room.

Everyone was expecting Sirius to break the moment with one of his weird questions like: 'when cheese gets its picture taken. What does it say?' but that moment never came.

Lily was the first to notice and said "Siri, what's wrong?" she asked him but he didn't respond because he was too busy staring at Claire eating her ice cream happily.

Lily started laughing because Claire was too busy stuffing her face to realise that Sirius was checking her out yet again. When James finally caught on to what was going on he hit Sirius upside the head screaming "EWW that is my sister, man. STOP!"

"Hey I don't care when you do it to Lily and she is my sister too" he replied half-heartedly. But before anyone could say anything more there was a knock on the door.

"Ok all is forgiven" Lily said as she and Claire got up and ran to the door.

"ELLA" Claire screamed loudly and all the boy covered their ears.

"Well Ella is here" James summarised.

"Hey Remus your girlfriend is here" Sirius added looking proud of himself.

"Yes Sirius I know" he said as if he was talking to a 5 year old.

"Hey it is good to see everyone again" Ella finally said to everyone in the room. She was wearing a brown pants and light pink singlet top.

"Ok lets go everything is ready and waiting" Lily said to Ella as smiles spread across their faces making all the boys feel on edge.

"What's ready?" James asked Claire with a serious expression on his face.

"Nothing." She answered innocently

"Lily I swear if you have boys coming over here I will kill them all." Sirius said getting worked up over nothing and starting to crack his knuckles.

"Wow, Siri just chill all we are going to do is exercises and stuff, because we have to stay in shape. I mean all of you boys know that we love dancing and singing. Now we are going into the ballroom so don't disturb us." Lily replied as Sirius' face lightened up. The girls went upstairs into a room with floorboards and mirrors covering one whole wall. They put their drink bottles down and Lily summoned a CD player and put her dance mix on.

"Ok. Now you know that we were asked to dance for the Welcoming feast. Ella because you were only able to come for week, Claire and I started the dance but we just have to finish it off. So we will show you first and then we will teach you the steps." Lily said checking the time on her watch. It was one in the afternoon and they only had 4 hours to practice which was not enough.

The girls started with warm-ups and floor routines and before they knew it an hour and a half was gone.

"OMG! Lily we only have 2 and a half hours to try and teach Ella the dance" Claire said changing the CD while Lily and Ella had a drink of water.

"Don't worry guy I am a fast learner." Ella said comfortably

"Um, Ella didn't we tell you that it is a combination of 5 songs and the whole dance goes for 7 minutes?" Lily said scratching her head trying to remember. Ella's eyes grew wide "ok well in that case we better hurry up, before the boys get back from the Quiddich Pitch"

Claire and Lily showed Ella the dance, but lucky she was a fast learner and new the 1st verse and chorus.

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"Woo Hoo I got the snitch" James yelled holding a golden ball with wings in the air. He watched as Remus took the quaffle off Sirius and scored.

The three boys flew to the middle of the pitch hovering 100 feet over ground.

"Ok nice game, but it is already five and getting late. We should go see how the girls are going." Remus said giving the quaffle to Sirius. They all flew down to ground and walked back to the Potter Mansion. When they were inside they all went to have a shower on a different floor of the oversized Mansion.

When all the boys were finally finished having a shower they went to the 2nd floor and stopped in front of the door and knocked. There was no answer so they walked in to find the girls in the middle of the room dancing their hearts out. As the song ended they finished with a pose. After that they were so tired they collapsed to the floor laughing.

The boys ran over to them thinking they hurt themselves. They each took a girl and helped them stand up. James took Lily, Sirius helped Claire and Remus helped Ella.

"Yay. I can't believe we actually did it." Claire said leaning on Sirius for support. The girls started laughing again and fell to the floor again. The boys looked worried.

"Why can't you walk?" James said looking at Lily lying on the floor breathless.

"Worked…a lot…sore…muscles" she tried to explain but that was all that came out.

"Why were you working yourselves so hard" Sirius asked while exchanging looks with his fellow Marauders.

"Do you want us to take you to your rooms?" Remus asked

"Nah just help us get up again, because we really need to take a shower" Ella said as Remus pulled her up from the floor.

"Thanks boys. Oh and Sirius I will make you dinner after my shower" Lily added before the three girls left the room.

"I know that I should be happy about getting food especially from Lily but something is going on and I want to know what it is" Sirius said looking confused and worried.

"What makes you think that something is going on?" Remus asked.

"Remus you are the smart one in the group but if you can't see it than I might have to hit you upside the head. It is obvious." James said matter-of-factly.

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The girls their shower washed their hair and were all freshened up as they made their way downstairs to the sitting room to find the boys sitting and talking quietly in front of the fireplace.

"Hey boys, what are you talking about?" Lily asked as the girls sat down next to them.

"Nothing" Sirius replied

"Right"

"Ok, why were you guys dancing for so long that you couldn't even stand up from sore muscles? We were really worried about you" James said looking Lily in the eye and then looking down at the rug feeling slightly embarrassed.

"We were just dancing" Ella said not looking any one of them in the eye.

"So, how about dinner? Anyone hungry?" Lily said while getting up and heading for the kitchen with the girls hoping to get out of the sticky situation.

"It doesn't matter the elves will make something" James said making them sit down again.

"Ok we will tell you but you will think it is stupid and probably laugh" Claire said sighing and giving in to the stare they were receiving from the boys.

"Well at the end of sixth year Professor Dumbledore asked us to do a special dance performance in front of the whole school at the Welcoming Feast. He thought it would be a good way to show the new comers that we don't judge people by what they are interested in or their hobbies" Lily said as the boys looked at her for a few seconds.

"So basically we have to do a dance in front of the whole school at the Welcoming Feast" Ella stated looking at the confused faces before them.

"Oh, I get it" Sirius said finally understanding but then an annoyed look appeared on his face.

"Siri, what's wrong?" Lily asked looking slightly worried.

"Does this mean that everyone in the school is going to see you in a bathing suit?"

"If you are talking about a leotard which ballerinas wear then no. We will be wearing clothes to suit the dance. Now no more questions" Claire said finally ending the subject.

"Well we are tired so we are going to bed" Ella said getting up and the other two following close behind.

"Good night boys" they said before going to bed