This took me an extremley long time to write, and even longer to edit.
If there are mistakes in this please don't hesitate to point them out to me. I'm really excited to upload this because I've been working on this for months and at last the time has arrived! I really hope you enjoy reading this as much as I've enjoyed writing it. Okay, I've written up to chapter 10, but I don't want to upload anymore unless I know someone is interested in reading further. So if you are even a little bit interested in what happens next, follow/review for me please? I plan to write 55 chapters,leading right up to the death of James and Lily.
Also, if you're wondering about the pairings in this fanfic they are:
Sirius Black and Marlene Mckinnon (Primary)
James Potter and Lily Evans (Secondary)
Frank and Alice (Tertiary)
So, I'll stop blabbering away now, please enjoy:
Okay,so it all started out quite innocently. It was a game of truth or dare with a bottle of firewhiskey, couldn't be that bad,right?
Wrong.
5th year Gryffindor's shouldn't be getting drunk the night before their first OWL exam, right?
Right.
They were sat in a huddle in the middle of the Gryffindor common room; James Potter,Lily Evans, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Emmeline Valance, Dorcas Meadowes and Alice Prewett. They knew they shouldn't be playing this game, but how could they resist?
Four months ago Fabian and Giddeon Prewett - Yeah, Alice's Older brothers - had given Alice a bottle of Firewhiskey and until tonight, she'd never told her fellow Gryffindor's about it. They were all eager to try it.
The fire in the common room was crackling away, spreading a welcoming warmth around the room. It was eleven at night and the rest of the dorm were in bed.
The rug they sat on was clean and fluffy, the muddy footprints James,Sirius and Dorcas had left on it after their Quidditch practice had disappeared. Out of the group, Lily and Remus seemed to be the only people worrying about how much they were risking by getting drunk (this late at night) before very important life-altering exams.
The game had not yet begun, when Marlene McKinnon burst through the door. Her usually perfect hair was slightly messed and her doll-like make-up did not make her look pretty,but tired.
"Where've you been,Mar?" Alice asked, looking excited from the thought of her first drink.
Marlene looked as if she'd been expecting this question later, so she was off guard. Even more so when Sirius muttered, "take a wild guess."
Marlene shot him a death glare - something that had become expected - but then waved her hand in dismissal.
"What is going on here then?" She asked, eager not to talk about...it.
"Little Miss Prewett has been keeping this little beauty hidden away from us for months." Sirius said, stroking the large red bottle.
Marlene rolled her eyes, but smirked, taking a seat next to James. James turned to look at her, not at all happy with the sad eyes that were showing behind her smile. He'd ask her what had happened later. She knew he would.
"Okay." Said Dorcas, glancing around the room, "Lily,you first. Truth or Dare?" She said with a smile.
Lily gave her a look of Mock Terror. "Truth. Hit me."
Dorcas thought for a moment. "Will you ever go on a date with Potter?"
James peaked up at this. His eyes were alert and he was looking at her with a smirk.
"Not as long as the giant squid is still available." She said, with a laugh. James flopped his head down and pretended to sulk. Everyone was laughing.
Lily sat up and took a swig out of the bottle. She started coughing and sputtering. ("Godric, what is in that?!")
Everyone unsuccessfully held back laughing at her.
She passed the bottle to Marlene. Marlene stared at it, scared as if it would kill her.
Then she turned to Lily and gave a possessing smile. "Come on and give me whatever you got." She said.
Lily smiled. "Truth or dare?"
Marlene put her finger on her lip. "Dare." She said with an excited smirk.
"Kiss Sirius."
Marlene's smile faltered. She'd been expecting something like this,but why, oh why, did it have to be Sirius? They had a...history.
Well,not exactly. Marlene tried to snog him once, he walked away from her and left her standing under the mistletoe with her lips puckered and eyes shut. She was confused as hell when she opened her eyes and he wasn't on her lips, or even in the room.
A few months later, he'd asked her on a date and as much as she wanted to go, she had already agreed to go on a date. Stupid. She'd had a crush on him for months and he FINALLY asked her out. She was busy. Then she decided to go a little... crazy. She followed him around, hanging on his every word.
She was officially part of his fanbase of girls that followed him around school.
So, when she asked him back out the next week, he blew her off for another girl. This was all months ago, but she still felt a little awkward around him, always disappointed she hadn't managed to make them happen. Always disappointed he'd never seen in her what she'd seen in him.
She looked across at Sirius, who had the biggest,broadest smile on his face. She wanted to go and slap it right off him.
"Sirius." She had said. "Can I talk to you?"
He'd looked around at her, given her a once over and nodded. She walked up to him, in the middle of the third floor corridor, hips swaying.
"I'm sorry about last week. I was on a date anyway. Wanna try it again?" She asked, batting her eyelashes and smiling flirtatiously.
He took a step closer to her and pressed his lips to hers. She jumped back shocked. Then he said, "No."
The memory of their kiss still fresh, she wasn't paying attention to him.
"I said no."
"What? Why?"
"I'm a one time offer, Mar. As much as I'd loove, to see more of you." He raised his hand in surrender, "it's against my code, so I'll see you around."
She stomped her foot on the floor. "I will never kiss you again,Sirius Black."
"We'll see about that shall we?"
She'd only gone two months. She couldn't kiss him now. This was a matter of her pride.
"I chicken." She said defeated.
There was an ominous round of 'oooo'.
"C'mon, McKinnon. I'm not that bad." Sirius said, smiling still,but less so than before.
"Tell that to the other fifty girls you've kissed." She said simply.
"FORFEIT!" Remus said, sensing the awkwardness. Everyone seemed to be looking at Sirius.
"Oh, I will." He winked.
That's when things got heated. No one was drunk, so it wasn't to be blamed on alcohol. This was something she'd been waiting to do since he'd said no.
She jumped on him.
Took a little run across the carpet and jumped on him, pushing him against the rug her elbow was lodged under his neck and her knees were pinning down his arms.
"Yknow, McKinnon, I've thought about doing this many times, but I never imagined you'd be on top." He said with a wink. She pushed her elbow further into his neck.
He winced, clearly in pain. "Say it again." She said though gritted teeth.
"I never imagined," he struggled, "you'd be on top."
Her brown hair was even messier now and her make-up was a little less than perfect, but still, Sirius stared into her blue eyes, not fighting back.
That's what had annoyed her the most. She was on top of him, screaming at him over something as stupid as the fact that he'd snogged loads of girls. He wasn't fighting back. He had the strength of a full Quidditch team, he could take her easily, yet he was just letting himself be hurt.
"I'll never kiss him." She said to Lily, Who, like the rest of them was just staring dumbfounded at what had just happened. "Ever."
She sighed and pulled herself off him. "I'm going to bed."
She stood up and started towards the stairs. He pinched her bum with a smirk. She didn't look back at him, instead she walked up the stairs without looking back.
"I'm going up too." Sirius said, then ran up the stairs to his dorm without another word.
The rest of the group looked around at each other.
"What the hell just happened?" Someone said.
Then someone joined in with, "Who's next?"
Meanwhile, up in her room, Marlene McKinnon was washing the make-up off of her tear soaked eyes.
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