A/N: This is the first Fanfiction I've written in about 10 years! I hope you enjoy it and look forward to reading you're feedback and critiques.
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Ever since Lily walked through platform 9 ¾ seven years ago and met her three best friends and fellow Gryffindors, Jill, Farren, and Janet, life had been very easy. Even though her parents were muggles, magic came easy to her. She hardly ever wanted anything because she always seemed to get what she wanted right as she wanted it. The same went for her three friends. Other girls at Hogwarts didn't like them so much and called them pretty perfect snobs and boyfriend stealing sluts. These two names were hardly the truth though. No other girls ever attempted to get to know them before labeling them as snobs and as for the boyfriends stealing, well, they never actually tried to steal boyfriends from anyone, but all Lily had to do was tilt her head and lightly flip her long crimson hair to get a boy she liked to ask her out, and it was just as easy for her friends. Although the other girls in school didn't seem to like them too much the four girls didn't hold any ill-will towards any of them and if someone ever approached them they were always pleasant and polite, except of course if it was a Marauder.
The four Marauders were the one exception to the rule. Lily and her friends despised them and the Marauders despised them right back. And even though all of the girls at one point or another acknowledged how ridiculously handsome they were they would never for a second consider being nice or pleasant to them. Besides, the boys were known players. They went through girls much more often than the girls went through boys. The rest of the school was perfectly fine with these two attractive and popular cliques hating each other because otherwise they would have most likely ended up dating each other.
So why do the two Gryffindor groups loathe each other so much? It certainly didn't start out that way. In fact at the beginning of first year they were somewhat friends, but that all changed when the boys started to become pranksters and it was at the expense of Lily and her friends. It started out as an annoyance. The girls were already starting to separate themselves because they thought the boys were immature, but it was the prank they pulled during winter that first year that cemented the hatred for the boys so much. In the middle of a quidditch match the boys dropped the girls' pants and they all stood embarrassingly in their underwear frozen with a spell. They couldn't even bend down to pull up their pants. It was a new low and probably the lowest the boys had ever gone or would go again. Even though the boys received two months worth of detention for the prank it just wasn't enough for the girls. The boys never apologized and in fact kept playing pranks on the girls. Eventually the girls began retaliating and the negative feelings between the two groups grew with each passing year.
On the night that our story begins, Lily, Farren, Jill, and Janet were bored in their room and decided to make a bet. A stupid bet. It was just a game with very few rules, only two in fact; No sleeping with the enemy and don't fall in love. Two rules that were much harder to follow than they originally thought.
Janet, Farren, and Jill were all sitting on the floor of the Gryffindor 7th year girls dormitory when Lily burst through the door laughing. She slammed the door shut behind her and fell onto Farren's bed clutching her stomach. The girls looked up at her with raised eyebrows.
"Lily, what could possibly be so funny on this boring day?" Farren asked while pulling her long white blonde hair back into a ponytail. Lily attempted to catch her breath before responding.
"One of the Marauders pranks just backfired on them. It was great! I have no idea what they were trying to do, but they all ended up drenched in something that looked like honey and they couldn't get it off," Lily said enthusiastically, "And I think Peter is allergic to whatever it was because he started to puff up like a balloon." She paused to laugh some more. "I sure hope he never gets fat because boy was he ugly!"
The girls stared at her unimpressed and Lily rolled off the bed and down to the floor with them.
"Geez, what is the matter with you guys?" Lily asked them more seriously.
"Nothing we are just so bored. We don't know what to do with ourselves," Jill said. Lily pulled on one of Jill's auburn spiral curls as she thought.
"Well there is homework you could do if you're really bored, or go tan by the lake," Lily suggested. It was mid February and one of the first sunny days, but Lily shivered at her own suggestion.
"We're so bored we already did our homework and it is way too cold still to tan. Lily you're supposed to be the brains here can you think of a better idea? Please?" Janet asked standing up to go get a sweatshirt from her trunk as if the thought of going outside in a bathing suit had actually made her cold.
"We could think of a prank to play on the Marauders…" Lily barely finished before the girls were nodding in approval. The girls all sat up a little straighter in excitement.
"We should get them good one last time before we graduate," Janet said and then pointed to her hair which was usually shoulder length and jet black, but now also contained royal blue streaks, "because these are permanent and I have to get revenge before we leave Hogwarts."
"I actually like the blue streaks though. They match your eyes," Farren said thoughtfully and Lily agreed. Janet grimaced and ran a hand through her black and blue locks.
The four girls bounced ideas off of each other for about an hour before Jill finally had an idea that they were all too curious about not to be interested in.
"We could play a prank on them that could also be a bet for us," Jill said tentatively, "It might take awhile to do it and it would be really hard, but it would definitely keep us occupied for the rest of the year."
"Spill," said Farren. Jill stood up and walked over to her wardrobe and reached up to grab something from the top shelf, but Jill was super short and couldn't reach it. She looked over at Farren who was the tallest of the four for help, but she was already on her way and pulled down a scarlet drawstring bag and handed it to Jill before returning to her spot on the floor.
"First, we could write down the names of the boys and each of us could draw one," Jill began holding up the crimson bag, "And then we try to make whoever's name is on that piece of parchment fall in love with us before graduation. Then, the week before graduation, we tell them about the prank and dump them in front of the whole school. That way they can watch us strut our stuff for the last week."
The girls stared at Jill speechless.
"Jill that's damn near impossible though. They hate us and we aren't their biggest fans either in case you forgot. It would be so unpleasant. Pranks are supposed to be fun," Farren said with a shudder. Jill rolled her hazel eyes.
"Oh come on, they are dicks, but they're hardly painful to look at," she said. "And it would keep us occupied."
"It would be too hard," Lily broke in.
"Come on guys. I know we can do it and you guys know it too. We could get any guy we wanted."
"Yeah, but they are the Marauders…" Janet said quietly.
"Yeah the same Marauders that we were friends with once upon a time. The only reason we aren't anymore is because WE stopped hanging out with THEM. We should at least try," Jill said.
The girls sat in silence for a few minutes while they thought about it. Jill was right when she said it would be hard, but with the planning and effort it would take it they definitely wouldn't have another boring day. Slowly one by one the girls began to smile as the mentally accepted the task.
"Okay let's do it," Farren said. All the girls agreed and began writing down the boys names and dropping them into the bag.
Farren drew first. She held her breath as she unfolded the paper and let out a small sigh of relief as she turned it around to show everyone. She pulled Remus.
"Probably one of the easiest ones," she said. Remus was the one marauder that the girls didn't outright despise, though they didn't talk to him, he at least sometimes tried to be courteous towards them.
Jill drew next and showed Peter to everyone with a groan. Nobody wanted to draw Peter. He was sort of the misfit cousin that no one really wanted around, but were obligated to hang out with. Lily was growing more nervous by the second. The one name she absolutely didn't want to pull was still in the bag. She bit her bottom lip as Janet put her hand in the bag. She pulled it out and looked at it silently with a worried but determined look on her face. She flashed the paper that said Sirius to everyone. Lily felt herself pale. She got James, the hardest one.
"Okay so that leaves you James, Lily," Jill said.
"Okay," she said quietly. James and her had a history that none of the other girls knew about and it made it damn near impossible for her to do this.
"Lily that will be easy for you since you and James are always together anyways working on head school things and stuff," Farren said. Lily held back a sarcastic laugh and shook her head.
"Any rules?" Janet asked.
"Yeah, just two," Jill replied, "Do not sleep with them and don't under any circumstance fall in love with them." All of the girls laughed at the thought. Those would certainly be easy rules to follow, or so they thought.
"And whoever doesn't complete the prank or breaks any of the rules has to do what the rest of us say for a whole month," Janet quipped. This was pretty unbearable since the girls were such high maintenance and quite ruthless when it came to bets, but even more that this consequence was a matter of pride. None of the girls wanted to lose this bet. None of the girls wanted to face rejection which they were so unfamiliar with.
"So you guys ready for this?" Jill asked. They all nodded with mischievous smiles on their faces, but deep down Lily was already thinking that this was a bet she was going to lose. There was no way should could repair the damage done between her and James before graduation.
Lily told her friends to go on down to dinner without her. She suddenly wasn't feeling very hungry. She refused to lose and began brainstorming ideas as she jumped into the shower to prepare for the Head meeting that night that she had with James.
A/N: Well there is the first chapter. I will be posting the other one tonight sometime! Hope you enjoyed it and please review!