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Chapter 1-The Party
"Prongs," Sirius Black whispered to his best friend. "What time is it?"
"30 seconds since the last time you asked," James said through gritted teeth, gripping his messy black hair with such force it was surprising that the mob was still attached to his head.
"And er…what time was that?" Sirius grinned, avoiding a slap from a very annoyed James. "Don't do that, you'll mess up my hair!" Sirius pouted, running a hand through his shaggy black hair that fell into his dark blue eyes, two of four assets that made him Hogwarts most wanted male. The other two were that he was extremely tall at the height of 6.4, and he was the best beater on all the Quidditch teams of Hogwarts.
"You are such a woman," James sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Well then all the girls at Hogwarts are lesbians," Sirius retorted, but jumped up at the knock he heard on the door.
"MOONY-oh it's you," Sirius said disappointedly after he had opened the door. The tall 17-year-old girl who was 5'10 with short, straight dark brown hair and hazel eyes standing on the doorstep looked at Sirius, amused.
"Wow, Sirius, thanks for the warm welcome."
"Hey Meghan, you're early," James said, hugging his long time friend and neighbor.
"This is me you're talking about. I get out of that house as soon as my parents stop talking to me, which believe me, isn't very often."
"Sorry Meghan, I thought it would be Remus," Sirius apologized, also giving his friend a hug.
"What, I don't look like Remus?" Meghan joked, sitting down on the couch next to James. Meghan was a tomboy, who could fit in easily with the Marauders, and who everyone pretty much got along with. She wasn't shy at all, and she was outgoing and crazy.
"Well you could pass for a man because of your small boobs," James grinned, and Meghan reached up jokingly to her chest.
"I resent that!" There was another knock on the door, and Meghan leapt up to open it.
"I love how this is my house, and yet you and Meghan always answer the door," James said to Sirius, who laughed.
"Well I live here too now, and Meghan practically lives here too, so we count as part of the Potter family."
"Happy, Sirius? Remus is here." Meghan laughed entering the room with two people familiar to the Potter house.
"Oh I'm happy, but not cause Remus is here," Sirius grinned, looking past his werewolf friend of 7 years to his twin sister, who looked nothing like her brother Remus. Instead of his straight, sandy coloured hair, brown eyes, and tall height of 5.11, Remus' sister Rose, who was 5.3, had curly, frizzy, red brown hair and blue green eyes.
"Stop hitting on my sister, Sirius," Remus frowned.
"Dude, I didn't know."
"She's with us all the time, I talk about her all the time, and she's my twin. How can you not know?"
"Er, I forgot?" Sirius grinned.
"Hey," Meghan said to Rose, taking her best friends hand. "Let's go down to the pool, I have to talk to you."
"I'm right behind you, as long as we don't go in. You know I can't swim," Rose said.
"Why did you come to a pool party if you can't swim?" Sirius snorted, and Rose gulped. She had always been shy around people, Sirius especially. Unlike Meghan, she was quiet around people she didn't know and nervous to talk to them, unless they said something to spike her temper, something that was never good to get going. Though no one would guess it, Rose was one the most hotheaded girls at Hogwarts.
"Because Meghan is here, Remus is here, James is here, and Lily and Gideon are coming," Rose answered, and followed Meghan out the door.
"Whatever. So, Moony. Did you get the drinks?" Sirius asked.
"Yes I did, pumpkin juice coming right up!" Remus grinned, and laughed at the looks on James and Sirius' faces. "Yes, I got the drinks. Jesus, if you could see the looks on your faces…"
"Well you can't have a pool party without alcohol! There will be nothing wet!" Sirius cried, and James and Remus looked at him oddly. "I mean to drink…"
"Sure, Padfoot. Whatever," a new voice said from the refrigerator. Unknown to the other 3 Marauders, their short, plump, blonde haired friend Peter Pettigrew had entered the kitchen before Meghan and Rose had gone down to the pool.
"Peter! When did you come in?" James asked
"I snuck in with Remus and Rose." He said, his voice full of contempt when he said Rose.
"Why didn't you say something?" Remus asked, and Peter looked around, chocolate visible on his round face.
"I found the cupcakes."
"How many did you eat," James sighed.
"There's 3 left," Peter said sheepishly and the other 3 Marauders groaned.
"Wormtail…what are we going to do with you?" Remus asked.
"Er…love me like the brother you never had?" Peter suggested hopefully, and his friends laughed.
"C'mon, people should be arriving soon. We should set out the food," James grinned.
"Lily! Over here!" Meghan cried, waving her hands like a lunatic to get her and Rose's best friend's attention.
"There you guys are!" Lily said, plopping down into a deck chair next to Rose. "I was afraid I'd be stuck talking to Potter all afternoon. Cute bathing suit," she said to Meghan, motioning to the pink, rather revealing 2 piece Meghan had on.
"Thanks."
"Rose, I think I saw Gideon and Fabian coming in when I came out here," Lily told her, and Rose sat up, lifting her sunglasses onto her head.
"You were right, I see him over there," she smiled, and got up to go say hello to her boyfriend of 5 months.
"I can't believe they stayed together this long," Meghan said. "I always considered him to be a man whore myself."
"Yeah I did too. Guess we were wrong," Lily laughed.
"I dunno…he's kinda changed her. Look at the bikini she's wearing," Meghan pointed out; looking at the flimsy bathing suit their friend was wearing.
"I was wondering about that myse--hide me!"
"Why?"
"It's Potter!"
"Er, it is his party and house. OY JAMES!"
"Meghan, I officially hate you forever."
"Awww thanks Lily, I love you too."
"Hey Meghan, hey Lily!" James shouted over the noise as he ran over, and immediately everyone stopped talking.
"Did he just call her…Lily?" Marlene McKinnon asked no one in particular, but asking the same question every single person in the yard was thinking.
"I think he did," Frank Longbottom said, mouth wide open.
"Frank, close your mouth. He said Lily. Get over it!" Frank's girlfriend, Alice laughed, and to her surprise all of the guests followed her advice and started to talk again.
"Geez I don't see what the big deal is. I'm just being nice," James frowned, sitting down in between Lily and Meghan.
"Potter, nice isn't in your vocabulary. At least when you're talking to me."
"Yes it is! I am perfectly nice to you until you start yelling at me."
"I start yelling at you because you won't stop asking me out!"
"Yeah well…I only ask you out cause I like you!"
"Sure, Potter. Whatever. I'm going over to talk to Sirius and Remus. Please, don't follow me."
"Yes M'am," James muttered under his breath, but audible enough for Lily to hear and to send him a death glare.
"Tough luck, James," Meghan said, putting an arm around his shoulders.
"I have tried EVERYTHING!" James groaned, flopping down onto his back.
"No, you haven't tried being civil toward her," Meghan pointed out.
"Yes I ha-"
"Besides calling her by her first name."
'No, I haven't."
"So, try that."
"Is it really worth it?" James asked.
"It could be," said Meghan, feeling very much like a licensed muggle therapist. "C'mon, let's go in for lunch."
"I am right behind you. HEY EVERYONE, LUNCH TIME!" James shouted, and everyone cheered.
"Wanna go get some lunch?" Rose asked her boyfriend, both of them unaware they were being watched by Peter Pettigrew from the bushes.
"No, we're alone now."
"So…"
"So we can say a proper hello," Gideon grinned, and the two started snogging on a deck table. "Want something to drink?" he asked after Rose had pulled away.
"Sure, can you get me a Butterbeer?"
"Sure thing, babe." Gideon got up to go inside, meeting Sirius by the door.
"Hey mate, nice going," Sirius grinned, as he walked outside, whiskey in hand.
"I know, right?" Gideon grinned, and walked inside. Peter, unaware that Sirius had come outside seized the opportunity of Rose being alone.
"Oh, hey Peter," Rose smiled, seeing the overlooked Marauder come out from behind the bush he had been hiding behind and watching her and Gideon with jealousy. "What's up?"
"You're stealing my man, that's what's up," he growled, and shoved her into the 8 foot end of the pool, and then held her underneath.
"Wormtail! What the hell?" Sirius asked angrily, alerting the attention of many guests that were close to the door.
Sirius looked down at the pool where Rose began to sink.
"Ahh fuck, she can't swim!" Sirius groaned, quickly diving into the pool after Rose. He grabbed her around the waist and helped her onto the deck, where she started coughing uncontrollably. When she stopped, she turned to Peter giving him a death glare that would top any other.
"What the fuck?" she shouted, slapping Peter across the face. "What do you think you're doing?"
"He got jealous cause you and Gid were snogging," James snickered stepping outside past the gathering crowd.
Peter bit his lip.
"Okay fine I like Gideon!" he cried, much to the horror of Gideon Prewett who backed up into the crowd.
"We don't care if you're gay, Peter," James said kindly, helping Peter up. "However, I do care that you pushed Remus' sister into the part of the pool she can't stand up in when you know she can't swim. You just tried to kill his sister over a guy, Peter. I don't think we can forgive you for that."
"Seriously, Pete, I never thought you'd stoop that low. I mean, we've had our suspicions about your sexuality, but to try and kill someone? That's low, Pete. Low," Sirius said angrily.
"Get out of here," Remus said in a dangerously low voice.
"Remus, I--"
"I don't care. You tried to kill my sister. Get out. I never want you to come near me again."
"I-I-okay." Realizing exactly what he had done
"Get the hell out!" Remus roared, and Peter scampered away. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" Rose sighed, pushing her way to the back of the crowd. "Now leave me alone and go back to whatever the hell you were doing."
"Bye, Marlene, thanks for coming!" Sirius smiled as Marlene left the house, being the last person to go besides Meghan, Rose, Remus and Lily. "Do you guys even know her?"
"No," everyone answered, and Sirius shrugged. "I wonder who invited her. Oh well. What do you all want to do?"
"Sleep," Meghan yawned, and laid down on the couch, across James' lap
"Hey! I am here, you know!" James laughed
"Good for you. Soo 2 weeks until school starts again. Do you all wanna go to Diagon Alley tomorrow?" Meghan asked. "I got my letter yesterday, so I'm assuming you all did too."
"Yup!" Lily said excitedly. "I didn't wanna tell you all until everyone else left, but I'm head girl!"
"Congratulations, Lil!" Sirius grinned, but James frowned.
"Evans, er…I happen to know who the head boy is. It's me..." Lily's happy smile immediately turned into a scowl.
"Potter, why the bloody hell would Dumbledore make you head boy? You werent even a prefect.." Lily scowled
"Well, obviously he thought I was up for the job. Maybe he got drunk or something."
"Why, why, why?" Lily moaned, slamming her head against a pillow.
"Anyway, so do you all wanna go shopping tomorrow?" Meghan asked, much to the relief of Lily.
"I'm up for it!" Lily smiled.
"Me too," Sirius and James said at the same time.
"We're in," Remus said, motioning to him and Rose.
"Great! So we'll all meet here tomorrow at 10:45," Meghan decided.
"Damn that's early," James said, scrunching up his nose.
"Deal with it," Meghan laughed.
"Hey do you all just wanna spend the night here?" Sirius asked. "That way we don't have to worry about people being late in the morning."
"Sounds good to me," Remus shrugged.
"If it's alright with my parents," Lily agreed.
"Mine won't be surprised," Meghan laughed.
"I'll stay," Rose said.
"Great!" James grinned, clapping his hands together. "Then it's settled. Why doesn't everyone go and get the stuff they need, then come back here?"
"Allright we'll be back." Remus said as he and Rose disappereated.
"I love being of age to do magic." Meghan sighed taking out her wand and turning on and off the fireplace, then smirked evilly. "Levicorpus." Sirius was raised into the air and dangled upside down.
"Damn you Meghan!" Sirius pouted as Lily, James, and Meghan laughed.
"Alright now put him down." Lily said still laughing after a few moments.
"Lily you're head girl at school, not at James' house." Meghan laughed releasing Sirius causing him to crash to the floor.
Lily shook her head.
"I'm going to go get my sleeping stuff." Lily said and disappereated.
Meghan remained laying across James' lap with Sirius propped up against a chair near by.
"Aren't you gonna go get your stuff?" James asked.
"Nah, oh by the way can I borrow a shirt?' Meghan said. James playfully pushed her off and stood up.
"Use your own shirt." James laughed.
"I would but I came over in just this bathing suit."
"You live right next door!" James said
"You know what James, let her stay if she doesn't want to go home and get a shirt, that way she can just sleep topless next to me." Sirius said.
"I'll be back." Meghan said grumpily and disappereated.
Well there's Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is coming up shortly, and I hope you all liked it. Review, please!