All's fair in Love and competition
Disclaimer~ I Do not own HP, though I wish I did. JK Rowling owns the magnificent world of Harry Potter. But some characters you don't recognize are my OCS, Like Fawn Eloquence, Vivian, Clarity and Zoe Fauna.
Pairings: LE/JP, RL/OC, SB/OC
NO PETER PETTIGREW IN THIS STORY!
Romance/Drama
The original title for this story is Prettier than Evans; a Pageant.
I have a tendency to NOT finish stories, so if I don't want to continue I will post that I will NOT Continue, and the story is up for adoption. But you have to consult me first if you want to adopt.
Chapter 1
'Guys! Check out what the Daily Prophet says!" I, Lily Evans squealed to my friends, Clarity, Fawn and Viv. I passed the paper around my friends, who were sitting sloppily on my bed, in my Flat in London.
It has almost been a year since Hogwarts, and we were in my messy flat. Fawn and I, the intelligent people of the group were offered top notch jobs as a professor at Hogwarts (Fawn) and an Auror in training (me), but we refused them, because we couldn't bear to part with our friends, who were jobless. Viv was looking to be a designer in Witch Weekly, and Clarity was looking to be a Quidditch player.
'James Potter, witch weekly's most eligible sought after multi-millionaire bachelor hosts a pageant for the most lovely ladies, hoping to find a girlfriend for him and his mates, winners shall be crowed Ms Magic Worlds, be James's girlfriend. Lupin's girlfriend and Sirius Black's girlfriend and get 1,000,000 Galleons, *courtesy of James Potter*. All the contestant groups will be hand picked by Potter, and will be sent a personal invitation, and will be escorted to the Alchemy Stadium, where it will take place.
Sponsored by Potter's mates who are also multi-millionaires, Remus Lupin, the world famous Auror professor, and Sirius Black, the hot disowned, second most sought after bachelor of Witch Weekly, and dreamy and talented chaser for the Tornados.' Fawn read aloud. I grinned at everybody, expecting for whoops and cheers.
'Um, Lil, I'm not sure this is a good idea. I mean, it's not really my thing…' Clarity said, uncertainly.
Clarity Summers was a beautiful petite girl with pitch black curly hair and bright blue eyes above a cute v-mouth smile. She also had a womanly figure, hiding her tiger like strength from Quidditch practice. She was my closest friend, since First Year, from comforting me when I was homesick.
I sagged my shoulders in exasperation and said
'But I'm desperate! Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I'm not going to be a lonely Auror without you guys! So what do you say?'
Viv cleared her throat and said 'I think it's a great idea Lil! I mean. You both are gorgeous! Lily, you know it so doesn't blush! And this is my perfect opportunity! I could be like, your coach and the Witch Weekly will finally notice me and hire me!!' She declared happily.
Vivian Summers was a very pretty and cheerful girl with bouncing light brown hair sparkling deep brown eyes and designing skills that would make the Witch Weekly owner, Sabrina Tween look down in shame.
Clarity twitched her mouth, stuck up her chin and said defensively 'Well, what if we don't get in? This Potter guy doesn't even know us.' I looked down thoughtfully while Vivian and Clarity glared at each other. They were stepsisters, but that didn't stop them from being best friends, but even best sister friends can have a few sisterly arguments.
'That's impossible. Because first of all, James Potter was one of Lily's boyfriends, and second of all, Lil won the Ms Teen UK pageant remember? And you, Clair, you were on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team so must have not forgotten you, and as for me, I'm going to enter. He surely hasn't forgotten his prefect partner.' Fawn spoke up for the first time.
Fawn Eloquence was an extremely pretty girl with a high IQ. Fawn has long toasted golden blonde hair with extremely light grey-blue eyes.
I stuck out my tongue to Clarity who just laughed.
I also blushed because Fawn mentioned the UK Pageant I won two months ago. I guess I was fairly pretty.
Big understatement. Okay, I'm hot sexy and beautiful. I was fairly pretty in Hogwarts but after Puberty I went from Plain to 'Ba-poo-Zain!'
I had long wavy dark intense red hair with pale skin that glowed like moonlight, beautiful sparkling dark green eyes with long thick lashes, a huge bust and a perfect hourglass figure.
'Well, I guess this is OK. Oh! James Potter! Do you remember him?'
I narrowed my eyes. Of course I remember. James Potter and the marauders. The most sought after, hot, intelligent boys in the whole school. And unfortunately, I had fallen to his wicked playboy charms, and been one of his victims of his one day flings. I gritted my teeth.
'Well, if I win, I'm not going to be his gf. Im just going to take the money and go.' They smiled at each other.
'Sirius mate, look at all these girls! They're gorgeous! And to think, (sigh) we only get to pick 125 girls.' James Potter said as he looked through records of Pageants throughout the world. Some pageants included Ms Teen UK, Ms Arabian Genie and Ms Forget me not French.
James Potter was a Famous Quidditch chaser on the Tornados, single and rich. He had gorgeous messy black hair and handsome hazel eyes. He has a well toned body with muscular arms and chest. He was voted #1 most sought after eligible bachelor of Witch Weekly.
'Tchell me arboutch chitch. I mean, look art all cheese shawt chirls!' Sirius Black said as he stuffed his face with chocolate. Sirius was a just as gorgeous guy with beautiful long wavy black hair with grey eyes and an awesome well, toned muscular body. At Hogwarts, he and James his best friends; were playboys and a ladies' man. He was voted #2 most eligible sought after Bachelor of Witch Weekly.
'Merlin this girl's gorgeous, look at Ms Forget-me-not France! It says here that her name is Zoe Fauna and she's 23. Perfect eh Paddy mate?' James said as he drooled over a sexy blonde with melting green eyes. Sirius looked over but he merely said,
'Meh. Not compared to this beauty!' Sirius said spitting chocolate bits out of his mouth.
'Ew say it not spray it Sirius!' Remus Lupin said, disgusted, while covering his face with his arms.
Remus Lupin was the third and last member of the Marauders, and he was handsome. True, he wasn't as girl crazy and a playboy like his best friends, he was smart, intelligent and sensitive but he had his charms. He was the smart guy of the group. Remus had Prince-charming style blonde hair with kind blue eyes and a muscular body. Not to mention he is a werewolf!
James leaned over to see what picture Sirius was holding and he saw that the girl was his old nemesis on the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team.
'Padfoot! Don't you remember? That's Summers! But *whistle* she's hot.' She indeed was. 'Summers' had long black hair and icy blue eyes.
'So…' He peered at the small handwriting below the picture.
'…So… Cla-clarity Summers! Write that down Padfoot!' Sirius wrote the name down.
'Hey guys! Check this girl out! I think she was your old Prefect partner James! Do you remember Fawn? Fawn Eloquence. Merlin I always thought that was a pretty name. And look at her now!' Remus said, looking at a picture of a very pretty blonde with light blue grey eyes.
Sirius looked at the picture and nodded.
'Write that down Padfoot!" Moony declared.
'I'm tired. Why can't James do it?' Sirius whined.
'Fine, I'll do it. Fawn Eloqwence. Uh-moony is it a 'w' in Eloquence or a 'u'?'
'U'.
'Oh.'
'Pass the eraser.'
'Here. '
'Damn these muggle things! The erasers keep breaking!"
'Heh heh.'
'WOW, Guys! Does this name seem familiar to you? Lily Evans? She's ,Ms Teen UK.' James asked as his eyes popped out at looking at a magnificent beautiful red head. Remus looked over.
'Uh, Prongs, um. That's Lily Evans.'
'I'm aware of that.'
'She was one of your one day flings. Head Girl with Head Boy Anthony Perkins? Prefect of Ravenclaw? My Potions partner? Merlin she's changed. Doesn't any of this ring a bell?'
James shrugged.
'Well, she's hot.'
Sirius's eyes widened. Remus saying someone hot was a rare case, and in this case, the girl must be really hot. Sirius grabbed the picture and looked at it.
Lily was a sexy red head with deep red hair that fell loosely past her shoulders, mastering the 'sexy and no effort' step; only him can do with his wavy black hair. She had mystifying dark green emerald eyes with Smokey lashes and moonlight pale skin that looked like it glowed. She was beautiful, but in Sirius's opinion, not as hot as Summers.
'She's hot as fuck. Oh! I have an idea! Moony go to Prong's drawer with the diamond statue.' Remus walked onto the left side of the room, touching an ivory drawer with a see through gem beside it.
'No! That's the crystal emerald drawer! On the left! My left!'
'That's right Padfoot!'
'Oh, never mind. Now open the second drawer and take out a gold scroll of parchment that says PPGF.' Sirius commanded.
'Ahhh!! My eyes! My eyeess!" Remus shrieked as he opened a gold piece of paper.
'Moony! Stop looking at Carolina! You have no right to! And what do you mean, 'My EYES? She's got amazing body!" James demanded.
'Prongs. Tell, me, why do you keep pictures of pornwitches in your drawers?'
'Never mind that Moony, she's sexy. Anyway get that gold scroll!" Sirius said impatiently.
'Here.' Remus huffed.
'What do you need it for anyways? Eh? And what does PPGF Stand for?'
'Well, remember you said this Evans was one of Jamie's old flings? Well, in this scroll, I have written down every one of Jamsie here's' girlfriends. PPGF Stands for Prongs' Past Girl friends. Cool huh?' Sirius said, proudly unscrolling a roll of parchment.
'Ew.'
'Shut up James.'
'And you never told me!" James said, Shocked.
'Heh heh.' James pouted.
'Oh do shut up. Merlin, this is a long list. Not as long as mine though. Now all we have to do is find 'Lily' under 'One Day flings.' Ah, Lara, Lana, what kind of name is Llamla Prongs? What ever, Libya, Lila, ah here it, Lily Evans.' Sirius said.
'Hey! Llamla was a very attractive Latino!' James said defensively.
'Yeah. Looks like a llama.'
'Are you serious James? What an old pun.'
'No, I'm Sirius.' Sirius said, cracking up at his very, very, very old pun.
Everybody groaned and James snatched the roll of parchment and looked under 'Lila'. There he saw Lily Evans, along with personal info and a picture.
'Eughch! You're right Moony, she has changed. I wonder, what motivated me to go out wit her?' James shuddered.
'Oh, well, Jamsie, write down Lily Evans, Abbey Street, London Welfare flats no. 38 room 4, bedroom with canopy bed.' Sirius commanded James. James scribbled it down.
'Now, now that that's done, look at Alice Longbotom, and Emmeline Vance! They're quite hot.' Sirius said as he peered at a photo of a posing brunette with big brown eyes and a blonde with hazel eyes.
'What about Nymphadora Tonks? She's Metamorphagus.' James asked.
'Nah, that would be cheating, she can change her appearance, but she is a good friend of mine, let's make her host, she's good at making the crowd laugh and she's quite confident.' Remus mused.
They nodded and wrote Tonks name down.
'Hmm… what do you think of Michelle Winchester…..'
'Well, it's all settled than? You three are going to enter as a group in the pageant and I'm going to be your coach. Deal?' They all nodded.
And as if magic, three owls swooped in between the four girls. The owls dropped the envelopes.
I looked at the gold envelope with my name on it and opened it, Fawn and Clair copying my moves. I read silently
Ms Lily Marie Demetri Evans,
You have been entered into the Marauders beauty pageant for groups of three girls only. The winner(s) shall be picked to be the girlfriends of Famous Quidditch Player, Sirius Black, The dreamy world-wide famous Auror professor Remus Lupin, and another famous Quidditch player, James Potter. All three are multi-millionaires, bachelors and will be judging as well as hosting the group pageant.
Please be at the Alchemy stadium at 9 'o'clock sharp in the morning on the twenty fifth of July, along with your coach and trunks. A new wardrobe is required.
Also, please send in your group name and the people in it, as well as a picture of you and your group-mates.
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Arabella Figg, Producer of the pageant.
P.S This note is also enclosed with a list of things you must buy.
I took out the list and read it.
Eight gowns/dresses
Three dress robes.
Two bikinis and two full swimsuits.
Some masks to match your dresses.
Some casual clothes, must be out of the following Muggle or magical magazines:
VOGUE, ER, WITCHWEEKLY, FASHION IMPEDIMENTA, US WEEKLY, ELLE, FASHION-GET ME MAGIC NOT, OR GFMM, BAZAAR, COSMOPOLITAN, MARIE CLAIRE, PETRIFY ME, RAVE or any big fashion names. Must be stylish.
Three bathing robes
10 Pairs of new shoes
Two tiaras
Three costumes
And the rest of the attire will be provided.
As well as the money, at least 1500 galleons will be enough.
I was stunned at the amount of money they had given us, and reached in the envelope to find my fist full of round, gold coins. I looked ay my friends who were grinning in shock. At least our money problems are over.
'Well, what are you waiting for? Come on, write your names in! We have only got a day! Let's get to Diagon Alley fast!' Vivian demanded. We nodded and put our names in, we decided our group's name should be 'Flare' for it had 'Lily', 'Fawn' and 'Clarity; written all over it.
We pooled our money together and discovered we have got altogether 4,500 Galleons, which was more than enough, though Viv said it wasn't because we are going to get the best stuff so we also scraped up all the leftover money we had and headed for Diagon Alley.
'Diagon Alley is packed!! I yelled over the noisy chatter in the center square of Diagon Alley.
'I know!! Where should we start?' Fawn yelled back to me. Vivian was acting all bossy like, because she really was excited at being a coach for the very first time.
'Let's go to the Mermaid's cave, they have excellent swim wear.' And she marched her way to a cave shaped shop with authentic looking mermaid statues and seaweed hanging from the ceiling.
I picked out my two bikinis. One was an emerald green one that showed a lot of cleavage, ('you have to be shmexy Lil! To get em' attention! –Viv) and a white one with black underline. Viv picked my one-piece suits for me, she chose a one-piece suite which was dark green with V-neck and the other one was a sexy one piece with a slinky hole in the back. I also picked out a dark emerald green sarong with light green flower printed on it, black faded sunglasses and a fashionable beach bag that perches slightly off the shoulder.
Fawn picked a baby blue bikini that brought the depth in her eyes and a sexy light purple one-piece that hugged her every curves.
Clarity bought a sleazy dark blue bikini that was similar to mine and a light blue one-piece halter suit. We were ready to go to another shop.
'Next, we've got to pick out your masks.' Vivian announced. We walked across the store to Magical Masks.
Soon in an hour, we had bought almost everything except our dresses.
We had about 1200 Galleons left, so we did some math and said it was enough for 24 awesome stunning dresses. We walked over to Madam Maxi Dresses of the Millennium, MAX store, with our arms aching because of our bags.
I wouldn't describe you all of our dresses but when I came out of a changing room in one of the dresses my friends gasped and put their hands in the air.
'Oh my god Lily! You look beautiful! You should totally buy that!! 'Vivian started.
I was wearing a sparkling green dress with a v-neck and thin straps; the hem was decorated with small crystals and sparkles. There was a long gap between the legs with ruffle at the bottom.
The dress hugged all of my curves and hinted that I was a sophisticated beautiful woman.
'You look amazing.' Fawn said.
'Stunning.' Clarity agreed. I looked at them.
'You guys look hot! You should totally buy those dresses for the pageant!"
Clarity was wearing a short strapless chiffon dress with silk material and floaty ends. She looked beautiful. Fawn was wearing a light blue halter dress ankle length with a white sash and flippy hems.
'Oh, you guys are in the Pageant?' A heavily French American accent voice asked from behind them. I turned around and saw a gorgeous girl with honey shimmering blonde hair long and wavy with green eyes. Her mouth was in a snobby smirk and her arms were folded across her huge mounds. Behind her was dark haired girl with straight black hair and gray eyes, and another one with dark brown hair and blue eyes. They all had their arms folded across their huge mounds.
I knew they were bitches so I said
'Yeah. Lily. Why do you care?' I said coldly.
She flipped her perfect blonde hair and smirked again, only snobbier.
'Oh, only Zat I and my crrrrew are also in it. We're the Frrrench group. You must be the Brritieesh grrroup.' She said our nationality like as if it was a bug. I glared at her and she glared back.
'I'm Zoe. And this is my crrew Jenna and May. We're Zoe and the gerls.'
'How original. Clarity.' Clair sneered sarcastically. They turned red and the one with brown hair spoke up.
'Eh-ceuse eh moi? Well, you're talking. You, ha! You barely have ze kwalitees of the pageant. Pfuit! I do better. I snart and preeety.' That one retorted. Fawn snorted.
'Is she the smart one of the group? We're Flare. I'm Fawn.'
They scowled and walked away.
I looked at Viv who shrugged her shoulders. We paid for our stuff and still had 100 Galleons. We decided we should spend that on makeup and food,
'Hey, competitions a bitch.' Clarity said, grinning. We grinned back.
An hour later, we were in Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor eating Peanut and jelly ice cream and classic vanilla with salt chips.
'Merlin I'm so tired. What next Vivi?' I asked, scooping a small amount of Classic Vanilla onto my spoon.
'Oh, I don't know, we have to work on a lot of things. You all know how to do the model walk right? Good. Oh, whatever Fawn, I'll teach you. And no it doesn't involve pointy mile-high high heels. Well, maybe they do but whatevs. Then… I guess we're all good! Oh, gods look at the time. Merlin it's almost 9! We've got to get packing, and then we have to practice our speeches and tomorrow's outfit.'
She said this briskly.
Hmph. I think I prefer the old Vivian.
A/N: Ok, that's all for know, ohm Vivian! I'm really proud of all my good names in this story. Zoe, Clarity, Fawn and Vivian, is so cool! Especially Clarity.
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