Chapter 2 – midnight wanderings and creepy detention buddies.
At quarter to midnight later that night Laura and Lily stood up and walked out of the room without waking the rooms other inhabitants.
Succeeding with that, they ran down the stairs to the common room looking for people. Not spotting anybody the two of them snuck out the portrait hole, ignoring the grumbling from the fat lady as she had to wake up to let them out. Avoiding human contact was difficult since they had to get to the other side of the castle to get to room of requirements.
They ran in after opening the door only to find that they were seven minutes late.
"You're late," Remus said while looking at them.
"Yes, you are exactly a total of 7 minutes, 29 seconds and 72 milliseconds late." James smirked.
"We get it, no need to rub it in."
The room produced some chairs and popcorn and they munched while discussing the problem.
"Sirius is a fag. I don't understand why he just doesn't talk to her." James started.
"She loves him and I'm pretty sure that he knows it. What I don't get is why he doesn't love her back." Laura looked towards James and Remus to show that she really didn't understand.
"Lindsay's a great person, if he doesn't see that he should work on what he sees in people," Lily stood up to emphasis her point. She was very close to Sirius but if he hurt Lindsay he would find himself in a world of pain. They had all been through too much that summer for that.
"He sees it, but he doesn't want to get hurt or hurt her. As much as he tries to deny it it's still there. Sirius is falling in love with Lindsay." Remus said slowly racking his memory to try to find something to prove himself wrong. Finding nothing he continued, "They're both just scared. He stares at her during class and he doesn't work because he's too busy thinking about her."
"That's deep, Remus," Lily said sarcastically. At the sound of her voice James looked at her.
"But, anyways I think that you're right."
There was a deep silence as everyone thought about what Remus had said
"We have to get them together!" All of them said in unison.
"Considering the fact that it is almost two in the morning, I suggest that we all go back to the common room and get some sleep before classes tomorrow." Always the responsible one Laura stood up and looked at everyone else.
Following her example they stood up. Leaving the room James caught a glance of Lily's bright red hair disappearing down the corridor.
"I love her hair!"
"What was that?" Remus hadn't been paying attention while he looked at the marauders map.
"Oh nothing," James blushed and thought, "Did I just say that?"
Over the next few days Lily and James were ready to tear their hair out. They had tried everything; locking Lindsay in a broom cupboard with Sirius, getting them to have detentions at the same time together, but all the latter had resulted in was James having detention with a girl named Sara Brooklyn, and Lily getting a detention with a guy named Sean Figgs.
Sara had been stalking James since their third year and Sean had been obsessed with Lily since the sorting… their first year.
Flashback
(James' detention)
"You will be polishing the trophies in these 10 different cupboards." As James whipped out his wand Professor McGonagall snapped, "Without magic!"
"Fine," picking up the brush and polish James set to work. When Professor McGonagall left he was on the second showcase. James pulled out his wand and muttered, 'scourgefy'. When nothing happened he turned to his companion and grimaced when he saw a little bit of drool coming out of the side of her mouth.
"Could you try that cleaning spell that we learned in second year and tell me your name?"
"Sarah Brooklyn, I've been stalking you since we were twelve. Did you know that we wee born 8 months, 17 days, 6 hours and 54 minutes apart?" She batted her eyelashes while looking up at him lovingly.
'Wow that is sooo creepy!" James thought as he turned to continue cleaning. He lurched forward when two thin arms wrapped around him from behind.
"Okay, that's it!" James yelled as he bolted from the room, towards a place that he could hide. The closest being the boys loo on the forth floor.
During Lily's detention Sean was staring avidly at her back, wondering what would happen if he put his hands on her shoulder blades. Lily turned and glared at him.
"You know that we're supposed to clean the owlry, right. You haven't done anything in the last 20 minutes."
"I love you. You are so fun to stalk," Sean grinned at her.
"I'm so out of here!"Lily stood up and ran out of the owlry towards the girls bathroom on the forth floor.
She was almost there, but Sean had almost caught up to her.
"Owwwww!" echoed through the suddenly silent corridor.
James looked down to meet the green eyes of the one and only Lily Evans.
"Lily I really need your help, could you pretend to like me? My detention buddy is sooo creepy! Please!"James was desperate, Sarah was closing in.
"I was just going to ask you the same thing," Lily said before looking up into his eyes and nodding
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Well that's chapter two and if you want to have a little preview of chapter three the title is going to be- the plan and freely given hugs- It's the chapter where Lindsay finaly gets the courage to talk to Sirius and Lily and James start not hating each other.
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