Okay, Several of you, will probably be annoyed. I am working on an update, one that I am getting excited about while I write it. But I realized that this is kind of hard to read, so I'm going to split up Chapter one, so that it's not quite as long, and so that no one misses any important information. I hope you guys enjoy the story.

The Prank

"You didn't!" she howled, crying with laughter, while we ate the pudding that the house elves had provided them with. Lilly nodded putting her bowl back down on the table.

"Yep." she said grinning. "The best part is; he thinks I know who is responsible, at least that's what he said, and then I went and told him he need to retake English." they continued howling with laughter. The week had quickly flown by and they'd loved every second of it. After all, they'd pranked the most popular, guys in school, again, and left them in a panic, all in a week.

Monday, September 23

Lilly was rather aggravated. She couldn't find a quill anywhere, and no one was around to borrow from. Ashton and Parker were off to who knows where and Lilly was currently sitting in the library. Eventually, after digging into the bottom of her bag, she pulled up a pack of ball point pens from the summer. She grinned and yanked one out before dropping the pack back into her bag. She never could understand why the magical world used quills.

She quickly fell back into writing her story, starting from another beginning.

"Telby? Are you here?" Jane called, hesitantly walking into her best friend's house. It appeared that no one had been here in ages. Dust covered every inch of the old manor, white sheets covering all of the furniture.

She continued wandering further and further inside, regardless of her instincts telling her to run. But she couldn't. she had to make sure Telby was okay. She forced herself to walk down the foyer, leading to the kitchen. Hesitantly, she opened the swinging door, nearly letting out a scream. There were scratch marks on every inch of every surface. Long, slash marks, from heavy knives. What on earth had happened?

She backed out of the room. Immensely grateful for bringing her maglight. She pulled out her cell phone and began dialing the police. But—

A loud clunk sounded to Lilly's right. Glancing up, she saw that James Potter had sat down next to her, and had began reading over her shoulder. She instantly covered up the writing and looked at him glaring.

"Can I help you?" she asked. This boy had been showing up at random times, and bugging her about that prank.

"Well, just give me a name." he said cockily. "Come on Evans, one little name." Lilly rolled her eyes.

"You know what. Fine!" she hissed, surprising him. "If you go down to the seventh floor, and think, 'what I want most' a door will appear and they're in there right now, plotting yet another prank." She then faked a sob.

"And Potter," I looked at him, "I swear, if you tell them you found out from me, I will personally hex you." He grinned at that, before dashing off. The moment he was gone, Lilly was howling with laughter. She was one of the worst liars. How in the world was that believable? She brushed the thoughts away as she returned to her work.

Lilly went back to her story, however, was rudely interrupted a moment later when Ashton came sprinting up.

"Erm—Lil, we may have a problem. Well another one." She said, before dragging Lilly out of the library and down onto the grounds. She saw exactly what Ashton meant when Parker was being surrounded by Slytherins and being taunted.

"Leave her alone!" Lilly yelled, yanking out her wand. The four Slytherins all turned around and glared at the two intruders.

"Stay out of this." A girl hissed. "It's none of your concern." Lilly rolled her eyes, before interrupting her.

"Actually. It is. That's my best friend, so bloody well leave her alone!" Lilly hissed. The girl with heavily lined eyelids turned back and pointed her wand at her.

"listen kid, I don't know who you are, but I will hex you if you don't get out of here right now." She hissed grinning.

"GO." Parker whispered, glaring at that back of Bellatrix Black's head. Lilly stared at her.

"No way." Ashton snarled. At that, Parker gave a slight nod of her head, and Lilly thought, 'Expelleriarumus!' pointing her wand at Bellatrix. Her wand ripped out of her hand and flew into Lilly's. Meanwhile, Parker had pointed her wand in to one of Bella's friend's back. Ashton was pointing hers at the third.

"Very impressive. Pureblood no doubt." Bellatrix said smirking, regardless of how angry she obviously was. Lilly remained silent, as she continued speaking. "Hopefully you're not as much of a blood traitor like your friend here."

"Just get out of here." Lilly hissed. They all began shuffling away and were halfway away when they summoned her wand again. Lilly's two friends stared at her.

"Okay, I am going to go out a limb and say, how on earth did you get that good on nonverbal spells?" Parker asked gaping at Lilly, who simply shrugged.

"Bookworm. Besides, it was the first one I ever practiced." Lilly answered. "So what was that about?"

"Something my parents did supposedly. Apparently they arrested her dad or something." She said giving a sad smile. "Wanted to take it out on me." She explained.

"Right. We're telling Dumbledore." Ashton said. "Don't even try to say no."

October 5, Midnightish......yes that's a word. =]

Wandering the corridors might be considered out of bounds, but where else was she to go? After all, she only needed a few hours of sleep a night. No she didn't have insomnia; she just only needed about five hours of sleep. Her body would automatically wake up and refuse to let her sleep past that. But she didn't mind.

Ashton Scott knew Hogwarts castle like no other, well, perhaps Dumbledore. But she knew of secret passageways that would lead inside and out of the castle, as well as shortcuts. Most of the paintings were actually doors as well, but it seemed that no one seemed to realize that. She was currently sitting inside an indoor lake on the fifth floor. She'd stumbled upon this once upon a time in her third year. it had the same shade as the Caribbean, and a small island with a palm tree in the middle. It was gorgeous. One of her favorite spots in the entire castle. Often times, she and the girls would sneak up here to go swimming or to just talk. It was an amazing secret. She loved Hogwarts; it was her home, well second home.

For one thing, the magic in the place was amazing. Outside in the corridor it would be cool, but in this room, it was as if you were sitting in the Caribbean itself, speaking of which….Ashton quickly began to undress herself, in order to go for a swim.

Later on, that morning….ish….

"James! Oi! James!" James Potter opened his eyes to see his best friend, Sirius staring down at him. "We're going to be late for breakfast." He slowly sat up and got dressed, shoving his glasses onto his face, and managing to poke himself in the eye with them. Eventually he was able to stumble downstairs, where the rest of his mates were waiting.

As they were still waiting on Remus, quite a surprise for once, he caught a flash of red at the door way of the fifth year girls' dorm. He kept watching, wondering if it was her, he had quite the bone to pick with her. A few seconds later and she appeared, dressed in the school uniform, her long red hair was worn down, allowing it to curl freely down her back. She was smiling; laughing along with two other girls that James had no idea who they were. As the three girls began to skate by them, James reached out and snagged Evan's arm.

"We need to talk." He said quietly, while her two friends stared at him, to top it all off, Lilly was rolling her eyes, and shaking her head. "Yes we do." She looked up at him in surprise.

"Erm—kay, no idea what you are talking about." She said smiling sweetly. "So you can let go of my arm now." Her eyes glinted in the light, with a steel edge of malice. She knew how to handle herself.

"I believe someone gave me false information." He said quietly. At this she grinned, realization pouring into her face. James was dumbfounded to realize that she had actually forgotten.

"No I didn't." she repeated. "You obviously missed them," and with that, she wrenched her arm from his grasp and dove for the portrait hole, accompanied by her two friends. He turned back to see Remus raising an eyebrow at him.

"She told me that 'they' were in the Room of Requirement last night. Told me how to get in, no one was there." He muttered angrily. Remus nodded absently and then gestured out towards the portrait hole. They all exited the four of them, miffed about not being able to learn who was responsible for their embarrassment the first week of term.

Once they had reached the Great Hall, James spotted Evans sitting down at the furthest end of the table. He motioned to Remus, but his friend grabbed his arm and shook his head, before leading him away to their normal spot.

"She knows something!" James hissed. "Why—"

"Because you're getting nowhere with the girl. You're just going to get her angry, and if…IF...she knows anything, you're going to make her warn whoever the group is, therefore, making us targets once again." Remus answered, while starting to eat.

"Well, then what do you propose we do?" Sirius asked darkly. "Frankly, I'm sick of all these tricks that those annoying prats play on us!"

"I'll talk to her." Remus promised. "Hopefully that'll work, give me some time and I'll try and see if I can get anything out of her. But you two, stay away from her and her mates." They both nodded. While Remus was definitely the nicest of the group, he had this uncanny ability to read girls, came in handy quite often.

James shot one more look at the redhead. He wanted answers and he wanted them now. No one made fools of him and his friends; they were the ones who no one messed with. Unfortunately it didn't help much when you didn't know who you were fighting against.

That evening, Lilly was somewhat behind in her work, so she gathered up her books and put them into her satchel before heading down to the kitchens during dinner. Parker asked if she wanted company, but Lilly shook her head explaining that she needed time to actually get her work done. Laughingly the two girls parted ways.

"Miss Lilly!" a tiny voice squeaked. "How may I help you?"

"Hello Tabby." Lilly said smiling down at the house elf. "I was wondering if I could eat down here so I can get started on my homework." The house elf immediately began nodding and scampered off to get her some food, as Lilly headed over to the large couch that was in front of the fireplace.

A few moments later, Tabby had returned with a flagon of butterbeer and a gigantic tray containing a bowl of corn, next to a plate of fried chicken as well as a chocolate cake. Lilly yanked out her books, piling them onto the table next to her food, before opening her transfiguration homework. It was an essay about why it was dangerous to be an animangi. McGonagall had said that it was a practice essay for their O.W.L.'s.

It was ridiculously easy, and being that way, she got it out of the way first. But when Lilly had nearly finished it, the portrait swung open.

"Miss Evans," a voice said calmly. She looked up and saw Remus Lupin looking at her rather amused. "Why aren't you at dinner?" he asked sitting down next to her.

"I could ask you the same question." He raised an eyebrow as she turned back to her essay.

"What are you working on?" he asked quickly.

"Transfiguration Essay. Routine stuff, completely boring." Lilly said, before taking another drink. "Do you want something to drink?" she asked. He looked surprised. "Tabby?" she called. Instantly her favorite house elf appeared next to them.

"Yes Miss Lilly?" she asked grinning at the redhead.

"Could you get Mr. Lupin a butterbeer please?" she nodded and went off to get it, and within seconds had returned.

"Thank you." He said smiling at her. She nodded and told him your welcome before returning to her work. "So you know the house elves personally?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"Tabby happens to be very sweet." Lilly answered scribbling something else down. "So, is there a reason you're not at dinner?" she asked not bothering to look up.

"Are you going to answer the question first?" he asked. "Or do I already know the answer?" Lilly raised an eyebrow.

"Probably. I mean, I think it's rather obvious after all." She said, finishing her essay and began to pull out her Ancient Runes.

"Ah, so it is because you're avoiding my dear friend Mr. Potter." At that Lilly's quill snapped in half. She looked up to see Remus smirking at her.

"Um no. I don't even know him, why would I be avoiding him? I am currently undertaking all my homework, for tomorrow, and since I have better things to do later on, I figured I'd work through dinner without actually missing it." During this explanation Lilly was fishing in her bag for that bag of pens seeing as that was her last quill.

"Keep telling yourself that." He answered smiling. Lilly looked at him, and then looked at her books. Really, did he need her to spell it out for him? She sneered, in her head.

"So why are you here?" She asked wearily, pulling the cap of the pen off and began scribbling away on her Ancient Runes Assignment.

"Er, what is that?" he asked pointing at the pen. she looked at it, and then at him.

"It's a pen." She answered, going back to her homework.

"A what?"

"A pen." Lilly repeated, staring at him in disbelief, and then she began cracking up. "Sorry, forgot that you're one of those pure bloods." His eyes flashed. "A pen is the muggle version of a quill. Actually it's better. It's a lot less messy."

He looked at it curiously, and she tossed it to him, before fishing another out of her bag.

"How do you write without ink?" he asked staring at it closely. Smothering her laughter Lilly rolled her eyes before explaining.

"The ink is inside it." The moment Lilly's words registered with him, his eyes widened in shock. "No you don't put it in. They sell it like that. The company that produces them puts the ink in an even smaller cylinder and then that's inside the pen."

He continued looking at in wonder, before finally trying to hand it back to her. She shook her head.

"Keep it. I can get more." Lilly went back to her work, before asking. "So why are you here exactly? Too many girls to fend off?" he smirked at her and shook his head.

"I was wondering about what you knew about them." He said. Lilly looked at him raising an eyebrow.

"Them? Want to be more specific?" She asked, smirking.

"You know what I'm talking about." He said. Lilly shook her head smiling. "I'm sorry, I really don't. You might want to elaborate."

After sighing aloud, he said, "those who pranked us the first week of term." Ah. Now we were getting somewhere. Lily shrugged again.

"I dunno. How should I?" She asked.

"Because, Miss Evans, I know that you have information about them." He said grinning as he leaned forward. Lilly stared at him wide-eyed. Was he? Yes he was.

"Okay, I'll tell you." she whispered, leaning in further. His eyes flashed with interest, and then pain as Lilly shoved all her books onto his nearest foot. He looked down and she leaned back grinning. "I'm sooo sorry!" she said as he started picking up all of her books.

"Honestly, no clue as to who it is or why they hate you so much. Perhaps your stealing their thunder? Or wait that's what this is about, they're outshining you." she whispered, looking at him again. His eyes narrowed at Lily, in a way that seemed that he was appraising her honesty.

"No. We simply want to repay them." He said. Lilly smirked.

"Listen, Lupin, aren't they supposed to be in Slytherin? Why are you bugging me, when I'm in your own house?' At this his eyes widened.

"You are quite perceptive." He answered. Lilly made a face at him, unsure of whether it was the excuse or just a compliment. I keep to myself, I am a shy mouse, who just happens to get angry when provoked, she thought.

"Hence, why I'm top of our class." She said grinning, before taking another bite of dinner. "So how's the Quidditch team this year?"

"Dunno. James hasn't had tryouts yet." He answered. "That's the very reason we wanted to talk with you, because your top of the year. if they're a younger student, then obviously, they must have talked with you about certain spells." she shook her head.

"Prefect."

"I'm sorry?" he asked, his eyes clouding in confusion.

"I'm a prefect. I'm not going to help people with pranks. Obviously, no one has approached me or I would have turned them in, after that prank was pulled. I mean after all, we wouldn't want anything to happen to you and your three friends." Lilly said her voice turning into a mock at the last line.

"I'm a prefect." He said glaring at her.

"Sorry, let me rephrase that, I'm a prefect t that actually follows the rules." Lily said smirking.

"Miss Evans, we both know that you don't follow the rules." He said. "Have you forgotten where we are?"

"There's no rule relating to the kitchens at all." Lilly shot back. "Otherwise, they'd guard it better. Besides, you know that Professor Dumbledore views things, like, 'if your intelligent enough to discover it, it shouldn't be off limits." At this Remus' eyebrows shot up even further.

"Very perceptive."

"Not really. I just listen to his speeches." Lilly answered. "Now. Anything I can help you with?" she asked sweetly.

"Well, I'm curious as to why you lied to James, about the Room of Requirement, if you don't know anything."

Lilly waved the question off. "Easy. He was annoying me. I lied to him so I could continue my work. Not my fault that he couldn't see that. Although he did break his nose by running into a shield charm." she mused. At that Remus began laughing.

"When?" he asked.

"Erm—like second week? I dunno. Whenever you guys started up with this whole, 'Lilly-Evans-knows-who-pranked-us-amazingly-well plot. I was practicing spells, and I wanted quiet, so I had two shield charms and two silencer charms set up in the library so that I wouldn't disturb anyone and vice-versa. In fact I didn't even realize he ran into it. I was leaving and he stood up with a bloody nose." At this Remus erupted into laughter.

"I shall definitely have to ask him about that." He said grinning. Lilly shrugged. The boy must have taken my advice and gone and saw Madam Pomfrey after all. The thought had came out of nowhere, causing her to smile.

"Now, out of curiosity. Will you lot be leaving me alone?" Remus looked down, and picked up yet another book.

"Better yet, why do you have a sixth year's book?" he asked. Lilly looked at it and took it from him.

"It's mine." Lilly answered quickly. "Bought it a year early. Saved money that way." But she could tell he didn't believe her. Surprising really, seeing as it's the only truth I've told this evening, well besides the bit about Potter, Lilly thought.

"Sure. Where was this sale? Flourish and Blokes?" she nodded as he handed it back to her. He raised an eyebrow, obviously not believing her.

"Now, are you guys going to leave me alone?" Lily repeated, raising an eyebrow in response to his. To her dismay, he simply grinned.

"Why would any of us want to do that?" he asked smirking. "I mean, Evans, your quite good looking." Lilly rolled my eyes. While she knew she wasn't bad looking, she wasn't exactly what you'd call 'good looking.

"Have you been snorting coke?" Lilly asked bluntly, unfortunately all this did was confuse the guy. She rolled her eyes. At least my friends would have gotten that. She thought to herself.

"I'm sorry." Lilly shook her head, finishing up her homework, before shoving everything back into her bag.

"Don't worry about it." Lilly said standing up. "I've got to go." Turning around, she looked for the familiar bow between the house elf's ears. "Tabby?" Lilly called, she immediately popped up in front of her.

"Yes Miss Lilly?" she asked as Lilly grinned at her.

"I have to go, so I just wanted to say thank you." Tabby turned bright pink and waved her off.

"No trouble at all Miss Lilly. Have a good day." Lilly nodded and waved goodbye as she slid out the portrait hole. To Lilly's dismay, Lupin followed. She would give them credit that they were persistent. Although she struggled not to erupt into laughter as they continued to believe that she merely had some valuable information. They walked along in an uneasy silence, Lilly quite content to leave it that way. Mr. Lupin however did not feel the same.

"listen; if you're worried about them coming after you, I can assure you that they wouldn't." Lilly snorted. She could ensure that quite easily herself. "Seriously." He said looking at her, she stopped walking and sighed.

"Lupin. I appreciate the gesture, but not only do I not know anything, but what makes you so sure that you could protect me from them. Better yet, why would any of you want to?" Lilly asked. She was rather curious as for his answer, although she'd love to see his expression if she just blurted out the truth. Oh, he'd never believe me anyways. She thought.

Lilly never heard that answer, because at that moment Ashton skidded out of the wall and into Remus. Lilly jumped backwards as they catapulted into the floor, with his arms, protectively around Ashton. After a moment, Ashton squinted an eyelid open, and squeaked, "Lilly!" jumping out of Remus' arms, without even giving him a glance.

"I'm so glad that I found you!!" she said grinning from ear to ear. Lilly returned her grin, already knowing what she was about to say.

"What'd you find?" she asked. Ashton's mouth plummeted.

"How'd you know?" she asked surprised.

"Because I know you. You only get this excited when you've found some new room in the castle that no one knows about, or if you've just landed your triple axel that you've been working on for ages." at the mention of that her eyes lit up.

"You, have a gift Lilly. I'm sure that Professor Renaldi is highly disappointed that you never took Divination. But yes, I found yet another amazing place. Add it to the list of millions. This one I know will be your favorite. It's near the Astronomy Tower. But you won't believe it; I actually did land my triple axel!!!" Lilly's jaw dropped. She had been teasing her.

"Seriously? You've been working on that for ages!" Lilly said smiling.

"I know. Nearly broke my ankle four hundred times trying to do it. But that's one thing that's nice of the Room of Requirement, endless amount of space for pirouettes and all that." Ashton suddenly paused. "DO you think we could try and freeze the lake upstairs, and go ice skating on it?" she asked suddenly. Lilly erupted into laughter, and began shaking her head.

"Ashton, you do realize that the temperature would make that impossible. I mean, it's the Caribbean! That's why we like it. If you want to go ice skating, just go on the black lake once it actually does freeze over." Lilly said choking on waves of laughter.

"I know, but it'd be nice to be able to go ice skating whenever I want. Like at three am or something." Lilly nodded in agreement. "But I do like that island…" Ashton added as an afterthought.

"What are you going on about?" Lupin finally asked, staring in wonder at the girl who had tackled him to the ground, and then hadn't even bothered acknowledging his presence. "There is no lake in this castle." He was quite sure of that. The Marauders' would have found it.

"Yes there is." Ashton said, not bothering to glance at him. "Lilly, I need to show you the newest addition!!!" she said urgently. "You will not regret this." Lilly nodded, and allowed herself to be pulled into the wall, that encased the secret spiral staircase that went towards the astronomy tower.

"So, when am I going to get to see this triple axel that you can now pull off?" Lilly asked Ashton, both girls not realizing that Remus was trailing them. "Do you realize how excited your mum will be?"

"I know. I've been working on it for ages." Ashton said breathlessly as they continued climbing stairs. "We'll find either an extremely large classroom or just go to the room of requirement. Where ever I won't hit someone." She said laughing at the memory of when a second year had walked around a corner as she'd been doing turns.

Once they hit the landing, Ashton led the way down the corridor and stopped at a wall. Glancing at Lilly she nodded and then walked through. Lilly grinned and followed her. They walked down another flight of stairs and then came out on the largest balcony they'd seen.

"Wow." Lilly whispered. "It's spectacular." Ashton seemed rather pleased with herself.

"See, now we all three have places we utterly love. You have this, I have the lake, and Parker has—" she stopped suddenly and looked behind Lilly. She followed the suit and realized they'd never gotten rid of Remus. They all stared at each other for a moment.

"Er—how'd you find this?" he asked suddenly. Ashton shrugged before answering.

"Fell through the wall. Happens all the time." At that he gaped. "Better question. Why are you following us?"

"Um. Well, I was with Lilly when you made the announcement." He sputtered. While Lilly rolled her eyes.

"No. Better explanation." Lilly interrupted. "Lilly was doing homework, while being interrogated by Lupin here." Ashton raised her eyebrow at Lily, who brushed a hand across her forehead. Answering Ashton's silent question with a yes. A code that they'd created in first year.

"Why were you interrogating Lilly?" Ashton asked, not missing a beat.

"I wasn't. We were having a conversation. I'm sorry if you felt like I was interrogating you Miss Evans." He said grinning at Lilly, who simply shrugged.

"Well, love to stay and chat, but we've got places to go, Parker to see." Ashton said, grabbing Lilly's hand and dragging her out of there. They booked it back to the Common Room. Once they'd reached the stairs, they dashed up to their dorm.

"You had dinner with Remus Lupin?" Ashton shrieked. Lilly shrugged and nodded. "What happened?" At that Lilly immediately began retelling the story, which had them rolling with laughter.

"Remember when we had to explain a pen to Parker?" Ashton howled. Lilly nodded and they continued giggling, before finally falling asleep.

Thursday October 15

"You're sure she knows something?" Sirius asked, as the three of them watched her from across the library. Remus nodded, not taking his eyes off of her.

"She definitely knows who's behind it. When I offered her protection from the repercussions of spilling, she asked what made me think that we could." Remus answered. "Meaning she's obviously to terrified to talk." James nodded as he continued to stare at her.

"Is there any way to wrangle it out of her?" Sirius asked looking at his two best mates. "I mean, we have to be able to do something…" at that he grinned.

"Prongs, why don't you go talk to her?" he asked suddenly.

"Huh?" James asked not tearing his eyes off of her as she brushed her hair back out of her face.

"We need information." Sirius prodded. "Go do what you do best. You obviously have the charm to do that. Not to mention you want to more than me." He said grinning. Remus nodded his agreement, and James grinned.

"Better hurry, she's packing up." Remus added. James hastily threw his bag over his shoulder and hurried over to her table.