What you see is not always what you get... - by someone (aka Ramz)
A/N: Ok...second chapter! Thanks you SO much to everyone reviewed and if you didn't...DIE! Kidding! Jeez, can't you people take a joke? I suppose it wasn't very funny...anyway we're not here to talk about my funniness, we're here to talk about my story. So here we go...yet another chapter. Please don't forget to REVIEW!!!!! REVIEW!!!!! REVIEW!!!!! REVIEW!!!!! AND THOSE WHO DON'T CAN ALL ROT IN HELL!!!!!! (joke! Another joke!)
Disclaimer: Can't forget to do this but you all know what is mine and what isn't so no need to explain...on with the show (or story)
Chapter Two - Dealing with the Enemy
"Potter! Give me back my Transfiguration book! NOW!" barked Lily. James Potter was standing in the Gryffindor common room, in front of Lily, hovering her Advanced Transfiguration book in the air with a levitation spell. His friends, Sirius, Remus and Peter were standing around and watching his sport, obviously amused.
"Alright," he said smugly, "if you give me a kiss." He stuck out his lips and closed his eyes, pretending to wait for a kiss. Instead he got a slap in the face. His friends laughed.
"There. It will go nicely with the bruise I gave you on the train. Now HAND OVER MY BOOK YOU PERVERT!" yelled Lily. Slowly but surely, James lowered the book while rubbing the red mark on his face and pouting.
It was a week after the first day of term and already the work was being piled on them. It was about 10:30 p.m. and Gus and Bella had already gone to bed. Lily stayed up finishing her transfiguration homework when James, Sirius, Remus and Peter came down from their dorm and James and Lily got into yet another fight. And yet again, Lily hit him.
"Aarrgghh! I can't do any work with you people around, can I?" she half shouted at them, half told herself. She packed up her things and headed upstairs.
"Ta ta Lily darling," said James, blowing her a kiss. Lily turned around and gave him and icy look. She suddenly had an idea. She pulled out her wand from her pocket and said "Egglium Craciatus". Suddenly and egg appeared and smashed itself on James' face. Sirius, Remus and Peter laughed, and James grinned through the mush of egg yolk and eggshell.
"Hey that was a good one! Can you teach me that?" asked Remus.
Lily however ignored this and said goodnight huffily while storming up the stairs and into the 6th year girls' dorm.
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Lily was shaken awake the next morning by Bella and another girl in her dorm called Linda. She had stayed up till 3 am to finish her Advanced Transfiguration. She was the only 6th year in Gryffindor to do Advanced courses in Transfiguration, Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts. In fact she was the only one to do 3 Advanced courses in the whole school. Most people did only one, if any at all.
Lily got up groggily and by the time she had got dressed, everyone in her dorm had already gone down to breakfast. Feeling better since getting up, she skipped down the stairs into the Great Hall and sat down next to Gus.
"Morning," she said to him. Suddenly she heard four male voices to her right burst out laughing. She turned to see Remus, Peter, James and Sirius in hysterics. She realised that they were laughing at her.
"What is so funny? I DEMAND that you tell me now!" she yelled standing up. This made them laugh even harder. A few Gryffindors turned to watch, but most of them were used to this. After all they had to go through this almost everyday.
But when they turned, they also started laughing. Lily started to feel embarrassed now because other people were laughing at her aswell as the Marauders. She turned bright red, she literally looked like a tomato.
"What?" she whispered to Gus. "Why is everyone laughing at me?" She sounded very upset.
"Lils...um...to put it bluntly - your hair looks like a pigsty," he said, smiling at her apologetically. This caused Lily to frantically smooth her hair out, mentally slap herself for forgetting to brush it that morning and turning and even brighter red than before. In fact, her face was now a maroon colour.
"Oh shit," she said and then ran back upstairs to fix her hair. She got back to the dorm and decided to show those stupid Marauders how nice her hair could really look. She brushed it, applied some special conditioner and did it up in an extremely complicated style.
When she had finished, all her hair was up except her fringe, which was mostly tucked behind her left ear, a few strands falling on her face. She smiled at herself in the mirror (which happened to be giving her pointers while she was fixing her hair) and it said "Gorgeous darling, absolutely beautiful." A smug Lily then walked down into her first class of the day.
There were six people in Advanced Transfiguration - Lily, Sirius (ugh!), James (even more ugh!), Remus, a Ravenclaw girl named Sandria and James' girlfriend Mariah from Hufflepuff. Sandria and Lily became good friends, especially because Sandria hated James for being so good at Transfiguration. Lily just plain-hated James.
Lily walked into the room, pretending like it was a normal day and all their jaws dropped in a synchronised fashion. She walked over to Professor McGonagall who was the only one in the room who seemed to have any composure.
"Sorry I'm late Professor McGonagall, but I had - er - women's troubles. You know..." she said. Lily then took out her homework and handed it to McGonagall.
McGonagall nodded curtly, accepted the homework and motioned Lily to her seat. McGonagall always had a soft spot where she was concerned. Lily turned and glanced briefly at everyone in the room. She grinned inwardly. This was exactly the kind of reaction she had wanted. James, Sirius and Remus were in awe, James' mouth still wide open, Mariah both shocked and envious was giving Lily a murderous stare and Sandria was grinning madly at Lily.
Lily went over and joined her. Sandria's eyes were giving a please-tell-me-the-story look but Lily gave Sandria a not-now look and took out her quill and parchment (A/N: I almost wrote pens and paper). She couldn't afford to not concentrate in this class.
"Mr. Potter!" snapped McGonagall. "Kindly close your mouth and stop oggling at Miss Evans before you swallow a fly!" Lily had a sudden urge to burst out laughing but satisfied herself with a huge grin instead.
They worked silently through the class, and as usual James was doing the best. Lily envied him and his ability to do transfiguration with such ease. But this lesson was far better because everyone kept glancing at her, most of all James.
At the end of class, Lily waved by to Sandria and headed off in the direction of History of Magic, only to be joined by Sirius, Remus and James, who were all still staring at her.
"What's the matter Potter? It looks like you've seen a ghost...or a gorgeous, radiant, ravishing and beautiful witch with fabulous red hair," said Lily, looking smug.
"Actually, I just did..." James said trailing off. Lily looked taken aback. Had he just said she was beautiful? Lily was so dazed she didn't see him shake his head slightly after this comment.
"Except she didn't have red hair. Her hair was a gorgeous brown and was far more beautiful than any old carrot-top," he added. He grinned and walked off. He was referring to Mariah. Lily glared at him.
"Yeah...well...at least I'm not a slut!" she yelled after him.
Why did he have to make her feel like she was ugly even if she had tried her best to look pretty? Ugh! Why did she have to have such low self-esteem when she was around him? Lily stormed into History of Magic and sat there without speaking for the whole lesson (which was extremely boring!).
By the time lunch came around, Lily was feeling better and a lot hungrier. She had taken her hair out because her head had started to hurt and just put it in a half-up-half-down style. She sat down as usual, next to Bella and Gus.
"What have we got next?" asked Lily, stuffing food down her throat.
"You guys have Advanced DADA," said Gus, feeling depressed.
There were many more people in the Advanced DADA class, especially because of the rise of Lord Voldemort. Students wanted to learn how they could protect themselves. That's why they had a separate class for each house where normally for Advanced courses they would combine all the people from the year to make a class.
In the 6th year Gryffindor Advanced DADA course was Lily, Bella, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Julia (Symonds), Mary-Louise (Forbes), Jack (Harris) and Spencer (Donaldson).
The bell rang for class and Bella and Lily headed in the direction of Ad. DADA while Gus turned off for his Standard DADA class. Lily and Bella took their usual seats in the middle of the class and waited for Professor Ingleburn to show up.
In the door came a short lady with her long brown hair pulled into a tight ponytail at the back of her head. She had a pleasant face, but as you know 'appearances can be deceiving'. She was the strictest teacher in the whole school but these Gryffindors didn't know that and so they acted somewhat how they did around Professor Binns.
"Good afternoon, class," said Ingleburn somewhat pleasantly. It seemed like she was in a good mood, but with her, you never knew.
The class hardly acknowledged her presence at all and kept on talking, or in James' case, pulling Lily's hair. When he did this Lily wheeled around and slapped him, but James was ready for this so he pulled his face back and only his nose and her fingers collided. Ingleburn saw all of this and got angry at such disrespect.
"Right! You two, stand up!" she barked, pointing at Lily and James. They class became suddenly silent. Both of them stood up and very slowly, like if they stood up fast, Ingleburn would get even angrier. Ingleburn's face was glaring at the pair of them.
She said softly: "What are your names?"
"Lily Evans, " said Lily automatically.
"James Potter," said James obediently.
Professor Ingleburn raised her eyebrows. "Ah yes...I've heard of you two. The famous rivals of Gryffindor. Well, just for your disrespect you can both sit together for the whole lesson. Now MOVE!" she yelped.
James instantly stood up and changed places with Bella. While doing so, James gave her a what's-up-her-bum? look. Bella stared straight back at him with Merlins-beard-she's-scary look. Ingleburn continued to talk.
"Now, this Advanced course will be quite different to other Advanced courses. Instead of an end of year exam, you will have a large project that will work on in pairs. At the end of the year, you are to hand in this project and give a speech. Each pair will be given a different topic so the presentations will be interesting. And your partner will be," Ingleburn's mouth curled into an evil grin, "the person you are sitting next to now."
Lily grabbed the desk with one hand and clapped the other so that she wouldn't drop to the ground and beg for mercy! Her eyes were wide and filled with shock and horror. After overcoming her shock, she shot her hand straight into the air.
"Yes Miss Evans?" asked a grinning Ingleburn. Lily lowered her hand.
"Please Professor, don't make me work with Potter. For the love of Merlin, don't make me work with him. It wouldn't work. We can't have a normal conversation together for 1 minute let alone work together on a project for an entire year! PLEASE!" Lily was now shaking uncontrollably and eyes were boring through Ingleburn's.
Ingleburn smiled again, but this time more gently.
"I'm sorry Miss Evans, but you're partners have been chosen and there is nothing you can do about it. Now each pair will be given their topic,"
All of a sudden, another hand shot up, but this time the hand was Bella's.
"Yes Ms. Figg?" asked Ingleburn, now getting a touch irritated by the interruptions.
"Please Miss, couldn't James and I swap partners...just for this assignment? Please don't force with...him!" she said, nudging her head towards the person next to her, who happened to be Sirius Black.
When James and Bella switched places, Bella had to (much to her disgust) sit next to Sirius. And Bella despised Sirius...but not nearly as much as Lily did James.
Ingleburn's face glowered with anger now, and she looked almost as scary as Dumbledore did when he was angry. Her eyes were wide, and everyone in the class held their breath...
"THERE WILL BE NO MORE DISCUSSION OF SWITCHING PARTNERS! YOU HAVE TOLD TWICE NOW AND I WILL NOT TELL YOU AGAIN!" screeched the very angry Professor.
"Now," she said, regaining her composure, "here are your topics." She waved her wand and suddenly the pile of manilla folders on her desk flew towards the students, one for each pair.
"Do not open them now, you may look over them in your own time. Today we will be studying what to do in the face of a dragon."
This class also went silently, no one dared to look in their folders in case they were caught and Ingleburn had another fit. The class dragged on, everyone reading the "Weaknesses of Norwegian Ridgeback Dragons" in their textbook.
Eventually, though, class ended and everyone rushed out of class.
"Who stuck a quill up her ass?" Bella asked Lily. Lily shrugged.
"I dunno but she sure is uptight. Geez, you would think she was Potter's mother or something - the way she acts!" said Lily.
"Oh, surely I'm not that bad, am I Evans?" asked a familiar voice behind Lily and Bella. Both of them turned to see James and Sirius smirking at Lily.
"Come to think of it Potter, you aren't," said Lily, thoughtfully. Bella and Sirius looked a little confused but James kept grinning. He knew it was coming.
"You're so much worse. I don't know how your mother has lived in the same house as you for that long! Poor thing!" retorted Lily.
"What do you two want?" snapped Bella, who was now getting sick of the two Marauders.
"We just wanted to know what time we should pick up for our dates?" said Sirius innocently.
"In your dreams Black!" spat Bella. "Like either of us would go out with the likes of you!"
"Ooh, feisty!" grinned Sirius.
"We mean that we have to work on our assignments, Bellsy-wellsy-woo," said James, patronisingly. Bella slapped him on his cheek.
"If you ever call me that again, you'll get more than just a slap in the face," said Bella threateningly to sore-cheeked James. Lily, not wanting to talk to the 2 Marauders anymore, ended the conversation quickly.
"I'll meet you in the library tonight after dinner Potter," said Lily. She turned and walked away. She heard Bella mumble something to Sirius and run after her.
"Hey Lil! Wait up!" cried Bella, who ran and caught up with Lily. "You stranded me back there!"
"Sorry!" said Lily apologetically, "but I just couldn't stand Potter any longer."
"You know James and Sirius are really not that bad, Lil. I mean, they are sort of funny...and really cute. Many girls would kill for the position we are in," said Bella thoughtfully.
"UGH! Bella you're making me puke!"
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A/N: So how id you like this chapter? PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! I didn't get that many reviews last time. Hopefully, I will attract more readers now. So, please tell me what you think. Constructive criticism is VERY helpful! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!! I beg you to review! Any way....at least tell me what you think and if you think it's really crap then tell me and I will stop writing. Ok thank you all for reading!! I really hope you like it....I've gotten much enjoyment out of fanfics and I want to give that to someone else.
Thanx - someone (aka Ramz)
A/N: Ok...second chapter! Thanks you SO much to everyone reviewed and if you didn't...DIE! Kidding! Jeez, can't you people take a joke? I suppose it wasn't very funny...anyway we're not here to talk about my funniness, we're here to talk about my story. So here we go...yet another chapter. Please don't forget to REVIEW!!!!! REVIEW!!!!! REVIEW!!!!! REVIEW!!!!! AND THOSE WHO DON'T CAN ALL ROT IN HELL!!!!!! (joke! Another joke!)
Disclaimer: Can't forget to do this but you all know what is mine and what isn't so no need to explain...on with the show (or story)
Chapter Two - Dealing with the Enemy
"Potter! Give me back my Transfiguration book! NOW!" barked Lily. James Potter was standing in the Gryffindor common room, in front of Lily, hovering her Advanced Transfiguration book in the air with a levitation spell. His friends, Sirius, Remus and Peter were standing around and watching his sport, obviously amused.
"Alright," he said smugly, "if you give me a kiss." He stuck out his lips and closed his eyes, pretending to wait for a kiss. Instead he got a slap in the face. His friends laughed.
"There. It will go nicely with the bruise I gave you on the train. Now HAND OVER MY BOOK YOU PERVERT!" yelled Lily. Slowly but surely, James lowered the book while rubbing the red mark on his face and pouting.
It was a week after the first day of term and already the work was being piled on them. It was about 10:30 p.m. and Gus and Bella had already gone to bed. Lily stayed up finishing her transfiguration homework when James, Sirius, Remus and Peter came down from their dorm and James and Lily got into yet another fight. And yet again, Lily hit him.
"Aarrgghh! I can't do any work with you people around, can I?" she half shouted at them, half told herself. She packed up her things and headed upstairs.
"Ta ta Lily darling," said James, blowing her a kiss. Lily turned around and gave him and icy look. She suddenly had an idea. She pulled out her wand from her pocket and said "Egglium Craciatus". Suddenly and egg appeared and smashed itself on James' face. Sirius, Remus and Peter laughed, and James grinned through the mush of egg yolk and eggshell.
"Hey that was a good one! Can you teach me that?" asked Remus.
Lily however ignored this and said goodnight huffily while storming up the stairs and into the 6th year girls' dorm.
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Lily was shaken awake the next morning by Bella and another girl in her dorm called Linda. She had stayed up till 3 am to finish her Advanced Transfiguration. She was the only 6th year in Gryffindor to do Advanced courses in Transfiguration, Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts. In fact she was the only one to do 3 Advanced courses in the whole school. Most people did only one, if any at all.
Lily got up groggily and by the time she had got dressed, everyone in her dorm had already gone down to breakfast. Feeling better since getting up, she skipped down the stairs into the Great Hall and sat down next to Gus.
"Morning," she said to him. Suddenly she heard four male voices to her right burst out laughing. She turned to see Remus, Peter, James and Sirius in hysterics. She realised that they were laughing at her.
"What is so funny? I DEMAND that you tell me now!" she yelled standing up. This made them laugh even harder. A few Gryffindors turned to watch, but most of them were used to this. After all they had to go through this almost everyday.
But when they turned, they also started laughing. Lily started to feel embarrassed now because other people were laughing at her aswell as the Marauders. She turned bright red, she literally looked like a tomato.
"What?" she whispered to Gus. "Why is everyone laughing at me?" She sounded very upset.
"Lils...um...to put it bluntly - your hair looks like a pigsty," he said, smiling at her apologetically. This caused Lily to frantically smooth her hair out, mentally slap herself for forgetting to brush it that morning and turning and even brighter red than before. In fact, her face was now a maroon colour.
"Oh shit," she said and then ran back upstairs to fix her hair. She got back to the dorm and decided to show those stupid Marauders how nice her hair could really look. She brushed it, applied some special conditioner and did it up in an extremely complicated style.
When she had finished, all her hair was up except her fringe, which was mostly tucked behind her left ear, a few strands falling on her face. She smiled at herself in the mirror (which happened to be giving her pointers while she was fixing her hair) and it said "Gorgeous darling, absolutely beautiful." A smug Lily then walked down into her first class of the day.
There were six people in Advanced Transfiguration - Lily, Sirius (ugh!), James (even more ugh!), Remus, a Ravenclaw girl named Sandria and James' girlfriend Mariah from Hufflepuff. Sandria and Lily became good friends, especially because Sandria hated James for being so good at Transfiguration. Lily just plain-hated James.
Lily walked into the room, pretending like it was a normal day and all their jaws dropped in a synchronised fashion. She walked over to Professor McGonagall who was the only one in the room who seemed to have any composure.
"Sorry I'm late Professor McGonagall, but I had - er - women's troubles. You know..." she said. Lily then took out her homework and handed it to McGonagall.
McGonagall nodded curtly, accepted the homework and motioned Lily to her seat. McGonagall always had a soft spot where she was concerned. Lily turned and glanced briefly at everyone in the room. She grinned inwardly. This was exactly the kind of reaction she had wanted. James, Sirius and Remus were in awe, James' mouth still wide open, Mariah both shocked and envious was giving Lily a murderous stare and Sandria was grinning madly at Lily.
Lily went over and joined her. Sandria's eyes were giving a please-tell-me-the-story look but Lily gave Sandria a not-now look and took out her quill and parchment (A/N: I almost wrote pens and paper). She couldn't afford to not concentrate in this class.
"Mr. Potter!" snapped McGonagall. "Kindly close your mouth and stop oggling at Miss Evans before you swallow a fly!" Lily had a sudden urge to burst out laughing but satisfied herself with a huge grin instead.
They worked silently through the class, and as usual James was doing the best. Lily envied him and his ability to do transfiguration with such ease. But this lesson was far better because everyone kept glancing at her, most of all James.
At the end of class, Lily waved by to Sandria and headed off in the direction of History of Magic, only to be joined by Sirius, Remus and James, who were all still staring at her.
"What's the matter Potter? It looks like you've seen a ghost...or a gorgeous, radiant, ravishing and beautiful witch with fabulous red hair," said Lily, looking smug.
"Actually, I just did..." James said trailing off. Lily looked taken aback. Had he just said she was beautiful? Lily was so dazed she didn't see him shake his head slightly after this comment.
"Except she didn't have red hair. Her hair was a gorgeous brown and was far more beautiful than any old carrot-top," he added. He grinned and walked off. He was referring to Mariah. Lily glared at him.
"Yeah...well...at least I'm not a slut!" she yelled after him.
Why did he have to make her feel like she was ugly even if she had tried her best to look pretty? Ugh! Why did she have to have such low self-esteem when she was around him? Lily stormed into History of Magic and sat there without speaking for the whole lesson (which was extremely boring!).
By the time lunch came around, Lily was feeling better and a lot hungrier. She had taken her hair out because her head had started to hurt and just put it in a half-up-half-down style. She sat down as usual, next to Bella and Gus.
"What have we got next?" asked Lily, stuffing food down her throat.
"You guys have Advanced DADA," said Gus, feeling depressed.
There were many more people in the Advanced DADA class, especially because of the rise of Lord Voldemort. Students wanted to learn how they could protect themselves. That's why they had a separate class for each house where normally for Advanced courses they would combine all the people from the year to make a class.
In the 6th year Gryffindor Advanced DADA course was Lily, Bella, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Julia (Symonds), Mary-Louise (Forbes), Jack (Harris) and Spencer (Donaldson).
The bell rang for class and Bella and Lily headed in the direction of Ad. DADA while Gus turned off for his Standard DADA class. Lily and Bella took their usual seats in the middle of the class and waited for Professor Ingleburn to show up.
In the door came a short lady with her long brown hair pulled into a tight ponytail at the back of her head. She had a pleasant face, but as you know 'appearances can be deceiving'. She was the strictest teacher in the whole school but these Gryffindors didn't know that and so they acted somewhat how they did around Professor Binns.
"Good afternoon, class," said Ingleburn somewhat pleasantly. It seemed like she was in a good mood, but with her, you never knew.
The class hardly acknowledged her presence at all and kept on talking, or in James' case, pulling Lily's hair. When he did this Lily wheeled around and slapped him, but James was ready for this so he pulled his face back and only his nose and her fingers collided. Ingleburn saw all of this and got angry at such disrespect.
"Right! You two, stand up!" she barked, pointing at Lily and James. They class became suddenly silent. Both of them stood up and very slowly, like if they stood up fast, Ingleburn would get even angrier. Ingleburn's face was glaring at the pair of them.
She said softly: "What are your names?"
"Lily Evans, " said Lily automatically.
"James Potter," said James obediently.
Professor Ingleburn raised her eyebrows. "Ah yes...I've heard of you two. The famous rivals of Gryffindor. Well, just for your disrespect you can both sit together for the whole lesson. Now MOVE!" she yelped.
James instantly stood up and changed places with Bella. While doing so, James gave her a what's-up-her-bum? look. Bella stared straight back at him with Merlins-beard-she's-scary look. Ingleburn continued to talk.
"Now, this Advanced course will be quite different to other Advanced courses. Instead of an end of year exam, you will have a large project that will work on in pairs. At the end of the year, you are to hand in this project and give a speech. Each pair will be given a different topic so the presentations will be interesting. And your partner will be," Ingleburn's mouth curled into an evil grin, "the person you are sitting next to now."
Lily grabbed the desk with one hand and clapped the other so that she wouldn't drop to the ground and beg for mercy! Her eyes were wide and filled with shock and horror. After overcoming her shock, she shot her hand straight into the air.
"Yes Miss Evans?" asked a grinning Ingleburn. Lily lowered her hand.
"Please Professor, don't make me work with Potter. For the love of Merlin, don't make me work with him. It wouldn't work. We can't have a normal conversation together for 1 minute let alone work together on a project for an entire year! PLEASE!" Lily was now shaking uncontrollably and eyes were boring through Ingleburn's.
Ingleburn smiled again, but this time more gently.
"I'm sorry Miss Evans, but you're partners have been chosen and there is nothing you can do about it. Now each pair will be given their topic,"
All of a sudden, another hand shot up, but this time the hand was Bella's.
"Yes Ms. Figg?" asked Ingleburn, now getting a touch irritated by the interruptions.
"Please Miss, couldn't James and I swap partners...just for this assignment? Please don't force with...him!" she said, nudging her head towards the person next to her, who happened to be Sirius Black.
When James and Bella switched places, Bella had to (much to her disgust) sit next to Sirius. And Bella despised Sirius...but not nearly as much as Lily did James.
Ingleburn's face glowered with anger now, and she looked almost as scary as Dumbledore did when he was angry. Her eyes were wide, and everyone in the class held their breath...
"THERE WILL BE NO MORE DISCUSSION OF SWITCHING PARTNERS! YOU HAVE TOLD TWICE NOW AND I WILL NOT TELL YOU AGAIN!" screeched the very angry Professor.
"Now," she said, regaining her composure, "here are your topics." She waved her wand and suddenly the pile of manilla folders on her desk flew towards the students, one for each pair.
"Do not open them now, you may look over them in your own time. Today we will be studying what to do in the face of a dragon."
This class also went silently, no one dared to look in their folders in case they were caught and Ingleburn had another fit. The class dragged on, everyone reading the "Weaknesses of Norwegian Ridgeback Dragons" in their textbook.
Eventually, though, class ended and everyone rushed out of class.
"Who stuck a quill up her ass?" Bella asked Lily. Lily shrugged.
"I dunno but she sure is uptight. Geez, you would think she was Potter's mother or something - the way she acts!" said Lily.
"Oh, surely I'm not that bad, am I Evans?" asked a familiar voice behind Lily and Bella. Both of them turned to see James and Sirius smirking at Lily.
"Come to think of it Potter, you aren't," said Lily, thoughtfully. Bella and Sirius looked a little confused but James kept grinning. He knew it was coming.
"You're so much worse. I don't know how your mother has lived in the same house as you for that long! Poor thing!" retorted Lily.
"What do you two want?" snapped Bella, who was now getting sick of the two Marauders.
"We just wanted to know what time we should pick up for our dates?" said Sirius innocently.
"In your dreams Black!" spat Bella. "Like either of us would go out with the likes of you!"
"Ooh, feisty!" grinned Sirius.
"We mean that we have to work on our assignments, Bellsy-wellsy-woo," said James, patronisingly. Bella slapped him on his cheek.
"If you ever call me that again, you'll get more than just a slap in the face," said Bella threateningly to sore-cheeked James. Lily, not wanting to talk to the 2 Marauders anymore, ended the conversation quickly.
"I'll meet you in the library tonight after dinner Potter," said Lily. She turned and walked away. She heard Bella mumble something to Sirius and run after her.
"Hey Lil! Wait up!" cried Bella, who ran and caught up with Lily. "You stranded me back there!"
"Sorry!" said Lily apologetically, "but I just couldn't stand Potter any longer."
"You know James and Sirius are really not that bad, Lil. I mean, they are sort of funny...and really cute. Many girls would kill for the position we are in," said Bella thoughtfully.
"UGH! Bella you're making me puke!"
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A/N: So how id you like this chapter? PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! I didn't get that many reviews last time. Hopefully, I will attract more readers now. So, please tell me what you think. Constructive criticism is VERY helpful! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!! I beg you to review! Any way....at least tell me what you think and if you think it's really crap then tell me and I will stop writing. Ok thank you all for reading!! I really hope you like it....I've gotten much enjoyment out of fanfics and I want to give that to someone else.
Thanx - someone (aka Ramz)