Operation Pretend-to-go-out-with-Sirius-to-make-James-insanely-jealous-causing-him-to-declare-his-undying-love-for-me.
Disclaimer I dont own Harry Potter... blah blah blah.
Lily's POV:
It's eight pm, first day back, haven't been to any classes, have been living on chocolate, and been singing constant ABBA and George Michael songs because they're the saddest ones I know at the moment.
Even though my friends say I have nothing to be sad about, but they don't know anything, of course I do, for the first time I fall in love, and it just happens to be this complete ego maniac, big headed, pig headed, arrogant, bullying toe-rag who I have supposedly 'hated' for the past six years.
And oh yeah, he's been in 'love' with me for the past six years.
And the year I finally realise I'm in 'love' with him as well, is the year he decides to get over me.
Well, I don't blame the guy; I have been a bitch to him.
What's not to be sad about Fiona and Anisha?
I saw the look on his face, it was pure loath.
I think…
They said they have a plan, fingers crossed it will work; but Fiona isn't very good at matchmaking you see.
She's been trying to get Anisha and Remus together for a year now, without any luck.
Her plans are prone to go awry.
Where the hell are my silly friends?
Oh yeah, they've gone to meet Remus and Sirius.
Where is James???
Where is my Mars bar???
HELP!!!
Narrator's POVFiona and Anisha had made their way to the Gryffindor common room after dinner, it had been a long day, and they just needed to relax now and plan how to get their friends together.
'Hey guys,' announced Fiona to the Marauders (excluding Peter who was down in the kitchen getting food) as she walked in the portrait hole followed by Anisha who waved at them.
'Hi,' they all said.
'How's Lily?' asked Remus.
'Oh, she's just a little sick,' said Anisha, emphasising the word 'sick' to Remus as she arched her eyebrows in James' direction, he quickly nodded to show he understood and smirked in return.
'Sick? Really? She looked fine to me this morning,' snarled James rolling his eyes.
'Oh yeah, she's really sick, been lying in uh bed all morning,' said Fiona.
'Course she has,' said James. 'Anyway, I'm off now, see you lot in the morning.'
James left and the others huddled together to form a circle.
'So this is how he plans to get over Lily, by being pure nasty about her?' asked Remus.
'And to her,' added Sirius.
'I don't know you guys, maybe he is over her?' said Anisha.
'My dear Anisha, must you be so gullible? And here I thought you were the smart one' sighed Sirius.
'Well, I know you're the dumb one,' said Anisha.
'Is that why I got eight Outstandings in the OWLs?' asked Sirius raising his eyebrows.
'Hello? Much more important things to discuss people!' said Fiona.
'What I was trying to say was that dear Prongsie is putting on an act,' said Sirius.
'Well all I was trying to say was how can you be so sure?' said Anisha.
'Anisha I admit Sirius may be the dumb one ('Hey!' exclaimed Sirius) – but he knows what he's talking about when it comes to James, trust us, he's our best mate, we know when he's faking something,' said Remus.
'Yeah right, remember when he faked that he was sick for a week just because I dared him to? You guys actually fell for that one,' said Fiona smirking.
'Hah! See? How can you be so sure this time?' said Anisha.
The boys stayed silent and exchanged worried glances.
'Exactly,' pointed out Fiona matter-of-factly.
'Well then what do you suggest we do?' asked Remus.
'Well, we cant get them two together unless we're absolutely positive that James still likes Lily, I don't want Lily to be left heartbroken,' said Fiona.
'Again,' added Anisha, and Fiona nodded knowingly.
'Again?' asked Sirius raising his eyebrows.
'Yeah, she was going out with that Ravenclaw in our fourth year, he well… long story short, it didn't turn out so well, kind of put Lily off boys for a while,' said Fiona.
'Oh yeah I remember,' said Remus, 'Lily told me' he added when he saw Sirius raising his eyebrows at him in a 'how-did-you-know?' manner.
'Anyway, how are we supposed to find out if James still likes Lily or not?' asked Anisha.
'Well if one thing I've learnt in my experience is that boys get easily jealous, and they're not very good at hiding it,' said Fiona.
'So what you're saying is that we get Lily to go out with someone so James gets insanely jealous so he finally breaks out and admits that he is still in love with Lily so them two can go out and not be moping around all day so us lot can finally enjoy our last year at Hogwarts?' asked Sirius.
The three of them looked at Sirius in surprise, he shrugged and said, 'Told you I'm not dumb.'
'Right, that is what we will do, except who is she going to go out with?' asked Fiona.
'Well, I reckon it has to be someone James trusts so that he's even more jealous, possibly one of his friends,' said Anisha.
'Not me, uh, I don't want to,' said Remus nervously.
Sirius and Fiona grinned at each other, Anisha looked confused, 'Fine, Sirius can do it,' said Fiona.
'WHAT? No way, not me! James would kill me! He trusts me! He knows that I know that he's in love with Lily!' said Sirius.
'Yeah, but if you go out with her, that's more of a reason for James to admit he likes Lily, if he gets really angry at you, then it's obvious he still likes her,' said Remus.
Anisha nodded, 'That's perfect! Sirius and Lily would be an item, James gets insanely jealous and admits he still likes her, Lily hears that and runs into his arms and they kiss and then everything is alright!' she said.
'And then we can stop moping around and finally have some FUN!' said Sirius putting his fist in the air.
Fiona cheered, 'Woo! We have a plaaaan! And its perfect!' she sang.
Sirius joined in, 'Woo! Oh yeah! We have a plaaaan! And its perfect!' they sang together waving their arms.
Remus and Anisha exchanged smirks.
'Come on you lot, we need to get Lily to agree to this first!' said Anisha.
'Way to ruin the moment Nish,' said Sirius.
'No problem,' replied Anisha.
'Ugh, oh no, how are we going to get Lily to agree?' said Fiona.
'Well there's only one way,' said Remus. 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' he asked Sirius.
'Tie her up and threaten to hex her if she doesn't agree?' asked Sirius.
'No,' sighed Remus.
'Then no,' said Sirius.
'Are you saying-?' asked Anisha understanding what Remus was saying.
'You mean-?' asked Fiona also understanding what Remus was saying.
'YES,' said Remus nodding, 'That's the only way girls, and you know it.'
'WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT?' asked Sirius.
'We're going to use-'
In the Head's Dorm (Lily's Room)
'Chocolate, and lots of it,' explained Fiona to Lily.
'Are you saying that if I agree to go out with Sirius, you lot will provide me with chocolate whenever I want it? Are you bribing me?' asked Lily.
'Basically yeah,' said Remus.
'It's a perfect plan Lily, there's no harm in it,' said Anisha.
'Except for my reputation! I don't want to go out with Sirius, no offence Sirius,' said Lily.
'None taken, you're not my type either Evans,' said Sirius.
Lily pulled a face at him, 'Why Sirius though?' she demanded.
'Because Remus is not as close to James as Sirius is,' explained Fiona, quickly covering up for Remus.
'And we didn't think you'd want to go out with Peter now would you?' asked Sirius.
'I uh, no, uh, fine!' said Lily finally giving in.
Fiona cheered, 'That's great Lily, so from tomorrow you will officially be pretending to go out with Sirius Black,' said Anisha.
'Ugh, the nightmare shall begin,' said Lily rolling her eyes.
'Oi! I'm not happy about this either, do you have any idea what James is going to do to me?' asked Sirius.
'You'll get over it,' said Remus.
'Okay then, I guess we better get back to our dorms now, Lily we'll be here first thing so we can go over what we need to do, and you guys don't come because we don't want James to see Lily and Sirius together here, so we will bring Lily down to the Gryffindor common room so you two can go down to breakfast together,' said Anisha.
'That's right, you need to make an entrance, something that will stir some rumours up, we need to get James as jealous as we can, so he finally breaks,' said Fiona.
'Where is James by the way?' asked Remus.
'Well I heard him come in like an hour ago but he just nodded at me and went straight to bed without a word,' answered Lily.
'Don't worry Lils, he'll come around,' said Sirius.
The other four stared at Sirius in shock, 'Hey! I can be sensitive when I want to!' he said.
In the morningLily woke up pretty excited and nervous at the same time, it was half six, the girls had said that they would be here by now, and she was right, because the next moment she heard the door to her dorm open and two chattering girls entered.
'Hey Lily,' greeted the girls.
'Hello, I'm so tired, couldn't get a wink of sleep last night,' said Lily yawning.
'I wonder why,' muttered Anisha sarcastically.
'Anyway I better go get ready now,' said Lily.
'What are you wearing?' asked Fiona.
'Uniform, duh,' said Lily.
'Yeah, I know, but erm, how?' asked Fiona.
'Fi, what are you on about? Is there different ways of how to put on your uniform or something?' asked back Lily in confusion.
'Just go put it on, I'll explain when you come out,' said Fiona.
Lily got out of her bathroom ten minutes later wearing her uniform, let's put it this way, in the geekiest way possible, meaning she had her top button fastened, shirt tucked, skirt below knees etc.
And usually she did look good in it, but it wouldn't suit her today, not when she was pretending to go out with Sirius Black.
'Erm, Lily, I hate to break it to you, but well, that's Prudish,' explained Fiona.
'Prudish? It is not!' exclaimed Lily.
'Fine, what's a better word for it? Geeky,' said Fiona.
'Hey! My uniform looks the same as Lily's!' said Anisha.
'Yeah, but you're not going out with Sirius Black, or pretending to,' said Fiona.
'So I have to dress like you?' asked Lily.
'Yeah, so it looks more realistic that you're going out with Sirius, you just need to sexy it up,' said Fiona.
'And you're saying that we aren't sexy?' demanded Anisha.
'You are, in your own ways, but we need to make Lily look really gorgeous so that James is practically drooling, you get me?' said Fiona.
'Fine, work your magic girl,' said Lily.
Fiona smiled, she took out her wand and instantly straightened Lily's usually wavy red hair, she put her wand down and got her makeup bag out of her backpack, she applied some eyeliner on Lily to make her emerald green eyes stand out, she put some light pink lip gloss on her, she unfastened Lily's top button of her school shirt and pulled her tie down, she untucked Lily's shirt and pulled her skirt up really high.
After about ten minutes of grooming, Lily Evans looked absolutely stunning.
'He wont be able to resist you,' said Anisha smiling.
'My work here is done,' said Fiona.
Lily's POV
I was dressed like a tart.
Or in other words Fiona.
Who herself admits that she is infact a tart.
And I couldn't care less, because to be honest I looked absolutely stunning.
Again, sorry for the Russia sized ego, but it is true.
My friends and me walked out of my room, James was still not out of his room, and so it was great, as he wouldn't be able to see my 'transformation'.
We were heading towards the Gryffindor common room, we had decided that I would enter the entrance hall hand in hand with Sirius, and even though that makes me sick inside.
I can't wait!
And yeah sure, I'm possibly breaking someone's friendship, but it's all for the greater good.
Right?
YES IT IS!!
Anyway, we got into the common room, and even though it was only seven now, a few people were there, and I'm sure they gaped at me in admiration as I walked up the steps to the Marauder's dormitory.
What can I say?
I did look fantastic.
Hahaha.
MUAHAHAHAHA!
I'll stop now.
As we got in the room, the boys stopped in their tracks when they saw me.
'You like my new look?' I said spinning around for them.
They didn't say anything.
'Black close your mouth, you're drooling,' said Fiona with a smirk on her face.
I giggled.
I giggled.
Wow.
'Well?' I asked.
'You look stunning,' said Remus appreciatively.
You gotta love that guy.
'Lily, what are you doing here?' asked Peter.
'Didn't you hear anything we told you last night Wormtail?' groaned Sirius.
Wormtail? What is with their weird names?
Moony, Prong, Padfoot, Wormtail.
Weird…
'Right, Lily, we know you don't want to touch Sirius, but in order for it to look real, you will have to,' said Anisha.
'I know,' I said.
'Evans, as much as I'd like to kiss you, I'm afraid I'm not going to, that would really betray mine and James friendship,' said Sirius.
That's actually kind of sweet you know.
'Yeah, I understand,' I said nodding.
He smiled, 'Come on Lily flower,' he said holding out his arm.
I linked arms with him and smiled back, 'Okay, cupcake,' I said.
Cupcake?
'Cupcake?' asked Sirius, 'Tiger Lily you have to come up with something better than that.'
Like what?
'Like what?' I asked.
'Erm… love-muffin?' he suggested.
'Oh god, fine, I'll just use various nicknames for you,' I said.
All systems go for Operation Pretend-to-go-out-with-Sirius-to-make-James-insanely-jealous-causing-him-to-declare-his-undying-love-for-me.
Lovely title, don't you think?
YES IT IS!!
James POVShit night.
Couldn't sleep, had a dream about Lily, again.
It was horrible, I looked older, like about in my 20's or something, and I think I was married to Lily, and we had a baby, but then all I could hear was the baby crying and at the end of it all I could see was a flash of green light.
It was awful.
I heard her go out like twenty minutes ago, giggling with her friends.
Wasn't she supposed to be sick?
I rubbed my eyes, I glanced in the mirror of my bathroom, I had dark circles under my eyes.
I got my wand out and made them go away.
I splashed some water on my face.
I quickly got dressed with the wave of my wand; I was too tired to do anything else.
How is a guy expected to get over someone when she's even haunting his dreams?
He's not.
But I guess there's no other way.
Brace yourself James, if you keep self-pitying yourself you'll be even more depressed.
Great now I'm referring to myself in third person.
Man, I'm hungry.
I better go down to breakfast now, but seriously, if Sirius is extremely cheery today I will hex his sorry arse into oblivion.
Wherever that may be.
I walked out of the Head's common room down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
A lot of people were down but my friends were nowhere in sight, neither were Lily and her friends.
Where are they?
I went and sat down, all on my own I might add.
Peace at last.
Except for these noisy fourth years, and basically everyone else.
SHUT UP!!
I got myself some pancakes and dug in, just listening to other people chatter, which didn't make much sense at all.
And suddenly, and believe me when I say this, the Great Hall had gone quiet, I swear it was like I had gone deaf and I actually tapped my ears a few times to check if I could still listen.
Everyone's heads were facing the entrance doors.
It was Sirius and Lily.
The stopped dead in their tracks as they noticed everyone had gone quiet and were staring at them.
Why had they?
Why had everyone gone quiet?
That's when I noticed.
It was Sirius and Lily.
Hand in hand.
Sirius laughing as Lily ruffled his hair.
And then it happened…
My heart broke into tiny billion pieces.
That was my hand she should have been holding.
My hair she should have been ruffling.
But it wasn't.
It was my best friend's hand she was holding.
His hair she was ruffling.
My bloody best friend had just betrayed me.
Holy shit.
Lily's POVWe entered the Great Hall, and believe me when I say this but everyone had gone quiet when we did, I mean everyone, even the teachers.
I let my eyes wander around the Hall as me and Sirius made our way to the Gryffindor table followed by our friends.
I spotted James.
And seriously I felt ever so guilty I could have gone and kissed him then and there.
He looked so… hurt.
'Sirius, I don't think we should do this,' I whispered to him in an undertone.
'Lily don't back out now, I know you're feeling bad but believe me so am I, and it'll be worth it for you in the end, just play along and follow my lead, okay?' he said squeezing my hand.
I nodded nervously.
Sirius can be really nice sometimes.
We went and took a seat across from James, Remus and Fiona sat next to him while Anisha and Peter sat on my side.
'Hey Prongs,' announced Sirius.
'You okay man?' asked Remus with a concerned look on his face.
James' expression changed, 'I'm fine, Paddy ole boy, new girlfriend eh?' he asked with a comical grin on his face.
Wait, what the hell?
WHY IS HE GRINNING??
'Yeah it is!' said Sirius.
'It?' I asked raising my eyebrows.
'Oops, I mean she, sorry babe,' he said.
'It's okay baby,' I cooed, and kissed him softly on the cheek.
He smiled and wrapped his arm around me, 'You want to you know, maybe go to a broom closet before class, snog a little, bit of this and that?' he asked mischievously.
Seriously, Sirius.
I fake giggled and brought my face closer to him, 'Maybe…' I said.
I looked at James, who was seemingly oblivious to all our flirting and was in conversation with Remus who glanced at me hopelessly.
What have I gotten myself into?
First lesson, Potions'Well, I will pick a partner for each of you, the potion you all will be making today is that (he pointed towards a soft, bubbling cauldron), can anyone tell what that is?' asked Professor Slughorn.
Lily's hand shot up in the air as usual, 'Ah Lily, go on,' said Slughorn smiling.
'It's Amortentia, the strongest love potion in the world!' gushed Lily.
'Yes it is, and how pray-tell did you recognize it?' he asked.
'I recognized it by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen, its steam rising in characteristic spirals and how it smells differently to everybody according to what attracts them,' said Lily.
Professor Slughorn nodded, 'Now, this is the potion you will be making, and I'll be honest with you it's not easy, but it's most likely to come up on your N.E.W.Ts so be prepared,' he said, he went around the classroom putting students in pairs.
He finally got to the row which had the Marauders and Lily and her friends, 'Ah Ms.Evans, why dont you work with erm… Mr.Potter? Mr.Black you can work with Ms.Potter, Mr.Pettigrew you may work with Ms.Mckinnon and Mr.Lupin please work with Ms.Patel, there we go, all set? Get your ingredients out from the cupboards, you have one hour,' he said.
Lily couldn't help but smile to the fact that she had gotten paired up with James, 'Come on, help,' she said, getting things out of the store cupboard.
'Erm… yeah, okay,' said James and he got some things out of her hands, his hand slightly brushed against hers causing her to get shivers down her spine. James noticed this and raised his eyebrows, 'What's up?' he asked.
'Erm… nothing, I just uh, you know, static electricty,' she said.
'Static what?' asked James.
'It's uh, nothing, doesn't matter,' she said.
'Sure,' he said, and quietly added some ingredients to the cauldron.
'Why is he being so quiet?' thought Lily. 'This is so not normal.'
'Anything wrong James?' she asked.
James' eyes lit up when she said his name, but Lily didn't seem to notice.
'Nothing, I'm fine, great, never been better,' he replied.
'Right, so are you uh, adding wormwood to the potion?' asked Lily, attempting to make conversation.
'Are we supposed to?' asked back James.
'Erm no,' said Lily instantly feeling stupid.
'Okay then,' said James. He privately grinned to himself, Lily, 'the great Potions expert', yeah right.
Why were things so awkward though? Life was so much easier when all he had to do was ask her out to break the tension and keep the conversation going, now he couldn't do it because of two reasons: he was trying to get over her, his best friend was going out with her.
He was trying not to feel bad about it, but he couldn't help but think Sirius was doing this for revenge or something, didn't he know how much he liked her?
Yet still he could not admit he still liked her, not after what a traumatized scene he had made over the summer shouting and screaming over the fact that he in reality actually was over Lily Evans, maybe Sirius had believed him?
Meanwhile'Ugh, it's pathetic,' sighed Fiona as she looked over to Lily and James, they both seemed to be quiet. How unusual.
'What is?' asked Sirius.
'Them two, why dont they just confess they like each other, and then we all can get on,' said Fiona determinedly.
'Unfortunately life isnt that easy Fi, Moony hasn't told Anisha he likes her either,' pointed out Sirius.
'True, but maybe he doesn't even like her anymore, I mean Remus, because he certainly doesn't show it,' said Fiona.
'Maybe he doesn't, people can be like that, especially Moony, he's extremely secretive, it took us so long to get it out of him that's he's a we- I mean allergic to erm.. weather,' said Sirius.
'Huh? He's allergic to.. weather?' asked Fiona looking very confused.
'Uh yeah, cold weather, he becomes all… red and blotchy if he doesn't cast a heating charm on himself,' Sirius made up.
'Uh right,' said Fiona not looking thouroghly convinced.
'Anyway, how long do you reckon this will last eh? Me going out with Lily?' asked Sirius quickly changing the subject.
'Knowing how stubborn them two are, probably weeks,' said Fiona. 'Maybe you should kind of try and find out if James still likes Lily, you know, maybe a little man to man talk?'
Sirius chuckled, 'Man to man talk? Watching too many muggle movies have you? The only time Prongs ever spills what he's feeling is when he's angry, then things just blurt out of his mouth, it's quite funny actually, he always regrets what he's said after,' he explained.
'Well then do something to make him angry, because it doesn't look like you going out with Lily is making him very angry, and to be honest he looks completely normal, aside from the fact that he isnt talking to Lily which is probably because he's saying he's over her and is simply trying to keep cover,' said Fiona.
'Well I'll think of something, dont worry babe,' said Sirius winking.
'Firstly ew, and secondly if you ever do that again, I'll make sure you're never able to have kids, you got it?' said Fiona, disgusted.
'Ooh, why you gotta go towards the privates man?' said Sirius, covering his privates with a book, 'I'm scared now.'
'That you should be,' said Fiona with a smirk.
'I was joking.'
'You were not.'
'Were too.'
'Were not.'
'Were too.'
'Were not.'
'Were too.'
'Were not.'
'Were too.'
'Quite enough chatter Mr.Black and Ms.Potter, another word out of you and it'll be dentention,' said Professor Slughorn.
Fiona and Sirius glared at each other.
'All your fault,' muttered Sirius,
'Was not.'
'Was too.'
'Was not.'
'Was too.'
'MR.BLACK AND MS.POTTER! Dentention, Saturday night at 7.00,' shouted Professor Slughorn.
Back with LxJ
Lily laughed as she saw Fiona and Sirius fighting, somethings never changed.
James felt his knees go weak as he heard Lily's laugh, it was so soft, beautiful and absolutely contagious, he couldn't help but snigger himself. He couldn't do it, he couldn't get over her, but now he had no chance of making her his, she was Sirius' girlfriend, how the hell had that happened? He needed to know, and he was determined to get answers, so he attempted to find out from Lily herself.
'So Lily, erm, how was your summer?' he asked.
Her eyes lit up, unnoticed by him, 'Oh it was okay really, nothing special, yours?' she asked.
"Oh yeah, it was great Lily, I spent the whole summer trying to get over you resulting in a fight with my best mate, and oh yeah it didn't work because I am still head over heels in love with you but now I have absolutely no chance of ever getting my dream as you happen to be going out with my best mate, remind me to murder him please," thought up James.
'Great,' he said instead.
'Oh really? What did you do?' asked Lily.
Thought of you…'Erm, bits and bobs really, the boys came to stay over for most of it, of course Sirius always stays there though,' he said.
"Yes! The conversation faced towards Sirius, excellent!"'He does? How come?' inquired Lily.
'Had a fall out with his family ages ago, he's been staying at my house for like two years now I think, didn't you know that? I mean isnt he your boyfriend?' asked James.
"Way to keep it subtle James"'Erm yeah, he is, but I didn't know that,' said Lily, going a tinge of red.
'Yeah, how did that happen anyway?' James asked.
'I don't know,' she said firmly. 'Can you pass me the silver knife please?'
"See what you did you big moron"'Here' he said passing her the knife.
She pursed her lips and didn't say anything; James had blown his chance to find out why she was going out with Sirius.
Why was she anyway? For years she had told James that the reasons he refused to go out with him was due to the fact that he was arrogant, conceited, big-headed, irresponsible, a bully etc. Wasn't Sirius exactly like him though? Or perhaps worse? Hadn't James made head boy? Didn't that prove that he was maybe a responsible person, Dumbledore thought so after all, other wise he wouldn't have made James head boy.
He would just have to get it out of Sirius, and hopefully he'd be calmed down enough not to hex him, nothing good came out when James was angry, except his secrets.
He would not get angry.
Hopefully…
There you go people, another chapter.
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