"Knob Happy"
Pacing back and forth outside Kathleen McGregor's flat did not help calm Lily's racing heart and ever-loud conscience. She knew it was time to tell her best friend, but Lily was not looking forward to the reprimand she would receive for the delay of information. The two had become inseparable the day they met on the Hogwarts express almost seven year ago. Kathleen's loud mouth and lack of manor's balanced Lily's fiery and rule abiding personality. They were an odd pair that many thought would never be friends due to the extreme outlook on life, but to them that is what made them so compatible.
"Good morning Lily dear, what brings you over so early?" Ms. McGregor asked kindly when she answered the door. Mary McGregor was a single mother who took it upon herself to raise Kathleen alone with no support from anyone. Once Ms. McGregor's husband found out about her 'gift' and what she bestowed upon their daughter he up and left on the night of Kathleen's fifth birthday.
"Oh uh just wanted to drag Katy out of bed and take her shopping." Lily said quickly while eyes darting around seeing if Katy was out of bed.
"Good luck waking the dead." Mary said sarcastically. "You know how bloody difficult she is to wake. I say go for it; gives me one less task to worry about this morning." Mary said happily. "The best way is to up end her mattress." She said mischievously.
"Oh I know." Lily began to laugh. Having been roommate's at Hogwarts for the last six years she knew all the tricks to wake up the sleeping dragon.
Lily walked quietly into Katy's room, but soon realized it did not matter. She would not hear Lily enter the room. Lily took in the sight that lay before her. There sprawled across the bed was Katy, mouth wide open and legs draped over the edge of the bed. How she found that comfortable Lily could not fathom. At that moment in time, Lily had the greatest idea to jump on the bed to awake her best friend.
"WAKE UP!" Lily shouted as she jumped around on the bed.
Kathleen's already tumbled body became even more contorted as Lily jumped around obnoxiously, trying to wake her best friend in the rudest way possible. After a good thirty seconds, Lily quit and Kathleen pulled the covers up around her shoulders, grumbling inaudible insults.
"If you insist…" Lily sighed and jumped off the bed. She grabbed a hold of the mattress and pulled it up to spill the contents of her best friend onto the cold hard wood floor.
"Bloody fucking wanker," Kathleen mumbled as she sat up on the floor and rubbed her eyes.
The sight made Lily burst out laughing, making every disgruntled and nervous thought leave her mind temporarily. There, on the floor, cursing up a storm was Kathleen; eyes half closed and blond tresses tousled like a lovers would be after a good romp in the sack. Any moment her foggy mind would register what happened, who did it and what time it was.
"Eight in the bloody morning?! Are you out of your mind Lily Evans?"
"We need to talk." Lily said flatly, as she walked out of her best friend's bedroom. "Twenty minutes to get ready, you hear me McGregor?" Lily shouted over her shoulder.
"Bugger off." Kathleen said as she lay down on the floor, pulling the covers around her.
"I knew it!" Kathleen shouted loudly in the small café that was located down the street from her flat an hour and a half later.
"Oh really now?" Lily said, arching a red eyebrow.
"Okay, I had a feeling something BIG happened between you two." Kathleen said while studying Lily closely through squinted eyes. "Why were you afraid to tell me right away Lil?" Kathleen asked, with a hint of hurt in her voice.
Lily sighed and rolled her eyes. Out of everyone in the world, Kathleen should have known perfectly well, as to why she never told Katy before. Lily loathed Potter for the longest time. When the slight attraction started, Lily was unsure, but she refrained from taking Potter's advance; she did not want to become another harlot in James's entourage. The fact that she would be another tally point for Potter did not sit well with her. Lily knew he was not a virgin, he admitted so that morning after the dirty deed was completed. How many girls he has consummated with she did not want to know, yet at the back of her mind a nagging thought wanted to know. Another notch on his bedpost, that is what she is now. However, every thing about that night felt right with Lily, and she hoped that something might happen between the two. However, James got what he wanted out of Lily, and now Lily was going to be a horny and emotional worthless blob of a woman; swooning over a man who would probably not take her again, or make something out of it. James Potter was a wild stallion and could not be tamed, much like herself.
"You know I never wanted to be one of them…" Lily hissed in a low voice, her fiery anger starting to rise.
Kathleen sat back in her chair and looked at her friend while contemplating the situation. Kathleen knew through Sirius Black that James was truly and utterly smitten with the fiery red head, which the two could not figure out why considering Lily was always extremely rude to Potter well until that one night. The two would make a perfect pair: one a rule abider, the other a rule bender. They say opposites attract, and boy were Potter and Evans complete opposites that would complement each other very well.
"Tonight Sirius is having a Party at his newly purchased flat and you are to attend with no argument or excuse." Kathleen said sternly while giving Lily the death glare. "During this small party you will talk to James, and perhaps find out you are not just a knobbing partner--" Kathleen then gave Lily a sly smirk, "and if you are lucky perhaps you can knob him again!"
"Bugger off." Lily growled while picking up her cup of tea to take a sip of the hot liquid in hopes it would calm her nerves.