The Ticket...s?

'Lily, are you okay?' Mary asked. 'You haven't eaten anything.'

The five girls were at breakfast, Lily playing with her food.

'I'm fine,' she responded. 'I'm just full on chocolate. I shouldn't have have eaten so much last night.'

'I thought Marlene ate most of the bars you opened last night,' Emmeline said, receiving a glare from the blonde.

'Evaaaaaans!' a familiar voice sang.

'Potter...' Lily sighed, turning to the messy haired boy. 'What do you want?'

'I would like to give you something,' James replied, reaching into his his pocket.

'Oh, I'm not falling for this agai- '

Lily froze, seeing what was in James' hand. It was a golden ticket. An actual, official golden ticket. Lily didn't know what to say. James just put the ticket down in front of her.

'Have fun on the tour,' was all he said as he turned to sit with his friends.

'...Did that really just happen? Like, seriously?' Alice asked.

Lily remained silent, shock plastered on her face as she stared at the ticket in front of her.

'I must be dreaming,' Marlene said. 'There is no fucking way that James fucking Potter gave you a golden fucking ticket. It has to be a fake.'

Lily still said nothing. She picked up the ticket and looked it over. There was a message written on the back from Wonka himself.

'It's real...' Lily gasped.

Meanwhile, down the table, James was grinning, watching Lily's dumbfounded expression as she gaped at the ticket.

'Just wait,' he smiled, 'soon she's gonna come running down here, encase me in a hug and kiss me, thanking me and admitting I am amazing.'

'Don't let your ego inflate too much, it won't be able to fit in the room,' Remus said from where he had his head on the table. 'Why? Why did I agree to help you? If I didn't, I'd be going on that tour, I'd be experiencing one of my lifelong dreams.' He sighed. 'Well, at least it went to someone who's genuinely interested in the tour.'

'Can you imagine if it had gone to a kid who hates chocolate?' Sirius said.

'That would be ironic,' Peter said. 'Someone who hates chocolate winning a tour around a chocolate factory.'

'We'd better get to Transfiguration,' Remus said, finally lifting his head from the table. 'We don't wanna be late.'

The four boys all stood up and headed to the Transfiguration classroom.

After the day's lessons, they were all sat in the common room. James and Sirius were playing an intense game of wizard chess, Remus was doing his Defence Against the Dark Arts homework while eating chocolate and Peter was taking a nap.

'Check mate!' Sirius said. 'I think that's three to me, none to you, Prongs.'

James didn't say anything. He was staring into space, seemingly in another world.

'Prongs, mate?' Sirius asked, waving his hand in front of his friend's face. 'You okay?'

'She hasn't spoken to me since this morning...' was all James said.

'Evan's probably still in shock,' Sirius said. 'She'll come around. Where is she, anyway?'

'Library,' Remus said, throwing his crumpled-up Wonka wrapping into the bin.

'Oh, should've known,' Sirius said. 'By the way, good shot, Moony. Y'know we could use you on the team.'

'Nah, you know Quidditch isn't my thing,' Remus replied, reaching for another chocolate bar. 'And, anyway, it would technically be cheating. You know my, uh...Furry Little Problem makes me slightly faster and stronger than a normal person.'

Remus paused for a moment, a look of concentration on his face. 'Also gives me a more sensitive sense of smell.'

'What does that have to do with Quidditch?'

'I'm not talking about Quidditch anymore,' Remus said. 'It's this Wonka bar. Something about it smells...off.'

At this, James snapped back into the real world. 'Maybe it's poisoned.'

'No, that smell's definitely not poison.'

'How the hell do you know what poison smells like, Moony?' Sirius asked.

'I swear I recognise this scent...' Remus said, ignoring his friend's question. 'Hang on... no... it can't be... no fucking way...'

He started unwrapping the bar and froze.

'Moony? Hello? You okay?' James asked, getting no response. He got up and walked behind Remus' armchair. He peered over his friend's shoulder at the Wonka bar. He then also froze.

'Guys?' Sirius asked. 'What's going on?' No response. 'Alright, I didn't want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice.'

Sirius stood and went up to his friends and gave them a both a hard slap across their faces.

'Argh! Bollocks!' James yelled, clutching his cheek.

'Merlin's fucking beard!' Remus cried doing the same. 'What was that for?!'

'You weren't responding, I didn't know what else to do. Now what's going on with the chocolate?'

'You really couldn't tell from our reactions?' James asked. Sirius shook his head.

Remus then pulled something from the wrapper. Something gold.

'NO FUCKING WAY!' Sirius yelled, causing the other students in the room to stare at him like he was crazy. The shout also caused Peter to be startled awake.

'WOAH!' he yelled, before slipping off the sofa and onto the floor, causing the other three to burst out laughing. 'Ow...what's going on? Did I miss something?'

'No, Sirius just yelled "NO FUCKING WAY!" for no reason,' Remus said, desperately trying to stop giggling. 'You missed me win the second golden ticket, mate!'