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Moreta's thought Marieth's communications

Chapter 7

It was the last Hogsmeade trip before Christmas. Lily (surprisingly) was hanging out with Moreta, but it was to shop for a present for James (not so surprisingly). The person Lily really needed to talk to was Alice, as Moreta kept repeating to the panic-stricken girl. Unfortunately, Alice was off with Frank, both apparently none too worried about the holidays.

"How about this?" Lily asked desperately.

"Uh, I'm getting him that…I don't' think it's a very, shall I say, girlfriendy thing to get someone. After all, it's not even good fudge."

"True," she sighed, "What am I going to do?"

"Hi Lily dearest!"

Both girls whipped around.

"Wondering what to get me, Lily dear?" James teased.

"No!" she defiantly replied.

"Fine then, we'll leave." And they started to walk away. But Moreta grabbed Remus' arm, clapped a hand over his mouth and quietly dragged him into a secluded corner of the store. The other 'young men' did not notice. That is, until they were making fun of people and there was no Remus to tell them to "Shut your face".

When Moreta was sure he would be quiet, she slowly drew her hand away and beckoned Lily over.

"Alright Remus," Moreta whispered, "She needs some help. Desperately. As in, she has no freaking idea what to get her boyfriend for Christmas. So why don't you help her out and make her stop asking me what he would like. 'kay?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"Oh, and you absolutely cannot tell him anything about this. Anything. Or I will come upon you in a rage."

"With me at her heels" Moreta quipped.

"I guess that means no."

So, they got Remus' opinion on gift ideas and sent him on his merry little way. When they were done shopping for everyone else, the girls meandered to The Three Broomsticks. On the way there, they saw alice and Frank in the frilly little tea shop place, both looking very uncomfortable. When they saw Moreta and Lily, they practically ran out of the place.. What did they get for their trouble? A good laughing-at.

"Hey!" Alice proclaimed, "Frank's the one who said we should go in there."

Frank glared at Alice, "I didn't know it was like that." He said, looking horrified. They all started laughing obnoxiously, getting more glares from people in the street.

Later that night, Alice was in Lily and Moreta's dorm.

"Yeah, we agreed not to get each other anything. So I , naturally, ordered him something."

"You're not gonna tell us what, are you?"

"Nope."

"Fine." Lily sighed, "but what do you think about this for James…"

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Meanwhile, Remus was having an uncomfortable time in the boy's dorm. And Peter was somehow sleeping through all the raucous Sirius and James were making.

"She has no idea what to get you, mate!" Sirius was laughing his head off.

"Yeah, won't she be horrified when she sees what I got her and all she got me was what? Some candy?" Remus fell into a rather large coughing fit.

"You alright there Moony?" said a genuinely concerned Sirius.

"Yeh…s" he managed to get out in between coughs. Personally, he felt way more informed than anyone else, considering he was the only oen who knew what Lly and James were getting each other. And he definitely thought James was going to get the bigger shock.

"You seem kinda materialistic, mate."

"Oh, I don't' care what she get me, I just know she'll love me when she sees what I got her!"

"She loves you already Prongs." Sirius said rather, well, seriously.

"You think so?"

"My gawd James, how dense are you? Can't you see it in her eyes?"

"Well, sorr-ry Moony, I thought I might just be imagining things, okay?" He began to get hysterical. "What if I slip up, huh? What happens then? She'll leave em forever if I mess up once. I'll just die if she leaves me!" Fear shone brightly in his hazel eyes as he clung to his friends. His concious friends, that is.

"Hey, come now, she's not gonna leave you for one stupid mistake."

"Yeah prongs, I'm sure there's a point system, and with the Christmas present, you'll get a whole bunch of points racked up, and then you could mess up a hundred time and she'd still forgive you!" Sirius cocked his head to the side and said thoughtfully "Did that make any sense at all?"

"No!" James managed to choke out a laugh.

"Uh, Prongs, just how much did you drink?" Alas, it was too late. For James Potter had passed out with an arm around each of his friends, smellign slightly of alcohol. "Padfoot?"

"Ummm…" you could see the concentration etched in his face, "well, I drank one firewhiskey, and Prongs here drank…about five.:"

"WHAT!"

"I said…-"

"I know what you said."

"Look, he was all depressed and stuff-"

"Why?"

"I don't know, something about Lily. Probly how she snapped at him in the store."

"Great, so now someone has to stay up all night just so he doesn't choke on his own puke." Remus said. Then, when he heard Sirius' rattling snores, he muttered somewhat bitterly, "And of course, that someone would have to be me."

Once James, Sirius, and Peter got up in the morning, Remus dragged himself into bed and collapsed into a dreamless sleep. They, predictably, left him there while they went to get breakfast.

In the middle of the afternoon, Moreta walked up to the boys' dormitory in red lounge pants, and a large navy blue sweatshirt. She tried to open the door softly, but it squeaked, causing her to cringe and him to wake up. He quickly threw back the covers without realizing that: a) he was wearing nothing but boxers. And b) it wasn't the Marauders or Frank, in fact, it was Moreta. He quickly threw the covers back on the looked down at the floor, feeling a flush creep up his face.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were one of my friends." Moreta cocked an eyebrow at him. "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant." He took a deep breath and pushed onward into the increasingly awkward silence. "I meant that, you know, you're a girl, not one of us, I mean, you're not a guy…" he trailed off.

"I know what you meant," she smiled, "but I msut admit, it's fun watching you squirm." He stuck his tongue out at her. "Oh, very mature. Here," Moreta sat on the edge of his bed. "I brought you some food, thought you might be hungry."

"Thanks!" He devoured the food like, well, like Sirius eats all the time.

"So, I hear you stayed up all night to help James."

"Yshhocarshe"

"Sorry?" she asked, leaning slightly towards him.

CRASH!

They both whipped their heads around, to see the other three Marauders standing in the doorway, their eyes practically popping out. "We're sorry!" They said in utter unison, then almost fell over each other in a rush to get down the stairs. They both collapsed in laughter.

"Well, I better go back to do some homework before they imagine even more heinous things."

"Yeah, I'll be down in a bit.:"

"See ya."