A/N: Ah, sorry I haven't updated in the longest time..it's been like months. But now I have the next two chapters ready on my computer so don't go anywhere. Thank you to IhaveaRANDOMsister, marauders rox, Artemis Hunt, MWPPxxPwns, and BrazilianPrincess for reviewing!

Chapter 9- Normal...Sort Of

(No POV)

The next few days went by pretty quickly. Charlotte's dare was a success. Not only did she prove her point that she knew how to dress like a "girl", she had enough offers for dates to last her until the end of the year, once again proving another one of Sirius's points wrong. Sirius wasn't "horribly disfigured" anymore and the Marauders'' robes and room weren't pink anymore.

However the good ol' gossip mill was still running; everyone was talking about how James and Lily were actually being civil to each other and how they were actually acting like friends. While everybody was happy that that they weren't going to become deaf because of their fighting, they now had another bickering duo on their hands: Charlotte and Sirius.

They had taken to fighting at Quidditch practice, at meal times, in class, at the Hospital wing because they had hexed each other, in the library, in the common room, and according to one unlucky second-year, they even fought in the detentions that they had gotten for disrupting class and hexing each other. A joke was that Charlotte and Sirius fought more in one day then James and Lily ever did in one year! It eventually got so bad one day that a normally calm Elizabeth chucked several books at them, told them to shut up and suck up, and stormed out of Potions class. After that their bickering went down to somewhat better one or two fights a day; yes it was that bad. The only reason that nobody suspended them was because what they fought about was so ridiculous that there was really no good reason to.

(Gryffindor Common Room)

Violet came in and slammed her book bag on the floor. James, Remus, Peter, Lily, and Elizabeth looked up, startled. Violet had this wild look in her eyes that made it look like she wanted to strangle something…or worse two certain some bodies.

"I have had it up to here with them!" Violet shouted.

"Who's them?" asked Peter.

The entire common room shouted, "Sirius and Charlotte!" at him. Peter looked offended for a second and was about to reply when he caught Violet looking at him and he shut up.

"I'm going to pretend that you didn't ask that Peter," said Violet. "So I'm walking back from the library when I hear loud voices around the corner. Apparently they are still standing where we left them 2 hours ago! They were practicing their new hobby. Guess what it is?"

"Um, standing together?" asked Peter looking innocent.

"Everyone looked at him exasperated.

"Wormtail, it was a rhetorical question; but just so you know their new hobby is arguing," said James.

"Well now their arguments have taken an all-new weird level," said Violet. "Guess what they were arguing about?"

"Er, makeup?" commented Peter.

"No Peter; what did we say about answering rhetorical…wait actually that's correct Peter." Violet looked amazed.

"What's so weird about that?" asked James. "I mean if it was anyone else I would be worried, but this is Sirius and Charlotte. They've both worn makeup before."

"Oh no that's not what I thought was weird. It was the fact that they were arguing about which color eye shadow look good on Remus; that was the disturbing part."

"WHAT?!" screamed Remus. The others looked incredulously at Violet, and then started laughing.

"Remus is there something you're not telling me?" teased Elizabeth. "I thought you would have told your girlfriend everything!"

"That's not funny," said Remus, who had turned red. "They can't think of a better subject for their makeup woes."

"Honestly, who cares? Those two are getting on my last nerves," said James.

"I think that Beth proved that last week in class," joked Lily.

Elizabeth turned red, to match Remus. For awhile the 6 of them just sat there talking and having a good time. All of a sudden Lily started squealing.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"

"What is it Emerie?" asked Elizabeth. Lily beckoned for Elizabeth to come closer. Then she whispered something in her ear and they both turned to look at Violet.

"No way Lily, we couldn't have!"

"But we did, we really did!"

"But we had a plan and everything!"

"I know! That's why I don't know how we could have possibly forgotten!"

They rushed towards Violet and gave her a hug, saying, "Oh Vi! We're so very sorry! We have to go find Charlotte!" They jumped up and ran out of the common room. James, Remus, and Peter looked at Violet.

"Whoa! Do not look at me that way!" said Violet. "I have no idea why they're all whatever!"

A couple of minutes later, the girls came back in, whispering excitedly, while Sirius trailed in not too long after them, looking really confused.

"Are you sure that we forgot?" asked Charlotte.

"Positive!" said Lily and Elizabeth.

"Aw man we're the worst friends ever!" said Charlotte. Then she turned to Violet and said, "Violet I am so, so sorry! Do you forgive us?"

"Well," said Violet, smiling slightly. "I can't quite forget you if you don't tell me what you're sorry for."

"That brings up a good point. What are you three talking about?" asked James.

"It's Violet's birthday today James!" said Elizabeth.

"Hmmm…so it is. Wow. I'm eighteen today…" murmured Violet.

The Marauders turned to look at Violet with fake hurt on their faces.

"Violet! It's your birthday and you didn't tell us?" asked James.

"Yeah I thought that we were friends!" said Sirius.

"Wait we were friends Black?" said Violet. "That's news to me…but seriously it's just a birthday, it's not that important."

"Not important? Violet, you're talking to James and Sirius, the two guys who think that birthdays should be considered holidays," said Remus.

"You know what I think? I think that Violet forgot her own birthday!" said Charlotte.

Violet scoffed.

"No I didn't! I so did not forget my own birthday. It's just isn't that important, especially since I'm not a muggle, therefore I became an adult last year."

"Muggle, pure-blood, whatever. A birthday is a birthday and don't you try and mess with our heads Violet Rebecca-Lynn Schmidt!" said Lily. "Now we're going to get your birthday presents so don't try and run away."

In a flash Lily, Charlotte, and Elizabeth had rushed up the stairs and back down each bearing an elaborately wrapped present. They gave the presents to Violet and after much urging from the girls and the Marauders to open them, Violet reached for Lily's present. Lily had gotten her two t-shirts, Elizabeth had gotten her a charm bracelet, and Charlotte had gotten her a certificate to a muggle shoe outlet. Then they handed her one more present; it also had an envelope attached to it. Inside the package was a pair of drumsticks. They were black with red zigzags on them and glitter on it. Violet gave an uncharacteristic squeal.

"Ah! These are fabulous! Were did you did you find them?!" said Violet. Then her eyes lit up. "Does that mean that the you know what is in the envelope?"

The three girls nodded. Violet squealed again.

"That means I can get what Charlotte got, only a different design of course!" said Violet.

"I think we missed something here…" said Peter.

"Yeah, what's in that envelope?" asked Remus.

"And when did you start playing the drums?" asked Sirius.

"And what does my cousin have that you don't have?" asked James.

The girls smirked at each other.

"I don't know, should we tell them?" asked Violet.

"Nah; they'll just mess things up," said Charlotte.

"Not to mention that you're looking at one of the school's biggest gossip rats…" said Elizabeth. They turned to look at Sirius and he tried to look offended.

"I do not gossip! I merely talk about interesting news!" said Sirius.

"Okay then. Who told everybody that Erica was really a blonde?" said Lily.

"And who told everybody that Aidan was gay?" said Charlotte.

"And who told everybody that we hated worms?" said Violet.

"Admit it Sirius, you so gossip! You gossip more then the 4 of us combined and we're girls!" said Elizabeth.

Sirius pouted.

"Moony, your girlfriend's mean!" Remus just smiled at that, while Elizabeth continued to smirk.

"Well, Sirius," said Elizabeth. "A Marauder's girlfriend, especially one who's a NewM, has to not only be pretty and nice, but be able to insult Sirius Black."

"Moony your girlfriend hates me!"

"And that's why I'm going out with her Padfoot," said Remus.

They all laughed, while Sirius glared at them. Elizabeth gave Remus a kiss on the cheek. Eventually Sirius joined in with the laughter.

"You know Violet, we feel so bad that we, the Marauders didn't get you anything for your birthday," said James.

"I think that means we'll have to do something special tomorrow. What do you think Moony? Wormtail?" asked Sirius.

"Wait right there!" said Violet. "What do you mean by something special? Really you don't have to do anything!"

"No we insist! Now goodbye ladies and Charlie (Charlotte scowls) we have work to do!" said Sirius.

The boys went up to their dormitories to plan their special gift, while Violet put her head in her arms muttering obscenities under her breath.

"Well on the plus side, they forgot about the envelope!" said Lily. Violet just gave her a look.

A/N: Heh, more cliff-hangers, but they'll be solved all in due time. Now I think by now you should all know that I'm aiming to get Charlotte and Sirius together. I have a couple ideas for that, but I'd love your opinion;; how do you think they should get together? Be creative!