I'm getting bored of this story now...
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James stood staring at the door for a full minute before snapping out of it and remembering that he needed sleep.
That's the best I'm going to get from her he thought with a sigh.
The sun had barely risen before Lily screamed at James to get up. He dragged himself out of his warm, cosy bed and stumbled into the bathroom, mumbling and grumbling all the way.
"It's about time." Lily said darkly as he eventually joined her in the common room.
"Nomehfootetim." He muttered.
Lily hid a small smile as she asked him to repeat it.
"I said, 'not my fault this time!"
"Ooo, touchy!" She said, grinning, "Come on, let's go to breakfast." She started to make her way to the door that led to the stairs but faltered as she saw that James hadn't moved.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" James asked slowly.
Raising her eyebrows and shrugging her shoulders, Lily replied, "Erm... no."
He raised his left hand. "Remember now?"
"Still no! What have I forgotten James?"
"We're supposed to be pretending that-"
"Oh. Right, that." She reluctantly took his hand and returned to exiting the common room.
"Look at you two getting along." Elle whispered in Lily's ear, Lily scowled at her and continued walking, dragging James a little.
They all made their way to the Great Hall, Charlie muttering 'don't forget the spell', and took their places at the Gryffindor table.
"When are we going to start the... process?" Harry asked quietly as they all helped themselves to porridge and sausages (they didn't eat them together, well... except Sirius).
"I think we should do it as first lesson begins." Elle suggested, taking a sip of water.
"Good-"
"Elle, can I speak to you please?" Charlie said, effectively shutting up Remus.
"Charlie, it's rude to interrupt." Lily chastised.
"Okay, sorry, but Elle?"
"Yeah, of course." Elle said, standing up and shooting Lily a confused glance. The two girls walked a little bit further along the table and put their heads together, whispering rapidly.
The others watched on in bemusement.
"I wonder what they're talking about." Remus mused as they threw their heads back and laughed.
"I don't know, but whatever it is, I don't like it." Lily said slowly. She raised her eyebrows questioningly as they returned but they replied with nothing more than a beaming smile and a shoulder shrug.
"Well that was strange." stated James as the shrill bell could be heard.
"Excellent, first lesson." Charlie and Harry said simultaneously, with matching evil grins. The seventh years gulped.
"Come on then, we've got Potions." James said, offering a hand to Lily which she didn't refuse.
Snape shot the group an evil glare as they walked past him to get to the door; he was very curious of the fact that two first years were so pally with seventh years and he was certain that they all had something to do with the strange goings on.
James glared back at him. Everyone missed Charlie's look at Elle and Elle's nod.
They left the hall and Charlie acted.
Quietly, so as not to alert anyone to her misbehaviour, she whispered the spell that they had spent all night learning. She pointed her wand first towards James and then towards Lily.
They both shuddered as, what the book described, a ball of hot energy fell into the pit of their stomachs and began to seep into every bone of their bodies, they closed their eyes for a split second and felt a tugging sensation in their torso.
Opening their eyes again, they glanced around as saw what they had dreaded; Lily's left side and James's right side were stuck together like glue. They turned around to find the others, murder in their eyes, but found them gone.
"Oh I'm going to kill them." Lily growled, "Why would they do this?" She whined, gesturing to their sides.
"Because they thought it was funny?" James suggested, he quickly shut up at the look on Lily's face.
They started walking towards Potions and saw a trail of disgruntled couples struggling to walk.
The flustered Professor Slughorn ushered their class in and went from couple to couple.
"What on earth had gone on?" He cried. Elle and Sirius snickered and Slughorn immediately shot over to them.
"Do you know what's gone on?" He asked quietly, danger evident in his voice.
"No sir." They chanted just as their eyes closed and they were pulled together.
"WHO DID THIS?" They roared, instantly looking over to Lily and James. They raised their hands in surrender.
"Why look at them? They're stuck too." Polly pointed out. Elle and Sirius glowered and were forced to sit down. Remus watched with a smug smile and caught James's eye.
"I think he did it to move the suspicion." James whispered to Lily. She giggled and smiled her thanks at Remus.
Time seemed to slow down during the morning lessons and by lunch, almost half of the school was stuck to someone.
"James, I need to go to the library." Lily said after eating a quick lunch.
"Okay then."
"Which means you need to go too." Elle muttered.
"Oh right yeah." James stood up with Lily and left for the library.
They walked in silence for a moment until James decided to speak, "So what do you need to go to the library for?"
"I just want some fiction books." She said with a smile.
"Oh right okay, what are you looking for?"
"Anything really, when I was younger I liked all the fantasy things: The Chronicles Of Narnia, Alice In Wonderland that sort of thing, but now that I'm actually living in a whole other world I just don't seem to read it as much."
"What on earth is a Narnia?" James asked. Lily laughed.
"It's not an a it's a place, another world." She explained.
"That just sounds weird."
"Of course it sounds weird to you, you've always known about magic. For me it was an amazing place that I could escape to when Petunia annoyed me." She laughed shakily.
"You shouldn't have to escape, you're sisters and she's supposed to treat you right."
"Mmm, tell her that."
"I will."
Lily laughed again, "You don't even know Tuney!"
"Shh!" Madam Pince looked up as they entered the library and pressed her finger to her lips.
Lily ducked her head down to stifle her giggle.
"So what if I don't know your sister, I am definitely going to tell her to treat you right. What's your address? I'll send her an owl."
"Oh she'd love that," Lily rolled her eyes, "An owl giving her a letter from a wizard telling her what do to."
"I don't particularly care." James stated, trying to sit down but found that Lily wanted to stay standing.
They knew the reversal spell but, as Charlie and Harry shouted at them, everyone had seen them stuck and would want the spell for themselves.
"So seen a book you want?" James asked after ten minutes of browsing.
"No," she pouted, "Nothing is catching my eye."
"I think I've got one you might like, it's based on real people like us."
"Who's it by?"
"Alfred Simmons, he's written a whole series about secret dragon tamers."
Lily burst out laughing again and received another disapproving look from Madam Pince, James looked at her strangely.
"I'm sorry James but even though it's nearly seven years, I still can't get used to the fact that books about 'real people like us' involve dragons."
"I can see your point." He admitted with a chuckle, "I suppose that would be a bit strange for you."
"Very strange," she agreed, "I'll have a look at this book tonight then."
"You should do, they're brilliant books."
"Funny, I never imagined you as a reading type." She said thoughtfully.
"Ah well there's lots of things you don't know about me."
Lily smiled.
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