The times came the next weekend. Gryffindors was on the ninth of September which was a Saturday luckily enough.
Liliana Mayfair,
Your audition day is 7th September, you set the times etc.
I also forgot to mention, the theme this year for songs is pop legend Katy Perry. It is up to you and the other captains to make sure you don't have the same song.
Minerva McGonagall.
We all giggled once we saw, from our brief experience of her songs and Minnie's strange language. We needed to make this amazing.
"Any ideas Lils?" Amy asked happily. I shook my head no.
"I need my… Accio iPod" I said pointing my wand at the stairs leading to the dorm. It took only thirty seconds to come to me where we then sat down listening to all the songs I had on my iPod by her.
-oooo-
We took about ten minutes to find a good song. We chose 'If You Can Afford Me', Alice told me she chose 'Firework, I heard around that Slytherin chose California Girls and that Ravenclaw had chosen 'Ur So Gay'. We knew our song was the best no offence to Alice. We practised none stop, we were gonna try to make it even better than last time but we needed to find outfits, last time they were recognizable this year they had to be just great. We finally chose to go with the Gryffindor theme, cutting out search down to red, then we chose the neck style and we chose sweetheart and halter neck so I finally chose a 1950's style dress. The dresses looked great on us. They were red and white polka dot that went half way down our thigh with an invisible band holding the dress in just under our boobs. We chose natural makeup for the performance and our hair any way we wanted. The Gryffindor Quidditch team didn't change, which most quidditch try outers were furious about, saying James was only choosing his family so he replied with saying Aaron wasn't his family. I and the team were giggling together on the couch in the common room about my MMLD plan when all the boys came in; when we all looked at them we all burst out laughing about nothing.
"Ok…" James said picking me up and sitting down in my place. I sat down on his lap giving him a hello peck. He smiled at me rubbing my back as I sat on him talking to him with my back to the rest of the room, I was sat cross legged.
"I was looking through all my spare pieces of parchment when I came across the reasons… you know for the letter not being you." He mumbled most of it but I still caught it, good he was embarrassed. I grinned at him gesturing for him to carry on. "And I so I re-read it, and I do not remember calling you Liliana ass-dank Mayfair." He told me, looking me in the eyes. I giggled at the memory of when he did. And he did.
"Well, you did. Don't you remember? Ok…"I said when he shook his head, I coughed. "It was a sunny afternoon in late June. The sun was shining all over the Hogwarts grounds but unfortunately Liliana Mayfair and her friends were stuck in potions." I started, flourishing my hands about and walking round the room as I spoke. "Last lesson of the day, and it seemed it was going on forever." I said pacing and frowning at how long the day really seemed. James chuckled at my dramatics as did the rest of the group, stopping their conversations to listen to my story. "Teal was writing instructions on the board when the first stage commenced. James Potter, the sexiest guy in school winked at the fair maiden Liliana Mayfair. She giggled having turned girly over the summer and pretended to be sick in her cauldron once she realised what sound had just come out of her mouth." They all laughed at me. "She then turned her attention onto the teacher, reading the instructions carefully and going to get ingredients for the potion she was going to labour on all alone-"
"Hey! I help!" Peach interrupted, I raised my eyebrow, and she gave up shrugging.
"-when the maiden was finishing her potion, adding the beetle juice to her lovely concoction, the troublesome 'sexiest guy in the school' came over and ceased his moment of glory. Just as I was bending over my caldron to add the right amount of beetle juice, James Potter striked. As he was passing he slapped our maiden on her arse." I said frowning at him and everyone laughed. "Very hard I might add. The whole beetle fell from her hands, it all happened in slow motion, the beetle dropped into the potion making a loud explosion that singed the ends on the maiden's hair. Just as she was going to kill James Potter, he said, and I quote, 'Oh Liliana ass-dank Mayfair, the opportunity was one too good to miss.'" I finished my story, rounding on James with an eyebrow raised and my arms crossed. "And so I and Peach got a T on that." I said fake-annoyed. James chuckled not looking sorry.
"Ok now I remember." He said laughing at my scandalised expression. "Sorry Lils." He said getting up and hugging me to his toned chest.
"Good." I mumbled." I could feel his chest vibrating with laughter. We had been official going out for one day and I was actually surprised no-one knew, I was happy but surprised. I closed my eyes on his chest.
"Oh, they've gone." James said, I turned around and sure enough all of our friends had left.
"They always disappear!" I said rolling my eyes.
Lilli-bug,
Off to lake, you know where. P and Mol.
P.S Bring cozzie. X
Said a note that was lying on top of one of the cushions.
"Ok, be right back." I said running up the stairs and changing into my bikini at the speed of light. I put on my red bikini and a white flowery sundress on top. I went back downstairs. "Off we go then." I said to James who had also obviously changed. I grabbed his hand and ran towards the lake. There were many others on the grass even though it was September it was quite hot so most people were enjoying the sun before it started to get cold. I realised half way down to the lake James was keeping me behind so I let go of his hand and carried on running. He probably rolled his eyes, but he stopped running anyhow once I had let go. I saw the boys sitting at our tree but the girls were in the water so while running I pulled my dress off and threw it into their surprised faces as I ran past. When I got to the end of the 'dock' I jumped in creating a massive splash to soak Molly and Peach.
"Aaaah Lils! Oh Lil, we thought you would take longer." She said winking at me. I grinned and saw over to both of them; Amy and Dana were having a race.
"Hahaha very funny." I said sarcastically. "Let's play chicken!" I asked happily. They nodded happily and we all climbed out the water, pushing our hair back from our faces and walking over. I laughed at the shocked looks on the boys faces. I pulled James up.
"Come on babes, were playing chicken." I told him tugging on his hand.
"We? I saw you last time, that game is scary." He said shaking his head. I stood there for a moment pondering on what to say.
"Please Jamie? Do you want me to call you a chicken? I'm gonna be on top anyway." I said winking. "You won't get hurt." I whispered seductively into his ear. He sighed.
"I hate that you can control me woman, but fine as long as them lot do too, they can go in MMLD pairs." He said holding my hand and telling them as well as me.
"As if! Just because she can control you so easily doesn't mean were gonna play." Al said. The other boys nodded. I grinned at him and told Amy and Dana to come over to change their minds. Molly and Peach also grabbed their boys' arms and dragged them away all saying something different to convince them. I pulled James' shirt off, he already had his trunks on. I raised my eyebrow approvingly at his amazing chest. He grinned at me.
"Now were officially dating… I can finally start showing how much I luuuurve your bod openly and try not to be caught staring; now I can do all the staring I want." I told him happily giving him a quick peck.
"Same to you." He told me slapping my bum as he walked past me and jumped in the lake.
-oooo-
We played that game for a while and we also sunbathed, but mostly kissing far away from our friends because of their moaning at it. We went back in a little while later and carried on with our evening as usual, squeezing in a practise before the game the following morning. A Sunday. I woke up first as usual and had a shower changing into trackies and a loose grey top. The others woke about five minutes later and I could feel the excitement in the air. We went to the changing rooms just for us about half an hour before the game to practise a couple times more. This game was Gryffindor against Hufflepuff so I and Alice hadn't talked all week, like last year. All the other teams had gone on now and only Ravenclaw was left but they were after us. We walked out onto the platform and everyone cheered us and our outfits. I could see Reid in the teachers stand looking exited. I smiled at her and she waved back. We went into position, me at the front, P and Mol behind then Dana and Amy. The music started
Lil: If you want me
The cherry on top
The pick of the pack
The crème de la crop
If you want me you better do better than that tonight –I nodded my head-
Mol and P: Oh oh
If you want me
It takes more than a wink
More than a drink
More than you think
If you want me you're gonna have to break the bank tonight
Peach: Cause some don't have the patience
Some call me high maintenance
Mol: But you pay the bill
Cause that's the deal
(Chorus)
All: If you wanna ride
Just name your price
Don't play cheap with your heart
Don't make a bet
If you can't write the check
For me, for me – we pointed to ourselves-
Cause I can be bought but you'll pay the cost
If you can afford me
Lil: If you want me
I'm not a piece of ass –we slapped our bums-
A one night stand
A storage shed
I think you better walk by tonight
Dana and Amy: Oh no –we shook our fingers-
Lil: If you want me
Then stop begging
I don't put out for charity
If you want me there's no discount price
Tonight
Mol: But I don't need your dollar bills
I just want something real
Cause nothing's free
Except loving me
All: (Chorus)
Amy: If you want me
The cherry on top
The pick of the pack
The crème de la crop?
All: (Chorus) x2.
When we finished everyone cheered even though it wasn't our best performance we had done. I grinned and hugged the others as the platform went down. I went over to James who was waiting for me as Ravenclaw's performance started, singing Ur So Gay.
"Very good." He complimented smiling at me as he put his arms around my waist.
"No it wasn't." I complained. He tilted his head a bit.
"Oh and why?" He asked.
"I didn't like the outfits," I said looking down at my dress. "Or the song, it wasn't fast enough and I didn't like the dance either. And it didn't have any meaning because you already have me." I told him putting my head on his chest.
"Well that is true… the last part I mean." He added hastily. I laughed and pouted my lips as if waiting for a kiss. He laughed at me but obeyed, leant down and placed his lips on mine before we heard a cough. We broke apart and looked at Peach. I raised a questioning eyebrow.
"Well, I wanted to talk to you Lils." She said holding out a hand for me to take.
"Ok Mr Darcy. Bye Mr Collins." I said holding back laughter at his scowl and taking Peach's hand. She took me into the changing room but not before grabbing Molly by the back of her dress and dragging her away form her heavy flirting with Aaron, I saw her scowl.
"I know exactly how you feel." I told her grinning; she tried to look angry but laughed as Peach carried on walking. When she got in she sat us down.
"I have decided…." She started.
"Yeaaah?" I asked slowly.
"That… I want you to start calling me Penny now, if you remember too that is." She said to our surprise.
"But… you hate the name!" Molly said looking confused.
"Yes, well, I realised that… seeing as I no longer have my original family and I'm an adoptee I would want some of my past still with me y'know? I want some of the original me… before all the bad stuff happened." She said smiling sadly. We both stood up at the same time and hugged her tightly.
"Sure… Penny, even if it does feel weird, we do anything for each other you know that. All for one and one for all right?" I said smiling at her and Molly. We all hugged each other again before going to stand with the quidditch team and finish watching Ravenclaw's performance that really wasn't as good as ours…
-oooo-
Two pieces of good news and one surprise. Well… one was better than the other in my opinion. Firstly Gryffindor won. Like always, so that was the lesser good. And the second was Molly.
"Liliana!" I heard someone shout in the common room. I looked up and saw Molly. She quickly smiled at James before pulling me up and doing a Peach, dragging me away with Peach in her other hand. She took us to our dorm. "Guess what Lils? Your gonna love it!" She sung.
"What? Did Aaron ask you out or something?" I asked her disbelieving. She nodded grinning happily. My eyes widened in surprise.
"No! Oh my goddess this is brill! Ha-ha I told you my plan would work." I shouted happily. She shushed me.
"Yes, but he said I couldn't tell anyone, not even you lot so don't be happy when you go back downstairs or James will suspect. Ok?" She said. I was extremely confused as to why it had to be a secret. "He doesn't want to die! And he will if my cousins find out!" She explained. It was true, no denying. I nodded as Peach did and I sobered my face but then broke out in a grin and ran and hugged her.
"Oh you're so lucky! Our own Spanish sex-god! Have you kissed?" I asked her bringing Peach into the hug. She blushed and nodded.
"Yaaay!" I whispered. I opened the door and went back downstairs, the other two following me. We separated at the bottom of the stairs to find our other half's. We decided to do karaoke again because it was so fun last time but I decided to not do my pairing up like last time because everyone hated me after unfortunately. So now onto the surprise. I was just sitting on James lap, trying not to grin as I saw Molly and Aaron hold hands when I saw Bindle get up at the front and start to talk.
"I want to do a duet… with Liliana Mayfair." She said into the microphone. I whipped my head up in shock as she smiled evilly. "Turning down the challenge Mayfair?" She challenged. My eyes turned into slits as I glared at her getting up and walking to the front.
"What song?" I asked sweetly smiling.
"Don't worry I have that sorted." She replied giving me the words.
"Really?" I asked nearly laughing. She glared at me as the music started.
Chorus:
Both: You need to give it up had about enough
It's not hard to see the boy is mine
– I saw my friends start laughing at that sentence, including James.-
I'm sorry that you seem to be confused
He belongs to me, the boy is mine
Lil: Think its time we got this straight – I sung walking towards her-
Sit and talk face to face
There is no way you could mistake
Him for your man are you insane –I twisted my finger-
Bindle: But see I know that you may be – she pointed at me-
Just a bit jealous of me – she said smiling evilly.
Cause your blind if you can't see
That his love is all in me
Lil: See I tried to hesitate –I nodded-
I didn't want to say what he told me
He said without me he couldn't make
Through the day, ain't that a shame? – I nodded patronizingly.-
Bindle: But maybe you misunderstood
- I could see her getting angry that her song was backfiring-
Cause I can't see how he could
Wanna take his time and that's so good
All my love was all it took
(Lil: The boy is mine)
Both: You need to give it up
Had about enough (Bindle: Enough)
It's not hard to see
The boy is mine (Bindle: The boy is mine)
I'm sorry that you (B: Sorry that you)
Seem to be confused (B: Confused)
He belongs to me, the boy is mine
Bindle: Must you do the things you do? – she pointed at me-
You keep on acting like a fool
You need to know its me not you
And if you didn't know it's cause it's true
Lil: I think that you should realize
And try to understand why
He is apart of my life – I pointed to myself-
I know it's killing you inside – I nodded-
Bindle: You can say what you wanna say – she pointed to me-
What we have you can't take
From the truth you can't escape
I can tell the real from the fake – she put out two hands-
Lil: When will you get the picture? –I pointed to her-
You're the past I'm the future – I put out two hands-
Get away it's my time to shine
If you didn't know the boy is mine – I pointed to myself.-
Both: You need to give it up
Had about enough (Lil: Enough)
It's not hard to see (Lil: to see)
The boy is mine (Lil: The boy is mine)
I'm sorry that you (Lil: Sorry that you)
Seem to be confused (Lil: Seem to be confused)
He belongs to me (Lil: He belongs to me)
The boy is mine
(Repeat)
Lil: You can't destroy this love I've found – shook my head-
Your silly games I won't allow – I shook a finger-
The boy is mine without a doubt
You might as well throw in the towel- I sung flourishing my hand-
Bindle: What makes you think that he wants you?
– She glared at me and poked my chest-
When I'm the one that brought him to
The special place it's in my heart –she tapped her heart-
He was my love right from the start
Both: Give it on up
Had about enough
It's not hard to see
Lil: The boy is mine oh
Bindle: I'm sorry that you
Seem to be confused – she nodded patronizingly at me-
He belongs to me
The boy is mine, no
Both: You need to give it up
About enough
It's not hard to see
The boy is mine
I'm sorry that you
Seem to be confused –I smiled sweetly.-
He belongs to me
The boy is mine
(Repeat)
"Give it up bitch." I said before putting the microphone back in the stand and jumping off stage to sit back down with my friends. I sat on the floor but held hands with James and started to pick at the hem of my dress.
"That was… so funny! Oh my Merlin!" Peach no wait… Penny said interrupting the silence. "What a bitch!" She said. I grinned and started laughing with her.
"Oh well it was fun to see her own song backfire." I told them laying my head on James' knee.
"True dat." Penny said laughing.
-oooo-
That was a week ago and Aaron and Molly had finally told James etc who weren't happy but I told him to calm down and so he did. This made me feel powerful. Anyway, I could also tell Alice was happier. She had decided to join our table and eat dinner and breakfast with us, she normally sat opposite Aaron and next to Fred, I thought it was weird because she normally always said no when I invited her. It wasn't a bad thing but something was niggling at the back of my mind, many weird things had been happening recently. Bindle had started to be nicer to me and sometimes actually sat down and talked to some of the boys, but never the girls. And now that. I felt that something was happening, and it wasn't good. Ever since Molly accidentally told James, Aaron was always quiet and secretive and he told James that them lot couldn't tell anyone so far only we knew. Even Alice didn't know.
-oooo-
The next day we had Muggle Studies first. Only I, Peach and James were in that class out of all of them. Peach did it to spite her parents, James' mother said he had to and I just wanted to so I could get top marks in something. Our teacher was droning about muggle music, it was the very first lesson of this year I realised I had made a mistake of choosing muggle studies.
"…Muggles often use portable, which means they can carry it around easily, CD players to listen to music-"The teacher said.
"No we don't." I interrupted her, everyone turned to look at me. Earlier in the year she had moved me to the back because I talked to James and Peach too much now they were just separated by an empty chair and I was separated by the whole class.
"I… us? You're not a muggle Miss Mayfield."
"Mayfair miss and I know but when I go home I don't and even here I don't. Not anymore." I told her, I could see she was getting angry.
"Oh and what do you use then?" She asked.
"IPod." I told her getting it out; it was one with a camera and was purple. "It's portable too but you don't have to carry the CDs all the music is stored in the iPod so all you need is headphones." I said pointing to them.
So, she gave me a detention and ten points off Gryffindor for telling lies and interrupting her. This was totally unfair. But I didn't really care. I held hands with James as we went out class yet people had still not found out we were going out even though we never used to hold hands. We were being bumped around by all the people going to lunch.
"Liliana! Lils!" I heard someone shout so I stopped and waited for Alice to catch up.
"Go on and save me a space." I told James. He nodded and kissed my forehead before leaving. When Alice got to me she grabbed my hand and started to pull me.
"Urm... Alice where we going?" I asked her. She shook her head and silenced me. She pulled me into an empty charms classroom. She was grinning madly.
"He told me not to tell anyone but I just can't anymore." I had a horrible feeling where this was going.
"Who?" I asked quietly. She didn't realise.
"Who do you think? Aaron. He kissed me around a week ago and asked me out, and no offence but that's why I was hanging round you so much." She told me brightly, I could slowly feel my heart break for two of my best friends.
"How long ago? When?" I asked her.
"Gryffindor party of course." She told me. On the same night? I thought.
"Fuck, oh fuck. Fuckidy fuckidy fuck. He's gonna die. And I'm the one that's gonna kill him." I told her angrily and stormed out the classroom ignoring her calls of what was wrong.