Chapter 11- Common Sense
It was a week later, all broken bones were fixed, cuts healed and classes had started. Lily and James had not talked to each other after their kiss that they shared. All their friends were starting to worry because it was some kiss and both Lily and James had hardly spoken to anyone and paid extremely good attention in their classes. Bekka, Elissa, Yazmin, Sirius and Remus all knew that something had to be done about it because their friends were turning into clock-working zombies.
So one night they all went to the Room of Requirement to 'discuss' their friends.
"Soo…anybody know what to do?" asked Yazmin. She was sitting on the couch with the other girls while Remus was sitting on the armchair and Sirius was pacing.
"Well for one, Padfoot could you please stop pacing, your making me really nervous." Remus asked. Sirius stopped at the sound of his name and said
"Uh, what? Oh sorry. I've just never seen James act like this before. It's really…"
"Disturbing." Finished Elissa. Sirius looked at here like he had just realised she was there. "What! Well it is!" she said defensively.
"I don't think you understand. This is James. He never goes quiet."
"No Sirius. I don't think you understand. Lily never goes quiet. Not even when her mum died or when her father came at her with a butchers knife, not even when…" Elissa started raising her voice, everyone's ears perked up after the butchers knife and when Elissa stood-up and started advancing toward Sirius Bekka and Yazmin stood-up and stopped her. The she realised what she had just said and she quickly lost the feeling in her legs and fell to the floor.
"Oh my God. What had I done? Lily is going to kill me." She started sobbing into Bekka's shirt.
"Shh, shh. Everything is going to be ok. Lily won't have to know because neither Sirius nor Remus are going to say anything. Are they?" Bekka said looking straight at the guys with daggers growing in her eyes, they quickly said
"No, no. Not at all." Remus said quickly.
"Not a sole." Sirius put in.
"See there's nothing to worry about." Elissa nodded into Bekka's shirt.
"Ok. So back to the task at hand." Yazmin said to break the silence.
"Yep, right, ok." Sirius said and started to pace again.
"Sirius I told you NOT to pace!" Remus said starting to get annoyed.
"Oh right. Sorry Moony."
A couple of minutes later Bekka clicked her fingers with a idea.
"Ok. I got it!"
"Well… what is it?" Remus asked.
"Oh right. Well what if we bring them here and locked them in here until they sort out their problem. Ok I know that it's old fashioned and everyone does it but I don't see anybody else thinking of anything else. And time is running out."
"Yeah your right. How about we bring them here Friday night, so just in case they end up here all night, we all know how stubborn they both are. Remus said.
"Ok, Friday night it is then say 8pm?"
"Alright." Everyone nodded and went to Gryffindor tower and went to bed
Friday came along very quickly. At dinner Lily and James sat away from each other as usual. Sirius, Remus and Peter sat as usual with James and Elissa, Bekka, and Yazmin sat with Lily. 7:30 came around and Elissa, Remus, Yazmin, Bekka and Sirius nodded at each other and the guys told James to meet them at the Room at Requirement, he just grunted his acknowledgement and Remus and Sirius left the Great Hall. Then the girls told Lily to meet them in the same room, Lily just nodded and the girls left.
When the girls meet Sirius and Remus the guys were very impatient.
"Where have you 3 been?" Sirius questioned.
"Umm, well we didn't want to leave straight after you guys 'cause it would have looked suspicious." Elissa said looking Sirius in the eye.
"What, it took you 15 minutes to tell Lily and walk up here?" Sirius asked looking straight back at her eyes.
"Well that and Yazmin had had to go to the toilet." Bekka put in to stop the staring competition because it was getting freaky. Yazmin blushed.
"Oh well that explains it." Sirius clapped his hands. "Now lets get to work." The girls looked completely puzzled but they went to work anyway.
When they finished, it was almost 8 o'clock so they waited outside the door. First was to arrive was Lily the girls took her into the room which set out like the common room and then not so long after James arrived and the boys took him in too.
When James got into the room he spotted Lily and turned around but Sirius and Remus blocked his way. Then Lily saw him and stood up but the girls just pushed her back into the couch. Sirius and Remus pushed James forward into the room and pushed him into the armchair.
Bekka stood up and said
"Ok, Lily, James thank-you for coming here tonight. Now I don't want you to talk until I'm finished." There was silence. "Ok, now this silence between you two has gone on long enough. This is very childish. You both are the school's Head students. All of us here saw what happened on the train and Sirius here told us everything that happened on the holidays. You are both going to sort out this problem, you two have this room after we leave. Now rules-
No hitting, scratching, bitting each other because I don't know of the extent of the damage you could both cause.
We will not let you out until you have resolved this problem.
We will know when to open the door because the door will appear on the other side to show us that you have sorted out whatever s bugging you both. Is that clear?" She looked from Lily to James and back again and they both nodded. "Well I think that's covered, we will now leave. We'll be waiting outside. Take as long as you need because tomorrow is Saturday. Goodnight." Bekka finished with a smile and all 5 of them left closing the door behind them.
The 5 Gryffindor's waited until midnight to see if the door appeared to show them that Lily and James had sorted out their problem, but not as yet. So they walked to the common room said goodnight and went to sleep. It was 8 o'clock in the morning when Sirius, Remus, Bekka, Yazmin and Elissa went down for breakfast and after they went to the Room of Requirement. When they got there the door had appeared. They looked at each other in confusion and then Sirius approached the door with caution and slowly opened it. When Sirius looked into the room he saw Lily sleeping on the couch peacefully as was James but he was on the armchair.
When the others poked their heads in the room and Bekka spoke up and said
"Oh my. I haven't seen Lily sleep like that in ages."
"Yeah. Dido for James. Do you think they talked about everything? You know everything?" Sirius said.
"I think we should let them sleep. They're probably extremely exhausted." Elissa said.
Everyone nodded and backed away slowly and closed the door. That night in the Common room Lily and James walked in as if nothing in the past week had happened. The 2 Marauders and 3 Callipsos looked from where they were seated around the fire.
"Hey guys. How are you? Everything go alright?" Bekka asked. Lily sat on the couch with the girls and Remus and James sat in the spare armchair.
"Yep. Everything is fine. James and I just wanted to say sorry for everything that's happened and also say thank-you for snapping us out of our weird world." Lily said smiling. James nodded in agreement.
"You know it was our pleasure." Yazmin said smiling. "But just don't do it again, I've never spent soo much time away from Brad, it was so lonely." She finished with a sad look on her face.
"Please never go into another 'Lily' world again, PLEASE! I don't know if I could stand spending so much time with a scheming Sirius again." Elissa said.
"Aww come on Liss you know you loved every moment." Elissa gave Sirius death glare.
"I'm just so glad that your back Lils, you too James. I don't think I go another day with you two not talking." Bekka said smiling.
They all sat in silence for a little while before
"Hey guys, where is Peter?" James asked.
"Well, ever since the train thing we've hardly seen him around. Although I have noticed he's been spending a bit of time with the Sytherin's." Sirius said a scowl forming on his face.
A couple of minutes past again.
"Hey Sirius."
"Hmm"
"Tomorrow we are going to see Professor Malcolm the Muggles Study teacher about explaining to you what a 'figure of speech' is."
"Oh yeah. I totally forgot. Thanks Lils. We'll go after brekkie." Sirius replied and Lily nodded in agreement. Then eventually everyone went to bed except Lily and James, they were the only ones left.
"Hey it's late maybe we should be going to bed."
"Yeah, you're probably right."
They both got up and went to the portrait and walked out of the common room. They walked a little way before they reached their common room portrait and Lily said "Wiggly Worms" and the portrait opened to reveal their common room they walked in and went to their room and fell asleep.
After breakfast the next day Lily and Sirius went to see Professor Malcolm. After about half an hour of both Lily and the professor trying to explain to Sirius what a 'figure of speech' was Lily went to Sirius and put her hands on his shoulders and looked him straight in the eye.
"Sirius." He nodded back to Lily. "Sirius you need to find common sense, because without it you will not be able to understand figure of speech. So, Sirius please, please, find some common sense"
"Huh? What, is she cute?" Lily looked at Sirius in disbelief and she let out a sigh of confusion.
She turned to the professor and said
"I'm sorry that this was such a complete waste of time."
"That's ok. When he does eventually understand lease come and tell me, I would be pleased to know." Lily nodded and her and Sirius walked out.
At lunch time when Lily and everyone were seated at the table Lily was looking around the Great Hall and saw that there was hardly anyone there and more importantly Sirius was no-where to been seen and that was not normal because he never missed a meal.
"Um guys, where is Sirius?"
"He said that he had something to do." Remus said.
"I still think that we should go look for him just in case." Everyone nodded and walked out.
When they reached the entrance hall they saw a very long line of Hogwarts students mostly girls and some boys. The group walked up to the front of the line and saw a booth with a banner saying 'NEED TO FIND COMMON SENSE' and Sirius was underneath the banner. Lily, Remus, James, Elissa, Bekka and Yazmin stood there bewildered and amazed and just watched Sirius go through people saying that they were not common sense until a girl came up and said
"Hi, I'm Common Sense." There was no reply, "My mum is Known Sense and my dad is No Sense and they named me Common Sense. I'm a 7th Year Prefect in Ravenclaw, and I'm a big fan of you." She finished and winked at him.
Sirius pondered on what she said for a few moments and then said
"No your not. NEXT!" her face fell and slowly walked away. The next person was a 7th year Ravenclaw guy.
" Hey I know Common Sense. She is a 7th year Ravenclaw." Sirius eyed him.
"She paid you, didn't she." The guy looked shocked and Sirius shouted, "NEXT"
"I'm Common Sense." A short 1st year stated.
"Honey, I'm sorry to say but you're a bit short." The 1st year walked away sobbing. Sirius got on top of the booth and whistled for everyone's attention.
"People, people. Gather round. Try and gasp what I'm saying to you. Common Sense is around 17, tall, black/brown hair, bright blue eyes and the reddest lips you have ever seen." After Sirius finished he thought to himself haven't I seen someone like that?
Everyone looked around and they all saw the real Common Sense. The short 1st year said
"She looks like Common Sense." And she was pointing in the direction where Common Sense was standing and everyone nodded in her agreement.
"No see, that there is a copyright"
Then a close child to Common Sense said, "Then why does her prefect badge 'Common Sense'?"
"Hello, it's a Barbie badge. That's what these copyrights do."
"Oh." A boy said.
"I'm sorry everyone the search was unsuccessful. But thank-you for helping with my cause." Everyone nods and goes back to what they were doing.
Sirius went and found Common Sense and started talking to her.
"Un-bloody-believable. He just goes and disses that girl and then starts chatting her up! And she just takes it…all!" Elissa said crossing her arms over her chest.
"Are you jealous, Lissa? Hmm" Lily said.
"Noo, I just think that…"she trails off and everyone started laughing.
"Oh my god, you like Padfoot!" James said through his laughter.
"I do not!"
"Whatever." Bekka said.
Elissa heaved a sigh and said, "Ok fine, you win. I like Sirius a little. There happy?"
Everyone kept laughing and they all walked back to the head common room to discuss this matter at hand or more to the point want to know all the details.