Ok, I have a problem! I most likely won't be able to update BOTH of my stories daily. HEAK, I most defiantly won't be able to! I spend an hour and a half between when I wake up and when I step through the school gates. I spend seven hours in class (as a whole) and 45 minutes at lunch (in which I write). I get home round 4:15 (depending on whether I ride the bus or my bike. I then do my homework (2 hours usually). If I don't do my homework Mum usually has one of her bratty Day Care kids asleep in the computer room. That usually makes it 6:30. Then I have diner at 6:45ish and clear the table by 7:30ish. Then from seven-thirty till nine-thirty I write. Sometimes I watch a TV show so that gives me an hour and a half. I have spent practically ALL day on the computer this past three days. And I was updating two stories a day.

I'm not saying that you won't get an update for a week! No, I'm just saying it may be two days instead of one.

DEPENDS ON HOW MY REVIEWS ARE LOOKING!

I'm trying my hardest, I really am, please bare with me!

S.xx

Chapter 11: What Are You Afraid Of?

"This sucks soo bad!" Amanda flopped down on her bed as Lily sat, reading a book on hers.

"I'm guessing you had fun doing detention?"

Amanda had received an hour and a half detention with Filtch for the next three days as a result of her 'fight' with the Slytherin who very much resembled a porcelain doll; too bad the girl was a troll.

"Fun? HA, now that's a laugh! You know what I had to do? I had to scrub Moaning Myrtle's bathroom from top to bottom! I swear that bathroom hasn't been cleaned since the retched girl died! Argh, she got me so worked up! If she wasn't already dead I would have killed her! She was all 'Ohm, I'm dead, poor me, no-one visits me anymore, I'm so lonely, boo hoo!' She went on for an hour until I finally told her to shut it and you know what she did? She dived into her cubical, spilling water all over the floor I'd spent forever scrubbing!"

Lily laughed and shook her head.

"Oh! Oh, oh, oh! I forgot. We'd been talking about Nate Wood. What did you say before I bitch slapped that Barbie?"

Lily laughed softly, "I said I don't think he's your type."

Amanda cocked an eyebrow, "Lily I don't think you understand. We've been doing this 'friends' thing for five years now. You should know that you never say 'I don't think he's your type.' Even if that's what you really feel."

Lily shook her head, closing her book.

"No, I really don't think he's your type, unless you really belong across the common room." A sanguine smile lingered on Lily's lips.

"Across the common room? What, the boy's dormohmygosh! Nathan Wood is gay?" Amanda jumped off of her bad and ran over to Lily's.

"Shh!" Lily hushed, laughing as soft as she could with hilarity.

"He's gay?" Amanda mouthed.

Lily nodded.

"But, Melinda?"

Lily shook her head, "They had sex whilst he thought he was straight, but he told me he went back to his dorm, laid in bed thinking the whole day, and then realized that the reason he hadn't liked the sex and the reason he likes looking at the boys in his dorm was because he's g-a-y."

"Oh gosh! Thank Merlin!" Lily cocked an eyebrow apprehensively.

"Oh, I thought I'd lost it, but it looks like I still got it!" This had been even funnier than Amanda's reaction. Both girls knew that they did not have it, they were going on sixteen soon and neither of them had so much as been kissed - or so Amanda thought.

"So how do you know this?" Amanda asked, gasping for air.

"He told me; after dinner earlier on. You know, when you were scrubbing loos in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom?"

"Why did he tell you?" Amanda asked, suspicious of the relationship between her best friend and ex-crush.

"Oh, I um… don't know really. Maybe he was just explaining, seeing as I caught him behind a tapestry snogging a guy whilst his child was being born." There was no way Lily was about to tell Amanda that not only was she no longer a kissing virgin, but her first kiss had been with none other than her present crush.

"Oh…" was all Amanda had to say.

"I'm going to take a walk ok, stretch my legs; I've been reading for too long, want to come with?" Amanda smiled and shook her head as she grabbed her towel and pajamas and disappeared into the bathroom.

Lily got up and put her book away, she then pulled on her slippers and headed downstairs.

James came out of the bathroom which he had been hogging the past two hours; a superior grin on his face and a piece of parchment in his hands.

"I've finished it boys!" He announced to his room mates, who also happened to be Remus, Sirius and peter the same Remus, Sirius and peter he had been causing mischief with since first year.

"Yes!" Sirius jumped off of his bed and grabbed the folded parchment from James.

"How are we opening it?" He asked when the parchment remained blank three seconds after he'd held it.

James grabbed the parchment back, "Like this." He tapped the parchment with his wand and muttered. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

"Brilliant." Sirius beamed as ink splurges formed on the paper and begun to form words.

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present the Marauders Map." Peter wheezed.

"Does it work?" Remus asked, not looking up from his book.

"Well there's only one way to find out." James surveyed the map. He blinked with wonder when he saw two footprints, belonging to the name Lily Evans, lingering still, on the third floor. He looked at his watch, it was nine o'clock. What was Lily doing out at nine o'clock by herself.

"I'll tell you what," James told the others. "See Evan's footprints there, on the third floor? I'll go and see her and convince her to come back to the dorm. If I get back and she hasn't moved, or if my footprints don't show up accurately, we'll know there's still a few glitches." James tapped the map, "Mischief managed," and handed the map to Sirius.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Sirius tapped the map with his wand and the ink re-appeared, slowly forming a maze filled with footprints that were clearly labeled by the name of its occupants.

James grinned at his friends and left the dorm room.

As James dwelled at the bottom of the third floor stairs he heard a strange sound. It sounded like crying, but not the long, exaggerated sobs of Moaning Myrtle. These were softer and more muffled. James made his way further up the corridor when he saw something he thought he'd never see.

The bloody, battered body of Amanda lay on the ground surrounded by pieces of a fallen suit of amour; Lily knelt behind it, sobbing rather frantically.

James took a step forward but then he remembered; he'd passed Amanda in the common room. She had a towel and was retrieving a book from the coffee table before she told him goodnight and headed back upstairs to the girls dorm.

"Lily." James made his way around Amanda and hugged Lily close to him.

"I… I was walking and I b- bumped into the suit of amour and It fell over and… and… Some one killed Amanda James; they shoved her body in a suit of armor!" Lily sobbed hysterically, her cries echoed throughout the hall, only slightly muffled by the fact that her face was in James's shirt.

James looked back at Amanda's body, but this time it was not Amanda's annihilated, massacred body that lay on the ground before him, it was Lily's. James bit his tongue so hard he began to taste blood in his mouth.

He looked away. He had not been entirely sure what had been going on when he saw the fake slaughtered body of Amanda, but now that it was Lily he knew what was going on.

The thing impersonating Lily in front of him was a Bogart.

"Ri… Ridiculous!" James flicked his wand towards the Bogart and it was no longer a mutilated body, it was Filtch dressed as a clown, with fuzzy blue hair and a red nose.

James laughed. Lily, having heard this, looked and saw Filtch, dressed in anything but grey and brown, and burst into laughter.

A few seconds later there was a small pop and the Bogart was no more.

James helped Lily to her feet.

"Ale you alright?" He asked her.

She looked away from him and rubbed the tears from her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm alright now."

James and Lily picked up the pieces of armor and placed them in a pile. They then made their way back to the common room, hand in hand.

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