*Okay here's the reason as to why I've been gone: Moving back to the States and Freshman year of College. Busy girl. Enjoy*
The Prank
"Lily!!" at the sound of her name, Lily turned around expecting Ashton or Parker to be running after her, it took her a moment to realize that it not only was it not either of her two friends, but it was also a male voice.
The moment she realized that pivoted for a second time and began to briskly walk in the same direction that she had been originally headed towards. There was no way that she was stopping for him. Uh huh no way on earth.
Unfortunately, someone else intervened on her behalf. Someone apparently either didn't like her, or felt bad for Potter, or both; so they took matters into their own hands and tripped her, which caused her to eat floor.
Just like in all those cheesy movies that her sister Petunia and their mother loved to watch, her messenger bag somehow flew open and her belongings went soaring across the floor. But unlike in those ridiculously stupid movies, there was no cute boy to help her gather her items up as she blushed furiously.
Instead, Lily was forced to pick up all her papers, as James Potter just merely watched her bum. While everyone swirled around her, scattering her papers even further and destroying a few items, he did nothing to help. He merely watched as she finally stood up, struggling to get everything back in her bag.
"Thanks for the help," she said sarcastically, before turning around and walking briskly towards her prior destination.
"No problem," James said as he fell into step with her. Lily rolled her eyes, stifling her anger, in an attempt to not lose house points. Not that anyone would normally take any away from her, it was just, when the most favored student by the staff ended up hanging upside down with his feet glued to the ceilings, people tended to get upset.
"Listen, Lily, I feel like we got off on the wrong foot," James began with a knowing smirk, while Lily continued to ignore him. He latched onto her elbow and spun her around so that she had to stop walking. "Please, just listen," he said after a moment.
"What do you want?" she finally asked, wishing that he could just get this over with for once.
"I think that you should just acknowledge your need to date me," he said cockily. "After all, I am the most popular guy in school, you need to grab me while you can." Lily pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Listen, Potter—"
"James," he interjected.
"You're an idiot." She continued, ignoring him completely. "I honestly don't know how you ever got a girl to date you. Listen and listen well, if you want to keep your balls attached, I suggest you turn around and forget that this conversation ever occurred."
James simply stared open mouthed for a moment, before trying to say something else, but Lily cut him off again.
"Did you forget that I'm a mudblood? I highly doubt your parents would ever approve!" By this, James was frozen solid. "I know how you guys work, you want to prove a point to Severus, but guess what, you're not going to use me."
Without a word she floundered down the hallway and towards her Arithmacy class. Now the problem with the Arithmacy class is that Professor Stevens had a stick that had to be the size of a Yule log shoved up his ass. One that apparently had been applied with a permanent sticking charm, Parker often would add to the generalization.
The moment that Lily opened the door, he stopped teaching.
"Miss Evans, how good of you to join us." He said sounding rather snarky. "Perhaps you would better indulge yourself with flirting and courtships at a better time." Lily's eyes lighted up in anger.
"Maybe you would better indulge yourself in crying about not getting laid at a better time," she countered, causing the entire room to snort, gasp, and just stare at the two. The professor obviously was in shock, because he hadn't uttered a word for about five seconds. Normally he had a snarky remark immediately.
"How dare you?" He finally sputtered. "Detention!"
"What for?" Lily asked, "Telling the truth? Getting upset for a comment that was completely untrue, and unnessacary? Take your pick." Behind her, Parker had her hand over her mouth, and was trying not to snort.
"If you do not take your seat Miss Evans—" he began only to have Lily cut him off.
"You'll what? Give me detention? Take points away?" she asked smirking.
"I'll make sure you lose your badge." He snarled. Lily shrugged and to everyone's shock pulled her badge off and tossed it onto his desk.
"There you go," she said before walking out and slamming the door behind her. The rest of the lesson was conducted with a snarling teacher and a stunned, but delighted class.
Needless to say everyone was talking about one Lily Evans for the rest of the day; or rather that Red head who's a prefect. Lily herself wasn't seen by anyone for the rest of the day. She simply had disappeared.
"You know, you have the entire school in an uproar." Speaking of disappearing, apparently it didn't work so well. Lily turned to see person who had invaded her personal space. It was one whom she never would have expected to see.
"What are you doing here?" she asked dumbfounded. "Shouldn't you be laughing obnoxiously with your little gang?" Sirius took a step further into the balcony and shrugged.
"We all need breaks every now and then," he said after a moment. "Although I must admit, I was surprised in class today to see that you perform that little spectacle. What exactly brought that on?" he asked curiously.
Lily snorted. "You have to ask?" She asked snarkily. "Isn't all apart of yours and Potter's little plan?" Sirius immediately nodded in understanding.
"You'd think with all the girls that Prongs gets he'd have a bit more tact. More often than not, he doesn't excute it properly." Sirius said causing Lily to roll her eyes. "But that would have only annoyed you, not caused you to get that angry."
Lily instantly whirled around to face Sirius, her eyes gleaming with fury. "Let's get one thing perfectly clear," she hissed. "You know absolutely nothing about me! The only reason I haven't attacked you is because we can't mar your pretty face, seeing as you're engaged to a girl who is more like a sister to me than a friend!"
"You don't get to decide what makes me angry and what doesn't. You don't get to act like we're friends when we're not! You know nothing about me, you and Potter have a perfect fucking life! So why the hell do you both seemed so bent on ruining mine further than it already is?"
At her words, Sirius seemed to recoil and yet somehow keep his temper intact. Both were silent for a moment, as Lily turned back around to look over the balcony railing. Sirius began to take small steps closer to her before speaking again.
"Lily, you realize that James told me what you said today?" he asked softly, watching her as she didn't react. "Do you know how shocked he was to hear that word come out of your mouth? He hates hearing it, especially after last –"
"Don't," she whispered.
"—Spring," he finished. She looked down at her hands before speaking.
"You don't know me," she whispered. "and yet you both managed to completely destroy one of my most intimate relationships. I had three friends whom I could count on in anyway, and you and your little friends demolished it simply because you had to have a laugh.
"If I wasn't worried that Parker would have to marry Regulas, I could kill you for that." She hissed, barely noticing the shock in his eyes. "What? Didn't think that I was such a Slytherin?" Lily asked with a sarcastic laugh. "What did you expect?"
"I thought that you would actually listen," Sirius said after a moment. Lily simply watched him for a moment.
"Why would I listen to you?" She whispered. "You don't know me, you don't like me; what advice could you possibly give me that I could trust?" Lily turned away and simply stared out over the lake again. "I'm not like most kids in this school, I don't reach out and allow people to blindside me. I learned the repercussions from that already."
With that comment dangling, Lily pushed away from the balcony and walked past Sirius towards the door. Neither spoke after her last comment, and Lily made her way back to her dormitory where she found a note telling her to go to the dungeons. She sighed, while brushing her bangs out of her face, before nodding to herself and retrieving Sneakers and a bag of sour gummy worms and leaving the room.
"So, what on earth were you thinking?" Parker finally asked once Lily had settled into one of the many counters in the Muggle food room. "I mean you not only told off the teacher with the biggest sticks up his ass, but you threw your badge at him as well."
Lily didn't respond to the question, other than to simply shrug her shoulders and pet Sneakers. Ashton looked up from her position on the table where she'd been laying down.
"Lily?" Parker asked cautiously.
"I lost my temper." The redhead said softly. "It happens. With everything that's happened lately, it's not like it wasn't bound to happen eventually. So I blew up; other students have had this happened in like what, third year?"
"Other students aren't a prefect, not to mention they didn't tell a teacher to fuck off," Ashton pointed out. "Not to mention you picked the worst possible combination imaginable. You told off Stevens, and mentioned the fact that he hadn't been decently laid."
"Techniquely, that's not a crime," Parker said after a moment. "I mean nowhere does it say that you're not allowed to tell a Professor that they need to get laid." Lily and Ashton both smirked at the comment.
"I believe that can be filed under disrespect." Ashton said after a moment. "But Lily, you gave up your badge!"
"So?" she asked with a shrug. "I never wanted the thing to begin with. It just meant more cover for our tricks, in addition to better job opportunities." Lily said before taking a drink from her slushy. "Oh, and it made my mom happy. That's why I agreed with it to begin with. Because she saw it before I did!"
"Why didn't you tell us?" Ashton asked wide-eyed. Lily shrugged as Ashton exchanged a glance with Parker.
"Lily what's been going on with your parents lately?" Ashton finally asked, dismayed when she got yet another shrug from the redhead.
"Ashton, I didn't see them this summer. I spent the entire break in America with this one," she said nodding over to Parker.
"Withholding the reasons as to why, I have to say this; why the hell wasn't I invited?" the other two broke out into smiles. "But seriously, what on earth is going on with you Lily? How are you going to manage to go back to that class?"
Lily smirked before giving a simple shrug. "I'm not going to attend the lessons." She said simply, while her two friends stared open mouthed at her. "What? It's not like I'll get into trouble."
"You'll fail!" Parker said with her voice dripping of sarcasm.
"Not if I turn my work in on time." Lily answered. "And before you ask, Ashton, I simply have to slip it into Parker's bag every morning so that she hands it in with her own. It's not like they can punish for skipping. There's no rule that says you absolutely have to attend a class to enroll in one."
"Are you serious?" Parker asked with a glint in her eye.
"Don't even think about it."
