Author's Note: Okay, screw the aim for reviews this time. I can't be bothered to wait… So, I like this chapter. I tried to mix drama (at the end) with humour/ weirdness (Sirius), and I apologize now, because there is stripping in this chapter… I don't think there's any in the next though… I have decided that chapter 20 is going to be my masterpiece. Until chapter 21, etc… So, enjoy, and ignore the weird chapter name. Bubbles!

-Kat

Chapter fourteen – Snowballs, Schoolwork, and Cratehead… Oh, and Valentine's Day

Not long after New Year's, the students who had left for the holidays returned to the school, and lessons started up again. James had wasted no time in asking out Kate Orr, Ravenclaw's prettiest student, and she had said yes faster than a bullet leaves a gun.

(A/N: Isn't that a weird simile? Seriously…).

James and Lily had gotten into the habit of completely ignoring one another's presence in a room. They conversed only when absolutely necessary, and, in such circumstances, addressed each other by their last names. The only other times (that's plural – timeS) they communicated, were to argue.

Their friends (the other fifth years), and even the professors, were aggravated by their crazy antics. And Lily and James, of all people; two of Hogwart's prized students!

Probably the most memorable disagreement the two had had, had been a week before Valentine's Day, when James had insisted on bringing Kate (or Cratehead, as Lily had christened her) into the Griffindor Common Room to hang out with his friends (this sucked for all of them, because they all – Sirius included, though he still thought she was hot – thought she was a self-centered, catty, annoying, brainless slut).

Lily had been sitting at a table by the fire, trying to write a Transfiguration essay on Animagi, while dealing with a splitting headache. Remus had been sitting next to her, trying to explain the essay (having finished his easily), and trying to prevent her from sticking a quill in her eye through frustration. Sirius had just been watching, amused.

"They just hold their wands and think of the creature that they're turning into," he had been saying. Lily had been arguing that, if this was true, then she should be able to think about a niffler, and turn into one too. Remus had been about to reply patiently, when James had walked in backwards, facing his girlfriend (having paused in their snog session so that they could grab a seat), and beat him to it, "Well, if it worked that way, it would be a certain improvement."

"Hello to you too, Potter," Lily had sniped sarcastically, and then added in an undertone to Remus and Sirius, "Oh, great, you brought Cratehead. All I need is ANOTHER migrane!"

Sirius and Remus snickered and James, who had heard enough of her comment to understand it, had glared at them before adding defensively to Lily, "Evans, do you have something to say to my girlfriend? Or to me, for that matter?"

"I have many things to say to you, Potter, but, I am afraid to say, none are very appropriate for the current surroundings. Plus, the likelihood of you understanding any of said comments, is rather low, which would make it pointless for me to bother." Lily rolled her eyes and Remus and Sirius sniggered again.

James rolled his own eyes, and plonked down on a red sofa, expecting Kate to join him. Instead, Kate was still standing in front of Lily, magical compact out, fixing her hair and make up.

To Lily, Sirius, Remus, and anyone else within hearing distances' annoyance, Kate spoke, "You know," she addressed Lily, "You should wear your hair down. You have high cheek bones, so hair on your face would counter that." She snapped the compact closed and sat own beside James.

Lily closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then murmured again to Sirius and Remus, "Is anyone else's brain slowly disintegrating as we speak?" They both laughed out loud and James glared some more.

"So," he leaned over to Kate, "Where were we?"

"Oh, Jamiekins, you really are a naughty boy, you know that?…" Kate giggled and let him kiss her.

"Kill me now!" Lily was mouthing to Sirius, who was pretending to gag. Remus just looked at the ceiling attempting not to laugh. All of them glanced over at James and Kate, and saw that the couple were currently involved in making out. They had just calmed down and would not have burst into laughter, had Enid not come jogging down the girl's staircase to see the pair rolling around on the couch.

She had grimaced and grabbed a pillow, chucking it at them as she said, "Get a room!"

Before she could stop herself, Lily had burst into laughter. James and Kate broke away from each other and Kate stood up saying, "I'll see you tomorrow Jamie; obviously I'm not wanted here!"

Sirius broke up into laughter too and called after her, "Sure took you long enough to figure that one out!" She had huffed out of the Portrait Hole and down the corridor before James had rounded on Lily.

"Just because no one will go out with you, Evans, doesn't mean you can ruin my dates! At least someone wants to go out with me!"

"James, I would have thought the date was ruined when she showed up!" Enid had jumped in, "And don't attack Lily; it was me who threw the pillow, and Sirius, Remus, and I laughed too, so yell at us!"

"I'll yell at who I bloody well want to, Enid! And it was Evans' fault that Kate left!"

"I'm sorry, I thought I would be doing you a favour. And Enid," Lily turned to her friend, "Thank you, but I'm used to Potter blaming me. I don't mind, really! And it sort of was my fault, because she was driving me crazy, and I just couldn't hold the laughter in anymore. Oh well. She shouldn't have been in here anyway…"

Before James could yell at Lily some more, Sirius had put in his two cents worth, "James, she really is a ditz! I've dated a few like her in my time, but she just takes the cake…hmmm, cake… Anyway, she drives me mad! She drives all of us mad! She even drives Remus mad, and that's saying something! She's so annoying!"

"I second that!" Enid cried plopping down next to James on the sofa.

"Well, I thank you all, but, it's MY business whom I go out with, and I would like it if you could jolly well SOD OFF! Especially you Evans!"

"Sorry Jamie, but I could care less who you date, and I was just laughing. You can't sue me for that! Thanks for the help Remus, but I think I'll try to finish this in my dorm."

James had stormed past her and up to his own dorm to sulk. Enid, Sirius, and Remus all agreed that that had been an interesting fight!

Now, James knew better than to bring his girlfriend to Griffindor Tower, so they spent most of their date time in the student study, where Kate drove a number of sixth and seventh years crazy instead.

Come Valentine's Day, Lily was to be found with Enid and Sirius at the Griffindor Table. They had been having an interesting conversation, due to the front page of the Daily Prophet. The article had read:

'American Stripper Marries British Billionaire

British Mark Robinson proposed to his stripper girlfriend, San Fransico gal, Stacie Plummer, and the two are reportedly getting married at his old school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the spring!'

Below, there was a picture of a curvy blonde and a tall, dark man holding hands in front of, what looked like the Empire State Building.

Sirius had found this increasingly amusing, and started up a conversation with, "She's hot; wonder if I can impress her at the ceremony with my 'moves'…"

He promptly stood up and climbed onto the table, humming stripper music. Luckily it was early, so most of the staff and students had not yet surfaced. A few girls from the ends of the house tables started to cheer as Sirius whirled off his sweater in a stripping motion.

Enid cat called loudly and joined in with the chorus of 'The Stripper', by Joe Loss, which Sirius was now singing, and Lily ducked under the table so that no one could see her laughing.

Sirius was about to pull off his shirt (yes, he has problems), when Professor McGonagall demanded he put a stop to the nonsense and 'inappropriate behaviour'.

"Mr. Black! Get down off that table immediately! Twenty points from Griffindor! I'm ashamed of you!" She pulled him off the table to a chorus of boos and angry yells from the girls in the hall.

"Mins, you should never distract a guy when he's stripping! I mean, I can't disappoint all of my loving fans now, can I…" he waved superiorly to the group of girls clustered around them who swooned and giggled.

"It's Professor McGonagall, Black, and the Great Hall is not an appropriate place for such displays!" Professor McGonagall folded her arms and glared at Sirius, who smiled charmingly.

"Well then, I say, ON TO THE ENTRANCE HALL!" Sirius grinned, but added at the sight of McGonagall's expression, "It was a joke, Professor, a joke!"

"And Miss Evans, I'm surprised at you; letting him! And you, Miss Allows, should be above such things. Now all of you may finish your breakfast quietly or clear off!" Professor McGonagall stormed out of the Hall, probably to inform Professor Dumbledore of the strange happenings at the Griffindor Table.

Sirius winked at the surrounding girls, and sat down to finish eating.

"That was…" Lily seemed lost for words. That or she was still laughing too hard to talk properly…

"Appealing? Hot? Original? Enchanting? Something that should be made a regular breakfast activity?" Sirius grinned and grabbed some bacon off Enid's plate.

"Pathetic?" Enid tried; "You need lessons!"

"Oh, so now you're a stripping expert, huh? Well, with any luck, that girls' going to agree, and offer a tutoring session," he said with his mouthful of Enid's bacon.

"YOU ATE MY BACON!"

"Well, well, well, Padfoot, what's this I hear about you performing for us?" James strolled into the Great Hall with Lupin.

"News travels fast 'round here; shows how many sad people have no lives and nothing better to do than gossip about me… What am I saying?" Sirius commented before answering his friend, "Dude, look at this. I was just practicing my moves to impress her with when she comes."

"Ahh, but I can out-strip you any day; watch!" skimming the article quickly, James climbed onto the other side of the table and started humming his own stripper music. Enid and Lily exchanged glances and ducked under the table simultaneously. It was amazing how James and Sirius' minds worked just the same way!

Sirius, not wanting to be left out of any of the action, followed suit, and jumped back onto the table. The girls in the Hall started cheering again as Sirius and James took off their shirts and flung them at each other, causing each one to topple off the table and land on the floor beside Lily and Enid.

"Graceful," Lily scoffed, "Ugh, topless Potter! I think I just lost my appetite."

"Really?" Sirius asked, grinning at James, "Does this mean I can have your bacon?"

Lily rolled her eyes and Enid kicked him. When he exclaimed, Enid told him that it was payback for his stealing her bacon.

"What the hell are you four doing?" Christine put her head under the table to see them all huddled there. "Cause it looks dirty from where we're sitting."

Remus just laughed his head off (and Sirius took it as an opportunity to steal his bacon).

"Nothing," James said quickly, pulling his shirt back over his head (much to the disappointment of onlookers).

"You stole my bacon!" could be heard in the background.

"Sure, and that would explain why you and Sirius are under a table with two pretty, and not to mention single, girls, with no shirts on, on Valentine's Day?" Christine raised an eyebrow.

"I'd rather like to hear the answer to this, myself," Lydia arrived behind Christine, one eyebrow raised at her boyfriend, who was now sitting happily (and shirtless), munching on other people's bacon.

"Dude, if we were gonna screw on Valentine's Day, we would have the sense not to do it in the middle of the Great Hall!" Sirius gave them withering stares as if to say, 'duh'.

Lydia raised her other eyebrow, and Sirius got up and gave her a hug and a kiss. James grinned, "Yeah; we'd choose somewhere like… under the swing set!"

"Oh, yeah! I forgot about that. But it does hit you in the head sometimes if you move too suddenly… JOKING!" Sirius caught the look on Lydia's face and kissed her again.

"Put on a shirt!" Lydia said as she kissed him back.

"As you wish!" Sirius pointed his wand at his discarded shirt, and was wearing it within seconds, "Happy Valentine's Day!" He pulled out a small velvet box and pressed it into her hand.

"Thanks sweetie. Your present's upstairs though. Oh, it's gorgeous!" Lydia was holding up a beautiful silver ring, set with what looked like a diamond. She kissed Sirius shamelessly, and Remus and Enid 'awwwed'.

"OOOoo… Lemme see!" Lily climbed out from under the table, making sure to step on James' hand (many swearwords…) as she did so. "OOO-ooHHH! Pretty!"

"Yeah. Nice!" Christine examined the ring on Lydia's finger.

"Yoohooooo… Jamiekins!" Lily winced as Kate came skipping into view.

"Hey sweetheart!" James walked around the table to her and pulled out his own velvet box. Kate grabbed it and pulled out a gold necklace with a diamond (possibly fake) K pendant. Kate thanked him and kissed him, but then studied it hard, "Honey, why does it have a K on it?"

"Oh, it… Just came like that," James replied, arching his eyebrow slightly.

Lily covered her face with her hands and tried not to laugh. Remus whispered, "I think I know where you were coming from when you said, 'who else can feel their brain evapourating as we speak?'."

"Yeah, she makes my head hurt." Lydia breathed, shaking her head.

"Oh well," Kate shrugged, "Wanna go make out?"

"Sure," James nodded and glared over his shoulder at his friends.

"Have fun!" Peter said sarcastically when he passed them. "What've I missed?"

Everyone laughed, and Lydia did a spot-on impersonation of Kate high pitched giggle, "Wanna go make out?" to Sirius.

"Sure!" Sirius said, before realizing that she had been joking. He looked slightly disappointed, so Lydia rolled her eyes and led him out of the Hall.

"So Remus, where's Marrella?" Peter winked at his friend.

"We're meeting in Hogsmeade at five, but I should try to find her now. Thanks Pete!" Remus got up from the table, and waltzed off to try and find his girlfriend.

The 'gang' met up again at lunch, and had just started, when some afternoon owls swooped down upon them. Christine had received some chocolates from some (stupid) guy back home, and proceeded to throw the sweets away (not really, because Sirius rescued and ate them…). Enid had got a few Valentine's from some random Ravenclaw guys, and, to Sirius' anger, Lydia had received her fair share from Griffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. She wisely refused to give Sirius the names of the guys, for their own protection (though this didn't work so well as she had expected, because he just stole them from her bag later and read them all).

"AAAHHH!" Sirius screamed and ducked under the table as his plate was pelted with pink envelopes-upon-pink envelopes (he moaned about the loss of his bacon). Lydia crossed her arms and skimmed a few, occasionally muttering things like, 'okay, he's never seeing her again', and 'she's officially on my hit list'. Sirius grinned sheepishly and read a few by himself, occasionally saying, 'woah! I'm frightened', or 'okay, who sends Valentine's that say date me or I'll kill your girlfriend'? I don't even know that person!" Lydia drew away from the envelopes, looking slightly frightened. Sirius put an arm around her and whispered in her ear, "Don't worry, I won't let any creepy stalker people kill you!"

James laughed and dived for shelter as he was showered in other pink envelopes, addressed to him. He and Sirius managed to cover about a quarter of the Griffindor table with their 'fan mail'. Enid shoved her own into her bag and dived into their piles, laughing and reading some aloud ('marry me Sirius', and 'meet me on the Astronomy Tower tonight, James, if you know what I mean…').

'Remus, I love you! Please be mine forever more!'

Remus jumped when one of the howlers exploded and happened to be for him. Christine laughed at him. Marrella raised an eyebrow and giggled; it hadn't been from her.

"Ouch! Potter, keep your 'fan mail' away from me!" Lily rubbed her head when a fresh shower of Valentine's landed on her head. Enid reached over and grabbed a few. "Hey, Lils, these aren't for James; they're for you! Hey, one of the Slytherins has pledged his undying love for you!"

"I wondered why Mike Warrington was getting the living daylights beat out of 'im this morning. That's disgusting!" Sirius laughed. Lily wrinkled her nose in agreement.

"Eeww… Slytherins?"

"Don't worry, only one," Enid handed it to Lily. Lily put it in the reject pile (Sirius and James had started it when ugly, or Slytherin girls had sent them cards).

"Lemme see yours; mine are boring," Sirius whined, grabbing a few of Lily's. She objected, but he held her at arms length and read them aloud.

"Lily, dearest, please be mine?" Sirius laughed.

Lily swore at him and hexed him, grabbing back the cards. She read them silently and ripped most of them up (ones from Slytherins, first years, la-ti-da-ti-da…).

She picked up the last one and poked it (one of them had contained something that flew out at her). It seemed harmless. Lily slit it open and read it silently. She blushed and smiled to herself.

Sirius pointed this out to James, who snatched it from her and started to read it aloud.

"Ahem," he cleared his throat while Sirius pinned her down, "'Lily Evans, I've noticed you. You spend most of your time in the library, which I think is great. I think you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen, and would be honoured if you would consent to be my date at Hogsmeade this evening. Yours Truly, Carter Hall.' What a sappy git!"

Lily's face was bright red when Sirius finally let go of her. She pulled out her wand and was about to curse them into oblivion, when Snape popped up behind James, doubled over with laughter.

"Someone sent the mudblood a Valentine? I'm shocked!"

"Get out of here, Snivelly!" James and Sirius snarled at the same time. Lily just put her wand away and snapped, "I don't care if he's here. In fact, I'd rather he was here permanently, than either of you."

She grabbed her Valentine, stuffed it into her pocket, and stormed off. Enid aimed a quick curse at Snape before following Lily into the Entrance Hall. She could hear cheers and yells from the Hall she had just left, and guessed that the Marauders were starting a fight with the Slytherins.

"Lily, where did you go?" Enid whispered to herself looking around frantically. Then she remembered the swing set.

Sure enough, when Enid pushed through the double doors and out into the snow-covered grounds, she found and followed a path of melted snow to a secluded spot by the lake. It was quite a big secluded spot, with a white gazebo on one side, and a wooden swing set on the other.

It had been an age since Enid had visited their swing set. Last June, actually. It had been right after their last exam, and she, Lily, Lydia, Sirius, and James had all come down there to relax. Then, both the gazebo and the swing set, had had flowers growing all over them, but now, they were covered with snow instead.

Enid started down the slope to the swing set, where she heard music. A Robbie Williams song was blaring from Lily's wand, and Lily was in the gazebo, dancing. Enid just stood and watched her for a few minutes, amazed at the grace which seemed to be flowing from Lily.

Lily was wearing her point shoes, and she was in a world of her own. She just let the music carry her away, not knowing or caring about anything except the music. The floating feeling she got when she danced, reminded her of her first kiss with James, but she tried not to think about that. Her world was spinning (well, she was pirouetting, but…), and everything was right in it. Until she saw Enid, leaning against the swing set, smiling.

"How come you never told me you were so good!" Enid followed the melted path to the gazebo stairs and climbed them.

"I'm not," Lily sat down and untied the ribbons on her shoes.

"I may not be a dancer, but as an audience member, I can tell you that you're pretty damn somethin'!" Enid dropped her bag and sat down beside Lily.

Lily slipped off her shoes, tapped them with her wand, and they turned back into her black school shoes. "Thanks. I guess I never talk about my dancing to anyone except my dance teachers. I never dance in front of people, except at recitals."

"Well you should, because you look amazing! You must be doing something right! Anyway, I came out to say that the guys were just joking around in there. Just being guys."

"I know. I just got a bit fed up."

"Well that's because you need to get a life. You can't just be about schoolwork; that's no way to live! I say, on this beautiful Saturday afternoon, you should do something fun." Enid's eyes twinkled.

"Like feed Potter to the Giant Squid?" Lily suggested hopefully.

Enid shook her head and expanded: "You should take that guy up on his offer to go to Hogsmeade. It would be good for you."

"I dunno about that Enid. I'm not that good at dates…"

"Well, if you're worried about that, a Ravenclaw Sixth Year, like Carter Hall, asked me out for tonight. We could do a double date!"

Lily bit her lip and Enid whined at her, "Come on, I'll be there, unless you get along really well with Carter Hall, in which case, I'll clear off with my date. Only if you want me to though. Anyway, it'll be fun!"

"Fine," Lily conceded, "But I'm not wearing anything slutty, and we're not going to go anywhere romantic. Let's go write back to the guys."

"Yay! Now, don't forget to mention that you want to double date with me and Lynn Jones. See ya." Enid shouldered her bag and jumped down the steps into the snow. She called over her shoulder as she bounded away, "Meet me at 3:00 in the Common Room to get ready!"

It was five minutes to three and Enid was running a little late (not all that unusual). She was supposed to meet Lily, return and borrow library books for various essays, get something to eat (now, she could have done this at any time, but she was really hungry), and make Lily and James realize that they were madly in love with each other (the deadline for this one was not three o'clock; it was more of a long term project, which not many people were in on).

She was just around the corner from the library, running, when she turned the corner too sharply, and ran (literally) right into someone.

"Sorry Peter! I wasn't watching and I'm in a hurry," Enid blurted out, stooping hurriedly to help Wormtail collect his books again. She flipped one over and made a face, "Peter, why in the Hell do you have all of these Transfiguration books? We didn't get any homework from McGonagall yesterday!"

"I'm having trouble with some stuff," Peter scowled, "So I thought I'd look some stuff up. Not a crime, is it?"

Enid flicked to a page Peter had book marked and gave him a funny look, "Why are you looking up Animagi? Is there something goin' on that I don't know about?"

Peter snatched his book back and stuttered, "I have to go. See you later!"

Enid raised an eyebrow at his retreating back and recommenced her mad dash into the library.

"Stop running this instant!" a shrill voice stopped Enid dead in her tracks. She had been sprinting down the Potions aisle when Madam Pince had appeared at her side.

"Sorry Madam Pince, I just have to find 'A Guide to Beezor Juices, From the North'. Do you happen to know where it is?"

"Here. Now return your book and leave!" Madam Pince produced a dog-eared, moth-eaten old book and held out a hand for Enid's book.

Shaking her head, Enid said, "How did you… What… Did I…?"

"The book!"

"Here, thanks. I…"

"Out!" The librarian pointed her out of the door before she could even finish her sentence. In fact, she had pushed Enid out of the library so fast, that Enid crashed straight into someone else. The pale-faced librarian just frowned and slammed the door to the library behind her.

"Sorry… Who are you?" Enid groaned until Lily came into focus. "Lils, weren't we supposed to be meeting in the Common Room some time now?"

"Well, yes and no, Enid. See, you said three, which, in Enid speak, means ten past. And I was right, wasn't I?" Lily helped Enid to her feet and smiled.

"You know me too well," Enid laughed.

The two girls then proceeded to the kitchens to get Enid a snack, and finally took the route up to Griffindor Tower. As they rounded a corner and started for the Portrait Hole, a chorus of angry yells filled their ears:

"You slut! You cheated on me!"

"Ex-cuse me! I hugged him! How the Hell is that cheating?"

"Whoa! Who d'you think that is, Enid?" Lily bit her lip.

"I dunno. It sounds a bit like Sirius, but let's go see."

Lily and Enid crept to the Fat Lady's Portrait and pushed it open a crack. "Oh no!" Lily breathed when she saw Sirius and Lydia standing and screaming at each other.

"He's one of the one's who sent you a Valentine! Are you seriously trying to tell me that you're not secretly dating!"

"Yes! Sirius, I was hugging him because he needed a hug! You know that village that we read about in the 'Afternoon Prophet'? Well, his family lived there, and the Death Eaters killed them all! I was comforting him! I can't believe you; you don't trust me!' Lydia cried.

"Back away slowly," Lily advised Enid and a random second year quietly. The second year did as she was told, then turned and ran in the opposite direction. Enid, however, said, "Aren't we going to listen? I need to find out what happens; like a soap opera!"

"Totally," Lily agreed, but she motioned to a small room, hidden by a tapestry of Cassandra the Great. "But I don't want to watch, so let's listen from in here. I… Ahhh!"

"Shhh!" a hand clapped over her mouth. She had tripped through the tapestry and landed in someone's strong arms.

"James! It's a good job you have Seeker reflexes; otherwise Lily would have crashed right into the wall. Ouch!" Enid shrugged and sank down onto the floor, pressing her ear against the concrete wall.

"Get off me Potter! Thank you! Now, what happened with them?" Lily jabbed a finger in the direction of the Common Room.

James dropped Lily, who swore at him, and explained. "Lydia was hugging and 'comforting' that sixth year Griffindor, who sent her a Valentine earlier. Sirius saw and got all jealous. So far, he's made the most wrong moves in the fight."

"Oh. But Lydia was just…"

"Shut it!" Enid hissed in Lily and James' direction. They could hear;

"I don't believe you!"

"Stop being so jealous, Sirius! It was just a hug!"

"I think I have a right to be mad when my girlfriend is getting 'chummy' with a guy who fancies her!"

"Oh, ouch Sirius; wrong move!" Enid grimaced.

"Oh really!" Lydia's voice rose, "So I'm not allowed to have friends?"

"Lydia, you know that's not what I…"

"Uh huh! I hug a guy who's family has just been murdered, and you yell at me, but I haven't yelled at you once! Not for your constant flirting! Or your stripping in the Great Hall! Or, anything! So this really isn't fair, Sirius! You have no idea how much all of that hurts me, but I don't get mad, because I trust you!"

"Lydia, I…" Sirius started, his voice softer now.

"Save it! And here's your stupid ring back!" There was a clinking sound, like Lydia had just thrown the ring at the wall. "I hate you, Sirius Black!" Then there were only the sounds of footsteps running from the room.

Author's Note: WHOA WHOA WHOA CLIFF HANGER! Did you like it? Hope so. I'm evil and I love it! So, the next chapter is called 'Blooming Flowers and Wilting relationships (Oh, and hopefully the snowballs that I forgot to put in last time)'. Long weird names are my new 'thing'… Hehe. So, here come the thank-y-yous:

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GODAMMIT that took a long-ish time. I'm sad now. Only ten of my lovely reviewers reviewed. Just for that, I think I'll take an extra long time to update. And that's a pity because (I think) the next chapter is funny. At least, I hope so… So, that being said, please review! You know you want to… I love you all. You guys rock! Purple flying cows and Bubbles!

-Kat