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Morning came and I awoke around 10 a.m. for some reason. I lay around in my bed for about 5 more minutes before realizing that there was no falling back asleep anytime soon. I climbed out

of bed and bopped Heart on the nose to annoy her. Then dodged her, as she swiped her paw at me. I took a shower and brushed my teeth quickly. I wanted to hurry and get in some fencing

practice before the task this afternoon.


After I tossed my hair into a ponytail, I threw on some beige sweatpants and a white sports bra. On my way into my workout room I grabbed my stereo system and a bunch of cd's. Heart lazily

followed me and stretched herself out on the floor by the window, giving me space to practice. Placing the stereo system down, I used the other hand to put in a mix cd. Kings of Leon's 'Sex on

Fire' started playing.


Swishing my hand around, I created another fake human replica that was trained expertly in sword fighting. I snapped my fingers and two swords appeared. The fake human replica and I faced

off in the middle of the room. We began combat against each other. The replica advanced at me and and grazed against my blade. I responded harshly with force that put the replica in a semi-bind. (Just a note to my readers, I'll be using a few fencing terms in this chapter.)


A couple hours later, I was still going strong practicing but was getting a little tired. So I ended the fight and vanished my replica opponent. I drained my water bottle and turned off the music. It

was a little after noon and lunch was going on so without bothering to fix my hair or anything, I just zipped on a white cotton hoodie and rinsed my sweaty face off. Heart followed me out of the

room, pass Gwen, and down to the Great Hall for lunch.


Unfortunately at the exact moment that I was walking in so was Lorenzo. "Lily I've been wanting to talk to you," he said. I rolled my eyes, "For the remainder of your time here let's just pretend

that we don't know each other." He more than likely would've continued to pester me had Heart not bared her teeth at him. I stalked away from him and sat down by Sirius. "Comfortable?" Remus

asked gesturing at my sweats. "I've just been practicing my fencing," I explained.


I nicked Sirius's plate of kippers, since he was so busy teasing Peter about being caught snogging his date from the ball last night by Denarto. "Give it back," Sirius whined when he turned to

see me eating his food. I laughed at him, "You snooze, you lose!" Sirius grumbled but eventually got himself another plate. "So how were your dates last night?" I asked Remus and Peter. "Did you

guys have fun?" "Gross! Lily don't talk with your mouth full," Remus said. I crossed my eyes at him and showed him my chewed up food. "You're the most unladylike girl I've ever met," said

Remus. I flipped him off.

"But yea it was fun last night," Peter broke in. "My date wanted to dance close and make out all night." Remus snorted, "How life changing that must've been for you Wormtail!"

Peter reddened,"She was a good kisser!"

"Where's James?" I asked just noticing he wasn't there. "Lola the psycho stalker cornered him on the way down from breakfast," Sirius told me. "Ouch!" I said. "Even more ouch was the fact

that right before Lola came, Cherri was also cornering him!" Sirius said. I winced, "Double ouch! What happened?" Remus shrugged, "We don't know. We saw 2 angry and obsessive girls and that

was all it took for us to clear off!" I stared at them in disbelief, "So you just ditched your best friend and left him trapped in a corridor with two of his lunatic ex's and no witnesses?"

Peter nodded, "Sounds about right!"

"Lil what do you want to do before the competition starts?" Sirius changed the subject. I rubbed my hands together with an evil smile, "Take over the world with a hot dog!" I cackled evilly,

"Muhahaha!!!" They stared at me blankly. I shrugged, "Or we could just you know pull a prank on Filch or something." Remus smiled with relief, "I vote on that idea. The castle's been too quiet

since the other schools have gotten here! People might start believing Hogwarts is a respectable and peaceful place with rule abiding students that all get along." The 3 marauders laughed merrily

at that ludicrous thought.

"Just to be clear," Peter asked. "This means we are pulling a prank?" "Good I have to get Filch back for making me muck out the trophy room again in my last detention," Sirius said ignoring

Peter's idiot question. "Any ideas?" Remus asked. "I've got one," Peter said brightly. "If it involves chocolate frogs or muggle balloons then forget it," Remus said impatiently. Peter's face

dropped. I gave Sirius a questioning glance. "You don't want to know," Sirius said. "I've got the perfect idea though and it involves all of us."


We all moved in closer to hear the plan. Then we ditched the rest of lunch to go set it up. On the way out James was walking in looking really annoyed. "Where are you all going?" James asked,

running his hands through his hair. I snagged him by the shirt and pulled him out with us. "No time to stop and chat Prongs the timing in everything is crucial," Sirius said. Remus rolled his eyes at

Sirius's dramatic antics. "We'll tell you on the way!" I filled him in on the prank while we trailed behind Sirius and Remus who were arguing about the prank. "You're irking my nerves, shut up!" I

snapped at them. They fell silent for about 2.5 seconds then jumped right back into their argument.


Finally they stopped arguing when we reached the common room. Remus turned to us all, "Sirius will run and get the cloak, then Peter and I will go to Filch's office and plant the actual

Dungbombs." "While they're doing that, I'll go find Peeves and convince him to break something," Sirius added. "Then James and I will keep Filch busy outside of the Great Hall by distracting

him," I continued. "Giving you guys enough time to plant the dungbombs and put a timing spell on them so that they won't blow up until someone reaches & opens the door," James said. "And while

you're distracting Filch, Peeves will break something heavy nearby and Filch will predictably run off to his office to get the forms to write him up," Peter also added. "Causing him to open the door

and the dungbombs to explode," Remus finished. "Alright kids, let's go!" I said.


We all separated and went off. "So how are we going to distract Filch?" I asked. James shrugged, "Oh the usual. Smart comments, infuriating questions, and suspicious behavior!" I fixed him

with a look, "So basically we're just winging it?" "Pretty much!" James said. I rolled my eyes in amusement. We caught up with Filch while people were still exiting the hall. James immediately

pulled me to the corner and started whispering frantically with lots of weird hand movements. I caught on and said loudly, "Hope we don't get caught!" Filch was next to us in a flash.

"What are you two up to?" he sneered. James gave him a look of pure innocence which to anyone who knew him automatically meant he was guilty. "We're not up to anything," James said.

"Just having a friendly conversation about Hogwarts!" Filch narrowed his eyes. Before he could ask any more questions I jumped in with my own. "I've actually been looking for you," I told Filch.

James looked at me weirdly. "What do you want?" Filch asked me suspiciously. "Oh I've just been wanting to know about your job," I said. James and Filch stared at me.


I ignored their faces, "I've always wanted to moonlight as a caretaker. You seem to be so good at this. So any helpful hints?" Filch turned red. I'm not sure if it was out of anger,

embarrassment, or because he felt flattered. His next few words pretty much cleared it up for me. "You little nasty brats!" he sneered. I backed up because spit had just flown everywhere from

his mouth and a nasty vein was throbbing on his forehead.

He pointed at us, "One of these days I'm going to-


But we never found out what he was going to do because luckily at that moment a huge crash was heard soon followed by a loud mad cackle from Peeves. "Peeves!" roared Filch. Peeves

zoomed over our heads and blew a loud and what looked like an extremely wet raspberry into Filch's face and zoomed off again. "Well I think that'd be our cue to go," James whispered. We

quickly sprinted away before Filch could remember that he had been in the middle of telling us off. We hurried around the corridor and ducked behind a corner with the other marauders.

"Did we beat him here?" James asked. "Shhh!" Remus whispered. "He's coming now!" We all quieted down and watched Filch stomp angrily to his office muttering furiously about Peeves and

prissy students who don't know how to hold their tongues. Mere seconds after he twisted his doorknob and threw open his door, is when it happened. A loud explosion could be heard and

dungbomb's blew up all over Filch's office. Filch staggered back out of his office yelling. "Marauders!!!" We burst into laughter. "Time to go!" Remus said.


We ran away fast. I led everyone into the library under the invisibility cloak. We quickly ducked behind a bookshelf away from everyone and took a bunch of books off the shelves. 10 minutes

later McGongall raced into the library with Filch at her side. They looked everywhere and finally spotted us casually sitting in a circle reading things out loud to each other.

"You did this to me!" Filch spat at us. We looked up to see him still covered in dungbomb's. We all started laughing. "What happened to you?" Sirius asked. "You little rodent droppings know

very well what happened. You set dungbomb's off in my office." Filch yelled. Sirius said nonchalantly, "Nope not us. Don't know what you're talking about." McGongall butt in, "Mr. Filch calm

yourself! Must I remind you that we have guests from visiting schools here? Do not cause a scene!"


Filch quieted down but shot a heated glare at us. "Filch you reek!" Remus said, pinching his nose and fanning away the fumes. McGongall talked before Filch could, saying, "Do you expect me to

believe you've been in the library? Mr. Lupin and Ms. Evans maybe! But you three?" She fixed Sirius, James, and Peter with a disbelieving look. "It's true McGee!" I said. "We've all been here

researching!"


McGongall gave a snort of obvious disbelief. "Researching what? Classes are over for the term!" James fluttered his eyelashes, "Why we've been getting a head start on researching for next

term. We want to make our lovely head of house proud." McGongall glared around at all of our innocent faces. "I know that it was you five who caused this but as of right now I can't prove it.

Potter's story of wanting to make me proud is about as believable as Mr. Black actually having been to the library before today!"

"Hey!" Sirius said. McGongall whipped around and walked off. Filch opened his mouth once again. "Come along Mr. Filch! You must get cleaned up and take care of that nasty sight in your

office." McGongall snapped. After one last glare, Filch stalked off behind her. "Ah!" Sirius said happily. "It just isn't Christmas until Minnie has something to be furious at us for!" Remus laughed in

amusement. I hauled myself off the floor. "You boys are wild! I better go and get changed for the first task!" Sirius jumped up to follow, "I'll come with you Lily."


Once back in my room I left Sirius to entertain himself while I showered and changed my clothes. I walked back into my room to see Sirius prodding Celestrial. "I wouldn't do that," I said. But it

was too late cause Celestrial grew impatient and bit him on the finger. Sirius yelped, "You're animal's a nutter! She bit me for no reason!" I laughed, "You kept poking her. She doesn't like to be

touched much!" Sirius cast dark looks at Celestrial. I walked over and took his hand. "What are you doing?" he asked. I ignored him and concentrated on healing his finger using my magic. "Good

as new!" I told him rummaging around for my mum's chain. "That's a pretty simple outfit for you," Sirius gestured at my clothes.


For the competition I had simply dressed in a light orange tracksuit with the word crazy stamped on my bottom. I swapped all my earrings for small silver studs, removed all my bracelets, and

stuck a simple silver stud in my nose, tongue, and belly button. I laced up my white trainers and pocketed my wand. "I need to be comfortable enough to move quickly!" I said to Sirius.

Still having time before the first task was to start I flopped on my bed. Sirius plopped next to me tossing a pillow at my head. "Lils I wanted to see if you've been okay?" he asked me. I gave a

small noise of consent that I was listening. "You know you've got me and the rest of the guys to be here for you." I rolled over and stared at him not saying anything. He smiled at me, "Evans

you're tougher than this, kid. When you get over this idiot loser, I know one guy for sure whose right for you!" "Who?" I asked moderately curious. He laughed, "You know for a super witch with

mind reading skills you really are quite daft when it comes to guys and their feelings for you." I gave him a weird look. He laughed again, "Forget about it! Let's head down." I climbed on Sirius's

back and we left my room, stopping for a quick chat with Gwen. "Good luck Lily darling!" Gwen said. "I know you'll do marvelous and make Hogwarts proud!" I smiled at her. "We'll see!"


Sirius frog marched me downstairs shouting, "Out of the way! Carrying the bloody Hogwarts champ here!" We passed through the Great Hall doors to see everyone sitting around on muggle

bleachers. The contestants were standing in the huge empty space in the center of the hall. Sirius dropped me off next to Dumbledore and with a quick tug on my ponytail and a wish of good luck,

he went to be seated with the rest of Gryffindor house.

"About time," Monty Kimball snapped at me. I snickered, "Don't get your panties in a bunch, Kimball!" "Sonorous!" Dumbledore interrupted. Everyone faced Dumbledore. Dumbledore faced each

of us, "I assume you all have done you're research on the muggle art of fencing. The rules will be a bit different. Anything goes except for magic and instead of fighting to the death or stabbing

each other you will be fighting until one of you knocks your competitor's sword out of their hand." We all nodded in understanding.


Dumbledore extended his hand, "Your wands!" Before I handed Dumbledore my wand, I muttered one last spell. "Accio chopsticks!" A pair of my hair chopsticks zoomed into the great hall and

landed in my outstretched hand. "What are you going to do with those?" Monty Kimball sneered. I smirked at him before handing Dumbledore my wand and tying my hair up into a tight bun with

my chopsticks. "I'm sure you'll win now," Kimball snorted. I rolled my eyes at him, "I so hope I'm fighting you first!" It turns out I wasn't. The first match was between Spencer Louis and Amaya

Mori.


Kimball and I sat back with the rest of the judges and watched the match. Amaya Mori was quite a good fencer. She won her round with little difficulty. Next was my turn and to my delight I

was playing my first round against that smug prat Monty Kimball. We stood in the center of the room facing each other. A lot of kids cheered for Kimball. He sneered at me. "Kick some Durmstrang

ass Lily!" The marauders, Frank, Elvis, Vance, and Garbo all yelled in unison. I peeked up and saw them all sitting together with a huge poster that had a magically done up picture of me punching

Malfoy on it. I broke out into a wide grin.


We were both handed a Broadsword each. I didn't have trouble holding mines. "Nice outfit!" Kimball sneered at me. I smirked, "Oh you'll be wishing you were in my outfit by the end of this

match." Kimball snorted as we circled each other. "En Garde`," I spoke.


Suddenly he lunged forward at me, attempting to catch me by surprise. I merely yawned in a bored manner and stepped to the side, watching as he tripped over his robes. He turned bright red

and hastily scrambled off the floor. "Wizards robes not very practical for this type of activity after all huh?" I said smiling sweetly at him.

I allowed him time to toss his robes to the side then we got back to business. We suddenly crossed swords and began fighting back and forth fiercely. Kimball jumped forward and grazed my

sword roughly, shaking it. I counterattacked with a nifty move called a double` which was a way to describe a complete circle around my opponents blade and finished in the opposite line. Kimball

twisted to the left and hit my sword hard.


I dodged him and disengaged him which is a movement that deceives my opponent and changes the line of engagement. Next that followed between us was a Coup double meaning two attacks

that arrived within 40 meters of each other. I hit Kimball with a cut which is an attack made with a chopping motion of the blade. Kimball faked me out and drove his sword straight at me causing

me to do a somersault over his head. Kimball looked at me shocked once I landed on the other side of him.

"No rules remember!" I smirked. Quickly catching him off guard, I gave a huge forward hop and swung my heavy sword at his, knocking it right out of his hand. I chuckled heartily at Kimball's

facial expression as many people broke out into impressed applause. "Don't you just hate that feeling of dread and embarrassment you get when a muggleborn beats you?" I asked with a wide

smile.


McGongall came and quickly ushered us off to the side. The next round was me and Spencer Louis. I won that one easily enough as well. After my round Kimball fenced against Mori and to be

expected she one. Then Kimball and Louis faced off and Louis won. It seemed her and I were evenly matched in our fencing skills. So our match came and I was quite eager to fence against her

and pit our skills against one another.


Our match was intense and lasted much longer than our other individual matches. Though we were pretty much evenly matched when it came to skill our styles were completely different. She

was much more intense in her approach to fencing and relied heavily on the traditional way of fencing, while I was a lot more relaxed and tended to stick to my own way of doing things which

usually resulted in me doing whatever popped into my head at that time. Finally, after an invigorating match, I came out the winner but only just barely because she almost had me. To be honest

had she not lost her footing towards the end, I believe she would have emerged victorious.


I wiped the sweat off my brow in exhaustion. That was probably the best fencing match I had ever been in. She looked defeated and sulky. Ignoring those who were cheering around us, I

walked up and tapped her shoulder. She turned, "Come to gloat Evans?" I frowned, "I'm not that kind of girl." She gave me a look. I laughed, "Well unless you piss me off like Kimball over there. I

just wanted to tell you that you did an amazing job. You almost had me there!"


Amaya looked at me curiously, "Why are you doing this? You are my competition. Competition does not get along." I smiled, "Well we do things differently here in Britan. We've learned to suck

it up and not be big babies about it!" Amaya Mori then gave me a true smile, "You fence very well for a British redhead." I laughed, "Okay! I'll take that!" I shook her hand, "I hope we can be

worthy adversaries again sometime!"

"You are a very odd girl Evans!" She told me with a smile, before walking off to stand by the judges table.

"Same to you Mori!" I called after her.


I too walked over to the judges table. After a second the heads of each individual school and Mr. Jacobson from the ministry each started to shoot out our scores. Amaya Mori from Shanghai

Academy received a score of two perfect 10's from her headmaster Nakamura and Dumbledore, a nine from headmistress Deville and Jacobson, and an undeserved 4 from headmaster Polliander.

In total her final score was a 42 which was pretty good for the first task even though she deserved much higher from that biased prick Polliander. She scowled at Polliander along with some of the

other judges but otherwise seemed quite pleased with her score.


Next was the disgusting Monty Kimball from Durmstrang. The little snot received a 6 from Dumbledore and Deville, a 3 from Jacobson and Nakamura, and an unbelievable perfect 10 from

Polliander. I stared at him in disgust. That smirking pretentious prat had no shame. In total Kimball had a final score of 28. His shit eating grin made me want to vomit.

Spencer Louis from Royal-Raines got two 8's from Dumbledore and Deville, one 7 from Jacobson, and a lousy 4 from Polliander. In total his score came to 27. He maintained a cheery smile

although he was in last place at the moment. At last it was time for the judges to give out my points. It went silent in the hall again.


To my surprise I received perfect 10's from Dumbledore, Deville, and Jacobson, an 8 from Nakamura, and not so surprisingly 5 from Polliander. Giving me a total score of 43. To tell you the

truth, I expected much less from Polliander. I guess even he couldn't deny the fact that I'd won all my rounds. Out of nowhere a balled up piece of parchment hit Polliander square in the back of

the head. "Black!" McGongall yelled. Sirius waved his hand in the air, smirking. "Sorry Professor! It slipped!" I snickered to myself.


Dumbledore intervened before McGongall could get anymore worked up then she already was. He addressed us contestants. "You have completed the physical & strategic part of the

competition. I applaud you all for trying. This next task will take place on Thursday and it will be the creative portion of the competition. You must show off your dancing skills!" I rolled my eyes.

Dumbledore smiled, "It is obviously implied that you will show off only muggle dances. You may choose a partner from your own schools to assist you with this. You are required to present at

least 2 dances. Good luck! You may disperse for the rest of the evening until dinner."

"Evans! Evans!" Sirius led a group of Hogwarts students in this chant, following me out of the great hall. "Celebration party in the Gryffindor common room!" James yelled. I shook my head and

called out quickly, "Not now after dinner!" There were groans of disappointment. "Why not now Lil?" Remus asked me. I rolled my eyes at their stupidity. "Maybe because I've exhausted as shit

from waking up early, my show last night, and not to mention all this energy draining fencing."

"You're going to sleep? Now?" James asked with disappointment. "I'm bloody tired," I said. "I've got to take a nap. We can party after dinner." I gave them all hugs and went up to my room.

"How did you do Lily?" Gwen asked. I smiled, "I won the first task. The next one is dancing and it's on Thursday." Gwen beamed at me, "I knew you'd win! Now go and get some rest!" I thanked

her and went inside. A familiar owl was seated by my window. It was the black owl Addison and I used to stay in touch. Dumbledore had given this owl to me just to use for sending letters to

Addison. No one but the marauders and him were allowed to see the owl.

I retrieved the letter and read it slowly. It read:


Dearest Bella,

I read your last letter and it brought me great joy. It seems like only yesterday that we met at Snake Lair. I feel so sad when I think of the time that has gone by since I last saw your angelic face. As you've pointed out in many letters that is no one's fault but my own. I've just been extremely busy with recruiting and other things of that nature. Father says to tell you hello and that he hopes to see you soon. I think my father too, is quite charmed by you. You've seemed to have charmed us all with your beauty and wit. The reason for this hastily written letter is to extend an invitation to you for a dinner date this Friday evening. I await your response anxiously.

Sincerely,

Addison


I finished reading his letter with great satisfaction. Dumbledore and I had been hoping that he would request to meet up again soon. I fed the owl some treats before deciding to write Addison

when I awoke from my nap. I changed into some pajamas and curled up underneath my covers with Heart resting at my side and Celestrial resting on my pillow. I clapped my hands and the lights

went off. "Night babies," I murmured to them before closing my eyes.


A bit later, I woke myself out of my slumber to see three out of the four marauders walking into my room. "Well gee just come on in," I muttered sarcastically. "Thanks! We will," Sirius

cracked. "We figured you wouldn't be up yet," Remus explained, sitting on my dresser. "So we were going to wake you up because I knew you wouldn't want to miss dinner." James laid down on

the pillow next to mine. I reached over and ruffled his hair affectionately. He smiled at me. Peter burped loudly effectively taking my attention away from James. James glared at him. "What?"

Peter asked, confused. I climbed from underneath my covers, smiling in amusement.

"Is that the owl you use to send that Death Eater bloke letters?" Sirius asked. I nodded while searching through my closet for a cute outfit for tonight's party. "He wrote back? Remus asked,

taking an interest in the conversation. "Yep," I said, distracted. "Have a look, it's on the table next to my bed." James reached over and read it out loud to everyone. "He says he's charmed by

your beauty and wit!" Sirius scoffed in disbelief. "What a load of dung." Remus exclaimed with disgust. I glared at them all, "Just what is that supposed to mean? Are you saying I'm not witty or

beautiful?" Sirius laughed along with Peter. I chucked a pair of flip flops at the both of them. "Watch it!" Sirius said, ducking. "We didn't mean it like that," Peter added, still laughing. "Then how'd

you mean it?" I asked still glaring.

"We mean the guys trying to butter you up," Remus said. "He's not charmed by your beauty and wit!" James cut in, "Well he probably is quite taken by your looks but no way in Merlin's g-string

is that prat interested in your wit." Remus along with me gave James a disgusted glance. "I'm not an idiot. I know how to work him and I know it's my looks that have him drawn in." I said, going

back to outfit hunting. "But did we really have to bring Merlin's g-string into this? I'm just saying!" They laughed at my sour facial expression. I pointed my hanger at them, "Also, even though my

looks reeled him in, believe me when I say that it is most definitely my tell him what he needs to hear smooth talking that is keeping him stuck."


James chuckled, "You mean you tell him what he wants to hear?" I shook my head, "No I mean I tell him what he needs to hear. Most guys can spot a girl who only wants to kiss their asses and

tell them things they want to hear from a mile away. Then instead of taking them seriously they get what they want from them and toss them. Right?" I looked to Sirius and James mainly. They

sheepishly nodded. "Okay so with a guy like Addison he's tempted by good looks but wants a girl that can rival his confidence especially around his inner circle. So I tell him things that he needs to

hear whether it strokes his ego or damages it. He particularly likes when I damage his ego because it shows him that I'm not lured to him by his power, wealth, or family. So therefore in his mind I

must be trustworthy and worthy of being taken seriously."


The marauders stared at me in amazement. "Are you secretly a guy?" Peter asked stupidly. I stared at him taken aback and very much offended. "What the hell kind of question is that?" Remus

smacked Peter in the head. "You dolt!" Peter turned red, "Oh Merlin! Lily I didn't mean it like that! I mean you seem to know a lot about how guys think." James smirked at him, "Nice save!" "You

guys suck!" I said, dragging myself to the bathroom to change. 10 minutes later I came out the bathroom dressed in tight black skinny legged pants that were scrunched up at the ankles and had

small thin rips at the top of my thighs on each leg. I paired it with a bronze short sleeved top with a print of black vines across it, black suspenders, and black patent leather pumps.


I walked over to one of my mirrors and began adjusting a large gold vintage clip in the side of my hair. I left my hair down but swept it to one side using the clip. "Can you dance in those?"

James asked pointing to my heels. I laughed, "James, I once had to fight Voldeywhore in 6 inch stiletto's. So I'm pretty sure I can dance in these!" Sirius touched my hair, "Lil you're hair is crazy

long." I frowned, "I know. I have this sick urge to chop it off but I'm so used to it being there that I kind of have separation anxiety when I picture it being gone."

"Did you write him back yet?" Remus asked, shaking Addison's letter at me. I shook my head no, while sliding my mum's chain on and a leather choker as well. I tied on a bunch of black strap

leather bracelets up both my arms, changed my earrings to all large gold squares, and replaced my belly, tongue, and nose rings with gold studs. "I'm going to write him back before we go down to

dinner." I told Remus. I finished putting on my black lip gloss and black eye liner. "Okay all done!" I said turning from my mirror. Sirius gave me a wolf whistle. I rolled my eyes, "That's getting

really old!" Whipping out a quill, I sat next to James and began writing Addison a reply back.

"Done!" I said happily, signing my alias at the bottom. I read it out loud.


Dearest Addison,

I was so delighted to receive this letter from you. I know you've been extremely busy as have I. What with my fascination with British culture and having found an apartment to reside in, I've been plenty busy. Not too busy to think of you though. Send my greetings to your father. I'm ever so flattered that they seem charmed by me. I guess it's just how us purebloods were brought up. I would be happy to accompany you to dinner Friday evening. Just let me move a few social engagements around and I will owl you later with the details of where to pick me up and what time. Hope you are well.

Love, Bella

"Very flirty!" Remus said with a grin. I smirked, "That was the idea!" I tied the letter to the owl and tossed it out the window. "Now since that's done lets go to dinner," I said. "I'll meet with

Dumbledore in the morning to work out Friday's plans." Sirius followed behind me with the other marauders out of the door. "I can't wait for this party!" Sirius exclaimed. "We went and got all the

food from Hogsmede already and decked out the common room with party favors." I grinned, "I'm kind of psyched for it!"


We entered the Great Hall and sat at the usual spot. A lot of people came over to congratulate me on winning the first task. I nibbled on a buttery breadstick, "So who all did you invite to this

thing?" "Well," James answered me, "We invited Gryffindor house obviously, a bunch of Hufflepuffs, some of the more tolerable foreign kids, and all the Ravenclaws who are decent to you or who

are currently shagging Sirius." I rolled my eyes at that last comment.


While the guys were finishing up eating, I went around to make sure some of the people I liked having around were attending the party. Elvis, Vance, and their whole group were coming and I

stopped by to invite Amaya Mori from Shanghai and Spencer Louis from Royal-Raines, who also assured me that they'd be there. I went over to Sev to invite him as well. He was sitting with those

idiots again but jumped over to meet me in the middle of the hall. I couldn't help but wonder was this out of excitement from wanting to talk to me or just to keep me from interrupting them.

"Yea?" he asked looking back at the Slytherins. "Um, just wanted to see if you were coming to my victory party!" I said feeling stupid since it was obvious he didn't want to talk to me at that

moment. "I can't! I'm busy." Sev answered quickly. My face dropped, "Oh okay well sorry I interrupted you. Bye!" I turned to walk away.

"Hey Lily!" Sev called out to me. I turned slightly, "Yeah?" Sev broke into a smile, "Congratulations!" I beamed at him, "Thanks!" I hurried back over to the marauders where Jelly was now

sitting too. I sat down next to her, "What's up Jelly?" She giggled, "I have a date!" "Really?" I said casually. "Yeah she does," James said bitterly. "Some little freckly prat!" I laughed, "Sour

much?" I faced Jelly, "You coming to the party?" She nodded, "Yep! The Head Boy says all fourth years and under can stay until a certain time." I grinned, "Cool beans!" The marauders all left to

go start the party except for James who waited with me.

"So why are we waiting again?" James asked me. "Giving everyone time to get things interesting before we get there," I told him, eyeing the orange polish on my nails. A bit later we started

off to the party. "You doing alright?" James inquired. I shrugged, "As well as can be expected, I supposed." James gave my shoulder a squeeze, "It gets easier." I nodded, "I know. It'll be a lot

easier when Christmas break starts and I can get some breathing room. Just didn't think I'd end up down this road again." James looked at me, "Well maybe you need to take this road to get

where you're meant to be." I smiled at him before entering the common room.


Talk about chaos. Everyone was running around, laughing, dancing, and eating junk food. I noticed that Sirius had stole some of my favorite muggle cd's because they were currently blasting

on my also stolen stereo system set up off to the side. Everyone turned to see us and immediately Sirius led them in a huge shout of Congratulations! I laughed and James pulled me into a side hug.

Sirius ran over and knocked James out of the way, pulling me over to dance with him. Green Day's Know Your Enemy was playing. I shook it up with Sirius, expertly displaying my moves. We

danced 2 more times after that before I slunk off to get a refreshing drink.


I met Amaya at the punch bowl. She was unknowingly reaching for a glass of punch. I stopped her quickly, "Unless you want to be drunk and end up snogging a certain Sirius Black I wouldn't

drink that if I were you." She chuckled, "Um thanks for stopping me." I smiled, "No big deal." I handed her a flask of pumpkin juice. "At parties you're always safer with something in a bottle that

hasn't been previously opened." We sipped and talked for a while. Mostly about how Monty Kimball was an ass but a little about her home in Japan. I gave her a few tips on how to stay relaxed. A

guy came over and took her off to dance then.

"Oh Lily!" Elvis sang coming over to me. I sang back, "Oh Elvis!" He pulled me over and we danced. Elvis was so good at dancing. I really enjoyed it. He did a bunch of fancy moves then Garbo

came over and they had me pressed in between them. So I went back to my club roots and dirty danced a bit with them. All in good fun.


Later the younger kids were sent away and the freakiness started. I caught Remus snogging his date from the ball in a corner. Sirius for once was not snogging anyone but was in the middle of

a huge drinking contest with a bunch of other boys. James was sitting over there watching but only looked mildly interested. Several girls were hanging around him attempting to get his attention

but he just stared at them all blankly. I decided to save him from his misery and climbed over the couch and fell onto his lap. He smirked at me, "Fancy meeting you here Lil!" I laughed, "Strangest

coincidence huh?"


James and I sat and watched Sirius for a while but soon got bored of that. So he took me by the hand and led me over to dance. We danced for a long time and had so much fun acting silly that

we barely noticed the craziness around us. Sirius came over in the middle of James and I doing the dumbest dance moves we could think of. Well more like he crashed into us. The dummy had

done a cannonball off the card table and landed on top of James.


I peered down at both of them with an amused smirk on my face, "How's it going down there guys?" James squinted in pain, "Just peachy!" Sirius had fallen fast asleep on him, getting

comfortable and curling up against James. I bit back a laugh, "Need some help?" James nodded gratefully. I pointed my wand at Sirius and levitated him up to the dorm, letting James follow me.

"Thanks for the help Lil!" James said. I gave him a pat on the arm, "I'm out Potter! Need to hit the sack and do some planning for dinner with the enemy this weekend. See you in the a.m.!"


I headed downstairs and saw everyone half naked and passed out or some were even still going strong. I shook my head, laughing as I saw Garbo passed out with Cherry huddled up close. Oh

he was so gonna get later on at band practice about that one. I departed after tossing one last look at the hilarious sight of the common room.

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