Lily Evans was sitting in the Great Hall eating breakfast when the mail owls came swooping in.

"Hey, Lily, I see your owl," Alice said, watching the white and black bird fly towards them. "Looks like Mum hasn't written to me, again," she added after looking around for her own owl.

Lily chuckled quietly, taking the fairly large parcel from her owl. "Your Mum never writes you."

"No need to rub it in my face." Alice glared at her. "What did your parents send you this time?"

Lily opened the box, "A paint set."

Alice fell into peals of laughter, "You can't paint!"

"What? Yes - yes, I can," Lily stuttered, her whole face going red. "I'm a good paintest."

"Artist," Alice corrected, rolling her eyes at her best friend. "And you know you have, like, zero creative skills."

"That's not true," Lily scowled, "I'm good with pranks."

"I mean creative art work," Alice said with a short giggle, "You can prank people, but your drawings suck."

Lily crossed her arms defensively, "I'll have you know, I draw excellent stick figures."

"Really?" Alice raised an eyebrow. Lily nodded her head. "Then let's have a paint off."

"A what?"

"A paint off. We'll both paint something and we'll have a judge to tell us who's is better."

Lily smiled smugly, "Fine. And I know the perfect judge."


"No," Alice said, shaking her head as Lily brought James Potter into the Common Room with her.

"Why not?" Lily asked, pulling James over to where Alice was sitting with the paints. "He'll judge fairly."

"No, he won't. He's your boyfriend!" Alice exclaimed, "He'll pick you just so you'll be happy."

James shrugged, not even bothering to deny it, "Probably."

Lily elbowed him, "You're supposed to say no."

James grinned at her, "She wouldnt' believe me if I told her. Heck, I wouldn't even believe me if I told myself."

Lily crossed her arms over her chest and sighed, "I guess, then we can't have Frank either.

"Fine," Alice said, "I would say Amos, but he would just pick himself."

James laughed loudly. Lily tried to disagree with her, but she started laughing too.

"That was good," James chuckled, grinning.

"I know it," Alice beamed. "So, who does that leave?"

James suddenly got an idea, "How 'bout you let the Maraurders judge? I'll vote for Lily, but the other three love making fun of her, so they'll vote against her if she sucks and then rub it in her face."

Alice grinned, "Perfect. It's settled, the Marauders are the judges. Go get 'em, James!"

"Wait, not settled," Lily said, crossing her arms over her chest, "I'm not going to show my paintings to Sirius! He'll make fun of me forever."

"Then I guess you better win," James whispered, winking at her, then leaving through the portrait hole.

"You aren't afraid of losing, are you, Lily?" Alice asked, a tiny smirk on her face.

"What? Me? No." Lily shook her head, "I'm not afraid of anything, especially losing to you, because I know it's never going to happen."

Alice raised an eyebrow at her, "We'll just see about that, Lily Elizabeth Evans."

"I guess we will, Alice-"

"Don't say my middle name!" Alice pleaded.

"Alice. Judith. Prewett."

There was loud laughter from behind them. Alice turned and found the four Marauders laughing their heads off.

"Shove it. It's not funny!" Alice scowled, her face bright red.

"Actually, it really is," Sirius said, holding his stomach.

Alice glared at them furiously, which made them shut up. They had been on the wrong side of too many of Lily Evan's glares to know that they were stupid if they didn't stop laughing right now.

James cleared his throat, "Well, let's get on to the contest."

Alice smirked, "Gladly. Let's go, Lily."

"How long do I get to paint this thing?" Lily asked, setting up her canvas and paints on the table. Alice was doing the same.

"Fifteen minutes," Sirius said immediatly.

Remus raised an eyebrow.

"I have a date in twenty," Sirius explained, then continued when Alice and Lily didn't move, "Snap to it, ladies!"

Alice and Lily started painting.

Fifteen Minutes Later.

"Times up!" Remus exclaimed, looking at his watch and throwing his hand in the air dramatically.

James gave him a weird look.

"But I'm not finished," Lily said, desprately adding a few more brush strokes. Alice added one more dot to her painting and then leaned back, content with her work.

Sirius walked over and took the painting from Lily, "Too bad. I have a date in a few minutes and I can't be late."

Lily sighed, "Fine."

Alice handed her painting over to Peter gently, then sat back in her seat. She knew she was going to win.

The Marauders took the paintings a few feet away and looked at them, whispering quietly to each other and laughing quietly. Lily couldn't tell which one they were laughing at.

After a minute or two, they came back over with their faces looking very offical.

"We have made a decision," Sirius said in a very official tone. The other three boys nodded, faces expressionless. "Remus will tell us our results."

"What?" Remus said, "Oh, okay." Remus took a step forward, clearing his throat before laughing loudly and saying, "Lily, yours was terrible. Alice wins!"

Sirius fell into peals of laughter as Lily "Oi!"-ed indignantly and Alice whooped. James grinned apoligetically and shrugged while Peter snickered.

Lily went over and held up the painting of her deformed blob, "Come on, mates. It's a bunny! Can't you see the bunny?"

"It looks kind of like a moose," Sirius said, squinting at the painting.

Lily looked at the painting again and groaned angrily, "NO! It's a good painting!"

"Lily, it looks like a blob of nothing," Remus said, and even James didn't defend her.

"I told you that you weren't creative," Alice said, her face smug as she laughed.

"I am creative!" Lily said, crossing her arms over her chest and stomping her foot. "You are the worst friends ever!"

They all continued to laugh, completely ignoring her while they mocked her bunny painting.

"Just wait, I'm going to prank all of you," Lily said, a mad look in her eyes as she walked backwords up the girls staircase, "And it's going to be the most creative thing you've ever seen in your lives...just you wait."

She gave an evil laugh before running up the stairs, leaving five horror-struck teenagers behind her.


Author's Note: Hm, not sure how I feel about this one. I feel like I love it...and then I feel like I don't. Ah, well.

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