A/n: Once again, another chapter. Enjoy!

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Chapter 4 – Task One: Admitting

After Sirius left, Lauren sighed, and lied her head back down on her pillow. When the screaming banshee triplets were done obsessing over how the two marauders were in the dorm, Lily spoke up.

"You like him, don't you?" She asked a playful smile danced on her face. Lauren gave Lily a weird look, as if saying whom the hell are you talking about?

"You know who I'm talking about Lauren…Sirius," Lily continued, sitting on Lauren's bed.

"Lily, I have no idea what you are talking about. Plus, I have a boyfriend remember?" Lauren reminded her. Lily just didn't believe here, but she let it go anyways. The two girls got dressed, and made their way to the common room, to wait for their friends.

"What about you?" Lauren asked, bring up the subject again.

"What about me?" Lily asked, at a complete loss.

Lauren rolled her eyes, and thorough her question. "Do you think James as more than a friend?"

"No! We are just friends, and you know that," Lily answered, her face becoming as red as her hair. She hoped her best friend wouldn't see right through her.

"You're lying, I'm your best friend. I could see right though you," Lauren said, knowingly.

"Darn. Oh why do you have to be my best friend?" Lily asked, sarcastically. The two girls walked into the common room, and the boys were waiting for them.

"You guys ready?" James asked. The two girls nodded, and they went their way to the Great Hall to munch on their breakfast.

On the way there, someone brutally bumped into Lauren.

"Watch it, squirt," he said, quite mean, as he walked passed the little girl.

"Michael?" Lauren called for the boy who bumped into her, confused, but mad at the same time. The boy, turned around, and sure enough it was Michael.

"Oh Merlin! I'm so sorry baby! I didn't know it was you!" Michael said, apologizing, grabbing Lauren's hand. Sirius had a little coughing fit that sounded strangely like 'No your not you stupid, lying, big-headed prat.' But no one actually noticed.

Lauren looked at Michael, and he gave her one of his charming smiles that could make anyone's heart melt.

"It's okay," She said sweetly, entwining his fingers with hers, and they all continued their way to the Great Hall.

"Mr. Liar-Liar-Pants-On-Fire has her whipped," Sirius stated to everyone else.

Lily just rolled her eyes, while James and Remus agreed. Meanwhile…Peter was giving Lauren and Michael deadly death glares.

When breakfast ended, the six Gryffindors made their way to History of Magic, and Professor Binns's giving quite a boring lecture about the first war against werewolves and vampires.

Lily was avidly taking notes (being the smart cookie she is). Lauren had fallen asleep, because she had a little interruption the night before. Remus was also avidly taking notes, while Peter was munching on food (that fat…person), and James and Sirius were so bored, that it was too much boredness that their little minds could handle.

Sirius wrote James a note, and passed it next to him where he was sitting.

'Hey Jamesie-boy! I was just wondering…do you like Lilikins, by any chance? – Padfoot'

James read the note, and glanced back at Sirius, who was giving him an innocent, too innocent, smile. James wrote back.

'Why do you want to know? Are you trying to make me admit that I like her, and than you'll are making a 'secret plan' with Moony and Lauren to hook us up?'

James passed the note back to Sirius, and being as fast as he could, Sirius wrote something back.

'NO! Never! Where did you ever get that idea? So is that a yes or no?'

James smiled, and was about to write something back, but the bell rang, and everyone started leaving the class.

The five Gryffindors were now making their way to Herbology, when they noticed one of them was missing.

"Hey, Lily, where's Lauren?" Remus asked, looking around to find the little girl.

"Hmm…I don't know…" Lily responded, also looking around for her little friend. Than it hit her, "Oh no! She's still in Professor Binns's class sleeping!" Lily exclaimed, rushing back to the History of Magic classroom, the others following close behind her.

When they got there, sure enough, Lauren was still sleeping, snoring horribly loud, with fifth year Ravenclaws staring at her. Lily walked up to her sleeping friend and shook her shoulder gently.

Lauren didn't wake up, but instead she mumbled something strangely sounding like, 'Owl took my bacon.' This time, the girl got even weirder looks, and Lily ran out of ideas to wake her up. She looked over at the four boys, and they all shrugged their shoulder. Than, James had the perfect idea.

"Hey, Lauren. Sirius is dancing around naked carrying a plate of bacon," James whispered, but loud enough for everyone to hear. As soon as Lauren heard the word 'bacon', her head shot up glancing around for the naked Sirius with the bacon. But, of course, she just wanted the bacon.

The others, including the fifth year Ravenclaws, were laughing at her. She was looking at them, and than asked, "James, where's the bacon?" Everybody just laughed at the very puzzled Lauren.

"Uhh…Lauren, you got a little drool right here," Lily said, pointing to a spot on her face, warning Lauren on their way to the green houses. Lauren quickly wiped the drool off her chin, sending a very deadly death glare, for not giving her any bacon.

Soon after Herbology, was Transfiguration, and before they knew it, dinner ended. They talked for a while in the common room, about Quidditch and such, until they had to go bed. And that night was certainly un-eventful.

*Creepy, dark voice, from no where*

It was a dark, stormy night for the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was around twelve or so in the late night/early morning, and one of the Gryffindor students was sleeping peacefully in his warm bed, dreaming about his life-long fantasies and other…things. Until, a bright light shined in the sleeping-peacefully Gryffindor, waking him up.

"Wha-?" James slurred, confused, and tired, but he couldn't say anything more because someone sello-taped him mouth shut. He also couldn't see anything because, well first off, he didn't have his glasses on, and well second, someone blindfolded him.

He could feel himself being lifted up from his bed, and into a chair. His arms were being tied to the arms of the chair, and his legs tied to the legs of the chair. Then a dark, creepy, eerie, scary, chilling, bloodcurdling, terrifying, ghostly, unnatural, voice came from in front of him.

"JAMES I-DON'T-KNOW-YOUR-MIDDLE-NAME POTTER! I HAVE ONE QUESTION TO ASK YOU, AND YOU MUST ANSWER THIS QUESTION TRUTHFULLY!" the dark, creepy, voice yelled.

"Padfoot?! What the hell?" James said, angry with his best friend waking him up, and not knowing his middle name.

Thunder roared. "I'm not Padfoot! I am…. LAUREN!" Thunder roared again, and lightning stricken, giving it a very scary affect.

"What the hell are you doing to me? You're not going to molest me, are you?" James said, frightened.

"No! Of course not, James you're not really my type." Lauren said in her regular voice, but continued in her dark creepy voice, "James! Would you answer my question truthfully?" Thunder roared loudly.

"Just ask me the damn question, Lauren!" James said with a grumpy tone.

"Gee-willerkers! Someone's in a bad mood! You know better than to use that tone with me! Remus! Pull the tape off!" Lauren said, in her creepy dark voice. Right when she said 'pull the tape off', Remus pulled a strip of tape off of James's arm.

"AHH! What was that for?" James asked, in great pain. Tears forming up in his eyes, but you couldn't tell because he was blindfolded.

"No need for question, oh stupid one! Let my questioner ask thy questions!" Lauren said, once again in her 'scary voice'.

"James I-Don't-Know-Your-Middle-Name-Because-I-Forgot Potter, I have one question, and one question must be answered truthfully. DO YOU LIKE LILY I-DON'T-KNOW-HER-MIDDLE-NAME EVANS?!" Sirius said, in his 'scary voice'. Thunder roared violently.

"What? No!" James answered, dishonest.

"LIAR! REMUS! TAPE!" Lauren yelled. Remus pulled off another strip of tape and James screamed in pain.

"DO YOU LIKE LILY?!" Sirius asked, once again.

"No!" James answered, untruthful, once again.

"LIAR!" Lauren bellowed, and Remus pulled off another strip of tape off James. James screamed like a little girl.

"DO…YOU…LIKE…LILY?!" Sirius bellowed.

"Okay! Okay! I like Lily!" James admitted, crying. Once he answered, thunder roared aggressively, and lightning struck, intensely.

Remus, Lauren, and Sirius untied James from the chairs, and pulled the remaining strips of tape off his arms.

"Ok, thanks James! Night you guys, see you in the morning," Lauren said, regularly, exiting out of the room. James muttered to himself, walking back to his bed, saying how his friends had completely gone nutters.

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