Lori : Troublemaking
twisting love life? I'm trying it in this chapter, but you wouldn't like it, I
think. It's too… [*looks into brain waves*] er, I haven't mastered the romance
terms yet [eg. Mushy, corny…etc] and I really don't know how should I describe
it ^^; maybe you can explain them to me, yes?
Caitlin Black : Aw… an
early birthday song! It's so sweet of you!!!! and I reviewed your story for
you! :) it was nice!! Better than my silly Golden Unicorn thingy anyway *stares
at the stack of papers binded in a green file, titled Harry Potter and the
Golden Unicorn* *Reads a few lines of the last chapter* Yeah, definitely
better.
Kitty Kat Potter : Great
dreams? Me? Now those two shouldn't really mix… And just recently I have one on
Harry, Hermione and Ron being lost in a shopping mall, playing some sorta
treasure hunt. Really comical ^^
Parvati Brown : I bet your
teacher told you that your works are good because you're not half as insane as
my mind is :) No, it's a good thing, really, and no offense is intended! And Sirius? In leather? *cough* Pardon. I was wondering what's so special about leather, though. I never seen much things in leather except a few handbags and shoes :)
Lita of Jupiter : Know
what? I'd just decided that you SHOULD kill me as soon as you can. I have a
really bad mind stress at the moment and I really couldn't coop up with life
any more. I am seriously considering suicide but since I'm afraid of blood
and strings, I figured that you could do a better job at that :)
Noelle : I love your cards!!! You were the first to send me one!!! And I guess Tally and Dan are still fighting. They probably will end up fighting all their life. Besides, it's because my stories are insanely hilarious that my teacher's against me :P in one essay, I wrote about this lady who had a big mouth [and provided a great theory and a laugh to my classmates – hmph!]. She gave me an A minus for good impression and a few grammatical errors. Wherelse my friend [she's Sarah_Michelle—a great writer!!!] got A for the same grammatical errors and an interesting story. Hah.
Lily's Friend*Jess : I do agree that no
one's perfect. Even if there's someone who's really perfect [take our genius Marauders for example], they'll die early [*sniffles*]. Yeah. That's a great idea. Kill them as soon as I'm finished with Voldemort. *nods and began scribbling on a piece of paper*
Jinskid3 : This one's
sequel to The Marauding Five – Year Four, which is sequel to Year Three, which
is sequel to Year Two, which is sequel to Year One :)
thank you very much to those who'd sent me cards!!! they're wonderful!!! *sniff* some wrote to me wishing me, too!! you're all really super duper hyper sweeeeeet!
Disclaimer: Not mine to claim. *walks off singing
"happy birthday to me…"*
The Marauding Five : Year Five
Chapter 6: Quidditch: Hufflepuff vs. Gryffindor
Lily ran into her dormitory, laughing madly.
This had all heads up. Tally tried ignoring her insane friend and returned to
her work. Sita was trying to calm Lily's disturbing laughter by throwing some
water at the girl. Nina yelped in surprise and threw her bottle of muggle
nail-polish, which landed in a splat on Adele's Transfiguration essay. pertsy
was trying to do her star-chart but, for some reasons, couldn't seem to do it
properly. Adele was trying to control the burning desire in her patience to
bomb Nina for destroying her essay. And Lily was still laughing madly after
Sita tried calming her with the cold water.
When she finally subdued, she went to bed,
not much said.
'Lily?' Adele said, peeking carefully into
the curtains when everyone else blew off the candle. 'Lily, are you okay?'
No answer.
'I know you're awake, Lily. and I know you
have some problems. You can tell me, Lily,' Adele said.
Still no answer.
'Can I come in to talk about it?'
Adele felt a strong sense of power which
levitated her onto the bed and shut the curtains up tightly. Adele stared around
in the dark, hoping to see Lily's green eyes. She was just wondering if Lily's
eyes can shine in the dark like a cat's when a small white light formed in a
pair of trembling hands.
'Lily!' Adele exclaimed. 'You don't have to
frighten me like that! It's not Halloween!'
'Sorry Teddy,' Lily said shakily.
'What happened?'
'I don't get it.'
'Huh?'
'I really don't
get it,' Lily said, shaking her head regretfully.
'You can cut that
out and tell me now. What happened???' Adele demanded.
'I don't know.'
'Well, what is it
that you don't get???'
'Me.'
'You? There's
nothing wrong with you, Tinker.'
'Well I- I think
I'm lost! I'm gone! As in mad!!' Lily said. 'I want to cry, but I can't cry
cause it's not that time yet. Besides, it was only in the summer when I had
last cried, not two years ago.'
'What are you
talking about, Lily? You're here,' Adele said in puzzlement. 'Not in summer.
You're in winter. Not summer, get me?'
'Of course! I
know I'm in early winter!' Lily retorted. 'It was only a week ago when I was
raking leaves for detention!'
'But you said you
were lost.'
'I meant that I'm
goners, Adele. Definitely bonkers,' Lily said quaveringly. Adele wondered if
Lily was just exaggerating things. 'I just can't believe it!!! It's unbelievable!'
'Lily Rose Evans,
get a grip on yourself!' Adele scolded. 'You know you can believe anything you
want to, right? You're not living in the muggle world!'
'And because of
that, I'm scared,' Lily said softly.
'What? Tell me!
It's just not you to keep complaining like some raving lunatic,' Adele said.
'It's
frightening!'
'What is
frightening?'
'My- my dream.'
This had Adele's
interest piqued up. She loved to know about Lily's dreams, because all of them
come true. And all of them are rather joyful, too. She just have to know
what the Marauders will end up doing next!
'Tell me about
it,' Adele said.
'I- I was
sleeping a while ago, and I dreamt a dream. I dreamt that Voldemort was
destroying things. People. Villages. An entire city of muggles,' Lily said
eeriely.
'Go on,' Adele
said, leaning back. Probably Lily'll tell her that the five of them came out of
nowhere, defeat Voldemort and lived happily ever after. Just like those muggle
cartoons she watched in James's house the summer before.
'I saw the
Dementors, Adele. They were frightful. And the towering giants. And the Death
Eaters. I saw that third year Slytherin. Lucious Malfoy, he was addressed. I
saw Snape. I saw practically half of Slythering house. And, worst of all, I saw
us,' Lily's lower lip trembled, when she uttered the last syllable. Adele
shivered. They were going to be killed by Voldemort??
'What?!'
'I saw us, Teddy.
You, me, James, Sirius and Remus. All five of us are in black robes, just like those
Death Eaters. But- but it just isn't us,' Lily said. Adele don't like how this
dream was turning out.
'What isn't it
us?' Adele inquired.
'It just isn't. I
mean, they look a lot like us, right to my very tip of my hair. The resemblance
was uncannt. But I know it just isn't us. Our- our faces weren't that hard,
right? Our eyebrows aren't in that arching, cruel way, and- and out eyes aren't
blank, are they?' Lily asked nervously. 'That's either a premonition or
something I had to interpret. Or better still, some harmless nightmare.'
'Ssh! It's only a
harmless nightmare, Tinker. Besides, I don't think naps are dreams that come
true, right?' Adele said comfortingly. 'Get some sleep now, okay?'
Lily nodded
mutely and Adele went back to her bed.
**
'Do you think we'll get it? Do you? Do you?'
Lily asked eagerly, skipping around Morton like a frisky lamb. Morton gave a
little chuckle.
'It really seems
odd to me, Lily, that you should skip around me like that,' Morton said.
'Please, Lily, give me a break, okay? I can't tell if McGonagall would assign
you a detention for pining up Sybil like that! She's out of detentions again, I
must say. The summer holidays hadn't done much good to her creative
detentions.'
'So is that a yes
or a no?' Lily asked impatiently. Morton gave it a thought.
'The boys are
improving tremendously well,' she replied solemnly.
'I know that!'
Lily said, stamping her feet impatiently. She knew, owe to the fact that she
had given them a boost to speed up their process in learning. The Marauders
knew that they had to take their OWLs this year and planned to play more pranks
on the other fifth years, just to remind them how bad hell might be (or even
worst) to prevent them from saying 'Oh, I can't do this! I'll die now! Ohh…!' And
with the boys studyiing their Blue and Red magic robs half – no, ¾ - or their
precious time.
'Lily Evans! Hie!
Lily! quidditch practices coming right up!' a sixth year called. This,
fortunately for Morton, had Lily's attention distracted. Hurriedly, Morton
slipped off into an unknown room in the wall. Lily turned to the caller.
'Which house are
we against for the first season, Chip?' Lily asked her captain, Chip Clunk.
'Ravenclaw, but
they backed down. Lousy birds. Hufflepuff's our first match,' Chip said. 'I bet
you five galleons those Raven-dolts admitted defeat to Gryffindor's best team!
Me, you, James, Sirius, Remus, Charite and Jeremy! Best team ever! Hoorah!'
'Face on it, Mr
Show-Off,' Konglo Merat, the Hufflepuff team captain, said sniggeringly. 'We're
sure to win this match! Hufflepuff will regain its lost glory!!! HAHAHAHAHA!'
Lily and Chip
watched him as he strutted off, still laughing with his nose stuck in the air.
He was so busy laughing that he forgot to see where he was going, and bang
straight into the large pillar that supported the statue of Knight Kit-Kot.
'Weird guy,' Chip
tutted, when Merat yelled in pain at his broken nose. 'You tell your friends,
kay Lily? Tomorrow the field's ours for the day and be up by six for practice!'
'Six!!! What on
earth for?' Lily exclaimed in pure horror. She want her beauty sleep, James
wants his beauty sleep, Remus wants his beauty sleep, Sirius wants his beauty
sleep, Charite wants her beauty sleep, Jeremiah wants his beauty sleep, Chip
wants his beauty sleep… heck! The whole team need its beauty sleep!
'You heard me,
Evans. Six in the morning,' Chip said. 'Or perhaps five would be more
practical… Yes, five in the morning will do. You tell them that, Lily.' And he
went off without another word.
Lily glared
spitefully at him. She was now wondering if she should just sleep in tomorrow,
modify Chip's memory, purposely forget about it or just pretend that this
meeting she had just had with him was just his dreams. But all these means an
even higher risk for Hufflepuff to gain its glory. And Gryffindor team hasn't
really been practicing these days.
Also, the
Hufflepudd Quidditch team isn't what you'd like to refer the word 'nice' to.
They were almost
as bad as Slytherin house themselves, only they played better than the
Slytherins and the amount of fouls they made were far less.
'Unfortunately,
none of the Hufflepuff team has any fifth years,' Lily sighed. 'They're what
you'll call real Hufflepuffs. Sometimes I wonder if that Sorting Hat did
a mistake in its million sortings. Nice Gryffindors like Thomas MacMillan
should be in Hufflepuff with his Hufflepuff friends instead of being teased by
Dan.'
**
'Haaaaaa,' James
yawned sleepily, clutching his broomstick as he tried to stand up straight.
when Lily told them that Chip said five in the morning, none of the boys
believed her. Well, Sirius and Remus don't. Only he was thick enough to believe
it. Maybe he's just too stupid.
And maybe he
should sit. It's easier than standing.
'Ouch!' Lily's
voice yelped when she stumbled into the dark pitch with her broom in her hands.
The girl muttered a couple of curses and the stone she fell on broke into tiny,
powder of fine sand, blown away by the wind.
'G'morning, Li,'
James yawned. 'Where're the rest of them?'
Lily said nothing
but stumbled her way towards James, using her broomstick to help her tired legs
go on. Upon reaching her friend, she fell heavily on him. James sat her up next
to him.
'Lily, get a grip
on yourself!'
'Am so… so… ti… red…'
Lily yawned.
'Like I'm not.
Get up, Tinkerbell!' James said, helping her sit properly.
'This is so very
ridiculous,' Lily chattered in the cold October wind that had decided to blow
at that time. 'Atishoo! 'scuse me…'
'Get up, Lily!
look, you're making me wide awake and I still want to sleep! I haven't finished
my dream of eating a hundred suet puddings!!!!' James complained. Lily sneezed
in reply. 'Dimwit. Didn't you bring a cloak?' James scolded.
Lily didn't
reply. James was about to ask what happened to the others when Lily fell onto
him again. James turned to push her up and saw Lily snoozing on his shoulder.
His jaw fell.
'Tinker! You made
me wide awake at five in the morning and now you're sleeping on me???
Are you trying to make me jealous 'cause you got your sleep and I don't???'
'I'm cold,' Lily
muttered, snuggling closer to James.
'It's your
punishment for not bringing a cloak. I'm not that stupid,' James muttered
cruelly. But he laid his cloak on Lily's shivering body. He might as well wait
for the rest of the team members here. He slumped onto his broomstick.
'James?' Lily
whispered.
'What now? If you
want a hot water bottle, you can well dream for it in your sleep for I haven't
got one here,' James said.
'Do you love me? Honestly?
In that way?' James felt his cheeks colouring.
'… What?'
'Do you?'
'Why do you ask?'
James aked cautiously.
'Because…'
'Because?'
'I do,' Lily
murmured, snuggling closer. James rolled his eyes. Oh, typical. Romance on the
Quidditch pitch at five in the morning. This is sooo ridiculous.
'Do you, James?'
Lily asked.
'Are you awake,
Lily?' James asked.
'Yes.'
'How many fingers
am I holding?' James asked. He hadn't held up any of his fingers.
'You don't have
fingers to hold.'
So she can think
logically in her sleep, James mused. That's something. Not many can.
'Well, how many?
You know perfectly well what I mean.'
'Two?' Lily
guessed.
James is now
confirmed that Lily is sleep-talking.
'Um, right.'
'Do you love me, James?'
'Um, give me a
minute, Lily.'
'Okay. Please
tell me honestly, Big Bro,' Lily murmured, giggling a little. James was almost
like her big brother, as were Sirius and Remus. It had been a joke for long and
a bond they like to hold on to at some times.
James had a full
minute to think about what Lily asked, because amazingly, Lily asked him the
question again in exactly 60 seconds. And James still isn't sure of his answer.
'One more
minute,' James promised.
'You really don't
have to think, James,' Lily murmured. 'All you have to do is look right
through. Look deep in and you'll find it, James. Thinking takes more than 120
seconds.'
'I hate it when
you turn sensible,' James muttered.
'Hmm?'
'Lily, I—'
James's throat
was stuck. It was as if his heart went right up to his throat and choke him
with his flying emotions. It wasn't exactly pleasant, because he felt like
throwing up any minute.
'What is it?'
Lily asked gently.
'Alright, Lily. I
love you, um, too. I love you for long, Tinker, and I just hope you're really
really sleeping and NOT pretending,' James said. 'And yes, I did chose that
Dragani for your form because I kinda like that creature. It just reminds me of
you. Although you never asked this, I think you might wanna know so… whatever.'
'That's… nice…'
Lily whispered, snuggling even closer to him for his body heat. Her lips gave
him a short brush on the cheek before she cuddled snugly in his arms.
Never will James
ever forget the day where Chip Clunk made Lily and him come to the freezing
Quidditch pitch for some stupid practice no one cared much about but the thick
couple. And how the sleepy Lily had fallen asleep on him and her talking in her
sleep.
But all in all,
James will never forgive Chip for paralyzing him with the bitter October frost
on that "Romance on Quidditch Pitch" day, as he'd called it.
**
'You liar!!! I
came and you slept in!!!' Lily yelled, thowing the stones she picked up
from the pitch when she woke up at the scrambling Gryffindor Quidditch Captain.
James was hurling curses and hexes at the sixth year mercilessly. Both had just
gotten back from the Quidditch Pitch at seven and found Chip in the common
room, sleeping behind a comic book on the couch.
'Come back here!
I will NEVER forgive you for not coming!!! What d'you think I am, huh? A
yeti???' James yelled, hurling a curse after the fleeing boy.
'Now, now! kids,
do slow it! Ek!' Chip yelped, when one of Lily's humongous stone flew towards
him and hit him sharply on the elbow.
'KIDS!!!'
Lily shrieked. 'You take that back!!! We are no kids and you'd better remember
that fact!!! I'm going to make you regret!
Lady Mercury, of
knowledge and frost
Shower this
human with your cruel force!'
Lily cried, pointing an accusing finger at Chip.
Chip had paused
to stare at Lily's odd incantation (it was definitely never heard of before),
wondering what on earth that was meant for. James was still deciphering (he
hadn't memorized everything yet) the meaning of Lily's incantation when a
blizzard of bitter frost bit Chip coldly, turning him blue.
'Morning!!!
Wonderful, isn't it?' Sirius greeted cheerfully, coming down the stairs. 'What
time is it, Moony?'
'Eight,' Remus
replied. 'Why is Chip dancing in a snow storm? Why is there a snow storm in the
common room?'
'Lily,' Adele
yawned. 'Besides me, only Lily memorized those stupid incantiations. That one
uses Mercury's power of ice, absurd to you as it may seem.'
**
'Considering that
our practices turn into chit-chat sessions, I have hardly any confidence to win
this game,' Charite Chase said, glaring sourly at Chip.
'Yeah. You, him
and Jeremy,' James said, slumping onto the bench.
'Well you're
taking your OWLs this year,' third year Jeremiah Chase said. 'And Charite and
Chip were, um, preparing for their NEWTs.'
'Sorry, reason
not accepted,' Sirius said.
'You need to be
more practical,' Lily nodded.
'Alright Lions!
We'll just knock those Badgers off their brooms!' Chip said cheerily.
'And they say
animals don't fly on brooms,' Remus muttered.
'Well… just do
your best, kid – I mean, people!' Chip said.
'Unless, of
course, Hufflepuff team decides to quit,' James said sourly, wiping his
glasses. 'Which is a definite no.'
'And now,
presenting the Gryffindor team!!!' the announcer, Solan Trift of Ravenclaw,
called in his magnified voice.
The Gryffindor
team went rather sullenly to the Quidditch Pitch where their opposing team were
sniggering unpleasantly at them, making rude signs and insulting faces. Lily
glared, but refrain herself from attacking. It wouldn't be a fair game if she
injure them, even a little.
'On with it,
Trift!!!' Adele called from the stands. 'Cheer up, guys!!!!! you'll beat those
Hufflepuffs like pancakes!!!' and she slammed her hand to express how flat a
pancake is.
'You don't
know what happened to our practice sessions,' Lily grumbled.
'Clunk, Chase,
Chase, and the school's famous foursome!!!' Trift cried.
'Oh, Lord, if
Janet sees me lose…' Lily muttered, searching over the stands for Professor
Morton. She left her sentence hanging, anyhow,and stared properly at her
sister. The small, girlish face was smiling; but her eyes were as hard as stone
slabs. It was a sort of evil smile that make your spine shiver. Lily felt like
shuddering, but she was too frozen with shock.
'Whatever, Lily. We
don't want to know your consequence of dignity,' Remus muttered. 'You'd better
wish me luck. I just hope I can save those Quaffles.'
'Good luck,
Moony,' Sirius and James said gloomily, as if wishing him the lose he was
foretelling.
Phweet!!!!!!!!!!!! went the shrill whistle. Fourteen sleek broomsticks
soared into the air, in which seven of them are sweating to the extent of their
"sweat factory" beneath their skin surface. Trift was commentating on the game.
'Chaser Chase
chases the Quaffle – interesting one there – and oh!!! Chaser Koal of
Hufflepuff snatched it! – the Bludger sent by Beater Black of Gryffindor banged
right on Seeker Jenning's nose – ouch! A bruise there, Jasper! – oh! Koal
passes the Quaffle to Chaser Falke, and Hufflepuff scores the game!!!! 10-0 in
favour to the Badgers!' Trift yelled as the Hufflepuff errupted in cheers.
'Remus!!!' Chip
yelled at his Keeper.
'Excuse me, but
if the sand hadn't gotten into my eye at that very moment, I would've saved it
just as fine as I can fly on the broom!' Remus retorted with a hint of sarcasm
in it.
'Chaser Evans now
snatched the Quaffle – vicious girl there – and sends it to Chaser Potter – Wow!
Nice catch, Potter! – and he sends it to Chaser Chase, who scares into – aaah!
Keeper Mince saved the game!!! Oh no, now Evans regains the Quaffle and sends
it at high speed towards the goal! Really geniune vicious girl, that Evans.
10-10!' Trift cried. The Gryffindors cheered, yelling at their top of their
lungs as some even made a barn dance in their seats.
'Vicious,'
Charite said mockingly to Lily. Lily felt her cheeks burn. However tomboy-like
you are, no one'd like to be tagged "vicious" at all.
'He'll be getting
his… vicious, then,' Lily said in a controlled voice, glaring coldly at
the box. She secretly pulled out her wand and muttered a spell under her breath
befor smiling smugly at the commentating box Trift was in.
'Eeek! Beetles!
There's a beetle in here!!!' Trift's magnified voice yelped. A loud scrabbling
and a few – no, let's rephrase that – a loud scrabbling and a whole load of
loud, off noises were heard from the school's Quidditch Commentating Box.
'What is going on
here, Solan Trift???' McGonagall's booming, dictative, crisp and dangerous
voice yelled loudly as she stomped into the box. It echoed around the pitch.
'B- bee- beetles!
It's b- bee- beetles, professor! Loads of 'em! Aaaah! Bugs!!!!!' and with a
loud clunk and a faint thud, the spectators and players and teachers guessed
only one thing: Solan Trift fainted. This proves obviously true, since the
Transfiguration master later yelled:
'Poppy!!! Oh,
Poppy! Trift has fainted!!!! Poppy!!! POPPY!!!' McGonagall yelled shrilly. 'Time-out,
you Quidditch players! Someone – but preferably Poppy – Trift fainted!!!!!!!!!
Help!!!!!!! Out! No game anymore!!!!'
'Oh!' the
Gryffindor team cheered happily, each dropping to the ground at once.
'Whoever thought the
game would be called because because the commentator, of all people,
fainted?' James said in amusement as Sirius, Lily and Remus made a tight bear
hug around him.
'This is our
luck!' Jeremiah whooped happily, jumping. 'Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tied!'
**
'Minerva?' the
Marauders heard Dumbledore say. 'For calling off today's match, your detention
is scrubbing the new trophies that had just arrived. Mind you, don't remove
your brass. And I want them shining marvelously.'
'Yes, Professor.'
'And no magic,'
Dumbledore added.
'But—'
'No magic,
Minerva.'
'Yes,
Headmaster,' McGonagall replied sullenly. The five Marauders began giggling
hysterically, pulling themselves far from the mirror's hole in their circular
room. The look they had imagined on McGonagall's face was a memory to remember.
'I never imagine
that them teachers still receive detentions,' Lily said with a happy sigh, once
her laughing side faded.
'Now you do,'
Sirius said.
'I bet it's
because of those drastic actions,' Adele said reasonably.
'Drastic? That's
life-saving! I nearly thought we'd lose!!!' James said.
'You think of
loads of rubbish, that's all,' Remus said flatly.
'I don't!'
'You do!'
'Don't!'
'Do!'
'Don't!'
'Do!'
'Don't, don't,
don't!!!!!!'
'Do, do,
do!!!!!!'
'The next full
moon is next week,' Adele cut. 'Where will we be going? The shack is getting
boring now. once is enough, and I can't see how Remus can stand in there for
years!'
'Tour Hogsmeade?'
Sirius suggested.
'With us looking
like odd creatures that aren't commonly found?' Lily said. 'A dragani, a wolf,
a stag, a dog and a panda. Can anything get worst?'
'Um… no. How
about exploring those dusty corners?'
'Where?'
'Shrieking
Shack.'
'I've been there
for more than four years, as Adele had so kindly pointed out,' Remus wailed.
'Ssh!!! Minnie
might still be around!' Adele hushed. They waited silently for ten minutes
until Lily finally announced that no one is nearby save the stupid painting of Sir
Cardogan and a dinky rusting armour, which proves to be nothing at all.
'How about
blindfolding outselves?' James said. 'And we walk and walk to see where we'll
end up at?'
'That's
ridiculous!' Adele scolded scornfully. 'We'll be dead, killed by some stray
wizard officer!'
'Aaaaah!' Lily
yawned. 'Am tired. Let's just discuss this some time later, okay? I'm going to
sleep in here tonight. Duplicatus!'
And to Adele's
surprise, Lily's clone appeared suddenly, after a twirl and a wiggle of a wand
stick. She had obivously not known of this spell before. No one showed or demo
it to her anyway.
'Take her to my
bed and tell her to sleep, Teddy,' Lily said, crawling into her bed in the
small room. 'And don't be surprised if she disappears by sunrise. I might let
her go earlier, though. It depends. And it's just my duplicate. G'night!'
Dumbfounded,
Adele blankly led the Lily-doll-clone to the Gryffindor girls's dorm. Sirius
and Remus climbed out after the girl, declaring that they have a war with the
kitchen elves to see who can raid the most food: them or the elves.
James stayed.
'Lily, I want to
ask you something,' he said with utmost solemness.
'I want to sleep,
or don't you understand that very simple phrase?' Lily said in annoyance,
sitting up in her bed. Her mind felt and odd zilch and she can tell that she
might not like how this conversation will turn.
'No, I want to
ask you something,' he repeated.
'What is it? And
don't look like this question decides your fate, kay? You're freaking me
out!!!' Lily said.
'Do you, um, love
me? In… that way?' James mumbled.
'What?!' Lily
hadn't been able to hear his mumblings, but she read the question in his
thoughts.
'Do you?'
'Er…'
'I want an honets
answer,' James said. 'And don't lie.'
'Um…' Lily said
decidedly, thinking deeply at this sudden pop of question. She never expected
this. Or better, she had expected this, but not just yet.
'Well?'
'Why did you
ask?' Lily asked suspiciously. James never was one to ask this type of question
suddenly.
'Because you
asked me that. When you fell asleep in the middle of the Quidditch Pitch at
five in the morning.'
'I did? Then I
must've answered too, didn't I?'
'You did, but I
just want to know if what you said that day was true, or just some brainless
mumble. Do you remember anything from that day? At that time?' James asked,
vowing himself to raise up the barrier in his mind.
'No,' came the
honest reply.
'Even better. So
I shall repeat the question you asked me when you were sleep-talking in the
middle of the field. Do you love me? Honestly? In that way?'
Lily stared
slowly at his determined brown eyes, unsure of how she should answer this
startling question that might choose her fate from her parents and true fact.
She stared searchingly into them for what seemed like ages. Finally, she bit
her lower lip decidedly. She stepped out of her bed and went to James. She
hugged him tightly before drawing him into a deep kiss.
'I won't answer
you,' Lily said before going back to her bed. 'I won't answer you, because I
just can't yet.'
'Why not? That is
so unfair!'
Lily shrugged
carelessly for a moment. 'Good night, James.'
And she went to
sleep without another word.
AN: Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me~ yep!!!
It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!
Okie, the romance you
all had been bugging me about [I promised it, anyway] is here, in a rather…
different way, I must say. I was, am and never will be a romance writer because
I don't think I'm that fit for that category [I promise I'll give another shot
at this romance thing. If it works out, you're lucky. If it backfires… who
cares?] ^_^; it just isn't me, I know, if something is too dull for my own
sense of humour [it's weird, weird, WEIRD!], like that other story I was
writing: James Potter and the Unogua Board. Believe me, I had
troubles writing that, because I had to keep Lily's character, I have to keep
the sense of curiousity, the solemness and it's all very hard! I feel like
making Lily say 'Look, Sirius, stop buggering me or I'll turn you into a
hedgehog pie for my next supper, and that isn't going to be easy for you, cause
I'll torture you by pulling off your needles FIRST before devouring you!'
Hahaha.
No, this AN isn't
ending yet. Please, read on!!! I was planning to post chapter 7 alongside with
this chapter but guess what happened? This computer of mine deleted it! Yes! It
deleted my chapter seven! The one with detentions in it. *sigh* it was such a
great chapter too [to me]. And yes, this is finished. Please review!!!
Carrots and Lettuces with Seaweed and Chocolate goes to
Seaweed and Lettuces - for those who know, good for you, for those who don't,
try figure it out :)