Hello there, here is chapter 4 of my story. I know I took my time to write it but I had a lot to do. I hope you like reading this and PLEASE REVIEW
With special thanks to Angelbabe who read beta for me, Thank you!
And thank you: Pottergurlie, Judy, Alicia, Fizzy, Julie and Lilly
Peter was a bit nervous to change into his animagi form after the incident in the three broomsticks, but he was grateful that his friends tried to rescue him.
He saw Miranda and her friends in a new light, especially Lily, when he told his friends this, they thought that he was going crazy. Liking Miranda and Lily? Than you were desperate.
From day one they hated them and Lily and Miranda thought about it the same way. There were different reasons for this, but they couldn't exactly remember what they were.
They always played jokes on each other and tried to get each other in trouble, so it was a bit of a surprise when Peter announced that he thought that he liked Lily. Not to mention his announcement that he wanted to ask her to the ball. Sirius found this all very amusing and when he got the chance he made fun of Peter. Sirius picked on him even more when Peter gathered all his courage to ask her.
'Ohh, there she is, Peter, go ask her,' Sirius joked when they walked down the corridor to their next lesson. He pushed Peter in his back. Peter stumbled forwards, but didn't know what to say when he was stood in front of Lily and Miranda.
'What's wrong? Have you lost your tongue?' asked Miranda with a grin.
'Ehh…., err…No…It's just…'
'Spit it out!'
'I… wanted…to..'
'What's he doing? Can't he ask a girl to the ball?' Sirius asked with disbelief to James, who was watching the whole scene with mixed feelings. But he didn't know why he had them.
'I think he's a bit nervous, look how he's trembling!' said Remus pointing to Peter, who was fringing his hands together.
'No wonder, I would do the same way, when Shawcross was looking like that at me,' said James and he gestured to Miranda, who was scowling at Peter.
'Shall I help him?' asked Sirius with a manic grin.
'No don't, you'll ruin everything,' said Remus and grabbed him by the arm.
'What's left to ruin, look he's done just about all he can to ruin it.' And he glanced to Miranda who was roaring with laughter.
*
Lily watched the boy who stood in front off her and she felt a bit of pity. She couldn't believe she felt this, but he was making a complete fool of himself and Miranda only made it worse with her stupid questions. He had been stood there for 10 minutes already and she still didn't know what he came to ask. Every time he wanted to say something, Miranda fired a new question on him.
'Would you like to…'
'Well, well look who we've here,' said an annoying voice from behind.
Lily spun around and looked straight in the eye of a Slytherin.
'Go away, Snape,' snapped Miranda, Peter was forgotten and he stood there and wondered of this was the time to ask Lily, but when he glanced at Snape he knew that although he wanted to, he couldn't , he didn't like to admit it but he was a bit scared of the Slytherin boy.
'I think I'm old enough to decide when I leave and when not by myself,' Snape sneered and he shot her a horrifying look.
'Well, I'm not sure if your brains are capable to decide that, but give it a try and go away,' Lily said to him and she stepped closer to him, to show him that she wasn't afraid of him.
'I should watch my steps if I were you Miss Evans, because otherwise you can become in some nasty problems,' Snape said with his wand pointed to her chest.
'Always a big mouth, but never anything else,' Miranda snarled.
'She's right, Snapieboy, maybe it's time that you let see what you're worth,' said James as he stepped to the front.
'Yeh, What about tonight, a duel, us against you and your slimy friends,' Sirius added.
Snape smirked.
'Is that a yes?' asked Lily.
'You bet it is, the quidditch field, midnight,' he said shortly and he turned around nodded to his friends that it was time to leave and strode away.
'Be on time, Snape because we don't like to wait,' Miranda yelled, but Snape didn't respond.
'Alright, so it's the six of us against them,' muttered James. When Lily heard this she realised that she must work together with James Potter and his gang, she didn't like this, but there was no way back. If she did they would say that she was a coward and too afraid to fight and she envied them. Besides with Miranda as a friend she wouldn't have a chance to chicken out.
When she looked around James smiled at her and suddenly she got a strange feeling, as if he could read her mind. She looked away, but she knew that he was still looking at her, and she felt uncomfortable but she didn't know why, because she had never felt like this before.
'C'mon Miran let's go,' she said and grabbed her friend at her arm, Miranda who was in an annoying discussion with Sirius, trudged behind her and was surprised that her friend suddenly was upset.
'What's wrong Lil? Worried about tonight?' she asked.
Lily shook her head, she knew she couldn't explain Miranda what was wrong with her because she couldn't explain it to herself.
'There's nothing, I'm just tired and I'm not looking forward to work together with those idiots,' she said, but knew that wasn't why she felt so miserable.
'Do you mind if I go to the library? I must… uhm… look something up,' Miranda said.
'You go to the Library. Do you know where it is?' Lily blurted, Miranda glanced to her but said nothing and Lily knew that when she did that she better not ask further questions because Miranda wouldn't tell her what she was up to.
'Alright see you later,' said Lily and she watched her friend who was walked away to the library.
*
'Did you found where you were looking for,' asked Lily curiously when Miranda sat down on the Gryffindor table that evening.
'Uhm… yeh..I found it,' said Miranda absentmindedly.
'So I'm hungry,' exclaimed Frank when he sat down next to Lily, Gwen and Steven nodded in agreement.
'Where were you all day?' asked Lily curious to her other three friends.
'That, Lily, can't we tell you right now, because there are too many people here, we'll tell you tonight,' said Frank mysteriously.
'Speaking of tonight, ' began Steven and Lily knew that this was his way to change the subject.
'We heard a very strange rumour, that you and Snape are having a duel tonight,' he continued.
'How do you know that,' said Miranda who was woken up from her thoughts.
'We overheard Snape who was talking to his slimy friends, I think you can use some help, because he was talking to some people you don't want to face on your own,' said Gwen and after this words Lily knew that they would help too.
'Like who?' asked James, who had overheard the conversation.
'Like, Crabbe, Goyle, Lestrange and Malfoy, I know Crabbe and Goyle aren't great wizards, but Malfoy and Lestrange are and you know what side they're on,' said Steven speaking in hushed tones.
'Damn it, I hope this isn't getting out of hand,' James cursed.
'C'mon we can handle them, they aren't better than we are,' said Lily, more to Steven than to James.
'Yeh, I know that, but this is going further than some duel at school, there's something coming we can't see,' said James and he looked a little worried.
Lily raised her eyebrow and wondered where he was talking about, he's just mental she said to herself, that explains it, but what she couldn't explain was why Steven was in a deep conversation with James Potter. They never talked to each other so what was the reason they did now? Was there something going on she didn't know about? Was that why Miranda was so absentminded? She couldn't say that she didn't know what was going on, but she realised that this was something very big, because even Sirius Black was talking to Steven and this was the first time that Lily saw him being serious.
*
'Wow there's ice,' exclaimed Miranda after a while, she was staring to all the sorts of ice on the table.
She brought her nose down to her plate to sniff her ice-cream. Sirius who had decided that he had been serious enough for that evening, stood up from his chair and walked to Miranda, who was still sniffing her ice cream.
'Wow, Lil, this smells good,' said Miranda to her friend and then suddenly she felt hands from behind pushing her face into her ice cream.
'You,' she hissed to Sirius when she raised her head up from her plate, with ice all over her face, even in her hair, 'You'll pay for that,' and she grabbed Frank's plate and threw it straight in Sirius face and after that she stood up from her chair and stalked out of the great hall.
Every one was looking at Sirius who had the plate still laying on his head and he looked as if he couldn't have a better time.
'Tastes good,' he grinned and every one started to laugh too.
'Great, why must she take my plate, now has Black two portions, and I have nothing,' Frank complained.
And after this every one forgot their worries.
*
'Are you sure you need me? I mean not that I am afraid, but we are with 9 people and I don't like it when I'm walking in the way,' Peter said to his friends when they walked to the quidditch field under the invisibility cloak.
'Please let him shut up,' muttered Remus in James ear, who grinned.
'Do you think that the others are there already? And with how many of them do you reckon there are?' Peter continued.
James glanced to Sirius who was rolling with his eyes, and Remus was looking as if he could kill Peter any moment.
'We're almost there,' said James and he took the cloak away.
'There's still nobody there,' said Sirius to James who was looking around, and saw that Sirius was right.
'I think it's time to go, don't you think,' said Sirius to James.
'Yeh, I suppose so, but where are the others? Do you think they would leave us alone?'
Sirius shrugged, 'I suppose so, it wouldn't surprise me, although I wouldn't expect this from Frank and Steven, they hate Snape as much as we do.'
'Isn't it better when I go back?' stuttered Peter.
'What's wrong with you, you have been asking all day if we couldn't drop it, what do you know that we don't?' asked Remus suspicious of Peter.
'No..No..Nothing, only….a ..I don't… ,'Peter trailed off.
Remus glanced to James who shrugged and Sirius watched Peter as if he wanted to beat him up, what was wrong with him?
'Who's that?' asked Remus alarmed when a figure came running towards them.
It was a girl and she gestured violently to the four boys.
'I can't believe my eyes, it's Shawcross ,' said Sirius surprised, 'Never thought that she would come, she hates us.'
'Go away, go back to the castle, someone betrayed us!' she said when she came closer.
'No, that filthy git, I'm sure that it was Snape,' hissed Sirius.
'C'mon McGonagall is coming and she 's outraged.'
'C'mon under the cloak,' said James to his friends and to Miranda.
'Not necessary,' she said simply.
'Shawcross , why've you warned us?'
'Because I was the only one who could do it and because my friends persuaded me, don't get your hopes up James.' And after those words she turned on her heel and ran away in the night.
'But what if you get caught,' yelled Remus.
'Don't worry I won't,' she said and after these words she was gone.
'I wonder where she has gone?' said James surprised.
'I wonder what she was talking about?' said Sirius and he looked James in his eyes.
James said nothing.
'Do you like Lily?' asked Remus.
'Of course not, why are you asking,' exclaimed James.
'Because she said don't get..'
'Bullshit,' James cut him off.
'Yeh sure,' said Sirius, 'What about you Peter?'
But Peter was gone.
'Where's he gone?' said James surprised.
'Sometimes I don't understand the boy,' muttered Sirius.
'Now you know how we feel with you,' grinned Remus.
'I'm not like Peter,' said Sirius indignantly.
*
'And?' asked Steven when Miranda appeared in the common room.
'I did what you said, but I still don't like it, remember that I did it for you,' she answered.
'Yes I know that, but you'll see that you did the right thing, we want to get Snape don't we?'
'Who do you think that told McGonagall this? Miranda asked him while she lay down on the couch her blond hair touching the ground .
'I don't know, but we'll find it out.'
'Where are the others?' asked Miranda.
'They went all to their dormitory's, they were tired.'
The portrait hole swung open and Peter stepped in he rushed to the stairs and disappeared.
'What's wrong with him?' said Steven with raised eyebrows.
'I think he's mad with his friends,' grinned Miranda.
'What did you do?'
'Nothing, I only told James not to get any hope, but what did Peter have to do with that?'
'Hope for what?' Asked Steven interested.
'That Lily likes him of course!'
'Do you think he likes her? Asked Steven more interested.
'Yes I know it and Lily likes him too, but she'll have to find out and it will take a while till she'll admit it.' she yawned.
'I think I'll go to my bed, see you tomorrow,' she said when she saw James, Sirius and Remus entering the common room and she walked to her dormitory.
'Hello stevieboy,' said Sirius as if they were the best friends.
Steven nodded.
'Thank you for warning us,' said Remus while he ran a hand through his hair.
'You're welcome, but thank Miranda she did it.'
'Yeah, why did you send her, it's not that she likes us very much,' said Remus.
'Well, that's difficult to explain, but I will say it this way, she's the only one who can walk through the castle and not get caught.'
'Your kidding?' exclaimed Sirius,' How is she doing that? I mean even we get caught sometimes and we have an invisibility cloak.'
'A invisibility cloak, well, well, so that's the way you're doing it,' Steven said with twinkling eyes.
James glanced to Sirius and Sirius felt that he had said too much.
'Yes that's the way,' agreed James.
'Well, let's say that Miranda has a better way,' said Steven mysteriously.
The three friends glanced to each other and shrugged, a better way? What could that be?
'Do you think Snape's caught?' Steven changed the subject.
Sirius shrugged.
'Have you told McGonagall?' asked James curious.
'No I don't and I don't know who did,' answered Steven.
'But how did you find out she knew it?' asked Remus
'Oh very simple, she rushed in here and asked where you were, we were lucky because we were just on our way when she came here, we told her that we didn't know, maybe in the library or something, and after that she stalked away and told us that if she found you three outside the castle she would expel you,' Steven explained.
'When I get Snape in my hands, I kill him,' growled Sirius.
'I don't think it was Snape,' said Remus thoughtfully.
'Why do you think that? It's not that he has no reason to,' said Steven.
'Yeh, but he was outside too, I saw him when we were on our way back,'
'You saw him?' said Sirius surprised.
Remus nodded.
'That changes the whole story,' admitted Steven.
'I never believe that he would walk outside when he know that he could get caught.' Said Remus.
'Remus is right,' said James, 'Snape is too smart for that, he is not the kind of person who would dig his own hole.'
'I wonder who it was,' murmured Steven.
'Do you think…?' asked James and his two friends nodded in agreement.
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