DISCLAIMER! I figured out why I write these dumb things! To keep you guys
from thinking I wrote a short story…no I just like annoying myself, truly
that's my reason!!
A/N I'm writing the beginning of this late at night so give me a break, I become creative past midnight…so sue me!
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CHAPTER 16
The three of them gathered around the still occupied bed, and looked at the occupant…Or James as most people call him. He was groaning in the most disapproving ways, and this was where the rest of the Marauders got some serious pay back on Lily.
(A/N that was from last chappy)
Peter laid sleepily still in bed, so he didn't get a very good view of what happened.
The bed was still bouncing and James was still trying to sleep, and Lily was thinking of a way to wake him up, and didn't notice the looks the Marauders were giving each other, and she definitely didn't see the nod.
One minute Lily was standing next to Sirius the next she was up in the air, and being thrown on top of James. Who was still moaning and groaning and carrying on and the bed bouncing (very high) and then add Lily on top of that, and it looks terrible!
Lily found herself on top of James, and noticed just how badly the bed was jumping. Lily did manage to wake James up…But that certainly didn't help. "LILY! What the hell's going on!?" James yelped and tried to get up, but Sirius muttered a spell that made the bed jump higher, and while the two of them tried to escape amongst the bed covers and everything, Lily ended up under James, they were still trying to figure it out, when a very unwanted visitor came into the room.
"LILY MARIA EVANS!!" Lily recognized the voice, and so did James, who eyes bulged.
"Jimena! This is NOT what it looks like!" Lily said but her voice was muffled from under James. "Gerroff me James!"
"I'm TRYING, but it's easier said then done!" He said and soon plopped onto the floor head first.
Lily tried to get off the bed herself, but she was trying not to hurt herself, she grabbed her wand and managed to undo the charm. The bed went still and Lily finally noticed how hard everyone was laughing, including Jimena who had tears in her eyes. James was laughing a bit, but was blushing furiously all the same. Lily laid there a moment regaining her senses. She inhaled deeply and smelled the scents of James. 'Mmm' she thought. 'Lily don't think like that!' Lily scolded herself. Lily got out of the bed, and felt her cheeks burning.
'How am I going to explain this?' Lily said looking at the very pleased Jimena, considering Lily had just been a very bad predicament with her ex boyfriend.
Somehow Lily managed to explain what happened, but it was difficult with everyone laughing…except her and James. James was looking tense.
"Oh come on Jamsie boy, lighten up! We know how much you enjoyed it!" Sirius said slapping his friend on the shoulder. James blushed a deep crimson, and didn't say anything. Jimena looked at him and then looked at Lily.
"Lily are you and James-."
"No Jimena, we haven't and never are going to date. Too many complications and the fact that I have no feelings for him what so ever." Lily said, 'hey it wasn't too bad of a lie' Lily thought to herself. "Well, anyways, it's good to see you!" Lily said, and they headed back to the girls' dorms.
"Lily, you have to tell me what all happened over the holidays, because SOMETHING definitely happened. I can tell, I'm not stupid, and you're a terrible liar." Jimena said to Lily, but Lily didn't hear much of it; she was to busy thinking about how strangely good it had felt bouncing around with James Potter.
"So when's Sierra getting here?" Lily asked.
"She's here already, and I can't wait to tell her what happened!" Jimena said and they opened the girls' dorm door to see the room mates all back and unpacking.
"JIM! Don't blow this out of proportion!" Lily shrieked, a little too loud. "Oops."
Jimena, Sierra and Lily had a long talk about their holidays; Lily noticed that when Lily told them about Remus' parents Jimena looked exceptionally sad about it. 'Awe, does Jimena like Remus? Too bad she's all for those rules, as much as Sierra…and me." Lily told herself.
"So Lils, do you like him?" Sierra asked.
"Who?" Lily asked stupidly,
"Duh! Like you don't know, James of course!" Jimena informed her.
"Of course not! We've just become better friends is all…Over break we had this prank war going on, and I was hanging out with them a lot since I didn't have anyone else. Even if I did like him, I would never act on it. Too many things…Too many bad things keeping us apart. That's why I'm never going to have another relationship."
"What if HE likes you?" Sierra asked grinning away at her friend's discomfort.
"He doesn't he knows as well as I do that it would never work, and that it's impossible." Lily said playing with stray stings on her bed spread.
"What is that? Did you tell him about our dreams?" Jimena asked.
"Yeah, sorry I didn't tell you, but it involves him in a certain way…" Lily's voice trailed off.
"Hey, changing the subject a bit, but I was thinking, since we are never going to get married or anything like that, what are we going to do with our lives? Ever since I was little I planned on getting married, having kids, getting a good job; the works. Then this stuff comes up and I'm so afraid too!" Sierra said sadness filling her voice.
"Don't worry Sierra; me and Lil will always be there for you." Jimena said softly.
"Yeah, when we get older we'll get our own flat or something, and then when we've retired from our jobs, and have become old fat maids, we'll move into the same retirement home and eventually go brain dead!" Lily said it so happily that they started laughing, even though it was quite as sad thought.
"What do you think we'll look like when we get old?" Jimena wondered aloud.
"BEAUTiful of course!" Lily said laughing. "I am of COURSE getting a nose pierce so I can scare away children."
"I want to get false gold teeth, so I can smile and REALLY shine!" Jimena said laughing.
"I've always wanted to get that old lady smelling perfume, just because it reminds me of my Grandmother." Sierra said smiling.
"Oh guys I have an idea!" Lily said excitedly. "We're going to make a pact right here and now, that no matter what happens, we'll be friends, and won't let each other be alone. So put your wands in girls!" They touched their wands together. The three of them made a magical promise that day to always be there for each other, and to look out for one another, they never knew just how important it would end up being to them in the end.
(A/N damn that made me so sad, just thinking while I wrote it I was like, no, no, no she's going to die!! Wahh!! Yeah I'm pathetic, but oh well!)
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The three girls went down to dinner that evening and sat by the Marauders, happy to talk to them. Lily observed how much happier her friends got around them, and Lily noticed something she hadn't noticed since third year. Sierra and Sirius were flirting…and enjoying it! Sierra was going to be pounded with questions when they got back upstairs.
Jimena was talking quietly to Remus, while Lily talked to James and Peter. It was like it was back in first year. Just being able to talk to each other, then the fight broke out.
"James Potter it's not my fault you wouldn't bloody wake UP!" Lily yelped, he'd been badgering her a bit too much on the subject.
"WHY were you even waking me up in the first place?!" James said it angrily, but his eyes were laughing.
"AHEM, but I was under the impression that you liked it, or am I mistaken!?" Lily shouted.
James eyes filled with mischief, and the next thing that happened was very unexpected. James picked up his goblet of pumpkin juice, and poured it on Lily's head. "Uh, I decided to cool you off a bit." James said innocently, ignoring the angry glances from the teachers.
Lily was so shocked she didn't no what to do; at first. She growled at him. Picked up a half eaten pumpkin pie, and before he could get away from her, was smashed in the face with it. (A/N they are sitting next to each other.)
James wiped it out of his eyes, and Lily didn't notice his next move since she was too busy laughing on the floor. James picked up an UNEATEN chocolate pie, and plunged it onto Lily's face.
That stopped her laughing.
She got up and tried to hide her smile, as did he. She went up and picked up a bowl of green beans and threw it on him, but in the process she accidentally got Sirius, Sierra, Remus, and Jimena (Peter was UN harmed) and this started a very large food fight.
It ended up girls against guys, and no one got it worse then Lily and James who continued to cover each other in food. The teachers were starting to get in on it too. (A/N remember the mean ones are still young…ha-ha!) Some were hiding under their seats but Dumbledore himself was doing the honors of throwing some mashed potatoes at Professor McGonagall who was VERY shocked, and threw her pumpkin juice on his beard.
Everyone noticed that the most active people were Lily and James. Lily at that moment squished peas in James robes. And he threw j-ello down her shirt making her scream. She took the liberty of taking the rest of that j- ello and gelling down his hair, making it the smoothest it had ever been. James tried to run from the rest of the j-ello but Lily chased him, and tackled him, and gave him some devil horns with his hair j-ello.
"Lily spare my hair!"
"Don't think so Potter!" Lily who had been sitting on James was all of a sudden on the wrong side of things; James pinned her down easily, and took some very lovely blue j-ello and covered her with it, making her whine.
"All right, all right! I give up you win!" Lily squeaked, and finally got to stand up. James made the mistake of turning around and found himself covered in a pitcher of pumpkin juice.
"Evans! You're dead!" He bellowed, and Lily took off running from him, and he chased her, Lily tried to hide. He spotted her in her hiding place behind Sierra, and Lily took off running again when she noticed he was carrying a bowl of creamy mashed potatoes.
Lily was giggling profusely, and could hardly breathe. Then Lily had to stop to get some air, and met her doom. James was coming at her again with the mashed potato bowl, Lily let out a loud yelp and ran from the hall, followed closely by James.
"James, *gasp* have *gasp* mercy!" Lily squealed as she tried to run up the steps but slipped from her squeaky shoes. James caught her and her hair was soon thick with creamy mashed potatoes. And her face had a scowl.
"It's a good look for you Lils." James said smiling at her and playing with his devil horns. "You were smart when you gave me these!"
Lily couldn't help but smile, they sat down on the steps, and Lily regained her breath.
"Now I look like an old lady!" Lily whined, but a smiled played on her lips.
"But a beautiful old lady." He said getting closer to her. 'Oh shit, this is bad!' Lily thought worriedly. James started getting closer to her until she could feel his breath on her face.
"James, we can't-." Lily started to explain and backed away.
"Lils, it's just a kiss, we're not getting married or anything." James said I tried to kiss her again.
"James that's not being fair." Lily started to pout, by James silenced her the best way her knew how. James barely had his lips on hers before Lily jumped back 'that felt too good, I gotta get outta here!' Lily thought desperately, and stood up and while dropping chunks of mashed potatoes ran up to the common room.
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(A/N well that was unexpected, it just sort of popped in there while I was listening to some kc and jojo stuff…sorry unless you're like me and like fluff like that!)
James was trying to decide whether to go after Lily or go back to the Great Hall.
(A/N I just sat down to write checked my reviews and WOW!!! 27!! Oh my god!! 6 reviews! Wow! It's a miracle! Not really, but it's as close as I'm going to get to one! SexySam (a reviewer btw) I'm not going to tell you what James was thinking about at the end of the last chapter…it's private! I love the weekend! Continuing.)
James decided to go talk to Lily, or if she didn't want to talk, he would just go to his dorm. The Great Hall wouldn't help him any. His friends would just ask him where Lily went, and then he'd have to explain…
James got up to the common room, and Lily wasn't there, so she must have gone to her dorm 'to be left alone.' James decided to go get cleaned up, he didn't like having j-ello in his hair.
James was getting his stuff and his thoughts were still on Lily, he KNEW she liked him. And he liked her so why did she have to push him away so much. He liked her a lot, and it wasn't fun hiding his feelings, or keeping them to himself. He'd liked Lily all along, but she hadn't seemed to like him. Things were getting too complicated for James' taste.
James went to the prefects' bathroom, and found Lily already there, in her bath robe. Mashed potatoes still in her hair. Her eyes went wide with shock, and then filled with pain. "James surprised to see you here." She said calmly.
"I have every right you do to be here."
"I never said you didn't." Lily said quietly, he could tell she was upset about it, he shouldn't have tried anything, but he couldn't help himself. He'd just gotten caught in the moment was all.
"Lily, do you want to pretend, that what happened back there never happened?" James knew that was what they were going to do anyways, so he might as well ask.
"That was my plan." Lily said coldly. "James, I can't believe you did that; after all I told you and what we read about…We're most likely going to die if we get together."
"We're probably going to die either way; at least we could be together for a while."
"James, we still have a chance of living, but it won't work if we're together!" Lily said raising her voice.
"Lily, we could at least try-."
"James stop being selfish, and think about it!" James listened to Lily and began to think about what she had just said. 'Selfish? I never thought of it like that, Lily doesn't want us to die, so she won't let us date? That's pretty stupid still, but I don't know how much she likes me…or what dating her could lead to. She's probably right, but I still wish we could try.'
"All right Lils, if you don't want to date more or anything, I can deal with it. Just don't stop being my friend okay?"
"James I love being your friend, you don't have to worry about that. But we can't have feelings towards each other."
"Too late for that." James muttered.
"We're just going to have to give each other space, it will get better since classes start tomorrow, and the holidays are over. Things will go back to normal." Lily's voice didn't have the assurance he wanted.
"I hope so Lils. Now, I'm going to wash out this j-ello. I suggest you keep the mashed potatoes they improve you looks by 10 times!" James said and disappeared to the boys' side of the bathroom. Thinking about how to change Lily's mind…
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Lily went back to her dorm feeling much cleaner, and a while later was joined by her two best-friends after they had finally gotten cleaned up.
"Lily, where did you run off to with-?" Sierra started to ask.
"James Potter!?" Jimena finished.
"Um, no where." Lily mumbled, she wasn't sure if she wanted to tell her friends about it.
"Lily are you okay? You look upset?! Did James do something stupid, because if he did I'll-?" Jimena said her temper rising.
"Jim, it's nothing don't worry about it." Lily quieted her friend.
"Something is wrong, you are going to tell us everything, or else!" Sierra said and she and Jimena sat on Lily's bed awaiting the story.
"I don't know, it's really confusing right now, and I don't know what to do…" Lily started to explain everything that happened, starting with the 'scene' in the hallway. "So now we are just pretending nothing ever happened. But I don't know, I just have no idea of what I'm going to do about this!"
"So you do like him!" Jimena said grinning.
"Yeah, yeah, leave my alone!" Lily said teasingly. "I didn't want to tell you guys, because I've been trying to convince myself…other wise."
"Lily if you want we won't have the rule anymore." Sierra started to say.
"No I think that's an important rule, we can't let ourselves get to THAT point. I just don't want to have a serious relationship with anyone right now." Lily told them.
"So don't, have an immature relationship!" Jimena told her.
"I think- We already have that." Lily said with a grin.
"Lils, I think Jim had a good plan!" Sierra exclaimed.
"I do?" Jimena asked.
"Yeah! It could work! You could just-."
"SNOG James?" Lily asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, that could work." Jimena laughed.
"No, I wouldn't do that to him, I just CAN'T do it. I like him too much as a friend."
"I bet he wouldn't mind." Sierra said thoughtfully.
"Actually, I think he would enjoy it a lot." Jimena put in.
"I can't believe we're talking about this!" Lily said laughing. "I hope Vanessa and Catty get here soon, before you guys drive me insane!"
"I don't think they'll be here for a while, they both have been flirting like mad with some Ravenclaw quidditch team guys." Jimena informed Lily.
"Marvin?" Lily asked absent-mindedly.
"Yeah, I think he likes Vanessa." Sierra noted.
"They would make a cute couple. Hey speaking of cute couples, have you seen Mindy?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, with-."
"Robert." They all three said together, and laughed.
"Those two are so adorable! I haven't seen Mindy for a while; I think I'll go talk to her…" Lily said and went out the door to the common room, where Mindy was finishing up on some homework. And unfortunately, the Marauders were in the room too. Lily figured they were planning a new prank, hopefully not one for her, considering she just turned down one of them.
"Hey Mindy, have a good break?"
"Yeah, I went over to Robert's house, and met his parents, how was yours?" Mindy asked not looking up from her homework.
"You don't want to know, I mean, I put on a singing act, SAW a singing act, and got sold, all in front of the whole school." Lily said smiling as her friend looked at her in shock.
"Details please." Mindy said with a smile. The two of them caught up on some lost time, and stayed up late, and went to bed after Mindy finished her homework.
Mindy had gotten up to go to bed already, but Lily sat there a moment deep in thought, not wanting to go to bed. She hadn't had nightmares…at least not bad ones for a long time, and she knew a scary one was coming soon, and was starting to dread it. Holidays had been nice because she'd gotten a lot of good sleep.
Lily was walking up towards the stairs when she felt a gust of wind reach her. Lily had a good guess to 'who' had made it. The Marauders of course, since no one else was in the room.
"You guys, I know it's you're there; show yourselves." Lily felt another breeze and figured it could just be James, since the wind was so fast, and they couldn't move like that when it was all four of them. "James? Sirius? Remus? Peter? Which one of you is it?!"
Lily put her hands out trying to find who they were, and heard them laugh a bit. "It's not funny, now come out!" Lily pouted. Secretly she was hoping it was James. "Fine, be that way!" And Lily went up to bed not knowing she was followed.
Lily changed in the bath room, brushed her teeth and went to bed, Lily couldn't sleep, she had a weird feeling at the bottom of her stomach, and it wasn't going to let her sleep.
She had been laying there for a while when she felt some one sit on her bed and cover her mouth softly, Lily knew who it was, but it was still a bit weird, since she couldn't see them.
She felt them lean over her, and she felt their breath on her face, and then they were kissing her; for the second time that night. He kissed her gently, and then stopped. Lily sighed, he had a way of making her melt, that she could deal with at that moment, when she was in such a sleepy state of mind.
Lily smiled in the general direction she thought he was at. "James." She whispered, and she felt him lean in again to kiss her, this time he didn't hold back, he kissed her deeply and she felt light headed, and shocked that he felt so strongly for her. He pulled away for a moment.
She put her arms around him, and pulled off the cloak to look into his beautiful chocolate brown eyes. His eyes were looking deeply into hers longingly. She pulled him closer to kiss him again, and they stayed that way for a while until they were disappointedly interrupted.
"James, you better get to your dorms, before someone important catches you." Vanessa whispered from her bed, making him leap away from Lily. "Sorry to interrupt…your um moment, but if Jimena or Sierra so you guys, you'd never live it down. I won't tell unless you want me to, are you guys an item?" They shook their heads; Lily's head was still spinning.
"Um, good night Lils." James said embarrassed, and left putting his cloak on after he left. Lily was smiling brightly 'that was fun' she thought happily.
"So Lily, what's going on between you and one of the most popular guys in the school!?" Vanessa whispered crawling over to Lily's bed.
"Honestly, I have no idea."
"Must be a full moon." Vanessa commented.
"No, last week." Lily should know, Remus was having the worst day of his life during the full moon
"Well, then I'm going to bed we've got school tomorrow if you didn't notice."
With that they both went to sleep, Lily was very happy.
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(A/N just wondering, but do you guys think it's gonna be THAT easy! No way! I've got plans for them…Muhahaha!)
Lily woke up feeling ecstatic, and Vanessa was the only other person to be awake. They went down to breakfast anyways, they were both starving, Lily was pleased to see James already in the common room, and all three of them went down to breakfast together.
They took there seats, and Lily noticed that Snape was looking very smug about something, considering Lily had walked into the hall holding James' hand.
They all started drinking their pumpkin juice with out a care. Some second years screeched as their eyes glowed yellow in mid conversation.
"Um, James what's going on?" Lily asked nervously looking around.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing."
"Vanessa, weren't you just sitting over there?" Lily asked, and pointed to the other end of the table.
"Where'd everybody go? Weren't they just sitting here like two seconds ago?" James asked confusedly.
"Wasn't it dark outside? It looks like morning!" Vanessa exclaimed looking out the window.
"Oh no, I know what this is!" Lily muttered. "Our memories have been taken, this happened to me before, I have reason to believe it was Professor Kenyon, but this is weird! What could have happened that made all three of us lose our memories!?"
"Come on girls; let's go talk to the Professors."
"Do you think they'll believe us?" Vanessa asked worriedly.
"Me and my friends saw your guys' eyes turn yellow. We'll tell them what we saw." Just then a second year Gryffindor boy said, they'd been sitting across from them.
"Okay let's go." Vanessa said, still a bit confused.
"Erm, let's bring your guys' pumpkin juice to be tested." Another Gryffindor said, they picked up their goblets, and went to explain the situation to the teachers. McGonagall listened, and came up with a very stupid excuse.
"Another student probably just did it as a joke, I hope nothing important happened to you three yesterday. When do you think it was that you last were at?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"We were right here but it was in the evening, it was…Sunday evening." James told her.
"Oh right before your little food fight eh?" McGonagall said, and smiled when they looked confused, at this point Professor Flitwick jumped in.
"You two." He said pointing to Lily and James. "Started arguing and throwing food at each other, and then the whole school joined in!" He laughed happily.
Lily was wondering what on Earth was going on, she felt very confused, and was hoping to figure it out, she needed to talk to Jimena and Sierra. Lily was getting really fed up with people messing with her memories.
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"I hate this feeling! I've been trying to remember what happened so hard…and yet nothing comes to mind!" Lily shrieked as they sat there in the Hospital Wing a while later.
"Me too." Vanessa said grumpily, James was still trying to think of what could have happened.
"I bet Snape did it, that bastard, he's always doing stupid stuff like this! And he'd excellent in potions; I HATE saying that." James muttered darkly.
"But why would he do it to me and Vanessa, I can understand me but Vanessa?!"
"Um, I should tell you guys, I turned down Snape a while ago when he asked me out." Vanessa said a bit embarrassed.
"That might be it! Maybe we should go tell McGonagall!" Lily said angrily.
"She won't believe us! She never would!" James said sadly.
The three of them pondered over the situation for a while, but didn't know how soon they would be finding out who had stolen their memories.
Lily through out that day kept thinking she was now missing something oddly important, and she couldn't remember. Later that night Lily was walking through the halls on her way to dinner, after classes and heard some one bragging.
"I put in their goblets right before they got there! They had NO idea!" Lily recognized the haughty voice as Snape's. It was too bad she couldn't prove that it was him who poisoned their drinks.
"I hope nothing important happened yesterday for them." Another voice mocked.
"Oh something did, but they'll probably find out anyways." Lily couldn't hear any more so she went down to dinner, and found out one of the things that had happened, and Lily was quite glad to forget it.
Sierra and Jimena were looking grim, as Lily sat next to them at dinner.
"What's bugging you two?" She asked concernedly.
"Lily we have to tell you something, we think you need to know." Her two best friends re countered what had happened with her and James in the hallway.
"I can't believe we did that, thank god we forgot it, I hope he didn't tell his friends about it, or else I'll have to DEAL with it, and I don't want to deal with something that he can't even remember." Lily said firmly.
"Lily, I just have a bad feeling about this, I think something really important happened to you, and maybe Vanessa and James saw so THEY took them out too!" Jimena said.
"No, it was Snape, over heard him talking about it, my guess is he saw me and James. Plus he likes Vanessa so that gives him another reason, to get back at her for saying no. He said we did forget something important, but he found it funny so it wasn't anything big." Lily informed them of her 'encounter' with Snape.
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Lily couldn't get rid of the empty feeling in her stomach that evening, James looked uncomfortable too. It's a very weird feeling have your memories swiped. But Lily, James and Vanessa were good at adapting to changes.
(A/N I think it's funny, I'm so fickle! I make this really long day and then have them forget it! I don't think there was too much of a point to that, but I'm not having them get together in this year, so sorry! I was thinking of writing some more, but… what I have been thinking of doing might take a while, and then I'll end up staying up late. again, and tomorrow's Easter, CAN you believe I didn't know it was Easter this Sunday until yesterday? So REVIEW please! Oh and thank you to those reviewers…who keep reviewing!! I just like reviews…they all say good things! Well on to chapter 17 a place I've never been before!)
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A/N I'm writing the beginning of this late at night so give me a break, I become creative past midnight…so sue me!
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CHAPTER 16
The three of them gathered around the still occupied bed, and looked at the occupant…Or James as most people call him. He was groaning in the most disapproving ways, and this was where the rest of the Marauders got some serious pay back on Lily.
(A/N that was from last chappy)
Peter laid sleepily still in bed, so he didn't get a very good view of what happened.
The bed was still bouncing and James was still trying to sleep, and Lily was thinking of a way to wake him up, and didn't notice the looks the Marauders were giving each other, and she definitely didn't see the nod.
One minute Lily was standing next to Sirius the next she was up in the air, and being thrown on top of James. Who was still moaning and groaning and carrying on and the bed bouncing (very high) and then add Lily on top of that, and it looks terrible!
Lily found herself on top of James, and noticed just how badly the bed was jumping. Lily did manage to wake James up…But that certainly didn't help. "LILY! What the hell's going on!?" James yelped and tried to get up, but Sirius muttered a spell that made the bed jump higher, and while the two of them tried to escape amongst the bed covers and everything, Lily ended up under James, they were still trying to figure it out, when a very unwanted visitor came into the room.
"LILY MARIA EVANS!!" Lily recognized the voice, and so did James, who eyes bulged.
"Jimena! This is NOT what it looks like!" Lily said but her voice was muffled from under James. "Gerroff me James!"
"I'm TRYING, but it's easier said then done!" He said and soon plopped onto the floor head first.
Lily tried to get off the bed herself, but she was trying not to hurt herself, she grabbed her wand and managed to undo the charm. The bed went still and Lily finally noticed how hard everyone was laughing, including Jimena who had tears in her eyes. James was laughing a bit, but was blushing furiously all the same. Lily laid there a moment regaining her senses. She inhaled deeply and smelled the scents of James. 'Mmm' she thought. 'Lily don't think like that!' Lily scolded herself. Lily got out of the bed, and felt her cheeks burning.
'How am I going to explain this?' Lily said looking at the very pleased Jimena, considering Lily had just been a very bad predicament with her ex boyfriend.
Somehow Lily managed to explain what happened, but it was difficult with everyone laughing…except her and James. James was looking tense.
"Oh come on Jamsie boy, lighten up! We know how much you enjoyed it!" Sirius said slapping his friend on the shoulder. James blushed a deep crimson, and didn't say anything. Jimena looked at him and then looked at Lily.
"Lily are you and James-."
"No Jimena, we haven't and never are going to date. Too many complications and the fact that I have no feelings for him what so ever." Lily said, 'hey it wasn't too bad of a lie' Lily thought to herself. "Well, anyways, it's good to see you!" Lily said, and they headed back to the girls' dorms.
"Lily, you have to tell me what all happened over the holidays, because SOMETHING definitely happened. I can tell, I'm not stupid, and you're a terrible liar." Jimena said to Lily, but Lily didn't hear much of it; she was to busy thinking about how strangely good it had felt bouncing around with James Potter.
"So when's Sierra getting here?" Lily asked.
"She's here already, and I can't wait to tell her what happened!" Jimena said and they opened the girls' dorm door to see the room mates all back and unpacking.
"JIM! Don't blow this out of proportion!" Lily shrieked, a little too loud. "Oops."
Jimena, Sierra and Lily had a long talk about their holidays; Lily noticed that when Lily told them about Remus' parents Jimena looked exceptionally sad about it. 'Awe, does Jimena like Remus? Too bad she's all for those rules, as much as Sierra…and me." Lily told herself.
"So Lils, do you like him?" Sierra asked.
"Who?" Lily asked stupidly,
"Duh! Like you don't know, James of course!" Jimena informed her.
"Of course not! We've just become better friends is all…Over break we had this prank war going on, and I was hanging out with them a lot since I didn't have anyone else. Even if I did like him, I would never act on it. Too many things…Too many bad things keeping us apart. That's why I'm never going to have another relationship."
"What if HE likes you?" Sierra asked grinning away at her friend's discomfort.
"He doesn't he knows as well as I do that it would never work, and that it's impossible." Lily said playing with stray stings on her bed spread.
"What is that? Did you tell him about our dreams?" Jimena asked.
"Yeah, sorry I didn't tell you, but it involves him in a certain way…" Lily's voice trailed off.
"Hey, changing the subject a bit, but I was thinking, since we are never going to get married or anything like that, what are we going to do with our lives? Ever since I was little I planned on getting married, having kids, getting a good job; the works. Then this stuff comes up and I'm so afraid too!" Sierra said sadness filling her voice.
"Don't worry Sierra; me and Lil will always be there for you." Jimena said softly.
"Yeah, when we get older we'll get our own flat or something, and then when we've retired from our jobs, and have become old fat maids, we'll move into the same retirement home and eventually go brain dead!" Lily said it so happily that they started laughing, even though it was quite as sad thought.
"What do you think we'll look like when we get old?" Jimena wondered aloud.
"BEAUTiful of course!" Lily said laughing. "I am of COURSE getting a nose pierce so I can scare away children."
"I want to get false gold teeth, so I can smile and REALLY shine!" Jimena said laughing.
"I've always wanted to get that old lady smelling perfume, just because it reminds me of my Grandmother." Sierra said smiling.
"Oh guys I have an idea!" Lily said excitedly. "We're going to make a pact right here and now, that no matter what happens, we'll be friends, and won't let each other be alone. So put your wands in girls!" They touched their wands together. The three of them made a magical promise that day to always be there for each other, and to look out for one another, they never knew just how important it would end up being to them in the end.
(A/N damn that made me so sad, just thinking while I wrote it I was like, no, no, no she's going to die!! Wahh!! Yeah I'm pathetic, but oh well!)
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The three girls went down to dinner that evening and sat by the Marauders, happy to talk to them. Lily observed how much happier her friends got around them, and Lily noticed something she hadn't noticed since third year. Sierra and Sirius were flirting…and enjoying it! Sierra was going to be pounded with questions when they got back upstairs.
Jimena was talking quietly to Remus, while Lily talked to James and Peter. It was like it was back in first year. Just being able to talk to each other, then the fight broke out.
"James Potter it's not my fault you wouldn't bloody wake UP!" Lily yelped, he'd been badgering her a bit too much on the subject.
"WHY were you even waking me up in the first place?!" James said it angrily, but his eyes were laughing.
"AHEM, but I was under the impression that you liked it, or am I mistaken!?" Lily shouted.
James eyes filled with mischief, and the next thing that happened was very unexpected. James picked up his goblet of pumpkin juice, and poured it on Lily's head. "Uh, I decided to cool you off a bit." James said innocently, ignoring the angry glances from the teachers.
Lily was so shocked she didn't no what to do; at first. She growled at him. Picked up a half eaten pumpkin pie, and before he could get away from her, was smashed in the face with it. (A/N they are sitting next to each other.)
James wiped it out of his eyes, and Lily didn't notice his next move since she was too busy laughing on the floor. James picked up an UNEATEN chocolate pie, and plunged it onto Lily's face.
That stopped her laughing.
She got up and tried to hide her smile, as did he. She went up and picked up a bowl of green beans and threw it on him, but in the process she accidentally got Sirius, Sierra, Remus, and Jimena (Peter was UN harmed) and this started a very large food fight.
It ended up girls against guys, and no one got it worse then Lily and James who continued to cover each other in food. The teachers were starting to get in on it too. (A/N remember the mean ones are still young…ha-ha!) Some were hiding under their seats but Dumbledore himself was doing the honors of throwing some mashed potatoes at Professor McGonagall who was VERY shocked, and threw her pumpkin juice on his beard.
Everyone noticed that the most active people were Lily and James. Lily at that moment squished peas in James robes. And he threw j-ello down her shirt making her scream. She took the liberty of taking the rest of that j- ello and gelling down his hair, making it the smoothest it had ever been. James tried to run from the rest of the j-ello but Lily chased him, and tackled him, and gave him some devil horns with his hair j-ello.
"Lily spare my hair!"
"Don't think so Potter!" Lily who had been sitting on James was all of a sudden on the wrong side of things; James pinned her down easily, and took some very lovely blue j-ello and covered her with it, making her whine.
"All right, all right! I give up you win!" Lily squeaked, and finally got to stand up. James made the mistake of turning around and found himself covered in a pitcher of pumpkin juice.
"Evans! You're dead!" He bellowed, and Lily took off running from him, and he chased her, Lily tried to hide. He spotted her in her hiding place behind Sierra, and Lily took off running again when she noticed he was carrying a bowl of creamy mashed potatoes.
Lily was giggling profusely, and could hardly breathe. Then Lily had to stop to get some air, and met her doom. James was coming at her again with the mashed potato bowl, Lily let out a loud yelp and ran from the hall, followed closely by James.
"James, *gasp* have *gasp* mercy!" Lily squealed as she tried to run up the steps but slipped from her squeaky shoes. James caught her and her hair was soon thick with creamy mashed potatoes. And her face had a scowl.
"It's a good look for you Lils." James said smiling at her and playing with his devil horns. "You were smart when you gave me these!"
Lily couldn't help but smile, they sat down on the steps, and Lily regained her breath.
"Now I look like an old lady!" Lily whined, but a smiled played on her lips.
"But a beautiful old lady." He said getting closer to her. 'Oh shit, this is bad!' Lily thought worriedly. James started getting closer to her until she could feel his breath on her face.
"James, we can't-." Lily started to explain and backed away.
"Lils, it's just a kiss, we're not getting married or anything." James said I tried to kiss her again.
"James that's not being fair." Lily started to pout, by James silenced her the best way her knew how. James barely had his lips on hers before Lily jumped back 'that felt too good, I gotta get outta here!' Lily thought desperately, and stood up and while dropping chunks of mashed potatoes ran up to the common room.
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(A/N well that was unexpected, it just sort of popped in there while I was listening to some kc and jojo stuff…sorry unless you're like me and like fluff like that!)
James was trying to decide whether to go after Lily or go back to the Great Hall.
(A/N I just sat down to write checked my reviews and WOW!!! 27!! Oh my god!! 6 reviews! Wow! It's a miracle! Not really, but it's as close as I'm going to get to one! SexySam (a reviewer btw) I'm not going to tell you what James was thinking about at the end of the last chapter…it's private! I love the weekend! Continuing.)
James decided to go talk to Lily, or if she didn't want to talk, he would just go to his dorm. The Great Hall wouldn't help him any. His friends would just ask him where Lily went, and then he'd have to explain…
James got up to the common room, and Lily wasn't there, so she must have gone to her dorm 'to be left alone.' James decided to go get cleaned up, he didn't like having j-ello in his hair.
James was getting his stuff and his thoughts were still on Lily, he KNEW she liked him. And he liked her so why did she have to push him away so much. He liked her a lot, and it wasn't fun hiding his feelings, or keeping them to himself. He'd liked Lily all along, but she hadn't seemed to like him. Things were getting too complicated for James' taste.
James went to the prefects' bathroom, and found Lily already there, in her bath robe. Mashed potatoes still in her hair. Her eyes went wide with shock, and then filled with pain. "James surprised to see you here." She said calmly.
"I have every right you do to be here."
"I never said you didn't." Lily said quietly, he could tell she was upset about it, he shouldn't have tried anything, but he couldn't help himself. He'd just gotten caught in the moment was all.
"Lily, do you want to pretend, that what happened back there never happened?" James knew that was what they were going to do anyways, so he might as well ask.
"That was my plan." Lily said coldly. "James, I can't believe you did that; after all I told you and what we read about…We're most likely going to die if we get together."
"We're probably going to die either way; at least we could be together for a while."
"James, we still have a chance of living, but it won't work if we're together!" Lily said raising her voice.
"Lily, we could at least try-."
"James stop being selfish, and think about it!" James listened to Lily and began to think about what she had just said. 'Selfish? I never thought of it like that, Lily doesn't want us to die, so she won't let us date? That's pretty stupid still, but I don't know how much she likes me…or what dating her could lead to. She's probably right, but I still wish we could try.'
"All right Lils, if you don't want to date more or anything, I can deal with it. Just don't stop being my friend okay?"
"James I love being your friend, you don't have to worry about that. But we can't have feelings towards each other."
"Too late for that." James muttered.
"We're just going to have to give each other space, it will get better since classes start tomorrow, and the holidays are over. Things will go back to normal." Lily's voice didn't have the assurance he wanted.
"I hope so Lils. Now, I'm going to wash out this j-ello. I suggest you keep the mashed potatoes they improve you looks by 10 times!" James said and disappeared to the boys' side of the bathroom. Thinking about how to change Lily's mind…
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Lily went back to her dorm feeling much cleaner, and a while later was joined by her two best-friends after they had finally gotten cleaned up.
"Lily, where did you run off to with-?" Sierra started to ask.
"James Potter!?" Jimena finished.
"Um, no where." Lily mumbled, she wasn't sure if she wanted to tell her friends about it.
"Lily are you okay? You look upset?! Did James do something stupid, because if he did I'll-?" Jimena said her temper rising.
"Jim, it's nothing don't worry about it." Lily quieted her friend.
"Something is wrong, you are going to tell us everything, or else!" Sierra said and she and Jimena sat on Lily's bed awaiting the story.
"I don't know, it's really confusing right now, and I don't know what to do…" Lily started to explain everything that happened, starting with the 'scene' in the hallway. "So now we are just pretending nothing ever happened. But I don't know, I just have no idea of what I'm going to do about this!"
"So you do like him!" Jimena said grinning.
"Yeah, yeah, leave my alone!" Lily said teasingly. "I didn't want to tell you guys, because I've been trying to convince myself…other wise."
"Lily if you want we won't have the rule anymore." Sierra started to say.
"No I think that's an important rule, we can't let ourselves get to THAT point. I just don't want to have a serious relationship with anyone right now." Lily told them.
"So don't, have an immature relationship!" Jimena told her.
"I think- We already have that." Lily said with a grin.
"Lils, I think Jim had a good plan!" Sierra exclaimed.
"I do?" Jimena asked.
"Yeah! It could work! You could just-."
"SNOG James?" Lily asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, that could work." Jimena laughed.
"No, I wouldn't do that to him, I just CAN'T do it. I like him too much as a friend."
"I bet he wouldn't mind." Sierra said thoughtfully.
"Actually, I think he would enjoy it a lot." Jimena put in.
"I can't believe we're talking about this!" Lily said laughing. "I hope Vanessa and Catty get here soon, before you guys drive me insane!"
"I don't think they'll be here for a while, they both have been flirting like mad with some Ravenclaw quidditch team guys." Jimena informed Lily.
"Marvin?" Lily asked absent-mindedly.
"Yeah, I think he likes Vanessa." Sierra noted.
"They would make a cute couple. Hey speaking of cute couples, have you seen Mindy?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, with-."
"Robert." They all three said together, and laughed.
"Those two are so adorable! I haven't seen Mindy for a while; I think I'll go talk to her…" Lily said and went out the door to the common room, where Mindy was finishing up on some homework. And unfortunately, the Marauders were in the room too. Lily figured they were planning a new prank, hopefully not one for her, considering she just turned down one of them.
"Hey Mindy, have a good break?"
"Yeah, I went over to Robert's house, and met his parents, how was yours?" Mindy asked not looking up from her homework.
"You don't want to know, I mean, I put on a singing act, SAW a singing act, and got sold, all in front of the whole school." Lily said smiling as her friend looked at her in shock.
"Details please." Mindy said with a smile. The two of them caught up on some lost time, and stayed up late, and went to bed after Mindy finished her homework.
Mindy had gotten up to go to bed already, but Lily sat there a moment deep in thought, not wanting to go to bed. She hadn't had nightmares…at least not bad ones for a long time, and she knew a scary one was coming soon, and was starting to dread it. Holidays had been nice because she'd gotten a lot of good sleep.
Lily was walking up towards the stairs when she felt a gust of wind reach her. Lily had a good guess to 'who' had made it. The Marauders of course, since no one else was in the room.
"You guys, I know it's you're there; show yourselves." Lily felt another breeze and figured it could just be James, since the wind was so fast, and they couldn't move like that when it was all four of them. "James? Sirius? Remus? Peter? Which one of you is it?!"
Lily put her hands out trying to find who they were, and heard them laugh a bit. "It's not funny, now come out!" Lily pouted. Secretly she was hoping it was James. "Fine, be that way!" And Lily went up to bed not knowing she was followed.
Lily changed in the bath room, brushed her teeth and went to bed, Lily couldn't sleep, she had a weird feeling at the bottom of her stomach, and it wasn't going to let her sleep.
She had been laying there for a while when she felt some one sit on her bed and cover her mouth softly, Lily knew who it was, but it was still a bit weird, since she couldn't see them.
She felt them lean over her, and she felt their breath on her face, and then they were kissing her; for the second time that night. He kissed her gently, and then stopped. Lily sighed, he had a way of making her melt, that she could deal with at that moment, when she was in such a sleepy state of mind.
Lily smiled in the general direction she thought he was at. "James." She whispered, and she felt him lean in again to kiss her, this time he didn't hold back, he kissed her deeply and she felt light headed, and shocked that he felt so strongly for her. He pulled away for a moment.
She put her arms around him, and pulled off the cloak to look into his beautiful chocolate brown eyes. His eyes were looking deeply into hers longingly. She pulled him closer to kiss him again, and they stayed that way for a while until they were disappointedly interrupted.
"James, you better get to your dorms, before someone important catches you." Vanessa whispered from her bed, making him leap away from Lily. "Sorry to interrupt…your um moment, but if Jimena or Sierra so you guys, you'd never live it down. I won't tell unless you want me to, are you guys an item?" They shook their heads; Lily's head was still spinning.
"Um, good night Lils." James said embarrassed, and left putting his cloak on after he left. Lily was smiling brightly 'that was fun' she thought happily.
"So Lily, what's going on between you and one of the most popular guys in the school!?" Vanessa whispered crawling over to Lily's bed.
"Honestly, I have no idea."
"Must be a full moon." Vanessa commented.
"No, last week." Lily should know, Remus was having the worst day of his life during the full moon
"Well, then I'm going to bed we've got school tomorrow if you didn't notice."
With that they both went to sleep, Lily was very happy.
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(A/N just wondering, but do you guys think it's gonna be THAT easy! No way! I've got plans for them…Muhahaha!)
Lily woke up feeling ecstatic, and Vanessa was the only other person to be awake. They went down to breakfast anyways, they were both starving, Lily was pleased to see James already in the common room, and all three of them went down to breakfast together.
They took there seats, and Lily noticed that Snape was looking very smug about something, considering Lily had walked into the hall holding James' hand.
They all started drinking their pumpkin juice with out a care. Some second years screeched as their eyes glowed yellow in mid conversation.
"Um, James what's going on?" Lily asked nervously looking around.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing."
"Vanessa, weren't you just sitting over there?" Lily asked, and pointed to the other end of the table.
"Where'd everybody go? Weren't they just sitting here like two seconds ago?" James asked confusedly.
"Wasn't it dark outside? It looks like morning!" Vanessa exclaimed looking out the window.
"Oh no, I know what this is!" Lily muttered. "Our memories have been taken, this happened to me before, I have reason to believe it was Professor Kenyon, but this is weird! What could have happened that made all three of us lose our memories!?"
"Come on girls; let's go talk to the Professors."
"Do you think they'll believe us?" Vanessa asked worriedly.
"Me and my friends saw your guys' eyes turn yellow. We'll tell them what we saw." Just then a second year Gryffindor boy said, they'd been sitting across from them.
"Okay let's go." Vanessa said, still a bit confused.
"Erm, let's bring your guys' pumpkin juice to be tested." Another Gryffindor said, they picked up their goblets, and went to explain the situation to the teachers. McGonagall listened, and came up with a very stupid excuse.
"Another student probably just did it as a joke, I hope nothing important happened to you three yesterday. When do you think it was that you last were at?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"We were right here but it was in the evening, it was…Sunday evening." James told her.
"Oh right before your little food fight eh?" McGonagall said, and smiled when they looked confused, at this point Professor Flitwick jumped in.
"You two." He said pointing to Lily and James. "Started arguing and throwing food at each other, and then the whole school joined in!" He laughed happily.
Lily was wondering what on Earth was going on, she felt very confused, and was hoping to figure it out, she needed to talk to Jimena and Sierra. Lily was getting really fed up with people messing with her memories.
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"I hate this feeling! I've been trying to remember what happened so hard…and yet nothing comes to mind!" Lily shrieked as they sat there in the Hospital Wing a while later.
"Me too." Vanessa said grumpily, James was still trying to think of what could have happened.
"I bet Snape did it, that bastard, he's always doing stupid stuff like this! And he'd excellent in potions; I HATE saying that." James muttered darkly.
"But why would he do it to me and Vanessa, I can understand me but Vanessa?!"
"Um, I should tell you guys, I turned down Snape a while ago when he asked me out." Vanessa said a bit embarrassed.
"That might be it! Maybe we should go tell McGonagall!" Lily said angrily.
"She won't believe us! She never would!" James said sadly.
The three of them pondered over the situation for a while, but didn't know how soon they would be finding out who had stolen their memories.
Lily through out that day kept thinking she was now missing something oddly important, and she couldn't remember. Later that night Lily was walking through the halls on her way to dinner, after classes and heard some one bragging.
"I put in their goblets right before they got there! They had NO idea!" Lily recognized the haughty voice as Snape's. It was too bad she couldn't prove that it was him who poisoned their drinks.
"I hope nothing important happened yesterday for them." Another voice mocked.
"Oh something did, but they'll probably find out anyways." Lily couldn't hear any more so she went down to dinner, and found out one of the things that had happened, and Lily was quite glad to forget it.
Sierra and Jimena were looking grim, as Lily sat next to them at dinner.
"What's bugging you two?" She asked concernedly.
"Lily we have to tell you something, we think you need to know." Her two best friends re countered what had happened with her and James in the hallway.
"I can't believe we did that, thank god we forgot it, I hope he didn't tell his friends about it, or else I'll have to DEAL with it, and I don't want to deal with something that he can't even remember." Lily said firmly.
"Lily, I just have a bad feeling about this, I think something really important happened to you, and maybe Vanessa and James saw so THEY took them out too!" Jimena said.
"No, it was Snape, over heard him talking about it, my guess is he saw me and James. Plus he likes Vanessa so that gives him another reason, to get back at her for saying no. He said we did forget something important, but he found it funny so it wasn't anything big." Lily informed them of her 'encounter' with Snape.
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Lily couldn't get rid of the empty feeling in her stomach that evening, James looked uncomfortable too. It's a very weird feeling have your memories swiped. But Lily, James and Vanessa were good at adapting to changes.
(A/N I think it's funny, I'm so fickle! I make this really long day and then have them forget it! I don't think there was too much of a point to that, but I'm not having them get together in this year, so sorry! I was thinking of writing some more, but… what I have been thinking of doing might take a while, and then I'll end up staying up late. again, and tomorrow's Easter, CAN you believe I didn't know it was Easter this Sunday until yesterday? So REVIEW please! Oh and thank you to those reviewers…who keep reviewing!! I just like reviews…they all say good things! Well on to chapter 17 a place I've never been before!)
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