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The Marauding Five : Year Six

Chapter 5: The Joy Of Holidays

  'Haha! Take that!!!' Tally yelled ferociously. 'Tarantellegra!!!'

  All heads swept towards the Gryffindors table, now dubbed as the trouble-making table or house, depending on the situation. Hundred and more pairs of eyes followed the beam that shot from Tally Chapman's willow wand which advanced towards another Gryfffindor of the same year, Dan Trevor.

  Everything happened in slow motion (or so it had seemed). The beam of curse travelled across the table like a slow tortoise. Bit by bit, it inched towards the blue haired boy (Dan dyed it blue—again).

  After what seems like eternity, the dancing curse hit. Lily groaned.

  'YES!!!' Tally cried, hopping like an ecstatic hen.

  'No!!! You hit the chicken, bimbo!!! The chicken! The roasted chicken!!!' James yelled angrily from his place, annoyed that his food was hitten by a curse.

  True enough, the brown, untouched roasted chicken stood in a rather wobbly way on its drumstick-legs as it pulled itself up from the plate, shaking the exquisite salad dressings off its breast.

  'Oh, no!'

  'There goes our lunch!'

  'MAIN dish, too!'

  'CHAPMAN!!!' Millie-Dint yelled.

  'Sorry!! I meant it for Trevor, really,' Tally said humbly.

  'You're on last name terms now?' Adele said in amazement to Dan. He shook his head.

  'No, it's she who's on the last name terms,' Dan said dolefully. 'I wonder what mad her mad at me… I didn't do anything!'

  Adele coughed. 'Oh yeah, I'm sure your "anything" hasn't covered the areas of cheating on her. Being a two-timer isn't really a nice crime to commit, you know. I mean, I think Tally would rather you dump her than do that on her. Makes her feel stupid. See what I mean? By the look on your face, I think not.'

  'Me? A two-timer??? But I broke up with her!' Dan protested. He paused. 'Oh no. Was that a month ago or two?'

  'It'll be Christmas holidays soon, so make up your mind,' Remus said. 'That's of course, in case you lose your mind on the dates and all. Hopeless, then.'

  'Oh… I think I kinda got back on with her… Eeps.'

  'See? There, problem solved!' Sirius said cheerfully. He drew out his wand. 'Finite incantatem!'

  The chicken dropped onto the floor (it was breakdancing on it), perfectly lifeless. The Gryffindors stared at the now still corpse of the once dancing fowl with a look of disgust clearly printed upon their wincing features. Some look quite read to throw up.

  'I… lost me appetite for chicken today, folks,' Remus announced feverishly. The image of the headless chicken tangoing with its silver dish plate and twirling itself on the floor had drowned every single drop of fluid juice in him.

Grrrrrr…!

  Okay, not all, but those that were eager to devour the fat bird.

  'Chapman, detention for using magic during lunch, ruining our food, attempt to curse and making us lose our appetite,' Millie-Dint said flatly, her stomach feeling oddly full suddenly after Remus's announcement over lost of appetite.

  Tally glared across the table at Dan.

**

  'Do you think we'll be allowed to go home this Christmas?' Adele asked, fiddling with a lock of her hair. She stuck it into her mouth absent-mindedly and sucked at it thoughtfully.

  'Our house is furnished!' Sirius announced happily. He had gotten the mansion without much trouble ('Bless be the wizards and traditions of China!'), furnished ('Those dingy people at the store didn't believe me until I brought that sackful of galleons!') and had even plastered it with considerably fashionable wallpaper. Needless to say, Sirius was awfully proud of his job.

 'That's a just-in-case, remember?' Remus said. 'Besides, and father and mother know nothing about it.'

  'Heey!!!! Guess what!!!' James yelled happily, barging into the common room. His friends looked up.

  'What?'

  'I said, guess!'

  'Er, what?'

  'GUESS!!!!!'

  'Look, I really don't need any gas of any sort now,' Sirius said, wagging his index finger at his friend. 'We don't have the use of laughing gas at the moment, though it might be cool to laugh over some weird purplish pink dinosaur of our imagination. I don't think we want a gas to cry, either.'

  'Look, we're going home for Christmas!!!' James said, with obvious glowing stars in his eyes. Or it could be because of the effect of "touching tears" that might happen at moments when the scene gets too touchy or sensitive, or whatever it is that cause the tears.

  'Are you crying?' Adele asked bluntly.

  'Of course not!! But we're going home for Christmas!!!!' James gushed.

  'You mean you were grounded?? In school???' a first year said with wide amazement.

  'NO!' the four Marauders said at once and, decided that this first year is particularly annoying by his own traits, threw Dungbombs at him.

  'But we painted Mrs Norris blue, turned Minnie into an elephant (by accident, of course, but we innocents still get the dratted detention), upset two weeks of Owl Post and we even painted the Slytherin's common room pink!' Remus gaped. 'So how did we get an invitation to go home????'

  'Ssh!' James hissed at him. 'Look, I bribed all the school owls, get it? They – our parents – never receive a single news of any of our detentions AT ALL.'

  The other three blinked blankly. 'How?'

  'I have to give them the best owl food,' James said with a boring shrug. 'We'll be going back though, that's what matters.'

  'Out mansion up on the hills… Godric's Hollow…'

  'Shut up, Sirius. That's for emergency, remember?' Remus said, stressing the italics a lot.

  'He has a hole in his brain,' Adele said. 'Or was it his head?'

  'Brain,' James said. 'Say, where's Lily?' He looked around for signs of his partner in crimes.

  'Don't know,' Adele shrugged. 'I thought she was with you. She said something about—'

  Adele was rudely interrupted by a large, resounding BOOM from outside the common room. The Fat Lady's shrieks and cries were heard, following be a string of gleefully pealing laughter of amazement.

  'Well. There's your answer,' Remus said, his eyes staring at the portrait hole in curious amazement.

  Lily didn't disappoint him. She burst  into the common room, the Fat Lady yelling after her angrily. Lily laughed, did some cartwheels to amuse the juniors and, spying her friends at the corner, raced to them at a breakneck speed.

  'What did you do?' Sirius asked, staring at the portrait hole still.

  'Oh, I was walking around, playing army'—the Marauders now notice that Lily is dressed in a smart green uniform—'with a bubblegum-gun. It so happened that when I was patrolling around the Gryffindor tower that the Fat Lady decided to scare me by yelling "YAH!" to see how I would react to it. Of course, I turned with a good lieutenant's instinct and BOOM! The bubblegum's now on her face!' Lily ended with a grin. She patted a huge green gun fastened to her waist. 'Too bad I brought only one fun. Could've messied her hair, too, but I guess it'll be some before she could recover from her damage at the moment. The gun stuck like a leech to her dress and face.'

  'We're going home for Christmas, Lily,' Remus said.

  'And if we're lucky, we might be sent back as soon as possible by Minnie. She's getting fed up with us,' Adele added.

  'Cool,' was Lily's only reply.

  'SOMEONE GET THIS OFF ME!!!' Fat Lady's voice shrieked. 'THAT INSOLENT WRENCH!!! SOMEONE GET THIS GUM OFF ME!!!!!!'

  'That was funny,' Lily said, laughing again as she listen to the painting's cries. 'She'll fly off, usually, but maybe she's too gummed to the frame to see that.'

  'Lily, we're going home for Christmas,' James said.

  'Yes, I know. But what really is the point?'

  'If you don't stop doing this, we'll all end up getting kicked out of house,' Adele said.

  'Well that's okay. The mansion's up, isn't it?'

  'With ONLY our school robes and daily Hogwarts uses? I think not!'

  'Oh. Good point.'

**

  'I'm so pleased to see you!! Darling Lily, did you date anyone?' Rose Evans said when Lily got off the bus she took from Kid's Cross Station. Lily winced. To be greeted with that sort of question when you meet your mother for Christmas holidays… no, not a pleasant thing at all. Especially in your garden, next to Sirius Black's house. In fact, it's rather stupid.

  'No, don't worry. Not a single soul,' Lily said. 'Nope!' Rose's lit up face (cause: the first sentence) dropped into a deep frown of pout (cause: Lily's last two sentences).

  'What?? What about James? Young lady, sure you both hadn't went on a date yet?!'

  'Nope!' Lily echoed herself cheerfully. 'It doesn't really matter, does it?' She stared adorably (or so she decides it is) in pure sweet innocence, knowing very well that I does matter—to her mum, anyway. Not her.

  '… Well,' Rose said slowly. 'I guess there's always a first time to things. This Christmas, I'll make sure you date him. Or at least, get even a kiss.' She stiffened up, glaring at Lily menacingly with arched eyebrows and deep green eyes very like her daughter's. 'Have you received your first kiss, Lily? Because if you have… you KNOW what I'll do.'

  'Um, no.' Which is, plain as anyone of the Marauders can tell, is a very bad lie. Lily had had her first kiss with no other but the moronic James Potter. Rose know it. She knew it, because she had been on the spot.

  Still, the middle-aged lady fell for it.

  'Good!! How's studies, dear? Doing well?' she asked happily. Lily rolled her eyes.

  'I'm a genius, you forgot. I happen to do well at everything I try my hands at. I'm a genius, remember?'

  Rose growled. 'If you are, I'll laugh at the very fact of it! Geniuses do NOT play pranks, receive detentions, beratings and—'

  'Who said that genius couldn't have fun?' Lily retorted.

  'No genius is the right mind—' Lily snapped her fingers.

  'Aha! That's just it! I'm NOT in my right mind! There you go! Problem solved!'

  'So I have this mental ward who claimed to be a genius, huh? How am I to believe you???'

  'There's always James, Remus, Adele and Sirius!'

  'Speaking of James…' Lily felt her temper flaring a little.

  'MUM!!!!! Will you please – please, please, PLEASE – drop that nonsense now?' Lily yelled. 'Why must you keep going to him? There's nothing this universe can't handle! I'm a big part of the universe, aye, that I know, but I don't want to be mixed with the small part. Get it? The small part is GETTING MARRIED. I'm happy being at the big part, thank you very much, and I can very well handle my own life!'

  'Lily! I miss you so much!' Gram cried, hugging Lily tightly. Lily struggled a little in embarrassment.

  'Oh good, Gram, I'm so glad to see you. Tell mum not to bug me about James. She hasn't the rights to, just because she's my mother!' Lily said, glaring sourly in her mother's direction.

  'Now, Rose…'

  'It's time Lily began reacting to boys,' Rose interrupted. 'She's almost seventeen – next year, I mean – and she HAS to have a boyfriend! And it so happened that Will and the Potter have agreed on this, so it is fixed.'

  'You don't control MY life!' Lily shrieked.

  'And you don't talk to ME in that way!!' Rose yelled.

  Gram sighed, turning to her beloved Lily. 'Do you have a sweetheart, dear?'

  'Huh, you wish!' Lily said hotly.

  'And THAT is exactly what the problem is!' Rose said triumphantly.

  'But Sirius and Remus and Adele—'

  'That's not my concern. James and you, Lily darling, is a must. Universe police calls.' Lily gagged horrendously.

  'So I'm doing what? Being a universe police by marrying James?!'

  'No, that's not it. It's that it's a policy law.'

  'Oh, yeah right. Well show it to me!' Lily retorted. 'No excuse for it not being WRITTEN! Don't show me that stupid good-for-nothing Divination crystal ball! And NEVER tell me that it's meant to be!!! SHOW ME!' Lily demanded loudly, flames of fire burning in her eyes with thirsty anger. Rose shuddered a little.

  'Don't you dare argue with me. Just do as I say.' Lily cast her mother a resentful look of loathe that she usually reserve for Snape when he turns nasty.

  'I'm not in you stupid plans, mother. I can easily call that engagement off. And you can do NOTHING to stop me from doing things my way. Remember, I am not a helpless little teenage girl,' Lily whispered with great depths of indescribable passion. With that, she levitated her trunks with her Psychic powers and marched upstairs, head held up in dignity and pride.

  Rose stared, quite crumbled.

**

  The snow blanketed the grounds of Loopy Village in its silvery coat of pretty delicateness. The village lake had froze into a thin layer of ice, the forest trees were bare from leaves and naked, having shedded during autumn. The thin layer of snow covered perfectly everything and made a lovely picturesque sight for one who loves to paint scenery, what with the little English cottages the village is full of.

  'James?' Sirius said, turning the knob. James was sitting at the table, looking incredibly bored at the gentle picture outside his library window. He picked his head up from its nest in his arms and grinned at Sirius broadly.

  'Hey! How's things over at your place?' James asked gaily.

  'Fine. In case you're interested in knowing, Lily's mother was lecturing Lily again. You're getting famous, Prongs!' Sirius said, grinned cheekily at his friend as her plopped into the other chair.

  'What about him getting famous?' Remus asked, popping up from behind a bookshelf.

  'Oh the usual, of course,' Sirius replied easily. 'You know: "Did you date anyone, Lily?", "How's James getting on?", "This is universe policy that you and James are wed, like it or not!" and "Universal police calls such actions,"' Sirius said in a high-pitched tone of voice, mocking Rose Evans.

  James groaned. 'Don't even remind my parents that…'

  'I pity Li,' Remus said solemnly. 'I mean, to be pressured with the burden of marriage at this age is evil. Not even a chance to date or to even settle into social life. Poor girl.'

  'Oh, why not pity me as well? I need sympathy too. After all, I'm with her!' James said sarcastically. 'Look, we have to face it, whether we like it or not. I'm planning to run away from home if it gets to a stage I can't tolerate!'

  'So what are we going to do? Read??' Sirius said, pointing at the books with a look of total disbelief.

  'Nope. It's time the village should meet the Marauders again,' James said with an evil glint in his eyes.

**

  'Alright, so here's our plan,' Lily said. James cleared his throat in interruption. Lily ignored him with a simple wave. 'James, if you feel like croaking, get some water. If it is inevitable, well, I suggest you try glueing your mouth to some strong super-glue or something. Maybe the voicebox. Yes. We don't really need any more snow at the moment, kay James? Good. As I was saying…'

  'AHEM,' James said loudly. 'Hello! Yoohoo!! I happen to be the leader here.' Again Lily ignored him with a sentence.

  'You are excused to throw up, just don't do it in front of us,' the girl said, absorbed in her job.' Now…'

  'Lily Evans, may I ask who in the name of pranks is the LEADER of this group?' James demanded sharply.

  'Er, me…? Right?'

  'WRONG!!! It is I—the great, the wonderful, the brainwave, the mighty—'

  'Do you mind skipping the adjectives?' Adele said irritably. One thing with the Marauders: when it comes to praising yourself, a lot of adjectives are used. Signs of a healthy, over-larged and much over-dosed ego.

  '—James Edward Potter!!!!' James yelled, totally oblivious to Adele's comments. 'So give me that list of things to do!' Lily snorted a little before handing the to-do list to him with a mocking 'Yes, your great majesty.'

  James fumed, but decided to deal with her later. He can decide her penalty later. Or maybe he'll place a bewitchment on her to listen to her parents. Oh no, that will mean instant disaster.

  'Alright, Adele can do the North part of the village. Paint the walls with invisible paint. I hereby elect Lily Rose Evans as the secretary'—Lily scowled darkly—'and she'll be distributing stuff as gloves, paint, brush, blah… you get the idea, Lily.

  'Sirius will take the South of the village. Turn all the houses into baking shops, get me? Er, not really SHOPS, but make them look like the house out of the Hansel and Gretel story. Throw in lollies in replacement of trees.

  'Remus, you take East. Change the gardens – er, snow – into beehives. Make the hives unnoticed, maybe with an Illusion charm, so that the unsuspecting passerbys will be pleasantly surprised when they decide to play a little snow.

  'Lily, you're assigned the west,' James said.

  'But I don't want to e a secretary! Is there a way to promote to vice president?' Lily asked, placing a little pout on her face.

  'Nope. Live with it. You'll have to set a spell on every fireplace, door, window and chimney so that no one can enter the house at all!' James said, finishing it with an extra large grin.

  'What about you?' Adele asked curiously. 'What do you do?'

  'Me? Well,  I'm a leader, so I just sit here, sip lemon juice and wait for you all to report back to me!' James said happily, magicking all the said stuff. 'Aah… the joys of leaderhood… it really gets into you, doesn't it?' He lowered himself to the chair.

  'Sorry, no can do,' Sirius said, waving his wand in circles. Everything James magicked is gone, and James fell onto the floor painfully.

  'YOW!'

  'You're doing my assignment with me,' Lily said, smirking at him. 'It so happen that I have to block every entrance to the house, and couldn't really manage it all alone. After all, I'm just a sad secretary…'

  'No!! No, no, no, no, no!'

  'Aww… how sweet! It's a date, Potter! Your mothers are going to be so pleased with you two!' Remus said in a cutey-cute puppy-dog cooey-lovey-dovey voice of awed admiration. Adele coughed and Sirius rolled over with laughter, choking and gasping desperately for air.

  'Sorry?' Yvonne said, coming out. 'Did you call me? Or are you all planning to do something to me?'

  'Oh, no! Of course not!' Adele said at once. 'We're setting James and Lily on a date!'

  'Really?'

  Lily emitted a dry laugh from her throat. 'Yes, isn't it romantic, Ms Yvonne? I'm so touched that I plan to hug him and kiss him with gladness. Bleargh.'

  'Well, make sure you do that, Lily!' Yvonne said cheerfully, not noticing the sarcasm in Lily's tone. 'Bye bye kids! Be good okay, and stay out of pranks.'

  'Hasta la vista! AND IT IS NOT KIDS!! WE ARE SIXTEEN!!!' the five Marauders chorused, waving her off hurriedly. As soon as she was out of sight, James took command at once. Or rather, tried to get their attention. They were all muttering curses and hexes under their breaths, wondering which one to use to stop their parents from call them kids. James slammed his hand on the table to get his friends' attention.

  'YOW!!!!!' he yelled, holding his rather limp red hand. The other Marauders stared at him with happy amusement. 'Er, I really mean, let's start,' he said hurriedly. 'So… Let's start!!!!!!'

  And yet again, the pitiful Loopy Village was terrorized by the Marauders. They not only did as they had planned, ,but added a new entry to their list: Paint the village to look like peppermint candy for Christmas season.

  That night, all five mischief-makers received a rowing and a lecture from their parents, along with some whippings and fire burnings (courtesy to yours truly, Rose Evans). You don't really have the need to know the rest.

**

  Petunia entered the living room, dragging her big trunk after her. Her bony thin face was red with anger when she saw the five Marauders lounging nearby the fireplace, happily popping cherries into their mouths and sipping warm mugs of cocoa. Behind her, a fat, chubby koala bear crawled after her.

  Amusingly, the koala had a surprisingly purple set of fur.

  Rose and William Evans, Yvonne and Edward Potter, Anne and Romulus Lupin, Melissa and Orion Black, Celine Varens, and Gram blinked at the koala bear obviously.

  'Petunia, I- I didn't know you left for Australia,' Anna said finally. Petunia dropped the other trunk she was carrying with a huff.

  'I didn't even LEAVE this country in the first place. This is Vernon Dursley!' she said with bothered annoyance.

  'Um, your boyfriend, right? I thought he was a… human, least to say,' Orion said, grinning a little cheekily, totally amused by the day's happenings.

  'LILY!!!!!!!!!!! I DEMAND THAT YOU PUT VERNON BACK TO NORMAL!!!!!!! I DON'T LIKE A KOALA IN THIS HOUSE!' Petunia shrieked shrilly. Vernon the koala blinked at his girlfriend blankly. James chuckled.

  'I think he didn't realize that he's the koala,' he said with a broad grin.

  'Lily, put him back to normal,' William said sternly. 'Or else, I'll make your mother—'

  'You don't need to make me do anything,' Rose cut. 'Look, I'll personally boil you in my new cauldron, size H-U-M-O-N-G-O-U-S. big enough to drown you and your friends in it without much water.'

  'Sounds nice enough to give me a hot spring sort-of bath,' Lily said eagerly. 'I'd love it, mum!!! Where'd you get it? Aw, I'd always liked hot spring baths! When can we start?'

  'PUT VERNON BACK TO NORMAL!'

  'But it wasn't me who turned him into a bear,' Lily said bluntly.

  'JUST. PUT. HIM. BACK.' Slow, dangerous and totally mental, in some demented cases.

  'Did I do it?' Lily said, turning to her friends. Adeline looked up from her pile of jackets and knitting.

  'Oh, I didn't see you hold you wand yet,' the girl said quietly.

  'I doubt if she even had her wand out yet, ever since we got lectured,' Sirius muttered, burying deeper into his blanket.

  'Maybe, maybe,' Adele nodded. 'But we know Lily. She might make a duplicate of herself.'

  'Nah, if she does, then where's the duplicate?' Remus said.

  'Yeah, you can simply set "finite incantatem" at it because it'll just leave when it's sunrise,' James mumbled. 'Dark spells are so lovely… they can hardly leave unless you can command them. Joy. It's like placing the Killing Curse and do the Finite on it. Just plain stupid.'

  'There! Witnesses!' Lily said happily and triumphantly.

  'Put him back to normal,' Yvonne said sharply, not looking up from her book.

  'Look, I have my witnesses, I have reasons why I won't do it…'

  'Actually, no reasons yet,' Sirius said.

  'Thanks for being so helpful. Reasons: I think Vernon's stupid enough; he probably would turn into a vegetable of some sort instead of a koala if I ever am done with him; I prefer transfiguring people into clowns; he's Vernon. I mean, LOOK! Can you see him being a little boy in a killer whale sized clown suit???' Lily exclaimed.

  'No,' her friends chorused in unison.

  'So there you go. Besides, I don't even know the spell. Minnie refused to venture that topic, and it's tough to do that sort of practical work.'

  'LILY!' Rose and William yelled at once. Lily jumped.

  'Okay, okay! I'll do it! I'll put him back to normal, happy?? Sheesh, the things parents do when they favour the elder ones,' Lily muttered sourly. 'Stupid spell. Stupid McGonagall for not teaching me that yet. Stupid parents. Stupid all. Blah blah blah.' At this point, Lily Evans wasn't quite conscious with what she's talking about.

  'No, not you Lily,' William said, pointing at his daughter. Lily blinked.

  'Oh?'

  Rose inhaled a lot of air. 'LILY GINA TRENNA!!!!! GET OUT AND PUT HIM BACK NOW!!!!!!!!!!'

  'Ah…' Adele said sagely, 'So it's Madam Trenna.'

  'Then why me?' Lily whimpered.

  'Um…'

  'She thought you did it,' Sirius supplied sympathicly.

  'Don't I look innocent??' Lily snapped.

  'Actually, no. that's why she thought it was you, I think,' Remus said gently. Lily snorted angrily.

  'Well, look of innocence means NOT innocent. Look of guilty means NOT guilty. That's universal policy!' Lily cried diplomaticly.

  'Your – our – mothers are against the universe. In a way,' James reprimanded.

  'Oh. Yes. Right. Thank you.'

  Rose is now lecturing Lily Trenna (the ghost-spirit echo was looking rather guilty with happiness) about abusing muggles. Trenna's wand (which is as dead as she is) was taken from its owner and she was threatened with a no TV room placed with a million spells to keep her from travelling like a ghost; past the walls. Trenna wailed loudly in reply. She had grown attached to the television set and is now addicted to soap operas, much to the Evans's disgust. The sound of dramatic sobs and wails has grown really common ever since two months ago.

"I told you so," Adele Green frowned.

"Your sympathy is not welcomed," Trenna said sourly.

"You poor, poor thing!" James Chore pitied.

"Your sympathy is better, but I'm not a thing, James!!!"

"I suggest that we just ignore her," Sirius Brad said with a boring huff.

  Remus Pepper didn't say anything, but tapped the koala on the head. The cute Australian bear slowly made some changes. First, his big nose shrunk to a size of a flat walnut and ears shifted to the side of the head. Then with a gentle pooping pop, Vernon Dursley popped into existence. Not at all a graceful sight of change, but Vernon isn't even graceful to begin with, so it never really matters.

  The fat, big, purple man who looked like a radish had a bewildered look of horror on his chubby face.

  'You- you all are- are—' he stuttered.

  'Obliviate!' Edward cried, brandishing his wand at him.

  A dreamy look of ditz settled upon his face, giving him a look of some sinister person trying to pretend to be nice and failing it very horribly. 'Ah. Where am I? Petunia darling, where are we?'

  'At my house,' Petunia said with a sigh. 'You're spending a week here, Vernon, remember? This is Bluebells Cup, my home, in Loopy Village.'

  'Lovely name, but why give your house a name?'

  'So you will know it's your house, stupid,' Adele muttered.

  'Mother, can we turn him into a koala bear again?' Adeline whispered to Celine. 'I think he look cuter as a purple bear than a purple alien.'

  'Ssh!' Celine hushed.

"My… TV…" Trenna sniffed sadly.

"Please, Lily, it's not your life!" Chore said. "Quit whining!"

"Yeah. Look at us: we're DEAD!" Brad nodded.

"There's a drama tomorrow! WAAAAA!" Trenna wailed, bursting into showers of tears.

  'How can I thank the heavens, then?' Lily said sarcastically. 'It's too good to be true, anyway. Your cries and sobs are getting too much to bear for us six- and seven-senses wizards and witches!'

"You are NOT helping at all, Little Lily!"

  'I never did say that I am,' Lily said, poking a tongue at her. 'And don't call me little Lily!'

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AN: and after THIS chapter… dun dun DUNN!!!!!! Chapter 6!!!! Me typed it out, and I'm counting how many times dear Mystiara told me I'm good ;) and for each time, I'm adding an hour towards my posting (*evil cackle*). So, let us all rejoice at the fact that bunny chan will get the next chapter sometime in two days!!! Hip hip hurrah!

  Phew. I hate my folders. Thank goodness this is the last of the lot!