"Can you believe it
is Easter holiday already?"
"You going to the
engagement party?"
"Are you kidding?
I begged my parents to go. It's like this big garden party, and plus,
California has a whole bunch of aquariums. We're studying that in Muggle Studies."
Lily groaned,
bringing the three girls' attention to her (rather than the hunky Ravenclaw
specimen across the corridor). They looked at her, giggled behind their hands
and walked off, batting their eyelashes at the Ravenclaw boy ("Hey! It's just
hitting two birds with one stone!").
"Can you believe
it is Easter holiday already?" Lily said in a high-pitched voice, twirling a
lock of her hair. She stuck her tongue out at the girls' retreating backs,
unaware that Jackie was merrily bouncing toward her.
"Can you believe
it is Easter holiday already?" She chirped, causing Lily to groan again.
"Have you seen
the dress my stepmother plans to wear? She dyed her hair again, now it's this really
ugly maroonish red, 'to match yours, Lily, sweetheart!'. And the dress is like
Glinda, the Good Witch of Oz, except in hot pink." Lily gagged and the three
girls giggled and had another butterbeer, an engagement present from Madam
Rosmerta. Served in the most elegant of plastic champagne glasses, of course.
"On a happier subject, why were you so happy this morning, Jackie?"
Jackie hid a belch
before she began. "Well, Sirius and James promised to be at the party and if
they ever felt the need to be bad boys, they were going to the nearest
aquarium."
"An aquarium?"
Arabella interjected. "What are they, fish freaks?"
"No! They have
Muggle Studies. Their professorr is the fish freak." Jackie explained, as if
Arabella was from Jupiter.
"What about Remus,
Ronan, Munguldus and Peter? Rafe?" Lily interrupted the staring contest. "What
about their sudden urges to be rude?"
"Remus is polite at
all times, you know that. Ronan is calm, cool and collected, Helen will have
Rafe on a short leash, Munguldus agreed along with Sirius and James, and Peter
isn't even coming, his mother won't let him." Jackie said, checking them off
with her fingers.
"What are you
wearing?" Arabella asked Lily as the snacks cart came through.
"This white dress
with a full, fluffy skirt with this tulle-thingy petticoat under, it's almost
like a 50's wedding dress, but the skirt's higher. It's like, totally, ugh,
yucky Claire." She said as they all bombarded the snacks cart lady.
With a mouthful of
Bertie's Beans ("That's how you don't get the nasty flavors, and the stuff
doesn't affect you."), Jackie asked, "So, what's your plan? Flirt and seduce
your way out of the engagement party and do the same to get into James's
heart?"
"Ew, gross!
Seducing Slytherins to get out of my own engagement party!" Lily exclaimed,
letting bits of a Cauldron Cake fly everywhere.
"Just throwing it
out there." Jackie muttered, picking a piece of Cauldron Cake off of her
sweater.
"Well, throw it
back in!"
The three girls
giggled more and started throwing bits of Chocolate Frogs all over the place.
