A/N: The song is 'Stupid
Cupid' and I'll be using it for several different chapters.. Don't know who
originally sang it, but Mandy Moore did a cover for it for the Princess
Diaries....
The very first Saturday that came for them, Lily had scheduled several
things- An early morning Quidditch practice after breakfast with James, a
morning out with the Marauders, a study session with James and a date with
David. Her heart felt heavy but she ignored it.
"What has happened to you, Lily? You try so damn hard to keep
people away, but you let them on in and you let them make you cry. You were
able to do it for fourteen god damn years. What happened?" Lily asked herself
as she scrambled to the Dining Hall. Three minutes to half-past eight.
"Eight thirty, on the dot. I'm surprised you weren't fashionably
late." James said, putting his stopwatch away.
"I'm hungry." She grunted.
"And desperate." He chirped, pouring syrup on his waffles.
"Hmm?" Lily asked, a mouth full of pancakes.
"That was an act of bad judgment, a silly fling that lasted
about two weeks. Beyond that, we have no history and you can put your slutty
hands all over him. I don't mind. I don't care. It will be bad judgment on his
part if he lets you, but, as the French say, c'est la vie." James said in a
high-pitched voice. "And you got back together with the macaroni and butter
dude."
"He's nice!" Lily insisted with a guilty blush.
"He's pathetic. And don't you have a crush on a certain
Gryffindor sixth year (his name and identity we haven't figured out yet, but my
agents are on the case)." James muttered. He stuffed a forkful of syrupy
waffles into his mouth.
"Let's make this quick. Quidditch practice at nine." Lily
murmured.
"You're avoiding the subject."
"So?"
"LILY! What are you doing?" Sirius shouted. "Dodge that
Bludger!!!"
"Sorry, Si, not thinking right." Lily muttered as she landed.
"It's like there was some sort of drug in my breakfast."
"Well, we're all going to be starting the athlete's diet. And no
more eating with James before Quidditch anything." Sirius commanded.
"Why?" The team chorused.
"Because Lily gets all dizzy." Sirius said with a smirk. Everyone
started laughing.
"Dizzy Lily.. Dizzy Lizzy..." Sirius cooed. He kept singing in
her ear, and before he knew it, he had been punched.
"So.. Did you really say that to Sarah Barnes, or am I out of
context?" James whispered after the rest of the Marauders helped Sirius up.
"Nope, you were completely on target. I don't know what got into
me." Lily said in a tired voice. "She was calling me a slut and said I was all
over you and that I was making moves on her boyfriend.. I couldn't take it
anymore. So I shut her up."
"Hmm.." James said simply. "I thought she was harboring a silly
crush, but this girl seems a bit overboard."
"Tell me about it. She nearly killed me in Charms the other day..
Which you so conveniently missed." Lily accused.
"No idea it was going to happen! I had another class scheduled- You
know that.. I had to make up an Astronomy test and Flitwick let me!" James
squeaked, defending himself. "And you were all over me, but I forgive
you."
"What?" Lily sputtered, and then started the grand chase around
Hogsmeade Square. After dashing a few feet, it suddenly hit her.
"Guys, meet me at the Three Broomsticks for lunch." She murmured.
"I have something to do."
The boys waited for her to come out of Rosmerta's office at lunch.
She came out in a uniform that mixed the costumes of a Peruvian folk and exotic
dancer (in the ways that the skirt was so short). Her hair was divided and
separated into two braided buns on the side of her head with green, black and
red ribbons coming out. (A/N: Think Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality during
the talent preliminaries, but with red hair and shorter.)
"Hello, Heidi." Munguldus said sarcastically. "Where are your
goats?"
"Shut up. It's part of the job. I actually think this will be
nice." Lily said as she struggled to sit down without her short skirt (with
it's many layers of short lace petticoats underneath) flaring up.
"Why do you need a job? You're rich." Sirius muttered as
he snapped for some more butterbeer.
"It'll give me something to do at Christmas during the Swiss
Holiday fair." She said with a shrug. "Correction.. I may have a trust fund,
but I can't use it until I am official seventeen."
"Then you'll be rich." Sirius said after a minute, connecting his
facts.
"Yeah, I guess.. But I don't want to withdraw any more than I
have to." Lily chirped, spinning around her straw in her shake.
A bell on the door rang and a pretty brunette walked through the
door. Lily squinted at the doorway, then squealed.
"Aphrodite!" Lily screeched, jumping up and leaping towards the
door. The girl looked excited, too and they hugged. Lily brought her over and
pulled up another chair.
"Guys, this is my friend from the States Aphrodite. I have no
idea what you're doing here, Dite, but.. Hey!" Lily stated in a high pitched
voice. "Preppy boy is James, crazy blonde is Munguldus.. Guy with the light
brown hair is Remus, other blonde is Ronan, guy with the platinum hair is Peter
and that crazy guy trying to accidentally pour his shake down some girl's top
is Sirius."
Aphrodite waggled a few fingers. At the same time that Lily was
admiring James's smile, James was admiring Aphrodite's.
"Lils.. What's with the Peruvian fruitcake get-up?" Aphrodite
asked as Lily handed her a butterbeer.
"I start my job here next week and need to start fitting my
uniform." Lily said, a little offended.
"I think Lily should be the official mascot of the Marauders in
that outfit!" Sirius said defensively. He knew that Aphrodite somehow was moving in on Lily's territory, and that
Lily was a bit hurt.
"Yeah! In fact.." James said,
catching on. "I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE! C'mere, Princess."
James was standing on the table now, helping Lily onto it. "You
guys know who the Marauders are, right?"
"HELL YEAH!" Was their response.
"Well look at this beauty-full lady! She is now the official mascot
of the Marauders! Got that?"
"HELL YEAH!!"
Aphrodite gave a 'oh-how-childish' laugh and Sirius got the feeling
he didn't like this girl.
"Give me those." Lily commanded. James handed her his books. "You
do so much for me."
"I know." James said, sucking on a lollipop, cherry, supposedly. "YUCK.
Sirius exchanged it with the blood-flavored ones.."
Lily handed him one of her lime lollipops and they headed for the
Potions lab.
Thirty-three minutes later, there was an explosion in the Potions
lab.
"What did you do, Lils?" James demanded as they both burst out of
the Potions lab to avoid the smell.
"I wasn't paying attention." Lily admitted guiltily, not about to
admit the smell of James's cologne was really making her start to daydream.
"Well THAT was obvious. Lils, what has gotten into you?" James
asked, feeling her forehead.
"I'm fine." She lied, whipping out her wand. He Summoned their
books and supplies. "Wait, James."
James turned around, with Lily gaining an evil grin on her face. "Accio
Severus Snape's Potions textbook."
James grinned. "You are pure evil."
Lily smirked. "Yep."
Can't do my
homework and I can't think straight
I meet him ev'ry
mornin' 'bout a half past eight
I'm actin' like a
lovesick fool
You even got me
carryin' his books to school
Hey, hey, set me
free
Stupid cupid, stop
pickin' on me
"So, what is she doing here?" Coco asked quietly.
"I don't know, but I don't like her." Leola said. "She brought
Lily down when Lily was perky, and she did it intentionally."
"I know!" Jennifer said in a half-gasp. "What's worse is, she was
just doing it to impress the guys!"
"She WHAT?" Mia and Clarisse chorused.
"Slut." Diana said after a silence. The other girls burst out
laughing. "WHAT? She is. And I know what she's doing here."
"What?" The girls asked eagerly.
"Her dad's some sort of rep for Zonko's.. She'll be here until
mid-November." Diana said. "Looks like she's going to do anything to bring Lily
down and make herself the self-appointed queen of Hogwarts."
"How are we going to tell Lily?" Coco murmured.
"Tell me what?" Lily chirped. "I'm changing the password
tomorrow, so you can't always come and go as you please."
"Just that we can't meet you for lunch tomorrow.. Got a Ravenclaw
Quidditch team meeting." Jennifer lied quickly.
"Oh well." Lily said with
a heavy sigh. "I am in love."
"With macaroni and butter dude?" Mia asked as she conjured up
some Gummy Bears.
"Nope." Lily said whimsically, playing 'He-Loves-Me-He-Loves-Me-Not'
with a flower she had created.
"Wow.. Lily in love. Watch out Hogwarts!" Leola exclaimed, making
Lily bop her on the side of her head. "Ow."
"Watch out Hogsmeade!" Clarisse added.
"Watch out England." Diana drawled, beginning a chase around the
tower top and, as Sirius put it, 'a waste of a perfectly good bowl of Gummy
Bears'.