Chapter XIV – A Trip to the Kitchens
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"Where were you all night?" Lily shrieked. "You scared me to death! I was so worried! Where did you go?" Lily said in a bossy tone. Her hands were on her hips, and her eyes were blazing.
"I spent the night with Remus." Alison blushed.
"WHAT? So you made up with him?" Lily asked.
"Yeah…" Alison said shyly. For some reason she was being unbelievably shy.
"And you spent the whole night with him?" Lily asked.
"Yes…"
"What were you guys doing?" Lily interrogated.
"Um…" Alison looked down at her shoes. "Maybe you shouldn't ask into that detail Lils."
"Oh!" Lily said surprisingly. Maybe she shouldn't. "But, what happened to the GUYS ARE FULL OF CRAP AND GUYS SUCK motto?"
"Lily, I was just upset cause I love Remus too much, I guess. I was jealous." Alison pointed out. "I really do love him… he's just so wonderful…" Alison said dreamily.
Lily looked at her lovesick friend in disgust. "But Allie!" Lily wailed. "What about Maria?"
"She's Remus's cousin. I can't believe I was that foolish not to know…" Alison said, sauntering to the bathroom. "Now I'm going to take a shower, toodles." With that Alison slipped into the bathroom, humming a tune.
"But, ALLIE!" Lily wailed with her arms folded. Lily pouted at the bathroom door, thinking about her lovesick friend. Alison was really happy with Remus, and Lily should be happy for them too.
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"So James, how was your date with Tina Mclain?" Sirius asked as the 4 marauders began filling into the Charms classroom. Lily took a deep breath as she tried to listen to their conversation.
'Uh, Lily?" Lily grunted, and looked up to find the smiling face of Todd Bowler, a dark haired Ravenclaw, who also played on the Ravenclaw quidditch team as their keeper.
"Oh, Hi!" Lily blushed, embarrassed to realize that Todd probably heard her grunt. Oh whatever. It's not like he's going to ask her out or something.
"Um, listen… are you free this weekend… maybe we could go to the Hogsmeade weekend together?" Todd asked.
"Oh… um…" Lily thought for a moment. Her eyes suddenly met up with James's, but Lily quickly turned away and smiled at Todd.
"Sure! I would love to go!" Lily exclaimed, loud enough for the Marauders to hear. Lily could see from the corner of her eye that the Marauders were watching her closely.
"Really? Well, cool. I'll catch you later." Todd winked, and sauntered proudly to his side of the room. Lily smiled back, and leaned back to her seat.
Then Alison ran into the classroom. She stopped by at Remus's corner first, to share a quick kiss, and went over to sit next to Lily.
"Hello! I'm not late, am I?" Alison asked cheerfully.
"No. But even if you were, I wouldn't think you'd care." Lily responded. "Guess what?"
"What?" Alison asked excitedly.
"Todd Mclain asked me out." Lily said.
"Oh, that's great!" Alison exclaimed. "Hey, is there any homework?"
"Yes there is… just practice the smashing spell." Lily answered.
"Oh no! I don't know how to do it yet!" Alison wailed. "Help me Lils, before Flitwick comes in!"
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"Hey Lily." Todd greeted as he passed by the Gryffindor's table at supper.
"Hi Todd." Lily greeted back.
"I'm really looking forward to tomorrow." Todd said.
"Oh, me too." Lily said, flashing him a bright smile.
"Well, I've got to go back to my table." Todd said, beckoning to the Ravenclaw table. "They're calling me over… bye Lils."
"Bye." Lily waved. Todd gave her one last smile before walking towards his jittery friends.
"Bye Lils." Aries mocked as he watched Todd give high-fives to his friends. "Who's that Lily?"
"Lily's new catch." Alison replied. "Todd Mclain, 6th yr Ravenclaw keeper. Not a bad keeper, and pretty cute, that's what I can say." Then Alison paused. "Don't tell Remus I said that."
"No, don't worry. I'll just announce it on the Daily Prophet." Sirius replied.
"Ah! Sirius!" Alison yelped, swatting his head.
"He's not my new 'catch'." Lily said, rolling her eyes. "I'm not Potter, for god's sake."
"You just have to say it like I'm not even here, do you?" James said.
"Maybe."
"Gee, aren't you so kind." James said sarcastically.
"So, where's Maria?" Lily asked, completely ignoring James's reply. "Haven't seen her in a while."
"It's cause you're a self centered ice-queen and only notice yourself and not the people around you." James replied sarcastically.
"Oh, Look who's talking, it's Mr. Egotistic prat of the year!" Lily glared. "Correct that, of the CENTURY."
"Is that all you can think up, Evans? Finally realized your iciness rots your brain?" James spat.
"I just don't want to waste my intelligent remarks on you." Lily said haughtily.
"Guys, shut up. We're trying to eat in peace here!" Aries said, shaking his head. "Seriously, when are you guys going to go to that broom closet and start snogging?"
"SHUT UP ARIES!" James and Lily shouted in unison.
"What? I'm sorry, I couldn't help it." Aries smiled sheepishly as Alison and Sirius shook with laughter.
"Well, talking about MARIA," Alison said, shooting daggers at Lily and James who were starting to glare at each other. "I was thinking of having a sleepover."
"Goody! Sleepover! When?" Sirius said excitedly.
"Sorry, you're not invited. Only the girls." Alison said. "Me, Lily, and Maria."
"It's Lily, Maria and I" Lily corrected.
"Oh yes, THANK YOU Grammar queen." James muttered.
"I heard that!" Lily warned, glaring at James.
"What? Why? No fun!" Sirius pouted, ignoring James and Lily. "I wanna come too!"
"No Sirius! It's going to be a girl's night out kind of thing!" Alison argued. "No boys allowed!"
2 arguments had just started. Aries watched excitedly, as he and his friends started to place bets on them.
"I bet you 5 knuts that Lily will win from her argument with James. She always does." Aries's buddy, Ethan stated.
"Nuh uh!" Sam McKinnon protested. "James does. You just say that cause you think Lily's pretty."
"Well, at least I don't act like a lost puppy around Alison." Ethan said smugly.
"Sssh! She'll hear you!" Ethan whispered.
"Alison will definitely win this round." Samantha McKinnon, Sam's twin sister said.
"Hey Remie! Place your bets!" Aries announced, as he spotted the sandy- haired 16 year old walking towards their table.
"On what?" Remus asked.
"Lily vs. James and Alison vs. Sirius" Aries explained.
"Oooh that's easy. Lily and Alison will win." Remus shrugged, taking a seat next to Alison.
"Hey sweetie." He said, kissing Alison's cheek.
"Oh Hi Remie." Alison said, instantly controlling her voice. "As you can see, me and Sirius were-"
"Having an argument, yes. What is it now?"
"Moony! Your girlfriend wont let me come to her sleepover!" Sirius whined.
"Oh, you're having a sleepover? Can I come?" Remus asked excitedly.
"Ah! You guys are impossible!" Alison exclaimed.
"But you still love us, don't you?" Sirius asked.
"Er…" Alison began. Then she saw the angelic faces. "Yes." Remus and Sirius began to hoot, and Alison interrupted them. "But it doesn't mean you guys are allowed to come. I'm not going to have this sleepover after all." Then Alison turned to Lily. "Sorry Lils, no sleepover."
"What?" Lily said, turning from her fight with James. "But, Allie!" Lily whined.
"Gimme the money!" Aries cried happily. The group of 5 teenagers turned to him.
"Aries won. He said none of them would win." Ethan muttered, glaring at Aries.
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"How was your date?" Alison asked the next night, which was a late Friday night. Alison was wearing a blue terry-cloth robe over, probably her PJs.
"Yes, tell us about it!" Maria said. She too, was wearing a green robe, and the two of them were sitting on Alison's bed. They probably had been talking.
"Ah, it's nothing. Same old stuff. What have you guys been up to?" Lily asked, changing out of her black robes.
"Well… we've been talking." Maria replied.
"Cool, I would join you but I'm kind of tired-" Lily began.
"LILY EVANS! Change into your terry-cloth robe and join us, because the sleepover is ON!" Alison cried.
"What? What sleepover? I thought you cancelled it!!" Lily asked, but obeyed Alison by putting on her lilac terry-cloth robe.
"Well, I was just saying that so they wouldn't crash our party." Alison shrugged. "Now, let's sneak out and get some food!"
"In this?" Lily asked incredulously.
"Yes, who cares! It won't take long, only a few minutes to the kitchen, and nobody knows where the kitchens are besides the Marauders. So nobody will see us like this." Alison then paused. "Unless you wanna look good for James, I suggest you should apply a bit of lip gloss."
Then Alison and Maria broke into fits of giggles.
"It's not FUNNY. I do NOT want to make an effort to look good for POTTER." Lily fumed. "EVER." Then Lily dragged them out of their dorms down to the common room, and out the portrait hole to the kitchens.
"Oh, Miss Lily Evans! Miss Alison Johnson! What is you two doing here?" Blinky, the house-elf exclaimed happily.
"We came for some snacks. Are there any?" Alison asked.
"Yes Miss!" Blinky cried, running around gathering bags full of cakes and pies, cookies and candies.
"Are there by any chance any butter beers? Alison asked, licking her lips.
"Oh, butter beer!" Maria squealed in delight.
"Of course miss!" within seconds blinky came back with a few bottles of butter beer.
"Got any water?" Lily asked, scanning around.
"Yes Miss!" Blinky said, returning with mineral water.
"Uhh…. Cauldron cakes, pumpkin pies, chocolate chip cookies, candies from honeydukes, butterbeer, water… missing anything?" Alison said, looking into the bag.
"Nope, I don't think so." Lily replied.
"Oh, Miss is Miss Maria White!" Blinky cried, as he looked at Maria with awe with his big eyes.
"Uh, yes…"
"I hears things about Miss from Mister Sirius Black!" Blinky said proudly.
"What does he say about her?" Lily asked curiously.
"That Miss is very hot!" Blinky cried happily. Alison and Lily both broke into a fit of giggles, while Maria blushed shyly.
"Well, we better go. Thank you Blinky, for the food and er… information." Alison nodded.
"My pleasure, Miss! Please come back soon!" Blinky said, grinning toothily.
Alison, Lily and Maria waved and disappeared out of the kitchens and walked carefully through the hallways.
"SSHHH…. I hear footsteps." Maria whispered. She stopped them and they hide behind a suit of armor.
"I don't hear anything Maria…" Lily hissed.
"Shh… I swore I heard something…" Maria whispered. They waited there for a few minutes before quickly walking to the fat lady's portrait
"Good Evening, girls. Why are you all in your nightgowns?" The fat lady asked, raising her brow.
"Scarlet courage." Alison said. "We'll tell you later…but we need to go in now!"
"Oh, alright." The fat lady replied, swinging back to let them pass through the portrait hole.
"Okay, let's start!" Lily cried happily as she opened the door to their dorm room. She ran across the room to her bed that was the biggest from all, since she was a prefect.
"I still don't understand why you get the bigger bed." Alison muttered.
"It's practically the same as everyone's." Lily said, putting the snacks on the table next to her bed. Their two other dorm-mates were asleep.
"and it's…gossip time!" Lily cried.
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A/N: HEHE!! Okay, so there. I got my internet back, yay!! Umm… I'll write more, I promise!
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"Where were you all night?" Lily shrieked. "You scared me to death! I was so worried! Where did you go?" Lily said in a bossy tone. Her hands were on her hips, and her eyes were blazing.
"I spent the night with Remus." Alison blushed.
"WHAT? So you made up with him?" Lily asked.
"Yeah…" Alison said shyly. For some reason she was being unbelievably shy.
"And you spent the whole night with him?" Lily asked.
"Yes…"
"What were you guys doing?" Lily interrogated.
"Um…" Alison looked down at her shoes. "Maybe you shouldn't ask into that detail Lils."
"Oh!" Lily said surprisingly. Maybe she shouldn't. "But, what happened to the GUYS ARE FULL OF CRAP AND GUYS SUCK motto?"
"Lily, I was just upset cause I love Remus too much, I guess. I was jealous." Alison pointed out. "I really do love him… he's just so wonderful…" Alison said dreamily.
Lily looked at her lovesick friend in disgust. "But Allie!" Lily wailed. "What about Maria?"
"She's Remus's cousin. I can't believe I was that foolish not to know…" Alison said, sauntering to the bathroom. "Now I'm going to take a shower, toodles." With that Alison slipped into the bathroom, humming a tune.
"But, ALLIE!" Lily wailed with her arms folded. Lily pouted at the bathroom door, thinking about her lovesick friend. Alison was really happy with Remus, and Lily should be happy for them too.
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"So James, how was your date with Tina Mclain?" Sirius asked as the 4 marauders began filling into the Charms classroom. Lily took a deep breath as she tried to listen to their conversation.
'Uh, Lily?" Lily grunted, and looked up to find the smiling face of Todd Bowler, a dark haired Ravenclaw, who also played on the Ravenclaw quidditch team as their keeper.
"Oh, Hi!" Lily blushed, embarrassed to realize that Todd probably heard her grunt. Oh whatever. It's not like he's going to ask her out or something.
"Um, listen… are you free this weekend… maybe we could go to the Hogsmeade weekend together?" Todd asked.
"Oh… um…" Lily thought for a moment. Her eyes suddenly met up with James's, but Lily quickly turned away and smiled at Todd.
"Sure! I would love to go!" Lily exclaimed, loud enough for the Marauders to hear. Lily could see from the corner of her eye that the Marauders were watching her closely.
"Really? Well, cool. I'll catch you later." Todd winked, and sauntered proudly to his side of the room. Lily smiled back, and leaned back to her seat.
Then Alison ran into the classroom. She stopped by at Remus's corner first, to share a quick kiss, and went over to sit next to Lily.
"Hello! I'm not late, am I?" Alison asked cheerfully.
"No. But even if you were, I wouldn't think you'd care." Lily responded. "Guess what?"
"What?" Alison asked excitedly.
"Todd Mclain asked me out." Lily said.
"Oh, that's great!" Alison exclaimed. "Hey, is there any homework?"
"Yes there is… just practice the smashing spell." Lily answered.
"Oh no! I don't know how to do it yet!" Alison wailed. "Help me Lils, before Flitwick comes in!"
***
"Hey Lily." Todd greeted as he passed by the Gryffindor's table at supper.
"Hi Todd." Lily greeted back.
"I'm really looking forward to tomorrow." Todd said.
"Oh, me too." Lily said, flashing him a bright smile.
"Well, I've got to go back to my table." Todd said, beckoning to the Ravenclaw table. "They're calling me over… bye Lils."
"Bye." Lily waved. Todd gave her one last smile before walking towards his jittery friends.
"Bye Lils." Aries mocked as he watched Todd give high-fives to his friends. "Who's that Lily?"
"Lily's new catch." Alison replied. "Todd Mclain, 6th yr Ravenclaw keeper. Not a bad keeper, and pretty cute, that's what I can say." Then Alison paused. "Don't tell Remus I said that."
"No, don't worry. I'll just announce it on the Daily Prophet." Sirius replied.
"Ah! Sirius!" Alison yelped, swatting his head.
"He's not my new 'catch'." Lily said, rolling her eyes. "I'm not Potter, for god's sake."
"You just have to say it like I'm not even here, do you?" James said.
"Maybe."
"Gee, aren't you so kind." James said sarcastically.
"So, where's Maria?" Lily asked, completely ignoring James's reply. "Haven't seen her in a while."
"It's cause you're a self centered ice-queen and only notice yourself and not the people around you." James replied sarcastically.
"Oh, Look who's talking, it's Mr. Egotistic prat of the year!" Lily glared. "Correct that, of the CENTURY."
"Is that all you can think up, Evans? Finally realized your iciness rots your brain?" James spat.
"I just don't want to waste my intelligent remarks on you." Lily said haughtily.
"Guys, shut up. We're trying to eat in peace here!" Aries said, shaking his head. "Seriously, when are you guys going to go to that broom closet and start snogging?"
"SHUT UP ARIES!" James and Lily shouted in unison.
"What? I'm sorry, I couldn't help it." Aries smiled sheepishly as Alison and Sirius shook with laughter.
"Well, talking about MARIA," Alison said, shooting daggers at Lily and James who were starting to glare at each other. "I was thinking of having a sleepover."
"Goody! Sleepover! When?" Sirius said excitedly.
"Sorry, you're not invited. Only the girls." Alison said. "Me, Lily, and Maria."
"It's Lily, Maria and I" Lily corrected.
"Oh yes, THANK YOU Grammar queen." James muttered.
"I heard that!" Lily warned, glaring at James.
"What? Why? No fun!" Sirius pouted, ignoring James and Lily. "I wanna come too!"
"No Sirius! It's going to be a girl's night out kind of thing!" Alison argued. "No boys allowed!"
2 arguments had just started. Aries watched excitedly, as he and his friends started to place bets on them.
"I bet you 5 knuts that Lily will win from her argument with James. She always does." Aries's buddy, Ethan stated.
"Nuh uh!" Sam McKinnon protested. "James does. You just say that cause you think Lily's pretty."
"Well, at least I don't act like a lost puppy around Alison." Ethan said smugly.
"Sssh! She'll hear you!" Ethan whispered.
"Alison will definitely win this round." Samantha McKinnon, Sam's twin sister said.
"Hey Remie! Place your bets!" Aries announced, as he spotted the sandy- haired 16 year old walking towards their table.
"On what?" Remus asked.
"Lily vs. James and Alison vs. Sirius" Aries explained.
"Oooh that's easy. Lily and Alison will win." Remus shrugged, taking a seat next to Alison.
"Hey sweetie." He said, kissing Alison's cheek.
"Oh Hi Remie." Alison said, instantly controlling her voice. "As you can see, me and Sirius were-"
"Having an argument, yes. What is it now?"
"Moony! Your girlfriend wont let me come to her sleepover!" Sirius whined.
"Oh, you're having a sleepover? Can I come?" Remus asked excitedly.
"Ah! You guys are impossible!" Alison exclaimed.
"But you still love us, don't you?" Sirius asked.
"Er…" Alison began. Then she saw the angelic faces. "Yes." Remus and Sirius began to hoot, and Alison interrupted them. "But it doesn't mean you guys are allowed to come. I'm not going to have this sleepover after all." Then Alison turned to Lily. "Sorry Lils, no sleepover."
"What?" Lily said, turning from her fight with James. "But, Allie!" Lily whined.
"Gimme the money!" Aries cried happily. The group of 5 teenagers turned to him.
"Aries won. He said none of them would win." Ethan muttered, glaring at Aries.
***
"How was your date?" Alison asked the next night, which was a late Friday night. Alison was wearing a blue terry-cloth robe over, probably her PJs.
"Yes, tell us about it!" Maria said. She too, was wearing a green robe, and the two of them were sitting on Alison's bed. They probably had been talking.
"Ah, it's nothing. Same old stuff. What have you guys been up to?" Lily asked, changing out of her black robes.
"Well… we've been talking." Maria replied.
"Cool, I would join you but I'm kind of tired-" Lily began.
"LILY EVANS! Change into your terry-cloth robe and join us, because the sleepover is ON!" Alison cried.
"What? What sleepover? I thought you cancelled it!!" Lily asked, but obeyed Alison by putting on her lilac terry-cloth robe.
"Well, I was just saying that so they wouldn't crash our party." Alison shrugged. "Now, let's sneak out and get some food!"
"In this?" Lily asked incredulously.
"Yes, who cares! It won't take long, only a few minutes to the kitchen, and nobody knows where the kitchens are besides the Marauders. So nobody will see us like this." Alison then paused. "Unless you wanna look good for James, I suggest you should apply a bit of lip gloss."
Then Alison and Maria broke into fits of giggles.
"It's not FUNNY. I do NOT want to make an effort to look good for POTTER." Lily fumed. "EVER." Then Lily dragged them out of their dorms down to the common room, and out the portrait hole to the kitchens.
"Oh, Miss Lily Evans! Miss Alison Johnson! What is you two doing here?" Blinky, the house-elf exclaimed happily.
"We came for some snacks. Are there any?" Alison asked.
"Yes Miss!" Blinky cried, running around gathering bags full of cakes and pies, cookies and candies.
"Are there by any chance any butter beers? Alison asked, licking her lips.
"Oh, butter beer!" Maria squealed in delight.
"Of course miss!" within seconds blinky came back with a few bottles of butter beer.
"Got any water?" Lily asked, scanning around.
"Yes Miss!" Blinky said, returning with mineral water.
"Uhh…. Cauldron cakes, pumpkin pies, chocolate chip cookies, candies from honeydukes, butterbeer, water… missing anything?" Alison said, looking into the bag.
"Nope, I don't think so." Lily replied.
"Oh, Miss is Miss Maria White!" Blinky cried, as he looked at Maria with awe with his big eyes.
"Uh, yes…"
"I hears things about Miss from Mister Sirius Black!" Blinky said proudly.
"What does he say about her?" Lily asked curiously.
"That Miss is very hot!" Blinky cried happily. Alison and Lily both broke into a fit of giggles, while Maria blushed shyly.
"Well, we better go. Thank you Blinky, for the food and er… information." Alison nodded.
"My pleasure, Miss! Please come back soon!" Blinky said, grinning toothily.
Alison, Lily and Maria waved and disappeared out of the kitchens and walked carefully through the hallways.
"SSHHH…. I hear footsteps." Maria whispered. She stopped them and they hide behind a suit of armor.
"I don't hear anything Maria…" Lily hissed.
"Shh… I swore I heard something…" Maria whispered. They waited there for a few minutes before quickly walking to the fat lady's portrait
"Good Evening, girls. Why are you all in your nightgowns?" The fat lady asked, raising her brow.
"Scarlet courage." Alison said. "We'll tell you later…but we need to go in now!"
"Oh, alright." The fat lady replied, swinging back to let them pass through the portrait hole.
"Okay, let's start!" Lily cried happily as she opened the door to their dorm room. She ran across the room to her bed that was the biggest from all, since she was a prefect.
"I still don't understand why you get the bigger bed." Alison muttered.
"It's practically the same as everyone's." Lily said, putting the snacks on the table next to her bed. Their two other dorm-mates were asleep.
"and it's…gossip time!" Lily cried.
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A/N: HEHE!! Okay, so there. I got my internet back, yay!! Umm… I'll write more, I promise!
ok ok…. Gotta go~~ READ AND REVIEW PPL!!
