CHAPTER 2: GETTING A LITTLE CRAZIER
"I am not going to fall asleep," I mumbled under my breath. But the fluttering of my eyelashes and my periodic yawns told me otherwise.
I was having a blast in Professor Binns class, which is just so INTERESTING and ENTERTAINING it should be outlawed. NOT! Well, it should be outlawed for the danger of dying from boredom. A few weeks had passed by since 6th year started, but it already felt like we'd been back for months. Right now though, I felt I had been in this class for centuries........
Just as my eyes were dangerously close to closing, I heard a snort and felt someone tap me.
"This is what happens when people wake up early. There's no such thing as the early bird catches the worm. Unless you really WANT to catch a worm. Now snap out of it!" Kate said smugly, not even bothering to lower her voice since we had found out this year that Professor Binns had some sort of hearing problem that he had no idea about.
I gave a small glare and said "I'm NOT falling asleep. I am perfectly fine and am listening to every word that comes out of that droll man's mouth,"
"Oh no, of course you weren't," She said sarcastically before going back to staring out the window.
I glumly picked up my head and looked around the room; It was actually a pretty funny sight. Professor Binns was floating around, his back turned to us, lecturing to the world, while we all goofed off, slept, ate, did homework, etc.
Majandra was in the middle of trying to charm her glasses invisible, which wasn't working to well. She was, however, able to charm her nose invisible while I was watching. She yelped and cupped her hand around it, before running out of the room, probably to the nurse, without even catching Professor Binns attention.
Sirius was busy trying to teach Remus how to make spit balls while Peter was using his wand to change James into different colors. First he was blue, then pink, then maroon, then red, then a sort of periwinkle, and then when since Peter got bored with it, stayed that way. (Hmmm, maybe I should do that to my hair...)And James- Oh my g-d, could it be true!
I tapped Kate ferociously and said "Is James doing what I think he's doing?"
Kate looked over to what I saw and widened her eyes dramatically "Dare I say he's taking notes?!"
It was true, though. James, Mr. I'm- too- cool-for-school, was there at his desk, scribbling away, hanging on to Professor Binns every word. SCARY. He used to never be like that. James was always goofing off, never caring about his marks until, obviously, this year. He never failed, but he never did all too good.
"He's acting like a zombie," I whispered back to Kate.
"Zombie? What's zombie?" she asked, bewildered.
I giggled. I was always forgetting that Kate wasn't used to muggle things and always mentioning them only to add to her confusion.
"Its a made up muggle creature," I explained to her "a sort of monster that acts like its hypnotized or something,"
"Oh," she said, nodding as if she understood what I was saying when clearly, she didn't.
Finally, and I stress FINALLY, class ended. I gathered my many books and began to file out of the room when all of the sudden my bag split into two. My carefully organized books and papers went flying everywhere. I saw all my hard work flush down the drain.
"Why me? All my hard work and hours of quiet concentration gone! I may as well be dead." I vocalized, narrowing my eyes and holding my head in my hands in my head for a few moments. However, when I moved my hands away I saw a boy with messy black hair gathering up my things.
"I wouldn't go that far," he joked, handing me some papers
Why was James doing that? Was he trying to take it? Did he think it was his or something? Or was he trying to make a not-so-funny prank?
The rustling of the papers interrupted my thoughts and I blurted out "Hey- hey, that's mine!"
James's brown eyes looked up at me as he turned around and said "Yeah, I know. I was just helping you get them together,"
"Oh," I said feeling, well: stupid, dumb, retarded, whichever word you want to pick. "Thanks,"
I bent down to join him in getting my papers. We gathered them quickly and I stuffed them ruefully under my arms. I'd reorganize them later; we were late enough.
Then we began to walk to the next class, James striding purposely next to my lazy trudging self. He broke the silence by saying "Sorry for what I said yesterday. It was pretty obnoxious of me,"
I looked over at him to see if he meant what he was saying, or if it was another stupid joke. He seemed sincere; his face was crinkled in a nervous fashion and he looked anxious to see if I would forgive him. He ran a hand a hand nervously through his hair and then straightened his glasses. He always did that when he was nervous. Why do I know that? Don't ask me why, I have no clue but I just do. Call me observant, I guess.
"Yeah, it was," I finally said shooting him a piercing look; not unforgiving, yet not too kind. "Did you really mean all that stuff?"
"Nah, I was just being a jerk," he said grinning shamefully "You're not uptight. But the teacher's pet thing.....,"
"Hey, it's not my fault all the teachers just happen to notice my perfectness," I smiled to show that the "fight" was over, and that I had forgiven him. The poor guy was scared enough. I'd give him another chance.
James's face immediately relaxed and he grinned back at me saying " Or maybe its because you suck up to them so much that I wouldn't be surprised if you had a shrine of Professor Binns in your room complete with one of his many tupays(a/n: how do you spell that?) and his drawl that goes on and on!"
"Well then, can you please tell me why in Binn's class, I ,the teacher's pet, was sleeping while YOU were listening so intently I was beginning to think Professor Binns was part veela!"
"WHAT? I just want to bring my grade up a bit,"
"Seriously?" I asked. I had a sudden urge to check my ear and see if there was wax in it because that is not something James Potter would say, but since I knew I would look like a total moron if I did it, I suppressed the desire.
"Yeah, actually,"
All right, The world had gone bonkers. Any minute now the sky would fall down. Soon Sirius would be saying that. I shuddered at the thought. If that ever happened......................lets just say, that will NEVER happen.
"Why? Last year you never cared about that kind of thing," I said, voicing my curiosity.
"I don't know. I just started thinking that if I want to get a good job or get into the ministry I gotta bring my grades up (TOTAL UN-JAMES LIKE. Sorry, I just had to cut in and say that). Plus with what happened over the summer and my- wait a second! Why is everyone laughing at me?"
I giggled. It was true. As we walked on people were pointing at James and laughing. Even theses puny little girls who worshipped James and even had a small shrine for him in their room (As a prefect I had had to help them settle in and had seen the whole horrible making of it) were laughing.
"Um, I hate to break it to you but you're kind of periwinkle,"
As usual, being my honest, perfect, lovable self except for one tiny detail: I did not hate saying that at all. Hmmpph, served him right. Revenge is sweet.
"You don't hate it at all," James said, joking in an annoyed manner as he glared at me "You're loving it, aren't you?"
I smiled my sweetest at him and fluttered my eyelashes like I'd seen all those dopey airhead girls do. Hehe..I can be very mean sometimes.........
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"I am not going to fall asleep," I mumbled under my breath. But the fluttering of my eyelashes and my periodic yawns told me otherwise.
I was having a blast in Professor Binns class, which is just so INTERESTING and ENTERTAINING it should be outlawed. NOT! Well, it should be outlawed for the danger of dying from boredom. A few weeks had passed by since 6th year started, but it already felt like we'd been back for months. Right now though, I felt I had been in this class for centuries........
Just as my eyes were dangerously close to closing, I heard a snort and felt someone tap me.
"This is what happens when people wake up early. There's no such thing as the early bird catches the worm. Unless you really WANT to catch a worm. Now snap out of it!" Kate said smugly, not even bothering to lower her voice since we had found out this year that Professor Binns had some sort of hearing problem that he had no idea about.
I gave a small glare and said "I'm NOT falling asleep. I am perfectly fine and am listening to every word that comes out of that droll man's mouth,"
"Oh no, of course you weren't," She said sarcastically before going back to staring out the window.
I glumly picked up my head and looked around the room; It was actually a pretty funny sight. Professor Binns was floating around, his back turned to us, lecturing to the world, while we all goofed off, slept, ate, did homework, etc.
Majandra was in the middle of trying to charm her glasses invisible, which wasn't working to well. She was, however, able to charm her nose invisible while I was watching. She yelped and cupped her hand around it, before running out of the room, probably to the nurse, without even catching Professor Binns attention.
Sirius was busy trying to teach Remus how to make spit balls while Peter was using his wand to change James into different colors. First he was blue, then pink, then maroon, then red, then a sort of periwinkle, and then when since Peter got bored with it, stayed that way. (Hmmm, maybe I should do that to my hair...)And James- Oh my g-d, could it be true!
I tapped Kate ferociously and said "Is James doing what I think he's doing?"
Kate looked over to what I saw and widened her eyes dramatically "Dare I say he's taking notes?!"
It was true, though. James, Mr. I'm- too- cool-for-school, was there at his desk, scribbling away, hanging on to Professor Binns every word. SCARY. He used to never be like that. James was always goofing off, never caring about his marks until, obviously, this year. He never failed, but he never did all too good.
"He's acting like a zombie," I whispered back to Kate.
"Zombie? What's zombie?" she asked, bewildered.
I giggled. I was always forgetting that Kate wasn't used to muggle things and always mentioning them only to add to her confusion.
"Its a made up muggle creature," I explained to her "a sort of monster that acts like its hypnotized or something,"
"Oh," she said, nodding as if she understood what I was saying when clearly, she didn't.
Finally, and I stress FINALLY, class ended. I gathered my many books and began to file out of the room when all of the sudden my bag split into two. My carefully organized books and papers went flying everywhere. I saw all my hard work flush down the drain.
"Why me? All my hard work and hours of quiet concentration gone! I may as well be dead." I vocalized, narrowing my eyes and holding my head in my hands in my head for a few moments. However, when I moved my hands away I saw a boy with messy black hair gathering up my things.
"I wouldn't go that far," he joked, handing me some papers
Why was James doing that? Was he trying to take it? Did he think it was his or something? Or was he trying to make a not-so-funny prank?
The rustling of the papers interrupted my thoughts and I blurted out "Hey- hey, that's mine!"
James's brown eyes looked up at me as he turned around and said "Yeah, I know. I was just helping you get them together,"
"Oh," I said feeling, well: stupid, dumb, retarded, whichever word you want to pick. "Thanks,"
I bent down to join him in getting my papers. We gathered them quickly and I stuffed them ruefully under my arms. I'd reorganize them later; we were late enough.
Then we began to walk to the next class, James striding purposely next to my lazy trudging self. He broke the silence by saying "Sorry for what I said yesterday. It was pretty obnoxious of me,"
I looked over at him to see if he meant what he was saying, or if it was another stupid joke. He seemed sincere; his face was crinkled in a nervous fashion and he looked anxious to see if I would forgive him. He ran a hand a hand nervously through his hair and then straightened his glasses. He always did that when he was nervous. Why do I know that? Don't ask me why, I have no clue but I just do. Call me observant, I guess.
"Yeah, it was," I finally said shooting him a piercing look; not unforgiving, yet not too kind. "Did you really mean all that stuff?"
"Nah, I was just being a jerk," he said grinning shamefully "You're not uptight. But the teacher's pet thing.....,"
"Hey, it's not my fault all the teachers just happen to notice my perfectness," I smiled to show that the "fight" was over, and that I had forgiven him. The poor guy was scared enough. I'd give him another chance.
James's face immediately relaxed and he grinned back at me saying " Or maybe its because you suck up to them so much that I wouldn't be surprised if you had a shrine of Professor Binns in your room complete with one of his many tupays(a/n: how do you spell that?) and his drawl that goes on and on!"
"Well then, can you please tell me why in Binn's class, I ,the teacher's pet, was sleeping while YOU were listening so intently I was beginning to think Professor Binns was part veela!"
"WHAT? I just want to bring my grade up a bit,"
"Seriously?" I asked. I had a sudden urge to check my ear and see if there was wax in it because that is not something James Potter would say, but since I knew I would look like a total moron if I did it, I suppressed the desire.
"Yeah, actually,"
All right, The world had gone bonkers. Any minute now the sky would fall down. Soon Sirius would be saying that. I shuddered at the thought. If that ever happened......................lets just say, that will NEVER happen.
"Why? Last year you never cared about that kind of thing," I said, voicing my curiosity.
"I don't know. I just started thinking that if I want to get a good job or get into the ministry I gotta bring my grades up (TOTAL UN-JAMES LIKE. Sorry, I just had to cut in and say that). Plus with what happened over the summer and my- wait a second! Why is everyone laughing at me?"
I giggled. It was true. As we walked on people were pointing at James and laughing. Even theses puny little girls who worshipped James and even had a small shrine for him in their room (As a prefect I had had to help them settle in and had seen the whole horrible making of it) were laughing.
"Um, I hate to break it to you but you're kind of periwinkle,"
As usual, being my honest, perfect, lovable self except for one tiny detail: I did not hate saying that at all. Hmmpph, served him right. Revenge is sweet.
"You don't hate it at all," James said, joking in an annoyed manner as he glared at me "You're loving it, aren't you?"
I smiled my sweetest at him and fluttered my eyelashes like I'd seen all those dopey airhead girls do. Hehe..I can be very mean sometimes.........
A/n: GOOD? i hope so!! PLEASE R/R! I WORKED HARD!!! I may not update for a while though b/c of finals, ect......but i willl as soon as possible1!!!!! 5 more reviews b4 i update...k?
OH YES AND THANX TO:
Hallie: thanx so much! I'm glad u think my story hold attention....i hope it does!
Dragonqueen*aratthond: thanx! I read your story, its cool.
ME: hope this was soon enough!
Pigs*In*A*Blanket: THANKYOOU!!!ITS NOT AS GOOD AS YOUR FIC!!! PLEASE UPDATE!!k??
Y.Kaung: glad you thought it was great.
Princess Tangawine: I updated as soon as possible. BTW, i love glimpse!
Snoopy511: Glad u liked it! Its actually funny b/c i am soooo not like Lily. I am the messiest person u could EVER meet.
Katy Kat: cute sn! thanx!
Lexxy: I have good charecterization??! Yay! I r/r ur story.
Scarlett*Eyes: Yay! My story is funny. THANX!