Disclaimer: Oh Potter, you rotter, oh what have you done? You're creating fanfic writers, they think it's quite fun. They don't own anything because they're quite sad, but really this poem is rather quite bad.

A Cinderella Story

Chapter Two ll The Time Of Announcing

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"What are you doing here?" Lily exclaimed angrily, clutching her pillow to her chest.

"I... I dunno," James said rather innocently, "I heard some rumors and... I wanted to know if they were true."

"Yeah?" Lily quirked an eyebrow, still holding her pillow for protection, "What kind of rumors?"

"That you're going to be my partner in crime."

"Your partner in what?" Lily repeated, dumbfounded.

"That you're Head Girl," James translated in plain English.

"Oh. Well, I heard some pretty nasty rumors as well, and I hope they aren't true," Lily said, her voice dripping in simperingly sweet sarcasm, "Because if they are, I might blow the roof off the Great Hall."

"Oh, yeah? What kind of rumors?" James said, mimicking Lily.

"That you're Head Boy," she said through clenched teeth.

"Yes, yes I am," James said cheerily, showing all his pearly whites.

She just glared at him murderously.

"Well," James took a step towards the window and looked outside, "I don't see the Great Hall's roof flying around..."

"Potter, sod off," Lily had slid off her bed and was now pointing her wand at him, "I mean it!"

"You have to come with."

"What?"

"We need to go to the Great Hall because they're announcing us. You don't want to be late, do you? Surely not!" James feigned shock, "I mean, your badge might be taken away from you!"

There was too much truth in this for Lily to make him fly into a wall. So she simply glared daggers at him and he looked down at her, his eyebrows raised.

"Well, are you coming?"

"Fine," Lily mumbled, shoving her wand in her pocket.

In stony silence, the two went back to the common-room which was almost empty. Then they went down to the Great Hall where it was almost full. Lily made a beeline for Joey and Namie, but was stopped midway by Dori.

"LILY! AHHH! I'm sorry I didn't sit with you on the Hogwarts Express, but Namie just told me--Head Girl!" Dori squealed and hugged Lily tightly. She tried smiling at the somewhat hyper Japanese girl standing in front of her.

"Hi Dori, it's all right. Yeah, Head Girl!" Lily gave a fake chuckle as she felt sick on the inside, "Listen--I really need to sit down, are you coming?"

Dori shook her head, "Nah, I need to go sit back with my House," she glanced over at the Ravenclaw table, "Oh, hi James," she said a bit stiffly, noticing the tall, black-haired boy staring at the pair.

"Err, hi," James said awkwardly, smiling a bit too charmingly. Lily rolled her eyes in disgust, bid Dori farewell and flopped into the spot beside Joey.

"You might want to smile a little," murmured Joey, "Otherwise everyone will be scared of the mean, nasty, snarling Head Girl."

Lily hitched on a very forced smile that looked terrible.

"Okay, just don't smile," Namie said after a while, making a face.

The first-years came in and were sorted accordingly. Then Dumbledore stood up as per usual and extended his warm welcome's and welcome back's. After a bit of rule-reminding, he looked around appraisingly and said, "I am delighted to announce this year's Heads."

James smiled smugly and Sirius nudged him and started to mock applaud.

"This year's Head Boy... James Potter."

He stood up, grinning and bowing as everyone applauded and a couple of girls screamed, "GO JAMES!"

Lily rolled her eyes.

"And working alongside, the Head Girl, Lily Evans!"

The redhead stood up and managed to smile convincingly enough so that everyone applauded. Remus and Sirius' jaw dropped open.

"You're going to be working with her?" Sirius exclaimed indignantly, "That's bloody mental, you two loathe each other!"

James just continued to smile indulgently as he stood up, occasionally glancing at Lily who was standing at the other end of the table.

"Talk--later," he murmured out of the corner of his mouth.

"Whoo, Lily Evans and James Potter, partners in crime," Joey murmured in mock celebration.

"Joey--shut--up," Lily murmured out of the corner of her mouth, still smiling at everyone.

The feast started and the hall was full of laughter and talk as everyone helped themselves to food. Lily realised she had no appetite and pretended to enjoy a couple of chicken wings before announcing she was going to bed.

"Already?" Namie said, aghast, "Well, have you at least spoken to Dori yet?"

"Yeah, I ran into her a bit before," Lily said distractedly.

"We haven't had dessert yet!" exclaimed Joey indignantly, "And that's the best part!"

"I'll make up for it tomorrow," Lily said dismissively, "Well... good night."

As soon as she had left the hall, Joey muttered distantly, "James becoming Head Boy must be hitting her quite hard..."

Lily changed into her PJ's and sighed as she crawled into bed. The dormitory was dim and she didn't feel the least bit tired. She just couldn't believe that he of all people had been chosen to become Head Boy. Head Boy was meant for responsible, mature people; not people like him!

Lily continued to rant silently in her head, and she tossed and turned restlessly. She must've stayed like that for twenty minutes before an echoing BOOM! and a thunderous low rumble from somewhere in the castle made her sit bolt right up.

She could hear distant screaming and yelling, that was probably coming from the Great Hall. There was the thundering of steps as people ran around wildly from the floors below.

I wonder what happened... she thought, half-wishing she was still down in the hall.

Lily tried to shut out the commotion and willed herself to sleep. No sooner than when she was about to drop off, the door to her dormitory flew open and in ran four gasping girls.

"Oh, Merlin!" gasped Joey, who Lily noticed was also laughing through her panting, "That was bloody incredible!"

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A/N: Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Heads are informed they are... Heads through their letters, and they also get their badges. It's just they aren't officially announced 'till the feast. :) Anywho, that was a sort of a cliffhanger! :) Well, keep reading and reviewing! --MSQ.