JUST FRIENDS? JUST ENEMIES? JUST LOVERS?

A/N: Haha!! I told you I'd get it out soon! XD Oh, God, I hadn't written anything for so long, I'd forgotten my formatting for it… aiya… I feel so bad now! Oh, and there is one tiny swear word in this fic (yes, my dear friends, I did swear! But it's not a word I haven't said before! In case all you readers who don't know me don't understand, I've only ever said one swear word my entire life and I've only said it three times, so yeah…)

BUT I am updating so that's OK. My friends and I were discussing about how much we hate it when people take forever to update. Yes, I was involved in this conversation and I'm sorry! Really! Truly!

Anyway, I will stop chattering away so you can actually get to the story (how many people are still reading this??).

Disclaimer: Disclaimers are one of the most pointless things sometimes I reckon. It's like, as if any of us is actually gonna stand up and say, 'yes, it's me. I wrote the wonderful series Harry Potter and instead of writing the fifth book that everyone's dying to read, I'm wasting my time writing fanfics that perhaps no one even read!' back to the point, me no own Harry Potter.

The long awaited (heehee) chapter three of JFJEJL! (whoa… a lot of J's… someone please shut me up!)

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"Woo hoo! Da da da da da da da da! Woo hoo! Da da da da-" (A/N: You know the song! The one everyone sings in the car!)

"Lily! Shut up!" James and Sirius cried in unison.

"I'm sorry! I'm just on such a high! Flying is, like, the best thing and it's a great escape and, ooh, I'm so trying out for the Quidditch team when we're allowed and I might even be good enough to get chosen! That's in second year, isn't it? Wow… can't wait until then. Did you see Snape's face when I could actually fly? Ha! Bet he never got such a shock in his life! Hey, can I borrow your quill, James? Thanks!" Lily babbled and reached over for James' quill.

Sirius and James stared at her in absolute shock and got up to leave.

"Why were we ever friends with a psycho, James?" Sirius whispered as Lily started on her 'da da da da'-ing again.

"'Cos we fell on her?" James suggested uncertainly.

"Damn… wish we could've landed on some great looking girl…"

"Lily's pretty!" James said hotly and blushed scarlet as Sirius stared at him, eyes widening happily.

"Ooooooh! James has a crush on Li-ly! James has a crush on Li-" he began to sing but was hurriedly hushed by James who closed his mouth with his hand. Lily turned around and went back to her work when James signalled that Sirius was just insane.

Sirius looked pissed and bit down hard on James finger.

"OW!" he screamed and Lily got up.

"What happened?" she asked, shocked.

"I told you he was insane! He bit me!" James shouted, pointing at Sirius.

"You called me a psycho!" Sirius threw back hotly.

"Guys, calm down! James apologises for calling you insane and Sirius apologises for biting your finger." Lily shouted over the both of them.

"Fine." They huffed in unison but Sirius continued to glare and James nursed his hand. Lily sighed and brightened.

"Hey! Could we play a trick on Snape?" she suggested excitedly. James and Sirius grinned and nodded. They huddled together and came up with a great idea.

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"Ready?"

"Ready!"

James, Sirius and Lily walked into the Great Hall at breakfast the next morning, rather nonchalantly (obviously meaning there was something to worry about) and sat down near Remus and quickly whispered their plans to him. He laughed loudly and agreed to help them out.

"Okay, on the count of three. One… two… three!" four wands were pointed towards Snape sitting at the Slytherin table. A bright pink flash headed towards and hit him in the back. He jumped up and howled.

The Hall fell silent as he started hopping around like mad. He jumped onto the Slytherin table, jumping into the bacon, eggs, toast, jam, milk jugs and everything else on it, leaving some very peeved and messy Slytherins.

Suddenly, he stopped and jumped onto the floor and looked to be heading towards the Hufflepuff table and all the students jumped up and ran from the table until they were out of hitting distance.

But Snape wasn't headed there. He continued walking until he was at the High Table and went down on bended knee in front of Dumbledore.

"Dear, Headmaster!" he cried in a voice an octave higher than his usual voice. "How lovely you look today! You silvery white hair illuminates the whole room and your twinkling eyes bore holes into my heart!" Snape suddenly stopped and appeared to have finally regained his senses and control over himself.

But, of course, the damage had been done. The entire Hall exploded with laughter, bar a few Slytherins. Dumbledore was looking mighty chuffed with himself and replied to this outburst, 'Why, Mr. Snape! I never knew you felt this way!"

That was the last straw. Snape got up and hurried out of the Hall. People were still rolling around with laughter, crying with tears of mirth.

Amidst all of this, James, Sirius, Remus and Lily slapped high fives.

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Snape could hardly show his face around the school for a week after the Dumbledore incident and many people in the halls were curious as to when the Marauders would again pull a hilarious stunt like that.

"We are so good! We are so good! Who are the greatest?"

"WE ARE!"

"Damn tooting!" Sirius cried.

Lily was amazed at how good her life was now. She was hanging out with the most popular boys in the school, she herself was actually popular, her grades were good, the teachers were nice… but she was missing something.

While she had been at Hogwarts, she hadn't really spoken to any of the girls in her dorm. She needed a girl friend. It's the basic essential for a sane teenage girl and she knew she didn't want to end up being the female version of Sirius.

She went up to her dorm that night and saw Gillian Walsh, a pretty blonde girl, sitting on her bed, reading a magazine.

"Hey." called Lily. Gillian didn't even look up. "Hey." she tried again and this time Gillian acknowledged her presence.

"Oh, are you talking to me?" she asked.

"Yeah, considering there's no one else in the room."

"Oh, well… you know… with all the stuff people have been saying, I wouldn't be surprised if you were talking to yourself." Gillian shrugged. Lily nodded then started shaking her head.

"Whoa! Back up one moment, honey! What have people been saying?"

Gillian gasped and put her hand to her mouth. "You mean you haven't heard?"

At that very moment, Natasha Cook, a petite brunette, entered the room and waved.

"Hey, dudettes!" she called and flopped down on her bed. "Gil, never go out with Tom. He's such a prick."

Gillian's attention was diverted from Lily. "Really, what'd he do?"

"Hello?!" Lily exclaimed and the other girls stared at her.

"Hi…" Natasha replied slowly.

"What have people been saying about me???" Lily exploded. Gillian and Natasha shot each other looks and Lily stood there, tapping her feet impatiently.

"Fine! I will tell her!" Natasha looked her straight in the eyes. "People think you're crazy."

"Oh." Lily said. "Is that it? 'Cos, to some extent, I am."

"Oh, no!" Gillian waved her hand dismissively. "Not as in crazy as in look-at-me-I'm-so-high-and-bonkers-and-I-like-to-play-pranks-on-people crazy. We're talking I-see-dead-people crazy. You know what I'm talking about?"

"Oh." Lily said again. "Oh, well." She got up to leave but Natasha and Gillian stopped her.

"Oh?" they asked in unison. "Is that all you can say?"

"… Yup!" Lily replied and pushed past them. Then she heard their voices behind her.

"You failed, Evans!" they called. She stopped in her tracks and whirled around, fury began surging through her.

"Failed? Failed what?" she asked hotly. The girls laughed.

"We do the same 'people think you're crazy' scam to a lot of girls and if you react the right way, we accept you into the folds of sisterhood." They held out their arms and from both their wrists dangled delicate silver bracelets.

"Oh, so this is like some trick?" Lily asked innocently and the girls nodded. Her façade changed so swiftly that the girls didn't even have enough time to step back. Lily positively shouted almost as loud as a Howler, "YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO GO AROUND TREATING GIRLS LIKE THAT! I HOPE YOUR LITTLE CLUB IS CALLED THE BITCHES BRIGADE OR THE COW CLUB 'COS THAT'S HOW EVERYONE IS GOING TO THINK OF YOU!"

She slowed down her heart rate to a regular speed and stomped out of the room. She began muttering to herself until there came a hesitant tap on her shoulder.

She turned around and came face to face with another girl in her dorm – Alyssa Watson. She was a fairly ordinary looking brunette but the way Lily was thinking right now, she was more beautiful than the two girls still lying on the ground in shock on her dorm floor.

"Hey, Alyssa." She greeted with a smile and Alyssa slowly returned it.

"Sorry to hear you got caught up in that trap. So did I but I didn't think they'd try it again, not after I shouted at them." Lily looked at the girl in shock. Alyssa? Shouting? Get outta town! "But I didn't shout anywhere as loudly as you did." Ah, the mists are clearing. She barely shouted in a normal person terms.

"Yeah. Well, bugger them." She laughed and held out her hand for Alyssa to shake. Alyssa grinned and gratefully shook it. Then an evil glint came to her eyes and Lily was definitely shocked to see it.

"Well… I was thinking of coming up to you with this idea before… you know, after the whole Snape thing…" Alyssa admitted hesitantly.

"What? A prank?" Lily asked, stunned. Well, Lily supposed, never judge a book by its cover.

"Yeah, it could do with a little modifying but it goes a little something like this…"

As Lily talked to her, she gradually realised she had finally found the friend she was looking for, along with the perfect prank to pull on the Cow Club.

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A/N: Haha! That'll do you guys, I hope! Since I uploaded this relatively early, you might get a new chapter (operative word there – 'might') in a couple of weeks, when this one was originally supposed to come out!

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Le gra go deo,

Cindy