JUST FRIENDS? JUST ENEMIES? JUST LOVERS?

A/N: Hidy ho!! OMG!!! I love you guys out there soooooooo much!!! Thank you thank you thank you for all the reviews and especially thank you to Amber who added me to her favourites list!! *Mwah* Love you, honey!

Anyway, you guys all inspired me to write this chapter so thank you very much. My exams are finito and My Trauma Teddy thing (that charity event I had to do) is over too and, surprise surprise, I'm actually not sore from walking around the city all day. Well, my legs aren't sore but my arms are. They've sorta seized up…

Anyway, I'll cut to the chase. To be honest with you all, I actually couldn't think of a prank so I just popped one up from this Friends episode I read (transcript) and combined it with some sort of funky plot line thingo (am I making any sense?) and that's how the chapter will finish.

Disclaimer: Okay, now everyone knows Harry Potter is not mine unless I miraculously transformed into J.K. Rowling which means that I would've passed my English yearly with flying colours. Actually, maybe not, unless she read To Kill A Mockingbird…

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"Lil!"

Lily whirled around to see James running up behind her. He stopped in front of her and leant on his knees for support while he caught his breath.

"Why didn't you wait for me?" he accused.

"Sorry, I was walking with Alyssa and I forgot." She apologised.

"You forgot?" he asked, shocked. "As if anyone could forget about me." He looked around. "Ah, I see, Alyssa's your imaginary friend! So you dropped me to run around with your imagination? Lily! I'm ashamed!"

Lily put her hands on her hips and opened her mouth to argue when she no longer saw the need to. Alyssa was coming towards them, a huge grin on her face and she was holding a piece of parchment in her hands.

"Hey, Lil! I found it! Isn't that…" she trailed off when she noticed James standing there. "Uh, hi! Alyssa Watson. Pleased to meet you." She smiled nervously. How could Lily possibly hang around such a cute guy and not go ga-ga over him?

James smiled lightly in reply. "Ditto… well, minus the 'Alyssa Watson' bit. Substitute that with James Potter." And she giggled. Lily's eyes darted between them like in a tennis match and cleared her throat loudly.

"Excuse me, can I see the spell?" Lily asked hotly, wondering why this feeling suddenly crept over her. For God's sake, if Alyssa wanted to go loony on her whenever she saw James, it was none of her business. Even so, she couldn't help but have a problem with it.

"Oh, yeah, sure." Alyssa handed the parchment over and James read over Lily's shoulder.

"Ummm…" James started. "Out of curiosity, who's clothes did you want to make disappear? 'Cos if it's a guy's…" he trailed off meaningfully.

Lily punched him lightly on the arm and grinned mischievously. "No, silly. It's a revenge scheme. And we're not going to make all their clothes disappear." James raised his eyebrows. "We'll let them keep their undies."

"So who?" he asked again.

"Do you know Gillian Walsh and Natasha Cook in my dorm?" James shook his head. "Well, they are such cows and we just wanted to play a little prank on them."

"Prank?" James repeated excitedly. "Do you want Sirius and I to help?"

"Actually, yes." Lily nodded. "See, I reckon at least one of the superficial snobs has the hots for you and Sirius so you can help out in phase two." James and Alyssa looked shocked.

"Phase two? Since when was there even a phase one?" Alyssa asked.

Lily grinned wickedly. "Since now."

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"Alrighty then." Lily muttered as she scanned the Gryffindor table for the two girls. "The both of them aren't hear yet. Probably still putting on their make up."

The three headed towards Sirius and Remus who were sitting there talking about God knows what. Sirius looked up and waved to them.

"Hey, guys. This is Alyssa Watson and this is Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." Lily introduced and sat down.

"So why were you so late, eh, Jamesie boy?" Sirius asked roguishly. "Too busy snogging the two lovely girls, eh?"

Lily and Alyssa both blushed an Remus winked as James cuffed Sirius on the head and knocked him into his porridge.

"No, you idiot. Lil and Alyssa were filling me in on a prank." James explained impatiently. At the word 'prank', Sirius grinned wickedly and they quickly filled the trouble maker in.

As soon as they were finished and Sirius and Remus were howling with laughter, Gillian and Natasha walked in and sat down at the opposite end of the Gryffindor table and started flirting with some fifth year boys.

The Marauders, Lily and Alyssa pointed their wands and muttered the spell in unison and bright blue flashes hurled towards the unsuspecting Natasha. James murmured another spell, this one aimed for Gillian, and they got up quickly and left the Great Hall.

"So when will this thing start working?" Sirius asked happily. The rest of the group shrugged and Sirius looked deflated. "Well I hope we're there to see it!"

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Indeed they were there to see their handiwork and it happened in Transfiguration.

Gillian had a blind spell on her so she couldn't tell if any spell happened which included, unfortunately, anything that happened in their Transfiguration class leaving a very irate Professor McGonagall.

Natasha, on the other hand, had on a charm that caused her clothes to slowly, but definitely surely, disappear. And with the spell on Gillian, Natasha would never know unless someone else told her.

During the middle of the class, the bottom of her clothes started to disappear so no one noticed except the pranksters.

Towards the end, half her clothes had disappeared. It looked as if she was wearing a midriff top and short shorts. Her robe had disappeared a while ago since it was the layer on top. Gillian noticed nothing.

When the end of class came and Natasha stood up in only her bra and underwear, the class burst out into fits of laughter. Gillian shot them all looks and Natasha seemed not to notice since she was reapplying her make up.

That was when McGonagall looked up.

She dropped the pile of books she was carrying and her mouth dropped open in shock. She rushed over to their table and glared at the two girls.

"Miss Cook!" she barked and Natasha jumped, leaving a line of pink lipstick on her cheek causing the class to laugh even louder than before. "What do you think you are doing walking around like that?" she hissed.

Natasha looked down and gasped. The Marauders were high fiving each other and McGonagall yelled at Natasha about the number of rules she was breaking, walking around half naked. Soon she got tired of it and dismissed them all.

Lily and Alyssa kept a close distance behind Gillian and Natasha who were walking back to their dorm to get some visible clothes back on Natasha.

"What do you think you're playing at?" Natasha shrieked. Lily and Alyssa jumped, assuming she was yelling at them but she was yelling at Gillian.

"What are you talking about?" she replied nervously.

"Why didn't you tell me I wasn't wearing anything?" she hissed venomously.

"I… I didn't notice any difference." She told her truthfully but Natasha went off her rocker.

"Oh! So you normally imagine me in my underwear? You're supposed to be my best friend, you pervert!" and she slammed the door in Gillian's face.

"Time to start phase two!" whispered Lily and she stepped up to Gillian who was staring miserably at the shut door.

"Hey, Gillian. We're sorry about what happened between you and Natasha, but she always seemed like more of a cow than you ever did." Lily said, her voice dripping with sarcastic honey but Gillian bought the sympathy, no questions asked.

"Yeah, thanks guys." She mumbled.

"Hey!" Alyssa suddenly cried. "Why don't you eat lunch with us?" she asked as if the idea just suddenly occurred to her.

"Really?" Gillian asked, sounding a little skeptical this time.

"Sure!" Lily and Alyssa replied in unison, eyes shining with delight.

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"Here, Gillian!" James shoved a large chicken leg onto her plate. She smiled and accepted it.

Gillian and Natasha were no longer talking to each other and that was why Gillian was hanging around the Marauders lately. Of course, the others had something more up their sleeves.

"Thanks, James." She smiled James grinned back. Lily cut into their thoughts.

"Gee, I've been gettign chubbier and chubbier lately!" she cried and pinched at her non-existent stomach. "You girls wanna go on a diet with me?" Alyssa looked pensive but Gillian shook her head.

"Nah, I don't think I need to." She said dismissively. Then stopped as James looked at her thoughtfully. "What?"

"Just… never mind." James stopped himself but Gillian poked at him to continue. "Well… you have been filling out around the middle lately…"

Gillian gasped. "I'm fat?" she cried and at that very moment a ripping sound broke out. "Oh, God!" she howled and exited the Hall crying.

"Wow..." Lily whispered. "Didn't think she'd take it so hard." And the others stared at the door guiltily.

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Gillian ran out onto the Hogwarts' grounds and curled herself up into a little miserable ball. She had no friends and she couldn't even think about trusting anyone again.

How could she have been so stupid?

It began to rain, lightly at first then thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky but Gillian still sat there, rolled up in her own misery.

Then she heard someone walking around near her. She looked up and saw no one but the footsteps drew nearer. She finally stood up, relieving the cramps in her legs and looked around.

"Who's there?" she yelled, frightened. Only her echo replied. She shivered, both from cold and fear and decided to finally return to the castle when she finally saw the person who owned the footsteps she heard.

It was someone, it looked like a man, in a black cloak. She wanted to run but something was stopping her. Then he began to speak.

"You been hurt, haven't you?" his hoarse voice cut through the silence and someone seemed to have muted the thunder and rain. She could only hear him. He spoke again when she did not answer. "Why don't you come with me for a while? It's not far and we can talk about you're little problem."

She nodded mutely then finally spoke. "Who are you?"

The man dropped down the hood of his cloak and she saw the most horrible blood red eyes she had ever seen before. He smiled evilly.

"My name is Tom, but you may call me Lord Voldemort."

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A/N: Here's another chapter! Not very amusing, I think but it's still very important as you can see. More Snape, Sirius and Remus I think in the next chapter but you never know. God I don't even know!

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Cindy