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Open To Interpretation
The Graduation Ball was less than a month away. Which also meant that everyone's exams were in two weeks. Everyone was extremely panicked, including the Marauders much to Sirius's annoyance.
"Come on guys! It's just exams!" Sirius cried in frustration. Remus, James and Peter were hunched over books, parchment, assignments, and notes, anything that could help them.
"Padfoot, you git," James looked up at him, "You realise this is the rest of our lives here? How much we put in these next two weeks could shape our future."
"There's the Head Boy that has been mysteriously absent all our lives!" Arabella sat down next to Sirius, her head also in a book. "Dumbledore isn't the crazy ol' fool we thought him to be!"
"Right. Time to shut up now." Remus popped his head up and grinned at them all.
"James," Lily came in from the portrait, "Dumbledore needs to see us in his office." She walked out again and everyone turned to James.
"Don't want to hear it." He ordered, following Lily out of the common room.
~*~
"What did you want to see us about, Sir?" Despite Lily having a head start on James, he had managed to get to the Headmasters office at the same time.
"Take a seat." Dumbledore invited them in. "Now I understand that exams are very near," The Headmaster started as James and Lily sat down, "But you two aren't the Head students for no reason. Each year we hold the Graduation Ball, and each year it is up to the two Head students to organise it. With the help of the prefects and if necessary, the Professors." Dumbledore paused and waited for his announcement to sink in. "Of course though, it will be much easier this year because the two of you get along marvellously!" Dumbledore chuckled, clearly enjoying their discomfort.
"The Graduation Ball is on the 28th. I hope it is a good one." James and Lily stood up, seeing this as their dismissal.
"Yes, Professor. It will be."
James and Lily walked back to the Gryffindor Tower in silence, both of them acutely aware of the presence of the other.
"We should work out what we're going to do tonight and call a prefect meeting for either tomorrow or Sunday." James broke the silence.
"Okay, then." Lily said quietly, "I'll meet you in the common room at eight." They continued to walk in silence.
When the two of them walked into the common room, all eyes turned to them expectantly. Lily walked up to her dorm, quickly followed by Jessabelle and Arabella while the Marauder's crowded around James.
"Lils, what is it?" Arabella asked as Lily flopped face down on top of her bed.
"It's bad!" She whinged, turning around so she was lying on her back, "Dumbledore said that every year the two heads have to organise the Grad. Ball."
"Woold ya like some cheese with that whi-ine?" Jessabelle drawled.
"Not funny Jess." Lily glared at her.
"Come on Lily. You've never complained about something this insignificant before!" Arabella protested.
"How is this insignificant? I practically threw myself at James and he said 'Sorry but you're not my type.' " Lily put on a low voice to imitate James.
"You did not! And he didn't say that. Stop it Lily, everyone knows that James regrets what he said and you just have to rise above it!" Jessabelle said trying to calm Lily down.
"Everyone knows?!?!" Lily yelled.
"No! She didn't mean that. She just means that everyone knows that James wants to go back to being friends with you!" Arabella explained.
"Ugh, this is hopeless." Lily started banging her head on the pillow, "And," Bang "Dumbledore" Bang "Knew" Smack. "Ow! What the hell was that?" Lily sat up looking around confused.
"Come on Lils. You're 17 now. You're the Head Girl. You're one of the smartest witches attending Hogwarts-"
"Yeh, it's not hard!" Lily looked at the other two girls.
"COW!!!" Arabella got a pillow of the nearest bed and started smacking Lily around the head with it.
"Here we were being the nicest friends in the history of friendship and that's how you return it!" Jessabelle started whacking Lily with a pillow as well.
"I'm sorry! It was a joke! I swear!!!" Lily held her hands up to shield her face.
"Don't swear! What kind of example would you set for the other little Hogwartigans?" Arabella reminded Lily.
"Hogwartigans?" Lily and Jessabelle both turned to Arabella who turned red.
"It's Sirius's word!" She tried to defend herself.
"NO! He's rubbing off on you! Jess, what will we do with her?"
"Try and knock some sense into her?" Jessabelle smirked.
"Good idea!" Lily grabbed the pillow off of Arabella and started to hit her with it, followed by an attack from Jessabelle. If you were to ask why there were feathers surrounding every inch of their dorm, they would reply that they didn't know either.
~*~*~*~*
"Okay, so it's going to be formal?" James asked Lily. The common room had been too crowded so they had decided to move to the Library.
"It's a Ball, James. Yes it's going to be formal." Lily sighed.
"But wizard-style or muggle-style?" He replied, frowning at her.
"I don't know. How many people would be able to get muggle style formal wear in 3 weeks time?" Lily answered.
"Good point. Why don't we give them a choice? You can come in either one. It just has to be formal."
"Alright." Lily shrugged.
They discussed music, food, drink and the duration of the Ball, each time Lily would make little if any contribution, getting James more and more annoyed with her.
"Look Lily. If we want to get anything done, you need to help! I know I hurt you but that was while ago. Can you please forget it just while we try and work on this?" James begged her.
"What makes you think that you hurt me?" Lily demanded.
"If I hadn't then we would still be friends. Please Lily," James reached over and held one of her hands, "You were one of my best friends, you still are. Can't we go back to that?" Lily looked at him, debating what to do.
"We'll have the prefect meeting tomorrow, in the morning, if it needs to be longer it won't matter as much." Lily stood up and James let go of her hand as she packed her things up and left.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
It wasn't until there first exam was the next day that Sirius realised if he wanted to get anywhere in life, he would need to pass his NEWTS. So while everyone was taking a break, Sirius was going over every single note he could get his hands on.
"I'm glad History's our first exam. Urgh, what if it was last! Imagine doing that one on a Friday afternoon while everyone else was out on the school grounds!" Arabella was sitting upside down on an armchair, her feet up in the air.
"We don't have any exams on Friday afternoon, Bella." Lily muttered, flipping through a book.
"Over-saturation, Miss Evans, is not what you want." Remus took the book Lily was looking at away from her. "Charms? Like you need any help with that!"
"Oh screw you." Lily joked.
"Now Lily. We all know that's Jess's job!" Arabella jumped up and ran up to the closest dorm, followed by an extremely red Jessabelle yelling 'I'm going to kill you!!!'
"Moony! Do we want to know what that's about?" James turned to Remus.
"Actually we do. Lily, we're all very interested to know." Remus grinned at her, only the slightest bit of embarrassment shown on his cheeks.
"HELP ME!! SHE'S MAD!!!" Arabella ran into the common room and then out again, with Jessabelle following, holding a weapon of sorts in her hand.
Jessabelle paused in front of them, "None of you are going to miss her at all, are you??" She looked around at all of them, not meeting Remus's eyes. "Good, that's what I thought!" She continued out of the common room again, in pursuit of Arabella.
"I'm not sure, Remus. Why don't you explain it to us?" Lily continued on the conversation from before they were interrupted, grinning back.
"I'm totally clueless-"
"No you're not," Sirius piped in, "James is the clueless one around here." They all went silent, clearly knowing what Sirius was referring to.
"Right, well, I'm going to make sure Bella is still alive." Lily stood and walked out of the room.
"Thanks Padfoot. Nicely done." James muttered, but Sirius didn't hear. He was already engrossed in some new notes he had found.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Your exam starts......now."
"You may begin the exam."
"One slip up could mean the loss of a limb. Good Luck."
"And remember, NO CHEATING!"
~*~
"Quills down."
"Add no more ingredients. If you are not finish, you have failed."
"Wands down!"
"One move, and I will have to fail you."
"QUILLS DOWN!!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"We finished!!! We finished!!! NO MORE SCHOOL!!!!!!" Arabella and Jessabelle were dancing around in circles out by the lake.
"You don't think it's a little sad? Seven years, gone. We've practically lived here for SEVEN years and it's all over!" Lily sat down under a tree near the lake.
"Lils! We have so much time to be depressed!! Be happy now, sad later!!" Arabella pulled her up and they made her jump around with them.
"WHOO HOO!!!! WE MADE IT!" Sirius came running towards the girls with the rest of the Marauder's following behind. He grabbed Arabella round the waist and swung her in circles. Soon they were all jumping, running and hugging each other. Whatever the outcome of the exams, they couldn't take it back now.
(A/N: I was going to end it there but decided not to ^_^ )
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Today, today, today is the day. The day, the day, the day of the Ball--"
"Shutup Bella! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Lily shouted at Arabella who was dancing around the dorm with an imaginary partner.
"Ahh, my dear friend, aren't you supposed to be organising the Ball?" She answered calmly.
"Shit a brick." Lily jumped out of bed and ran around getting ready.
"You're coming back to get ready with us aren't you Lils?" Jessabelle said sleepily from across the room.
"Course I am, Jess. Gotta go. Buh bye!" Lily ran out of the room.
~*~*~*
"Okay, so because dinner is earlier for all the younger students, that gives us an hour to get everything done, if we get it ready now." Lily told the prefects who were sitting in the antechamber (A/N: I think I wrote anteroom in another chap, but yeh its 'sposed to be chamber.) off the Great Hall.
"Um, Lily. The younger students should be finished dinner by six. The ball doesn't start until eight. Doesn't that leave us with two hours?" James asked cautiously.
"I don't know when you plan on getting ready James, or getting to Gryffindor and back, but I'm being logical here. And if we need more time, we have it." She stared at him squarely. The other prefects looked between the two, they had noticed how short Lily was being with James since they had begun working on the Graduation Ball.
"Fair enough." James sighed in defeat. He didn't want to make a scene in front of the other prefects. Besides, he thought, only 3 more days and we won't have to see each other again. James looked at Lily who was giving jobs to the other prefects to do. Knowing that he didn't have to see Lily again after school didn't comfort him as he thought it would. Instead it made him rather depressed. He sighed again before standing up, "What do you want me to do Lily?"
She shrugged, "Whatever you think needs doing James." and then walked off to charm some lights. James ran his hands through his hair. He really needed to settle this before they left Hogwarts.
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Author's Note: On the good ship..lollipop..la da da di da.right, well Fanfic's been down so I couldn't get this up.lol, should only be one more chapter then an epilogue then, wah la! All done.
I'm wondering if I made Lily a bit mean but yeh, I couldn't have her being nice to poor confused James. That would be a bit unrealistic.Anyways, I'm off! Still open to prank ideas if you have any!
Thankyou to:
Truechinook: Poor James is confused! He's confusing his feelings for friendship. #Shhh meg you're giving it away!# Anyway, thanks for the prank idea! I'll try and include it in the story!
Oliverwoodschic: Thanks!
Briseis: He will, but hopefully Lily will be kind enough to forgive him.I haven't decided yet *winks*
buggy-such: Don't worry, I don't have any ideas for a prank either!!!! And I think you did say you liked the story but I never get tired of hearing it!!! Thanks!!
Jlee: lol, thanks! One of the best compliments I've ever received! I only wish I could do that for public speaking *shudders*
You rule, doods!
meg
Open To Interpretation
The Graduation Ball was less than a month away. Which also meant that everyone's exams were in two weeks. Everyone was extremely panicked, including the Marauders much to Sirius's annoyance.
"Come on guys! It's just exams!" Sirius cried in frustration. Remus, James and Peter were hunched over books, parchment, assignments, and notes, anything that could help them.
"Padfoot, you git," James looked up at him, "You realise this is the rest of our lives here? How much we put in these next two weeks could shape our future."
"There's the Head Boy that has been mysteriously absent all our lives!" Arabella sat down next to Sirius, her head also in a book. "Dumbledore isn't the crazy ol' fool we thought him to be!"
"Right. Time to shut up now." Remus popped his head up and grinned at them all.
"James," Lily came in from the portrait, "Dumbledore needs to see us in his office." She walked out again and everyone turned to James.
"Don't want to hear it." He ordered, following Lily out of the common room.
~*~
"What did you want to see us about, Sir?" Despite Lily having a head start on James, he had managed to get to the Headmasters office at the same time.
"Take a seat." Dumbledore invited them in. "Now I understand that exams are very near," The Headmaster started as James and Lily sat down, "But you two aren't the Head students for no reason. Each year we hold the Graduation Ball, and each year it is up to the two Head students to organise it. With the help of the prefects and if necessary, the Professors." Dumbledore paused and waited for his announcement to sink in. "Of course though, it will be much easier this year because the two of you get along marvellously!" Dumbledore chuckled, clearly enjoying their discomfort.
"The Graduation Ball is on the 28th. I hope it is a good one." James and Lily stood up, seeing this as their dismissal.
"Yes, Professor. It will be."
James and Lily walked back to the Gryffindor Tower in silence, both of them acutely aware of the presence of the other.
"We should work out what we're going to do tonight and call a prefect meeting for either tomorrow or Sunday." James broke the silence.
"Okay, then." Lily said quietly, "I'll meet you in the common room at eight." They continued to walk in silence.
When the two of them walked into the common room, all eyes turned to them expectantly. Lily walked up to her dorm, quickly followed by Jessabelle and Arabella while the Marauder's crowded around James.
"Lils, what is it?" Arabella asked as Lily flopped face down on top of her bed.
"It's bad!" She whinged, turning around so she was lying on her back, "Dumbledore said that every year the two heads have to organise the Grad. Ball."
"Woold ya like some cheese with that whi-ine?" Jessabelle drawled.
"Not funny Jess." Lily glared at her.
"Come on Lily. You've never complained about something this insignificant before!" Arabella protested.
"How is this insignificant? I practically threw myself at James and he said 'Sorry but you're not my type.' " Lily put on a low voice to imitate James.
"You did not! And he didn't say that. Stop it Lily, everyone knows that James regrets what he said and you just have to rise above it!" Jessabelle said trying to calm Lily down.
"Everyone knows?!?!" Lily yelled.
"No! She didn't mean that. She just means that everyone knows that James wants to go back to being friends with you!" Arabella explained.
"Ugh, this is hopeless." Lily started banging her head on the pillow, "And," Bang "Dumbledore" Bang "Knew" Smack. "Ow! What the hell was that?" Lily sat up looking around confused.
"Come on Lils. You're 17 now. You're the Head Girl. You're one of the smartest witches attending Hogwarts-"
"Yeh, it's not hard!" Lily looked at the other two girls.
"COW!!!" Arabella got a pillow of the nearest bed and started smacking Lily around the head with it.
"Here we were being the nicest friends in the history of friendship and that's how you return it!" Jessabelle started whacking Lily with a pillow as well.
"I'm sorry! It was a joke! I swear!!!" Lily held her hands up to shield her face.
"Don't swear! What kind of example would you set for the other little Hogwartigans?" Arabella reminded Lily.
"Hogwartigans?" Lily and Jessabelle both turned to Arabella who turned red.
"It's Sirius's word!" She tried to defend herself.
"NO! He's rubbing off on you! Jess, what will we do with her?"
"Try and knock some sense into her?" Jessabelle smirked.
"Good idea!" Lily grabbed the pillow off of Arabella and started to hit her with it, followed by an attack from Jessabelle. If you were to ask why there were feathers surrounding every inch of their dorm, they would reply that they didn't know either.
~*~*~*~*
"Okay, so it's going to be formal?" James asked Lily. The common room had been too crowded so they had decided to move to the Library.
"It's a Ball, James. Yes it's going to be formal." Lily sighed.
"But wizard-style or muggle-style?" He replied, frowning at her.
"I don't know. How many people would be able to get muggle style formal wear in 3 weeks time?" Lily answered.
"Good point. Why don't we give them a choice? You can come in either one. It just has to be formal."
"Alright." Lily shrugged.
They discussed music, food, drink and the duration of the Ball, each time Lily would make little if any contribution, getting James more and more annoyed with her.
"Look Lily. If we want to get anything done, you need to help! I know I hurt you but that was while ago. Can you please forget it just while we try and work on this?" James begged her.
"What makes you think that you hurt me?" Lily demanded.
"If I hadn't then we would still be friends. Please Lily," James reached over and held one of her hands, "You were one of my best friends, you still are. Can't we go back to that?" Lily looked at him, debating what to do.
"We'll have the prefect meeting tomorrow, in the morning, if it needs to be longer it won't matter as much." Lily stood up and James let go of her hand as she packed her things up and left.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
It wasn't until there first exam was the next day that Sirius realised if he wanted to get anywhere in life, he would need to pass his NEWTS. So while everyone was taking a break, Sirius was going over every single note he could get his hands on.
"I'm glad History's our first exam. Urgh, what if it was last! Imagine doing that one on a Friday afternoon while everyone else was out on the school grounds!" Arabella was sitting upside down on an armchair, her feet up in the air.
"We don't have any exams on Friday afternoon, Bella." Lily muttered, flipping through a book.
"Over-saturation, Miss Evans, is not what you want." Remus took the book Lily was looking at away from her. "Charms? Like you need any help with that!"
"Oh screw you." Lily joked.
"Now Lily. We all know that's Jess's job!" Arabella jumped up and ran up to the closest dorm, followed by an extremely red Jessabelle yelling 'I'm going to kill you!!!'
"Moony! Do we want to know what that's about?" James turned to Remus.
"Actually we do. Lily, we're all very interested to know." Remus grinned at her, only the slightest bit of embarrassment shown on his cheeks.
"HELP ME!! SHE'S MAD!!!" Arabella ran into the common room and then out again, with Jessabelle following, holding a weapon of sorts in her hand.
Jessabelle paused in front of them, "None of you are going to miss her at all, are you??" She looked around at all of them, not meeting Remus's eyes. "Good, that's what I thought!" She continued out of the common room again, in pursuit of Arabella.
"I'm not sure, Remus. Why don't you explain it to us?" Lily continued on the conversation from before they were interrupted, grinning back.
"I'm totally clueless-"
"No you're not," Sirius piped in, "James is the clueless one around here." They all went silent, clearly knowing what Sirius was referring to.
"Right, well, I'm going to make sure Bella is still alive." Lily stood and walked out of the room.
"Thanks Padfoot. Nicely done." James muttered, but Sirius didn't hear. He was already engrossed in some new notes he had found.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Your exam starts......now."
"You may begin the exam."
"One slip up could mean the loss of a limb. Good Luck."
"And remember, NO CHEATING!"
~*~
"Quills down."
"Add no more ingredients. If you are not finish, you have failed."
"Wands down!"
"One move, and I will have to fail you."
"QUILLS DOWN!!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"We finished!!! We finished!!! NO MORE SCHOOL!!!!!!" Arabella and Jessabelle were dancing around in circles out by the lake.
"You don't think it's a little sad? Seven years, gone. We've practically lived here for SEVEN years and it's all over!" Lily sat down under a tree near the lake.
"Lils! We have so much time to be depressed!! Be happy now, sad later!!" Arabella pulled her up and they made her jump around with them.
"WHOO HOO!!!! WE MADE IT!" Sirius came running towards the girls with the rest of the Marauder's following behind. He grabbed Arabella round the waist and swung her in circles. Soon they were all jumping, running and hugging each other. Whatever the outcome of the exams, they couldn't take it back now.
(A/N: I was going to end it there but decided not to ^_^ )
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Today, today, today is the day. The day, the day, the day of the Ball--"
"Shutup Bella! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Lily shouted at Arabella who was dancing around the dorm with an imaginary partner.
"Ahh, my dear friend, aren't you supposed to be organising the Ball?" She answered calmly.
"Shit a brick." Lily jumped out of bed and ran around getting ready.
"You're coming back to get ready with us aren't you Lils?" Jessabelle said sleepily from across the room.
"Course I am, Jess. Gotta go. Buh bye!" Lily ran out of the room.
~*~*~*
"Okay, so because dinner is earlier for all the younger students, that gives us an hour to get everything done, if we get it ready now." Lily told the prefects who were sitting in the antechamber (A/N: I think I wrote anteroom in another chap, but yeh its 'sposed to be chamber.) off the Great Hall.
"Um, Lily. The younger students should be finished dinner by six. The ball doesn't start until eight. Doesn't that leave us with two hours?" James asked cautiously.
"I don't know when you plan on getting ready James, or getting to Gryffindor and back, but I'm being logical here. And if we need more time, we have it." She stared at him squarely. The other prefects looked between the two, they had noticed how short Lily was being with James since they had begun working on the Graduation Ball.
"Fair enough." James sighed in defeat. He didn't want to make a scene in front of the other prefects. Besides, he thought, only 3 more days and we won't have to see each other again. James looked at Lily who was giving jobs to the other prefects to do. Knowing that he didn't have to see Lily again after school didn't comfort him as he thought it would. Instead it made him rather depressed. He sighed again before standing up, "What do you want me to do Lily?"
She shrugged, "Whatever you think needs doing James." and then walked off to charm some lights. James ran his hands through his hair. He really needed to settle this before they left Hogwarts.
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Author's Note: On the good ship..lollipop..la da da di da.right, well Fanfic's been down so I couldn't get this up.lol, should only be one more chapter then an epilogue then, wah la! All done.
I'm wondering if I made Lily a bit mean but yeh, I couldn't have her being nice to poor confused James. That would be a bit unrealistic.Anyways, I'm off! Still open to prank ideas if you have any!
Thankyou to:
Truechinook: Poor James is confused! He's confusing his feelings for friendship. #Shhh meg you're giving it away!# Anyway, thanks for the prank idea! I'll try and include it in the story!
Oliverwoodschic: Thanks!
Briseis: He will, but hopefully Lily will be kind enough to forgive him.I haven't decided yet *winks*
buggy-such: Don't worry, I don't have any ideas for a prank either!!!! And I think you did say you liked the story but I never get tired of hearing it!!! Thanks!!
Jlee: lol, thanks! One of the best compliments I've ever received! I only wish I could do that for public speaking *shudders*
You rule, doods!
meg