Chapter 2
'Now, how am I supposed to sleep in the same room with him? The second I fall asleep he will probably curse me!' Lily thought.
Two beds to her right, James was thinking along similar lines. 'Should I curse her now or should I try to wait until she is asleep. What is wrong with her, tripping me like that? Girls. Sheesh.'
Hours later, Lily had fallen asleep. James, still awake, peered over at her. He could just barely make out her figure by the moonlight shining down on her. He swung his legs over the side of the bed as quietly as possible, and limped towards her. He leaned over her with his wand out.
Just when he was about to jinx her into next week, she sighed ever so softly in her sleep. He looked down and noticed how pretty she was with strands of her red hair hanging in her face. She looked so angelic and innocent lying there. 'Not at all like her usual self.' He thought with a grin.
There was no way he could curse her now. Urrrgghhh! She frustrated him even in her sleep! James remembered what Sirius had said to him just a few nights ago:
****
James had been lying in his bed pretending to read "Quidditch Through the Ages" when Sirius had walked into the dormitory. James just sighed. Sirius had looked at him and laughed.
"Jamesie ol' pal, she's draining the life out of you! You've got it bad. Why don't you just ask her out, already?"
James had, of course, pretended he had no idea what Sirius was talking about.
"Sirius, you've finally lost it. I haven't the slightest notion what you're on about! I was merely sighing at the fact that "Haithya the Hag" is being replaced with some new comic called "Martin Miggs the Mad Muggle". Doesn't that sound awful?"
Sirius had rolled his eyes and turned over on his side, muttering about Lily. James acted as though he had heard nothing.
***
Sirius was right; James shouldn't let a girl get to him like this. It was ridiculous! 'Look at her she has carrots growing out of her hair for goodness sake.' He thought, shaking himself mentally.
The two of them woke bright and early, to the sounds of Madam Pomfrey shuffling through drawers and making enough noise for a family of hippos.
James groaned and covered his face. Lily sat up, looking grumpy.
"Oh, did I wake you dears?" Madame Pomfrey asked cheerfully.
James and Lily just kind of shrugged and exchanged exasperated looks.
"Well, since you're awake," She continued.
Madame Pomfrey bustled over and handed Lily a goblet filled with something green that was smoking. It looked like it was some type of toxic waste.
Lily couldn't help but think that it smelled an awful lot like the weed killer her parents used, but of course perhaps it was. Something had to kill the carrots. She shuddered at the thought of having dead carrots hanging from her hair.
Lily and James actually got along for a while and sat cracking jokes about Severus Snape.
"The way he acts in class," Lily started in a fit of giggles, "you'd think he was the professor. No you add this many roots." She said imitating him.
"I'd pity the kids in his class." James commented, while shaking his head sadly. He burst out laughing.
Before long, they were laughing so hard that Lily rolled out of her bed. Needless to say, Madame Pomfrey had a fit.
"Healing PATIENTS need their rest. Too much overexcitement is not good."
Madame Pomfrey stalked over to James bed and prodded viciously at his ankle. He winced. After much inspection, she put some blue goop on James's ankle and handed him a cloth.
"Wipe it off when the goop turns purple." She returned to her office.
James watched the goop change colors and wiped it off. He playfully wiped some on Lily's nose. She giggled and got out of bed.
She walked over towards James and got some on his ear. He laughed. Madame Pomfrey walked back in with a loud "Hmmph!"
"Well, you may go now since it is obvious that both of you are feeling fine." She stalked back into the office.
James slid off the bed, his weight on the right foot. He looked over at Lily and shot her the most pitiful puppy dog look ever.
"I still can't walk. Could you possibly?"
She looked at him hard, pretending to consider it.
"Well, since I'm such a nice person. I suppose I'll help you out."
He grinned. She took his arm and put it around her neck, and they slowly made their way down the hall.
Lily jerked to a halt(a painful one for James) halfway down the hall.
"James, those carrots are still in my hair aren't they," She shrieked.
He nodded with a huge grin.
"Well, pull them out for goodness sake. I should leave you stranded here for that." She laughed, showing that the threat was an empty one.
James still had his arm around her, propping himself. He proceeded to pull them out one by one. Lily kept giggling. It tickled.
Then, a familiar icy voice said, "I thought you hated each other."
Lily spun around, taking James with her (poor James). Snape stepped closer to get a better look at the two and saw the true situation.
He laughed a cold mirthless laugh. "Stupid mudblood, You were a carrot head before, but...this..." He broke off laughing. "And then Mr. Quidditch over there..."
James got out his wand and said 'Pinkitulisan'.
Suddenly there was a blast of pink light. It vanished leaving Snape covered in a pink aura. He shrieked and dashed towards the infirmary.
James twirled his wand and blew invisible smoke off the tip of it.
Lily turned towards James and said, "Come on hero. Let's get to the common room."
*******
The two of them walked into the common room amid stares. Agatha turned around to see what the commotion was all about. What she saw when she turned around was most possibly one of the funniest things she had seen in her life. Lily was snapping at a group of giggling first years with, could it be, James Potter attached to her shoulder!
"What are you looking at? Don't you have homework to do" Lily was snapping.
Lily could feel James convulse trying to hide his mirth. It almost made her grin.
That's when she looked up and saw in the corner of the common room, the marauders in quite a state. Agatha was laughing so hard she had fallen off the couch, and Remus who had tried to catch her failed and toppled to the floor as well. This just caused the others to laugh even harder. Elysa was laughing so hard she was just convulsing with mirth. Sirius's reclining armchair flipped over. So, that he was lying, still in the chair, on the floor.
Lily helped James onto a couch.
Sirius controlled himself enough to choke out. "You two looked awful cozy."
James explained what had happened to them.
"I'll bet," Elysa said.
"Why don't you two just admit you like each other, and we'll call it a day," sighed Agatha, who was still lying on the floor.
Lily walked off in a huff saying, "I hope someone steps on you all." This just made them laugh harder. James probably would have stalked off too, but he couldn't walk. (Poor James, again)
A few minutes later, Agatha and Elysa came bounding up the stairs. They threw open the door to see Lily reading a book on advanced charms, while gritting her teeth.
Finally, Lily stood up. "I think I shall go do some redecorating tonight. Would you guys like to join me?" They stared at her for a moment.
Finally Elysa said, "But Lily you redecorated your side of the room two days ago." Lily grinned.
She walked over to Elysa and Agatha and whispered something to the two girls. They grinned knowingly.
Around midnight, Lily stood dressed in all black with her flaming hair up in a black toboggan. She grinned at the other two girls. Then Elysa sighed deeply.
"What?" Agatha said exasperated.
"Something just isn't right." Elysa replied.
"How can it not be right? I've already taught you all the charms you could possibly need," Lily fumed.
Elysa ignored her, and disappeared into the bathroom for a moment and came back holding a bottle of mascara. The two girls looked at her with raised eyebrows.
She drew two dark lined across her face. Then, she started to do the same to the other girls.
Lily ducked back. "Hold up! Is that stuff water proof?!"
"Course not. Do I look that dumb?"
"Well..." Lily giggled looking at Elysa's face. She looked like a muggle football player.
Elysa came towards Agatha, who shook her head violently. "Suit yourself." Elysa replied, but as soon as Agatha turned, she drew two lines across her face. She grinned in satisfaction.
The three girls snuck up the boy's dormitory stairs. Lily poked her head in. All sleeping. She thought with a grin. She motioned for the others to follow her. Elysa was humming Mission Impossible and jumping in and out of shadows like an idiot. Finally, Agatha silenced her with a smack to the head.
The next morning, the girls woke up to four yells of horror. It was coming from (here is a shocker) the guy's dormitory! Lily sat up and smiled wickedly. The other girls looked up as well, also smirking.
A few seconds later, their door swung open. James, Sirius, and Remus were all standing at the door. Lily and Elysa suddenly remembered the mascara on their cheeks. Uh oh! Lily thought.
"Ummm.Morning guys! What brings you up here?" Lily asked brightly, although deep down she was terrified. The guys looked furious.
"Pink stuff on my walls" Sirius said indignantly.
Remus gave an involuntary shudder.
"And hearts too!" James added.
"Pictures of Lily and James kissing during second year!" Remus said finding his voice. "Now, how am I supposed to sleep with THAT on my walls."
"Hey!" James said looking kind of hurt. Then, he was suddenly embarrassed. 'How did you know about that anyways?!"
Sirius silenced him. "Not right now James!"
James pouted, but it didn't take him long to join back in. "All my Quidditch posters.gone." A vein in his neck twitched oddly.
"There, there James." Remus said patting him on the shoulder.
"Yeah, and replaced with the Beatles! Who are they anyways," Sirius asked, though he didn't really want a response.
"Rest assured, payback will come!" Remus finished.
They all started to stalk out of the room in bad temper, but before they could go Lily called out to James. "Hey, did you study for our potions test?" He nodded.
As the door shut, they heard one of the guys whisper "permanentalus". Permanentalus was a spell that when said over an object (such as ink, paint, or even mascara) would make the object permanent for at least 15 hours.
As soon as they left, the three girls rushed to scrub their faces, but to no avail. It was permanent. The mascara was not going to come off!
AN: Lily proves that she doesn't like James(or tries) and takes out her anger all in one little decorating session! Reviewing is always nice! Did you know if you hit the review button that little pink bunnies will dance across the screen! Try it! Now! Yes, I am aware that I am insane.
'Now, how am I supposed to sleep in the same room with him? The second I fall asleep he will probably curse me!' Lily thought.
Two beds to her right, James was thinking along similar lines. 'Should I curse her now or should I try to wait until she is asleep. What is wrong with her, tripping me like that? Girls. Sheesh.'
Hours later, Lily had fallen asleep. James, still awake, peered over at her. He could just barely make out her figure by the moonlight shining down on her. He swung his legs over the side of the bed as quietly as possible, and limped towards her. He leaned over her with his wand out.
Just when he was about to jinx her into next week, she sighed ever so softly in her sleep. He looked down and noticed how pretty she was with strands of her red hair hanging in her face. She looked so angelic and innocent lying there. 'Not at all like her usual self.' He thought with a grin.
There was no way he could curse her now. Urrrgghhh! She frustrated him even in her sleep! James remembered what Sirius had said to him just a few nights ago:
****
James had been lying in his bed pretending to read "Quidditch Through the Ages" when Sirius had walked into the dormitory. James just sighed. Sirius had looked at him and laughed.
"Jamesie ol' pal, she's draining the life out of you! You've got it bad. Why don't you just ask her out, already?"
James had, of course, pretended he had no idea what Sirius was talking about.
"Sirius, you've finally lost it. I haven't the slightest notion what you're on about! I was merely sighing at the fact that "Haithya the Hag" is being replaced with some new comic called "Martin Miggs the Mad Muggle". Doesn't that sound awful?"
Sirius had rolled his eyes and turned over on his side, muttering about Lily. James acted as though he had heard nothing.
***
Sirius was right; James shouldn't let a girl get to him like this. It was ridiculous! 'Look at her she has carrots growing out of her hair for goodness sake.' He thought, shaking himself mentally.
The two of them woke bright and early, to the sounds of Madam Pomfrey shuffling through drawers and making enough noise for a family of hippos.
James groaned and covered his face. Lily sat up, looking grumpy.
"Oh, did I wake you dears?" Madame Pomfrey asked cheerfully.
James and Lily just kind of shrugged and exchanged exasperated looks.
"Well, since you're awake," She continued.
Madame Pomfrey bustled over and handed Lily a goblet filled with something green that was smoking. It looked like it was some type of toxic waste.
Lily couldn't help but think that it smelled an awful lot like the weed killer her parents used, but of course perhaps it was. Something had to kill the carrots. She shuddered at the thought of having dead carrots hanging from her hair.
Lily and James actually got along for a while and sat cracking jokes about Severus Snape.
"The way he acts in class," Lily started in a fit of giggles, "you'd think he was the professor. No you add this many roots." She said imitating him.
"I'd pity the kids in his class." James commented, while shaking his head sadly. He burst out laughing.
Before long, they were laughing so hard that Lily rolled out of her bed. Needless to say, Madame Pomfrey had a fit.
"Healing PATIENTS need their rest. Too much overexcitement is not good."
Madame Pomfrey stalked over to James bed and prodded viciously at his ankle. He winced. After much inspection, she put some blue goop on James's ankle and handed him a cloth.
"Wipe it off when the goop turns purple." She returned to her office.
James watched the goop change colors and wiped it off. He playfully wiped some on Lily's nose. She giggled and got out of bed.
She walked over towards James and got some on his ear. He laughed. Madame Pomfrey walked back in with a loud "Hmmph!"
"Well, you may go now since it is obvious that both of you are feeling fine." She stalked back into the office.
James slid off the bed, his weight on the right foot. He looked over at Lily and shot her the most pitiful puppy dog look ever.
"I still can't walk. Could you possibly?"
She looked at him hard, pretending to consider it.
"Well, since I'm such a nice person. I suppose I'll help you out."
He grinned. She took his arm and put it around her neck, and they slowly made their way down the hall.
Lily jerked to a halt(a painful one for James) halfway down the hall.
"James, those carrots are still in my hair aren't they," She shrieked.
He nodded with a huge grin.
"Well, pull them out for goodness sake. I should leave you stranded here for that." She laughed, showing that the threat was an empty one.
James still had his arm around her, propping himself. He proceeded to pull them out one by one. Lily kept giggling. It tickled.
Then, a familiar icy voice said, "I thought you hated each other."
Lily spun around, taking James with her (poor James). Snape stepped closer to get a better look at the two and saw the true situation.
He laughed a cold mirthless laugh. "Stupid mudblood, You were a carrot head before, but...this..." He broke off laughing. "And then Mr. Quidditch over there..."
James got out his wand and said 'Pinkitulisan'.
Suddenly there was a blast of pink light. It vanished leaving Snape covered in a pink aura. He shrieked and dashed towards the infirmary.
James twirled his wand and blew invisible smoke off the tip of it.
Lily turned towards James and said, "Come on hero. Let's get to the common room."
*******
The two of them walked into the common room amid stares. Agatha turned around to see what the commotion was all about. What she saw when she turned around was most possibly one of the funniest things she had seen in her life. Lily was snapping at a group of giggling first years with, could it be, James Potter attached to her shoulder!
"What are you looking at? Don't you have homework to do" Lily was snapping.
Lily could feel James convulse trying to hide his mirth. It almost made her grin.
That's when she looked up and saw in the corner of the common room, the marauders in quite a state. Agatha was laughing so hard she had fallen off the couch, and Remus who had tried to catch her failed and toppled to the floor as well. This just caused the others to laugh even harder. Elysa was laughing so hard she was just convulsing with mirth. Sirius's reclining armchair flipped over. So, that he was lying, still in the chair, on the floor.
Lily helped James onto a couch.
Sirius controlled himself enough to choke out. "You two looked awful cozy."
James explained what had happened to them.
"I'll bet," Elysa said.
"Why don't you two just admit you like each other, and we'll call it a day," sighed Agatha, who was still lying on the floor.
Lily walked off in a huff saying, "I hope someone steps on you all." This just made them laugh harder. James probably would have stalked off too, but he couldn't walk. (Poor James, again)
A few minutes later, Agatha and Elysa came bounding up the stairs. They threw open the door to see Lily reading a book on advanced charms, while gritting her teeth.
Finally, Lily stood up. "I think I shall go do some redecorating tonight. Would you guys like to join me?" They stared at her for a moment.
Finally Elysa said, "But Lily you redecorated your side of the room two days ago." Lily grinned.
She walked over to Elysa and Agatha and whispered something to the two girls. They grinned knowingly.
Around midnight, Lily stood dressed in all black with her flaming hair up in a black toboggan. She grinned at the other two girls. Then Elysa sighed deeply.
"What?" Agatha said exasperated.
"Something just isn't right." Elysa replied.
"How can it not be right? I've already taught you all the charms you could possibly need," Lily fumed.
Elysa ignored her, and disappeared into the bathroom for a moment and came back holding a bottle of mascara. The two girls looked at her with raised eyebrows.
She drew two dark lined across her face. Then, she started to do the same to the other girls.
Lily ducked back. "Hold up! Is that stuff water proof?!"
"Course not. Do I look that dumb?"
"Well..." Lily giggled looking at Elysa's face. She looked like a muggle football player.
Elysa came towards Agatha, who shook her head violently. "Suit yourself." Elysa replied, but as soon as Agatha turned, she drew two lines across her face. She grinned in satisfaction.
The three girls snuck up the boy's dormitory stairs. Lily poked her head in. All sleeping. She thought with a grin. She motioned for the others to follow her. Elysa was humming Mission Impossible and jumping in and out of shadows like an idiot. Finally, Agatha silenced her with a smack to the head.
The next morning, the girls woke up to four yells of horror. It was coming from (here is a shocker) the guy's dormitory! Lily sat up and smiled wickedly. The other girls looked up as well, also smirking.
A few seconds later, their door swung open. James, Sirius, and Remus were all standing at the door. Lily and Elysa suddenly remembered the mascara on their cheeks. Uh oh! Lily thought.
"Ummm.Morning guys! What brings you up here?" Lily asked brightly, although deep down she was terrified. The guys looked furious.
"Pink stuff on my walls" Sirius said indignantly.
Remus gave an involuntary shudder.
"And hearts too!" James added.
"Pictures of Lily and James kissing during second year!" Remus said finding his voice. "Now, how am I supposed to sleep with THAT on my walls."
"Hey!" James said looking kind of hurt. Then, he was suddenly embarrassed. 'How did you know about that anyways?!"
Sirius silenced him. "Not right now James!"
James pouted, but it didn't take him long to join back in. "All my Quidditch posters.gone." A vein in his neck twitched oddly.
"There, there James." Remus said patting him on the shoulder.
"Yeah, and replaced with the Beatles! Who are they anyways," Sirius asked, though he didn't really want a response.
"Rest assured, payback will come!" Remus finished.
They all started to stalk out of the room in bad temper, but before they could go Lily called out to James. "Hey, did you study for our potions test?" He nodded.
As the door shut, they heard one of the guys whisper "permanentalus". Permanentalus was a spell that when said over an object (such as ink, paint, or even mascara) would make the object permanent for at least 15 hours.
As soon as they left, the three girls rushed to scrub their faces, but to no avail. It was permanent. The mascara was not going to come off!
AN: Lily proves that she doesn't like James(or tries) and takes out her anger all in one little decorating session! Reviewing is always nice! Did you know if you hit the review button that little pink bunnies will dance across the screen! Try it! Now! Yes, I am aware that I am insane.