. Boys are like lava lamps; pretty to look at but not very bright."
JAMES POINT OF VIEW By: rickann THE TRUTH ABOUT REMUS
YEAR ONE-CHAPTER SIX THE GOOD AND BAD NEWS
That morning Remus and me were awoken w/ a bucket of ice water over are head. All thanks to Sirius and Ryan. "WAKE UP YOU SLEEPIE HEADS" Sirius yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Ok ok ok were up, you happy?" I said and Remus conjured up two buckets of water and purred it over Sirius & Ryan's head. At this we all got ready and went down stairs to wait for the girls like every morning. When we got down their Remus fell back to sleep on the couch & I tried to sleep on the floor but Sirius started to talk to me.
"Why are you & Remus so tired?"
"Remus had to go to his aunts last night and didn't get back tall sunrise."
"How'd you know what time he got back?" Sirius asked. I went slightly pink and tried to hide it by looking over at the girl's staircase. But of curse Sirius saw me. "What were you doing up at sunrise James?"
"I wasn't up Remus woke me up and..."
"Why'd Remus wake you up? He's never woke any of us up when he comes back."
"I fell asleep down here."
"And..."
"And what?"
"And why did you go red over that. I know you and theirs something you're not telling m..." But he was cute short by the girls coming down. I jumped up and ran to them with Sirius at my feet. When he saw that Lily was tiered he started to put two together. "So Lily why are you tiered too?" He asked and Lily started to go pink too.
"Didn't sleep well. Had a bad dream."
"Yeah what ever. I know they're something going on here and I'm going to ask Remus right now." Sirius said then ran off towards Remus.
"Do something James." Lily whispered in my ear. But it was to late for Sirius was asking Remus what was going on. Me and Lily shock are heads No and he got the message; so Sirius decide to drop it for now and we went to breakfast.
During potions that morning Pro. Jackson gave us some very well but bad news. "Good morning class. I have some good and bad news for you today. The good news is that I'm pregnant." She waited for the class to quiet down then continued. "The bad news is that I will be leaving you at Christmas." At this all the Gryffindors moaned and all the Slytherin whispered happily. It was a non-fact that they hated Pro. Jackson.
For the rest of the day every one was talking about how much or how little they were going to miss Pro. Jackson. The only good thing about this was that Sirius forgot about this morning. Lily & me got a chance to tell Remus not to tell anyone about this morning.
Soon it was time to go home for Christmas, and we had forgotten all about the dream. No one was staying that was in there first year; so we all loaded the train together and crammed our stuff in one compartment & us in another. Sense most of the time a compartment only fits six (comfortably) people we were squished. On the Right side there sat Sirius, Peter, and me on the bottom w/ Janine on my lap and Rickie on Sirius, Peter didn't have any one on his lap because he's afraid of girls. On the left side there was Ryan, Remus, and Heather on the bottom w/ Lily on Ryan's lap and Nicole on Remus's.
When the train started to go the girls had to hold on to us so they didn't fall off. Ryan had put his arms around Lily's waist and didn't let go after wards. Sirius wasn't too happy about this so he challenged Lily to a game of chess on the ground. Pretty soon half of us were on the ground playing exploding snap or on the seats playing chess or cheakerds.
Around noon the witch with the trolley open are door. "Any thing off the trolley dears?" When she said this we all stood up at once. I guess it was a funny site to see every one crawl over everyone else. Ryan tripped me and I fall face forward on to Lily who knocked over a chess set that hit Peter in the head, we got up fast. Peter then fall over bring Rickie down with him and onto his lap. At this Heather and Nicole started to laugh so hard that they both fall over laughing. Janine was standing by Sirius when he tried to clime over the twins and lost his balance. Not having any thing else to grab onto he garbed Janine's waist and brought her down on his lap. Lily and me tried to get past Remus at the same time. Remus remembering the morning when he found us asleep on the couch, and thought we liked each other, pushed Lily backward into me. I total lost my balance and fell backwards onto the seat with Lily seating on my stomach. Then Remus and Ryan tried to get to the trolley first both tripped and fell face forwards onto the laughing girls. Remus ended up doing a twist in the air and landed smoothly onto Nicole's lap. Where as Ryan, who is not so grace full only managed to do a funk twist, and landed half on Rickie's lap and the other half on a pile of exploding Snap cards. When He landed it looked like he was kissing Rickie on the cheek.
As soon as Ryan fell we heard a 'snap' and looked up to see the trolley lady taking a picture "Say cheese." she said taking more pictures
"CHEESE" We all shouted as she took about five more pictures.
"Ok now that you have already tried once how about I come back in about a half hour w/ these pictures developed and we'll try again. When I come back and you are all in a line I'll give you each a copy of these pictures. Sound good to you?"
"Yep"
"Sounds great?"
"Ok"
"Sure will be ready"
"Thanks"
"Ok'll doc'll" Sirius & I said the last one. With that she left us, the pile of cards Ryan was sitting on exploded and caught his butt on fire. Rickie put it out fast and we all started to crack up laughing again. After about 20 min. of laughing we finely started to quiet down. "Ok guys lets try this again." I said. We all stood up and started to move, but half of us just fell right back over.
It tock us three tries and nine min. to finally get into a line. By time the lady came back we're all ready with are money and everything. "Now that's much better. Aren't you guys cramped in this compartment? I mean it's only supposed to fit 6 people an you got 10 in here."
"Nah it cozy in here compared to out side." Sirius said as he bought his candy and the lady gave him his pictures "Thanks umm what's your name?"
"Call me Blaze. What are your guys names?"
"I'm James Potter, that was Sirius Black my best friend." I said as I bought my stuff then I went down the line and named every one. "Then theirs Nicole Kendrick, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Peter Petagrew, Heather Jackson, Ryan Householder, & the twins Janine & Rickie Ann Gardner. Thanks for the pictures I'm sure there great." I said and went and sat down next to Sirius. By time we were all done there was only a bag of every flavor beans left. As Blaze left we could here her muttered something like 'things well never change'. As we ate are food we looked at the pictures Blaze had given us each about ten pictures. They were the funniest things you'd ever see.
My fav. one was when Ryan & Remus had just fallen over; I was lying on the seats on the left w/ Lily on my stomach. She was particle laying on me she was laughing so hard. So it looked like she was leaning into kiss me. On the ground next to us were Sirius & Janine. Janine was siting on his lap and leaning up against him laughing her head off at the sight of Ryan; Sirius still had his hands around her waist. ('Oh they make a cute couple' Lily and I said at the same time.) In the Middle of the floor sat Nicole and Heather. Remus was on Nicole's lap while Ryan was only half on Heather's lap and it looked like he was kissing her cheek, Rickie had a surprised look on her face. And in the back by the window Rickie was laughing so hard she had her arms around, A very red, Peter.
Bye time we were done the train was stopping and we had to leave. Out on the plat form I told every one about the Christmas Adam (The night before Christmas eve.) party my parents through every year. "Ok so don't make any planes and I'll invite you all to it."
"OK we'll be there," everyone said. Then we all went are separate ways. The twins went to find their dad. Nicole and Ryan saw there parent on the other side of the of the platform talking to each other. Remus and Peter saw Remus mom by the barrier. Heather, Lily, Sirius and I made are way through the barrier. On the other side we saw our moms talking, and dads were walking over to them with hot cocas for them and their wife and kid.
"Hey mom hey dad." I said giving my mom a hug and taking the coca from my dad.
"Hey you four it's good to see your still friends."
"Yeah we were worried that you girls would get sick off all the pranks these two pulled." Mr. Black said with a wink to his son.
"Actually it would be the three of them." Lily said w/ an evil grin. "You see they have a little friend that likes to help."
"Really what his name?"
"Remus Lupin dad." I said giving Lily a look. She got it and didn't say any things else about the pranks around are moms. After that we decide to go out to eat all together. At dinner we told are parent's about are friends. Then my dad asked about the train ride and if the old witch were still there.
"Nope they have someone new. Her name is Blaze and she about your age dad." I said. At this both my and Sirius dad dropped there forks.
"Does this Blaze have Brown hair blue ice eyes?" Richard, Sirius dad, asked.
"Yeah do you know her dad?"
"Yes as a matter of fact that was one of my and your dads old g/f." My dad said with a glaze look on his eyes. It was a good thing that are moms where talking about the party.
"Yeah I remember when Freddie here gave me a black eye because he saw me hugging her."
"What?" I spat out my water. I couldn't see my dad hitting his best friend. "What would you have done if you caught them kissing dad?"
"To tell you the truth. I'd parable would have brook his neck." My dad said. Then seeing the look of disbelief on my face add "You see at the time I saw him hugging her I was going to ask her out. But Rich had got there first and I got mad."
"Not my fault you didn't tell me you liked her. Any ways she ended up dumping me for you remember." Are dads were talking as if us kids weren't there.
"Yeah that was one of the greatest hour of my life. Then you pushed me off my broom during Quiditch practice and brook my arm."
"Well what would you have done if an hour before hand you saw your best friend kissing your girlfriend?"
"I would have waited for you to get higher then 10 feet to push you off. Any ways she dumped you that morning then I kissed her."
"Big wup. You could have at least kissed her some where I wouldn't have seen you."
"I never thought you would be in the library after you just broke up w/ Blaze. I figured you be in the Great hall sense it was dinner."
"I told you I went looking for you to tell you that we had practice. Dude if Blaze had left earlier I would have pushed the book case on you when she left." Rich said in a frustrated voice. You could tell this wasn't the first time they talked about this.
"I still don't see why you didn't. I deserved it after I made out w/ her."
"Finally he amities he was wrong. And the only reason I didn't was that as I was pushing it over Malfoy came over to me and started to taunt me. So I toke my anger out on him."
"Ha! I remember that. I was just walking around the bookcase when you punch him. It was great, I never saw Him run so fast in my life. I still need to thank him for that."
"Why the heck do you need to thank Malfoy?"
"Because if you hadn't punched him and I walked around that Connor you would have killed me."
"I guess your right. Man we got into so many fist fights w/ each other and Malfoy and co. that year. I'm surprised we didn't get expelled."
"The only reason we didn't was because you sweet talked the nurse not to tell Pro. Diput. By the end of the year there was no one that could conger up flowers faster then us. Though I must say it has come in handy."
"So what ended up Happening with Blaze Mr. Black?" Heather asked. We were all very interested and wanted to know. Richard looked surprised. They had apparently forgot they were telling us about it.
"Call me Rich ok Heather, I mean you've known me your whole life. And in the end she dumped us both for one of are best friends Frank Lupin who didn't like her at all and only went out with her once to get even with us for putting a spell on him."
"What was the spell Rich." Lily said. She was trying to think of ways to get back at Sirius, Remus and me.
"It was one that Freddie made up so you'd have to ask him."
"Its 'cateriea noafs' it made him and this girl he like stick together for 48 hours. Don't worry every 2 hours they had a 20-min. break so they could do there on thing. But after 20 min. they were pulled together no mater where they were."
"So where did they sleep?" I asked. I was thinking of using this on Peter and Rickie. But the next part changed my mine.
"That was the funniest I mean WORST part. She had to sleep up in are room. In his bed." Rich said and he and my dad cracked up laughing.
"That was not funny Freddie and you know it." My mom said. Apparently the ladies had started to listen to the story to. "I still can't believe you did that to me and Frank. Maybe I should have married him instead of you." This got my dad to shut up but the rest of us only laughed harder.
"Your right it wasn't funny Zoë and I'm sorry. You know you don't mean it."
"That's what you think." My mom said with a wink then she started to talk to Lily and Heather. "So how did these boys take it when they found out?"
"Actually I think James here almost died of shock when he saw us on the train." Lily explained the train ride there.
"So how did you guys meet Blaze any ways?" Mrs. Evan asked. It was clear that the Evans and Jackson's didn't mind being the only muggles here. They talked as if they weren't muggles at all.
"Well you see when she came to are compartment to see if we wanted anything..." Sirius explained the whole mess that we got into and how it toke us forever to just get in a line. Then we showed every on are pictures she gave us. By time we got home that night it was eleven and every one was tiered from how much laughing we did. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was a sleep.
JAMES POINT OF VIEW By: rickann THE TRUTH ABOUT REMUS
YEAR ONE-CHAPTER SIX THE GOOD AND BAD NEWS
That morning Remus and me were awoken w/ a bucket of ice water over are head. All thanks to Sirius and Ryan. "WAKE UP YOU SLEEPIE HEADS" Sirius yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Ok ok ok were up, you happy?" I said and Remus conjured up two buckets of water and purred it over Sirius & Ryan's head. At this we all got ready and went down stairs to wait for the girls like every morning. When we got down their Remus fell back to sleep on the couch & I tried to sleep on the floor but Sirius started to talk to me.
"Why are you & Remus so tired?"
"Remus had to go to his aunts last night and didn't get back tall sunrise."
"How'd you know what time he got back?" Sirius asked. I went slightly pink and tried to hide it by looking over at the girl's staircase. But of curse Sirius saw me. "What were you doing up at sunrise James?"
"I wasn't up Remus woke me up and..."
"Why'd Remus wake you up? He's never woke any of us up when he comes back."
"I fell asleep down here."
"And..."
"And what?"
"And why did you go red over that. I know you and theirs something you're not telling m..." But he was cute short by the girls coming down. I jumped up and ran to them with Sirius at my feet. When he saw that Lily was tiered he started to put two together. "So Lily why are you tiered too?" He asked and Lily started to go pink too.
"Didn't sleep well. Had a bad dream."
"Yeah what ever. I know they're something going on here and I'm going to ask Remus right now." Sirius said then ran off towards Remus.
"Do something James." Lily whispered in my ear. But it was to late for Sirius was asking Remus what was going on. Me and Lily shock are heads No and he got the message; so Sirius decide to drop it for now and we went to breakfast.
During potions that morning Pro. Jackson gave us some very well but bad news. "Good morning class. I have some good and bad news for you today. The good news is that I'm pregnant." She waited for the class to quiet down then continued. "The bad news is that I will be leaving you at Christmas." At this all the Gryffindors moaned and all the Slytherin whispered happily. It was a non-fact that they hated Pro. Jackson.
For the rest of the day every one was talking about how much or how little they were going to miss Pro. Jackson. The only good thing about this was that Sirius forgot about this morning. Lily & me got a chance to tell Remus not to tell anyone about this morning.
Soon it was time to go home for Christmas, and we had forgotten all about the dream. No one was staying that was in there first year; so we all loaded the train together and crammed our stuff in one compartment & us in another. Sense most of the time a compartment only fits six (comfortably) people we were squished. On the Right side there sat Sirius, Peter, and me on the bottom w/ Janine on my lap and Rickie on Sirius, Peter didn't have any one on his lap because he's afraid of girls. On the left side there was Ryan, Remus, and Heather on the bottom w/ Lily on Ryan's lap and Nicole on Remus's.
When the train started to go the girls had to hold on to us so they didn't fall off. Ryan had put his arms around Lily's waist and didn't let go after wards. Sirius wasn't too happy about this so he challenged Lily to a game of chess on the ground. Pretty soon half of us were on the ground playing exploding snap or on the seats playing chess or cheakerds.
Around noon the witch with the trolley open are door. "Any thing off the trolley dears?" When she said this we all stood up at once. I guess it was a funny site to see every one crawl over everyone else. Ryan tripped me and I fall face forward on to Lily who knocked over a chess set that hit Peter in the head, we got up fast. Peter then fall over bring Rickie down with him and onto his lap. At this Heather and Nicole started to laugh so hard that they both fall over laughing. Janine was standing by Sirius when he tried to clime over the twins and lost his balance. Not having any thing else to grab onto he garbed Janine's waist and brought her down on his lap. Lily and me tried to get past Remus at the same time. Remus remembering the morning when he found us asleep on the couch, and thought we liked each other, pushed Lily backward into me. I total lost my balance and fell backwards onto the seat with Lily seating on my stomach. Then Remus and Ryan tried to get to the trolley first both tripped and fell face forwards onto the laughing girls. Remus ended up doing a twist in the air and landed smoothly onto Nicole's lap. Where as Ryan, who is not so grace full only managed to do a funk twist, and landed half on Rickie's lap and the other half on a pile of exploding Snap cards. When He landed it looked like he was kissing Rickie on the cheek.
As soon as Ryan fell we heard a 'snap' and looked up to see the trolley lady taking a picture "Say cheese." she said taking more pictures
"CHEESE" We all shouted as she took about five more pictures.
"Ok now that you have already tried once how about I come back in about a half hour w/ these pictures developed and we'll try again. When I come back and you are all in a line I'll give you each a copy of these pictures. Sound good to you?"
"Yep"
"Sounds great?"
"Ok"
"Sure will be ready"
"Thanks"
"Ok'll doc'll" Sirius & I said the last one. With that she left us, the pile of cards Ryan was sitting on exploded and caught his butt on fire. Rickie put it out fast and we all started to crack up laughing again. After about 20 min. of laughing we finely started to quiet down. "Ok guys lets try this again." I said. We all stood up and started to move, but half of us just fell right back over.
It tock us three tries and nine min. to finally get into a line. By time the lady came back we're all ready with are money and everything. "Now that's much better. Aren't you guys cramped in this compartment? I mean it's only supposed to fit 6 people an you got 10 in here."
"Nah it cozy in here compared to out side." Sirius said as he bought his candy and the lady gave him his pictures "Thanks umm what's your name?"
"Call me Blaze. What are your guys names?"
"I'm James Potter, that was Sirius Black my best friend." I said as I bought my stuff then I went down the line and named every one. "Then theirs Nicole Kendrick, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Peter Petagrew, Heather Jackson, Ryan Householder, & the twins Janine & Rickie Ann Gardner. Thanks for the pictures I'm sure there great." I said and went and sat down next to Sirius. By time we were all done there was only a bag of every flavor beans left. As Blaze left we could here her muttered something like 'things well never change'. As we ate are food we looked at the pictures Blaze had given us each about ten pictures. They were the funniest things you'd ever see.
My fav. one was when Ryan & Remus had just fallen over; I was lying on the seats on the left w/ Lily on my stomach. She was particle laying on me she was laughing so hard. So it looked like she was leaning into kiss me. On the ground next to us were Sirius & Janine. Janine was siting on his lap and leaning up against him laughing her head off at the sight of Ryan; Sirius still had his hands around her waist. ('Oh they make a cute couple' Lily and I said at the same time.) In the Middle of the floor sat Nicole and Heather. Remus was on Nicole's lap while Ryan was only half on Heather's lap and it looked like he was kissing her cheek, Rickie had a surprised look on her face. And in the back by the window Rickie was laughing so hard she had her arms around, A very red, Peter.
Bye time we were done the train was stopping and we had to leave. Out on the plat form I told every one about the Christmas Adam (The night before Christmas eve.) party my parents through every year. "Ok so don't make any planes and I'll invite you all to it."
"OK we'll be there," everyone said. Then we all went are separate ways. The twins went to find their dad. Nicole and Ryan saw there parent on the other side of the of the platform talking to each other. Remus and Peter saw Remus mom by the barrier. Heather, Lily, Sirius and I made are way through the barrier. On the other side we saw our moms talking, and dads were walking over to them with hot cocas for them and their wife and kid.
"Hey mom hey dad." I said giving my mom a hug and taking the coca from my dad.
"Hey you four it's good to see your still friends."
"Yeah we were worried that you girls would get sick off all the pranks these two pulled." Mr. Black said with a wink to his son.
"Actually it would be the three of them." Lily said w/ an evil grin. "You see they have a little friend that likes to help."
"Really what his name?"
"Remus Lupin dad." I said giving Lily a look. She got it and didn't say any things else about the pranks around are moms. After that we decide to go out to eat all together. At dinner we told are parent's about are friends. Then my dad asked about the train ride and if the old witch were still there.
"Nope they have someone new. Her name is Blaze and she about your age dad." I said. At this both my and Sirius dad dropped there forks.
"Does this Blaze have Brown hair blue ice eyes?" Richard, Sirius dad, asked.
"Yeah do you know her dad?"
"Yes as a matter of fact that was one of my and your dads old g/f." My dad said with a glaze look on his eyes. It was a good thing that are moms where talking about the party.
"Yeah I remember when Freddie here gave me a black eye because he saw me hugging her."
"What?" I spat out my water. I couldn't see my dad hitting his best friend. "What would you have done if you caught them kissing dad?"
"To tell you the truth. I'd parable would have brook his neck." My dad said. Then seeing the look of disbelief on my face add "You see at the time I saw him hugging her I was going to ask her out. But Rich had got there first and I got mad."
"Not my fault you didn't tell me you liked her. Any ways she ended up dumping me for you remember." Are dads were talking as if us kids weren't there.
"Yeah that was one of the greatest hour of my life. Then you pushed me off my broom during Quiditch practice and brook my arm."
"Well what would you have done if an hour before hand you saw your best friend kissing your girlfriend?"
"I would have waited for you to get higher then 10 feet to push you off. Any ways she dumped you that morning then I kissed her."
"Big wup. You could have at least kissed her some where I wouldn't have seen you."
"I never thought you would be in the library after you just broke up w/ Blaze. I figured you be in the Great hall sense it was dinner."
"I told you I went looking for you to tell you that we had practice. Dude if Blaze had left earlier I would have pushed the book case on you when she left." Rich said in a frustrated voice. You could tell this wasn't the first time they talked about this.
"I still don't see why you didn't. I deserved it after I made out w/ her."
"Finally he amities he was wrong. And the only reason I didn't was that as I was pushing it over Malfoy came over to me and started to taunt me. So I toke my anger out on him."
"Ha! I remember that. I was just walking around the bookcase when you punch him. It was great, I never saw Him run so fast in my life. I still need to thank him for that."
"Why the heck do you need to thank Malfoy?"
"Because if you hadn't punched him and I walked around that Connor you would have killed me."
"I guess your right. Man we got into so many fist fights w/ each other and Malfoy and co. that year. I'm surprised we didn't get expelled."
"The only reason we didn't was because you sweet talked the nurse not to tell Pro. Diput. By the end of the year there was no one that could conger up flowers faster then us. Though I must say it has come in handy."
"So what ended up Happening with Blaze Mr. Black?" Heather asked. We were all very interested and wanted to know. Richard looked surprised. They had apparently forgot they were telling us about it.
"Call me Rich ok Heather, I mean you've known me your whole life. And in the end she dumped us both for one of are best friends Frank Lupin who didn't like her at all and only went out with her once to get even with us for putting a spell on him."
"What was the spell Rich." Lily said. She was trying to think of ways to get back at Sirius, Remus and me.
"It was one that Freddie made up so you'd have to ask him."
"Its 'cateriea noafs' it made him and this girl he like stick together for 48 hours. Don't worry every 2 hours they had a 20-min. break so they could do there on thing. But after 20 min. they were pulled together no mater where they were."
"So where did they sleep?" I asked. I was thinking of using this on Peter and Rickie. But the next part changed my mine.
"That was the funniest I mean WORST part. She had to sleep up in are room. In his bed." Rich said and he and my dad cracked up laughing.
"That was not funny Freddie and you know it." My mom said. Apparently the ladies had started to listen to the story to. "I still can't believe you did that to me and Frank. Maybe I should have married him instead of you." This got my dad to shut up but the rest of us only laughed harder.
"Your right it wasn't funny Zoë and I'm sorry. You know you don't mean it."
"That's what you think." My mom said with a wink then she started to talk to Lily and Heather. "So how did these boys take it when they found out?"
"Actually I think James here almost died of shock when he saw us on the train." Lily explained the train ride there.
"So how did you guys meet Blaze any ways?" Mrs. Evan asked. It was clear that the Evans and Jackson's didn't mind being the only muggles here. They talked as if they weren't muggles at all.
"Well you see when she came to are compartment to see if we wanted anything..." Sirius explained the whole mess that we got into and how it toke us forever to just get in a line. Then we showed every on are pictures she gave us. By time we got home that night it was eleven and every one was tiered from how much laughing we did. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was a sleep.