A/N-Hello! Since this is the weekend, I'm updating as much as I can because I am warning you guys right now that the next chapter might not be out until next weekend. I just have too much to do during the week to update, but I might get a chance sometime in the middle of the week maybe. If you want me to email you when I finally do update so that you don't have to keep checking all of the time, just leave your email address in a review. I think I can get at least one chapter posted in the middle of the week though…But that's why I'm updating so fast right now. Today is Sunday so I have a lot of time to do it, although I suppose I should really be working on my English vocabulary homework…
Disclaimer-I do not own any of this stuff. Oh wait, I own any characters that I had to make up. Some of these professors and students and stuff I had to make up because I didn't really think that most of these teachers that are teachers in Harry's time at Hogwarts were there when Lily and James were at Hogwarts except Dumbledore. I think he was the headmaster when Lily and James were at school. Maybe McGonagal, but she would've been pretty young I think. I don't think I'll have her as the Transfiguration teacher in my fic…I don't know yet though. It's not like the Transfiguration teacher has shown up anywhere at all in this story yet anyway.
Thank you-
marzoog (Wow, love the name! Anyway, thank you for the title idea. I haven't decided what I'm going to use yet…I was thinking the Cyrano de Bergerac: Marauder Style title, or Sirius's Plans Always Turn Out Bad or something like that…Grrr…I need to decide! It's really, really starting to bug me, this not having a title…Thank you for reviewing and I'm glad you like my story! I'm glad you think it's a good idea too. I thought it was, using Dumbledore's words, "one of my more brilliant ideas." Okay, it was like, my only brilliant idea, but you get my point. I hope you enjoy this chapter!)
Walking Contradiction (I still think that is such a cool name…Anyway, thank you! *Gushes* My story is original! In a twisted way! Or at least the way I incorporate other plots in original in a twisted way…There are other plots incorporated in this story?! Whoa, I thought there was only one…Hmm…Ah well, anyway…I'm glad you liked the second chapter. And no, Sirius does not seriously like Lily. He'll find out soon enough…Mwuahaha! He'll find out when he realizes that Lily is just too much work for him…and that's all I'll say about it! Hah! Now you have to read to find out! Hah! Yup, I agree, poor James. I think that he knows that it will lead him to bad places, but Sirius is his friend, so he feels that he has to help him. Besides, James thinks that Sirius really does like Lily so you know…yeah…Well, thanks for the review!)
kristatwen (Thank you for the review. I'm glad you like the story so far! And thanks for the title idea. I really need to decide what the title's gonna be…I hope you enjoy this chapter!)
Shree (Shree is your real name? That is so cool. I wish my name was something cool like that, but now, my name is boring. Anywho…Umm…Sirius? Normal? Oh come on, I don't think Sirius is ever really truly normal…Ahh, but what is normal anyway? I guess it's one of those it's in the eye of the beholder things…Enjoy this brand new chapter that I only revised about five billion times and it's still not right…)
Lilyflower8602 (Wow, a new reader! Yeah, I think the changing looks thing is a bit cliché as well, but Whoa! Accent thingy! It just comes automatically? Because I wrote touché Whoa! Another accent thingy! Hey! When I wrote touché before, it never had that accent thingy and I couldn't figure out how to put a little accent thingy there! But it comes automatically! Whoa…then I wonder why it didn't do it before when I wrote touché…whoa, cool. Cliché touché cliché touché…Okay enough of that. As I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted by the accenty thingy *Glares at accenty thingy mabob*, I thought the whole changing looks thing was a bit cliché (Cool…) as well but I figured it was necessary since Sirius had to notice her blah blah blah you know? But hey, everything else is pretty original. I'm proud of myself. Anyway, I'm glad you like the story so far! I hope you still like it after you read this chapter. Not saying it's a bad chapter or anything, because it's a pretty good chapter…Anyway…thanks again!)
mooncancer (Wow, thank you! You love all L/J's, particularly mine? Wow, that's just so touching. I think I'm going to cry. No I'm not, but it is touching. Thank you! Yeah, Peter stinks. I don't think he makes one appearance in this entire chapter actually…Down with Peter!)
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By ChaChaChica
3
The next day, after classes were over for the day, James sat at a table in the Gryffindor common room, writing with Sirius looking over his shoulder. James paused every once in awhile to look up at Sirius over his shoulder. After a bit, he sighed and put down the quill.
"Hey! Don't give up now! It's going great! It had plenty of lovey-dovey mushy stuff that you said she'd like! You aren't finished with it yet," Sirius told him.
"I know! But I can't write with you looking over my shoulder like that all the time!" James said irritably.
"You wrote with me looking over your shoulder just fine!" Sirius protested, but sighed in resignation when James glared at him. "Fine! I'll go…find Remus or something," he said, grumbling as he climbed out of the fat lady portrait.
James sighed in relief. Finally he had some peace to write in. But apparently he spoke too soon, for moments later, a group of giggling girls came over to talk to him. He quickly turned the piece of parchment over.
"Hey Jamsie," one of the girls said, twirling a strand of her hair around her fingers.
"Hello," James said. He didn't even know her name, so he just left it at hello.
"What are you writing?"
"Nothing," James said quickly, perhaps too quickly.
"Ooh, a love letter?" the girl asked.
"Could be," James answered, smiling mischievously.
"Ooh, and who could it be for?" the girl said, smiling flirtatiously and batting her eyelashes.
"Now that would give away the surprise, wouldn't it?" he answered.
Finally, the girls walked off giggling and whispering. James sighed and began writing again. He looked over his letter and sighed again. How'd he get into this mess? And besides, this letter was garbage. He rolled the parchment up into a ball and shot it into the nearest garbage can, and then got out a new piece of parchment and began to write a new letter. He was so absorbed in writing the letter that he didn't notice Lily come and sit across from him.
"Hey James," she said, closing her eyes and rubbing her head. "Can you believe it's only the first day and we already have a ton of classwork to do?"
James jumped. He shoved the paper into his bookbag. It was a good thing she had had her eyes closed, otherwise she would have seen the letter.
"What was that?" she asked, her eyes open now and raising her eyebrows questioningly.
"It was nothing," James said quickly. Again it was too quickly and he could tell she was suspicious, but he was glad she asked no more about it.
"Have you seen Rissa?" Lily asked.
"No," James answered.
"We're supposed to go to the library to work on that history of magic paper. Ahh well, I better go find her. See you later," Lily said, climbing out of the portrait hole.
Again he brought the parchment back out. After he was finally satisfied with it, about twelve pieces of parchment later, he folded it up and gave it to Sirius.
"Thanks Prongs. I owe you," Sirius said.
"Big time," James said. "That letter took me a bunch of parchment and major warding off of giggling girls, except Lily. She wasn't giggling, but I had to ward her off too."
"She didn't see it did she?" Sirius asked nervously.
"No worries. She had her eyes closed. I think she had a head ache or was stressed or something like that," James assured him.
"Good, I'm going to go give it to her now," Sirius said, turning to leave.
"Now? Well, you could give it to her now…" James said, in a voice that told Sirius that he clearly thought it wasn't a good idea.
Sirius sighed. "What's on your mind Prongs?"
"Well, wouldn't it be so much more romantic if she just woke up one morning, the sun streaming through the curtains, the sunlight falling upon a beautiful bouquet of flowers, with the letter beside it?" James asked.
"No wonder you get all the girls. Why can't I ever think of anything like that?" Sirius asked.
James smirked. "Maybe because you're too busy thinking about something else…" he said, trailing off suggestively.
"Hey, that's not a reason since you think of that too and you can still come up with romantic stuff," Sirius pointed out.
"Hi guys, what's going on?" Remus asked, entering the room.
"Padfoot is mad because he's not romantic because he's too busy thinking of other things," James said, laughing.
"Oh, is that all this is? I think I'll just go back to the food then. I just came to get you guys for dinner," Remus said, leaving the room.
"Good, I'm starved," James said following Remus.
"Hey, do you guys think if I thought about other things less often, I'd be more romantic?" Sirius called after them.
"No," James called back.
Sirius shrugged, running to catch up with Remus and James. He clapped James on the shoulder. "That's okay. That's why I got you."
"You won't have me! That was the only one I'm writing for you."
"Ahh, right," Sirius said.
Lily awoke the next morning and gave off a huge yawn. It was only the second day of classes and already she was so tired. She stumbled into the bathroom and took a bath, still half-asleep. Just as she was finished getting dressed and was about to dry her hair, she heard squeals and giggles coming from her dormitory room. Curious, she walked out of the bathroom and into the room. The other girls were gathered around Lily's nightstand, upon which sat some flowers and a letter.
"Ooh, Lily look! You got flowers and a love letter," Carlise said, giggling like mad.
"What?" Lily demanded, snatching the letter from the nightstand. She turned it over and tried to find out who it was from but there was no name. What kind of guy would take so much time and effort to write a letter?
"Who's it from Lils?" Marissa asked excitedly.
"I don't know," Lily said, still in awe of the letter.
""Well open it!" Marissa urged, peeking over Lily's shoulder.
"Come on, let's go to the library where it's private Rissa," Lily said, holding the letter in one hand, Marissa's arm in the other, and running out of the dormitory and out of the common room. They ran most of the way to the library, slowing down only when they saw a professor, or Filth, the janitor. (A/N-Don'tcha love the name? Filch and Filth!) They took two of the seats towards the back of the library when they got there.
"Well, open it then!" Marissa said excitedly, leaning forward to read it.
Lily slowly opened the letter.
(A/N-Okay, this letter took me so long to write. I just could not write it! I must have written and rewritten it about twelve dozen times. Some of the letter I kind of took out of the letter William sent to Jocelyn with the help of his friends in A Knight's Tale but only a little bit, and it isn't even really the same, just the same sort of idea. Props if you recognize which parts are sort of from it. You get two bonus stars! They are worth absolutely nothing, but they'll raise your self-esteem a point or two…Oh and I'm sorry, but I thought this letter was the funniest thing in the world. For some reason, when a story or a movie or something is just so so so so incredibly romantic and mushy, I just think it's absolutely hilarious. Sure, some romance and mushy stuff is okay and it's sweet, but some book I've read, they go totally overboard with and I just start cracking up. I thought this letter was hilarious. I'm probably the only one who thinks that though…)
Lily,
I do not think that we got off on the right foot, and I want to change that. I want things to work between us. When I'm with you, I begin to feel differently about everything. No one else has ever been able to do that to me. You're something special Lily.
If I feel like I'm walking through an endless winter, gray and bleak and dreary, I think of you. You're a burst of color and beauty in a dreary world for me. When I think of you, I feel as if the sun's come out. Please pull me out of this horrible, dark, cold winter and tell me you feel the same. Only then will this winter be gone and only the spring and summer will remain.
What does it mean when you feel dizzy and lightheaded,
When you feel like the world has just gotten brighter,
When you feel as if you are now really alive,
When you feel as if your life has meant not a thing until now,
When you feel like your falling, but it's a wondrous sort of falling?
I'm not sure what it means, but I think I'm about to find out…
Lily smiled.
Marissa grabbed the letter. "What? That's it? It doesn't say who it's from!"
Lily looked closer. "No turn it over Rissa. There's some writing on the back."
" 'Please meet me in the gardens tomorrow night after classes are over for the day,' " Marissa read.
Lily hated it when people said 'I told you so' but this time she couldn't help it. "I told you I'd find a guy who was different from the rest."
"You didn't find him, he found you," Marissa pointed out. "But you did get one and that's the bigger picture. I wonder who it is," Marissa mused.
"I'll bet he's handsome and sweet and romantic and smart and…" Lily began, but was cut off by Marissa laughing.
"Don't get too carried away now. That's getting a little unrealistic."
They spent the rest of the time they had before classes started making guesses as to who "he" was or what he was like if they didn't know him yet.
Too soon though, classes began and they had to leave the library and they had to leave the subject of the letter since Lily didn't want everyone to know, although her roommates already knew, but Lily still put the letter into her book as a bookmark to carry around with her.
The day passed normally enough, but it was never entirely normal at Hogwarts. In potions, Deevy Dumbell spilled his Enlargement Potion and his head and hands and legs swelled until he looked like a Muggle hot-air balloon. In Transfiguration, Sadrina Cluelessy missed her teapot, which she was trying to turn into a rabbit, and turned Kally McNellens into a rabbit instead, although the spell didn't quite work right because she still had shoes on and her nose was a human nose, not a rabbit's.
The Maruaders lugged their textbooks into the Common Room.
"I'll bet I have more homework than all of you," Sirius said proudly.
"No, because I got extra work for letting off that Dung Bomb in potions class," Remus said.
"I got extra work in Potions for helping Remus set off that Dung Bomb, I got extra work in Transfiguration for turning Bobbie McKibbin into a pincushion, although Professor Potts said that turning a human into an inatimate object was such a difficult task to do, she was actually very impressed, and I got extra work in History of Magic for hexing the history book to fly and chase after Professor Milligansi," James said. "Beat that Sirius."
Sirius smiled. "I got extra work in Potions for helping Remus set off that Dung Bomb, I got extra work in Transfiguration for sticking a pin into Bobbie McKibbin while he was a pin cushion and even more for sticking a pin into him when he was a person again, I got extra work in History of Magic for throwing a book at Professor Milligansi after she got them to stop flying, AND I got extra work in Herbology for feeding the Venomous Tantaculas a screaming Mandrake."
"He beat me," Remus said.
"Beat me too," James said, pulling out his books to get started on his class work. He didn't have as much as Sirius, but that didn't mean he still didn't have a lot, because he did have a whole lot.
"Why hasn't she said anything? Is she avoiding me?" Sirius asked suddenly.
"Huh?" James and Remus asked at the same time.
"Lily!" Sirius said. "Why hasn't she said anything about the letter?"
"Oh," James said, shrugging and getting back to writing his paper. "Because she doesn't know it was you who sent the letter."
"What?" Sirius nearly shouted. "What kind of brilliant plan is this? She was supposed to know it was me!"
"No no no," James started.
"Yes yes yes!" Sirius said.
"You're meeting her tomorrow after classes in the gardens," James told him.
"Oohhhh," Sirius said, finally understanding what James was saying. Suddenly, "I can't do it guys."
"What?" James said, his turn to shout now, after making a few choking noises. "What do you mean you can't do it?"
"Yeah, you're in too deep already Padfoot," Remus agreed.
"I just can't," Sirius said. "I mean she's way too smart for me! She's bound to find out that I didn't write that letter."
"Well, can't you just…act really smart?" James asked.
"It's just-Are you saying I'm not smart right now?"
"Well…ah…no," James began, faltering slightly. "Just act…you know…smarter."
"How? Become you?" Sirius demanded.
"You know…if you met in the gardens…it's be easy for someone to hide in the bushes behind you…" Remus said thoughtfully.
"What exactly are you saying Remus?" James asked uneasily. He didn't like it when his friends came up with plans.
Sirius smiled. "I know exactly what he's saying, James ol' buddy ol' pal, and I think you know too."
James groaned. Yes, he did know, but that certainly didn't mean he liked it.
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A/N-How was that for a chapter? I thought it was pretty good. Still needs some revision though I think…Anywho…the next chapter people is where the story really starts to get funny. I was laughing when I was writing Sirius and Lily's meeting. I was like seriously cracking up laughing. That's the next chapter people! This one was kind of funny, but not nearly as funny as the next one. The next one involves aliens buzzing inside Sirius's head…Don't ask, you'll have to wait until I post it…And (Hint Hint) if I get lots of reviews saying I should post the next chapter soon, I might just be motivated to post it tonight, or tomorrow after school…Anyway review!
