Crush To Infatuation To Obsession To Pure Love

Disclaimer: AAAAHHH!!!! OK, this time, I'm not saying anything. My lips are sealed. God, I'm sick of this!! SICK, SICK, SICK, I tell ya!! Just Look Back At The Prologue, OK?! I will NOT put this up in another chapter again.

AN: All right people (for those who actually care) the reason for my short writer's block is the lack of reviews. Maybe my story is more boring than I think. Thank-you Midnight Raven and thanks very much to Mystical Obsessions for the most interesting review I have!!! It was you who encouraged me to write this.

Chapter 2: The Surprise!

Sherry held her breath and stepped in to the Astronomy Tower's Entrance Hallway. It was getting really dark; she couldn't even see the walls in front of her.

"Lumos" she whispered, and then magically- her wand lit up, enlightening the area around her.

She was facing a long empty marble staircase. But nobody was there! 'Maybe this really was a trick after all.' She thought to herself.

She began climbing it until she noticed a door that was never there before. It was half-open. Dying with suspense, she barged it open and stepped right in to a dark misty room. Guess who was there!

"Dana!! Diana! What on EARTH are you two doing here?"

Their smug smirks of the beautiful not-so-identical twins disappeared off their faces. They both were sitting comfortable (and lazily) on ancient enchanted-rocking chairs that rocked automatically 24/7.

"Sherry, hi-" drawled Dana.

"Where's our sister?" Diana demanded.

These two mischievous twins were Lily's 4th year sisters. Though they attend Beauxbatons because they thought going to Hogwarts would be too cliché and boring for their reputation. Sherry isn't really fond of spending the summer with Lily because of them! Whenever she spends a minute at their house, they have to pull on her some prank or other (think Fred and George Weasley).

"Where IS Lily?!" Repeated Sherry, trying to recover from her shock. "Where ARE you?! Shouldn't you be in Veela-Land trying to stick a fact or two through your skulls instead of hanging here at your sister's school?"

"Holiday," Diana blurted, exchanging smiles with Dana. "We agreed we didn't wanna spend it at home. No one's ever there. With you-know-who out and about, mom and dad are pretty scared 'cuz they're muggles ofcourse and keep shifting on business travels."

"W-wait, what about that whole Meeting-James thing?!" Sherry demanded, eyes now round with sudden realization. The twin's grins grew wider.

"We wanted to SURPRISE Lily!" Dana explained, like it was a wonderful innocent thing. "We thought that suddenly popping up and shouting 'Surprise' was too lame. So we cooked up that message. We thought if she came in here expecting her crush and sees us instead it would be cool. Too bad the plan's now ruined thanks to you. Unless you wanna help us and play along ofcourse."

"WHAT THE HELL MAKES YOU THINK IT WILL BE A PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR HER TO SEE YOU HERE?!" Sherry screamed, face red from anger. "She will now be DEVASTATED, TRICKED, HEART-BROKEN and. WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?!!"

"Calm down, sistah." Dana muttered, hands on her ears. "We've got something special for Lily anyway. Diana, you explain. Just cool-up a bit, don't break and our ears and hear us out. Ok now Diana, shoot."

"Fine, now listen-" Diana began launching into explanation, "We're gonna stay here for like, a month, that's our limited time anyway. We got sorted into Gryffindor earlier at Professor Dumbledore's office-"

"WHAT'S YOUR POINT?" Sherry yelled.

"I said don't interrupt her." Dana snapped, "Diana, please continue."

"So while we are here being the bombs and the spotlight of Hogwarts socialization," Diana continued slowly, "We thought we might as well do something nice for Lily too. We've been working on Polyjuice Potions back at Beatimaux. We bought a whole cauldronful with us. All we need is the hair. "

"What she's trying to say here is," Dana cut in, anticipation invading her voice, "Is that each time we have the time, we're gonna take turns drinking it and turning into Lily, then off to charm James and make her his girlfriend!"

Sherry didn't know whether to scream in anger or laugh at the stupidity of the whole situation. The verdict was that her jaw uncertainly dropped open.

Diana, annoyed, closed it for her with her fingers and continued, "Then just before we leave we're gonna confess to Lily, and give her our gift, James! He'll be dating her by then!"

Sherry chose to burst out laughing at their ridiculousness. They narrowed their eyes at her.

"Girls," Sherry spluttered reasonably, finally managing to speak. "Every bombshell here at Hogwarts, from the Ugly Quiet Social Outcast to Miss It, have been trying to go for James since his arrival here!! Blondes, brunettes, brownheads, airheads, you name it!! Has he ever given them much response before? NO! So what makes you think you could accomplish this and be any different, eh?"

"Diana," Dana said, in bored tone. "Pass me my wand."

Instead of giving her sister her wand, Diana got her own wand, eyebrows furrowed in concentration; she pointed it far above her and then yelled "Helaya-Playback!"

Miraculously, some kind of huge watery screen appeared. Playing it in 3D, it showed Dana earlier drinking some poly-juice and turning into some gorgeous ginger-headed girl. Then she walked into the hallways at an area where the Marauders were standing and then began pretending to drink obliviously from a nearby magical water-fountain (the water is colourful and could taste like any drink one desires). She then noticeably turned her eyes at their corners and observed James briefly and went back to walking away like she didn't give a shit about anything. James had noticed this and seemed to be confused at the lack of affect and unmagenitism he had had on this girl. Then she came back down the hallways nonchalantly in some kind of rush and passed a quick 'yeah, hi, whatever' smile at James and hurried down, the screen now zoomed to James's really pissed enthusiasmed face because of the obvious same reason as before. The screen now faded off.

Sherry still gaped at where the screen had been, trying to adjust what just happened. The first words that came out of her lips were "Ooooh! How did ya do thaaat?" The twins were confused about whether the girl was referring to capturing James's rare attention or the screenplay-spell thingy. "You Beauxbatonses seem to be smarter than us Hogwarties!!"

"Oui hon, we're way above our academic standards which is why they give us these annual long holidays." Dana said airily.

Proud, Diana explained, "We learnt that wands could act like muggle- videocameras by this complicated spell from a book we found at our school's cool restricted section. So we both learnt it. Then one of us sneakily would hide under our invisibility cloak and spy on people, filming them," Diana giggled, "We caught so much juicy stuff about others on tape, didn't we Dana?"

"So. while Dana was there playing whatever-im-not-interested-in-you-like- the-others-are with James," Sherry thoughtfully predicted out-loud, "You were under your cloak filming the whole thing."

"Yup," Dana said, putting on a graceful act. "I'll give you my autograph later dear. But now, we are gonna get Lily's red hair, then step into her body and make James fall for her because she really will be us. We can make any guy appear at our beck and call on the snap of our fingers." Whiles she said 'snap' Diana clicked her fingers automatically as though they know this speech by heart already from its over-use.

"So are you with us or not?" Diana asked seriously, putting out her hand expectantly.

Quickly shaking it in agreement, Sherry said through a broad grin "Let's get down to the action."

All of a sudden, they heard the main entrance door to the tower violently burst open. "SHERRY!" they heard Lily's furious loud impatient yell "YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 3 HOURS ALREADY!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU????!" And then they heard stomping footsteps coming up the stairs.

"Oh, no, she's coming," Sherry moaned, "what do we do now?"

Ya Ok, I left you in a suspenful spot again. But hey, that's my style so accept it. By the way, you might not be hearing from me in a while because of my upcoming exams next week. Sorry.