By: Calicat and Alicorn
Calicat: To unwind from a hard day, I'M writing.
Alicorn: (snores quietly in a corner)
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The whole Quidditch team was standing in the room. Lily and Alanna barley made it to Maeghan's bed.
"What's happening?" Lily whispered to James.
"I don't know. I think Wood wanted us all to visit our 'fallen comrade'." James guessed.
"Hmmmm..."
Suddenly the room fell silent. A finger rose slowly. Then the rest of the hand, then the other hand. Then Maeghan opened her eyes.
Everyone looked at her.
"Hi guys…did we win?" she smiled, and whispered in a soft voice.
Everyone stared at her in amazement.
***
Too bad Remus was tutoring some kid; he missed the moment Maeghan woke up.
He walked into the hospital room to find it filled with flowers.
Maeghan looked up from a book.
Remus lightly shut it.
"Hi Remus…did you bring me flowers? Because so far every single person in the whole school gave me flowers. If I see one more pretty little petally-thingy, I'll freak!"
Remus smiled, and transported a book from his room
"I've been reading this and I'd thought you'd like it." Remus smiled, and kissed her on the cheek. He then turned to leave
"Oh… Remus," Remus stopped, "I'm getting out of the hospital by 2:00, we can still go onto the ball." Maeghan smiled at him.
Remus turned, and grinned, "So you accepted my offer?"
"You bet!"
***
(Alicorn: I'm hopping in for a bit)
Lily and Alanna got back to the dorm.
"Ari! Ariella Tsen! Get up now!" she yelled through Ari's closed curtains trying to get a respond from her friend.
Lily went to Ari's bed while Alanna went to check her suitcases for dresses.
Ari was lying on her bed, surrounded by floating down feathers. Tear tracks were still on her cheeks, and she looked like a fallen angel. Lily quickly took a picture, and then decided that her friend should be awoken to go visit her fallen cousin.
"Oh Ari! Wake up!" Lily cried softly, nudging her friend.
"Hmm?" Ari got up, wiping salty tracks from her cheeks.
"Meaghan's up and asking for you!" Lily squealed, jumping up and down.
"Yes!" shouted Ari, the dilemma about Sirius and Maeghan totally breezing away.
***
(Alicorn: Yeah, I'm leaving this thread open, incase we should need it later. You never know when such a thing will come in handy. (evil smirk))
***
That evening Alanna, Ari and Lily were all in the dorm. Maeghan was tearing through her wardrobe, trying to find something to wear. She was perfectly healthy again. Madam Pomfrey was good at her job.
"OH MY GOD! WHAT SHOULD I WEAR?" Maeghan screamed as a wisp of hair fell into her face.
"Let me help." Alanna looked through her closet.
She reached to the very back of it.
"Hmm… Ah! I think I've got something." Alanna pulled out red halter top sleeveless dress.
"Too revealing."
"How about this?" Ari had gotten up and pulled something out of Maeghan's closet.
She had pulled out a crimson tube top, with a light blue jean skirt. The top had rhinestones in the form of a kitten.
"Too girly." Maeghan said simply.
"Hmmm… AH!" Lily had reached into the closet, and found something.
"How about this?"
Lily had pulled out a red and gold ballroom gown, sleeveless, with sash, and gloves.
"Too fancy."
"I'm wearing this". Lily said firmly.
She had pulled out a pristine white, sleeveless ballroom gown, with elbow length white gloves. The dress was plain, with a gold cord around her waist to accent the curves.
They saw that attention would be mostly drawn towards her hair, as she had found a large ornamental lily and charmed it to stay fresh for the rest of the night.
"Cool, what are the rest of you guys wearing?" Maeghan looked at Alanna and her cousin.
"You'll see!" shouted Ari, who had locked herself into one of the bathrooms for 2 hours.
(Alicorn: Well, obviously there's more than one washroom.)
"I'm wearing this." Alanna pulled out a long, forest green peasant top that had a golden shimmer to it. With it came a matching deep green skirt, which fell to the floor, but slit up to her knees. The outfit was accented by a pair of long dangly earrings, which looked like chains of leaves that were falling from her ear lobes, ended with a single cloudy crystal.
"Oh!" Maeghan pulled out a dress, with long, flared sleeves. It had a silver, gauzy apron, with blue beads sewn on in delicate, shifting patterns. The actual dress was beautiful too, in that it was a deep midnight blue. Maeghan had changed the streaks in her hair to an electric cyan for tonight, and her necklace, which seemed to glow more than usual in the hollow of her throat, accented them. She seemed to be a spirit of the evening.
"Wow! That's nice!" The three girls said.
"I think it's cool." Maeghan put it on.
"I think you look wonderful!" Lily exclaimed.
"Ta-Dum!" shouted Ari, who had waltzed out of the washroom.
"Well finally! I thought you were going to be there for-"
Alanna trailed off as she started in wonder. Ari was at least as beautiful as Maeghan, but they had opposite outfits. Ari had a long, loose dress that gave her a striking resemblance to her Animagus form. It was long and red, with flickers of gold and orange flames embroidered into the sleeves, and long flames licking up from the bottom. The neck fell down in a V-shape, only to dip back up just before anything was really revealed. The back dipped low, and a golden sash around her waist gave the illusion of a tail. Half of her hair had been left down, and the rest was coiled into a half-bun, that shot out locks of hair, like a peacock fan. The tips were died in red and gold, with shots of orange. Ari looked like a phoenix, or, at the very least, like a fire-spirit, as opposed to Maeghan, the night wanderer.
"You're great!" said Lily, in awe of the two sisters.
"Yeah, well you're lookin' awesome too. Who's taking you to the ball Alanna?"
"OH, some cute Ravenclaw I think. His name's Douglass O'Riley."
"Better be careful and get a backup. O'Riley's prone to get sick."
"Can you help me with my hair now?" said Lily who was desperate as she hadn't been able to find a stylist, and she REALLY wanted James to like her. Or at least fall on the floor twitching and drooling at the sight of her.
(Alicorn: Just HAD to add that in)
(Calicat: Excuuuse me. Whose chapter is this?)
(Alicorn: Gotcha.Bysie Bysie everybodeeeee!)
***
Meanwhile James was trying to tame his hair, Sirius was trying to work the cologne bottle, and Remus was trying to choose a suit.
"How about this?"
"What-AH!" Sirius had squirted some of his cologne into his eye.
"How does my hair look Moony?" James' hair was still as messy as it was before he used the super-sized economy hair-killer bottle of gel on it.
"Fine. Prongs, can you help Padfoot before he kills himself?" Remus was putting on his suit, and brushing his brown hair, which now had streaks of gold.
James went, pulled out his wand, and put a spell to turn the eye back to its normal colour. Then he took a salve from the table, and gave it to Sirius.
"This'll help." James gave him the healing salve, and Sirius slathered it all around his eye.
When Sirius was feeling better, Remus and James both taught him how to use the cologne bottle.
"Here Padfoot." James showed him, "You put it near your neck, and press the little spray-thingy."
Remus was too busy to correct him. He used his own cologne bottle, and put on a carnation.
"How do I look?" He showed his friends.
"Great Moon…OW."
"Paddy AGAIN?" moaned James, exasperated.
Remus took his wand this time and used a no-pain-healing spell. When Sirius had finally put on the cologne and his suit, James had some help with his hair.
When the boys were finally done, they all split up to pick up their dates.
***
Maeghan watched her cousin and Sirius. They looked so cute together. She sighed longingly.
Remus was supposed to pick her up at her dorm room, but Ari asked her if she would walk with her to meet Sirius.
Maeghan then slipped back into her dorm, and started to do her hair. Lily was in the washroom right now, so Maeghan had to use the mirror in the bedroom.
***
Alanna managed to get a date for the ball too, but, as luck would have it, he was sick, so she was looking for a replacement.
Most of the cute Hufflepuffs were already taken. Then Alanna spotted one who didn't look like he had a partner.
"Excuse me … I'm Alanna Lupin." Alanna liked this boy
"Hi! Ken Flin-Fletchly! Say, are you Remus' sister?" He shook her hand.
"Yeah!"
"Um…are you going to the ball with anyone?" Ken shyly asked.
"No…"
"Well, I wasn't either, but would you like to come with me?"
"Sure!" Alanna said hugging him.
"Alright then, I'll meet you right outside the great hall at 5:00. Bye!"
Alanna walked back to her room in a dazed-shock state.
***
"Maeghan…how do I look?" Lily poked her head into the room.
Lily stepped in the room.
"Wow…" Both of them said.
Lily had curled her hair, letting it fall down, but she had pinned it with her lily. Her dress complimented her hair, and her hair complimented her dress.
Maeghan, on the other hand, had tied her hair in an elegant knot (Calicat: like Hermione), her dress brought out her streaks, and a silver ribbon was entwined into her hair. Her dress looked trendy, and comfortable, Lily looked sophisticated, and elegant.
"Is James taking you…?"
A knock on the door interrupted her sentence.
Maeghan quickly wrote something on the piece of parchment, and then waved her wand around.
Lily quickly read the piece of paper.
"Hide in the washroom, I want to make sure that it isn't someone else. I've got a bad feeling about this. You know the boys promised not to come in."
Lily jumped into the closet, right before Maeghan opened the door.
***
Severus Snape wanted to know if Lily was going with anyone, so he had read his sister's diary to find the password.
"Higglety gibberish" he said quietly, the portrait swung open. Snape didn't realize that Lucius was following him.
***
Lucius had chugged an invisibility charm potion, and was waiting for someone to open the portrait hole. He didn't hear the password, but when the portrait swung open, he rushed in.
He went into the girl's dorm, and knocked on the door, as he took off his hood.
He did this right as Remus entered the hall.
***
Remus didn't know what was happening, but James was with him when he saw Snape and Lucius in the hall.
Remus and James silently snuck up behind them.
When Maeghan answered the door, Remus prayed for dear god that she didn't look good. She didn't. She had cast a complex spell that made her look like Cinderella's ugly stepsister. With bad acne and a skin rash.
"Hi Lucius." She said, batting her eyelids.
"Maeghan?" Lucius' eyes widened. He backed off, but bumped into Remus, who already had his wand out.
"GET OUT." He growled, showing only a hint of his wolf state.
"If you come near Maeghan again, I'll tell the professor that you were in here. You too Snape."
The two boys stumbled as they ran.
"So Remus, I have to get Lily, and redo this spell. Give me one second." Maeghan went into the washroom.
When she came out, she looked even prettier than before. Lily looked gorgeous too.
"Eep!" Remus whispered.
"Ack!" squeaked James, and as Lily thought, fell down on the floor, twitching and drooling.
"What, do we look awful?" Maeghan taunted.
"Meep…" Remus had lost his ability to talk a while ago.
"Then let's go!" Remus recovered to put out his arm. Maeghan took it, and leaned on his shoulder.
James stumbled forward, and kissed Lily on the cheek. Meanwhile, Lily felt something appear in her hand.
"James!" Lily looked at the object. It was a crystal flower. The fluted neck seemed to sway gently, as the stem of frosted glass let out crystal leaves. Lily put the crystal sculpture on her bedside table.
With that they went down to the ball.
***
Ari slipped into the common room, and looked and waited. She knew that Sirius had wanted to see her separately.
Someone snuck up from back from behind her and covered her eyes.
"Boo." He whispered in her ear.
"Ha ha. Hi Siri!" Ari whispered back.
She kissed him on the cheek, and then, since he gave a much too cocky (in her opinion) grin, she mischievously kissed him on the lips.
(Alicorn: Do you understand what I just typed?)
"Mmph!"
She pulled back and quirked an eyebrow,
"Why does that seem familiar?"
"Because it is?" Sirius said, hazarding a guess
"Well, my beautiful partner, shall we dance?"he asked galantly, after recieving an affirmative smile.
"I do believe we shall luv."
***
Calicat: Boy! That was long. Not our longest, but LONG!
Alicorn: I know!
Calicat: Well
Alicorn: Well nothing! REVIEW! I've got to go hide in the corner now, before Cali decides to …
Calicat: Look at Peppy!
Alicorn: No!
Calicat: Peppy the Happy Puppy!
Alicorn: (grumbles) enough with the ABSURDLY happy puppy.
Calicat: No insult Peppy!
Alicorn: Gotta go!