All My Life
*~* Detention *~*
"I can't believe I have 2 months of detention!" Lily sighed, "This probably RUINS my chances of being Head Girl, or a prefect for that matter, and then I will never get to be the first woman Minister of Magic and then…"
"Lily!" Ava laughed, as she ran past her friend with the broom, "Calm down!"
James shook his head and chuckled.
"So," he turned towards Sirius, "What are we up to on the D.C.?"
"157. But, adding in these 60 days… 194." Sirius said using his fingers to count.
The rest of the friends just looked around at each other, puzzled.
"You mean 217?" Elle asked, looking at Sirius with the Windex in her hand.
"Yeah…" He said rolling his eyes, "That's what I said, didn't you hear me?"
"100,000 sperm, and you were the fastest?" James said looking at his friend, mystified at his absolute ignorance.
"Yes," Sirius said, misunderstanding the statement, "we Blacks are a noble breed, we can trace our lineage back to the days of Winifred the Wicked."
"Your gene pool could use some chlorine." Remus said, getting back to polishing the Quidditch trophies.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion," Sirius said skipping off to dust some more statues, "no matter how WRONG it might be."
The rest of the group just shook their heads and laughed. As you can probably already see, the 6 friends had the duty of cleaning the castle from 7:30 to 10:30 every night for 60 days, with out magic. Snape was off doing something else, Dumbledore seeing as though it probably wouldn't be the best thing for him to have them all work together.
"What time is it?" Sirius whined, "We've been here for hours! Shouldn't we be done yet?" The rest of the group nodded in agreement.
"My watch must have stopped," James said, "It says it's 8:14."
"No," Lily said shaking her head.
"Yeah I know I thought I just changed these batteries too…" he said examining his watch.
"No, I mean your watch hasn't stopped, we've only been working for about 45 minutes. It is 8:14." James smiled as everyone else groaned.
"What are you smiling about?" Sirius snapped, carelessly beating the statues with his feather duster.
"Oh, I'm just glad my watch hasn't stopped." He smiled while scrubbing the floor tiles.
"Glad your happy." Sirius said glumly.
(A/N: Good Lord I am suffering from MAJOR writers block! Ooo, I got it!)
"Ah, March 3rd, how do I love thee, let me count the ways…" Sirius said skipping through the corridors. The detention was done; he no longer had to clean the castle for 3 hours a night. Plus, it was his 13th birthday. As he entered the Gryffindor common room he was shocked to find no one in sight. No one had even mentioned his birthday, but he figured that it was still early.
Wait a minute! It's not still early! Its 8:00 PM! Did everyone forget? How could they forget? I've been sending them owls about every day for three weeks saying, 12 more shopping days left, yadda yadda. Maybe they don't like me anymore?
No, that can't be it.
But what if it is it?
Why would you think that, Sirius?
Who are you?
Me, Sirius! Your conscience-y thingy.
My friends hate me, and they have forgotten my birthday, conscious Sirius!
Nonsense, uh, unconscious Sirius, your friends are the science project, and you are the rubber cement that holds it together.
What's a science project? And what is rubber cement?
Oh lord, your confusing yourself.
No you're confusing me, conscious Siri…
"Surprise!" The common room yelled.
Sirius was scared back into reality, looking around and seeing all of his friends, well all of Gryffindor for that matter, in the common room.
"Sirius! Happy Birthday!" Ava screamed, running up to her boyfriend and giving him a kiss.
"I'd thought you'd all forgotten!" Sirius laughed as James walked up to him.
"How could we have forgotten? You have been sending us owls for a month!"
"That's what conscious Sirius said, but I didn't know…" The rest of the group of friends had come up by then, and were looking at Sirius with a perplexed expression.
"Conscious Sirius?" Remus asked.
"I, uh, well, lets eat some cake!" Sirius said, smiling and running towards the cake. Everyone else just shrugged.
Close one there, un-conscious Sirius.
You're telling me.
"So guys, where are my presents?" Sirius said, clapping his hands together.
"Uh, well, we spent so much on food and decorations and stuff, well, we didn't have any money to buy any presents!" Elle said.
Sirius jaw dropped. He wanted to say, 'oh, that's fine,' but the words wouldn't come out.
"Were really sorry man, but I mean," Remus started.
"No, no its ok, I understand." Sirius said, sadly.
"Well then I guess its lucky," James said smiling, "that we asked our parents for some money so we could all pitch in and buy you something any way."
"Are you kidding me?" Sirius said, grinning ear to ear.
"Why would we joke with you, Sirius?" Ava said, as Lily and Elle wheeled out a huge present.
"What the hell is it?" Sirius said, jumping up and down.
"Open it!" they all yelled in unison.
"Oh, uh, cool! You seemed to have gotten me a pile of dirt! Well, I can, uh, use this for… Nope, can't use it for anything. Hope you didn't pay too much." Sirius said, with anger in his voice.
"Calm down. Ok, here is what you do, stick your wand in the pile, wait for it to turn blue." Sirius did as he was told.
"Ok, now take your wand out and strike a pose!" James said. Sirius stood up strait and looked at James as if he was insane. Then there was a pop, and the pile of dirt formed a life size model of Sirius staring, confused.
"Oh my gosh!" Sirius said, as he tapped the base of the statue and got down on one knee, put his elbow on the other and his hand on his chin. Then there was a pop, and the statue looked exactly how Sirius was posing.
He did a few more poses and them James started grinning like mad.
"James, what are you thinking?" Remus whispered.
"Watch this." James said as he stood behind Sirius. Sirius tapped the base again, and started flexing. But just as the statue was going to mimic him, James pushed him over. The statue caught him falling to the ground with a weird look on his face.
Instead of getting mad though, he got up and looked at the statue.
"This is awesome! Thanks guys!" Sirius said, as he flexed again, and the statue mimicked him. He then hopped on the back of the statue and rolled around the room, shouting at random people, "Hey, look! I'm beside myself!" Then proceeded to crack up.
"Glad he likes it!" Lily said, as everyone else laughed as Sirius crashed into the keg of butterbeer.
"Damn it Black!" James said as he threw down his glass. "There goes our supply!"
"Sorry Jim, won't happen again." Sirius yelled as he glided across the floor.
"So what did McGonagall say when you told her we were having a party?" Remus said, a few hours later, taking a drink of his saved butterbeer.
"I was supposed to ask her?" James said, looking at his friend. Lily, Ava, and Elle were all dancing in the middle of the common room, where as Sirius was rolling all through out the place. Remus and James were talking by the fire.
"Well, yeah! What if she walks in here and freaks out?" Remus asked.
"Could you imagine the look on McGonagall's face?" Sirius yelled as he skated on by. Remus and James saw the portrait hole open.
"Oh God." James said as Crash! Sirius his statue had just ran over Professor McGonagall.
The music stopped. People ran upstairs as quick as they could, to avoid the wrath of McGonagall.
Lily dropped her drink, and Remus just stood there. Ava and Elle were frantically picking up cups.
"Black! What have you done!" McGonagall screamed as she got up.
"Well, I, uh…"
"Its my fault Professor. I'm the one who got everyone here and everything. I did everything, its not Sirius." James said as he walked towards McGonagall and stood in front of Sirius.
"Then you will be coming with me." She said as she walked out the portrait hole.
"But Profess…" Remus started.
"I suggest, Mr. Lupin," She said turning around, "that you be quiet, before I expel all of you, and not just Mr. Potter."
She then walked out the portrait hole, and James followed her with his head down.
"She can't expel James!" Lily yelled.
"I can't believe he did that! I mean, at least if we all got in trouble, we would get detention or something. She can't expel him, for reals, can she?" Sirius asked, hopping off his statue for the first time that night.
"I don't know" Ava said, shaking her head, "but I'm pretty sure she could. I mean, he just got off detention today."
"I just hope he doesn't get into to much trouble. It's just as much our fault as it is his." Elle said shaking her head.
"Lets clean this up. Ok?" Remus said as he started to pick up cups.
"Yeah." They all answered.
The next morning, after the friends (minus James) had cleaned up the whole of the Gryffindor Common Room and its outlying areas, they headed down to breakfast.
"Where is James?" Lily asked as she grabbed a blueberry muffin.
"Right here." James said as he sat between Sirius and Lily.
"Oh my gosh!" Lily said as she hugged him.
"Jim! What's up? What's your punishment?" Sirius asked.
James just put his head down on the table without saying a word.
"Detention?" Remus asked.
"No." He mumbled.
"Expulsion?" Elle asked, crossing her fingers so it wouldn't be true.
"I wish." He said shortly.
"What can be worse than expulsion?" Ava asked, puzzled.
James looked up, and his eyes looked dead. He looked as if…
"They kicked me off the Quidditch team."
"What!?" Sirius screeched and fell off his chair. James head fell back on the table, as Lily looked around, as if someone was going to tell her what to say.
"It's ok, baby." She whispered while rubbing his back.
"Dumbledore!" Sirius yelled as he entangled himself from the table. "This is a travesty! I demand to know what possessed you to kick James off our quidditch team!" He ran up to the table, and stood right in front of McGonagall and Dumbledore. "Hmmm? What do you have to say for yourself?"
"I say," Dumbledore said quietly, "that if you don't get back to your table, I will kick you off too."
Sirius' mouth hung open as he stumbled back to his seat.
Back at the Gryffindor table, the friends were trying to console James.
"I can't believe McGonagall would stoop this low!" Sirius said as he took a seat.
"It wasn't her! It was Dumbledore! I don't know what has gotten into him!" James said shaking his head.
"Don't worry James, there is only two games left this season." Remus said, thoughtfully.
"You guys don't understand!" James said shaking his head, "I'm never allowed to play quidditch for Gryffindor, or Hogwarts for that matter, again!"
Sirius dropped his half eaten bacon while everyone's heads followed his lifeless body to the ground. Thud.
"I think he's fainted!" Elle observed, while everyone (even James) stifled a laugh.
Sirius' eyes flew open and he looked around. He was in the Gryffindor tower, on the couch in front of the fire.
"Sirius, you awake?" Remus shouted from his chair.
"Bloody hell, Lupin, do you have to scream?" Sirius said as he rubbed his head. "What happened?"
"You fainted when you found out that James is never allowed to play quidditch again." He answered back, while turning a page of his book.
"Well shit. I thought I had dreamed that!" Sirius said, falling back into the couch cushion.
"Sorry bud, its for real though."
"Where is the Quidditch drop out now? Where is everyone for that matter?" Sirius asked looking around the common room. No one in sight. At least, no one that he cared for.
"Elle and Ava are in their room, trying on some new clothes Elle's mum sent, and Lily took James somewhere to cheer him up." Remus said, still reading.
"Cheer him up my arse. Probably off snogging in the Astronomy tower." Sirius said, then Remus looked at him above the book.
"Yeah, I know Lupin, that would cheer me up too." Sirius said as he got up and walked out the portrait hole, "I'm going to get some air. I will be back after awhile."
"Ok Sirius, don't drown yourself or anything." Remus said, laughing.
"Where are we going, Lily?" James whined as the little red head dragged him through out the castle.
"Here we are!" She said as she opened a door. It was a room, which was all red, and had a huge bed right in the middle of it, covered in pillows.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" James smiled as he walked through the door. But Lily wasn't moving.
"Come on now, it was your idea, Lily." He said as he tried to force her into the room.
"No, no, no! This is not the right room!" She stomped her foot.
"It's right to me!" James said as he pulled her into the room, and shut the door behind her.
"James!" she laughed, "no, you see, yesterday, this door led to a quidditch pitch, and I just thought that it might cheer you up."
"Well, this room cheers me up too!" He whined and grabbed her into a bone-crushing hug. She struggled to get out of his grip and ran and jumped onto the bed, snatching a pillow. She then started to beat him with it.
"Oh no you did not!" He screamed and chased after her, with a pillow of his own.
This started the pillow war, to end all pillow wars. Once they got bored with the pillows, James started tickling Lily.
"Say mercy!" He screamed as he tackled her and tickled her.
"No!" She screamed while laughing.
"Say it!" he said as he got on top of her and tickled her harder. (A/N: Uh, oh.)
"Mercy!" She screamed. The poor girl just couldn't take it anymore.
"Ok." He said as he stopped tickling. But he was still on top of her, his face inches from hers. They just sat there, staring into each other's eyes for a minute, lost in thought.
"So, James," Lily breathed, her breath tickling his face, driving him crazy, "are you going to kiss me?"
"I thought you'd never ask." He said as he leaned in, their lips touching each other, sending chills through their bodies. It was their first kiss together, but Lily's first kiss ever. (A/N: That rhymes. Sort of.)
They broke apart and James got up off Lily, and helped her to her feet. They walked back to the common room, hand in hand, with Lily weak in the knees.
Wasn't that sweet? Lol! I was so nervous writing that kissing scene! Good lord! They are like my children! Well, not in that way, a brother/sister incest sort of way, that's gross. Ew.
You all have no clue what it took to write this! Jeez Louise. Ok, while trying to write this chapter, I learned how to play the opening to the "1000 Miles, Vanessa Carlton" song on piano, I baked brownies, watched two movies (Triple-X, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood if you were wondering), downloaded 57 songs that I liked in like 5th grade (1997 sort of stuff, you know…) on Kazaa, I looked up a bunch of slang term things for this story, (you know since I'm American, brushing up on my British, lol) and some other miscellaneous things. I'm glad I'm done. Seriously though, I have bad writers block.
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