Rollercoaster.
G'day again! Alright I'm putting this chapter up - even though I only got ONE REVIEW!!!!!!!!! :( But I hope that in putting this new chapter up people may find it in the goodness of their hearts to press that little button down there and give me their opinion. It could be two words - 'It sucks!' - for all I care. Just something plzz!!
Oh and to my one nice reviewer - Moonylover - thankyou! Very much appreciated.
DISLCAIMER: I am not british, blonde OR pregnant - therefore I am not J.K Rowling - Therefore I do not own any of the magical world, or any of the characters.
This story is about James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily and Arabella - Six best friends starting their sixth year at Hogwart's. However this year certain members of the group start to feel different towards others.
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The opening feast was always in Sirius' opinion - 'Bloody damn good!', and tonight's was no exception.
Lily (who was an extremely fast eater) got bored quite quickly, and settled with trying to make James' extremely messy black hair lie flat (much to Peter's amusement).
'What are you doing?' James asked her when she began patting his head, as if he were some kind of dog. Lily didn't answer his question, but instead started patting more vigorously. James grew impatient -
'I said ...' He began, putting his knife and fork down, but was cut off.
' Does your hair EVER look halfway normal!?' Lily cried in frustration - The look on her face was quite funny James thought.
'Fraid not Lil's' He answered ' It's just one of the great mysteries of the world.'
Peter snorted into his plate.
'I feel sorry for you then!' She said and then turned to Sirius, who was looking quite forlorn
'What's wrong Siri?' She asked - it was very unusual for him to be so quiet.
Sirius chanced a glance at Bella who was trying to fix Remus' tie ('God Remus! Half of the first years can tie a tie better than you!' ).
'Oh I see!' Lily said, grinning ' Get over it mate!'
She patted him on the back.
'You usually think it's funny when Bella's pissed at you!'
Sirius just looked at her, and unreadable expression on his face.
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At the end of the feast (as always) Headmaster Dumbledore stood up, and the entire Great Hall fell silent.
'Good evening. I would like to welcome all new students to Hogwarts and all other students back to Hogwarts. I trust we are all fed and watered sufficiently?' Many in the hall nodded their heads.
'Excellent! Now I have quite a few announcements to make, one which I believe will be quite exciting for you all.'
Lily turned to her friends - exciting?
' Firstly' Dumbledore continued ' I would like to remind you all that the forbidden forest is, as the name suggests, forbidden. Our resident caretaker, Mr Filch , would also like me to remind you that wandering the school at night is strictly prohibited and the consequences of being found beyond your common room after hours are extremely harsh.' He looked particularly at Lily and her friends at this. Bella waved and grinned cheekily back at him, causing him to chuckle appreciatively.
' Now' He said ' For the exciting news. I am not sure that many of you are aware. But this year marks Hogwarts thousandth anniversary. To mark this occasion we will be holding a commemorative ball during the christmas break.'
Several girls shrieked in delight.
' We suggest you try your hardest to remain at Hogwarts during this time to attend the ball and spend this christmas at Hogwarts to celebrate it's thousandth year. I will be addressing the school with the details of the ball at a later date.' Dumbledore paused.
'Now!' He exclaimed and clapped his hands together. ' I am sure you are all tired and you need to be rested and alert for you first day of school tommorow. Prefects please lead you houses to their respective dormitories. Chop! Chop!'
Chatter broke out at once.
'A ball!' Exclaimed Peter ' Can you believe that? We've never had one before.'
'Great! Just what I need!' Sighed an unenthusiastic Lily ' A bunch of gits following me around for three months straight!'
'You're very modest Lil!' Piped up Bella.
'But it's true!' Argued Lily - and indeed it was.
Lily and Bella were very popular with the boys at Hogwarts, but very few got the honour of dating one of the girls - as they were very picky, and James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were, as Bella yelled once ' Overprotective prats!'.
It was the same case with the boys - not so much Peter - but James, Sirius and Remus were constantly followed by a pack of chirping girls, each hoping to get a chance with one of the three most dashing men at Hogwarts.
' Don't worry girls!' James assured them, coming to walk in between them (they were on their way to Gryffindor Tower now) and placing an arm around each of their shoulders, ' We'll fend them of for ya!'
'Course we will' Sirius, who seemed to have regained some of his spirit, came up beside Bella and flashed her a winning smile.
Bella looked at him as if sizing him up.
'Alright then' She said ' I'll take youse up on that.'
Sirius smiled wider - that was about as close to an 'I forgive you' as he was going to get from Arabella Figg.
Bella then turned to Remus.
'What about you? You gonna help save me from the big bad boys?' She put on an innocent face, looking up at him.
'Haven't I always?' Remus asked her.
'Too right!' She answered (perhaps a bit too loudly) and then proceeded to jump onto Remus' back.
'Come on Rem! PIGGYBACK!!!'
Remus grabbed her legs and tried to swivel his head so he could see her.
' What did I do to deserve a best friend like you?' He asked in exasperation.
Bella grinned, 'Something great!'
They arrived at Gryffindor tower and went to their respective dormitories with calls of :
' Night boys!'
' G'night Lils'
' Night Bella"
' Night Rem, love ya!'
' You to Bella, goodnight.'
' G'night boys, love ya all!'
' Even me?'
' Yes, now goodnight!'
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Lily couldn't sleep. No matter how hard she tried to close her eyes and let sleep overtake her, she would end up wide awake, staring at the ceiling. She didn't know exactly what was wrong - but deciding she might as well do something useful, she grabbed her favourite book (The Witching Hour) and headed down to the common room. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't alone. James was sitting by himself in a couch near the fire. He wasn't doing anything exactly - it looked to Lily as if he was thinking.
(A/N: I'm just warning you now that their discussion is mainly about Sirius and Bella. I might as well turn this whole bloody story into Sirius/ Bella. I just can't find a way to get James and Lily together. ARGGHH!!)
'James?' She said softly, making her way towards him.
He jumped and looked up at her.
' Oh, hey Lils.' He looked very tired.
'Why arent you asleep?' Lily questioned him, she put her hands on her hips. ' You should atleast be in bed.'
James smirked at her. 'You're one to talk.'
Lily sat down and sighed. ' I know! I couldn't sleep. So, why are you down here?'
James yawned, but Lily could have sworn she saw a twinkle of laughter in his eyes.
' Sirius' He said monotonely - but the twinkle was definetely there now.
Lily didn't quite understand, what about Sirius?
' Sirius what?' She looked up at him questioningly.
James looked as if he were about to laugh now.
'That boy is so hung up it's not funny!' He grinned ' Well, actually it is, but it means I can't get to sleep because he's wandering hopelessly around the dorm he's that lovesick!'
It was Lily's turn to laugh now.
'That's so cute!' She exclaimed ' Who is it?'
James glanced towards the stairs that led up to the boys dormitories. He shook his head.
'You don't wanna know!'
'Yes I do!'
'No, you don't!'
Lily jumped up and went over to him.
'Please James!' She said, getting down on her knees and giving him puppy dog eyes.
His facial expression softened.
'Alright then' He said ' I suppose it is obvious.'
Lily was growing impatient 'Come on! Out with it!' - Her bright green eyes were wide in anticipation.
'It's ... well ... it's Bella!' James burst out, grinning like mad.
Lily giggled. ' I thought that whole thing was a charade!' She chuckled ' Everyone does!'
'Yeah well it's obviously not.' He looked at her nervously. 'Just don't tell Bella, alright?'
'Of course I won't!' Lily exclaimed, she then adopted a puzzled expression, ' Since when has Sirius liked her?'
'Since that huge fight he had with Bella at the end of last year.' James answered, ' Remember what Bella screamed at him at breakfast that morning?'
'Of course! The whole school does! Bella had just come abck from talking to that guy she like - Alex Bones and Sirius was really pissed off.'
'Pretty obvious why he wanted to bash the barstard now' James mumbled.
Lily continued ' Bella got sooooo angry. 'Why do you care Sirius?' she yelled. It was bloody loud to.'
'Yeah well he actually thought about it' James rolled his eyes. 'All summer. Drove us mad. But he's got the answer now, hasn't he?'
'I spose he has' Lily said. ' Let's just hope he doesn't do anything drastic.'
' Yeah, let's just hope some other guy doesn't like her. Sirius will go crazy, he might get himself into trouble'
'And you can talk?' Lily scoffed, ' Who got themselves kicked out of Amos Diggory's party last year. You and Remus created quite a bloody scene.'
James scowled at her ' Lils! He was practically trying to rape you! We had to do something.'
Lily smiled slightly ' He only touched my bum James, and anyway, maybe I didn't mind it!'
James looked at her, shocked.
Lily held back laughter 'I'm only joking James! But I can fend for myself you know. I don't think being pounced on and beaten up by you and Remus was poor Amos' idea of a good party.'
'Well he should know better then to touch you like that when one of us is around, shouldn't he?' James said angrily.
Lily sighed. ' Let's just drop it, OK?'
She hopped up. ' Alright! Come on Jamie boy, you need sleep!' She tried to pull him off the couch.
'What about you?' He complained.
'I'm going to be too'
'OK then' James yawned ' I suppose Sirius has fallen asleep by now.'
lily made hr way towards the stairs that led up to the girl's dorms.
'Night James!' She called, and made her way up.
'Night Lils!' James watched her shadow until he could see it no longer, and added in a whisper-
'You have no idea how much you mean to me'
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Finished! Yay!!!!! Do you like? Hmmm... Sirius isn't the only one hiding something!!
I know it's mostly Sirius and Bella but their my favourite couple. please read and review.
By the way - I have exams this week, and a camp next week so I might not be able to update for awhile. But then it's summer holidays!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! and christmas!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I should be able to update then, but not very often because it is holidays, and my friend Shell is coming back to visit from Melbourne!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEXT CHAPTER: Alright I think next chapter Remus is going to find someone. And yes, it is a girl. (sorry all you slash fans) How will Bella cope? Will she be jealous, happy, what??
G'day again! Alright I'm putting this chapter up - even though I only got ONE REVIEW!!!!!!!!! :( But I hope that in putting this new chapter up people may find it in the goodness of their hearts to press that little button down there and give me their opinion. It could be two words - 'It sucks!' - for all I care. Just something plzz!!
Oh and to my one nice reviewer - Moonylover - thankyou! Very much appreciated.
DISLCAIMER: I am not british, blonde OR pregnant - therefore I am not J.K Rowling - Therefore I do not own any of the magical world, or any of the characters.
This story is about James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily and Arabella - Six best friends starting their sixth year at Hogwart's. However this year certain members of the group start to feel different towards others.
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The opening feast was always in Sirius' opinion - 'Bloody damn good!', and tonight's was no exception.
Lily (who was an extremely fast eater) got bored quite quickly, and settled with trying to make James' extremely messy black hair lie flat (much to Peter's amusement).
'What are you doing?' James asked her when she began patting his head, as if he were some kind of dog. Lily didn't answer his question, but instead started patting more vigorously. James grew impatient -
'I said ...' He began, putting his knife and fork down, but was cut off.
' Does your hair EVER look halfway normal!?' Lily cried in frustration - The look on her face was quite funny James thought.
'Fraid not Lil's' He answered ' It's just one of the great mysteries of the world.'
Peter snorted into his plate.
'I feel sorry for you then!' She said and then turned to Sirius, who was looking quite forlorn
'What's wrong Siri?' She asked - it was very unusual for him to be so quiet.
Sirius chanced a glance at Bella who was trying to fix Remus' tie ('God Remus! Half of the first years can tie a tie better than you!' ).
'Oh I see!' Lily said, grinning ' Get over it mate!'
She patted him on the back.
'You usually think it's funny when Bella's pissed at you!'
Sirius just looked at her, and unreadable expression on his face.
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At the end of the feast (as always) Headmaster Dumbledore stood up, and the entire Great Hall fell silent.
'Good evening. I would like to welcome all new students to Hogwarts and all other students back to Hogwarts. I trust we are all fed and watered sufficiently?' Many in the hall nodded their heads.
'Excellent! Now I have quite a few announcements to make, one which I believe will be quite exciting for you all.'
Lily turned to her friends - exciting?
' Firstly' Dumbledore continued ' I would like to remind you all that the forbidden forest is, as the name suggests, forbidden. Our resident caretaker, Mr Filch , would also like me to remind you that wandering the school at night is strictly prohibited and the consequences of being found beyond your common room after hours are extremely harsh.' He looked particularly at Lily and her friends at this. Bella waved and grinned cheekily back at him, causing him to chuckle appreciatively.
' Now' He said ' For the exciting news. I am not sure that many of you are aware. But this year marks Hogwarts thousandth anniversary. To mark this occasion we will be holding a commemorative ball during the christmas break.'
Several girls shrieked in delight.
' We suggest you try your hardest to remain at Hogwarts during this time to attend the ball and spend this christmas at Hogwarts to celebrate it's thousandth year. I will be addressing the school with the details of the ball at a later date.' Dumbledore paused.
'Now!' He exclaimed and clapped his hands together. ' I am sure you are all tired and you need to be rested and alert for you first day of school tommorow. Prefects please lead you houses to their respective dormitories. Chop! Chop!'
Chatter broke out at once.
'A ball!' Exclaimed Peter ' Can you believe that? We've never had one before.'
'Great! Just what I need!' Sighed an unenthusiastic Lily ' A bunch of gits following me around for three months straight!'
'You're very modest Lil!' Piped up Bella.
'But it's true!' Argued Lily - and indeed it was.
Lily and Bella were very popular with the boys at Hogwarts, but very few got the honour of dating one of the girls - as they were very picky, and James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were, as Bella yelled once ' Overprotective prats!'.
It was the same case with the boys - not so much Peter - but James, Sirius and Remus were constantly followed by a pack of chirping girls, each hoping to get a chance with one of the three most dashing men at Hogwarts.
' Don't worry girls!' James assured them, coming to walk in between them (they were on their way to Gryffindor Tower now) and placing an arm around each of their shoulders, ' We'll fend them of for ya!'
'Course we will' Sirius, who seemed to have regained some of his spirit, came up beside Bella and flashed her a winning smile.
Bella looked at him as if sizing him up.
'Alright then' She said ' I'll take youse up on that.'
Sirius smiled wider - that was about as close to an 'I forgive you' as he was going to get from Arabella Figg.
Bella then turned to Remus.
'What about you? You gonna help save me from the big bad boys?' She put on an innocent face, looking up at him.
'Haven't I always?' Remus asked her.
'Too right!' She answered (perhaps a bit too loudly) and then proceeded to jump onto Remus' back.
'Come on Rem! PIGGYBACK!!!'
Remus grabbed her legs and tried to swivel his head so he could see her.
' What did I do to deserve a best friend like you?' He asked in exasperation.
Bella grinned, 'Something great!'
They arrived at Gryffindor tower and went to their respective dormitories with calls of :
' Night boys!'
' G'night Lils'
' Night Bella"
' Night Rem, love ya!'
' You to Bella, goodnight.'
' G'night boys, love ya all!'
' Even me?'
' Yes, now goodnight!'
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Lily couldn't sleep. No matter how hard she tried to close her eyes and let sleep overtake her, she would end up wide awake, staring at the ceiling. She didn't know exactly what was wrong - but deciding she might as well do something useful, she grabbed her favourite book (The Witching Hour) and headed down to the common room. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't alone. James was sitting by himself in a couch near the fire. He wasn't doing anything exactly - it looked to Lily as if he was thinking.
(A/N: I'm just warning you now that their discussion is mainly about Sirius and Bella. I might as well turn this whole bloody story into Sirius/ Bella. I just can't find a way to get James and Lily together. ARGGHH!!)
'James?' She said softly, making her way towards him.
He jumped and looked up at her.
' Oh, hey Lils.' He looked very tired.
'Why arent you asleep?' Lily questioned him, she put her hands on her hips. ' You should atleast be in bed.'
James smirked at her. 'You're one to talk.'
Lily sat down and sighed. ' I know! I couldn't sleep. So, why are you down here?'
James yawned, but Lily could have sworn she saw a twinkle of laughter in his eyes.
' Sirius' He said monotonely - but the twinkle was definetely there now.
Lily didn't quite understand, what about Sirius?
' Sirius what?' She looked up at him questioningly.
James looked as if he were about to laugh now.
'That boy is so hung up it's not funny!' He grinned ' Well, actually it is, but it means I can't get to sleep because he's wandering hopelessly around the dorm he's that lovesick!'
It was Lily's turn to laugh now.
'That's so cute!' She exclaimed ' Who is it?'
James glanced towards the stairs that led up to the boys dormitories. He shook his head.
'You don't wanna know!'
'Yes I do!'
'No, you don't!'
Lily jumped up and went over to him.
'Please James!' She said, getting down on her knees and giving him puppy dog eyes.
His facial expression softened.
'Alright then' He said ' I suppose it is obvious.'
Lily was growing impatient 'Come on! Out with it!' - Her bright green eyes were wide in anticipation.
'It's ... well ... it's Bella!' James burst out, grinning like mad.
Lily giggled. ' I thought that whole thing was a charade!' She chuckled ' Everyone does!'
'Yeah well it's obviously not.' He looked at her nervously. 'Just don't tell Bella, alright?'
'Of course I won't!' Lily exclaimed, she then adopted a puzzled expression, ' Since when has Sirius liked her?'
'Since that huge fight he had with Bella at the end of last year.' James answered, ' Remember what Bella screamed at him at breakfast that morning?'
'Of course! The whole school does! Bella had just come abck from talking to that guy she like - Alex Bones and Sirius was really pissed off.'
'Pretty obvious why he wanted to bash the barstard now' James mumbled.
Lily continued ' Bella got sooooo angry. 'Why do you care Sirius?' she yelled. It was bloody loud to.'
'Yeah well he actually thought about it' James rolled his eyes. 'All summer. Drove us mad. But he's got the answer now, hasn't he?'
'I spose he has' Lily said. ' Let's just hope he doesn't do anything drastic.'
' Yeah, let's just hope some other guy doesn't like her. Sirius will go crazy, he might get himself into trouble'
'And you can talk?' Lily scoffed, ' Who got themselves kicked out of Amos Diggory's party last year. You and Remus created quite a bloody scene.'
James scowled at her ' Lils! He was practically trying to rape you! We had to do something.'
Lily smiled slightly ' He only touched my bum James, and anyway, maybe I didn't mind it!'
James looked at her, shocked.
Lily held back laughter 'I'm only joking James! But I can fend for myself you know. I don't think being pounced on and beaten up by you and Remus was poor Amos' idea of a good party.'
'Well he should know better then to touch you like that when one of us is around, shouldn't he?' James said angrily.
Lily sighed. ' Let's just drop it, OK?'
She hopped up. ' Alright! Come on Jamie boy, you need sleep!' She tried to pull him off the couch.
'What about you?' He complained.
'I'm going to be too'
'OK then' James yawned ' I suppose Sirius has fallen asleep by now.'
lily made hr way towards the stairs that led up to the girl's dorms.
'Night James!' She called, and made her way up.
'Night Lils!' James watched her shadow until he could see it no longer, and added in a whisper-
'You have no idea how much you mean to me'
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Finished! Yay!!!!! Do you like? Hmmm... Sirius isn't the only one hiding something!!
I know it's mostly Sirius and Bella but their my favourite couple. please read and review.
By the way - I have exams this week, and a camp next week so I might not be able to update for awhile. But then it's summer holidays!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! and christmas!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I should be able to update then, but not very often because it is holidays, and my friend Shell is coming back to visit from Melbourne!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEXT CHAPTER: Alright I think next chapter Remus is going to find someone. And yes, it is a girl. (sorry all you slash fans) How will Bella cope? Will she be jealous, happy, what??