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Boy Against Girl-Chapter 2-The Murder

By: Aly

James woke up in his nice, warm, bed. He had a strange sensation that somebody was looking at him, but his curtains were closed. How could someone look in when they couldn't even see you? He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He got out of his bed, his glow-in-the-dark boxers glowing dimly. He walked into the small bathroom and looked at himself. He looked dreadful! His normally black hair was not black, and it wasn't in its normal mess. It orange and combed. Who the heck would comb his hair? A note written in lipstick on the mirror soon explained.

"Like the hair Potter? I thought the orange would go worst with your skin tone. And thank Sirius for explaining to me how to do it. It was extremely helpful.

Lily"

James tried his hardest not to scream his head off. He loved his hair, and it was, orange! He ran over to Sirius' trunk, looking for shoe polish or something like that. Nothing. He then ran over to Remus'. Again nothing. Why couldn't people help him out here? He was then hit with inspiration. Peter would have something. He was always making sure his shoes were perfect. Couldn't let his "mummy" find out he wasn't keeping up his normal geeky look. He went over to the trunk and saw the polish sitting on top of it, next to Peter's shoes. He grinned evilly and went to the bathroom, and after that, the girl's dormitory.

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Lily woke up quite proud of herself. She had gotten James back, almost. There were still many, many things she had to do to him. She put her hand through her hair, and it felt very wrong. It was, kinda sticky and oily. She went to the bathroom and screamed.

Her normally red hair was partially black. Also her normally ivory skin was black, with James left white on her forehead.

"You are dead, Mr. James Potter."

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At breakfast that morning Lily looked dreadful. She had tried to wash all the gunk off her face and hair. But it was impossible. She still had black shoe polish all through out her hair, with a few auburn streaks showing through it. Her face had been even harder to get off. She had scrubbed and scrubbed, but all she got out of it was black smears all over her face, and she looked sick.

James, however, looked perfectly normal, except for his hair looked sleeker. She glared at Sirius who just shrugged.

"Hello Lily, darling. How are you this beautiful morning?" James asked sweetly. Too sweetly.

"Oh I'm just peachy. How 'bout you?" She replied bitterly.

"I'm great. I'm sorry to break this to you though, sweety, but you look awful."

James' face looked innocent enough, but his eyes were laughing at her. Lily rose her eyebrows.

"Really? I hadn't noticed."

He looked at her sideways. "Yeah, I mean, yesterday you looked somewhat ok. For a girl anyway, and now you look like something out of a bog in the forbidden forest."

Lily pressed her lips together.

'I am not going to strangle him in front of witnesses. I am not going to strangle him in front of witnesses. I am not going to strangle him in front of witnesses. I am not-"

"ARGH!!!!"

James' eyes went big and he stood up.

"Um...I think I better go talk to Sirius."

He stood up to leave, but Lily grabbed his cloak and pulled him back down.

"Sit!" She took a breath. "I do not know what your problem is, James Potter, but you have definite people problems. You have no idea what you put half the people here at Hogwarts through. They're so frightened to make you mad, they won't even blow their nose in front of you."

James tried not to laugh. "And how exactly would you know this since you've been here for," he looked at his watch, "28 hours."

Lily clenched and unclenched her hands. "Can you just keep your comments to yourself for five seconds?"

He thought for a moment. "I dunno. I've never tried."

Lily wanted to hurt him. She wanted to hurt him so bad he'd never forget it. She was going to do something to him...that...she didn't know. Suddenly James shot out of his chair.

"Lily? What are you doing?" He asked unsurely.

She looked at him oddly. "Nothing."

James' hands got started getting bigger, and then his feet, and stomach. Soon everything but his head was all stretched out. He reminded Lily of a pig balloon at this very moment.

Dumbledore rushed over, trying not to laugh.

"I believe our Mr. Potter has been blown up." He said with a grin.

The entire hall was silent, except Lily, Sirius, and Remus. They were laughing hysterically.

Lily sobered down. "I believe you're right Professor Dumbledore. I'm not sure how it happened though. But I think Sirius did it."

Sirius let his mouth drop. "I did not! Not this time!"

Remus nodded. "I have to agree with him, Professor. He hasn't touched his wand all through out the meal, only his fork."

Lily looked confused. "Must have been you then Remus."

"Lily! Stop blaming people."

James was getting exasperated, and he was starting to float up to the ceiling.

"I don't mean to bother anybody, but HELP!"

Several people tried to help, but only made it worse. He turned blue.

"HELP!"

Lily tried not to laugh. "Professor, I personally think we should leave him there. Only make his head bigger and shrink his body." She grinned. "That's the way he is you know. A big headed idiot." Realizing what she said, and to whom, she covered her mouth with her hand. "Er...sorry about that."

Andrea broke in. "She really is Professor, she's just upset because James put shoe polish in her hair and face. That's why she looks horrible."

"Andrea Marie Brincock!"

Dumbledore smiled. "You know Lily, I think you have temper issue's and I think it's your fault that James is up there, with girls pulling off his shoes trying to get him down."

"Really?" She said pleased and then tried frowning. "Um...I don't think I could have done that." She said with a chuckle after wards.

"Don't worry too much about it. I'll just get him down, take him to see Madam Moffet, and then give you your first detention."

Lily looked somewhat shocked. "But I only blew him up! I really wanted to kill him, or make him drown in his cereal, or something like that! But it was also Andrea's idea so she can come with me!"

Andrea glared at her. "Yeah, all my idea." She muttered.

Dumbledore smiled again. "You'll both just have it then."

Lily smiled, detention by herself would be boring, but with Andrea they could think up lots of horrible things to do to James.

"And I'll make sure that Mr. Potter is with you, for what he did to you this morning."

Lily's smile faded. "Oh no! You don't have to do that. I mean, it was just a little prank." She put out her fingers so they were almost touching. "Just a little tiny, bitty, prank."

Sirius laughed. "Not compared to what Lily did to him. She turned his hair orange!"

Lily turned to him. "Sirius, you are not making this any better."

He grinned. "Not making it any worse though, am I?"

Lily looked back at Dumbledore, "I did turn his hair orange. But Sirius told me how, so therefore he should also have detention. And Remus too for that matter."

"Why? What did I do?" Remus asked shocked.

Lily looked him up and down. "I'm not sure yet. But I'll think of something."

Sirius pulled out a little notebook from his robe and turned to a page near the back and mad a mark. "1370 to go." He replied.

"What?" Lily asked confused.

"How many detentions I need till I get expelled."

Dumbledore nodded. "Exactly right. And speaking of getting expelled, you all better go to your classes, before you're late. I'll take care of Mr. Potter."

James yelled down. "Thanks professor! I'm glad somebody remembered me."

Lily grabbed her schedule and books. "Don't worry Potter, it's easy to forget." And ran to her first class, potions with Slytherin.

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 Lily's first class had definitely been the worst of the day. There were these two boys that kept on making fun of her, and making jokes about her and Potter.

'Were do they get those stupid ideas? I hate James.' She kept thinking to herself.

The two boys, who she supposed were Lucius Malfoy, Jullian Avery, and two other boys of the last names of Crabbe and Goyle, had followed her to almost all of her classes, taunting her. When the day was over she was almost laughing with joy. Her and Andrea went up to the Gryffindor Common Room to finish her homework. Lily couldn't believe they'd given her homework on the first day of school, although Andrea had expected it. Her sister seemed to tell her all the things she needed to know about Hogwarts.

They had to right up a whole page of information on a potion of their choice. Lily didn't even know all of the potions, so she had stopped by the library and probably gotten every book they had on it, that wasn't in the restricted section, and that she could carry. She plopped them down on a table in the corner with Andrea sitting across from her.

"Alright And, what should we do?"

"Um..." She skimmed through the pages, closed her eyes and pointed to one. "A polyjuice potion? No that's more advanced then we are. A potion that turns people into frogs? Um..."

"Stop! That one sounded good." Lily grinned. "We could even try it out to make sure it works."

Andrea's eyes went big, but she got a mischievous smile on her face. "I wonder who you'd pick?"

"I dunno. But I can think of at least five people who deserve it."

Just then James and his group walked in.

"Can you believe the nerve of him? Trying out for the Quidditch team? I mean how stupid is he?" James boomed.

Sirius grinned. "Well, just think. If he makes the Slytherin team you'll have a jolly good time knocking the socks off him."

"You guys," Remus interrupted, while looking at what would soon be a full moon. "I've gotta go."

James and Sirius both looked at him and nodded. "Sure old boy. And don't give your mum too much trouble." They then leaned over and whispered something in his ear.

Peter stood up on his toes, trying to hear.

"Remus, try not to bite yourself too hard. Last time you got-"

Sirius stuck his hand over his mouth.

"Shut your cake hole. Do you have any idea what you just said?"

Peter thought for a moment then his eyes went big. "Oh I'm sorry Remus! It won't happen again."

Remus just nodded. He looked tired, very tired. And it was only their second day at Hogwart's. Lily wondered what people had done to him, and if he looked that tired after one day what she looked like.

"Anyway Andrea, do you know why they're all acting so peculiar, and why their talking about Remus going to go see his mum?"

"No." Andrea said while shaking her head, her short brown hair flowing around it. "But my sister told me that Remus is sick enough to make up for everyone in the whole school. And when he's not sick he has to go visit his mum. She's on her deathbed basically."

Lily took in a breath. "Oh poor Remus!"

Just them Professor McGonagall walked in.

"Andrea Brincock, Professor Dumbledore would like to see you in his office immediately."

Her eyes went big. "But I haven't done anything."

McGonagall looked sad and tired. "I know dear, but he must see you."

Andrea walked over and followed her out the passage.

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Half an hour later Andrea ran back through the door, tears running down her cheeks, not stopping and going straight up to the girl's dormitory. Lily looked around at all the confused faces and ran up after her.

She walked up to Andrea's bed, where sobs could be heard behind the closed curtains.

"Andrea. Is everything alright?" Lily asked, while pulling a curtain back.

Andrea pushed her head further into her pillow.

"No! Nothings alright! The Professor just told me that my family is dead. Dead! Do you call that alright?" She yelled as she stood up and faced Lily.

Lily gasped. "That's awful! What happened?" She asked as she pulled Andrea in, hugging her tightly.

"Voldermort." Andrea sniffed. "Killed everyone who was at home, which was everyone. It was Aaron's birthday today and they were all over celebrating I suppose. I guess it's only Alexandria and me now." She whipped the tears away and went back to putting her face in her pillow. "Now if you don't mind just go away. I'd like to be left alone."

Lily got of the bed silently, nodding, and walked out of the room slowly. As she went down stairs she couldn't believe what had happened. She didn't even really know who Voldermort was. She had heard a few things about him while she had been in Diagon Alley, but that was it. When she reached the common room James came up to her.

"Lil what happened? You look like you've just seen a ghost."

"Andrea...family dead...Voldermort."

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That's all of Chapter 2! Hope you all like this one and I hope there aren't a lot of mistakes. I read over it so there shouldn't be but you never know I guess. :) Thank you all for the many responses once again. They meant so much to me and I was SO glad you all liked it! Also, sorry for the somewhat of a cliffhanger, I just thought that I liked this ending and I know that not much happens but still. :) Thank you all!!!