A/N: HeeheeI keep getting distracted by the henna on my hands. Anywhohere's my chapter 5. You all are such great reviewers! Oh, and by the way, someone thought I misspelled my title. Nope, its supposed to be bound and not bond. And the romance is gonna come slowly on this fic, it can't come up all of a sudden. I'm sorry, but that's the way the fic has to be. K, toodles! Senna
Disclaimer: I own Aria and Ashley right now. Oh, and all the italics in this part are Sirius's thoughts, none of them are Lily's.
Chapter 5: Aria's Love Song
Day by day, Lily began to loosen up and let people in. She was still on her guard, but she began to become friends with the Marauders, Aria, and Ashley. Lily even began to help pull pranks on Snape and his friends. So far, she had thrown a vanishing potion on him, turned his oily hair a shocking pink color, and stolen all of his clothes, all in her first two weeks. At first it had felt weird for her, talking and laughing. She hadn't been able to do that in years. She was beginning to like it. She liked having girls to talk about girly stuff. She could never have discussed periods or shaving with Evan, and she loved having the guys as friends as well, even though it had some disadvantages, such as the female population of Hogwarts becoming insanely jealous of her closeness with them. Still, they were hilarious, and could even be sweet at times. Rare times, true, but still, they had their moments.
One night, not long after the friends had stolen Snape's clothes, the Marauders, Lily, and Ashley were sitting in the common room drinking butterbeer. They were not at all cheering the victory of the stolen clothes prank, since it had been more disgusting than funny.
"That was a REALLY bright idea, Moony, to steal ALL of his clothes. Jesus, that was the smallest, most wrong thing I have ever seen in my life!" said James, disgusted.
"How was I supposed to know that he would come into the Great Hall wearing a pink robe that was WAY too short and fluffy bunny slippers? I'm not psychic you know!" said Remus, indignantly.
"It would have been funny if no one had turned the fan on," said Ashley. "That was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. I think I've been scarred for life! I tried to wash my eyes afterwards, you know." Lily laughed at the memory. Ashley had run into the girls' bathroom yelling in agony my eyes, my eyes!' and ran out a minute later screaming the same thing, wiping soap off of her face.
"Did it work?" asked Sirius innocently. Ashley glared at him.
"I didn't think the soap would get in my eyes if I was careful!" she exclaimed.
"Where's Aria?" Lily asked suddenly. She hadn't seen her all day long, not since she, Ashley, and Aria had thrown spitballs at Trewyn and her entourage.
"I thought she was in the library," said James.
"Why would she be there?" asked Sirius, absolutely shocked at the very idea of anyone spending time in what he called 'the good ol' hellhole'. The portrait hole swung open and Aria stepped inside the common room, wearing an enormous grin on her face, and giggling softly every few seconds. She walked past her friends and reached the stairs when Remus called out to her.
"Hello? Aria? We're here, not up there."
"Yea, I know," she said, obviously having no idea about what Remus had said.
"Come on Aria, you're breaking the prefect's code of honor. A prefect is not supposed to ignore any student," said Sirius.
"Ok."
"Andyou know this how?" asked James. "I didn't even know that, and I'm a prefect!"
"Sirius is reciting rules," said Remus, shaking his head. "Next thing you know, Snape is going to wash his hair." Sirius looked at Aria, who was now proceeding to climb the stairs, swaying as she walked.
"There's only one way to prove is she's faking or if this is real," he said. "Aria, darling, want to come to my room after dinner and play a little game of Quidditch? You know I'm good at it." If Aria had been normal, she would have slapped Sirius as hard as she could the second he had said that. This girl, however, giggled and replied
"All right." Sirius looked seriously (A/N: lol, couldn't resist) at the rest. "That settles it. Aria has been abducted by those little, green, fairies muggles call aliens, and they sent that girl back down to earth to pose as her. She should have slapped me by now!" He thought this over for a second. "Maybe I should take her word for it. I mean, she did agree to play Quidditch, and-"
"Sirius, can you stop being horny for just one second?" Lily snapped.
"Come on Lily," said Ashley. "Let's go see what has happened to our dear Aria." The two girls went up the stairs to their dormitory, and found Aria listening to music on her magical CD player, and dancing with her eyes closed with an invisible person. Lily and Ashley exchanged looks, and began to slowly back out of the room. Aria opened her eyes and found her friends looking warily at her. She grinned and laughed.
"Ash," said Lily. "I think she's finally cracked."
"It was bound to happen," said Ashley solemnly. "It's a shame though, that it happened now. She's so young still. What a pity." Aria laughed again, and quickly stopped when she saw the look on her friend's faces.
"Oh stop worrying you guys! I'm fine!" she said. Then she looked thoughtful. "Actually, I'm better than fine! I'm perfectly happy! I'm giddy! I'm delighted! I'm exhilarated! I'm-"
"Going to drive Ashley and Lily as insane as you are if you don't stop!" said Lily. "Sit Aria-good girl-now breathe. All right, now tell us why you're so happy."
"Ok. You guys know how I've had the biggest crush on Amos Diggory?" said Aria. Did they ever know. Aria had been in love with him ever since her first year. She was at a loss for words whenever she passed him in the hallway, and almost fainted when he had once asked her how her class had been. She had sworn that she would marry him, and already had the ceremony planned out. Of course, nearly every other girl at Hogwarts did the same. Amos Diggory was the cause of practically every girl's heartache, along with James, Sirius, and Remus. Most any girl would have done anything to be his girlfriend.
"Well, I was coming back from the Owlery when I bumped into him! He was really sweet and helped me up and helped me gather up my books and stuff. I was just going to leave when he offered to walk me back. So we were walking and talking about Quidditch, and we got to the Fat Lady, and-oh god, you'll never guess! He asked me if I wanted to go to Hogsmeade with him sometime!" The other two girls almost fell off the bed. Then they began to scream happily.
"Oh my God Aria! You've got a date with a seventh year!" screamed Lily as she hugged her friend.
"Not just a seventh year, but the hottest seventh year in the whole year!" yelled Ashley as she too hugged Aria, who was gasping for breath beneath the weight of her friends.
"Oof! I know! It's so amazing! But you'll never guess what happened next. I said the password and I said good night, and he said good night, and thenHE KISSED ME!" Aria exclaimed. The other two girls erupted in screams again.
"Amos Diggory kissed you!" squealed Ashley.
"The hottest seventh year in the entire school kissed you!" screamed Lily. "Wait until Trewyn finds out! Oh, she's going to die when she hears it!"
"You lucky, lucky, thing! Every girl in school is going to hate you forever! Oh my God, he kissed you!" Ashley screamed.
"I have to find an outfit to wear for the next Hogsmeade visit. Its on Saturday!" said Aria, completely content.
"I'm going to go tell the guys," said Lily.
"Oh but Lils, I need your help!" she whined. Lily looked at her as if she were out of her mind. She didn't know the first thing when it came to clothes. She had never been into that kind of girly stuff. Petunia had been more in to it. Lily chose her clothes by deciding if they were clean or not. Hadn't Aria noticed that by now?
"Do you want to look like a colorblind monkey on Saturday?" she asked.
"Of course not!" exclaimed Aria.
"Then let Ash pick out your outfit," said Lily, and she ran out of the common room.
James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were talking in low voices in a secluded corner of the common room. In just a few days, the full moon would emerge. They didn't have much time left. With just a few more practices, it would be done.
"Look, we still need to make the potion, and somehow we need to get those ingredients. And we have to get Aria and Ashley to help with the ceremony, if we need them to do it. That's our last resort. If we have to do the ceremony, only two of us can do it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the ingredients?" asked James in a low whisper.
"Raid Glenn's private stores," said Sirius.
"Does anyone have any ideas that doesn't involve suicide?" asked James. When no one offered any suggestions, he sighed. "Ok. We'll do it tonight then. The thing is, the cloak will only hold two people along with all of those ingredients."
"I'll do it," said Remus. James looked like he was about to say something, so Remus added hastily "You need the ingredients because of me, so I might as well get them for you guys."
"Look Remus, how many times do we have to tell you that you don't owe us anything? We're best friends. We're more than that, actually, we're like brothers. I know that if it were me or James or Peter, you'd do the same for us, right?" asked Sirius angrily. He knew that Remus had always been self-conscious about being a werewolf, and was thankful every day for the friends he had. The problem was, he didn't understand that he wasn't a burden to them. That they would stick by him through anything. He had been shunned away too many times to hope to believe that. Remus nodded. "Good. I'll go with you then."
"Go where?" asked Lily. The four boys snapped their heads up to look at her. She jumped backwards a little, startled.
"Lily," said James, trying very hard not to sound as nervous as he was. "How much did you hear?" Lily was about to say that she had heard nothing, but she looked at the pleading expressions in each boy's eyes. She couldn't lie to her friends.
"I- I- just heard the last thing Sirius said," she said, scared. Would they be angry? Would they think she had been spying on them not want to be friends? She bit her lip, and looked pleadingly at them to believe her. Fortunately, their faces relaxed.
"You've got to promise that you won't tell anyone we're sneaking out," said James in an urgent voice. Lily nodded. "Actually, will you help us?" The other three looked quickly at him out of the corners of their eyes, each wondering what he was thinking.
"Sure," she said. "I'll help if I can."
"Ok. We need to create a diversion so that Remus and Sirius won't have any trouble. Now, since they have the cloak, we will probably get caught, which is what we want," explained James.
"We do?" asked Lily under her breath.
"We'll go down to the kitchens and steal some food, and someone is bound to find us before or after we get there," said James, not having heard Lily. "Do you want to help?" Lily nodded eagerly. It was better than sitting around in the common room doing the Defense Against the Dark Arts essay that was due tomorrow.
"When do we do this?" asked Lily.
"Meet Peter and I down here at one," said James.
"Ok," said Lily.
"Did you ever find out what was up with Aria?" asked Sirius casually. He hoped to god that no one would think that he was asking because he liked her (which I don't. I'm just wondering because she's my friend). An enormous, dopey, grin suddenly spread across Lily's face, one that looked identical to Aria's.
"Yup!" exclaimed Lily. "She was really, REALLY happy because Amos Diggory is asked her out!"
"He did what?" asked Sirius, shocked. "But she-you know-she didn't say yes, right?" Lily looked at him as if he were an idiot.
"Earth to Sirius? He's Amos Diggory! The guy she's had a crush on since first year! Of course she said yes!" Sirius couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"And he said yes too?" Lily rolled her eyes.
"He's the one who asked her out, but obviously, to you, that doesn't count as a yes. And that's not even the best part! He kissed her too!" said Lily, dreamily. "Good night. See you at midnight!" Sirius watched as she bounded up the stairs. He felt like someone had just slapped him with a really, icy, cold hand. Kind of the way it felt to be slapped by Narcissa Adams. Except this was ten times worse. James, Remus, and Peter looked carefully over to Sirius, to see how he was reacting to the news. His expression was unreadable, face blank.
"Sirius? How-what-?" asked Remus, struggling with what to say, which was unusual because he was the one who was good with words. Sirius just stared ahead. He didn't know what to think. He was angry. No, not angry, worried. Yea. But why? Aria wasn't his girlfriend. She was Aria for crying out loud! The same girl who had slapped him the first they had met because he had asked her if she wanted to play Quidditch with his golden snitches. The same girl that he had played millions of pranks on and/or with. Why was he so upset? He should be happy for her. He was happy for her, and tried to convince himself this. Yea. If being happy is the same feeling as being thrown off of a cliff and struck by lightening. This was stupid. She was his friend, and he had known that she was in love with Diggory. He shouldn't be so worked up about it.
"So what ingredients are we going to steal?" he asked, looking for the list, which was in James's pocket.
"Sirius, don't change the subject," said Remus angrily.
"I didn't. You just said Sirius? What-how-?' That's not a subject, or even a question. Really Remus, you're supposed to be the one who's grammatically correct. Are you feeling all right?" asked Sirius as he grinned cheekily. Anyone who didn't know him would have thought that he was back to normal. Unfortunately for him, James, Remus, and Peter knew him far too well to be fooled by that.
"Are you?" asked James pointedly, even though he knew he wasn't.
"Course I do. Never better. Now which ingredients do we need to steal?" asked Sirius. Of course, his friends new that he was lying, but they also knew that it wouldn't get them anywhere if they kept bugging him. James sighed, took out a crumpled roll of parchment from his pocket and started reading the ingredients aloud.
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