Lily Evans busied herself packing her things that she'd be needing for her 3 week suspension, or vacation, if she could look at it that way. She should take her books so that she could keep up with her classes and studies at home. At least Petunia was away at school... Maybe she could talk her parents into taking her to Diagon Alley and do some shopping in there. An owl would be a nice something to pick up, that way she could keep in touch with everyone at Hogwarts... Closing her trunk, Lily looked over her shoulder to see Shelia, Marlene and Emma entering the dormitory.

"Lily, what happened?" She looked up to see Shelia inquiring.

"Well..." Lily started, "I'm..."

She would have continued, but she was interrupted by Gabriella's cry of outrage. "For what? Severus's liez? Iz zat what?"

Lily laughed, "No, Gabriella, McGonagall was just giving me detention, I'm not expelled; I've got to polish everything in the trophy case."

Sheila broke into alleluias hearing this.

"Sheila, please stop zat noise!" Marlene clasped her hands over her ears, trying to block out Shelia's horrid singing.

"How dare you insult my singing, Frenchy!"

"Don't you dare ever call me zat AGAIN!"

"Please stop!" Emma spoke up, trying to stop her feuding friends, again, "This is Lily's first detention, try to make today no worse than it has to be."

Lily looked up, ''Thanks Emma. '' Emma smiled back.

''I will be'ave if she does.'' Gabriella said, pointing at Shelia.

Shelia looked shocked. ''You are the one who started this whole mess! ''

''Me? You are ze one wiz ze 'orrible singing! ''

''And what about you? ''

''BOTH OF YOU! BE QUIET! '' The mirror behind Shelia shook as Lily screamed.

Gabriella was staring Shelia down. ''I will be quiet and behave if she leaves. ''

''This is my dormitory, why don't you just march yourself back to the 6th years will you belong. '' Shelia retorted.

''I am.''

''How about all the way back from France where you came from! '' Shelia said as Gabriella slammed the door.

Two seconds later, Gabby poked her head back through, ''Lily, I will talk wiz you tonight, all right, after you detention? '' She then turned and stared at Shelia, wand out, mumbling something. Turning herself to leave Gabriella could hear Emma and Lily laughing.

''What's so funny? '' Shelia demanded as she turned around. ''OH MY GOD! GABRIELLA LUCILLE JACQUES IS GOING TO DIE! '' Shelia was in complete shock of seeing her hair neon green.

''Oh come on, '' Lily said through laughs, ''Green is really quiet becoming on you!''

''Just wait till I see her at dinner.'' Needless to say, Shelia was fuming.

•º•

The Great Hall was alive with rumors over what had happened to the prefect, Lily Evans. Everyone, even if they had spent 3 and half years in a cave, knew that Lily had smashed a plate over Nott's favorite student, or at least you hoped they did. James was busy making faces with his food when Sirius, Remus and Peter joined him. ''Oh come on, Prongs, Sirius said as he plopped himself down, don't look so sad. After all, we have detention to look forward to tomorrow! ''

''Its thanks to you that we have detention to begin with. '' Peter said rather indignantly as he slammed his body onto the chair.

''Its thanks to your mom! '' Sirius answered back.

''Remus looked up from the book he was reading. ''Oh, please, Padfoot, no your mom jokes. ''

''I wasn't joking, he protested, it really was his mums fault. She picked out the undies.''

''Enough, Sirius, I'm serious. '' Remus replied. This just puzzled everyone more.

''Can you run that by me one more time, you completely lost me, Moony." James said, looking up for the first time.

Remus sighed, ''I am not joking Sirius Black. ''

Sirius cocked his head to the side, ''Okay'' and started wolfing down the dinner.

''Sirius, seriously we really need to refer to you as Padfoot. '' James said, making an observation on the more then to often confused word and name.

''Yeah, I swear my parents were drunk when the named me. ''

''Seriously. '' Was all James had to say. Sirius slammed his head into the mashed potatoes with that comment. ''Sorry Padfoot, too tempting.''

Remus shook his head. "What a waste of a good word."

•º•

At the other side of the Gryffindor table, Lily sat with her friends talking. Gabriella was nowhere to be seen, well at least at their table. ''Emma, have you seen Gabby? '' Lily inquired.

''Yeah, she is sitting over there, '' Emma pointed to the Ravenclaw table, ''with Arthur O'Brian. ''

Frowning, Lily stated, ''Oh, I was hoping she would join us this evening. ''

Shelia smirked, ''It's a good thing she isn't here. ''

''Oh, be quiet, Shelia. '' Shelia turned around to see the speaker. ''Mind if I take her spot tonight, Lily? ''

''Sure Cri Cri'' Lily said, making room for their Slytherin friend.

Turning to Shelia, Cri Cri stated, ''Nice hair, looks like something Andromeda would do. '' She continued talking to the rest of her friends, ''you should have seen Severus when he came in. ''

Shelia sighed, ''He's adorable when he's mad. '' The rest of the table rolled their eyes.

Cri Cri continued, ''He was so hoping you'd get the full four weeks. Plus, I don't think he likes being told to watch his language. ''

Gabriella appeared; Emma made room for her. ''I'd bet on zat.'' She said as she sat down.

''Me too, me too. '' Everyone had to agree.

Cri Cri helped herself to some cranberry sauce. ''So, Lil', what's your sentance? ''

Lily shook her head. ''Trophy case duty. I haven't polished so much as a mirror in ages!''

Cri Cri gave a sympathetic frown then excused herself, saying ''Some other time I'll have to tell you the latest gossip going around my common room, '' her eyes where dancing frantically, ''It's quite scary, frankly.'' Lily shivered as they said goodbye.

Lily headed towards the trophy room as the rest of her House back to their common room.