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Chapter 5: The Plan Continues

James had ambled back down to the common room, where he met Lily and Kim. They were heading up to their own dormitories. He said a polite, "Hello", to Kim and ignored Lily. Lily didn't seem bothered, he assumed she had received the letter and was on cloud 9.

"The rest of the guys are downstairs in the hall. You can go down now, almost everyone is gone." Lily snickered, before going up the stairs.

At that moment, two sixth years entered the room, and they took one look at James before bursting into laughter all over again. James clenched his jaw and tried to laugh in vain. However, he managed to give people the impression that he did not really care.

James walked down to the hall, in his hands he held the Marauder's map, and used all the passages to avoid the laughing eyes of everyone.

"James!" greeted Remus, as James stalked into the Hall, pretending to hold his head up high.

"Not too bothered about it are you James?" Becky asked, concern etched on her face.

"Duh no." James replied, and that earned a smile from Becky.

"Lucius likes to say Duh." She pondered, earning a few laughs from Remus and Sirius and a glare form James.

"Don't push you luck Becky." Muttered James, but he laughed a bit too, before correcting her, "No he likes saying Funky."

"DUH!"

"FUNKY!"

"DUH!"

"FUNKY!"

"Let's go ask him then!" Huffed Becky, but she was all smiles. They both walked over to where Lucius was.

"Come to propose?" Severus, Lucius's sidekick chuckled darkly, before adding, "and proclaim your love for Prof Indigo?" Both of the Slytherins laughed in their cruel, sadistic way, but both Gryffindors waited patiently.

"Finished?" James asked, with his famous eyebrow raise.

"Even if you aren't," Becky interrupted, well sort of, "Do you like saying DUH or FUNKY more?"

"What kind of crap question is that?" Asked Lucius.

"Just answer."

"DUH, FUNKY!" Lucius answered, rolling his eyes heavenwards.

"Er..right." Becky started to giggle again, and since giggling is infectious, James soon began to laugh quietly.

"Okay then, thank you." James thanked Lucius politely, before leaving.

THE NEXT MORNING..

The next day dawned bright and early. The birds were singing most irritatingly. James groaned as his alarm clock rang. He fumbled around to switch it off before pulling the covers over his head.

"RISE AND SHINE PEOPLE!" Crowed Sirius, as he bounded out of bed and onto James's . "Wake up! Lots of things to do today! We can go prank Slytherin! We can go wake up LILY AND BUG HER!" Sirius was very energetic, and was a very morning person, most unfortunately.

"Go to sleep Sirius. It's way too early."

"You people don't appreciate me..boo hoo hoo." Sirius pretended to sob, but nobody really bought it.

"Shut up you faggot." James yelled, throwing a pillow at Sirius, knocking him over.

"Good shot James!" Remus praised, before closing his eyes. It should be made illegal to be so perky on weekends James thought, before falling into a deep slumber.

"I'm off to see Lily! You people don't appreciate me! At least Val appreciates me!" Valerie was Sirius's new flavour of the week. He had asked her to be his girlfriend yesterday after dinner. Sirius stormed out and Lily's screams could be heard after some time.

"Sirius! IT'S TOO BLOODY EARLY TO BE WOKEN UP! HONSETLY IT'S ONLY 8AM! LET ME GO TO SLEEP IF NOT I WILL KICK YOU IN THE PLACE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE!" James grinned, Lily was never a morning person.

"DAMMIT! NOW I'M SO AWAKE. THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" screeched Lily again, obviously disappointed at being deprived of slumber. They could hear the door slam and pattering of feet. Soon, Sirius and Lily burst into the boys' dorm.

"Bloody hell Lily! Let us sleep!" Remus almost screeched, and for a moment there was total silence, Remus rarely screamed. Peter awoke from his slumber, and crept off to the toilet.

"Let me kill Siri first" Lily grabbed a pillow from Peter's bed and thumped Sirius with it, before grabbing him. Sirius started to tickle her, which made her squirm and laugh loudly. She grabbed another pillow, threw it but because she was laughing so hard, the pillow flew into Remus's face.

"That's it Lillian! YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" Remus yelled, but he was smiling. He leapt right onto Lily, much like a sumo. Lily rolled out of the way, and Remus landed on Sirius, who groaned loudly. .

"Get off me!" Sirius croaked.

"I can't! She's pressing me down." Remus squeaked, as Lily had place her posterior down on Remus.

"Kill two birds with one stone." Lily quoted.

"More like kill two birds with one fat ass!" Sirius gasped, and James laughed.

"My ass isn't fat! But you think it's funny do you." She sent James an evil look and lunged at him. Immediately, the two boys got up and began to watch what was going to transpire between Lily and James.

Lily began by choking James, her hair was all around him, and James couldn't help but listen in bliss as Lily laughed merrily, or perhaps sadistically.

James wasn't part of the Quidditch team for nothing. He picked Lily up easily and then proceeded to tickle her mercilessly.

"Haha.Stop..Ha.Stop it!" Laughed Lily, and she was flailing her arms and legs around. She was wearing a big t shirt and shorts. James couldn't help but notice that she had long beautiful legs. He stopped tickling her and she looked up at him.

"Sucker!" She shouted, and launched herself at him, knocking him over onto the bed. She was on top of James now, and was breathing heavily, a Cheshire grin on her mischievous face.

"Who do you think will win?" Remus asked Sirius, "I think Lily, she has more stamina."

"I think James, he isn't the star Chaser for nothing." Sirius put in his two cents worth.

"I shall spare you James," Lily pronounced, as if she was letting James off a death sentence. They both seemed to be getting along rather well, and Lily took the chance to apologize, "sorry for yesterday," She muttered, and looked at the blankets, a blush creeping onto her face.

"It's okay," James responded awkwardly, smiling inwardly.

"LILY! ANOTHER LETTER FROM YOUR ADMIRER! HE MUST HAVE SENT IT LAST NIGHT OR SOMETHING! The poor owl was waiting outside for GOODNESS KNOWS how long, Kim is trying to revive the poor dear," Becky babbled as she stumbled through into the boys' dorm.

"Wow, who was murdered?" She asked, after surveying the severe damage dealt to a few cupboards and the clothes strewn all over the floor, "Did Sirius turn one of you people green by any chance?"

"Nope, he just awoke a sleeping Lily," Remus explained and Becky nodded knowingly, "I heard the screeches of our ever so eloquent Lily."

"ANYWAY! What about the note?" Lily changed the subject, grabbing the piece of parchment which Becky was holding.

"READ IT OUT!" Sirius commanded, well more like whined, from where he was.

"Dearest Lily, if I were to ask you out and give you a gift, I would give you 11 roses, for you are the 12th one, even though you are a lily, you're as fragrant and as beautiful as the most perfect rose."

"He's insulting LILY! I LOVE LILLIES!" Hollered Sirius indignantly, before asking, "is it the same Casanova?"

"Yup, same handwriting, it's so sweet!" Becky cooed, a faraway look in her blue wistful eyes.

"Yep, it's really sweet," James was a good actor, and pretended to be puzzled about who it was, "Who is it?"

"I don't know, that's what makes it so ROMANTIC!" Kim entered the room with an owl perched on her shoulder.

"Poor little thing," Remus sympathized, as he noted how frozen and stiff the owl seemed.

"He's okay now I think," Kim pondered, stroking the lovely brown owl. "All we know is that this admirer is from Ravenclaw, as the owl used is the Ravenclaw one.

"He's really sweet." Lily smiled to herself, and a dazed expression crossed her usually alert feature.

"LILY'S IN LOVE! PEOPLE LISTEN UP! LILY'S IN LOOOOOOOOOOVE!" Sirius, always the hyper one shouted to no one in particular. Peter woke up and trudged to the toilet. (stupid rat, totally useless)

"Shush Sirius, Lily, why don't you write back?" Kim suggested, and it was fortunate everybody began bugging Lily to write back that they did not notice James leave the room.