Chapter 8: Back to the Fun and Game, The one that kept me sane

Disclaimer: Okay, this fic is just getting WAY too somber for me, I'm a kind of shallow happy person whom philosophic people despise. I don't own anything that you recognize from the JK Rowling series. If you haven't decomposed into a lump of dung yet, here is the story..

Chapter 8: Back to the Fun and Game, The one that kept me sane

"Where's Lily?" Asked Becky for the billionth time to Kim. They were both skulking around , trying to be inconspicuous, but you don't see a devil and a vampire creeping around that often, so needless to say many people did see them, and give them amused glances may I add.

"For goodness sake Becky! If I knew would I be walking around this hallway with you now? I would probably be with LILY!" Kim snapped, but continued to quietly walk along.

"Why are we trying to be inconspicuous? It's not a crime to go looking for your best friend!" Becky questioned, and Kim replied, with impatience evident in her voice," BECAUSE, we're all supposed to be at the DANCE! It's compulsory you dolt!" She smacked Becky on the head and continued to walk in no particular direction.

"Where are we heading then? We have no idea where Lily is, and here we are, in our ridiculous costumes, sneaking around these hallways? We'll get caught and made to go to that dance with our awful dates who probably have nothing to talk about with us. They're AMBERS!" Kim wildly gestured, emphasizing her point.

"We're heading to er well, erm. JAMES!" She greeted the messy haired boy who was dressed in a tuxedo, yes the boys were pretending to be butlers or something weird like that, according to what Sirius said in Hogsmead.

"Why are you people coming this way?" James inquired, he was heading back to the common room, and the two girls were supposed to be going to the great hall to meet their dates.

"We're going to ditch our dates and go find Lily, killing two birds with one stone." Kim explained, and James had a flashback about when Lily had sat on Remus and Sirius, something no girl had ever accomplished before.

"AHHHHH GO BACK IN GO BACK IN!" Becky screeched, as she rudely shoved James and Kim in the direction of the common room, "GO IN! GO IN!"

"What?" Kim asked, exasperated, but followed Becky's orders. James was still in shock at what Lily had been screaming, so he followed Becky's commands numbly.

"THE DATES FROM HELL! THEY'RE COMING TO GET US! IN IN IN!" Becky yelled, and with a rude shove, all three of them went tumbling through the portrait, which had intelligently moved aside to allow the three teenagers to go through. She recognized them, and knew that they were Gryffindors.

"HIDE!" Was Kim's first instinct, as she dashed up the flight of stairs, dragging Becky with her.

"How about LILY?" Kim demanded, but allowed herself to be dragged up the flight of stairs.

"The "dates from hell" can't enter, they don't have the password you idiots." James commented, but was proven wrong when Ivan Prose and Royston Chang uttered the password, and the Fat Lady let them in.

"HIDE US!" Becky screamed before they both shot up the stairs and into their dorms, leaving James behind.

"Evening Potter," Ivan greeted, while Royston, who was slightly more friendlier greeted, "evening James."

"Evening." James said, rather stupidly he thought, as he didn't know both of those boys' names. "Er, the girls will be down shortly." James knew that Kim and Becky were going to kill him for saying that, but that was just too bad.

"We'll wait." Royston said jovially, as he sat down on one of the couches, while Ivan merely grunted, very troll-like, and just stood there, fidgeting.

James bolted up the stairs and crashed into the girls' dorm. "They're DOWNSTAIRS! Waiting for you!" He said, before realizing that only Cassandra was there, and she was sitting on her bed, looking at James in amusement.

"They're in the toilet. They just rushed in, and headed for the toilet." She explained, before resuming her actions, which was trying to clip on her wings.

James wasted no time in heading for the toilet, where he found Kim and Becky, sitting on the floor, plotting their escape route.

"For goodness sake ladies," He started but Kim ignored him, "We can't leave through that way Becky, those idiots will find us."

"If we made a run for it?" Becky suggested feebly, before James cleared his throat.

"Your dates are waiting downstairs."

"Yes, yes butler, you may go." Becky dismissed him with the wave of his hand and James felt rather irritated.

"Well, thought that you would like to know."

"WE KNOW THAT YOU BLOODY IDIOT NOW JUST GO!" Kim ordered, and James left, after murmuring something which sounded like, "girls."

"I KNOW!" Kim suddenly yelled, "We'll fly out of the window!"

"Er.right." Becky said, wondering if Kim had finally cracked. "We don't have wings if you haven't noticed."

"ON A BROOM!" Kim almost yelled, and Becky finally understood, but there was still a problem, "Two people to a broom?"

"I'm a beater for heavens' sake, we have the strongest , sturdiest brooms. Just hold on tight," Kim exited the toilet and Becky followed, shaking her head, not believing she was being conned into doing this.

"Cass! Be a dear and tell our dates that.." Kim started but Cassandra finished the sentence, "We can't make it. I'll say you people flew out of the window on a broom shall I?"

"Say whatever you want to say. In fact, I don't exactly care if they stay there the whole bloody evening."

"I mind! I don't want Gryffindor common room to be dirtied by brainless chickens like them." Cassy decided, as she put the finishing touches to her wings, "You people might like to change," She called out, but Kim and Becky had already grabbed the broomstick and left.

"How are we going to find a window big enough that will let us through?" Becky asked, finding that all the windows were way too small.

"This must be a plot against girls who want to escape brainless dates," Grumbled Kim, but then she smiled, "wait I have an idea."

She pulled out her wand and muttered the shrinking charm, and immediately Becky was less than a foot tall. "HA! Now we can get out of the window!" Kim clapped her hands with glee.

Kim muttered the spell again, pointing the wand at herself and she was reduced to the size of Becky, who was sitting their rubbing her temples.

"Nice going Kim. First of all, how are we supposed to lift the broom?" Becky pointed out, and Kim's mouth formed into an "o" shape.

"Er..good point." Kim thought for a while, while Becky prayed that nobody would emerge from their dorms and see them there.

"Where's my wand?" Kim felt around and found that he wand was nearly as large as she was, "Oh shit."

"KIMBERLY!" Becky yelled, but it only came out as a squeak to normal human ears," WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?"