A/N Oh my god! I love you all! Thanks for reviewing my story, individuals are at the end.
And that was that. Kaleb and Lily had found another friend in Remus, something no one ever expected to happen.
In Potions, however, something just as strange happened.
Kaleb and Lily were sharing a workspace as per usual, when Professor Clemens announced they would be working in groups of three, for their were three units of potion to be drunk. Professor Clemens liked Lily and Kaleb, and usually kept them together, as was the case today. However, the other person in their group was the oddball, Clemens paired our two girls with none other than James Potter.
Lily groaned as James came over to their circular table and sat down his things.
"You know Evans, this isn't exactly my idea of a party either." James said as he relaxed into his chair.
"Really? Could've fooled me. I doubt you know how to party, with the bimbos you hang around." Lily drawled.
"Oh, and I take it you do?" James said, a little edgy.
"Would you doubt me?" Lily raised one eyebrow and gave a mischievous half-grin.
"I might. Who would you have to party with?" James asked, hoping to get a barb through her thick skin.
"Oh, just about everyone at The Solstice." Kaleb responded.
"The Solstice?" James asked.
"Yeah, you know…the club? In Hogsmeade? Wow, none of this is ringing any bells in that empty head of yours is it?" Lily smirked.
"I've heard of the Solstice, but I didn't think you'd actually been there. How did you two freaks get in?" James said.
"Same way I do everything, sheer charm." Lily said, flashing a saccharine smile.
James arched a brow and said, "Riiiiiight."
Kaleb raised both brows, and challenged him. "Don't believe us? We were going to go tonight, feel like a party? You can come, on one condition."
"And that is?"
"You bring Remus, for your sake. He'll pretty much be the only thing between Lily going all Pompeii and you." Kaleb said.
"Alright. I'll bring the Marauders, where're we meeting?"
"By the statue of the old hump-back witch. Meet us at 11:30 tonight, cool?" Kaleb asked.
"Yeah, cool." James responded.
When it came to be 11:25 Kaleb and Lily were heading down to the statue. Kaleb was wearing a pair of black elephant pants and a sapphire blue tube top, and her hair was down around her shoulders. Lily was clad in black combat boots, a black mini skirt and a dark red spaghetti strap top that was slashed, like claw marks, across the stomach, and all over the back. Lily's hair was straight and down around her shoulders, and quite simply, both girls looked dangerous. They both carried their wands, Kaleb in a pocket in her pants and Lily in her boots.
Once they reached the statue, the Marauders were already waiting for them…looking as they always did.
Kaleb let out a sigh at the same time Lily did. "They'll never let you in there looking like that." Kaleb said succinctly.
"Preps really don't understand dressing for the occasion, do they love?" Lily agreed.
Peter surveyed their attire and posed a question. "What's wrong with how we're dressed?"
Lily gave him The Look, the 'oh don't even make me go there' look. But she went there. "Listen Pettigrew, this is a CLUB not a dance committee meeting! Here," she began, casting charms at Peter every time she paused. "Let's spike the hair…shirt should be hunter green, and loose…and those pants? Nuh-uh. Black…with slashes at the knees. I have a thing for slash marks." Lily smirked, gesturing to her shirt.
Kaleb nodded approvingly when Lily had finished working on Peter. "Nice work, Lil."
Lily smiled at the compliment, a true, genuine smile, which James caught himself thinking rather fetching. "Thanks! Now for Black. Honestly, I don't think that you grew your hair to mid-back to have a stylin' 'ponytail'! Hair should be loose…shirt? Let's go with your name, black, and fitted…pants should be dark blue cargos…there. Now THAT is the look for Solstice."
"Remus, let's try a White fitted shirt…light blue cargos…and, oh crap, this charm never looks right, I'll just do it myself." Lily said and walked to Remus. "Bow your head." She asked.
"Uh, ok…" Remus replied, and complied. Lily ran her fingers through his hair, tilting his head to its normal position. She surveyed his hair, then tousled it slightly.
Kaleb whistled appreciatively. "Wow Remus, if I didn't know you better, I wouldn't be able to leave you alone! Do you have a stick to beat all those girls off with?" Kaleb teased, knowing it would make Remus blush.
And that it did. Remus flushed a bright pink.
"Now for Mr. Potter. How about…Hunter green fitted, and dark blue cargos?" Lily cast the charms and nodded.
"Hair?" James inquired.
"Nah, I kind of like the whole 'Doesn't own a comb' look." Lily smiled.
James rolled his eyes. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it."
Kaleb tapped the statue with her wand and said, "Dissendium." The witch moved to reveal a passageway. "Now this leads straight to the basement at Honeydukes, but Lily and I are allowed to use it…the guy who owns Honeydukes thinks that we're just the sweetest little girls!" Kaleb laughed.
The group walked down the passageway, and emerged in the basement at honeydukes. After climbing a set of stairs, they exited the building. Kaleb led them down the main street, and off onto a sidestreet, and she paused in front of a perfectly ordinary street lamp. She tapped it with her wand and said, "The Solstice moon brings out more than wolves…"
"Follow us!" Lily dictated, and they all touched the lamp, and were portkey-ed to a loud, raucous club.
"Hey Lily! What's up Kaleb?" Random voices called out around the room. Lily and Kaleb returned greetings and then turned to their companions.
"Ok! This, obviously is the dance floor, over there is the bar, and back there are rooms I don't expect any of you to enter." Lily said, then eyed Sirius, "Well…maybe you. Lemme clarify, boy meet girl, girl can tolerate boy, girl and boy snog."
"Any questions?" Kaleb asked.
"Care to dance, my love?" Lily asked, and they waved at the marauders, as they headed onto the dance floor. Kaleb's and lily's movements on the dance floor were wild enough to show that they loved to party, but chaste enough to show they weren't easy. They moved in perfect time to the music, currently a number by 'Eye of newt' called 'Unforgivable'.
"What do you think?" Sirius asked.
"About what?" james responded.
"Them!" Remus replied.
"About Lily and Kaleb!" Peter clarified.
"Well, I admit that they are hot…very hot…but I dunno, they're so…" James trailed off.
"Wild?"
"Free?"
"Independent?"
"I was going to say life-threatening, but ok. By the way Sirius, how did you get your hair back?" James asked.
"Oh, Remus got Lily to reverse the spell. She's rather brilliant, that one. We could use her for some pranking." Sirius explained.
"Yeah, I was thinking about that too. She's the only person in the class who can do Charms Sentences." Remus agreed.
Peter simply nodded enthusiastically, happy that Lily made him look like he belonged at that club. "And Kaleb is really awesome at Potions too!" He piped up.
"Well…I don't know. If we have them pranking with us then we might have to tell them about the You Know Whats about all of us." James reasoned.
"I think we can trust them, if it ever comes to that." Remus said thoughtfully.
Lily stopped dancing and looked over at the conversing guys. "Come on! You're at a club, dance!" She dashed over and grabbed Remus and James' arms, and dragged them onto the dance floor, pleased that Sirius and Peter took the hint and followed.
James made a face, "I don't dance!"
Lily smirked. "Don't, or can't?"
"Take your pick."
"C'mon, everyone can dance! Just move!" Lily insisted, and took James' hands in her own. "Just start off like this, and find your rhythm." She moved her hips to the beat of the music, and guided James to start dancing. Sirius, Remus, and Peter were already out in the dance floor, dancing like there was no tomorrow.
Slowly James got more comfortable on the dance floor, and was even beginning to impress Lily, and that is not an easy feat.
"Hey, Potter! How come you never move like this at school dances?" Lily asked.
"Are you kidding me? Nobody there would know what to do!" He laughed.
After a few more dances, Lily and James headed over to the bar, and sat at a table near the wall after getting a couple of butterbeers. "So, still doubt that I can party?" Lily asked, wickedly.
"There are no doubts anymore, Tiger Lily." James replied.
"Tiger Lily?" She asked, cocking her head and smiling.
"Yeah, that's what I'm going to call you from now on." James said, smiling slightly.
"Yeah, right, like you'll even condescend to talk to me once we're back at school." Lily rolled her eyes, she wasn't going to hold her breath.
"Why wouldn't I?" James asked, genuinely confused.
"Hello? You're James the Prep King Potter and I'm Lily Social Outcast Evans. It'd be social suicide for you to talk to me, not to mention the fact that your rep is all you care about." Lily explained, as one would to a child.
"It's not all I care about. Why are you a social outcast anyways? Why do you insist on being so…different?"
"Because I love it. I refuse to blend in with those idiots. I have a mind of my own, a style of my own and a sense of humor of my own and I won't pretend otherwise." Lily shrugged.
James took a sip of his butterbeer. "So you don't care what people think of you?"
"Not at all."
"I wish I could be like that." James admitted.
"Then do it! You don't have to be anything you don't want to be, you know." Lily insisted.
"It's not so easy. Everyone has these expectations that I have to meet, or I've let everyone down." James sighed.
Lily was about to protest when Remus, Sirius, and Kaleb joined them. "Hey Lils, what's up?" Kaleb asked.
"Not much." She replied, glaring at James. "Where's Peter?"
"You know those rooms? Well, he found one." Sirius said with a rakish grin.
"Are you serious?" James asked.
"Of course I'm Sirius! Geez, James, I would've thought you had my name down by now!" Sirius laughed, at the very, very battered pun.
All those at the table groaned. "Sirius, that joke is older than dirt." Remus said.
"And yet he has reanimated it, ah, to bow to the genius of one, Dr. Frankenstein!" Kaleb said dramatically, causing Lily and Remus to laugh.
"Huh?" Sirius articulated.
"Mary Shelley wrote a book called Frankenstein, and this guy, Dr. Frankenstein reanimated dead tissue, just to prove it could be done." Lily clarified.
"Oh…kay…" James said, understanding…somewhat.
"They have some dead tissue that impairs their ability to process information…if you catch my drift…" Remus said, pointing to his head.
"Yeah. So Lily, we should probably head back. I trust that you preps can make it back all alone?" Kaleb asked, standing.
"Yeah, let's go Kaleb. Enjoy the party, and go find Peter in a few minutes, if he's not back by then, it's usually a very bad thing. Ciao." Lily bid them farewell, and headed towards the exit with Kaleb.
A/N Ok, so that chapter was a bit dull, so sue me! I'm so glad you like this!
Heart2heart- I plan to! These chapters just keep jumping out of my head!
Jay Potter- thanks for the review, and of course I'll continue!
Eressa- no! Not the nothing! Ahhh! Glad you like it!
Mike- I just really love the name Kaleb, and I thought, why do all the girls have to have really feminine names? So I chose my favorite guy name and gave it to her! She just doesn't seem like the average girl to me. And of course Lily is going to be a strong opinionated person. I don't think she would've been able to die for Harry later if she wasn't strong. And you can just wait and see about the saving…but there will be no damsels in distress as far as MY Lily.
Trixy- I'm glad you think so! I wanted to have an original story
BooBooKitty- yeah, normal is so boring, don't you think? And sure I'll read your stories!
~Angel~ Personally I love Kaleb and Lily's senses of humor, they remind me of my best friend's!
starblaze- will do!
And that was that. Kaleb and Lily had found another friend in Remus, something no one ever expected to happen.
In Potions, however, something just as strange happened.
Kaleb and Lily were sharing a workspace as per usual, when Professor Clemens announced they would be working in groups of three, for their were three units of potion to be drunk. Professor Clemens liked Lily and Kaleb, and usually kept them together, as was the case today. However, the other person in their group was the oddball, Clemens paired our two girls with none other than James Potter.
Lily groaned as James came over to their circular table and sat down his things.
"You know Evans, this isn't exactly my idea of a party either." James said as he relaxed into his chair.
"Really? Could've fooled me. I doubt you know how to party, with the bimbos you hang around." Lily drawled.
"Oh, and I take it you do?" James said, a little edgy.
"Would you doubt me?" Lily raised one eyebrow and gave a mischievous half-grin.
"I might. Who would you have to party with?" James asked, hoping to get a barb through her thick skin.
"Oh, just about everyone at The Solstice." Kaleb responded.
"The Solstice?" James asked.
"Yeah, you know…the club? In Hogsmeade? Wow, none of this is ringing any bells in that empty head of yours is it?" Lily smirked.
"I've heard of the Solstice, but I didn't think you'd actually been there. How did you two freaks get in?" James said.
"Same way I do everything, sheer charm." Lily said, flashing a saccharine smile.
James arched a brow and said, "Riiiiiight."
Kaleb raised both brows, and challenged him. "Don't believe us? We were going to go tonight, feel like a party? You can come, on one condition."
"And that is?"
"You bring Remus, for your sake. He'll pretty much be the only thing between Lily going all Pompeii and you." Kaleb said.
"Alright. I'll bring the Marauders, where're we meeting?"
"By the statue of the old hump-back witch. Meet us at 11:30 tonight, cool?" Kaleb asked.
"Yeah, cool." James responded.
When it came to be 11:25 Kaleb and Lily were heading down to the statue. Kaleb was wearing a pair of black elephant pants and a sapphire blue tube top, and her hair was down around her shoulders. Lily was clad in black combat boots, a black mini skirt and a dark red spaghetti strap top that was slashed, like claw marks, across the stomach, and all over the back. Lily's hair was straight and down around her shoulders, and quite simply, both girls looked dangerous. They both carried their wands, Kaleb in a pocket in her pants and Lily in her boots.
Once they reached the statue, the Marauders were already waiting for them…looking as they always did.
Kaleb let out a sigh at the same time Lily did. "They'll never let you in there looking like that." Kaleb said succinctly.
"Preps really don't understand dressing for the occasion, do they love?" Lily agreed.
Peter surveyed their attire and posed a question. "What's wrong with how we're dressed?"
Lily gave him The Look, the 'oh don't even make me go there' look. But she went there. "Listen Pettigrew, this is a CLUB not a dance committee meeting! Here," she began, casting charms at Peter every time she paused. "Let's spike the hair…shirt should be hunter green, and loose…and those pants? Nuh-uh. Black…with slashes at the knees. I have a thing for slash marks." Lily smirked, gesturing to her shirt.
Kaleb nodded approvingly when Lily had finished working on Peter. "Nice work, Lil."
Lily smiled at the compliment, a true, genuine smile, which James caught himself thinking rather fetching. "Thanks! Now for Black. Honestly, I don't think that you grew your hair to mid-back to have a stylin' 'ponytail'! Hair should be loose…shirt? Let's go with your name, black, and fitted…pants should be dark blue cargos…there. Now THAT is the look for Solstice."
"Remus, let's try a White fitted shirt…light blue cargos…and, oh crap, this charm never looks right, I'll just do it myself." Lily said and walked to Remus. "Bow your head." She asked.
"Uh, ok…" Remus replied, and complied. Lily ran her fingers through his hair, tilting his head to its normal position. She surveyed his hair, then tousled it slightly.
Kaleb whistled appreciatively. "Wow Remus, if I didn't know you better, I wouldn't be able to leave you alone! Do you have a stick to beat all those girls off with?" Kaleb teased, knowing it would make Remus blush.
And that it did. Remus flushed a bright pink.
"Now for Mr. Potter. How about…Hunter green fitted, and dark blue cargos?" Lily cast the charms and nodded.
"Hair?" James inquired.
"Nah, I kind of like the whole 'Doesn't own a comb' look." Lily smiled.
James rolled his eyes. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it."
Kaleb tapped the statue with her wand and said, "Dissendium." The witch moved to reveal a passageway. "Now this leads straight to the basement at Honeydukes, but Lily and I are allowed to use it…the guy who owns Honeydukes thinks that we're just the sweetest little girls!" Kaleb laughed.
The group walked down the passageway, and emerged in the basement at honeydukes. After climbing a set of stairs, they exited the building. Kaleb led them down the main street, and off onto a sidestreet, and she paused in front of a perfectly ordinary street lamp. She tapped it with her wand and said, "The Solstice moon brings out more than wolves…"
"Follow us!" Lily dictated, and they all touched the lamp, and were portkey-ed to a loud, raucous club.
"Hey Lily! What's up Kaleb?" Random voices called out around the room. Lily and Kaleb returned greetings and then turned to their companions.
"Ok! This, obviously is the dance floor, over there is the bar, and back there are rooms I don't expect any of you to enter." Lily said, then eyed Sirius, "Well…maybe you. Lemme clarify, boy meet girl, girl can tolerate boy, girl and boy snog."
"Any questions?" Kaleb asked.
"Care to dance, my love?" Lily asked, and they waved at the marauders, as they headed onto the dance floor. Kaleb's and lily's movements on the dance floor were wild enough to show that they loved to party, but chaste enough to show they weren't easy. They moved in perfect time to the music, currently a number by 'Eye of newt' called 'Unforgivable'.
"What do you think?" Sirius asked.
"About what?" james responded.
"Them!" Remus replied.
"About Lily and Kaleb!" Peter clarified.
"Well, I admit that they are hot…very hot…but I dunno, they're so…" James trailed off.
"Wild?"
"Free?"
"Independent?"
"I was going to say life-threatening, but ok. By the way Sirius, how did you get your hair back?" James asked.
"Oh, Remus got Lily to reverse the spell. She's rather brilliant, that one. We could use her for some pranking." Sirius explained.
"Yeah, I was thinking about that too. She's the only person in the class who can do Charms Sentences." Remus agreed.
Peter simply nodded enthusiastically, happy that Lily made him look like he belonged at that club. "And Kaleb is really awesome at Potions too!" He piped up.
"Well…I don't know. If we have them pranking with us then we might have to tell them about the You Know Whats about all of us." James reasoned.
"I think we can trust them, if it ever comes to that." Remus said thoughtfully.
Lily stopped dancing and looked over at the conversing guys. "Come on! You're at a club, dance!" She dashed over and grabbed Remus and James' arms, and dragged them onto the dance floor, pleased that Sirius and Peter took the hint and followed.
James made a face, "I don't dance!"
Lily smirked. "Don't, or can't?"
"Take your pick."
"C'mon, everyone can dance! Just move!" Lily insisted, and took James' hands in her own. "Just start off like this, and find your rhythm." She moved her hips to the beat of the music, and guided James to start dancing. Sirius, Remus, and Peter were already out in the dance floor, dancing like there was no tomorrow.
Slowly James got more comfortable on the dance floor, and was even beginning to impress Lily, and that is not an easy feat.
"Hey, Potter! How come you never move like this at school dances?" Lily asked.
"Are you kidding me? Nobody there would know what to do!" He laughed.
After a few more dances, Lily and James headed over to the bar, and sat at a table near the wall after getting a couple of butterbeers. "So, still doubt that I can party?" Lily asked, wickedly.
"There are no doubts anymore, Tiger Lily." James replied.
"Tiger Lily?" She asked, cocking her head and smiling.
"Yeah, that's what I'm going to call you from now on." James said, smiling slightly.
"Yeah, right, like you'll even condescend to talk to me once we're back at school." Lily rolled her eyes, she wasn't going to hold her breath.
"Why wouldn't I?" James asked, genuinely confused.
"Hello? You're James the Prep King Potter and I'm Lily Social Outcast Evans. It'd be social suicide for you to talk to me, not to mention the fact that your rep is all you care about." Lily explained, as one would to a child.
"It's not all I care about. Why are you a social outcast anyways? Why do you insist on being so…different?"
"Because I love it. I refuse to blend in with those idiots. I have a mind of my own, a style of my own and a sense of humor of my own and I won't pretend otherwise." Lily shrugged.
James took a sip of his butterbeer. "So you don't care what people think of you?"
"Not at all."
"I wish I could be like that." James admitted.
"Then do it! You don't have to be anything you don't want to be, you know." Lily insisted.
"It's not so easy. Everyone has these expectations that I have to meet, or I've let everyone down." James sighed.
Lily was about to protest when Remus, Sirius, and Kaleb joined them. "Hey Lils, what's up?" Kaleb asked.
"Not much." She replied, glaring at James. "Where's Peter?"
"You know those rooms? Well, he found one." Sirius said with a rakish grin.
"Are you serious?" James asked.
"Of course I'm Sirius! Geez, James, I would've thought you had my name down by now!" Sirius laughed, at the very, very battered pun.
All those at the table groaned. "Sirius, that joke is older than dirt." Remus said.
"And yet he has reanimated it, ah, to bow to the genius of one, Dr. Frankenstein!" Kaleb said dramatically, causing Lily and Remus to laugh.
"Huh?" Sirius articulated.
"Mary Shelley wrote a book called Frankenstein, and this guy, Dr. Frankenstein reanimated dead tissue, just to prove it could be done." Lily clarified.
"Oh…kay…" James said, understanding…somewhat.
"They have some dead tissue that impairs their ability to process information…if you catch my drift…" Remus said, pointing to his head.
"Yeah. So Lily, we should probably head back. I trust that you preps can make it back all alone?" Kaleb asked, standing.
"Yeah, let's go Kaleb. Enjoy the party, and go find Peter in a few minutes, if he's not back by then, it's usually a very bad thing. Ciao." Lily bid them farewell, and headed towards the exit with Kaleb.
A/N Ok, so that chapter was a bit dull, so sue me! I'm so glad you like this!
Heart2heart- I plan to! These chapters just keep jumping out of my head!
Jay Potter- thanks for the review, and of course I'll continue!
Eressa- no! Not the nothing! Ahhh! Glad you like it!
Mike- I just really love the name Kaleb, and I thought, why do all the girls have to have really feminine names? So I chose my favorite guy name and gave it to her! She just doesn't seem like the average girl to me. And of course Lily is going to be a strong opinionated person. I don't think she would've been able to die for Harry later if she wasn't strong. And you can just wait and see about the saving…but there will be no damsels in distress as far as MY Lily.
Trixy- I'm glad you think so! I wanted to have an original story
BooBooKitty- yeah, normal is so boring, don't you think? And sure I'll read your stories!
~Angel~ Personally I love Kaleb and Lily's senses of humor, they remind me of my best friend's!
starblaze- will do!