The Flower's story chp25
There's a day of hope may I live to see.
Where our hearts are happy and our souls are free.
Let the new day dawn oh lord I pray.
We'll never get to heaven till we reach that day.
It's a day of peace, a day of pride
A day of justice, we have been denied
when a man can live and a child can play
we'll never get to heaven till we reach that day
-Till we Reach that Day (Ragtime the Musical)


Lily woke up the next morning with a headache beyond headaches. it was like something was ringing in her ear and wouldn't stop. she flipped onto her side and saw that Tasha was sitting on her bed with an alarm clock ringing like crazy in her hands.

"Oh good, I'm not hearing things!" Lily mumbled to herself.

"Lil c'mon we have class today and I don't want to be late. The last time we were late for class McGonagall gave us such a long speech that was so boring that I'd rather have my bum bitten off then hear it again!"

"If you picture that in you head it's quite nasty!" Lily groaned as she got out of bed and put her robes on. As she walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth she spotted Molly fixing her hair.
"Good moring" Lily chimed to Molly. But Molly just looked up at her and gave her the coldest smile, and all she said was:

"Nice hair" Lily's hair was far from perfect with her short cut and her bed hair. But it wasn't the comment that bugged her. It was the cold demeanor, she guessed Molly really was serious about yesterday, and she kind of got scared.

"I won't be sitting with you 'mates' today. I'm going to sit with much more mature people" she smiled and brisked through the room.

"Bitch" Tasha hissed behind her. "She's been acting like this all morning! Do you have any idea why she's so bloody pissed?" Tasha asked

"We had a big fight last night, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal when we had it. i mean I wasn't even fighting, I just thought she had her period or something!"

"Don't worry about it, I'm sure she's just trying to act mature for dear Arthur!" Tasha teased and Lily smiled. It didn't make her feel reasured though.

So they walked downstairs and hoped to see their men of honor. Sirius and Remus were sitting by the window and talking like the evil things they were. James was instructing Peter on how to make a feather float, and his friend Billy was also trying to give Peter some advice.

"no no no NO DON'T DO TH-" but it was to late. bill was no covered in ash from what was a lovely white owl feather.
"I think i'm going to go change!" and with that he walked stiffly back up the staircase.

"oops...." exclaimed Peter in a meager voice

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While Lily and James talked about the upcoming Transfiguration exam at breakfast something flew over their heads. It was black, smelly, and slimy.

"What the-" James looked behind him and saw Severus Snape with his greasy hair, snickering at him. His lackey Lucius Malfoy was aslo laughing, but he had lickerish pudding in his spoon and was just about to launch again.

"Those Gits!" Tasha said angrily. "We should just walk over there and give them a big....a big......slap!" Tasha tried to look big and strong but just came off small and doofy. Sirius sure didn't mind though.

"Don't you love it when she tries to be the guy?" he smiled at her and gave her a huge kiss, which surprised her and also calmed her down.

"Wouldn't that make him the girl though?" Remus looked over at Lily and she giggled.

"Y-Y-yeah, I-I think th-that I'll go t-teach Malfoy a l-lesson!" Peter said. Everyone was amazed at this new found bravery and cheered him on as he got up to teach malfoy a lesson.

"What kind of lesson? A lesson in squeking?" Sirius said. They laughed but James didn't appreciat it.

"Hey, stop that, he's our friend Sirius and you shouldn't say things like that about him." James said defiantly

"James he may be your friend, but to me he's a sheep!"

"A sheep?" Tasha and Lily said with strange looks on their faces

"Yes a sheep. He'll hang out with the people who have the most power. I'm warning you James I'd watch out for that little one!"

"Why do you say that though. Peter wouldn't, no let me rephrase that. Peter couldn't hurt a fly!" Lily told him matter-of-factly.

"Hey it's always the smallest bugs that bite the hardest right James?" he looked over to Snape as he said this

"Right" James mumbled

Lily looked to where Peter was and wondered why Snape hadn't made mince meat out of him. She noticed they were having an actual conversation. Lily suddenly had doubts about Peter, but she also wondered what Sirius had meant about the bug crack.

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After everyone had their lessons and exams Sirius, Remus, James, and reluctantly Peter planned for a little trouble making in the hallways that night.

"So Cap'n, whats the evil plot for tonight?" James asked Sirius with a cocky accent.

"Well matees, tonight we're going to steal the ultimate treasure, in the most dangerous war zone ye ever heard of! We're going to: the confiscation area of the dread Pirate Filch's office! and then we're going to paint his desk bright pink!" he said that last part quite cheery.

"Sounds good cap'n" Remus exclaimed "Do we have the necassary tools for this plot?"

"Ay we do" James said as he reached into his pack discreetly and pulled out his invisibility cloak by the edges

"Than matees..l-l-lets be gone!" Peter chimed trying to go with the flow. He was still shooken up by Mcgonagalls exam.

They laughed at his pathetic "pirate accent". James pulled on his Invisibility cloak, while Remus got the map.

"All right Moony, do you have the map?" James asked using his code name

"Ay ay prongs" Remus said sarcastically "Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, are we ready to set sail?"

"ARR" They all said together very manly. Except for Peter who had accidentally transformed into a rat while saying ARR.

"Then, lets go Marauders" one by one they snuck under the cloak with James and followed the map downstairs and through the portrait whole. they had a long way to go since Filch's office was on the far side of the castle. Completely opossite of the tower.

"D-Do you think this is such a good idea? I mean because I really don't think it's a good Idea. I heard th-"

"Oh shuttup Peter we're almost there. I bet tha-" Suddenly they heard footsteps coming down the hallway. They ran behind a suit of Armor that seemed to shift by annoyance. "Remus you git why didn't you tell us someone was coming?"

"Because no one is on the map that's near us, not even one of the ghosts!" Remus looked over at Sirius and James. Peter was trembling and muttering to himself.
"Sh-shouldn't have come. No- not tonight. Not tonight. Shouldn't have come."
he was wobbling back and forth like a frightened house-elf.

Remus was about to reach over to Peter when he glanced at the map and saw a person walking toward them but coming from the other way.

"Hey wait someone is coming from the other direction its.........Ginith McBerry from Hufflepuff. What's she doing out?"

But the rest of them weren't paying attention. The heavy footsteps were coming closer and closer. The girl Ginith was oblivious to the person coming her way. It was as if she didn't even see them coming. Or whatever it was coming towards them. So they silently waited until Ginith and the person would cross paths. By the sound of the feet and the picture of Ginith on the map they would be face to face. But when they were suppose to meet, all the boys heard was a loud bump. And the footsteps just went on. When, the havy footsteps finnaly faded they all breathed a sigh of relief, except for Remus. He was just staring at the map and breathing heavily.

Remus left their little huddle behind the suit of Armor and JAmes watched his feet go up to the wall. Then all of sudden, Remus had fallen to his knees and put his hands on the floor. James and Sirius both Ran to him and saw what he was looking at. Ginith McBerry was lying face flat on the floor. JAmes bent down to feel for a pulse. Nothing.

"She's dead" James exclaimed in shock



They soon heard Peter coming out behind the armor and still muttering.
"T-told you sh-shouldn't ave come. t-t-old you!"

Tey all looked at the body dumfounded, who would do this and why? Why was she dead?

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Tasha and Lily were sleeping contently in bed when they heard a loud bang. They both jumped from their sleep and looked at eachother.

"What the bloody hell was that?" Lily exclaimed while she got up and put on her robe.

"I dunno, but it's way to early to get up so I'm just going to go back to sleep" Tasha said sleepily closing her eyes and putting her head back on the pillow.

"Oh no your not!" Lily took her covers and threw them off of Tasha onto the floor. She then grabbed Tasha's hand and yanked her out of bed. "Your coming with me to see what is going on!"

So Lily and Tasha went strolling down the staircase to the common room, when they saw a couple of proffesors talking to some kids. They krept down a little further wanting to see who the boys were. Lily stopped abruptly and tasha tripped over Lily. She grabbed Lily for support but Lily eventually fell down with her onto the floor. They tried to get up when Lily saw a pair of feet in front of her, and she looked up.

"Uh-oh" she muttered to herself, and jumped up alongside Tasha

"We're sorry proffesor but we heard a loud-"

"There was this bang and it woke us up-"

"I'm surprised it didn't wake the whole house-"

"So we got up and-"

"Lily got up and she forced me to-"

"That's not true you just needed a little nudge to get out of-"

"I wouldn't of needed a nudge if you just let me go back to-"

"Oh so your blaming this on me!"

"No I just-"

"QUIET!" They both looked up at Mcgonagall and shut up instantly.
"Now would you girls please go and sit down with the boys!" she said trying to restrain from yelling at them again.

They both nodded and headed over to them.

"Oh and girls?" they looked back at her "Be quiet!" she said forcedly

They nodded reluctantly and went to see who the boys were. Lily was shocked to find James Sirius, Remus, and Peter sitting with the saddest looks on their faces. Tasha and Lily looked at them with concern and walked over to them with caution.

James looked up to see Lily about to ask a question, but he just held up his hand as if to say no questions. Lily got it immediatley and just took his hand and sat with him.

Tasha did the same. She walked over to Sirius and Remus andput her arms around them and smiled. Sirius put his head on her shoulder and Remus gave her a weak smile that faded immediatley after he got his thank you across.

Peter just sat in his chair and kept biting his nails, but nobady knew what he was thinking, and they didn't want ot know. 'Master is proud of that spell. Nobody will know......nobody will know whats coming! Nobody"




AN: whoa. another serious one struck out by Ggal. Ok so i havn't writted in awhile and its the same excuses so i'm not gonna repeat em. please r&R luv ya! bye!

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