A/n; Forget what I said about being happy. Turns out this whole dating thing was a HUGE mistake and I don't, to be quite truthful, like the guy I've gone out with for the past probably 49 hours. It's awful, I tell you! EnglishBrat has given consoling ways to break up with him, and so has my friend Neera but she said not to dump him immediately because I should get to know him. So, I don't know what to do. Any advice you'd like to give me (trust me, I'll love you forever if I can get out of this situation) please either email me or put it in the review that you're * hopefully * writing for this chapter and/or story. Thanks, Happy Reading!
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"So basically, we're just going to publicly humiliate both of them tomorrow at breakfast?" James asked tiredly after many, many hours of brainstorming late one night.
"Um… yes," Remus said, screwing up his face in concentration.
Sirius yawned sleepily. "Ok, after writing down all the advanced charms I could find, I think we're readily able to face expulsion if we get caught."
"We're not going to get caught though, Sirius," James lectured him.
"This is really starting to sound bad. Lily could get blamed for having a part in this and she could get expelled!" Remus said, wringing his hands nervously.
"How ironic. You don't seem to like Lily the way I thought you did. Any explanation you'd like to give?" James asked, grinning evilly.
Remus stuck his tongue out. "I don't mean it that way, Mr. I-Tell-My-Friends-I-Don't-Like-Her-When-I'm-Actually-Passionately-In-Love-With-Her!"
"Love's a strong word!" James protested.
"And strangely it seems to suit you, James," Sirius said, grinning.
"What seems to suit him? Sirius, I've got that final draft on that project in History of Magic," Lily called from the other side of the boy's dorm.
"Ooh, I smell top marks!" Sirius said happily, throwing open the door.
"Does this mean I can come in and see how the pranking process goes?" Lily asked eagerly.
James snatched the paper they'd been writing on and hugged it protectively to his chest. "We've still got a few kinks to work out… come tomorrow when we've got it all planned."
"Aw, Jamsie you're absolutely no fun!" Lily exclaimed dramatically, putting her hands on her hips. She sat down on James' bed next to him.
"Don't call me Jamsie! My auntie calls me that, remember?" James hissed.
"Auntie Mildred you mean? She's cool! She gave me one of those really neat Sneakoscope things…it makes noises," Remus chirped.
"Auntie Mildred always drinks too much," Sirius replied.
"Auntie Mildred is just plain weird. She always pinches my face and tells me how I'm going to break a lot of girl's hearts," James said matter-of-factly.
"More like break mirrors…" Sirius muttered. James whacked him with his pillow.
"Uh oh. Footsteps…" Lily warned, putting on an innocent face for the newcomer.
James quickly shoved the paper under his pillow and crossed his legs peacefully.
"What're we going to do about the girl?" Sirius asked urgently. Lily scowled at the lack of first names in that sentence.
"Excuse me, Mr. Impertinence, I'll let myself out!" she said huffily, and started to get up when James and Remus both tackled her and closed the hangings around his bed.
"Don't say anything!" James hissed, covering her mouth with his hand.
"Hello? Is anyone in here?" piped a male's voice.
Sirius groaned loudly. "Not him!"
"Just… Remus go out there and tell him to go away. We're busy doing homework," James said exasperatedly, trying to avoid Lily's attempted bites.
Remus shot James a dirty look but reluctantly clambered out of bed and went to go talk to the voice.
"Hey Pete! What's up?" Lily could hear Remus talking over-cheerfully to who she suspected was Peter Pettigrew.
"H-hey Remus! Where's James and Sirius?" he squeaked.
"Out. Doing homework or wreaking havoc on the four corners of the earth, I suppose," Remus remarked with a twinge of annoyance in his voice.
James and Sirius erupted in quiet laughter, as well as Lily all though it was quite difficult to breathe with James' hand pressing down a bit too hard on her mouth.
"Who's in there then?" Peter inquired.
"Shit," James whispered letting go of Lily. She instantly crawled over to the other end of the bed.
"That's… Tanner and… Kylie… they're… kissing… a lot in there," Remus replied lamely, fidgeting..
"That's James' bed though!" Peter squawked, inching closer to the bed.
"There's nothing wrong with changing scenery every few hours!" Remus exclaimed, his nerve wearing down to the bare bone.
"On my signal we all run screaming like maniacs all the way down the Hogwarts corridors until we get to the Great Hall. Understood?" Sirius whispered.
James elbowed him sharply in the gut, earning a winded grunt from Sirius who doubled over.
"You're an idiot Sirius, but the plan works considering… our circumstances," Lily whispered sharply.
"One…" James said, rolling his eyes.
"What's that sound?" Peter asked.
"Two…" Lily said grinning.
"Not sure… they're probably just muttering nonsense as they kiss each other silly," Remus said sketchily.
"THREEEEEEEEEEE!" Sirius hollered. Immediately all three of them bolted out of James' bed shrieking like they'd seen a ghost. Lily tripped over James and James tripped over Sirius as he opened the door and they all tumbled down the stairs into a heap on the floor. There was silence for a few seconds and then they all burst into noisy laughter.
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"Eurrgh. My head seriously hurts. Can I get up to circulate blood into it?" Lily whined. She didn't know how long she, Sirius and James had been lying in a crumpled heap on the floor, with her head resting on James' stomach and him fingering her long curls.
"People are going to be getting the wrong impression," James admitted.
"I thought that Remus was going to have a heart attack when I tripped over James," Lily said laughing quietly.
Sirius suddenly propped himself up on his elbows and cocked his head to one side to glance at Lily and James. "I'm getting the wrong impression right now, guys."
Lily immediately snapped her head up and finding herself instantly missing the rhythmic beating of James' heart.
"I have to go anyway. Arabella wants me to come help her order some new robes from Teen Witch," Lily said hastily.
"How simply fascinating," said Sirius sarcastically.
"It's not like I'm getting anything, I'm just helping!" Lily said tartly, getting up and dusting herself off.
"We'll tell you the full details of the prank tomorrow, ok?" James promised her. Lily smiled and nodded.
"You are so floating on Cloud 9. What happened?" Arabella remarked as Lily hummed to herself in their dorm.
Lily suddenly snapped out of her trance with a little shake of her head. "I'm sorry, Arabella, what?"
Arabella exhaled loudly making some of the loose strands of her hair blow straight up. "It's not really that important Lily. You've just kind of drifted away after you started hanging around with Sabrina's crush."
"I couldn't care less if he was Sabrina's ex!" Lily scoffed.
Arabella shrugged. "We're just eleven, Lily. We've got the rest of our lives to figure out boys."
"Did I say that I was making a decision about anything?" Lily snapped.
"Don't bite my head off Lily like I confronted you about having sex with anyone!" Arabella said loudly.
Lily shot a repulsed look at Arabella who clamped her hands over her mouth looking quite wide-eyed. "I didn't mean that!"
"No, of course you didn't," Lily said sarcastically.
"You have to admit you like him Lily, or else face dire consequences!" Arabella said, pointing what she thought was a threatening finger at her.
"Oh, no Arabella! Whatever will you do? Tie me up to a chair and make me watch soaps?" Lily said, mocking a knife going through her heart and falling backwards onto her bed.
"Soaps? You mean like a bubble bath?" Arabella asked confused.
"Soaps are a thing that sniveling older sisters watch to make themselves look cool. They're a muggle television show comprised of pointless, numerous plots that have lots of twists and turns but eventually end up nowhere and lots of people die for no reason," Lily explained.
"I love pointless stuff! It's the only thing I ever read!" Arabella exclaimed excitedly and brandished a dog-eared copy of a cheesy romance novel.
Lily hit her forehead lightly with the heel of her hand and muttered something that sounded like 'oy vay.'
"Busty brunettes with simple petty problems about choosing which handsome guy not your thing Lily?" Arabella asked sardonically.
"Blasphemy!" Lily cried.
"I refuse to call it blasphemy. I like to consider it disliking posh literature," Arabella said thoughtfully.
"Are you always this spacey?" Lily asked her.
"I should think so. My mother says if I don't make up my mind about my personality she's going to put a sign on my door that says 'Caution: Schizophrenic Zone,'" Arabella said grinning broadly.
"I'd say you already do qualify as a schizophrenic already dear," Lily teased.
"TA DAAAAA! We finally came back!" Misty said bursting through the doorway with Sabrina close in tow.
"Gosh where'd you guys go to?" Lily asked checking the clock beside her nightstand. It read 10:30 PM.
"Out watching the Quidditch practices! We have got such cute boys on our team!" Sabrina said, sighing dreamily.
"You know, I really don't understand how anyone could be that obsessed with boys," Arabella said pointedly.
"Grandmother and Grandfather didn't like me socializing with boys. Grandmother said they would teach me bad things about how they viewed things." Sabrina said calmly gazing off into space.
"So? I went to an all-girls school until I turned eleven!" Lily exclaimed.
"But you guys don't understand! My best friend before my parents shipped me off to the countryside was a boy… his name was Ian Mitchell…" Sabrina finished off her sentence with a sad note in her voice.
"We completely understand, Sabrina. We've all been taken from our homes to live here," Lily said quietly.
Misty and Arabella nodded.
"But we can be your temporary and possibly be your family forever here at Hogwarts. What are friends for, anyway?" Lily asked, grinning.
"Um… letting them go to sleep? I hear if you don't get at least six hours of sleep each night you suffer in your schoolwork!" Misty exclaimed with a full-face mask on.
"No Teen Witch magazines for you for a day!" Arabella proclaimed and snatched the newest edition off of Misty's nightstand.
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