DISCLAIMERS Do I really need to repeat this again? If you don't know what I
am on about. see previous chapters.
DEDICATIONS I dedicate this chapter to all those who have reviewed previous chapters. Thank you for all your suggestions, and your answers to my random questions, they will be taken into account. Please anyone else reviews are greatly received. Wow! I'm getting repetitive.
AUTHORS NOTE OK so you are all trying to kill me because I have not updated for so many months. I'M SORRY! I've had a lot of things to do, and now during my summer holidays, I am taking the time to write it up. I don't know when the next chapter will be up, it might be tomorrow, it might be next week, or it might be nearer Christmas. I am so sorry for this taking so long, but there is nothing I can do. As for it relating to 'The Order of the Phoenix', at the moment, it will not seem like it does, but I have plans for this story, so in the end, it'll hopefully match. You'll just have to employ a little patience for this one.
Chapter Seven - The Girl's Room
The next morning the fifth years all staggered down to breakfast moaning.
'What is the point of Astrology?' asked Belle.
'It's a test of personnel strength, they want to see how many of us DON'T die from exhaustion.'
'Great, that has made me feel so much better!' replied Alison, whist the rest just grunted.
'Coffee, I need coffee!' moaned James.
There was suddenly a leap for the coffee-pot, and soon it was empty, with each of them having downed three cups.
'Come on then.' Yawned Remus, 'it's Transfiguration, and, tardiness won't do.' Doing a passable impression of Professor McGonagall.
'Damn, I've left my book in my room!' moaned Lily. 'I'll have to run back and get it.'
'I'll come with you.' Volunteered James.
At this they stood up, Lily and James disappearing at a run.
'So. What excuse are you going to use?' asked Lily.
'You what?'
'As too where you are tonight.'
'Oh, I'm doing my astrology homework.'
Lily rolled her eyes, knowing the boys took it in turns to do that homework, and the rest just copied. Just then they reached the portrait hole.
'Apple Crumble.'
James waited in the common room, but when Lily came down again, she was frowning.
'What's wrong?' asked James.
'How exactly are you planning to do your astronomy homework?' she asked.
James bit his lip in thought,
'I'll say I fell asleep!'
Lily then looked at her watch, 'Run! We're going to be late.'
Lily and James arrived at the classroom just in time, much to their friends' amusement.
'Wow, a second earlier, and James would have broken a habit of a lifetime and been early, but any later and Lily would have been late!' exclaimed Alison.
'Ha-very-ha!' panted Lily sliding into her seat.
'Quiet please!' called Professor McGonagall from the front of the class. 'Today, we are going to transfigure cacti into teddy bears. For tonight's homework, you can write me a two-foot essay on how you completed the task. Handed into me next week. On you get then!'
James and Sirius immediately turned round to talk to Lily and Belle.
'Mr Potter and Mr Black, could you please turn round and get on!'
'But Professor,' complained James, 'we are helping Lily and Belle. Lily's not very good at Transfiguration.' Which earnt him a cuff round the head.
'Miss Evans!'
'Sorry Professor.'
'And Professor,' interjected Sirius, we have already done it.'
'Do another couple!'
'But wouldn't it be more productive to help Lily and Belle?'
'Give them here.' Ordered Professor McGonagall dryly.
'I don't think Lily and Belle would subject to us carrying them over there!' answered Sirius which earnt him a glare.
'Here you are Professor.' James handed them over to her, hoping not to lose any more points for Gryffindor.
Whereupon Professor McGonagall proceeded to hug the bears, much to the delighted grins of James, Sirius, Remus and Peter.
'Very good. No prickles. 10 points each to Gryffindor, but 5 off each for answering back.' Then, 'Boys, they are very well made, maybe your helping Miss Evans and Miss Figg would be productive, you are obviously used to Teddy Bears.'
The rest sniggered whilst James and Sirius blushing took their bears back.
Soon Remus and Peter came to join them at Lily and Belle's table, and on there sat six bears. Lily looked over towards Alison and Rebecca. Alison was having trouble, even with Rebecca helping her.
'Looks like Alison is having problems.' She commented.
'Looks like Rebecca is about to chuck herself out of the window.' Peter replied.
Alison looked up at them and grinned and rolled her eyes.
'I do sometimes wonder if she does it just to annoy Rebecca,' commented Belle, 'then I remember when she turned her hair green.'
They all laughed at the memory.
Suddenly Sirius picked up his bear, to which he had been adding his own hairstyle.
'There you go love,' he said handing it to Belle, 'a mini me.'
'Sirius you are so sweet!' she replied leaning over to kiss him.
A cough came from behind them, and this time it was Belle who blushed along with Sirius. But as nothing further was said, it was left to their friends to do the telling off.
'Cool.' Said James with a flick of his wrist, drawing the attention away from Sirius and Belle, 'a mini James.'
And soon the others were doing it too, and on the table stood a mini Sirius, James, Remus, Peter (which James did for him), Belle and Lily, and when Alison saw what they were doing she got Rebecca to do theirs as well.
'This is the most life-like.' Said Remus, holding up James' bear, 'it's got the same hair and the half undone tie.'
'What have you been up to?' came a booming voice. 'Actually, they are very life-like. Well done. Five points each for Gryffindor, but in future don't waste your time.'
As she walked away, she added, 'And Mr Potter, please do your tie up properly!'
***********************************************
That evening James, Sirius, Alison and Rebecca were playing cards, not that there was much point, because, as Sirius put it,
'James ALWAYS wins!'
Suddenly Lily stood up,
'I'm going to bed!'
James looked at his watch, 'Yeah, and I'd better be starting that astronomy homework. See you in the morning!'
'Night!' called the rest of them.
Five minutes later James walked into Lily's dorm.
'God! I thought it was Belle! She exclaimed.
'Sorry.'
'Well whilst I get changed, read that.' She said handing him a letter.
James read: -
'Dear Lily. I miss you so much, however, I do not think our relationship is working, so I am forced to call it off. I'm really sorry, and I still love you loads, but I don't think I can have a relationship with you when we have to be apart. I hope we can remain friends.
Mike.'
James sat thinking. He was glad that Mike was no longer on the scene. He liked Lily, in a different way to before, more than a friend. But he wasn't sure he was ready to tell her yet, and possibly ruin their friendship.
Just then Lily came back into the bedroom,
'So,' James asked, 'are you relieved, upset, or what?'
'Definitely relieved.' Said Lily. 'It wasn't working, I was miserable.'
Just then they heard footsteps heading towards the room. James just had time to slip under the cloak before Belle, Alison and Rebecca entered.
'You know Lily,' said Belle, 'talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.'
'Yeah. But have you seen these little green hairs on the back of my hand?'
Alison snorted and Rebecca just looked bemused as she headed to the bathroom to get changed.
'Shall we have one of our little chats tonight?' Alison asked.
'No!' answered Lily quickly.
'Oh go on!' wined Belle.
Lily sighed, 'Ok.'
'Great. What year are we on?'
'Ours.' Answered Belle.
'OK. Belle gets Sirius, obviously. Rebecca gets Remus.'
'Why? Any reason?' asked Lily.
Alison raised her eyebrows, 'Because. you know, she fancies him.'
'She told you?' Belle gasped.
'Nah. Lucky guess, but hopefully we'll be able to force it out from her.'
Belle giggled and shook her head. Just then Rebecca came out of the bathroom, and Belle went in, shouting over her shoulder as she went,
'What about you and Lily?'
'Um. OK,' Alison answered, 'Lily can have. James, and I'll have Peter.'
'Why?' asked Lily, starting to feel embarrassed, as they would have an audience to this conversation.
'You are basically James' best friend.' Answered Alison.
'Exactly, I don't think of him in that way!'
As Belle came out of the bathroom, Alison leaned over and muttered in Lily's ear, 'And I am sure you fancy him!'
Lily gaped for a few seconds, before deciding not to rise to the bait, and grabbing her pillow and blanket, plus of course her new Lily bear, from her bed, muttered a quick,
'Stay there!' to James.
Fine minutes later all the girls were sat round in a circle on the floor, Lily looking distinctly uncomfortable.
'OK,' commanded Belle, 'we all know who we are doing, so first. Kissability.'
'Peter, six and a half.'
'Remus, eight and a half.'
'Lily, it's your turn.'
'You go first.'
'Sirius, nine and a half.
Reluctantly Lily said, 'James, um, two.'
The rest of them looked at her, whilst James choked on the bed, halfway through laughing at their expressions, and being offended.
'Two?' asked Belle in a disbelieving voice.
'Are you sure?' asked Rebecca. 'Two, James?'
'Yeah.' Said Lily, whilst dying to laugh at Alison, who seemed to be doing a fish impression.
'Um, OK, ur. . . Looks?'
'Peter, five.'
'Remus, nine.'
'James, um, four maximum.'
'Four?' the rest of them asked.
Lily nodded.
'Well never mind then.' Said Belle frowning. 'Um . . . oh yes, Sirius, nine and a half.'
'Lily, do it properly now.' Said Alison.
'I am!'
'Lily!'
'Ok, OK, personality.' Interrupted Belle before there was a fight.
'Peter, eight.'
'Remus, um, ten.' Said Rebecca blushing.
'James, ur, um, nine.' Muttered Lily.
'Sirius, nine.'
'OK. So Peter got an average of six and a half. Remus got nine. James got average five.' Said Alison glaring at Lily, ' and Sirius got nine as well.'
'So, on to the next stage.' Said Belle.
'No! I'm going to bed.' Replied Lily quickly.
'Oh come on Lily!' moaned Alison.
'Actually I agree with Lily, we did have astronomy last night, I'm tired!' added Rebecca.
'No you're not! You just don't want us to ask the next question!'
'Yes, and?' replied Rebecca grinning. 'I'm going to bed.'
'Fine! We'll finish this tomorrow.'
As Lily got into bed calling goodnight, she heard James laughing quietly. She pulled the curtains round, and muttered,
'Silenco Dupato.'
James suddenly appeared grinning at her.
'You know, I did not believe you when you said that it was stressful.'
'Two?' James questioned. 'Four maximum?'
'Ah, yes, sorry about that.'
'Sorry? You think sorry makes it all right?'
'You didn't take it seriously did you?'
'Too right I did.' Replied James. 'And for a punishment . . .' And James sprang at Lily and started tickling her, as she squealing tried to stop him.
'James . . . please . . . stop it!'
'What are my looks like?'
'Four.'
'Pardon?' he asked tickling harder.
'Eight.'
'Sorry must have misheard you.'
'Ten!'
At this James stopped. 'Thank you.'
'You're a pig.' Complained Lily.
'But a very handsome pig.'
At this Lily had to laugh. 'Anyway, let me sleep.' She complained.
Silence fell. Then James suddenly said,
'We still have to fess up.'
'Blast. I'd forgotten about that bit.'
'How are we gonna do it?' he asked.
After a couple of seconds thinking, 'I've got it.'
'Care to share it?'
She gave him a look.
'The bears!'
'The bears?'
'Basically, you have to borrow Belle's, Alison's and Rebecca's. Then you record onto it things they said, and I'll do the same for Sirius', Remus' and Peter's.'
'Cool.'
'It'll back up our claim, and also, it might make them less . . . well, you know.'
'Yeah, so how does it work?'
'Well, what you do is, when you go and ask them for their bears, record their voices onto your wand. The you give yourself their voice, I'll explain that bit later, and activate the recording on the bear, say what you want, and there you go. Everytime someone touches it, out pops what you recorded.'
'Can you imagine their faces?'
Lily giggled. 'Anyway, I'm tired!'
************************************
Again it was Lily who woke up first the next day. This time she had been using James' chest as a pillow, and her neck was stiff. Again she had to laugh at the irony of the situation.
She looked at her watch, 6:00, she had half an hour before she even started to think about getting up, so she moved away from James and lay on the other side of the bed thinking.
Last year when her and James had been 'going out', they hadn't rally been. They had just been two friends who had wanted to feel like someone loved them, and had wanted slightly (not much) more than friendship. She had not loved him (well, not in that way, just as a normal friend), she hadn't even fancied him then, but now? Now she wasn't sure of her feelings towards James. She felt she could talk to him about anything, like her best friend, but she also felt something extra for him. Not like Mike, something more special and . . .
James' stirring interrupted Lily's thoughts. Looking at her watch she saw that twenty minutes had passed, so she nudged him.
'Oi. James. Get up.'
'Huh?' he asked dazedly.
'It's the morning!'
'It's the weekend!'
'But the sun is shining and the sky is blue, and also our darling friends are about to wake up.'
'How the hell are you so cheerful?' he muttered.
'I'm a morning person!'
'Well I'm not, so let me go back to sleep.'
'Now Jamsie-waymsie, you don't want to get caught, unless we are the ones to tell them, and get it straight before they think of anything else, they'll think something has been going on.'
'Again?'
Lily just grunted. 'UP!' she said. Now!'
'OK OK! How are we going to do this?'
'They'll still be asleep, so apart from your cloak for extra cover, you should be alright.'
'OK.'
'You ready?' asked Lily.
'Sure.'
'Right, I'll see you about eleven in the library.'
AN: So what did you think? Again, I apologise for the length of time it has taken me to update. I don't even know when I'll get the next bit up either, I have it written by pen, it is just a case of typing it up, but I don't know when I'll get chance. More romance will soon be happening between Lily and James, but only for a short while. I won't say anymore lest I give the game away, but at 23:26. I am going to bed, to write some more by hand (I think best away from the computer). I have about three more chapters planned out in my mind, so I will atleast have them down on paper by 3:00, computer wise, I might find time for typing up in between doing physics coursework, shall we say a page for page?
Anyway, that is enough of me rabbiting on. I am sure most of you won't have read this, but anyway.
THANK YOU to all reviewers, I cannot mention you by name, cos that priceless information is on the other computer.
I HOPE to see you again soon.
REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! I know I don't deserve it, but have some heart, it might encourage me! *flutters eyelashes*
DEDICATIONS I dedicate this chapter to all those who have reviewed previous chapters. Thank you for all your suggestions, and your answers to my random questions, they will be taken into account. Please anyone else reviews are greatly received. Wow! I'm getting repetitive.
AUTHORS NOTE OK so you are all trying to kill me because I have not updated for so many months. I'M SORRY! I've had a lot of things to do, and now during my summer holidays, I am taking the time to write it up. I don't know when the next chapter will be up, it might be tomorrow, it might be next week, or it might be nearer Christmas. I am so sorry for this taking so long, but there is nothing I can do. As for it relating to 'The Order of the Phoenix', at the moment, it will not seem like it does, but I have plans for this story, so in the end, it'll hopefully match. You'll just have to employ a little patience for this one.
Chapter Seven - The Girl's Room
The next morning the fifth years all staggered down to breakfast moaning.
'What is the point of Astrology?' asked Belle.
'It's a test of personnel strength, they want to see how many of us DON'T die from exhaustion.'
'Great, that has made me feel so much better!' replied Alison, whist the rest just grunted.
'Coffee, I need coffee!' moaned James.
There was suddenly a leap for the coffee-pot, and soon it was empty, with each of them having downed three cups.
'Come on then.' Yawned Remus, 'it's Transfiguration, and, tardiness won't do.' Doing a passable impression of Professor McGonagall.
'Damn, I've left my book in my room!' moaned Lily. 'I'll have to run back and get it.'
'I'll come with you.' Volunteered James.
At this they stood up, Lily and James disappearing at a run.
'So. What excuse are you going to use?' asked Lily.
'You what?'
'As too where you are tonight.'
'Oh, I'm doing my astrology homework.'
Lily rolled her eyes, knowing the boys took it in turns to do that homework, and the rest just copied. Just then they reached the portrait hole.
'Apple Crumble.'
James waited in the common room, but when Lily came down again, she was frowning.
'What's wrong?' asked James.
'How exactly are you planning to do your astronomy homework?' she asked.
James bit his lip in thought,
'I'll say I fell asleep!'
Lily then looked at her watch, 'Run! We're going to be late.'
Lily and James arrived at the classroom just in time, much to their friends' amusement.
'Wow, a second earlier, and James would have broken a habit of a lifetime and been early, but any later and Lily would have been late!' exclaimed Alison.
'Ha-very-ha!' panted Lily sliding into her seat.
'Quiet please!' called Professor McGonagall from the front of the class. 'Today, we are going to transfigure cacti into teddy bears. For tonight's homework, you can write me a two-foot essay on how you completed the task. Handed into me next week. On you get then!'
James and Sirius immediately turned round to talk to Lily and Belle.
'Mr Potter and Mr Black, could you please turn round and get on!'
'But Professor,' complained James, 'we are helping Lily and Belle. Lily's not very good at Transfiguration.' Which earnt him a cuff round the head.
'Miss Evans!'
'Sorry Professor.'
'And Professor,' interjected Sirius, we have already done it.'
'Do another couple!'
'But wouldn't it be more productive to help Lily and Belle?'
'Give them here.' Ordered Professor McGonagall dryly.
'I don't think Lily and Belle would subject to us carrying them over there!' answered Sirius which earnt him a glare.
'Here you are Professor.' James handed them over to her, hoping not to lose any more points for Gryffindor.
Whereupon Professor McGonagall proceeded to hug the bears, much to the delighted grins of James, Sirius, Remus and Peter.
'Very good. No prickles. 10 points each to Gryffindor, but 5 off each for answering back.' Then, 'Boys, they are very well made, maybe your helping Miss Evans and Miss Figg would be productive, you are obviously used to Teddy Bears.'
The rest sniggered whilst James and Sirius blushing took their bears back.
Soon Remus and Peter came to join them at Lily and Belle's table, and on there sat six bears. Lily looked over towards Alison and Rebecca. Alison was having trouble, even with Rebecca helping her.
'Looks like Alison is having problems.' She commented.
'Looks like Rebecca is about to chuck herself out of the window.' Peter replied.
Alison looked up at them and grinned and rolled her eyes.
'I do sometimes wonder if she does it just to annoy Rebecca,' commented Belle, 'then I remember when she turned her hair green.'
They all laughed at the memory.
Suddenly Sirius picked up his bear, to which he had been adding his own hairstyle.
'There you go love,' he said handing it to Belle, 'a mini me.'
'Sirius you are so sweet!' she replied leaning over to kiss him.
A cough came from behind them, and this time it was Belle who blushed along with Sirius. But as nothing further was said, it was left to their friends to do the telling off.
'Cool.' Said James with a flick of his wrist, drawing the attention away from Sirius and Belle, 'a mini James.'
And soon the others were doing it too, and on the table stood a mini Sirius, James, Remus, Peter (which James did for him), Belle and Lily, and when Alison saw what they were doing she got Rebecca to do theirs as well.
'This is the most life-like.' Said Remus, holding up James' bear, 'it's got the same hair and the half undone tie.'
'What have you been up to?' came a booming voice. 'Actually, they are very life-like. Well done. Five points each for Gryffindor, but in future don't waste your time.'
As she walked away, she added, 'And Mr Potter, please do your tie up properly!'
***********************************************
That evening James, Sirius, Alison and Rebecca were playing cards, not that there was much point, because, as Sirius put it,
'James ALWAYS wins!'
Suddenly Lily stood up,
'I'm going to bed!'
James looked at his watch, 'Yeah, and I'd better be starting that astronomy homework. See you in the morning!'
'Night!' called the rest of them.
Five minutes later James walked into Lily's dorm.
'God! I thought it was Belle! She exclaimed.
'Sorry.'
'Well whilst I get changed, read that.' She said handing him a letter.
James read: -
'Dear Lily. I miss you so much, however, I do not think our relationship is working, so I am forced to call it off. I'm really sorry, and I still love you loads, but I don't think I can have a relationship with you when we have to be apart. I hope we can remain friends.
Mike.'
James sat thinking. He was glad that Mike was no longer on the scene. He liked Lily, in a different way to before, more than a friend. But he wasn't sure he was ready to tell her yet, and possibly ruin their friendship.
Just then Lily came back into the bedroom,
'So,' James asked, 'are you relieved, upset, or what?'
'Definitely relieved.' Said Lily. 'It wasn't working, I was miserable.'
Just then they heard footsteps heading towards the room. James just had time to slip under the cloak before Belle, Alison and Rebecca entered.
'You know Lily,' said Belle, 'talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.'
'Yeah. But have you seen these little green hairs on the back of my hand?'
Alison snorted and Rebecca just looked bemused as she headed to the bathroom to get changed.
'Shall we have one of our little chats tonight?' Alison asked.
'No!' answered Lily quickly.
'Oh go on!' wined Belle.
Lily sighed, 'Ok.'
'Great. What year are we on?'
'Ours.' Answered Belle.
'OK. Belle gets Sirius, obviously. Rebecca gets Remus.'
'Why? Any reason?' asked Lily.
Alison raised her eyebrows, 'Because. you know, she fancies him.'
'She told you?' Belle gasped.
'Nah. Lucky guess, but hopefully we'll be able to force it out from her.'
Belle giggled and shook her head. Just then Rebecca came out of the bathroom, and Belle went in, shouting over her shoulder as she went,
'What about you and Lily?'
'Um. OK,' Alison answered, 'Lily can have. James, and I'll have Peter.'
'Why?' asked Lily, starting to feel embarrassed, as they would have an audience to this conversation.
'You are basically James' best friend.' Answered Alison.
'Exactly, I don't think of him in that way!'
As Belle came out of the bathroom, Alison leaned over and muttered in Lily's ear, 'And I am sure you fancy him!'
Lily gaped for a few seconds, before deciding not to rise to the bait, and grabbing her pillow and blanket, plus of course her new Lily bear, from her bed, muttered a quick,
'Stay there!' to James.
Fine minutes later all the girls were sat round in a circle on the floor, Lily looking distinctly uncomfortable.
'OK,' commanded Belle, 'we all know who we are doing, so first. Kissability.'
'Peter, six and a half.'
'Remus, eight and a half.'
'Lily, it's your turn.'
'You go first.'
'Sirius, nine and a half.
Reluctantly Lily said, 'James, um, two.'
The rest of them looked at her, whilst James choked on the bed, halfway through laughing at their expressions, and being offended.
'Two?' asked Belle in a disbelieving voice.
'Are you sure?' asked Rebecca. 'Two, James?'
'Yeah.' Said Lily, whilst dying to laugh at Alison, who seemed to be doing a fish impression.
'Um, OK, ur. . . Looks?'
'Peter, five.'
'Remus, nine.'
'James, um, four maximum.'
'Four?' the rest of them asked.
Lily nodded.
'Well never mind then.' Said Belle frowning. 'Um . . . oh yes, Sirius, nine and a half.'
'Lily, do it properly now.' Said Alison.
'I am!'
'Lily!'
'Ok, OK, personality.' Interrupted Belle before there was a fight.
'Peter, eight.'
'Remus, um, ten.' Said Rebecca blushing.
'James, ur, um, nine.' Muttered Lily.
'Sirius, nine.'
'OK. So Peter got an average of six and a half. Remus got nine. James got average five.' Said Alison glaring at Lily, ' and Sirius got nine as well.'
'So, on to the next stage.' Said Belle.
'No! I'm going to bed.' Replied Lily quickly.
'Oh come on Lily!' moaned Alison.
'Actually I agree with Lily, we did have astronomy last night, I'm tired!' added Rebecca.
'No you're not! You just don't want us to ask the next question!'
'Yes, and?' replied Rebecca grinning. 'I'm going to bed.'
'Fine! We'll finish this tomorrow.'
As Lily got into bed calling goodnight, she heard James laughing quietly. She pulled the curtains round, and muttered,
'Silenco Dupato.'
James suddenly appeared grinning at her.
'You know, I did not believe you when you said that it was stressful.'
'Two?' James questioned. 'Four maximum?'
'Ah, yes, sorry about that.'
'Sorry? You think sorry makes it all right?'
'You didn't take it seriously did you?'
'Too right I did.' Replied James. 'And for a punishment . . .' And James sprang at Lily and started tickling her, as she squealing tried to stop him.
'James . . . please . . . stop it!'
'What are my looks like?'
'Four.'
'Pardon?' he asked tickling harder.
'Eight.'
'Sorry must have misheard you.'
'Ten!'
At this James stopped. 'Thank you.'
'You're a pig.' Complained Lily.
'But a very handsome pig.'
At this Lily had to laugh. 'Anyway, let me sleep.' She complained.
Silence fell. Then James suddenly said,
'We still have to fess up.'
'Blast. I'd forgotten about that bit.'
'How are we gonna do it?' he asked.
After a couple of seconds thinking, 'I've got it.'
'Care to share it?'
She gave him a look.
'The bears!'
'The bears?'
'Basically, you have to borrow Belle's, Alison's and Rebecca's. Then you record onto it things they said, and I'll do the same for Sirius', Remus' and Peter's.'
'Cool.'
'It'll back up our claim, and also, it might make them less . . . well, you know.'
'Yeah, so how does it work?'
'Well, what you do is, when you go and ask them for their bears, record their voices onto your wand. The you give yourself their voice, I'll explain that bit later, and activate the recording on the bear, say what you want, and there you go. Everytime someone touches it, out pops what you recorded.'
'Can you imagine their faces?'
Lily giggled. 'Anyway, I'm tired!'
************************************
Again it was Lily who woke up first the next day. This time she had been using James' chest as a pillow, and her neck was stiff. Again she had to laugh at the irony of the situation.
She looked at her watch, 6:00, she had half an hour before she even started to think about getting up, so she moved away from James and lay on the other side of the bed thinking.
Last year when her and James had been 'going out', they hadn't rally been. They had just been two friends who had wanted to feel like someone loved them, and had wanted slightly (not much) more than friendship. She had not loved him (well, not in that way, just as a normal friend), she hadn't even fancied him then, but now? Now she wasn't sure of her feelings towards James. She felt she could talk to him about anything, like her best friend, but she also felt something extra for him. Not like Mike, something more special and . . .
James' stirring interrupted Lily's thoughts. Looking at her watch she saw that twenty minutes had passed, so she nudged him.
'Oi. James. Get up.'
'Huh?' he asked dazedly.
'It's the morning!'
'It's the weekend!'
'But the sun is shining and the sky is blue, and also our darling friends are about to wake up.'
'How the hell are you so cheerful?' he muttered.
'I'm a morning person!'
'Well I'm not, so let me go back to sleep.'
'Now Jamsie-waymsie, you don't want to get caught, unless we are the ones to tell them, and get it straight before they think of anything else, they'll think something has been going on.'
'Again?'
Lily just grunted. 'UP!' she said. Now!'
'OK OK! How are we going to do this?'
'They'll still be asleep, so apart from your cloak for extra cover, you should be alright.'
'OK.'
'You ready?' asked Lily.
'Sure.'
'Right, I'll see you about eleven in the library.'
AN: So what did you think? Again, I apologise for the length of time it has taken me to update. I don't even know when I'll get the next bit up either, I have it written by pen, it is just a case of typing it up, but I don't know when I'll get chance. More romance will soon be happening between Lily and James, but only for a short while. I won't say anymore lest I give the game away, but at 23:26. I am going to bed, to write some more by hand (I think best away from the computer). I have about three more chapters planned out in my mind, so I will atleast have them down on paper by 3:00, computer wise, I might find time for typing up in between doing physics coursework, shall we say a page for page?
Anyway, that is enough of me rabbiting on. I am sure most of you won't have read this, but anyway.
THANK YOU to all reviewers, I cannot mention you by name, cos that priceless information is on the other computer.
I HOPE to see you again soon.
REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! I know I don't deserve it, but have some heart, it might encourage me! *flutters eyelashes*