Till Death Do We Part
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: Um.Moonie? Hiya isn't a word.
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: Is that all you can say?
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: .I'll take that as a yes.This is *counts* chapter 9! Wow, this story's come a long way. *is bashed by angry reviewers*
Angry Reviewers: YOU HAVEN'T UPDATED IN FOREVER! WE HATE YOU!
Naomi and Sirius (together): I wanna do the disclaimer! *look at each other* JINX!!!!! *look helplessly at Moonie and Icefall* *hold up sign that says Unjinx us please!*
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: *evilly* It's going to be very quiet around here for a while.
Sirius: *holds up sign* _Unjinx me! I'm SERIOUS!_
Icefall: I know you are, you don't have to tell me.
Naomi: *holds up sign* _Lemme do the disclaimer!_
Icefall: No.
Naomi: _Please?_
Icefall: No.
Naomi: _Pretty please?_
Icefall: No.
Naomi: _Pretty, pretty please?_
Icefall: No.
*they continue*
The mer from last chapter: I'll do the disclaimer. Moonie and Icefall own me, Naomi, all of the exchange students, most of the plot, and nuthin' else. Oh, and if you can't figure out who I am, YOU HAVE MENTAL PROBLEMS!!!! Thank you.
Moonie: Hiya!
Everyone: *sweardrop*
***
All Hallows Eve. The one day of the year that the spirits of the dead come out. Muggles obviously got that wrong, Lily thought. The Great Hall looks really great for the feast.----Lily was interrupted from her thoughts as Naomi sneaked up behind her and, well.she was a little over enthusiastic and instead of a simple "hello", Lily was greeted by
"Hey Lils!!!!!!!!"
"Wha- Oh hello Naomi," Lily replied, half-smiling at her friends extreme hyper-ness.
"So whacha doin'?" Naomi asked.
"Just admiring the decorations," Lily answered.
"They look great, don't they?" Not waiting for an answer, Naomi kept going, "Hogsmeade visit tomorrow. Wanna go?"
Lily shrugged. "Maybe."
"James, Sirius, and Remus are going." Naomi wheedled, trying to convince her friend to go.
Lily froze. "Actually, I-I have something that I have to do!" Lily spilled out as she turned and hurried away, leaving Naomi standing there blinking.
Sirius sneaked up behind Naomi and turned her trick back on her.
"Hello Naomi!"
"GYAHH!! Sirius! Don't scare me like that!" Naomi scolded once she saw the face of her attacker.
"You did it to Lily. I saw you."
"So? That doesn't mean that you can do it to me!"
"So.Can I do this?" Sirius asked, picking her up as he grinned.
"ACK!" Naomi wrapped her arms around Sirius' neck to keep from falling. Naomi turned to scowl at him as he smiled and laughed as she kicked her legs in an attempt to make him let her go of her. "No," Naomi gasped. "You can't!"
"Oh? Then how come I just did? Hm.I wonder what else I can do? How about, can I take you to Hogsmeade tomorrow?"
"Of course not! But you're gonna do it anyways," Naomi replied.
"You know me to well," Sirius said as he let go of her with one arm so she could stand up. "Why did Lily run out of here?" Sirius added, worried.
"I'm not sure. I was asking her if she wanted to go to Hogsmeade or not tomorrow and I mentioned you guys were going. At that she muttered some pathetic excuse and ran. Dunno why though."
"We'll have to fix that. It's un-expectable."
"It's un-acceptable, idiot."
Sirius paused, "Oh. I knew that."
"Whatever Sirius. See ya later," Naomi said as she left. Sirius stayed there still grinning for a minute, and then he too left to go up to Gryffindor Tower.
***
"Hurry up Ella!" Naomi said impatiently. She and Ella were getting ready to go to Hogsmeade and Ella was obviously taking too long to get ready, at least by Naomi's standards. Lily was sitting on her bed watching the hilarious scenario. She wasn't going to Hogsmeade, or at least, she wasn't going with Ella and Naomi. They planned to meet the Marauders once in Hogsmeade. Naomi had a date, or a-date-that-was-not-a-date. Sirius called it a date, yet Naomi said that it wasn't. She also insisted that Ella come too. Lily still refused to be around the boys, which struck her friends as very strange, especially Naomi.
"Okay, I'm ready, Naomi!" Ella called.
"FINALLY! Come on!" Naomi grabbed Ella's arm as Ella grabbed her cloak and dragged Ella out the door.
Meanwhile.
Sirius was rushing his friends almost as much as Naomi was hers. "Prongs! You're SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO slow!!!!! You too Moony! And you, Wormtail! Hurry up!" he exclaimed dramatically as he could while he bounced up and down on his bed.
"Calm down Padfoot. I know you're ready, but please, leave us alone!" Remus pleaded with his friend.
Sirius pretended to consider this before his mouth widened in a grin. He jumped off of the bed and onto the floor. "Soooo, Jamsie, who's the new girl? Hm?"
"Shut up Padfoot," James replied, not looking at his friend.
"Tell me!"
"No!"
"I won't leave you alone."
James rolled his eyes, knowing very well that his friend wouldn't give up. "Fine. Lily Evans."
"The new girl?"
"Padfoot, there are a lot of new girls," Remus reminded his friend, smiling.
"You know what I mean. So, Jamsie, have you asked her out yet?"
James turned red and muttered something inaudible as a reply.
"What? What'd you say?"
"Get off my back! It isn't like I'm the only one here who likes one of the new girls!"
Sirius stopped teasing his friend because he couldn't think of anything to say that they couldn't turn on him. Remus, however, blushed and quickly turned around so his friends wouldn't see it. Unfortunately, one of them did, the one that you would least like to find out anything you didn't want to be teased about: Sirius.
"Oooooooh! Moony's blushing! Moony's blushing!" Sirius started jumping up and down on his bed, yelling/singing at the top of his lungs. "Moony's blush!--" Sirius stopped jumping when he was cut off. He looked at Remus to see that his friend had his wand out and it was pointed right at him.
"Now maybe you will stop talking. That Silencing Charm turned out to be quite useful, don't you agree James? It'll hold until someone takes it off of him, since he can't speak, he can't perform the counter-curse," Remus said, his blush fading.
James, who had been about to tease Remus as well, quickly decided against it and nodded in answer to Remus' question. Glancing at Sirius, James burst into laughter at his friend's antics. Sirius, as he couldn't talk, was jumping up and down and waving his arms in the air to get his friends' attention. "What's wrong, Padfoot? Why don't you tell us?"
Sirius glared at James then grabbed a piece of parchment and a quill to write _Can we go to Hogsmeade yet?_
"Okay Padfoot. We're ready," James said, grabbing his cloak on his way to the door.
_Yay!_ Sirius ran out the door, jumping around like a little kid. Remus, James, and Peter followed him more calmly.
***
"Ooh! I want this! And this! And this!"
"And this! Oh, and we're out of these too! And this! Oooooh cool!"
James and Sirius raced around Zonko's buying almost everything they saw. Remus had taken off his Silencing Charm after growing tired of Sirius jumping up and down and holding up random signs. Naomi was clutching her sides, half-bent laughing at her boyfriend and his friends as they rushed around the store. Ella was standing, arms folded, with a half-smile on her face.
A few minutes later, the group left the store, the Marauder's loaded down with Sirius and James' purchases. Remus and Peter hadn't bought anything this time and Naomi and Ella had no use for the pranks. James and Sirius were a completely different case though.
"So where do you want to go next?" Sirius asked, looking at Naomi.
"Weeeeell, I'm kinda cold so why don't get a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks?" Naomi answered, looking at Sirius.
James, Remus, Peter, and Ella rolled their eyes and left the two alone.
***
Lily waited until an hour had passed after Naomi and Ella ran out of their dormitory until she started getting ready. Let's see, cloak, money, anything else? Lily looked around to see if she had forgotten anything and saw she hadn't. She put on her cloak as she walked down the stairs.
Pausing before she left the castle, Lily pulled up the hood of her cloak to hide her tell-tale red hair. She would rather avoid any confrontations that might result in her having to spend any unnecessary time with any boy. Especially not any that might act like her first boyfriend, Sean. I have nothing against the name but I needed an Irish- sounding one. Lily shuddered and quickly repressed the memory. I definitely don't want to think about that now. Lily thought, fingering the longest of the many scars that covered her body that her the long sleeves of her robes and cloak hid.
Lily dropped her arms and walked quickly to Hogsmeade.
***
"That was fun!" Naomi said as she dropped her cloak and flopped onto her bed. Ella sat down more decorously.
"Was it?" Lily asked, she too sitting on her bed.
"Definitely! We had SOOOO much fun!"
Naomi was cut off my Ella's comment. "'We?' We left you and Sirius to yourselves! You were getting a little too mushy for us!"
"ANYWAYS, we met the boys, then we went to this joke shop, then to the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer, and then." Naomi went on and on explaining everywhere she and Sirius had been. When she finally stopped, Lily and Ella had already started talking to each other.
"You should have come, Lily," Ella was saying. "You would have enjoyed it. Well, if you could have endured Naomi and Sirius. They ignored us completely!"
"It sounds like fun. Maybe I'll go next time," Lily replied.
"Yeah! We're taking you next time! No matter what excuse you come up with!"
Ella rolled her eyes and said, "Maybe Lily actually doesn't want to go. You shouldn't make her do something she doesn't want to. We shouldn't but I doubt that will stop me, much less Naomi." Ella grinned wickedly.
"Hello Ladies!!!!" Sirius shouted as he slammed the door open and walked into the room.
"Sirius! You're not supposed to be in here!" Naomi scolded her boyfriend. "Besides, how did you get up the steps?!"
"My love for you enabled me to break through the spell!" was his enthusiastic reply.
"Riiiiight. How did you really get up here? And why did you interrupt us anyway?"
Sirius made a face. "Prongsy and I tampered with the spell one day because we got bored. It lets us four in but makes everyone else turn bright pink. And I came to tell you that the Halloween feast is about to start."
"Then, let's go! I'm starved!" Naomi exclaimed, jumping up from her bed.
***
The Halloween Feast was well under way before any mishaps happened, which was unusual for the Marauders. They had usually wreaked havoc before then.
Suddenly, the giant pumpkins nearest the Slytherin table exploded, showering the Slytherins with pumpkin parts. And in the middle of it all, Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy stood covered head to toe in pumpkin, the juice somehow staining them bright orange and pink striped. The two Slytherins hurried out of the Great Hall, followed by two pumpkins that had not exploded and were occasionally bumbing into them and the sound of laughter as everyone but the Slytherins burst into laughter. The Marauders stood up and bowed, James saying "Thank you! Thank you very much!" and many of the students applauding. Lily, however, was neither laughing nor applauding, not feeling that they deserved praise for what was obviously a plea for attention.
"What's wrong Lils? Why aren't you laughing? Do you feel alright?" Naomi asked her friend.
"I'm fine," Lily replied shortly.
"Okay," Naomi sounded doubtful but, for once, didn't press Lily for a more explicable answer.
In truth Lily was not fine. Far from it really. The next day was the Halloween dance. Lily was stuck thinking about how she had met her previous boyfriend at one such dance.
She had been so excited and couldn't wait for it to start. It had been fun and then Robert had asked her to dance. She had been thrilled because she (and the rest of the female population) had had a crush on him. After the dance she had started dating him and then it had started. The betrayal, the abuse, the cruelty, all of it. He had made her believe she was worthless. He was the reason she had transferred schools. The reason she hated men. The reason she was terrified by the way that some of her classmates had looked at her. It was all her fault. If she hadn't-Lily, stop it! Worrying it to death isn't going to help anything! Lily shoved all thoughts of abusive boyfriends out of her mind and concentrated on the desserts appearing in front of them.
***
Naomi: *trembling under the weight of the sign which is HUGE* _Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty please?_
Icefall: No.
Sirius: *holds up sign* _Are you thinking what I'm thinking Naomi?_
Naomi: *evil grin* _Yes._
Both: *proceed to play REALLY annoying songs on the radio at full volume while dancing in a circle around Icefall and doing other idiotic things that were quite annoying*
Icefall: STOP!
Both: *keep dancing*
Icefall: I said STOP!!
Both: *keep dancing*
Icefall: NAOMI!! SIRIUS!!! STOP IT!!!!!
Both: Okay we'll stop. JINX!
Sirius: *holds up sign* _Oh, shit._
Moonie: Hiya!
To be continued.
Yes, I know abusive boyfriends are very cliché, but deal with it!
Random question: Who is your favorite character in my story? Answer this or suffer the mallet of DOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and just to annoy Lady Merlyn, reviewy!!
This next part written by a hyper Memai (check out all her stories)
Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom...
Gir: I wanna be a mongoose!
Zim: I'm thinkin.a dog.
Gir: Can I be a.mongoose-dog?
And now another word from Memai: PYRO IS TOO SEXY FOR HIS SHIRT. *glomps*
Ya'll! I'm SOOOOOOOOO sorry for not ever updating!!!! I made this chapter extra long to make up for it but if you feel the need, you can flame me for being a lazy ass. I won't take offense.
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: Um.Moonie? Hiya isn't a word.
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: Is that all you can say?
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: .I'll take that as a yes.This is *counts* chapter 9! Wow, this story's come a long way. *is bashed by angry reviewers*
Angry Reviewers: YOU HAVEN'T UPDATED IN FOREVER! WE HATE YOU!
Naomi and Sirius (together): I wanna do the disclaimer! *look at each other* JINX!!!!! *look helplessly at Moonie and Icefall* *hold up sign that says Unjinx us please!*
Moonie: Hiya!
Icefall: *evilly* It's going to be very quiet around here for a while.
Sirius: *holds up sign* _Unjinx me! I'm SERIOUS!_
Icefall: I know you are, you don't have to tell me.
Naomi: *holds up sign* _Lemme do the disclaimer!_
Icefall: No.
Naomi: _Please?_
Icefall: No.
Naomi: _Pretty please?_
Icefall: No.
Naomi: _Pretty, pretty please?_
Icefall: No.
*they continue*
The mer from last chapter: I'll do the disclaimer. Moonie and Icefall own me, Naomi, all of the exchange students, most of the plot, and nuthin' else. Oh, and if you can't figure out who I am, YOU HAVE MENTAL PROBLEMS!!!! Thank you.
Moonie: Hiya!
Everyone: *sweardrop*
***
All Hallows Eve. The one day of the year that the spirits of the dead come out. Muggles obviously got that wrong, Lily thought. The Great Hall looks really great for the feast.----Lily was interrupted from her thoughts as Naomi sneaked up behind her and, well.she was a little over enthusiastic and instead of a simple "hello", Lily was greeted by
"Hey Lils!!!!!!!!"
"Wha- Oh hello Naomi," Lily replied, half-smiling at her friends extreme hyper-ness.
"So whacha doin'?" Naomi asked.
"Just admiring the decorations," Lily answered.
"They look great, don't they?" Not waiting for an answer, Naomi kept going, "Hogsmeade visit tomorrow. Wanna go?"
Lily shrugged. "Maybe."
"James, Sirius, and Remus are going." Naomi wheedled, trying to convince her friend to go.
Lily froze. "Actually, I-I have something that I have to do!" Lily spilled out as she turned and hurried away, leaving Naomi standing there blinking.
Sirius sneaked up behind Naomi and turned her trick back on her.
"Hello Naomi!"
"GYAHH!! Sirius! Don't scare me like that!" Naomi scolded once she saw the face of her attacker.
"You did it to Lily. I saw you."
"So? That doesn't mean that you can do it to me!"
"So.Can I do this?" Sirius asked, picking her up as he grinned.
"ACK!" Naomi wrapped her arms around Sirius' neck to keep from falling. Naomi turned to scowl at him as he smiled and laughed as she kicked her legs in an attempt to make him let her go of her. "No," Naomi gasped. "You can't!"
"Oh? Then how come I just did? Hm.I wonder what else I can do? How about, can I take you to Hogsmeade tomorrow?"
"Of course not! But you're gonna do it anyways," Naomi replied.
"You know me to well," Sirius said as he let go of her with one arm so she could stand up. "Why did Lily run out of here?" Sirius added, worried.
"I'm not sure. I was asking her if she wanted to go to Hogsmeade or not tomorrow and I mentioned you guys were going. At that she muttered some pathetic excuse and ran. Dunno why though."
"We'll have to fix that. It's un-expectable."
"It's un-acceptable, idiot."
Sirius paused, "Oh. I knew that."
"Whatever Sirius. See ya later," Naomi said as she left. Sirius stayed there still grinning for a minute, and then he too left to go up to Gryffindor Tower.
***
"Hurry up Ella!" Naomi said impatiently. She and Ella were getting ready to go to Hogsmeade and Ella was obviously taking too long to get ready, at least by Naomi's standards. Lily was sitting on her bed watching the hilarious scenario. She wasn't going to Hogsmeade, or at least, she wasn't going with Ella and Naomi. They planned to meet the Marauders once in Hogsmeade. Naomi had a date, or a-date-that-was-not-a-date. Sirius called it a date, yet Naomi said that it wasn't. She also insisted that Ella come too. Lily still refused to be around the boys, which struck her friends as very strange, especially Naomi.
"Okay, I'm ready, Naomi!" Ella called.
"FINALLY! Come on!" Naomi grabbed Ella's arm as Ella grabbed her cloak and dragged Ella out the door.
Meanwhile.
Sirius was rushing his friends almost as much as Naomi was hers. "Prongs! You're SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO slow!!!!! You too Moony! And you, Wormtail! Hurry up!" he exclaimed dramatically as he could while he bounced up and down on his bed.
"Calm down Padfoot. I know you're ready, but please, leave us alone!" Remus pleaded with his friend.
Sirius pretended to consider this before his mouth widened in a grin. He jumped off of the bed and onto the floor. "Soooo, Jamsie, who's the new girl? Hm?"
"Shut up Padfoot," James replied, not looking at his friend.
"Tell me!"
"No!"
"I won't leave you alone."
James rolled his eyes, knowing very well that his friend wouldn't give up. "Fine. Lily Evans."
"The new girl?"
"Padfoot, there are a lot of new girls," Remus reminded his friend, smiling.
"You know what I mean. So, Jamsie, have you asked her out yet?"
James turned red and muttered something inaudible as a reply.
"What? What'd you say?"
"Get off my back! It isn't like I'm the only one here who likes one of the new girls!"
Sirius stopped teasing his friend because he couldn't think of anything to say that they couldn't turn on him. Remus, however, blushed and quickly turned around so his friends wouldn't see it. Unfortunately, one of them did, the one that you would least like to find out anything you didn't want to be teased about: Sirius.
"Oooooooh! Moony's blushing! Moony's blushing!" Sirius started jumping up and down on his bed, yelling/singing at the top of his lungs. "Moony's blush!--" Sirius stopped jumping when he was cut off. He looked at Remus to see that his friend had his wand out and it was pointed right at him.
"Now maybe you will stop talking. That Silencing Charm turned out to be quite useful, don't you agree James? It'll hold until someone takes it off of him, since he can't speak, he can't perform the counter-curse," Remus said, his blush fading.
James, who had been about to tease Remus as well, quickly decided against it and nodded in answer to Remus' question. Glancing at Sirius, James burst into laughter at his friend's antics. Sirius, as he couldn't talk, was jumping up and down and waving his arms in the air to get his friends' attention. "What's wrong, Padfoot? Why don't you tell us?"
Sirius glared at James then grabbed a piece of parchment and a quill to write _Can we go to Hogsmeade yet?_
"Okay Padfoot. We're ready," James said, grabbing his cloak on his way to the door.
_Yay!_ Sirius ran out the door, jumping around like a little kid. Remus, James, and Peter followed him more calmly.
***
"Ooh! I want this! And this! And this!"
"And this! Oh, and we're out of these too! And this! Oooooh cool!"
James and Sirius raced around Zonko's buying almost everything they saw. Remus had taken off his Silencing Charm after growing tired of Sirius jumping up and down and holding up random signs. Naomi was clutching her sides, half-bent laughing at her boyfriend and his friends as they rushed around the store. Ella was standing, arms folded, with a half-smile on her face.
A few minutes later, the group left the store, the Marauder's loaded down with Sirius and James' purchases. Remus and Peter hadn't bought anything this time and Naomi and Ella had no use for the pranks. James and Sirius were a completely different case though.
"So where do you want to go next?" Sirius asked, looking at Naomi.
"Weeeeell, I'm kinda cold so why don't get a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks?" Naomi answered, looking at Sirius.
James, Remus, Peter, and Ella rolled their eyes and left the two alone.
***
Lily waited until an hour had passed after Naomi and Ella ran out of their dormitory until she started getting ready. Let's see, cloak, money, anything else? Lily looked around to see if she had forgotten anything and saw she hadn't. She put on her cloak as she walked down the stairs.
Pausing before she left the castle, Lily pulled up the hood of her cloak to hide her tell-tale red hair. She would rather avoid any confrontations that might result in her having to spend any unnecessary time with any boy. Especially not any that might act like her first boyfriend, Sean. I have nothing against the name but I needed an Irish- sounding one. Lily shuddered and quickly repressed the memory. I definitely don't want to think about that now. Lily thought, fingering the longest of the many scars that covered her body that her the long sleeves of her robes and cloak hid.
Lily dropped her arms and walked quickly to Hogsmeade.
***
"That was fun!" Naomi said as she dropped her cloak and flopped onto her bed. Ella sat down more decorously.
"Was it?" Lily asked, she too sitting on her bed.
"Definitely! We had SOOOO much fun!"
Naomi was cut off my Ella's comment. "'We?' We left you and Sirius to yourselves! You were getting a little too mushy for us!"
"ANYWAYS, we met the boys, then we went to this joke shop, then to the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer, and then." Naomi went on and on explaining everywhere she and Sirius had been. When she finally stopped, Lily and Ella had already started talking to each other.
"You should have come, Lily," Ella was saying. "You would have enjoyed it. Well, if you could have endured Naomi and Sirius. They ignored us completely!"
"It sounds like fun. Maybe I'll go next time," Lily replied.
"Yeah! We're taking you next time! No matter what excuse you come up with!"
Ella rolled her eyes and said, "Maybe Lily actually doesn't want to go. You shouldn't make her do something she doesn't want to. We shouldn't but I doubt that will stop me, much less Naomi." Ella grinned wickedly.
"Hello Ladies!!!!" Sirius shouted as he slammed the door open and walked into the room.
"Sirius! You're not supposed to be in here!" Naomi scolded her boyfriend. "Besides, how did you get up the steps?!"
"My love for you enabled me to break through the spell!" was his enthusiastic reply.
"Riiiiight. How did you really get up here? And why did you interrupt us anyway?"
Sirius made a face. "Prongsy and I tampered with the spell one day because we got bored. It lets us four in but makes everyone else turn bright pink. And I came to tell you that the Halloween feast is about to start."
"Then, let's go! I'm starved!" Naomi exclaimed, jumping up from her bed.
***
The Halloween Feast was well under way before any mishaps happened, which was unusual for the Marauders. They had usually wreaked havoc before then.
Suddenly, the giant pumpkins nearest the Slytherin table exploded, showering the Slytherins with pumpkin parts. And in the middle of it all, Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy stood covered head to toe in pumpkin, the juice somehow staining them bright orange and pink striped. The two Slytherins hurried out of the Great Hall, followed by two pumpkins that had not exploded and were occasionally bumbing into them and the sound of laughter as everyone but the Slytherins burst into laughter. The Marauders stood up and bowed, James saying "Thank you! Thank you very much!" and many of the students applauding. Lily, however, was neither laughing nor applauding, not feeling that they deserved praise for what was obviously a plea for attention.
"What's wrong Lils? Why aren't you laughing? Do you feel alright?" Naomi asked her friend.
"I'm fine," Lily replied shortly.
"Okay," Naomi sounded doubtful but, for once, didn't press Lily for a more explicable answer.
In truth Lily was not fine. Far from it really. The next day was the Halloween dance. Lily was stuck thinking about how she had met her previous boyfriend at one such dance.
She had been so excited and couldn't wait for it to start. It had been fun and then Robert had asked her to dance. She had been thrilled because she (and the rest of the female population) had had a crush on him. After the dance she had started dating him and then it had started. The betrayal, the abuse, the cruelty, all of it. He had made her believe she was worthless. He was the reason she had transferred schools. The reason she hated men. The reason she was terrified by the way that some of her classmates had looked at her. It was all her fault. If she hadn't-Lily, stop it! Worrying it to death isn't going to help anything! Lily shoved all thoughts of abusive boyfriends out of her mind and concentrated on the desserts appearing in front of them.
***
Naomi: *trembling under the weight of the sign which is HUGE* _Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty please?_
Icefall: No.
Sirius: *holds up sign* _Are you thinking what I'm thinking Naomi?_
Naomi: *evil grin* _Yes._
Both: *proceed to play REALLY annoying songs on the radio at full volume while dancing in a circle around Icefall and doing other idiotic things that were quite annoying*
Icefall: STOP!
Both: *keep dancing*
Icefall: I said STOP!!
Both: *keep dancing*
Icefall: NAOMI!! SIRIUS!!! STOP IT!!!!!
Both: Okay we'll stop. JINX!
Sirius: *holds up sign* _Oh, shit._
Moonie: Hiya!
To be continued.
Yes, I know abusive boyfriends are very cliché, but deal with it!
Random question: Who is your favorite character in my story? Answer this or suffer the mallet of DOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and just to annoy Lady Merlyn, reviewy!!
This next part written by a hyper Memai (check out all her stories)
Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom...
Gir: I wanna be a mongoose!
Zim: I'm thinkin.a dog.
Gir: Can I be a.mongoose-dog?
And now another word from Memai: PYRO IS TOO SEXY FOR HIS SHIRT. *glomps*
Ya'll! I'm SOOOOOOOOO sorry for not ever updating!!!! I made this chapter extra long to make up for it but if you feel the need, you can flame me for being a lazy ass. I won't take offense.