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Today was the day I had been dreading for weeks. It was the Friday after our trip to Hogsmeade and the day before the Gryffindor verses Hufflepuff. This day was otherwise known as Halloween. James and my "crew" consisted of Sirius, Remus, Peter, Gwen, and Eden. We all got out of classes for the day to decorate the Great Hall for the feast. We had not had time yet to make any plans. It was going to be one horrible day.
"Wake up, Lily," Gwen said, quietly as she tickled me in the stomach.
"No, no, I don't want to get up," I said, yawning, "It's going to be a bad, bad day."
"No, it will not! Now get up! James is waiting for you to go to breakfast," Gwen said as she walked off to try to wake up Eden.
"Fine!" I said, getting out of bed and getting ready. After about a half an hour, I was walking downstairs to the common room to meet James.
"Happy Halloween!" James screamed, giddily.
"What is up with you people and Halloween?" I asked.
"WHAT IS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE AND HALLOWEEN!" Sirius screamed, offended.
"Seriously, it's just some dumb holiday," I stated.
"Lily, Lily, Lily," James started.
"No spirit, huh?" Sirius asked, "You know, James, eventually the looks will fade. Do you really want someone so boring?"
"I'm not boring!" I said, offended.
"No dear, of course you're not," James started, "You could just stand to—How do put this, Sirius?"
"Wake up and smell the dungbombs. Go for a fly on a thestral. Drink your butterbeer two at a time." Sirius answered.
"Precisely," James said.
"What do dungbombs and butterbeers have to do with any of this?" I asked, "And how on earth do you ride something you can't see?"
"That's the fun of it!" Sirius said, gleefully.
"Whatever, come on James lets go eat," I said, grabbing his shirtsleeve and walking off.
"So, Lily, what exactly do you have against Halloween?" James asked me as we walked into the Great Hall.
"Nothing, I just—" I started.
"Just don't like it?" He asked, cutting me off.
"No, I'm just worried our little decorating committee won't pull things off in time," I answered as we sat down and started to eat.
"Of course they will. I mean I know Sirius can have a little bit too much fun sometimes, but he always comes through and he'll especially come through if Gwen is here. Remus always does his fair share of the work and has never let anyone down in his life. Peter, well, we might not know he's even here. Eden, well, to be honest, I have a gut feeling that she's going to back out. Don't worry though, I promise that things will work out," James assured me.
"Well, if you're so sure, I guess I should trust you," I said.
"You've trusted me with things way more important and I've never let you down," He said leaning in to kiss me.
"Oh, look at the two lovebirds!" Sirius said, he and Gwen walking in. They totally broke up our almost kiss.
"Aren't they so cute?" Gwen asked to no one in particular.
"Yeah, I am aren't I," Sirius said causing everyone to look at him confused. "Oh I'm sorry, I heard the word cute and figured you must be talking about me because I am," Sirius said smugly.
"Ok then, anyway, when do we start setting up?" Gwen asked James and I.
"Right after breakfast," James answered.
"Hey James look! It's Little Boy Green with a letter for you!" Sirius said, happily as Little Boy Green flew in. Little Boy Green was in fact a large, female, brown owl.
"Oh crap, James, how did you get a howler?" Remus asked as he, Peter, and Eden sat down.
"Oh gosh," I said, "Shouldn't you open it?"
"I don't wanna," James whined.
"Trust me, James, I want you to," Sirius said with a smile.
"JAMES XAVIER POTTER," came a shrill sounding voice that I assumed was James' mother's, "DIDN'T WE RAISE YOU BETTER THAN TO JUST GO AROUND SLEEPING WITH RANDOM GIRLS. THANK GOODNESS, SIRIUS INFORMED US SO WE COULD PUT A STOP TO THIS FOOLISHNESS! YOU'RE NOT EVEN DATING HER!" His mother finished with a hiss then explosion. Everyone in the hall burst out laughing. James face was turning beet red and I could feel myself starting to blush.
"Well, James-darling, after much digging, I found the pictures and decided to send them to mummy dearest after all," Sirius said, laughing.
"Sirius, I'm giving you a three second head start," James told him.
"Head start for what?" Sirius asked.
"To run for your life!" James said. Sirius immediately put his food back on the plate.
"One," James counted. Sirius tripped trying to stand up from the bench. "Two," Sirius stood back up and took off running. "Three!" James screamed getting up and running towards the doors which Sirius was currently running out of.
"So, what do you think James is going to do to him?" Gwen asked.
"Not a clue, but I would not want to be Sirius right now," I answered, still staring at the doors, waiting for them to come back in.
"Should I go try and break it up?" Remus asked me.
"No," I answered.
"Good, I really didn't want to. It's wise not to get in the way when those two are fighting," Remus said.
"Hey Lily, can I talk to you for a second?" Eden asked me.
"Sure," I said getting up and walking away from the group with her, "What do you need?"
"Well, I'm really sorry, but I can't help you guys today. It just hurts too much to see Sirius that happy with someone else so soon," Eden explained.
"It's ok, I guess I should have known it would be hard on you," I said as we walked back to the table and sat down.
"Hey guys," James said, walking back in, alone.
"Where's Sirius?" Gwen asked.
"He'll be here in a second," James started.
"So, Potter, you and Evans are dating?" Snape asked, walking up with his group of other greasy people.
"I'm failing to see how it's any of your business," James answered defensively.
"Well," He started, looking around to make sure there were no teachers around, "I was just wondering how you could kiss such a filthy mudblood."
Gwen and Eden let out gasps at Snape's comment. James stood up looking ready to kill Snape with his bare hands. Remus and Peter jumped up in an attempt to hold James back. I felt tears rushing to my eyes.
"You have a death wish, Snivelly?" James asked Snape, taking out his wand. Remus and Peter, with great difficulty, to make James sit back down.
"Sit down Potter, or it'll be detention for you. Severus, if I catch you teasing Lily one more time, it'll be a month of detentions for you," McGonagall said walking up to us.
"But, Proffesor, he—" Eden started.
"I know exactly what happened. Now Severus, if you would so kindly join me for a walk to my office, that will be all," McGonagall said, taking Snape by the arm and walking off with him.
"Lily," James, started, hugging me.
"No, it's alright, I'm fine," I said, pushing him back.
"He's such an idiot!" Gwen screamed.
"I can't believe that slime ball!" Eden screamed.
"Are you ok, Lily?" Remus asked, concerned.
"Guys, really, I'm fine," I insisted, noticing that Peter did not look half as upset as all of my other friends. In fact, he did not look upset at all.
"Hey, guys," Sirius said, sitting down suddenly.
"Black, that's not the agreement! Now stand up and turn around," James told him. James' arm was still around me.
"But, James, is that really necessary?" Sirius whined.
"Sirius!" James said.
"Fine! James-darling," Sirius said, standing up and turning around to reveal a pigtail poking out of his rear. We all burst out laughing.
"Now, what do you say?" James asked.
"Oink-oink," Sirius said, dully. Everyone laughed harder. Sirius hurried and sat down before anyone else could see him. This event went a long way towards cheering me up. Soon, the Great Hall was empty and it was time for us to start our work.
James and I were in one area, working on transfiguring things into fake skeletons and bats and then bewitching the skeletons to serve food and the bats to hover overhead. Sirius and Gwen in another area, discussing the menu with the house elves. Remus and Peter were walking around setting things up including an apple-bobbing table.
"I'm so sorry, Lily," James said, regretfully.
"Sorry for what?" I asked him.
"What happened this morning with that slime ball," James said.
"It's not your fault," I insisted.
"Yes, it is."
"No, it isn't," I assured him.
"If you wouldn't be dating me, he wouldn't have said anything at all," James insisted.
"And if I weren't dating you, I wouldn't be in love right now with the most awesome guy ever," I said, pulling him down and kissing him.
"Hey, guys, are you going to get any work done today or just kiss?" Sirius screamed from across the hall.
"Just kiss," James, screamed back.
"Oh, well, in that case," Sirius, said, tackling Gwen onto the floor and kissing her.
"Hey, Lils, I thought you might—" Eden said walking in. Her sentence cut off abruptly as she noticed Sirius and Gwen kissing on the floor. She then ran out the room.
"Eden, I—" Gwen started, pulling away from Sirius. It was too late though, she was already gone.
"Give her some time alone," I screamed to Gwen, as she started to run towards the doors. She stopped when she heard what I said.
"Besides, if you're caught out of the halls, they'll send you to class," Remus told her from across the hall.
"But, I—she," Gwen stuttered. She then sat on a bail of hay and started crying. Sirius bent down, trying to console her. I went to try to talk to her, but James stopped me.
"Let him do it," James told me.
"But, she needs—" I started.
"He needs to learn what it's like to think of other people," James told me handing me my wand and gesturing around, "Besides, we really need to do some work."
At about three in the afternoon, when we had all been working for hours and were finally done, we all sat down on one of the tables in the center.
"So, little miss 'It won't work' what do you have to say for yourself?" Sirius asked me.
"You were right, I guess," I answered.
"And?" He asked me.
"All hail Sirius," I said, mock bowing.
"Hey guys," Remus started, "I have this friend, a fifth year Ravenclaw, and I was wondering if y'all would want to meet her…" Remus said blushing.
"A girl?" I asked smiling.
"Yeah," Remus said, shyly.
"Looky here! Moony's got himself a girlfriend!" Sirius said, happily.
"We'd love to meet her," Gwen said.
"Hey guys, we've got to go to quidditch practice," James said, standing up.
"But, what about Eden?" I asked them.
"Well, we'll just have to deal with it," James started, "There's a match tomorrow and we've got to practice and she knows it."
"I just hope that I won't get purposely hit by any bludgers," Sirius said, rubbing his shoulder. James gave me a kiss on the cheek and they were off.
"So, what do you guys want to do?" I asked the rest of the group.
"We're going have girl talk," Gwen said, taking me by the hand and dragging me out the Great Hall.
Gwen and I talked until it was time to leave for the feast. We talked about she and Sirius and how she had no clue what was going on. She told me that she was glad she had a chance to talk to me; she had missed me since James and I started dating.
After the quidditch team came in, we all went down to the feast together. We had so much fun. Sirius and James were right, the decorations were amazing. The food was delicious. Everything was perfect. I guess James kept his promise after all.
The night ended with James and I sitting in front of the fire. We talked for a while and eventually fell asleep together.
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