Disclaimer-As said before, I own nothing that you recognize. But, anything you see in this fic that is new to you is mine.
~DanniBannani~ Hello again my dear readers! Thanks for all the reviews!!! I am so very sorry I haven't posted sooner than this. But, I'm in the last few weeks of school right now so it's…EXAM TIME. Fun. Fun. Fun. But, I have been writing another fic also…with my friend Teeny…and we hope to post it as PBnJ…eventually whenever the site allows us to make a new account. Well…I guess I need to stop advertising and start giving you the story so…
On with it…
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***James was soaring on his Nimbus 1000, loving the feel of the cool wind as it untidied his already untidy hair. It tickled his nose, almost like a feather…***
"Shh!" Lily whispered, holding her finger over her mouth, watching Arabella snickering as she herself tried to suppress a giggle. Arabella had just filled the sleeping James' palm with mountains of foamy white shaving cream and Lily had the wonderful task of tickling his nose with a soft feather. As the tip of the frail feather tap-danced across his nose, James moved his cream-filled hand and smeared the white substance all over his face.
"Much better," James muttered, not realizing the cool wind in his dream was actually shaving cream (a/n- That rhymed!).
***James continued soaring through the clouds, weaving in and out of the sun's rays that warmed his fingers…***
"Lily! What on earth are you doing?"
"Watch." Lily demanded after she dipped James' cream free hand into a bowl of warm water (a/n-This is a common prank. I'm not doing this 'cause I saw it in another fic).
***'Aaaah! Such a lovely day!' James thought in his dream, 'But it's a little chilly. Maybe these nice warm jets of water will help me out.' As he flew through the jet streams, the water warmed him…***
"Oh my gosh! I gotta get out! I gotta get out!" Arabella cried, turning red from suppressing her laughter. She bounded out of the room, hand clamped over her mouth, fearing she'd burst out laughing and wake the boys.
'Amateur' Lily thought as she emptied her toothpaste into the foamy-faced James' hair. 'And this should be dry by morning!' She thought, noting the toothpaste. She then looked at James' now wet boxers and bed sheets, 'But these won't' Lily smiled wickedly and pranced out of the first year boys' dorm.
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"JAMSIE HAD AN ACCIDENT!" were the first words out of an ecstatic Sirius Black's mouth the next morning, "I THOUGHT YOU STOPPED WETTING THE BED YEEEARS AGO!" were the next. Sirius' yelling could be heard throughout the entire dorm, and a certain redhead gratefully welcomed this wake-up call.
In the boys' dorm James was awakening to Sirius' gleeful cries. It took him a while to process Sirius' words, but when he did he looked down and saw the accusation to be true.
"AND LOOK AT HIS NEW MAKEOVER!" James quickly put his hands to his face, and then his hair.
"Wha-Who-Why?" James sputtered the words almost simultaneously as he looked at his reflection in the mirror, "What is this?" was James' first complete sentence.
"Looks like toothpaste to me." Peter smiled, glad the prank wasn't on him this time.
"But who?"
"Haha, Jamsie boy! I told you Evans and Figg would seek revenge.
"No, they're not smart enough to—," James paused, then hastily muttered, "to make me wet my pants."
"You're right Jamsie. You did that yourself!"
"WHAT? No."
"Right…" Sirius and Peter said, clearly unconvinced.
"URGH!" James yelled and started throwing a fit over his "stupid friends."
While James was preoccupied with throwing pillows and squawking like a mad chicken, Sirius was snapping photos for future sales and blackmail. James eventually noticed his friend's, "Now turn for the camera…EXCELLENT"'s and stopped at once.
"SIRIUS LEE BLACK!"
The next five minutes were filled with many hexes (one of which actually worked) and hex-dodging in the case of Sirius. The one hex that worked was the perfect hex for Sirius Black. It had changed his long hair into a buzz cut! Sirius stressfully ran his hand through his invisible hair and realized his hair had disappeared.
"JAMES HENRY POTTER! CHANGE IT BACK THIS INSTANT—OR I'LL DEFINITELY SELL THESE PICTURES TO THE SLYTHERIN!"
James quickly (but unwillingly) muttered the counter curse and Sirius' hair was no longer extremely short.
Clearing his throat Peter awkwardly inquired, "Uh. Is…anybody hungry?"
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After a few more scuffles, the boys finally made it to the Great Hall where breakfast awaited. James entered and found himself the victim of amused stares and obvious giggles. He sat in a seat across from Lily, who muttered, "Glad to see you're dry, oh and was the toothpaste too hard to remove?"
"What?"
Lily arched her eyebrow and smirked, "Nothing" She airily replied.
"You!"
"Me."
"Why?"
"I'd like to ask YOU the same!"
"About what?"
"YOU KNOW!"
"Er. No."
"Yes. You do."
"No. I don't."
"You told him."
"Told who?"
"YOU KNOW!"
"BLOODY HELL LILY! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY I KNOW NOTHING?"
"AS MANY AS YOU LIKE YOU STUPID DENYING BED WETTING GIT!"
More giggles filled the Great Hall.
"You." James spat, disgusted.
"You." Lily mimicked, equally loathing.
The two simultaneously stood up from their facing seats and marched out of the Great Hall, fuming.
"Well…that was interesting." Sirius stated nonchalantly, "Anyone want some toast?
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The group got through the rest of the day rather awkwardly. Lily and James kept shooting each other death glares as their friends tried to ignore them and continue on as if nothing was wrong. The morning classes (Transfiguration and Charms) went smoothly, but in Herbology with the head of Hufflepuff House, Professor Sprout- a very young witch with short golden brown hair and a pudgy nose- Lily pushed James, who (due to this action) dropped all of his puffapod seeds and several flowers had instantly exploded from their insides. Professor Sprout, who hadn't seen the push, scolded James for ten minutes on the careless behavior that could have easily been prevented and the number of puffapods that could have been spared. All the while Lily poked her head around Professor Sprout's back and began making faces at James.
That night at dinner Lily poured three pitchers of pumpkin juice on James' head while James poured five onto Lily. James then gave Lily a buzz cut like the one Sirius had had earlier that day. Lily screamed and demanded James to turn it back, but James blatantly refused. So, as a form of revenge, Lily turned James' hair bright pink and smeared her mashed potatoes all over his face. She then yelled out, "WELL AT LEAST I DON'T WET THE BED!"
James had no response to that so he merely changed what was left of Lily's hair blue. Because changing hair color and length were some of the only hexes James knew, he continued to abuse his "skills" and had changed Lily's short hair every color of the rainbow by the time dinner was finished. Lily, however, did not seek revenge on James at dinner but waited for Astronomy to come at midnight, where she could humiliate James and definitely not be seen.
After dinner, Lily ignored Megan and Robyn's pleads for explanations on why she was mad at James and rushed to the library where she could research on simple hexes she could perform on James. During her time of investigation, Lily figured out how she could change her hair back to its normal length and color. She also learned a handy little hex that would make James squeal!
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"Good evening class," a slender-faced woman with short blonde hair and mysteriously blue eyes started in a noticeable French accent, "My name is Professeur Etoile (a/n-star in French…w/out the accent aigu on the first e). I will be teaching you to locate and name many of zee important stars. Now. Zere are several stars in zee solar system zat I want you to find tonight. We will start wis zee Nors star…"
Lily zoned out of concentration and zoned in on her victim, AKA- James Potter. As he pulled out his star chart and began mapping the North Star Lily muttered under her breath, "Rictusempra," and James immediately fell on his side laughing uncontrollably. Professeur Etoile turned around and angrily said, "Mr. Potter. It iz LATE and I am sure zat nobody wants to be here later zan zey need to be. If you continue to laugh like zat I am positif zat we will be forced to stay anozer half hour. Zat would not make you very popular would it? Non." Lily quickly ended James' torment so as to quiet Professeur Etoile for a moment, "Ok. Please continue wiz you mapping." Lily, who had not been paying attention, quickly raised her hand and asked for help, "Oui Miss. Eva—Ah mon dieu! Vos cheveux! (translation-Oh my God! Your hair!)."
"What?"
"Your hair! It is, short, very very short!"
"Oh." Lily quickly changed her hair back to its normal length as Professeur Etoile quickly said, "AH! Silly me. I forgot about zat!"
Lily gave her Professor a strange look before turning to James and muttering once again, "Rictusempra". James seemed to struggle this time, trying to keep in his laughter, but to no avail. He soon was in fits of laughter on the floor, rolling and clenching his sides.
"ZAT IS IT MR. POTTER! EXTRA HALF AN HOUR FOR EVERYONE!"
The moans and groans of the drowsy students filled the astronomy tower.
"Gosh James! Why do you have to be so…stupid!"
But James was still laughing on the floor as if there were no tomorrow.
"MISTER POTTER! I HAF HAD IT! DETENTION AND TEN POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily once again ended James' torture, but only to the benefit of her House. She didn't want any more points taken away for "James'" actions. She obediently sat and charted her stars for the next forty-five minutes like the perfect student should. When the class was finally finished at 1:30am, all the students (except for James) trudged out of the tower, fighting to keep their eyes open. James was forced to stay behind with Professeur Etoile who decided it would be a wonderful detention for him to scrub the Astronomy tower spotless that night until 2:30.
When he finally left the tower, James trudged back to his bed where he collapsed in his school uniform, not even bothering to change. His last thoughts before drifting off to sleep were of why a certain fiery redhead had to be so annoying, and what he would do to seek revenge. And this night, as he slept he dreamt of vengeance and the rewarding feeling of outdoing another.
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Okay guys…I am soooo very sorry again for not updating sooner! And I'm also sorry for the length of this chapter! It was only 1700 words! Oh no! I have failed to follow my minimum of 2000 words rule! Oh, well. Life goes on. Annnnnd, I hope you really liked it (tell me and review…I wanna know if I made any of you laugh!!!) Thanks for reading, at least! TTFN!
~DanniBannani~