Why Do I Love You?

CHAPTER FIVE

WAR!

Lily was giggling as her and Sirius lay on the grass near the lake, under a shady tree.

She spotted a bunch of three leaf clovers.

"Four leaf clovers bring good luck!" she shrieked.

"Where? Where?" Sirius asked, sitting up from his spot with his head in Lily's lap. "Where's the four leaf clover?"

"I didn't say there was one, just that there where lucky."

"Oh, alright." Sirius settled back down, closing his eyes.

Lily absent-mindedly started making a clover chain.

"It's so hot!" she said, "This is supposed to spring!"

"Mmmm." Sirius agreed.

"Four leaf clovers bring good luck!" she cried.

"What?!" Sirius said, "Where."

Lily giggled. "Got ya!"

"Very funny."

Just as Sirius laid back down she yelled again.

"Four leaf clover!"

"I'm not falling for that again Lils."

"Seriously."

"Right."

"No! Look!"

She dangled in front of his face but his eyes remained closed.

"Oh well." She said and attached it to the clover chain that was now finished.

"Hey, aren't I supposed to be lying on you? Since I'm the girl and you're the boy?"

"Yea, I guess you are." Sirius said sheepishly, getting up and moving so his legs formed a V. Lily sat in between them.

"I have a present for you." Lily said, putting the clover chain around his neck.

"I have a present for you." Sirius replied.

"What?" Lily asked surprised, turning around so she was facing him.

Sirius kissed her on the cheek, she blushed.

"Thanks."

He kissed her again, on the mouth. Lily's head was spinning, she felt wonderful; she'd never been happier.

James was also by the lake; he'd been watching Sirius and Lily the whole time. When they kissed he'd turned away, fists clenched.

He looked at them again, Sirius had said something and Lily was laughing. She cuddled up to him and James felt a stab of pain.

He kept watching them, and when they got up to head back inside he slipped away. It wasn't fair; life wasn't fair.

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"It's not fair moony, it's not fair." James said bitterly during one Charms lesson, as he was trying to cast a summoning spell. "Why is it not fair? He reckons he can get away with getting Lily! He never even liked her and he knew how much she meant to me! We're supposed to be friends, as if!"

Remus, tired of hearing the same thing day after day just sighed.

"I know James, you've told me about a billion times. ACCIO!"

Remus' quill zoomed straight onto his lap from the pile on Flitwick's desk.

"Forget it Prongs, forget it."

"It'll be alright James." Peter said from his other side, "You know." He said weakly.

James nodded; at least he had one of his friend's support.

Peter continued, "You should tell Lily w-what you think."

"No!" James said, "I couldn't."

He looked across and saw Lily and Sirius on the same desk, smiling as they attempted to summon the quills. Lily's whizzed into her hand and she showed Sirius, he nodded and whispered something in her ear.

James had an idea, he pointed his wand at Sirius' chair and whispered "Accio!".

The chair moved across from his table to next to James, he put it quickly behind him.

Sirius hadn't noticed anything as he was talking to Lily, Professor Flitwick got up on his desk and whistled.

The class fell silent and he cleared his throat.

"Take your seats please," he said.

Every sat down in their seats, except Sirius. He went to sit down but because there was not chair there he fell on his bum. The class exploded with laughter, thinking Sirius had done it on purpose. He got up scowling spotted the chair behind James.

"Mr Black!" Professor Flitwick squeaked. "Sit down!"

Sirius walked over to behind James and grabbed his chair.

"This means war." He said so only James could hear.

"Fine with me."

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James had expected some sort of trick from Sirius all day; and was on his guard but nothing happened.

He was surprised that Sirius had done nothing; he and Sirius were Hogwarts' biggest pranksters and he knew that id Sirius had done nothing today he was bound to do something tomorrow.

James crawled into bed and fell straight to sleep. He had a weird dream; he saw a crater and body's everywhere and then a man- a man who looked strangely like Sirius. . .

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James woke and crawled out of bed; he headed for the shower and looked in the mirror.

"Ahh!" he screamed.

His skin was blue and his hair was orange. (A/N Big Fat Liar! Don't you love that movie?)

"Sirius!" he yelled.

Sirius smiled as he heard his ex-best friend screaming after noticing the slight change in his appearance.

James stormed down into the common room, towel around his waist. Everyone was staring at the half naked guy who looked like a clown.

"How dare you!"

"Got a makeover have you James?" he asked, smiling. "Maybe you need some big shoes and a spotty top to go with your clown outfit!"

"You-"

"Like I said, were at war." He said mockingly, "And don't expect to win."

Lily chose the moment after Sirius said that to walk down the stairs. James' cheeks turned a pinkish colour as Lily Evans saw him blue, with orange hair and wearing nothing but a towel.

Many people were laughing, Lily wasn't but she didn't say anything to him either, she just looked at Sirius and they left.

James had never been so embarrassed in his life, everyone was staring at him and as he stormed back up to his common room he met Remus and Peter on the stairs.

Remus frowned. "James, what happened?" he asked.

James scowled, "My new skin and hair colour is thanks to our good friend Padfoot."

"Oh," said Remus. ***

Sirius was sitting at the breakfast table when James marched up, there was laughter following him as people saw one of the most popular guys in school with a slightly different facial colour.

"I will get you back," he said menacingly, "I will."

"Ok, Jamsie." Sirius replied, "Sure."

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Sirius went to bed that night, wondering why he had not had a trick played on HIM. He was sure James was planning something but would have to wait to find out.

As soon as Sirius had fallen asleep, James went over to his bed and used a permanent sticking charm to attach some letters to his head.