Midterms are over!!!! Wow I'm so unbelievably relieved. I did pretty good on them too, straight A's! But I'm incredibly happy that they're done with, now I'll have a lot more free time. I was rereading my story, and I realized that I never did character summaries. Like, explain the personalities of each character. It would make the story a lot easier to understand if I did, so I'm going to do them now, even though the stories already about halfway done lol. If you don't feel like reading the summaries, you don't have to. You can just skip over them and read the chapter. So here goes:
First the 7th year Gryffindor girls (Lily and her group of friends)…
Lily Evans-One of the most popular girls at Hogwarts, incredibly beautiful, smart, caring, etc. She's not one of those innocent virgin bookworms like everybody else makes her, but she's not a whore or anything like that.
Sammi Spinnet- Best friends with Remus since the first day of first year, but that's about to change (as you can tell from stuff that's already happened). She's really similar to Lily, except she's a bit more clueless.
Dylan Carter- The most popular girl at Hogwarts. Every girl wants to be her, and every guy wants to be with her. She's the flirt of the group; kind of a female version of James and Sirius. She knows what she wants, and she always gets it. She's also the sensible one, never falling for guys tricks. She speaks her mind, and can be really bitchy at times, but she's a good person overall.
Ashley Carter- Dylan's twin sister. They're identical to the last detail (except for their hair, which they both restyled in 5th year, tired of everybody confusing them), but their personalities couldn't be more different. While Dylan's the whorish one, she's the innocent prude. The only virgin left in the group. She never does anything wrong, and has a set of morals and standards that she always abides by.
Toni Spinnet- The drama queen. She's a bit of an airhead, and always falls for guys games.
And now the Marauders:
James- Most popular guy at Hogwarts. Quidditch superstar, gorgeous, smartest guy in school; the all around perfect guy lol. He was a Playboy, sleeping with girl after girl and then breaking their hearts, but that was just because he was trying to get over Lily. Now that he has her, he doesn't do it anymore.
Sirius Black- The most wanted guy at Hogwarts. He's beyond gorgeous, not to mention charming, funny, and a master of seduction. He's an even bigger player than James. He's really a good guy, but he doesn't want to ruin his reputation, so he acts like a prick.
Remus Lupin- He's just as good looking as James and Sirius, but he doesn't abuse it like they do. Remus is the perfect guy; sweet, caring, generous, kind; which makes him the guy the girls want after Sirius or James break their hearts. But lately he's only had eyes for one girl, Sammi. In my story he's not the innocent good-guy like everybody else makes him, he's just as much of a prankster and rule-breaker as the other Marauders, he's just not as bad as them when it comes to using girls.
Peter Pettigrew: Fat, short, weak, not talented, not as popular as the other Marauders, no girls like him. Like every other Harry Potter fan, I despise him, so he's going to be in this story as little as possible.
There's more characters, but I'll write about them when they come into the story.
And now…on with the chapter…
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Lily awoke the next morning to sunlight streaming through the gap in her bed curtains. She closed her eyes and thought about yesterday, praying that it wasn't all some cruel tempting dream. Looking around her dormitory, she saw that it was empty and realized with a jolt that she had classes today. She looked at the clock and groaned; she was going to have to get ready in record time if she wanted to have a quick breakfast before Defense Against the Dark Arts. Cursing her friends for not waking her up, she rolled out of bed and began to get ready.
After a quick shower, she muttered a few spells to dry and straighten her hair, brushed her teeth, applied her makeup, and threw on her uniform. Grabbing her books as she went, she bolted out the door and hurried downstairs. As she descended the steps, she spotted James sitting on the couch in his quidditch robes, holding a stack of toast on a napkin.
"James?"
James looked up and smiled, holding up the toast. "The girls said you overslept, so I figured you wouldn't have time to go all the way down to the Great Hall for breakfast."
Lily stared at him, unable to believe how lucky she was. She had realized last night that this wasn't just some stupid crush, she was in love with James Potter, and she couldn't be happier now that she had him. He was so sweet and caring, she had no idea how she had ever thought otherwise.
She smiled back and walked over to him, "thanks."
He handed her the toast and stood up. "I'll be right back, I have to go take a quick shower and change," he said, motioning to his quidditch robes.
"You made the team practice before breakfast this morning?"
"Of course, the match against Slytherin is in less than three weeks," he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Lily shook her head; she'd never understand quidditch. James kissed her on the cheek and went upstairs, and she began to eat her toast. By the time she was finished, James still wasn't downstairs, so she sat and waited. Finally, about five minutes before they had to leave he came down the steps with only a towel wrapped around his waist, looking pissed off.
"James, what-?"
"Sirius hid my robes again," James snapped, tearing apart the Common Room looking for his missing clothes. "I'm going to kick his ass next time I see him,"
Lily grinned at James' tanned, muscular body. "I wouldn't mind if you didn't find them, I'm enjoying the towel," she said, standing up and walking over to him
James grinned back and stepped closer to her. "Oh really?"
"Yup, very much so."
James wrapped his arms around her waist and puller her even closer so their bodies were pressing against each other.
"Well I don't think it's fair that I'm only wearing a towel, and you're standing here fully clothed."
"Well then we'll just have to change that." Lily said, removing her robes and slowly pushing up her sweater.
Suddenly, she stopped. "But we'll have to do it later, because we have class."
James jaw dropped and Lily burst out laughing.
"You're such a tease," James said, pouting.
Lily smirked. "I know." She gave him a quick kiss and pulled herself out of his grip.
"Now go borrow some clothes from Sirius or Remus before we're late."
James reluctantly went upstairs and got dressed. Five minutes later, he and Lily rushed into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom just as the late bell rang.
"And where were you two this morning?" Sirius said, smirking.
"Looking for my clothes you git." James said, sitting down with Lily at the table in front of him.
Sirius began to laugh hysterically and Lily shook her head. "Grow up Black!" James may have matured this year, but Sirius was still the same prick he used to be and Lily still couldn't stand him.
Just then the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Green, walked into the classroom and silenced them all. After about an hour or so of taking notes on the Unforgivable curses, he gave them some unpleasant news.
"Today you'll be meeting with your groups for your mid-term project. You are to pick any chapter topic in your textbook that we've covered in the past two years, and write a four-foot essay on it. You and your group will give a twenty minute presentation on your chapter when Christmas Break ends. Now I know that I usually let you choose groups, but I think it's time we tried for a bit of inter-house unity. We'll be choosing numbers out of these hats, one for the Gryffindors, one for the Slytherins. There will be two of each number in each hat, which means two Slytherins and two Gryffindors in each group."
The entire class groaned; it was not a good idea to try and get Slytherins and Gryffindors to work together. As the hat got passed around, each student reluctantly picked a folded piece of paper out of it. When every person had picked, Professor Green instructed the class to open up their papers and look at their numbers.
Lily looked at her paper; she was a four. "What'd you get?" she asked James hopefully.
"Four, what about you?"
Lily grinned and showed him her paper. "Maybe this project won't be so bad after all."
"Don't get too excited, we still have to work with two of them," James said motioning disgustedly to the Slytherins.
Lily's face fell. "Oh yeah. I wonder who?"
James sighed. "Only one way to find out." He stood up and called across the room to the Slytherins. "Oy, you lot, greasy prats, which two of you are fours?"
Lily groaned and punched James in the arm. "Yeah, that's really going to help us get along with them better."
Suddenly Lily saw Snape looking at James in horror.
"You have to be kidding me," she muttered, realizing what it meant.
"Alright class, now break up into your groups," Professor Green said, completely ignorant to the amount of trouble that this project was about to cause. "The bell is about to ring, so you'll only have time to meet your fellow group members; you'll start working on the project next class."
Lily and James stayed where they were, and Snape slowly made his way over to them, followed by the only person who could have possibly made this situation worse: Sirius' cousin, Bellatrix Black. When James noticed this, he put an arm around Lily's waist and pulled her closer; Bellatrix was psychotic and everybody knew it. She made it quite clear how much she hated muggles, and everybody knew that Lily was muggle-born.
"Go to the teacher this second and get the groups switched," Snape demanded before anybody else even had a chance to open their mouth.
"We can't you slimy git, otherwise we would of done it already." James said, glaring at him.
"Can't we all just act our age and work together in peace?" Lily said tentatively.
"Shut it, mudblood." Bellatrix hissed.
James jumped up, incensed.
"Take that back, now," he growled.
"I refuse to take orders from a blood traitor." Bellatrix snarled back.
The bell rang at that moment, because it looked as if it was taking all of James' self control not to hex Bellatrix.
Lily dragged a fuming James out of the room, worried that he was going to lose his temper.
"I can't believe we actually have to work with them! What the hell was Green thinking?"
"James calm down." Lily said desperately as they headed towards the Great Hall for lunch.
"NO! What the hell is wrong with her? Calling you a mudblood? I don't care if she's a girl, if she ever does it again I'll hex her worse than you could imagine."
Lily smiled at the fact that James was so protective of her as he continued on ranting about Bellatrix; he was so cute when he was angry.
She suddenly pushed him against the wall and kissed him, cutting off his furious tirade about how much he detested Slytherins.
She pulled away to see a grinning James.
"Just can't resist me, can you?"
Lily laughed. "I love you."
James smiled a genuine smile, one that very few people had ever seen. "I love you too."
He grabbed Lily by the waist and pulled her closer, and then bent down and kissed her again. Lily's mind began to spin as his tongue explored every inch of her mouth. She loved nothing more than being in James' arms, the feeling of his lips on hers. Nothing else in the world mattered now that they were finally together. As far as she was concerned, as long as she had James she could handle anything that came her way.
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Sammi sighed as she watched Lily and James. "Look at them, so in love. Why can't Amos and I have that?"
Remus rolled his eyes. "You're in lust with Amos, not love. You love his looks, not him."
"No!" she said indignantly, "I like him for him, not his looks! "
"No, you don't, you're just to obsessed with finding love to realize it. And you need to get over it because he's just in it for the sex. He's probably screwing a few other girls on the side."
"Gee Rem, thanks for your comforting words. This talk made me feel so much better."
"Anytime," Remus said smiling sarcastically.
"Ugh! What's with you lately?" Sammi said stamping her foot in frustration, "You're being such a dick."
Remus' anger got the better of him, and the words tumbled out of his mouth before he could stop them. "If you haven't realized it yet, there's something wrong with you."
He shook his head and walked away, leaving Sammi standing there, thoroughly confused.
She turned to Sirius and Peter who were behind them. "Do you two have any idea what's wrong with him?"
"How have you not figured it out yet?" Sirius said exasperatedly, losing his patience. "You must be slower than Pete over here!"
"Hey!" Peter said indignantly, "I'm not slow!"
"Yeah, sure, whatever." Sirius said impatiently. "Listen Spinnet, I was going to let Moony tell you when he was ready, but I'm sick of it. He's in love with you. He's been in love with you for a really long ass time, and this is torture for him. So forget Diggory and get with Remus, because he's perfect for you and we all know it!"
With that he and Peter walked away, leaving a thoroughly shocked and confused Sammi all alone.
Sammi ran a hand through her hair in frustration as what she just heard slowly sank in. Remus was her best friend in the world; it had been that way since they were eleven. When the hell had he fallen in love with her?
The last thing she wanted to do was hurt Remus, but she just didn't feel the same way he did. He was like her brother, nothing more, and she had no idea what to do.
She began to head back towards the Common Room hoping that one of her friends had skipped lunch to catch up on work; she needed to talk to somebody or she was going to burst.
As she stepped through the portrait hole, she saw it was completely empty except for one person…Remus. He looked up at her, and she felt as if somebody had just punched her in the stomach. He looked so depressed and she hated that she was the reason for his pain.
Tears slowly started to spill down her face before she could stop them. Why did life have to be so complicated?
"Sammi what's wrong?"
"Sirius t-told me about your…your feelings."
The color drained from Remus' face as he stared at Sammi in horror. "He-he what?"
Sammi stared helplessly at him, praying that this was all a bad dream. She didn't want to lose her best friend, but she knew it could never be the same between them; it would be too awkward.
"D-do you feel the same?" Remus asked quietly.
"Maybe if you had told me earlier, before Amos…but…I-I'm sorry."
Remus actually felt his heart snap in two. It was over, there was no chance of them being together. At least before he had had some hope, but now…it was over.
"Remus please don't hate me," she pleaded, "you're my best friend in the world, I don't want to lose you over this."
Remus stared at her, trying to stay calm. "I-I have to go."
He turned and headed up the stairs to his dorm, locking the door behind him.
Sammi groaned and buried her face in her hands. This was going to be a long year.
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OK pretty short chapter but I wanted to get something up quickly. I have 88 reviews right now and I'd LOVE to get 100, so please review! The more reviews I get, the faster I'll update I promise! - Britt
