A/N : Yup yup this is the other chapter. This chapter was actually a part of the last chapter, but I decided to make it into two different chapters because of the problem that happened, lol, well, happy reading! XD
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° - Hogsmeade - °
[Next Morning – Hogsmeade!]
Lily's eyes slowly opened to meet sunlight, some strong sunlight actually. She groaned and rolled over in her bed, burying her face in her pillow. She quickly got over that, though, being the early riser she was. She smiled and got off her bed, dressing in casual clothes under her robes. She did her hair in a French braid and decided not to wake up everyone else till another hour, since it was way too early and it was Friday anyway. She slowly made her way down to the common room to find a figure sitting at a table in the corner. The common room looked so quiet, which was quite unusual. The sunlight was shining through the windows and on to the scarlet and gold furniture, illuminating the common room greatly. Her thoughts shifted back to the figure, though, the figure of a boy who had his head down with his arms around his head, so she could not tell who it was from a distance.
She walked over and recognized the untidy jet-black hair and knew it was James immediately.
Trying to stifle her laughter she bent down slightly and put her face exactly facing his then shook him gently, "James." She said softly. Nothing, "Jammess.." she repeated and shook him a little harder, giggling softly. He woke up and looked up, to find himself looking into a pair of startling emerald green eyes, he jumped in surprise, causing her to jump back too.
He blinked and sat up, wondering what he was doing in the common room.
"Why am I here?" he asked her and looked slightly confused, his hair sticking up even messier and his glasses slightly crooked as he looked around at the sunny, empty common room then back at Lily.
"You must have fallen asleep when everyone went up!" she said, laughing slightly and shaking her head. She could not believe James fell asleep studying. What a shocker! She grinned slightly. That was a change for him, she was guessing, since James usually fell asleep planning pranks or telling jokes.
"Oh...right.." he said and nodded, sitting up straight. He looked out the window and noticed it had to be around 6:30 a.m. "What are you doing up so early anyway?" he asked her, fixing his glasses and begging to shut some of the books.
She shrugged and sat down facing him, tucking a strand of dark red hair behind her ear. It was like she forgot she was mad at him. "I just decided to get up early.." she said amd shrugged, she actually liked to get up early anyway. She looked back at him. "Why did you fall asleep here?"
"I was doing my History of Magic homework.." he said and grinned sheepishly. He knew that it was a change for him to be actually doing his homework.
She laughed slightly, shaking her head. "It is not that boring, James"! she said, smiling slightly. "If you try to look at it from an interesting point of view, it might make sense or at least be a little, tiny bit interesting, you know?" she asked and smiled, feeling weird about giving homework tips to James Potter of all people…
"Yeah it is…" he said, nodding his head, "it is that boring, Lily, believe me, especially for a person who does not even like to study that much, History of Magic is like the extreme pain for me!" he started, shaking his head at the thought of even attempting to like History of Magic, it was just plain scary really, "and the class is even more boring!" he said then did an impression of Professor Binns explaining something, in his droning voice.
Lily chuckled and shook her head slightly "Yeah but it can come in useful at times!" she pointed out. And she was right, sometimes the little things you learned came up useful in some situations.
And for the next hour, till everyone woke up, James and Lily continued to talk. They talked about everything. Their friends, their family's, their studies, a lot of things like that. Lily even told him what a TV was.
Jen and Kathy emerged from the Girls Dormitories and into the common room to find Lily and James talking about which type of candy is better, Sugar Quills or Chocolate Frogs.
"Good Morning!" Jen said cheerfully (A/N : shes only cheerful because today is the day they give Lily the Veritasarum, other than that, Jen is NOT a morning person XD)
Lily raised an eyebrow "what are you so cheerful about Jen?" she asked, surprised at her. Jen was not your typical morning girl, no sir. If Jen was to be herself right now, she would be grumbling and being grouchy, shoving people out ofer way and looking like she had never felt so tired before in her whole life.
"Nothing," she said quickly and Kathy laughed, as she tied her brown hair into a low ponytail, while Jen's, long, curly hair was untied and slightly messy, as she was too excited to brush it this morning anyways.
"Hallo." Kathy said and grinned.
"Hi," James said to the girls, and smiled then stood up, "well, if you'll excuse me girls, I have to go." He said and grinned, gathering his things and books off the table before striding off to the boys' dorms.
"Bye" they all said as he went into the boys' dormitories, and then Lily turned to see Kathy and Jen smirking at her. She rolled her eyes and sighed slightly, then looked at them exasperatedly.
"What?" she said.
"You were being normal with James, it means you like him!" Kathy grinned, giggling slightly and wagging her eyebrows annoying at Lily.
Jen continued to smirk "I knew it, I knew it, since our second or first year!"
Lily almost blushed then said, "I do NOT like him, and we were just talking!" she said and frowned. Damn friends had to be sooo annoying when it was uncalled for.
"Riiight." Jen said and rolled her eyes.
"We know you do Lils." Kathy said.
"I don't." she said stubbornly, then Kathy and Jen turned to each other and said in hushed voices, as if in a hospital "She's in denial." They said, and nodded slightly as though talking someone very stupid, slow and mental and was currently being told that they were going to be locked din to an asylum for the rest of their denied lives.
Lily laughed "What denial? I just don't like him!" she said and stood up, twisting a loose strand of hair around a finger boredly and glaring at her friends.
"Riiight" they said and rolled their eyes.
Remus, Sirius, Peter and James came into the common room and then Sirius and Jen said "Can we go to breakfast now?" and then laughed.
[Breakfast]
"Today is going to be fun." Kathy said, eating some egg and bacon and glancing at the other partners in crime. She knew they all felt the same way as her. Excited. Worried. And slightly anxious about the reactions of Lily and James of course, the whole point of this crazy plot anyway.
"Yup."Jen nodded in agreement.
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"Exactly," Sirius said, stuffing some food in his mouth and waving to a group of Ravenclaw girls who nearly fainted and Sirius grinned.
"What's wrong with you lot? Your acting like you've never been to Hogsmeade!" James said and laughed, feeling slightly suspicious as he eyed all of his friends, who started looking nervous, as though under pressure.
Remus shook his head and Peter blinked slightly, trying not to look at the eyes of Lily and James. So curious, they seemed.
Lily added some jam to her toast and took a bite then swallowed and said, "You guys are making me feel like you know something I don't." she said and nodded slightly, raising an eyebrow. What were they hiding? "Please tell me!"
All the people who formed the plan glanced at each other nervously, and then looked away.
"There's nothing.." Jen said and shrugged.
"Nothing." Remus repeated and nodded, looking away and feeling slightly uncomfortable. He had a huge feeling that something was going to turn out wrong, and he really did not want that to happen between all his friends. He really didn't. Besides, this was made off good spirit, not bad. He sighed slightly and looked at all of his friends again. "Don't worry you guys, we wouldn't hide anything from you if it was that serious anyway." He said reassuringly.
"Right," James said, raising an eyebrow. Lily rolled her eyes and Kathy smiled nervously.
Peter looked nervous.
Sirius started eating the mountain of food on his plate and noticed everyone looking at him "what?" he said and they all shook their heads exasperatedly. He was never going to learn.
James blinked and ate some of his food then pushed his plate away looking tired.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked, turning towards him. James didn't usually look tired in the morning, rather excited normally, since he always had a lot planned ahead of him for the day.
"I'm just tired.." he yawned, running a hand through his messy hair.
She grinned, "okay then, keep in mind never to do History of Magic homework at night," she joked slightly, and he laughed.
Jen laughs, "Its true yeh know!" she said. She always did History of Magic homework at night and ended up falling right asleep. It was weird, really. The topic bored the pants off her, and most of all, she fell asleep in all the classes, and she had the most weird dreams in his class anyway, another reason to dislike it. You were supposed to have good dreams when there was a class that gave you enough time to catch up on your sleep.
Sirius nodded in agreement as his mouth was stuffed with food.
Remus shook his head and Kathy laughed slightly and put another bite of food in her mouth, glancing around the Great Hall and noticing that it was quieter than usual today.
Lily, Kathy and James stood up, "Were done, you guys, we'll be waiting for you at the gate." Kathy said.
They all nodded and followed them out after a few minutes.
"You got the Veriteserum Remus?" Jen asked Remus in a low voice as they walked out of the Great Hall.
"Yup." He said, reaching inside his robe pocket and pulling it out, wiggling it slightly jokingly and putting it back in his pocket.
Jen laughed, "Oh this is going to be one long day!" she said.
And they all head off to Hogsmeade after Filch ticked their names off a list.
Little did they know the problems that would be occurring.
