° - Flashbacks and Boredom - °
Jen froze as she heard the scream which was scarily like Kathy's scream and her eyes got wide. She dropped the fork she was holding and ran out of the Great Hall as fast as she could, 'Oh I hope she's ok!' she thought getting a sick feeling.
"Kathy?!" She yelled loudly and turned, then ran to the stairs of the Entrance Halls and looked around wildly. A figure sitting at the bottom of the steps caught her eye; there was Kathy. She was sitting on the ground, positively fuming.
"Kathy!" Jen exclaimed, thundered down the stairs and hugged Kathy so tight she couldn't even breathe.
"Jen!" she chocked out. "Lemme go, Jen..."
"Oh, sorry." She said and let go. "What happened to you? Are you ok? Should someone go get Madam Pomfrey?" she said and looked at Kathy quickly to see if anything happened to her.
"Peeves." She mumbled and looked even angrier, "Bloody Peeves."
"What?" Jen said dumbly, brushing aside her hair and frowning slightly. "What's Peeves go to do with you screaming.and what are you doing at the bottom of the steps?"
"Peeves." Kathy repeated. "He pushed me down the last 5 steps of the stairs. Idiot..."
Jen sighed with relief and laughed slightly, "Oh if that's what happened."
"IT'S NOT FUNNY!" Kathy yelled.
This made Jen laugh even harder, "Yes it is!" she managed to say. "It's just Peeves, Kath! Damn you, I thought something serious had happened to you!"
"I heard my name!" Sirius said and grinned, appearing at the top of the stairs with Peter and Remus.
"We weren't talking about you," Kathy informed him and frowned, looking very angry still.
"Peeves pushed her down the last 5 steps of the stairs." Jen said and started laughing again.
Remus frowned, "Idiot."
Peter and Sirius were laughing.
"It's not funny!" Kathy said and stood up, snatching her bag up with her.
"Oh, shoot, we're late for Divination!" Remus said and took off down the hall, followed by the others.
[Divination]
Remus, Sirius, Jen, Kathy and Peter stumbled into the Divination class, all panting slightly, and took their usual seats. Kathy and Jen sat at a table with Lily, and the Marauders sat together. Lily and James shot their friends quizzical looks.
"Peeves pushed Kathy down the stairs, she screamed, I found her and I laughed after she told me what happened. And she's still mad." Jen whispered to Lily.
Lily grinned, "Don't worry. She's Kathy, she'll be in her cheerful mode in a few minutes."
And she was right.
"Okay, Lily, tell me what you see," Jen said and grinned, glancing at the crystal ball in front of her.
"Err...uh.I see a hooded man..." she said a bit uncomfortably. "And a little baby...and me..." she said, looking into the crystal ball, which showed a hooded man, herself, and she was holding a little, black-haired little boy in her arms. She was panicking.
"Riiiight...how'd you come up with this one, Lily?" Kathy mused.
"No, no...I see that..." Lily said and looked rather upset.
"What's wrong with you?" Jen asked and peered at the crystal ball.
"It's just that...I look older...and panicked..." Lily said, then shook her head as the images disappeared from the crystal ball. "I...never mind..." she said. She didn't feel like discussing this with her friends and was relieved when the bell rang.
"Finally!" Jen said as she reached the bottom of the stepladder where Lily and Kathy were waiting for her.
"Yep, lets go to Care of Magical Creatures, we don't want to be late." Lily frowned and started dragging her friends down North Tower all the way outside to where they were taking the class. Professor Kettleburn and the Slytherins were waiting for the Gryffindors there.
"Oh no..." Kathy muttered to Jen and Lily, nudging both of them and glancing over at two groups of people.
Lily looked up and over at the people Kathy was motioning to. It was a group of Slytherins, a slender blonde girl she thought, but wasn't sure, was Narcissa Black, a boy with silver blond hair, Lucius Malfoy; there was Severus Snape with them and two boys she didn't know. The blonde girl, Narcissa, seemed to be telling the others not to cause any trouble by the look on her face.
The other group was the Marauders.
"Oh no." Lily said and walked over to the Marauders, James and Sirius mainly. "Don't start." She said in a low voice.
"We weren't going to," James protested. Sirius nodded and gave her the most innocent smile he had.
"Right." Lily said and glared from one to another suspiciously. "Professor Kettleburn said what we're taking this lesson is bound to come in our N.E.W.T.'s, so don't mess this up," she said, and stalked back to her friends.
Sirius shook his head and James stared at her dreamily before his friends dragged him over to where Professor. K (A/N: I'M LAZY! Leave me alone ._.) and everyone else was gathered around some creatures, which resembled a cross between a monkey and a frog. They had a wide, grinning mouth and short horns, long arms, webbed hands and feet with a large pustule on their forehead.
"Good afternoon, class," the teacher said in a loud voice. "Today we will be learning about Clabberts." He announced looking around at the class. (A/N: I did not make this thing up, I found it on a website...lol...) "Now, Clabberts are very rare creatures, there aren't many of them, and they are pretty hard to find, that's why there aren't many here today. So, Clabberts can sense the approach of danger, included Muggles, and you can tell when it has sensed danger because the large pustule on its forehead flashes red when it does. Clabberts move very gracefully, and they are quick, so they can go from place to place quickly without being heard or making any noises. They are also quite mischievous and the horns on their head CAN be poisonous," he said and then looked around at the alarmed faces of the class "Don't worry, the ones we've got here aren't poisonous! And after you've written down what I just said about them, I want all of you to try and pet them, and they don't let disloyal people pet them most of the time, so if they don't let you pet them, step back because they can attack."
Lily put down her quill, and stood up, walking over to the Clabberts nervously.
"Go on," the Professor said and smiled encouragingly at her.
Lily put a foot apart from her and one of them, and reached her hand out to one and pet its head. She smiled and got a little closer to examine them better.
Moments later the rest of the class had come to pet them.
Kathy squealed and jumped back as one of them moved forward.
"Oh get a grip Kathy," Jen said and frowned as she pet one of them. Kathy took little steps towards one and pet it twice, before Jen dragged her closer impatiently.
James stepped over to one and reached out for it, then pet it and smiled, then Sirius and Remus tried. When Peter came to try, the Clabbert looked angry and didn't let him. Peter looked nervous and quickly stepped back. Remus, Sirius and James all looked at him quizzically and he shrugged nervously.
"Oh well..." Sirius said and smiled. "We know you're not disloyal Pete."
"Yeah." James and Remus said. Peter smiled. (A/N:*goes mad* it took me a lot of nerves to put that! X_X)
Lucius Malfoy tried to touch one, and when it didn't let him, he kicked it.
The reaction from the Clabbert wasn't nice.
Lucius cried out in surprise as the Clabbert jumped at him and tried to hit him, but Professor K got the Clabbert off just in time.
"Mr. Malfoy, I said you were to step back, not kick the Clabbert!" the Professor said furiously as Narcissa helped Lucius stand up, she was slightly irked because the Clabbert had not let her pet it either. Severus was petting the Clabbert but stopped when it attacked Lucius. Sirius, Peter, and James were laughing hysterically at him as Remus was making more notes.
Lily saw them and rolled her eyes before turning back to Kathy and Jen, shaking her head slightly.
Jen punched Lily's arm lightly. "Lily, you have to admit it was funny. Lucius IS an idiot. And Kettleburn DID tell us to just step back." She said and frowned.
"Yes, but...never mind." she said.
"When are you going to give him a chance?" Kathy asked softly.
"I don't want to!" Lily said as she picked up her stuff and stomped into the castle as the Professor dismissed them.
James and Peter went into the castle before Remus and Sirius, who caught up with Jen and Kathy to talk about their plan.
"So it's tonight?" Sirius asked the others, looking at all of them as Remus checked to see if anyone was eavesdropping on them.
Jen frowned in thought. "No." she said.
"And why not?" Kathy said and Remus turned around.
"Because we have to double check and make sure everything works just as planned." Remus answered for Jen.
"But...ah...never mind." Sirius said. "So what time tomorrow then?" he asked and bent down to tie his shoelaces.
"Hmmm...say 11:30...?" Jen said.
"Right, no one will be out then." Kathy said and nodded.
"Agreed then, tomorrow at 11:30." Remus said and the others nodded.
"What are you telling Lily?" Sirius asked Jen and Kathy as they walked into the castle.
"That we fancied having a chat outside?" Kathy said lamely.
"No." Jen said. "That we want to show her something really important. And we have to act all serious about it."
"Yup, act all Sirius about it," Sirius said and snickered, and everyone rolled their eyes as they went their own way.
[After the last class of the day]
"Finally!" Jen said as the bell for the final class of the day rang. She gathered her things and ran out of the class, then waited for Lily and Kathy to come out. Kathy yawned slightly and nudged Lily to look at James who was staring at her. Again. Lily looked over and he turned away quickly, blushing.
"Potter is showing human emotions, its scary!" Lily whispered to her friends.
Kathy snorted with laughter at this, but Jen frowned. "Lily you're being thick. We KNOW, you like him, you admitted it!"
"I said I like him, but that doesn't mean I have to go out with him!" she said and blushed.
"Eh, she's blushing!" Kathy said and poked Lily, "You are in denial, dear"
"I am not!" Lily shot.
"You are too!" Jen said.
This went on all the way to the Gryffindor Common Room.
[Gryffindor Common Room - Saturday]
"I-AM-NOOOT!" Lily bellowed, and stomped over to her favorite couch by the fire.
Jen was howling with laughter, "Yes, you are, you are, you are!" she said in a singsong voice, she LOVED annoying Lily about James.
"Funny, Jen." Lily said, narrowing her eyes.
Kathy rolled her eyes and stood up "Well, I'm off to bed, Night." She yawned and started walking towards the girl's dorms lazily.
Jen now stopped laughing and had a serious expression on her face. "Lily, you can't do this to James, you know that?" she said and frowned, getting herself off the ground and onto the couch, still looking serious.
"Do what?" Lily asked, confused.
"Lily! You confessed that you liked him allot, and you're being mean to him! I don't think you are being fair at all for that matter!" Jen said.
There was silence before Lily sighed and said, "I...I just don't know, I mean I can't really just agree to go out with him. I just know that he wants to add a name to the list of girls he's snogged..." she turned away from Jen and stared into the fire, an odd look on her face.
"Its pretty obvious he won't do that, Lily." Said Sirius's voice from the portrait hole, and surprisingly, there was no James with him.
"You!" Lily said and jumped slightly. "For how long have you been standing there?" she demanded and glared at him.
He shrugged, "Not sure."
"Listen, I don't care if you run off and tell James what I just said, but if you do." she said and narrowed her eyes "Beware" she said in a dangerous voice and stomped into the girls dorms.
Jen and Sirius looked at each other, then shrugged.
"Well, that went well." Jen said. Sirius grinned, "Did you tell Lily about tomorrow night?"
Jen shook her head "No were going to tell her to meet us under that tree by the lake at the time we decided tomorrow. She might get suspicious if we tell her now." She said and shrugged. "Well, I mean, knowing Lily, it wouldn't take her lots to find out and all...AND Sirius, this is going to be your fault if anything goes wrong!" she added at the end.
"Why is it my fault Grisdale?!!" he said and frowned.
To make it even more annoying for him, she was laughing.
"Right, what's so funny?" he snapped.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing!" she said and ran into the girls dorms, still laughing.
"Girls..." Sirius grumbled "Evil beings..."
[In The Common Room The Next Morning]
Lily walked down from the girls dorms, and sat down on the armchair by the window, yawning loudly. It felt weird to be the first one in the common room in the morning because it was awfully quiet, unlike usually where there would be laughter, chatter and yells filling the quietness. And people filling the emptiness. She sighed lightly and smiled as she leaned back in the large, squashy armchair and raised both legs under her on the armchair. She fiddled with her hair for a while before she heard someone laugh in the corner of the common room, with a devilish look on his or her face.
"James?" she asked and blinked as she noticed a gleam from his glasses in the sun then stood up and walked over to him, "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing!" he said quickly and stuffed an old piece of parchment in his pocket.
"What is that?" she asked curiously and raised an eyebrow at James narrowing her eyes slightly holding his gaze so he couldn't lie to her.
"Nothing." He repeated and tried to look away from her eyes.
She took a step forward, still giving him that look. "I know it's SOMETHING."
He took a step back and noticed there was no more backing up, he was stuck on the wall with Lily standing so close it was scary, but she was so busy staring at his eyes suspiciously to notice this.
"HEY EVANS, PRONGS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" came a bark-like laugh and Sirius appeared in the common room. They turned their heads around to look at who was talking, well James already knew because of the laugh, but Lily wasn't sure.
"Nothing!" James said.
"Nothing!" Lily said and noticed how close she was standing to James and jumped back blushing slightly. "I was just trying to get James to show me this old piece of parchment he stuffed in his pocket as soon as I saw," she said and glared darkly at James.
Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Whatever."
James smiled nervously and slipped past her and over to Sirius "Padfoot, she wanted me to show her our map!" He whispered to him.
Sirius started to look nervous as well "Well, go put it in your trunk then!!" he whispered back impatiently.
"HELLO! IM STILL HERE!" Lily yelled and frowned angrily.
"Sorry," Sirius said and grinned.
"Hi everyone!" Kathy said cheerfully and walked into the common room.
"Hallo Kath." Lily said and smiled at one of her best friends, forgetting James and his map for a moment "Where's Jennifer?"
"ITS JEN! NOT JENNIFER!" came Jens grumpy, why-did-you-wake-me-up-now 'morning' voice as she stumbled down the stairs, her eyes still half closed. She walked into Lily then into Sirius before Kathy rolled her eyes and sighed, then grabbed her arm and made her stand up straight next to her.
"Don't walk." She said to Jen like she was talking to an idiot and frowned slightly the way her mother did when she was fussing over something.
"Kathy your mum does that a lot, you know." Jen said and grinned, trying to push Kathy off.
"Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go people!" Sirius said and frowned "Breakfast ain't gonna be here forever, you know."
"Git." Lily muttered and turned her head to see who had come out of their dorms. James, Peter and Remus were arguing on how to shut Sirius up about breakfast.
With that, they all moved out of the common room and started down the halls and the stairs, heading off to breakfast.
Jen froze as she heard the scream which was scarily like Kathy's scream and her eyes got wide. She dropped the fork she was holding and ran out of the Great Hall as fast as she could, 'Oh I hope she's ok!' she thought getting a sick feeling.
"Kathy?!" She yelled loudly and turned, then ran to the stairs of the Entrance Halls and looked around wildly. A figure sitting at the bottom of the steps caught her eye; there was Kathy. She was sitting on the ground, positively fuming.
"Kathy!" Jen exclaimed, thundered down the stairs and hugged Kathy so tight she couldn't even breathe.
"Jen!" she chocked out. "Lemme go, Jen..."
"Oh, sorry." She said and let go. "What happened to you? Are you ok? Should someone go get Madam Pomfrey?" she said and looked at Kathy quickly to see if anything happened to her.
"Peeves." She mumbled and looked even angrier, "Bloody Peeves."
"What?" Jen said dumbly, brushing aside her hair and frowning slightly. "What's Peeves go to do with you screaming.and what are you doing at the bottom of the steps?"
"Peeves." Kathy repeated. "He pushed me down the last 5 steps of the stairs. Idiot..."
Jen sighed with relief and laughed slightly, "Oh if that's what happened."
"IT'S NOT FUNNY!" Kathy yelled.
This made Jen laugh even harder, "Yes it is!" she managed to say. "It's just Peeves, Kath! Damn you, I thought something serious had happened to you!"
"I heard my name!" Sirius said and grinned, appearing at the top of the stairs with Peter and Remus.
"We weren't talking about you," Kathy informed him and frowned, looking very angry still.
"Peeves pushed her down the last 5 steps of the stairs." Jen said and started laughing again.
Remus frowned, "Idiot."
Peter and Sirius were laughing.
"It's not funny!" Kathy said and stood up, snatching her bag up with her.
"Oh, shoot, we're late for Divination!" Remus said and took off down the hall, followed by the others.
[Divination]
Remus, Sirius, Jen, Kathy and Peter stumbled into the Divination class, all panting slightly, and took their usual seats. Kathy and Jen sat at a table with Lily, and the Marauders sat together. Lily and James shot their friends quizzical looks.
"Peeves pushed Kathy down the stairs, she screamed, I found her and I laughed after she told me what happened. And she's still mad." Jen whispered to Lily.
Lily grinned, "Don't worry. She's Kathy, she'll be in her cheerful mode in a few minutes."
And she was right.
"Okay, Lily, tell me what you see," Jen said and grinned, glancing at the crystal ball in front of her.
"Err...uh.I see a hooded man..." she said a bit uncomfortably. "And a little baby...and me..." she said, looking into the crystal ball, which showed a hooded man, herself, and she was holding a little, black-haired little boy in her arms. She was panicking.
"Riiiight...how'd you come up with this one, Lily?" Kathy mused.
"No, no...I see that..." Lily said and looked rather upset.
"What's wrong with you?" Jen asked and peered at the crystal ball.
"It's just that...I look older...and panicked..." Lily said, then shook her head as the images disappeared from the crystal ball. "I...never mind..." she said. She didn't feel like discussing this with her friends and was relieved when the bell rang.
"Finally!" Jen said as she reached the bottom of the stepladder where Lily and Kathy were waiting for her.
"Yep, lets go to Care of Magical Creatures, we don't want to be late." Lily frowned and started dragging her friends down North Tower all the way outside to where they were taking the class. Professor Kettleburn and the Slytherins were waiting for the Gryffindors there.
"Oh no..." Kathy muttered to Jen and Lily, nudging both of them and glancing over at two groups of people.
Lily looked up and over at the people Kathy was motioning to. It was a group of Slytherins, a slender blonde girl she thought, but wasn't sure, was Narcissa Black, a boy with silver blond hair, Lucius Malfoy; there was Severus Snape with them and two boys she didn't know. The blonde girl, Narcissa, seemed to be telling the others not to cause any trouble by the look on her face.
The other group was the Marauders.
"Oh no." Lily said and walked over to the Marauders, James and Sirius mainly. "Don't start." She said in a low voice.
"We weren't going to," James protested. Sirius nodded and gave her the most innocent smile he had.
"Right." Lily said and glared from one to another suspiciously. "Professor Kettleburn said what we're taking this lesson is bound to come in our N.E.W.T.'s, so don't mess this up," she said, and stalked back to her friends.
Sirius shook his head and James stared at her dreamily before his friends dragged him over to where Professor. K (A/N: I'M LAZY! Leave me alone ._.) and everyone else was gathered around some creatures, which resembled a cross between a monkey and a frog. They had a wide, grinning mouth and short horns, long arms, webbed hands and feet with a large pustule on their forehead.
"Good afternoon, class," the teacher said in a loud voice. "Today we will be learning about Clabberts." He announced looking around at the class. (A/N: I did not make this thing up, I found it on a website...lol...) "Now, Clabberts are very rare creatures, there aren't many of them, and they are pretty hard to find, that's why there aren't many here today. So, Clabberts can sense the approach of danger, included Muggles, and you can tell when it has sensed danger because the large pustule on its forehead flashes red when it does. Clabberts move very gracefully, and they are quick, so they can go from place to place quickly without being heard or making any noises. They are also quite mischievous and the horns on their head CAN be poisonous," he said and then looked around at the alarmed faces of the class "Don't worry, the ones we've got here aren't poisonous! And after you've written down what I just said about them, I want all of you to try and pet them, and they don't let disloyal people pet them most of the time, so if they don't let you pet them, step back because they can attack."
Lily put down her quill, and stood up, walking over to the Clabberts nervously.
"Go on," the Professor said and smiled encouragingly at her.
Lily put a foot apart from her and one of them, and reached her hand out to one and pet its head. She smiled and got a little closer to examine them better.
Moments later the rest of the class had come to pet them.
Kathy squealed and jumped back as one of them moved forward.
"Oh get a grip Kathy," Jen said and frowned as she pet one of them. Kathy took little steps towards one and pet it twice, before Jen dragged her closer impatiently.
James stepped over to one and reached out for it, then pet it and smiled, then Sirius and Remus tried. When Peter came to try, the Clabbert looked angry and didn't let him. Peter looked nervous and quickly stepped back. Remus, Sirius and James all looked at him quizzically and he shrugged nervously.
"Oh well..." Sirius said and smiled. "We know you're not disloyal Pete."
"Yeah." James and Remus said. Peter smiled. (A/N:*goes mad* it took me a lot of nerves to put that! X_X)
Lucius Malfoy tried to touch one, and when it didn't let him, he kicked it.
The reaction from the Clabbert wasn't nice.
Lucius cried out in surprise as the Clabbert jumped at him and tried to hit him, but Professor K got the Clabbert off just in time.
"Mr. Malfoy, I said you were to step back, not kick the Clabbert!" the Professor said furiously as Narcissa helped Lucius stand up, she was slightly irked because the Clabbert had not let her pet it either. Severus was petting the Clabbert but stopped when it attacked Lucius. Sirius, Peter, and James were laughing hysterically at him as Remus was making more notes.
Lily saw them and rolled her eyes before turning back to Kathy and Jen, shaking her head slightly.
Jen punched Lily's arm lightly. "Lily, you have to admit it was funny. Lucius IS an idiot. And Kettleburn DID tell us to just step back." She said and frowned.
"Yes, but...never mind." she said.
"When are you going to give him a chance?" Kathy asked softly.
"I don't want to!" Lily said as she picked up her stuff and stomped into the castle as the Professor dismissed them.
James and Peter went into the castle before Remus and Sirius, who caught up with Jen and Kathy to talk about their plan.
"So it's tonight?" Sirius asked the others, looking at all of them as Remus checked to see if anyone was eavesdropping on them.
Jen frowned in thought. "No." she said.
"And why not?" Kathy said and Remus turned around.
"Because we have to double check and make sure everything works just as planned." Remus answered for Jen.
"But...ah...never mind." Sirius said. "So what time tomorrow then?" he asked and bent down to tie his shoelaces.
"Hmmm...say 11:30...?" Jen said.
"Right, no one will be out then." Kathy said and nodded.
"Agreed then, tomorrow at 11:30." Remus said and the others nodded.
"What are you telling Lily?" Sirius asked Jen and Kathy as they walked into the castle.
"That we fancied having a chat outside?" Kathy said lamely.
"No." Jen said. "That we want to show her something really important. And we have to act all serious about it."
"Yup, act all Sirius about it," Sirius said and snickered, and everyone rolled their eyes as they went their own way.
[After the last class of the day]
"Finally!" Jen said as the bell for the final class of the day rang. She gathered her things and ran out of the class, then waited for Lily and Kathy to come out. Kathy yawned slightly and nudged Lily to look at James who was staring at her. Again. Lily looked over and he turned away quickly, blushing.
"Potter is showing human emotions, its scary!" Lily whispered to her friends.
Kathy snorted with laughter at this, but Jen frowned. "Lily you're being thick. We KNOW, you like him, you admitted it!"
"I said I like him, but that doesn't mean I have to go out with him!" she said and blushed.
"Eh, she's blushing!" Kathy said and poked Lily, "You are in denial, dear"
"I am not!" Lily shot.
"You are too!" Jen said.
This went on all the way to the Gryffindor Common Room.
[Gryffindor Common Room - Saturday]
"I-AM-NOOOT!" Lily bellowed, and stomped over to her favorite couch by the fire.
Jen was howling with laughter, "Yes, you are, you are, you are!" she said in a singsong voice, she LOVED annoying Lily about James.
"Funny, Jen." Lily said, narrowing her eyes.
Kathy rolled her eyes and stood up "Well, I'm off to bed, Night." She yawned and started walking towards the girl's dorms lazily.
Jen now stopped laughing and had a serious expression on her face. "Lily, you can't do this to James, you know that?" she said and frowned, getting herself off the ground and onto the couch, still looking serious.
"Do what?" Lily asked, confused.
"Lily! You confessed that you liked him allot, and you're being mean to him! I don't think you are being fair at all for that matter!" Jen said.
There was silence before Lily sighed and said, "I...I just don't know, I mean I can't really just agree to go out with him. I just know that he wants to add a name to the list of girls he's snogged..." she turned away from Jen and stared into the fire, an odd look on her face.
"Its pretty obvious he won't do that, Lily." Said Sirius's voice from the portrait hole, and surprisingly, there was no James with him.
"You!" Lily said and jumped slightly. "For how long have you been standing there?" she demanded and glared at him.
He shrugged, "Not sure."
"Listen, I don't care if you run off and tell James what I just said, but if you do." she said and narrowed her eyes "Beware" she said in a dangerous voice and stomped into the girls dorms.
Jen and Sirius looked at each other, then shrugged.
"Well, that went well." Jen said. Sirius grinned, "Did you tell Lily about tomorrow night?"
Jen shook her head "No were going to tell her to meet us under that tree by the lake at the time we decided tomorrow. She might get suspicious if we tell her now." She said and shrugged. "Well, I mean, knowing Lily, it wouldn't take her lots to find out and all...AND Sirius, this is going to be your fault if anything goes wrong!" she added at the end.
"Why is it my fault Grisdale?!!" he said and frowned.
To make it even more annoying for him, she was laughing.
"Right, what's so funny?" he snapped.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing!" she said and ran into the girls dorms, still laughing.
"Girls..." Sirius grumbled "Evil beings..."
[In The Common Room The Next Morning]
Lily walked down from the girls dorms, and sat down on the armchair by the window, yawning loudly. It felt weird to be the first one in the common room in the morning because it was awfully quiet, unlike usually where there would be laughter, chatter and yells filling the quietness. And people filling the emptiness. She sighed lightly and smiled as she leaned back in the large, squashy armchair and raised both legs under her on the armchair. She fiddled with her hair for a while before she heard someone laugh in the corner of the common room, with a devilish look on his or her face.
"James?" she asked and blinked as she noticed a gleam from his glasses in the sun then stood up and walked over to him, "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing!" he said quickly and stuffed an old piece of parchment in his pocket.
"What is that?" she asked curiously and raised an eyebrow at James narrowing her eyes slightly holding his gaze so he couldn't lie to her.
"Nothing." He repeated and tried to look away from her eyes.
She took a step forward, still giving him that look. "I know it's SOMETHING."
He took a step back and noticed there was no more backing up, he was stuck on the wall with Lily standing so close it was scary, but she was so busy staring at his eyes suspiciously to notice this.
"HEY EVANS, PRONGS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" came a bark-like laugh and Sirius appeared in the common room. They turned their heads around to look at who was talking, well James already knew because of the laugh, but Lily wasn't sure.
"Nothing!" James said.
"Nothing!" Lily said and noticed how close she was standing to James and jumped back blushing slightly. "I was just trying to get James to show me this old piece of parchment he stuffed in his pocket as soon as I saw," she said and glared darkly at James.
Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Whatever."
James smiled nervously and slipped past her and over to Sirius "Padfoot, she wanted me to show her our map!" He whispered to him.
Sirius started to look nervous as well "Well, go put it in your trunk then!!" he whispered back impatiently.
"HELLO! IM STILL HERE!" Lily yelled and frowned angrily.
"Sorry," Sirius said and grinned.
"Hi everyone!" Kathy said cheerfully and walked into the common room.
"Hallo Kath." Lily said and smiled at one of her best friends, forgetting James and his map for a moment "Where's Jennifer?"
"ITS JEN! NOT JENNIFER!" came Jens grumpy, why-did-you-wake-me-up-now 'morning' voice as she stumbled down the stairs, her eyes still half closed. She walked into Lily then into Sirius before Kathy rolled her eyes and sighed, then grabbed her arm and made her stand up straight next to her.
"Don't walk." She said to Jen like she was talking to an idiot and frowned slightly the way her mother did when she was fussing over something.
"Kathy your mum does that a lot, you know." Jen said and grinned, trying to push Kathy off.
"Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go people!" Sirius said and frowned "Breakfast ain't gonna be here forever, you know."
"Git." Lily muttered and turned her head to see who had come out of their dorms. James, Peter and Remus were arguing on how to shut Sirius up about breakfast.
With that, they all moved out of the common room and started down the halls and the stairs, heading off to breakfast.