Disclaimer: Oh the shame, I don't own any of this! I'm just an obsessed
fan! SUE ME! Wait, on contraire, don't. (Don't ask where that came from)
I just took a look at my last chapter and realized there where no spaces. Disgusting. I must have done something wrong. I might interrupt you in the middle of the story for something. I might not. I haven't decided yet.
LunaMoon7- Wow, that is a lot like mine 0__0. Well I really have nothing wrong with it as long as you don't start using my plot and ideas and stuff. And if you could (you don't have to) the title is also a lot like mine... so err... maybe possibly you could make it a tiny bit different? Sorry and thanks!
BTW, I'm going to change something. I'm going to change their year. It'll now be sixteen, because i've been realizing the kind of "love" James will have is not thirteen-year-old feelings. Please let me know if I miss a chapter in which I say they're in third year.
And, I've just realized something. I've changed os much since I started this story! Even my musical preferences have changed. Im addicted to AFI now, and Simple Plan is just okay now. Well, on with the story! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***STREETS OF HOGSMADE***
"Ok, everyone, hurry! We're five damn minutes behind schedule! We're supposed to be at The Three Broomsticks! MOVE IT!" Ara ordered her friends forward. They were all rolling their eyes at her, she was being stupid. Ara was being like one of those obsessed army soldiers.
"Its just five minutes!" Remus reminded her.
"Yeah, i know, but that makes us five minutes late for everything else!" Ara explained, with rational movements of her hands.
"I see." Remus nodded, not quite getting it.
This is what their formation sort of looked like:
ARA LILY JEN JAMES SIRIUS REMUS
PETER
"Ohm, sure. Oh here we are!" Ara said as the seven appeared at The Three Broomsticks. She swung the glass doors open vigorously and didn't wait for everyone else to go in to find a table.
"Uh, Ara, can we please sit in the non-smoking section this time? I threw up last time..." Peter asked quietly.
Ara was taken by surprise he said something, but recovered quickly and said "Sure thing. We should get a table by the corner so no one will know what we're doing! It can be like a secret headquarters!" This look came into her eyes, which was sort of like Sirius' when he got a "brilliant plan!" in his head. But that usually involved dancing the Macarena banana dresses.
"Ara, but we're not planning anything." James reasoned.
Ara frowned, looking defeated. "I know. But we can still pretend!"
So, moving on from the pointless conversation: The group eventually found a table near the restrooms. It was a little booth, so they where slightly squished when they sat down. The formation was:
SIRIUS-ARA-LILY-PETER
TABLE JEN-REMUS-JAMES
"Sirius, get your hands out from under my ass." Ara said through gritted teeth. However Lily could see a slight smile at her friend's lips.
"Oh Sirius! I never knew you had feelings for Miss. Ara here!" Lily wiggled her eyebrows.
"I knew he did. Sirius mumbles 'Oh Ara!' In his sleep all the time. He never shuts up." Informed Remus with a roll of his eyes.
"It's true! Then, he hugs Mr. Boo-Boo even tighter." James added smugly.
Sirius stood up quickly and slammed his fist against the red wooden table. "MR.BOO-BOO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!"
"You sleep with a MISTER Boo-Boo? God Sirius, I never knew you where like that!" Jen teased, throwing her napkin at him, who in turn was dumbstruck.
"Huh?" Everyone laughed.
"Hey... wait a minute! That wasn't nice!" Sirius pouted, just noticing what Jen said.
"There's something you and Jen have in common. Slow brains." Lily laughed, as the two blushed. She immediately knew it was the wrong thing when Ara coughed loudly.
Changing the subject, she said, "Anyway, here is our schedule:
8:00 AM, which is now, we go to The Three Broomsticks.
8:10 AM we have breakfast
8:45 AM we head out and go to a few shops in South Hogsmade.
9:45 AM take a break at The Groovy Goblin, a new quote-un-quote Hang Out.
10 AM go to Zonkos
11 AM, yes Zonkos has an hour, we go to North Hogsmade
11:30 AM We have lunch at wherever strikes us
12:30 PM we eat dessert at a new ice cream parlor
1:00 PM we go back to The Three Broomsticks to do whatever
2:00 PM we do nothing for an hour
3:00 PM we go to the magic show
4:00 PM we will split up and go wherever we feel like
6:00 PM we meet up again and again go to The Three Broomsticks for dinner
7:00 PM we split up again
8:00 PM whoever wants to go back will go back." Ara read this off a tiny little paper.
"Can you repeat that?" Sirius scratched his chin.
Ignoring Sirius' request, Ara continued, "Do you think that's to much? Because if it is i could change it. Do you think I should?"
"Well, I think it is a little to much." Lily admitted, shrugging. "But it does sound good."
"We can cancel our to The Groovy Goblin..." Ara said disappointingly (however you spell that).
"NO! If it makes you happy we'll go!" Sirius said softly, glaring at Lily.
"Shut up. We'll go if we feel like it." Lily finalized the plan as she signaled over a waitress. A skimpy lady around 20 or so walked over to the table shaking her hips dramatically, making guys stare from a mile around. She seductively leaned on the table and asked Sirius in a sweet voice,
"Welcome to The Three Broomsticks, may I take your order?" She then licked her lips. It was funny to see everyone's reactions. Sirius' mouth was dropped low and his eyes were wide with excitement. Ara's head was constantly turning, taking turns glaring at the waitress and at Sirius. James and Remus had a dreamy smile on.
Lily however took action. "Hi -cough-SLUT-cough-, how are you today?" She said it audibly, so the shocked waitress stood up quickly and straightened her tight white dress. "Umm.. I didn't want to be the one to tell you this, but I think your dress shrunk in the drier. It's really ugly. Go change." Lily shoed her away. Jen stared at Lily in shock as the waitress hurried away, stomping her feet, outraged.
"Don't you think that was a little HARSH?" Jen asked skeptically.
"Don't you think she was a little SKIMPY?" Ara defended Lily. "She deserved that!"
"No she didn't! She was SO ho-" then he remembered Ara was right next to him, "She was hoe-y!" He tried to look serious but failed.
"Shut up Sirius you're embarrassing yourself." Remus gave him a slight shove.
"Hey, Madam Posmer! We want food!"
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CAUTION: GROSSNESS "Wow, these look good." Remus drooled down at his pancakes.
"I know!" Lily was rubbing her hands together viciously.
"These smell like ass." Sirius said after bending down to smell it. Everyone looked at him funny.
"WHAT? It DOES!" Sirius cried outraged, trying to defend himself.
"Sirius, how do you know what ass smells like?" Ara asked, knowing the answer but liking to put him on a difficult spot.
"Well, admit it. We all know what it smells like..." Sirius explained carefully.
"We do? I don't, explain it to me. I've always wanted to know." Jen pushed him further, leaning on the table and pretending to look interested and serious.
"Hmm. It smells like baby. But sweeter. Maybe like a banana. It's like when people fart. You want to smell it but you don't. It just has this ass-y smell to it-"
Lily burst out laughing and could not contain herself. She banged her head on the table in attempt to stop it. Soon, everyone was joining in. Passersby were scared. The waitress was amused. In attempt to calm herself down, she began to take deep breaths.
James, too, bent down to smell the pancakes. "Hey! Sirius is right! They DO smell like ass! You think the chefs are naked in there?" James asked eagerly.
"Oh eww James! That's sick! Plus, these do not smell like ass!" Lily lowered her face to the pancakes (which had whipped cream on top) to smell.
James could not resist what he did next. It was to perfect. She was perfect. But that had nothing to do with it. He was grinning inside, and practically jumping inside. His body was over-exaggerating. Quickly, he lifted his hand over her bent-over head and pushed it down into the whipped cream pancake. With a splat, whipped cream flew all over.
She just sat there. You couldn't see her face. Angry, mad, crying? The table was silent and they were either staring at James in a shocked expression, or covering their ears to drown out the sounds that were about to explode from Lily's mouth.
James was beginning to regret what he had done. Maybe he shouldn't have done that... That was until she slowly lifted her head up from the pancakes to see a huge smile on her face.
"What the hell..." Remus muttered in shock. Lils. Smiling. After. Head. Crushed. In. Pancakes. He repeated that in his mind. It didn't fit.
"James you prick!" Lily joked and knocked James on the head, which was still shocked.
He smiled. She was so cute. James' stomach fluttered as he saw her nose with the tiniest bit of whipped cream on the end and all over her lips. He was dieing to kiss her. Even on the cheek, whatever.
Instead, he did something else. "You have some whipped cream on your nose." He slowly brought his hand forward and whipped the cream of her nose gently, and her smile widened. She might have bursted.
"coughFLIRTcough." Jen said quickly. Lily glared at her friend.
"Yeah, James, honestly, stops flirting with Lils." Remus rolled his eyes at James' shocked/mad/embarrassed expression.
"He's just kidding." Jen said absently. "And if we're done with our Pancake Ass conversation, can we please go? I've sort of lost my appetite now." Jen glared at James, who didn't notice.
"Uh, yeah, sure." James muttered, still staring at Lily.
It was horrible. She was like having money in your hand but not being able to spend it. A room of chocolate but not being able to eat it. Music without being able to listen to it. She was so close to him but he couldn't reach for her no matter how hard he tried. They were friends. A term he was afraid he would have to live with forever. Whenever he hugged her he felt like he needed this to survive. An addiction that he could not get over.
"James, are you coming?" Lily called, and snapped him back into reality.
"In a second Lils."
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(AN: its December, so they're Christmas Shopping. If it doesn't make sense, pretend)
"Hey Siri, do you think Remi would like this?" Lily asked Sirius who was next to her. Sirius turned his head to look at what she was holding. It was a glass sculpture of a wolf. But like most magical sculptures, it moved.
"Wow Lils! That is so cool!" Sirius was amused. He kept poking the wolf.
"Do you think Remi would like it?" Lily repeated.
"Defiantly..." Sirius was now poking in a steady pattern.
"It is cool." Lily nodded as she put it back down on the counter.
"So are you going to buy it?" Sirius asked.
"Probably. I'm just going to go around and check what else there is." She explained. She stopped at the look on his face. "Hey, whets wrong?"
Sirius shook his head. This was the serious (ignore that) side of him that no one saw, only his friends. "I want to get Ara something." He said shortly.
"Good, she'd be mad if you didn't." They started to walk down the isles of the old fashioned shop they were in.
Sirius glared slightly at her. "You know what I mean."
"Yeah." She sighed and stopped, waiting for Sirius to catch up with her. "But she would really like something...special. I don't know what though. I give her stuff as a friend but you..." She trailed off knowingly.
"Hey! I never said that!" Sirius protested half-heartedly.
"But you meant it." She stated.
Sirius shrugged and put his hand in his pocket. "Ok so maybe I did. That's beside the point. What should I get her?"
Lily thought for a moment. "Well, she likes stones."
"Stones?" He raised an eyebrow.
"You know, gems and stuff like that."
"Diamonds?" Sirius asked, wide eyed. That really didn't sound like an Ara thing.
"No, not diamonds. She likes Jade, that's it!" Lily called out, remembering the specific name.
"Oh..." Sirius looked confused. "Alright then."
"Lily!" Jen's voice lapsed over the silence that had been laid before them.
"Well, I'll see you. Good luck." Lily touched his shoulder reassuringly before spinning around and going back up the isle.
"OK..." Sirius mumbled.
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"Hey!" Lily smiled to her friend.
"Finally!" Jen cried and ran up to her.
"What's the rush?" Lily asked, confused.
"Well I don't know what to get everyone!" Jen stated as if it was the end of the world.
"Oh! Is that what it was? That's not so bad. Well, give me a name and I'll tell you some suggestions." Lily agreed to help, and they sat down on an antique sofa, which was for sale.
"Well I know what I'm going to get you and Ara, so how about Remus?"
"You can always get him books. He likes wolf things, just nothing that has to do with the moon. Remi also likes anything that has to do with deep thought and things like that. A pensive would be nice."
"Ok, what about James?"
"Quiditch and pranks." Lily said automatically.
"I should have known that! Ok, how about Sirius."
"Pranks and girls. But don't give him a girl for Christmas!" Lily quickly added. However, she could imagine Sirius' happy face when he opened THAT present.
Jen sat back on the sofa. "Ok thanks for your help. This is going to be a great Christmas!"
"I agree." Lily sighed.
Then, Lily and Jen spun around as they heard the door slam open to the side of them. From behind the door walked out an old Chinese man with a cane and large glasses. He was bending over and slightly crippled.
"You! You! Get off my couch!" He poked the girls with his walking stick, with an accent that was not Chinese or English. They, out of shock, stood up. "You off my couch now or me'll have to shoot you! Argh! ARGH!" He started making funny noises as he swept his cane over his head
"UH...alrighty then." Jen and Lily tried to keep their laughter in as they slowly walked away from the old raving man.
"MY COUCH! MYYYY COUCH!" He yelled and flung his arms protectively around the couch.
"Jen, what the hell was that?" Lily whispered quietly.
Jen was trying to muffle her laughter, "That's what I think Sirius will be like when he's old."
Lily let out a loud laugh and then quickly covered her mouth. "I can see that perfectly."
Then, about maybe fifteen minutes later, they had their Christmas shopping done. Yup, they where quick shoppers. They gathered outside the front door as Ara checked her schedule.
"Ok, next is the Groovy Goblin." She said, with quotes in her hands.
The Marauders where thinking about all the hot girls dancing, while the girls where thinking about how.special it would be.
And with that, our heroes set off on a large journey across the town of Hogsmade. They stopped once at the little boys room because Sirius had to piss, and they stopped another time at a place where they could drop off their bags. And, in about fifteen minutes, they where at the Groovy Goblin.
Ara looked around with weary eyes. Everything was so.flashy and bright. She felt as though she was staring at the sun. Lily and Jen, too, she noticed, were squinting their eyes.
"Hey, you girls go find a table, we'll be back in a second!" Sirius called out to Lily, who reluctantly nodded and told her friends.
"Ha. He is not going to be back in a second." Jen mumbled.
"Nope, when it comes to girls he's a man whore." Ara agreed as they found a nice table They all sat on the chairs and just looked around.
Everywhere, people where dancing. Most of the people where freak dancing (they spotted Snape trying to freak dance), which made them a little uncomfortable. They scooted their chairs closer to each other.
The DJ was playing some techno music, and it appeared, he too, was drunk. There also appeared to be a game of strip poker going on someplace. Oh, and the place smelled like stale cat breath. But then again, if you where drunk it didn't really matter, did it? Lily and Jen and Ara observed their surroundings with an amused but scared look on their face.
"Groovy!" Sirius winked to a 'hot' girl.
"Groovy, Groovy!" He said to another girl. He was just strutting around attempting to dance while saying 'Groovy'. Remus, to everyone's surprise, was actually talking to some sweet girl.
"I thought he fancied Jen." Sirius said to himself, right before a skinny Hufflepuff in seventh year tapped him on his shoulder and giggled as he began to 'talk' with her.
James surveyed the scene. It was something alright. His mind wandered off to his normal topic, Lily. What was she doing right now? Probably dancing with somebody, he thought urgently. His curiosity got the best of him as he pushed through the drunk crowd over to the table he had seen Lily go to.
"Lils, do you want to stay here while Jen and I go find the guys?" Ara asked Lily after ten minutes had passed.
Lily nodded eagerly, and sat stuck to her chair as she watched Jen and Ara travel through the crowd like a train going nowhere. She sipped her Butterbeer slowly, her eyes darting around the room. She began to tap her feet on the ground nervously. Then, she felt some cold hands grab her shoulder demandingly. She spun around and saw Amos Diggory, from her school. By the look on his face, he was so very obviously tipsy.
"Hey there Evans." He cooed, his putrid breath attacking Lily's nose.
"What'd you want?" Lily spat and slapped his hand off her shoulder.
"Oh, nothing." He lied, putting his hand on her shoulder again. This time, Lily pushed him hard, and he fell onto the ground, making a few people fall around them as well. That doesn't matter when you're drunk!
"Aww, is that the way to show me a little love?" He asked innocently, looming over her.
"Shut up!" Lily mumbled in anger. Amos began to touch her hair, and Lily flinched and kept smacking him away.
"Stop it!" Lily hissed.
"You know you love me." Amos whispered in her ear, who turned red in frustration.
Lily, now furious, slammed her hands on the table and stood up. "Bastard!" She called.
"Where you going?" Diggory called after her. Lily flipped the bird as she stomped through the crowd, swung open the double doors and into the fresh day.
She peered through the doors and could see Diggory still, luckily he couldn't see her.
"I'll just wait for them outside." Lily said to herself. That place wasn't really her thing. She stood patiently against the wall and waited silently for one of her friends to come out.
James, who wasn't far behind her, caught her just in time to see her stomp angrily out of the place. He dropped his Butterbeer on the table and ran through the crowd to catch up with Lily.
"Lils!" He called, but she didn't hear. So, he hurried up, accidentally pushing some girl he recognized faintly as a past girlfriend. When he finally got to her, outside, he touched her shoulder to get his attention.
Thinking it was Diggory, Lily whipped around and smacked James right in the face. James, surprised, touched his red cheek.
Lily gasped and her eyes grew wide, "Holy shit on a stick, James! I'm so sorry! I- I thought you where someone else!" James chuckled nervously.
"It's okay." He said reluctantly.
"I'm SO sorry." Lily said again as she rubbed her hand on his cheek, as if to make the redness it go away.
James' cheek tingled slightly when she touched him, and his eyes quickly darted to her hand. The felt the all-to-familiar flip-flop of the stomach.
"Really, its okay." James assured her, but what he REALLY wanted to say was 'Touch my cheek again.' Oh, yeah, he could see that now.
"Alright. Come on, lets go sit on a bench and wait for everyone else." Lily grabbed his hand and dragged him over to a chair, and sat him down as if he was a toddler.
"So, what made you leave, anyway?" James asked curiously.
"Well," she rested her head on her knees, "a drunk person was flirting excessively with me. It was just disturbing. And the place smelled!" Lily scrunched up her nose.
"Ah." James nodded and put his arm around her. Of coarse, to her it was in a friendly matter. James just wanted to have her close.
Lily smiled up at him and then leaned her head on his shoulders. Right now, James might have bursted from spontaneous combustion. The only thing that stopped him is that he couldn't have his arm around Lily when he was chopped into 100 million pieces.
James was warm, he was always warm. Lily knew this after hugging him a bunch of times. Passersbies would have thought they where a couple, but if you knew Lily you knew she was very close to people. She liked giving hugs. What you would also notice if you knew Lily was that she hugged James a lot. They got so close and almost flirty that you would think they where a couple. It's not like Lily had ever sat down and thought about how she felt for James. Maybe if she had she would have realized the bit of more-than- friends-I-think-I-really-like-you feelings for him. BUT, that doesn't matter right now. Anyway, moving on.
"There you are!" Remus cried as the remaining four burst out of the doors and met up with them.
"Gees guys! If you wanted some lovey-dovey alone time, you could have TOLD us!" Sirius complained, crossing his arms. Everyone laughed silently.
James blushed, but Lily simply said, "Sirius, if you want some lovey-dovey alone time with your head up your ass, I'll be happy to give it to you."
Sirius mock-glared at her. Lily broke into a grin, "Kidding."
"Anyway, since that was cut," Jen checked her watch, "we should head out to Zonkos, you know, just to get there on time."
"Great idea Jen!" Ara said enthusiastically. "We'll get there in about seven minutes, which lets us spend three extra minutes shopping, which will make us on time for our next activity! COME ON! LETS GO!" Ara yanked Lily off her bench and dragged her onward. Everyone groaned but followed anyway.
(A/N: Ok, im not going to go into detail about everything they did)
Zonkos was very exhilarating. Jen bought a few prank books, as did Ara. Lily bought a load of prank-candies as well as some Dungbombs. Sirius bought a lot of everything, and James bought some very useful and expensive items that would come in overly-hand in the Marauders mischief making. Remus stacked up on the classical pranks. And of coarse, Sirius accidentally blew up a whole rack of Fireworks. They left the store with their arms full, and had to drop off their bags again.
North Hogsmade was newer than the rest of Hogsmade (so really it wasn't that new). Sirius dragged them into a Lady's panty store 'Pinky Swear' to look at all the hot clerks. Of coarse, he was soon smacked on the head with a bra after flirting with one of the cashiers. He then left. They went into a few interesting shops, just checking things out, not really buying anything.
They had lunch at a Pizza Parlor, the food there was delicious! They ended up eating about three pizzas. And of coarse, they where all amused with the stringy cheese. (Ara and Jen ended up splitting the last piece). They traveled over to the ice-cream parlor to have dessert. They all ordered double-scoops (except for Peter, who had four). Lily got hungry and took a few bites out of James'. Most of the time they had fun telling jokes and laughing so hard they got strange looks from people walking in.
As they entered The Three Broomsticks, Lily suddenly remembered the promise James had made to her.
"James," Lily said slowly.
"Uh?" James turned his head to her.
"Do you remember the promise you made me?"
"Uhh.." Oh, yes, now he remembered, "shit."
Lily grinned, "I suggest we go back now and you get me my ice-creams, or I'll tear you apart." She flailed her arms wildly in the air as they sat down at a round table.
"So, are you two going to go get Lily her ice-cream and then come back over here?" Remus asked.
James looked at Lily, who nodded excitedly.
Everyone but James grinned.
"Alone?" Jen wiggled her eyebrows.
"Unless one of you wants to come!" Lily shrugged.
"I D-" Sirius started, but was cut off by Remus' hand.
"You'll be going alone then." Ara smiled sweetly.
Sirius grunted in dismay.
"Come on Jamsie, I WANT MY F'IN ICECREAMS!" Lily mock-whined.
"Going, going!" James muttered as he was quickly yanked away by the sugar- driven girl.
I just took a look at my last chapter and realized there where no spaces. Disgusting. I must have done something wrong. I might interrupt you in the middle of the story for something. I might not. I haven't decided yet.
LunaMoon7- Wow, that is a lot like mine 0__0. Well I really have nothing wrong with it as long as you don't start using my plot and ideas and stuff. And if you could (you don't have to) the title is also a lot like mine... so err... maybe possibly you could make it a tiny bit different? Sorry and thanks!
BTW, I'm going to change something. I'm going to change their year. It'll now be sixteen, because i've been realizing the kind of "love" James will have is not thirteen-year-old feelings. Please let me know if I miss a chapter in which I say they're in third year.
And, I've just realized something. I've changed os much since I started this story! Even my musical preferences have changed. Im addicted to AFI now, and Simple Plan is just okay now. Well, on with the story! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***STREETS OF HOGSMADE***
"Ok, everyone, hurry! We're five damn minutes behind schedule! We're supposed to be at The Three Broomsticks! MOVE IT!" Ara ordered her friends forward. They were all rolling their eyes at her, she was being stupid. Ara was being like one of those obsessed army soldiers.
"Its just five minutes!" Remus reminded her.
"Yeah, i know, but that makes us five minutes late for everything else!" Ara explained, with rational movements of her hands.
"I see." Remus nodded, not quite getting it.
This is what their formation sort of looked like:
ARA LILY JEN JAMES SIRIUS REMUS
PETER
"Ohm, sure. Oh here we are!" Ara said as the seven appeared at The Three Broomsticks. She swung the glass doors open vigorously and didn't wait for everyone else to go in to find a table.
"Uh, Ara, can we please sit in the non-smoking section this time? I threw up last time..." Peter asked quietly.
Ara was taken by surprise he said something, but recovered quickly and said "Sure thing. We should get a table by the corner so no one will know what we're doing! It can be like a secret headquarters!" This look came into her eyes, which was sort of like Sirius' when he got a "brilliant plan!" in his head. But that usually involved dancing the Macarena banana dresses.
"Ara, but we're not planning anything." James reasoned.
Ara frowned, looking defeated. "I know. But we can still pretend!"
So, moving on from the pointless conversation: The group eventually found a table near the restrooms. It was a little booth, so they where slightly squished when they sat down. The formation was:
SIRIUS-ARA-LILY-PETER
TABLE JEN-REMUS-JAMES
"Sirius, get your hands out from under my ass." Ara said through gritted teeth. However Lily could see a slight smile at her friend's lips.
"Oh Sirius! I never knew you had feelings for Miss. Ara here!" Lily wiggled her eyebrows.
"I knew he did. Sirius mumbles 'Oh Ara!' In his sleep all the time. He never shuts up." Informed Remus with a roll of his eyes.
"It's true! Then, he hugs Mr. Boo-Boo even tighter." James added smugly.
Sirius stood up quickly and slammed his fist against the red wooden table. "MR.BOO-BOO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!"
"You sleep with a MISTER Boo-Boo? God Sirius, I never knew you where like that!" Jen teased, throwing her napkin at him, who in turn was dumbstruck.
"Huh?" Everyone laughed.
"Hey... wait a minute! That wasn't nice!" Sirius pouted, just noticing what Jen said.
"There's something you and Jen have in common. Slow brains." Lily laughed, as the two blushed. She immediately knew it was the wrong thing when Ara coughed loudly.
Changing the subject, she said, "Anyway, here is our schedule:
8:00 AM, which is now, we go to The Three Broomsticks.
8:10 AM we have breakfast
8:45 AM we head out and go to a few shops in South Hogsmade.
9:45 AM take a break at The Groovy Goblin, a new quote-un-quote Hang Out.
10 AM go to Zonkos
11 AM, yes Zonkos has an hour, we go to North Hogsmade
11:30 AM We have lunch at wherever strikes us
12:30 PM we eat dessert at a new ice cream parlor
1:00 PM we go back to The Three Broomsticks to do whatever
2:00 PM we do nothing for an hour
3:00 PM we go to the magic show
4:00 PM we will split up and go wherever we feel like
6:00 PM we meet up again and again go to The Three Broomsticks for dinner
7:00 PM we split up again
8:00 PM whoever wants to go back will go back." Ara read this off a tiny little paper.
"Can you repeat that?" Sirius scratched his chin.
Ignoring Sirius' request, Ara continued, "Do you think that's to much? Because if it is i could change it. Do you think I should?"
"Well, I think it is a little to much." Lily admitted, shrugging. "But it does sound good."
"We can cancel our to The Groovy Goblin..." Ara said disappointingly (however you spell that).
"NO! If it makes you happy we'll go!" Sirius said softly, glaring at Lily.
"Shut up. We'll go if we feel like it." Lily finalized the plan as she signaled over a waitress. A skimpy lady around 20 or so walked over to the table shaking her hips dramatically, making guys stare from a mile around. She seductively leaned on the table and asked Sirius in a sweet voice,
"Welcome to The Three Broomsticks, may I take your order?" She then licked her lips. It was funny to see everyone's reactions. Sirius' mouth was dropped low and his eyes were wide with excitement. Ara's head was constantly turning, taking turns glaring at the waitress and at Sirius. James and Remus had a dreamy smile on.
Lily however took action. "Hi -cough-SLUT-cough-, how are you today?" She said it audibly, so the shocked waitress stood up quickly and straightened her tight white dress. "Umm.. I didn't want to be the one to tell you this, but I think your dress shrunk in the drier. It's really ugly. Go change." Lily shoed her away. Jen stared at Lily in shock as the waitress hurried away, stomping her feet, outraged.
"Don't you think that was a little HARSH?" Jen asked skeptically.
"Don't you think she was a little SKIMPY?" Ara defended Lily. "She deserved that!"
"No she didn't! She was SO ho-" then he remembered Ara was right next to him, "She was hoe-y!" He tried to look serious but failed.
"Shut up Sirius you're embarrassing yourself." Remus gave him a slight shove.
"Hey, Madam Posmer! We want food!"
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CAUTION: GROSSNESS "Wow, these look good." Remus drooled down at his pancakes.
"I know!" Lily was rubbing her hands together viciously.
"These smell like ass." Sirius said after bending down to smell it. Everyone looked at him funny.
"WHAT? It DOES!" Sirius cried outraged, trying to defend himself.
"Sirius, how do you know what ass smells like?" Ara asked, knowing the answer but liking to put him on a difficult spot.
"Well, admit it. We all know what it smells like..." Sirius explained carefully.
"We do? I don't, explain it to me. I've always wanted to know." Jen pushed him further, leaning on the table and pretending to look interested and serious.
"Hmm. It smells like baby. But sweeter. Maybe like a banana. It's like when people fart. You want to smell it but you don't. It just has this ass-y smell to it-"
Lily burst out laughing and could not contain herself. She banged her head on the table in attempt to stop it. Soon, everyone was joining in. Passersby were scared. The waitress was amused. In attempt to calm herself down, she began to take deep breaths.
James, too, bent down to smell the pancakes. "Hey! Sirius is right! They DO smell like ass! You think the chefs are naked in there?" James asked eagerly.
"Oh eww James! That's sick! Plus, these do not smell like ass!" Lily lowered her face to the pancakes (which had whipped cream on top) to smell.
James could not resist what he did next. It was to perfect. She was perfect. But that had nothing to do with it. He was grinning inside, and practically jumping inside. His body was over-exaggerating. Quickly, he lifted his hand over her bent-over head and pushed it down into the whipped cream pancake. With a splat, whipped cream flew all over.
She just sat there. You couldn't see her face. Angry, mad, crying? The table was silent and they were either staring at James in a shocked expression, or covering their ears to drown out the sounds that were about to explode from Lily's mouth.
James was beginning to regret what he had done. Maybe he shouldn't have done that... That was until she slowly lifted her head up from the pancakes to see a huge smile on her face.
"What the hell..." Remus muttered in shock. Lils. Smiling. After. Head. Crushed. In. Pancakes. He repeated that in his mind. It didn't fit.
"James you prick!" Lily joked and knocked James on the head, which was still shocked.
He smiled. She was so cute. James' stomach fluttered as he saw her nose with the tiniest bit of whipped cream on the end and all over her lips. He was dieing to kiss her. Even on the cheek, whatever.
Instead, he did something else. "You have some whipped cream on your nose." He slowly brought his hand forward and whipped the cream of her nose gently, and her smile widened. She might have bursted.
"coughFLIRTcough." Jen said quickly. Lily glared at her friend.
"Yeah, James, honestly, stops flirting with Lils." Remus rolled his eyes at James' shocked/mad/embarrassed expression.
"He's just kidding." Jen said absently. "And if we're done with our Pancake Ass conversation, can we please go? I've sort of lost my appetite now." Jen glared at James, who didn't notice.
"Uh, yeah, sure." James muttered, still staring at Lily.
It was horrible. She was like having money in your hand but not being able to spend it. A room of chocolate but not being able to eat it. Music without being able to listen to it. She was so close to him but he couldn't reach for her no matter how hard he tried. They were friends. A term he was afraid he would have to live with forever. Whenever he hugged her he felt like he needed this to survive. An addiction that he could not get over.
"James, are you coming?" Lily called, and snapped him back into reality.
"In a second Lils."
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(AN: its December, so they're Christmas Shopping. If it doesn't make sense, pretend)
"Hey Siri, do you think Remi would like this?" Lily asked Sirius who was next to her. Sirius turned his head to look at what she was holding. It was a glass sculpture of a wolf. But like most magical sculptures, it moved.
"Wow Lils! That is so cool!" Sirius was amused. He kept poking the wolf.
"Do you think Remi would like it?" Lily repeated.
"Defiantly..." Sirius was now poking in a steady pattern.
"It is cool." Lily nodded as she put it back down on the counter.
"So are you going to buy it?" Sirius asked.
"Probably. I'm just going to go around and check what else there is." She explained. She stopped at the look on his face. "Hey, whets wrong?"
Sirius shook his head. This was the serious (ignore that) side of him that no one saw, only his friends. "I want to get Ara something." He said shortly.
"Good, she'd be mad if you didn't." They started to walk down the isles of the old fashioned shop they were in.
Sirius glared slightly at her. "You know what I mean."
"Yeah." She sighed and stopped, waiting for Sirius to catch up with her. "But she would really like something...special. I don't know what though. I give her stuff as a friend but you..." She trailed off knowingly.
"Hey! I never said that!" Sirius protested half-heartedly.
"But you meant it." She stated.
Sirius shrugged and put his hand in his pocket. "Ok so maybe I did. That's beside the point. What should I get her?"
Lily thought for a moment. "Well, she likes stones."
"Stones?" He raised an eyebrow.
"You know, gems and stuff like that."
"Diamonds?" Sirius asked, wide eyed. That really didn't sound like an Ara thing.
"No, not diamonds. She likes Jade, that's it!" Lily called out, remembering the specific name.
"Oh..." Sirius looked confused. "Alright then."
"Lily!" Jen's voice lapsed over the silence that had been laid before them.
"Well, I'll see you. Good luck." Lily touched his shoulder reassuringly before spinning around and going back up the isle.
"OK..." Sirius mumbled.
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"Hey!" Lily smiled to her friend.
"Finally!" Jen cried and ran up to her.
"What's the rush?" Lily asked, confused.
"Well I don't know what to get everyone!" Jen stated as if it was the end of the world.
"Oh! Is that what it was? That's not so bad. Well, give me a name and I'll tell you some suggestions." Lily agreed to help, and they sat down on an antique sofa, which was for sale.
"Well I know what I'm going to get you and Ara, so how about Remus?"
"You can always get him books. He likes wolf things, just nothing that has to do with the moon. Remi also likes anything that has to do with deep thought and things like that. A pensive would be nice."
"Ok, what about James?"
"Quiditch and pranks." Lily said automatically.
"I should have known that! Ok, how about Sirius."
"Pranks and girls. But don't give him a girl for Christmas!" Lily quickly added. However, she could imagine Sirius' happy face when he opened THAT present.
Jen sat back on the sofa. "Ok thanks for your help. This is going to be a great Christmas!"
"I agree." Lily sighed.
Then, Lily and Jen spun around as they heard the door slam open to the side of them. From behind the door walked out an old Chinese man with a cane and large glasses. He was bending over and slightly crippled.
"You! You! Get off my couch!" He poked the girls with his walking stick, with an accent that was not Chinese or English. They, out of shock, stood up. "You off my couch now or me'll have to shoot you! Argh! ARGH!" He started making funny noises as he swept his cane over his head
"UH...alrighty then." Jen and Lily tried to keep their laughter in as they slowly walked away from the old raving man.
"MY COUCH! MYYYY COUCH!" He yelled and flung his arms protectively around the couch.
"Jen, what the hell was that?" Lily whispered quietly.
Jen was trying to muffle her laughter, "That's what I think Sirius will be like when he's old."
Lily let out a loud laugh and then quickly covered her mouth. "I can see that perfectly."
Then, about maybe fifteen minutes later, they had their Christmas shopping done. Yup, they where quick shoppers. They gathered outside the front door as Ara checked her schedule.
"Ok, next is the Groovy Goblin." She said, with quotes in her hands.
The Marauders where thinking about all the hot girls dancing, while the girls where thinking about how.special it would be.
And with that, our heroes set off on a large journey across the town of Hogsmade. They stopped once at the little boys room because Sirius had to piss, and they stopped another time at a place where they could drop off their bags. And, in about fifteen minutes, they where at the Groovy Goblin.
Ara looked around with weary eyes. Everything was so.flashy and bright. She felt as though she was staring at the sun. Lily and Jen, too, she noticed, were squinting their eyes.
"Hey, you girls go find a table, we'll be back in a second!" Sirius called out to Lily, who reluctantly nodded and told her friends.
"Ha. He is not going to be back in a second." Jen mumbled.
"Nope, when it comes to girls he's a man whore." Ara agreed as they found a nice table They all sat on the chairs and just looked around.
Everywhere, people where dancing. Most of the people where freak dancing (they spotted Snape trying to freak dance), which made them a little uncomfortable. They scooted their chairs closer to each other.
The DJ was playing some techno music, and it appeared, he too, was drunk. There also appeared to be a game of strip poker going on someplace. Oh, and the place smelled like stale cat breath. But then again, if you where drunk it didn't really matter, did it? Lily and Jen and Ara observed their surroundings with an amused but scared look on their face.
"Groovy!" Sirius winked to a 'hot' girl.
"Groovy, Groovy!" He said to another girl. He was just strutting around attempting to dance while saying 'Groovy'. Remus, to everyone's surprise, was actually talking to some sweet girl.
"I thought he fancied Jen." Sirius said to himself, right before a skinny Hufflepuff in seventh year tapped him on his shoulder and giggled as he began to 'talk' with her.
James surveyed the scene. It was something alright. His mind wandered off to his normal topic, Lily. What was she doing right now? Probably dancing with somebody, he thought urgently. His curiosity got the best of him as he pushed through the drunk crowd over to the table he had seen Lily go to.
"Lils, do you want to stay here while Jen and I go find the guys?" Ara asked Lily after ten minutes had passed.
Lily nodded eagerly, and sat stuck to her chair as she watched Jen and Ara travel through the crowd like a train going nowhere. She sipped her Butterbeer slowly, her eyes darting around the room. She began to tap her feet on the ground nervously. Then, she felt some cold hands grab her shoulder demandingly. She spun around and saw Amos Diggory, from her school. By the look on his face, he was so very obviously tipsy.
"Hey there Evans." He cooed, his putrid breath attacking Lily's nose.
"What'd you want?" Lily spat and slapped his hand off her shoulder.
"Oh, nothing." He lied, putting his hand on her shoulder again. This time, Lily pushed him hard, and he fell onto the ground, making a few people fall around them as well. That doesn't matter when you're drunk!
"Aww, is that the way to show me a little love?" He asked innocently, looming over her.
"Shut up!" Lily mumbled in anger. Amos began to touch her hair, and Lily flinched and kept smacking him away.
"Stop it!" Lily hissed.
"You know you love me." Amos whispered in her ear, who turned red in frustration.
Lily, now furious, slammed her hands on the table and stood up. "Bastard!" She called.
"Where you going?" Diggory called after her. Lily flipped the bird as she stomped through the crowd, swung open the double doors and into the fresh day.
She peered through the doors and could see Diggory still, luckily he couldn't see her.
"I'll just wait for them outside." Lily said to herself. That place wasn't really her thing. She stood patiently against the wall and waited silently for one of her friends to come out.
James, who wasn't far behind her, caught her just in time to see her stomp angrily out of the place. He dropped his Butterbeer on the table and ran through the crowd to catch up with Lily.
"Lils!" He called, but she didn't hear. So, he hurried up, accidentally pushing some girl he recognized faintly as a past girlfriend. When he finally got to her, outside, he touched her shoulder to get his attention.
Thinking it was Diggory, Lily whipped around and smacked James right in the face. James, surprised, touched his red cheek.
Lily gasped and her eyes grew wide, "Holy shit on a stick, James! I'm so sorry! I- I thought you where someone else!" James chuckled nervously.
"It's okay." He said reluctantly.
"I'm SO sorry." Lily said again as she rubbed her hand on his cheek, as if to make the redness it go away.
James' cheek tingled slightly when she touched him, and his eyes quickly darted to her hand. The felt the all-to-familiar flip-flop of the stomach.
"Really, its okay." James assured her, but what he REALLY wanted to say was 'Touch my cheek again.' Oh, yeah, he could see that now.
"Alright. Come on, lets go sit on a bench and wait for everyone else." Lily grabbed his hand and dragged him over to a chair, and sat him down as if he was a toddler.
"So, what made you leave, anyway?" James asked curiously.
"Well," she rested her head on her knees, "a drunk person was flirting excessively with me. It was just disturbing. And the place smelled!" Lily scrunched up her nose.
"Ah." James nodded and put his arm around her. Of coarse, to her it was in a friendly matter. James just wanted to have her close.
Lily smiled up at him and then leaned her head on his shoulders. Right now, James might have bursted from spontaneous combustion. The only thing that stopped him is that he couldn't have his arm around Lily when he was chopped into 100 million pieces.
James was warm, he was always warm. Lily knew this after hugging him a bunch of times. Passersbies would have thought they where a couple, but if you knew Lily you knew she was very close to people. She liked giving hugs. What you would also notice if you knew Lily was that she hugged James a lot. They got so close and almost flirty that you would think they where a couple. It's not like Lily had ever sat down and thought about how she felt for James. Maybe if she had she would have realized the bit of more-than- friends-I-think-I-really-like-you feelings for him. BUT, that doesn't matter right now. Anyway, moving on.
"There you are!" Remus cried as the remaining four burst out of the doors and met up with them.
"Gees guys! If you wanted some lovey-dovey alone time, you could have TOLD us!" Sirius complained, crossing his arms. Everyone laughed silently.
James blushed, but Lily simply said, "Sirius, if you want some lovey-dovey alone time with your head up your ass, I'll be happy to give it to you."
Sirius mock-glared at her. Lily broke into a grin, "Kidding."
"Anyway, since that was cut," Jen checked her watch, "we should head out to Zonkos, you know, just to get there on time."
"Great idea Jen!" Ara said enthusiastically. "We'll get there in about seven minutes, which lets us spend three extra minutes shopping, which will make us on time for our next activity! COME ON! LETS GO!" Ara yanked Lily off her bench and dragged her onward. Everyone groaned but followed anyway.
(A/N: Ok, im not going to go into detail about everything they did)
Zonkos was very exhilarating. Jen bought a few prank books, as did Ara. Lily bought a load of prank-candies as well as some Dungbombs. Sirius bought a lot of everything, and James bought some very useful and expensive items that would come in overly-hand in the Marauders mischief making. Remus stacked up on the classical pranks. And of coarse, Sirius accidentally blew up a whole rack of Fireworks. They left the store with their arms full, and had to drop off their bags again.
North Hogsmade was newer than the rest of Hogsmade (so really it wasn't that new). Sirius dragged them into a Lady's panty store 'Pinky Swear' to look at all the hot clerks. Of coarse, he was soon smacked on the head with a bra after flirting with one of the cashiers. He then left. They went into a few interesting shops, just checking things out, not really buying anything.
They had lunch at a Pizza Parlor, the food there was delicious! They ended up eating about three pizzas. And of coarse, they where all amused with the stringy cheese. (Ara and Jen ended up splitting the last piece). They traveled over to the ice-cream parlor to have dessert. They all ordered double-scoops (except for Peter, who had four). Lily got hungry and took a few bites out of James'. Most of the time they had fun telling jokes and laughing so hard they got strange looks from people walking in.
As they entered The Three Broomsticks, Lily suddenly remembered the promise James had made to her.
"James," Lily said slowly.
"Uh?" James turned his head to her.
"Do you remember the promise you made me?"
"Uhh.." Oh, yes, now he remembered, "shit."
Lily grinned, "I suggest we go back now and you get me my ice-creams, or I'll tear you apart." She flailed her arms wildly in the air as they sat down at a round table.
"So, are you two going to go get Lily her ice-cream and then come back over here?" Remus asked.
James looked at Lily, who nodded excitedly.
Everyone but James grinned.
"Alone?" Jen wiggled her eyebrows.
"Unless one of you wants to come!" Lily shrugged.
"I D-" Sirius started, but was cut off by Remus' hand.
"You'll be going alone then." Ara smiled sweetly.
Sirius grunted in dismay.
"Come on Jamsie, I WANT MY F'IN ICECREAMS!" Lily mock-whined.
"Going, going!" James muttered as he was quickly yanked away by the sugar- driven girl.