When everyone arrived at the Potter's mansion, everyone's breath was taken
away. The Potter mansion was brick with four floors, with 4 huge bay
windows. On the roof there was a widows walk. In the backyard, which was
just barely visible from the driveway, there was a complete Quidditch
pitch. To the right of that, there was a swimming pool, complete with
guest house.
Lily was in shock. She had never seen a house this big. She was just standing there with her mouth open, gaping at the house. She suddenly remembered to breathe when James came up behind her dragging both of their trunks. She shook her head as if to snap out of it.
"Nice place you've got here." She ventured, trying to regain her composure. James just laughed.
"Come on, I'll show you what room you're going to stay in and then I'll give everyone the grand tour." James motioned everyone forward. Remus and Sirius couldn't have cared less about the size of the house. Clearly, they had been here before.
James took the girls up to the third floor. They were still looking around awestruck. James turned to them. He was down at one end of the corridor, ready to show them each their bedrooms, but they weren't anywhere near him. They were still looking at the artwork and size of his home.
"Wow James," Amanda breathed. "I can't believe you actually live here. Can I live with you?"
James just chuckled. "Sirius practically lives here, so if you two get married, you technically can. Ok, now this is the third floor. We're staying on this floor too. We each have our own bedroom, but you can feel free to share, you know. Girly sleepovers and whatnot."
"Yea, yea James. We aren't as stupid as we look." Selina said.
"Well, just throwing the offer out there. Here, I'll show you your rooms." He opened the door to a room with a queen bed. It had a purple bed spread and a balcony. "Selina, you can stay in here. This is the best floor. Each room on this floor has a balcony and they are all connected. Al of these rooms have bathrooms, but some are connected. Amanda, you'll be staying next door, so you and Selina will share a bathroom. I hope you can manage."
Amanda and Selina gave each other a look of disbelief. Of course they could manage! They went through the adjoining bathrooms to Amanda's room. Her room was the same as Selina's except her bedspread was blue. They stepped out on the balcony. It was almost the entire length of the house. There were six doors along the wall. He went to the door to the left of Amanda's bedroom. "This is your room Lily. You have a bathroom all to yourself." Lily's room was an exact replica of the previous two except her bedspread was green. "You guys want to unpack or do you want to see our rooms?"
The girls wanted to see the boys rooms. They went back out to the balcony. "Ok, this isn't hard to remember, but this is the order of the doors. Selina, your is at the end, the far right. Then it's Amanda's, Lily's, mine, Sirius's and then Remus is at the far end. Do you really want to see our rooms?"
"Yea, they're probably the same as ours though, right?" Selina asked.
"You'd be surprised. Remus and Sirius are probably already up here unpacking." They started at the far end, Remus's room. It was empty, but suitcases were thrown casually on the bed. His bedspread was brown. James looked into the bathroom. Remus wasn't in there either, so they trooped into Sirius's room. Sirius and Remus were in there, sitting on the floor playing Exploding Snap. Sirius's room was a bright shade of orange.
All over the walls and ceiling, there were posters of the same 7 players, all wearing orange robes. The posters said 'The Chudley Cannons.' Underneath it, it said 'We shall conquer,' but it was crossed out and written in sloppy handwriting, it said 'Let's all keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.'
It looked like the two boys were playing for candy. Between then there was a huge pile of Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. Sirius placed a card down and the entire deck burst into flames. "Ha!" Remus proclaimed and dragged the entire pot towards him. Sirius was rubbing ashes out of his eyes when he noticed James and the girls.
"Hello. Want to play?" he asked, a goofy grin spreading to his face when he saw Amanda. She made a move to sit down, but Lily held her back.
"I honestly would love to, but we've got to unpack and James promised us a grand tour. It will only take a little while." Lily said apologetically.
Amanda nodded and blew a kiss to Sirius. James went back to the balcony. He went through the only door left. It led to his bedroom. His bedroom was almost as bright as Sirius', but it was all bright red. "The Ballycastle Bats," he said. As he said that, a hole near his ceiling opened and a magical bat flew towards them. All of the girls ducked, but James pointed to the hole. The bat flew back obediently into his hole.
"What was that?" Lily asked.
"That was Barney the fruitbat. Mascot for the Bats. He's not real, just mechanical. Kind of like on of those muggle car things. Anyway, he's been on a bunch of ads, mostly for Butterbeer. He's famous for the saying, 'I'm just batty about butterbeer!' Sorry if he scared you."
Amanda was pulling herself off of the floor. "No, I wasn't scared or anything. I just tripped." She said, trembling slightly.
"Amanda is frightened to death of small flying mammals." Lily whispered to James. He nodded and cleared his throat.
"You guys go unpack and then I'll give you the grand tour. I'll be with Sirius and Remus if you need me." James left the room and the girls went back to there own bedrooms.
They unpacked and fifteen minutes later they were all congregated in Sirius's room. Sirius and James were engaged in a highly competitive game of Exploding Snap. Once again, when Sirius placed his last card down, the entire deck burst into flames.
"Bloody game is rigged, I swear," he grumbled. Amanda moved over to him and sat in his lap. "Now I feel much better." She giggled and kissed him.
James cleared his throat yet again. "You guys ready for the grand tour?" With that, everyone trooped out of the room. They went down to the first floor and James showed them the kitchen, the dining room, his father's study, the Quidditch room (A/N: I can just imagine the Potter's having a room dedicated to Quidditch. LOL), a library and the swimming room. Amanda was in love with the swimming room. Even though there was a pool in the backyard, the Potters had an indoor pool, complete with a waterfall and a Jacuzzi.
"James, pools are muggle artifacts. Why do you have them?" Lily inquired.
"Well my dad is a bit obsessed with muggles. He's amazed that they can get by without magic. Wait until we get to the fourth floor. He has one of those muggle telebisiony things. That's a bloody brilliant piece of machinery I tell you."
Lily shook her head in disbelief. After that they moved up to the second floor. There was another library up there and Lily really liked it. It was full of books on charms and old fashioned muggle classics. James explained that his mother really liked the muggle books. It 'showed her a different way of life' as she put it. The second floor also had 7 more bedrooms.
Lily was amazed. Why anyone would need that many bedrooms was beyond her. The master bedroom was also on this floor. They skipped the third floor since they had already been up there and moved to the fourth and final floor. This was just a big room.
Inside here was a big screen TV and a few other muggle gaming devices. There was a pool table, a ping pong table and a pinball machine. Lily was impressed. She didn't know that James knew this much about muggle technology. Apparently, he didn't.
"Ok, this is a scrool table. You are supposed to use all of the little colored balls and hit the white ball into the holes. This is a ding dong table. I think it sounds like a doorbell, but whatever. You just hit the ball back and forth. Pointless really. This is the ballbowl machine. You use the little paddle things to hit the balls. I've never seen a purpose for it."
Amanda and Sirius were nodding wisely, as if they already knew all of this, but Selina, Lily and Remus were having a hard time containing their laughter. Selina and Remus both took Muggle Studies and Lily was muggle- born.
James noticed them. "What?" he asked sharply, and they just let it out. They started laughing hysterically.
Lily managed to catch her breath first. "You are totally clueless when it comes to muggle technology. This is a POOL table and a PING PONG table. And this is a PIN BALL machine. You didn't really describe the games right either, but it doesn't matter."
James looked disgruntled. "Well at least the sound were right," he grumbled. Lily walked over to him and gave him a peck on his cheek.
By the time the tour was over, it was pretty late out. Everyone went back downstairs to their bedrooms. They all changed into their sleep clothes and then went back into Sirius's room.
They sat in a circle and were debating what to play.
"No, come on! Strip Poker is a great game! Here, if you guys are nervous, I'll start off." Sirius was arguing as he tried to remove his pants.
"No! Don't!" Everyone except Amanda cried out in exasperation. Amanda was looking at Sirius with a very interested look on her face. She looked like she wanted to rip clothing off too, but was refraining from doing so.
"How about Spin the Bottle?" Remus suggested timidly.
"Sure Moony. Here Selina, lets go make out." Sirius said.
"Ok, Spin the Bottle is out." Remus put in quickly, putting an arm around Selina's shoulders.
Lily suddenly was wearing a very coy look. "Anybody remember that day in the bathroom? Well I believe we all owe each other a game of Truth or Dare." Everyone nodded in agreement. "James, do you want to go first?"
James nodded eagerly. "Ok, Sirius, truth or dare?"
Sirius looked thoughtful for a moment. Then he proclaimed, "Dare!"
James had an evil look on his face. "Ok. I dare you to go into Amanda's room and put on some of her 'sexy nightclothes' that you always tell us about." Sirius turned a bit red, but he stood up.
"Ok, Amanda, want to help me?" He raised his eyebrows suggestively.
"No! Not allowed, you'll be in there forever if she goes to help you." James said.
"Hmph. Fine. I'll be right back." Sirius exited the room and he was back a moment later wearing the pinkest, frilliest thing he could find. One look at him and everyone started cracking up, even Amanda.
He started to prance around the room like a little girl. Everyone was still laughing hysterically and when Sirius got a look at himself in the mirror, he started laughing too. James managed to regain his composure first. "Get out. Go change back into your manly clothes!" "What?" Sirius said in mock outrage. "I wanted to paint my toenails and put on makeup and do my hair." He said in a high falsetto voice, twirling a stand of his shaggy black hair around his finger.
Everyone burst into laughter again. "Just go!" Lily managed to choke out.
"Fine, I can tell where I'm not wanted." Sirius pouted, but left the room. He came back in his Chudley Canons shirt and black pajama bottoms. "Ok," he said rubbing his hands together. "My turn now." He looked around at the group apprehensively.
"Selina!" Selina jumped. "Truth or Dare?" Sirius asked.
She didn't hesitate. "Dare."
Sirius's mouth turned up into a smirk. "Good, I was hoping you'd say that. I dare you to make out with Remus. Full fledged making out. Tounge. hands venturing to naughty places and such. Right here right now."
"In front of everyone?" She asked skeptically.
"Yes." Sirius said, his smirk still in place.
"Fine, for how long?" she asked.
Sirius was taken back. He didn't expect her to accept the dare. "Umm, 30 seconds."
"Ok, well that's really short so hands won't be venturing anywhere naughty," Selina said.
Before Sirius could make a different length of time, Selina leaned into Remus. They started kissing. No one was keeping track of time and after about 2 minutes, Sirius cleared his throat. "That was good. Ok, your turn."
"Ok, I pick you Lily." Lily nodded. "Truth or dare."
Lily sighed. "I'll be the chicken. Truth."
"I knew you'd say that. Now, honestly, why did you refuse to go with james for the past three years?"
Lily gulped. "You already know the answer to that." She hissed. "Ask something else."
"Oh, this must be good. You have to answer Lily." Sirius said in an annoying singsong voice.
"Fine," Lily huffed. "I refused James because one, he was a lazy git with a swollen head. Two, he picked on people who were smaller and defenseless just because he could. And three, I knew that if I ever went out with him, I'd fall in love with him." She said the last part very quietly.
James looked surprised. He didn't know the last thing that she had said.
Lily turned pink. "Ok, my turn. Amanda. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth."
"Ok, truthfully, how far have you and Sirius gone?"
Amanda turned pink. "Well, define 'gone' and then maybe I'll tell you."
"Define gone. hmmm. Have you guys only kissed? Have you been farther? You know what I mean."
"Well fine. We've gone places." Amanda said, the pink darkening.
"Come on," James chided. "We're all friends here."
"Fine, we've had sex. Only twice though!" she said, turning bright red. "And it was the only 2 times I've ever done it."
She hid her face in Sirius' shirt then rounded on Lily. "I can't believe you asked that!" she hissed.
"Now it's your turn." James said.
"Ok, James. Truth or Dare." Amanda said, trying to redeem herself.
"Dare."
"Fine, I dare you to answer this question-"
"Wait! You can't do that!" James put in angrily.
"Yes I can, and I am. I dare you to answer this question. Are you a virgin?" Amanda asked.
James turned red and avoided everyone's eyes. "Yes," he mumbled, almost inaudibly.
"What was that James? I didn't hear." Amanda said, clearly trying to embarrass him.
"I said yes," he muttered under his breath.
"Huh? I didn't quite get that." Amanda taunted.
"Fine! I said Yes! Yes I am a virgin!" James shouted. His mother, who was just passing the door to get the laundry in the bathroom knocked and stuck her head in the door.
"Everything all right in here kids? I thought I heard yelling."
"Yea, you did Mom, but we're all okay." James said, still very red from his outburst.
"Ok, well if you need anything, feel free to give me a holler." Mrs. Potter closed the door and went on with the laundry.
When she left, Sirius dissolved in laughter.
"Ok, it's my turn now." James said indignantly. "Remus, truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Ok, what is your deepest darkest secret?" James asked. As soon as he asked it, he hit himself over the head. "Never mind, don't answer that. I'll ask a different one."
"No James. I have to answer. It's ok. Everyone in here except Amanda knows anyway." Even though Remus was following the rules, he was still shifting around uncomfortably. Selina had a reassuring hand on his arm and was smiling encouragingly.
"Ok, Amanda. Do you promise not to go crazy?" He asked.
"Sure Remus." Amanda nodded.
"Ok, I'm a werewolf." He said simply. Nobody but Amanda looked surprised. "I'll understand completely if you don't want to be my friend anymore-"
Remus was in the middle of saying that when Amanda cut him off. "Don't be ridiculous. Of course I still want to be your friend! I think that it's great that you haven't kept yourself isolated. I have a second cousin who is a werewolf. He lives in the woods and never talks to anyone. They could make a cure and he wouldn't even know."
Remus smiled weakly and Amanda reached over and gave him a hug. A huge smile spread across the group and Lily stood up. She stretched her arms over her head and said, "I'm going to bed. Christmas tomorrow! Care to join me James?"
James nodded and yawned. "See you guys in the morning." Remus and Selina retreated to Remus's room and Sirius and Amanda stayed where they were. "Oh, Sirius, if you plan on doing anything, use a silencing charm. Please." James said.
Sirius tried chucking a pillow at his head, but James and Lily were already out on the balcony. They walked into Lily's room and climbed under the covers.
"Goodnight." James whispered.
"Goodnight," Lily whispered back.
Authors Note: That was a lot longer than usual. If today is Christmas, the other chapter will be up later today. If it is after Christmas, the other chapter should already be up. I hope that this isn't too corny. James is pretty rich, don't you think? I actually made a floor plan for his house. I'm sad and pathetic. Well, you know the drill. Read and review! Merry Christmas!
Moony2187
Lily was in shock. She had never seen a house this big. She was just standing there with her mouth open, gaping at the house. She suddenly remembered to breathe when James came up behind her dragging both of their trunks. She shook her head as if to snap out of it.
"Nice place you've got here." She ventured, trying to regain her composure. James just laughed.
"Come on, I'll show you what room you're going to stay in and then I'll give everyone the grand tour." James motioned everyone forward. Remus and Sirius couldn't have cared less about the size of the house. Clearly, they had been here before.
James took the girls up to the third floor. They were still looking around awestruck. James turned to them. He was down at one end of the corridor, ready to show them each their bedrooms, but they weren't anywhere near him. They were still looking at the artwork and size of his home.
"Wow James," Amanda breathed. "I can't believe you actually live here. Can I live with you?"
James just chuckled. "Sirius practically lives here, so if you two get married, you technically can. Ok, now this is the third floor. We're staying on this floor too. We each have our own bedroom, but you can feel free to share, you know. Girly sleepovers and whatnot."
"Yea, yea James. We aren't as stupid as we look." Selina said.
"Well, just throwing the offer out there. Here, I'll show you your rooms." He opened the door to a room with a queen bed. It had a purple bed spread and a balcony. "Selina, you can stay in here. This is the best floor. Each room on this floor has a balcony and they are all connected. Al of these rooms have bathrooms, but some are connected. Amanda, you'll be staying next door, so you and Selina will share a bathroom. I hope you can manage."
Amanda and Selina gave each other a look of disbelief. Of course they could manage! They went through the adjoining bathrooms to Amanda's room. Her room was the same as Selina's except her bedspread was blue. They stepped out on the balcony. It was almost the entire length of the house. There were six doors along the wall. He went to the door to the left of Amanda's bedroom. "This is your room Lily. You have a bathroom all to yourself." Lily's room was an exact replica of the previous two except her bedspread was green. "You guys want to unpack or do you want to see our rooms?"
The girls wanted to see the boys rooms. They went back out to the balcony. "Ok, this isn't hard to remember, but this is the order of the doors. Selina, your is at the end, the far right. Then it's Amanda's, Lily's, mine, Sirius's and then Remus is at the far end. Do you really want to see our rooms?"
"Yea, they're probably the same as ours though, right?" Selina asked.
"You'd be surprised. Remus and Sirius are probably already up here unpacking." They started at the far end, Remus's room. It was empty, but suitcases were thrown casually on the bed. His bedspread was brown. James looked into the bathroom. Remus wasn't in there either, so they trooped into Sirius's room. Sirius and Remus were in there, sitting on the floor playing Exploding Snap. Sirius's room was a bright shade of orange.
All over the walls and ceiling, there were posters of the same 7 players, all wearing orange robes. The posters said 'The Chudley Cannons.' Underneath it, it said 'We shall conquer,' but it was crossed out and written in sloppy handwriting, it said 'Let's all keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.'
It looked like the two boys were playing for candy. Between then there was a huge pile of Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. Sirius placed a card down and the entire deck burst into flames. "Ha!" Remus proclaimed and dragged the entire pot towards him. Sirius was rubbing ashes out of his eyes when he noticed James and the girls.
"Hello. Want to play?" he asked, a goofy grin spreading to his face when he saw Amanda. She made a move to sit down, but Lily held her back.
"I honestly would love to, but we've got to unpack and James promised us a grand tour. It will only take a little while." Lily said apologetically.
Amanda nodded and blew a kiss to Sirius. James went back to the balcony. He went through the only door left. It led to his bedroom. His bedroom was almost as bright as Sirius', but it was all bright red. "The Ballycastle Bats," he said. As he said that, a hole near his ceiling opened and a magical bat flew towards them. All of the girls ducked, but James pointed to the hole. The bat flew back obediently into his hole.
"What was that?" Lily asked.
"That was Barney the fruitbat. Mascot for the Bats. He's not real, just mechanical. Kind of like on of those muggle car things. Anyway, he's been on a bunch of ads, mostly for Butterbeer. He's famous for the saying, 'I'm just batty about butterbeer!' Sorry if he scared you."
Amanda was pulling herself off of the floor. "No, I wasn't scared or anything. I just tripped." She said, trembling slightly.
"Amanda is frightened to death of small flying mammals." Lily whispered to James. He nodded and cleared his throat.
"You guys go unpack and then I'll give you the grand tour. I'll be with Sirius and Remus if you need me." James left the room and the girls went back to there own bedrooms.
They unpacked and fifteen minutes later they were all congregated in Sirius's room. Sirius and James were engaged in a highly competitive game of Exploding Snap. Once again, when Sirius placed his last card down, the entire deck burst into flames.
"Bloody game is rigged, I swear," he grumbled. Amanda moved over to him and sat in his lap. "Now I feel much better." She giggled and kissed him.
James cleared his throat yet again. "You guys ready for the grand tour?" With that, everyone trooped out of the room. They went down to the first floor and James showed them the kitchen, the dining room, his father's study, the Quidditch room (A/N: I can just imagine the Potter's having a room dedicated to Quidditch. LOL), a library and the swimming room. Amanda was in love with the swimming room. Even though there was a pool in the backyard, the Potters had an indoor pool, complete with a waterfall and a Jacuzzi.
"James, pools are muggle artifacts. Why do you have them?" Lily inquired.
"Well my dad is a bit obsessed with muggles. He's amazed that they can get by without magic. Wait until we get to the fourth floor. He has one of those muggle telebisiony things. That's a bloody brilliant piece of machinery I tell you."
Lily shook her head in disbelief. After that they moved up to the second floor. There was another library up there and Lily really liked it. It was full of books on charms and old fashioned muggle classics. James explained that his mother really liked the muggle books. It 'showed her a different way of life' as she put it. The second floor also had 7 more bedrooms.
Lily was amazed. Why anyone would need that many bedrooms was beyond her. The master bedroom was also on this floor. They skipped the third floor since they had already been up there and moved to the fourth and final floor. This was just a big room.
Inside here was a big screen TV and a few other muggle gaming devices. There was a pool table, a ping pong table and a pinball machine. Lily was impressed. She didn't know that James knew this much about muggle technology. Apparently, he didn't.
"Ok, this is a scrool table. You are supposed to use all of the little colored balls and hit the white ball into the holes. This is a ding dong table. I think it sounds like a doorbell, but whatever. You just hit the ball back and forth. Pointless really. This is the ballbowl machine. You use the little paddle things to hit the balls. I've never seen a purpose for it."
Amanda and Sirius were nodding wisely, as if they already knew all of this, but Selina, Lily and Remus were having a hard time containing their laughter. Selina and Remus both took Muggle Studies and Lily was muggle- born.
James noticed them. "What?" he asked sharply, and they just let it out. They started laughing hysterically.
Lily managed to catch her breath first. "You are totally clueless when it comes to muggle technology. This is a POOL table and a PING PONG table. And this is a PIN BALL machine. You didn't really describe the games right either, but it doesn't matter."
James looked disgruntled. "Well at least the sound were right," he grumbled. Lily walked over to him and gave him a peck on his cheek.
By the time the tour was over, it was pretty late out. Everyone went back downstairs to their bedrooms. They all changed into their sleep clothes and then went back into Sirius's room.
They sat in a circle and were debating what to play.
"No, come on! Strip Poker is a great game! Here, if you guys are nervous, I'll start off." Sirius was arguing as he tried to remove his pants.
"No! Don't!" Everyone except Amanda cried out in exasperation. Amanda was looking at Sirius with a very interested look on her face. She looked like she wanted to rip clothing off too, but was refraining from doing so.
"How about Spin the Bottle?" Remus suggested timidly.
"Sure Moony. Here Selina, lets go make out." Sirius said.
"Ok, Spin the Bottle is out." Remus put in quickly, putting an arm around Selina's shoulders.
Lily suddenly was wearing a very coy look. "Anybody remember that day in the bathroom? Well I believe we all owe each other a game of Truth or Dare." Everyone nodded in agreement. "James, do you want to go first?"
James nodded eagerly. "Ok, Sirius, truth or dare?"
Sirius looked thoughtful for a moment. Then he proclaimed, "Dare!"
James had an evil look on his face. "Ok. I dare you to go into Amanda's room and put on some of her 'sexy nightclothes' that you always tell us about." Sirius turned a bit red, but he stood up.
"Ok, Amanda, want to help me?" He raised his eyebrows suggestively.
"No! Not allowed, you'll be in there forever if she goes to help you." James said.
"Hmph. Fine. I'll be right back." Sirius exited the room and he was back a moment later wearing the pinkest, frilliest thing he could find. One look at him and everyone started cracking up, even Amanda.
He started to prance around the room like a little girl. Everyone was still laughing hysterically and when Sirius got a look at himself in the mirror, he started laughing too. James managed to regain his composure first. "Get out. Go change back into your manly clothes!" "What?" Sirius said in mock outrage. "I wanted to paint my toenails and put on makeup and do my hair." He said in a high falsetto voice, twirling a stand of his shaggy black hair around his finger.
Everyone burst into laughter again. "Just go!" Lily managed to choke out.
"Fine, I can tell where I'm not wanted." Sirius pouted, but left the room. He came back in his Chudley Canons shirt and black pajama bottoms. "Ok," he said rubbing his hands together. "My turn now." He looked around at the group apprehensively.
"Selina!" Selina jumped. "Truth or Dare?" Sirius asked.
She didn't hesitate. "Dare."
Sirius's mouth turned up into a smirk. "Good, I was hoping you'd say that. I dare you to make out with Remus. Full fledged making out. Tounge. hands venturing to naughty places and such. Right here right now."
"In front of everyone?" She asked skeptically.
"Yes." Sirius said, his smirk still in place.
"Fine, for how long?" she asked.
Sirius was taken back. He didn't expect her to accept the dare. "Umm, 30 seconds."
"Ok, well that's really short so hands won't be venturing anywhere naughty," Selina said.
Before Sirius could make a different length of time, Selina leaned into Remus. They started kissing. No one was keeping track of time and after about 2 minutes, Sirius cleared his throat. "That was good. Ok, your turn."
"Ok, I pick you Lily." Lily nodded. "Truth or dare."
Lily sighed. "I'll be the chicken. Truth."
"I knew you'd say that. Now, honestly, why did you refuse to go with james for the past three years?"
Lily gulped. "You already know the answer to that." She hissed. "Ask something else."
"Oh, this must be good. You have to answer Lily." Sirius said in an annoying singsong voice.
"Fine," Lily huffed. "I refused James because one, he was a lazy git with a swollen head. Two, he picked on people who were smaller and defenseless just because he could. And three, I knew that if I ever went out with him, I'd fall in love with him." She said the last part very quietly.
James looked surprised. He didn't know the last thing that she had said.
Lily turned pink. "Ok, my turn. Amanda. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth."
"Ok, truthfully, how far have you and Sirius gone?"
Amanda turned pink. "Well, define 'gone' and then maybe I'll tell you."
"Define gone. hmmm. Have you guys only kissed? Have you been farther? You know what I mean."
"Well fine. We've gone places." Amanda said, the pink darkening.
"Come on," James chided. "We're all friends here."
"Fine, we've had sex. Only twice though!" she said, turning bright red. "And it was the only 2 times I've ever done it."
She hid her face in Sirius' shirt then rounded on Lily. "I can't believe you asked that!" she hissed.
"Now it's your turn." James said.
"Ok, James. Truth or Dare." Amanda said, trying to redeem herself.
"Dare."
"Fine, I dare you to answer this question-"
"Wait! You can't do that!" James put in angrily.
"Yes I can, and I am. I dare you to answer this question. Are you a virgin?" Amanda asked.
James turned red and avoided everyone's eyes. "Yes," he mumbled, almost inaudibly.
"What was that James? I didn't hear." Amanda said, clearly trying to embarrass him.
"I said yes," he muttered under his breath.
"Huh? I didn't quite get that." Amanda taunted.
"Fine! I said Yes! Yes I am a virgin!" James shouted. His mother, who was just passing the door to get the laundry in the bathroom knocked and stuck her head in the door.
"Everything all right in here kids? I thought I heard yelling."
"Yea, you did Mom, but we're all okay." James said, still very red from his outburst.
"Ok, well if you need anything, feel free to give me a holler." Mrs. Potter closed the door and went on with the laundry.
When she left, Sirius dissolved in laughter.
"Ok, it's my turn now." James said indignantly. "Remus, truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Ok, what is your deepest darkest secret?" James asked. As soon as he asked it, he hit himself over the head. "Never mind, don't answer that. I'll ask a different one."
"No James. I have to answer. It's ok. Everyone in here except Amanda knows anyway." Even though Remus was following the rules, he was still shifting around uncomfortably. Selina had a reassuring hand on his arm and was smiling encouragingly.
"Ok, Amanda. Do you promise not to go crazy?" He asked.
"Sure Remus." Amanda nodded.
"Ok, I'm a werewolf." He said simply. Nobody but Amanda looked surprised. "I'll understand completely if you don't want to be my friend anymore-"
Remus was in the middle of saying that when Amanda cut him off. "Don't be ridiculous. Of course I still want to be your friend! I think that it's great that you haven't kept yourself isolated. I have a second cousin who is a werewolf. He lives in the woods and never talks to anyone. They could make a cure and he wouldn't even know."
Remus smiled weakly and Amanda reached over and gave him a hug. A huge smile spread across the group and Lily stood up. She stretched her arms over her head and said, "I'm going to bed. Christmas tomorrow! Care to join me James?"
James nodded and yawned. "See you guys in the morning." Remus and Selina retreated to Remus's room and Sirius and Amanda stayed where they were. "Oh, Sirius, if you plan on doing anything, use a silencing charm. Please." James said.
Sirius tried chucking a pillow at his head, but James and Lily were already out on the balcony. They walked into Lily's room and climbed under the covers.
"Goodnight." James whispered.
"Goodnight," Lily whispered back.
Authors Note: That was a lot longer than usual. If today is Christmas, the other chapter will be up later today. If it is after Christmas, the other chapter should already be up. I hope that this isn't too corny. James is pretty rich, don't you think? I actually made a floor plan for his house. I'm sad and pathetic. Well, you know the drill. Read and review! Merry Christmas!
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