~*GREEN EYES*~
Chapter 24-Diaries, Problems, and Faries
IMPORTANT! Re-read chapters 4, 5 and 10 or else the chapters that start when they start 6th year it will not make sense. Sorry, I don't mean to bore you or cause problems for you. Oh, and this is only for if you started the story before 4/13/02. Thanx, now on with the show.
It was not long before Lily's family went to the camping trip that they went on every year. Lily was very excited, her long time friend Carrie would be coming to see them. She had gone through elementry school with Jamie and Lily, and they had been best friends until Lily and Jamie went to Hogwarts and Carrie went to boarding school. They were now on their way to pick her up, and Lily was telling her friends how they should behave so there wouldn't be any problems. Especially Sirius.
"Ok, so what have we learned?" asked Lily.
"Magic can only be used for simple stuff like warming up the water for showers," said James obediantly.
"Very good. Sirius, tell me what you've learned," demanded Lily. Sirius sighed and then responded.
"Aretha Franklin is cool but guys don't listen to her. Instead I should listen to something more appropriate like the Beatles," replied Sirius.
"Right. Remus?" said Lily.
"Hogwarts doesn't exist, we go to Gillton's Boarding school," said Remus. Lily gave them a round of applause.
"Ok, we're coming up to Carrie's house now. I'll go in and get her with Lily, and you will wait in the car, understand?" asked Jamie. Sirius raised his hand,
"I gots a problem. I don't know about this thingy, what are we doin again?" he questioned. Jamie gave him a dirty look and didn't respond. "Gosh, what's your problem, I just asked for a little help!"
The boys waited in the car until Lily and Jamie came back with Carrie. She was blonde, with deep, chocolate eyes, and very pretty. Her hair fell to her waist in curls, and she talked and laughed with Lily. Soon they were in the car and Lily introduced everyone.
"Ok, Carrie, this is Remus, James and Sirius. They're my friends from school. Everyone, this is Carrie," said Lily. Carrie shook hands with everyone and then sat down between Jamie and Lily.
"So what's up?" she asked.
"The ceiling," said Sirius, looking up.
"Oh, we're just on our way to go camping," explained James.
"Yeah, I know, I'm coming with you!" she said, in a duh tone of voice.
"The sky and the sun," continued Sirius.
"Oh, well actually we were a little bored in the, um, car so we wanted something to do," said Remus.
"Some clouds," said Sirius.
"Well, why don't we turn on some music?" suggested Carrie. She didn't give them time to respond before she turned on the radio and music blasted through the car. Mr. and Mrs. Evans smiled, they liked this song.
"Oh, this is a good one!" exclaimed Lily, as she started singing to "I'm a Believer."
"Oh my God that cloud looks like an elephant!" yelled Sirius. Nobody listened.
"Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer," sang Lily.
"Without a trace, of doubt in my mind," sang Jamie. Then Carrie started to sing, in a very beautiful voice.
"I'm in love, I'm a believer, I coul--" but Sirius cut her short.
"Look, there's a birdy too!" he said, overly excited. Carrie turned and then started to yell at him.
"Excuse me, you're interupting my solo!" she shreiked. Sirius quieted down for a little bit as Carrie sang, but then he couldn't contain himself any longer.
"I wonder what it would be like to be a slice of cheese..." he stated, which caused Carrie to give him the strangest look.
"Excuse me, Sirius that's your name right?" said Carrie. Sirius nodded. "Has anyone ever told you that you're crazy?"
"Crazy, I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room, with a rubber rat. Rats, they make me crazy. Crazy, I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room, with a rubber rat..." said Sirius. James rested his head against his seat. This was going to be a long trip.
***
"Oh Lauren dearest, will you come and help me, please?" said Roy. Lauren knew that he wanted something, otherwise he wouldn't have been nice to her, so she walked up to her brother's room and opened the door.
"Where are you?" she asked.
"Right over here!" yelled Roy. Then she saw him, curled up into a ball at the side of his bed. She walked over to him and immediately found out why. He was being attacked by little tiny green faries, and they seemed to be doing a good job. Lauren laughed, she had been wondering when this would happen.
"So, you've been reading my diary again." stated Lauren. Every year she cursed her diary so that anyone who read it would have some sort of magical prank pulled on them. Last year they would be adorned in Christmas lights, before that they started shooting milk out of various body parts for no reason at all, and they year before they grew fangs and purple fur. Roy ALWAYS read her diary, and he ALWAYS got cursed.
"Oh, that was your diary. I didn't see that, I thought it was my calender. Silly me." he said, but of course Lauren didn't believe him.
"Why would you have a pink fuzzy calender? And it did say, 'Danger, don't read beyond this point' on the first page. So spill, tell me what you saw." demanded Lauren, laughing. Roy didn't seem to think that it was that funny.
"Why should I tell you?" he asked, still trying to fend of the little faries.
"Why should I make the faries go away?" asked Lauren. Roy seemed to see the reasoning behind this and began to tell her.
"I saw a whole bunch of...ow...stuff about Sir...OUCH get off me!...Sirius!" he explained. "Now make the faries go away!" he yelled as a rather large one tried to fly up his nose. Lauren laughed.
"Well Roy, I would, but we can't use magic outside of school. Sorry!" apoligized Lauren as she got out of the room and made her way into the kitchen.
"Hello Lauren dear. Would you like to explain this?" asked her father sternly, shoving a letter in front of her. Lauren read it and then got very angry.
Dear Miss Carlson,
As you know, an imitation charm was used at your house at aproximently 10:04 AM. I must remind you that it is illegal for underage withces and wizards to use magic at any time while they are away from school, under any circumstances. If there is another problem, we will be forced to notify your headmaster immediatly.
"Well that's stupid! I didn't cast the curse at home, I did it at school," said Lauren, pushing the letter aside and buttering some toast.
"What curse? This isn't like before is it?" asked Naomi Lockhart, Lauren's step-mother.
"Oh no, this one's better," explained Lauren. Naomi sighed and leaned back against her chair, her and Lauren didn't get along too well.
"You know, you really shouldn't curse your diary. That's misuse of magic, you can't just go around cursing muggle things, it's a crime," said her father.
"Oh Daddy, I'm sorry. I really shouldn't have cursed my diary like that. I should have known that there was a possibility that Roy would find it and get attacked by the faries," Lauren appoligized, pouring herself a glass of orange juice.
"That's my girl," said her father, taking up the newspaper again. Lauren ate silently and waited for what would happen when the rather slow Naomi figured out what must be happening to her little boy. It wasn't long when-
"AHHH, faries! You cursed him with faries! Oh Gildebaby, hold on, I'm coming, momma's coming!" she screamed, running toward her son's room.
"Gildebaby, huh?" Lauren said, taking a bite out of her toast.
"Oh Lauren, you're really gonna get it from him this time," said her dad. He didn't know how right he was...
***
"So who exactly is going to be at this camping trip?" asked Sirius.
"That guy with the hair," said Carrie while filing her fingernails. Sirius ignored her as he unloaded more things from the back of the car.
"Actually, I'd like to know too," said James, picking up the tent and setting it down near Lily. "Oh, I brought my own tent by the way."
"Why do you need to know, you'll meet them when they come," questioned Carrie. She was done with the filing and now she was painting her nails.
"Why do you have to sit there and paint your nails instead of helping us unpack?" asked Sirius. Nobody answered, and Carrie kept on painting.
"Because I would like to know how to act around them," explained James, as if this was obvious.
"So you don't know how to act around people until you hear their names. Brilliant, just brilliant!" said Carrie. She had finished her finger nails and was now repeating the same process on her toes. James wondered how Lily could have a friend that was so vain.
"They're some of my dad's friends from work. Ted and Liz O'Conner, Chris and Julie Barnes and their two kids Tom and Bryan, Phillip Lane-" started Lily, but Sirius interupted.
"Phillip Lane? He works for the ministry," he stated, which suprised Lily. Carrie snorted.
"The ministry?" she asked, raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow.
"I meant the government. I didn't get too much sleep last night," explained Sirius. Carrie thought that he was crazy, so she didn't go into it any further.
"Ok, all the stuff's unpacked," said Jamie happily. "Lily, James and Remus, why don't you help put up James' tent, Sirius and Carrie you can help me." They split off into the groups and Lily looked down at James' small tent. It looked like a four-person tent, but Lily wasn't sure. Evidently Remus was wondering the same thing.
"James, how many people does this fit?" asked Remus.
"It's a twenty man tent, but we only have beds in here for fifteen," he proclaimed proudly.
"Twenty?" asked Lily.
"Yeah," said James, as if this wasn't the least bit odd.
"So, what does it have in it?" asked Remus, who found this all perfectly normal.
"Jacuzzi, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, living room and ball room," he said, putting the first pole into the ground. Lily could tell that he camped a lot, but she still didn't understand the tent. Finally it was up, and Lily had a look inside.
The tent really was huge. It opened up into a grand ballroom, with a grand staircase leading up. James explained that was where the bedrooms and two bathrooms were. Downstairs were the kitchen and living room, and a jacuzzi with a gazebo over it. Everything was very well decorated, with a fountain in the middle of the ballroom and a few ice scultpures that wouldn't melt because they were kept cold by magic. James said that everyone was welcome to come into this tent with him, and then Lily realized something.
"Um, James, this is not a muggle tent," she said.
"What? I looked in a whole bunch of muggle catalogs, this is what they have for sale, they look exactly like this!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah, on the outside maybe," said Lily. She then summoned a small pebble and trasfigured it into a muggle tent. "This is a muggle tent. Go ahead, go inside." They went in and came out pretty quickly.
"Talk about your fixer-uper," said Remus.
"Tell me about it," said James.
"Ok, well we can't use this tent then. But we have to, mum and dad just drove off to the parking lot with the spare tent, and we're not allowed to go back up there. My parents rules, just yourself and the wilderness." explained Lily. Remus grinned and picked up the muggle tent.
"Right. So we just put this tent in the doorway and nobody will ever know. I'll make a door, and Lily can charm it to only open with a password. Then James can disguise it, it will be prefect. There's food and drink, nothing like muggle camping. We'll be wizard camping all the way!" said Remus. They quickly disguised the tent and set a password (snikerdoodle) and then went to see how well their friends were faring. They had been in charge of putting up Lily's parents large 8 person tent. It didn't seem to be going too well though. Carrie kept complaining about her hair, and about how she couldn't wait to retire to her own tent to fix it.
"I have a very nice tent, it's a four person. And it's pink, with windows. You would love it, it's great! Jamie, I really think you should come in there with me, I have bean bag chairs and inflatable matresses, it would be fun!" exclaimed Carrie. Then she added in an undertone, "I can't belive Lily, she's gotten so, I don't know, different. I don't know how she landed a boyfriend that's as good looking as James. But he'll be mine before the night's over."
"So how's the tent going?" asked Lily, smiling. Carrie turned around but they figured that Lily couldn't hear her.
"Oh, we're done. Now we just have to put mine up. You guys are going to be in the other tent, you don't know what you're missing!" said Carrie. Lily sniggered, Carrie really don't know what she was missing.
"Oh, don't worry, that's fine. We'll have fun in our tent, I'm sure," explained Remus.
"Yeah, right, there will be four people in there. And you're going to have to be in close proximity to this loser-" she motioned to Sirius- "I don't think I could mannage."
Lily didn't say anything, she went to finish unpacking.
***
"So what should I do to this Sirius person?" asked Roy.
"Nothing. You should just leave him alone, he's one of the most popular guys in school, he'll beat you up," said Lauren. Roy didn't seem to mind.
"Who would put these beautiful teeth in jeopordy? Besides, we don't have to do anything mean to him. How about a nice chat?" wondered Roy. Lauren was very mad about this.
"How about you get attacked by faries again?" suggested Lauren. Roy stiffened, his whole life he would be deathly afraid of faries, but then he had a better idea. He pulled a wand and yelled "Stupefy!" However, his spell didn't work too well, Lauren was just really stiff.
"That's Dad's wand, he'll be very mad if he finds out that you've been messing with it. And he will find out, I'll tell him, don't worry!"
"Now this is where the fun begins," said Roy, grabbing a big box and getting to work.
***
Lily, James, Remus, Jamie, Sirius and Carrie were sitting around the campfire with the rest of the people there, very much enjoying themselves. They had just eaten some superb teryaki chicken and were now settling down by telling ghost stories around the fire. It was now Sirius' turn, and he turned to little Tom and Bryan Barnes. They were only 7 and 9 years old, and they just loved ghost stories.
"Once upon a time there was a little girl that was a lot like Lily, Jamie and Carrie here when they were little. Except she was different. She could do magic!" started Sirius. Tom and Bryan ooohed and aaahed here. "So she practiced and she practiced and she became very powerful. She was so powerful that there were a lot of people that stopped liking her. Some people that had powerful friends, and they decided that they were going to kill the little girl.
"The most evil one, you could call him the ringleader of this whole thing, got some of his friends together. But they were not just any friends, oh no. They were giants. Now, I don't know if you know about giants, but they are not very nice people. No, they crush your bones and sit on your head and eat the jelly that's in your eyeballs. The evil man thought that the giants would be the best way to get rid of the little girl.
"Now on this particular day the little girl was sitting in her backyard practicing her magic. She was getting very good at charms that would make her bedroom clean itself when the giants knocked on her back door-"
"Why did the giants knock?" asked Tom.
"Because the giants wanted to scare her. So she checked the door and the giants busted into her house and tried to pick her up. But she was fast, she ran and she ran and she ran, and she ran straight into her fireplace. But this was not a normal fireplace. When you went through the fireplace, it would take you places. So the fireplace started spinning her around and-"
But they never found out what happened to the little girl and the giants, for at that moment Lauren Carlson and Gilderoy Lockhart came to them through the muggle campfire.
A/N Oh look another cliffhanger. Yes, I know that I am evil. I'm sorry this took soooooooooo long to get up, I'll really try to get better about that. The next chapter is in the works, and it will be up soon. Of course, the more you review the sooner it will be up. I say 185 reviews would be a good incentive for me...
Oh yes, and as you may have noticed I am re-doing the format of the stories, which (I think) is making them just a little bit easier to read. I hope you like it.
And a last note, that you to Star*Dust for being so nice and reviewing my stories, it's not everyday you get one of your fave fan-fic writers (she's awesome, read The Last Laugh) telling you that your story is good. And Pepsiangel has gotten chapter seven of It's A Hairdressers Life For Us up, go read that too!
Disclaimer- I must bow to my idol, J.K. Rowling, it was her idea. Well, except my idea, do you get it? You can sue me if you want, but the court will just laugh at you unless your someone big and important, in which case, I'm poor, please don't sue me!!!!!!!
Chapter 24-Diaries, Problems, and Faries
IMPORTANT! Re-read chapters 4, 5 and 10 or else the chapters that start when they start 6th year it will not make sense. Sorry, I don't mean to bore you or cause problems for you. Oh, and this is only for if you started the story before 4/13/02. Thanx, now on with the show.
It was not long before Lily's family went to the camping trip that they went on every year. Lily was very excited, her long time friend Carrie would be coming to see them. She had gone through elementry school with Jamie and Lily, and they had been best friends until Lily and Jamie went to Hogwarts and Carrie went to boarding school. They were now on their way to pick her up, and Lily was telling her friends how they should behave so there wouldn't be any problems. Especially Sirius.
"Ok, so what have we learned?" asked Lily.
"Magic can only be used for simple stuff like warming up the water for showers," said James obediantly.
"Very good. Sirius, tell me what you've learned," demanded Lily. Sirius sighed and then responded.
"Aretha Franklin is cool but guys don't listen to her. Instead I should listen to something more appropriate like the Beatles," replied Sirius.
"Right. Remus?" said Lily.
"Hogwarts doesn't exist, we go to Gillton's Boarding school," said Remus. Lily gave them a round of applause.
"Ok, we're coming up to Carrie's house now. I'll go in and get her with Lily, and you will wait in the car, understand?" asked Jamie. Sirius raised his hand,
"I gots a problem. I don't know about this thingy, what are we doin again?" he questioned. Jamie gave him a dirty look and didn't respond. "Gosh, what's your problem, I just asked for a little help!"
The boys waited in the car until Lily and Jamie came back with Carrie. She was blonde, with deep, chocolate eyes, and very pretty. Her hair fell to her waist in curls, and she talked and laughed with Lily. Soon they were in the car and Lily introduced everyone.
"Ok, Carrie, this is Remus, James and Sirius. They're my friends from school. Everyone, this is Carrie," said Lily. Carrie shook hands with everyone and then sat down between Jamie and Lily.
"So what's up?" she asked.
"The ceiling," said Sirius, looking up.
"Oh, we're just on our way to go camping," explained James.
"Yeah, I know, I'm coming with you!" she said, in a duh tone of voice.
"The sky and the sun," continued Sirius.
"Oh, well actually we were a little bored in the, um, car so we wanted something to do," said Remus.
"Some clouds," said Sirius.
"Well, why don't we turn on some music?" suggested Carrie. She didn't give them time to respond before she turned on the radio and music blasted through the car. Mr. and Mrs. Evans smiled, they liked this song.
"Oh, this is a good one!" exclaimed Lily, as she started singing to "I'm a Believer."
"Oh my God that cloud looks like an elephant!" yelled Sirius. Nobody listened.
"Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer," sang Lily.
"Without a trace, of doubt in my mind," sang Jamie. Then Carrie started to sing, in a very beautiful voice.
"I'm in love, I'm a believer, I coul--" but Sirius cut her short.
"Look, there's a birdy too!" he said, overly excited. Carrie turned and then started to yell at him.
"Excuse me, you're interupting my solo!" she shreiked. Sirius quieted down for a little bit as Carrie sang, but then he couldn't contain himself any longer.
"I wonder what it would be like to be a slice of cheese..." he stated, which caused Carrie to give him the strangest look.
"Excuse me, Sirius that's your name right?" said Carrie. Sirius nodded. "Has anyone ever told you that you're crazy?"
"Crazy, I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room, with a rubber rat. Rats, they make me crazy. Crazy, I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room, with a rubber rat..." said Sirius. James rested his head against his seat. This was going to be a long trip.
***
"Oh Lauren dearest, will you come and help me, please?" said Roy. Lauren knew that he wanted something, otherwise he wouldn't have been nice to her, so she walked up to her brother's room and opened the door.
"Where are you?" she asked.
"Right over here!" yelled Roy. Then she saw him, curled up into a ball at the side of his bed. She walked over to him and immediately found out why. He was being attacked by little tiny green faries, and they seemed to be doing a good job. Lauren laughed, she had been wondering when this would happen.
"So, you've been reading my diary again." stated Lauren. Every year she cursed her diary so that anyone who read it would have some sort of magical prank pulled on them. Last year they would be adorned in Christmas lights, before that they started shooting milk out of various body parts for no reason at all, and they year before they grew fangs and purple fur. Roy ALWAYS read her diary, and he ALWAYS got cursed.
"Oh, that was your diary. I didn't see that, I thought it was my calender. Silly me." he said, but of course Lauren didn't believe him.
"Why would you have a pink fuzzy calender? And it did say, 'Danger, don't read beyond this point' on the first page. So spill, tell me what you saw." demanded Lauren, laughing. Roy didn't seem to think that it was that funny.
"Why should I tell you?" he asked, still trying to fend of the little faries.
"Why should I make the faries go away?" asked Lauren. Roy seemed to see the reasoning behind this and began to tell her.
"I saw a whole bunch of...ow...stuff about Sir...OUCH get off me!...Sirius!" he explained. "Now make the faries go away!" he yelled as a rather large one tried to fly up his nose. Lauren laughed.
"Well Roy, I would, but we can't use magic outside of school. Sorry!" apoligized Lauren as she got out of the room and made her way into the kitchen.
"Hello Lauren dear. Would you like to explain this?" asked her father sternly, shoving a letter in front of her. Lauren read it and then got very angry.
Dear Miss Carlson,
As you know, an imitation charm was used at your house at aproximently 10:04 AM. I must remind you that it is illegal for underage withces and wizards to use magic at any time while they are away from school, under any circumstances. If there is another problem, we will be forced to notify your headmaster immediatly.
"Well that's stupid! I didn't cast the curse at home, I did it at school," said Lauren, pushing the letter aside and buttering some toast.
"What curse? This isn't like before is it?" asked Naomi Lockhart, Lauren's step-mother.
"Oh no, this one's better," explained Lauren. Naomi sighed and leaned back against her chair, her and Lauren didn't get along too well.
"You know, you really shouldn't curse your diary. That's misuse of magic, you can't just go around cursing muggle things, it's a crime," said her father.
"Oh Daddy, I'm sorry. I really shouldn't have cursed my diary like that. I should have known that there was a possibility that Roy would find it and get attacked by the faries," Lauren appoligized, pouring herself a glass of orange juice.
"That's my girl," said her father, taking up the newspaper again. Lauren ate silently and waited for what would happen when the rather slow Naomi figured out what must be happening to her little boy. It wasn't long when-
"AHHH, faries! You cursed him with faries! Oh Gildebaby, hold on, I'm coming, momma's coming!" she screamed, running toward her son's room.
"Gildebaby, huh?" Lauren said, taking a bite out of her toast.
"Oh Lauren, you're really gonna get it from him this time," said her dad. He didn't know how right he was...
***
"So who exactly is going to be at this camping trip?" asked Sirius.
"That guy with the hair," said Carrie while filing her fingernails. Sirius ignored her as he unloaded more things from the back of the car.
"Actually, I'd like to know too," said James, picking up the tent and setting it down near Lily. "Oh, I brought my own tent by the way."
"Why do you need to know, you'll meet them when they come," questioned Carrie. She was done with the filing and now she was painting her nails.
"Why do you have to sit there and paint your nails instead of helping us unpack?" asked Sirius. Nobody answered, and Carrie kept on painting.
"Because I would like to know how to act around them," explained James, as if this was obvious.
"So you don't know how to act around people until you hear their names. Brilliant, just brilliant!" said Carrie. She had finished her finger nails and was now repeating the same process on her toes. James wondered how Lily could have a friend that was so vain.
"They're some of my dad's friends from work. Ted and Liz O'Conner, Chris and Julie Barnes and their two kids Tom and Bryan, Phillip Lane-" started Lily, but Sirius interupted.
"Phillip Lane? He works for the ministry," he stated, which suprised Lily. Carrie snorted.
"The ministry?" she asked, raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow.
"I meant the government. I didn't get too much sleep last night," explained Sirius. Carrie thought that he was crazy, so she didn't go into it any further.
"Ok, all the stuff's unpacked," said Jamie happily. "Lily, James and Remus, why don't you help put up James' tent, Sirius and Carrie you can help me." They split off into the groups and Lily looked down at James' small tent. It looked like a four-person tent, but Lily wasn't sure. Evidently Remus was wondering the same thing.
"James, how many people does this fit?" asked Remus.
"It's a twenty man tent, but we only have beds in here for fifteen," he proclaimed proudly.
"Twenty?" asked Lily.
"Yeah," said James, as if this wasn't the least bit odd.
"So, what does it have in it?" asked Remus, who found this all perfectly normal.
"Jacuzzi, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, living room and ball room," he said, putting the first pole into the ground. Lily could tell that he camped a lot, but she still didn't understand the tent. Finally it was up, and Lily had a look inside.
The tent really was huge. It opened up into a grand ballroom, with a grand staircase leading up. James explained that was where the bedrooms and two bathrooms were. Downstairs were the kitchen and living room, and a jacuzzi with a gazebo over it. Everything was very well decorated, with a fountain in the middle of the ballroom and a few ice scultpures that wouldn't melt because they were kept cold by magic. James said that everyone was welcome to come into this tent with him, and then Lily realized something.
"Um, James, this is not a muggle tent," she said.
"What? I looked in a whole bunch of muggle catalogs, this is what they have for sale, they look exactly like this!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah, on the outside maybe," said Lily. She then summoned a small pebble and trasfigured it into a muggle tent. "This is a muggle tent. Go ahead, go inside." They went in and came out pretty quickly.
"Talk about your fixer-uper," said Remus.
"Tell me about it," said James.
"Ok, well we can't use this tent then. But we have to, mum and dad just drove off to the parking lot with the spare tent, and we're not allowed to go back up there. My parents rules, just yourself and the wilderness." explained Lily. Remus grinned and picked up the muggle tent.
"Right. So we just put this tent in the doorway and nobody will ever know. I'll make a door, and Lily can charm it to only open with a password. Then James can disguise it, it will be prefect. There's food and drink, nothing like muggle camping. We'll be wizard camping all the way!" said Remus. They quickly disguised the tent and set a password (snikerdoodle) and then went to see how well their friends were faring. They had been in charge of putting up Lily's parents large 8 person tent. It didn't seem to be going too well though. Carrie kept complaining about her hair, and about how she couldn't wait to retire to her own tent to fix it.
"I have a very nice tent, it's a four person. And it's pink, with windows. You would love it, it's great! Jamie, I really think you should come in there with me, I have bean bag chairs and inflatable matresses, it would be fun!" exclaimed Carrie. Then she added in an undertone, "I can't belive Lily, she's gotten so, I don't know, different. I don't know how she landed a boyfriend that's as good looking as James. But he'll be mine before the night's over."
"So how's the tent going?" asked Lily, smiling. Carrie turned around but they figured that Lily couldn't hear her.
"Oh, we're done. Now we just have to put mine up. You guys are going to be in the other tent, you don't know what you're missing!" said Carrie. Lily sniggered, Carrie really don't know what she was missing.
"Oh, don't worry, that's fine. We'll have fun in our tent, I'm sure," explained Remus.
"Yeah, right, there will be four people in there. And you're going to have to be in close proximity to this loser-" she motioned to Sirius- "I don't think I could mannage."
Lily didn't say anything, she went to finish unpacking.
***
"So what should I do to this Sirius person?" asked Roy.
"Nothing. You should just leave him alone, he's one of the most popular guys in school, he'll beat you up," said Lauren. Roy didn't seem to mind.
"Who would put these beautiful teeth in jeopordy? Besides, we don't have to do anything mean to him. How about a nice chat?" wondered Roy. Lauren was very mad about this.
"How about you get attacked by faries again?" suggested Lauren. Roy stiffened, his whole life he would be deathly afraid of faries, but then he had a better idea. He pulled a wand and yelled "Stupefy!" However, his spell didn't work too well, Lauren was just really stiff.
"That's Dad's wand, he'll be very mad if he finds out that you've been messing with it. And he will find out, I'll tell him, don't worry!"
"Now this is where the fun begins," said Roy, grabbing a big box and getting to work.
***
Lily, James, Remus, Jamie, Sirius and Carrie were sitting around the campfire with the rest of the people there, very much enjoying themselves. They had just eaten some superb teryaki chicken and were now settling down by telling ghost stories around the fire. It was now Sirius' turn, and he turned to little Tom and Bryan Barnes. They were only 7 and 9 years old, and they just loved ghost stories.
"Once upon a time there was a little girl that was a lot like Lily, Jamie and Carrie here when they were little. Except she was different. She could do magic!" started Sirius. Tom and Bryan ooohed and aaahed here. "So she practiced and she practiced and she became very powerful. She was so powerful that there were a lot of people that stopped liking her. Some people that had powerful friends, and they decided that they were going to kill the little girl.
"The most evil one, you could call him the ringleader of this whole thing, got some of his friends together. But they were not just any friends, oh no. They were giants. Now, I don't know if you know about giants, but they are not very nice people. No, they crush your bones and sit on your head and eat the jelly that's in your eyeballs. The evil man thought that the giants would be the best way to get rid of the little girl.
"Now on this particular day the little girl was sitting in her backyard practicing her magic. She was getting very good at charms that would make her bedroom clean itself when the giants knocked on her back door-"
"Why did the giants knock?" asked Tom.
"Because the giants wanted to scare her. So she checked the door and the giants busted into her house and tried to pick her up. But she was fast, she ran and she ran and she ran, and she ran straight into her fireplace. But this was not a normal fireplace. When you went through the fireplace, it would take you places. So the fireplace started spinning her around and-"
But they never found out what happened to the little girl and the giants, for at that moment Lauren Carlson and Gilderoy Lockhart came to them through the muggle campfire.
A/N Oh look another cliffhanger. Yes, I know that I am evil. I'm sorry this took soooooooooo long to get up, I'll really try to get better about that. The next chapter is in the works, and it will be up soon. Of course, the more you review the sooner it will be up. I say 185 reviews would be a good incentive for me...
Oh yes, and as you may have noticed I am re-doing the format of the stories, which (I think) is making them just a little bit easier to read. I hope you like it.
And a last note, that you to Star*Dust for being so nice and reviewing my stories, it's not everyday you get one of your fave fan-fic writers (she's awesome, read The Last Laugh) telling you that your story is good. And Pepsiangel has gotten chapter seven of It's A Hairdressers Life For Us up, go read that too!
Disclaimer- I must bow to my idol, J.K. Rowling, it was her idea. Well, except my idea, do you get it? You can sue me if you want, but the court will just laugh at you unless your someone big and important, in which case, I'm poor, please don't sue me!!!!!!!