Chapter 29-Of Roses, Monkeys, and---Jeanine?
Also, I am not making fun of cheerleaders. I wouldn't do that because I am one. I just couldn't think of any other way to describe what Lily does. So if you're a cheerleader and you think I'm evil or something, please don't be offended, that's defiantly NOT what I meant. Oh yeah, and when I use Jeanine's nickname (Nene) it's pronounced KneeKnee. Just like the body part. Just in case you didn't get that.
If you don't know, alchemy is a renaissance form of chemistry where the chemists tried to turn lead into gold. I don't know if hogwarts teaches it or not, but I felt like putting it in there anyway, so if you don't like it, sue me.
Ok, that was a ridiculously long author's note, and I bet you all want to know what's going to happen to our lovely heroine Lily and her dishonest beau, so on with the show.
"Lils, there's a package at the door for you. It looks pretty big, and it's blocking the hallway, so maybe you should go and pick it up," said Sara Thomas. Even though the two were room mates, Lily hadn't been very close to Sara since she and Remus broke up. She hadn't yet told Sara what had happened.
"Screw the package," replied Lily, shouting at Sara.
"What's your problem? Since when have you gotten so-" but Sara stopped talking as she walked into her and Lily's room. Lily was sitting on her bed, reading a letter with tears spilling down her cheeks. The dozens of roses that Lily had been hanging on her walls since forever were behind the headboard of her four poster. The torches were out and little tiny candles were lit all over the room. A love song was playing in the background, and Sara knew instantly what was wrong.
"'Lily, I love you so much and I am just writing this letter to let you know how special you are to me. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, forever, and I promise that I will never hurt you,'" Lily read in a condescending tone. She abruptly threw the letter with much more force then you would think you could throw a letter with. "LIAR!" she screamed. She didn't notice that the letter caught fire and dropped onto the ground, causing a two foot flame to rise from the ground. Sara quickly put it out with her wand and then fixed the burn mark on her rug.
"Lily, are you okay?" asked Sara. Lily gave her a look.
"No, I like to do this in my free time. I'm perfectly peachy," said Lily sarcastically, with a little cheerleader-esque giggle.
"Do you feel like telling me what's wrong or are you gonna sit there all day?" asked Sara, with an edge to her voice.
"That little bitch, Jeanine Anderson, I swear to God I'm gonna sneak into the Ravenclaw common room and....well, I don't know what I'll do, but it will be bad," said Lily. She threw a glass sculpture against the wall. It shattered into a million pieces. Lily casually picked up her wand and put the figurine back together, then set it next to her.
"I don't even want to know how many times you've broken that today. You know what, I think I'll just get out of your way," said Sara, backing out of the dorm.
"You do that," said Lily, picking up another letter. Sara left the room quickly, and on her way out she bumped into Sirius Black, carrying the package that James had sent to her.
"Hey Lils, it's a little dark and depressing in here. Do you mind if I change things around a little bit?" asked Sirius. He didn't wait for a response. He blew out all of the candles and then transformed a crystal ball into a disco ball. This he enlarged, put at the top of the room and turned on. Then music that Lily knew all too well rushed through the speakers.
"I got a new record. It's great. Ah ah ah ah stayin' alive stayin''' alive, ah ah ah ah stayin'' alive...." sang Sirius, his voice reminding Lily of a frog with laryngitis. She had to laugh. "Oh, see, you're laughing, that's good."
"Sirius, as much as I love spending time with you, do you think you can please leave me alone and get this music away from me. I want some time to think," said Lily.
"Fine, fine, I see how it is," said Sirius. He changed the music to something that sounded like it was from a bad horror movie, and changed Lily's decorations to match.
"SIRIUS!" yelled Lily, but he was already out the door, on his way to James' dorm. As he went he tried to figure out how he had gotten in the middle of all this. He also pondered what would happen if he woke up as a monkey. With all the pondering he was doing, he made it to James' dorm in no time.
"Alooooooha!" he said, opening the door. James gave him a Look that was not too different from Lily's Look.
"Don't you ever knock?" yelled James. Sirius rolled his eyes.
"I think you're forgetting that this is my dorm too. You know, we're roommates, the whole roommate thing. Yeah, I think you're getting it," said Sirius.
"Sirius, don't you think you could shut up and be serious?" asked James.
"Okay, okay. So how's the weather, did you see that sky today now talk about blue?" said Sirius.
"Yeah. Blue. Great," said James monotonously. Gosh this conversation was getting boring. Sirius let his mind slip for awhile and pondered how much better it would be if everyone else woke up a monkey. There was an acquired pause, and then Sirius decided to initiate the conversation.
"James, are you okay with this?" asked Sirius, changing his tone.
"Uh-huh. Why wouldn't I be okay?" replied James, taking out a pen and starting his homework.
"You know, that whole thing with you and Lily, that break up? Do you remember that?" said Sirius sarcastically.
"We're not broken up, we're on a break," said James, distantly.
"But how do you feel about it James, seriously. I mean, Lily is up in her room crying her eyes out, don't you think I might be worried about you too?" Sirius was now getting kind of sarcastic, which he felt bad for, but James was almost ignoring him.
"Why the hell should she be sad? She's the one who broke up with me. This should make her happy. Look at me, I'm fine. Don't I look fine?" demanded James.
"I thought that you guys were on a break," said Sirius. James instantly got that, Sirius I know you are trying to help me out but you're acting like an idiot look.
"You know what, I have an appointment with some house elves down in the kitchen. I'll bring you up some cake," said Sirius. As he walked out the door and into the common room, he felt horribly. The last thing he asked for was to be in the middle of this. Actually, he never asked for it at all. Once again, for the third time that day, Sirius thought it might be easier if they were all monkeys...
Jeanine Anderson sat in the Ravenclaw common room, trying to finish her homework that was due on monday. Today was friday. She had a whole, uneventful weekend in front of her. She took a look at her last alchemy problem.
Laura needs to compare the density of mercury to that of water. Using the formula density=mass/volume, find out which is more dense, and the ratio of the two densities.
Jeanine finished it quickly. That was one of those easy review problems. She ran her fingers through her blonde streaked chestnut hair, and started to listen to the conversation that her two friends Angela and Leslie were having.
"And so Lily walks up, and she's all crying and everything, I wouldn't be if I had been going out with that piece of crap, and she says, I don't think I can trust you anymore, let's take a break," said Angela. Leslie looked up at her.
"Seriously. Oh, isn't she such the melodramatic little princess," responded Leslie, pushing her short black hair behind her ear.
"Look who's talking," said Jeanine, putting down her things and joining the conversation. "Wait, so what happened with Lily and James?"
"Oh. My. God. I can't believe you don't know. It's been all around school," said Angela.
"Okay..." said Jeanine, prompting Angela to go on.
"They broke up!" exclaimed Leslie happily. Jeanine rolled her eyes.
"They're on a break. Seriously, don't you listen? So anyway, James was on his way to quidditch practice when some girl asked him to tutor her in transfiguration and Lily caught them making out in the back of a classroom and so when he came back she tested him and he failed, I guess, because they're on a break," explained Angela. Jeanine paled, but Leslie didn't noticed.
"No, I heard that Jamie caught them all over each other in Lily's dorm. And James had his shirt off. Whoever that girl is must be such a slut," said Leslie.
"No kidding. What do you think Jeanine? Jeanine? Come on, what's your problem?" said Angela.
"He didn't make out with her. And they weren't in Lily's dorm for christ sakes. This is how rumors spread at Hogwarts. He was just helping her with her transfiguration homework. And she didn't know he was supposed to be at practice," explained Jeanine.
"And you exactly do you know this?" asked Leslie.
"Because he was helping me," replied Jeanine.
"Oh my God Nene, I didn't mean to call you a slut. I didn't know it was you!" said Leslie.
"It's okay. But if that kind of rumor is going around, if I caused that much trouble...well I have to apologize to someone," said Jeanine. She quickly said her good-byes and rushed out of her common room.
"Lily, I know you said to leave you alone, but I've got someone here who wants to meet you," said Sirius. The door opened in front of him. Lily was still sitting on her bed, but she seemed less distraught now. She even attempted a slight smile.
"Hey you. I'm sorry I was all weird before. I was really upset. Nothing against you," said Lily.
"No problem, I understand, stranger things have happened. So, are you getting to be okay with this?" asked Sirius. Lily thought about that for awhile.
"Yeah, I'm okay with it I guess," Lily sighed. "I just wish he would show some emotion or something. It's like he's dead to the whole situation."
"You know as well I as can that you can see right through him. He's hurt, he just doesn't show it. That's the way he is," said Sirius.
"I know, I know, it's just...well...oh I don't know what I'm saying. I miss James," said Lily.
"It will be okay. And speaking of him, are you aware that you have about a bizillion roses out there?" asked Sirius. Lily lit up.
"Really? The last package I got from him was all my things back--you know, my books and such. Why would he send me roses," Lily thought out loud. It didn't seem like a James type thing to do, and she was pretty sure she knew James well....
Sure enough, outside Lily's door, were about ten dozen roses. Lily picked up the first ones and read the card, expected to see James' name. She was suprised when she read Dear Lily, I hope these make you feel better. Love, Chris. Lily read the rest of the cards. They were all from other guys, mostly fifth and sixth years, although one brave first year had sent her a dozen.
"What...why...okay, I don't understand why I have gotten so many stupid flowers," said Lily. She turned to Sirius, looking for an explanation.
"Well, you are pretty well known here, and lots of guys think that you are very attractive, and you know guys, they find out that you and James broke up-" started Sirius.
"We're on a break," interrupted Lily.
"Right, right. So they find out that you are 'on a break' and they figure that they will snag you before anyone else does," explained Sirius.
"Unsympathetic assholes," said Lily.
"Yeah, tell me about it. Oh, and speaking of..." Sirius summoned something from down the hall. A bouqet of black roses, tied in a red ribbon, rushed toward Lily. She caught them.
"Black roses?" asked Lily.
"Yeah, I couldn't remember what the color of mourning for roses was," said Sirius.
"Oh, I see," said Lily, tossing them on her bed. She took out her wand and started to turn them red when Sirius took it out of her hands.
"If you really want them to be a different color, let me do it," said Sirius. He did a quick charm and they turned metallic blue, reflecting the light.
"Thank you, they're beautiful," said Lily, giving Sirius a hug.
"So you don't think I'm an 'unsympathetic asshole?'" asked Sirius.
"As long as you're not trying to 'sang me before someone else does,'" replied Lily.
"Well, if you think the flowers are cool, that's nothing compared to what I have in store for you next!" said Sirius rushing out of the room. She heard a weird howling, shrieking noise, but she wasn't sure what it was. She found out soon though.
"Now careful Lily, the lady at the store told me that Machiko doesn't bite, but be careful just in case she does," said Sirius. Lily looked to the door, knowing that Sirius had some sort of animal, but defiantly not expecting the pet that he brought in. Sirius was standing at the door, smiling happily at Lily, and in his hands was a baby monkey.
A/N (again)- I had originally intended for this chapter to be longer, but I wanted to get it up as soon as I possibly could. Expect the next chapter soon. I don't know where the part with the monkey came in, it wasn't in my first draft, but I think the story will go better this way. In the next chapter, expect a five sided love triangle (a love trapezoid??), painting gone wrong and the horrible truth about sliding glass doors. Until then, toodles! And as always, please review.
Disclaimer- Sadly enough, I don't own Lily, James and co., that's why I'm not rich. I do own Machiko though, and if you decided to sue me (or flame me) I will send her out to destroy you...if I can get her out of the computer first.