~*~GREEN EYES~*~
Chapter 36- A Hogsmeade Trip
Lauren ran toward the library so that she could intercept Lily before the masses got to her. She wanted to be the one to tell Lily that James also had a date to the Halloween Ball. She found her in the charms section, studying some overly difficult charms and completly tuning out everything else.
"Hey Lily," said Lauren. Lily quickly looked up from her book and smiled.
"Oh hi Lauren. Come sit down, what are you doing here?" asked Lily, pulling out the chair next to her.
"I was just in the common room and something happened that I thought you should know abou," replied Lauren as she sat down.
"Did someone light it on fire?" asked Lily, half seriously.
"No, James asked Alyssa to go to the Halloween ball with him. I figured that I would tell you before you found out from someone like Roy," said Lauren. Lily just sat there with a stunned expression on her face and then realized that this was the part where she talked back.
"Alyssa Stevensen, the blonde one? Well I hope he has fun," said Lily, trying her best to hide how bitter she was.
"Are you okay with this Lily?" asked Lauren. Lily nodded.
"Well the way I see it is for every six months you're together you have a two week mourning period. James and I were together for ten months, so I figure that every girl he shows intrest in for the three and a half weeks he has to mourn is just a rebound skank," explained Lily, looking back down at her book. "Not that Alyssa's a skank or anything, but you get what I mean."
"So what about Brandon, is he your 'rebound skank?'" asked Lauren, making little quotes with her fingers.
"No, because that's different," said Lily. "I'm not a guy."
"So what does that have to do with anything?" asked Lauren.
"It just does, ok? Now if you don't mind, I'm kinda working on something here. Toodles!" exclaimed Lily, waving goodbye.
"I will never understand them," Lauren muttered to herself as she walked out of the library and back to the common room.
***
"Hey baby," said Sirius, giving Lauren a kiss as he sat down next to her at the Gryffindor table in the great hall.
"Hey you," replied Lauren. "How's the good life?"
"It's pretty good and lifey. I'm tired of those two though," he said, pointing at Lily and James. They were sitting across from each other, both looking down at their food with the utmost concentration, not speaking at all.
"How long have they been like that?" asked Lauren, digging into her chicken.
"Since the breakup. They do the whole 'not speaking to you' thing followed by the 'I really hate you' thing and then the 'not speaking to you' thing again. It's getting old," said Sirius.
"We don't hate each other," replied Lily and James at the same time. Then they both blushed and looked back at their plates.
"They're perfect for each other. I guess they just need this breakup to realize that," whispered Sirius, so that Lily and James couldn't hear.
"I just hope they realize it soon, because everything is just so much more fun when they're both happy. I just really want them to be happy," Lauren whispered back. At that moment Professor Dumbledore clapped once and the entire great hall turned to look at him.
"I just want to announce that there is going to be a special Hogsmeade trip for all the students that wish to go to the Halloween Ball. I'd ask you to rememer that the dress code is semi-formal, so no dress robes. Remember, only fourth years and up can attend the dance. On another note, the nominations for Halloween King and Queen will be taken during your transfiguration class next week. That is all," said Dumbledore. Lauren turned over to Lily.
"Hey Lils, why don't we get Jamie and Jeanine and do the whole shopping thing together?" asked Lauren.
"That sounds good to me. We'll meet in the common room before we have to leave," said Lily. She loved to shop, and suddenly she was really looking forward to just spending time with the girls.
***
"This whole guitar thing is really making me mad! I can't play the stupid song because I can't play the stupid guitar! Grrrr, that's the only word I can think of, grrr!" exclaimed Sirius. James hadn't told him that Lauren would be teaching him and Remus to play the guitar yet, but she was supposed to be there any minute.
"I think you'll be able to get it soon," said Peter, who had finally learned how to play his songs on the keyboard and was now acting rather smug.
"Really? Because it sounds hopeless to me," said Remus, who then kicked the amp, breaking it in two. He had done that about ten times that day. "Repairo," he muttered and the amp was in working condition again.
"Oh, nothing's hopeless Remus, don't be such a pessimist," said a voice from behind Remus. He looked up and saw Laruen. "Let me see the music you wrote." Remus handed her the music and she frowned as she looked at it.
"What are you doing here, and why are you frowning?" asked Sirius. Lauren glared at him.
"Yeah, I love you too Sirius," she said with a sigh. "I'm teaching you guys to play the guitar, and if you want to learn this music it's gonna take me a really long time."
"Wait, you're teaching us to play the guitar? Who decided on that?" asked Remus.
"Um, James. Didn't he tell you?" asked Lauren. Everyone looked over at James, who started playing his drums louder than ever.
"No, he didn't tell us," said Remus. "But this is good, now maybe we'll sound okay for the battle of the bands."
"Hey hey, how do we know that you're not trying to sabatoge our band so that we lose and you guys win?" asked Sirius. Lauren looked at him.
"Because if we lose, it won't be your band that's gonna beat us honey," explained Lauren. "Now give me the guitar, if you're gonna learn this music we need to start now."
***
"Oh my God this is the best store in all of Hogsmeade!" exclaimed Jeanine, running toward the ice cream parlor.
"You're hungry for ice cream?" asked Lauren. Jeanine shook her head no.
"No, not the ice cream parlor. That," she said, pointing at a sprial staircase that went up about a story into a cloud that seemed to be covering only a small portion of the sky. A sign next to the staircase read "Angelic Fashions" and witches were excitedly climbing up the staircase to where ever it lead to.
"They have an Angelic Fashions here? Since when?" asked Jamie, who was obviosly very excited about this store.
"It just opened. My mom was telling me about it in an owl she sent last week. It's supposed to be the biggest one yet!" said Jeanine, starting to walk up the stiarcase. Lily just gave them a weird look.
"Um, I think I missed something. What's angelic fashions?" she asked. Jamie and Jeanine looked at her like she was crazy.
"It's only the best designer fashion store, like, ever. They have these huge glass stores that are built on clouds, it's really beautiful," explained Jamie. By now they were all the way up the staircase and had entered the most wonderful store that Lily had ever seen. Rows and rows of just pants were on the left side, seperated by color, and on the right side were rows and rows of shirts.
"Come on, all the dresses are upstairs," said Jeanine, dragging Lily up a sprial escalator to the next floor. Here there were rows upon rows of beautiful dresses in every color imaginable, once again seperaed by color.
"Ok, I want light pink this time so I am going to go over to that section," said Lauren, pointing over to her right. "What about you guys?"
"I'm thinking about baby blue," said Jeanine.
"Just simple black for me," said Jamie. Lily looked at the colors and considered her options.
"I think I'm gonna do the whole emerald green thing," she said.
"So I have a plan. Why don't we all go to our respective color preferences and pick out our clothes. We won't show anyone what we picked out, we'll go try them on and then we'll buy them. It will be a secret, won't that be fun?" asked Lauren. Everyone agreed and soon Lily found herself alone at the green section. It took her over an hour to pick out three beauiful dresses, and soon she found herself in a spacious dressing room.
There was purple crushed velvet coming down from the ceiling and surrounding her on three sides. In the back of the dressing room was a wall that had on it an enchanted mirror. Lily tried on the first two dresses and decided that they weren't quite right. She slowly slipped into the last one and the second she had it on she knew that she was destined to have this dress. It was a long velvet spagetthi strap dress that belled out to the floor. The front had an empire top, and there was an ivory bow in the middle just below her bust. She turned and admired herself in the mirror and then, quite to her suprise, the mirror admired her back.
"Hello gorgeous, meow!" it said.
"So you really think this looks good?" asked Lily.
"If you don't buy it I'm gonna call the fashion police on you," it replied.
"So I shouldn't get the first one?"
"No, it's way too expensive and it didn't even look that great on you. And the second one, well that wasn't good. But this last one, you need it."
That was all it took to convince Lily to get the dress, and a few hours later it was being displayed proudly in her closet, making her smile whenever she looked at it. She couldn't wait for the dance.
A/N- Ff.net is being retarted right now, it's not letting me post. I don't know why they're down so much... Anyway I've been updating a lot lately (new years resolution) so I think that you should review a lot to kinda return the favor. Well I hope you liked the chapter, please review. Also, if you want me to email you when I update, you can tell me in a review and I'll be sure to do that.
Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter. That's J.K.R., not me.
Chapter 36- A Hogsmeade Trip
Lauren ran toward the library so that she could intercept Lily before the masses got to her. She wanted to be the one to tell Lily that James also had a date to the Halloween Ball. She found her in the charms section, studying some overly difficult charms and completly tuning out everything else.
"Hey Lily," said Lauren. Lily quickly looked up from her book and smiled.
"Oh hi Lauren. Come sit down, what are you doing here?" asked Lily, pulling out the chair next to her.
"I was just in the common room and something happened that I thought you should know abou," replied Lauren as she sat down.
"Did someone light it on fire?" asked Lily, half seriously.
"No, James asked Alyssa to go to the Halloween ball with him. I figured that I would tell you before you found out from someone like Roy," said Lauren. Lily just sat there with a stunned expression on her face and then realized that this was the part where she talked back.
"Alyssa Stevensen, the blonde one? Well I hope he has fun," said Lily, trying her best to hide how bitter she was.
"Are you okay with this Lily?" asked Lauren. Lily nodded.
"Well the way I see it is for every six months you're together you have a two week mourning period. James and I were together for ten months, so I figure that every girl he shows intrest in for the three and a half weeks he has to mourn is just a rebound skank," explained Lily, looking back down at her book. "Not that Alyssa's a skank or anything, but you get what I mean."
"So what about Brandon, is he your 'rebound skank?'" asked Lauren, making little quotes with her fingers.
"No, because that's different," said Lily. "I'm not a guy."
"So what does that have to do with anything?" asked Lauren.
"It just does, ok? Now if you don't mind, I'm kinda working on something here. Toodles!" exclaimed Lily, waving goodbye.
"I will never understand them," Lauren muttered to herself as she walked out of the library and back to the common room.
***
"Hey baby," said Sirius, giving Lauren a kiss as he sat down next to her at the Gryffindor table in the great hall.
"Hey you," replied Lauren. "How's the good life?"
"It's pretty good and lifey. I'm tired of those two though," he said, pointing at Lily and James. They were sitting across from each other, both looking down at their food with the utmost concentration, not speaking at all.
"How long have they been like that?" asked Lauren, digging into her chicken.
"Since the breakup. They do the whole 'not speaking to you' thing followed by the 'I really hate you' thing and then the 'not speaking to you' thing again. It's getting old," said Sirius.
"We don't hate each other," replied Lily and James at the same time. Then they both blushed and looked back at their plates.
"They're perfect for each other. I guess they just need this breakup to realize that," whispered Sirius, so that Lily and James couldn't hear.
"I just hope they realize it soon, because everything is just so much more fun when they're both happy. I just really want them to be happy," Lauren whispered back. At that moment Professor Dumbledore clapped once and the entire great hall turned to look at him.
"I just want to announce that there is going to be a special Hogsmeade trip for all the students that wish to go to the Halloween Ball. I'd ask you to rememer that the dress code is semi-formal, so no dress robes. Remember, only fourth years and up can attend the dance. On another note, the nominations for Halloween King and Queen will be taken during your transfiguration class next week. That is all," said Dumbledore. Lauren turned over to Lily.
"Hey Lils, why don't we get Jamie and Jeanine and do the whole shopping thing together?" asked Lauren.
"That sounds good to me. We'll meet in the common room before we have to leave," said Lily. She loved to shop, and suddenly she was really looking forward to just spending time with the girls.
***
"This whole guitar thing is really making me mad! I can't play the stupid song because I can't play the stupid guitar! Grrrr, that's the only word I can think of, grrr!" exclaimed Sirius. James hadn't told him that Lauren would be teaching him and Remus to play the guitar yet, but she was supposed to be there any minute.
"I think you'll be able to get it soon," said Peter, who had finally learned how to play his songs on the keyboard and was now acting rather smug.
"Really? Because it sounds hopeless to me," said Remus, who then kicked the amp, breaking it in two. He had done that about ten times that day. "Repairo," he muttered and the amp was in working condition again.
"Oh, nothing's hopeless Remus, don't be such a pessimist," said a voice from behind Remus. He looked up and saw Laruen. "Let me see the music you wrote." Remus handed her the music and she frowned as she looked at it.
"What are you doing here, and why are you frowning?" asked Sirius. Lauren glared at him.
"Yeah, I love you too Sirius," she said with a sigh. "I'm teaching you guys to play the guitar, and if you want to learn this music it's gonna take me a really long time."
"Wait, you're teaching us to play the guitar? Who decided on that?" asked Remus.
"Um, James. Didn't he tell you?" asked Lauren. Everyone looked over at James, who started playing his drums louder than ever.
"No, he didn't tell us," said Remus. "But this is good, now maybe we'll sound okay for the battle of the bands."
"Hey hey, how do we know that you're not trying to sabatoge our band so that we lose and you guys win?" asked Sirius. Lauren looked at him.
"Because if we lose, it won't be your band that's gonna beat us honey," explained Lauren. "Now give me the guitar, if you're gonna learn this music we need to start now."
***
"Oh my God this is the best store in all of Hogsmeade!" exclaimed Jeanine, running toward the ice cream parlor.
"You're hungry for ice cream?" asked Lauren. Jeanine shook her head no.
"No, not the ice cream parlor. That," she said, pointing at a sprial staircase that went up about a story into a cloud that seemed to be covering only a small portion of the sky. A sign next to the staircase read "Angelic Fashions" and witches were excitedly climbing up the staircase to where ever it lead to.
"They have an Angelic Fashions here? Since when?" asked Jamie, who was obviosly very excited about this store.
"It just opened. My mom was telling me about it in an owl she sent last week. It's supposed to be the biggest one yet!" said Jeanine, starting to walk up the stiarcase. Lily just gave them a weird look.
"Um, I think I missed something. What's angelic fashions?" she asked. Jamie and Jeanine looked at her like she was crazy.
"It's only the best designer fashion store, like, ever. They have these huge glass stores that are built on clouds, it's really beautiful," explained Jamie. By now they were all the way up the staircase and had entered the most wonderful store that Lily had ever seen. Rows and rows of just pants were on the left side, seperated by color, and on the right side were rows and rows of shirts.
"Come on, all the dresses are upstairs," said Jeanine, dragging Lily up a sprial escalator to the next floor. Here there were rows upon rows of beautiful dresses in every color imaginable, once again seperaed by color.
"Ok, I want light pink this time so I am going to go over to that section," said Lauren, pointing over to her right. "What about you guys?"
"I'm thinking about baby blue," said Jeanine.
"Just simple black for me," said Jamie. Lily looked at the colors and considered her options.
"I think I'm gonna do the whole emerald green thing," she said.
"So I have a plan. Why don't we all go to our respective color preferences and pick out our clothes. We won't show anyone what we picked out, we'll go try them on and then we'll buy them. It will be a secret, won't that be fun?" asked Lauren. Everyone agreed and soon Lily found herself alone at the green section. It took her over an hour to pick out three beauiful dresses, and soon she found herself in a spacious dressing room.
There was purple crushed velvet coming down from the ceiling and surrounding her on three sides. In the back of the dressing room was a wall that had on it an enchanted mirror. Lily tried on the first two dresses and decided that they weren't quite right. She slowly slipped into the last one and the second she had it on she knew that she was destined to have this dress. It was a long velvet spagetthi strap dress that belled out to the floor. The front had an empire top, and there was an ivory bow in the middle just below her bust. She turned and admired herself in the mirror and then, quite to her suprise, the mirror admired her back.
"Hello gorgeous, meow!" it said.
"So you really think this looks good?" asked Lily.
"If you don't buy it I'm gonna call the fashion police on you," it replied.
"So I shouldn't get the first one?"
"No, it's way too expensive and it didn't even look that great on you. And the second one, well that wasn't good. But this last one, you need it."
That was all it took to convince Lily to get the dress, and a few hours later it was being displayed proudly in her closet, making her smile whenever she looked at it. She couldn't wait for the dance.
A/N- Ff.net is being retarted right now, it's not letting me post. I don't know why they're down so much... Anyway I've been updating a lot lately (new years resolution) so I think that you should review a lot to kinda return the favor. Well I hope you liked the chapter, please review. Also, if you want me to email you when I update, you can tell me in a review and I'll be sure to do that.
Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter. That's J.K.R., not me.