"I'm serious, Prongs! If you don't get a bloody grip, I'm going to have to bloody well kick your arse." snapped Sirius Black as he lounged lazily on a plush couch in front of the Gryffindor common room fire.
"Tut, tut. Language, Padfoot." replied James Potter distractedly as he flip the page of the book he was scanning on the floor in front of Sirius.
"I still think you're going about this all wrong." muttered Remus Lupin as he too flipped a page from a novel he was reading.
"Well, what else am I supposed to do, Moony?" exclaimed James, "I'm running out of ideas."
"Look, Prongs, you did what you set out for this year," said Sirius, looking over at him, "You've gotten Lily to realize you're not a total git-,"
"Yes, but she still doesn't think of me the way I want her to." interrupted James matter-of-factly.
"I agree. But you've tried everything in that book and nothing's worked, has it?" Remus pointed out, motioning towards the title of James' book, How to Get the Love of Your Life to Fall for You.
"Well, Prongs, you never know. Tomorrow's the luckiest day out of the year, anything can happen…even Evans falling in love with you." snickered Sirius. That thought was so absurd he just had to laugh.
James scowled at Sirius. He slammed his book shut and rubbed his tired eyes. "I'll think of something else," he muttered, standing up, "I'm off to bed. G'night all."
Sirius and Remus murmured their replies, Remus going back to his book, Sirius closing his eyes idly.
"Where's Wormtail?" asked Sirius after a few moments of silence.
"I think he went up to bed." answered Remus, deeply absorbed in the story.
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"Lily, put out your candle. I can't sleep." snapped a black haired girl, one of Lily's roommates, sticking her head out of her curtains.
Lily rolled her eyes from her bed, not even glancing up when she said through gritted teeth, her Irish accent evident, "Bugger off, Adrian. Close your curtains and you won't have any problems."
"Don't tell me to bugger off, Evans!" Adrian's shrill tone rang out across their dormitory.
"Evans! Adrian! Do shut up! It's 11:00 at night. I'd like to get some sleep before morning approaches!" snapped another one of Lily's roommates, Susan.
"She's the leech who started it!" Adrian pointed a finger over in Lily's direction.
"Who are yeh callin' a leech!?" retorted Lily, flinging her arms down by her sides with sudden fury. Her accent always got heavier when she was filled with rage.
"You! I'm calling you a leech!" screeched Adrian.
"A' least I'm not a snooty little wench!"
"Watch it, Evans," said Trisha, the last and final roommate of Lily's, and who also happened to be Adrian's best mate.
"I'm not a wench! You're the one up at 11:00 at night with the lights on so people can't sleep!" said Adrian in a whiny, yet angry voice.
"Well pardon me, but I frankly don't feel like dying while I'm asleep!" exclaimed Lily dramatically.
All the other girls promptly groaned simultaneously.
"Oh gods!" exclaimed Trisha, rolling her eyes the same time she rolled to her side to face Lily.
"Will you just let this obsession with the-world-is-out-to-get-you-on-St.-Patrick's-Day die already?!" groaned Susan.
"The world does not revolve around you, Evans. There can't be one day out of the year devoted to making your life a living Hell." put in Adrian.
"It's true!" exclaimed Lily stubbornly. "I've given you the proof! Every year on that day, something terrible has to happen to me!"
"Whatever!" screeched Susan, her American accent always shown brilliantly when she was ticked off. "Look, all three of you, just shut up and go to sleep!"
Lily slammed her book shut, causing Susan to growl angrily but not say anything.
"I'm goin' to the Head's tower." Lily announced, grabbing her robe and book.
"Good riddance!" came Adrian's immediate reply.
Lily bent down and blew out her candle right before she stuck her nose up in the air and stumbled out of the room.
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Lily huffed and muttered to herself all the way down the stairs.
'They just don't get it.' was the words Remus Lupin and Sirius Black heard from their positions at the fireplace. Lily had yet to notice them as she advanced closer and closer to the portrait hole.
"Who just don't get what?" questioned Sirius suddenly, making Lily jump in surprise.
"Blimy, Sirius!" she breathed out.
"Where are you going, Lily?" asked Remus, turning around in his chair to face her.
Lily did a double take on him, equally surprised as she had been with Sirius. "I'm going to the Head's tower." she stated matter-of-factly.
"Why?" Sirius asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Because, me bothersome roommates canno' stand the fact tha' I'm not goin' to sleep tonigh'." answered Lily somewhat angrily.
Remus and Sirius exchanged looks before Remus asked, "Why aren't you sleeping tonight?"
"Because, if I fall asleep tonigh', I just know something is going to happen to me this time!"
"This time?" asked Sirius, confused.
"Yes, this time! Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. All the years before this it was someone or something else-,"
"And you think that now something bad is going to happen to you since it's happened to everyone else you like." finished Remus.
"Have I said this before?" asked Lily, tilting her head to one side.
"More or less." replied Remus.
"You know, Prongs is going to be disappointed he missed seeing you in your cute little pajamas," said Sirius, wriggling his eyebrows at Lily.
Lily looked down and realized she forgot to throw on her robe that was on her arm. She blushed as red as her hair and quickly put on her robe, sending Sirius a glare.
"G'night!" she said promptly and stiffly as she stalked out the portrait hole.
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Upstairs in the boy's seventh year dormitory, James was lying in his bed, sleeping. He groaned and rolled over onto his back, his eyes twitching a little.
Suddenly, he awoke. Reflexively, he sprang up into a sitting position, his eyes wide. He had a dawning look on his face like he had just solved all the world's problems at once.
"That's it." He breathed out into the empty dorm.
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A/N- another short one, I know. Keep in mind that his is a short fic that is being broken up into even smaller chapters. I hope you like this one. Two more to go, probably.