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Chapter 10: Rebellious Adventures
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"You want to know what I just found out!?" Ashley said sitting down next to Bree and I. It was a couple days later at breakfast.
"What?" We asked with excitement.
"Sirius, Remus, James, Ricky, and Leo paid our dates to ditch us to they could make up with us," she explained.
"Those sneaky gits!" I whispered.
"Well we have to take care of that," Bree said. We had to think of something to get back at them.
"I got it!" Bree yelled.
"Shh! What is it?" we asked.
She told us her plan and we all laughed with excitement. We quickly told Michelle. We didn't bother telling Katie because she would probably tell Ricky.
We got the 'ingredients' we needed from the Hospital Wing and that evening at dinner we were going to give them a dose of their own medicine.
We arrived at dinner early and put laxative in their goblets. Sure enough they sat at their regular seats.
"This pumpkin juice taste weird. Does yours Prongs?"
"Yea."
To add even more excitement we put a fake bathroom in the common room. And if they were to go to the bathroom in another place one of us would be tailing them to jinx it.
Luckily their stomachs didn't start disagreeing with them until they were up in the common room.
"I don't feel too good. Is there a bathroom around here?" Sirius asked Bree.
"Yeah right there." She pointed to a door.
"Thanks," he ran to the bathroom followed by the rest of them, little did they know that the toilets didn't even work.
As planned Ashley and I walked in talking to one another.
"Uh look at my hair it looks horrible." I said starting to conversation.
"I have to go to the bathroom," Ashley said silently laughing.
"Oh don't even try none of the toilets work yet." Ashley and I were laughing so hard but very quietly. We heard some gulps.
We walked out of the bathroom and gave Bree and Michelle the thumbs up sign.
Michelle and Bree walked in next.
"Sirius! I just found out from Michelle that these toilets don't work!"
"Thanks a lot Bree," he yelled through the stall.
"Well thanks a lot for paying our dates to ditch us for you guys. And yeah, we know." We sat in the common room laughing uncontrollably. We they all came out I muttered a spell and the door and room disappeared.
~*~
"Bye Katie, Ashley, Michelle," I waved goodbye as they got into the carriages.
I looked out of the corner of my eye and I saw James, Sirius, Peter and Remus by a carriage. I hope they are leaving for winter too. As far as I knew Bree and I were the only 7th year girls left.
"See you on January 4th!" Bree closed the carriage door.
It was December 21st and students were leaving for winter break. Bree and I waved goodbye as the carriages headed out of Hogwarts.
I turned around and saw Potter and Black still here.
"Suddenly I want to go home for the holidays." Bree realized what I meant when she spotted the two.
"Hey Padfoot, look what Santa left for us," James pointed in our direction.
"Joy to the world," he smiled back.
They broke out into a tune as we walked by, "Joy to the world..."
"I don't know how there could be joy in the world when they are around," I said as we walked up the steps to the castle. I glanced behind and saw them heading up to the castle too.
We headed into the Great Hall for breakfast as Bree talked, "Come on let's get some breakfast. Stop worrying about those two. We stayed here to have fun and you can't have fun if you constantly worry about them."
We decided, more like Bree decided, that we were going to seek adventures and be rebellious this winter break.
"Tonight we are going to sneak out and be rebellious!" Bree discussed the night ahead of us at dinner, "First we shall sneak out, then...we I don't know what's going to happen then but we will just go with the flow. That just makes us look more rebellious!"
"Will you stop with the word rebellious? Plus your talking very loud and people can hear what you are saying!" there was only one table in the Great Hall due to the fact that there was such a little amount of students staying.
"Well we are staying here to be rebellious and everyone should know it!" she slammed her fork down.
"I thought we were staying here because it's our last year at Hogwarts."
"Well that too but come o, let's go get prepared to be rebellious!" We left the Great Hall and went up to the common room.
~*~
By quarter to nine Bree was anxious to go out and have fun.
"We can't be rebellious this early," I looked up from my book. She was decked out wearing all black clothes. She even had black earrings and a beanie on.
"What are you wearing?" I looked at her oddly.
"Well aren't you supposed to blend in when you're sneaking around?"
"Uh, the lights are on in the hallways."
"You take the fun outta everything! Fun sucker!" (I don't take credit for the 'fun sucker' line that was from Freaky Friday...great movie. Lol)
"Okay fine wear all that black."
"I can, and I will! Now are you ready to go?"
"It's too early."
"Fine," she walked over to the clock and set it to ten o'clock, "There now let's go!"
"Okay," I got up and we left the empty common room.
"Where to?" I asked.
"I thought you knew." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Okay, lets go north, which was is north?" she asked confused, "I'm not good with directions."
"Forget about directions. Let's head out to the grounds."
We were walking by the lake and Bree was planning our 'rebellious adventure'.
"So I was thinking tomorrow night we could..."
Bree never finished her sentence because we bumped into something solid. But nobody was there.
"Who's there?" I asked out loud.
Nobody answered.
"Oh my god Lily. There could be spirits guiding us on our rebellious adventure! Or maybe...Grandfather? Is that you?"
"Don't be so stupid Bree you Grandfather isn't there." I just got up, "C'mon this rebellious stuff is getting boring."
"I'll plan a fabulous night for tomorrow, don't you worry!"
We turned around and started back to the castle. We felt a hand grasp over our lips and felt someone pick us up by our waist and carry us to the forbidden forest.
We were carried deep into the forest. The mystery people, or creatures, didn't set us down until we were in a big clearing. Then they were gone, we think.
I could feel my heart beating a mile a minute.
"Grandfather was never like this I swear," Bree whispered to me.
From behind a bush came a black dog and a silver stag. They charged at us.
"Ahh!" We yelled with fright.
Every time they were to 'charge' at us they would miss us by about an inch.
"I don't wanna be rebellious anymore," Bree whined.
Soon the stag and dog went deeper into the forest and did not return.
"Now we are stuck in the middle of the forbidden forest because you wanted to be rebellious!" I yelled.
"Well at least I can't be seen! I'm wearing all black!"
"Let's just try and get out of here," We lit our wands and chose a path.
We bumped into somebody else, just our luck.
"Grandma! I've missed you! You just missed Grandpa; I think he went that way." She pointed behind her.
"Bree that's a tree," I held up my wand to prove my point but standing next to the tree was Sirius and James. Joy.
"Look Lily! It's James and Sirius!"
"I realized that," I leaned my head against a tree.
"Aww is babe scared?" James walked towards me and leaned against the same tree.
"No 'babes' leave me alone, hey too close..."
"Sirius came to save me!" Bree laughed hugging Sirius.
"Does that mean I get a kiss for saving you?" James looked towards me.
"No way," I scooted away from him and he scooted closer.
"Go away Potter," he just stared at me, "Wait, how did you guys now we were out here?"
"You mean trying to be rebellious? Bree has the biggest mouth everyone heard you at dinner." Sirius laughed as Bree punched him in the arm.
"And we just had to see you guys be rebellious," James laughed too.
"C'mon lets go back to the castle," Sirius put his arm around Bree's waist and steered in the opposite direction towards the castle.
I walked behind Bree and Sirius, sadly James walked next to me.
"So you guys were trying to find 'adventure'?" I laughed.
"We wanted to do stuff that we could only do at Hogwarts." I replied.
"What have you done so far?"
"Nothing," we both laughed. I saw Bree and Sirius look over their shoulders every now and then.
"I got an idea." James stopped, "Hey Padfoot, their looking for adventure, want to show them some?"
"Sure, what are you thinking of Prongs?" James just smiled.
Bree looked down at her watch, "It's only ten anyways."
They all looked at me waiting for my response.
"I dunno," I started but Bree interrupted me.
"Aw come on Lil. It'll be fun!" She had a look in her eye.
"Fine," I gave in.
"Well I need to grab something before we go," James looked at Sirius who nodded.
We all headed up to the common room quietly. Bree and I waited downstairs for five minutes when we decided to go upstairs and see what was taking them.
We walked outside their room and heard them talking.
"I don't think we should tell them, maybe this...but not this," James and Sirius were talking in hushed voices.
"I guess we shouldn't," Sirius replied.
I looked at Bree and we exchanged confused looks.
I knocked on the door and James answered it.
"Hey babe!" he yelled.
"Umm, hi," I looked around their dorm. It was very messy although James and Sirius were the only ones in there until break was over.
"James, I thought you did room checks before break?" I asked walking in.
"I did," he seemed confident.
"Then why is your room so messy?"
"Cause I was just looking for something," he flashed his million dollar smile in my direction then he messed up his hair.
"Must you do that?"
"The secrets of guys we will never know," Bree smiled.
"Let's go," Bree headed to the door.
"Where are we going anyways?" I asked as we headed out of the dorm.
"You'll see," Sirius smiled as he entered the common room.
"First things first we need to put this on so we don't get caught," James pulled out a silvery cloak.
"An invisibility cloak!" Bree's family was all wizards so she knew all about wizard items.
"Yup, pretty impressive huh?" Sirius and James were beaming.
"No," she replied, "I have one."
James and Sirius looked disappointed but carried on.
"Anyway, let's go," we headed down the corridors.
"Here we are," we stopped in front of a humpback one-eyed witch in the third floor corridor.
"OoOoOo, fun!" Bree said sarcastically.
"We aren't done," James turned towards the one eyed witch and looked down at a piece of parchment. After examining it he whispered mischief managed then put it in his pocket.
"Dissendium!" There was a crack that opened big enough for one person to fit through.
We slid in and landed in a tunnel.
"OoOoOo funner," Bree laughed.
"Shut up Bree," Sirius smiled.
"Aw shishcabobs your so serious Sirius."
"I am not serious, I'm Sirius but not serious."
"What?" we all asked.
"Ok I'm Sirius but I'm not serious just cause I am Sirius doesn't mean I'm serious and you all know I'm not serious."
"Ok I'm not even going to respond to that, let's keep going," James took the lead.
We walked down the tunnel for what seemed like hours.
"Here we are," James turned around.
He opened up the 'roof' which was a trap door and looked around, "Hurry, no ones here." He whispered.
We all got out of the tunnel and into the room. I looked around. There were boxes everywhere.
"What are you doing James?" Bree was watching James.
"Welcome to the back of Honeydukes," he smiled as he piled candy into his pockets.
"Wow," I looked around.
"Grab some candy!" Sirius was too piling candy into his robe pockets. For a couple minutes we all piled candy into our pockets.
"Wanna go to the Three broomsticks?" James asked after he couldn't fit anymore candy into his pockets.
"Sure," we all left the store and headed towards the bar.
"Isn't everything supposed to be closed?" Bree asked as she pulled her cloak tighter around herself.
"Too close to Christmas, everyone is doing last minute shopping." James pulled open the door to the bar.
The place was very crowded. People were everywhere. Sirius led us to an empty table in the corner.
"Everyone's kinda tipsy this late at night." He smiled.
"Are you serious Sirius? Do they do anything to you?" Bree asked.
"Don't worry I'll protect you." He smiled at her.
"I can protect myself!" she punched him in the arm.
"Hey hey I was kidding!"
"What can I get ya kids?" The waitress came over.
"Hey Rosemerta!" James and Sirius acknowledged her.
"Hiya boys haven't seen you here in awhile! You on a date or did you just bring your little friends along?"
"They are going out but we aren't, she wont go out with me, can you believe that Rosemerta?" James smiled and pointed at me.
"You're missing out on him, honey! But anyways you kids want something good to drink?" She smiled.
"We are seventeen, we can drink anything! Surprise us!" Sirius winked at her.
"Oh you'll be surprised!" she smiled and walked back to the bar to get our drinks.
Our drinks came and we sipped out of them. I could taste the alcohol. After our first drink we order another, and another, and another. I wish I didn't order so much. I didn't drink as much as James and Bree though! I could tell Sirius wasn't drinking a lot.
A song came on and James jumped up. He ran to the bar and started dancing.
"Holy crap what is he doing!?" I was laughing uncontrollably.
"Don't ask," Sirius took another small sip out of his drink.
"Sirius, you're serious," Bree was very drunk. She looked like she was about to fall over she was leaning over and her face was nearly touching Sirius face. She pulled one of his hairs.
"Cho choo!" she started tooting like a train.
We were laughing non stop. I don't know how long James was dancing for but I didn't see him for awhile.
"YOUR SHOES ARE UGLY!" Bree yelled as she pointed to old ladies shoes.
"Excuse me!?"
"I SAID YOUR SHOES ARE UGLY!" she recited.
"Bree don't, you don't know what these people are like," Sirius tried pulling Bree away.
"Stop it Sirius! I can take care of myself," she ran to the old lady and they got into a huge fight. They were punching and pulling each others hair. Sirius and I tried pulling them apart but it was useless. After desperately trying we finally succeeded.
"Sirius!" she turned around to face him, "I can take care of my-" Bree fell to the floor. The lady had chucked a bottle at the back of Bree's head with perfect aim. The bottle shattered on the floor and Sirius jumped up to grab Bree.
"Come on Lily lets go," We ran out of the bar and Sirius set Bree down on the bench and ran back inside to get James.
"Now that was an adventure," I said to Bree and we laughed very loud that shoppers nearby looked at us like we were crazy.
Moments later Sirius came out with James. He was nearly pulling him out of the bar.
"C'mon back to the castle. It's almost one in the morning." Sirius held James and Bree and I attempted to hold ourselves up.
~*~
We all got to the common room after two in the morning. It was a lot of trouble getting us all up there because Sirius was the only one that wasn't boozed up. We all feel asleep on the couches in the common room. People who saw us in the morning probably thought we were insane. Bree and I were each on a couch, Sirius was on the floor, and James was on an armchair.
We woke up about noon. I was the first to wake then James. My head was throbbing. I could remember almost everything though.
"Hey James, nice dancing last night." I smiled. Time to mess with his mind.
"What?" it looked like his head was throbbing too.
"Your strip dancing. Man where did you learn to dance like that? I mean you should've seen that one lady. Where is all your money?"
"Money?"
"All the money they gave you. They were practically throwing it at you."
"They were? Why?"
"Because of your dancing of course! Man you danced like crazy!"
"I was dancing?"
"You sure were!"
"Did everyone...see me?"
"Every bit of you!" I loved messing with his mind.
Bree woke up immediately and sat straight up.
"Oww," she laid her head back down slowly, "What happened last night?"
"It was a magical night," Sirius was now too awake.
"Really? What happened?" She asked.
"You guys got really drunk," Sirius grinned, "Then I had to carry all three of you back. Mind you Lily was all that crashed so you and her held each other up."
"Oh my gosh, we got drunk and we are underage! I can't believe this!" I said out loud.
"You rebel!" Sirius laughed. We all joined in laughing but it only lasted for about five seconds because of how badly our heads were hurting.
"I don't feel too good," Bree ran upstairs to the bathroom. Soon all of us were upstairs barfing our brains out.
By dinnertime we were all feeling a lot better. We were starved because we hadn't eaten anything afraid that it would come back up.
"Pork Mmmm," Sirius dug his fork into the pork in front of him.
I looked down at my food and my stomach gave an unusual lurch, "I dunno if I'm that hungry, maybe just some bread and crackers."
I put some on my plate and ate slowly afraid that my stomach wouldn't agree with my choice. Sirius and James on the other hand were digging into their food as if it was the first time in months that they had any.
"Jeez you guys slow down," Bree looked up from her small portion.
"I'm hungwey," James said with a full amount of food in his mouth.
"Me 'oo!" Sirius too was filling his mouth like crazy.
Bree and I finished rather quickly. We decided to head up to the common room without James and Sirius.
"Do you think you'll date James now?" Bree asked me as we sat down next on the best armchairs by the fire.
"What? Where did that come from?" I was surprised she would ask something like that.
"Well you guys have been acting nice towards each other."
"Bree, this is James Potter we are talking about. Get real."
"I am real, and I'm serious. I think you two will end up together, at least date for awhile. You know what they say 'opposites attract'."
"James and I would never like each other. Well at least I wouldn't like him."
"Love works in mysterious ways Lils!" she grinned.
"Shut up Bree." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Just think of it positively, He is taller than you," she started naming things.
"BREE! You don't like a guy because he is taller than you."
"Well my point is it's an advantage. I mean I don't date Sirius because he is tall. Think of it this way would you want to be taller than your boyfriend?"
"Bree, I'm not dating James and I don't have a boyfriend!"
"Anyway, back to my list. He is taller than you, he is a Quidditch player, he is popular, he is cute, he is nice at times, and he is really cute, and he is willing to love you back. Why won't you take advantage of this opportunity?"
"Bree, I think you need to start worrying about your relationships than mine." I looked into the fire. What is up with Bree and why is she so anxious for me to go out with James?
"I have known you for fifteen years, and you have never given him the chance. You don't want to give anyone the chance. Your just afraid your going to get hurt I know that's the reason, Lil, I know you too well."
"Bree, I don't like James in that way. He is annoying and he has annoyed me all my life. Why all of a sudden does this topic interest you so much!?"
"Just wondering." We stopped the conversation as James and Sirius walked in. I looked at James. Opposites attract. But James and I would kill each other if we were in the same room together. I don't like James that way. It's just that simple.
"Hey Babe," Sirius sat down next to Bree and pulled something out of his pocket.
"What's that you've got?" she asked looking down at it.
"Food!"
"You just ate!" I looked at them.
"Yea but we are hungry again." He dug into the food then handed the napkin to James he ate too.
James and Sirius sat there eating as Bree and I just shook our heads. Guys are weird, they are constantly eating. I laughed to myself at the thought.
We had no rebellious adventures that night due to the fact that we didn't feel like going anywhere. Instead we just stayed in the common room. We played games like exploding snap, wizard's chess, and card games. Although it took awhile to teach to everyone the card games because I was the only one that grew up in a muggle house.
"Scat! I win again!" I brought all the coins forward. We were playing scat an old game my Grandmother had taught me.
"Again Lily!? I thought I was winning there for a minute." Bree looked at her cards.
"How many points did I have?" Sirius was confused.
"Five," I looked at his cards, "You have to have them all in the same suit."
"Aww I always forget that rule." He threw his cards in the pile.
"So do I Padfoot, not to worry though, we only lost a couple bucks, and we didn't play that many rounds."
"I think you're boozed up again James, we each put in at least ten galleons each."
"Aww crap." He took out his money bag and looked inside, "Still gotta lot left. Let's play a different game. Something everyone should know. Padfoot, your about to get all your money back!"
"Poker!" they chanted. I was great at poker. My dad had taught me when I was little. But I didn't want them to know that. Bree and I had played poker all our life. I look at Bree and we looked into each others eyes. We could easily tell what one another is thinking. She nodded and smiled.
"Aww I hate poker I stink at it." I fake groaned.
"Then you've come to the right place!" Sirius smile widened.
"I suck too." Bree added.
"Then let the game begin!" James dealt the cards out and I picked up my cards. I had a great hand. Almost a royal flush! I pretended to look disappointed.
"Fifteen galleons," I put in the pot.
"Pretty confident, Evans?" James asked me as he too threw in fifteen galleons.
"I hope so but it doesn't matter right? I mean if I win I win if I loose I loose."
"You keep telling yourself that," Sirius added his money in.
A few rounds passed and the money pot was getting bigger. I picked up my next card. Perfect, a royal flush.
"Aww turkey I'm out." Bree laid her cards down.
"Turkey?" Sirius looked at Bree.
"Yeah, it's your turn." She sat next to Sirius. He didn't mind her sitting next to her because he thought she couldn't see his cards. I looked up at her when James and Sirius were both looking down. She rubbed her earlobe. Flush, so far so good. I still don't know what James has though.
"I'll be right back." She went up the girls' dorm. I had no idea what she was doing. She came back down about a minute later very quietly. James and Sirius were studying their cards deep in thought. James back was to the staircase. Bree quickly took a glance at James cards as she walked by. She sat back down and rubbed her nose. Four threes. Not bad but I was winning.
"Ok boys show your cards."
"Four threes." James put his cards down and smiled.
"Ooooh not bad Potter," I looked at my cards pretending to look disappointed.
"Flush!" Sirius grinned and headed to the pile of money before him.
"Not so fast Black," I pushed his hands off the money, "I haven't said what I got yet."
"Like you were to win. Me and James have never been beaten." They puffed out their chest.
"James and I, and lets just see what I got. You know just for kicks."
"Fine but make it fast our money is getting cold when it's not in our money bags!" James whined.
"Royal Flush." I put down my cards in front on myself.
"What!?"
"You heard me royal flush. Now paws off guys because I need my money." I pulled all the money towards me. There had to be a fortune there!
"I was hoping to pay off some of my BILL with that money!" James yelled.
"You know where you can get some money? You dancing," I whispered him. I walked away and winked.
Bree and I gathered up the money and headed up to our room. We dumped it onto my bed.
"Nice work, once again me darlin'!" we laughed as we sorted the money in two piles.
The money evened out to thirty galleons, six sickles, and three Knuts each. Not bad!
We were walking downstairs walking downstairs talking about our glorious achievement.
"I can't believe they didn't realize what we were doing!"
"It's the oldest trick in the book."
"I would've never won if you didn't get out and look what they had," I said as we entered the common room and sat down on a sofa. I looked around I didn't see James and Sirius anywhere in site. They must've gone to bed.
"Think they've gone to bed," Bree said as she noticed I was looking around.
"Oh no we haven't!" James came out from a corner.
"Um hi guys!" Bree smiled.
"Give us our money back!" Sirius yelled.
"Now, now, no needs to yell Sirius don't want to wake up the whole castle." Bree put up her hands in defense as she tried to calm the two down.
"You better run!" James yelled.
They started chasing after us all over the common room. Around couches, over a table, behind a statue. We went everywhere we could to get away from them.
"Quick! The dorm!" I yelled and we headed up our stairs. We stopped almost halfway to catch our breath and turned around.
There they were running towards us. But then they stopped. They couldn't get through. It wouldn't let them in because they were boys. We smiled and waved.
"You were saying?" Bree laughed.
"Damn!" Sirius exclaimed
"Language darling," Bree shook her finger at him.
"Night guys, see ya in the morning." We turned around, "So you want to go to Hogsmede?" I asked.
We laughed as we headed up the stairs and went to bed.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!!
Chapter 10: Rebellious Adventures
~*~
"You want to know what I just found out!?" Ashley said sitting down next to Bree and I. It was a couple days later at breakfast.
"What?" We asked with excitement.
"Sirius, Remus, James, Ricky, and Leo paid our dates to ditch us to they could make up with us," she explained.
"Those sneaky gits!" I whispered.
"Well we have to take care of that," Bree said. We had to think of something to get back at them.
"I got it!" Bree yelled.
"Shh! What is it?" we asked.
She told us her plan and we all laughed with excitement. We quickly told Michelle. We didn't bother telling Katie because she would probably tell Ricky.
We got the 'ingredients' we needed from the Hospital Wing and that evening at dinner we were going to give them a dose of their own medicine.
We arrived at dinner early and put laxative in their goblets. Sure enough they sat at their regular seats.
"This pumpkin juice taste weird. Does yours Prongs?"
"Yea."
To add even more excitement we put a fake bathroom in the common room. And if they were to go to the bathroom in another place one of us would be tailing them to jinx it.
Luckily their stomachs didn't start disagreeing with them until they were up in the common room.
"I don't feel too good. Is there a bathroom around here?" Sirius asked Bree.
"Yeah right there." She pointed to a door.
"Thanks," he ran to the bathroom followed by the rest of them, little did they know that the toilets didn't even work.
As planned Ashley and I walked in talking to one another.
"Uh look at my hair it looks horrible." I said starting to conversation.
"I have to go to the bathroom," Ashley said silently laughing.
"Oh don't even try none of the toilets work yet." Ashley and I were laughing so hard but very quietly. We heard some gulps.
We walked out of the bathroom and gave Bree and Michelle the thumbs up sign.
Michelle and Bree walked in next.
"Sirius! I just found out from Michelle that these toilets don't work!"
"Thanks a lot Bree," he yelled through the stall.
"Well thanks a lot for paying our dates to ditch us for you guys. And yeah, we know." We sat in the common room laughing uncontrollably. We they all came out I muttered a spell and the door and room disappeared.
~*~
"Bye Katie, Ashley, Michelle," I waved goodbye as they got into the carriages.
I looked out of the corner of my eye and I saw James, Sirius, Peter and Remus by a carriage. I hope they are leaving for winter too. As far as I knew Bree and I were the only 7th year girls left.
"See you on January 4th!" Bree closed the carriage door.
It was December 21st and students were leaving for winter break. Bree and I waved goodbye as the carriages headed out of Hogwarts.
I turned around and saw Potter and Black still here.
"Suddenly I want to go home for the holidays." Bree realized what I meant when she spotted the two.
"Hey Padfoot, look what Santa left for us," James pointed in our direction.
"Joy to the world," he smiled back.
They broke out into a tune as we walked by, "Joy to the world..."
"I don't know how there could be joy in the world when they are around," I said as we walked up the steps to the castle. I glanced behind and saw them heading up to the castle too.
We headed into the Great Hall for breakfast as Bree talked, "Come on let's get some breakfast. Stop worrying about those two. We stayed here to have fun and you can't have fun if you constantly worry about them."
We decided, more like Bree decided, that we were going to seek adventures and be rebellious this winter break.
"Tonight we are going to sneak out and be rebellious!" Bree discussed the night ahead of us at dinner, "First we shall sneak out, then...we I don't know what's going to happen then but we will just go with the flow. That just makes us look more rebellious!"
"Will you stop with the word rebellious? Plus your talking very loud and people can hear what you are saying!" there was only one table in the Great Hall due to the fact that there was such a little amount of students staying.
"Well we are staying here to be rebellious and everyone should know it!" she slammed her fork down.
"I thought we were staying here because it's our last year at Hogwarts."
"Well that too but come o, let's go get prepared to be rebellious!" We left the Great Hall and went up to the common room.
~*~
By quarter to nine Bree was anxious to go out and have fun.
"We can't be rebellious this early," I looked up from my book. She was decked out wearing all black clothes. She even had black earrings and a beanie on.
"What are you wearing?" I looked at her oddly.
"Well aren't you supposed to blend in when you're sneaking around?"
"Uh, the lights are on in the hallways."
"You take the fun outta everything! Fun sucker!" (I don't take credit for the 'fun sucker' line that was from Freaky Friday...great movie. Lol)
"Okay fine wear all that black."
"I can, and I will! Now are you ready to go?"
"It's too early."
"Fine," she walked over to the clock and set it to ten o'clock, "There now let's go!"
"Okay," I got up and we left the empty common room.
"Where to?" I asked.
"I thought you knew." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Okay, lets go north, which was is north?" she asked confused, "I'm not good with directions."
"Forget about directions. Let's head out to the grounds."
We were walking by the lake and Bree was planning our 'rebellious adventure'.
"So I was thinking tomorrow night we could..."
Bree never finished her sentence because we bumped into something solid. But nobody was there.
"Who's there?" I asked out loud.
Nobody answered.
"Oh my god Lily. There could be spirits guiding us on our rebellious adventure! Or maybe...Grandfather? Is that you?"
"Don't be so stupid Bree you Grandfather isn't there." I just got up, "C'mon this rebellious stuff is getting boring."
"I'll plan a fabulous night for tomorrow, don't you worry!"
We turned around and started back to the castle. We felt a hand grasp over our lips and felt someone pick us up by our waist and carry us to the forbidden forest.
We were carried deep into the forest. The mystery people, or creatures, didn't set us down until we were in a big clearing. Then they were gone, we think.
I could feel my heart beating a mile a minute.
"Grandfather was never like this I swear," Bree whispered to me.
From behind a bush came a black dog and a silver stag. They charged at us.
"Ahh!" We yelled with fright.
Every time they were to 'charge' at us they would miss us by about an inch.
"I don't wanna be rebellious anymore," Bree whined.
Soon the stag and dog went deeper into the forest and did not return.
"Now we are stuck in the middle of the forbidden forest because you wanted to be rebellious!" I yelled.
"Well at least I can't be seen! I'm wearing all black!"
"Let's just try and get out of here," We lit our wands and chose a path.
We bumped into somebody else, just our luck.
"Grandma! I've missed you! You just missed Grandpa; I think he went that way." She pointed behind her.
"Bree that's a tree," I held up my wand to prove my point but standing next to the tree was Sirius and James. Joy.
"Look Lily! It's James and Sirius!"
"I realized that," I leaned my head against a tree.
"Aww is babe scared?" James walked towards me and leaned against the same tree.
"No 'babes' leave me alone, hey too close..."
"Sirius came to save me!" Bree laughed hugging Sirius.
"Does that mean I get a kiss for saving you?" James looked towards me.
"No way," I scooted away from him and he scooted closer.
"Go away Potter," he just stared at me, "Wait, how did you guys now we were out here?"
"You mean trying to be rebellious? Bree has the biggest mouth everyone heard you at dinner." Sirius laughed as Bree punched him in the arm.
"And we just had to see you guys be rebellious," James laughed too.
"C'mon lets go back to the castle," Sirius put his arm around Bree's waist and steered in the opposite direction towards the castle.
I walked behind Bree and Sirius, sadly James walked next to me.
"So you guys were trying to find 'adventure'?" I laughed.
"We wanted to do stuff that we could only do at Hogwarts." I replied.
"What have you done so far?"
"Nothing," we both laughed. I saw Bree and Sirius look over their shoulders every now and then.
"I got an idea." James stopped, "Hey Padfoot, their looking for adventure, want to show them some?"
"Sure, what are you thinking of Prongs?" James just smiled.
Bree looked down at her watch, "It's only ten anyways."
They all looked at me waiting for my response.
"I dunno," I started but Bree interrupted me.
"Aw come on Lil. It'll be fun!" She had a look in her eye.
"Fine," I gave in.
"Well I need to grab something before we go," James looked at Sirius who nodded.
We all headed up to the common room quietly. Bree and I waited downstairs for five minutes when we decided to go upstairs and see what was taking them.
We walked outside their room and heard them talking.
"I don't think we should tell them, maybe this...but not this," James and Sirius were talking in hushed voices.
"I guess we shouldn't," Sirius replied.
I looked at Bree and we exchanged confused looks.
I knocked on the door and James answered it.
"Hey babe!" he yelled.
"Umm, hi," I looked around their dorm. It was very messy although James and Sirius were the only ones in there until break was over.
"James, I thought you did room checks before break?" I asked walking in.
"I did," he seemed confident.
"Then why is your room so messy?"
"Cause I was just looking for something," he flashed his million dollar smile in my direction then he messed up his hair.
"Must you do that?"
"The secrets of guys we will never know," Bree smiled.
"Let's go," Bree headed to the door.
"Where are we going anyways?" I asked as we headed out of the dorm.
"You'll see," Sirius smiled as he entered the common room.
"First things first we need to put this on so we don't get caught," James pulled out a silvery cloak.
"An invisibility cloak!" Bree's family was all wizards so she knew all about wizard items.
"Yup, pretty impressive huh?" Sirius and James were beaming.
"No," she replied, "I have one."
James and Sirius looked disappointed but carried on.
"Anyway, let's go," we headed down the corridors.
"Here we are," we stopped in front of a humpback one-eyed witch in the third floor corridor.
"OoOoOo, fun!" Bree said sarcastically.
"We aren't done," James turned towards the one eyed witch and looked down at a piece of parchment. After examining it he whispered mischief managed then put it in his pocket.
"Dissendium!" There was a crack that opened big enough for one person to fit through.
We slid in and landed in a tunnel.
"OoOoOo funner," Bree laughed.
"Shut up Bree," Sirius smiled.
"Aw shishcabobs your so serious Sirius."
"I am not serious, I'm Sirius but not serious."
"What?" we all asked.
"Ok I'm Sirius but I'm not serious just cause I am Sirius doesn't mean I'm serious and you all know I'm not serious."
"Ok I'm not even going to respond to that, let's keep going," James took the lead.
We walked down the tunnel for what seemed like hours.
"Here we are," James turned around.
He opened up the 'roof' which was a trap door and looked around, "Hurry, no ones here." He whispered.
We all got out of the tunnel and into the room. I looked around. There were boxes everywhere.
"What are you doing James?" Bree was watching James.
"Welcome to the back of Honeydukes," he smiled as he piled candy into his pockets.
"Wow," I looked around.
"Grab some candy!" Sirius was too piling candy into his robe pockets. For a couple minutes we all piled candy into our pockets.
"Wanna go to the Three broomsticks?" James asked after he couldn't fit anymore candy into his pockets.
"Sure," we all left the store and headed towards the bar.
"Isn't everything supposed to be closed?" Bree asked as she pulled her cloak tighter around herself.
"Too close to Christmas, everyone is doing last minute shopping." James pulled open the door to the bar.
The place was very crowded. People were everywhere. Sirius led us to an empty table in the corner.
"Everyone's kinda tipsy this late at night." He smiled.
"Are you serious Sirius? Do they do anything to you?" Bree asked.
"Don't worry I'll protect you." He smiled at her.
"I can protect myself!" she punched him in the arm.
"Hey hey I was kidding!"
"What can I get ya kids?" The waitress came over.
"Hey Rosemerta!" James and Sirius acknowledged her.
"Hiya boys haven't seen you here in awhile! You on a date or did you just bring your little friends along?"
"They are going out but we aren't, she wont go out with me, can you believe that Rosemerta?" James smiled and pointed at me.
"You're missing out on him, honey! But anyways you kids want something good to drink?" She smiled.
"We are seventeen, we can drink anything! Surprise us!" Sirius winked at her.
"Oh you'll be surprised!" she smiled and walked back to the bar to get our drinks.
Our drinks came and we sipped out of them. I could taste the alcohol. After our first drink we order another, and another, and another. I wish I didn't order so much. I didn't drink as much as James and Bree though! I could tell Sirius wasn't drinking a lot.
A song came on and James jumped up. He ran to the bar and started dancing.
"Holy crap what is he doing!?" I was laughing uncontrollably.
"Don't ask," Sirius took another small sip out of his drink.
"Sirius, you're serious," Bree was very drunk. She looked like she was about to fall over she was leaning over and her face was nearly touching Sirius face. She pulled one of his hairs.
"Cho choo!" she started tooting like a train.
We were laughing non stop. I don't know how long James was dancing for but I didn't see him for awhile.
"YOUR SHOES ARE UGLY!" Bree yelled as she pointed to old ladies shoes.
"Excuse me!?"
"I SAID YOUR SHOES ARE UGLY!" she recited.
"Bree don't, you don't know what these people are like," Sirius tried pulling Bree away.
"Stop it Sirius! I can take care of myself," she ran to the old lady and they got into a huge fight. They were punching and pulling each others hair. Sirius and I tried pulling them apart but it was useless. After desperately trying we finally succeeded.
"Sirius!" she turned around to face him, "I can take care of my-" Bree fell to the floor. The lady had chucked a bottle at the back of Bree's head with perfect aim. The bottle shattered on the floor and Sirius jumped up to grab Bree.
"Come on Lily lets go," We ran out of the bar and Sirius set Bree down on the bench and ran back inside to get James.
"Now that was an adventure," I said to Bree and we laughed very loud that shoppers nearby looked at us like we were crazy.
Moments later Sirius came out with James. He was nearly pulling him out of the bar.
"C'mon back to the castle. It's almost one in the morning." Sirius held James and Bree and I attempted to hold ourselves up.
~*~
We all got to the common room after two in the morning. It was a lot of trouble getting us all up there because Sirius was the only one that wasn't boozed up. We all feel asleep on the couches in the common room. People who saw us in the morning probably thought we were insane. Bree and I were each on a couch, Sirius was on the floor, and James was on an armchair.
We woke up about noon. I was the first to wake then James. My head was throbbing. I could remember almost everything though.
"Hey James, nice dancing last night." I smiled. Time to mess with his mind.
"What?" it looked like his head was throbbing too.
"Your strip dancing. Man where did you learn to dance like that? I mean you should've seen that one lady. Where is all your money?"
"Money?"
"All the money they gave you. They were practically throwing it at you."
"They were? Why?"
"Because of your dancing of course! Man you danced like crazy!"
"I was dancing?"
"You sure were!"
"Did everyone...see me?"
"Every bit of you!" I loved messing with his mind.
Bree woke up immediately and sat straight up.
"Oww," she laid her head back down slowly, "What happened last night?"
"It was a magical night," Sirius was now too awake.
"Really? What happened?" She asked.
"You guys got really drunk," Sirius grinned, "Then I had to carry all three of you back. Mind you Lily was all that crashed so you and her held each other up."
"Oh my gosh, we got drunk and we are underage! I can't believe this!" I said out loud.
"You rebel!" Sirius laughed. We all joined in laughing but it only lasted for about five seconds because of how badly our heads were hurting.
"I don't feel too good," Bree ran upstairs to the bathroom. Soon all of us were upstairs barfing our brains out.
By dinnertime we were all feeling a lot better. We were starved because we hadn't eaten anything afraid that it would come back up.
"Pork Mmmm," Sirius dug his fork into the pork in front of him.
I looked down at my food and my stomach gave an unusual lurch, "I dunno if I'm that hungry, maybe just some bread and crackers."
I put some on my plate and ate slowly afraid that my stomach wouldn't agree with my choice. Sirius and James on the other hand were digging into their food as if it was the first time in months that they had any.
"Jeez you guys slow down," Bree looked up from her small portion.
"I'm hungwey," James said with a full amount of food in his mouth.
"Me 'oo!" Sirius too was filling his mouth like crazy.
Bree and I finished rather quickly. We decided to head up to the common room without James and Sirius.
"Do you think you'll date James now?" Bree asked me as we sat down next on the best armchairs by the fire.
"What? Where did that come from?" I was surprised she would ask something like that.
"Well you guys have been acting nice towards each other."
"Bree, this is James Potter we are talking about. Get real."
"I am real, and I'm serious. I think you two will end up together, at least date for awhile. You know what they say 'opposites attract'."
"James and I would never like each other. Well at least I wouldn't like him."
"Love works in mysterious ways Lils!" she grinned.
"Shut up Bree." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Just think of it positively, He is taller than you," she started naming things.
"BREE! You don't like a guy because he is taller than you."
"Well my point is it's an advantage. I mean I don't date Sirius because he is tall. Think of it this way would you want to be taller than your boyfriend?"
"Bree, I'm not dating James and I don't have a boyfriend!"
"Anyway, back to my list. He is taller than you, he is a Quidditch player, he is popular, he is cute, he is nice at times, and he is really cute, and he is willing to love you back. Why won't you take advantage of this opportunity?"
"Bree, I think you need to start worrying about your relationships than mine." I looked into the fire. What is up with Bree and why is she so anxious for me to go out with James?
"I have known you for fifteen years, and you have never given him the chance. You don't want to give anyone the chance. Your just afraid your going to get hurt I know that's the reason, Lil, I know you too well."
"Bree, I don't like James in that way. He is annoying and he has annoyed me all my life. Why all of a sudden does this topic interest you so much!?"
"Just wondering." We stopped the conversation as James and Sirius walked in. I looked at James. Opposites attract. But James and I would kill each other if we were in the same room together. I don't like James that way. It's just that simple.
"Hey Babe," Sirius sat down next to Bree and pulled something out of his pocket.
"What's that you've got?" she asked looking down at it.
"Food!"
"You just ate!" I looked at them.
"Yea but we are hungry again." He dug into the food then handed the napkin to James he ate too.
James and Sirius sat there eating as Bree and I just shook our heads. Guys are weird, they are constantly eating. I laughed to myself at the thought.
We had no rebellious adventures that night due to the fact that we didn't feel like going anywhere. Instead we just stayed in the common room. We played games like exploding snap, wizard's chess, and card games. Although it took awhile to teach to everyone the card games because I was the only one that grew up in a muggle house.
"Scat! I win again!" I brought all the coins forward. We were playing scat an old game my Grandmother had taught me.
"Again Lily!? I thought I was winning there for a minute." Bree looked at her cards.
"How many points did I have?" Sirius was confused.
"Five," I looked at his cards, "You have to have them all in the same suit."
"Aww I always forget that rule." He threw his cards in the pile.
"So do I Padfoot, not to worry though, we only lost a couple bucks, and we didn't play that many rounds."
"I think you're boozed up again James, we each put in at least ten galleons each."
"Aww crap." He took out his money bag and looked inside, "Still gotta lot left. Let's play a different game. Something everyone should know. Padfoot, your about to get all your money back!"
"Poker!" they chanted. I was great at poker. My dad had taught me when I was little. But I didn't want them to know that. Bree and I had played poker all our life. I look at Bree and we looked into each others eyes. We could easily tell what one another is thinking. She nodded and smiled.
"Aww I hate poker I stink at it." I fake groaned.
"Then you've come to the right place!" Sirius smile widened.
"I suck too." Bree added.
"Then let the game begin!" James dealt the cards out and I picked up my cards. I had a great hand. Almost a royal flush! I pretended to look disappointed.
"Fifteen galleons," I put in the pot.
"Pretty confident, Evans?" James asked me as he too threw in fifteen galleons.
"I hope so but it doesn't matter right? I mean if I win I win if I loose I loose."
"You keep telling yourself that," Sirius added his money in.
A few rounds passed and the money pot was getting bigger. I picked up my next card. Perfect, a royal flush.
"Aww turkey I'm out." Bree laid her cards down.
"Turkey?" Sirius looked at Bree.
"Yeah, it's your turn." She sat next to Sirius. He didn't mind her sitting next to her because he thought she couldn't see his cards. I looked up at her when James and Sirius were both looking down. She rubbed her earlobe. Flush, so far so good. I still don't know what James has though.
"I'll be right back." She went up the girls' dorm. I had no idea what she was doing. She came back down about a minute later very quietly. James and Sirius were studying their cards deep in thought. James back was to the staircase. Bree quickly took a glance at James cards as she walked by. She sat back down and rubbed her nose. Four threes. Not bad but I was winning.
"Ok boys show your cards."
"Four threes." James put his cards down and smiled.
"Ooooh not bad Potter," I looked at my cards pretending to look disappointed.
"Flush!" Sirius grinned and headed to the pile of money before him.
"Not so fast Black," I pushed his hands off the money, "I haven't said what I got yet."
"Like you were to win. Me and James have never been beaten." They puffed out their chest.
"James and I, and lets just see what I got. You know just for kicks."
"Fine but make it fast our money is getting cold when it's not in our money bags!" James whined.
"Royal Flush." I put down my cards in front on myself.
"What!?"
"You heard me royal flush. Now paws off guys because I need my money." I pulled all the money towards me. There had to be a fortune there!
"I was hoping to pay off some of my BILL with that money!" James yelled.
"You know where you can get some money? You dancing," I whispered him. I walked away and winked.
Bree and I gathered up the money and headed up to our room. We dumped it onto my bed.
"Nice work, once again me darlin'!" we laughed as we sorted the money in two piles.
The money evened out to thirty galleons, six sickles, and three Knuts each. Not bad!
We were walking downstairs walking downstairs talking about our glorious achievement.
"I can't believe they didn't realize what we were doing!"
"It's the oldest trick in the book."
"I would've never won if you didn't get out and look what they had," I said as we entered the common room and sat down on a sofa. I looked around I didn't see James and Sirius anywhere in site. They must've gone to bed.
"Think they've gone to bed," Bree said as she noticed I was looking around.
"Oh no we haven't!" James came out from a corner.
"Um hi guys!" Bree smiled.
"Give us our money back!" Sirius yelled.
"Now, now, no needs to yell Sirius don't want to wake up the whole castle." Bree put up her hands in defense as she tried to calm the two down.
"You better run!" James yelled.
They started chasing after us all over the common room. Around couches, over a table, behind a statue. We went everywhere we could to get away from them.
"Quick! The dorm!" I yelled and we headed up our stairs. We stopped almost halfway to catch our breath and turned around.
There they were running towards us. But then they stopped. They couldn't get through. It wouldn't let them in because they were boys. We smiled and waved.
"You were saying?" Bree laughed.
"Damn!" Sirius exclaimed
"Language darling," Bree shook her finger at him.
"Night guys, see ya in the morning." We turned around, "So you want to go to Hogsmede?" I asked.
We laughed as we headed up the stairs and went to bed.