JOKES IN POTIONS
February 14
"Lily, come on! I need to show you something!" James exclaimed.
"What do you need to show me? Dinner is going to start in ten minutes, and I'm hungry!" Lily complained.
"Don't worry. You'll get to eat." James said with a twinkle in his eye.
"You aren't taking me to the kitchens are you?" Lily asked.
"No, that would totally ruin the whole purpose of things." James tone didn't reassure Lily.
"James, seriously. Where are we going? I'm not in the mood for any surprises." Lily whined.
"I'm sure you'll like this surprise. Now just shut up and follow me." James didn't look over at Lily, but just kept hold of her hand and led her deeper into the castle. They walked in silence for about five or six minutes before James came to a stop.
"Okay, now you need to cover your eyes." James whispered. Lily didn't argue and put her hands over her eyes. James led her through a door then shut it. Lily heard a muffled voice (which was James) tell her to uncover her eyes.
Lily gasped at what she saw. It was a room covered in hearts, both red and pink, and they all had one word on them; Lily. Lily looked around, and noticed that on each wall was another word. Lily walked over and read on the first wall, Will, the second wall was, you, third was be and the last wall was mine. Lily just stared. Then she realized James wasn't in the room. She looked frantically around, then noticed the door: [B]Open me if yes[/B] Lily couldn't say no and she opened the door.
There was James holding about two dozen flowers and had a look of complete innocence on his face. Lily just smiled and ran into his arms. (James hurriedly dropped the flowers)
"Yes James Potter, I will be yours if you will be mine." Lily whispered in his ear. She pulled away to look at his face, he looked into her eyes, then kissed her.
February 15th
"So, how did she react?" Sirius asked. The Marauders were all up in their dormitory about 1:00 a.m. (so it obviously hasn't been the 15th for long)
"She reacted perfectly." James sighed.
"How is perfectly?" Peter asked.
"She is perfect, how else can I explain it?" James asked.
"Uh, with details." Remus joked.
"I could never do that." James smiled.
"Then at least tell us if you two are finally a couple." Said Sirius impatiently.
"Yes. And what do you mean [I]finally[/I]?" James asked.
"Well, duh. You two have been inseparable since like Christmas, and you hadn't been going out." Sirius replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. (which it was, LOL [lol])
"Oh, I guess so then." The marauder's just laughed.
To celebrate the coming together of the perfect couple at Hogwarts (incase your wondering who that is, it's Lily and James) Sirius decided they needed to pull a prank on some people. And what better people than (drum roll) Snape and Malfoy. Now to come up with the perfect, most original prank. The Marauder's sat in silence thinking, and (duh, dun dun , dun, DUN!!) Peter came up with an idea.
"What if we make them talk a lot, like, nonsense talk." Peter quietly suggested.
"Hmmm, we could work with that. We would need to have more to it though. There would have to be a pattern of nonsense to it." Remus added.
"Yes, that is true. Because if they just talk, well, that is no fun." James said.
The only marauder not to have said anything was Sirius, but when he did, it was perfect. (as in Puuuuur-fect!! [lol]) "What if they talked in riddles? Or like, had puns, and jokes?"
"That's it! And I'm sure Lily has read of a charm that we could use on them. Let me go ask her." With that James got up and went to go find Lily. (which wasn't hard, I mean, he has the mirror, they are b/f g/f, and of course, she was sitting at the table behind him.) When James came back he explained.
"Ok, the "word" is camelio, and then we have to say, riddle/puns. That will make it so whenever they talk they talk in riddles and puns!" James was very excited.
"Ok, let's put it into action. We have potions tomorrow, we can do it then." Sirius said. (notice how these people ALWAYS have potions, and things ALWAYS happen in potions?? Or is it just me? LOL, and it's me writing this...geese, wonder how that worked out ()
The Next Day In Potions, which was the last class of the day, James muttered the spell under his breath and pointed his wand at Snape, and Sirius did the same to Malfoy. When they walked into class, James said, "Hi!" And this is what came out of Snape's mouth: [I]Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? "Hi, It's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is 'Share the love.'" Beep." "Uh, yeah...this is the VD clinic calling...Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love."[/I](did they have answering machines back then??) Everyone looked his way, and he just kind of stared, and then covered his mouth.
Malfoy turned to him to say something, but what came out of his mouth was: [I]One summer evening, during a violent thunderstorm, a mother was tucking her small boy into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can't dear," she said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."
A long silence was broken at last by a shaken little voice saying, "The big sissy."[/I]
The potions professor turned to them and said, "Would you kindly keep the jokes to yourself!" in an irritated tone.
Snape tried to explain, but all that came out of his mouth was: [I] This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done![/I]
"That's it, ten points from Slytherin" The potions professor said.
Malfoy tried to explain [B]himself[/B] but as you know what came out of his mouth was: [I] A man walk into a restaraunt and asks the lady behind the cash register, "What is your soup of the day?" She replies, "We have chicken noodle soup, pea soup, and turtle soup."
After pondering a while the man orders a delicious turtle soup. The lady says into the p.a. "One turtle soup!"
The man changes his mind and orders a pea soup. The lady makes the correction on the p.a. "Hold the turtle and make it pea!"[/I]
This just made the professor even madder, and said "That's it! Twenty points from Slytherin, and if either of you crack another joke, it will be fifty!"
Malfoy and Snape just stared at each other. They were about to say something, but both held up their fingers to the other's mouth. The whole class burst up laughing.
After the very eventful day in Potions, Lily and the Marauder's made their way to the Great Hall, talking the whole way of the two Slytherin's puns/riddles.
"How long does this last?" Remus wondered out loud.
"About five hours." Lily said. "I didn't give you the spell that would last any longer. Otherwise you would be putting it on everybody, then no one would get anything done."
"There are ones that last longer?" Sirius had an evil glint in his eyes.
Lily seemed not to have noticed the look because she replied, "Yes, the longest one lasts about 48 hours. Maybe a little longer or a little less. It all depends on the quality of the wizard or witch that casts it."
"Really? And these spells are in the book you were reading?" James asked, catching on to what Sirius was thinking.
"Hey, I'm not [I]completely[/I] stupid! I'm not going to tell you which book it is in!" Lily exclaimed.
"Fine, just a bit more delay on our part, we can still get through it." Sirius said.
"James, you aren't going along with this are you?" Lily looked at him, her eyes getting big.
"Well, I am part of this gang. And they can't do it by themselves..." James started.
"What exactly did you have in mind?" Lily cautiously asked. James, Sirius, and Remus just looked at each other, with identical evil grins.
When the boys still didn't answer after a couple minutes Lily more sternly said, "What are you going to do?!?" She seemed to be wanting to stop them before it got too bad.
"And why would we tell you?" Sirius smirked.
"Because that one" she said pointing to James, "Had better tell me everything, before he gets some kick-in-the-butts from his girlfriend, and I [I]highly[/I] doubt he wants that." Lily smirked back.
James looked at the other two, a bit scared. He whispered to them, "She's right. She can get me good. I think we should tell her."
Sirius looked James straight in the eye and said, "Come on, I'm not even controlled by my girlfriend, and we've been going out since September. You've been going out with her for a week and she's in control of you. Stand your ground man."
James looked between his friends and Lily, looking greatly confused, not sure exactly what to do. When he saw Lily giving him a devil glare he cracked, "We were going to put it on the teacher's to get out of homework for a couple of days. We want to have fun." He said this very fast, slurring some of his words together.
"I don't think so James Potter! You should be doing your homework just like everyone else. No getting out of it." Lily almost yelled.
"What if I said we are doing it so we can spend time with our girlfriends?" James cautiously said.
"Nope, too late. Should have said that first." James looked beaten and looked over to his friends.
"Sorry guys. Maybe some other time." And he slumped away.
February came and went with no exciting occurrences unless you count the letter Lily got in the mail the last week of February. It was from Jeremy and read:
[I]Dear Lily, Petunia started yelling at me today. I have no idea what I did. I was just asking her what we would do with the house, and when she would see Vernon, you know her [/I]boyfriend[I] again. He didn't seem to bad when I finally met him. But she just got all mad at me, and started calling me a freak, and that I shouldn't talk about mum and dad so casually. I think she is mad that I got into Hogwarts. I can't wait to go there, and be with you. I guess you will be home, in what, four months. That seems like ages. Will you come home for Easter. I know you probably don't want to, but Please please please! For me?? Your little bro, Jeremy[/I]
Lily felt really bad for the little guy. She knew it must be tough for him without their parents. Lily also remembered what it was like with Petunia the months before going to Hogwarts. Always avoiding her, and referring to her as freak. Even when Petunia's friends came over, she told them to avoid Lily, said she was sick with some deadly disease. Plus Jeremy didn't have their parents there to stick up for him; it must be ten times worse.
March faded into April and Lily didn't hear from Jeremy. She decided to go home for Easter after all. It was in one week and she wanted to be with him, and have a little talk with Petunia. She wanted to make sure her last two months away from home, were livable for Jeremy. He was only eleven after all.
"Lily, will you be going home for Easter?" James asked at dinner that night.
"Yes, I think I will. Jeremy seems to be having a hard time, and I don't think Petunia is letting him owl me. I've sent him a couple owls telling him I'll be home for Easter, and to stick up for himself. Yet, I haven't received anything back. I'm a little worried." Lily responded a bit tired. James seemed to have noticed.
"Lily, you sound tired. Have you been getting much sleep?" James sounded really worried.
"Of course I've been getting sleep. Just not the best sleep in the world. It is mostly restless with about an hour or two of peace. At least it's rest." Lily managed a weak smile.
"Lily, what are you so restless? Does it have to do with Jeremy or your parents or school?" James asked.
"I think all three. Not so much school as the rest, but it is on the list."
"List? You have a list? What kind of list?" James seemed to be going overboard with the whole "list thing.
"James, chill. It is an expression. I don't literally have a list. Are you sure [I]you're[/I] getting enough sleep?" Lily chuckled a bit.
"Of course. I'm sleeping like a baby, but that might change now that I know you aren't sleeping well."
"Oh please. You have no reason to stay up. Anyway, are you going to go home for Easter?" Lily unintentionally changed the subject.
"Yes, I think I will. We don't have any pranks planned, and Remus will have to go home, and Sirius, I think he wants to spend time with Riley. I also think that Slytherin boy, what was his name? Richard I think, yes Richard, I think him and Sesha have something going." James went off.
"Well, talk about changing the subject. But that is exciting that Sesha has found a guy. I will have to investigate and hook them up. Wonder how Snape will react. He wasn't too happy about her "breaking up" with him." Lily actually gave a real smile.
"Now that is the girl I know. Always having a big smile on her face." Lily just started to blush at James comment.
Lily wasn't able to talk to Riley or Sesha anymore that day, and only had the weekend left before it was time to go home for the week. She wasn't sure if she would be able to find either one of them. Finally she decided it would be best to owl them before it was to late.
[I]Sesha and Riley, I wanted to talk to you two. I need a break from the guys for a while. Wouldn't you? Well, how about you meet me tomorrow around 10 a.m. and we could go for a walk around the castle and talk. Please owl me with your answer A.S.A.P. Oh yes, feel free to just answer on the back of this. Love Ya Lots Lily[/I]
At breakfast the next day Lily received an owl saying that the time would work fine and would meet her just outside of the castle on the steps. Lily was excited and started concentrating on what she wanted to eat. For once since her parent's death she had a real appetite for food.
When ten o'clock came around Lily was outside on the steps. She only had to wait a couple seconds before Riley and Sesha turned up.
"Hey babe! What did you want to talk about?" Sesha asked.
"Well, I have heard that you might have finally found a guy." Lily grinned.
"And who did you hear that from?" Sesha asked, looking suspicious.
"From my guy, he told me he thought that you two had something going on." Lily continued to smile real big.
"Well, we do like each other, and we have been hanging out a little bit..."
Riley cut her off, "A little bit? Try twenty-four/seven. You two are [I]always[/I] together. Whenever I ask someone where you are, they answer, with Richard. I gave up asking two days ago." Lily giggled at this comment.
"Well. When will you two start going out?" Lily asked.
"It took you and James a year, so it might take us two." Sesha joked.
"Now wait a minute. It took us a YEAR!?!" Lily exclaimed.
"Yea, Sirius was telling me that you two started liking each other last year." Sesha became serious.
"I did NOT like James Potter last year. I had no time to like him, I had O.W.L.S to study for." Lily crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well, not according to Sirius. You should have seen how excited he was on Valentine's day when James announced that you were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. He told me he had to come up with a prank, and we would re- schedule our date. He [I]cancelled[/I] [B]our[/B] date, because you two started going out!" Riley lectured.
"It did not start in fifth year though, it started this year, I do not recall ever having romantic feelings for James Potter. So I suggest you drop it." The two girls seemed to be getting mad.
"Wait a minute, I thought we came here to talk about me." Sesha broke in, "So let's get back on that topic shall we."
"Fine!" Riley and Lily said together, both now had their arms crossed.
"You two are ridiculous. It takes two sentences and one disagreement to get you two mad. Are you PMSing or something?" The three girls just started to laugh, you can't stay mad when one of your best friends makes a comment like that.
"What else did Sirius say about James and I?" Lily asked curios.
"Well, he said something about how James wrote your initials on a couple of his exams last year, and that he could never seem to impress you." Riley continued.
"Ok, now that I have heard that, we can start back on Sesha. So, about Richard?" Lily decided that she might as well get to the point otherwise she might find out some things she did not want to know.
"Well, we started talking after I 'broke up' with Snape. He had just come up to me and wondered why I would want to go out with him. I was reluctant to tell him anything. I mean I had never seen the two of them talk, but still. He could be trying to find out why I broke up and went out with Snape, well, for Snape." Sesha paused to breath. "Then I started to talk to him and got to know him. I finally told him my plan and he laughed. He said he could understand why Snape would want to get on the good side of James and Sirius. I agreed. And we have just been hanging out since." Sesha finished.
"You two aren't going out though? Just good friends that hang out all the time?" Lily concluded.
"That about sums it up. Anything else?" Sesha asked.
"When are you going to go out!?!" Both Lily and Riley said together. All three girls just laughed and walked up the castle steps and headed to their dormitories.
February 14
"Lily, come on! I need to show you something!" James exclaimed.
"What do you need to show me? Dinner is going to start in ten minutes, and I'm hungry!" Lily complained.
"Don't worry. You'll get to eat." James said with a twinkle in his eye.
"You aren't taking me to the kitchens are you?" Lily asked.
"No, that would totally ruin the whole purpose of things." James tone didn't reassure Lily.
"James, seriously. Where are we going? I'm not in the mood for any surprises." Lily whined.
"I'm sure you'll like this surprise. Now just shut up and follow me." James didn't look over at Lily, but just kept hold of her hand and led her deeper into the castle. They walked in silence for about five or six minutes before James came to a stop.
"Okay, now you need to cover your eyes." James whispered. Lily didn't argue and put her hands over her eyes. James led her through a door then shut it. Lily heard a muffled voice (which was James) tell her to uncover her eyes.
Lily gasped at what she saw. It was a room covered in hearts, both red and pink, and they all had one word on them; Lily. Lily looked around, and noticed that on each wall was another word. Lily walked over and read on the first wall, Will, the second wall was, you, third was be and the last wall was mine. Lily just stared. Then she realized James wasn't in the room. She looked frantically around, then noticed the door: [B]Open me if yes[/B] Lily couldn't say no and she opened the door.
There was James holding about two dozen flowers and had a look of complete innocence on his face. Lily just smiled and ran into his arms. (James hurriedly dropped the flowers)
"Yes James Potter, I will be yours if you will be mine." Lily whispered in his ear. She pulled away to look at his face, he looked into her eyes, then kissed her.
February 15th
"So, how did she react?" Sirius asked. The Marauders were all up in their dormitory about 1:00 a.m. (so it obviously hasn't been the 15th for long)
"She reacted perfectly." James sighed.
"How is perfectly?" Peter asked.
"She is perfect, how else can I explain it?" James asked.
"Uh, with details." Remus joked.
"I could never do that." James smiled.
"Then at least tell us if you two are finally a couple." Said Sirius impatiently.
"Yes. And what do you mean [I]finally[/I]?" James asked.
"Well, duh. You two have been inseparable since like Christmas, and you hadn't been going out." Sirius replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. (which it was, LOL [lol])
"Oh, I guess so then." The marauder's just laughed.
To celebrate the coming together of the perfect couple at Hogwarts (incase your wondering who that is, it's Lily and James) Sirius decided they needed to pull a prank on some people. And what better people than (drum roll) Snape and Malfoy. Now to come up with the perfect, most original prank. The Marauder's sat in silence thinking, and (duh, dun dun , dun, DUN!!) Peter came up with an idea.
"What if we make them talk a lot, like, nonsense talk." Peter quietly suggested.
"Hmmm, we could work with that. We would need to have more to it though. There would have to be a pattern of nonsense to it." Remus added.
"Yes, that is true. Because if they just talk, well, that is no fun." James said.
The only marauder not to have said anything was Sirius, but when he did, it was perfect. (as in Puuuuur-fect!! [lol]) "What if they talked in riddles? Or like, had puns, and jokes?"
"That's it! And I'm sure Lily has read of a charm that we could use on them. Let me go ask her." With that James got up and went to go find Lily. (which wasn't hard, I mean, he has the mirror, they are b/f g/f, and of course, she was sitting at the table behind him.) When James came back he explained.
"Ok, the "word" is camelio, and then we have to say, riddle/puns. That will make it so whenever they talk they talk in riddles and puns!" James was very excited.
"Ok, let's put it into action. We have potions tomorrow, we can do it then." Sirius said. (notice how these people ALWAYS have potions, and things ALWAYS happen in potions?? Or is it just me? LOL, and it's me writing this...geese, wonder how that worked out ()
The Next Day In Potions, which was the last class of the day, James muttered the spell under his breath and pointed his wand at Snape, and Sirius did the same to Malfoy. When they walked into class, James said, "Hi!" And this is what came out of Snape's mouth: [I]Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? "Hi, It's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is 'Share the love.'" Beep." "Uh, yeah...this is the VD clinic calling...Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love."[/I](did they have answering machines back then??) Everyone looked his way, and he just kind of stared, and then covered his mouth.
Malfoy turned to him to say something, but what came out of his mouth was: [I]One summer evening, during a violent thunderstorm, a mother was tucking her small boy into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can't dear," she said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."
A long silence was broken at last by a shaken little voice saying, "The big sissy."[/I]
The potions professor turned to them and said, "Would you kindly keep the jokes to yourself!" in an irritated tone.
Snape tried to explain, but all that came out of his mouth was: [I] This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done![/I]
"That's it, ten points from Slytherin" The potions professor said.
Malfoy tried to explain [B]himself[/B] but as you know what came out of his mouth was: [I] A man walk into a restaraunt and asks the lady behind the cash register, "What is your soup of the day?" She replies, "We have chicken noodle soup, pea soup, and turtle soup."
After pondering a while the man orders a delicious turtle soup. The lady says into the p.a. "One turtle soup!"
The man changes his mind and orders a pea soup. The lady makes the correction on the p.a. "Hold the turtle and make it pea!"[/I]
This just made the professor even madder, and said "That's it! Twenty points from Slytherin, and if either of you crack another joke, it will be fifty!"
Malfoy and Snape just stared at each other. They were about to say something, but both held up their fingers to the other's mouth. The whole class burst up laughing.
After the very eventful day in Potions, Lily and the Marauder's made their way to the Great Hall, talking the whole way of the two Slytherin's puns/riddles.
"How long does this last?" Remus wondered out loud.
"About five hours." Lily said. "I didn't give you the spell that would last any longer. Otherwise you would be putting it on everybody, then no one would get anything done."
"There are ones that last longer?" Sirius had an evil glint in his eyes.
Lily seemed not to have noticed the look because she replied, "Yes, the longest one lasts about 48 hours. Maybe a little longer or a little less. It all depends on the quality of the wizard or witch that casts it."
"Really? And these spells are in the book you were reading?" James asked, catching on to what Sirius was thinking.
"Hey, I'm not [I]completely[/I] stupid! I'm not going to tell you which book it is in!" Lily exclaimed.
"Fine, just a bit more delay on our part, we can still get through it." Sirius said.
"James, you aren't going along with this are you?" Lily looked at him, her eyes getting big.
"Well, I am part of this gang. And they can't do it by themselves..." James started.
"What exactly did you have in mind?" Lily cautiously asked. James, Sirius, and Remus just looked at each other, with identical evil grins.
When the boys still didn't answer after a couple minutes Lily more sternly said, "What are you going to do?!?" She seemed to be wanting to stop them before it got too bad.
"And why would we tell you?" Sirius smirked.
"Because that one" she said pointing to James, "Had better tell me everything, before he gets some kick-in-the-butts from his girlfriend, and I [I]highly[/I] doubt he wants that." Lily smirked back.
James looked at the other two, a bit scared. He whispered to them, "She's right. She can get me good. I think we should tell her."
Sirius looked James straight in the eye and said, "Come on, I'm not even controlled by my girlfriend, and we've been going out since September. You've been going out with her for a week and she's in control of you. Stand your ground man."
James looked between his friends and Lily, looking greatly confused, not sure exactly what to do. When he saw Lily giving him a devil glare he cracked, "We were going to put it on the teacher's to get out of homework for a couple of days. We want to have fun." He said this very fast, slurring some of his words together.
"I don't think so James Potter! You should be doing your homework just like everyone else. No getting out of it." Lily almost yelled.
"What if I said we are doing it so we can spend time with our girlfriends?" James cautiously said.
"Nope, too late. Should have said that first." James looked beaten and looked over to his friends.
"Sorry guys. Maybe some other time." And he slumped away.
February came and went with no exciting occurrences unless you count the letter Lily got in the mail the last week of February. It was from Jeremy and read:
[I]Dear Lily, Petunia started yelling at me today. I have no idea what I did. I was just asking her what we would do with the house, and when she would see Vernon, you know her [/I]boyfriend[I] again. He didn't seem to bad when I finally met him. But she just got all mad at me, and started calling me a freak, and that I shouldn't talk about mum and dad so casually. I think she is mad that I got into Hogwarts. I can't wait to go there, and be with you. I guess you will be home, in what, four months. That seems like ages. Will you come home for Easter. I know you probably don't want to, but Please please please! For me?? Your little bro, Jeremy[/I]
Lily felt really bad for the little guy. She knew it must be tough for him without their parents. Lily also remembered what it was like with Petunia the months before going to Hogwarts. Always avoiding her, and referring to her as freak. Even when Petunia's friends came over, she told them to avoid Lily, said she was sick with some deadly disease. Plus Jeremy didn't have their parents there to stick up for him; it must be ten times worse.
March faded into April and Lily didn't hear from Jeremy. She decided to go home for Easter after all. It was in one week and she wanted to be with him, and have a little talk with Petunia. She wanted to make sure her last two months away from home, were livable for Jeremy. He was only eleven after all.
"Lily, will you be going home for Easter?" James asked at dinner that night.
"Yes, I think I will. Jeremy seems to be having a hard time, and I don't think Petunia is letting him owl me. I've sent him a couple owls telling him I'll be home for Easter, and to stick up for himself. Yet, I haven't received anything back. I'm a little worried." Lily responded a bit tired. James seemed to have noticed.
"Lily, you sound tired. Have you been getting much sleep?" James sounded really worried.
"Of course I've been getting sleep. Just not the best sleep in the world. It is mostly restless with about an hour or two of peace. At least it's rest." Lily managed a weak smile.
"Lily, what are you so restless? Does it have to do with Jeremy or your parents or school?" James asked.
"I think all three. Not so much school as the rest, but it is on the list."
"List? You have a list? What kind of list?" James seemed to be going overboard with the whole "list thing.
"James, chill. It is an expression. I don't literally have a list. Are you sure [I]you're[/I] getting enough sleep?" Lily chuckled a bit.
"Of course. I'm sleeping like a baby, but that might change now that I know you aren't sleeping well."
"Oh please. You have no reason to stay up. Anyway, are you going to go home for Easter?" Lily unintentionally changed the subject.
"Yes, I think I will. We don't have any pranks planned, and Remus will have to go home, and Sirius, I think he wants to spend time with Riley. I also think that Slytherin boy, what was his name? Richard I think, yes Richard, I think him and Sesha have something going." James went off.
"Well, talk about changing the subject. But that is exciting that Sesha has found a guy. I will have to investigate and hook them up. Wonder how Snape will react. He wasn't too happy about her "breaking up" with him." Lily actually gave a real smile.
"Now that is the girl I know. Always having a big smile on her face." Lily just started to blush at James comment.
Lily wasn't able to talk to Riley or Sesha anymore that day, and only had the weekend left before it was time to go home for the week. She wasn't sure if she would be able to find either one of them. Finally she decided it would be best to owl them before it was to late.
[I]Sesha and Riley, I wanted to talk to you two. I need a break from the guys for a while. Wouldn't you? Well, how about you meet me tomorrow around 10 a.m. and we could go for a walk around the castle and talk. Please owl me with your answer A.S.A.P. Oh yes, feel free to just answer on the back of this. Love Ya Lots Lily[/I]
At breakfast the next day Lily received an owl saying that the time would work fine and would meet her just outside of the castle on the steps. Lily was excited and started concentrating on what she wanted to eat. For once since her parent's death she had a real appetite for food.
When ten o'clock came around Lily was outside on the steps. She only had to wait a couple seconds before Riley and Sesha turned up.
"Hey babe! What did you want to talk about?" Sesha asked.
"Well, I have heard that you might have finally found a guy." Lily grinned.
"And who did you hear that from?" Sesha asked, looking suspicious.
"From my guy, he told me he thought that you two had something going on." Lily continued to smile real big.
"Well, we do like each other, and we have been hanging out a little bit..."
Riley cut her off, "A little bit? Try twenty-four/seven. You two are [I]always[/I] together. Whenever I ask someone where you are, they answer, with Richard. I gave up asking two days ago." Lily giggled at this comment.
"Well. When will you two start going out?" Lily asked.
"It took you and James a year, so it might take us two." Sesha joked.
"Now wait a minute. It took us a YEAR!?!" Lily exclaimed.
"Yea, Sirius was telling me that you two started liking each other last year." Sesha became serious.
"I did NOT like James Potter last year. I had no time to like him, I had O.W.L.S to study for." Lily crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well, not according to Sirius. You should have seen how excited he was on Valentine's day when James announced that you were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. He told me he had to come up with a prank, and we would re- schedule our date. He [I]cancelled[/I] [B]our[/B] date, because you two started going out!" Riley lectured.
"It did not start in fifth year though, it started this year, I do not recall ever having romantic feelings for James Potter. So I suggest you drop it." The two girls seemed to be getting mad.
"Wait a minute, I thought we came here to talk about me." Sesha broke in, "So let's get back on that topic shall we."
"Fine!" Riley and Lily said together, both now had their arms crossed.
"You two are ridiculous. It takes two sentences and one disagreement to get you two mad. Are you PMSing or something?" The three girls just started to laugh, you can't stay mad when one of your best friends makes a comment like that.
"What else did Sirius say about James and I?" Lily asked curios.
"Well, he said something about how James wrote your initials on a couple of his exams last year, and that he could never seem to impress you." Riley continued.
"Ok, now that I have heard that, we can start back on Sesha. So, about Richard?" Lily decided that she might as well get to the point otherwise she might find out some things she did not want to know.
"Well, we started talking after I 'broke up' with Snape. He had just come up to me and wondered why I would want to go out with him. I was reluctant to tell him anything. I mean I had never seen the two of them talk, but still. He could be trying to find out why I broke up and went out with Snape, well, for Snape." Sesha paused to breath. "Then I started to talk to him and got to know him. I finally told him my plan and he laughed. He said he could understand why Snape would want to get on the good side of James and Sirius. I agreed. And we have just been hanging out since." Sesha finished.
"You two aren't going out though? Just good friends that hang out all the time?" Lily concluded.
"That about sums it up. Anything else?" Sesha asked.
"When are you going to go out!?!" Both Lily and Riley said together. All three girls just laughed and walked up the castle steps and headed to their dormitories.