Guys are Jerks
Hey everyone I am sorry the update is late. I have been cleaning for the
last 4 days. We are going on vacation and we can only go if the house is
clean. Lanks to ladysiri for beta reading this. Well I am going to be on
vacation for aver a month but I will still try and update because I should
have internet. My updates may be farther apart but I will try. Anything
you recognize is not mine.
~stormie
"Where have you guys been?" Flair asked.
"We needed to talk about something Dumbledore told us." Lily said.
"Are you in trouble?" Stormy asked.
"No, its nothing just had to do with not jinxing students and staying out of the girls' dorm" James improvised, it was half-true at least.
"Ok." Everyone forgot about it. They talked about the dance all night. When they finally went to bed they were exhausted.
The next day, Saturday, they got up late and went to breakfast. On the way they met Tim who was leaving.
"Where have you guys been?" he asked.
"Sleeping like any sane person would on a Saturday." James replied.
"Oh will I got to go. See you later, Lily." Tim said and walked off.
"Bye." Lily said to his retreating back. "Wonder where he's going?"
"That's strange he didn't even walk over to you." Sirius pointed out. Everyone was puzzled.
"Did I do something wrong?" Lily asked.
"No. He probably forgot something. Its ok, you will see him later." Chad told her.
Lily smiled, "let's go get something to eat. I'm starving." They walked into the Great Hall and sat down.
For the nest week Tim avoided Lily when possible. Everyone was surprised. Sunday when they were walking to breakfast they found out why.
They were late again and walking when they heard a girl giggling in one of the empty classrooms. The Marauders being the Marauders had to peak. James walked over and looked in. He froze. Sirius was getting curious so went over to look. His _expression was one of a shocked person. When Sirius and James walked back to the friends they were bombarded with questions.
"Who is it?" Remus asked.
"No one" James said too quickly.
"Yes, it is. Who? I'm curious now." Lily replied.
"Its no one of importance," Sirius answered her.
"Yes it is. I'm going to go over and look." Lily tried to walk over but James and Sirius stopped her.
"No you can't." they said in unison.
"Watch me." She walked over. When she looked in her face paled.
"Who is it?" all the girls asked.
James and Sirius mouthed "Tim". They all felt bad for Lily but when Sydney found out who the girl was she was pissed.
Lily snapped out of it and walked in. "Hello, Tim, how are you today?" Lily said sarcastically.
Tim fell off the desk he was sitting on. "Lily." His face paled.
"So this is why you were avoiding me. To chicken to break up with me?" She asked hurt.
"I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you." He stuttered.
"Hurt me? Seeing you kiss that slut doesn't hurt at all. You know what, if you would have just broken up with me we could have still been friends and I could have forgiven you. But seeing you kiss HER I realize what a jerk you are," she finished.
"Hello, Lily," Genevieve grinned.
"Hi. You couldn't get James so you try to get Tim. That's pathetic. James is worth 50 of him any day after this. You can have him." Lily was really pissed.
"Did Barbie not get her boyfriend? Big bad Genevieve did. Poor little thing." Genevieve said.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you," James warned her.
"Tim I hope I never see or talk to you again. Please stay away." Lily started walking out.
"Is the princess just going to go and cry? Don't touch her she might break we all know dolls don't last forever."
This pushed Lily too far. Lily turned and slapped her. Genevieve froze. "Watch your mouth. You talk big but can't back it up with your fists. I can." Lily turned to walkout but Genevieve tried to attack her from behind.
"Lily, watch it, turn around." James yelled.
When Lily turned around Genevieve was running at her. Lily got out of the way then pinned her to the ground. "Tut tut tut. It's not fair fighting to charge your opponent when their back it turned. We're just going to have to teach you a lesson." Lily took her wand and put the full body bind of Genevieve. The other first years didn't know how to take it off except the Marauders so Genevieve had to wait until an older student came by.
Lily and Genevieve were making so much noise a small group had formed outside the door. They all felt bad for Lily and mad at Tim. How could he hurt a girl like that? Quickly the news spread through the school what happened. Tim and Genevieve weren't talked to except by certain Ravenclaw students.
Genevieve was smug. She though that she had ruined Lily's chance with Tim. Little did she know she was pushing Lily closer to James and his friends.
The dance came closer and closer but Lily did not get a date. Sydney was going with Chad, Sirius was going with Stormy and Remus was going with Flair. Peter had gotten some Hufflepuff girl to go with him. James didn't have a date either.
The week before the dance he walked up to Lily. "Hey how you doing?" he asked.
"Not so great."
"Still bummed about that Tim thing?"
"Yep I mean he was so nice at first. I guess all guys are jerks."
"Hey I'm hurt. I know for a fact all guys aren't jerks"
"I'm sorry James. He just made me so mad."
"I know you have been turning guys down that ask you to the dance and all but I was wondering if you just wanted to go with me as friends. We could maybe pull a few pranks?" He wiggled his eyebrows.
"I don't know."
"Great. I'll meet you in the common room at 7."
"I didn't even say yes yet."
"I know but how could you resist a stud muffin like me?" He asked with a puppy-dog face.
Lily laughed. It was the first time in weeks. "You can always do that to me. Sure I'll go with you. But what about your many admirers they might get upset."
"I am willing to risk that all for you milady." He pretended to be a knight in shinning armor.
"My knight in shinning armor. Thank you great sir I would love to accompany you to extravagant affair as your escort." James bowed.
Lily and James continued to talk for a while. It was nighttime. Sirius had detention, Remus had gone to visit his sick mum and Peter was trying to get rid of the tail he had. The girls were in the dorm talking about clothes for the dance. Lily had just told them to pick out an outfit for her and she would wear it. Sydney was with Chad talking in one of the corners. Lily and James were joking around having a great time. They were planning what pranks they could pull at the dance and who would be going with whom. They talked so long that when Sirius got back from his detention they were still there. So of course he had to throw in a few comments.
"Oh what are the love birds still doing up?" Sirius asked.
"Talking for your information." Lily replied.
"Sure talking is all you're doing." He replied knowing this would upset Lily.
"Actually we were thinking of what we could do to annoying guys like yourself who stick their nose in other people business." Lily replied.
"And what would you do to them?" Sirius asked.
"Well we could make you look more like Cyrano if you like." This at first didn't faze Sirius then he remembered what was different about Cyrano and ran to his room. Lily and James laughed at his actions.
"You know maybe we should go to bed, I am getting tired." James said.
"You're right. Good night." Lily stood up and walked to her dorm to go to sleep.
The next morning Lily was acting normal. The last week she had been kind of depressed. She woke up early so she decided to wake Sydney up by jumping on her bed. When Lily started jumping Sydney jumped up out of bed.
"Where's the fire?" she yelled. Lily started laughing, after Sydney could see she started chasing Lily. "What was that for?" Lily continued to laugh. Sydney finally tackled her, waking up the other occupants.
Lily finally calmed down "I just thought of a plan." Sydney stopped trying to strangle her. "We can go wake the guys up and brighten their mornings." All the girls grinned.
"Ok, but what are we going to do?" Stormy asked.
"We could open all the windows then pour water on them." Lily suggested.
"Oh you mean little girl," Flair said, "I can come to right?" They all grabbed their wands and snuck to the guys' dorm.
"I get James," Lily whispered.
They all chose one and opened the bed curtains and conjured a big bucket of water over the bed. When Lily let it pour on James he was soaked. He jumped up and started chasing her just like Sydney did.
Lily started laughing which impeded her running but she sang as she ran, "Run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm lighting lily." When James heard this he couldn't help but laugh. James finally gave up on chasing her because he was laughing so hard he was rolling on the floor. "It wasn't that funny you know." Lily said.
"Yes, it was you calling yourself lighting lily. Your hair even matches." James said. Everyone finally came down the stairs the boys all wet and the girls also.
"What's going on?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know James just started rolling on the floor laughing." Lily said.
"What did you say?" Sydney asked.
"He was chasing me so I said 'run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm lighting Lily.' Is it really that funny?" everyone else was laughing except Peter, he was confused.
"That's it" James jumped up trying to be serious. "We should have nick names. Lily can be lighting lily."
"That's a good idea. We should all think of nicknames. But Lily's should only be lighting because we don't want other people to know who we are talking about." Sydney said. Everyone agreed and they started trying to think of nicknames.
In the end they all came up with nicknames even though some were kind of stupid. It was Lightning Lily, Stunning Sydney, Sexy Sirius, Rambunctious Remus, Pristine Peter and Joking James. Everyone laughed at the names. They finally made it down to breakfast Lily was laughing so hard tears were coming out of her eyes. Tim saw her and was upset she was no longer depressed over him. She had moved on but he hadn't.
That day during class Sydney was wondering why Lily was so happy. She finally decided to write her a note and ask.
Lighting, What's up? You're acting happy. I though you were still upset over the jerk. Are you going to the ball? If so, with who? Stunning
Lily read it and replied.
Stunning, I deduced that I don't care what Tim did. If he thinks Genevieve is better than me, so be it. It's his loss. Yes I am going to the ball but I am not telling with whom. Lightening
Sydney almost fell out of her chair.
Lightening, Come on tell me I will tell whom you are going with. Pretty please with sugar on top and a cherry and whip cream, add some sprinkles with chocolate syrup and don't forget the caramel. Stunning
Lily started laughing when she read this.
Stunning Fine I will tell you whom but you have to guess first. Good luck, you're going to need it. Lightening
Sydney started thinking of all the guys that had asked Lily out trying to figure who she would say yes to. In the mean time Sirius was bothering James. He wanted to know whom he was going to the dance with. They were passing notes also.
Jamie Who are you going to the dance with? You know you want to tell me. I will tell you whom I am going with. Sirius
James read it and laughed.
Sirius I know whom you are going with. I am not going to tell you whom I am going with but you can guess. If you guess you have to keep it a secret. James (don't call me Jamie)
Jamie What the point of being able to talk if you have to keep secrets? I am sure I can guess but you have to tell me if I am right. Sirius
After class Sydney and Sirius were following Lily and James through the halls, saying names. Lily and James were laughing at whom they could think of. When Sydney and Sirius said Snape at the same time Lily and James pretended to throw up.
"That's just wrong. Sirius how could you even think of that?" Lily asked.
"I don't know I figured that if I said that you might spill who you were going with." Sirius tried to explain how his brain worked.
Sirius and Sydney were quiet for a while trying to think of more names. While they were doing this lily and James were talking.
"So do you think we should tell them?" James asked.
"No, let's see how long it takes them to put two and two together." Lily laughed.
"I know Sirius is always talking about how smart he is, let's see if he can live up to his bragging." James said.
The day of the dance finally came and Sirius and Sydney had not guessed whom Lily and James were going with. They had guessed almost every name in the school saying Snape and Malfoy daily but had never gotten it right. Around 5 the girls went to up to the dorms to get ready. All the first years were getting ready in Lily's dorm. First they all took showers then did their hair. Lily had no idea how to do so they helped her. After that they did their makeup. This time Lily did her own using the works they bought over the summer. Then it came to dressing. Everyone had their clothes picked out except Lily. Once everyone was dressed they realized Lily wasn't and handed her the outfit they had pick out. It was a short kaki skirt with a low cut midriff top. When Lily saw it she first refused to put it on. After a few threats, bribes and bargains she put it on. When they were done it was 5 till 8 when they were meeting the guys. Sydney went down first followed by Stormy then Flair. They were all meeting their dates in the common room Lydia, Carolina, Dawn and Eve were going with guys from other houses so they walked down together next. Lily was still unsure but held her head high and walked down the stairs. Her _expression was that of someone of in another world of calm and happiness.
When Lily walked down the stairs the common room got quiet. Everyone looked at her strangely. She almost had a glow around her. The Marauders jaws dropped, as did almost every guys' in the common room. Lily walked up to James and he held his arm out. Sydney and Sirius's jaws then dropped. It hit them like a ton of bricks then they started laughing.
"You mean we have been trying to guess who you two were going with and you have been going together the whole time?" Sydney asked.
"Yea I though you at least would have figured it out the first day I knew Sirius had no hope but I guess I was wrong." Lily teased.
"Hey I'm offended," Sirius said.
"You should be," Stormy replied as his date. "Now let's go start this shindig." Everyone laughed at her choice of words and walked to the Great Hall.
When they got to the Great Hall they spotted Snape and Malfoy who were hitting on some older girls. When they spotted Lily and Sydney they came over to talk when the Marauders were away.
"Hello gorgeous how are you fair ladies doing today?" Snape asked.
"Fine until you came over." Lily replied.
"Is that so? I was thinking we lightened your day." Malfoy replied.
"He's got an even bigger ego than James." Sydney commented. "And that's hard."
"I know maybe even bigger than Sirius." Lily said.
Malfoy was mad. "Do not compare me to Potter"
"And why not?" Lily asked.
Snape said, "Things might get a little nasty."
"How's that?" Sydney questioned.
Snape and Malfoy were really mad now. They went to slap each of them but Lily stopped them. "Now now do you not remember your little lesson on the train?" she asked as she raised her fists. The students were starting to form a circle around them. About this time the Marauders and Chad walked up.
"Is there a problem Malfoy?" James asked as he put his arm around Lily's waste. Malfoy jaw dropped.
"You and her? I can't believe it. What happen to that idiot Tim who cheated on her?" Malfoy asked.
"Well you see it's like this. I can take care of myself and if someone treats me like dirt they either end up with a broken nose or they aren't even worth my time so I don't bother with them." Lily tried to explain. It was all lost on Malfoy and Snape.
"Why don't you go bother some other lucky person?" Chad said. Snape and Malfoy walked away because they were greatly outnumbered.
"Where have you guys been?" Flair asked.
"We needed to talk about something Dumbledore told us." Lily said.
"Are you in trouble?" Stormy asked.
"No, its nothing just had to do with not jinxing students and staying out of the girls' dorm" James improvised, it was half-true at least.
"Ok." Everyone forgot about it. They talked about the dance all night. When they finally went to bed they were exhausted.
The next day, Saturday, they got up late and went to breakfast. On the way they met Tim who was leaving.
"Where have you guys been?" he asked.
"Sleeping like any sane person would on a Saturday." James replied.
"Oh will I got to go. See you later, Lily." Tim said and walked off.
"Bye." Lily said to his retreating back. "Wonder where he's going?"
"That's strange he didn't even walk over to you." Sirius pointed out. Everyone was puzzled.
"Did I do something wrong?" Lily asked.
"No. He probably forgot something. Its ok, you will see him later." Chad told her.
Lily smiled, "let's go get something to eat. I'm starving." They walked into the Great Hall and sat down.
For the nest week Tim avoided Lily when possible. Everyone was surprised. Sunday when they were walking to breakfast they found out why.
They were late again and walking when they heard a girl giggling in one of the empty classrooms. The Marauders being the Marauders had to peak. James walked over and looked in. He froze. Sirius was getting curious so went over to look. His _expression was one of a shocked person. When Sirius and James walked back to the friends they were bombarded with questions.
"Who is it?" Remus asked.
"No one" James said too quickly.
"Yes, it is. Who? I'm curious now." Lily replied.
"Its no one of importance," Sirius answered her.
"Yes it is. I'm going to go over and look." Lily tried to walk over but James and Sirius stopped her.
"No you can't." they said in unison.
"Watch me." She walked over. When she looked in her face paled.
"Who is it?" all the girls asked.
James and Sirius mouthed "Tim". They all felt bad for Lily but when Sydney found out who the girl was she was pissed.
Lily snapped out of it and walked in. "Hello, Tim, how are you today?" Lily said sarcastically.
Tim fell off the desk he was sitting on. "Lily." His face paled.
"So this is why you were avoiding me. To chicken to break up with me?" She asked hurt.
"I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you." He stuttered.
"Hurt me? Seeing you kiss that slut doesn't hurt at all. You know what, if you would have just broken up with me we could have still been friends and I could have forgiven you. But seeing you kiss HER I realize what a jerk you are," she finished.
"Hello, Lily," Genevieve grinned.
"Hi. You couldn't get James so you try to get Tim. That's pathetic. James is worth 50 of him any day after this. You can have him." Lily was really pissed.
"Did Barbie not get her boyfriend? Big bad Genevieve did. Poor little thing." Genevieve said.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you," James warned her.
"Tim I hope I never see or talk to you again. Please stay away." Lily started walking out.
"Is the princess just going to go and cry? Don't touch her she might break we all know dolls don't last forever."
This pushed Lily too far. Lily turned and slapped her. Genevieve froze. "Watch your mouth. You talk big but can't back it up with your fists. I can." Lily turned to walkout but Genevieve tried to attack her from behind.
"Lily, watch it, turn around." James yelled.
When Lily turned around Genevieve was running at her. Lily got out of the way then pinned her to the ground. "Tut tut tut. It's not fair fighting to charge your opponent when their back it turned. We're just going to have to teach you a lesson." Lily took her wand and put the full body bind of Genevieve. The other first years didn't know how to take it off except the Marauders so Genevieve had to wait until an older student came by.
Lily and Genevieve were making so much noise a small group had formed outside the door. They all felt bad for Lily and mad at Tim. How could he hurt a girl like that? Quickly the news spread through the school what happened. Tim and Genevieve weren't talked to except by certain Ravenclaw students.
Genevieve was smug. She though that she had ruined Lily's chance with Tim. Little did she know she was pushing Lily closer to James and his friends.
The dance came closer and closer but Lily did not get a date. Sydney was going with Chad, Sirius was going with Stormy and Remus was going with Flair. Peter had gotten some Hufflepuff girl to go with him. James didn't have a date either.
The week before the dance he walked up to Lily. "Hey how you doing?" he asked.
"Not so great."
"Still bummed about that Tim thing?"
"Yep I mean he was so nice at first. I guess all guys are jerks."
"Hey I'm hurt. I know for a fact all guys aren't jerks"
"I'm sorry James. He just made me so mad."
"I know you have been turning guys down that ask you to the dance and all but I was wondering if you just wanted to go with me as friends. We could maybe pull a few pranks?" He wiggled his eyebrows.
"I don't know."
"Great. I'll meet you in the common room at 7."
"I didn't even say yes yet."
"I know but how could you resist a stud muffin like me?" He asked with a puppy-dog face.
Lily laughed. It was the first time in weeks. "You can always do that to me. Sure I'll go with you. But what about your many admirers they might get upset."
"I am willing to risk that all for you milady." He pretended to be a knight in shinning armor.
"My knight in shinning armor. Thank you great sir I would love to accompany you to extravagant affair as your escort." James bowed.
Lily and James continued to talk for a while. It was nighttime. Sirius had detention, Remus had gone to visit his sick mum and Peter was trying to get rid of the tail he had. The girls were in the dorm talking about clothes for the dance. Lily had just told them to pick out an outfit for her and she would wear it. Sydney was with Chad talking in one of the corners. Lily and James were joking around having a great time. They were planning what pranks they could pull at the dance and who would be going with whom. They talked so long that when Sirius got back from his detention they were still there. So of course he had to throw in a few comments.
"Oh what are the love birds still doing up?" Sirius asked.
"Talking for your information." Lily replied.
"Sure talking is all you're doing." He replied knowing this would upset Lily.
"Actually we were thinking of what we could do to annoying guys like yourself who stick their nose in other people business." Lily replied.
"And what would you do to them?" Sirius asked.
"Well we could make you look more like Cyrano if you like." This at first didn't faze Sirius then he remembered what was different about Cyrano and ran to his room. Lily and James laughed at his actions.
"You know maybe we should go to bed, I am getting tired." James said.
"You're right. Good night." Lily stood up and walked to her dorm to go to sleep.
The next morning Lily was acting normal. The last week she had been kind of depressed. She woke up early so she decided to wake Sydney up by jumping on her bed. When Lily started jumping Sydney jumped up out of bed.
"Where's the fire?" she yelled. Lily started laughing, after Sydney could see she started chasing Lily. "What was that for?" Lily continued to laugh. Sydney finally tackled her, waking up the other occupants.
Lily finally calmed down "I just thought of a plan." Sydney stopped trying to strangle her. "We can go wake the guys up and brighten their mornings." All the girls grinned.
"Ok, but what are we going to do?" Stormy asked.
"We could open all the windows then pour water on them." Lily suggested.
"Oh you mean little girl," Flair said, "I can come to right?" They all grabbed their wands and snuck to the guys' dorm.
"I get James," Lily whispered.
They all chose one and opened the bed curtains and conjured a big bucket of water over the bed. When Lily let it pour on James he was soaked. He jumped up and started chasing her just like Sydney did.
Lily started laughing which impeded her running but she sang as she ran, "Run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm lighting lily." When James heard this he couldn't help but laugh. James finally gave up on chasing her because he was laughing so hard he was rolling on the floor. "It wasn't that funny you know." Lily said.
"Yes, it was you calling yourself lighting lily. Your hair even matches." James said. Everyone finally came down the stairs the boys all wet and the girls also.
"What's going on?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know James just started rolling on the floor laughing." Lily said.
"What did you say?" Sydney asked.
"He was chasing me so I said 'run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm lighting Lily.' Is it really that funny?" everyone else was laughing except Peter, he was confused.
"That's it" James jumped up trying to be serious. "We should have nick names. Lily can be lighting lily."
"That's a good idea. We should all think of nicknames. But Lily's should only be lighting because we don't want other people to know who we are talking about." Sydney said. Everyone agreed and they started trying to think of nicknames.
In the end they all came up with nicknames even though some were kind of stupid. It was Lightning Lily, Stunning Sydney, Sexy Sirius, Rambunctious Remus, Pristine Peter and Joking James. Everyone laughed at the names. They finally made it down to breakfast Lily was laughing so hard tears were coming out of her eyes. Tim saw her and was upset she was no longer depressed over him. She had moved on but he hadn't.
That day during class Sydney was wondering why Lily was so happy. She finally decided to write her a note and ask.
Lighting, What's up? You're acting happy. I though you were still upset over the jerk. Are you going to the ball? If so, with who? Stunning
Lily read it and replied.
Stunning, I deduced that I don't care what Tim did. If he thinks Genevieve is better than me, so be it. It's his loss. Yes I am going to the ball but I am not telling with whom. Lightening
Sydney almost fell out of her chair.
Lightening, Come on tell me I will tell whom you are going with. Pretty please with sugar on top and a cherry and whip cream, add some sprinkles with chocolate syrup and don't forget the caramel. Stunning
Lily started laughing when she read this.
Stunning Fine I will tell you whom but you have to guess first. Good luck, you're going to need it. Lightening
Sydney started thinking of all the guys that had asked Lily out trying to figure who she would say yes to. In the mean time Sirius was bothering James. He wanted to know whom he was going to the dance with. They were passing notes also.
Jamie Who are you going to the dance with? You know you want to tell me. I will tell you whom I am going with. Sirius
James read it and laughed.
Sirius I know whom you are going with. I am not going to tell you whom I am going with but you can guess. If you guess you have to keep it a secret. James (don't call me Jamie)
Jamie What the point of being able to talk if you have to keep secrets? I am sure I can guess but you have to tell me if I am right. Sirius
After class Sydney and Sirius were following Lily and James through the halls, saying names. Lily and James were laughing at whom they could think of. When Sydney and Sirius said Snape at the same time Lily and James pretended to throw up.
"That's just wrong. Sirius how could you even think of that?" Lily asked.
"I don't know I figured that if I said that you might spill who you were going with." Sirius tried to explain how his brain worked.
Sirius and Sydney were quiet for a while trying to think of more names. While they were doing this lily and James were talking.
"So do you think we should tell them?" James asked.
"No, let's see how long it takes them to put two and two together." Lily laughed.
"I know Sirius is always talking about how smart he is, let's see if he can live up to his bragging." James said.
The day of the dance finally came and Sirius and Sydney had not guessed whom Lily and James were going with. They had guessed almost every name in the school saying Snape and Malfoy daily but had never gotten it right. Around 5 the girls went to up to the dorms to get ready. All the first years were getting ready in Lily's dorm. First they all took showers then did their hair. Lily had no idea how to do so they helped her. After that they did their makeup. This time Lily did her own using the works they bought over the summer. Then it came to dressing. Everyone had their clothes picked out except Lily. Once everyone was dressed they realized Lily wasn't and handed her the outfit they had pick out. It was a short kaki skirt with a low cut midriff top. When Lily saw it she first refused to put it on. After a few threats, bribes and bargains she put it on. When they were done it was 5 till 8 when they were meeting the guys. Sydney went down first followed by Stormy then Flair. They were all meeting their dates in the common room Lydia, Carolina, Dawn and Eve were going with guys from other houses so they walked down together next. Lily was still unsure but held her head high and walked down the stairs. Her _expression was that of someone of in another world of calm and happiness.
When Lily walked down the stairs the common room got quiet. Everyone looked at her strangely. She almost had a glow around her. The Marauders jaws dropped, as did almost every guys' in the common room. Lily walked up to James and he held his arm out. Sydney and Sirius's jaws then dropped. It hit them like a ton of bricks then they started laughing.
"You mean we have been trying to guess who you two were going with and you have been going together the whole time?" Sydney asked.
"Yea I though you at least would have figured it out the first day I knew Sirius had no hope but I guess I was wrong." Lily teased.
"Hey I'm offended," Sirius said.
"You should be," Stormy replied as his date. "Now let's go start this shindig." Everyone laughed at her choice of words and walked to the Great Hall.
When they got to the Great Hall they spotted Snape and Malfoy who were hitting on some older girls. When they spotted Lily and Sydney they came over to talk when the Marauders were away.
"Hello gorgeous how are you fair ladies doing today?" Snape asked.
"Fine until you came over." Lily replied.
"Is that so? I was thinking we lightened your day." Malfoy replied.
"He's got an even bigger ego than James." Sydney commented. "And that's hard."
"I know maybe even bigger than Sirius." Lily said.
Malfoy was mad. "Do not compare me to Potter"
"And why not?" Lily asked.
Snape said, "Things might get a little nasty."
"How's that?" Sydney questioned.
Snape and Malfoy were really mad now. They went to slap each of them but Lily stopped them. "Now now do you not remember your little lesson on the train?" she asked as she raised her fists. The students were starting to form a circle around them. About this time the Marauders and Chad walked up.
"Is there a problem Malfoy?" James asked as he put his arm around Lily's waste. Malfoy jaw dropped.
"You and her? I can't believe it. What happen to that idiot Tim who cheated on her?" Malfoy asked.
"Well you see it's like this. I can take care of myself and if someone treats me like dirt they either end up with a broken nose or they aren't even worth my time so I don't bother with them." Lily tried to explain. It was all lost on Malfoy and Snape.
"Why don't you go bother some other lucky person?" Chad said. Snape and Malfoy walked away because they were greatly outnumbered.