Chapter 4: Take It From Here
"MORNING!" yelled Britney. Lily turned over and pulled the pillow over her head.
"What time is it?" asked Alice from the other side of the room.
"Oh, about seven, classes in two hours. Come on up!" Britney jumped on Tess' bed and started jumping.
"Britney, stop! Britney, Britney! BRITNEY!" bellowed Tess. Lily jumped out of bed and went to the washroom.
"Yes?" asked Britney innocently.
"Get off of me! Please!"
"Ok, ok!" she seemed a bit upset. But then ran over to Daisy's bed. "Daisy, you up?"
"Hmm . . . yeah I'm up!" Daisy got out of bit and wobbled a bit. She stretched then got her uniform on. As did Alice, Lily got out of the bathroom, got dressed, and then the five girls headed down stairs, and out the portrait hole.
"Anyone remember how to get to the Great Hall?"
"Yeah! This way," Britney led them to the Great Hall, where there was quite a bit of people. Including (to Lily's disgust) James, Sirius and Remus, and what made Lily even more upset, was that Britney led the way and sat beside James.
"Hello," said James and he smiled. Sirius didn't lift his head from his food.
"Here's your schedule," as Remus passed everyone their schedule.
Daisy looked at the sheet of paper. "History of Magic is our first class. I hope that's good!"
"It's not," said James with a mouth full of food in his mouth. "My brother told me it was the most boring subject, great to catch up on some sleep though."
"Good, 'cause I need the sleep," yawned Tess. "Since I was so rudely disturbed," She glared at Britney, but she didn't seem to notice.
"Who rudely disturbed you?" asked Sirius.
"Britney and it was – "
"Alright, Girly!" Sirius slapped Britney on the back, and she started to choke on her sausage. "Sorry!"
"What do you mean, 'alright?'" asked Tess, her eyes narrowing at Sirius.
Daisy had her mouth full of food and was staring intently at Tess then at Sirius. Just then the owl post flew in. Lily looked up, 'this is so cool, I've got to be dreaming, this is just so real.'
"Wow," muttered Lily.
"Haven't you ever seen owl post?" asked James. Lily looked at him and shook her head.
"She's muggle born Jamie, pass the bacon?" But James ignored Britney.
"Muggle born, huh? Well I'll teach you everything. I know for a – "
"No you won't! I'm teaching her James! She's my friend, now would you pass me the bacon?" James passed the bacon.
"She doesn't want you, she wants me! Don't you?" James looked at Lily and grinned. She would have said yes, only he pushed her into the lake and held her down. 'What a jerk, Britney was the first one I actually met, and she's real nice. Yeah, we're friends.'
"Britney will show me," I said, I smiled at James. He narrowed his eyes and went back to his food. Britney and Lily smiled back at each other. This was the beginning of a great friendship.
James, Sirius, Remus, Tess, Alice, Daisy, Britney and Lily all went to their first class. James was right; the class was the dullest ever. Lily and Remus were the only ones taking notes. The Hufflepuffs were all sleeping as the Gryffindors, except for Lily, Remus and Britney. Britney was braiding her hair. When the bell rang, everyone woke up from they're slumber.
"How boring was that?" asked Tess.
"Yeah it was, but I have notes!" said Lily.
"Notes?" asked Alice as she rubbed her eyes. "Who cares about the notes?"
"You really should," said Lily quietly.
The rest of the day, was pretty good. Besides History of Magic, Transfiguration was interesting, as was Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts. And before any of the first years knew it, the first day turned into the second, then the second week, then the second month . . . October.
Halloween Morning
James, Remus and Sirius
"Yeah, do you think anything will go wrong?" asked James who was smiling madly.
"I planned it, and with my brains, nothing will happen," at this comment Remus raised his eyebrows.
"And, we're pranking because?" Remus said curiously.
"So we'll be remembered, and it's funny to see the looks on people's faces."
James smiled at his hyper friend. "You want to be remembered, don't you Remus?"
"Sure," said Remus uncertainly, these were his first real friends, and he wanted to keep it like that.
"Great!" Sirius slapped Remus on the back, which made him jump; he gave him another uncertain smile. "The older kids are in Hogsmeade, so we have pretty much the whole school to ourselves. I can't wait till we go to Hogsmeade!" Sirius started jumping around the room.
"Alright," James looked at Sirius with a 'you lunatic' look. "Let's go to breakfast."
The three boys went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. They saw Britney and her friends so they walked over to them.
"HAPPY HALLOWEEN!" yelled Sirius right in Britney's ear making her jump. She sighed and continued buttering her toast. "That's it? No, 'Happy Halloween to you to Sirius?'"
"No," sighed Britney. "So what are you planning to do to me tonight? Send mad pixies at me? Turn Hagrids moleskin jacket into a dangerous animal and make it go after me? Make a dork chase me around and try and kiss me?" she looked at Sirius.
"Nope, your not the center of attention tonight Girly!"
"Shame, well we have to go," Lily and Britney got up and left. James watched Lily walk out the hall. Sirius followed Lily with his eyes as well.
"We have to do finishing touches mate! Let us go!" Sirius grabbed the back of James' shirt and pulled him out to the grounds. "Lily Evans?"
"What about her?" asked James as Sirius pulled him to the lake with Remus walking slowly behind them.
"You've been watching her lately. It should be easy to get her though," said Sirius thoughtfully. "You could just ask Britney."
James frowned. Sirius was his best friend, but he was stupid. He didn't want anything with Lily. He just thought she was cute. James sighed. "I couldn't really care less, Sirius."
Sirius smiled. "Yeah . . . I can't wait until tonight. I'm sure it's going to work. We've been planning it for a month. It has to work."
Remus smiled. 'My friends are a bit clueless, which is good. They didn't really notice me go away a few days ago. I just hope they don't get curious.'
Halloween afternoon
Britney and Lily
"Go fish!" Lily looked at Britney like she was stupid.
"I didn't say anything," said Lily. Explaining how to play 'Go-Fish' was harder than Lily thought.
"I'm going to ask you if you have any 8's, if you have any, you give them to me, if you don't say Go-Fish, okay?" Britney looked at Lily and smiled.
"Okay I get it, your turn?"
"Yeah," Lily was relieved she finally got it. "Do you have any 8's?"
"Yeah!" Lily waited.
"Can I have them?"
"No, I need them, if I get one more than I have four."
"That doesn't matter you give them to me!" said Lily exasperated.
"I don't like this game," Briney shook her head. "Do you know any others?"
Lily smiled. "Bloody Knuckles!"
"I like that name, how do you play?"
"Well you put all your high cards down in the pile, the game are to keep all your low cards. Queen means half a point, and Jack means zero. If you or I lose than you have to choose a card. Black means hitting your hand, red means scraping. If you get the number eight, than you or I have to do it eight times. Get it?"
Britney nodded. "Let's play!"
Lily put down her highest card: a king. Then Britney put down a jack.
"Er, Britney, you want jacks, their good."
"Er, Lily, no they are not, kings are good. Why did you put it down?"
Lily sighed, teaching an established witch how to play a muggle game was impossible. "Let's go get some lunch?"
"Yeah, I'm starving and my knuckles haven't turned bloody yet."
"That's not really – never mind." Lily laughed and pulled Britney down to lunch.
Halloween feast
"So when does the prank start?" asked Remus trying to sound confident, but knew he sounded nervous.
"In five minutes," smiled James. He couldn't wait to see the looks on everyone's face. He just hoped nothing went wrong. He and Sirius played tiny jokes on Britny but they worked because they were simple, but this was maybe a bit too advanced. 'What am I talking about? We planned this and it will work. We know what we're doing . . . I hope.' Thought James worriedly.
Just then the lights went out . . . "This is it Jamsie," whispered Sirius in James' ear. Then there was a bang. The doors to the Great Hall opened; three strange monster creatures came in, all about 4 feet, with their eyes popping out, hunched over with huge wooden clubs in their hands, with huge feet bigger than their heads . . . dwarf trolls.
"HAPPY HALLOWEEN!" they all growled. Then, instead of going to the Slytherin table (like they were supposing to) they went in separate directions. One even came to Gryffindor table. The hall was silent. Then the dwarf troll came up to Tess and breathed down her neck. Daisy, beside her, suddenly screamed. Then the whole hall erupted in screams.
"GREAT IDEA, SIRIUS!" James roared over the crowd.
"IT'S NOT ONLY MY FAULT, YOU WERE IN ON IT TOO!" screamed Sirius. Then the dwarf troll at the Gryffindor picked up a boy, in first year (who was in James, Sirius and Remus' dorm), and held him over his head. Though it wasn't that far from the ground, the chubby fat boy, with blue watery eyes and a mop of blond hair screamed.
"HELP!" the teachers were firing curses at the dwarf trolls, but since Sirius had the wonderful idea of putting a curse (with the help of Remus) that prevented them from spells for an hour, nothing happened.
James suddenly felt seriously guilty, 'Ok, next prank we're going to think it out more,' thought James. Remus stood beside him with a horrified look on his face. He looked extremely pale (more than usual), and he looked peaky, like when they first met him. Everyone was running out of the hall, except for the students who were trapped by the dwarf trolls.
"I DIDN'T THINK DWARF TROLLS WERE SO VICIOUS!" yelled Sirius.
"OBVIOUSLY NOT!" yelled Remus, who looked horrified. Just the dwarf troll with the chubby boy threw the boy against the wall and lifted his club and smacked it into the boy's leg. He screamed.
"IMOBULUS!" boomed Dumbledore. The dwarf trolls rose into the air and were frozen. Sirius sighed with relief. "Head's of the Houses find the students and send them up to their common rooms." The head's nodded.
James, Sirius and Remus ran to the boy. But he was suddenly levitated and on a stretcher. "If you would like to follow your friend up to the Hospital Wing, then follow the stretcher," said Professor Dumbledore, and Sirius could have sworn he saw a twinkle in his eye. The other students, harmed by the dwarf troll's, had nothing serious, so they went to their common rooms.
"I think we should follow the stretcher, it is our fault," said James to Sirius and Remus. Sirius nodded. They followed the stretcher to the Hospital Wing. Sirius felt real guilty, they should have thought it through more.
"Damn," whispered Sirius.
When they entered the Hospital Wing with the stretcher in front of them, Madame Pomfrey came rushing over and put the boy on an empty bed. "What's his name?" asked Madame Pomfrey who was doing a few spells and had potions on the bedside table.
James, Sirius and Remus looked at each other. "We don't know," whispered James.
Madame Pomfrey looked at the three boys incuriously. She raised her eyebrows. "Well, I suggest you three should leave your 'friend,' he will come around by tomorrow, Happy Halloween." She ushered the three boys out, and they went back to Gryffindor Tower without another word, and went to sleep.
Next Day
"Sirius," James said as he and Remus tried to wake him up. "Sirius, SIRIUS!" screamed James. Sirius sat up, so did the other boy, Frank Longbottom, jumped up too. "Sorry Frank."Frank went back to bed muttering to him.
"What?" asked Sirius.
"We're going to see the boy in the hospital wing, are you coming?" asked James.
Sirius got out of bed, got dressed and the three boys went to the hospital wing. When they arrived, the boy was sitting up in his bed, with Madame Pomfrey hovering over him, waiting for him to drink the potion.
"You here to see Mr. Pettigrew?" asked Madame Pomfrey. Remus nodded. She led them to the boy's bed.
"Hey," said James softly to the boy. They boy looked up, after just drinking the potion. His eyes widened, he looked horrified.
"Hi," said the boy softly.
"We wanted to see how you are, and say sorry." said Sirius, looking quite nervous, because he was shifting in his spot.
"S-sorry for w-what?" stuttered the boy.
"Well, we, er, those were sort of our dwarf trolls, not ours but we, sort of, meant for them to attack, not you in particular, more the Slytherins, but we, er, we're sorry for causing, you in, er, here, because we are –" stuttered James.
"Have you ever said sorry before?" asked Remus looking at his friend bewildered.
"Well, yeah but I never meant it before," said James quietly.
"We're sorry, and we're sorry for this one," said Sirius pointing to James.
James pushed him.
"So what's your name?" asked Remus.
"P-Peter P-Pettigrew," nervously said the boy.
"Nice to meet you Peter," James held out his hand, the boy pulled out his chubby hand and it locked with James'. Sirius smiled.
"So, Pete, you don't mind me calling you that do you?" asked Sirius. Peter shook his head. "Great, welcome to our friendship!" Remus looked at him.
"Yeah, you're our new friend!" exclaimed James, Remus nodded. The boy smiled weakly.
"Take it from here Peter," began Remus very seriously. "Persuade them to think plans out before going on with them and don't talk to Sirius when he's eating."
James and Sirius laughed. Remus smiled weakly at Peter. 'Something just doesn't feel right,' thought Remus.
A/N: Ok I got more reviews!!! Yeah I love you! Sorry it took a while to update! I was trying to finnish the other chapter, which i just sucessfully finnished! There are not many chapters in this book, probably about 8 more! I'm currently writing the second year, and I want it to be longer, but so far it's going a little slow. I have many ideas, but I don't know when to put them in, but I think I finally have an idea!
The other day anna (my official idea person or also known as the talented aks100) and I were writing scenes for our futur books. I was writing scenes for year 6 and 7. They will be very juicy. That conversation ended up being about 166 pages on microsoft!
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