Chapter 8: The Kids Are Alirght

At 7 o'clock Lily and the Turner's arrived at James' house. Lily chose a navy blue robe, while Britney was wearing a baby blue robe. Britney smiled at Lily, and pulled her away from her parents.

James' house was huge as well, Britney pulled Lily up the right side stairs, ('Ooh a run way,' thought Lily) to a door, which led to a long wide hallway, and she opened the door at the end of the hall.

Inside was an upside down James, with Remus holding his ankles, and James' face was all red, and he was counting backwards from 100 obviously. They didn't seem to notice the two girls that had entered.

"Seventy-one, seventy . . . er . . . what's after that Remus?" Remus was laughing, when he turned his head to the door, and dropped James.

"OW! What was that for?!" exclaimed James, rubbing his head. He turned to the door, and the sight of Lily scared him. 'Oh god, I'm so stupid.' He thought. He quickly stood up.

"You having fun?" asked Britney, smiling slightly.

"You have brought Evans?" asked James, 'Evans? Where the hell did that come from?' angrily thought James.

"No, I brought Lily, not Evans," explained Britney, briskly, she moved over to James' bed and sat down on it.

Lily stayed at the door, unsure where to go.

"Come in Evans," said James waving a hand in. 'Damn it, there I go again. Lily, Lily, Lily . . .'

Lily eyed him and went to sit next to Britney. James' room was big and messy. Clothes and toys were all over the ground. Just then footsteps down the hall could be heard, just then the door opened.

Mrs. Potter entered, in dark purple robes. "James!" she sighed, and with a flick o her wand James' room cleaned itself. "Keep this room tidy! Alice Peterson, Tess Horta and Daisy Yuen are here! I heard they're from your year?" James nodded slowly, and then three girls came in as Mrs. Potter left. Alice was wearing pale yellow robes, Tess had pink robes and Daisy had a green.

James' brow furrowed, he didn't seem to like the idea of having five girls in his room. Remus stood there looking at the girls; they seemed so out of place.

"I can't believe I'm finally here!" squealed Tess. Britney rolled her eyes. "What do you want to do?"

"Sleep?" asked James. Remus smiled.

"Sleep, why would you waste this magical time on sleep?" asked Tess, her dreamy expression drifting away.

"Sleep is good!" said James, yawning. "Now, if you please, get off my bed!" He looked at the five girls sitting on his bed.

"Where's Michael?" asked Britney.

James looked around. "He's in his room, but he'll be down later." James said apprehensively.

Britney shot up, and went out James' door, James quickly followed, as did everyone else. "Britney now isn't the best time to go . . ." he started.

"Why not?" Britney asked over her shoulder, as she opened the two doors, to the entry hall, so she could walk across, when loud bangs sounded the whole house.

Fireworks were coming out of all the rooms, people screaming and coming out into the entry hall. James put his hand to his forehead. Britney stared at the scene below her. Remus ushered the girls back to James' room. James grabbed Britney's arm and pulled her to his room, when the entry hall started going off with firecrackers.

When they were safe in James' room, stomping could be heard, down the hall. James and Remus hid under James' bed. The door was pushed open and slammed into the wall, James' father.

"JAMES!" bellowed Mr. Potter. Mr. Potter, pushed past the girls (not roughly of course he just sort of ushered them to the other side of the room, away from blocking the bed.) and put his hand under the bed. He grabbed James by the collar, and pulled him from underneath the bed.

"NEVER AGAIN!" Mr. Potter screamed at James.

"Never again, sir?" he asked his father nervously. He never saw his father this angry before. 'Bad idea James, note: kill Sirius for this idea,' thought James furiously.

"This," started Mr. Potter low and dangerous so only James and Remus could here. "Is the last time you ever come to the Christmas Eve ball at my house until you grow up!" Just then Mr. Turner came into the room laughing. Mr. Potter glared at him, so Mr. Turner shut up. Mrs. Potter came in with her hair all messed up, looking disgruntled and furious.

"James! Honestly would you stop these childish games!" said a very exasperated Mrs. Potter. James smiled weakly.

"Sorry, mum."

"That's just it James, you're always sorry. So that's it, James, that's it." Mr. Potter said weakly and tired to his son, and he walked off with Mrs. Potter.

"Well girls," said Mr. Turner to Britney and Lily. "I think we should go there's not much point staying here anymore." He nodded curtly to the other girls, and smiled weakly to James and Remus. He led the two girls out.

James let out a frustrating sigh. Then a limping Michael came into James' room. "Girls I think you should go to your families," he said to the remaining silent three girls. They nodded and left the room. James and Remus quickly got up to help a very weak Michael to James' bed.

"James, downstairs was some show." Michael smiled. James smiled weakly; Remus was all pale and shocked. "Don't worry Remus; you'll be invited over again. I cannot believe you did that though. It was hilarious, all those people's faces . . . very funny."

"Dad's furious at me, so is mum. I'm not allowed to come to this one till I grow up, so that means never." Michael sighed.

"You're not going to miss much anyway." Michael said. "Do you mind taking me back to my room? I'm really tired now, to much excitement." James and Remus helped Michael back to his room. On their way back to the hall that led to James' room a woman called up.

"Remus, time to go!" Remus stopped and turned to James.

"Bye!" said Remus quickly and he ran down the stairs to his mother, who seemed much disheveled.

James sighed, and went to his room, to write an angry letter to Sirius. 'It's not that I'm not allowed to go to the party anymore,' thought James. 'It's the looks on my parents face. Sure I've done this before at many parties, but this was the last straw. Grow up? Oh well . . .'

Christmas Morning

Hogwarts

1st Year Boy's dormitory

"Hey look James got me candy, chocolate frogs, pumpkin pasties, Bertie Botts's . . . and there's another letter from him." Sirius said quickly, he turned to Peter. Sirius and Peter were finishing up opening their presents. Sirius left James' last. "It must be about last night, how it went!"

Sirius opened the letter and read out loud:

Sirius,

You're a genius! The fireworks went great! (Sirius smiled)

Next time I want my parents to scream at me and say I'm never invited to their Christmas Eve party again, I'll ask you for help! (Sirius frowned)

Thanks for helping me lose my parents trust!

Your untrustworthy friend

James

"That had a lot of sarcasm in it, didn't it?" asked Sirius turning to Peter.

"Yeah, or maybe he was joking?" said Peter nervously.

"I doubt that Pete," Sirius folded up the letter and put it to the side. "Well . . . let's eat candy!"

Back to School

January 4th

James was furious at Sirius still. His parents avoided eye-contact with him for the rest of the holidays. When James asked if he could go to Remus' house his dad said, "I don't think I can trust you to go over there without making a mess of things James." That got James angry. If he was already an embarrassment, then he was going to be even more of an embarrassment!

The whole journey to Hogwarts was pretty silent between Remus and James. James was thinking . . . his parents didn't trust him, Sirius was stupid, and he had to grow up, Sirius was stupid, and NEVER, repeat, NEVER, let Sirius plan by himself.

But, was James going to grow up? No, he was going to do the opposite. Just to get his parents madder.

The train stopped, to signal that they were back at Hogwarts. James and Remus headed off the train.

When the two boys arrived in the Entrance Hall, there standing at the foot of the stairs was Peter and Sirius.

"Welcome Back!" yelled Sirius, having every head turn to him with strange looks.

"Yeah," grunted James.

"So I guess that letter was full of sarcasm," suggested Sirius. "Your parents really freak?"

"Yeah, they said I have to grow up, and I'm no longer invited to the Christmas Eve Ball until I do grow up. They seemed very intent on making that clear, so I'll do the opposite," said James as if it didn't faze him.

"You're going to do the opposite?" said a very shocked Remus.

"Yeah," said James quietly.

Sirius raised his eyebrows. "Alright -,"

"Oh yeah and Sirius, you're never planning a prank alone again."

A/N: Ok . . . my last chapter was sort of a mistake . . . the chapter was correct but i missed a few things. sigh I've been trying to finnish off this chapter for soo long today. I finally finnished it. Yesterday I actually wrote two chapters. I was on a roll, till today. I'm happy at the moment with the second year. I'm almost done year 1, just 4 to 3 more chapters. Year 2, will definatly be longer. I was sort of rushing year 1, I was board with it. I'll try to update tomorrow.

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P.S: Update Anna! I AM ALIVE! haha...iew those pics were gross...