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Chapter 16: The Nuisance and the Ally

About a week later, and some strange things had been going on with the boys. First of all, they seemed to disappear for a couple of hours a day, only to say that they were 'at the Library'. Now Lily, who was in the Library more often than not, had never seen that once there. She wasn't even sure they knew where it was. Another thing was that they're pranks were growing in numbers. Why, just that morning, the Slytherin's robes had been charmed to say 'I smell like dung' for 24 hours. Off course, James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus always took the punishments for each of the pranks, amounting in numerous detentions. So the real question was, where and when were the boys finding time to do all these pranks? And Lily, being the incredibly curious person she was, was determined to find the answer.

Lily walked into the Common Room one afternoon to find Melissa, Kelly, and Shannon, sitting at a table doing some homework. Lily settle her knapsack on the floor and took at seat at their table. "Where are the boys?" she asked, already knowing the answer.

"The Library," the three girls replied, without looking up.

"The Library!" Lily exclaimed suddenly. "I'm sick of them saying they're at the Library. I was definitely just at the Library and I saw neither hide nor hair of them."

"Lily, just let it go. Boys are stupid," Melissa told her shrugging. "Now come do homework with us."

"Homework can wait," Lily said getting back up.

Quills were discarded. Jaws dropped. Eyes blinked repeatedly. All was silent. Then…

"Lily, are you feeling alright?"

"Who are you, and what have you done with Lily?"

"I think we need to get you to the Hospital Wing."

"Girls, I am fine!" Lily said exasperatedly. "I just really want to find out where the boys are sneaking to every so often."

"Lily, since I am your friend, I feel no shame in telling you this," Melissa paused for dramatic effect. "You are by far the nosiest person I've ever met."

While Shannon and Kelly nodded their heads in agreement, Lily looked at them indignantly. "I am not nosy!" she cried. "Hey, stop nodding your heads! You all are the meanest people. If you were really my friends, you'd help my find out where the boys are," Lily sniffed, turning away from them with her head in her hands, pretending to cry.

Two second later, all three girls were at her side. "Oh Lily, we were just kidding," Melissa reassured her. "Of course we'll help you find the boys."

"Yeah, we've been wondering ourselves where they've been," Kelly told her.

"Let's go start our search," Shannon suggested.

Lily smiled into her hands and dropped the charade. "Okay!" she yapped cheerfully. "Let's go." She started walking out of the common room, dragging Melissa with her.

"That was a rotten trick Lil'," Melissa pouted, walking behind her, reluctantly.

Lily shrugged and grinned slyly. "Oh, don't pull that with me. I know you guys want to know where the guys are as much as I do."

"True," Shannon agreed. "I am curious to know what they're doing."

They soon came to a staircase. "Let's start on the ground level. I'm pretty sure they're not in the dungeon level," Lily said. They all started walking down the stairs. Soon they came to the ground level. Not much was going on down here. There was nobody in the Great Hall as it was between lunch and dinner.

"I don't think they're anywhere down here," Kelly stated, glancing around.

Lily sighed disappointedly. She was about to open her mouth to suggest they try the next floor when she felt a blowing on her neck. She turned quickly and came face to face with what looked like a sort of ghost. He was a short little ghost with strange clothes on including a bell covered hat and an orange bow tie. She'd never seen him before in the castle. Lily exchanged glances with her friends who looked just as confused as she did.

"Er, hello. My name's Lily Evans," She said introducing herself to this strange ghost.

The ghost cackled loudly and did a flip in the air before bowing condescendingly. "How do you do? Peeves 'tis my name," the ghost said in a ridiculously posh voice.

"Um, nice to meet you," Melissa said to him uncertainly. The other girls nodded.

"It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance," the ghost said to them. "Now tell me ladies, do you like gum?" he asked, taking gum out of his pockets and stuffing it in his mouth. He began blowing an enormous bubble.

"Yes, we like gum," Kelly told him politely, eyeing the growing bubble suspiciously.

Lily's eyes widened as Peeves took out a giant pin. She took a step back but it was too late. Peeves pressed the pin into the humungous bubble and sprayed gum all over the girls and the hall. The pink gum stuck all in Lily's beautiful hair and all over her robes. She and the girls cried out in outrage. The ghost just cackled loudly and yelled, "I got you! I got you!" Then, before the girls could say or do anything, the mischievous ghost floated away.

"That-that-that, thing, is the most foulest being I have ever met in my life," Melissa sputtered out, trying to get some of the gum off and not succeeding.

"My hair," Shannon moaned. "Look at my hair!"

"Look at my robes!" Kelly cried also.

"Come on, let's get back to the Common Room," Lily suggested being the voice of reason. "We could all use a shower and a change of clothes."

And so the girls trudged back up to the Gryffindor Tower, in disgust, dismay, and disappointment.

In another part of the castle, Remus, Peter, Sirius, and James hid behind a humongous statue of Merlin. In each of their hands were several small objects that they had acquired from some Gryffindor third years that morning. They had been in the Room of Requirement figuring out what to do with them, when Peter had come up with an idea. So, here they were, waiting.

"I thought you said you saw him just a little ways down the hall," James said to Remus, peeking out from behind the statue to look down the corridor.

"I did," Remus replied. "He must've stopped for something."

"He'd better be quick," Sirius muttered eagerly. "I want to see what these little babies can do," he said, holding up on of the objects.

"We already know what they can do," Peter reminded him. "Dung. Bombs. How hard is that to understand?"

Sirius whacked Peter softly on the back of the head. "Ow!" "Oh that didn't hurt!"

"Shove it both of you!" James snapped at them. Both of them looked at him guiltily. "This is one of the reasons we always get caught."

"Another reason being, we turn ourselves in for the glory," Remus pointed out.

"That too," James said without missing a beat. "Now quiet."

The four of them turned to peer out from behind the statue at the empty hallway, continuing to wait in silence. From next to Sirius a voice came. "What are we doing?" it asked.

"We're waiting for Filch to come down the hall so we can shower him with dungbombs," Peter answered without hesitation.

There was a moment of silence in which the four boys exchanged confused glances before turning to the spot where the voice had come from. In that spot was a solid looking ghost with a strange attire that included a bell covered hat and an orange bow tie. He was grinning widely, like he'd just done something fun. His eyes were alight with mischief that only the boys could notice for the same light was in their eyes. "Oh, oh, let me help! Let me help! Let Peeves help!" the ghost exclaimed.

"Oy, quiet down," Sirius said to him. "You want to help us prank Filch?" he asked skeptically one of his eyebrows raised.

"Yes, yes, I'll help you midgets get that nasty old Filch," Peeves cackled, flipping upside-down in the air.

"Hey! Who you calling mid-!" Sirius started to say but James cut him off.

"Awesome, take some of these," James said to the ghost, putting some dungbombs in his hands. "When we see Filch, I'll give the signal, you pull the string and throw the dungbomb in his direction," he explained. Peeves nodded eagerly.

They all tensed as they heard Filch muttering down the hallway. "Stupid hooligans. Spilling water on my clean floors. I should hang them in the dungeons," Filch laughed quietly to himself. "That'd teach them."

James looked silently at his friends and Peeves. "1, 2, 3," he mouthed to them. "Go!" he yelled outloud. The five of them pulled the strings to their dungbombs and flung them over to Filch. Then they started running the opposite way.

"I'll get you for this! You'll be sorry! I'm going to the Headmaster!" Filch yelled down the hallway. When they were a safe distance away, they all fell into laughter. Sirius and James had to lean on each other to keep from falling. Remus had tears in his eyes and Peter had collapsed on the floor. Even Peeves was rotating up in the air and cackling madly.

"Oh Merlin, did you see his face," James choked out.

"I want to keep that implanted in my memory forever," Peter chuckled.

"Oh, oh my stomach," Sirius groaned, still snickering. After a couple of minutes everyone's laughter finally came to a close. "Ah, that was a great prank."

"It was brilliant," Remus agreed. He looked up at Peeves. "Thanks for helping us Mr. Peeves."

"None of that 'Mr. Peeves' stuff, now," the mischievous ghost cooed. "Anytime you need to prank Filch, I'll be around. You're pretty good at pranks, even if you are ickle firsties. Must be off now!" he exclaimed, sweeping his ridiculous hat off his head and bowing to them. They waved at him as he went off down the corridor.

"That Peeves guy is pretty cool," Sirius said, as they were walking back to the Common Room. "Much more exciting than Nearly Headless Nick."

The other boys nodded in agreement. "Abominable Snowman," James muttered to the Fat Lady when they reached her. She winked at them and moved the portrait forward to admit them. The Common Room was very busy at this hour. Students waiting to go down to dinner and some took to doing some of their homework. The boys took some seats near the girls' staircase as they usually did. Remus looked at the staircase thoughtfully.

"Do you think we should tell the girls about the Room of Requirement?" he asked his friends.

"You're crazy, why would we go tell them about our place?" Sirius asked, looking at him incredulously.

"I dunno, I feel sort of guilty that they don't know," Remus told them.

"What don't we know?" A voice from the staircase came. The boys all grimaced and turned to look. They're eyes met the sight of Lily, still standing on the steps of the stair with her hands on her hips. Behind her, stood Kelly, Melissa, and Shannon, all looking at them with suspicious eyes. There seemed to be something in all of theirs' hair. James looked closer.

"Is that gum in your hair?" he asked puzzled, ignoring her question.

The girls all huffed angrily as he asked this. "Some-some, idiot of a ghost put gum in our hair!" Melissa raged.

"It wouldn't come out when we washed it, so we're going to go to the Hospital Wing to see if they can fix it," Kelly told them.

"Did you happen to get the ghost's name?" Remus asked curiously.

"Yes. It wasn't even a normal name. I mean what kind of name is Peeves?" Shannon questioned them.

The boys all exchanged amused glances before simultaneously bursting out in laughter. The girls glared at them in annoyance before huffing at them again, and leaving the Common Room.

"I'm telling you," Sirius said, once they got their laughter under control. "That Peeves guy is a genius. Merlin would I have loved to have seen their faces," he told them dreamily.

Dinner that night was as it usually was, with a couple of exceptions. The girls were giving the boys the silent treatment. Actually, you couldn't really call that unusual as it happened about once a week. Any who, another thing was that, some of the other students looked as though they had had a couple pranks played on themselves. A third year Gryffindor Lily knew had gotten a bucket of water poured on her as she was descending the Main Staircase. Lily knew that some people were missing and overheard a girl in Ravenclaw telling someone else that their friend had had to go to the Hospital Wing, as they're ears seemed to have sprung some leaks. Just as they were about to be dismissed, Professor Dumbledore stood up at the head table, while Professor McGonagall tapped her fork on her goblet to get the room's attention.

"As some of you may know, some more than others, there has been a being going around and causing a little mischief today," he said with a smile on his face. "Though this being may have ghostly qualities, he is not a ghost, but a poltergeist. A poltergeist likes to cause a little 'ruckus' now and then. Peeves, as is his name, will not harm you, but if he happens to prank you, feel free to come to one of your teachers of Mr. Filch. That is all." He was about to sit down but halfway he stood back up again. "Oh yes. And will Messrs. Potter, Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew please report to Professor McGonagall's office after dinner. Now you may go," he dismissed them.

"I wonder what they did now," Kelly commented, as they walked out of the Great Hall.

"Maybe she wants to reward them for something they did in class," Melissa said nonchalanty.

The girls all stopped and looked at each other. "Yeah right!" they said in unison and laughed at that suggestion all the way to the Common Room.

.::Duck tomatoes and cabbages::. Was it awful? I tried to make it extra long for you!!! Will you still review, even if I'm a complete failure in posting. I hope so. So please R/R! Cookies for everyone if you do!!