Disclaimer: I don't own the quote that's in italics. And I can't be bothered to find who's it is. The words for FINE are from the Italian Job – if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. And I don't own Harry Potter or his world – JK Rowling has that pleasure. If you think otherwise, please talk to your psychiatrist and they will immediately check you into a hospital. Everything that you don't recognise, on the other hand, is mine – and the headache that goes with them. Thank you, thank you…
AN: British / American Dictionary-
Loo – I'm going to stop writing this word, because I've written it numerous times and frankly, you should know it by now.
Jumper – a sweatshirt
Have kittens – throw a fit (sort of slang)
Fancy – have a crush on them
Describe to a T – describe perfectly
Toy boy – if you don't know it, I'm not going to be the one telling you
Bobble – a hair band, elastic band, thing that you tie your hair back with
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End of last Chapter"No, of course not! Nothing happened last night!"
That, of course, got my full attention – bringing me to an upright position before I knew that had happened.
"What?!?!"
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Unforgettable, In Every Way
Part X - In Which there is a Revelation
"Come on!" Anya snapped, "Up, shower and dressed!" She tore away my duvet and dumped it on the ground beside the bed.
Before a protest had formed in my head, I was roughly shoved towards the shower and the door slammed behind me. The loo had evidence that Laura, Anya and Katriona had all been and gone. I quickly stripped and had the fastest shower of my life. Evidently, it wasn't as fast as Anya would have wished:
"Hurry up!" She screeched through the door as I quickly wrapped a towel around my body. Tearing out of the loo, I narrowly missed crashing into her.
"Where are Katriona and Laura?" I questioned, my mind half on trying to get my clothes on and not fall over as I hopped to get my socks on.
"They're downstairs already!" Anya shifted her weight from one foot to the other and back. The movement suddenly reminded me of something from last night, but I couldn't put my finger on it…
"And we should be down there too!" She grabbed my over-robe in one hand and one of my arms in the other and dragged me out of the room.
We had almost reached the Great Hall before I grabbed my robe back from her. We had dashed all the way down from Gryffindor Tower. Or rather, Anya had dashed while I tried my hardest to get my tie on, pull on my jumper and dry my hair with a hastily remembered spell and tie it back into a high ponytail.
Anya shoved open the double doors just as I whirled on the black robe. I followed closely on her heels as she sped down the Gryffindor table until we reached the other two girls in my dorm. There I paused.
"Come on Lily, sit with us!" Laura waved for me to sit in the empty place across from her and beside Katriona. Anya also sat down and then swivelled, looking expectantly at me.
I was frozen in the isle. Karen would have kittens if I didn't sit with her. She would probably go into a mood with me for the next two weeks, or until I grovelled at her feet and apologised until I was blue in the face! But I couldn't see her… so I suppose I was safe, or as safe as I'll ever be. I took the offered seat.
"So… how was last night for you?" I carefully broached the subject. Looking carefully at all three of them.
"Last night?" Laura had a glazed looking her face. "Oh, it was pretty boring, homework and all that."
"I think." Katriona interjected, her eyes also taking on a dreamy look.
"I can't quite remember what happened…" Anya frowned in confusion at being unable to recall what had happened the night before.
"Oh well, it doesn't matter, does it?" Laura shook her head; "It must have been pretty boring if none of us can recall what happened last night."
"It must have been…" I agreed. "Um, if you'll excuse me, I need to talk to someone…" I stood up from the bench and walked over to the Marauders.
"- Think that she knows?" Sirius was asking James as I walked over to them.
"I doubt it. She thought that everyone else was sleeping." He replied.
"But what did you say when she asked how you found her and Anya?" Pettigrew asked, his eyes wide as he leant over the table.
Were they talking about me? I had better interrupt quickly, so that they don't think that I was eavesdropping on their conversation.
"That's the funny thing, she –"
"Potter, can I ask you a question?" I interrupted sharply. The Marauder's heads whipped around and their eyes widened in shock at seeing who it was.
I could almost hear the question that was going through their minds: "Did she hear us? Does she suspect anything?"
"Sure, shoot."
"What the hell, did you do to Anya - and what did you get that Second Year to do to my dorm mates?!" I shrieked.
He quickly grabbed my arm and dragged me down to sit on the bench so that I wouldn't create a scene.
"Well, if it isn't The Amazing Lily." Peter acknowledged me in a high and squeaky voice.
"Shut up." I snarled, in no mood to bicker or flirt. Finding what had been done to my friends was rather higher on my list of priorities.
Sirius looked so shocked that Peter would even talk, that he didn't have an insolent greeting to give me. For once.
"I'm waiting." I threatened James, prodding him sharply on the shoulder. "And it had better be a good reason."
"Or what?"
"Or, or – I'll tell Shona that you fancy her!" The reaction that I received was not what I had been expecting at all.
"You had better not." Sirius said, not a trace of his usual cheek on his voice. In fact, he was very… serious.
"And why not?" I asked, the assured smile that I had adopted quickly sliding off my face.
"That might be what happens with you girls, but us guys don't do that to each other. We don't get between another boy and his girl, like Andrew and Shona. And we wouldn't do that to a friend." His speech done, he attacked his breakfast with a passion, shovelling the food in while at the same time hurling a curse at an unsuspecting Slytherin.
I was stunned.
"Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus." I quoted. We were honestly from different planets and were completely separate beings. I shifted nervously on the hard bench, thinking of a way to relieve the damper that Sirius had pulled over us.
"So where's the fourth Marauder, Remus?" I looked at then, expecting that they would say that he was off pulling a prank on a teacher or something. But they just looked at each other, silently communicating. The silence stretched forever.
"He's ill."
"Um, right." I quickly shifted to another topic, "So what did you do to my friends?"
"We didn't to anything."
"Then why can't they remember anything?"
"Not our problem."
"What is the matter with you!?" I shrieked, not being able to stand it any longer. "You were all fine last night, well, you were acting as you normally do, and now if I open my mouth – my head's snapped off!"
"We're fine!"
"Fine stands for - Freaked-out, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional. It describes you to a T."
"Oh go throw yourself at your boyfriend."
"My- my WHAT?"
"You heard me."
"I don't have a bloody boyfriend!" The fork that I gripped in my hands was quickly becoming a circle.
"Then what do you call Kerr Greenwood? Your toy boy?"
"I don't believe you!"
"Well you had better."
"How would you know if I was going out with him or not?"
"Karen came down to the common room this morning and told Kerr."
"What does Karen have to do with ANYTHING? She told Kerr what?"
"That you said yes."
"That I said yes to – oh."
"So you did."
"No! I didn't! He just… and she just… this is all just…" I couldn't speak, I was so overwhelmed with shock that Karen would presume to be in charge of my life… that she would just – just make decisions that could change the rest of my life! Well, maybe not that life threatening, but still it was the principal of the matter.
"Merlin, I don't believe this." I moaned, resting my head in my hands. I needed time to sort this out in my mind first, before I did anything else. Standing up, I quickly left the Great Hall.
As if on autopilot, I went back to my dorm and got my Transfiguration books and jotters and then went to the only place that I could think of where no one would disturb me. Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom.
"Hello Myrtle," greeted her, "How are you?"
"How can you ask me how I am?" She wailed, "I'm dead! You won't let me forget that I'm ddddddeeeeeaaaaaadddddddd!" She disappeared with a splash back into her toilet.
I dropped my bag onto the floor and gripped the sink, staring at myself in the mirror. I looked normal, plain even. My bright orange, frizzy hair vainly tried to escape its bobble; my puke-green eyes stared back at me from their muddy depths. And worst of all, my skin gave me the appearance that I had never seen the light of day – making the beginnings of a spot on my chin all the more noticeable.
I couldn't help but wonder why Kerr, one of the most popular boys in the whole school would be interested in someone that looked like me. I traced the small imprint of a snake on the faucet of the tap with a finger, puzzling over what to do.
I used to fancy James Potter, but his rejection of me when he had thought that I was going out with Kerr had removed that, leaving only one emotion towards him. Revenge for how he had hurt my feelings. The only way I could think of to achieve that was to actually go out with Kerr since James seemed to have a severe dislike for him.
That decided; I swung my book bag onto my back, groaned under its weight and left for Transfiguration.
"Here Lily, let me take that."
"No, it's…" I was facing Kerr.
"Hey, it's fine. It comes with the duty of being a boyfriend." He pulled my bag onto his shoulder and grasped my left hand, interlacing his fingers with mine as we walked down the corridor.
"I don't want you to think that it's a duty that you have to do…" I started, but was silenced with a kiss on the lips. Wow.
"No, I'll do it if I want to." We entered the Transfiguration classroom. Kerr entered first and I followed with my right hand touching the lips that had recently been kissed.
"John," Kerr asked as he set my bag down onto my table, "Would you mind swapping seats with me?"
"Wha?" John asked, coming back from the trance that he had been in.
"Could I sit beside my girlfriend?" I blushed pink at that word.
John looked stunned for a second, his gaze darting back and forth between Kerr and me. "Su- sure… ya, I'll move!" He sprung into action, scrambling for his papers and quills.
I sat in a daze for the lesson; luckily Professor McGonagall didn't call on me. I could only remember the wide grin that Karen gave me as well as her thumbs-up, and I tried very hard to forget the glares the Marauders-minus-one-Remus-Lupin gave me as they entered. The most recallable incident was when Kerr stretched languidly and placed his arm around me protectively, his body heat coming through his jumper and robes so that I could feel the warmth. What I hadn't noticed though, was the smirk that Kerr aimed at the Marauders right after that.
The rest of the day passed like that: everyone else a blur while Kerr was the only solid object. It felt like only a second before I was back in my dorm preparing for the patrol with Remus as part of our duties as Prefects.
"Lily! Remus sent me up to tell you that he's waiting in the common room downstairs." Laura panted from her dash up the flights of stairs.
"Right! Forgot about that…" I quickly stood up and did a quick survey to make sure that I had everything that I needed.
"Lily, you don't have Astronomy." Laura stated as she pulled the lunar chart that I had been working on out from beneath the pile of parchment I had hastily shoved it under.
"It's nothing, nothing." Laura gave me a doubtful look. I snatched it out of her hands and stuffed it into the inside pocket of my robe, "Right, I'd best not keep Remus waiting."
"You're not two-timing Kerr, are you?" Laura asked worriedly as she followed me down the stairs. I was glad that she had changed the conversation, but did it have to be to that?
"Of course not! I've only been going out with Kerr for – how did you know?"
"It's been going through that school like wildfire! I heard it from Andy Meson who heard it from Liam Cunningham, who supposedly heard it from the Head Girl, Liz Oser – who said that she heard it from you. And I told Katriona and Anya – who were shocked that you didn't tell us last night –"
I snorted that that. How could I have told them last night? They were roaring drunk and then somehow had their memories altered so that they thought that they were doing homework.
Mental note: Ask James what he did to… oh. I'm not talking to him…
"- Prepared for a surprise tomorrow morning."
"What? Sorry?" We were almost into the common room now.
"I said that you should be prepared for… a surprise tomorrow morning." Laura grinned at me.
"Why do I have a feeling that I'm not going to like this surprise?"
"Oh, I'm sure that you'll like it."
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