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Chapter 8—The Challenge.
'Lily you look a bit peaky. Are you all right?' Jessie asked while standing next Anna. They were both watching Lily rise from bed. She was the last one to get up because Hannah, Sasha and Stefi were already in the showers.
'I'm fine.' But the words came out barely unrecognisable. Her nose was stuffy.
'No you're not. You've come down with the same thing Sash had at the beginning of the year.'
'No I haven't.' Lily said because Sasha had a terrible virus for a week. She had looked awful and had barely been able to get to class. She finally ended up in the Hospital wing where Madam Lucy had been able to treat her. According to her Sash had caught it from an animal that carried it. Professor Kettleburn had tried to tend to them and gotten rid of the magical creatures that carried it by taking them to an Animal healer.
'And why is that?'
'Because there haven't been anyone that has been sick for the past three weeks.'
It was no use convincing her that she was sick, although she new she had something just that it wasn't serious.
'Evans are you sick?' A patronizing voice said from behind them as they were walking to their other class. Lily didn't bother to turn around. Doing so would only provoke to bloody idiot more.
'Oh my you sound as though care.' Lily replied sarcastically.
Then Sirius decided to throw in his say as well and she spun around but that made her slightly dizzy.
'You even look worse than when Sashy washy was sick.' He said pointing to Sash who was had turned red from both embarrassment and anger.
'Black shut your bloody trap and speak when spoken too. Potter I don't have time for this.' Lily said and turned around this time she took her time. Then followed Sasha and Anna into Arithmacy.
She took a seat next to them before she heard two dimwits laughing and snickering. How could she have forgotten that they were taking Arithmacy as well? She didn't bother to tell them off because her throat was constricted and it was parched. Oh boy was she feeling weak. But there was no way she was going to show it. Especially since Potter and the gang was behind her. Beside her she felt Sash's anger crackle and simmer before the teacher arrived.
Professor Vector taught and the more she taught the more Lily felt like she was seasick. Though she has never been seasick in her life.
When the Professor went to on side of the class room Lily felt the dip and when Vector moved to the other side the classroom did the same. Before she new it she threw up all over Sasha and Anna. Both girls screamed, and stood up knocking over their chairs.
'Ms. Evans are you alright?' Professor Vector asked concerned and she looked at the two other girls. 'You two escort her to the hospital wing and get cleaned up as well.'
They didn't get far to the door before they heard the two Marauders erupt into small fits. They didn't laughed to hard but Lily heard them and swore she would get even. She should have thrown up on them instead. The pigs.
Anna and Sasha helped Lily all the way up to the hospital wing. 'Why can't the bloody room be somewhere near when you need it?' She groaned.
It was when Sasha and Anna returned from the dormitories to see how Lily was doing before they got back to class that they were surprised. Lily was sitting looking much better than before they left her, which was about ten minutes ago and she looked mad, really mad.
'Madam Lucy said that this wasn't a real virus.' She said through gritted teeth. 'She said it was something temporary that you could find in a joke shop.' She continued. 'Who do you think would purposely put a green pill in my food at dinner?' she asked with remarkable coolness and deadly quiet voice.
Anna and Sasha knew but they said nothing. Last weekend was the trip to Hogsmede. And Hogsmede meant Joke Shop. Oh boy she was really mad. They knew that the extreme coldness in her voice was masking her true feelings. She was ready to blow her top and they were afraid that she would start ranting and raving right there in the hospital. There were patients there.
'The Marauders that's who.' She said continuing and without taking a breath. They were sure they could hear her teeth grinding together. 'They embarrassed me in front of everyone. My teacher and my friends.' She went on and clamped and unclamped her fingers.
'Lily are you alright?' Sasha asked a bit nervously.
'Yes I'm fine. Madam Lucy told me to stay here for the rest of the class. That way you can pick me up for lunch.' She said her voice light.
'Okay Lily, we'll see you in half an hour.'
When Sasha and Anna returned to the classroom they made no mention of Lily to the teacher or the Marauders who were still talking and not paying much attention to anyone. Half an hour later they met up with Jessie and Stefi explaining all what happened before they reached the Hospital.
They even warned them that Lily might be just a tad bit angry. Just a little they said nervously but Jessie knowing her friend's temper was sure they were scared by it she would be too.
'Uh Lily?' Jessie asked when she entered. She was elected or rather she was pushed in first to test out the waters.
'Yes, hi Jess. Where are the others?'
'Oh we're here.' Sash assured her as the four of them stuck their head through the curtain their bodies three quarters of the way outside.
'Good, lets go to lunch. I'm starving. Madam Lucy said I had to wait for you before I could go. Honestly I can take care of myself.' She said calmly as thought nothing had happened.
She acted as though she wasn't boiling angry just over a half an hour ago. Her friends stared at her blankly for a few seconds before looking at each other nervously.
'Lily are you all right? I mean after what the Marauders did I thought you would still be pretty pissed.'
'Oh Jess, don't worry about it. Potter just needs to learn that Payback's a bítch and I am just the girl to show him.'
'You're going to pay him back? You're thinking revenge?'
'You bet, now if you all are ready how about some lunch. I'm in the mood for some red meat.' With that Lily led the way out and her friend followed her half wondering what could be going on in that head of hers.
She never claimed to want to get back at Potter and his gang before. In fact she ignored every attempt they made to embarrass her over the last few years. Apparently this last thing had gone one too far and had pushed her straight over the edge.
They walked into the great hall with her. She passed the Gryffindore table straight without giving them the slightest look. She sat down and fixed her plate with meat. Watching the way she was going through her food they figured that James Potter's days were numbered and that he and Sirius Black better be careful because Lily was going to rip them to shreds.
'You should not have done that guys.' Matt told them at lunch.
James and Sirius had spiked Evan's food yesterday with something from the joke shop. They were going to do their own form of duplication. It was an overnight thing. They gave it to her at dinner and it took the night to work. They had purposefully picked out symptoms that sort of seemed like the one, one of her friends had gotten first day back.
'Matthew take a chill pill my lad. It was only in fun. Besides you know we like provoking her and seeing her do nothing. This year its worse because she is a prefect.'
'Yes and you are supposed to respect them.' Remus said adding in his input since he was one as well.
'We do respect prefects. Like we respected Moony here by not telling him we were pulling something on a fellow prefect.'
Matthew snorted into his food.
'Yes it is so obvious you respect prefects like Lily and Snape.' He said sarcastically when he finished wiping his face.
'We do respect old Snivellus ... respect him enough to teach him proper manners. It's annoying that he is always following us is all.' Sirius said haughtily.
'But back to Lily. You need to stop provoking her.' Remus said earnestly while Matthew nodded in agreement.
'Yes we've been around her. We know her. You don't. She is a really nice person but she has a mad temper when she is ready. You guys better be careful, that's all I'm saying.' Matt put in wearily.
'Come on when is Evans nice? Everyone keeps saying that. I don't see it.'
'You wouldn't.' Remus said.
'And what is that supposed to mean?'
'Nothing it means nothing.' Remus said backing up but it was just as he was saying that that the girl in question walked into the great hall followed by her friends. She didn't look at them and neither did her friends—including Jessie Remus noted.
That was weird though because ever since they have been pulling pranks on her she always stalked past their table and glared and them fully and then walked to her table. There was an occasion where she quarrelled roundly for a minute then left. But the quiet was scary. It made Remus think about what was going on in her head and it wasn't pleasant. He didn't know whether he should mention that Lily looked slightly homicidal. Then again he had the idea that those two would not know what in the world the word meant.
It would take to long to explain anyway.
It was the end of the day and Remus walked with Sirius towards the great hall for dinner. Seeing a few girls in front of them Sirius quickly walked up to them but it was only when they neared them that they realised it was a few girls from their own houses as well as two of the Ravenclaw girls.
Lacey was there with Megan and Jessie's cousin was there with the Borucka girl. They were not pleased to see them especially when James ended up meeting them.
'Where are you girls off to?' Sirius asked grinning.
'Anywhere as long as it's a away from you.' Sash said coldly before walking away with Anna.
She really didn't want to see Sirius black's face at the moment. She would likely give him a black eye. She knew Lacey and Megan would catch up because they wanted to hear what the two bloody fools did to Lily.
The boys watched as their housemates walked away. Megan and Lacey had just looked at them through squinted eyes before watching them catch up with the two other girls.
'Guess the whole school will know pretty soon what you did.' Remus remarked of the two.
For the past week Lily couldn't sleep, her brain burned with the knowledge of revenge. She could hardly think of anything else. Well only at night, when her mind wasn't as occupied as it was during the day. She wanted to humiliate James but the rules she had for herself wouldn't allow her to do so.
She was a prefect for goodness sakes!
She was not allowed to think about things like that. What kind of example will that set. She was beholden to her duties and not focusing on petty things like revenge.
Yes but the rules never made way for one like James Potter. He was a filthy sodden prat who should be taught a lesson.
Well she for one was not going to have second thoughts. She said it once and she'll say it again payback is a bitch and she for one was going to show him what is really means to cross Lily Evans.
Lily knew that the only way to get through to Potter was to embarrass him. Just like he embarrassed many others before including her. She really had had enough. But what she didn't want to do was involve her friends in this little endeavour. If she got caught she didn't want to pay the price of her misjudgement.
She already knew that if she got caught she would see this as a horrible act on her part and she would regret her lack of control but darn it she needed to do this, for her own peace of mind.
She would deal with the consequences when it arrives right now she had to get to Hogsmede. The next trip is in two weeks so that means she was going to have to get her plans completed by then. She knew she was going to have to ditch the girls in Hogsmede with a valid excuse so she had to come up with one.
It was cold but Lily knew the butterbeer she had just swallowed would soon warm her up. She hadn't really expected November to be anything but cold but she had at least hoped it would ease up a bit. It was a very cold start for the upcoming winter months so far. Fall hadn't even finished. Halloween was last night and after the feast Sasha and Jessie hadn't really wanted to leave the comfort of their beds.
If you thought they were different they were cousins they were alike in the fact that they ate and gained weight. Okay well they ate but head to work at it to keep the pounds off. But this morning they were feeling lazy to start their Saturday jog.
It really didn't matter where they were really complaining not to go Steffi and Lily had dragged them to Hogsmede, which would be their last trip till just before Christmas.
So here Lily was now and she had the best excuse to leave the girls and find what she was looking for. The reason that the excuse will work so well was because it was the truth well ninety-five percent of it was the truth.
'Hey guys, I want to get some Christmas shopping done. I don't want to wait for the weekend before Christmas to buy everything. I'll see you in two hours right here okay?'
'Yeah I better get going to do some myself. This one here isn't my only relative. I have a tonne of cousins on my father's side that are coming over for the Christmas holiday.' Sasha replied sighing just a bit.
'Is David coming?' Jessie asked Sasha.
'Yeah.'
'Whose David?' Lily asked. She hadn't heard this named mentioned before. Well probably she had but had the cause to ask who it was.
'My cousin and I'm telling you even I have to admit he is the best looking boy cousin I have.' She answered before pointing to Jessie. 'See that one? She liked him for a time because he was not her cousin after all but he is just cool now and he is charming, he could give Sirius Black and James Potter a run for their money.' Sasha said maliciously.
'I know I've seen him in action Lily and I swear if I hadn't been in love with Remus at the time I would have melted just like the girl melted in London.'
'Doesn't sound that you stopped liking him.' Lily remarked raising an eyebrow.
'I know is doesn't but I have because well...'
'Well what?'
'I sort of like someone else but I know he doesn't feel the same way about me.'
'Aw love I'm sorry.'
'I know me too. Don't I have the best luck in the world.'
'If you count bad then yeah.'
'So how old is David?'
'He is a year older than me. His sister, Vidya is two years older than him. They live Trinidad but we send for them every once in a while. Fact is he picked up his last girl here. Right in good old London.'
'That's cool.' Steffi replied. 'Maybe you'll set me up with him huh? Luke didn't really work out for me.'
'Sure I'll see if he is willing. Anyway guys...lets go before it gets too late.'
'Yes, bye.'
Five minutes later Lily walked up to Zonko's joke shop. It was a recent establishment of three years. There wasn't any place like it even Lily had to admit that. She may have used one of their products a while ago but she was happy to say it wasn't for tormenting others the way Potter and his gang does it. But as soon as she turned to go in she heard by luck James Potter's voice coming through from it and ducked out of sight.
'I'm telling you Peter it will work. It might just the nudge you need to finally do it.'
'I sure hope so.' The shorter boy replied before they all left.
Lily blew out a relived breath but she was intrigued about what she had over heard. Black and Lupin hadn't commented to whatever it was that they were talking about. Probably it was because they were having their own conversation.
When she was sure they had gone she quickly went up to the isles and perused though them quickly. She found what she was looking for in a small bottle that contained three capsules, not enough for all the Marauders but enough for the two of them she wanted to suffer.
She bought it and quickly left to go to the Witches Boutique that was located three stores down. There she actually for once found presents that she could give all her friends and which suited their personalities. She laughed at the thought of Anna when she saw what she already picked out in a shade of pink.
The girl hated the colour with a passion and would scream if it came anyway near her. Mind you the only person who had a thing for pink was Hannah. Lily herself stuck with cool toned colours that went with her hair and her skin. Jessie as well preferred that type of colour. Sash loved her black and white coloured clothes and claimed the black makes you look thin albeit most of her wardrobe is filled with different shades of blue.
Checking her watch she noted that she had half an hour to spare before meeting the girls at Madam Rosemerta's so she paid for her purchases and left and stopped at Honeyduke's before going back to the pub.
When she arrived Jessie was talking to Matthew and his girlfriend Kit. Well they weren't talking exactly. They were politely commenting on the view which was rather pretty because the first snowfall of the season had taken place last night, though it was already melting since it was lunchtime.
'Hey.'
'Oh hi Lil,' Jessie replied in what sounded like relief.
Kit and Matt replied in different tones. Matt in friendly tone while Kit replied in a bored-snotty-tense-I-want-to-get-out-of-here tone.
'I got here early and decided to say hi to um Matt and Kit.'
'That's nice. I'll join you as well because the others aren't here yet.'
'Yeah that's what I said.' Jessie replied and as the two started to talk they were interrupted by Kit.
'Um excuse me while I go to the little witch's room.'
All of them nodded and she left.
'Um I'm sorry about that Jessie.' Matthew said scratching his sideburns a bit.
'Sorry? About what?' Jessie asked slightly perplexed.
'Well she wasn't Ms-Happy-to-talk-to-you was she?' He pointed out and Lily wondered why this was the case; she couldn't understand why kit was so cool towards her.
'She probably had a bad day.' Jessie replied.
'No her day was fine, she mentioned not to long ago that she was having a fine time.'
'Oh well I guess but that's okay still because she probably doesn't like me.' Jessie said with a wave of her hand. 'A lot of people don't like me but its not as if that bugs me. I don't really care. I can talk to people even if they don't like me.'
'You tell him.' Lily said half grinning and half laughing while she put her arm around her friend.
'See as long as I have people like this mad case over here who do like me who am I to care what others think.' Jessie explained.
'I see your point.' Matthew said nodding and when Lily watched him he had a strange look on his face.
She didn't have time to question it because Kit returned at the same time that Sasha and Steffi did. Hannah came in a few seconds later without her date so Jessie and Lily excused themselves and left to go to another table with their friends.
It was hours later when Lily and the others returned to Hogwarts for dinner, which brought an end to the Hogsmede weekend.
It was Monday morning that Lily put her plan into effect. Potter was talking to his girlfriend Renee and Black was doing the same with his girlfriend Dani, though Lily could hardly understand why dear old Dani would like Sirius Black. In fact all of them were surprised when Renee and Dani started going out with Potter and Black.
Seemed a bit dodgy to her really. But the thing was she had hope they would keep the boys' attention. Quickly she emptied each capsule in their drinks and walked through the same movements as if she was making her rounds and walked back to the Ravenclaw table with none of them the wiser.
When she sat down she had happened to look at the teachers tables and made eye contact with the headmaster. Professor Dumbledore looked at her and smiled secretly making her wonder if he saw her put the stuff in the Marauders' drink. She sure hoped not. He handled the funning of the school really well and she admired him but he did have his kooky ways but Lily felt that made him nicer than some of the other teachers that were about.
But before she looked away she could have sworn he winked at her, however when she looked back he was talking to Professor Binns so she was sure she imagined it.
She turned to watch James and Sirius in the table next to them. They were drinking a never-ending supply of water, pumpkin juice and chocolate milk and couldn't seem to stop.
'Ah it's working.' Lily said under her breath but Sash who was sitting next to her looked at her weirdly.
'Working? What's working?' she asked.
'Oh its nothing of great importance really.' She assured her friend.
As written on the back of the bottle the contents of the capsule dissolve quickly and leaves no after taste but the only after effect was that when swallowed it makes the person really thirsty.
It was in transfiguration that the capsule seemed to have take effect. She had purposely chosen a seat that she could see directly in front of the boys. Normally she would sit as far away from them as possible and that was why the rest of the girls were confused because in the last class they had with the Gryffindores she had done the same thing. But Jessie and Sasha sat with her anyway and Hannah, Anna and Steffi took the table next to them.
'Okay class since I have already explained to you the importance of this year at least a hundred times I would like for each of you to come up with a list of spells you cannot perform to your best advantage. We will work on those this week and next week we'll start something new. I am going to do this for a week once a month in preparation for your OWLS. Is that clear class?' Professor McGonagal said formally as she looked around the class.
'Okay begin and you can work in partners.' She continued after walking towards the front of the classroom and fixing her desk.
As Sash went over to join Anna to partner up Lily looked towards Sirius and James who have obviously decided to partner up. They both looked red in the face but said and did nothing to give away anything of what they were feeling.
Lily had the idea that it was starting to take effect and she was sure that within the next hour and forty-five minutes of transfiguration the whole class would know what the effect was.
Five minutes later...
Lily looked over and noted that not only was their faces red but they were sweating slightly.
Another five minutes passed...
Lily could practically see them towelling off the sweat that covered their faces. Well they'll have a harder time in a few more minutes.
It was half an hour into the class and James and Sirius couldn't take it anymore. James felt as though he was being put through his paces. His stomach was churning and it felt as though something was bouncing inside it then seized. He had been suffering since the class started.
He didn't know why but he needed to go the bathroom now!
Sirius had acted funny as well. They were trying to come up with spells they can't do well but all they could do was sweat and hold it.
He raised his hand.
'Professor.'
'Yes Mr. Potter?' McGonagal replied.
'Can I go to the toilets?'
'Its it an emergency?'
'Yes I'm afraid it is Professor.' He wheezed out and as she nodded her consent he turned and he got a glimpse of the look Lily Evans shot him. It was a triumphant look but it was hardly anything to think about when he was in a hurry.
But, 'where are you going Mr. Black.' Erupted from behind him. It had seemed that Sirius needed to do a bit of relieving himself.
'Professor I really need to go as well.' His best friend whined.
'I am afraid I can't let any of you go now. This is clearly an attempt to get out of class.'
'But professor.'
'No but I would like to see you both right now.' She said sternly and looked at both of them before indicating the front of her desk.
Lily watched as the two boys made their way to the front. They were walking a bit funny but that was what could be expected really. She figured they were ready to explode at any minute.
'Now boys were you trying to get out of class?' Professor McGonagal demanded.
'No, honestly Professor we really need to go to the bathroom.' Sirius put in though Professor McGonagal looked less than pleased with them.
'Hold on you two. Can I get ten volunteers to go to Professor Labelle's classroom and bring back the pumpkins we had transformed into glass jars.' She said and looked around the class. No one volunteered. 'Fine then I'll volunteer for you.'
Lily was glad the Professor hadn't picked her to go because she wanted to see her handiwork play out but a couple of the girls and the rest of the boys she chose. It was after they left and the Professor cleared a space for the things that she rounded on Potter and Black again.
But even before she started her tirade a sound was made and was followed simultaneously by another. Then a couple more in succession. Lily didn't want o be the one to laugh but she couldn't help it. When the first snicker came out she stuffed her hand in her mouth. Oh boy this was going to be an incident to remember.
James couldn't believe it. He had actually tried to hold that but that hadn't worked. Sirius cut the cheese, and then he did. One after the other they let it all go. It was after they had a symphony he felt better. He didn't need to go to the bathroom anymore. Glancing around there were a good few girls remaining in the room and it was needless to say that they were shocked.
Heck he was shock as well. He was also bloody embarrassed and could feel the heat rising to his face.
'See professor you could have avoided all of this and let us go to the bathroom.' Sirius said and James looked from his friend to the face of his teach was and grinned. The look on her face was priceless.
Hey they farted in front of half the class. It was pretty funny. The only question was though was why they had to? They ate the same thing that Remus, Matt and Peter ate and nothing happened to them.
'Uh yes, you two are excused you may go now quickly and return back just as fast.' McGonagal said with out looking at them.
Since they didn't really have to go anywhere but did feel like ditching class for a few minutes they left because they were told to and they couldn't get in trouble.
James noted that Evans was glaring at him and had a shocked face to boot. He now didn't have to wonder why he and Sirius were the only ones to perform a gas concert. It was because of Ms. Goody-too-shoes. Who would have thought that her, Ms. Angel-kiss butt- teacher's pet- would have it in her to defy the rules?
He knew that by the look on her face that she was the one to make this day all possible and the thing was it ended up falling flat. He passed her and winked arrogantly. He could practically sense her screaming at him in her head. Well it wasn't his fault was it that he was getting to ditch a few minutes of class. He could see that she wanted to turn him in but she couldn't do it without being punished herself so she wouldn't.
Lily could not believe what had just happened. Nothing had gone right. Half of the class had disappeared and on top of everything else Potter and Black didn't seem the least bit embarrassed by what had taken place.
They made a joke out of it all and made the class laugh because of their supposed dilemma and since she knew that they didn't need to go to the bathroom anymore, they got out of class scot free. How was she going to tell McGonagal without getting into trouble herself?
Darn it. She was tempted. There was no doubt about that. She was really tempted to blow the whistle on them. She wouldn't mind being punished herself for doing that to them but still she couldn't.
She watched them all but dance their way out of the classroom. When the rest of the students came back they were told of what happened. And it seemed that the Marauders became more popular because of it. For the reason that they got cheers when they returned.
The girls had noted Lily's quietness and were going to ask her about it later. They found what happened funny but hardly laughed because they felt Lily's tension radiated to them in waves. Anna had caught the wink James Potter sent Lily and was nothing more than shocked but she also noted that Lily bristled and clenched her hands.
This of course puzzled her but what could she do. They couldn't really talk about hat right then and there because Professor McGonagal had order them to practice their spells and Lily was doing hers with a passion and ended up nearly blowing up the poor pot while she was at it.
Lily ended up telling her friends all about her plan that fell flat on the ground before slamming against her face making a harsh imprint there. When Anna mentioned the wink Lily nodded.
'It was some sort of ridiculous silent challenge that I for one am not going to accept what and who does he take me for?' Lily said angrily. She really wanted to get up and childishly stamp her feet in frustration. It was bloody unnerving to that malevolent
'You know he might try paying you back.' Jessie put in feeling a little bit sure that they might.
'Could it be possible that he didn't know it was you...?' Hannah said trailing off when she got a "get real" look from Lily. 'Okay I guess not.'
'Who knows he may respect you for it.' Sasha remarked outrageously calm about it before bursting into giggles. 'Okay I suppose you will have to watch your back just in case.' She conceded.
'You know we could have helped you.' Steffi said. 'I wouldn't getting even with them.' Still seething from the time they made her breathe fire.
'No I really didn't want to get the rest of you into trouble if it hadn't worked out.'
The other girls nodded and before going downstairs Lily warned them to check and make sure their food and drink is not unattended. 'You never know what those boys could do.'
'Wow so it was the great Lily Evans that had us doing the fart-for-all in front of the class?' Sirius asked dumbstruck.
'Yes, Miss Priss surprised me.' James commented as he, Sirius and Peter walked up to the Gryffindore tower to unload their books.
'Sorry but that's my kinda woman?' Sirius whistled.
'No way.' James said hotly.
'Yes way and haven't you seen the way she looks at me? I'm sure she wants me.' Sirius said conceitedly and James snorted.
'Oh yes I hear glaring and muttering curse at you are new ways for female to declare their undying love for you.' James said sarcastically.
'Hey didn't you know love hate relationships work out to have a lot of passion?' Sirius said.
'Then wouldn't it turn out better because she hates James more than the rest of us?' Peter remarked at they came across the fat lady.
'Pudding cake,' was the password and when James said it and climbed into the common room he said, 'Yeah so that means she wants me more.'
'She does not.'
'Yes she does my friend and the thing is she just doesn't know it yet but she will go out with me.' James remarked as they met up with Remus in the dorm.
'Who?' He questioned.
So they told him. 'Now there is a challenge if I ever heard one. And believe me guys I don't think she wants either of you.'
'We'll see Moony.' James said grinning. 'She won't be able to resist my charm.' He finished while Sirius and the others snorted.
'You know this will be a total about face.' Matthew put in as he walked into the dorms himself and had over heard what they were saying. 'If anything if you do ask her out she might spit in your face, call you unsightly names and walk away.' He finished.
James just stared at him so he continued.
'Well I suppose it could be worse. She could slap you, or maybe kick you down there where it really and I mean really hurts before walking away.'
'She will not.' James said his confidence just going down a little bit.
'I'm afraid she might. Girls usually refer to physical violence when they are mad.' Matt said as he shoved his books under his bed.'
'She would not. All girls love me.' He argued.
'You forget James that this is one girl who never even showed one tiny little once of likeness towards you.' Remus said as well.
'No way fellows, I'm telling you she will say "Yes".'
'And if she says no?' they all asked in unison.
'Well hey it is not as if I like her or anything I won't be heart broken I'll just keep on asking her.'
'But if she continues to say no?' Sirius still asked.
'Well hey I always like a challenge.' He said smirking.
'Oh boy you're asking for it.' Matt muttered and the rest agreed with him.
End of Chapter 8
