Chapter Eight: "You're the one that I want!"
Olivia Newton John & John Travolta (GREASE)
About a month after that night in the Hospital Wing, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Meredith and Lily were all seated at the Gryffindor table at dinner, chatting animatedly about different things. After all, the end of term was only 3 weeks away, and everyone was making plans for their summer vacations. The Potter Family was planning on basically abducting Sirius from his parents and taking him and James to the Quidditch World Cup, The Lupins and the LaBelles were going to go to on vacation together in Switzerland, and the Evans Family was going skiing in the French Alps. No body really asked Peter where he was going over the summer; they all assumed that he was staying home.
(A/N: DIE YOU EVIL LITTLE RAT, YOU HORRIBLE LITTLE SERVANT TO VOLDIE!!)
"So, like I was saying, I wanted to go to South France, you know, to places like Marseilles and Nice (where the beaches are hot and so are the guys!), but 'Tuna was being a real heel and kept insisting that she wanted to go skiing. Well, you know there's no changing her opinion, and if we even did go to the South, she'd purposely make everyone miserable!" Lily was yet again pushing food around her plate, thinking about having to spend three weeks in a foreign country with Petunia, her ghastly older anti-wizard muggle sister.
"Well, when I owled mum before, she said that Remus' parents were thinking about going to Switzerland, and they wanted to know whether or not we wanted to come along." Meredith said.
"Wait, how do your parents know Remus'?" Lily asked.
"They met at Diagon Alley during the Christmas Holidays. Evidently, they both were looking for our Christmas presents Anyways, so they get to talking and without even knowing that Remus is my boyfriend they become family friends. Its weird how those things manage to work..." she answered, looking to where Remus was sitting.
A little ways down the table, James and Sirius were talking about the potential teams heading to the World Cup, while Remus and Peter sat, taking note of their conversation.
"Well Prongs, my money's on Ireland. They've got fantastic chasers, and their keeper is alright, and Scotland's got nothing on them!" Sirius interjected as James read the roster for the Scottish Quidditch Team.
"Whatever, Padfoot, there's no way that Ireland's going. Scotland's got it all- awesome seeker, chasers, and keeper. Now that I think about it, one of their beaters, Caroline Flora, is VERY hot."
"Yeah," Sirius said, looking off dazedly like he always did when thinking about girls, "Very hot. Oh, speaking of which, have you seen the new Seeker for England? Ana Zambia, the one they traded Betsy Calvin for? Talk about babe."
"Mmm-hmm," James replied in agreement.
Remus sighed, "You know that you HAVE a girlfriend, Prongs."
"I know," he said, directing his attention to Lily, watching her smile and laugh, flipping her beautiful red hair behind her shoulders, "But it's not like I'm going to be going on about hot Quidditch players in front of her. Besides, I love Lily."
He began to grin, the look of formulating a plan developed behind his hazel eyes.
"Hey guys," James said in a low whisper, "I think that I'm getting chills…"
The other guys laughed, knowing exactly what James was planning on doing.
The rest of dinner passed uneventfully, except for the fact that they all kept bursting into laughing fits whenever they made eye contact. Just before their plan was put into action, Peter complained about an upset stomach and chickened out, departing the Hall at a run, as if scared that a teacher was going to pop out of no where and yell "aha! I've caught you! You were planning with those other boys!" Moony and Padfoot shrugged as he left, but Prongs, not even taking notice that he did so, nodded to the others with that mischievous grin. It was time. As Lily and Meredith stood from the table and began to walk towards the Great Hall doors, James jumped onto the recently magically cleared off table, John Travolta style, and began singing.
"I got chills, they're multiplying, and I'm losing control 'cause the power you're supplying, it's electrifying!!!"
Lily spun back around, laughing with the rest of the Great Hall, and sauntered over to the table, marching lightly onto it and sang back, walking towards James with attitude.
"You better shape up, 'cause I need a man, and my heart is set on you! You better shape up, you better understand, to my heart I must be true!"
He laughed as the rest of the gang bounded onto the Gryffindor table, singing backup. Meredith and Remus, on the other side of the long table began mimicking Lily and James, while Sirius stood in the middle, swaying from side to side, snapping to the beat and laughing uproariously at the couples. Pretty soon, all of the Gryffindors were crowded around the table, snapping their fingers and singing the "do-do-do's" with Sirius to the 50's music that seemed to be coming from out of the blue. The rest of the school was tightly packed behind them, craning their necks to get a better view of it. Clearly, none of them had forgotten their first mealtime musical.
"Nothing left, nothing left for me to do!" James sang.
"You're the one that I want, you are you are you are! Hoo hoo hoo honey! You're the one that I want, you are you are you are! Hoo hoo hoo honey! You're the one that I want, you are you are you are! Hoo hoo hoo honey!" Everyone burst out singing at the top of their lungs, letting the music follow the sleazy Slytherins out of the Hall, their voices reverberating off the solid stone walls, chasing them back into the dungeons.
"The one I need! Oh yes indeed!" Lily and James sang, the rest of the hall singing the response ("All I need" "Yes indeed!").
As the interlude struck a more racy feel, all the attention and the faces turned to Meredith and Remus, who were beginning to sing the next verse,
"If you're filled with affection, you're too shy to convey. Meditate my direction, feel your way…" Meredith sang to Remus, who stood from his kneeling position and took her hands, and began swing dancing with her, stopping only to hold her in a dipping position and continue on with the song.
"I better shape up, 'cause you need a man…"
"I need a man!" Lily sang, attracting the attention back to the other side of the table, where she and James were dancing.
"I better shape up; if I'm gonna prove…" James sang as Lily pushed him back away from her, turning 180 degrees and then reversing the movement, walking towards him again.
"You better prove that my faith is justified!" The two girls sang in synchrony.
"Are you sure?" both Remus and James asked in response.
"Yes I'm sure down deep inside!" Lily and Meredith replied, grinning from ear to ear.
The whole Hall burst out into the chorus again, snapping and singing in time with the students on the table, repeating it over and over until James, Lily, Remus and Meredith got worn-out from all the dancing. As they brought the last chorus to a close, the Great Hall, currently filled with students from all years and houses crowded around the Gryffindor table, ruptured with cheer and applause. And though they'd never admit it, the teachers who had stopped and lingered back to see they perform broke into a light "Golf Clap" form of applause. Breathless and merry, the boys of the dancing gang jumped off the tables and held out their hands to the two ladies, who took them and stepped down, parting the crowd as they walked out of the Great Hall.
Sharing a quick grin, Remus and James glanced at each other and then broke into a run after their girlfriends, catching up with each of them and sweeping them into their arms. Sirius, although, couldn't stand to not receive the attention the crowd was giving and took a leisurely walk through the newly cleared path, waving and smiling. Sirius noticing that everyone else had already exited the Hall ran forward and with a last wave, slipped through the doors.
A/N: Oh I love that chapter just because it was so fun to write! Sorry if it was a little short, but the others are longer, so whatever. Anyways, I love Grease!! And John Travolta is just SO James Potter! I mean, y'all agree, right? C'mon, the T-Birds (like the Marauders), the whole Greased Lightnin' song, it just fits him! Even though Danny isn't a jock in that movie, he's really cool, and a playa! He's perfect.
Anyways, enough of my babbling, here's my responses to YOU! My beautiful, lovely, awesome, kick-ass reviewers!!
Daniel-Radcliffe's-girl: I love them too! Btw, I'm Daniel's girl! :-p jk, jk!
Enchanted Spirit: Thanks!
DanielLover00: yeah, I sometimes have to do that myself while I'm writing and revising chapters!
Allie: Yeah, personally I don't like Hilary Duff like, at all, but I wrote that chapter at one in the morning… I wanted to find a song that would work, but nothing came to be but that one, so I used it! :D
Andie Potter: Yep, romantic comedies are the best! :D
Sally: Moi? Je ne suis pas dans « denial »! « Denial » est un fleuve dans Egypt! (haha sucks for all you who can't parle francais !) Just kidding! Lol thx for the review, and I know, Hilary is, well, Hilary, so what ya gonna do?
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