The Halloween feast that night was spectacular as usual. Everyone was enjoying themselves and eating great tasting food.
"I haven't seen the boys play any mean tricks today." Faith whispered to Lily.
"Don't worry it's early and you know them." Lily replied.
"Seriously. Have you ever lived through a Halloween at Hogwarts that they didn't prank?" Sarah asked taking a big drink of her pumpkin juice. Faith thought about it an said
"Yeah your right. I just hope they don't put cockroaches in the pie like last year." She said sticking out her tongue in disgust.She hated cockroaches with a supreme passion and ended up sticking a pie in James and Sirius's face that year.
"Yeah that was defiantly one of the worst pranks." Sarah added remembering seeing cockroaches squirming out of the pies and James, Sirius, Remus and Peter having fits of laughter. They got a month of detention for that.
"Everyone wonders who does these pranks every year. Are they that thick?" Lily asked.
"Apparantly." Sarah muttered carefully inspecting her pie. Suddenly a girl screamed. The great hall went silent and turned to the Huffelpuff table, where the scream had come from. A girl stood up and pointed to the floor. Her shoes were running off by themselves. Then if on cue everyone's shoes sprung to life and began to run out of the great hall.
Dumbeldore's eyes twinkled with mischief as everyone went running after their shoes. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were the only ones with shoes and were laughing as they followed everyone.
"If I had my boots on I'd kick you. Hard." Sarah said stopping the boys.
"Aww your shoes got taken?" James said in a mocking voice.
"Give us our shoes back." Lily said standing up.
"We have no idea how the shoes started running." Sirius said innocently.
"Ok that's the biggest bulls-" Faith started but was cut of by more screams. The boys smiled broadly and ran towards the screams. The girls followed close behind. What they saw was probably the most amusing thing they had seen all year. Yet they would never admit it.
In the middle of the hallway was a great deal of a green substance which everyone seemed to be stuck to. It smelled horrible and looked disgusting.
Faith saw her, Lily's and Sarah's shoes heading straight for the gloopy crap and tackled them beforeactually touching the stuff.
"Did I get any on me?" Faith said turning around as she handed her friends their shoes. Sirius looked her up and down and said
"Nope." With a coy smile. Faith glared at him. Lily picked up a big handful of the green stuff and threw it at James. It landed straight in his face. Lily, Sarah and Faith all began to laugh wildly. James looked stunned and Sirius, Remus and Peter all tried to stifle giggles. James smiled and wiped off his glasses.
James then scooped up a handful of the stuff and threw it at Lily. Luckily enough for her she ducked. The goop hit Sarah square in the face. Faith and Lily both doubled over in laughter. As Sirius bent over to pick up some goop Faith kicked him into the mess. Sirius sat up and looked at Faith. Faith threw her head back and laughed wildly. Sarah, being the clumsy thing she is just fell in. Remus tried to help her up but in turn fell in himself. Suddenly everyone in the hallway was throwing great big green slime balls at James, Sirius, Remus and Peter (Peter being the dofus he is got hit several times in the face.). The four ran laughing outside.
Sarah ran outside after them as Lily and Faith got busy throwing slime at everyone.Sarah turned into a cat as she got outside and made sure the coast was clear.
Sasha followed the boys wild laughter. She found them by the edge of the lake washing off the green stuff. Sasha quickly raced up her tree. Lily, Faith, and Sarah had all claimed that tree in their first year and no one ever sat there.After a minute or two Sirius began to tease James about Lily.
"I can see it now. You and Lily the perfect Lovebirds." Sirius said in a mocking dreamy voice.
"If she can ever think of James as more than a arrogant prat." Remus cut in.
"True. You'll have 3 kids and live in a nice house in the country. With burial plots and everything." Sirius said waving his hands in the air.
"Come on you guys I'm not in love with her." James said very unconvincingly. Sirius rolled his eyes and grabbed Remus.
"Oh Lily..I love you soo much!" Sirius said, making exaggerated faces at Remus.
"Ahh help. Save me from padfoot." Remus said laughing as Sirius spun him around. Peter began running around and laughing like an idiot .
Sirius spun Remus around one last time signing some idiotic song and grabbed James as Remus fell to the ground laughing.
"Why Lily you know I'm absolutely in love with you." Sirius said in his best imitation of James.
"Why yes Prongs my darling." Sirius replied to himself in a girlish voice as he continued to swing James around. Sirius spun James around and he stumbled but quicklyregained his balance.
"What about Faith?" Remus asked accusingly and teasingly. Sirius stopped in mid swing.
"Yes ickle padfoot kins what about darling Faith?" James teased jumping on Sirius's back.
"Well you see...thats...different." Sirius said tripping over his words.
"In what way?" Peter said sitting down.
"Well you see...I'm man enough to admit I'm in love with her." Sirius said puffing out his chest.
"Yeah right!" James said laying back.
"Tell me Padfoot dear. Does Faith know you like her?" Remus asked rolling onto his stomach.
Sirius opened and closed his mouth but no sound came out.
"You like Sarah." Sirius said thinking after a while and pointing a finger at Remus.
"No I don't." Remus said sitting back on his hands.
"Everyone here that thinks Moony is the king of denial say aye." Sirius said raising his hand.
"Aye!" James and Peter chimed raising their hands in the air. James smirked at Remus.
"Well...you...see...I-I-I." Remus stammered.
"You- you- you what?"James said playfully.
"Shut up." Remus said wrestling James to the ground. The boys started to wrestle and Sashaquickly becamebored. Besides she had heard plenty to last her a lifetime.
'Sirius is in love with Faith, James wants to get married and having matching burial plots with Lily and Remus...well does he or doesn't he?' Sasha thought walking across the grounds and heading towards the castle.
Severus came running out of the castle chasing after a pair of shoes. Sasha sat down on the ground and watched. Severus tripped and Sasha felt bad for him. So chasing after his shoes she tackled them and picked them up in her mouth.
Sasha meowed as she put them down. Severus grabbed the shoes before they could run away again and stuffed them onto his feet.
"Been chasing these bloody things all day." Severus muttered. Sasha looked up at Severus with a cute kitty look Severus rubbed Sasha behind the ears and a gentle purr began to make way.
Two laughscouldbeheard far away and Sasha's ears perked up. Severus turned around and saw Faith and Lily walking out of the castle. Severus let out a heavy sigh.
"That's the prettiest girl in all the world." Serverus said still petting Sasha. She was confused.
'Surely he means Lily I mean he's always looking in her direction' She thought.
Faith threw her head back in laughter at something Lily had said.
"I love it when she laughs. So graceful and nice. Like an angel." Severus said.
'He likes Faith!...Well...that would explain why he's always looking in Lily's direction in class. Lily and Faith sat directly next to each other in every class. That also explains the past 5 years of the running away and stammering every time Faith was near.' Sasha thought purring still.
"There she is."Lily said pointing at Sasha. The two girls approached Severus and he began to grow nervous.
"You found her Severus, thank you." Faith said bending down and petting Sasha.
"I-I-It was no problem." He said. Faith smiled and continued to pet Sasha. Lily sat down and also began to pet Sasha as she purred.
"Looky here" Peter said standing behind the tree that Sasha had just been in. James, Sirius and Remus stood behind him.
"Now how in the hell does that happen!" Sirius said pointing at Sirius who had Faith, Lily and Sasha next to him.
"How in the world did old oil head get Faith, Lily and Sarah to sit around him and not hit him?" Sirius said jealously. (Sirius always struck me as the jealous type.)
"Well he doesn't know the cat is Sarah so its really only Lily and Faith." Remus put in calmly. James and Sirius glared at him.
"Why don't you just go over there and talk to them." Peter offered.
"We can't do that. Not with Snivillus there." James said throwing his hands up in the air and putting them on top of his head and sighing.
"We could talk to them tomorrow." Sirius offered.
"Yea let's do that. We'll try to be...what's the word Evans is always using..?" James said looking at him.
"Civilized?" Remus said smiling.
"Yeah thats the word...Why on Earth would she want us to be civilized anyways? Were teenagers!" James said.
"Don't know mate. She only says it to you. So maybe you should try being civilized." Sirius said teasingly as he ran his fingers through his hair. James sighed and ruffeled his hair.
"Civilized. Severus is the one that needs to be civilized. Calling Lily a...well you know." He said looking at them.
"Ok we are going to try and be 'better' for the girls. I mean do we really want them to think were scum for the rest of our lives?" James asked.
"No way." Sirius said his eyes glued to Faith.
"When do you wanna start?" Remus asked knowing James wouldn't ever want to start.
"After Christmas. I mean its only like 6 weeks away. And Prongs's dad has those big parties all the time. We could plan being better then" Sirius said.
"Yeah After Christmas. But I don't know about the whole party thing. You know my mum she's crazy about dads heart and stuff. Says it could give out at any minute with all the excitement." James said rolling his eyes.
"Ok so in about 6 weeks we...attempt to change." Remus said.
"Not all the way though." Sirius said breaking his gaze off of Faith to look at Remus.
"Well of course not. we still want the girls to like us." Remus said.
"So you do want Sarah to like you." Sirius said smiling slyly. He had caught Remus in a quick trap.
"I-I mean-You-t...oh shut up." Remus said turning to watch the girls talk with Severus.