Damn it damn it damn it damn it! Smacks head on keyboard Grrr! I said I would get it up by Sunday but 12 o'clock came and went and I still didn't have the ending of my chapter because I had been partying all weekend and I didn't have as much time as I thought I would to write this chapter...oh well...it's up though and that's what you wanted right?
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Everyone in the boys' and girls' dorm slept in late the next morning. Well...most of them tried to sleep in late.
Lily groaned as she heard giggling outside her hangings.
She looked at her watch.
8:03 it read and Lily groaned again.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes.
She stared at the hangings which weren't completely closed and were letting in light.
The giggling became louder and Lily ripped open her hangings so she could see out.
Cecilia and Pauline were laying on the floor a little ways away from Lily's bed and had a magazine spread out in front of them.
Lily looked up as Arabella poked her head out of her hangings.
"Can you two be more quiet?" Arabella asked irritably.
Cecilia and Pauline looked up at her.
"Well some of us don't like to sleep in all day." Cecilia said. "So get used to it."
Arabella scowled and snapped her hangings shut.
Lily sighed and got up and moved into the bathroom.
She wasn't tired anymore and it was no use laying in her bed all day.
After Lily got out of the bathroom, a drowsy Sara walked in.
"What are you reading?" Lily asked and walked over to Cecilia and Pauline.
Pauline looked up.
"A magazine." She said.
Lily sighed.
"What kind of magazine?" She asked.
Cecilia held the magazine up.
"Oh." Lily said. It was a wizarding magazine.
"Want to look with us?" Pauline asked.
Lily shrugged and laid down beside Pauline.
Lily looked at the picture on the left page.
There were three people; one tall (compared to the others) very handsome man with short blonde hair was watching a pretty girl with brown hair, dance around with another girl except this girl was blonde and older and taller.
Lily recognized the shorter girl as Sara and the older one as Jessica (Sara's older sister) but she didn't know who the man was.
Lily looked at the right page of the magazine which had "The Whitmores" pasted across the top in big bold letters.
Lily looked back at the picture.
'He's related?' She wondered staring at the man. 'But he doesn't look old enough to be their father...'
"Mmm...he's so handsome." Cecilia said dreamily looking at the picture.
"Yeah...too bad he doesn't go to school here." Pauline said.
Lily looked up at her curiously.
"He doesn't go to school here?" She asked.
Pauline shook her head.
"Didn't you read the article?" She asked pointing at the page that read "The Whitmores" at the top.
Lily shook her head.
"He goes to Beauxbatons." Cecilia said.
"Why?" Lily asked.
Pauline shrugged.
"The Whitmores used to live in France before they moved here when it was time for Jessica to go to school and Guillaume stayed back with his grandmother and grandfather." Cecilia said.
"So you mean this...Guillaume...is Sara's brother?" Lily asked.
"Yes." Cecilia said.
Lily stared at the picture again.
He was handsome.
The three girls looked up as Sara came out of the bathroom.
"What are you looking at?" She asked and walked over to them.
"You." Lily said.
Sara raised an eyebrow.
"No, I mean-"
"I know what you mean, we're looking at you. In the magazine." Lily said looking back down at the magazine.
"Ah." Sara said. "Well I'm hungry. Would you like to join me for breakfast Lily?"
Lily got up from her spot on the floor.
"If Arabella gets up, tell her we're down in the Great Hall." Lily said to the two girls still on the floor.
Cecilia flipped the page of the magazine and Lily took that as an 'okay'.
The two girls (Lily and Sara) walked down to the common room where a few people were nestled on the sofa or chairs talking quietly or dosing.
They didn't see the Marauders and presumed they were still sleeping.
As they walked down to the Great Hall, Lily kept glancing at Sara.
Sara raised an eyebrow and looked at her.
"What?" She asked.
Lily shrugged.
"Nothing...it's just weird that I have a friend that's in magazines." She said and paused. "Since when do you have a brother?"
Sara smiled and chuckled.
"Since I was born."
Lily rolled her eyes.
"I mean...why didn't you tell me you had one?" She asked.
Sara's smile fell of her face and she stared at the ground.
"Well...I try to imagine he's not there." Sara mumbled.
Lily raised an eyebrow.
"Why?" She asked confused.
Sara glanced at her but continued to stare hard at the floor.
"Er...it's not important...really." Sara said.
The girls continued walking.
Lily, unable to take the awkward silence grinned at Sara.
"Last one to the Great Hall is a Slytherin!"
Then tore off down the corridors.
Sara blinked and stared at her for a minute before taking off after her.
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"Where's Lily and Sara?" Arabella asked as she woke up about half an hour later unable to stay sleeping with the giggling girls.
Cecilia and Pauline shrugged.
"Something about the Great Hall." Pauline said waving her hand as if dismissing the subject.
Arabella sighed and walked into the bathroom.
She got herself ready and walked down to the common room.
She didn't see Lily, Sara or the Marauders so she climbed out of the portrait hole and started walking down to the Great Hall.
She thought she saw four figures walking towards her but when she sneezed and looked back up, they were gone.
She shook her head thinking she was seeing things and continued to walk to the Great Hall.
As she entered the hall, she searched around for Lily and Sara.
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Lily looked at Sara as she began waving around looking at the doors so Lily turned her head and saw Arabella walking towards them.
"Hey Arabella." Sara said as Arabella sat down next to Lily.
Arabella mumbled her hellos and started to eat her breakfast.
Neither of the three girls saw the Marauders through breakfast and began walking back to the Griffindor Tower.
"I wonder where they could be?" Lily wondered.
"Well...they were up pretty late and they're probably still sleeping." Sara said.
"But we were up late too..."
Sara shrugged.
"We see them later."
"I'm still mad at them." Arabella said scowling at the floor.
"Oh Arabella let it go. We'll get them later." Sara said.
Arabella still scowled at the floor until they turned the corner and she ran into someone.
"Oh! I'm so...sorry..." Arabella said looking up at the person who she ran into. "Nigel..."
Nigel raised an eyebrow at her and looked over at Lily and Sara who were holding back snickers.
Nigel smiled down at Sara who raised an eyebrow back at him.
"Nigel...hi. How have you been?" Arabella asked dreamily.
"Good." Nigel said still not looking away from Sara and she was starting to feel uncomfortable.
"Er..." Lily said.
"Sara. I have something to ask you and I can't wait any longer so I'll just ask you right here." Nigel said and Lily and Sara tensed up in fear and Sara's eyes flickered to Arabella who looked a little confused.
"Sara...will you go out on a date with me?" Nigel asked hopefully.
Arabella felt her insides go cold.
She clamped her eyes shut and backed into the wall.
"Oh god." She said and tore down the corridors.
She didn't even hear Sara's answer and she ran up to the Gryffindor Tower, seeing the Marauders sitting on the sofas.
They looked up at her in confusion as they saw tears running down her cheeks.
"Arabella-what-?"
But Arabella ignored them feeling gutted and ran up to the girls' dormitory.
Lily came running through the portrait hole a few minutes later.
"There you four are! Where is Arabella?" Lily asked quickly.
"Er...she went up there." Sirius said pointing to the girls' staircase.
Lily ran up the staircase ignoring their questions.
As Lily entered the dormitory she could hear Arabella's quiet sobs and Cecilia and Pauline had gone.
"Arabella?" Lily asked quietly and walked over to Arabella's bed.
Arabella was lying face down with her face into her pillow.
"Go away." Lily heard her say through her pillow.
"Come on Arabella...it'll be okay." Lily said softly and sat down on Arabella's bed next to Arabella.
She placed a hand on Arabella's arm which was half underneath her pillow.
"Why me?" Arabella asked and gave a sob into her pillow. "I liked him a lot Lily."
Lily smiled sadly.
"He wasn't worth it anyway Bella. Just forget him." She said.
"That's easy for you to say." Arabella said and sat up and wiped her eyes on her pillow.
Lily bit her lip.
"Look, we'll have a little fun and we'll forget all about him. Today is our day off so lets not let this ruin it." She said.
Arabella gave her a weak smile before frowning again.
"Where's Sara?" She asked and then her eyes filled up with tears again. "What did she tell Nigel?"
Lily shook her head.
"You think she'd say yes to a jerk like him?" She asked smiling. "No way she'd do that to you."
Arabella didn't smile.
"Where is she then?" She asked.
"She should be here, she said she would be a minute because she was going to beat the pulp out of Nigel." Lily said and the sides of Arabella's mouth twitched.
"I think I see a smile coming! Look! Look! There it is! Come on little smile...there we go." Lily said jokingly as Arabella smiled.
Sara burst in through the door a minute later.
"Look Arabella...I'm so sorry...I didn't mean for that to happen." Sara said.
"No it's okay Sara. Lily said we're going to have some fun now to help me forget about him." Arabella said and Sara grinned.
"Great. More fun." She said and Lily and Arabella quirked an eyebrow at her.
"More fun?" Lily asked. "What fun have we had already?"
Sara smirked.
"Beating the pulp out of Nigel. Or rather...yelling the pulp out of him." Sara said.
Lily rolled her eyes and Arabella laughed.
"Good, I got a laugh." Sara said. "Now come on, we need to go find something to amuse ourselves!"
"I think we should go find the Marauders to come have fun with us too." Arabella said.
Sara raised an eyebrow and Lily grinned.
"Now don't go fancying one of them." Lily said to Arabella.
"Oh? And what's wrong with that? They're all rather dishy if you ask me." Sara said grinning at the look on Arabella and Lily's faces.
"What? You fancy one of the Marauders? Which one?" Arabella asked and Sara laughed.
"Not telling!" She said and ran out of the room.
"Get back here!" Lily and Arabella yelled and tore after Sara almost falling down the steps.
"What's going on?" James asked getting confused and a little frightened as the girls ran around them.
"We're trying to find out which one of you four Sara fancies." Arabella said giggling as Sara looked at her in horror.
"What? I don't-!" Sara said before Lily tackled her down to the floor and began tickling her.
"Fancies...us?" Remus asked looking over the sofa to where the girls were rolling around on the floor.
"No!" Sara said through her laughter and Arabella joined in with the tickling. "Stop! I was joking!"
"Sure you were." Lily said as she quit tickling Sara and Arabella quit also.
Sara panted.
"Don't you believe me?"
"No." The two girls said in unison and started laughing.
The four boys all raised their eyebrows at one another.
"Er...too much sugar?"
"Perhaps."
"I think your idea of hiding out until the girls cooled off was a good idea Sirius. But maybe we'll just wait until they are not so out of their minds." James said.
"We were hiding out remember James? Until someone here-" Remus said and stared pointely at Peter who blushed, "chickened out."
"Well...what if they got madder because they couldn't find us?" Peter said.
James, Remus and Sirius rolled their eyes.
Arabella, Lily and Sara finally sat up and walked around to pile onto the sofa beside Remus.
"So...where have you boys been? Sleeping I presume?" Lily asked.
James and Sirius nodded and Remus and Peter shook their heads.
Remus and Peter looked at James and Sirius who looked back at them and then James and Sirius shook their heads and Remus and Peter nodded theirs.
The girls raised their eyebrows.
"Ooookay then." Arabella said. "Anyway..."
"Why did you girls run up to your dormitory just a little while ago?" Sirius asked and Arabella looked down at her hands.
"Er...not really a good time to talk about it right now." Lily said glancing at Arabella and the boys nodded slowly.
Sara stood up.
"Well I'm ready to do something fun. Anyone want to come with me?" She asked.
"Where are we going?" Remus asked.
Sara shrugged.
"Wherever we want to go." She said.
"Outside maybe?" Arabella suggested.
"Sure." Sara said. "Lets go."
"Won't we need cloaks?" Lily asked.
"Yes. Probably." James said so they all grabbed their cloaks and rushed outside.
The cool air met their warm faces and a cold breeze was blowing.
They all stepped out onto the cold grounds.
"What do you want to do?" Peter asked as they all stood in a circle.
"I don't know..."
"Walk around?"
"Go back inside?"
"We just got out here Sara."
"Yeah but I couldn't find my cloak." Sara said hugging her arms around herself tighter.
"Why didn't you bring out a jumper or something?" Lily asked.
"Shut up Lily, you were the one who was rushing me." Sara said scowling.
"Girls girls, calm down you can have my cloak Sara." Remus said taking off his cloak.
"But won't you be cold?" Sara asked.
"No I'll be fine, I have on my jumper." Remus said pulling at his jumper.
Sara grabbed Remus's cloak away from him quickly and wrapped it around herself and glared at Lily.
"Damn it. Why can't we think of anything to do?" Arabella said angrily and turned to Lily. "I thought you said we were going to have some fun so I could forget."
Lily frowned at her.
"Yeah but I didn't know that the Marauders were going to come with us." Lily said. "I had something planned."
"You can talk about us while we're right here, we don't care." Sirius said sarcastically.
"I know you don't that's why I'm going to. Also, you ruined our fun." Lily said.
Sirius gaped at her.
"Hey!" He said. "That's not our fault! You wanted us to come with you!"
Lily grinned at him.
"I was joking Sirius. Calm down." She said and Sirius frowned at her.
"Please can't we think of something to do? I don't like Lily when she's being sarcastic." Sara said and Lily stuck out her tongue at her.
"I know..." James said and whacked Sirius on the head. "Tag, you're it!"
"Huh?" Sirius asked rubbing his head. "Wait-that wasn't fair!"
Then they all started running away from Sirius.
"Get back here!" He said chasing after Peter. "Ha ha! You're it!"
Peter rubbed his head scowling at Sirius who had hit him really hard on the head.
"Sirius! Don't hit so hard!" He said and Sirius laughed.
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After a while, everyone came in considerably cold and knackered and all of them were blowing/rubbing their hands to get them to warm up.
"Well...should we just go back to the common room?" James asked.
"Guess so."
So they all trudged back to the Gryffindor Tower.
"It's lunch time." Peter said looking at his watch. "I'm hungry."
"Me too." Sirius said.
"I'm ready for a kip." Sara said yawning.
"Me to." Arabella said.
"We need to talk first." Lily said and turned to Sara. "About who you fancy."
Sara groaned.
"And about you." Lily said turning to Arabella.
Arabella raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? Should I not come up there then if you want to talk to about me?" She asked jokingly.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"I mean...about...you know."
"Yes I do...but I don't really want to talk about it. There's not really much to talk about..." Arabella said.
Lily shook her head.
"Come on." She said and noticed that the Marauders had left.
They all walked up to the girls' dormitory.
"Oh...Remus forgot to get his cloak back." Sara said as she noticed she was still wearing it.
Arabella shrugged.
"You can get it back to him later." She said and sat on her bed.
Cecilia and Pauline still weren't back yet which was lucky for the three girls.
Lily sat on her bed and Sara sat on her own.
"So...Arabella...er..." Lily said awkwardly and Arabella shook her head.
"Really Lily, we don't have to talk about it. I'd rather not." Arabella said.
"But...it might make you feel better if we talk about it." Lily said.
Arabella shook her head.
"No it really doesn't. Some things just don't need to be talked about." She said staring at her hands.
They sat there in awkward silence for a moment before Lily grinned at Sara and Sara quirked an eyebrow back at her.
"Dishy eh?" Lily said and Sara looked at her confused.
"What?" She asked.
"You called the Marauders dishy." Lily said and Sara rolled her eyes.
"I was joking...j-o-k-i-n-g. Joking!" Sara said.
"Then why haven't you taken off Remus's cloak yet?" Lily asked grinning and Sara made and irritated noise and ripped off Remus's cloak.
"Because I'm cold all right? Stop bothering me!" Sara said angrily.
Lily gave Arabella a 'knowing' look and Arabella smirked.
They all looked up as Cecilia and Pauline walked in.
"Oh. It's you." Sara said.
"Well who were you expecting?" Cecilia said nastily.
Sara said nothing.
"We were going to ask you girls if you wanted to try and play Truth or Dare again. But if you're going to be rude then we're leaving." Cecilia said.
Sara glared at her but said nothing.
Lily shrugged.
"I guess we'll play. We have nothing better to do." She said.
"But no locking people in the bathroom while someone else is taking a shower." Sara said staring darkly at Cecilia and Pauline.
"Deal." Pauline said. "Now...who goes first?"
They all looked at each other.
"Okay fine, I'll go first." Lily said and turned to Sara. "Sara. Truth or Dare."
Sara quirked an eyebrow.
"Er...damn I hate this game." She said. "Dare I guess..."
Lily grinned evilly and Sara gulped.
"Go up to whoever you fancy now and give him a kiss." Lily said and Sara sighed.
"It has to be specific!" She said and Lily raised her eyebrows.
"Would you like me to be specific?" She asked and Sara sighed again.
"All right fine..." Sara said standing up. "But if I get punched I'm coming after you."
They girls all rushed down the staircase all of them except Sara were giggling.
"Why are you following me? I don't want to do this while you're all watching me." Sara said nervously.
"We have to. How else are we suppose to know if you did it or not?" Arabella said and Sara made an irritated noise.
Sara scanned the common room before running back up to the girls' dorm.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Pauline yelled at her.
"Just a second!" Sara yelled.
"She can't wimp out now!" Lily said but Sara ran back holding Remus's cloak in her hands.
"What are you doing?" Cecilia asked. "Why do you need a cloak?"
"I remembered I had it so I'm going to return it to its owner." Sara said and they walked out of the portrait hole and down to the Great Hall.
"Why are you returning it now?" Lily asked Sara.
"I have a plan." Sara said smirking at Lily.
They reached the Great Hall and Sara scanned it for the Marauders and saw them near the middle of the table.
They walked over to them and Sara sat down in the empty seat next to Remus.
"Hey Remus." She said and he looked up at her and at the rest of the girls standing impatiently around them.
"Hi..." He said quirking an eyebrow at a grinning Lily and Arabella.
"Thanks for lending me your cloak." Sara said and handing Remus back his cloak.
"Er...no problem." Remus said looking back at her.
"Well, got to go. Thanks again." Sara said kissing him on the cheek and got up and started walking out of the Great Hall.
The four other girls stood staring at a confused Remus who had brought his hand up to his cheek.
The girls finally realized that Sara had left and rushed off after her.
"You cheated!" Lily said. "I said kiss him! That means on the mouth!"
"I said be specific." Sara said smirking at her. "But you weren't."
Lily glared at her but her glare disappeared and she leapt on Sara.
"I can't believe you like Remus!" She said hugging her and Sara's eyes widened at the sudden change of emotion and fell down to the ground from Lily's weight.
"Yeah yeah." Sara said trying to push Lily off. "But he's our friend."
"So?" Lily said still holding onto Sara tightly. "This is excellent! Now you two can go get married and have 5 little children and name them all after me!"
"Hey, what about me?" Arabella pouted.
"Oh and you can have another and name it after Arabella." Lily said.
Sara's eyes widened in horror.
"No way am I getting married!" She said. "And there is no way I'm having children! Do you know how they're made? Gross!"
"Ew! Sara!" Lily said letting go of Sara immediately. "There are other ways to having children you know."
"How?" Sara asked.
Lily looked thoughtful for a moment.
"I don't know...there must be...no one would like to do it the nasty way." She said.
Sara shook her head in disgust.
"Let's just drop the topic." She said.
"Where did Pauline and Cecilia go?" Arabella asked after a moment of silence.
"Don't know, don't care." Sara said getting up off the floor and helped Lily up.
"Lets just go back to the common room and laze around for a while." Lily said.
"Sounds good. All this fun is giving me a headache." Arabella said and they began to walk back to the Gryffindor Tower.
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Ze End...of the chapter!
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-0-0-0- Chapter 17 Heartbreaks and Having Fun -0-0-0-
Everyone in the boys' and girls' dorm slept in late the next morning. Well...most of them tried to sleep in late.
Lily groaned as she heard giggling outside her hangings.
She looked at her watch.
8:03 it read and Lily groaned again.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes.
She stared at the hangings which weren't completely closed and were letting in light.
The giggling became louder and Lily ripped open her hangings so she could see out.
Cecilia and Pauline were laying on the floor a little ways away from Lily's bed and had a magazine spread out in front of them.
Lily looked up as Arabella poked her head out of her hangings.
"Can you two be more quiet?" Arabella asked irritably.
Cecilia and Pauline looked up at her.
"Well some of us don't like to sleep in all day." Cecilia said. "So get used to it."
Arabella scowled and snapped her hangings shut.
Lily sighed and got up and moved into the bathroom.
She wasn't tired anymore and it was no use laying in her bed all day.
After Lily got out of the bathroom, a drowsy Sara walked in.
"What are you reading?" Lily asked and walked over to Cecilia and Pauline.
Pauline looked up.
"A magazine." She said.
Lily sighed.
"What kind of magazine?" She asked.
Cecilia held the magazine up.
"Oh." Lily said. It was a wizarding magazine.
"Want to look with us?" Pauline asked.
Lily shrugged and laid down beside Pauline.
Lily looked at the picture on the left page.
There were three people; one tall (compared to the others) very handsome man with short blonde hair was watching a pretty girl with brown hair, dance around with another girl except this girl was blonde and older and taller.
Lily recognized the shorter girl as Sara and the older one as Jessica (Sara's older sister) but she didn't know who the man was.
Lily looked at the right page of the magazine which had "The Whitmores" pasted across the top in big bold letters.
Lily looked back at the picture.
'He's related?' She wondered staring at the man. 'But he doesn't look old enough to be their father...'
"Mmm...he's so handsome." Cecilia said dreamily looking at the picture.
"Yeah...too bad he doesn't go to school here." Pauline said.
Lily looked up at her curiously.
"He doesn't go to school here?" She asked.
Pauline shook her head.
"Didn't you read the article?" She asked pointing at the page that read "The Whitmores" at the top.
Lily shook her head.
"He goes to Beauxbatons." Cecilia said.
"Why?" Lily asked.
Pauline shrugged.
"The Whitmores used to live in France before they moved here when it was time for Jessica to go to school and Guillaume stayed back with his grandmother and grandfather." Cecilia said.
"So you mean this...Guillaume...is Sara's brother?" Lily asked.
"Yes." Cecilia said.
Lily stared at the picture again.
He was handsome.
The three girls looked up as Sara came out of the bathroom.
"What are you looking at?" She asked and walked over to them.
"You." Lily said.
Sara raised an eyebrow.
"No, I mean-"
"I know what you mean, we're looking at you. In the magazine." Lily said looking back down at the magazine.
"Ah." Sara said. "Well I'm hungry. Would you like to join me for breakfast Lily?"
Lily got up from her spot on the floor.
"If Arabella gets up, tell her we're down in the Great Hall." Lily said to the two girls still on the floor.
Cecilia flipped the page of the magazine and Lily took that as an 'okay'.
The two girls (Lily and Sara) walked down to the common room where a few people were nestled on the sofa or chairs talking quietly or dosing.
They didn't see the Marauders and presumed they were still sleeping.
As they walked down to the Great Hall, Lily kept glancing at Sara.
Sara raised an eyebrow and looked at her.
"What?" She asked.
Lily shrugged.
"Nothing...it's just weird that I have a friend that's in magazines." She said and paused. "Since when do you have a brother?"
Sara smiled and chuckled.
"Since I was born."
Lily rolled her eyes.
"I mean...why didn't you tell me you had one?" She asked.
Sara's smile fell of her face and she stared at the ground.
"Well...I try to imagine he's not there." Sara mumbled.
Lily raised an eyebrow.
"Why?" She asked confused.
Sara glanced at her but continued to stare hard at the floor.
"Er...it's not important...really." Sara said.
The girls continued walking.
Lily, unable to take the awkward silence grinned at Sara.
"Last one to the Great Hall is a Slytherin!"
Then tore off down the corridors.
Sara blinked and stared at her for a minute before taking off after her.
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"Where's Lily and Sara?" Arabella asked as she woke up about half an hour later unable to stay sleeping with the giggling girls.
Cecilia and Pauline shrugged.
"Something about the Great Hall." Pauline said waving her hand as if dismissing the subject.
Arabella sighed and walked into the bathroom.
She got herself ready and walked down to the common room.
She didn't see Lily, Sara or the Marauders so she climbed out of the portrait hole and started walking down to the Great Hall.
She thought she saw four figures walking towards her but when she sneezed and looked back up, they were gone.
She shook her head thinking she was seeing things and continued to walk to the Great Hall.
As she entered the hall, she searched around for Lily and Sara.
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Lily looked at Sara as she began waving around looking at the doors so Lily turned her head and saw Arabella walking towards them.
"Hey Arabella." Sara said as Arabella sat down next to Lily.
Arabella mumbled her hellos and started to eat her breakfast.
Neither of the three girls saw the Marauders through breakfast and began walking back to the Griffindor Tower.
"I wonder where they could be?" Lily wondered.
"Well...they were up pretty late and they're probably still sleeping." Sara said.
"But we were up late too..."
Sara shrugged.
"We see them later."
"I'm still mad at them." Arabella said scowling at the floor.
"Oh Arabella let it go. We'll get them later." Sara said.
Arabella still scowled at the floor until they turned the corner and she ran into someone.
"Oh! I'm so...sorry..." Arabella said looking up at the person who she ran into. "Nigel..."
Nigel raised an eyebrow at her and looked over at Lily and Sara who were holding back snickers.
Nigel smiled down at Sara who raised an eyebrow back at him.
"Nigel...hi. How have you been?" Arabella asked dreamily.
"Good." Nigel said still not looking away from Sara and she was starting to feel uncomfortable.
"Er..." Lily said.
"Sara. I have something to ask you and I can't wait any longer so I'll just ask you right here." Nigel said and Lily and Sara tensed up in fear and Sara's eyes flickered to Arabella who looked a little confused.
"Sara...will you go out on a date with me?" Nigel asked hopefully.
Arabella felt her insides go cold.
She clamped her eyes shut and backed into the wall.
"Oh god." She said and tore down the corridors.
She didn't even hear Sara's answer and she ran up to the Gryffindor Tower, seeing the Marauders sitting on the sofas.
They looked up at her in confusion as they saw tears running down her cheeks.
"Arabella-what-?"
But Arabella ignored them feeling gutted and ran up to the girls' dormitory.
Lily came running through the portrait hole a few minutes later.
"There you four are! Where is Arabella?" Lily asked quickly.
"Er...she went up there." Sirius said pointing to the girls' staircase.
Lily ran up the staircase ignoring their questions.
As Lily entered the dormitory she could hear Arabella's quiet sobs and Cecilia and Pauline had gone.
"Arabella?" Lily asked quietly and walked over to Arabella's bed.
Arabella was lying face down with her face into her pillow.
"Go away." Lily heard her say through her pillow.
"Come on Arabella...it'll be okay." Lily said softly and sat down on Arabella's bed next to Arabella.
She placed a hand on Arabella's arm which was half underneath her pillow.
"Why me?" Arabella asked and gave a sob into her pillow. "I liked him a lot Lily."
Lily smiled sadly.
"He wasn't worth it anyway Bella. Just forget him." She said.
"That's easy for you to say." Arabella said and sat up and wiped her eyes on her pillow.
Lily bit her lip.
"Look, we'll have a little fun and we'll forget all about him. Today is our day off so lets not let this ruin it." She said.
Arabella gave her a weak smile before frowning again.
"Where's Sara?" She asked and then her eyes filled up with tears again. "What did she tell Nigel?"
Lily shook her head.
"You think she'd say yes to a jerk like him?" She asked smiling. "No way she'd do that to you."
Arabella didn't smile.
"Where is she then?" She asked.
"She should be here, she said she would be a minute because she was going to beat the pulp out of Nigel." Lily said and the sides of Arabella's mouth twitched.
"I think I see a smile coming! Look! Look! There it is! Come on little smile...there we go." Lily said jokingly as Arabella smiled.
Sara burst in through the door a minute later.
"Look Arabella...I'm so sorry...I didn't mean for that to happen." Sara said.
"No it's okay Sara. Lily said we're going to have some fun now to help me forget about him." Arabella said and Sara grinned.
"Great. More fun." She said and Lily and Arabella quirked an eyebrow at her.
"More fun?" Lily asked. "What fun have we had already?"
Sara smirked.
"Beating the pulp out of Nigel. Or rather...yelling the pulp out of him." Sara said.
Lily rolled her eyes and Arabella laughed.
"Good, I got a laugh." Sara said. "Now come on, we need to go find something to amuse ourselves!"
"I think we should go find the Marauders to come have fun with us too." Arabella said.
Sara raised an eyebrow and Lily grinned.
"Now don't go fancying one of them." Lily said to Arabella.
"Oh? And what's wrong with that? They're all rather dishy if you ask me." Sara said grinning at the look on Arabella and Lily's faces.
"What? You fancy one of the Marauders? Which one?" Arabella asked and Sara laughed.
"Not telling!" She said and ran out of the room.
"Get back here!" Lily and Arabella yelled and tore after Sara almost falling down the steps.
"What's going on?" James asked getting confused and a little frightened as the girls ran around them.
"We're trying to find out which one of you four Sara fancies." Arabella said giggling as Sara looked at her in horror.
"What? I don't-!" Sara said before Lily tackled her down to the floor and began tickling her.
"Fancies...us?" Remus asked looking over the sofa to where the girls were rolling around on the floor.
"No!" Sara said through her laughter and Arabella joined in with the tickling. "Stop! I was joking!"
"Sure you were." Lily said as she quit tickling Sara and Arabella quit also.
Sara panted.
"Don't you believe me?"
"No." The two girls said in unison and started laughing.
The four boys all raised their eyebrows at one another.
"Er...too much sugar?"
"Perhaps."
"I think your idea of hiding out until the girls cooled off was a good idea Sirius. But maybe we'll just wait until they are not so out of their minds." James said.
"We were hiding out remember James? Until someone here-" Remus said and stared pointely at Peter who blushed, "chickened out."
"Well...what if they got madder because they couldn't find us?" Peter said.
James, Remus and Sirius rolled their eyes.
Arabella, Lily and Sara finally sat up and walked around to pile onto the sofa beside Remus.
"So...where have you boys been? Sleeping I presume?" Lily asked.
James and Sirius nodded and Remus and Peter shook their heads.
Remus and Peter looked at James and Sirius who looked back at them and then James and Sirius shook their heads and Remus and Peter nodded theirs.
The girls raised their eyebrows.
"Ooookay then." Arabella said. "Anyway..."
"Why did you girls run up to your dormitory just a little while ago?" Sirius asked and Arabella looked down at her hands.
"Er...not really a good time to talk about it right now." Lily said glancing at Arabella and the boys nodded slowly.
Sara stood up.
"Well I'm ready to do something fun. Anyone want to come with me?" She asked.
"Where are we going?" Remus asked.
Sara shrugged.
"Wherever we want to go." She said.
"Outside maybe?" Arabella suggested.
"Sure." Sara said. "Lets go."
"Won't we need cloaks?" Lily asked.
"Yes. Probably." James said so they all grabbed their cloaks and rushed outside.
The cool air met their warm faces and a cold breeze was blowing.
They all stepped out onto the cold grounds.
"What do you want to do?" Peter asked as they all stood in a circle.
"I don't know..."
"Walk around?"
"Go back inside?"
"We just got out here Sara."
"Yeah but I couldn't find my cloak." Sara said hugging her arms around herself tighter.
"Why didn't you bring out a jumper or something?" Lily asked.
"Shut up Lily, you were the one who was rushing me." Sara said scowling.
"Girls girls, calm down you can have my cloak Sara." Remus said taking off his cloak.
"But won't you be cold?" Sara asked.
"No I'll be fine, I have on my jumper." Remus said pulling at his jumper.
Sara grabbed Remus's cloak away from him quickly and wrapped it around herself and glared at Lily.
"Damn it. Why can't we think of anything to do?" Arabella said angrily and turned to Lily. "I thought you said we were going to have some fun so I could forget."
Lily frowned at her.
"Yeah but I didn't know that the Marauders were going to come with us." Lily said. "I had something planned."
"You can talk about us while we're right here, we don't care." Sirius said sarcastically.
"I know you don't that's why I'm going to. Also, you ruined our fun." Lily said.
Sirius gaped at her.
"Hey!" He said. "That's not our fault! You wanted us to come with you!"
Lily grinned at him.
"I was joking Sirius. Calm down." She said and Sirius frowned at her.
"Please can't we think of something to do? I don't like Lily when she's being sarcastic." Sara said and Lily stuck out her tongue at her.
"I know..." James said and whacked Sirius on the head. "Tag, you're it!"
"Huh?" Sirius asked rubbing his head. "Wait-that wasn't fair!"
Then they all started running away from Sirius.
"Get back here!" He said chasing after Peter. "Ha ha! You're it!"
Peter rubbed his head scowling at Sirius who had hit him really hard on the head.
"Sirius! Don't hit so hard!" He said and Sirius laughed.
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After a while, everyone came in considerably cold and knackered and all of them were blowing/rubbing their hands to get them to warm up.
"Well...should we just go back to the common room?" James asked.
"Guess so."
So they all trudged back to the Gryffindor Tower.
"It's lunch time." Peter said looking at his watch. "I'm hungry."
"Me too." Sirius said.
"I'm ready for a kip." Sara said yawning.
"Me to." Arabella said.
"We need to talk first." Lily said and turned to Sara. "About who you fancy."
Sara groaned.
"And about you." Lily said turning to Arabella.
Arabella raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? Should I not come up there then if you want to talk to about me?" She asked jokingly.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"I mean...about...you know."
"Yes I do...but I don't really want to talk about it. There's not really much to talk about..." Arabella said.
Lily shook her head.
"Come on." She said and noticed that the Marauders had left.
They all walked up to the girls' dormitory.
"Oh...Remus forgot to get his cloak back." Sara said as she noticed she was still wearing it.
Arabella shrugged.
"You can get it back to him later." She said and sat on her bed.
Cecilia and Pauline still weren't back yet which was lucky for the three girls.
Lily sat on her bed and Sara sat on her own.
"So...Arabella...er..." Lily said awkwardly and Arabella shook her head.
"Really Lily, we don't have to talk about it. I'd rather not." Arabella said.
"But...it might make you feel better if we talk about it." Lily said.
Arabella shook her head.
"No it really doesn't. Some things just don't need to be talked about." She said staring at her hands.
They sat there in awkward silence for a moment before Lily grinned at Sara and Sara quirked an eyebrow back at her.
"Dishy eh?" Lily said and Sara looked at her confused.
"What?" She asked.
"You called the Marauders dishy." Lily said and Sara rolled her eyes.
"I was joking...j-o-k-i-n-g. Joking!" Sara said.
"Then why haven't you taken off Remus's cloak yet?" Lily asked grinning and Sara made and irritated noise and ripped off Remus's cloak.
"Because I'm cold all right? Stop bothering me!" Sara said angrily.
Lily gave Arabella a 'knowing' look and Arabella smirked.
They all looked up as Cecilia and Pauline walked in.
"Oh. It's you." Sara said.
"Well who were you expecting?" Cecilia said nastily.
Sara said nothing.
"We were going to ask you girls if you wanted to try and play Truth or Dare again. But if you're going to be rude then we're leaving." Cecilia said.
Sara glared at her but said nothing.
Lily shrugged.
"I guess we'll play. We have nothing better to do." She said.
"But no locking people in the bathroom while someone else is taking a shower." Sara said staring darkly at Cecilia and Pauline.
"Deal." Pauline said. "Now...who goes first?"
They all looked at each other.
"Okay fine, I'll go first." Lily said and turned to Sara. "Sara. Truth or Dare."
Sara quirked an eyebrow.
"Er...damn I hate this game." She said. "Dare I guess..."
Lily grinned evilly and Sara gulped.
"Go up to whoever you fancy now and give him a kiss." Lily said and Sara sighed.
"It has to be specific!" She said and Lily raised her eyebrows.
"Would you like me to be specific?" She asked and Sara sighed again.
"All right fine..." Sara said standing up. "But if I get punched I'm coming after you."
They girls all rushed down the staircase all of them except Sara were giggling.
"Why are you following me? I don't want to do this while you're all watching me." Sara said nervously.
"We have to. How else are we suppose to know if you did it or not?" Arabella said and Sara made an irritated noise.
Sara scanned the common room before running back up to the girls' dorm.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Pauline yelled at her.
"Just a second!" Sara yelled.
"She can't wimp out now!" Lily said but Sara ran back holding Remus's cloak in her hands.
"What are you doing?" Cecilia asked. "Why do you need a cloak?"
"I remembered I had it so I'm going to return it to its owner." Sara said and they walked out of the portrait hole and down to the Great Hall.
"Why are you returning it now?" Lily asked Sara.
"I have a plan." Sara said smirking at Lily.
They reached the Great Hall and Sara scanned it for the Marauders and saw them near the middle of the table.
They walked over to them and Sara sat down in the empty seat next to Remus.
"Hey Remus." She said and he looked up at her and at the rest of the girls standing impatiently around them.
"Hi..." He said quirking an eyebrow at a grinning Lily and Arabella.
"Thanks for lending me your cloak." Sara said and handing Remus back his cloak.
"Er...no problem." Remus said looking back at her.
"Well, got to go. Thanks again." Sara said kissing him on the cheek and got up and started walking out of the Great Hall.
The four other girls stood staring at a confused Remus who had brought his hand up to his cheek.
The girls finally realized that Sara had left and rushed off after her.
"You cheated!" Lily said. "I said kiss him! That means on the mouth!"
"I said be specific." Sara said smirking at her. "But you weren't."
Lily glared at her but her glare disappeared and she leapt on Sara.
"I can't believe you like Remus!" She said hugging her and Sara's eyes widened at the sudden change of emotion and fell down to the ground from Lily's weight.
"Yeah yeah." Sara said trying to push Lily off. "But he's our friend."
"So?" Lily said still holding onto Sara tightly. "This is excellent! Now you two can go get married and have 5 little children and name them all after me!"
"Hey, what about me?" Arabella pouted.
"Oh and you can have another and name it after Arabella." Lily said.
Sara's eyes widened in horror.
"No way am I getting married!" She said. "And there is no way I'm having children! Do you know how they're made? Gross!"
"Ew! Sara!" Lily said letting go of Sara immediately. "There are other ways to having children you know."
"How?" Sara asked.
Lily looked thoughtful for a moment.
"I don't know...there must be...no one would like to do it the nasty way." She said.
Sara shook her head in disgust.
"Let's just drop the topic." She said.
"Where did Pauline and Cecilia go?" Arabella asked after a moment of silence.
"Don't know, don't care." Sara said getting up off the floor and helped Lily up.
"Lets just go back to the common room and laze around for a while." Lily said.
"Sounds good. All this fun is giving me a headache." Arabella said and they began to walk back to the Gryffindor Tower.
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