Hey, sorry about the wait but I was working on my other story which isn't going to well...and I've kind of written myself into a small hole which was taking longer than expected to get out of...but...I got out of it at little bit because this is posted up! See?

DAMN this is HARD! Grrr...I keep forgetting that they're only eleven! LoL

Um...about later chapters, I was thinking of either skipping a few years and telling you what happened in between or just writing it out. But writing it out might be a little boring and long and it might take me through a few spaces where I have no idea what to put in between ideas and problems and stuff like that...(writers block I guess...)

But I have ideas for the later chapters but...grr...I dunno.

Tell me which I should do (If I should skip a couple years and tell you what happened or not or if I should just write out the years but they might be short-ish years and not very interesting) but I'll consider both ways of doing it also...

No more flash forwards anymore, I quit doing that just so's you know because I keep forgetting.

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-0-0-0- Chapter 18 Snowfall and Blackmail -0-0-0-

Lily groaned as someone shook her.

They had been up late the night before trying to cheer Arabella up. It had worked until they went to bed and Lily was pretty sure she could hear very quiet sobbing.

"Come on Lily. We're going to miss breakfast." The person who was shaking Lily said and Lily could tell it was Arabella.

Lily sat up immediately and smacked her head against Arabella's.

Arabella and Lily groaned and rubbed their heads as someone in the background started laughing.

"Nice one Lils." Sara said still chuckling as Arabella walked off grumbling that she was never waking Lily ever again.

Lily glared at Sara before getting up and stretching.

She noticed that Cecilia and Pauline weren't in there which was usual for a school morning.

Arabella and Sara waited for Lily to get ready

"Come on Lily. I'm hungry!" Sara whined.

Lily grinned at her friend.

"You just want to see a little someone." She said poking Sara in the chest.

Sara blushed and shook her head.

"No, I'm hungry."

"Mhmm."

Lily was finally ready and they walked down the staircase to the common room.

Not seeing the Marauders, they exited through the portrait hole.

They were walking quite quickly so they could make breakfast and not miss their first class.

When they were just about there, Sara stopped.

Lily and Arabella stopped as well and looked back at her.

"What are you doing? Come on." Arabella said and tried to grab Sara's wrist.

Sara jerked her hand away.

"What if Remus is in there?" She asked worriedly.

"Then Remus is in there." Arabella said not understanding.

"We'll just sit somewhere else if you don't want to sit near him." Lily said.

Arabella then came to realization.

"Oooh..."

Sara glared at her.

"But..."

Arabella rolled her eyes and grabbed Sara's wrist again and began pulling her the rest of the way to the Great Hall.

"If he asks, just tell him the truth." Lily said and Sara looked at her in horror. "Not that truth. Just that you were playing truth or dare and we told you to do it."

Sara sighed and let herself be dragged in the Great Hall.

They found the Marauders quickly and went over to them.

Lily watched as Sara took a seat next to Remus and smiled as Remus blushed a little and she took a seat next to Arabella who sat next to Sirius.

"Morning girls." James said from the other side of Sirius.

"Morning." The girls chanted.

They sat in silence for a few minutes.

"Er..." Sirius said scratching his head trying to think of something to talk about.

James suddenly grinned.

"There's a Quidditch game coming up." He said excitedly.

The other three boys grinned as well.

"Excellent. Want to go?" Sirius asked.

"Of course." James said as if Sirius were stupid.

Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Of course you want to go. You were the one who brought it up. I mean the girls. You haven't come with us to one yet." Sirius turned to the girls.

"Quidditch?" Lily asked. "Er...you mean the sport played on brooms?"

The four boys nodded slowly and looked at Lily as if she were crazy.

"You mean you don't know what Quidditch is?" James asked slowly.

Lily shook her head.

"She's muggleborn James." Sara said. "Of course she doesn't know what Quidditch is."

The boys continued to stare at Lily.

"But...it's Quidditch..." Sirius said.

The girls rolled their eyes.

"We're going to be late for class. We really should go." Sara said watching Arabella who was eyeing the Ravenclaw table sadly.

The boys nodded slowly and they all got up and began walking to their first class.

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The days came and went and soon it was the end of November.

Lily was busy at work in the Gryffindor common room doing her History of Magic essay trying to drown out the yells and laughter of the other students (since Christmas was coming and it was weekend, people were quite excited).

Lily sighed leaned her chair back on two legs, unable to block out the sounds.

She rubbed her temples and looked around the room feeling a tinge of a headache.

She jumped as she felt hands grip the back of her chair and yank it backwards and a face appeared inches in front of hers.

"Hey Lily!" James said grinning like a maniac.

"JAMES!" Lily yelled and James yelped and couldn't hold the weight of the chair with Lily in the position it was in and it fell down, making him dive down with it.

"ARRRRGH!" Lily yelled staring up at his grinning face. "What are you doing? I'm trying to finish my work!"

James shook his head.

"Is working all you do? Come on, it's Saturday! Have some fun! You can finish that later." He said.

Lily shook her head.

"No, I want to finish it now or else I'll forget about it and not get it done." She said.

James shrugged.

"So? That's even better!" He said and grinned even wider.

Lily stared at him like he grew an extra head.

"How is that better?" She asked.

"You have more time to do fun things!" James said.

Lily stared at him like he was crazy.

"But you get in trouble if you don't get your work handed in!" She said.

James quirked an eyebrow.

"So?"

"Well...then you don't get to have any fun."

"Who says getting in trouble isn't fun?"

"I do."

"Well...er...there you go...then."

James furrowed his brow at her.

Lily crossed her arms over her chest and quirked an eyebrow at him.

"Can I get back to work now?"

"But Liiiiiiiiiiiileeee." James wined.

Lily rolled her eyes.

"Let go of my chair." She said.

"Aw come on." James said giving her puppy-dog eyes. "Please? Just leave it for a little while...look! It started snowing! Come on...let's go catch snowflakes!"

Lily tried to keep herself from laughing.

"No, catching snowflakes are for little kids." She said biting her lip again to keep from laughing at the look on his face.

"But...but...but we are little kids!" James said losing his look of horror and gained an excited look. "Come on Lily, let's go outside!"

Lily rolled her eyes.

"No. James. I. Want. To. Finish. My. Work. Where's Sirius or Remus or Peter? Why can't you go bother them?" She asked.

James frowned at her.

"Remus is sleeping and Sirius and Peter are down at the lunch still." He said.

"But it's almost 1 o'clock, why is Remus still sleeping?" Lily asked becoming confused.

James shrugged.

"He said he had a difficult time with his sick aunt or something like that and he said he didn't get much sleep." He said.

They stared at each other in awkward silence.

"Lily!"

Lily gave a noise in frustration.

"What's going on?" Sara asked coming up to them. "Why weren't you at lunch Lily?"

"I'm doing my work." Lily said. "Was. Was doing my work."

Then Lily glared at James and James looked up at Sara and started grinning.

"Sara!" He said and jumped to his feet. "Want to come outside with me?"

Sara quirked an eyebrow at Lily who rolled off her chair.

"Er...not right now James...thanks." Sara said and James sulked.

"Why doesn't anyone come outside with me?" He wailed. "Don't make me start crying!"

Sara and Lily sighed in frustration.

"FINE! We'll come outside with you!" Lily said angrily. "Just let me get my cloak..."

James grinned very widely and gave her a tight hug.

"Yay! Thank you thank you thank you!" He said.

Lily gasped for air.

"James!" She gasped. "Let—go—of—me!"

James let go of her and continued to grin.

"Well...what are you waiting for? Get your cloaks!" He said impatiently. "Hurry up! Come on!"

Lily regained her breath while massaging her ribs and her and Sara went up to get their cloaks.

They came back down minutes later to see James sitting on a chair, his chin on his hand, tapping his foot on the floor impatiently.

He looked up as they came down and rushed over to them.

"Took you long enough." He said. "It's like you weren't coming back down!"

Lily and Sara rolled their eyes and they all exited trhough the portrait hole.

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"So what's the big attraction of being out...whoa..." Lily said as they exited through the large doors to the outside.

It was beautiful.

It was snowing very heavily and it had covered the ground and the trees with a fluffy white layer.

"See? Isn't it wonderful? Being out in the snow?" James said and ran out into the snow. He twirled around with his head back and tongue stuck out to catch the large falling snowflakes.

Lily and Sara couldn't help but smile and they rushed out with him.

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The two girls and boy came back in laughing with icicles crusted in their hair and snow stuck to the bottoms of their robes.

"Where have you three been?" A tired male voice said from behind them as they walked back to the Gryffindor tower.

They all turned around to meet with Remus's tired but amused face.

"Outside." James said grinning.

"Oh." Remus said smiling slightly.

"Where have you been?" Sara asked quirking an eyebrow.

Remus quirked an eyebrow back at her.

"Kitchens. Lunch is over now and I was hungry, missing breakfast and lunch." He said.

They all stood for a few minutes until James, Lily and Sara began to shiver.

"Come on, we should head back." Remus said. "You three look like icicles and probably feel like it too."

Lily and Sara nodded.

"Hey, I am a man. I can take it." James said puffing out his chest and Remus and the girls rolled their eyes.

"Come on James, you can't say that while your teeth are chattering." Remus said and James hunched over.

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"See girls? I told you being outside wasn't for little children." James said proudly as they huddled together on the sofa in front of the fire.

"Yes, but now I regret going out there." Lily said sitting on the edge of the sofa so she could get her hands closer to it.

They had changed into warmer and drier clothes and came down to warm up. Remus had joined them also (sitting by the fire).

James shook his head.

"There you are!" A feminine voice shrieked and the three turned to see Arabella enter through the portrait hole.

She rushed over to them.

"Where have you been?" She shrieked and squished in-between Sara and Lily making James and Remus grunt as they was pressed into the arms of the sofa.

"We were outside with James." Sara said.

"Outside? Why didn't you take me with you?" Arabella wined.

Lily and Sara tried to shrug.

"You weren't around."

Arabella gaped at them.

"W-weren't around? Well...if that's how we're going to play..." She said crossing her arms over her chest and staring into the fire.

Lily and Sara sighed.

"No, Arabella I was joking." Lily said.

Arabella ignored her.

"Look, James was annoying us and we just wanted to make him happy so he would leave us alone-" "Hey!" "We didn't mean anything by it."
Arabella tried to hide a smile but couldn't.

She wrapped her arms around Sara and Lily's shoulders and hugged them tightly and grinned.

"I know! I just can't stay mad at you two!" She said and Sara and Lily couldn't help but grin too.

Arabella let go of her two friends and they sat in silence.

After a while, when Lily, James and Sara were warmed up a little, Cecilia and Pauline came over in front of them.

"Whitmore." Cecilia said bitterly. "Come with us."

Sara looked up at her.

"Why?" She asked.

Pauline smirked.

"Because we have some very serious blackmail that we know you wouldn't want sent to your mother or the magazines or perhaps...around the school..." She said looking at her fingernails as if it were nothing important.

Sara raised an eyebrow and Arabella, Lily, Remus and James looked at her.

"How do you know I would care if it were spread around?" Sara asked as if she were unfazed.

Cecilia raised a thinly plucked eyebrow (and she's only how old exactly? Yeesh).

"Because it's just one of those things." She said.

Sara looked away into the crowds of people around the common room.

"I don't care. I haven't done anything wrong or anything that can be blackmail." She said and waved her hand at them. "Now go. Leave."

Cecilia made a face at her.

"Remember our little game of Truth or Dare a while ago?" She said.

Sara's ears seemed to perk up a little at the mention of 'Truth or Dare'.

"You heard her, get out of here." Arabella spat, scowling at Pauline and Cecilia.

But the two girls ignored her as they noticed Sara tense up.

"Well...remember what you had to do? You were the only one who actually got to do anything so you should remember. Or is that tiny bimbo brain of yours too small to remember what Lily dared you to do?" Cecilia said nastily.

Sara scowled up at her.

"I remember." She said through clenched teeth.

"Well...remember who you had to do it to?" Cecilia asked but continued on not letting Sara answer. "We know who it was, and we could just as easily as we found out, tell everyone what happened..."

Cecilia's eyes flickered to Remus who had his brow furrowed at them in confusion.

Sara's eyes widened.

"You wouldn't..." She said.

"Oh but we would." Cecilia said in a deathly whisper.

Her and Pauline grinned at the look on Sara's face.

"What do you want?" Sara asked.

"We want to trade your place for a day...you know...with your friends..." Pauline said.

Sara furrowed her brow.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

Cecilia rolled her eyes and Pauline clucked her tongue.

"We mean that we want you to not hang around the Marauders for a day. Including your friends Lily and Arabella." Cecilia said.

Sara tried to jump at them but Remus grabbed her robes.

"What? That's ludicrous!" Sara yelled and a few people in the common room looked at them.

Pauline shrugged.

"If you don't want to do it, then I guess we'll just have to tell everyone..." She said slowly.

Sara thought for a moment.

"How come you have to bring Lily and Arabella into this? They didn't do anything!" She said angrily.

Cecilia shrugged.

"It will just be better if they stay out of our way. Besides, if they're really your friends, they go along with it and not let your little 'secret' get out." She said.

"If we ever agree doing anything with you two again..." Lily growled clenching her fists.

"So...what do you say?" Pauline asked ignoring Lily.

Sara frowned at them and then looked at her friends.

They looked back at her and nodded slowly.

Sara sighed in defeat.

"Fine, as long as you promise this is the only thing I'll—we'll—have to do." She said narrowing her eyes.

Cecilia and Pauline nodded.

"Agreed."

"So...I guess we start now then?" Lily said sighing.

"No. We start tomorrow morning. Today's already half gone." Cecilia said. "We'll talk to you boys later!"

Then Cecilia and Pauline waved and left up to the girls' dormitory giggling.

Sara sat back as far as she could without squishing Arabella or Remus and put her head in her hands.

"What did we just agree to?"

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Well finally I got this up! Took me long enough to write! Hope you like!

Well...I figure I should thank a few people here...

Whitepaw – Hey thanks! I'm glad you like my story and I just had to write back to you because I'm in love with you (not in love in love with you...you know what I mean) for leaving such a long review! Don't worry, something will happen soon...I think...just be patient (I know that's a lot to ask an all). LoL, yes, they will realize that makin' babies isn't such a bad thing. ) They're only eleven and haven't gone through puberty yet. LoL. Yes, Peter, Pauline and Cecilia should die a horrible death, along with all the other bitches and hated people.

Alyssa – I like your little saying 'Life's a garden. Dig it!'

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