Chapter 17: Fooling Around

It was now the time for exams. The whole school was studying hard. Lily was studying in the silence of the library with Alice, while Tess was with Patrick and Britney and Daisy were who knows where! Lily hadn't seen them for a while, she could only presume they were studying.

Alice was thinking hard as she was writing notes for the exams next week, they were almost copies of her original notes but shortened to exclude the bits that she didn't need. Then she'd go back and decide that she needed the bits she'd left out. Lily was quickly scribbling away answers to questions that Alice had made up for her. They were having a . . . how you say it, nice studying time. They were soon interrupted by Tess barging noisily into the library. Students eyed her as she walked in, for ruining they're study time. Lily sighed tiredly.

She was sulking as she sat down beside Alice and put her head in her arms.

"What?" Lily whispered. Tess looked at Lily

"P-Patrick broke up with m-me!" Tess bawled.

Lily looked disgruntled.

"Er . . . did he say why?" Alice asked nicely.

"He said he had been . . . c-cheating on m-me!" she cried. Lily winced as the noise cut through the silence of the library

Madame Pince came over at Tess' loud cry.

"Get out!" she said to them. Lily and Alice sighed and packed up their notes and books. They led Tess to the dormitory, trying to comfort her as they went. When they opened the Girls Dormitory, Britney and Daisy were jumping on Tess' bed. The three looked a bit taken aback. Britney glanced at Daisy as they jumped up and down.

"How long has it been now?" Britney panted as she tried to jump higher

"One hour and forty-three minutes." Daisy said jumping up and down.

"Ok!" Britney said breathlessly

"What are you doing?!" shrieked Tess as she walked to her bed.

"Jumping," said Daisy like it was obvious. Britney gave Tess a look saying that it was obvious what they were doing

"Get off my bed!" she screamed louder.

"But we're making a record!" Daisy complained. "Aren't we Britney?" Britney nodded

"Daisy, Britney, please" Alice tried. She fought to try and keep a smile off her face.

"Just wait a few days," Britney said.

"A few days?" Tess shrieked.

"Just wait, it'll fly by!" Britney said waving her hand in front of her with her palm facing downwards. Daisy made a hand movement to represent flying by.

"Dear Merlin, would you stop thinking of yourself Britney? I'm going through a rough time!" Tess cried.

Britney just looked as if she couldn't care less and continued to jump on the bed, she put a hand to her stomach as it grumbled.

"Argh!" screamed Tess.

"Britney get down!" Lily tried, though she didn't mind Britney and Daisy jumping on Tess' bed. It was slightly amusing.

"Come up Lily! It's fun!" Daisy said happily.

Tess ran crying into the bathroom. Lily just smiled and shook her head.

"Why is she crying over us jumping on her bed?" Britney asked. "That's really a stupid reason to be crying." She looked a little put off at Tess' reaction

"Patrick broke up with her," Alice explained as she sat on her bed and pulled out a book.

"Really?" Britney asked. "It's not much of a loss!" She said.

Daisy then started laughing. "He was so ugly!" Britney and Daisy both laughed while jumping, resulting in a strangely distorted laugh.

"She can hear you!" Lily whispered pointing to the bathroom door.

Alice shrugged before returning to her book. Tess soon came out, wiping her eyes. "He's not ugly!" she exclaimed. "He's really sweet and he..." Tess thought. "He likes hippogriffs," she said slowly.

Britney and Lily then laughed hard. Britney was jumping higher and higher and laughing then the bed fell down to the ground causing Lily, Tess and Alice to jump in surprise. Tess gasped back her tears.

The bed was now in pieces on the floor. Britney was laughing so hard she didn't notice her and Daisy on a mattress and a broken bed.

"GET OFF!" Tess yelled. Britney stopped her laughing immediately.

Tess was furious. Her face was red, her fists were clenched and she was breathing deeply. Britney and Daisy looked slightly scared of Tess. A first for them.

Britney held out her hand. "Truce?" she asked quietly. Alice sat stunned, and Lily's eyes were wide. Britney smiled weakly.

Tess glared daggers at Britney who was smiling nervously at Tess. Britney and Daisy gulped hard and tried to keep their faces straight.

"Sorry, then?" Britney asked quieter. Tess didn't say a word. "I can see that as a no..." she muttered quietly. Britney slowly rose to her feet.

Daisy just sat there scared to even say a word. She was watching Tess like she was a wild animal

"I love your shirt," Britney said. Though she hated it, she wanted to get out of this situation. "It looks nice . . . with your hair," Britney said even quieter, as she made a hand gesture to her own hair.

Lily bit her lip. This wasn't good.

Alice sat there too afraid to make a move. Tess took in a shaky breath. "Go away," Tess said slowly

"Fair enough!" Britney said quickly and her and Daisy raced down to the common room.

Sirius

"Ok now take this to the Slytherin common room, ok?" Sirius said clearly to one of the house elves.

The house-elf looked down at the small bag, and nodded his head, and disappeared with a pop.

Sirius went back to the Common Room and sat down beside James and smiled at him to indicate the mission complete.

James smiled happily. Remus sat there sighing, it was no use trying to reason with James and Sirius. Remus looked around the common room, and he saw Britney and Daisy racing down the stairs out of breath. They were laughing as they tumbled over one another. Remus sighed.

"Let's go for dinner!" Peter said, looking at his watch.

They all agreed and headed down to dinner.

After dinner (the four boys were the last ones to leave), they head towards the common room, where loud screams could be heard. They boys, becoming curious, got closer to the portrait, when it swung open, where all the Gryffindors came bustling out screaming.

Crowds of students ran by them. James saw Frank and stopped him.

"What happened?" James asked. Frank looked at James and pointed at the common room

"Oh, er, a bomb like thing exploded and then all these bats came and are caught in a few peoples hair." Frank said rushed.

James, Remus, Sirius and Peters eyes widened. Oh no...

"Bats?" repeated Peter.

"Yeah," said Frank more calmly.

The four boys looked at each other, nervously. A prank gone wrong was NEVER good.

A/N: I'm really really really sorry I haven't updated in a while, I still haven't finished the chapter, but im in a good mood. YEAH CAILIN!!!:D:D:D well this is the end of year 2!!! I'll try to update year 5 by this weekend...till next time:D

P.S: I'm sorry if this chapter is too short or sucks, I was in a rush to finish the goddamed year two:D