How It All Began
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my plot. Harry Potter is J.K. Rowling's. If it were mine, I'd be rolling in money from the release of Harry Potter and the OoTP.
Author's Note: Last chapter I said Remus was mildly interested in what kind of lip-gloss Bella and Rachel were going to wear. Just to clarify, he's not gay. He was just interested that maybe Lily was going to wear one of the kinds they mentioned. You know he has a crush on her.
PG-13ish
Chapter 7
* * * (The day of the ball) (Lily's PoV)
Someone shoot me now. I'm in potions class right now, and my partner is Snape. I didn't pick Snape, mind you. Professor Alcon assigned the partners. All the Gryffindors are screwed as a matter of fact. Bella is paired up with Crabbe. Rach is paired up with Goyle. Lindsey is paired up with Parkinson. Remus is paired up with Malfoy. James is paired up with Smith. (The girl who asked him to the ball. She keeps staring at him.) Sirius is paired up with Avery. (Lindsey isn't very happy about that.)
"Pass the shrivelfig, mudblood!" Snape snarled.
"Excuse me, did I hear something?" I said with a tone of pure hatred.
"You heard me Evans!"
"Fine, take it!" I replied throwing it at him. It him in the chest and he raised his hand. Ugh, what now?
"Professor, professor!"
"Yes, Mr. Snape," Professor Alcon said.
"Lily Evans hit me with a shrivelfig!"
"15 points from Gryffindor for disrupting the class!" Alcon said in the curt tone he saved just for us Gryffindors.
"Your so childish," I mumbled under my breath.
* * * * (After class)
"Not bad. We only managed to loose Gryffindor 50 points today. That's gotta be a record or something!" Sirius said brightly.
"Did anyone hear what the homework was?" James asked suddenly, "I couldn't hear, due to the fact that, that Smith girl didn't stop talking."
"Sorry, I didn't hear it either. Parkinson dropped a jar of some green gook and he made me clean it up," Lindsey said whining.
"Yah, lunch time!" Bella exclaimed.
"I don't want to go to lunch today. I'm not very hungry," I said. In fact, I was so nervous.
"Come on Lils. You gotta eat something. Your gonna be starving at the dance. And when I'd want to dance, you'd want to eat," Remus said smiling at me. We made our way out of the dungeons and across the hall to the Great Hall.
"Tonight is going to be great!" Rachel said. "I'll see you guys a little later. I'm going to sit with Robert." She walked over to the end of the Gryffindor table and sat with the rest of the Quidditch guys.
"What's after lunch?" Lindsey asked. After getting many puzzled looks, she elaborated. "You know, what class?"
"Oh right. Umm, I think we have divination. Well that class is good for a nap," James replied grinning. I gave him a disapproving look.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm hungry," Bella said taking some steak and kidney pie. We all followed suit.
"Wow, I really don't know why I'm eating this," Lindsey said looking down at her fork, "I don't even like it."
"It's taken you 5 years to realize that Linds. Your smarter than I thought," James replied to Lindsey's out of the blue comment.
"Your awfully quiet Sirius, what's wrong," I inquired turning to face Sirius. He had his fork 5 inches away from the plate and was staring off in space.
"Wha- oh, nothings wrong. I'm thinking about things."
"Since when do you ever think Padfoot?" James asked.
"For your information Prongs, I think a lot. I happen to be a prefect. Hard to believe but yes!" Sirius said. The bell soon rang which indicated that classes are going to start in like 5-10 minutes. Up to the North Tower we go! Yipee!!!
"I- can't- climb- any- more!" panted Bella throwing her bag up the stairs and watching it tumble back down.
"I got it," James said sprinting back down and running back up.
"How gentlemanly of you James!" I said smiling.
"I know. Who would've thought that when I was born, not only would I be handsome and great at Quidditch, that I'd be charming and such a gentleman," James replied. I laughed and smacked him on the arm.
"You're full of yourself you know that right," Bella said giggling.
"Ahh, what can I say?"
"Yeah, what can you say besides-" Bella started but her eyes started to tear as Mikul Donivon and his group of Ravenclaws passed.
"Bella, are you okay?" Lindsey asked with concern wrapping an arm around her friend.
"No. Mikul broke up wi- with me last week."
"Why didn't you tell us?" I asked. She told us everything. Why the sudden change?
"I don't know. I didn't want to make it seem official. I didn't want to believe it yet," Bella explained as we finally made our way to the North Tower. James looked really solemn for some strange reason.
Class soon began. The heat was incredibly unbearable today. "Class, we are going to be sharing a dream from our dream journal today!" Professor Misty said in a wistful tone. A groan could be heard throughout the whole class. Lindsey raised her hand.
"Professor! My dreams are kind of personal. Can I just make some up?"
"You may not Miss Laurence," Professor Misty said sharply.
"Fine!"
"Because of that question, you may go first," she addressed Lindsey and now turning to the class she stated, "and when you have an idea of what the dream means, raise your hand and interpret."
Lindsey got up, took out a notebook, which was more than likely, her journal and began, "Well, I had this dream last night. I was walking along a dark corridor. I saw two figures in the distance and I walked closer to see who it was. When I was within viewing range, I saw that it was my boyfriend and some girl. Let's put it this way, he wasn't being faithful."
Rachel put a hand to her mouth and hit Sirius. "Hey, it was only a dream!" Sirius shot back defensively.
"Can anyone interpret this dream?" Professor Misty asked. Remus and James's hands shot up immediately.
"Mr. Lupin?"
"Professor, if I do say so myself, it seems to me that Lindsey is experiencing a fear that her boyfriend will cheat on her. Which is rather normal, considering the fact that Mr. Black, her boyfriend, believes himself as quite the looker."
Quite taken aback, Professor Misty responded, "Well done Mr. Lupin. Fifteen points to Gryffindor!" Hmm, I'm very impressed at the way Remus interpreted the dream. "Miss Evans?"
"Hmm, what?" Everyone laughed at my dazed look. Oh, she must mean that I should go up now. Oh Merlin! I didn't write anything down! When all else fails, make something up!
"It's your turn!" She stated rather testily.
"Okay! Umm, let me see," I started flipping through empty pages, "this one looks good. I had this dream, three days ago. I was in potions class, and Professor Alcon was in an incredibly bad mood. I wasn't exactly paying any attention to him, so when he said he was going to give us a pop quiz, I freaked out. I looked down at the paper, and I had no idea what any answer was. Naturally, my instincts took over instead of logics and I looked on some else's page. I got caught, and well, I got. . .detention."
A few snickers were heard and James raised his hand. "I think that Lily's dream is quite easy to interpret. She is afraid that one day a huge chocolate éclair will eat her." At this answer everyone burst out laughing.
"Five points from Gryffindor for such an insane interpretation." During the rest of the class, the dreams and the interpretations got even wilder.
"That was classic Jimmy!" Sirius howled when coming out of class.
"It was nothing," James replied smirking, "but what was even funnier was Remus's answer. You were so proper Moony!"
"Yeah well. You need at least one level-headed person in the group," he replied smiling. I love those smiles.
"Us girls are going to get ready for the ball!" Bella said while going through the portrait hole (Bertie Botts).
"It takes 4 hours to get ready?" James asked incredulously.
"We want to look good don't we? Besides, there are 4 of us, and only one shower," Lindsey said patting James's arm.
"Have you forgotten about a thing we like to call, the Prefects Bathroom?"
"Oh right! But that means we have to wait for a shower."
"Not if you go right-" but before Sirius could finish his sentence, the portrait swung open and shut once more.
* * * (In the Prefects Bathroom)
"Yes! We are the first ones here. No wait for the shower," Bella exclaimed picking out some lavender smelling shampoo and conditioner, and a white fluffy towel.
"We should pick different scents for shampoos," Rachel said picking up a citrus smelling set of shampoos and conditioners. Eventually, I picked up a watermelon set and Lindsey picked out a chamomile set. We each took a half hour shower and came out to a packed place.
"Lucky we came in earlier," Bella said before muttering a drying spell on her hair.
We entered the common room, and it was empty.
"You think Remus needs help putting on his tights?" Lindsey said smiling.
"Oh. Probably. I'm sure Lily would love to help him!" Bella replied smirking. I grinned against my better judgment and threw a pillow at her.
"Omigod, I can't breathe! Damn corset!" Lindsey panted.
"Here, this may help," I said. I found this charm in a magazine that makes it easy to breathe in like costume corsets.
"Phew, thank-you so much Lils!" After 3 and ½ hours of curling, straightening, make-up, and dressing, us girls were finally ready.
* * * (Boy's Dorm. James's PoV)
"Looks like we have an hour before the ball. Maybe we should get ready?" I said looking at my watch.
"Yeah, your right. Besides, a good part of that time will go toward Moony trying to put on the tights," Sirius laughed.
"Look, just because you have the easiest costume to get into doesn't mean you have to mock me," Remus said smiling.
"James, aren't you going to get changed?"
"No need to just yet. You've seen my costume, haven't you?" I picked up the toga-thingy. We spent a most of the time talking and finally changed. I had to admit I looked pretty damn good.
* * * (Lily's PoV)
"Where's James?" Bella inquired out loud. A door swung open and then closed. A loud stampede came down the stairs, and there stood James, Remus, and Sirius looking very good indeed.
"Wh- uh- um- hey" Lindsey stuttered.
"Hey baby!" Sirius shouted taking in the sight of Lindsey and her newly straightened hair.
"Hey Bella," James said timidly. Was James ever timid? "You look wonderful."
"Thanks James," Bella replied blushing.
"I'm going to go meet Robert downstairs. See you later guys!" Rachel said making her way over to the portrait.
"I see you managed to get your tights on!" I said laughing.
"So I have!" Remus replied smirking.
"Uhh, Bella, could I talk to you for a moment, in private," James said looking up.
"Umm, sure!"
* * (James PoV)
This was it. I led her to a corner of the common room, and I took her hand. "Bella, I was wondering if maybe, umm, if maybe you'd like to go out with me?" Why was that so hard to get out?
Bella blushed a bit and then said, "S-sure!"
"Okay good. This is for you!" I handed her that chocolate pumpkin I got her, and she instantly smiled.
"Thank-you James!" She gave me a hug, and a quick kiss on the lips.
I noticed Lily peer over to where we were and frown. Hmm, I wonder why?
* * (Lily's PoV)
How come Bella just kissed James? Why did I just frown? I like Remus! I hope he asks me out soon. Bella came hopping back over toward us.
"James asked me out!" she squealed.
"Congratulations!" Lindsey said giving her a hug. She exchanged a glance with Sirius.
"You got through to Prong's soft-side!" Sirius said coming up behind Lindsey and wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Yeah. I finally broke through! I'm so happy!"
"It looks like you might not be the only one who gets a boyfriend tonight," Sirius added peering over at Remus. Does that mean Remus is going to ask me out? Oh, I would die!
James walked back over to us. "Hey!"
"Congratulations Jamie!" Lindsey said.
"Yeah," Remus added.
"What about-" Sirius started to whisper in James's ear.
"We can talk about that later Sirius," James hissed back.
* * * * * * *
A/N: I'm done! Chapter 7 is done. I would like to thank RemusGuurl for helping with some names and ideas. You are a big help! Please read her story, Because Things Change. It's great. Oh and please review! I'll promise to update again soon!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my plot. Harry Potter is J.K. Rowling's. If it were mine, I'd be rolling in money from the release of Harry Potter and the OoTP.
Author's Note: Last chapter I said Remus was mildly interested in what kind of lip-gloss Bella and Rachel were going to wear. Just to clarify, he's not gay. He was just interested that maybe Lily was going to wear one of the kinds they mentioned. You know he has a crush on her.
PG-13ish
Chapter 7
* * * (The day of the ball) (Lily's PoV)
Someone shoot me now. I'm in potions class right now, and my partner is Snape. I didn't pick Snape, mind you. Professor Alcon assigned the partners. All the Gryffindors are screwed as a matter of fact. Bella is paired up with Crabbe. Rach is paired up with Goyle. Lindsey is paired up with Parkinson. Remus is paired up with Malfoy. James is paired up with Smith. (The girl who asked him to the ball. She keeps staring at him.) Sirius is paired up with Avery. (Lindsey isn't very happy about that.)
"Pass the shrivelfig, mudblood!" Snape snarled.
"Excuse me, did I hear something?" I said with a tone of pure hatred.
"You heard me Evans!"
"Fine, take it!" I replied throwing it at him. It him in the chest and he raised his hand. Ugh, what now?
"Professor, professor!"
"Yes, Mr. Snape," Professor Alcon said.
"Lily Evans hit me with a shrivelfig!"
"15 points from Gryffindor for disrupting the class!" Alcon said in the curt tone he saved just for us Gryffindors.
"Your so childish," I mumbled under my breath.
* * * * (After class)
"Not bad. We only managed to loose Gryffindor 50 points today. That's gotta be a record or something!" Sirius said brightly.
"Did anyone hear what the homework was?" James asked suddenly, "I couldn't hear, due to the fact that, that Smith girl didn't stop talking."
"Sorry, I didn't hear it either. Parkinson dropped a jar of some green gook and he made me clean it up," Lindsey said whining.
"Yah, lunch time!" Bella exclaimed.
"I don't want to go to lunch today. I'm not very hungry," I said. In fact, I was so nervous.
"Come on Lils. You gotta eat something. Your gonna be starving at the dance. And when I'd want to dance, you'd want to eat," Remus said smiling at me. We made our way out of the dungeons and across the hall to the Great Hall.
"Tonight is going to be great!" Rachel said. "I'll see you guys a little later. I'm going to sit with Robert." She walked over to the end of the Gryffindor table and sat with the rest of the Quidditch guys.
"What's after lunch?" Lindsey asked. After getting many puzzled looks, she elaborated. "You know, what class?"
"Oh right. Umm, I think we have divination. Well that class is good for a nap," James replied grinning. I gave him a disapproving look.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm hungry," Bella said taking some steak and kidney pie. We all followed suit.
"Wow, I really don't know why I'm eating this," Lindsey said looking down at her fork, "I don't even like it."
"It's taken you 5 years to realize that Linds. Your smarter than I thought," James replied to Lindsey's out of the blue comment.
"Your awfully quiet Sirius, what's wrong," I inquired turning to face Sirius. He had his fork 5 inches away from the plate and was staring off in space.
"Wha- oh, nothings wrong. I'm thinking about things."
"Since when do you ever think Padfoot?" James asked.
"For your information Prongs, I think a lot. I happen to be a prefect. Hard to believe but yes!" Sirius said. The bell soon rang which indicated that classes are going to start in like 5-10 minutes. Up to the North Tower we go! Yipee!!!
"I- can't- climb- any- more!" panted Bella throwing her bag up the stairs and watching it tumble back down.
"I got it," James said sprinting back down and running back up.
"How gentlemanly of you James!" I said smiling.
"I know. Who would've thought that when I was born, not only would I be handsome and great at Quidditch, that I'd be charming and such a gentleman," James replied. I laughed and smacked him on the arm.
"You're full of yourself you know that right," Bella said giggling.
"Ahh, what can I say?"
"Yeah, what can you say besides-" Bella started but her eyes started to tear as Mikul Donivon and his group of Ravenclaws passed.
"Bella, are you okay?" Lindsey asked with concern wrapping an arm around her friend.
"No. Mikul broke up wi- with me last week."
"Why didn't you tell us?" I asked. She told us everything. Why the sudden change?
"I don't know. I didn't want to make it seem official. I didn't want to believe it yet," Bella explained as we finally made our way to the North Tower. James looked really solemn for some strange reason.
Class soon began. The heat was incredibly unbearable today. "Class, we are going to be sharing a dream from our dream journal today!" Professor Misty said in a wistful tone. A groan could be heard throughout the whole class. Lindsey raised her hand.
"Professor! My dreams are kind of personal. Can I just make some up?"
"You may not Miss Laurence," Professor Misty said sharply.
"Fine!"
"Because of that question, you may go first," she addressed Lindsey and now turning to the class she stated, "and when you have an idea of what the dream means, raise your hand and interpret."
Lindsey got up, took out a notebook, which was more than likely, her journal and began, "Well, I had this dream last night. I was walking along a dark corridor. I saw two figures in the distance and I walked closer to see who it was. When I was within viewing range, I saw that it was my boyfriend and some girl. Let's put it this way, he wasn't being faithful."
Rachel put a hand to her mouth and hit Sirius. "Hey, it was only a dream!" Sirius shot back defensively.
"Can anyone interpret this dream?" Professor Misty asked. Remus and James's hands shot up immediately.
"Mr. Lupin?"
"Professor, if I do say so myself, it seems to me that Lindsey is experiencing a fear that her boyfriend will cheat on her. Which is rather normal, considering the fact that Mr. Black, her boyfriend, believes himself as quite the looker."
Quite taken aback, Professor Misty responded, "Well done Mr. Lupin. Fifteen points to Gryffindor!" Hmm, I'm very impressed at the way Remus interpreted the dream. "Miss Evans?"
"Hmm, what?" Everyone laughed at my dazed look. Oh, she must mean that I should go up now. Oh Merlin! I didn't write anything down! When all else fails, make something up!
"It's your turn!" She stated rather testily.
"Okay! Umm, let me see," I started flipping through empty pages, "this one looks good. I had this dream, three days ago. I was in potions class, and Professor Alcon was in an incredibly bad mood. I wasn't exactly paying any attention to him, so when he said he was going to give us a pop quiz, I freaked out. I looked down at the paper, and I had no idea what any answer was. Naturally, my instincts took over instead of logics and I looked on some else's page. I got caught, and well, I got. . .detention."
A few snickers were heard and James raised his hand. "I think that Lily's dream is quite easy to interpret. She is afraid that one day a huge chocolate éclair will eat her." At this answer everyone burst out laughing.
"Five points from Gryffindor for such an insane interpretation." During the rest of the class, the dreams and the interpretations got even wilder.
"That was classic Jimmy!" Sirius howled when coming out of class.
"It was nothing," James replied smirking, "but what was even funnier was Remus's answer. You were so proper Moony!"
"Yeah well. You need at least one level-headed person in the group," he replied smiling. I love those smiles.
"Us girls are going to get ready for the ball!" Bella said while going through the portrait hole (Bertie Botts).
"It takes 4 hours to get ready?" James asked incredulously.
"We want to look good don't we? Besides, there are 4 of us, and only one shower," Lindsey said patting James's arm.
"Have you forgotten about a thing we like to call, the Prefects Bathroom?"
"Oh right! But that means we have to wait for a shower."
"Not if you go right-" but before Sirius could finish his sentence, the portrait swung open and shut once more.
* * * (In the Prefects Bathroom)
"Yes! We are the first ones here. No wait for the shower," Bella exclaimed picking out some lavender smelling shampoo and conditioner, and a white fluffy towel.
"We should pick different scents for shampoos," Rachel said picking up a citrus smelling set of shampoos and conditioners. Eventually, I picked up a watermelon set and Lindsey picked out a chamomile set. We each took a half hour shower and came out to a packed place.
"Lucky we came in earlier," Bella said before muttering a drying spell on her hair.
We entered the common room, and it was empty.
"You think Remus needs help putting on his tights?" Lindsey said smiling.
"Oh. Probably. I'm sure Lily would love to help him!" Bella replied smirking. I grinned against my better judgment and threw a pillow at her.
"Omigod, I can't breathe! Damn corset!" Lindsey panted.
"Here, this may help," I said. I found this charm in a magazine that makes it easy to breathe in like costume corsets.
"Phew, thank-you so much Lils!" After 3 and ½ hours of curling, straightening, make-up, and dressing, us girls were finally ready.
* * * (Boy's Dorm. James's PoV)
"Looks like we have an hour before the ball. Maybe we should get ready?" I said looking at my watch.
"Yeah, your right. Besides, a good part of that time will go toward Moony trying to put on the tights," Sirius laughed.
"Look, just because you have the easiest costume to get into doesn't mean you have to mock me," Remus said smiling.
"James, aren't you going to get changed?"
"No need to just yet. You've seen my costume, haven't you?" I picked up the toga-thingy. We spent a most of the time talking and finally changed. I had to admit I looked pretty damn good.
* * * (Lily's PoV)
"Where's James?" Bella inquired out loud. A door swung open and then closed. A loud stampede came down the stairs, and there stood James, Remus, and Sirius looking very good indeed.
"Wh- uh- um- hey" Lindsey stuttered.
"Hey baby!" Sirius shouted taking in the sight of Lindsey and her newly straightened hair.
"Hey Bella," James said timidly. Was James ever timid? "You look wonderful."
"Thanks James," Bella replied blushing.
"I'm going to go meet Robert downstairs. See you later guys!" Rachel said making her way over to the portrait.
"I see you managed to get your tights on!" I said laughing.
"So I have!" Remus replied smirking.
"Uhh, Bella, could I talk to you for a moment, in private," James said looking up.
"Umm, sure!"
* * (James PoV)
This was it. I led her to a corner of the common room, and I took her hand. "Bella, I was wondering if maybe, umm, if maybe you'd like to go out with me?" Why was that so hard to get out?
Bella blushed a bit and then said, "S-sure!"
"Okay good. This is for you!" I handed her that chocolate pumpkin I got her, and she instantly smiled.
"Thank-you James!" She gave me a hug, and a quick kiss on the lips.
I noticed Lily peer over to where we were and frown. Hmm, I wonder why?
* * (Lily's PoV)
How come Bella just kissed James? Why did I just frown? I like Remus! I hope he asks me out soon. Bella came hopping back over toward us.
"James asked me out!" she squealed.
"Congratulations!" Lindsey said giving her a hug. She exchanged a glance with Sirius.
"You got through to Prong's soft-side!" Sirius said coming up behind Lindsey and wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Yeah. I finally broke through! I'm so happy!"
"It looks like you might not be the only one who gets a boyfriend tonight," Sirius added peering over at Remus. Does that mean Remus is going to ask me out? Oh, I would die!
James walked back over to us. "Hey!"
"Congratulations Jamie!" Lindsey said.
"Yeah," Remus added.
"What about-" Sirius started to whisper in James's ear.
"We can talk about that later Sirius," James hissed back.
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A/N: I'm done! Chapter 7 is done. I would like to thank RemusGuurl for helping with some names and ideas. You are a big help! Please read her story, Because Things Change. It's great. Oh and please review! I'll promise to update again soon!