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Refrain:
"For the each of us?" Remus piped up and Cecilia burst out laughing.
It was going to be just so much fun teasing Lily in the morning..
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Chapter 10
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"So, who goes first?" Sirius asked as he looked around the room.
Arabella grinned and sat down next to Lily, "hey Lily, do you like anyone?"
"No." Came a murmured reply.
"Okay, I'm done. Next?" Arabella asked, "so much for blackmailing her."
"Who do you think is the cutest person at school?" Cecilia asked and James held his breath.
"Him." Lily murmured again. Cecilia gave a disappointed sigh, "next?"
"Who's 'him'?" Remus asked scratching his head.
"....s."
"Who is '......s'?" James asked.
"Someone with a name that ends in 's'." Remus said.
"Hey! That's me!" James exclaimed excitedly.
"And Remusssss, Siriussss, Amosssss, Severussss, Lucioussss.. etc..etc.." Cecilia piped up and James growled in annoyance.
"This girl never gives a specific answer does she?"
"Don't blow it Padfoot, this is our last question." Remus spoke up and the others all held their breath in anticipation.
"Lily," he grinned evilly, the others all grinned, "..do you like carrots?"
James's, Arabella and Cecilia's jaws dropped open, this was the best he could think up? Remus just slapped his forehead.
"..no." Lily murmured and shifted her position so that both hands were near her
face.
"Well, you guys, so much for blackmailing Lily. We didn't get ONE specific answer." James said yawning.
"No! We found out she doesn't like carrots." Sirius said grinning.
"Why CARROTS?" Arabella asked in an exasperated voice and Sirius smiled broadly.
"I hate carrots."
"..what's that got to do with Prongs?" Remus asked confusedly and the smile disappeared from Sirius's face.
"It's always James! James!! Agh! Enough with the madness!"
Everyone rolled their eyes and shook their heads.
"Let's go to sleep you guys." Arabella said standing up, "we have more rooms across the halls. Good night James." She started to close the door when she stopped, "you try anything and I'll kill you, Potter." She made a motion of slitting her throat and closed the door.
"Yeah right, Evans would kill me in her sleep." James looked at Lily and rolled his eyes, "now how am I supposed to take you to the bed?" With some difficulty, he picked her up and slung her over his shoulder and dropped her on the bed. A little too hard, because she bounced up and hit her head on the headboard.
"Ow! What the- Potter, you trying to kill me?!" Lily asked as she clutched at her head.
"Sorry." He grinned and climbed over her, onto his side of the bed.
"Night, Potter." Lily murmured and a few minutes later, James could hear Lily breathing deeply and he smiled. Exactly how much DID he like her? He was sure he liked her more than other girls, but it was a LONG way from love. James smiled as he realized that he liked her enough for some of her harsh words to sting, but not enough scar him. Most of his liking for her was to annoy her. With those thoughts in mind, James felt himself slowly fall asleep.
Lily woke up first the next morning. Her problems forgotten for a second. Lily just stayed in bed for a while until she felt something under her going up and down.
'Is this a water bed?' Lily opened her eyes and quickly got off James's chest. How the hell had she ended up on top of him? Lily quickly started to climb off the bed when she remembered about the handcuffs.
"Should I wake him? Or leave him?" She muttered and finally decided to wake him, "hey Potter, get up! I need to wash!" She said hitting the bed.
"Stop it Evans." He murmured opening one eye and glaring at her.
"Get up, I need to wash!" She insisted tugging on his arm with hers. Annoyed, James gave his left arm a pull and Lily was pulled onto the bed again. Lily started to get up again, but James gave another HARD pull and Lily was pulled to the other side of the bed. Eventually falling off and pulling James down with her.
"Dammit Evans." He muttered as he rubbed his forehead. Lily got up and dusted herself up, pulling up James hand with hers.
"Ooh, I like." James grinned as she wiped off her behind, making James's hand hit against it.
"Argh!" She slapped his head with her free hand as he was placing his glasses on.
"Good morning you two!!"
And this was how a month of summer passed..
Lily and James falling on the ground every morning.
Arabella greeting them in the morning.
Eventually, Sirius, Remus and Cecilia got tired of hearing them argue and came over less frequently.
It was the Sunday before Lily's leave from Arabella's house. Arabella had left to meet some cousins so James and Lily were the only ones at home.
"You know Potter, maybe we should try talking to it." Lily said and tapped the handcuffs.
"That's stupid, but we can't do anything else." James raked his hands threw his hair, "so you still hate me."
Lily gave him a do-I-have-to-tell-you look and turned to the handcuffs, "hello, pretty handcuffs." Lily glared at James as he snickered, "you can let me and James free now. I really like James. He is a really cool guy! I swear, we're better friends than we ever were." Surprisingly enough, Lily's side snapped open.
"What? It worked?" James asked, his eyes widening, "we could have done that. Instead I suffered for a month."
Lily's eyes brightened, "does that mean-"
"Nope, I still like you.." James grinned, "Lily Flower." He loved seeing her annoyed face when he called her that.
"Oh well.." She sighed and stretched, "Potter, I'm so happy I could just punch you once and be satisfied with it."
James just stared at the girl he liked and shook his head, "hello handcuffs, I really love Lily Evans. I was wondering if you could just let me go also?" And with that, the handcuffs snapped open.
"Hey, you guys got them off?!" Sirius asked as he and Remus stumbled out of the fireplace, "how?"
"We talked to them." Lily said matter-of-factly.
Sirius and Remus stared, their mouths hung open, "it was that easy?"
James grinned and nodded while holding hr fingers up in a peace sign, "well I better go home. I'll see you later Lily Flower." He said in a cocky tone and he quickly grabbed his clothes and threw them in the fireplace, "till next time." He gave a quick bow and threw some powder into the fireplace, disappearing in green flames.
"Lily, did you really just TALK to it?" Remus asked and he picked up the handcuffs. Grinning, Lily took the handcuffs from Remus and quickly snapped it on Sirius and Remus's wrist.
"No actually, I kissed each other," She walked over to her bags and started packing, "we kissed on the lips and they just came off." She struggled with her bags and threw them into the fireplace, "tell Arabella I've gone home. Bye you guys, have fun!" Grabbing some powder she stepped in and disappeared in green flames.
"Hey, Moony." Sirius said, "on the count of 3?"
(A/N: Should I just stop here? I'm tempted, but I think I'll be nice to you guys and give you a WHOLE 'nother shit load of words for you to read.. ^_^)
Lily giggled as she stumbled out of her fireplace and dragged out all her bags.
"Mum, Dad? Are you back yet?" She called and when she didn't receive an answer, she shrugged and dragged all her things to HER room, and laid down on HER bed and just smiled, "it feels good to be back home. I wonder if Remus and Sirius believed me. Nah, they're not that stupid." Lily unpacked and walked over to her Juniper's cage.
"Lily! We're home, are you back yet?"
"Yeah Mum, I came back a few hours ago! How was the trip?" Lily asked hugging her parents tightly and forcing a smile at her sister.
"Hi Pet."
"Hi Li."
Without anymore words spoken between the two, Petunia left to go to her room and Mrs. and Mr. Evans sighed.
"So, Lily, how was Arabella's house?"
Lily thought a moment, should she tell them about the handcuffs? Nah..
"It was great, my friends came over a lot and we hung out. It was great. How was your vacation?"
"It'd have been better with my youngest daughter with us, but we had fun. Lily-Pad, it's your birthday next week." Lily smiled at her dad's nickname for her.
"I don't want anything specifically.." Lily grinned, "but there are these new Charm books that came out in Flourish and Blotts. They looked really, really interesting. I wouldn't mind one.. or two.. or the whole collection...?"
"Your wish is our command." Her father bowed and Lily and her mother giggled, "but Lily-Pad, I'm afraid we'll have to just give you the money. How much??"
"Oh! Not to expensive.. maybe 15 Galleons for the whole?" Lily asked hopefully, "it's too expensive isn't it?"
"We'll manage dear, besides, it's your 16th." Lily's mother gave her younger daughter a kiss on the top of her head and headed towards the kitchen.
"I'll be upstairs." Lily gave a quick kiss on the cheek for her Dad and climbed up the stairs.
"She's so gorgeous, I bet she has handsome boys just following her around at school." Mr. Evans sighed, "hopefully better than Petty's boyfriend. What's his name? Vermin?"
"Ver-NON, get it right Oliver. And he's not bad, he's just... large."
"I'm not going to lie to you Azalea, he's huge. I hope our Lily-Pad chooses someone smaller."
"She'd looks just so perfect with a tall skinny young man with blonde hair and hazel eyes." Mrs. Evans said sighing.
"Not blonde, you can't trust those 'Lea darling, maybe black? Oh! And he'd HAVE to have glasses, those make them look sophisticated."
"Oliver, you're glasses don't make you looks sophisticated, they look like goggles."
The rest of break passed by quicker than ever and it was soon time to go back to school as 6th years.
"Hey Lily!" Arabella called with Cecilia and Cherry following behind her, "we had so much fun at Diagon Alley! Why didn't you come with us?!"
"Sorry, but I couldn't. Guess what my parents got me for my birthday!?" Lily asked excitedly, "they got me that new set of charms books!! All of them!! Ah! I'm so happy! I've read each one at least 2 times already."
Cherry shook her head, "she is such a nerd."
"Is that you LILY!?!" A familiar voice bellowed and Lily quickly shoved her things into the storage compartment and climbed onto the train. Thundering footsteps chased after the red head.
"Only prefects allowed!" Lily yelled scrambling into the prefect compartment. The door banged open anyhow.
"R-Remus!" Lily stammered, "how was summer?"
The sandy haired prefect seemed to be savoring the moment of glory, "salutations Gryffindor prefect Lily Evans. Are you prefect this year, good to meet you, I'm Gryffindor prefect Remus Lupin." He said calmly.
He might have well been saying, "say hello to hell Evans, I, Remus Lupin is here to kill you."
"It was just a harmless joke Remus, haha, Remmy? A joke?" Lily said rubbing her hands in a begging manner, "please don't kill me."
"I don't plan to kill you. I plan to rip you into pieces." He continued to talk in a pleasant tone that scared Lily even more.
"I'm sure it was horrible, but it was only one kiss. I was stuck with Potter for a month!"
Remus neared her and hugged her tightly, holding her in a death grip, "do you know how many nightmares I had of those 0.3 seconds?" He hissed.
"Khak! I'm sorry, I love you?" Lily said in more of a question and Remus let her go.
"Just this once Lily. Just cause you're a good friend." Remus sighed in defeat and sat down next to her.
Lily grinned as she sat down next to him, "admit it Remus, you liked it. AHK! Remmy! I'm sorry!"
"This area here are the dungeons, if you go down the right you'll be where you take Potions class here and on the left is the Slytherin common room." Lily explained to the Gryffindor girst years.
"Yeah, you don't want to mix with those dirty, slimy Slytherins." Remus added in, "Lily stop glaring at me. You know it's true."
"Moony, Lily, there you guys are. Prongs, Wormtail and I've been looking all over for you." Sirius called running up to the large group with James and Peter chasing after him.
"Oh no, not you." Lily muttered as she rubbed her forehead.
"Who is that?" A girl whispered to her friend in a hushed voice.
"They call themselves, The Marauders. Hogwarts's biggest troublemakers. Remus here is one of them, and that's Sirius, Peter and the most annoying of them all, James Potter."
"He's cute!" Little whispers rang up inside the group and Lily rolled her eyes.
"Don't be fooled by that innocent smile girls, it's all an act." Lily warned and Sirius put an arm around Lily.
"Sorry girls, Prongs has eyes for only Lily here."
"Shut up Sirius." Lily muttered as she shoved his arm off, "come on kids, we need to go finish the tour. Go away you guys!" Lily waved her hand as if they were flies but the three new additions to the group just stayed. Rolling her eyes, Lily continued out of the Dungeons.
Soon it was the Christmas Holidays and Lily was at Hogsmeade, shopping for Christmas gifts.
"You guys, go away! I'm getting your presents now." Lily said, waving her friends away and stepping into 'Hogs Shed' the gift shop in Hogsmeade.
"Lily Flower!" James called in a teasing voice as he slung an arm around Lily's shoulder.
"Get away from me Potter, I'm getting presents."
"I'll go away if you get me something." He grinned as she sighed annoyed.
"Fine! Now go AWAY!" She pushed him away and with a huff, walked towards another part of the store. Lily picked up a small silver comb and decided it was the best thing to give James. Lily looked around the store a little more, deciding what to get Cecilia, Remus, Arabella, Sirius and Peter.
"Lily! Come on, we have to get back to school. I heard there's another trip tomorrow, but today we have to go." Cecilia said. Her voice muffled inside her scarf
Lily bought her gift for James and linked her arms with Cecilia's and met up with Arabella outside. Giggling, the three friends climbed into the carriage and waited for to take off.
"It sucks that I'm going home for Christmas this year. It's one of our last Christmases together you guys!" Cecilia said blowing into her gloved hands, "I got you guys the best presents!"
"I haven't gotten your presents yet, but I got Potter's." Lily said as she took the silver comb out of the bag, "great isn't it?"
Arabella shook her head, "oh Lily, grow up."
Lily rolled her eyes and brushed her hair back with her hand, "well, Celi, are you done packing? I mean you're leaving tomorrow right?"
"Yup, I'll give you your presents today, you better not open it until Christmas."
Lily and Arabella nodded, "hey we're here." The three friends got off the carriage and walked into the large castle.
"Hey! No running in the halls!" Lily shouted to a pair of seconds years, "sheesh, I tell them everyday!"
"Shut up, Lily." Cecilia grinned, "I'm going to go check on Cherry. She's in the hospital wing, said she was feeling sick."
"Maybe I'll go also?" Lily said as she and Cherry headed towards the hospital.
"Hey Cherry, are you here?"
"I feel disgusting, ugh some stupid muggle disease called Pneumonia ." Cherry muttered and covered her face, "what are you doing here Lily?"
"What? I can't come visit a friend when she's sick?" Lily asked crossing her arms and raised an eyebrow.
"What are you doing here?!" Madame Pompfrey yelled as she stormed into the room and dragged Lily and Cecilia out of the infirmary.
"I hate that lady." Lily muttered.
"Her intentions are good."
"So?" Lily muttered.
Cecilia laughed and checked her watch, "oh no! I'm supposed to meet Professor Sprout in the greenhouse. Bye Lily!" Lily sighed, Christmas without one of her best friends was going to be weird...
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly!!!" Lily belted out as she jumped on her bed again and again, "Fa la la la la la la la la~~!"
"Shut up." Arabella mumbled, covering her ears.
"It's Christmas~!" Lily screamed grinning from ear to ear as she jumped off her bed onto the large pile of presents at the bottom.
"Hey, it's from Sirius." Lily said as she opened the small package, "what is this?"
"My brother gave me one of those. They squirt gel into your face and the gel doesn't wash away for a while. It's better not to open it."
Christmas was undoubtedly fun, like always. Egg nog, cookies, cake, warm fires and chestnuts roasting on open fires.
"Prongs, what did Lily give you?" Sirius asked as James stared at the present.
"She gave me a comb." He said, "she thinks I like my messy hair."
"Can you believe they didn't put any mistletoe up this year? What a drag." Sirius muttered as he laid his head on his hand, "so Prongs you still like Lily?"
"Of coarse I do, I love bugging her. Besides, she's really cute and funny." James said as he ran the comb threw his hair.
"You like her cause you like bugging her, seriously Prongs, grow up." Remus said as he chewed on some jelly beans.
"I still have one more year." James grinned as he brushed threw his hair again.
"Hey you guys hear that?" Peter asked. And sure enough the four boys heard banging and screaming, yelling.
"What's happening?" Remus wondered as he walked out of their room and down to the common room where there was a small crowd of students.
"DAMMIT!!!!" There was another scream and another large bang, "DAMMIT!! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU STUPID BASTARD!!"
"What the hell? Is that Evans?" James asked as he continued to comb his hair.
"Lily, stop it!"
There were murmurs inside the common room and then another large bang.
"Okay, there's nothing to see!" Remus yelled as he ushered the crowd out so that the only ones left in the common room were the Marauders.
"Lily, calm down! Please!" Arabella pleaded and there was a huge bang followed by a loud shriek from Arabella.
"DAMMIT!!" Lily yelled as she banged shut the door behind her and stormed down the stairs. James could see the fire in her eyes. Her face was white with anger and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity.
"Hey, Lily, what's wrong?" Remus asked calmly and took a step forward.
"Get away from me, I don't need to deal with anyone right now." She said. The Marauders all took a step back at her tone and she continued to head down the stairs.
James's eyes trailed after her and jumped when he heard another loud crack.
"Merlin, why's she so mad?" Sirius muttered as he saw half of the couch at the bottom of the stairs.
"Lily! Stop it!" Arabella yelled, wiping tears from her eyes as she stumbled clumsily down the stairs.
Sirius grabbed Arabella's arm as she passed the Marauders, "what happened?"
"C-Cecilia! He killed her!" Arabella sobbed as tears trickled down her cheeks.
"Who's 'he'?"
"V-Vold- Lily, found out and she's- she's broken down our room."
Another angry yell brought the five's attention to the screaming red head.
"Duck!" Remus yelled as a table leg flew their way.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Professor McGonagall's stern voice asked, "Miss Evans, stop this at once!"
Ignoring the Transfiguration professor, Lily continued to vent her anger on the furniture inside the common room.
"He-headmaster-" Arabella said.
"Miss Evans, if you're going to vent your anger on objects, go outside and do it please." He smiled at her and Lily stormed out.
"I advise none of you to follow her." He said trying to brighten the mood.
"What on earth is wrong with her?" McGonagall asked darkly.
"Ce-Ce-Cecilia- he- she- V-Vol- she's gone!" Arabella sobbed. McGonagall covered her mouth and the twinkle in the headmaster's eyes disappeared.
"DAMMIT!" The small group in the Gryffindor common room heard a faint yell from outside and then another large crack.
"Oh Lily, I'm so sorry."
"Are you okay?"
"Be strong, I had a dog that died once."
"Get out of my way, Evans."
"I'm sorry about Cecilia."
"Are you going to eat that Lily?"
All these made Lily angry, except the 4th which Lucius spat at her and Peter asked her in the great hall. Funny how the two people she liked least made her feel better.
Lily was in her repaired room, finishing her homework.
"Hey, uh Evans. I uh, brought some dinner for you." James said as he stood at the doorway of her room.
"I'm so sorry for your loss." He said as he placed the food in front of her. Lily didn't know if it was the pitying glances she got all week. Or maybe it was James Potter being nice to her because her friend had died. Whatever it was, Lily stood up and slapped James in the face. He stared at her dumbfounded for a moment.
"Aren't you going to yell at me for slapping you?" Lily asked impatiently.
James closed and opened his mouth a few times, "you just slapped me." Unknowingly, he grinned, "does that mean you like me? Evans?" James stared at Lily.
"I'm going to regret doing this." Lily whispered to herself and hugged James tightly.
"What the-?" He stopped talking when Lily broke down in tears.
"I don't know why I'm crying. In front of you of all people."
"Thanks?"
Lily just cried a little more and James stood there just dumbfounded.
"Ugh, get out of here Potter." Lily said pushing him away from her.
"You like me, admit it." He grinned at her. The dinner forgotten.
"I hate you, now get out of the room." Lily said shoving him out, but she knew that she was lying. Somehow in those past 10 minutes, her feelings for James Potter had taken a drastic change. Grinning, James just walked out and headed down the stairs, he felt warm and tingly and couldn't stop smiling.
"What the hell Prongs? You look like someone in love. Stop it." Peter muttered. And that's what James was.. a person in love.. and he knew it.
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This is sucha a long chapter. It's kinda rushed, kinda you know maybe out of character for Lily. But in all the fics I read, Lily becomes depressed and it always crying. I took a different turn. ^_^ I made her angry instead. Yeah, I like different, so.. R+R~!