A/N: In case you're wondering, I probably have disappeared off the face of the earth, because that's really the only reasonable explanation for the horrendously long wait in between the seventh and the eighth chapter. The longest yet if I'm not mistaken, but don't blame me (see chapter seven A/N for full list of excuses – the paperclip gets worse everyday). I don't like this chapter a whole lot, but once again it's all James point of view, so for all the reviewers who complained that the constant POV switching was too heavy on their brains, here ya go. Hopefully it will be Lily's side in the next chapter, she hasn't bee getting enough attention lately.
A bright light glared in my eyes, forcing me to squint as two people approached me, stepping out from the blackness that enveloped the rest of the room. Rather cheesy, really.
"You've been kind of quiet lately, James." One of my interrogators circled menacingly around my chair, hands behind his back in a classic Sherlock Holmes style.
"So…?"
"So? Is that all? No pranks, no torturing Snape, no dates! We both know something's up." He motioned his partner to step forward. "We've both asked you about this before, you know."
"Many times," added the other one.
"Asked what?" honestly, I had no idea.
"About who you like."
"Oh god. Not this AGAIN! I don't like her!" What?
Man number one (or boy, really. I, for a fact, know it took him two ad a half months to grow an insy-tinsy bit of chin stubble) studied me with a sarcastically bemused expression. Sadly, he has the look nailed, due to numerous amounts of previous encounters far too similar to this one. "How in the world does he know who I'm talking about?"
"To be honest," said number two, attempting to conceal a sheepish face, "I have no idea who you're thinking of."
The first one swiveled around, gaping at his companion in shock. "Are you kidding me?" he hissed. "You know who I mean!"
The confused one furrowed his eyebrows. "I do?"
"Yes, you do!" came the words between clenched teeth. "It's you-know-who!"
The lost expression remained on the teen's face.
"Jeez Sirius!" I said, rolling my eyes. "Even I know who Remus is talking about."
Remus spun around once again, triumphant. "AHA!" he exclaimed. "I knew it!"
"So who are we talking about again?" Sirius asked, still oblivious.
"Lily Evans."
"Right."
Surprisingly, I didn't even protest. I've come to terms with myself about her, if only temporarily. Not that anyone needs to know that. The blinding light was taken off me, and the normal ones turned on, revealing assortments of clothes, quidditch related items, and other stereotypical boy things in no apparent order (Sirius however, maintained the idea that there was one, it was just invisible).
Remus fell back onto the cleanest bed. "What I want to know is whatever happened to your…fondness of Alice?"
I glanced up at him. "Who's Alice?" Remus apparently found my ignorance amusing, and Sirius once again appeared to be as confused as I was.
Remus sighed. "Blonde, pretty short, hangs out with Lily Evans…?"
Sirius' face brightened. "She's the person who didn't like to be kissed by me!"
"Yep." I nodded - now I remembered. "She enjoys laughing, has two annoying brothers, hides under the table when Mrs. Longbottom comes by, and has a crush on Sean Padred."
"Who's Mrs. Longbottom?"
"How should I know?" I demanded. "She's just with Lily a lot, and they talk to each other."
Remus grinned. "So you've been following Lily around, eh?"
"W…wuh…..we…..maybe!" I stuttered. "What's it to you?"
"Just wondering."
"Really Remus, that's the worst lie I've heard for a few years. Since the beginning of second year in fact, when you were still attempting – sorry Remus, but it was pretty pathetic – to pull off the 'My aunt died, again' story every month."
Sirius coughed. "Speaking of which…"
James eyes widened. Glancing over at Remus he realized that it was not the harsh light that had him look pale, but the rapidly approaching full moon. He grabbed a calendar lying on Sirius' bedside table. He laughed when he found the entire thing scribbled over with multiple notes reading
PMS
Gretchen: 2nd – 5th
Alice: 9th – 16th
Marissa: 17th – 19th
Sylvia: 1st – 31st
Lily: 11th – 22nd
Can be longer
"How exactly do you know this, Sirius?" I asked, suspicious of Sirius' apparently vast knowledge of this…ahem…subject.
Sirius grinned. "I have the don't ask don't tell policy, James."
I rolled my eyes. "Maybe it's better that I don't know." I turned back to the calendar, searching for the moon cycles amidst a sea of…other notes. I sucked in my breath when I saw when I caught a glimpse of the date of the full moon. "Tomorrow!" I yelled. "Remus, the full moon'stomorrow?"
Remus shuffled his feet, mumbling, "Yes, well I wanted to make sure you and Sirius were out of the hospital wing and well before I went myself."
Sirius snorted. "That's ridiculous. I was perfectly okay the whole time. It's just that Madame Windleweed has the hots for me, and Jamsie over here was fine once they got the tentacle off his head."
I glared at Sirius. "For your information, you were most definitely not fine, and it was a very small tentacle." Remus chuckled, and I pointed an accusing finger at him. "You should be at the hospital wing."
"But what about the animagi stuff?"
"Leave that to us. Now go." I firmly led a stumbling Remus to the door. "You're going to get sick if you stay much longer. Want help to the hospital wing?"
Remus shook his head. "I'll be fine, thanks." As Remus went off, I scampered down to the common room, where peter was reading Witch Weekly. I considerately ignored his magazine of choice, and instead shouted, "Peter! Get your butt up here, we've got stuff to do."
A/N: horrible ending I know, but it's all I'm up for today. No idea what the next chapter is going to be about, but I am vaguely aware of the plot scheme (or lack of one, really) in the 10th. Just more evidence proving my insanity, eh?
The Thank You's (there really are some this time):
Jeez I have so many! This is going to take forever.
Chapter 6 thank you's:
Phat duck: You know Talya, it's really funny how a "genius" like you can't spell genius. Or the word 'this', for that matter. Or the word 'hilarious'. Anyways, did you have fun at the Harlem Globe Trotter's show?
P.S. I could of sworn that voice on the radio was your brother's.
ChickFlick004: I know, I know sulks in corner I'm trying, but since it was confusing I put the whole eighth chapter in James POV. Is that okay? Thanks for the other comments too!
Secludeddark: Thank you very much! I give all the credit of the "nose hair clipped at the bakery" line to phat duck's half asleep dad.
KeeperofthePineNeedles: Hi Simone. Talya's not the only one who needs to work on her spelling. Hope you had fun at the stupid Crowden dance. We had a jolly lot of fun at our school! (Kind of…)
P.S. read the fanfic "This is ME" by EvilDemonClownsStoleMyShoes. It's a Ginny/Draco that one of my reviewers wrote. She's cool.
lOvEhEaVeN: Bah humbug…I copied and pasted that time too. This time I spent three and a half minutes carefully copying it. Did I finally get it right?
Septempopuli: You are my new idol. You reviewed every single chapter and I don't even know you! Brilliant! I love your story by the way. You REALLY need to update though. Everything under is my responses to your sacred reviews1
#1: Gracias! That's what all my boy friends (as in friends that are boys) say when I do something weird. Typical, no?
#2: Neither can I. And if he did, it would probably be the kind where the punch line is "and then, he farted!". I can just imagine Peter guffawing over this, while everyone else is giving him weird looks.
#3: I know Remus isn't a werewolf, that's what I meant; it just didn't come out that way.
#4: ahem well, I can't take full credit for that - it was partly my friend Kate's idea (you should see her Petunia imitations). Her screen name's lingdot on fanfiction.
#5: I like Lord of the Rings too. Did you recognize what part it was from the quotes?
#6: The "nose hair at the bakery" line is actually a quote from phat duck's half asleep dad. The hexes that Lily cast on James will remain a mystery for a while, but I slip a tiny bit in towards the end of this chapter. Not sure what BTW means, but there will be more chapters. 5th year is when Lily begins to get nasty, and James switches his annoyance up a notch (not to mention his quickly forming crush, as well). Thanks again for the beauteous reviews!
Chapter 7 thank you's:
Phat duck: Mr. O (as in Owens) told us that jiffy thing last year too, remember? I would nag about your spelling of the word 'guess', but I'm aware that recently you learned its proper spelling, so I'm not going to bother. I gave your dad credit just now in the thank you's whenever people asked. Inform Avi he can wait, fanfiction is way more important. Plus, he's about 5 million grades ahead in math. Also tell Brenda that Gwenagain says she's looking lovely today.
Secludeddark: hope you like this one as much as the last! Your review cheered me up. Tell your friend I said hi!
EvilDemonClownsStoleMyShoes: Jeez, your name changes a lot! I'm trying to read your story, I really am! I told all my friends that like Ginny/Draco fics about it though. See ya!
JordanI just talked to you a few minutes ago, you know (well actually, you probably do…). Hope things get cleared up between you and Doug, and your book gets published! Oh, and enjoy the new school Ms. President!