A/N: ok, so maybe i didn't finish their first year before 2005... please don't hurt me!! I have all the main plot points in my story but it's just the inbetween stuff that is hard, so please bear with me! hope you enjoy this chapter!

CHAPTER: 13 -Pillow Fights and Midnight Talks

"I can't believe that Mama stopped my allowance!" complained Jo, stomping down the hallway and collapsing onto her bed.

"You did cover your kitchen in flour and eggs." said Amber smartly.

"What were you doing?" asked Miranda from her position on the floor.

"Making a cake?" Jo suggested, while Lily just raised her eyebrows. "Fine. Issy was just getting a snack and I thought it'd be funny to cover her in flour."

"And the eggs?"

"I knocked them over when reaching for the flour..."

"Strange." Amber muttered.

"Oh, shut up." Jo snapped.

"Geez, no need to get defensive." said Amber, holding her hands up in defence.

Lily opened her mouth to speak when Issy walked through the door, her hair slightly damp from the shower she'd just had.

"So, what's happening?" asked Issy as she positioned herself comfortably on Jo's bed.

"I don't know." shrugged Jo, staring at the ceiling while examining a strand of her hair. "Pass me the scissors."

"Me?" asked Lily, pointing to herself.

"No, the magical leprechaun sitting on my dresser." said Jo, sarcasm evident in her voice, "Yes, you!"

Lily jumped and hurried to Jo's desk, grabbing the scissors quickly and handing them to Jo. Jo snatched the scissors and proceeded to cut random strands of her hair.

"Split ends." Issy explained.

"Shut up." snapped Jo and she threw the scissors at Issy.

"Jo!" shrieked Issy, "That nearly hit my head!"

Jo just shrugged in reply, as she slowly moved into a sitting position on her bed.

"Jo, you could've really hurt Issy." said Amber, worry etched through her features.

"Yeh, yeh." said Jo, as she reached for one of the many red pillows scattered upon her bed.

"Does anyone have the ti-" Lily was cut off as a pillow collided with the side of her head. "Ow! Jo! What was that for?"

Jo pretended to be in deep thought, but was then thwacked on top of her head by Issy who had seized as many pillows as possible.

"Friends..." Miranda began, as Jo and Issy gave each other maniac grins before leaping onto Miranda and attacking her with pillows, blankets and Jo's blue beanbag. Lily and Amber joined in the fun by trying to protect Miranda and soon a pillow war had broken out; Issy and Jo against Miranda, Amber and Lily.

Miranda was taken hostage and was placed under a massive pile of pillows and blankets. Lily and Amber entered the vicinity that Jo and Issy had claimed as 'their territory'.

"Hey, guys?" Lily said, her hands held up high as a symbol of surrender, "I don't think Miranda can breath very well." Jo looked down at the pile of linen beneath her, and with a sigh she got up and let her sister untangle herself from the pillows and blankets. Meanwhile the room had been filled with feathers, most of which unfortunately seemed to be floating about in the air. When Miranda finally got up, gasping for air, she noticed Issy's distressing hair and feel to the ground in a fit of giggles.

"Jo, do something! My hair's going static!" An annoyed Issy batted at the golden blonde strands that kept floating up into the air. Jo didn't reply, probably due to the fact that her hair was, as well, a distressing sight.

"Am-ber!" whined Issy as she fought to keep the feathers out of her hair.

Amber didn't reply. This wasn't a surprise, as she was laughing too hard to even speak at the sight before her. In the end, it was Lily who had to repair all the pillows and de-staticify Issy and Jo's distressing hair.

By the time the five girls had calmed down from their pillow fight, it was 11:30. A perfect time, Jo had said, to tell spooky stories and spill people's secrets.

Armed with a million different kinds of sweets and stories to make you scream, the girls gathered in a circle in Jo's room.

"Ok, I'll go first." announced Issy as Jo passed her the flashlight. "Ahem. A newly wedded couple were driving along a road in the middle of the night, when they get a flat tire. The husba-"

"Hey! This is a muggle story!" complained Jo.

The others just glared at her and Issy continued.

"The husband steers the car to the side of the road and examines the tire. He then tells his wife to stay in the car while he goes and tries to find a petrol station or something of the like. The wife starts to get bored after a while and turns the radio on. She's listening to...um..."

"No No Song? By Ringo Starr?" suggested Lily.

"Yeh, anyway, when the song finishes there is an announcement; 'we urge everyone to stay inside their homes, as the London Police have just reported that a homicidal maniac has escaped from London Prison.' . So the wife gets scared and turns down the radio. She then looks at her watch and realizes that her husbands been gone for nearly two hours. Then she hears a 'bang' on her roof, followed by a scraping sound. The wife just figures it's the tree branches on her roof or somethin', so she turns the radio up and continues listening."

Amber coughed.

"She's nearly falling asleep when she hears a tap on her window. She turns, frightened, to see a copper looking through the window. So she winds down the window and the copper says to her, he says 'Hey miss, would you please step out o' your car.' and the wife says 'Why?' and the copper's like 'Please, miss. An' don't look be'ind you.'. And the wife just does as she's told, 'cept she gets curious and turns behind her and she screams, she does. 'Cause there, behind her on the top of her car, is this scary maniac holding her husband's head in his hands, and beside him is her husband's body. And the wife, you know, she died of shock." Issy finished, somewhat less dramatically than she had started off.

Jo just looked at Issy with her eyes wide and her mouth open before bursting into laughter, needing to be silenced by Miranda's 'Sshh!'.

"That,"Jo began, "Is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard."

Issy looked offended, but said, "Fine, if you think you can do better." and so began the ghost story war.

It didn't take Lily and the others very long to get bored of the ghost stories that Issy and Jo were telling and before long they were having their own discussion.

"'ow do you enjoy my 'ome?" asked Miranda.

"Oh, it's amazing!" gushed Amber, "Pity Sky isn't here though."

"Mmm." acknowledged Lily, fiddling with the tassels on Miranda's curtains.

"Wish I had a room like this." Amber gazed enviously around Miranda's room before her eyes came to rest upon a pack of exploding snap cards. "Wanna play?"

Exploding snap turned out to be a very boring game at one in the morning, so the three girls settled for asking random questions and eating chocolates and Bertie Botts.

"I like... purple." muttered Amber sleepily.

"That's nice." Lily said as she lay down on Miranda's very large, very comfortable bed.

"Do you like Michael?"

Lily looked across at Amber, a confused expression on her face. Amber noticed this, "Not you -Miranda."

"Ah."

"Moi? 'E is just a friend and a very nice boy."

"You sure? Sounds like a case of denial, if you ask me." commented Lily with a small smile.

Miranda gave Lily a look, before rolling her eyes and saying, "You should not be talking."

"Yeh," agreed Amber, "what about James, Lily?"

Lily blushed at the implication of Amber's words. She had noticed James' rather good looks and he was a fairly nice guy, although he had a tendency to show off. But as Isabelle had said, he had good reason to.

"Oh, Lily! You're so obvious." Amber shook her head, giggling softly.

"Shut up," Lily muttered before begrudgingly admitting the obvious, "fine. I like him. But promise you won't tell anyone?"

Amber and Miranda both giggled, "Promise!"

REVIEWS:

untouched angel - thank you heaps for your review!

Jersey Princess - thanx for your reviews! yeh sure, i don't mind you using my dream idea. I'm trying to make Lily slowly forget about the dream, and then much later on the dream will come back and it's relevance will be understood. I'm also making the story completely from Lily's POV, so that we only understand her feelings. And yes, the whole chapter with the ball was just to introduce Michael. also... i'm completely at a loss to what 'KIU' is...? I'm also thinking about skipping to second year in the next chapter... maybe... If i do speed to second year in the next chapter, then there will be some LJ action... just maybe not the kind you want... .

I'm kinda lacking in the motivation to update... i often start chapters and have most of them written and then i never get round to finishing them!! so emails and reviews are always good encouragement!

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