I muttered the password: "Lily's sexy." Hey, James chose it. I don't
disagree or anything.
I threw my robes on my bed, leaving me in skirt and blouse, complete with tie. I ripped of the tie and opened the top few buttons. We had break for half an hour, so I could do that. Starting with my hair, I looked myself down. Narcissa and I would always do this in front of the mirror when we were bored. So. Hair- lovely as always. Red locks gently tumbling down past my shoulders. Lovely wide, emerald eyes, set off with some natural-looking eyeshadow and mascara. Nice curved nose. Luscious lips, if I do say so myself, with light lip gloss. I barely looked down to my breasts (no problem there) when Narcissa walked in, accompanied with James, Sirius, and Lupin.
"Nice password," she smiled.
"Be right out," I called. I looked at my skirt. Right above my knees. WAY too long, in my opinion. A quick charm (my specialty) shortened it a few inches. The teachers wouldn't see; I have robes on the whole day. Finally satisfied, I left my room.
Sirius, James, and Remus had all dogpiled on the big couch, so I sat, nice and ladylike, next to Narcissa.
"Guys, this is Narcissa; you probably know her, the sweetest thing alive," I introduced.
"I beg to differ," said Sirius, raising his hand.
"Oh, Sirius, please," said Narcissa, rolling her eyes. She was too used to Sirius.
"Cissa, this is James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin. You know them, obviously, from classes and stuff. You know, the notorious troublemakers."
"Yup," she said, eyeing the boys hungrily. That is, to say, only James, because Sirius is her cousin, and you know, that would just be wrong. And Remus- well, he isn't overly hott. He's a cutie.
"So what do you all want to do?" I asked.
"Lils, I forgot to tell you, I broke up with Lucius."
"That lasted what? Twelve hours?"
"So you're single," said Remus, now studying Narcissa with more interest.
James elbowed him as if to say, "Could you be any more obvious?"
"But, Cissa, I thought you adored him!" I cried.
The three boys were suddenly all gagging. I fixed them with a steely gaze and they stopped.
"You were wrong, Lils," she shrugged.
"But I'm never wrong!" I protested.
Now the boys started coughing.
I turned to them. "You guys are like doing background music. Shut up! Name one time I was wrong."
"Lils, you're gonna kill me for this one," started Narcissa, "but remember when you swore on everything you owned that you'd never go out with..." She cleared her throat and jerked her head towards James.
"What?!" exclaimed James. "Lil, you suck!"
I turned pink.
"That- was when- we had that fight," I stuttered.
"Yeah right," snorted Sirius.
"You're like my sister, Lil," said James. "You both-"
"What the hell?" I exclaimed. "You have a sister?"
"Er... yeah..." said James. "You didn't know that?"
"Er... no..." I said. "How old is she? What's her name?"
"Her name's Stephanie and she's coming to Hogwarts next year," he explained.
"That is so cool!" I said. "I always thought you were an only child."
"Nope," said James.
"Cissa, did you know this?" I asked.
"No, but oh, wow, he's got a sibling," she said sarcastically.
"It is wow!" I exclaimed. "Oh my god, I've got to meet her. Too bad she's coming next year when we'll be gone...."
Everyone was staring at me like I'd lost my mind.
"Lily, it's just my little sister."
"Okay, fine, I calmed down," I said, placing a hand on my chest.
"You know, we should be thinking up a good prank," said Sirius.
"Yeah, even better than this morning," agreed James.
"Let's see..." sighed Remus.
"Snivellus," said James quietly.
"Yes!" exclaimed Sirius, quickly accepting the suggesting. "Haven't chatted with my old chum in a while."
"We could do another pantsing thing," suggested Remus.
"Nah, we've done that before," said James. "We need something awful, so awful that-"
I cleared my throat. "No Snape," I ordered. "I don't mind your pranks; just not him."
"You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you like him," giggled Narcissa. She fell sideways onto the couch, laughing her head off.
The boys started making gagging noises again.
I took the opportunity to sit on Narcissa.
"Aaah! Lil! Get off me!" she shrieked. "Sorry! I didn't mean it!"
I got off her, but not before I gave her a very hard pinch.
"Sicko," I muttered. "Don't ever say that again."
She sighed, sitting up. "Lesson learned," she said. "Okay, back to the subject. Just do a prank on the Slytherins as a whole."
"Ha, you're a Slytherin, aren't you?" asked James. "Unless you just happen to share a common room with them and go to classes with them on accident."
"Well, just kind of exclude me," she said.
"But what to do..." sighed Sirius. "This might be the first time my ingenious brain has failed me."
"Sirius, do you realize you just insulted yourself, something you'd never do?" asked James.
"I did no such thing!" exclaimed an indignant Sirius.
"Oh yeah?"
"Let us duel, my brave knight! And you shall see that I always win these arguments!"
"Okay, now you're confusing me," said James.
"Exactly my point."
"What?"
"I live to confuse you."
"What are you talking about now? I was just pointing out that you dissed yourself."
"Ah, did I confuse Jamesie-poo now? Prongsies never gets confused! Did I win this argument?"
"No! It's just that- what the hell are you on about?"
"Aha! I won this one! I confused you!"
"Fine, fine. Sirius 12, me 13," admitted James.
"What?" I asked, confused myself.
"We always disagree about something or other," explained Sirius.
"So then we argue our point and confuse the other at the same time," said James.
"Whoever has the most points of confusion at the end of the week wins," finished Sirius.
"Wins what?" I wondered.
"The honor and prestige of being able to confuse someone, obviously," said Remus. "They're gay, I swear."
"Excuse me?" said Sirius, placing a hand to his chest. "I, Sirius Black, convicted of being gay? I think not!"
"We were talking about the prank," said Narcissa. "But before we get to that, we'll clarify that Sirius has not yet got in touch with his sexual feelings, so he does not yet know if he is gay or not, much to our disadvantage, because he's now scaring me. Extremely scaring me. Because if I were not around him I would not be talking like this. Does anyone beside me get the feeling that we all have no lives?"
"I!" we all voted in unison, raising our hands.
"Then we'll all start the Order of the No-Lifers!" exclaimed Sirius. "This is the first official meeting."
We just kind of looked at each other then. It was really funny because I wanted to burst out laughing. We were so weird, really. I mean, is this the weirdest conversation you've ever heard of or what? That's us, though. Any time Sirius is there, you kind of lose your mind.
There was silence for a few seconds.
"We have to DO something!" shouted Sirius. "It's too frickin' quiet!"
"Don't you all just like to think... and meditate... sometimes?" I asked.
"NO!" the Maurauders replied at once, quite in horror at the idea of actually relaxing.
"Lils, I believe 'think' and 'meditate' are both words that are not on Sirius' vocabulary list," said Narcissa.
"Well, let's see," said Sirius. "Do 'think' and 'meditate' mean 'run around' and 'go crazy'? If not, then no, I don't know what they mean."
We all groaned with sympathy for Sirius. He really was confusing himself more than us.
"Jamesie, what do you say about running to Hogsmeade for a few minutes?"
"For one thing, please do NOT call me Jamesie."
"Prongsie?"
"No."
"Love Jay?"
"No."
"How about-"
"Just shut UP!"
"If you say so, hunnybuns."
"Sier!" James bellowed, and he started pummeling Sirius furiously as we watched. Yes, poor Sirius.
"Gentlemen, may I remind you that as older students of this school, you have the responsibility of being respectable examples?" said Remus in a perfect imitation of Professor McGonagall when she encountered the Maurauders goofing off.
Sirius finally slid out from under James and ran for it.
James didn't get up, though. "It's not worth it," he sighed.
"Who calls you Love Jay?" I asked.
"Steph." He rolled his eyes.
"And hunnybuns?" I inquired.
"My mum."
Sirius came back after running around the room a few times and sat between Narcissa and I, safe out of James's reach.
He put his arms around either of our shoulders.
"Hello, ladies," he said in a sexy voice.
Narcissa ducked out of his arm.
"Sier, get a life."
"That makes twice today," he said sadly.
"Twice what?" she asked.
"Twice today someone told me to get a life," mumbled Sirius.
"Yeah, because you don't have one," she said.
Sirius went on muttering to himself, pretending to cry.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked.
"Lily, never try and figure out what Sirius means," advised Remus. "Or what he's doing. It'll give you a headache the size of Great Britain."
Then Sirius said randomly, "Do you ever have to curl up in a ball to go to sleep because the monster under the bed will bite your toes off?"
There was silence for a few seconds, and then we all burst out laughing.
"Sirius- what- is- your- problem?" I choked out between breaths.
All three boys rolled off the couch and on to the ground, still laughing hysterically. Sirius was pounding the ground with his fists.
Then we'd all quiet down. Sirius would open his mouth to say something, and we'd burst out laughing again.
Five minutes later, when we'd finally composed ourselves, I asked, "What made you say that? That was so random!"
Sirius shrugged.
"I've got it!" yelled James quite randomly, though not as Sirius- random.
"What?" I asked, stifling a giggle.
"The perfect prank," he whispered. "Allow me to consult."
So he "consulted" with Sirius and Remus for a few seconds.
They emerged from their little huddle with very wicked smiles on their faces, indeed.
"We have formulated a plan," began Sirius.
"In which we shall ingeniously decorate the Slytherin common room 'Gryffindorly'," continued James.
"Their whole common room and dormitory, all previously green and silver, will be- you guessed it- scarlet and gold," finished Remus proudly.
Narcissa and I stared, open-mouthed.
"It would be awesome-" I started, only to be cut off by Cissa.
"And how would you ever do it?"
"Well, er... we haven't quite fine-tuned the idea yet," admitted James.
"Not to worry, m'dears," said Sirius quickly.
"Yes, a quick hour in the library will fix that," remedied Remus.
"NO! Not the library!" protest Sirius. "It's so scary! You go in there to THINK and LEARN!"
"Imagine that," muttered Cissa. "Sirius, thinking?"
I laughed, as did the others, except for Sirius.
"That's not nice..." he whined in a baby voice. "I think."
"About undressing girls, yeah, you do," quipped Narcissa.
"Bitch," muttered Sirius.
"Bastard," she swore back.
"Whore," he replied. "We always do this at family get-togethers," he explained to me.
"Back to the prank," said James loudly.
"We should go in during lunch hour when they're all at lunch," said Remus wisely. "With the Invisibility Cloak, of course."
"You have an Invisibility Cloak?" asked Cissa incredulously.
"Oops..." Remus grinned sheepishly. "Sorry. Let that slip."
"Don't tell anyone, okay?" asked Sirius. "For your cuz, please?" He batted her eyelashes at her.
Narcissa eyed him with great distaste and replied, "Fine."
"So yes, during lunch," continued James. "And now I actually know just the Transfiguration spell. So we don't need to go to the library, Padfoot."
"THANK you," said Sirius, bowing down to James. "Ugh... the library..." He shivered.
"What day do we do it?" I asked.
"We?" repeated the three boys.
"Yes, we," I said. "Aren't I the newest Maurauder? And now that Cissa knows, you can't just leave her out!"
"Oh, fine," grumbled all three boys.
"Yeah, plus, I know the Slytherin password," complained Narcissa.
"Lily and I do, too," said James. "Remember, we're Head Boy and Girl?"
"Oh yeah, but I'm still going," she decided.
"Okay, okay," agreed the guys.
It was amazing how well-synchronized their words were. They always said the exact same thing at the exact same time. They were truly brothers.
"All right, when do we do it, then?" I repeated.
"Not this week," said Remus. "I'm going to be really tired."
The boys exchanged knowing glances and nodded.
I was going to ask what that was about, but then I didn't.
"Next Tuesday," Sirius decided.
"Yeah, because if we get detention for it that night, I won't have Quidditch," said James.
"You guys are so funny," I laughed. "You plan for detentions built into your daily schedule."
They shrugged.
"We've gotten used to them," said Sirius.
"Moony," said James- well, seriously, for lack of better word. "Is it Thursday night?"
Remus nodded.
"What's Thursday night?" I asked.
"Nothing," said Remus quickly.
I opened my mouth to protest, but James, this time, said, "Drop it."
Just then the bell rang.
"You guys can go," James told Sirius, Remus, and Narcissa.
"Need to be left alone, Jamesie?" taunted Sirius.
James chased him to the door.
I quickly put on my scarlet-and-gold-striped tie and buttoned my shirt. James sat on my bed to wait for me.
"You know, Narcissa's a pretty cool chick," he said.
"Mhm... toss me my robes, would you?"
He threw them to me. I quickly put them on and picked up my bag.
"Let's go."
"What's wrong?" he asked. "You aren't still mad at me, are you?"
I linked arms with him and led the way out.
"Lils?" he asked concernedly. "You okay? LILY!"
"Oh- sorry, James, I was thinking," I replied, snapping out of my torpor. "No, I'm not mad at you; yes, I'm okay."
"Okay, you scared me there," he said. "C.O.M.C. next, right?"
"Yes, with the Slytherins," I answered.
"Shit, twice in a day?" groaned James. "If Snape does..."
But I didn't hear a single word he said after that because I had finally formulated my plan to test James's feelings for me.
We walked out onto the grounds towards class.
A/N: I AM SOOOO SORRY THAT I HAVE NOT WRITTEN IN ABOUT 3 MONTHS!!! REALLY!! Here's the scoop: I got my first boyfriend ever and my first kiss and stuff, and I was sooooo preoccupied that I ditched writing for a while. Well, long story, but we broke up (mutually) and now I can write. But, we are getting back together again. Don't ask. But I SWEAR I'LL KEEP WRITING!!! Yes, so pleeeeezzz review and and I'll keep writing!! THANK YOU!!
I threw my robes on my bed, leaving me in skirt and blouse, complete with tie. I ripped of the tie and opened the top few buttons. We had break for half an hour, so I could do that. Starting with my hair, I looked myself down. Narcissa and I would always do this in front of the mirror when we were bored. So. Hair- lovely as always. Red locks gently tumbling down past my shoulders. Lovely wide, emerald eyes, set off with some natural-looking eyeshadow and mascara. Nice curved nose. Luscious lips, if I do say so myself, with light lip gloss. I barely looked down to my breasts (no problem there) when Narcissa walked in, accompanied with James, Sirius, and Lupin.
"Nice password," she smiled.
"Be right out," I called. I looked at my skirt. Right above my knees. WAY too long, in my opinion. A quick charm (my specialty) shortened it a few inches. The teachers wouldn't see; I have robes on the whole day. Finally satisfied, I left my room.
Sirius, James, and Remus had all dogpiled on the big couch, so I sat, nice and ladylike, next to Narcissa.
"Guys, this is Narcissa; you probably know her, the sweetest thing alive," I introduced.
"I beg to differ," said Sirius, raising his hand.
"Oh, Sirius, please," said Narcissa, rolling her eyes. She was too used to Sirius.
"Cissa, this is James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin. You know them, obviously, from classes and stuff. You know, the notorious troublemakers."
"Yup," she said, eyeing the boys hungrily. That is, to say, only James, because Sirius is her cousin, and you know, that would just be wrong. And Remus- well, he isn't overly hott. He's a cutie.
"So what do you all want to do?" I asked.
"Lils, I forgot to tell you, I broke up with Lucius."
"That lasted what? Twelve hours?"
"So you're single," said Remus, now studying Narcissa with more interest.
James elbowed him as if to say, "Could you be any more obvious?"
"But, Cissa, I thought you adored him!" I cried.
The three boys were suddenly all gagging. I fixed them with a steely gaze and they stopped.
"You were wrong, Lils," she shrugged.
"But I'm never wrong!" I protested.
Now the boys started coughing.
I turned to them. "You guys are like doing background music. Shut up! Name one time I was wrong."
"Lils, you're gonna kill me for this one," started Narcissa, "but remember when you swore on everything you owned that you'd never go out with..." She cleared her throat and jerked her head towards James.
"What?!" exclaimed James. "Lil, you suck!"
I turned pink.
"That- was when- we had that fight," I stuttered.
"Yeah right," snorted Sirius.
"You're like my sister, Lil," said James. "You both-"
"What the hell?" I exclaimed. "You have a sister?"
"Er... yeah..." said James. "You didn't know that?"
"Er... no..." I said. "How old is she? What's her name?"
"Her name's Stephanie and she's coming to Hogwarts next year," he explained.
"That is so cool!" I said. "I always thought you were an only child."
"Nope," said James.
"Cissa, did you know this?" I asked.
"No, but oh, wow, he's got a sibling," she said sarcastically.
"It is wow!" I exclaimed. "Oh my god, I've got to meet her. Too bad she's coming next year when we'll be gone...."
Everyone was staring at me like I'd lost my mind.
"Lily, it's just my little sister."
"Okay, fine, I calmed down," I said, placing a hand on my chest.
"You know, we should be thinking up a good prank," said Sirius.
"Yeah, even better than this morning," agreed James.
"Let's see..." sighed Remus.
"Snivellus," said James quietly.
"Yes!" exclaimed Sirius, quickly accepting the suggesting. "Haven't chatted with my old chum in a while."
"We could do another pantsing thing," suggested Remus.
"Nah, we've done that before," said James. "We need something awful, so awful that-"
I cleared my throat. "No Snape," I ordered. "I don't mind your pranks; just not him."
"You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you like him," giggled Narcissa. She fell sideways onto the couch, laughing her head off.
The boys started making gagging noises again.
I took the opportunity to sit on Narcissa.
"Aaah! Lil! Get off me!" she shrieked. "Sorry! I didn't mean it!"
I got off her, but not before I gave her a very hard pinch.
"Sicko," I muttered. "Don't ever say that again."
She sighed, sitting up. "Lesson learned," she said. "Okay, back to the subject. Just do a prank on the Slytherins as a whole."
"Ha, you're a Slytherin, aren't you?" asked James. "Unless you just happen to share a common room with them and go to classes with them on accident."
"Well, just kind of exclude me," she said.
"But what to do..." sighed Sirius. "This might be the first time my ingenious brain has failed me."
"Sirius, do you realize you just insulted yourself, something you'd never do?" asked James.
"I did no such thing!" exclaimed an indignant Sirius.
"Oh yeah?"
"Let us duel, my brave knight! And you shall see that I always win these arguments!"
"Okay, now you're confusing me," said James.
"Exactly my point."
"What?"
"I live to confuse you."
"What are you talking about now? I was just pointing out that you dissed yourself."
"Ah, did I confuse Jamesie-poo now? Prongsies never gets confused! Did I win this argument?"
"No! It's just that- what the hell are you on about?"
"Aha! I won this one! I confused you!"
"Fine, fine. Sirius 12, me 13," admitted James.
"What?" I asked, confused myself.
"We always disagree about something or other," explained Sirius.
"So then we argue our point and confuse the other at the same time," said James.
"Whoever has the most points of confusion at the end of the week wins," finished Sirius.
"Wins what?" I wondered.
"The honor and prestige of being able to confuse someone, obviously," said Remus. "They're gay, I swear."
"Excuse me?" said Sirius, placing a hand to his chest. "I, Sirius Black, convicted of being gay? I think not!"
"We were talking about the prank," said Narcissa. "But before we get to that, we'll clarify that Sirius has not yet got in touch with his sexual feelings, so he does not yet know if he is gay or not, much to our disadvantage, because he's now scaring me. Extremely scaring me. Because if I were not around him I would not be talking like this. Does anyone beside me get the feeling that we all have no lives?"
"I!" we all voted in unison, raising our hands.
"Then we'll all start the Order of the No-Lifers!" exclaimed Sirius. "This is the first official meeting."
We just kind of looked at each other then. It was really funny because I wanted to burst out laughing. We were so weird, really. I mean, is this the weirdest conversation you've ever heard of or what? That's us, though. Any time Sirius is there, you kind of lose your mind.
There was silence for a few seconds.
"We have to DO something!" shouted Sirius. "It's too frickin' quiet!"
"Don't you all just like to think... and meditate... sometimes?" I asked.
"NO!" the Maurauders replied at once, quite in horror at the idea of actually relaxing.
"Lils, I believe 'think' and 'meditate' are both words that are not on Sirius' vocabulary list," said Narcissa.
"Well, let's see," said Sirius. "Do 'think' and 'meditate' mean 'run around' and 'go crazy'? If not, then no, I don't know what they mean."
We all groaned with sympathy for Sirius. He really was confusing himself more than us.
"Jamesie, what do you say about running to Hogsmeade for a few minutes?"
"For one thing, please do NOT call me Jamesie."
"Prongsie?"
"No."
"Love Jay?"
"No."
"How about-"
"Just shut UP!"
"If you say so, hunnybuns."
"Sier!" James bellowed, and he started pummeling Sirius furiously as we watched. Yes, poor Sirius.
"Gentlemen, may I remind you that as older students of this school, you have the responsibility of being respectable examples?" said Remus in a perfect imitation of Professor McGonagall when she encountered the Maurauders goofing off.
Sirius finally slid out from under James and ran for it.
James didn't get up, though. "It's not worth it," he sighed.
"Who calls you Love Jay?" I asked.
"Steph." He rolled his eyes.
"And hunnybuns?" I inquired.
"My mum."
Sirius came back after running around the room a few times and sat between Narcissa and I, safe out of James's reach.
He put his arms around either of our shoulders.
"Hello, ladies," he said in a sexy voice.
Narcissa ducked out of his arm.
"Sier, get a life."
"That makes twice today," he said sadly.
"Twice what?" she asked.
"Twice today someone told me to get a life," mumbled Sirius.
"Yeah, because you don't have one," she said.
Sirius went on muttering to himself, pretending to cry.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked.
"Lily, never try and figure out what Sirius means," advised Remus. "Or what he's doing. It'll give you a headache the size of Great Britain."
Then Sirius said randomly, "Do you ever have to curl up in a ball to go to sleep because the monster under the bed will bite your toes off?"
There was silence for a few seconds, and then we all burst out laughing.
"Sirius- what- is- your- problem?" I choked out between breaths.
All three boys rolled off the couch and on to the ground, still laughing hysterically. Sirius was pounding the ground with his fists.
Then we'd all quiet down. Sirius would open his mouth to say something, and we'd burst out laughing again.
Five minutes later, when we'd finally composed ourselves, I asked, "What made you say that? That was so random!"
Sirius shrugged.
"I've got it!" yelled James quite randomly, though not as Sirius- random.
"What?" I asked, stifling a giggle.
"The perfect prank," he whispered. "Allow me to consult."
So he "consulted" with Sirius and Remus for a few seconds.
They emerged from their little huddle with very wicked smiles on their faces, indeed.
"We have formulated a plan," began Sirius.
"In which we shall ingeniously decorate the Slytherin common room 'Gryffindorly'," continued James.
"Their whole common room and dormitory, all previously green and silver, will be- you guessed it- scarlet and gold," finished Remus proudly.
Narcissa and I stared, open-mouthed.
"It would be awesome-" I started, only to be cut off by Cissa.
"And how would you ever do it?"
"Well, er... we haven't quite fine-tuned the idea yet," admitted James.
"Not to worry, m'dears," said Sirius quickly.
"Yes, a quick hour in the library will fix that," remedied Remus.
"NO! Not the library!" protest Sirius. "It's so scary! You go in there to THINK and LEARN!"
"Imagine that," muttered Cissa. "Sirius, thinking?"
I laughed, as did the others, except for Sirius.
"That's not nice..." he whined in a baby voice. "I think."
"About undressing girls, yeah, you do," quipped Narcissa.
"Bitch," muttered Sirius.
"Bastard," she swore back.
"Whore," he replied. "We always do this at family get-togethers," he explained to me.
"Back to the prank," said James loudly.
"We should go in during lunch hour when they're all at lunch," said Remus wisely. "With the Invisibility Cloak, of course."
"You have an Invisibility Cloak?" asked Cissa incredulously.
"Oops..." Remus grinned sheepishly. "Sorry. Let that slip."
"Don't tell anyone, okay?" asked Sirius. "For your cuz, please?" He batted her eyelashes at her.
Narcissa eyed him with great distaste and replied, "Fine."
"So yes, during lunch," continued James. "And now I actually know just the Transfiguration spell. So we don't need to go to the library, Padfoot."
"THANK you," said Sirius, bowing down to James. "Ugh... the library..." He shivered.
"What day do we do it?" I asked.
"We?" repeated the three boys.
"Yes, we," I said. "Aren't I the newest Maurauder? And now that Cissa knows, you can't just leave her out!"
"Oh, fine," grumbled all three boys.
"Yeah, plus, I know the Slytherin password," complained Narcissa.
"Lily and I do, too," said James. "Remember, we're Head Boy and Girl?"
"Oh yeah, but I'm still going," she decided.
"Okay, okay," agreed the guys.
It was amazing how well-synchronized their words were. They always said the exact same thing at the exact same time. They were truly brothers.
"All right, when do we do it, then?" I repeated.
"Not this week," said Remus. "I'm going to be really tired."
The boys exchanged knowing glances and nodded.
I was going to ask what that was about, but then I didn't.
"Next Tuesday," Sirius decided.
"Yeah, because if we get detention for it that night, I won't have Quidditch," said James.
"You guys are so funny," I laughed. "You plan for detentions built into your daily schedule."
They shrugged.
"We've gotten used to them," said Sirius.
"Moony," said James- well, seriously, for lack of better word. "Is it Thursday night?"
Remus nodded.
"What's Thursday night?" I asked.
"Nothing," said Remus quickly.
I opened my mouth to protest, but James, this time, said, "Drop it."
Just then the bell rang.
"You guys can go," James told Sirius, Remus, and Narcissa.
"Need to be left alone, Jamesie?" taunted Sirius.
James chased him to the door.
I quickly put on my scarlet-and-gold-striped tie and buttoned my shirt. James sat on my bed to wait for me.
"You know, Narcissa's a pretty cool chick," he said.
"Mhm... toss me my robes, would you?"
He threw them to me. I quickly put them on and picked up my bag.
"Let's go."
"What's wrong?" he asked. "You aren't still mad at me, are you?"
I linked arms with him and led the way out.
"Lils?" he asked concernedly. "You okay? LILY!"
"Oh- sorry, James, I was thinking," I replied, snapping out of my torpor. "No, I'm not mad at you; yes, I'm okay."
"Okay, you scared me there," he said. "C.O.M.C. next, right?"
"Yes, with the Slytherins," I answered.
"Shit, twice in a day?" groaned James. "If Snape does..."
But I didn't hear a single word he said after that because I had finally formulated my plan to test James's feelings for me.
We walked out onto the grounds towards class.
A/N: I AM SOOOO SORRY THAT I HAVE NOT WRITTEN IN ABOUT 3 MONTHS!!! REALLY!! Here's the scoop: I got my first boyfriend ever and my first kiss and stuff, and I was sooooo preoccupied that I ditched writing for a while. Well, long story, but we broke up (mutually) and now I can write. But, we are getting back together again. Don't ask. But I SWEAR I'LL KEEP WRITING!!! Yes, so pleeeeezzz review and and I'll keep writing!! THANK YOU!!