Once again, thanks to everyone who reviewed this so far, you're all great people!! And an additional thanks to: Laina and Destiny Lupin, who are subjecting their characters to my fic. J/p!

I know that I've kinda been dragging out this story, but I'm trying not to skip too much right now. Since I want to try and start out in the first year and do every year, though I dunno if that'll be happening.

I think I figured out why I had so much trouble getting out those last few chapters, it seems I'm more creative and whatnot at night, so I'll probably be writing the rest of my chapters at night.

Also, don't be surprised if some random sentences or phrases are thrown in, phrases from Spanish, possibly from French or Italian. It was just a warning, and if I do throw in any "foreign" words, I'll put the English meaning in parenthesis next to it. (You can probably just ignore this, for now anyway, since I probably won't be throwing in any random phrases for a while. so till I decide to do that umm. yea. Lol)

Okay, so enough with my babbling and on with the story.

Disclaimer: You know the drill, having seen it in many other fanfics... nothing belongs to me, except for a few characters and the plot; the rest belongs to JKR, one of the people who reviewed, or a singer/band that I decided to 'borrow' the music from. (Though the music factor will be decided on how brain dead I manage to get while writing this chapter.)

Thorns by Faerielights

Chapter 6: The Night Before

Last Chapter:

Lily stepped into the fire shouting "Lupin Estate!" and her aunt followed with Lily's trunk.

When Lily stepped out of the fire she caught sight of all her new friends and relaxed ever so slightly

"Lily! There was a rush to see who could crush her bones first; the people in this race were Remus, James, and Sirius. Everyone else just laughed as Lily began to exaggerate her need for air by mock gasping.

"Silly Billy Lily boo, guess what we're gunna do? We're gunna play a game, and don't look at me like I'm insane!" Sirius sang somewhat poetically.

When Lily looked at everyone else puzzled, they just shrugged their shoulders, and the only explanation she got was that he had been talking and singing in verse all day.

"Ooh, ooh! Guess what Lily bean! I'm Britney Spears! (A/N: yes, I do know that she wasn't around back then, but humor me) Wanna see me perform?" Sirius half screamed with hyperness. Not waiting for an answer he continued, "Ok, just wait a second, I have to get ready!"

He then ran out of the room and upstairs, leaving Lily to wonder about his sanity. James and Remus just chuckled. When Lily was about to question as to who the person in the room that she had yet to meet was, Sirius ran back into the room dressed in a ridiculous get up.

Sirius was wearing tight, hot pink, glittery bell-bottoms, and a triangle bikini top that was also bright pink and covered in glitter. The top was stuffed with pudding filled balloons for a chest, since he was kind of lacking one. He had on a long blonde wig (the hair reached halfway down his back) and was wearing heavy makeup. The music started up, and everyone cracked up as they heard the first few chords of Boys (A/N: regular version, not the remix). And he had changed around the lyrics and started serenading every female in sight.

He walked onto a make believe stage saying the first few lines to a painting of a fairie, who blushed and hid behind the flower.

For whatever reason, I feel like I've been wanting you all my life. You don't understand, I'm so glad we're at the same place at the same time It's over now

He started to shimmy across the stage, and was singing to a pretty girl with long brown hair and green/blue eyes.

I spotted you dancin', you made all the boys stare Those lips and your green eyes and the sexy hair I said, shake my thing and make the world want you Tell your girls you'll be back, I wanna see what you can do

With this he kicked his heel and turned around doing a "model walk" as his friends had dubbed it.

What would it take for you to just leave with me? Not tryin' to sound conceited but me and you were meant to be I'm a nice guy, You're a sexy girl Let's turn this dance floor into our own little nasty world

With that, Sirius turned so that his back was to everyone and pretended to make out with someone while dancing.

Girls, sometimes a boy just needs one Girls, to love him and to hold Girls, and when a boy is with one Girls, then he's in control

Sirius then decided to switch to the original lyrics and pulled James up onto the make believe stage.

Pulled your boy off the dance floor Screamin' in his hear Must of said something about me, 'cause he's looking over here You looking at me with that sexy attitude But the way your boy's movin' it, it puts me in the mood

James gave Sirius a weird look and tried to walk away from him.

What would it take for you to just leave with me? Not tryin' to sound conceited but me and you were meant to be You're a sexy guy, I'm a nice girl Let's turn this dance floor into our own little nasty world

Sirius turned around and pretended to be making out with someone while dancing (A/N: again). Everyone was laughing at James red face, while he tried to hide.

Boys, sometimes a girl just needs one Boys, to love her and to hold

Aunt Jo walked in on Sirius' performance, and after she had finished laughing she asked "What is going on in here?"

"Well you see Jo, we were having a karaoke night, as a last night of summer sort of thing, and Sirius was dancing to 'Boys' and embarrassing James" Remus started off.

"Wait, you don't have to say anymore, you just explained it all with that one bit," Mr. Lupin cut in, smiling. He had walked in the room in time to hear Remus's explanation.

"We just came out here to see if anyone wanted some dessert. We're having dirt," Jo said. (A/N: dirt is chocolate pudding with Oreo crumbs on the top, it's really good, and even better with gummy worms. Oh great, now I'm making myself hungry, guess I'll go get some food.)

"FOOD!! WHERE?? I WANT FOOD!!!" Sirius hollered, and took off towards the kitchen.

"We better hurry, cuz if we don't Sirius'll eat all the dirt," James darted after Sirius.

"If left by themselves they'll both eat it and we won't get any" Remus said and headed after the other two. Everyone that was left in the room just looked at each other, to the door, back at each other, and then they all took off for the kitchens so that James, Sirius, and Remus wouldn't have the chance to eat all the dirt.

11:00 P.M:

"Okay you guys, you have to go to bed, we'll be getting up early since we have a long ways to travel. (A/N: let's just say that aunt Jo is very punctual, and they live a good hour or two away from the train station.) Plus we want to be early so that we can make a good impression." Aunt Jo said, trying to reason with all the preteens.

After arguing with them as to why they should go to sleep now, it was 11:30. The girls were in one room, and the guys in another, and almost everyone fell asleep by 12:30. The only person that stayed up was Lily. She sat up, worrying and wondering about Hogwarts; after all, she had spent her whole life with a muggle family. What if no one liked her other than her cousin (A/N: I dunno if I ever clarified that Remus was her cousin.) and his friends? What if the only reason that Remus and all them pretended as though they liked her because Remus and Lily were related?

'No sense in worrying about things like that,' Lily thought to herself (A/n: well duh, who else could she be thinking too.) 'We'll just worry about that sort of thing when the time comes.'

After a few more minutes, Lily had dropped off into a restless sleep.

A/N: All right, I've been putting in way to many notes, but I can't help it. Umm I thought about it, and realized that b4 I had said the James and Lily hated each other (or rather annoyed each other a lot) and we'll just say that the hate part comes a little later on, they'll hate each other over something stupid and then, even later in the story, they'll realize that they were dumb to have hated each other over such a stupid reason, and will either become bf/gf (though I doubt it'll go from love to hate so fast.) or friends to bf/gf (which is a lot more likely)

Also, I could really use some ideas for chapters, like pranks for James and lily to pull on each other, ooh I just got an idea for why Lily and James'll become enemies. ::rubs hands together deviously:: Bwah ha ha! Ok, sorry about that. So, anyway, like I was saying before, please send me some ideas for pranks or something, cuz I still need ideas.

I might not update for a while because "Hell Week" is starting up in about 4 days. Oh joy. But you can't hate me cuz it won't be my fault, it'll be my coaches.

And one more thing: REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!! But only if you want to, or if you have ideas for this story, and I will give you credit for anything you give me.