Sweet Misery

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The summer holidays were as eventful as they normally were in the beginning; meaning not much was being done. Lauren sat out in her backyard playing a game of Exploding Snap with Loni as the breeze occasionally blew the cards around.

'A storm's coming,' said Lauren as Loni grabbed at some flyaway cards.

'Well, it's nice to know your seer powers are good for something,' said Loni packing up the cards.

'If only I used them for meteorology,' Lauren replied. 'You can smell the rain in the air.'

'Well, why can't you use your powers for frivolous things?' inquired Loni as the two of them walked inside.

'It's only amazing for large things like who you'll end up with in the end,' said Lauren.

'Post's here.' Loni flipped through the letters and threw one at Lauren. Lauren smiled when she saw it was from Lily. She flipped it over and tore the envelope open. Lauren pulled out the letter and began to read it.

Laur!

Hey, how's your summer going? Dull yes? Well, what are your plans for July 1st? You better have none. If you do, blow them off, you are coming here for a wonderful party for Remus's and my 15th birthday. We had no part in planning this. Our parents that it'd be a good idea, meaning it's not going to be too great. Anyway, I hope you can come. Oh yeah, wear muggle clothes. I invited some of my muggle friends, so they might find it odd if you show up in robes and whatnot. Anyway, July 1st starting at one. How late it'll go, I don't know.

Now that that's out of the way, how are you? I've been doing fine. It's been a more tolerable summer since Petunia spends most of her time away from the house. I'm sure you and Loni are having a fabulous time together. That is, if you two haven't been at each other's throats all summer.

Owl me back saying if you can come or not. Please come!

Lils

As Lauren finished Lily's letter Loni tossed her another letter, hitting her forehead. The envelope fell into her hands. She set down Lily's letter and opened to one she had just received, throwing the empty envelope at Loni, who dodged it.

Ren-Ren!

How's my insane little seer? Miserable, I'm hoping. Have you gotten the invite to Lil's and Remo's fifteenth? If you haven't I shouldn't've said anything. Anywho, I was thinking you and I could scare the nice little muggles that Lil's friends with. You up for it? It'll be fun, honest! Well if I don't hear back from you, I'll know you hate me forever and will be plotting my death in hopes of getting money.

Tah darling!

Siri

Lauren grinned. Of course she'd join him in scaring the muggles. Besides pulling pranks, it was one of her favorite things to do. Lauren walked past Loni and upstairs. She pulled a piece of parchment from her desk drawer and wrote replies to Sirius and Lily. Once finishing her letters, she looked down the corridor towards the stairs and didn't see Loni coming. With the letters in her hands, Lauren crept quietly into Loni's room. Loni's owl, Cloud, hooted as Lauren closed the door behind her. Lauren pressed her finger to her lips and walked over to Cloud.

'Cloud, being the fantastic messenger you are, would you do me the great honor of delivering these letters?' Lauren asked. Cloud hooted with delight and gladly stuck out his leg. 'I knew you were a great owl. Take them to Lily Evans and Sirius Black.' Lauren stroked Clouds feathers and opened the window letting Cloud fly out. Lauren turned to leave Loni's room when she saw Loni standing in the doorway.

'Can't you get your own owl?' Loni inquired.

'No, no I can't,' replied Lauren. 'I am very incapable of owning an owl, so says the Department for the Protection of Flying Creatures from Lauren.'

'You just don't want to spend any of your money,' retorted Loni.

'What gave you that idea? I love spending my money. The fact that I'm not allowed in the Owl Emporium is a good reason to why I don't have an owl.'

'I'll buy you one then.'

'Oh you'll use your money to buy me an owl? You are so sweet!' Lauren patted Loni on the head and started out the door.

'With money you provide!'

'Oh, then I don't want one.' Lauren grinned widely at Loni and left.

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Sirius was sitting in he room back at the Black Estate (near the end of the school year, Mrs. Black had sent a letter saying that she had forgiven Sirius for the stunt he pulled at the funeral and was willing to take him back in) plotting his next attack on his cousins. He watched as his owl, Oz, flew around the ceiling of his room trying the derive inspiration from him. Oz stopped his circles and glided down to the window where a golden owl with a few feathers sticking out of the top of his head. Sirius hopped off his bed and opened the window taking the letter from the owl before it flew off after many annoyed clicks from Oz. Sirius ripped the envelope open and patted Oz on the head as he shook opened the letter.

Siri

Yeah, I got the invite. So what do you have planned for Lily's poor little friends? I have a few ideas myself but I want to see what yours are first so I can laugh at you when mine are ten times better. Gimme a call (A/n: I use call in the fireplace sense.) and we can discuss this. Oh yeah, I hope Cloud didn't hurt your weak little owl. Loni's owl can be quite ruthless when it comes to getting attention. If Cloud hurt Oz, I'm semi sorry. But since it's not my owl I cannot be held liable for any of his actions.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,

The Management

'Well, better call her then,' said Sirius, shoving the letter into his pocket and walking out of his room towards the nearest fireplace.

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A/n: Sorry for such a short chapter! Gomen nasai! :: bows repeatedly:: I kept writing myself into corners. "Tori's friend who believes she's Ganon from the Zelda video games: Ganon has no need for corners." Quiet you. I know this chapter is nowhere near an acceptable length— "Tori's friend: Ganon has no need for acceptable lengths." I'm going to kill you with my cell phone. "Tori's Friend: Link does not have a cell phone." I shall defeat you with Gatorade and cheap jokes! Ahem… Anywho, in hopes of making up for this horrible lack of chapter, I'll include a bit of a new story that I'm working on along with SM. At the moment, it's untitled and I'm nearly finished with the first chapter. Here you go:

He was what you could call an outcast. He spent his time with his small group of friends who were just about as socially shunned as he was. But this never mattered to them; they were quite content with where they stood in the school's society. They never felt as if they had to please or show off to anyone. They could pull pranks as much as they wanted and lose however many points for Gryffindor without even caring what the other Gryffindors thought; this is exactly what they did. This lack of interest in their house's points is exactly why in their first year at Hogwarts they were labeled as troublemakers and ignored by the higher ranked students. Over the years, he and his friends continued down this chosen path and caused nothing but problems for Gryffindor. Their main targets were the Slytherins, but pranking the same people repeatedly tends to make you lose interest. They then turned their attention to the "social elite" as they called them. This sparked a new hatred from the "social elite" towards the Marauders.

On the other side of the spectrum, was her place. She was one of the most popular girls in the school. She had it all; friends, her choice of nearly any guy in school, beauty, and intelligence. Of course, she found her life just about perfect, not wanting to change a thing. She never would associate with the Marauders. She even refused all family ties to her brother, who was one of them. The only time she or any of her friends would acknowledge their existence was to laugh at them when they were caught before finishing a prank or if they did anything embarrassing. Other than that, she would ignore them all together.

But not all perspectives of another person stay the same. They say opposites attract. Could it possibly be true for the two of them?

Well, what do you think? The first chapter's nearly complete. Do you want me to post that and work on that and SM or should I hold off on that one till SM is complete? BTW: I'm not telling you the main characters, so you can either guess or wait till it's posted. Yay, unpopular marauders! Chicks dig socially inept guys. Oh yeah, before I forget, this is going to be a long summer. Probably three or four chapters, which is long for my summer chapters.

Oh, does anyone have a nice list of songs that were popular in Britain during the seventies? I kinda need some for later chapters, maybe. Anywho, I'm in kinda a foul mood because my wonderful POS PC thought it'd be fun to delete my entire collection of J-pop. Now I have to d/l all 120+ songs again -_-""""

Well, Tah for now, sorry again for such a short chapter, I might decide to redo this chapter later on.

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