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Chapter 5: In Search of Success

Lily swished the portrait to the side and heard it mumbling in its sleep. After all, it was only 8:34 and she was already fast asleep. But instead of walking to where she might have found James, she scurried to the Gryffindor common room to summon her friends.

"Password?" sung the Fat Lady.

"Um… Exploding Snap!" exclaimed Lily.

Lily started walking towards the girls' dormitory but she had already found Ashley and Jasmine at the foot of the staircase.

"Lily!" said Jasmine.

"Whatcha doing here?" said Ashley with a startled look.

"I'm here looking for you two, obviously. What else?" Lily said coolly.

"I dunno. Because you're a Head Girl, maybe you're trying to put us in detention, take points off, look for your boyfriend." Jasmine giggled at the statement Ashley made.

"Have you forgotten who I am? Hello? I'm Lily, your best friend!" Lily kidded. "Anyways, I'm here to hang out with you two. It's so boring in my room and I'm all by myself," she said trying to not mention the disappearance of James.

"All by yourself? I thought James was with you. Where's he gone to? How come he's not with you?" questioned Jasmine.

"Ehrgg… I hate it when you ask all these questions at a time," groaned Lily. "I'm not sure where he went. That's part of the reason why I came here."

"So you want us to help you look for him?" Jasmine asked.

"I guess… if you two will come with me," stated Lily.

"Oohhh. Our Lils is looking for her boyfriend," joked Ashley.

"He's not my boyfriend! I just don't want him causing trouble again, after what happened to Snape during dinner," Lily panicked.

"Riiggght," Jasmine and Ashley both rolled their eyes as they said this. "Anyways, let's go!"

Meanwhile….

"Cummon Wormtail. Stop lacking behind us," James told Peter while Sirius, Remus, and James were under the invisibility cloak.

"I'm trying!" squeaked the fat Peter "You three are moving too fast! I can't keep up!"

"Do you know how slow we're walking? We could go slower if you like, but if we do we'll probably die of our slowness," Sirius, for his first time, modestly said. Peter Pettigrew felt offended by this statement.

"We're almost there anyways, so there's no need to panic," Remus looked at the Marauder's Map.

As James watched the map, he found Snape, or Snivellus, on the second floor, Malfoy standing around Snape, Professor McGonagall in her office, Dumbledore roaming around the corridors in the third floor, Hagrid in his hut next to the Forbidden Forest, and Lily, Ashley, and Jasmine walking towards the kitchen.

"Wait, Hogwart's kitchen, that's where we're headed for," James thought and halted.

"What?" Sirius asked with a confused face.

Remus stared at the map and confirmed "Ah. I see now. James's crush is coming to tear him apart"

"I'd love to see that act! When does it start?" Sirius jumped excitedly.

"Really Padfoot, you don't want to see me get shattered into pieces by a girl do you?" James flustered falsely.

At this moment, Peter finally arrived after falling "miles" behind them. "Boy, you guys walk fast. I could hardly catch up to you. You should seriously run in a marathon."

Sirius said uncertainly "Okaaay."

"We've gotta get going. They're almost here! Quick Wormtail, get under the cloak," James said blurrily.

Wormtail walked so slowly that Moony had to drag him to get under the cloak. While they walked under the cloak and dragged Wormtail, the four met up with the three girls. Slowly, they crept beside them, trying not to make a noise. Suddenly, Wormtail squeaked of fright.

"What was that?" remarked Lily. Lily looked behind herself and found a plump old rat on the ground. What she didn't know was that the rat was Peter as an Animagus. Lily gave out a shriek but quickly ignored it. She and her friends were getting close to the kitchen. Finally, Jasmine took the honors of opening the kitchen door. In there, there were pots banging, food cooking, and house elves working.

"Would you like some food, miss?" an elf said startling Ashley.

"No problem!" Ashley grinned.

Instead of finding them remains of James, they found the glory of food within them.

Later…

Back at the Gryffindor common room, Ashley set out the plates of food they had received.

"You know, you were right about having to look for James in the kitchen," Jasmine said. "I mean, look how much food we've got! This could last a week! We need to do this more often."

"Jaz, we don't want to be like those cupid headed four," said Lily.

"Whatever."

As they finished up the food, Lily went to check in the boys' dormitory while the other two got to bed. Ashley was a Gryffindor prefect and called everyone to get to sleep, including herself and Jasmine.

When Lily arrived at the dormitory, she found three of the boys in their bed. Lily quickly dashed out the Gryffindor room to the Head Girl and Head Boy dormitory.

"The password's Leafgreen, now puh-leeaase open up," Lily said with a tired expression.

"Very well, very well," the portrait replied. "Why are you up this late? Waking me up is a disaster you know. Now I have to go to sleep again. I hate it when I'm woken up, people to it every year. You kids just don't understand…"

While the portrait kept blabbering, Lily went in and saw James fast asleep on the floor. She went to his room to get him a sheet to cover him up. After all, it was an abnormally cold night. As she spread the sheet on him, James woke up.

"Hey Lily flower! Watcha doing so late at night?" James said dreamily.

"Nothing of your business," she mumbled. "G'NIGHT!" Lily grouched.

As she lay on her bed, her eyes started closing and she dreamed about James chasing her throughout the school. She just couldn't seem to get up and run. She tried to pick up her feet, but they were way too heavy and she started moaning. Soon, daylight came and shined throughout the Heads' dormitory. Lily opened her eyes and the first thing she saw that day were a pair of gleaming hazel eyes with glasses staring at her.

A/n: So how'd you like the chapter? I know, it's kind of short. I haven't updated for a very, very long time so my writing style might have changed to be better or worse. Thanks to my reviewers for my last chapter! Reviews are always welcome now:) By the way, I changed my Pen Name. It used to be "carebearjaniney", but I changed it to "kiwijuicepanda." Cute name huh? I'll try to update sooner!