Chapter 11
The next morning Cassidy had to shake Lily awake. "Woman, do you ever wake yourself up in the morning?!"
"No," Lily grumbled rolling back over.
"LILY MARIE EVANS!!! GET YOUR BUTT OUT OF BED!!!"
Lily turned back to face her friend, "Geez, Petunia!" Lily sneered, "I thought I'd just gotten away from that prune!"
Cassidy stuck her tongue out at Lily, and in return Lily started a pillow fight.
After five minutes of Lily and Cassidy beating each other senseless with pillows Gabriella finally got them to stop.
"Look," Gabby said separating the two girls. "Let Lily take a shower and we'll wait downstairs in the Common Room for her, Okay?"
Cassidy and Alice both nodded, but Lily said, "No, you guys don't have to wait for me. I'll just meet you in the Great Hall for Breakfast, okay? I just have to get ready, and that's all.
"Are you sure you don't want us to wait?" Alice asked her not sure that this was a good idea, they couldn't just let Lily walk down to breakfast all by herself.
"Positive, now go!" Lily ushered them out, got her clothes for the day, and walked to the girls' lavatory.
The Marauders' were sitting in their usual place in the Common Room, planning on what they were going to do on the next Hogsmede trip, that was this upcoming Saturday.
"Moony, what are you going to be doing?" Sirius asked.
"It's a full moon, Padfoot." Remus sighed sadly.
"Oh," Sirius's voice faded. "Sorry, I forgot."
"Glad someone did," Remus said with half a chuckle.
"We still doing the usual during the night, right?" Sirius asked talking in a Spy kind of way.
"Right," Peter and James spoke up which made Remus smile. It was great to have such good friends that cared about you, and would do anything for you.
"So, Moony we'll be at…" Sirius looked around for ease-droppers, as did the other three boys, "…'the house.' Peter, and what are you going to do on our next Hogsmede trip?"
"Hogsmede date with Amy." Peter blushed, "We've been together three months now."
"Yuck!" Sirius said making Peter turn very red. "Why would you want to stay with a girl for three months straight? Get what you want out of her and ditch her…but maybe you haven't gotten it yet? I'll never be with a girl for a long time, nope I'll always be a bachelor!" Remus and James laughed at the obscenity of Sirius.
"Okay now Jamey…and where will you be, and with who?"
"Hogsmede, and I'm guessing with you, dear old Padfoot."
"YAY!" Sirius squealed like a first year girl.
"That's revolting," Came Cassidy O'Brian's voice coming behind Sirius, to which he had his back turned to her. "Just what I love to hear in the morning, Black squealing like a little girl." Said Cassidy, dripping with sarcasm.
Sirius's eyebrows went up and he turned around to see the cute curly-headed blonde. "Hello lovely!" He practically howled…like a dog.
"Keep your collar on," Cassidy said her blue eyes sparkling.
"O'Brian?"
"That's my name," She said seductively toying with him.
"How's about you and me go together on the Hogsmede trip this weekend?"
"PADFOOT!" James wined, "YOUR SUPPOSE TO GO WITH ME!"
"Keep your pants on James," Cassie giggled with triumph. "I wouldn't go on a date with Black." She smiled letting her eyes and teeth glisten.
"Sleep with already, and get the sexual tension over with," Peter spoke up.
"HOW DARE YOU, YOU NASTY FILTHY RAT!" Cassie shrieked and slapped Peter across the face.
"How right you are Cassie, my dear!" Sirius yelled.
"It's not like you're a virgin," Peter said holding his now red right cheek.
Cassidy slapped him again, but this time on the left cheek. "Yes I am! More than I can say for Amy Hathaway! Everyone knows that anyone who is desperate would touch her!" She shrieked at him, and then turned back to calm as she turned to her friends. "Come on girls, I'm not going to take this!" She stormed out.
"Where's Lily?" James asked grabbing Alice's arm.
"Still upstairs, getting ready for school, because she woke up late this morning." Alice said, before following Gabriella and a very hurt Cassie.
"Damn Wormtail," Sirius began to chuckle. "You're a real ladies man, aren't you? Is this how you've kept Amy for so long?" Sirius burst into laughter, once again.
"Stuff it," Peter snarled and walked to the portrait hole to go to breakfast, also.
"Well, I guess it's breakfast time." Sirius said rubbing his hands together. "Ready Moony and Prongs?" Remus and Sirius were walking towards the portrait hole, when Sirius realized that James still hadn't gotten up from the Love Seat he'd been sitting at. "Prongsie? Breakfast…come on." He said trying to pull his best friend up
"I'm waiting on Lily, she's still upstairs getting ready."
"Who told you that load of crap?"
"Alice."
"Oh…Prongs," Sirius started to whine. "She's a lost case, she doesn't like you…when will you give up? Come eat breakfast with us! She hates your guts, mate."
"She's not a lost case, and I'm not giving up." James was getting mad. "Did it look like she hated me last night?"
"Well…no…but not even a week ago she did."
"You weren't there with us this weekend, you don't know…"
"Alright James," Sirius sighed. "You let yourself get heartbroken, but don't be mad at me when I say, 'I told you so.'" Sirius got up and left to go to the Great Hall with Remus.
Five…ten…fifteen…and then twenty minutes had flown by and Lily still wasn't down. James began to nod off….
Finally, after James had been waiting for an hour Lily came down to see James, the only other person in the Common Room. She tapped him until he come awake, "James?"
"Um? Oh, hi Lily." James said waking up very sleepy.
"W…what are you doing still up here, when breakfast has only thirty minutes left? I thought all of the Marauder's were at breakfast as soon as it starts." She asked wondering if he was sick.
"Yeah, we usually do. But I was waiting for you, I didn't want you to go to breakfast by yourself and Malfoy's gang to mess with you, like they always do because your Muggle-Born." He stood up slowly, and his eyes immediately dashed to her eyes.
"Thank you, that's very sweet." She whispered as their lips got closer and closer…
"PRONGSIE!" Sirius yelled skipping into the Common Room, and saw Lily and James pull back from one another again like the night before. "Ooops! I did it again…" Sirius giggled.
"What do you need, Padfoot?" James almost growled. Now twice in the two days, Sirius had ruined the mood and a kiss that James had wanting so badly.
"Seeing what was taking Evans and you, but now I know…a SNOG fest!" He began to giggle again.
"We weren't snogging," Lily said turning the same color as her hair.
"You come in before we could, for the second time you did.." James said snarled. "And do you know that every time you giggle you sound like Sarah!"
"Potter Anger!" Sirius yelled beginning to laugh again, "Come on. The real reason I came up here is that Dumbledore has a big announcement, so I came to get the two of you."
When the three fifth year Gryffindor's got in the Great Hall; and Lily and James were almost done eating, Dumbledore stood up to give him important news.
"The Head Boy and Girl want to throw an End-Of-Term-Dance!" The Fourth Years and higher began to cheer, the younger kids groaned. "But, for you younger students, there will be games in your Common Rooms for you to do. It will take place this Saturday, yes the same day as your Hogsmede trip. We will make the Hogsmede trip two days, Friday and Saturday, so you can all get your Dress Robes. Third and Fourth years need to be back at the castle at six pm, Fifth years at nine, Sixth years at ten, and Seventh years at eleven. The dance will be for Fourth years and up, but older students may invite younger students as their dates. The theme is the Medieval Age. Prefect meeting tonight at 5pm, and Friday and Saturday morning at 10 am. You may all go to your classes now. You'll get your test results the next two days. Fifth years and up will have meeting times to talk to your Head of House, on the job that you want to go into after you leave Hogwarts. The End-Of-Term Feast will be held on Sunday night, and you will all leave Monday Morning for King's Cross Station at 11 am. Dismissed!"
By the end of the day the fifth year Gryffindors had found out about half of their O.W.L. scores. Today they had gone to Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, and then one of their elective class.
The Marauder's didn't do badly…well except for Peter.
James got:
O - Transfiguration
O -Potions
EE - Herbology
O - Arthimacy
Sirius got:
EE - Transfiguration
EE - Potions
O - Herbology
E - Divination
Remus got:
EE - Transfiguration
O - Potions
O - Herbology
E - Arthimacy
But, Peter got:
A - Transfiguration
A - Potions
E- Herbology
A - Divination
Then the girls didn't do badly at all:
Gabriella got:
E - Transfiguration
EE - Potions
O - Herbology
E - Divination
Alice got:
E - Transfiguration
A - Potions
E - Herbology
A - Divination
Cassidy got:
EE - Transfiguration
O - Potions
EE - Herbology
A - Arthimacy
And then Lily got:
O - Transfiguration
E - Potions
O - Herbology
O -Arthimacy
The four girls' were in the Common Room on their usual love seat, that the Marauder's loved to steal the arm chairs, so that they could be close to the girls and bug them. But, mostly so James could bug Lily into asking her for the umpteenth time out.
"7?" Came Cassidy's voice from James's usual chair.
"Yeah, Cass?" Lily asked still reading a bug written by a muggle writer, Gone With The Wind.
"It's ten minutes to five, you better get to your prefect meeting."
"Yeah, I know. I'm waiting on Remus," Lily closed her book and began to look around. "Have you seen him?"
"No."
Three of the four Marauder's walked in: Sirius, Remus, and James. Remus looked really sick.
"We got a prefect meeting, Remus. In ten minutes."
"Yeah, I know let's go."
"Moony?" Sirius asked sounding not like himself, but worried for once…is what the girls thought. "What about…tonight?"
"I'll be alright, I leave tonight."
"Oh, what's wrong Remus?" Lily asked worried about her friend. She never liked the Marauder's except Remus, he was always so sweet and kind. But, now Lily wasn't sure where things were going with James….
"Oh, my mum is sick."
"Still?"
"Yeah, they say she might die here soon." Remus said lying, feeling horrible about it. "That's why Dumbledore let's me go see her once a month. I can't wait to be with her this whole summer."
"I'm so sorry," Lily said hugging Remus tightly, and made James clinch his fist. Sirius had to hit James in the side and bring James back to reality. Remus and Lily were just really good friends, besides the whole school knew that he was in love with Gabriella. Well, everyone except Gabriella.
"Lily, it's okay. Hey, she might be getting better…haven't seen her in a month, you know?"
"Yeah, ready?" Lily asked trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, let's go."
"Lily, wait!" James said running up to her, he wanted to ask her to the dance right now.
"James, can it wait. Remus and I need to go or we're going to be late."
"No, it can't."
"I'm sorry, James but it's going to have to." Lily said grabbing Remus by the arm and tugging him with her to the Prefect meeting.
James was in a sour mood, he flopped down where Lily had been sitting, since Cassie was in his seat. Sirius sat on the floor by Cassidy, which made her roll her eyes.
"Hey, you guys…where's Peter?"
Sirius began to chuckle, and Cassidy was really wondering if she should of asked. "Probably snogging his ugly girlfriend….as you put it this morning."
Cassidy hit him upside the head with the enormous book that Lily had been reading and set on the table. "OW! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!"
"Did you have to bring that up? I was going to apologize."
"Why?" Sirius asked turning towards her, as she set Lily's book back down on the table. "Why would you apologize, he was the prat? You have the right to be mad at him."
"Hmm…"
Gabriella and Alice got up and left the Common Room, so Sirius took their place.
"Where are they going?"
"Where else?" Cassidy answered Sirius's question. "Only to go snog with Frank and Ludo."
"Ah…their going to the dance with them correct?"
"Who else would they go with?"
"Don't know," Sirius shrugged his shoulders. "Just making small talk."
"Your not very good at it." Cassidy snickered.
"Yeah, I know…." Sirius got quiet and Cassidy was still staring into the fire, fidgeting with her hands. "Um, Cass?" Cassidy turned to him to let him know that she was listening. "Who are you going to the dance with?"
"Don't know, no one has asked me….why?"
"You want to go with me?"
Cassidy gave him death glares, "What are you up to?"
"Nothing." He said honestly, and James knew that this was going to be hard, Cassidy always thought that something bad was going to happen to her.
"Yeah, right. Sirius Black, I will not be in the middle of one of your silly pranks," she warned him.
"I wasn't planning on making you one of my pranks. We're doing pranks on Malfoy's gang, and Snivellus." Sirius smiled.
"So I don't have to worry about, being embarrassed?"
"Nope, I only want you to go with me, because I'd like a pretty lady to go with me. And, your fun, and make me laugh."
"I'm not going to sleep with you Sirius."
"I know that Cass, I don't expect you to. I just want your company…besides James doesn't want to go stag with me…he wants to ask someone."
"Oooh!" Cassidy wanted to know now. "Who?"
"None of your business," James said rudely.
"Wow, what's up your britches?" Cassidy said offended by him.
"He wants to ask, Lily." Sirius said with a lot of emphasis on Lily.
"Padfoot," James was mad. "You said you'd tell NO ONE, until I was able to talk to her."
"Sorry, but this is her best friend. She won't say anything, will you?"
"No, I won't. She'll say yes James, she really likes you…opposed to a week ago. You helped her out in a time of need, and she'll never forget that."
James smiled, "Okay, maybe it wasn't a bad idea to tell Cassidy. I was going to ask her before she left for that meeting and anyone else got the chance to."
"It'll be okay, James. You can ask her when she gets back."
"Yeah," James said starting to stare into no where again.
"So, Cassidy, will you go with me to the dance?"
Cassidy started at him for a few minutes, "Sure." She smiled. "On one condition."
"Sure, shoot."
"I get to pick out your costume, because I don't trust you."
"Only if I get to pick out yours." Sirius said getting an evil glint in his eyes.
"No, I pick out yours and mine…or I don't go with you."
"Fine, but I get to help."
"Sure, why not?" Cassidy laughed, and walked up to her room.
"Where you going?"
"Shower."
The prefect meeting was really boring for Lily, and she wished she had her book with her. Remus looked really sick, but he said he only had a case of his allergies…Lily could relate. But he should go see Madam Pomfrey, she always made Lily feel better. Since Remus was leaving tonight to go see his mum for a few days, Lily had to get extra supplies. She didn't mind, because Cassie and her could do it.
Lily wasn't to thrilled about this dance. She wouldn't have a date, Cassidy and her would probably go together, again like they did at the Christmas dance last year. Lily had to get some butterbeer and some food for the ball, since Remus wouldn't be here.
She wasn't very keen into seeing Paris and Heather dress even more like tramps than usual, and seeing James and Sirius snog whoever they decided to bring as their dates….that was always so gross.
It seemed Lily's hounding on Remus worked, because she asked him why he wasn't going with her to the Common Room, and he said that he was going see Madam Pomfrey. Lily began walking and ran into someone.
"Sorry," she said bending down picking up her notes.
"No, it's my fault Lily." Lily looked up to who the voice was.
"Amos," she said smiling to be nice. "What are you doing out her…your not a prefect?"
"I came to find you, actually. I noticed you weren't in the Common Room, and then I heard Cassidy, Sirius, and James talking and they were talking about you and Remus at the prefect meeting."
"Yeah, I would be here…because I am prefect." Lily said stating the obvious. She'd always wondered how Amos Diggory had gotten into Gryffindor, because he a little dim witted…and she's always wondered why he hadn't been put in Hufflepuff.
"Well, I was trying to find you because I have a question for you…" he smiled.
"Okay, shoot."
When Lily got back to the Common Room, she noticed that Cassidy and Sirius weren't there with him…and he was reading her book. She figured Gabby and Alice were somewhere snogging Ludo and Frank. Peter was probably somewhere with Amy. Lily went and sat down in the closest seat on her favorite love seat. "Like my book?"
He looked up and smiled, "Yeah, it's really good. Don't worry I didn't lose your place."
"It's okay."
"Do you think I could borrow it when your done, Lily?"
"Sure," she smiled. "Where's Sirius and Cassidy?"
"Cassidy went to take a shower and Sirius went to go set up for our next prank on the Slytherins."
"Why did you let him go?!" She asked looking worried, "He could get caught and get in trouble."
"Don't worry," he chuckled. "He's got my cloak and the map."
"Oh, okay." She sighed and he closed her book and handed it back to her.
"It's a really nice book."
"Yeah it is."
They sat in silence for a while….
"Lils?" She looked up from her book.
"Yeah, James?"
"Will you go to the dance with me?" He asked hoping she would say yes. Her face got soft and she looked sad, "You don't have to if you don't want to."
"No, James…it's not that."
"Then what is it Lily?"
"On my way back from the prefect meeting, Amos found me and asked me to the dance. I figured I wouldn't have a date…so I said yes to him. I'm so sorry, if I'd have known you were going to ask me I would of said no and said yes to you. What did you need with me earlier?"
"I was going to ask you to go to the dance with me."
