Chapter 6
Lily woke up around noon on Sunday, grateful that she got to sleep in. She was a little annoyed that both her friends hadn't woken her up though.
She looked out her window and saw Remi and Remus walking hand and hand around the front grounds walking slowly. Lily smiled at the couple and smiled even more when she saw Andi sitting with Sirius in the sunlight snuggling close.
Lily's heart sank a little, she felt empty like she needed someone to talk to anyone. Her first choice, which was her best friend, weren't available. Her second choice would have been James but, she saw him at the Quidditch field helping the new players on the Gryffindor team.
She smiled and blew him a kiss from her window. To her surprise he turned in the direction of her and though Lily could hardly see him, she could of sworn he smiled. Like she so often did Lily let a light pink shade take over her pale cheeks.
Lily finally remembered she had Kyle and decided to find him and find out how things have been for him.
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Andi sat in the school grounds with her head resting on Sirius's shoulder. Thinking about how things were going between her and Sirius.
'Now that I think of it, all we seem to do is cuddle. We don't even really talk, I don't like that at all. Nothing lasting is going to come out of this relationship if it stays this way.' Andi thought.
"Sirius, where do we stand?" Andi said lifting her head off his shoulder to look into his eyes.
Sirius gave a confused look a bit taken aback by the question. "Well, what do you mean exactly?" He said shifting uncomfortable.
"Well I mean we've been like this the last month, that is cuddle partners and often snog partners. Am I actually something special or just someone you randomly picked. Pardon me if I'm reading you wrong but I would think if I was a randomly picked person, that you certainly stayed with me for a while. So what exactly is the deal?" Andi said worried that it wasn't smart to talk about this before the ball.
Sirius swallowed hard not expecting this at all. "Wow Andi, I mean I don't know what to say." Sirius said scratching his head roughly.
Andi was hurt she had shared her feelings and that's all he could say to her. "Well maybe you need time to think about it." Andi said harshly giving him a rough shove and stomping back to the castle.
"We'll talk later Andi, bye sweetie!" Sirius yelled to her and she just swatted her hand to show she didn't care.
Sirius laid on the ground letting out a sigh. 'What have I done, what have I done? I don't even know what my feelings are how am I supposed to tell her or even think about them?' Sirius thought dozing off in the middle of the grounds.
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Andi cooled down a little by the time she got to the castle. She went straight for her dorm room looking for her best friend Lily, figuring she would still be sleeping since that was one of her favorite things to do.
She was disappointed to find the dorm empty. So she went back to the common room and headed up the boys staircase thinking Lily might be with Kyle.
Andi did a polite knock on the first years' door but didn't get an answer. She cautiously opened the door until she saw Kyle in the corner tied to a chair with her mouth covered, eyes bulging, and wand a few feet away.
Andi gasped and ran to his side first taking the fabric from his mumbling mouth. "Lily!" Kyle screamed the second the cloth was taken from his mouth. "Over there. Quick!" He said in a scared squeaky voice.
Andi turned about to see Lily lying in the opposite corner motionless. "This can't be happening!" Andi cried running to Lily's side checking for a pulse. "What happened Kyle?"
"That dark haired girl and her friends." Kyle said looking over at his cousin, still tied to the chair.
"Tia!" Andi growled. "She's dead once I get my hands on her…"
"How's Lily?" Kyle said interrupting Andi's threats.
"I'm not sure she's got to get to the hospital wing though fast. When did this happen?" Andi said heading back to Kyle freeing him from the chair.
"Only about ten minutes ago." He said relieved of being freed. "Now lets go!" He shouted startling himself and Andi.
Andi put a charm on Lily so she would float and went as fast as she could with Lily floating by her side to the hospital wing. Kyle arrived seconds later panting for breath.
"Madame Brims!" Andi screamed removing the charm from Lily, settling her on an empty bed.
"You needn't scream so, Miss Adams!" Madame Brims said with authority. "Now what is it?" She said examining Lily's limp body.
"Tia attacked her." Andi said simply but harshly.
"Do you know what curse she used?" Madame Brims asked.
"I wasn't there, Kyle do you remember?" Andi said turning to the skinny boy next to her.
"I don't know. Tia went after Lily and her friends tied me up." Kyle said with a sad look because he didn't have an answer.
Madame Brims studied Lily some more. "Well it appears to be just a stunning spell. She'll be fine and up and ready to leave in an hour or so. You two can go and come back in a half an hour it's a beautiful day I wouldn't want you to miss out on the last warm day of the year." She said offering a sweet smile on her chubby face.
"Go on Kyle." Andi said motioning for him to leave. "I'll tell you when she is up then. I'm going to stay with her if that's alright with you Madame Brims." Andi said looking to the nurse.
"That would be fine dear. I'm sure she'll be happy to wake up with you by her side. And the Headmaster will want to see her then, to see if Lily confirms that it was Tia." Madame Brims said shaking her head in disappointment that this kind of stuff was happening between people in the same house.
Kyle gave Lily's hand a squeeze and waved good-bye to Andi and went to leave. "Oh and Kyle could you please tell Remi and the Marauders?" Andi called to him before he walked out.
He gave a nod and continued on his way to the common room a bit shaken that this happened to Lily.
Andi made herself comfortable in a chair next to Lily brushing some red strands from her face. "Don't worry Lil we'll get her back." Andi whispered.
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Lily woke up an hour later with her right hand being squeezed tightly and her left held limply. She looked to her left to see Andi sleeping soundlessly on a chair by her bedside.
On her right was James who gave her a big smile which she returned. "How are you feeling?" James said softly.
"Fine, just fine." Lily said still confused at how she got there.
"Do you remember what happened Lily?" James asked and she gave a nod. "Was it Tia?" Again Lily gave a nod.
Guilt washed over James. He felt like it was his fault though deep down he knew it wasn't and that Tia was just a nutcase.
"Dumbledore will be here any minute to talk to you about it. Are you going to tell him it was Tia?" James said with concern.
Before Lily could answer Madame Brims came to her side. "Oh good Miss Evans your awake. The headmaster will be here shortly. I'm going to get you something for that headache that should be coming soon." She said with a smile as she scurried off to her supplies.
James looked to Lily waiting for answer. "I don't James, every time I see her she threatens me and every time the threats get worse. If I tell Dumbledore she'll be furious and who knows what she'll do. She's crazy." Lily said with a sigh.
"Dumbledore won't let anything bad happen to you and he won't make it worse. So tell him." James said giving her hand a squeeze.
Lily smiled. "Alright."
James gave her a short hug then prodded Andi awake when Dumbledore came in. As he went to leave with the groggy Andi, Dumbledore called to him. "Mr. Potter could you please send Mr. Evans down. I'm going to need to talk to him also." James gave a nod and half had to drag Andi to the common room.
"Just a second sir." Madame Brims said waddling over to Lily. "That stabbing headache is going to start soon she needs these pills."
Lily took the pills not enjoying the taste very much. Madame Brims went back to her office so Dumbledore could talk to Lily.
"I assume you know why I'm visiting." Dumbledore said and Lily nodded. "Would you mind telling me what happened?"
"Of course not Professor." Lily said organizing the events in her head. "I went to talk to Kyle so I went to his dorm room and we only talked for five minutes, when Tia Marcellus and her little followers came in."
"Ah yes, Miss Marcellus I've noticed a riff between the two of you." Dumbledore said with a nod.
"Well you see Professor, she likes James and we got in a fight over a guy in our fourth year and since then we haven't been friends. James and I are friends so we're usually around each other and we are going to the ball together. So Tia thinks I'm trying to get with James to infuriate her and every time I see her she threatens me to stay away from him. The threats keep getting worse too. First they were just "Stay away from him" and now they are more like "Stay away from him and you'll pay." And now she attacked me. If you punish her at all it'll just make her want to hurt me more." Lily said half relieved to get that out.
Dumbledore furrowed his brow wondering why he hadn't looked into this more. "Miss Evans this is rather serious and I can't let this go unpunished. Miss Marcellus will receive two detentions this week with Filch which I'm sure won't be very enjoyable for her. Fifteen Points from Gryffindor for casting a spell on a fellow student." Dumbledore said giving Lily a smile.
Kyle walked in and Dumbledore motioned for Lily to step outside so he could talk to her younger cousin.
Lily waited in the corridor waiting for her cousin and she started to feel the headache coming on. She was thankful for the pills because if had felt any worse then it did right then, she didn't think she would be able to handle it.
Kyle came out of the hospital wing ten minutes later looking relieved like Lily had. Lily gave him a tight squeeze and they walked together silently to the common room.
When they got there no one was there she gave Kyle a wave and went up to her dorm room.
Lily was surprised to see Andi sleeping. Figuring there was nothing else to do Lily laid down in her bed to take a nap so she didn't have to think about anything.
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Two hours later woke up with Andi sitting on her bedside. "Gosh finally, I saw you awake for a total of one minute today and it's already half past four." Andi said offering a smile.
Lily gave Andi a grin sitting up. "Are you alright, Lil?" Andi said concerned.
"I'm fine." Lily said trying to dismiss the subject. "I heard you were the one who found me and Kyle. Were you looking for me?"
Andi's face sunk remembering why she had gone to Lily. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot."
"Wow this looks bad is it Sirius? Tell me please." Lily said putting her guidance counselor face on.
"Well while you were sleeping or talking to Kyle I was on the grounds just sitting with Sirius." Andi said and Lily gave a nod remembering seeing them. "I started thinking how it seems that all we ever do is cuddle and kiss and that's all it has been for the last month. We're not even going out and we hardly talk. I want what have Remi has, not Remus I mean just someone you can tell everything a feel so special around." Andi let a few tears slide down her face.
"What happened then, did you say something?" Lily said rubbing Andi's back.
"I asked him where we stood and he had a terrified look on his face and he asked me what I meant. I told him that we've been like this for a month and I wanted to know if I was just a snog partner or someone special. Then he told me he didn't know so I stormed off telling him he should think about that." Andi let out a few sobs still keeping control. "The dance is less than one week away and it looks like we aren't talking."
Lily pulled Andi into a light hug. "Andi he probably isn't used to sharing his feelings most guys aren't. Just don't bring it up your words will probably burn in his mind for a while so he will think about it and when he's ready he will tell you how he feels. Until then just try to get more conversations into your relationship, alright?" Lily said in way like she knew, though she had just made it all up.
Andi gave a nod pulling away from Lily's embrace. "Thanks Lil that's what I needed. Lets go get some dinner. I'm sure are always hungry friend, Remi will be there." Andi said causing herself and Lily to giggle.
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After dinner the three girls and the four Marauders piled into the common room all sitting in front of the fire.
"Game time." Remus announced causing the others to looking his direction. "We need to play a game, any ideas?"
"I got one!" Remi shouted apparently proud of herself. "It's like spin the bottle but a little different. What you do is spin the bottle twice and you have to pick one of the two people to kiss on the lips of course. If it lands on a person twice then you have to snog them until the others say you can stop."
The other six nodded agreeing to the game "Lets get started." Peter said. "Do we have a bottle?"
Lily conjured a bottle and handed to Peter who set it in the middle of the circle. "Whose first?" Lily asked somewhat nervous.
"I'll go." Andi said.
She spun it two times and the first time she got Lily and the second she got Remus. "Remi your not going to kill me if I pick your boyfriend will you? I would kiss Lily but that's just a little too weird for me." Andi said with a giggle.
"Go for it, I think I might enjoy seeing this." Remi said giving Remus a wink.
Andi and Remus's lips met in the center of the group and they were both sure that it only lasted a second. Andi was surprised at herself for enjoying the kiss but shook the thought off immediately when Remi started to spin the bottle.
Remi spun the bottle two times and got James and Peter. Remi knew she'd pick James over Peter any day but she knew Lily had a crush on James though she wouldn't admit. So for her friends sake she picked Peter.
Lily was shocked but felt a warmth towards her friend figuring she was the only reason she didn't pick James. "That hurts you know." James said put his hand over his heart looking at Remi.
"Sorry James I always found Peter more attractive." Remi said sarcastically.
Peter didn't catch the sarcasm and was very nervous of the kiss. When he thought no one was looking he checked his breath.
Remus who was sitting next to him gave him a punch "Don't even think about kissing her any longer than I kissed Andi." Remus said harshly only loud enough for Peter to hear.
Remi was on the other side of Remus so her lips and Peter's met right in front of his face infuriating him. He was happy to see Remi wipe her lips off in disgust when she broke away from Peter though.
Sirius had a wide grin on. "My turn!" He said grabbing the bottle giving each of the girls a wink.
Sirius spun it twice and to his horror he got James twice! "NOOOOOO!" James and Sirius screamed in unison.
"This ought to be interesting." Andi said and the others agreed and they let out a laugh at James and Sirius' face.
James was sitting next to Sirius. "This is hell." James said from beside Sirius.
After much delay the two brought their faces closer both looking disgusted. Their lips touched for a quarter of a second and they pulled away making gagging sounds.
"I believe I said if you got someone twice you had to snog." Remi said with a mischievous smile.
James and Sirius gave everyone another look of horror. Again they brought their faces close both looking like they were going to cry any second now. Their lips touched and they made them tight so it looked more like their lips bumped into each other. They looked very much like five year olds giving their first kiss.
After a minute Lily pushed the two apart. "That's enough I'm kind of worried. Towards the end there you two looked like you were actually enjoying it." She said with a giggle.
James shook his head scrubbing his lips on his robes. "That was my shortest snog ever and thank god!" James said giving Sirius a look of disgust.
"I actually enjoyed that, you're a lovely kisser James." Sirius said with wink.
James jumped back bumping into Lily who was on the other side of him. "You better be kidding man, because if you're not your getting a new room." James said putting his hands on Lily's waist and pulling her across him and between him and Sirius.
Sirius started laughing uncontrollable. "James you're a funny kid, you know that? Of course I'm kidding." Sirius said still laughing causing all the others to laugh with him.
"Lily I think you're the only one who hasn't gotten any action so your up." Andi said tossing her the bottle.
"I don't need any action." She said shyly handing it back to Andi.
"Nice try sugar lips but your going." Remi said with a grin.
Lily took the bottle back from Andi and spun it twice. She got Sirius twice.
Sirius gave an excited grin. "This snog should be a lot better." He said rubbing his hands together and licking his lips.
Lily gave Andi a look that said sorry. Andi just giggled and motioned her to go on. Since James had moved her Lily was already next to Sirius. She puckered her lips and Sirius gave her a grin.
"Shall we make this interesting?" He said raising an eyebrow.
Lily blushed and unpuckered. "Not too interesting."
Sirius just laughed moving in closer to her. Again Lily puckered her lips and their lips met. As the kiss went on James and Andi both wanted to shout stop but they didn't want the others to think they were jealous so they decided to wait for one of the other three to say something.
The kiss went on for five minutes and Sirius was deepening the kiss and Lily went along with it. There wasn't any tongue but very close to it.
James couldn't take it anymore he was enraged at his friend. "Stop!" James shouted pulling Lily back by the robes when Sirius didn't stop right away.
They all looked at James a bit frightened of the tone he had. Lily was totally embarrassed she hadn't meant to kiss Sirius like that. In her mind she was picturing Sirius being James but she figured James would be an even better kisser.
"This game is over." James said with an angry look on his face.
Remi, Andi, Peter, and Remus all ran to their rooms. The other three stood up and Lily looked James in the eyes trying to say sorry.
"Lily leave, I need to talk to Sirius." James said in an unforgiving voice.
"James I'm sorry, it was just a game, it meant nothing." Lily said pleadingly.
"We'll talk later!" James shouted.
Tears fell down Lily's cheek. "Why are you yelling?"
James heart clenched at the sight of her crying. "I'm sorry Lily I'm not mad at you." James said pulling Lily into a tight hug which she enjoyed ten times more than her kiss with Sirius.
Lily pulled away and said goodnight to the two and ran to her room to join Andi and Remi.
"Now I have you to deal with." James said angrily pointing at Sirius.
"If I kiss you again will you be happy?" Sirius said trying to get James to lighten up.
James face became darker. "Not funny Sirius. You know I'm crazy about her and you dug into that kiss like you owned her."
Sirius waved a hand. "It was just a game the kiss meant nothing to me and it meant nothing to Lily. Your overreacting." Sirius said patting James on the back.
"It better of meant nothing to you and if it meant something to Lily I'll kill you." James growled.
"Hey you could of stopped us, you waited five minutes." Sirius said trying to make a point.
"I didn't want to look jealous." James said still angry.
"Well don't worry you didn't look anything like you were jealous when you screamed stop." Sirius said sarcastically.
"Whatever just shut up. Don't let anything like this happen again, alright?" James said his face no longer contorted with anger.
Sirius let out a laugh. "Don't worry it won't. Lets go get Remus and Peter and get a snack I'm starving!"
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A/N: I really liked this chapter I don't know why I just did. I know I said this chapter would be about the ball and that you would meet Eva more but I got ideas and they ended up turning into a chapter. So next chapter as long as I don't get anymore ideas it will be about the ball and we'll meet Peter's girl, Eva Kemp. Suggest and REVIEW!!
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