Chapter 4- The Bumping Begins

Lily woke up with a huge bang from the Common Room. She went down to see waves of smoke from dungbombs fill the Common Room and started to look for Alexa and Gary (Gary has an unknown gender… you'll find out in the last chapter though) when she bumped into a most unwelcome person.

"Get out of the way Potter…" she said angrily.

"I just wanted to greet you a most Happy first Bumpaday!" said James cheerily.

"A what?"

"Remus kindly explain to the young lass…" James requested. Remus held out a piece of parchment and read it aloud.

"According to the Bet made specifically at October 1 the official Bumping is to start today so therefore making this mornings bump the first bump of the bet…" Then James started to pretend to cry in Sirius' shoulder and Peter was clapping solemnly.

"I never thought we would reach this far Lilykins…" James pretended to wipe an invisible tear. Then everything clunked into Lily's head. James had clearly set the dungbombs just to bump into her.

"You did this just to win the bet?" Lily bellowed.

"Yep… aren't I sweet?" James said innocently.

"You consider trashing the Common Room to be sweet?" Lily asked disbelievingly.

"Well I did go to a lot of-"

"Forget it! I don't wanna hear it! Just go away!" Lily stormed out of the common room muttering "arrogant prat" "imbecile" "idiot" and the list is endless.

"How ungrateful can you get?" James said trying to look cool but failing horribly as soon as Lily was gone.

"I know, mate… First he wrinkles the branded Hogwarts uniforms and rumples the million dollar hair… just hope and pray she'll smell the enticing cologne you put on…" Sirius patted his friends back while holding back a smirk.

"Yeah but it smells kind of weird today…" James said as he sniffed his collar.

"Uh Yeah about that…." Peter said weakly.

"What about it Peter?" asked Remus.

"You got the wrong perfume bottle…" Peter squeaked. "The bottle you got was frog spawn…" Peter did not know what happened next but as soon as he woke up he found himself in the hospital wing with no more bones left.

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Friday was almost ending when as Lily walked away from a Care of Magical Creatures Lesson and was heading towards her dormitories when she felt a big shadow loom over her and when she turned up to look she found a giant piano about to land on her so she immediately jumped to her right and bumped into—wait for it—James Potter.

"Nice day for bumping into you dear lady…" said James. But Lily could not take it anymore.

"James Potter! You threw dungbombs in the Common Room, Knocked me over by a door, got me chased by a Hippogriff, nearly got me strangled by Devils Snare, levitated yourself to me and now had a piano drop over me? Just to let you bump into me and win a stupid bet?" Lily screamed.

"What can I say Evans? I'm amazed you managed to put all your feelings in one very long paragraph…" James said calmly not even half swayed by Lily's anger.

"At First I only planned on saying two words…" Lily said in a slow icy voice. James jumped back in surprise.

"Ms. Evans! Mr. Potter! What is the meaning of this wrecked muggle artifact?" Professor McGonagall bellowed pointing to the pieces of broken piano.

"You see me and Lily-Poo decided to play a game" James said and Lily gaped at him," It is entitled Wreck the Biggest muggle artifact"

"I cannot believe you are able to do such preposterous things Ms. Evans surely I could have seen James Potter doing this but you anyway I assure you that we will have no more of this… Detention for the both of you and 20 points from Gryffindor… I'll see you in my office to discuss your detention…" McGonagall said crisply and as soon as McGonagall left Lily averted her furious gaze to James. "You annoying!" she moved closer to James and James moved back a little bit a little afraid of what Lily will do but Lily continued to talk, "Pompous…Arrogant… self-centered… idiot.." Lily took a very slow pace in saying this, letting the anger sink in, in every word she said and took off and as she headed towards the Common Room she kept muttering,

" The nerve of that Potter! Nearly getting me killed and lied to get me detention…"

"Hey Lily only 41 bumps to go!" Sirius yelled as Lily entered the Common Room.

"How do you know?" Lily asked suspiciously. Sirius held a round object with the number 41 in the center.

"But that's a counteller! It's only used when you're organizing your tasks!" Lily gasped. The Counteller is used when you have many tasks to remember and its number changes every time you finished a task but Lily didn't know it could also be used for other things especially for a bet.

"You see Lily, Remey is not the only smart one in our group…" and at that Sirius returned to flirting with a fourth year. Then suddenly James Potter appeared screaming bloody murder and was running around the Common Room and was about to collide into Lily but Lily had quickly avoided him and James fell on the floor with a loud thud.

"Serves you right Potter…" Lily smirked and darted towards her dormitory.

James rubbed his bruised face and watched as Lily disappeared when Peter and Remus came in.