Chapter 7- The King and Queen of Butterbeer

Lily awoke in a good mood that morning. She had a dreamless sleep (something very rare) and no explosions can be heard in the Common Room and best of all it was a Hogsmeade weekend. She was smiling all the time until she reached for her closet and out came jumping to her hand an enormous Teddy Bear. That's not the worst part though. It kept saying, "I can't bear to live without you" and "Can I give you a Bear hug?" (Pun intended). "AAARGHHH!" Lily screamed and Alexa jumped awake.

"What? What? Is James here?" She yelped, her head swiveling in all directions.

"No… But this comes close enough…" Lily held out the Teddy Bear that became attached to her arm.

Alexa relaxed and said "Whew!" she wiped an invisible sweat from her forehead, "I remember that one time when James—"

Lily clasped her hands to Alexa's mouth irritably, "Spare me from the memory"

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Meanwhile in the Common Room, Four boys were talking jovially (Did I just use that word?).

"So what does it exactly do Prongs?" Peter asked lollipop swirling in his mouth.

"It keeps saying—" But before James could continue he was interrupted by a red head's voice,

"Can I give you a bear hug?" Lily had said. James jumped back and ran a hand through his hair.

"Lily! I-erm-what did your lovely self want?" James managed to stammer.

"Oh nothing…" Lily said giving James a fake sweet smile, "Just wanted to thank you for the-er-lovely bear…" Lily gave James a wink and started to walk away when she stopped abruptly. "Oh I wanted to give you your gift back… Theodore!" and with a quick wave she was off.

"Theodore?" Sirius repeated in surprise, "What kind of bloody thing did that mean?"

"Must be Italian…" Peter mumbled when all of a sudden a very large Teddy Bear jumped at the marauders excluding James. The bear tackled the rest and scratched them and pulverized and-well you get the idea.

"Arggh! My nose! My nose! Arrrghhh!" Sirius screamed.

"Your Nose? What about my EyAAARGGGHHH!" Remus yelped as the bear poked his eye. After 12 minutes of this the bear started to walk away.

"That's all?" Peter moaned. Then the bear turned to them again and leaned towards Peter who was sprawled in the floor and snatched his lollipop, took a lick and self-destructed. Stunned Silence followed when Peter finally screamed, "MY LOLLIPOP! MY LOLLIPOP!"

"He had to ask…" Sirius mumbled, "Oi! James! Your wonderful sweet Teddy Bear attacked us so would you be Oh so kind and help us out here?" James just stood there with an unreadable expression so Sirius spoke again, "Oi! Hellooo? Prongs in any case you haven't noticed we need your help here"

"She smiled at me…" James said happily. And the rest of the marauders excluding the still Screaming Peter Pettigrew groaned hopelessly.

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"So what did you do to it?" Alexa asked anxiously. The three were outside waiting for the rest of the students to get to Hogsmeade.

"I may have improved it…" Lily said innocently.

"Really… So turning a lovable teddy Bear into a ferocious monster is now considered an improvement…" Gary said cynically.

"How did you know?" Lily asked in surprise.

"Peter was raving about it like some lunatic…" Gary replied simply.

"Oh…" Lily said.

"How come only Potter escaped the ferocious thing?" Alexa asked. Lily reddened. She didn't exactly know why but she didn't want James to have a bear to destroy his rather handsome face. 'I guess he may seem cute and it would be a waste if his face got distorted…" all these thoughts were buried in Lily's head when something hard hit her.

"Potter! I'm sorry if your eyesight is going bad that you can't tell the difference between these twits (Lily cast an arm towards Sirius and the rest) and me but I will definitely not tolerate being treated like one of your minions which you can pounce on any time of day!" Lily screamed and went as far away from the marauders as she can.

" Erm…" Sirius muttered then a dawning expression appeared in his face and he shouted to Lily, "Oi Lily Flower! Yeah you! Nice trick but you won't make me forget! Only 38 bumps to go!" Lily scowled.

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"Okay… I don't think there's any room left…" said Alexa as they entered the Three Broomsticks.

"Oh well… Let's just leave" Lily said and started to move against the crowds.

"What now, Padfoot?" James cried as he saw Lily start to leave.

"Leave it to me, Prongsie" Sirius waved his wand at a table near to them and was occupied by Slytherins and one of the occupants bag flew outside.

"Narcissa! Your bag from Paris!" cried a blond girl. Narcissa and the rest of the girls ran outside in search for the bag.

"Thanks Padfoot!" James thanked as Gary pointed to the now vacant table.

"Ah Prongs… When will you learn to be independent?" Sirius said in fake disappointment.

"Probably when you guys learn to be more mature a.k.a. never…" said Remus. Sirius and James gave him identical scowls.

"How lucky are we?" Alexa exclaimed, "This table just emptied the same time we came in!"

"Wow… Absolutely Amazing…" Lily said sarcastically.

"What's with the cynical-ness?" Gary asked.

"Lily Flower! Decided to be seated near my wonderful self did you? All you had to do is ask and you'll have a seat beside me!" called James from the next table.

"Oh…" Gary said an expression of understanding dawning on his face.

"Didn't see that coming…" said Alexa while rolling her eyes.

"I'm quite happy with my seat thank you," Lily said icily and started towards the counter. Unknown to her Peter pushed back her seat a little bit backwards.

"3 Butterbeers, please…" Lily said to Rosmerta, a beautiful, young barmaid.

"Here you go, miss" Rosmerta said handing Lily a tray of Butterbeers.

"Thank You" Lily thanked and she started to sit when she found that there was no chair at all, Butterbeer spilled everywhere and bumped into-wait for it- James Potter.

"James Potter! What the-oh Nevermind!" Lily returned to the counter and ordered Butterbeers and when she turned around and for what felt like the billionth time this week she bumped into James again, Though this time the Butterbeers spilled on James.

"Hey what did you do that for?" James complained.

"Oh don't worry… the hat looks quite nice on you…" Lily smirked.

"What?" James ran a hand in his hair and discovered a glass of Butterbeer on his head.

"That." Lily said.

"Well yours isn't quite shabby either…" James shot back.

"What?" Lily then felt a glass of Butterbeer on her head.

"That" James said in the same fashion as Lily did.

"Well aren't they a winning pair…" Alexa laughed.

Sirius suddenly had a gleam in his eyes and spoke quite loudly, "All hail to Lily and James, the King and Queen of Butterbeer!"

"What?" Lily and James chorused. But it was not heard because the rest of the Three Broomsticks were bellowing, "All hail Lily and James, the King and Queen of Butterbeer!" Remus and Peter then held out a placard that read "Kiss" and the rest of the bar chanted the word.

James started to lean closer to Lily and Lily did the first thing in her mind.