Chapter 8:

James was searching around the dorm room for his blonde wig. "Have you seen my wig?" he asked Sirius frantically.

"Nope," Sirius said placing his own wig on his head. "But your hair stands up so much already that all you have to do is dye your hair blonde."

"Ha, ha." James scoffed. "Remus! Have you seen my wig?" he called to Remus, who was in the bathroom.

"Ehh by aa oila!" Remus yelled back.

"What?" James asked, confused. He heard Remus spit into the sink, and then the running of water.

"It's in here, by the toilet!" Remus yelled back.

"How the hell did it get in there?"

"Dunno. It's your wig. Hold on." A couple of seconds later Remus opened the door and let James through to get the wig.

"So you're a Quidditch player from the Tornadoes?" Sirius asked looking at Remus from head to toe.

"Yeah, Pierce Abbott. He's a beater." Remus said.

"You wanna be a beater?" Sirius asked.

"Nah! I'd rather be a chaser, but when I went into the Quidditch supplies store, the only robes they had in stock were for Abbott." Remus explained. "What about you, do you play Quidditch?"

"Yeah, I'm a beater, and I'm fast. I'll show you that tomorrow, when we have our first flying lesson." Sirius bragged.

"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Remus said. "During our first lesson, they usually only let us go up and down and crap."

"You think that'll stop me?" Sirius asked.

"I think that the threat of expulsion would." Remus replied.

"We better get off." Sirius said, ignoring Remus' last comment. "C'mon Bevis!"

"Coming!" James called, trying to tie one of his shoes and walk at the same time.

The three boys went downstairs and into the common room. Everybody laughed as Sirius and James passed them. When they got to Marlene, Kaitlyn and Rachel, the three girls erupted in a fit of giggles.

"Bevis and Butthead!" Rachel laughed, "Fits."

"I don't think I wanna go out with you anymore" James scoffed, jovially.

"Ha, ha, ha." Rachel said, playfully hitting him with her purse. "Anyways, your glasses set you apart from the crowd."

"Why, thank you." James said.

"If that's the way you want to take it, you're welcome." She answered.

"It is. So what are you, and underwear model?" James guessed.

"I'm a cat." She answered pointing to her cat ears and holding out her tail for him to see.

"You look nice." Was all that James could say. He tell her this, but he felt rather uncomfortable walking around with someone that was wearing so little.

"Why thank you!" she said.

They walked down the grand staircase and into the entrance hall.

"So where are we going?" Rachel nagged as they walked outside the castle doors.

"Sorry!" James said. "I can't tell you, it's a secret. See I promised Arthur Weasley I wouldn't tell anyone about it."

"Fine. I guess I'll just have to wait then." Rachel said. As they neared a small shed, Rachel grew even more confused. "Okay, I'm really confused now. Please tell me where we're going!" She nagged.

"Sorry, can't" James said defiantly. He went up to the door of the shed and broke the lock by using the "Aloha Mora" charm.

He then reached in and grabbed six broomsticks. When he handed one to Kaitlyn she said "I don't know how to fly." She claimed.

"You don't know…" James began, but Sirius interrupted him. "You can ride with me." He said. Kaitlyn then got on the broom behind him.

Upon hearing this, Rachel and Marlene both claimed that they didn't know how to ride either. James put two more brooms away, mounted his own and waited for Rachel to climb on. She swung her leg over the broom, hugged him around the waist and rested the side of her head on his shoulder. James then kicked off from the ground, closely followed by Remus and Sirius.

"Hey! Lily!" It was five o'clock and Lily had been walking up to her dormitory when she heard the call of a tan, dark haired boy.

"Oh, hey Walter!" she called back to Emmie's date.

"Come here! I have to tell you something!" he called, motioning her over to where he was standing. Lily ran over to him, wondering what he had to say. When she got there, he paused a while before speaking. "I'm really sorry to tell you this, but Kyle can't go to the feast with you."

"Oh…" she said flabbergasted, "Why?"

"Ermm…to tell you the truth…erm…well, Palliva Patil asked and her…erm…said yes." Walter said, looking rather uncomfortable. "But you can come with me and Emmie if you like."

"Err…that's okay…" Lily began, feeling teardrops welling up in her eyes. "Excuse me…I have to go now." She didn't know what to do, she had been so excited about this whole feast thing, now her date backed out on her because Palliva had invited him. 'Why couldn't he have had the decency to say no?' she wondered. 'He would still see Palliva at the feast, probably with some other guy, but he would still be able to talk to her and stuff.' She knew that Palliva was prettier than her, but that didn't give Kyle the right to back out on her when Palliva asked him.

"You okay there?" She heard the deep voice of somebody coming from some five feet above her. She looked up and saw Hagrid looking at her, his brown eyes filled with worry.

"Not really," she said honestly.

"How er bout coming o'er to me house for some tea, ehh?" Hagrid asked her.

"Actually that sounds nice." Lily said, following Hagrid out the front doors and onto the grounds. Some twenty feet ahead of them, Lily saw Rachel, Potter, Kaitlyn, Black, Marlene and Remus walking towards a shed. Rachel and Potter were talking animatedly about something or another, Black and Kaitlyn were laughing, and Remus and Marlene were just walking. Lily couldn't help but notice that they looked somewhat uncomfortable. As they neared Hagrid's cabin, Lily's attention drew away from her fellow first years and to a barking noise coming from inside the cabin.

"Do you have a dog, Hagrid?" Lily asked.

"Yes, err two actually. But only Fang lives with me, Fluffy lives in the Forbidden Forest, ya see, he's to big to fit in me house." Hagrid replied. He opened the door for Lily and she walked inside. "So what's troubling yer?" he asked, as she collapsed into one of his chairs. "How er bout I'll make the tea while yer tell me, a'ight?" Hagrid offered.

As Hagrid fetched a teapot to boil the water in, Lily began to tell Hagrid what had made her day so miserable. When she finished, Hagrid looked down at her sympathetically. "I'm sorry to hear that. I'll tell yer what though, if yer like, I'll go to that feast with yer."

"Thanks Hagrid," she replied, tears now streaming out of her eyes, "But I don't think I could bear to go to the feast anymore. Blast Potter and Black for even inviting those stupid girls in the first place." She cried. Hagrid just sat there and comforted her.

"Do yer want a cookie?" He offered, holding her out a plate full of lumpy cookies. She took one gratefully and tried to bite into it, only she couldn't. She held the cookie in her mouth for a moment longer, until Hagrid turned away. Then she quickly stuffed it into her pocket so that she wouldn't chip her tooth.

For the rest of her time in Hagrid's cabin, Hagrid drew her away from her problems by trying to explain Quidditch to her. As hard as he tried, she just couldn't grasp the concept of it.

When they landed in the Forbidden Forest, the three girls looked around. James could tell that they were all scared.

Kaitlyn was the first to speak, "I thought the Forbidden Forest was like forbidden." She said looking around, and jumping when some birds flew out of a tree.

James had an idea. When nobody was looking, he ran a few paces ahead and hid behind a tree. He waited for a few second while Sirius and Remus tried to persuade their dates to come further into the forest, until Rachel said "Where's James?"

Sirius shrugged, "Probably got fed up with you sissy's and went ahead. I sorta wish that I had done the same."

Rachel then said, "That was sorta mean of him, I wasn't complaining."

Remus ignored this, took Marlene's arm and said "Let's go!"

With that they came closer and closer to James. When they were a few feet away James stood up, getting ready to spring. Rachel was on the outside of the group, it was just so perfect. He jumped out at her, and she screamed "AHHHHHHHHHH!" before realizing it was him. When she came back to reality and hit him with her purse saying "That was mean!"

"That was hilarious!" Sirius laughed.

"Ow!" James exclaimed, "That hurt! What do you got in that thing?"

"Serves you right!" Rachel said, turning away and crossing her arms.

"No, seriously, what do you have in that thing?" James asked, trying to grab the purse. Rachel, however, moved it out of his reach, and when he tried again, she ran away. James ran after her, and had caught up with her in a matter of seconds. He ran over and started opening it.

"Hmmm…" He said rummaging through it's contents, "I found: some makeup, a mirror, and…what's this?" he exclaimed triumphantly, pulling a white piece of paper out of Rachel's purse.

"Give that back!" Rachel screamed, when she saw him pulling the piece of paper out of her purse. She tried to grab it, but James, being a few inches taller than her, held it out of her reach.

James unfolded the piece of paper and started reading it aloud. "I heart James, James is hot, James + Rachel, Mrs. James Potter, I heart James (again), Rachel Potter…" Rachel finally managed to grab the piece of paper out of his hand, but he had already read enough of it to get the gist of it. Although he could see Rachel's face growing hot, James was rather proud of what he had just done.

The whole group was silent for a while, before Sirius broke the silence by saying, "Are we just going to sit here all day, or are we going to find Arthur?"

"Let's go." Remus agreed.

Around 6 o'clock, Lily thanked Hagrid for tea and headed up to the castle. Hanging out with Hagrid had been fun and Lily was in a much better mood. She decided that she would go to the Halloween feast. It wasn't as if she would be the only student there without a date, and the decorations were supposed to be spectacular. Lily had seen the pumpkins growing in his yard just last week when she had visited him, and the were humongous.

Lily walked into her dormitory, and found it empty. She knew that Rachel, Kaitlyn and Marlene were off to God knows where with Potter, Black and Remus. And she supposed that Casey was hanging out with her date, Taylor Hall, before the feast began.

She opened her trunk and brought out her dress and put it on. She then tied her hair back in a low bun so that she could fit the wig over it. She looked perfect, no red locks were protruding from under the blond mass, but she did need some make up. She decided to wear a lot of make-up, as did Marilyn Monroe. She covered her face in powder, put on sparkly eye shadow, pink blush, red lipstick and fake eyelashes.

She pronounced herself read and went down to the feast. The doors were closed and students were waiting to get in. She looked down at her watch and noted that she was fifteen minutes early. Under normal circumstances, she would have gone upstairs or to the Library to get some more work done. But tonight, however, the Entrance Hall was done up so nicely that she decided to look around.

Hagrid's giant pumpkins were lining the walls, each of them carved by a different teacher. Hagrid's pumpkin was drawn to look roughly like tree, Professor Dumbledore carved his into a surprised face, Professor McGonagall's looked like a cat and Professor Flitwick's was a bowler's cap with stars on it. Also, besides the glow of the candles lit from inside the pumpkins, the hall was dark. Lily was about to look around some more when she saw Walter, Emmie, Kyle and Palliva coming down the stairs. She quickly ducked and hid behind a statue, where she hid until the feast started.

As they neared the end of the haunted house, Sirius was proud of himself for not screaming once. Before he went through the haunted house, he had thought it a good way to hear the girls scream, but now, as he neared the end of it, he realized why Arthur had only wanted fifth, sixth and seventh years. The haunted house was like a maze, with something scary around every corner. Sirius saw his least favorite thing about halfway through the maze. It was two halves of a girl in a white dress lying on the ground. And she was solid too, he now owed James 1 galleon for finding that out.

The haunted house wasn't all bad. Ever since the first monster popped out at them, and Kaitlyn screamed, she had held onto him. He felt rather uncomfortable, because this was the closest he'd ever been to a girl before, but he liked the feeling all the same. Also, he would never forget the way James screamed when the mummy came out, grabbed him, and tried to take him back into his tomb with him. Taking a leaf out of Rachel's book, he hit the mummy, using his one free hand, with Rachel's purse.

When they exited the haunted house, Arthur was standing outside. "How was it?" he asked scaring at the terrified expressions on each of their faces. "Too scary?" He laughed, as if to say 'I told you so' to James and Sirius who had begged him for hours to let them come.

James forced a laugh. "You wish." He lied. "I didn't scream once, I'd try to think of some better ideas if you ever want to do this again."

"Yeah right!" Remus laughed, "You were screaming as bad as theses three" he said, waving his hand at the girls, when the mummy tried to take you into it's tomb with them."

"Was not!" James said defiantly.

"We all saw you." Sirius began. "But don't worry, we'll take you to a haunted house for people like you next year." He teased in a baby voice, pinching James' cheek.

"Get off me." He said pushing. The six of them then thanked Arthur and walked back to where they had left their broomstick. They rode back up to the broom cupboard and put the brooms away and walked up to the feast.

"Hey Lily" came a voice from behind her. Lily looked up from her food to see Remus and Marlene standing there.

"Oh, hey." She said.

"Where's…err…" Remus couldn't remember the boys name.

"Kyle?" Lily offered. "He decided he'd rather go with Palliva Patil." Lily explained, gesturing over the Ravenclaw table. There, Remus saw Kyle, Palliva, Walter and Emmie all laughing about something or another.

"Oh. I'm sorry." Remus said, he didn't quite know what to say. "We're going to go over and sit by James and Sirius, but you can join us if you want to." Remus offered.

"Thanks," Lily said appreciatively, "But I think that I'll just…" She drifted off and took another bite.

As Remus and Marlene walked towards James and Sirius, Marlene said "I feel sort of badly for her, but I don't blame Kyle for wanting to go with Palliva instead. I mean she's so weird, you know?"

Remus was silent for a moment, before making his decision. "Yeah I feel badly for her too." He said, ignoring the last part of Marlene's comment. "Let's go over there and sit by her."

"But what about sitting by Rachel and Kaitlyn?" she whined. "We promised them we'd sit by them. Anyways, Lily can sit over here if she wants to."

"You know she won't sit by James and Sirius." Remus said. "I'm going to go sit by her. You don't have to come if you don't want to." With that, Remus turned his back on Marlene and went to go sit down by Lily.

As Lily was getting ready for bed, she heard three sets of footsteps coming upstairs, and two giggling voices.

"Guess what happened?" Rachel giggled.

"What?" Kaitlyn asked excitedly.

"He kissed me!" she squealed before bursting into a fit of giggles.

"Me too!" Kaitlyn said excitedly. They held hands and started jumping up and down. "What about you, Marlene, how did your date go?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Marlene said before stomping off to her bed and drawing the curtains shut.

After Rachel relaxed a little, she hit Kaitlyn hard in the shoulder. "OW!" Kaitlyn yelled. "What was that for?" she asked, outraged.

"When Marlene and Remus sat at different spots, it obviously meant something didn't go well." Rachel said.

"Oh…" Kaitlyn said, a look of comprehension dawning on her face. "That's why they didn't sit together…"

"Oh my God, Kaitlyn!" Rachel said, getting annoyed. "You're such a typical blonde sometimes!" Rachel then left Kaitlyn standing there and went to get her pajamas on.

Lily decided to go and try to comfort Marlene. After all, it was partially her fault that Marlene was feeling so badly. She went over next to Marlene's bed and opened the curtains just enough to see Marlene sitting on her bed, crying. "Marlene?" she asked timidly.

"Go away!" Marlene said, looking up and seeing that it was Lily.

"I just wanted to say that I was sorry about what happened at dinner. Remus didn't mean anything by sitting by me, him and I are just friends. He just felt bad for me because I got stood up." Lily explained.

"Well, I'm sorry to hear about your heartbreaking story, but I'm not really in the mood right now. Now if you'll excuse me I want to get sleep." She said, closing the curtains to cover up Lily's face. As far as she was concerned, Lily had stolen her boyfriend away from her. She wished Lily would just go away, and with the picture of their dormitory with only four beds in it.

A/N: So here it is the eighth chapter! I don't really know what to say about it! I'm all tired out from writing right now.

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