Chapter 13
It seemed to Remus, Lynsay, and Peter more trouble than it was worth to even bother trying to wake their four friends up the following morning. They'd already been beaten with pillows and had other miscellaneous objects thrown at their heads.
"Honestly, enough is enough, let's just go to breakfast without them. Not like they'll notice anyway." Lindsay finally sighed in defeat. Remus patted her hand encouragingly, and the three left for the Great Hall.
They returned about an hour and a half later to still find their four friends sleeping the day away in bed. Lynsay went to drastic measures and doused Peyton and Lily with extremely cold water. She'd obviously decided she wasn't about to waste her day away making sure her friends were up to go to Hogsmeade.
"BLOODY HELL THAT'S EFFING COLD!! Lily screeched for the whole school to hear.
"Really mate, why'd you have to go about it that way." Peyton said through chattering teeth. "Jeebus woman you could have just poked us or something like NORMAL people usually do."
"I give up." Lynsay said annoyed, rolling her eyes. "Don't you think I already tried? Now come on I wanna go to Hogsmeade too you know!"
Lily and Peyton muttered a few foul phrases before heading off to the showers and Remus, Lynsay, and Peter moved on to the Marauders room to wake them up too. They responded in pretty much the same fashion as the other two just with a few more choice words thrown in there. Soon they had all met up in the common room.
"Aren't we looking beautiful today Flower." James said smirking.
"Shut it Pothead I'm tired and I didn't feel like getting all dressed up. It's not as if I'm trying to impress anyone anyway." She added grumpily referring to her jeans and big baggy sweatshirt attire.
"Alright you two let's go I'm starved. Since SOMEBODY didn't seem to see it fit to awaken us for breakfast." Sirius said looking distinctly at Remus and Peter.
Remus rolled his eyes and Peter shrugged, to stupid to think of anything to say.
"Well if two certain people hadn't came and woken us up in the middle of the night we might all be well rested and ready for this little outing… but nooo." James said sarcastically, looking at Lily and Peyton.
"We were hungry. Get off our backs." Peyton said moodily. "Besides it wouldn't have taken so long if Sirius hadn't been groping you on the way there." She added letting a few giggles escape. Lily joined in with the fun.
"Really. I bet you two had one hell of a time together after we all got back." Laughed Lily.
"I think we are missing some very important detail here." Remus said. Lynsay nodded, Peter was staring out the window unconcerned.
"Last night on the way to the kitchens Sirius grabbed James arse. We really don't know why but we think they might be a litte… "fond" of each other if you know what I mean." Peyton said suggestively.
"Alright how many times do I have to tell you people I thought it was Peyton's arse. Bloody hell." Sirius added frustrated.
"Good one Si. Why in the world would you want to grab my arse?" Peyton said, thinking he was joking…again.
"Why not?" Sirius shrugged. "It's very nice. So there." He added in what he must have thought to have been a very convincing argument.
"Oh please." Peyton said rolling her eyes.
"Alright can we go already? Jeebus." James grunted.
"That's my word. Please refrain from its usage in my presence." Peyton said, referring to "Jeebus".
"Whatever." James said rolling his eyes. "Follow me." He added leading them to the one eyed witch statue down the corridor. He tapped it with his wand and said a word that nobody was really paying attention to since they were to busy trying to mess up Sirius's seemingly perfectly placed hair to annoy him. They all slipped in behind the statue and began to follow the tunnel to Hogsmeade.
"This walk seems to get longer every bloody time we come." Sirius complained. "Peyton…can I have a piggy back ride?" he threw her some puppy dog eyes.
"Merlin Si you probably way nearly twice as much as me and your asking me to carry you? You carry me, you're the guy here. Tally ho!" Peyton said, jumping onto his back.
"I should have kept my ruddy mouth shut." Sirius grumbled, even though he was probably enjoying it.
"Alright we're here. We made friends with Mr. and Mrs. Honeyduke and they don't mind us using this door as long as we don't do anything harmful to the store so don't worry about being seen or anything because it's perfectly ok." James said.
"Can I put you down now? I carried you almost the full way here. You're not fat or anything my arms are just tired." Sirius asked Peyton.
"Sure. Thank you Sir Sirius of Gryffindor." Peyton said curtsying.
" Twas no trouble milady I would carry you across many miles of dragon infested terrain and-" Sirius began.
"Oh please let's go." James interrupted, knowing fully well if he let Sirius start going on about something they'd never hear the end of it until a good 3 hours later.
"Three Broomsticks first! WOO I'm STARVING!" Lily said, practically sprinting to the door. They laughed and followed suit.
After lunch they wandered the streets and wound up in front of the shrieking shack.
"Kinda creepy huh?" Lynsay commented.
"Uh, yeah sure is." Remus choked out.
"I bet it was really beautiful at one time. To bad nobody kept it looking decent." Lynsay added sadly. She was always one for architecture. Go figure.
"Yeah, why don't we split up, I need to do some Christmas shopping now because I definitely do not want to fight the Hogwarts crowd on the Hogsmeade Christmas shopping trip for them ." Lily said, trying to change the subject since she noticed Remus was looking a little uncomfortable about the subject they were currently on. She made a mental note to ask him about it later.
"Sounds good to me. I don't really want to go alone though and I don't want you to go alone Lily. Especially since…yeah everything." Peyton said, not wanting to bring the whole threatening situation back up.
"Well the only people I have left to shop for are Lynsay, Peyton, Sirius, and Peter. Everyone else I've got covered." Lily said.
"Well Lynsay and I kind of wanted to go do some shopping for all of you. We were going to help each other out so we'll go together and just meet you guys back at the castle?" Remus asked.
"Sure Moony, see you back there." James said as Remus and Lynsay walked away. "They could get married you know." James snickered.
"Ok so since James is the only one left here that you have bought for already then he is the only one that can go with you. The rest of us will continue our shopping elsewhere and meet you guys at the castle too. See you later." Peyton said, grabbing Sirius and Peter and dragging them away before Lily could protest.
"Ok then…they get stranger by the day." Lily muttered. "She soo planned that. She's dead meat too. Just because I'm friends with Potter doesn't mean I think I can stand almost a whole day with him without hexing myself into submission." She thought.
"Tell me about it." James agreed. "Where do you want to go first?"
"Well since you're with me do you think you could help me pick out Sirius' present?" Lily asked hopefully.
"Sure Flower, I'm going to just suggest Zonko's. He loves that store." James said.
"Well that's easy enough, especially since that's where I was going to get Peyton's gift. I swear that girl probably already has 30 of everything but anything from Zonko's was on her "things I would like my dear friend Tiger Lily to buy me" list" Lily laughed.
"Ditto for Sirius." James agreed.
"I wonder if they will ever realize how great they'd be for each other." Lily wondered aloud.
"He realizes it, sometimes girls seem to be blind about some of the most obvious things that are right in front of their noses." James said, looking right into your eyes.
"Oh crap…he's looking into my soul again. Stop, stop, stop. Ok I kinda like this even though it's a little eerie…STUPID LILY STUPID STUPID STUPID SAY SOMETHING!" Lily thought to herself.
"I get the distinct feeling you aren't talking about Sirius and Peyton anymore." Lily managed to whisper.
"Nope." James said simply inching closer to her; he noticed she didn't back away.
"Then who?" Lily asked dumbly, knowing perfectly well what James meant.
"And I thought you were the smartest witch in our year?" James grinned, still moving closer. He'd finally caught Lily Evans at a loss for words. Her mouth was moving up and down but no words were coming out.
"No that's Lynsay." Lily finally managed, looking down at the ground finding her shoes to be very interesting.
"Ah, and modest too." James said tipping her chin up with his hand, looking in her eyes again he knew it made her feel the same way as him, he could feel it.
"Why do you do that?" Lily asked, being more way more brave than she felt.
"Because I know it bothers you Flower, and because I like to look at your eyes. They are the most beautiful color of green I've ever seen." James said, getting, if possibly, even closer.
"It doesn't bother me Potter." Lily tried.
"Back to last name basis?" James smirked.
"Well I know how much you loved it when I used to call you Pothead. So let's go four eyes I have Christmas shopping to finish." Lily said grinning and shoving him playfully out of the way so she could continue on her way to Zonko's.
James sighed and ran his hand through his hair when she wasn't looking. "Damn, so close. Progress Prongs, it was progress." James thought before taking after her down the street.
"Double damn that was a close one. I almost lost it there. BIG mental sigh, deep breaths. Wow he has really great eyes too…he was really close to me…really really really close…must breath, can't like Potter, mustn't like him. GREAT HERE WE GO. I hate this, it can't be happening." Lily thought while shopping at Zonko's, completely zoned out while James was looking at some new items that came in. After Zonko's they finished up shopping for the rest of Lily's family and friends and a few for James and headed back to the castle
"I think this year could be even more interesting than I thought." Lily sighed on the way back to the castle.
"Damn she's cute when she's deep in thought like that. What am I saying; she's hella cute all the time." James sighed right after her as they said goodbye in the common room and headed to their respective dormitories.