Disclaimer- Stop looking at me like that! I've told you it's not mine!!!

Authoress' Note- This is a very crappily short crappily boring chapter and I suppose I could combined this chapter and the next one, but then that means I have to upload all the other chapters to change the headings and you know how long that will take??? Very long. E.D.J.

Ch. 5- End of Term Finally Arrives

"Oh you're finally done!" squealed Emmeline later that afternoon when she saw Hestia stumble tiredly into the girls' dormitory, her long black hair limp and straggly.

The other three girls were packing to leave Hogwarts the next morning.

"Lily!" said Hestia in a pleading voice. "Tell me I never have to go to that evil class Muggle Studies again!"

"You never have to go to that evil class Muggle Studies again," repeated Lily.

"Thank you!" said Hestia collapsing onto her bed. "By the way, the Muggle Studies O.W.L,. couldn't have gone worse."

"Why?" asked Monica as she packed spell books into her already overflowing trunk.

"I couldn't remember what electricity was or what a telephone does or anything!" moaned Hestia. "I better not marry a Muggle. I'd be a wreck!"

Hestia sat ranting and raving for a few minutes until Emmeline stuffed an old sock in her mouth. Hestia gagged and spit the sock back at Emmeline.

"Come on! Start packing!" said Lily sternly throwing some battered quills at Hestia. "We leave for your house in France tomorrow!"

"Fine," said Hestia sighing as she sat up. "So what were you three doing while I was being beaten over the head with questions about Muggle appliances?"

"We sat by the lake," said Lily shortly not looking up.

Emmeline smirked and added, "And Potter and his friends sat with us and then Lily's Arithmancy boyfriend..."

"Andy?" Hestia cut in.

"How do you know about him?" said Monica accusingly. "We didn't find out till this morning!"

"I have Arithmancy with both of them!" said Hestia exasperated. "I was there when he asked her out!"

"Anyway," said Emmeline tiredly. "Andy came and sat down with us and Potter was kind of rude to him. Then Andy left and Lily and Potter got into a huge row and Monica, Lupin, Pettigrew, Black, and I had to drag them both away before they killed each other."

"Rowing with Potter?" said Hestia glancing at Lily who avoided Hestia's gaze. "Why am I not surprised?"

"He started it!" said Lily hotly. "He was being all jealous and arrogant and... arrgh!!!"

Lily buried her head in her pillow groaning loudly.

"Ok Lils," said Hestia soothingly. "You don't have to talk about it."

Monica glanced at the clock."Merlin! We're late for the end of term feast!"

The four girls rushed down the dormitory staircase, out of the common room, and down many flights of stairs to the Great Hall.

"Made it!" said Emmeline clutching a stitch in her side as the four girls collapsed into chairs at the Gryffindor table.

"Longbottom!" called a gruff voice from down the table.

"What Black?" shouted Monica and Sirius strode over and hunched himself down beside her chair.

"Don't let both you-know-whos near each other. He's still pretty hot-headed," Sirius muttered in Monica's ear.

"She's ready to burst too," Monica whispered back. "I think the summer holiday away from each other will help them cool off."

"Welcome students to the end of term feast!" boomed Professor Dumbledore and Sirius jumped and skittered back to his seat. "I am proud to present the House Cup to Gryffindor for the fifth year in a row!"

Loud cheers sounded from the Gryffindor table as Dumbledore flicked his wand causing scarlet and gold decorations to appear all around the Great Hall.

"I would like to thank you all for an interesting year! Empty your heads over the summer!" said Dumbledore with a slight smile. "Tuck in!"

The golden plates on the tables filled themselves with food and all the students ate to their hearts' content.

"I'm so glad we don't' have to say goodbye!" said Hestia as she ate. "Oh this summer will be so brilliant!"

"This summer will be just us four Marauders!" said James brightly at the other end of the Gryffindor table. "No bloody teachers, no Slytherins, no Snivellus, no Evans!"

"Your parents will be there," Sirius reminded him.

"Yeah, but they'll leave us alone if we ask them to," said James absently staring down the table where Andy Worchester was giving Lily a kiss on the cheek his stomach churning.

"I'll see you in September then," said Andy sadly. "I'll miss you. Write me?"

"Of course I will," said Lily quietly. "Where will you be all summer?"

"I'm going to visit my Australian cousins for most of the summer. What about you?" said Andy.

"I'm staying at Hestia's house in southern France!" squealed Lily kissing his cheek as she noticed Emmeline motioning to her that their friends were leaving the Great Hall. "I have to go! I'll miss you!"

Lily hurried over to her friends and they hurried up to their dormitory so they could finish packing and go to bed.