Rea: okay...chapter 3 already! yay! ugh...I have health tomorrow...XP

Chapter III

"Lily! Selie!" Lily and Selena turned to find their favorite Ravenclaw, Keiko, running towards them. The Asian girl had beautiful flowing hair, black eyes, and was a very sought after prize for the boys of Hogwarts. She never noticed, though. She had a child-like innocence that seemed to infect everyone surrounding her.

"Hey, Keiko," Lily and Selena said in unison. She hugged them tightly and then turned her attention to Sandy and Jamie.

"Who're they?" she asked, smiling.

"These two young ladies are Sandy and Jamie. They're taking the place of Sirius and James for a while for a transfer program," Lily explained.

"Okay, cool! Potions, now?" Keiko twirled around twice and then balanced on a low wall outside of a courtyard.

"Yes, Kei. Second period, remember?" Selena laughed.

"Oh yeah…hey, can we go to the lake at break?"

Lily shrugged. "Sure, why not? Did you want to play with the ducks again?"

Keiko blushed. "No!"

"In other words, yes," Selena smirked, looking at Sandy and Jamie.

"Whatever. I want to sit with Selie today, Lily. You've sat with her for the past two Potions lessons. Next lesson I'll sit with you and Selie can sweat out trying to find a new partner. Okay?" Keiko jumped down from the low wall and landed on Lily's back. "Heh, sorry."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just sit, okay?" Lily dumped Keiko in her seat and moved to the bench in front of her with Jamie sitting on the other side of the bench and Sandy, who was still a little upset, sitting with Remus. Selena sat next to Keiko and started going over Keiko's notes. She was an incredibly diligent note-taker. Never missed a thing. Very useful when there was a quiz that very period and you had forgotten to study, which had happened more than once to both Selena and Lily.

Professor Riley came in and stood at the front of the classroom until it was dead quiet. He looked over the students and looked at them each intently. He paused when he saw Jamie and Sandy there instead of James and Sirius. He looked at them with a glare that was hard to rival and walked down the aisle. He looked at each of them very closely and smirked.

"Well, it looks like we have two new young ladies joining us today…although it is remarkable at how alike they look to the two boys that are missing. It almost looks like it was a Gender-Switching potion, which, may I remind you, is something that you need permission to use," he said, glaring at the two girls. Keiko smiled and spoke up.

"Oh no, Professor. These two are Sandy and Jamie and they're taking place in a transfer program with Sirius and James. Didn't you get the memo?"

Selena shot Keiko a look that clearly said 'what are you doing!' but Keiko just winked. Professor Riley looked at Keiko and then Selena for a second before shaking his head and heading back to the front of the classroom. He sighed and flicked his wand. The instructions for a complicated potion appeared on the board and the ingredients needed came flying out of the student supply…closet…thing ((Rea: I can't remember what it's called and I'm too lazy to look in the book…which is…right next to me…but it's holding my soda! So it has a very important job to do for me! Ha! I am justified!)).

Keiko got up before Selena even set her foot down and ran to get the ingredients. Selena grumbled. This left her with setting the cauldron up perfectly.

"Ah, ah, ah!" Sandy tsked. "It's very unladylike to grumble! Shame, Selena!"

Selena stuck her tongue out at Sandy and proceeded to light the cauldron. It took her ten minutes to get it lit at least a little, by which time Keiko had come back already. Keiko rolled her eyes, flicked her wand, and almost lit Selena on fire in her success of lighting the fire perfectly.

"If you're so good at lighting fires, Kei, why do you race to get the ingredients all the time? Wouldn't it just be faster if we switched jobs?" Selena said, sucking a burnt finger.

"Yes, but I like it when I get to pick the ingredients. You always pick the first ones you see (which are all old and stuff) and I pick the ones on the bottom which are perfect while Lily picks the middle which is…ehh…" Keiko said, making her hand wave a bit, as if saying 'it was okay'.

"Whatever. Let's just get this over with so we can go play with the ducks," said a smirking Selena.

"Really, Selie? You'll play with me?" Keiko said, nearly chopping her finger off with surprise.

"Of course, Kei, as long as you don't chop any body limbs off, I play with you and the ducks for as long as I can."

Keiko squealed with delight and hugged Selena around the neck.

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Rea: I'll warn you right now...this'll be a very, VERY short story... -.-'

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CrazyDeafGirl: glad you like it, Ali...but I don't think that the boys will experience (I think I spelt that wrong...) 'that time of month'...if you want my reasoning on that, let me know!