A/N: I'm so sorry I took so long to update! I've rewritten this chapter about 10 times because I got a terrible case of writer's block. I don't think this is one of my best chapters, but I hope you like it. Thank you to everyone who rewiewed!

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" a shrill, high-pitched scream filled the Great Hall and echoed off the walls. People started looking eagerly at the Gryffindor table, wondering which lucky student had received a Howler. Much to their disappointment, there was no Howler. There was just a shocked-looking (but very pretty) fair haired girl holding a mirror and sobbing hysterically. She was sitting with two girls that appeared to be comforting her (though one of them did have a particularly nasty smirk on her face).

This scene was quite distressing- the first seventy-five times it had occurred. By now, everybody was positively sick of Serena Bloom bursting their eardrums every time so much as a trace of a spot appeared on her flawless skin. Serena was most commonly known as Anita's Evil Minion, despite the fact that she was too stupid to be considered evil. As you might have noticed, she also had a tendency to be melodramatic.

" I'VE GOT A SPOT!" she wailed, resting her head on Anita's shoulder.

"Do you mind?" snapped Anita. "You're getting mascara all over my robes!"

"Sorry!"

Anita decided to change the subject. " I wonder where Jamesie is today, he said he'd come and see me before his Quidditch practice" She spotted Lily sitting at the other end of the table, and smiled to herself. Lily was drinking some kind of potion and making a horrible face. Probably a weight-loss potion, she thought smugly. (Not that Lily needed it- she was naturally skinny, and as flat as a pancake in all the wrong places. )

Looking around desperately, she spotted a tall, untidy-haired figure trying to slip out of the Great Hall unnoticed. " JAMESIE!" she squealed, waving her hands around madly and almost knocking over her pumpkin juice. Anita couldn't help but notice that he didn't look very happy to see her, but he was probably just having a bad day. After all, who wouldn't be happy to see her?

" Hi, Anita", said James wearily.

" Hi there, Jamesie" purred Anita, batting her eyelashes. Unfortunately, James didn't appear to be paying any attention. In fact, if she didn't know any better, she'd think he was ogling Lily! No, surely not. He was probably just comparing Lily to her and wondering why in the name of Merlin he ever went out with her. I'll give him something to compare her to, she thought. She may not have been the nicest of Gryffindors, but Anita Black was certainly one of the bravest, because not many girls would have dared to grab James Potter by the neck of his robes and kiss him right on the lips in front of his fan club(and ex-girlfriend) without so much as blushing. Which is exactly what she did.

After a good five minutes, James broke away and gasped " Anita!" in a strangled sort of voice. Anita smirked and walked back to her friends. "Works every time." she murmured, sitting down next to a very jealous Serena.

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" You look gorgeous, Lily!" exclaimed Morgana, who was rolling around on the floor as though she was having a fit. She was actually trying to get into her costume, but without much success. " Why didn't you two stop me from eating all that pie at lunch?" she moaned.

Skye sighed. " When are you two going to learn that starving yourself is not the answer to all of life's problems?" she shook her head in disgust. As usual, her advice had fallen on deaf ears.

" D'you think this dress makes me look fat?" asked Lily. Despite what Skye said, she was still determined to look her very best tonight. After all, it wasn't every day she got to meet her secret admirer.

" Of course not, Lily!" said Morgana. " Now could someone please help me with this costume before it chokes me to death?"

" Oh, all right then." said Lily.

Skye rolled her eyes. The lengths people went to just so they could look pretty were ridiculous! There were far more important things to think about. But then, maybe she'd feel differently if she actually had somebody special to look pretty for. Lily had her secret admirer, Morgana had Sirius- even Remus had found himself a date. But who did Skye have tonight? An empty table, that's what, she thought bitterly. She glimpsed her reflection in the mirror. She certainly wasn't bad-looking. She had wild, curly medium-length brown hair that was usually tied back in a ponytail and brown eyes that sparkled with mischief. Maybe putting some effort into your looks wasn't such a crime after all. She stood up suddenly, scattering curlers all over the floor. " Lily? Morgana?"

"What?"

"You know how you two are always asking me to let you give me a makeover?"

Lily and Morgana's faces lit up as though Christmas has come early.