I'm not ill
I don't need to
Take a pill
To fix what you do
Cure can't come through
Cause baby, all I do is suffer from
Symptoms of you
Lindsay Lohan, Symptoms of You

Chapter Four: Truth or Dare

Their patrols went much smoother than the first time. Lily didn't trip and James didn't have to take her down to the Hospital Wing. They returned to the Head's Room, discussing Quiddich.

"We're still looking for a new chaser, all the ones that have tried out are horrible." James was saying. "Are you any good at Quiddich?"

"I'm a pretty good flyer, but I've never actually tried to play the positions or anything." Lily said thoughtfully.

"You should come and try out, it's loads of fun." James suggested hopefully. Lily shrugged.

"Maybe I will." she said after a moment of thinking. James smiled and Lily's stomach did the biggest backflip yet.

"What is with this?" she thought anxiously, refering to these frequent flip-flops and back flips, "Am I started to like James or something? No way! I don't like James Potter!"

They arrived at the Head's Room and said good night to each other. In six days, it would be full moon. James wondered how he could get out of patroling with Lily so he could join his friends in some Marauder mischief. His mind was crammed with thoughts when he drifted off into a deep sleep. The next day was saturday. (YAY! WEEKEND!) That night, Lily and James had the prefects meeting where they were supposed to warn them about sticking together.

Lily woke up at about 9:30 that morning and decided to go find her friends. She walked into the girl's dormitory where Nidale, Rochelle, Ash, and Jackie were on the floor, in a circle.

"Hey Lily!" Nidale said happily. Lily plopped herself down between Rochelle and Ash.

"What's up guys?" Lily said, turning to look at her friends.

"Since we are cut off from our magical items, we were playing an old fashioned game of truth or dare and it's my turn." Ash explained. She turned to her twin, "Jackie, truth or dare?"

Jackie thought for a split second before blurting out the word, "dare". Ash grinned evilly at Jackie, who stayed calm.

"All right, Jackie. I dare you to give yourself electric blue high lights that zigzag like lightning bolts. And they have to be pernament." Ash said evilly. Jackie laughed.

"Fine." she said, retrieving her wand from her night stand. She said a few unaudible words and pointed at her hair. About five or six eletric blue streaks appeared in her platinum blonde hair. She struck a pose.

"How do I look?" she joked as everyone started to giggle.

"Go look in the mirror." Rochelle said. Jackie smiled and looked into the mirror. She played around with her platinum, eletric blue streaked hair.

"I like it." she said brightly, taking a seat back on the floor.

"O.K, it's my turn. Lily, truth or dare?" Jackie asked, turning to look at Lily. Lily thought for a moment.

"Truth." she said, not wanting to have to end up dying her hair green, or something like that. Jackie grinned wickedly.

"Do you like James Potter?" she asked. Rochelle burst into a fit of giggles. Lily turned red.

"As a friend, yeah, but nothing more. He's fun to be around and he's a great guy and he's pretty good looking, but.." Lily's voice trailed off. Ash raised her eyebrows at her.

"If he's all of those things, why don't you like him?" she inquired. Lily bit her lip. Why didn't she like him if she had just said all of those things?

"I just.. don't." Lily said lamely. Nidale sighed.

"If you say so." she said slyly, "Okay, it's your turn."

Lily grinned.

"Rochelle, truth or dare?" she asked, turning to look at the strawberry blondie. Rochelle smirked.

"Dare." she said cautiously. Lily cackled to herself, making Rochelle go pale.

"Rochelle, I dare you to go down to the common room where all of the Marauders are and kiss Sirius Black." Lily said evilly. Rochelle's eyes bugged out, but she kept her cool.

"And we all have to go down with you to make sure it happens." Lily added. Rochelle sighed.

"I'll do it." she said finally. Nidale, Lily, Ash, and Jackie all started laughing hysterically and they filed out of the door and into the common room.

"Now, Rochelle, we don't want to see some old grandma kiss, you have to give all you got." Lily whispered. Rochelle winced. The other four girls sat down on arm chairs and started chatting to make it look natural and Rochelle walked over to a corner where Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter were discussing some future prank.

"Sirius?" she said. Sirius and the rest of the Marauders lifted their heads and Sirius stood up and grinned.

"Yes?" he said. Rochelle bit her lip and looked back at her friends. They had all done some sort of thing to keep themselves from bursting into laughter. Rochelle took a deep breath, turned to Sirius, and pulled him into a surprise kiss. She tried her best to --ahem-- "give it all she had". Rochelle could feel the heat rising in her face. She pulled away, took one look at Sirius's pleased face and ran up into the dormitory, closely followed by Lily, Nidale, Ash, and Jackie.

"I can't believe you actually did that!" Nidale said through giggles. Rochelle sighed.

"He is a great kisser." she said absentmindedly. Ash and Jackie rolled their eyes in unsion, Nidale pretended to gag, and Lily decided to ignore the comment. Rochelle seemed to snap out of her dream-like state and turned to Nidale.

"Nidale, truth or dare?" she asked. Nidale thought for a moment.

"Dare." she said. This made Lily feel like an idiot. No one other than her had said truth! Rochelle thought for a moment.

"Nidale, you have to go down stairs and 'confess' your undieing love for James Potter." she said slyly. Nidale laughed. Lily turned a little red.

"Fine." Nidale said, smiling.

"Who wants to be the wittness?" she asked. Lily stood up.

"I will." she said casually. She and Nidale walked down to the common room and Nidale walked over to the Marauders while Lily watched from afar.

"Okay, listen, James, we're all playing truth or dare and Rochelle dared me to come down here and confess my so called 'undieing love' for you. So, could you just please go along with it and make it look real?" Nidale asked pleadingly. James gave her a perplexed look, but then--

"But, Nidale! You can't love me, I'm in love with someone else!" James said loudly. Nidale was confused at first, but then she understood.

"Fine then, James! I don't know what all those girls see in you!" Nidale cried emotionally. She took a deep breath and pretended to slap James across the face. Lily watched with mild interest and wondered vaguely if James was okay. Not that he had actually gotten hit...

"Thanks, James. I owe you." Nidale mouthed and she and Lily walked up to the dormitory.

"I can't believe you slapped him!" Lily cried disbelievingly. Nidale smirked and shrugged as they entered the dormitory.

"Did you do it?" Rochelle asked excitedly. Nidale nodded and Rochelle, Ash, and Jackie started laughing.

"Okay, Ash, truth or dare?" Nidale asked as she and Lily took their seats on the floor. Ash didn't give it a second's thought,

"Dare." she said quickly. Nidale seemed to be thinking hard, trying to come up with a good dare. She snapped her fingers, a sign she had thought of something.

"Ash, you have to dye your hair hot pink and keep it like that for the entire weekend." she said excitedly. Ash grinned.

"You know I hate the color pink." she pointed out. Nidale grinned evilly.

"Exactly." she said happily. Ash sighed and pointed her wand at her hair. She took a deep breath and said a spell similar to what Jackie had said. Two moments later, Ash was transformed into a girl with cotton candy colored hair. She cautiously looked in the mirror and let out a small scream.

"Hey, at least yours is just for the weekend. I'm going to be electric blue for the rest of my life!" Jackie pointed out. The five girls laughed. Ash sighed and turned to Lily.

"Lily, truth or dare?" she asked.

"Dare." Lily said promptly. Ash grinned malaciously as Nidale whispered a dare in her ear.

"Lily Evans, I dare you to go down stairs," she said slowly. Lily raised her eyebrows.

"You dare me to go downstairs?" she asked disbelievingly. Ash rolled her eyes.

"I wasn't done yet! I dare you to go downstairs and kiss James." Ash finished. Lily felt herself losing her stomach and her face turned beet red. Rochelle's eyes flashed with excitement.

"I want to be the wittniss!" she exclaimed. Lily's throat was very dry as she and Rochelle walked down to the common room. Rochelle's and Sirius's eyes met and Rochelle blushed.

"Go ahead." she said smugly. Lily bit her lip and tried, in vain, to calm her flip-flopping stomach.

"Go outside the common room and hide behind a statue or something, 'cause I am not kissing him in front of the other Marauders." Lily said. Rochelle nodded and slipped out of the common room. Lily took a deep breath and walked over to James.

"J-James, could I, uh, talk to you outside?" Lily asked nervously. James flashed his winning smile at Lily and she felt her knees start to give away. He nodded and he and Lily walked out of the common room together.

"Okay, um, well.." Lily stumbled over her words, making her feel like a moron. James gave her a questioning look.

"All right, I, uh, asked you to come out here so.. so I could, um.." Lily stuttered. She took a deep breath and looked into James's hazel eyes. She leaned in and felt his warm lips against her's. She shivered a bit. The mere thought of kissing James Potter sent quivers down her spine. Though she wished she would not feel anything when she kissed him, she silently thought that it was the greatest kiss ever. She could of sworn she heard an excited squeal from Rochelle over by the statue of a one eyed witch. This made her cheeks burn and she knew she was turning red. She quickly pulled away from James, who looked like he was fighting the urge to jump for joy. She bit her lip and wringed her hands.

"Wow." James said, amazed.

"Yeah.." Lily breathed.

"You just--?"

"Well, only because of a dare." Lily said quickly. James's face fell.

"Oh." he said shortly.

"But please don't feel bad, because the truth is.. I rather enjoyed it." Lily said shyly. James looked up at her, making her go even more red.

"Really?" he asked hopefully. Lily nodded.

"But," she said loudly, "We're still just being friends."

James smiled at her and she felt her stomach leave her again.

"That sounds just fine." he said happily. They stood there for a moment, just smiling goofily at each other, before Lily remembered Rochelle was some where close by, watching and probably laughing her head off.

"Well, I'll see you at the prefect's meeting." Lily said brightly. James nodded and walked back into the common room.

"Okay, you can come out, Roch!" Lily called. Just as she had suspected, Rochelle had been hiding behind the statue of a one eyed witch, and she was giggling her head off.

"YOU KISSED HIM!" she said through giggles. Lily turned a light shade of pink.

"That was the dare and I did it." she said simply.

"All right, let's go.. Mrs. Potter." Rochelle said slyly. The two of them walked into the common room and Rochelle and Sirius's eyes met again, making Rochelle blush like crazy. James smiled at Lily and she smiled like a moron back at him.

"Watch it, Lils, you're drooling." Rochelle said, smiling. Lily glared at her and they walked up to the dorm.

"What took forever?" Jackie asked impatiently. "Did she kiss him?"

"Yup. She and James had a nice little snog session and Lily turned the color of her hair." Rochelle said happily. Nidale, Ash, and Jackie started laughing hysterically.

"Shut up!" Lily said, going red.

"So, Lily, you going out with him now?" Ash asked. Lily shook her head.

"We decided to stay friends." she explained. Nidale smirked.

"That'll last a couple of days." she said, rolling her eyes. Lily threw a pillow at her, shutting her up.

"Oh, come on, Lily, I've kissed him before and he's an awesome kisser! You can't look me in the eye and tell me that after the kiss your perspective on him didn't change at all." Ash said, rolling her eyes and twiddling her pink hair. Lily sighed.

"Let's put it this way: it's me against a Marauder and I think I'm starting to lose.." Lily said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Anyways, Jackie, truth or dare?" Lily said after a moment of silence.

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