Disclaimer: It would seem that clubbering J.K. does not helpt one bit in gaining the characters...

6. P.H.A.R.T.

(Before you read this chapter, please note that it will be pretty boring at first, but that's just me having my fun. If you really read it, you might recognise some anime and movies/books other than just Harry Potter. All the copyrights to their respective owners and a cookie to the ones who tell me all the correct names )

When everybody had gotten back from Hogsmeade and went to diner, they all filed up to their dormitories to get ready for the party, which started at eight. Or rather, which was supposed to start at eight. Of course nobody would come that early, as everybody wanted to be 'fashionably late'. Their loss. The common room was beautifully decorated. The walls had been temporarily painted black, with splatters of orange, so that it seemed like somebody had tripped over the orange paint cans and ruined everything. In the fire grid, there was an actual black and orange fire, of which the smoke rose in little shapes of pumpkins and such.

All the chairs and couches had been magically put to the sides of the room so that a dance floor was available. In one corner of the room, there was a long table with drinks and food, amongst them were punch (completely red with frosted eyeballs floating in it), butterbeer, candy canes (orange and black), sugared skulls, chocolate frogs, fizzing whisbees and more of such stuff. There was some light music playing when the first people arrived. They were all first years, as the older students really wanted to make an entrance. The dress-code with this particular party was not scary, as you would expect of something Halloweeny-like. It was more like 'strange'. Amongst these few first years, there were two guys, one dressed in completely red and wearing a white wig and one wearing white and a bit of red with some strange kind of armour and also a white wig who constantly seemed to be fighting, a few girls with horns and pink wigs, who were destroying some stuff with their wands, but pretending to do the same thing with invisible arms and afterwards repairing it, since it was after all school property, another guy in completely red and with his blonde hair spiked up, constantly scanning the food table for donuts and lastly, a girl in a skimpy blue skirt and a blue shirt, with long brown hair, who kept insisting on not hugging any guy unless they told her they weren't from some particular family.

The next group of people that came down was a group of nine guys, five rather small ones and the other four fairly sized. Four of the five small ones were bare and hairy footed, and one of them kept glancing around and clutching a necklace he had. One of the other four was very protective of the shifty-eyes guy, the other two were simply a comic duo. The last one had a heavy beard, a helmet and an axe which he kept brandishing. Amongst the other four, the tallest one was dressed in grey and looked pretty similar to Dumbledore (or rather, Dumbledore looked like him! He was there first! If you catch my drift..), another pretty tall one with fair blonde hair, who was skimping and prancing around the room, a brown haired guy with a big shield and a horn, and he kept asking if one of the hairy footed people would blow on it. The last one from the taller ones looked pretty rugged, but he too kept grasping at a necklace and grew teary eyed every time he did.

After them came a group of three girls, two tall and one short and also hairy footed. The two tall ones were a pretty brunette and a pretty blonde, and the rugged one with the teary eyes immediately ran towards the brunette and the small one with the helmet to the blonde (mwahaha, I'm having sooo much fun!). The small girl was also pretty in a hairy footed way, and the guy with the hairy feet who had been so concerned about the wimpy tiny guy with the hairy feet ran towards her after asking permission of the wimpy guy with the hairy feet. (Ok, Mitsje, breathe now…hahaha) After about one hour, everyone except the seventh years was in the common room and the party was already in full swing. The two first year boys dressed in red and white continued their argument throughout the party, gaining a lot of stares when the white guy grabbed the other by the neck and shoved him up a wall (Ah, he does seem to love that, doesn't he? Teeheeheeeeeee ). The brown haired guy with the shield attacked the wimpy little guy, both all the while grasping for the wimpy one's necklace, until the overprotective guy came back and bit the taller one's ankles.

Then, at long last, the remaining four girls came down, all looking really pretty in their 18th century dresses. A few guys (including the donut-craving one) commented them and asked them for a dance, but they all declined and sat down.

Not long after they came down, the lights went out, and the people who had been there last year all cheered and hoped for something similar. The first years had no clue as to what was happening, and the pink haired ones stopped their rampage for a moment. A disco number came one, and then a first sight of a glittering heel came into view. Peter was the first to stumble down the stairs on high, green glittering heel and a tight green, also glittering dress that came just below his knees. A few laughed as he almost tripped on the last few steps. Next was Remus. He had a blood red, ankle length dress, with matching shoes and gloves. James followed soon, in a blue mini skirt and tank top, with lace up high heeled sandals. And last but certainly not least, Sirius trotted down the stairs, looking very confident, even though he was wearing a black leather mini skirt and an even smaller tank top, also black leather, with matching knee length boots.

Everyone cheered as they started dancing vigorously to the music, and then they all joined in, except for the four girls. They were way too busy laughing their heads off. As the song ended, the guys made their way over to them and sat down as well. They sat down very discretely, all etiquettely. They grinned at the girls.

'And, was I right?' Sirius asked Anna.

She chuckled before she answered. 'Yes, yes you were. Absolutely mind bottling.'

'Remus, are you going to wear that to the date? And if you do, do I have wear a tux?' Maggie managed between two fits of laughter.

Remus simply grinned back. Peter was plucking at his dress.

'I can't understand how you put up with this stuff…I can barely breathe!'

'You've got no right of speaking, we're actually wearing corsets!' Susie said.

'Really now? Guys, why don't we go adjust ourselves to these ladies?' James suggested.

Sirius pouted. 'But I like these boots!'

They all laughed again as the guys went back up to their dormitory, shaking their hips exaggeratingly while strutting up the stairs, earning some woflwhistles and catcalls from the guys and some girls.

They came back after about ten minutes, wearing 18th century tuxedo's and hats. Peter even sported a cane (tha cane! Lucius hearts tha cane! Bwahaha.. okay, I'll shut up now).

Just then, somebody put on some sort of waltz music, and the guys, as if on cue, held out their hands. Naturally, Anna and Sirius got stuck together. AS there were more couples waltzing, near everybody was surprised to see the constantly fighting guys also waltzing together (YEAH!).

'So, are you having a good time, Miss Smith?' Sirius asked.

She smiled at him. 'I am, actually. You?'

'Of course. How could I not, with a stunning lady in my arms?'

'Oh, shove it, you're ruining the mood.'

'Ah, but it is true! Your good looks have made the moon sick and pale in-'

Anna laughed. 'You know some Shakespeare?'

'That I do.'

'What on earth made you want to read Shakespeare?'

'You don't like him?'

''Course I do, I just don't see you reading him.'

'Ah. Well, then you would be right. Remus is simply constantly quoting him.'

She laughed again and they waltzed on. Then suddenly, as fate would have it, the waltz changed into a slow song. Every couple clung even more to each other, even the fighting guys (aww…why yes, I do like yaoi ), as did Sirius to Anna. She didn't really protest, but she didn't like it either.

'This…is awkward,' she said, her head on Sirius' shoulders.

'Why?' he said, almost in a whisper.

'Because…,' her voice got caught in her throat, 'Never mind.'

'No, no, I want to know. Tell me, please.'

She sighed and they danced on in silence for a while. Just as she was about to tell him what she had wanted to say, the song ended and she saw her chance to break away. She avoided him for the rest of the evening, until it was time to clean up. Remus and Maggie, along with Peter and Susie had already snuck up to the dormitories earlier in the evening, and so it was just the four of them. Anna took Lily apart.

'Lily, I almost told him how I feel!'

'Isn't that a good thing?'

'NO!'

'Why not?'

'Because he'll make fun of me.'

'How d'you figure?'

'He'll just do, I know it.'

'And you're afraid you can't handle that?'

'Well, kind off…'

'Just tell him, Anna. I'm sure it'll work out just fine.'

And with that Lily stalked off, pushed James up his stairs and went off to her own dormitory. Now they were alone again.

'So, mind telling me what you found so awkward about that slow dance?'

She sighed again, and looked at him. He was looking at her, his grey eyes boring into her own.

'Because…because I kind of like you, and you don't like me back, that's why.'

'Who ever told you I don-'

'You did. The other day, with Truth or Dare.'

'You take that game really seriously, don't you?'

'Yes, I do,' she said bitterly, 'why do you ask?'

'Because I don't.'

She looked at him again. 'What do you mean?'

'I mean, I kind of lied to Maggie.'

He walked over to her and pushed her chin up so that she was facing him. There were tears in her eyes.

'I mean…I do like you.'

He bent down and kissed her gently. When he pulled away, she was crying.

'What's wrong?'

'Was hoping you'd say something like that all weekend.'

He laughed at this and kissed her again. When they broke apart, she was smiling.

'That's better. I was thinking you were crying because I'm a bad kisser.'

Now it was her turn to laugh.

'Uhm…anyway…we should go get some sleep,' she said, blushing a bit.

'Yeah, you're right.'

They walked towards the staircases. As Anna walked up her own, Sirius called out to her.

'What light, through yonder window breaks?'

Anna smiled as she heard it, and stood still to hear the rest.

'It is the East, and Anna is my sun.'

She laughed and yelled 'Goodnight!' at the top of her lungs before slamming the door to her dormitory shut rather loudly. Lily bolted upright on her bed.

'What is it, what happened, tell me everything!'

Anna smiled and sat down on her friend's bed to tell her what happened.

I liked this chapter, with all the other characters showing up, mwahaha. I've got no idea what's going to happen next... suggestions? Oh, and I know the anime and the film I described wasn't there yet (though the book was) when the Marauders were young, but again, bear with me.