Chapter 23, Girls Just Want To Have Fun

"You never told me why you were so happy at the train station, Rin?"

It was past midnight, but they were having fun, pretending to have a sleep over.

"Oh, that," Rin started smiling again, except that it was one of those smiles that you try to hide. "Sirius just told me that he loves me!" She got really loud and squeaky at the last few words, then both of them broke out into giggles.

"That's so great! You're perfect together!" Lily exclaimed jumping up and down on her bed. Usually Lily would have been self conscious of the fact that she was acting so much like on of those girls that you see in the movies, but it was only Rin, and she knew that she wouldn't get weird at how much of a girl she was being. And, she really didn't think that she was paying any attention to Lily's behavior because a dreamy complexion had taken over her entire face. It was the look that she always got when she thought of Sirius.

Rin told Lily all about how he told her, and then managed to convince Lily to give her details on that night that James had told Lily (it took Rin nearly an hour to get Lily to talk, but she thought it was worth the wait.)

After a long while of being quiet, Rin asked, "Lil, do you think that after you've moved, we'll loose touch?"

"I don't know, that depends on where we're going, I guess. Why?" Lily answered thoughtfully. She had stopped jumping on her bed and was now lying on her side, facing Rin.

"Because I've read about people who used to be the best of friends, and when they get older they loose touch. Not just read actually. I've lived it too, and everyone else. No one's as close as they used to be anymore. My uncle Albert, he used to be best friends with Clemelc Vincent, and they just stopped talking after they left school. What if that happens to us?" Rin confided to Lily.

"It's not, we're too good of friends to let that happen. The only way that our friendship will die is if one of us die. And neither of us are going to die for a long time," she said it with so much confidence that you couldn't help but believe it.

"You're right… I'm just fretting over non-sense."

"Fretting…?"

"Yes, fretting…. You have a problem with the way I speak," Rin said playfully.

"Nopy- mopey- dopy."

"Let's go for a swim!" Rin yelled out of thin air.

"At 2 o'clock in the morning?" Lily pointed out dumbfounded as Rin jumped out of her bed and grabbed her swimming suit.

"Yeah! Nothing better than a morning dip to awaken the senses! C'mon!" Rin pushed Lily out the door, and into her room before leaving to change into her swimsuit in her room across the hall.

Lily walked to her drawer and pulled out a strange purple and brown swimsuit, grinning. 2 o'clock in the morning! What is she thinking!

Lily walked out, only to be startled by Rin, waiting just outside her door. Lily screamed and cringed a little, then started laughing.

"Don't do that!" Lily scolded her, while Rin said, "Shhh…. You might wake up mum and dad!"

"Why haven't they heard all the noise we've been making these past few hours anyway?"

"Simple, they're on the floor underneath us. They have the whole fourth floor to themselves. I have no idea what they do in that whole fourth floor, and I really don't want to know."

"Where is this pool?"

"My, my, filled with all sorts of questions tonight, aren't we?" Rin giggled. "It's in the basement, the second basement. The first one is the game room."

"Ahhh…. How do we get to the second basement? I don't recall seeing a way to get anywhere passed the first floor.

"There's a way. You just can't find it if you don't know where it is!" Rin yelled as they started to slide down to the first floor.

Rin led Lily to the center of the foyer, and placed her palm upon the ground, then said, "Gary meet Floyd, Floyd meet Winston, and Winston meet Keith."

With those strange greetings, the ground came open, swirling around and around to form a huge gap in the center of the foyer.

"C'mon, be prepared to stop suddenly."

Rin told Lily, grabbing her hand and jumping in. Lily was prepared to hit water, but instead she landed in a nice fluffy box of towels.

"Like? I put them there specially so no one breaks their backs coming in." Lily had never seem Rin smile so much in her life. It seemed nothing could bring her down at the moment.

"Definitely! Only problem is, I can't get my bloody self out!" Lily said laughing, trying to tumble out.

"Like this." Rin threw her leg over the other, and twisted her entire side, so that she would fall face down on the floor.

"Or like this," and Lily turned herself, and tried to move but nothing happened. "How come that always works in the movies? A hand please."

"Sure, I've got ten, no wait, I want ten, I've only got two," Rin answered grasping Lily's hands and pulling her up.

"Thanks, last one in is a Spoogle - butt!" Lily yelled running to the water slide.

"On the count of three! One - dos- "Nice mix on Spanish and English," Lily said, receiving a huge smile and a nod thirty!" Rin yelled.

Lily, slid down the slide, and then just as she was about to break water, realized something.

"Thirty!" Lily yelled at Rin, who was laughing, when she broke water.

"Si! And you fell for it!" She didn't seem like she could stop laughing. Lily pulled herself out of the pool, and walked over to Rin, who was laughing on the floor.

"You know, it wasn't that funny!" Lily said, smiling a little herself too.

When Rin's laughter subsided, she stood up and walked to the edge of the pool, and prepared to dive, when Lily pushed the small of her back and she completely fell in.

"Lily! What was that for?"

"Revenge, sweet- sweet revenge," Lily rubbed her hands together devilishly, and jumped in. Rin didn't much enjoy getting splashed. So she splashed Lily. Lily, who didn't like being splashed anymore than Rin did, started splashing too. The nest thing they knew they were throwing gallons of water at each other.

After a while of splashing water, they both swam over to separate ends of the pools.

"It echo's in here!" Lily shouted, hearing the word 'here' in various decibels around the pool area.

"Echo!" Rin shouted, getting the same sort of repetition as Lily did.

They were both very out of breath from the splashing, so they just talked for a while. About James and Sirius.

"Do you think about him in that sense though?" Rin asked Lily.

"What sense?"

"Like the 'beyond kissing sense," Rin explained.

"Ohhh…" and expression of understanding came onto her face with a blush so strong the water around her was reflecting that shade. "Um…. Well…. It's…. I can't…. I - nevermind. Do you?"

Lily tried to stop herself from thinking about James in that way, but whenever she though of him, she could stop. Her mind was roaming, and it sort of felt wrong and yet strangely satisfying. Not that she loved thinking that way about him. Given a choice, she would have stopped at kissing in a heart beat.

"I've only once. But that was in a dream, quite creepy really."

"Yes, but is he in your dreams every single night?"

"No, not really, why?"

"Because James is," Lily finished quietly.

Rin giggled, as Lily pulled herself out of the pool and went to the diving board.

"I wish they'd stop, they're sort of annoying. I mean, once I dreamed I'd killed my mum and he was standing in the background just watching. It's very hard to try and kill your mum when the man you love is standing in the corner looking," Lily sucked in a deep breath and dived under in a perfect ark.

"Killing your mum?" Rin asked as Lily came up to the surface.

"Hey, in my defense she was trying to kill me first!" Lily became defensive very quickly, especially with things that concerned her subconscious.

"Sure, sure. Let's race!" Rin said with far too much enthusiasm for someone who was awake at four in the morning.

They raced about ten times before deciding to take a shower and try to sleep a little.

"How do we get up, if we fell through a hole in the ceiling?"

"Lily, Lily Lily, haven't you learned by now that there's a little invention called a mechanical elevator?" Rin grinned and walked to a box that could have fit all four marauders and their lunches, times two, standing up.

"Holy hell!" Lily exclaimed walking into the elevator, Rin following.

"Yeah, pretty roomy," Rin said, pulling on one of the two ropes that pulled the cart up. She consulted the little list on the left wall, to tell her where the shower rooms were.

"Ahh… right, third floor, showers! Here we come!"

"Rin."

"Yes my little chick- a - dee?"

"You're too perky right now," Lily said giggling.

The rest of the ride was silent. When they reached the third floor, Lily found an extremely white hallway. There were at least thirty doors on one side, all reading 'UNOCCUPIED', and bathroom things (soap, toothbrush, toothpaste) across from each of the doors for anyone who may have forgotten anything.

When Lily opened the one of the doors, which currently read 'UNOCCUPIED' the words changed to 'TAKEN BY LILY EVANS, GUEST IN ROOM 30.'

"Geeze Rin? This place is so… organized," Lily said in an awe. She liked things organized, but this was too much for her. When Rin opened her door, she found that the sigh changed from it's 'UNOCCUPIED' to 'TAKEN BY CHATHERINE SUGARWEETS HEIR TO SUGARSWEETS MANSION.'

When they finished their showers, and changed back into their pajama's, they got comphy in another guest bedroom, so that they could talk some more. The walls in this guest bedroom, opened up entirely, so that you could turn it into one happy room for a party or something.

Lily and Rin pushed both beds together in the center, where the wall would have been and spent the entire rest of the night talking away everything that they never could have said in Hogwarts because you never know who might have been listening. It seemed everything in that school had ears, and mouths.