The Essence Of Cool

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Flocky...You Rock My Socks...

Lilly woke up on a hot and sunny Friday afternoon. She was going to Diagon Alley today. Her friends were meeting her at The Leaky Cauldron. She absolutely couldn't wait. She had just found out that she was to be head-girl and with none other than one of her best friends as head-boy.

Lilly Evans and James Potter were two of the smartest and most popular students at Hogwarts, no matter what year. They were both beautiful people. James had his group of friends, the Marauders, as they called themselves.

This group incorporated four very different yet admired boys. The first is James Potter. He was the leader, loved by all including the professors. He had messy raven hair, that was fairly long, and he had gorgeous hazel eyes. The next in line was Sirius Black. He was devilishly handsome, also known as the playboy. His most prominent features were his long brown hair, which he always spent forever on, and his smile that could make any girl fall to her knees. He and James were the ones most often executing the major pranks. Then there was Remus Lupin. He was the brains of the group. He was also very cute but always kept to himself. He had caramel colored hair that suited him perfectly and amber eyes that were, well, wolfish. Last and well least, would be Peter Pettigrew. He was shy and not so attractive. He was fairly short and larger than the rest of the group, he had short blond hair and small dark eyes. The rest of the group often got him to do the stupid and embarrassing pranks. He had known the group just as long as any other member. These boys all came from pure blooded families. So at the age of 9 they all met at a party and decided to pull a prank, from there on out they were the best of friends.

Then there were the girls. They never really had a name seeing as they thought making up names was just too cool for them. This group was made up of 3 girls. The first was Lilly Evans. She was beautiful. Every boy in the school wanted to be with her and every girl wanted to be her. She had deep emerald almond shaped eyes and shocking red hair that was always perfectly curled around her shoulders. The next in line would be the drop dead gorgeous Celina Smith. Everyone knew her and she knew everything about everyone. She had shiny black hair that was perfectly straight, it fell to the middle of her back. She was the darkest of the group with deeply tanned skin and honey colored eyes. She was not the most conservative girl in the school. Therefore she was immensely popular. The last but in no means least was Tiana Carter. She had short blond hair that fell in layers around her face. Her sparkling blue eyes and perfect smile made her very desirable. She was the one that was always in some sort of relationship. These girls all met on the fateful September 1st aboard the Hogwarts express.

Today was the day that she was going to go and get all of her stuff for her final year at Hogwarts. She was sad in a sense because this would be her last school trip to Diagon Alley. The only thing that stoped her from crying as thinking of hat an amazing year this was going to be. The gang was going to have major parties, pull some hilarious pranks and making certain the school would remember them for many, many years.

As Lilly started packing for James' house. She gathered everything she hoped she would need. All of her school stuff as well. She was beyond excited.

Lilly walked into the bar to see James and the gang sitting there.

"Jamsie Boy, were you hiding from me?" said Lilly with a sly smile on her face.

"Lilly, oh my god, im so excited to see you!" said Tiana as she jumped on to Lilly with a bone crushing hug. The rest of the group sat smiling and laughing to themselves.

"Nice of you to finally join us. It sure took you long enough. Why must you always keep us waiting Lilly babe?" said James trying to look truly angry and disappointed, but he failed and the smile was pulling at his lips.

"Hey! I am not late. I got here perfectly on time. Because seeing as its me, you should have expected me to be a half hour late, geez! Sometimes I feel like you don't know me at all!" said Lilly looking sad, she turned around and started to fake sob. James kept telling her to stop playing around, but she wouldn't until he finally got up to put an arm around her and she lifted her head up and showed him the biggest "I got you" smile she could plaster on.

"I got you! Haha, I really had you fooled didn't i?" said Lilly while laughing at him. James was looking down at her with an annoyed look on his face signaling that she was far from the truth. "Just admit it, I had you!" said Lilly as she sat down at the table and began to talk with Celina. James, still smiling was talking to Sirius about the little plan they had made up for the girls for today.

"So, are we just going to sit here all day? Or are we going to get off our asses and do some shopping!" exclaimed Tiana as she jumped up from her seat.

"Yeah, yeah we're coming just chill for a second alright?" said Sirius as he and James finished up they're conversation.

"Wow, this place is great. Man I hate that we'll never come back here as a group to buy our school stuff. This kind of sucks, a lot!" said Remus. They were all walking down the street in a line that went: James, Lilly, Sirius, Tiana, Remus, Celina, Peter. They walked down every so often stopping to say hi to someone they knew or to go into a store. The first store they went into was the bookstore. For Lilly this was great. No matter how much of a crazy rebel Lilly was she loved to read. The boys all protested when she suggested going into that store first.

"But Lilly! That store is so boring. It's all stuffy, and the books are scary. They have too many words in my opinion. I think all books should have all pictures, now I would buy those books!" said Sirius in his whiniest tone.

"Sure you would Sirius the only was to get you to buy books would be if there was some naked girl on the front. Even then you wouldn't read a word it said." said Celina her voice sounding deeply sarcastic. Sirius just turned and gave her an evil look. At this point they had already entered the bookstore. The entire time in there all they heard was Sirius' whining. This certainly sped Lilly up as she only spent half an hour in there. When they finally exited the boys were so anxious to do something fun.

"Let's go to the quidditch store!" said James.

"No way, we need ice cream. Im Hungry!" said Sirius again, whining.

"Shut Up. You dorks! We need to get more stuff for school. We have only been here for an hour," said Lilly deeply annoyed. She and the girls decided to just ignore them as they were fighting over where to go next. They set off towards the robes store. All of the girls needed new dress robes. Seeing as this year, one Lilly and James were in charge of school activities so there would be lots and two the graduation ball was going to occur at the end of the year. They entered the store got all of their robes sized, chosen and paid for. They left and to Lilly's proper assumption they were sitting there with ice cream waiting for them.

"Oh why thank you boys! Just what we needed!" Lilly exclaimed with a big grin on her face. She and the girls sat down at the table and slowly started to eat they're ice cream. All of a sudden Peter started to look nervous and jittery. He looked down at his half finished ice cream and pushed it away. He stood up and looked around, his eyes darting from one side of the street to the other. The rest of the gang had stopped talking and were all just looking at him.

"Umm… sorry guys, but I have to go. I don't think I'll be able to stay at your place James. Umm…yeah, I better leave now." With that said he scurried down the Alley and out of sight.

"Okay, that was just weird. Since when does Peter ditch us?" Sirius was saying with a dumbfounded look on his face.

"Oh, whatever, that guy is weird anyways. He just follows you guys around, doesn't it ever bother you?" Tiana said.

"Nah, we've known him forever. He really is a great guy. He has just been acting weird lately always like that." Remus said looking almost worried about him.

"Precisely, but, we don't need him to make this week fun! I really think you girls will like my place. Enough about that, we still have some shopping to do. Let's go I need to get a new owl, my mom took my last one for the family and we still need our robes." James said.

"I guess we're splitting up again. Well how about we come with you to get your robes, just to make sure you guys don't end up picking the ugliest ones," said Celina with an amused face.

"What, we have impeccable fashion sense! We wouldn't pick out anything bad," whined Sirius with a sad look on his face. The girls awed at him while pushing him into the robes store. The stood there and watched each of the boys pick out clothes. Lilly was the one who found the perfect robes for James, they were dark red silk, and they made his black hair accent perfectly. Celina picked out Remus' robes, they were deep royal blue they made him look adorable. Tiana had found the perfect robes for Sirius. They were black and very silky, but when he turned they had a red shine. The girls knew exactly what they were doing, and they were happy to help. They bought the robes and went with James to get his owl. By this time it was getting dark and they were starving. They decided it was best to go home then, seeing as they had bought all they needed. James called his Limo to pick them up out side the Leaky Cauldron. When it arrived they dumped all they're bags into the back and they piled into the car.

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