Disclaimer: Apart from Jess, I do not own any of the characters, that honour resides with J.K.Rowling.
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Chapter 8 - The prank/s.
A/N: Ok I really do need Microsoft Word back. I don't have a spell checker! And I try my best :cries: but I'm just not a great speller. Sorry about that anyway! And also you guys don't say this story is funny. And its meant to be funny. But I get so involved in the plot that I forget about putting in the humour. So I will try to make it funny again. I'm sorry if you really hate my sense of humour and just think this story is crap...:(
Oh & SOO SORRY for the HUGE LONG AGES time since I've last updated, I've been sooo busy! Coursework & all that. But talk to me! Mt email address is on the main page! I love you all! Please REVIEW yay!
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Girls Dormitories.
10:30pm
Ahh, sunday. How I love thee.
Great Hall
11:00am.
No breakfast for me. Just a goblet of water. Good no-calories water.
11:10am
I got a letter! Hmm, who is it from?
11:15am
OMG! I have absolutely no idea who it was from. Er, let me show you:
Jess.
I have a surprise for you.
Go to the astronomy tower at 9:30pm.
See you there.
I don't know who that is! It could be anyone! Do I go? Better ask Lily.
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7:30pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh god!
The guys did it.
The prank.
They went through with it.
Ok I'll tell you what happened.
Lily & me walked into the Great Hall and everybody was kinda staring at us. It was really wierd, we half ran back to our table. And then just as the food was appearing and everybody was settled the stupid "Dark Arts" crowd walked in, throwing opening the doors to the Hall becuase they like to make an entrance, Narcissa Black at the front, behind her two unknown (to me) guys that were tallish and had not-very-nice sneers on their faces. Then behind them Severus Snape and a few other lower ranked girls. What posers. More to the point, what ammateurs.
So anyway they walk in and sort of stand there framed in the doorway for a minute, smirking around at all the tables, like they expect to have a fan blowing on them and photographers surrounding them. And then, wierdly, James stands up and starts clapping, slowly. Then Sirius stands up nest to him and claps too. Then at the same time so do Remus and Peter. The four of them are just standing there, clapping these Slytherins. And I look over at the teachers table and they are all kinda watching with interest, Dumbledore was kinda just smiling at the Marauders. It was wierd.
The Slytherins are still standing there.
And then James gives me and Lily 'a look', still clapping, and Lily sort of grins at me and drags me up and starts clapping, and I join in. And then some other boys from Gryffindor join in too, standing up and clapping at the "Dark Arts" crowd. (Mental note, call them the DAC).
Eventually all of Gryffindor are standing up and clapping, and I glance at Sirius and he's sort of smiling, really cool, at the DAC like his ingenious plan is going smoothly.
And THEN eventually Hufflepuff & Ravenclaw join in too. And these three tables are just standing there clapping at the DAC who are all frozen in their stupid doorway, like they don't know what to dow ith themselves. And I glance again at Dumbledoor and he's really smiling now, and he's studying the Marauders and smiling at them, like he knows whats coming.
And then Sirius and James looked at me and Lily. And Sirius was grinning at us and winking and James was mouthing "Duck."
So we did.
And once me and Lily were crouched under the table, all hell broke loose. I heard James and Sirius give a huge "WHOOOP!" and then I heard someone scream.
And then these four grinning faces are crouched under the table with us, and they are all putting their fingers to their mouths and I'm stuffing my hand into my mouth to stop myself giggling, becuase it dawns on me that this is REALLY hilarious. And then we hear lots of talking and then someone stepping across the room and then a huge swishing sound. And then some other people scream and I hear a teacher (Flitwick!) shouting "Quieten down, quieten down, we'll fix this is a jiffy!".
And then theres a sort of splatting sound and someone else screams and a few people laugh and then the Marauders quickly stand up and then we hear someone yell "OI!" and then more splatting sounds. And they appear under the table with us again, all laughing and I'm desperate to take a look at whats happening. But I daren't.
All I can hear is laughter and splats and shouts and screams.
And I can't resisit it anymore, I have to look.
And I see the DAC hanging in a net from the ceiling and covered in food. And then the rest of the school is throwing food. And its complete chaos and the loudest scream of all is Snape's. And I look back at him and he's gripping onto the others from the DAC and has his eyes shut tight. And he's just screaming so loudly.
I found out later that this was becuase Snapey has a HUGE fear of heights. Genius.
And then something hits the back of my head and Lily is yanking me back under the table and the five of them are all crouched there in histerics. And I join in. It was great. But then I heard Dumbledore and McGonagal arguing about something and then McGongal shouting "This is ridiculous!" and then suddenly everythings gone quiet apart from Snapes screams. And us four get back up and the whole hall is clean again and everyone is silent. And McGonagal is waling over to the net with the DAC in it and she says "Kindly be quiet Mister Snape, I'll get you down any moment now." And then she waves her wand and the DAC all come crashing to the floor. And McGonagal smirks and sweeps around and heads back upp to the teachers table and the DAC are all in a pile on the floor and groaning in pain. Then Dumbledore stands up and says "Dismissed." And everyone files out, most of them making sure to treat on the DAC as they head through the doorway. It was great.
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11:30pm
Ok I found out who the note was from. I'll start at the begining, just for suspence's sake.
So at 9 I'm all ready and heading up to the tower. It'll take me half an hour to get up there what with the sneaking round. I couldn't find Lily to tell her where I was going, but I just figured that her and Potter had sneaked off to shag in a broom closet or something.
So I get there kinda late becuase I had to hide for 10 minutes in a closet to avoid Filch and that damn cat. And I walk into the room alll suspence, wonderign who was in there. And its all dark and I can't see. And then I mutter "lumos" and I see through my wandlight, Lily, James, Sirius, Peter & Remus. And I'm thinking, Oh shit.
And Lily lights al the lamps in the room and its light and she's all "Hey."
Well what do I say to THAT!
I'll tell you what i say.
I say "Hey." right back.
She goes: "Sit down." and theres a chair in the middle of the floor and Sirius is grinning at me and he kind of does a fancy hand gesture towards it.
So I sit.
And then Lily says, "Jess, basically, I know you've been starving yourself to get thin and -"
"Wait!" I inturrupt
"- and we think its utterly ridiculous. Look at you, you're as skinny as a rake."
"OI!" I yelled, angrily. Hell yeah I was angry. They'd dragged me up here for THIS! And if you want the truth I was kinda humiliated too. I mean it was obvious I'd come up here expecting to meet a boy. And instead I was here to get probed about my dieting infront of the boy I fancy like mad and his three best mate. So yeah I was pretty much humiliated.
They all waited for me to say something else.
"Um, I'm not straving myself." I finish, really meekly.
"Yeah you are! Look at you, your so skinny mate, its unhealthy to not eat." say james, which I think is really sweet of him and I smile at him and I'm starting to feel better untill he adds, "And we all know whats its for Jess (he looks pointedley at Sirius and they kinda smirk at each other) and trust me mate, you've got no worries there."
I'm blushing BRIGHT red by this time. Jesus.
"Yeah!" Sirius adds " Listen Jess it's really sweet of you to go to all this trouble just for me. Lily told me about how you were upset. But I think your great."
AAARRRGGGHHHHH!
This is becoming a sort of we-feel-sorry-for-Jess-so-lets-compliment-her-shall-we-? fest. I look pointedly at Lily and fix her with a death glare. She has the decency to look ashamed.
"Sorry." she says quickly, looking down. I realisse that she's blushing too, but I'm in no mood to sympathise with HER problems. "Listen Jes just start eating normally and none of us will have to worry about you, okay?"
I feel like yelling "NO!" at her then walking right out of the room, but I don't wanna act like a complete drama queen infront of Sirius.
I sigh. "Fine. Whatever. Now can we go back to the common room please?"
They all smile infuriatingly, like their job has been done and James announces "Lets stop by the kitchens first, I'm dyin' for a cuppa hot chocolate."
When we're all standing in the kitchens after the house elves have whipped up some hot chocolate for us all Lupin skoots over to me and mutters "Sorry about all that Jess, it must have been rather embarresing. i did try to talk them out of it, but once Lily let slip about you dieting James and Sirius seemed to think that this would be a GREAT way to fill up their boring Sunday evening."
I smiled at him and hugged him unexpectedly. None of hug each other and I got a few wierd looks from the others but nobody commented. Infact Remus looked rather red and grinned at me.
And now I'm gonna go to bed since this has all tired me out.
A/N: HURRAH! An update! Finally! You love me! Now I promise there wont be an update for as long LOOONNNGG time unless you REVIEW! The more reviews the faster I update, promise! I'm kinda busy atm with it being GCSE year and everything, but I'll try my best!
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