"So I'm guessing your in my room than?" Lily asked after saying good night to the marauders and climbing up the stairs,
"I guess so." Carly said behind her. Lily opened the door to reveal three vanity beds with their trunks and everything at the end of each bed, "That's all?"
"Yeah, a lot of people didn't make it into our house our year. The other girl is barely ever here. Her friends are all 6th years so she usually sleeps in that room. Her names Trisha Finch." She looked at Carly's face, "I have friends their just in different houses."
"Oh. To bad for this other girl though, more fun for us." Carly grinned and began to unpack, "So Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter are the only boys in our year and house than?"
"Yup."
"What's with those names they have for each other?"
"Which ones?"
"There's more?"
"Oh yeah, Potter's nicknames consist of Potter, Prongs, jackass, 'captain', and his friends all call him variations of the word deer."
"Huh?"
"I don't get it either. Black's names are Black, Padfoot, dumbass, 'player', and yet again variations of the word dog."
"Right."
"Remus well it's either Lupin, Mooney, or something along the lines of wolf. Peter is Pettigrew, Wormtail, or rat. They even have nicknames for me." Carly nodded for her to continue, "I'm fiery (because of my temper), red, Lil's and tiger lily. If you wait they'll come up with one for you too." Carly laughed,
"So tell me," She said jumping into her bed already into her pajamas, "What's the history of these guys and you?" Lily grinned and walked over to Carly's bed,
"Well?"
"What?"
"Budge over," Carly moved over and let Lily in under the covers (An: their straight it's just something I think would happen.)
"Potter, Black, and Remus are all what the ladies would say as the biggest catches Hogwarts has seen sense the Prewett brothers…" Lily continued with her story while Carly listened intently. Once Lily came to the end she added, "I really would not get involved with Black though."
"Why?"
"He has a reputation of going threw girls like his first helping of dinner. Potter hasn't dated since the end of 5th year and I don't know why, and Remus just has a girlfriend every once in awhile."
"Oh. So why is Peter part of their little group?"
"I honestly have no idea I always wonder the same thing." The girls laughed and became quite as the door opened reveling a chubby, short girl with glasses,
"Evening," the girl said in a Scottish accent, "I'm Trisha." She said nodding at Carly, "Sorry Lily but I won't be joining you this year yet again."
"That's okay." Lily said smiling. Trisha smiled and grabbed her things and left. Once she left Carly turned towards Lily again,
"So…What's going on between you and James?"
"Nothing!" Lily said a little too quickly.
"I don't believe you." Carly said grinning. Lily stood up,
"Fine, don't then." She walked to her own bed,
"Come on Lily, you know you like him. Tell me about him." Lily shook her head and turned towards Carly,
"Well he used to be an arrogant jerk when he was younger, but ever sense I yelled at him at the end of 5th year he changed. He stopped asking me out every five seconds and began to become my friend. If you come friends with Potter you become friends with Black. It's just the way it goes and I was always friends with Remus. Anyway he just seemed nicer and at the prefect meeting today on the train, he took complete control. He was really mature about it." Carly grinned,
"He still likes you. You know that right?"
"Yes."
"So if he asked you out now you'd say yes?" Lily blushed,
"Maybe…" Carly giggled, "Night Lily,"
"Night Carly."
In the boy's dorm:
In the boy's dorm they all hade begun unpacking. James was carefully locking up his broom in his trunk. Remus was putting his books for tomorrow in his bag while Peter was making his bed. Sirius was pinning up posters of all types of things. When he got to one of just Carly, who was wearing her quidditch uniform and winked at him, he stopped, "I can't do this."
"What?" James asked taping his quidditch posters up.
"Now that I know who she is," he began rolling it up again, "it just feels weird." Remus took it from him and unraveled it and put it on his bed. The Carly picture smiled at both of them and began to fly around,
"You're lying."
"What!" Sirius exclaimed giving Remus a surprised look,
"You just don't know where to put it." Sirius smirked,
"Yeah your right." He looked around the room with his hands on his hips and decided to put it right above his headboard. James laughed as Sirius carefully taped it on the wall,
"So, when are you going to do it?" Sirius looked at him appalled,
"What do you mean? That was done in 5th year." James gave him a disgusted look,
"I don't care about that. I meant when are you going to ask her out?"
"Oh, I don't think I can."
"Why!" Peter let out a loud snore at James' voice and Remus grinned,
"Because she's to young?"
"Has that ever stopped me before?" Sirius winked and hopped into his bed.
Remus rolled his eyes,
"So why not?" James asked again,
"I don't really know. I mean we only know three things about her. One," he said ticking it off on his fingers, "she's hot. Two she's a quidditch star and she's smart. Three she likes food just as much as I do."
"That was four," Remus said, "Anyway how much did you know about Breanne? Or Megan? Or-" Sirius grinned,
"Alright I get your point. I…I mean she seems so untouchable…It's weird."
"Whatever," James said.
"Wait, Prongs?" Remus stopped him before he took off his glasses, "What about you and Lily?"
"What about me and Evans?"
"She seems to-" Sirius let out a loud snore, "like you this year."
"She didn't last year?"
"No, but I mean she really likes you." James shrugged and Remus continued,
"You don't notice it, but she does."
"What do you mean?"
"Well for instance today at dinner she kept sneaking glances at you, when you were talking to Carly and Sirius. Also on the train she seemed to like what you did at the Prefects meeting what ever you did…"
"Oh, well. She's going to have to make the first move not me." With that James pulled off his glasses and rolled over, "G' night Mooney."
"Night Prongs."
The next morning Lily awoke at promptly six o'clock and began poking Carly,
"Carly." She whispered softly. Nothing happened, "Carly!" She said a little louder now hoping up and down on Carly's bed. "CARLY!" Carly grunted and rolled over. Lily glared at the girl and hopped off the bed. She began to stare right in Carly's face. After about a minute or tow Carl began to squirm,
"That's really annoying." She said with her eyes still closed,
"Than get up! Classes start at eight."
"What are you so happy about? What time is it now?" Carly asked sitting up,
"About 6:15" Lily replied brightly,
"And why didn't you get me up at 7:30?" Carly grumbled and flopped back down on her bed,
"Because," Lily said pulling Carly back up, "I thought you wanted to see Black this morning." Carly blushed and stood up stretching,
"And I'm sure," She said following Lily into the bathroom, "that you want to see James also."
"I do not!" Lily exclaimed through her mouth full of tooth paste. Carly laughed and started brushing hers,
"Hey Lily?"
"What?"
"Do you know the straitening charm?" Carly asked pulling on her uniform,
"For what?" Lily said looking at Carly through the mirror,
"My hair." Lily looked up at Carly's hair, which was standing up in every direction.
"Yeah, come here."
When the girls left their dorm at around 7:00 they saw the boys stumbling down theirs. James' hair looked messier than yesterday and this caused Lily to blush and hide behind Carly. Carly looked down at her and than turned to see what she was looking at. Carly grinned when her eyes met Sirius' and he winked at her, "Follow my lead." She whispered to Lily who nodded. Carly hiked up her skirt and walked towards the door. Lily mimicked her and when she caught up to Carly Lily whispered nothing in her ear and Carly started to giggle and wave at the boys. Lily grinned and looked over her shoulder. They began a conversation about nothing and when they stepped outside the common room they busted out laughing. Lily regained her self and grabbed Carly's arm and they walked towards the Great Hall.
The boys more like James and Sirius watched the girls with opened mouths and waved stupidly when the girls waved at them. As Remus walked down the steps he laughed at them,
"Prongs? Padfoot?" He asked waving his hand in front of their faces. The two boys blinked and Sirius spoke first,
"I say it looks like its going to be a nice butt…I mean day." Remus snorted grabbing Sirius shirt and pulling him towards the door,
"Yes. Let's go and get some hips…I mean legs…wait…" James trailed off and followed Peter through the door. Once they reached the Great Hall the boys were out of their trance. Remus spotted Lily, who waved them over,
"Good Morning Lily."
"Morning Remus." Carly waved between forkfuls of cereal. Sirius sat himself
Next to Carly and Remus. James sat in-between Lily and Peter. Halfway through breakfast a shadow past over Carly's plate of eggs and bacon. She turned around and swallowed her food,
"Hello, Lucius." Sirius, Remus, and James' heads shot up and Lily looked at the boys as if they caught some diesis.
"I was just wondering…" He trailed off and plopped himself between her and Sirius. Sirius glared and pulled out his wand,
"Get out of here Malfoy."
"I'm not talking to you Black." He turned his head towards Carly and began to speak again, "As I was going to say would you fancy joining me for the next Quidditch match? It's Ravenclaw verse Hufflepuff." A thousands things crossed Carly's face as listened to him. One of the only ones Sirius picked up was the,
'Help Me!' look.
"I'm sorry to burst you bubble, Malfoy," Sirius said pushing him off the bench and on the floor, "but she's going with me." Sirius finished off his statement by wrapping an arm around Carly's waste and pulling her closer. He felt Carly relax against him. Malfoy stood there for about a minute or two until Sirius said,
"James moans Lily in his sleep." He gasped and clamped his free hand over his mouth. James looked wide eyed,
"Sirius hung Carly's poster over his bed." James did the same thing Sirius did,
"I sleep with my wand lit." The hall became silent,
"My mum calls me Jamie-poo." James and Sirius bolted up and ran out of the Great Hall with their hands over their mouths saying things like,
"When I was seven I walked in on my parents." And,
"My lucky underwear has teddy bears on it." Lucius smirked and began to walk back to his table while the entire hall burst out laughing. Remus dragging Peter followed James and Sirius out into the hallway.
"Wait a minute Malfoy." Carly said standing up with Lily on her side. Malfoy didn't stop.
"She said," Lily said freezing Lucius on the spot "wait." Carly walked over to Malfoy and pulled back her fist, but Lily stopped her too and dragged her out of the great hall. Dumbledore smiled and leaned towards McGonagall,
"And that is why I made Lily Evans head girl," She nodded and turned to face him,
"I realize that but why did you make Potter head boy?" Dumbledore waved off her question and unfroze Malfoy who went back to his table with a pink tint rising on his cheeks. All of a sudden Lily came running back into the Great Hall and up towards the teachers table,
"Excuse me. Professor McGonagall?"
"Yes, Evans."
"May I have our time tables?"
"Ours as in yourself, Potter, Black, Pettigrew, Lupin, and Mullet's?"
"Yes M'am." The professor nodded and handed her a stack of parchment and watched as Lily walked back towards the door. She shook her head at the group and went back to her breakfast.
"Once when I began singing a window broke," Sirius said looking at his feet from his sitting position on the floor.
"When I was 12 I stole a broom from the broom shed and flew without permission."
"Lily, when will this end?" Remus said sliding down the door of their first class. N.E.W.T potions.
"It should-"
"I think I'm in lo-" James was cut off by Lily,
"Silancio." She quickly put a silencing charm on him and Sirius who both gave her a look that clearly said, 'thank you.' "Like I was saying, it should wear off soon." The students began arriving and Carly helped Remus up,
"Well hello Mullet." A voice came from beside Carly. She looked around and saw Severus Snape standing with Goyle right by his said, "I heard you turned down my friend at breakfast." He grinned at her, it really seemed to look like a he had been forced to eat a worm, she backed up and was about to say something when Sirius wrapped his arm around her waist and glared at Snape. He glared back and walked into the classroom.