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Chapter 31

"I can't concentrate!" Jenny freaked, dumping her books on the table and clutching her hair.

"Draught of peace Jenny," Lily told her friend. It was a week before the exams and everyone had taken refuge in the library for peace and quiet. The boys had all disappeared off somewhere which the girls had decided not to ask about.

"You'll be fine Jen," Tash said, pulling out her copy of beginners guide to auror training. "Oh this is pointless! I can't just study a book, I need a moving target!"

"I'm sure we could make the Slytherins stand still long enough for you to jinx them," Lily said. "Come on, it's late, we'd better get back to the common room."

They hurried up the staircase to the common room. Lily couldn't help noticing how few students were around. Everyone seemed quite content to stay in their common room or the library and study.

"Hey!" Jenny said suddenly whipping out her wand. Tash and Lily did the same just as Jenny shouted, 'impedimenta!'

Looking at what had frozen Lily saw a dirty grey rat which Jen was now hovering in midair.

"Peter!" Lily said in recognition. Tash waved her wand and there was a flash of light. Peter Pettigrew appeared suspended in midair.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Lily asked.

"Nothing," Peter said turning red from all the blood rushing to his head.

"Were you following us?" Tash asked.

"No," Peter spluttered.

"Who ordered you to follow us?" Lily asked, ignoring his last response.

"No one!" Peter squeaked.

"I'll bet it was the boys," Jenny said. "He does anything they tell him to."

"No! It wasn't them!" Peter said urgently but the girls were paying no attention.

"I think we need to go and see our boyfriends," Lily said. Jenny nodded and let Peter down none to gently.

"Sorry about that," she smiled apologetically before running after her friends.

OOO

"Guys! Where are you?" Lily asked. Having found no evidence of the boys in the common room they had decided to search the dorm.

"Nothing," Tash said. "They aren't here."

"It's ten o clock where else could they be?" Jen asked in frustration.

"What about the map?" Lily asked.

"Good idea," Jenny said whipping out her wand and performing a summoning charm.

"Voila!" she proclaimed as the parchment zoomed out of James's trunk.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Lily said watching the map of the school appearing.

"Location, location…found them! Uh oh, they're on their way back to the common room!"

"We'd better get out of here before they find us snooping around," Tash said. Lily hurried to replace the map where they had found it.

"Hey guys look at this," she said pulling out a photograph of the boys taken in their fifth year. All four of them were waving at the camera.

"Aww!" Jenny cooed looking at the photo. "Still as cute as ever."

"Pity we didn't think so back then," Tash said. "Hey Lily, remember that time after our exams when you shouted at James by the lake? You said you'd rather go out with the giant squid!"

"Mmm," Lily nodded. "Remember on the train when you threatened to cut of Sirius's arm and reattach it to his arse?"

"Point taken," Tash nodded.

"You two are hopeless," Jenny said shaking her head.

"Hey so were you," Lily pointed out. "It took you three years to pluck up the courage to ask Remus out."

"Visitors?" All three girls looked up to see James, Sirius and Remus standing in the doorway.

"We didn't do anything," Tash said stupidly, making everyone laugh.

"We were looking for you," Lily said getting back onto the subject they had originally intended. "Did you ask Peter to follow us?"

"No, why?" James asked, frowning.

"Because we caught him trailing us just outside the library," Jenny said.

"Well we didn't tell him to follow you," Sirius said. "Hey maybe he has a crush on one of you!"

"Okay that's not even funny!" Jenny said as all three boys chuckled.

"Mmm, wonder why he was following us then," Tash said frowning and going into deep thought which Lily interrupted with a cough.

"Anyway where were you lot?" she asked. "We looked everywhere."

"Don't you worry about that Lily," James said. "We just thought we would take our creativity out on our dear friends in Slytherin."

"Right just stop right there," Lily said. "We don't want to know what you did to them."

"I do!" Tash squeaked.

"You'll see tomorrow," Sirius promised. "Now, who wants to tell us why you were sneaking around up here?"

"And why is my trunk in a mess?" James asked pointing at the jumble of clothes at the end of his bed.

"Ah…" Jenny trailed off trying not to look conspicuous.

"Run for your lives!" Tash shouted and all three girls barged past the boys and hurried down the stairs giggling hysterically.

None of them noticed on the map that right at that minute, Peter was meeting with the Slytherins.

OOO

"Three down, two to go," Lily muttered to herself.

"How was herbology Jen?" Remus asked.

"Terrible," Jenny said wringing her hands.

"I'm sure it went fine," Lily said looking at Tash to add her share of praise. Tash however was not listening.

"Stupefy!" she shouted. There was a thud behind the group. Behind them in the corridor lay Ethan Roberts, unconscious on the floor.

"He was going to hex you James," Tash said casually. "He's been following us all day."

"Nice stunner," Sirius said.

"Come on, before a teacher gets here," Lily said, ushering everyone away.

"Who's going to Hogsmeade on the last week of term?" Tash asked.

"We are," Jenny said.

"We're not going to miss our last time in the village as students," James said smiling as he said it.

"Who wants to meet up for lunch?" Tash asked.

"Okay, as long as I'm not paying," Sirius said.

"You never pay for anything," James reminded his friend.

"I do!" Sirius said indignantly.

Lily laughed but her mind was caught up in the thought of finishing school in a few weeks.

OOO

"Step away from your cauldrons, the exam is over," ProfessorMarchbanks said. Lily sighed along with the rest of the class. She had a nice feeling in her stomach that the exam had gone well.

"You may leave."

"That's it!" Jenny squeaked as they left.

"That went so badly," Tash said holding her head in her hands.

"It looked fine from where I was standing," Lily said in comfort.

"No I'm sure I…wait a minute," Tash said frowning. "How could you have seen? I was behind you!"

"Umm," Lily stalled for an answer. She had of course not seen Tash's potion, she was trying to offer comfort.

"Who wants to go and sit outside?" Remus hastily changed the subject.

"Sounds good to me," James agreed steering Lily away from Tash who was still trying to figure out how on earth Lily could have seen her potion when she was three desks behind her.

"Is anyone else scared?" Jenny asked, when they were sitting outside under the tree by the lake.

"Scared of what?" Lily asked.

"This," Jenny said lifting her arms and gesturing to the grounds around them. "Leaving school. We're never going to come back."

"Don't be daft we'll come back," Tash said. "We didn't spend seven years living at this castle just to forget about it."

"We've got too many memories of this place," James said.

"What's your favourite memory?" Lily asked.

"The day I first saw you Lily," James said smiling at her.

"Aww!" Jenny cooed. "My favourite is September 1st during our first year at school when we all met on the train. We were all in the same compartment."

"I remember," Lily said smiling. "I found Tash on her own first. I was so pleased to find someone who didn't come from the magical world."

"Then Jenny came in because all the compartments were full," Tash said. "You looked a little lost Jen."

"I think we all looked lost," Jenny said.

"My favourite is the Valentines ball," Tash smiled. "That was fun."

"Except for our Death Eater chase at the end," Lily reminded them.

"Are you kidding? That was fun!" Tash said.

"My favourite was the day we both had detention in the trophy room," Sirius chimed in giving Tash a fleeting grin.

"And we all know why that it," Lily muttered remembering how she and James had walked in on them.

"But every single Quidditch match comes in second," Sirius added.

"I loved all of it," Remus said. "I was just happy to get into school in the first place."

"And we're glad you did," Jenny put in.

"What about you Lily?" Tash asked. "What's your favourite memory been?"

Lily thought for a minute before coming up with an answer.

"I think right now, this is my favourite memory."

"What? Us all sitting here without a care in the world?" Sirius asked.

"Yep," Lily nodded. "I mean look at us. No exams, no Slytherins in sight and no worries at all."

"I can see where you're coming from," Jen nodded.

"Wish I had a camera to capture it," Tash complained.

"As long as we remember it," Lily said. "That's all that matters."

A/N: We're into the final chapters! Will anyone miss me when I'm gone…oh wait of course I'm writing my sequal. I'll be back on Sunday 30th see you all then!

Next Chapter: Hogsmeade and…well you can all guess what's going to happen cause it seems to happen at the end of every book. We begin the adventure!

May Stardust fall in your dreams!