Mr. Slime
Lily walked into her DADA class with a huge grin plastered across her face. For some reason she felt so happy and excited today.
"Hey Lily. Never knew you liked this class so much." Tori said grumpily.
"Sorry I'm just so happy."
"Why? Is it cause of…James…?" Tori said winking.
Lily blushed. "Tell your mom thanks for the book she lent me."
Tori's smile dropped. "What book?"
"Oh she had given me one some time back. I can't remember what it's called. But it was about these two people hating each other then falling in love, but—"
"Sounds familiar." Tori said.
Lily continued as if she had never heard that.
"The last couple of pages were torn out so I never got to read the ending."
"Turn to page 457 unless you two want to spend the rest of the day scrubbing floors without magic." Their teacher said strictly.
Lily blushed again and took out her book.
The dungeon door opened up with a loud creek. Everyone's eyes turned to towards the door.
Standing there, blushing, was Kate Thompson, her tie crooked and shirt untucked.
"Miss Thompson. What a pleasant surprise. Do you have an excuse?" The professor asked.
Kate opened her mouth to defend herself.
"I don't want to hear it. Detention tonight, see me after class."
Kate sat down next to Lily, her eyes on the ground.
Both girls turned to their friend.
"What happened?" Lily asked.
Kate looked up at them, and to Lily's surprise she was smiling.
"I was with Remus." She said then took out her book and started to take notes.
Lily shook her head. "I can't believe her."
"Hey you'll be doing that soon enough." Tori smiled as Lily hit her with a quill.
"We haven't even been on a proper date yet!" Lily said in a loud whisper.
"Proper date? Of course you have! He took you to a restaurant and did all that crap that people usually do on a date." Tori exclaimed taking notes on the three unforgivable curses.
"You don't do that Tori." Lily said.
"Well what I do is difference. He took you out on a fancy date."
"Tori! I hated him like a couple days back! I'm not gonna become serious with him for another year!" Lily yelled forgetting about her volume.
"Lily Evans! Detention!"
Lily's jaw dropped.
Tori's jaw dropped.
Kate's jaw dropped.
Heck, EVERYONE'S jaw dropped.
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"Come on Lils. You didn't seriously think that you were going to go through all of your years at Hogwarts without a single detention record." Sirius said as they were eating lunch.
Lily glared at him.
"Okay maybe she was." Sirius said going back to focusing on his chicken.
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"And now, thanks to James I ha— are you guys even listening?" Lily asked walking out of the girl's dorm bathroom. She was complaining about her detention but as she walked out of the bathroom, she realized nobody was really paying any attention to her complaint.
Tori was under the bed…why…Lily does not know. Kate was too busy applying mascara, which, in Lily's opinion, she had applied a bit too much. Kate's detention was in half an hour at a different place. Alice was talking to Frank and as for Frank, well he was floating on a broomstick in the air near the window.
"Oh my god. You know what? I'll see you guys after my FIRST detention EVER!" Lily said walking out the door.
After a couple seconds you heard a loud but short scream. Followed by a CRASH.
This caught the girls and the boy on the broomstick's attention.
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Lily looked up to see who had knocked her down. Actually she didn't really have to look up. She could have just stared straight ahead and she would have seen who it was. And that's what she did when she realized the person not only knocked her down, but also fell on top of her.
"James?" She said though it was hard to breathe. He wasn't fat or anything…but he had muscles, a whole LOT OF muscles, which made him way more.
"Lily? Oh I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there." James said blushing. He got up and extended a hand, offering to help her up.
"Thanks." Lily said getting up. Since their date they hadn't talked so much, so both were pretty nervous.
James looked down shifting on his feet.
Great. Leave it to me to do all the talking. Lily thought.
"I was on my way to detention."
"Oh. Wow that's a huge surprise. So I guess I'll be doing patrol myself?" He asked.
"Yeah. Sorry. But hopefully, I'll be able to patrol tomorrow." Lily said with a sour face.
"Okay." James said then followed Lily out the Fat Lady.
Lily stopped and turned around, once again bumping into James.
"You seem to be doing that a lot lately." James grinned.
"Sorry. But…I was wondering…what exactly do you do in detention?" Lily asked.
"Well…first you have to clean the dead bodies. Then you have to get rid of all the spiders and bugs. Oh and you have to fight a troll and they carve something in you to warn you to never do bad stuff again. It really works. And—"
He stopped after he saw the terrified face on the redhead.
"All this for talking out of turn!" Lily looked like she was about to cry.
"Oh no! Lily I was only joking! You probably just have to scrub the floor without magic or something!" James said afraid she was going to cry.
But he wasn't afraid anymore.
After all, she just broke down and started crying.
James looked around, unsure of what to do. If this was any other girl he'd immediately go and comfort them or at least try to. But with Lily…well who knows what she would do. When she's moody she could probably kill someone. James knew this from past experiences.
She had once thrown her goblet at his head, leaving a scar there for two years. She actually did kill a spider. Well a lot of people kill spiders…but not when it's a part of their class assignment.
Lily sobbed a little louder.
James walked cautiously towards Lily, hoping there were no sharp or heavy objects anywhere near.
Well there was a suit of armor…but…actually that was a heave piece of metal. And there were sharp objects on it. Oh to hell with it! There's a girl crying in front of him!
James put her arm around Lily. Unfortunately, Lily's automatic reactions took over her. She slapped his arm.
James drew back immediately.
"I'm so sorry! I don't want to go to detention! I'm head girl! Instead of calling me the HEAD GIRL people will start calling me BAD GIRL!"
"Lily I'm worse than you. Much worse. And no one has ever called me bad boy." James said walking her over to the room where she was supposed to meet her professor.
"See we're here! Nothing will happen. The world is not going to die. I promise. If it does then…well it won't. Now go in and act like a proper girl. Remember you're head girl and you need to act like one now." James said wiping her tears. He was talking to her like he did to his five-year-old cousin, which was pretty sad, but Lily was having an emotional break down so he really had no choice. It reminded him of times when his cousin would throw tantrums for no reason.
Lily entered the room and James turned around letting out a deep breath. That was much easier than he thought it would be, James thought, going back to his head duty.
Lily's POV (haven't done POVs so I want to see how good or bad I am this stuff…)
I walked in wiping my eyes. Well I wouldn't call it walking…more like sliding. If I had known there'd be some weird green slime all over the floor, I would have been a bit more careful. But our stupid professor here would rather enjoy seeing me come in sliding. Guess it was just an interesting way of entering. You know…not one of those you see everyday.
"I see you've met 'Mr. Slime'. You're duty is to clean it all up." The fat teacher said heading out the door. He made a disgusted face. Apparently Mr. Slime didn't want him to go.
"And please do hurry. I have a class first thing in the morning with first years. They'll be terrified. Poor children." He said shaking off some of the green substance from his shoe. My jaw dropped. He cares more about first years than us! He called them poor children! I AM THE ONE CLEANING UP THAT GOO! Oh and one more thing: WHY ON EARTH IS THERE SLIME ON THE FLOOR?
He left. Just like that. Leaving me here all alone. Well not all alone. I mean I did have Mr. Slime here with me, didn't I? For god sake it's not even alive! I think…actually I hope. I grinned. I could do this without even touching this green stuff.
I pulled my wand out and was about to do that little swish swash movement when that hater came back in.
"I almost forgot. No magic." That scum! He summoned my wand. Well what am I supposed to clean it up with?
I looked around. Let's see. Books…more books…even more books…I could go on forever. But how would books— my eyes widened. He was one smart person. Just leave a sponge and bucket for me…on the very top shelf. If I weren't so short maybe this would have been easier. I could just picture myself now. Hanging on a shelf staring down at the sea of green slime and the looking up to see that bucket and sponge sitting there…laughing its head off as I try to get it. Some life.
What could I use that would get my cleaning supplies down for me? I got it! A broom! See I am smart. But there was one problem. It was sitting right next to the bucket and sponge…on the top shelf.
Bummer.
Now what? I could use that huge rod to get the broom down. Hey I really can! It's long enough! I grabbed the rod unaware of its weight. Yup. I went down with the metal piece. All the way down to the ground. Stupid me. After twenty minutes I finally managed to get a hold of the broom. Well actually the rod finally managed to get a hold of the broom. I let it roll off screaming as it barely missed my head. That would have been an interesting way of dying. I could see it on the headlines of the Daily Prophet. Hogwarts's Head Girl Dies…A Broom Fell On Her Head During Detention…
But too bad I'd never see that headline. Because it missed my head. I smiled. Now I could easily get the bucket and sponge. I held the rod in one hand and the broom in the other. Slowly my grin faded. I could have just used the rod to get the supplies. Couldn't I?
So much for being Hogwarts's smartest student…
I decided to go with the broom this time…it's less heavy.
My broom touched the back of the bucket. Yay me. Now I just have to bring it down. I don't want it to fall on me so I'll have to do this slowly.
Okay so if I push it to the very edge, then I can climb up and get it. That way it wouldn't make a bigger mess.
I just need to do it slowly…just a little more forward. There! Perfect! I thought as half the bucket was still sitting on the shelf. It started shaking a little.
It's not supposed to do that…is it?
I moved back a bit, hoping it wouldn't fall on me. Fortunately, it didn't. But I still screamed. Because the water that was in it did. My scream was followed by a loud bang and when I looked to see where my bucket of a once-full-of-water-but-now-empty bucket landed. And as a result, my fists clecnched tighter.
The bucket was floating…more like stuck…in the middle of the classroom…in slime. Just what I needed. First I had to clean up this water. Or I could just let it dry on its own. But then I'd be feeling guilty. I bet Tori wouldn't feel guilty. Curse my guilty feeling!
Eh forget it. Besides I was only instructed to clean up "Mr. Slime". Guess I'd just be using the sponge then. If I could get that down. Not again…
"Lily…need some help?"
Okay so this was exactly what I pictured. Me hanging on a shelf, looking down to see green stuff, and then looking up to see the sponge. It probably wasn't laughing, but I assure you, if it could, it would. But James wasn't in my picture. So why was he here now?
"No. I'm just hanging on a shelf doing nothing." I said. God he can be so stupid sometimes.
He grinned. HE GRINNED! I'm sitting, no scratch that, HANGING off a shelf and he's GRINNING! What? Does he think this is romantic or something? Oh yeah! Great place for romance, I tell you. Slime all over the floor, and the girl hanging from something for her dear life. Ha this is better than Romeo and Juliet! Notice the sarcasm.
"Well then let me help you my dear Lilykins!" He laughed. LILYKINS? He called me LILYKINS! I know I'd probably be laughing at this, ten years from now but seriously! NOW is not the to laugh!
He walked in some more. And guess what! He entered the same way I did! Guess we just think alike.
So get this. I'm hanging off a shelf…which you probably already know…and James, my boyfriend, comes in and starts laughing. He enters, getting caught in the slime he ends up sliding. For some odd reason, he slides a little longer than I do. Which means he came sliding into the shelf. Well, for those of you have forgotten, I AM on the shelf! I loose my balance. I scream. For two reasons. One, I'm about to fall and hit the ground covered in slime. Two, I'm yelling at James for being such an idiot. Thank god he was under me. I would have hit the ground with full force. Maybe even knocked out for days. But, and I have to admit this WAS pretty romantic…in a way. Too bad for him though. My little James hit the ground hard. I knew he wasn't knocked out since I could hear some groaning coming from him.
I turned a little and felt some squishy stuff. No it wasn't his stomach. It was green. It just HAD to be green. Great job Mr. Slime.
Tell me what you think! And how good…or awful I am at point of views. If I'm good I'll be doing more of those and if I'm bad…then I guess I won't be doing any. The rest of the detention will be in the next chapter. But I'm not going to continue with POVs until I have at least ten people telling me I was good at them.