I own no one...sorry it's too late in the day to come up with
some radnom extra bit like "I own Big Ben and George Bush, depsite not
owning Harry Potter" so I'll just leave you with...wait I just did! DOH!
------------Why did I fall for your charms?------------
I attempted to relax by finishing my homework for the day. It did actually help a little as my mind was focused on other things than James Potter and his overly large ego.
I yawned and stretched my arms. I was so tired for some reason but it was time for dinner and I didn't want to miss any chance of eating. I packed my books away into my bag and pulled on a pair of jeans and a jacket so I wouldn't get my robes or skirt dirty. I wondered whether or not to bother taking off my school tie and blouse but decided I wasn't much bothered anyway and just wanted to get to dinner. I made my way hurriedly down stairs and ran all the way to the Great Hall. I sat down next to Daisy panting like mad.
"Hey Lils you ok?" She asked looking at me curiously.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just ran all the way from the dorm, I didn't want to miss dinner" I said smiling weakly.
"So Lily, what are you gonna do?" Alice asked eyeing a particularly gruesome looking bean casserole on her plate.
"About what?" I asked, spooning a spoon full of potatoes into my mouth.
"Getting together with Potter" She said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. I choked on my potatoes and went, from what I could see in the reflection of my goblet, a bright purple colour. I could barely breathe as I fell off my bench and lay there on the ground coughing and spluttering. If I wasn't just about to encounter a near death experience I would have been really concerned about the way I looked at that moment.
"Oh my God Alice she's choking to death" Sandy grabbed my arm and hoisted me up. I Pointed franticly at my mouth and gave them an 'I'm-choking-you-ditzy-blondes-get-help' look.
"Erm HELP! HELP!" Alice started shouting waving her arms franticly in the air, like we were in a sinking boat as a pose to a dining hall.
I suddenly felt two arms wrap round my waist and push my stomach in. The potato I was choking on flew out of my mouth and went 'plop' into Alice's goblet.
"Hey you want this?" She grimaced offering the cup to Daisy.
"Sure" She took it and drank from it making me want to throw up.
I looked up into the face of my 'hero' to see Richard Jenner standing there, a kind and warm smile lingering on his lips.
"Wow" I breathed, "thanks"
"It's ok; I couldn't exactly let you choke to death now could I?" He laughed.
"Well you actually could have but I'm very grateful you didn't. I didn't really fancy dying this soon, I mean I could at least put it off till my N.E.W.T.S next year which I'm pretty sure are gonna kill me anyway." I said smiling at him. He laughed with me and held his hand out for me to shake. I took and felt a sudden buzz run up my arm. I looked down at our connected hands and dropped his. I must have looked like a right tomato at that point.
"I'm Richard by the way" He said, like I didn't know!
"I'm Lily" I said smiling up at him.
"Oh I know who you are; you're one of the best students in the year"
"Oh, yeah…I'm a bit of a boffin really" I said looking down, mumbling my words.
"Oh no, I think you're brilliant" I looked up into his eyes they were so…heart melting.
"Thanks" I mumbled.
"So…well I'm glad you're ok…I better be going now" He said looking away from my gaze.
"Oh…yeah…see you" I said not wanting him to go at all.
"Yeah…well bye" He turned to walk away when I blurted out unexpectedly.
"Where the hell did you learn to do that move anyway?"
"Well I kind of used to be in the boy scouts when I was younger, got my first aid badge doing that move on another choking guy" He grinned sheepishly.
"Really? I mean, I was in the brownies" I said. Though I felt a little foolish after because I had seemed so excited.
"Wow, that's cool, so did u ever get your first aid?"
"Sadly no, I tied the bandage round the examiners head too tight and he temporarily lost sight in his right eye. But it did mean that my friend got hers because I fainted afterwards. She was really efficient actually" I chuckled remembering back to the whole fiasco. He chuckled light heartedly too. I could feel a connection, but somehow, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't seem to get the thought of James bloody Potter out of the back of my mind.
"So Lily, I'll see you tomorrow hopefully" He smiled, waving a little to me and walking back to his own table. I couldn't keep my eyes off him, he was so…drool.
"Lily, hey Lily…woo earth to Lily" Alice said waving her hand in front of my face. I was staring off into space thinking about the colour of my wedding dress when I get married to Richard.
"I think she's in the land of luurve guys" Sandy laughed, making kissy faces at me.
"No I'm not" I blushed furiously.
"Oh look at that she's blushing" Daisy laughed pointing at my bright red face.
"Look guys you can not tell Hannah about this, you know she likes Richard, I just couldn't do that to her"
"That's true" Alice said her face falling.
"Anyway Lily has Potter" Sandy smirked looking up the table at the Marauders who were currently throwing Bertie Botts every flavoured beans up in the air and trying to catch them in their mouths.
"I do not have Potter Sandy, and I never will"
"Sounds like you do want him"
"Yeah Lily, you could have him with a snap of the fingers, you know he's like in love with you"
"No he's not, it's just a stupid infatuation is all" I said shrugging my shoulders.
"Sure" Daisy said rolling her eyes.
"Hey" I said all indignantly, I picked up a grape and threw it at her.
"Ok enough with throwing the food!" She shouted going red in the face and getting all stroppy. Watching her transaction in mood made me laugh at her stormy face.
"Sorry Dream it's just so funny to watch you get in a mood"
"Yeah well not for me" She grumbled looking away from me.
"Aw Daisy Lily didn't mean it did you now Lily" Alice said putting a comforting hand on Daisy's shoulder.
"Well actually I- ouch!" I received a kick in the shin from Alice who gave me a warning look. "No course I didn't mean it Daisy" I winced rubbing my knee and rolling my eyes.
"See, no harm done now is there?" Sandy said taking a swig of pumpkin juice.
"Yes" Daisy muttered under her breath just audible enough for us 3 to hear.
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After dinner we made our way back to our common room. We were making our way up the stairs when our way was blocked by none other than the Marauders.
"Oh not you again, will you just piss off for once" I groaned rubbing my temples.
"Well that's just charming that is, what a warm greeting" Sirius said taking a leaf out of our book and rolling his eyes.
"We don't want to greet you; we just want to get past you bozos" Sandy said, hands on hips looking all a little too serious.
"What are the magic words then Rogers?"
"Avada Kadavra" She mumbled causing us girls to giggle uncontrollably.
"Oh I think that was a threat Padfoot, we better make ourselves scarce before they pull a mutant bunny out of their hats" Potter laughed along with Sirius, Peter and a small snigger from Remus.
"I only wish I was the one they pulled" Sirius smirked looking at us with a hungry gleam in his eyes.
"I would rather pull a dementor down a dark alley in the middle of winter" Daisy said with her special Marauder death glare.
"Well if that's the way you like it baby" Sirius said trying to act all seductive but just coming out with the sound of a constipated chicken. She scoffed at him and raised an eyebrow.
"I mean, what is it with you guys? You just need to pick one girl to like and be done with it, and that girl should be preferably not any of us" Sandy said with a pointed expression.
"But we like to have our options open babe, I mean after I've screwed you I'm gonna need a replacement aren't I" Sirius said leaning against the banister, looking pretty good, you know, for a pig with hands and hair. Sandy's eyes widened and she shook with fury.
"You…you PIG!" She screamed arms flailing. She clawed at him and scratched him hard across the cheek, a trickle of blood poured down his surprised looking face. I grabbed her wrist and pulled her back before she could cause him any more grievous bodily harm. She tried to break loose of my grip but Alice and Daisy helped to keep her back. "Get off me!" She yelled stamping on my foot.
"OUCH!" I screamed letting go of her like she was on fire. Sirius just stood there in shock not wanting to move but at the same time wanting to run far, far away.
"Sandy you crazy cow leave him, he's not worth it" Alice said through Sandy's mixture of swear words and wails.
"Come on Padfoot I think we should get going now" Potter said placing his hand on Sirius' shoulder and pulling on his arm with the other hand. They hurried off back up the stairs and we were left to deal with a horrified and manic Sandy.
"Calm down Sandy, calm down" She was still shaking and was a bright crimson colour.
"Did you hear what he said to me!" She shouted narrowing her eyes.
"Yes Sandy, I think everyone did" Alice said, finally overpowering Sandy and guiding her up the stairs.
"That's it…that's the last time Potter and his pals are gonna treat me like a slutty, ditzy, blonde whore" She snarled looking crazy.
"What are you going to do about it?" I asked Sandy cautiously.
"I'm going to take the Marauders down…one by one" Her voice shook terribly and the look in her eye terrified me. She was normally one of the calm ones of us 6, being around me, Alice, Daisy and Hannah must have had a bad effect on her though because she was muttering under her breath and twitching occasionally.
"And how do you propose we go about this?" Daisy asked.
"At the moment…I'm not quite sure, but when I am sure, it will be one of the best pranks this school has ever seen…I'm not only going to take the Marauders down, I'm going to give them a run for their money and claim Prankster Princess once and for all" She looked even crazier now, like she was in a different world, one that she could only see, in a fantasy phase. I didn't talk all the way back up to our dorm, afraid of saying the wrong thing and setting her off again.
I changed for bed and climbed under the covers. Alice and Daisy did the same but Sandy was still too flustered. She had her hair tied up and was scribbling something down franticly on a piece of parchment, muttering random numbers and words under her breath.
"Sunny, I think it would be better if you go to sleep now, I think it will do you good" I said cautiously, she seemed to not have heard me, or she was just ignoring me, either way she carried on writing.
"Sandy, Lily's right" Alice added slowly.
"I don't need the bloody sleep ok!" She yelled, maybe she had heard me after all. I left her to get on with whatever she needed to prove and went to sleep.
When I next woke up it was 7 in the morning. I looked around the room groggily, Alice was snuggling up close to her teddy bear Mildred and Daisy was hanging half way out of her bed, drooling.
Then I saw Sandy, head down on the desk sleeping. I hopped out of bed and went through to the bathroom. I washed myself and dressed all before the others were even up. I shook Sandy gently by the shoulders and her head shot up from the desk.
"Huh, where, the blue evil squirrels they're coming to get me!" She shouted looking quickly from side to side.
"No Sandy, you're safe now" I said trying so hard not to laugh at her.
"Oh Lily, oh no are we late?" She asked looking round again with a worried expression.
"No Sandy, it's 7:30, I just wanted to wake you in time for some breakfast" I looked at her closely, she had slight shadows under her eyes and her skin had a small tinge of grey to its normally tanned colour.
"Oh, ok then…Lily!" She said suddenly, grabbing my shoulder.
"What, what is it?" I asked worriedly.
"No, no that wont work" I didn't know what she was talking about at first but then I suspected it had something to do with the prank she was planning on the Marauders.
"Look Sandy don't worry about that for now, we have all year to plan it, just get breakfast over and done with before you start putting any horrendous plans into action" I said pulling her up from the chair.
"You're right Lily, but they could strike at any moment…we have to be alert" She said, sounding slightly paranoid as she scanned the room with her twitching eyes.
"Ok Sandy I have some advice for you" Alice was suddenly up and standing beside me looking glamorous as ever.
"What, does it have anything to do with beating the Marauders once and for all?" She asked looking suddenly wide awake.
"Not particularly but if it makes you feel any better you can pretend it does" She didn't look very interested in what Alice had to say but let her go on anyway.
"Go on" She said boredly.
"Ok, get up, get washed, put some concealer on those bags, run a brush through your hair and flash that sexy smile at all the hott boys in this damn tower" She said pushing her towards the bathroom door.
"But that goes against everything I believe in" She said, going into a feminist rant.
"Look Sandy, you're hott, all the guys know that, that's why they try so hard to get into your pants, to suddenly stop looking hott would just be a terrible thing to do, you have to show them you're too good for them, put up a fight, and make them sweat a little"
"They'll just think I'm a common whore" She whined.
"No they won't" She insisted, giving Sandy one final push, she fell into the bathroom and regained her balance just before we shut the door on her and threw her clothes in.
"Bu-" We heard her protest but we were too busy trying to get Daisy up.
"Woo Dream…get up" I said all dreamily, waving my hands in front of my friends face. She grunted and rolled over onto her front.
"Hey Dream get the hell up!" Alice shouted in her ear. She was so surprised; she fell out of the bed and onto the floor in a heap.
We laughed at her a little then helped her up from the floor.
"You guys that wasn't funny" She said glaring at us.
"No it really was" Alice laughed. Daisy opened her mouth to speak but I stopped her.
"Look Daisy if you're going to go off into another fit of stressiness than we'll just leave you now" I said hands on hips, raising an eyebrow at her. She mumbled something and went off to get dressed. A little while later Sandy came out of the bathroom looking like she had really taken Alice's words to heart. She looked so gorgeous I was melting with envy.
Her long and wavy hair had been charmed straight and hung loosely by her waist, she had a white hair band on top of her head and one silver hair clip in place next to the band. Her smile made my eyes hurt, her teeth were just so white and…perfect. She had used Alice' concealer on her face and it now looked fresh, like she had just been pampered for hours on end. How could people look that brilliant? She had spent about 10 minutes on herself and she looked like a…a glamour model.
"Hey Lily, close your mouth before you swallow a fly" Sandy laughed flicking a strand of hair behind her back. I was gawping at her. Oh no anyone who walked in at that moment would probably assume I was a lesbian…but just for the record I am not, so don't say anything else on the matter.
We went hastily down to the Great Hall to catch some breakfast before our first lessons. Much to my dismay I had History of Magic for first period. Professor Binns died last year…I know, I know it sounds a little drastic but he did. Fell asleep by his fire place apparently, every one had just assumed he bored himself to sleep though, the way he drones on.
So now he's a ghost, gliding through the blackboard, sneaking up behind us and swimming, you know, through us. Very unpleasant I tell you. The only good thing about it was I was with nearly all of my friends. Minus Alice and Daisy of course who were taking…flying.
I was so busy thinking about all of this that I stumbled on the last stair and twisted my ankle.
"Ouch!" I screamed in agony sitting on the last step to cradle my foot.
"Oh goodness you dozy cow" Alice said sitting next to me on the step and getting out her wand "You really need to watch were you're going next time babe" She said kindly, touching my busted ankle with her wand. The pain went completely…maybe I didn't give her enough credit.
"Thanks" I mumbled as she helped me up.
"That's fine Lily, if us girls don't stick together then we might as well live in igloos" She said linking my arm. I looked at her…what she had just said didn't make any sense what so ever but after healing my ankle like that I didn't pursue the matter.
We sat down and ate our breakfast quietly, as though we didn't want to disturb something. It was awkward actually because I had never know Sandy to be quiet during breakfast time, she was always so happy in the morning for some reason. But not today. I looked up to see why and saw she was having a staring competition with Sirius who was seated a little way up the table, he blew a kiss to her and winked at her and the staring competition soon became a glaring competition…and then it hit me…Sirius Black was Sandy's secret man!
Ok you'll get the secret man part in the next chapter and it will all fit together finally hehe I hope you like this chapter and please review nicely thankyou!
This is EmO-pEaNuT-bUtTeR-cUp Over an Out!
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