1Chapter 2
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"Sooo...I guess I'll be sleeping the girls dorm tonight, huh?" I said innocently but nothing got past Lily. She just glared at me, pointed to the girls staircase, and disappeared up the boys.
Anxious are we, Evans...man is Sirius going to kill me when he eventually finds out...and I know he will!
I climbed the stone steps up to the girls dormitory two at a time and quickly located the "Seventh Year Girls".
When I entered the first things I saw was four beds, one which had a girl sitting on it reading who I recognized as Alice Warrington, on another bed sat two girls, who were Eliza Hart and Jacquelyn Forte, talking about who they were going out with that week or something. So as I located the bed that had "Lily Evans" carved in the wood in pretty cursive handwriting I sat down on it and just folded my hands in my lap staring at the ground for minutes.
"Something on your mind, Lils?" said a voice from the other side of the room. I looked up and saw Alice Warrington staring at me concerned. I nodded at her, smiling slightly.
"Yeah..just, just exams and stuff." I lied. She gave me a pitying look.
"Lils, exams aren't for months, don't stress yourself out like fifth year."
"Fifth year?"
"Don't you remember?" she asked oddly then had the "ah" expression on her face like she now understood. "I didnt think that you would have lost your memory just from a meltdown..I remember that day..it was the day James was having especial fun with our dear friend Severus...well, lets not bring that night up tonight, why don't you get ready for bed..."she suggested openly. I nodded, looked around in Lily's suitcase and found her nightdress...
Never thought I'd see the day I wore a lacy white dress, even if it is only to bed...
"I'll just change in the bathroom cause I need to brush my teeth." she just nodded smiling and resumed to reading her book. I made my way in the bathroom but stopped halfway through the doorway;
Never in my entire LIFE had I seen so many scented lit candles, not even in a freaking CANDLE STORE! The air was heavy with thick semi-transparent clouds of the fumes and the aroma all around reminded me of my female cousins bathroom...ewww...
I brushed my teeth and decided, while I was in the bathroom that I would USE the bathroom, though I had the common sense not to stand up in the process, cause I had a feeling that would have not ended well.
A shriek was heard throughout the entire lot of Hogwarts and even some people in Hogsmead heard a deafening screech. The seventh year girls ran to the source of the sound, which happened to be their bathroom, and when they walked in all they saw was Lily using the loo.
"What in the name of bloody freaking Merlin is wrong, Lily!"
"There's BLOOD!" I yelled back indignantly and had a look on my face as if I had just seen a bloody ghost...and I DON'T mean the Bloody Baron.
"Is that all? Just use a tampon, Lily."
"A whata?
"She must be a pad person..." Alice whispered quietly to Eliza. Eliza just nodded understandingly. Alice picked up the box of tampons from the counter and handed it to James (Lily's body remember? gross!) Pointing to the instructions on the back. After they exited the bathroom though, they heard:
"I stick it up WHERE!"
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After entering the boys seventh year dormitory, I took a look at my surrounding and felt like puking. Dirty cloths were strewn around the room at intervals; boxers, jeans, t-shirts, socks, robes, any article of clothing besides a bra that was ever invented was thrown across a table-top, floor, or windowsill, and I couldn't be too certain that I didn't see something that oddly looked like two puffy-circles with black and white hearts all over it. Ewww...I thought. Remus and Frank Longbottom were the only ones there, sitting on their beds studying but looked up at my entrance.
"Hello Prongs." said Remus cheerfully.
"Um...Hi." I replied distractedly still looking at my surroundings. He just frowned at me.
"Are you still reflecting on this mornings incident?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Yes...during classes you two did seem to act differently, it was quite amusing actually to watch you. You were taking notes for, I think, the first time in your life and Lily was actually slumping in her chair and attempting to sit in the back. It almost as if you two switched places!" he said laughing a little. I just looked at the ground and hoped he didn't see the look I was giving the ground. That's when I looked up to see him eyes-wide with his mouth hanging open.
"You DIDN'T!"
"Didn't..um, what?" I said nervously scratching the back of James' head.
"Lily?"
"What's going on you two?" said Frank from his bed curiously, "What's this about Lily and James? Not another row is it?"
"Its NOTHING Frank." I said to him but didn't take my slit-like eyes off of Remus who I guess understood because he dropped the matter. A few minutes later I picked up a transfiguration book off of James night-stand table and was sitting the edge of my bed when a voice boomed in my head:
"So what really happened?"
I yelled and ended up falling off the bed and hitting the floor with a "THUD!"
"What now?" said Franks agitated voice from his bead.
"Sorry." I said getting up. "Its just the charms I was reciting kinda backfired."
"What charm?"
"Um...the one I was reading in my book."
"You mean the Seventh Level Transfiguration book has charms in it too?" he asked sarcastically.
"Never mind Frank, just go back to studying, its nothing." I said giving Remus a look that clearly said: "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAAAAAAAAAAAT!"
Then the voice boomed in his head again this time saying:
"Sorry...well, that proves my predictions, your obviously not James cause you didn't respond to my telekinesis charm..hah, but that display was funny."
"HAHA" I said smirking cause I did in fact know that charm and could use it. "That's very nice of you, my friend, or I guess I should say James' friend...man he is going to kill me. Well, after he calls me a Hypocrite, cause it was in fact ME who told him not to tell you guys."
"That's okay, you didn't actually tell me so I guess you could say you didn't do anything...you know, Its kinda weird for my friends body to be talking about my friend...well, you know what I mean."
"Yes I do. Soooo...we will have to solve this acting problem, cause I cant go around acting all smart when, in fact, just as you said, James NEVER takes notes, and I don't know how he lives to see that he managed to pass–"
"James is smart you know." Remus mind cut in frowning slightly, "he only came in second under you for the most O.W.L.S. in our fifth year."
"Really?" I asked kind of struck from my poor judgment. "I never knew..." my mind said back shamefully. "He didn't seem to be gloating about anything."
"That's because he came in second. He never gloats when he doesn't get first."
"Oh how humble."
"Forget about it...how are you going to switch back? Have you talked to any teachers yet?"
"...not exactly..."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, I suggested we go to Dumbledore, but James said we shouldn't–"
"Why did he say that!" thought Remus, actually looking up this time at her.
"He said that we could easily change our self's back without a problem, but the problem with that is, I would have to look up things in the Library, but that would look kind of weird in James' body wouldn't it?" I smiled to myself.
"Yes (he laughed in his head) he would look a little out of place in the Library when everybody is so used to seeing him out on the Quidditch pitch, not that he's never been to the library, but," he let the sentence hang but Lily understood.
"Shall we sleep on it?"
"We shall...I wonder what's keeping Sirius and Peter though–"
"Keeping them from what?"
"Nothing!"
"Even if I am in James' body it wont look weird taking away points–"
"It would if it was James taking points from his very best FRIENDS it would! YOU, of all people should know that we are all attached at the hip."
"I've never heard a guy refer to his friendship using that quote before. I picture old Ladies saying it if you asked me. (She snickered in her head and a smirk adorned her male face)"
"Good night–Lilikins."
"Excuse me, your wolfyness?"
"Good night JAMES." Lily yawned and thought she heard a screech from the other side of the tower but brushed that thought away. It's probably just an owl or something...she thought nonchalantly and said aloud.
"Night–"
"Moony."
"Night Moony; Night Frank."
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Yawning, I looked over to the bed next to me and was surprised to see a swish of long dark hair sway as the occupant moved around and settled in a more comfortable position.
Last time I checked...Sirius' hair wasn't waist length...
Then I remembered; I wasn't in my own body, I was in Lily's. A wave of disappointment washed over me as I got up and rummaged in her truck for something suitable to wear in the snowy weather. Today was Friday, but we still had Herbology first period, so I searched and found a long sleeved, maroon t-shirt with the World Cup logo on it, a pair of muggle blue jeans, some white tennis shoes, and slipped her school robes over all of it, and finally located her cloak to wear while outside. I felt ready for the day as I inspected my self in the stand up mirror in their dormitory.
I reached down and took hold of the strap on Lily's book bag and tried lifting it, but could not. Frowning, I leaned down, opened it, and found four bricks inside and nothing else. Frowning more, I decided to pay a little visit to my dear old seventh boys dormitory.
I climbed the stairs, thankful no one was in the common room watching me, and knocked on the door to my "old" dormitory. Remus was the one to open it.
"Hello Prongs."
"Hello Moo–WHA!" he smirked at me and motioned inside. I saw that Sirius and Peter were still asleep and that as I entered, a figure with very messy black hair turned around and smiled shyly, turning back to the shoe he was tying. Correction, SHE.
"You told him?" I asked cooly, but not really putting in the venom I usually did.
"No." Remus answered, and Lily just stayed there tying my shoes. "Is that why you came?"
"No." I answered then held up the extremely heavy book bag. Lily turned around and suddenly looked embarrassed.
"Oh no...not again...great, now I'll have to go find them–" she was standing over me reached her hand out to except her book bag as if I was giving it to her as a gift, but I wasn't, so I took it out of her reach still frowning deeply.
"Who switched all your books with these?" I pulled out one of the heavy brown bricks. Now Remus was frowning and staring at her with an expression that clearly said: Explain.
"Well," she began and now her cheeks were shining bright red (that happens to me when I get embarrassed, thought James) and she was staring at his trainers "Sometimes, when I leave my book bag in the middle of class and move to do something somewhere else, people take my stuff and switch it with bricks, but I never notice till the next day because the weight of the books is about the same as the bricks because I'm taking so many subjects, and, well," she ended rather awkwardly and Remus was the one to break the now awkward silence.
"Why didn't you give the culprit detention?"
"Well, I can never catch who does it, but it seems that the same group of girls always laughs at me when I'm leaving the classroom," she said attentively, then blushed, "Or, maybe their laughing about something else."
"That's not a bad theory." replied James considerately, "the thing about the girls I mean." he added seeing the other two's confused faces, then he smiled in a way you would never have seen if it were Lily.
It was mischievous.
"What are you planning?" asked Remus amused. "Another prank?"
"Yep, and you're helping this time, Lils." she frowned at the nickname for a second then sighed smiling,
"What did you have in mind, Lord of the Pranks?"
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The three of them snuck behind a large stone statue of Humphrey the Humble, and watched to see if their plan would work.
They had decided to set Lily's school bag on the ground by their charms classroom, which they needed to be inside in ten minutes, and were begging merlin that who they were trying to catch would show up before the end of that ten minutes. If their plan worked, then the culprit would arrive any second and switch all of Lily's stuff with a few bricks, like they had done the day before.
It was after lunch so, fortunately, nobody's stomach growled and revealed where they were hiding. They had a clear view of the hallway on both sides and nobody could see them because they had grabbed James' invisibility cloak right before lunch. When the person would come and sabotage Lily's stuff, James and Lily would exit from under the cloak and take away points and give out detentions. I love being head boy....thought James and his eyes lit up to see four girls sneaking up the empty hallway towards the book bag.
Little did the girls know, James had hidden inside several of his made-up spells that did not feature counter-curses, but would wear off after a week or two. That should teach them to mess with my head girl...my!, he thought suddenly. Why on earth did he think 'my'? He focused his attention on the girls and tried not to let his thoughts stray...again.
"Prongs! Look!" Remus whispered anxiously. James heard a loud pop, followed by many different colored sparks and smirked viciously.
One girl had broken out in pimple's all over her face and arms (the only body parts visible hehe), another girl had turned neon green with deep purple hair, the third girl now had a sparkling rainbow Afro, and the last girl's skin was glittering silver and gold. People walking down the hall were sniggering and laughing, pointing at the four girls who were now shocked, and pulling mirror out of their own book bags, just to screech after seeing their own reflection. Lily and James nodded at Remus and appeared by walking out into the crowd, which separated as they came closer after making a circle around the girls. Lily and James were smirking.
"Thirty points from each of you for trying to sabotage my bag, for the sixth time this year. Do you think we should multiply their punishment by six, James?" asked James looking at Lily (but everyone thought that Lily was looking up at James) and the girls suddenly looking fearful.
"Multiplying by six would mean that 720 points would be taken away Lily." said the real Lily to James after quickly figuring the math out in her head.
"And–" started James, stopping to look at each girl as he spoke, "that would mean giving them each six detentions."
"No!" yelled the girl with the glittering skin who looked to be their leader, "Please, we're sorry! We didn't mean to!" and then she blushed, suddenly realizing how stupid that sounded.
"You mean that the bricks just happened to open the bag by themself's and just hop in there by their own accord?" asked Lily her eyes narrowing in anger as she raised an eyebrow, "while you just happened to be leaning over the bag?" The glittering girl bowed her head in defeat and the one with green skin and purple head spoke up.
"You cant take away that many points! There's not even that many points in our house!"
"Serves you right!" yelled someone from the crowd who happened to be Alice. She gave Lily (James) a reassuring nod and mouthed 'Remus'. James didn't know why he smiled after that, but he did, knowing at least that one of Lily's friends knew and that they were now even. Many people yelled their agreement with Alice.
"Twenty points from each of you and two detentions. You can scrub down the Hospital wing beds with a toothbrush till they shine tomorrow–"
"But their's a quidditch match tomorrow!" yelled the pimple girl desperately.
"You think I would want you to come to MY quidditch match after what you've been doing to my head mate? I'd rather the Slytherins watch instead of YOU." spat Lily, trying her best to sound like James when she said that. She seemed to have touched a nerve with the pimple girl because the she suddenly swore profusely.
"Tut, tut, Ms. Merryweather. I'll take another five points for swearing. You can serve your other detention with Mr. Filch, he'll find something for you to do–" started James.
"He always does with me." said Lily with a secret wink towards James and everybody laughed at that remark
"You want to know why we did it?" the sparkling girl shouted. She pointed to Lily (James in her body), "Her! Because she got the privilege to be Head girl with James being Head boy and she takes it for granted!"
"For granted?" asked Lily puzzled, forgetting for a millisecond who's body she was in.
"YES!" shouted the girl, who now looked as if she wanted to curse again, but fought the urge so she wouldn't lose any more points, "You treat him like dirt when you're supposed to be working together to make our school better! But you're always avoiding each other and it makes me SICK! It makes me sick to think that I could be working with you James–" she looked at Lily with her eyes starting to blaze with fire. "And I'm sure we would get along fine! But NO! Dumbledore had to pick Evans over here who hates your guts and I hate hers. Just be grateful Evans–" she looked at James coldly with venom in her stare and in her words, "that I didn't throw the bricks at you to try and knock some sense into your thick HEAD!" She stared at James (she thought she was glaring at Lily) and then the Lily in James' body turned on heel and walked through the crowd, that instantly parted for her. Many people yelled at her back things like "James? Where are you going?" and "Hey James! Give em' more punishments!" and then ahead of her she saw Sirius running up.
"Hey, Prongs! Why the long face? I could hear you guys all the way down the hall!" hall...wait a minute...Lily had charms next and she was walking away from the classroom.
"Charms is behind me isn't it?" asked Lily frowning.
"Well, is has been for the last six years, so I guess I'll have to tell you yes." he replied frowning, then he leaned his head closer to hers and whispered, "but that's not what I'm telling the first years!" Lily frowned disapprovingly. Then together they started to walk back, Lily the whole while thinking about what the girl had said. Did she deserve to work with James? She's been avoiding him the whole year because she thought she hated him, but now that she thought of it–
"Hey Sirius," she started and he immediately stopped her,
"Okay, it's never good when you call me by my real name and not my nickname; that either means Remus bit someone or you're not telling me something." he was raising an eyebrow but was still smiling.
"Well," started Lily, hoping she wouldnt ruin James' friendship with him for telling the thruth. The last thing she wanted was for Sirius to think James was off his rocker. "this is serious, Sirius."
"Okay, now you've made ME confused! Am I the first Sirius or the second?"he laughed and Lily couldn't help but smile.
"The second."
"Well, that clears something up. So what's the thing that's serious? Besides me of course." he smiled wider.
"I'm not James." He stopped walking and gave her a look that clearly said he thought she was mental. "I'm not!" he shook his head.
"Are you trying to get attention or something? Cause you're just making me think you're off your rocker." Man, have I been in James' body too long! I can already read his best friends thoughts! Not that its hard or anything...
"I'm serious! I'm not James! I'm Lily!" at this he started laughing.
"You just said your three different people."
"What?" she said, slightly taken aback.
"You just said, I'm Serious, I'm James, and I'm Lily."
"Did not! I said I'm NOT James!" then a voice said behind them,
"She's telling the truth mate." now, the weirdness in this situation just increased tremendously because Lily had just walked up behind them with Alice and Remus and had first: agreed with James, second: just called Sirius her mate, and third: she had called James a 'she'.
"We'll explain after class, Sirius." said Remus and they all hurried to class Sirius asking questions like: "What's going on?" and "Why am I always the last to know!"
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LOL. I had made this chapter WAY to dramatic by making the girls who sabotaged Lily cry but my sister, who reads all my stories before I put them on, said it was a bit much and made the story go downhill and sound really stupid and prima-donna-ish. Those were her exact words too.
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