1Chapter Four

"I can NOT believe Evans!" said James angrily as he threw a pillow at the wall. Sirius rolled his eyes at his friend.

"I mean," started James with a crazed look on his face, his right eye twitching slightly "she just treats me like DIRT! I try to change for her and all she does is shove me down over and over and BLOODY OVER!"

"James," started Sirius hesitantly, about to laugh and looking quite amused at his red-headed friend, "Maybe you should calm down, I mean, this is Lily. It's how she is. She cant stand NOT being mean to you. I know the past few days you've been sort of–And I say that loosely– getting along, but you should of known all along that you were going to...crack." he finished for lack of a better word.

"CRACK!" James yelled, one green orb twitching under his eyelid, "I'll show you crack...I just want to–"

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"–bash his enormous head into a PUDDLE OF CHEERY COBBLER!"

Alice flinched at the term Lily used, "Lils, why did you blow up at him in the first place? He was being nice to you after all." she said, staring with an accusing eye at her brown-haired-hazel-eyed friend. "This is your fault you know."

"My fault! MY FAULT! You know how he is Alice, you know he's an arrogant, self-important, overconfident, cocky, conceited, big-headed–

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"–know-it-all, pms-ing, self assured, teachers pet, FEMALE!"

"And that's your walking thesaurus, right there!" stated Sirius mock-enthusiastically in a fake game show host voice. James glared at his friend through slits of darkening emerald.

"Padfoot how can you side with her?"

"I never said I was siding with Lily, but, now that you mention it–"

"SIRIUS!"

"I'm only joking..."

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Lily walked into the great hall and sat down in her seat at Gryffindor table. As she walked by James, she noticed with bitter satisfaction that he looked hurt when she chose not to sit by him, but by Remus. Alice, with an apologetic expression directed towards him sat down next to Lily

with her hands folded in her lap.

"Alice, aren't you going to eat?" asked her boyfriend Frank. She gave him a somewhat sad smile.

"No thanks; I'm not hungry right now."

"But you'll be starved by lunch time. At least eat a tart or something." he suggested, offering a tangy sweet. She accepted, and just nibbled on the end of it, thinking. Suddenly, an idea struck her.

"Sirius, Remus, can I speak to you for a minute?"

"What?" said Frank, furiously looking between the four.

"Anything for you, Alice-dear," said Sirius seductively. Franks's eyes were practically popping out of his head; Sirius was giving up his eating time to talk to his girlfriend; that was NOT a good sign of nothing going to happen. The two boys and Allice stepped out of the great hall for a minute and Alice shared her devious plan with them.

"Why did you bring us out here?" Remus asked curiously.

"Okay; my parents throw a Christmas ball...thing every year, and this year they decided that I'm allowed to bring friends!"

"Brilliant!...But what does that have to do with us?" Sirius asked stupidly. Alice looked at him incredulously.

"Well I'm going to invite you all of course!"

"You brought me away from precious food, that I'll never get to eat now, to tell me this!"

"Well...the thing is...it's always been a masquerade ball." she stated coyly. The two boys looked at her genuinely confused.

"And?" Remus urged.

"So we can get Lily and James to hook up without knowing each other!"

"But wont they know each other's voices and stuff?"

"That's the beauty of it. My parents cast a spell that makes everything sound and somewhat seem different. It's actually pretty neat."

"So...what's the plan?"

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To: Mrs. Lily Evans (friends of Alice)

You are cordially invited to Mr. And Mrs. Williams annual Christmas Masquerade...

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Sorry this chapter is short but I was gonna write the last sentence soon and didn't so its been sitting on my computer, one sentence that needed to be typed to be finished, so sorry about that! Also, my sister KINDLY noted that I made a HUGE mess up in the last chapter. James says "We need to practice hard to make you a star chaser." and then I go around out of my mind typing up Lily running after the snitch! I am completely off my rocker...so so so so so sorry about that! Forgive me with a few reviews and I'll be happy.

Don't forget thanksgivings Birthday and pray that I don't get sick (since someone in my family ALWAYS gets sick on major holidays, especially Christmas, and this year is my turn...grr.).

Luffs and fluffs to you all,

Deni