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Josette stomped angrily up to her room muttering in French under her breathe. When she got to her room she dropped onto the bed and stared at the box in her hands. How dare he? How could he do something like that to her?
With a sigh Josette opened the box and pulled out a doll with it's head cut off, something red was pouring out of where the neck was supposed to be as soon as Josette picked it up, the red looked remarkably like blood and he head of the doll resembled her brother. With a scream Josette dropped the ball trying to wipe the blood off her hands. No matter what she did the blood wouldn't come off and the doll wouldn't stop dripping blood.
Josette picked it up and ran down the stairs, hoping to get it outside without staining anything red, not even realizing she could have done it quickly with her wand.
She ran down the stairs assuming everyone was at class but ran into Remus who only saw the blood.
"Oh shit, Josette what the hell did you do, we have to get you to Madame Rosie!" Remus began to pull her to the porthole but Josette pulled back.
"Non, non, I'm fine!" Josette pulled back and showed Remus the doll.
"What?" Remus took the doll and watched as the blood kept pouring. "Who gave this to you"
"I, uh, don't know." Josette lied, Remus could tell he was lying but didn't say anything. "Well we'll just clean this up then." With a wave of his wand The blood and doll were both gone, even the blood from Josette's robes and hands were gone.
"Thank you Remus, I didn't think of that." Remus nodded and smiled, "Well, that's understandable"
There was an awkward silence.
"Well I better get my bag and then go to class." Without waiting for an answer Josette ran up the stairs to the girls dormitory grabbed her bag and came back down, expecting Remus to be gone but he wasn't. He was standing near the porthole as though waiting for Josette.
"Oh you didn't have to wait for me." Josette said as she neared him, "Unless of course you weren't waiting for me"
"No I was waiting for you"
"Oh, alright then we can go now." And together they walked out of the common room and to Transfiguration.
One week before the Halloween ball the students found out that it would be a masquerade ball, as in you wear a mask and can't take it off for the whole night, some people didn't really care, while others…
"This is great!" James cried as he read the flyer. "I can dance with Lily and she wont even know it's me"
"Yeah, but if she finds out, you'd be dead, and how do you expect to hide your hair, or your voice, or"
"Ok, Ok Sirius, jeez, way to ruin my happiness"
"Sorry mate but I had to, I didn't want you to realize all of this the day before the ball"
"Hey mates." Remus was reading the flyer carefully, "It says here that we can use spells to change our features if we want, but only things like change our hair not oyr voice's"
"So we've got the hair problem solved, now what about Jamie boy's annoying high-pitched voice"
James elbowed Sirius in the gut, "Shut up Sirius"
"just deepen your voice a little James, it'll be fine"
"So what about you guys? Are you going to make your moves on any girls"
Sirius thought about it for a second, "I was thinking maybe Joey"
"My cousin?" Remus yelled causing a few nervous first years to glance at them.
"Shh, I don't want her to know"
"But she's my cousin Sirius"
Sirius grinned, "I know which means I'm all ready in because I'm your best friend"
Remus suddenly got a weird look on his face, "Sirius, I swear if you hurt Joey, I wont hesitate to tear you to pieces, best friend or not, Joey is still like a little sister"
"I know mate, I wont do anything to her, don't worry"
"Shh, they're coming." James said quietly as Josette, and Joey came down the stairs from the girls dormitory.
"Hey guys." Joey said as she and Josette walked up to them.
"Hello Remus." Josette grinned at Remus who grinned back.
"Hello Joey, Josette"
"Yeah, well we'd love to stay and chat but we have girls to see, hearts to break." Sirius grabbed James and Remus and pulled them out of the porthole.
"What was that about Sirius?" James asked as he and Remus were pulled through the halls.
"Nothing, I'm just afraid I might say something stupid in front of her." Sirius said sheepishly.
Remus and James stared at Sirius for a moment then busted up laughing.
"Ha Ha Ha, you, the great Sirius Black are afraid of saying something stupid? Wow, she's got you good huh"
Sirius sneered at James, "What about you James? Always following after Lily like a lovesick puppy"
Instead of getting mad James grinned, "Yep, you're right Padfoot, I do follow her around, but at least I admit it"
"Come on guys, we should probably get masks and stuff." Remus said stepping in between James and Sirius.
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Yeah, ok let's go."
"Oh Lily, that's so beautiful." Lily smiled at Josette, "Thank you." Lily's hair was pinned up away from her face, she wore a white dress with long sleeves and gold thread, her mask was white and had gold lining. "You are too"
Josette grinned as she looked one last time into Lily's full length mirror. Her hair was curled and fell around her face, she wore a red dress that reached the ground and was straight, the top of it was covered in flowers sewn in black, her mask was black with red beads along the edges. She rubbed lip gloss on her lips one more time before letting Joey have the mirror.
Joey had put her hair up into a messy bun with a few strands of hair falling down, her dress was black, spaghetti strapped and reached her knees, the top had silver designs etched into it, her shoes were strappy high heels. Her mask was a simple blue mask.
Masie wore a gold dress that reached the floor and trailed behind her a little, her hair fell in soft waves around her face, her mask was gold with silver sequins.
"I must say." Masie said looking into the mirror again, "we look hot"
Lily grinned and readjusted her mask, "Yeah, we do huh"
With a grin they all walked out of Lily's room where they'd decided to change.
"So where's Potter?" Masie asked,
"Oh he's changing with Remus and Sirius and Peter." Lily said as they walked out of the head's common room and into the hall.
"Maybe he'll ask you to dance." Josette said as she walked gracefully down the winding staircase.
Lily snorted, "even if he did I wouldn't dance with him"
"And why ever not? You know how much he likes you"
"Because he's still the immature toe rag I've hated all these years"
Josette noticed the way Lily's voice changed pitch and became a little softer and stopped asking about it.
"What about you Josette? How do you know Remus won't ask you"
Josette grinned as they neared the Great hall, "Why Cheri, I'm hoping for it." with a graceful hand she lowered her mask and stepped into the hall.
Remus watched the crowd of people as he looked for one person in particular. He hadn't done anything different except wear nice robes and a black mask. His hair was a little messed up but otherwise he looked very nice. His eyes wandered and he caught sight of Peter, he was dancing with a pretty brunette from Ravenclaw. Though the girl looked kind of not right in the head Peter was having fun and that's all that matters.
Remus looked around but didn't see either of his other friends. He saw some Slytherins hanging out by the door watching a girl in a red dress with a black and red mask.
Remus could see from the way Darren Malfoy was looking at her that this wouldn't be good. Smoothly Remus walked over and took the girl into a dance.
"Umm, hello." She said nervously.
"Don't worry I'm not trying to hit on you but those Slytherins over there looked as though they were about to eat you, I thought I'd try and help out"
The girl smiled and realized why Remus hadn't recognized her though she had immediately recognized his voice. She kept the light whispery slightly accented voice she'd said 'Hello' with,
"how do you know I'm not one of their girlfriends?" She whispered softly in his ear.
"Because if you were, he would either be snogging in some dark corner or he'd have his arm permanently attached to your waist." Remus twirled her into a smooth circle that ended in a dip.
Smiling Josette didn't make any comment.
For the next three songs, they only danced making words, only with their eyes.
When the fourth song began Josette pulled away. "I have to go." She said and turned to leave but Remus grabbed her arm and spun her back around.
"Wait, who are you"
With a grin Josette spoke as she normally did, "You know me Remus, haven't you figured it out yet"
"Josette"
Instead of answering Josette raised up on tip toe and kissed Remus softly.
"what do you think?" she whispered softly in his ear then she pulled away and quickly hurried away to find Joey and tell her what had happened.
"Ok how does my hair look?" Masie asked Joey and Lily as she spotted her date.
"Terrific Masie. Go knock him dead"
With a grin for her friends Masie went off to do just that.
"Our little girl is growing up so fast Lily dear." Joey joked with a smile.
Lily watched as Masie walked away then turned to Joey, "why don't we go find some guys"
With a grin Joey linked arms with Lily and together they wandered around.
After a few minutes they found Josette dancing with someone who was obviously Remus.
"Come on, I think I see Sirius." Joey led Lily away from Josette and Remus and to where two boys sat, one was wearing black robes and had straight black hair and a multi colored mask, the other had black hair and was wearing a green mask and green robes. He could have been mistaken for James Potter if his hair were a little longer and a little messier.
"I think I know you from some where don't I?" Joey asked seductively from behind Sirius.
Sirius turned around and put on his best grin, "Well hello, I believe I do recognize you"
"Really?" Joey continued to hide her real voice, "From where"
"From all those dreams I've had of you." Sirius slipped and arm around Joey's waist. "Care to dance angel of my dreams"
Joey smoothly turned her fun grin into a sexy one, "Of course." Before Sirius pulled her away Joey turned to Lily, "Oh Lily dear, don't wait for me, go dance with that Potter you've talked so much about." Then she and Sirius where gone before Lily could say anything.
"Um hi"
Lily turned to see the boy wearing a green mask behind her.
"Oh hi"
"Hi, well I was just wondering if you would like to dance"
Lily smiled, "ok"
Out on the dance floor they didn't speak for a minute, finally Lily broke the silence. "So, I haven't seen you around, do you go here"
"Err, yes, I'm a Ravenclaw, 7th year"
"Aw"
"I know you, you're Lily Evans." At Lily's raised brow he explained, "A boy in my Astronomy class talks about you all the time, a Potter or something"
"James." Lily said quickly.
"Yeah, he's such a loser"
"no he isn't." Lily said quickly without thinking.
The boy gave her a weird look, "Yeah he is, he talks about you non-stop. The kid's obsessed"
"No, he just likes me a lot." Lily said as he twirled her.
"So why don't you go out with him"
Lily shrugged, "I don't know, sometimes he ca be so sweet and I just want to pull him to the nearest broom closet so we can snog, but other times, he gets me so mad I want to curse him into oblivion." Lily sighed, "Unfortunately I want to curse him more of the time"
"So you do like him?" Lily nodded, "but you don't want to go out with him because of the fact that he can be a jerk most of the time"
Lily nodded again and wondered why she was spilling her guts to a complete stranger.
"Well, in my opinion you should go for him"
"Why"
"because when you love someone you have to deal with their faults, and if you went out with Potter don't you think that would stop him from acting like a complete idiot most of the time, since most of it is to get your attention"
"Yes, I suppose"
The song ended, "Who are you"
The boy leaned close to Lily, "Guess." He whispered and kissed her.
At first Lily was shocked but she didn't have time to feel anything else as the boy pulled back, winked and strode off.
Lily watched him go then turned to find Sirius.
She wasn't fooling him one bit. No matter how hard Joey tried she could not hide those perfect eyes, or that perfect body, or that perfect hair, or that perfect mouth, from Sirius.
"So, do you like this song?" Joey asked in her fake voice.
"Oh yeah, one of my favorites"
They danced and Sirius was careful to keep his hands on her waist. "So, what house are you in?" Sirius asked, carefully watching her eyes.
"Oh, I'm in Ravenclaw, 6th year"
Sirius nodded, why didn't she just reveal that she was Joey? He wondered.
A few moments later the song ended and Joey began to pull away, "Well I must be going I"
"Wait, Joey." Before Joey could say anything Sirius was kissing her sweetly.
Joey stood there for a second then wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back with everything she had.
"Oh my goodness"
Joey and Sirius pulled away to see Lily standing there looking at them both with an amused smile on her face.
"Oh, um Lily, hello, I"
Lily shook her head "No don't explain, just don't let your cousin find out or you'll both be in big trouble. I just came over to ask if you knew where James was Sirius"
Sirius gave her a weird look, "You were just dancing with him."
James climbed slowly up to the Gryffindor common room, he had taken off his mask and his hair was back to it's normal, long messiness. He had kissed Lily. The realization still hit him like a hammer. He had kissed lily, he had kissed Lillian Evelyn Madison Evans. When she found out who he really was she would be pissed, but it was worth it, because for just a moment, Lily didn't hate him with a fiery passion, she talked as though they were friends.
James had just made it to the portrait of the fat lady when he remembered that his room was in the heads tower.
With a groan James started towards the heads tower. All the while, he thought of what Lily had said, if only he had known sooner, he could have stopped acting like such a prick and began acting nice like Lily wanted.
"Peppermeat." James said to the girl and stepped through the porthole to find Lily laying on the couch.
A/N: So, what do you think? Yeah i know that the doll was kinda stupid but it was the only thing i could think of. Who sent it to her is the question isn't it? Well you will all find out soon enough, or maybe not. It's all up to me! BWAHAHA! I'm actually disappointed in this chapter, ok I don't know when i'll be able to post the next chapter, because i'm going to my aunts house in a few days and although i'll have axcess to a computer I wont have any axcess to my docuents for this story. So unless i stay home tommorow and tuesday froms chool then it may be a while before the next chapter is posted. Sorry, I really am!
Once again Look out for my next HP fanfic as soon as this fanfic is over...It'll be good, I hope.
Love,
Mystic Biatch