Chapter 17: Preparation
Hey this is a really quick update because I am feeling erm creative, I have talked to my friend and beta Nicks, and she gave me some good ideas. So everyone thank her lots and lots.
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Previously
"Lily," James got lily's attention straight after Dumbledore's speech, "Will you go to the ball with me?"
Lily smiled then though for a moment, "I suppose I will" she laughed and leaned over the table and kissed him on the lips lightly, only to hear catcalls from Sirius.
The ball was one week away, and James was going to sleep with Lily.
The ball was one week away, and Carly was going to ruin Lily's reputation.
The ball was one week away, and lily was going to lose her virginity to James she decided.
The ball was one week away, and the whole of Hogwarts were in for a big surprise.
ContinuedThe ball was arranged for the 20th of December, the day before school ended for the Christmas holidays. As the 20th was a Saturday, the teachers had arranged that all classes were cancelled on Friday, for the students to purchase the needed things for the ball.
On the Thursday night, lily was getting ready for bed when the four other girls who shared the dorm walked in talking about the arrangements for Friday trip to Hogsmead.
"Well I am going to visit every dress store until I have found the perfect dress" One girl said whose name was Katherine.
"You will be a long time then, there are lots of dress shops!" Another girl said whose name was Maggie, both girls were friends of Lily's even though she didn't talk to them as much as she would like to.
"How about you Lily? Whom are you going with tomorrow?" Maggie asked, as she pulled down her covers and climbed into bed.
"Well I was thinking of going on my own that way I can get everything done quickly" Lily smiled at Maggie.
"Why don't you come with us girls?" Katherine asked.
"Yeah why not, I mean you don't spend enough time with us girls" Maggie giggled.
"I am sure Marcy wont mind, will you Marcy?" Katherine asked, the other girl across the room.
She smiled shyly and answered back in a sweet voice, "Of course not".
Lily smiled at the group of girls and accepted their offer, maybe she needed to make friends with the girls, and they seemed a great people.
James was getting ready for bed with Sirius and Remus, came bounding in and both bounced on to James bed. He looked at Remus.
"Ok, Sirius what have you given to Remus?" James asked suspiciously.
"Who me? Never? I haven't given him anything" Sirius smiled and kept bouncing on the bed.
"Yeah right…. Chocolate again?" James directed his question towards Remus.
He just smiled and laughed.
"Yup, chocolate, oh well good luck getting him to calm down" James smiled at Sirius.
Sirius's smile dropped from his face and looked at James, "What that mean?".
"Remus and chocolate are a good mix from time to time, and little by little" James pushed both Remus and Sirius of the bed and finished, "but in one big block, ha you're going to be up all night! Goodnight Padfoot!"
"Wait, Wait, Oh no" Sirius looked at Remus, "Why didn't you warn me!"
"Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum Dee" Remus sung to himself.
"Oh crap, I'm going to be up all night" Sirius sat down on his bed and put his hands in his head.
And he was right he didn't get to bed until way after four in the morning.
The next morning in the girl's dorm was havoc, Maggie and Katherine had both decided that Lily need to look her best for going to Hogsmead, even though as lily pointed out, there is no one to impress.
"Well you need to look your best, because when you try on the dress looking all blah it won't show how it really looks" Maggie told Lily as she performed spells to make her hair straight. (A.n: this is a true statement that is used on me, my friend says it too me all the time lol).
"And besides you want James to see you don't you?" Katherine giggled.
"I suppose so but don't make me so dressy" Lily gave in.
"You don't need to change the way you look" A small voice said from behind her, lily turned around and saw it was Marcy, she smiled and said a small thank you.
Meanwhile in Hogsmead James was being fitted for a dress robe, with Sirius and Remus waiting for him.
"Remind us again, why?" Sirius asked James.
James was standing on a stool being measured for his dress robe, "Because there is a ball and I have a date."
"I have a date as well but you don't see me getting a new dress robe" Sirius pushed back his head and yawned.
"Yeah well I am going with Lily," James turned around to face Sirius and Remus and asked, "well what about this one?"
The robe in question was hideous it was a grey colour, and it looked as if it had been washed to many times. Sirius looked at Remus and they were both thinking the same thing.
"Next!" The both shouted.
"Right, well for two people who don't want to be here you sure are being difficult!" James told his friends with annoyance in his voice.
"But its for Lily" Sirius said in a sing-song voice.
Remus smiled at both boys and sighed; he watched the next dress robe being given. It was pitch black and had silver trimmings and lining. As James put it on, he looked in the mirror and smiled, he turned towards the boys and said "This one then?"
"Well I suppose its ok…but mine is better I must admit, but its you" Sirius smiled and laughed.
"I take that as a yes then paddy?" James laughed.
"Shall I ring this up for you, sir?" The tailor asked James directly.
"Yes please, thank you." James smiled at his reflection; he knew that the ball was going to be perfect.
"What do you think of this one?" Maggie asked the rest of the three girls. She was wearing a blood red dress, which was fitted all the way down the bottom of her hips and then flowed out, on the top part of the dress was embroider, all the way to the floor, the red contrasted perfectly with Maggie's pitch-black shoulder length hair.
"Its prefect for you" Lily smiled at her.
"Then its going to be this one then, ok Katherine your next" She shouted in to the stall at the farest end. Maggie quickly got changed from her dress and ran to the seat next to lily and jumped into it and laughed and shouted "Come on out Kat!"
Katherine, also known as Kat to her friends and family, popped her head out of the cubical and smiled she opened the curtains and stepped out wearing a baby pink dress that was strapless and went straight down and was very silky, it fitted her in all the right places and her long blonde hair looked perfected with it. Both girls gave thumbs up and she giggled and smiled and said, "Ok then let me get dressed and then we can see what Marcy has for us to look at".
"Erm girls I don't think that this dress is me" a small voice came from the only cubical that was vacant.
"Why not?" Maggie asked.
"Because…well its not" Marcy said.
"Let us see, come on open up Marcy" Katherine banged on her cubical door.
"No I can't its too revealing!" Marcy said a little louder this time.
"Come on open up it can't be that bad" Lily said reassuringly.
The door clicked and Marcy step out into the hall, she was wearing a baby blue dress which was perfectly fitted to her it hugged her in the right places and flowed out in the right places as well, but the girls could see why it wasn't her at all…it was very tight. Marcy only ever wore baggy clothes that showed nothing, it was due to no self-confidence.
"See it's too tight?" Marcy pulled at the top part of the dress trying to make it less tight.
"But it looks perfect on you!" Maggie insisted.
"Yep and beside I am sure you can attract a certain person," Katherine said with a hint of wit in her voice.
"Who is that then?" Lily being new to the "Group" didn't know much about each girl.
"Oh its no one…" Marcy looked down at the floor and blushed.
"Its Remus Lupin" Maggie said with boredom in her voice.
Marcy looked at the floor and blushed tomato red, and started to mumble that it wouldn't happen.
"Remus? Oh it would be perfect, you are both alike," Lily started, "I am sure I can talk to him find out?"
"Really? You would do that?" Marcy asked with interested.
"Only if you buy the dress" Maggie added with laughter.
"Fine, deal, but if I don't want to wear it, I wont" Marcy looked at herself in the mirror before she went back into the stall and changed.
Once she had come back out everyone looked at Lily. Once she had explained that she hadn't looked for a dress, the girls went into shopping mode they pushed lily into a dressing room and told her to wait.
"Ok try these three first of all," Maggie thrusted the dresses at Lily and told her to put them on.
The first one was a white dress, which looked exactly like a wedding dress, it was also very 'puffy' and it didn't fit Lily in the bosom department, she came out of the dressing room and looked at the girls. They all couldn't stop laughing, once Katherine was able to catch her breath she told Lily, "I think you would scare James, he would think you wanted to get married."
Lily next dress was black and had a slit from the bottom all the way to the top of her thigh, and was held together very poorly and Lily felt if she moved to quickly it would fall. She walked out and this time Marcy and Maggie just shouted "Hell No", and Katherine smiled and said "I though she could see the different styles of dress that's all".
Lily put on the next dress and walked out of the cubical and each girl gasped.
"Its perfect" Maggie told her as she stood to her left
"It beautiful" Marcy walked to her right and told her.
"Its you" Katherine put her head on Lily shoulder.
Lily looked at the dress in the mirror, yes I was perfect, and James would love it.
Once the girls had paid for all their dresses and everything else they could possibly want, they walked out of the store and linked arms and walked down the street.
"So my dears, where next?" Maggie asked.
"Food" Katherine stated.
"Gotcha" Maggie dragged everyone to the nearest place to eat, which was an open-air restaurant, once they had all sat down and ordered they looked around and started the conversation of the ball.
"So girl who is everyone going with then?" Maggie asked around the table
"I am going with a Ravenclaw 7th year, name Joseph Hemming" Katherine told everyone.
"I haven't got a date yet," Marcy told the girls.
"What? But what about that Hufflepuff that we though liked you?" Maggie asked.
"I don't like him, he has bad breath" Marcy gave a bad excuse.
The all laughed.
"So who are you going with Maggie?" Lily asked with interest.
"It's a secret you will find out tomorrow at 7" Maggie looked at the girls and laughed at their expressions.
"You always do that!" Katherine protested.
"Its more fun to see your expressions when I introduce him to you" Maggie laughed at her friends and asked Lily "We all know who you are going with of course"
"I suppose everyone does," Lily answered.
"How did you two get together I mean you hate each other?" Maggie asked with interested.
"Well I saw a different side of him, and besides he's very sweet and I like him" Lily blushed.
"Oh so he has good hand technique then?" Katherine asked.
Marcy started to choke on her drink and looked at Katherine, "Kat! How can you ask that?"
"Simple, I open my mouth and it comes out" Kat laughed and asked Lily again.
"James and me are having fun is all I am saying" Lily looked down and hear Maggie giggle.
"You mean you and James are getting far then" Maggie wiggled her eyebrows and her and laughed when Lily in responds stuck her tongue out at her.
James, Sirius and Remus were all walking out of Zonko's Joke Shop (a.n: not sure if that's spelt right?) when Sirius stomach gave an almighty groan, James and Remus both laughed.
"Can we please get something to eat, I think I am going to die of starvation!" Sirius complained.
"Come on then, let's find somewhere to eat then" Remus looked around and saw the same restaurant that the girls had went into. He pointed it out to James and Sirius.
"Does it serve food?" Sirius asked.
"Yes it does" Remus answered warily.
"Lets go then!" Sirius pulled James and Remus and sat them on a table, which were a few away from Lily's table.
"Right let's see what I can have" Sirius opened up the menu and buried his head in it.
"Hey look who it is, Marcy" Maggie pointed over to the table at which Remus was sitting at.
"Oh god, please don't say anything!" She sunk her head lower.
"I won't but it looked like they are coming over her" Maggie told her.
"Hey look Prongs, Lily is over there" Sirius pushed James and pointed.
"Where?" James asked with interest.
"Looks like she made some new friend, Maggie Kenworthy, Katherine Herman, and Marcy Brown, lets go say hello" Remus asked.
"Come on then I want to see Lily anyway" James picked up his stuff and made his way towards Lily's table.
"Hello Ladies!" Sirius put his hands on Lily shoulders and bent his head down and shouted.
"Erg Sirius get off me," Lily pushed him off her and pointed to a chair, which was vacant, "Hello Remus" she smiled at him, as he sat next to a very embarrassed Marcy.
"Hey Lil" James bent over and kissed Lily on the cheek. He sat on a chair opposite Lily and looked around the table.
"So lovely ladies, excited about the ball?" Sirius asked to the table.
Maggie looked at him and went "Who isn't Black?"
"I feel hostility between us Kenworthy" Sirius told her directly.
"Maybe its something to do with you putting the frog into my backpack in first year, or maybe the time you spread a rumour that I was really a boy, or maybe just maybe the fact that you are an idiot" Maggie spat each word out at Sirius.
Sirius held his hands near his heart and said "Ouch I am wounded"
"Ill wound you physical in a minute if you are not careful" She told him.
There was a silence that went around the table, as Lily looked at Remus and Marcy who were both sitting as far apart as possible, she smiled.
"So Marcy who are you going to the ball with?" Lily asked.
She looked up and saw Remus looked intently at her, "No one"
"Really well isn't that a coincident Remus doesn't have a date either," James told the table, catching on to what Lily was up to.
Just as Marcy as going to say something Remus quickly added, "I do have a date, I am going with a Ravenclaw."
Marcy looked around the table and smiled as she moved as far away as she could. James looked at Remus and gave him an annoyed look.
"Well look at the time we better be going now" Maggie said as she started to pay for her meal, "Any of you girls coming?"
"We are" Katherine and Marcy both stood up.
"Lily we'll see you back at the castle, see you later Lil" Maggie, Katherine and Marcy each in turn gave her a hug and headed back to the castle, leaving Lily alone with the three boys.
"Why did you do that Remus?" Sirius asked.
"It just came out" Remus put his head in his hands.
"Yeah well you have blown it now" James told him.
Lily had no idea what was going but she had an idea, "What are you going on about? About the Marcy thing?"
"Yeah, Remus here has liked her for a while but hasn't had the courage to ask her out" James filled Lily in on the story about Remus liking her.
"Well you have blown it, sounds like you give her the cold shoulder all the time" Lily told him.
"Don't I know it" he told her.
"Well maybe I have a little secret that can help" Lily smiled.
"What?" Both Sirius and James asked at the same time.
"Just be downstairs tomorrow at 7, and wait" Lily told him, "Well I have to go now its getting late have fun boys."
She kissed James on the lips and lingered for a moment and walked away.
"What is your girlfriend on about" Remus asked.
"No idea" James answered as he watch Lily walk away, the way she moved her hips…he couldn't wait until the Ball.
As Lily walked back into the girls dorm that night at 8, she saw that Marcy was on her bed with her head in her pillows with Maggie and Katherine on either side of her.
"Shush don't worry Marcy" Maggie told her in a comforting voice.
"He is not worth it" Katherine told Marcy.
Lily walked over the Marcy bed and sat on the end and looked at the girls as if to ask 'what's wrong with Marcy?'
"Remus, he was really cold to her when she walked past him in the hall she said hi and he just stared and said Bye" Katherine told her.
"Stupid Asswipe" Maggie added, she looked at Lily and smiled, "Sorry I know your friends with him but well…"
"Don't worry I understand," Lily told her "Don't worry Marcy, I am sure there is a reason."
"Yeah sure," Marcy said she pulled herself up and walked into the bathroom and closed the door.
"Listen I know why he does that" Lily said as soon as Marcy was gone.
"Who does what?" Maggie asked.
"Remus," Lily started, "He likes her, a lot that's why he acts like that, and he freezes when she talks to him"
"Oh my god!" Maggie shouted.
"Shhhh I am not going to tell Marcy" Lily said.
"What! Yes we are" Katherine told her forcefully.
"Listen to me, get her ready for the ball, and surprise her with Remus!" Lily told them calmly.
"Good idea, now we have to convince her to go to the ball." Katherine told her.
Well that's the end of that chapter I hope you liked it, I had to add new characters because its all to do with the ball and everything, Katherine Maggie and Marcy are all based on people I know, I am only going to do 20 chapters I think and I hope lol So thank for the reading and please continue to review please!
Love (not literally)
Lils