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A/N Ok I am extremely sorry for the delay, I have an EXTREMELY GOOD EXCUSE! I spilt hot chocolate all over my laptop, so now my space bar works as an enter key and the Control key is permanently stuck. How fun for me. So my computer's got to get fixed and I just found out that they have to replace the keyboard and there are none for my type of laptop in the country so they have to import one from over seas. WAAAAA! It's going to be a few weeks till I get my computer back. I got to use my Mum's computer (Which is old and sucks) to post this so PLEASE review and I will post the next chapter as soon as I get some decent time on the computer.
I think this is probably the longest chapter yet so please enjoy! (and then review)
Chapter 8
James POV"No James I want to go out with you"
I am officially the happiest man alive "Someone slap me." I say when I reach the dormitory I share with the other Marauders.
WHACK! OW! Shit.
"Damn, Padfoot, you didn't have to actually slap me you frikkin' girl."
"What?" Sirius says, acting shocked "You told me to slap you, what are you so happy about anyway?"
He is such a dick head. "Well Padfoot," I begin "I have a date to the Christmas ball."
"Who? That blonde chick I went out with last month? Or the one with the curly black hair…what's her name? Mary? Maria?"
"Elizabeth?" I supply.
"Yeah that's the one"
"No, I'm not going with any of those skanks" I say, god he's so dumb sometimes. "I am going to the Christmas Ball with…wait for it…Lily Evans."
What's that noise, sounds like someone's choking. Hmmmmm… I look around and there is Peter choking out of shock on what appears to be Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. Someone should probably help him.
I whack him on the back a few times and he recovers.
'So, finally cracked the ice queen," Sirius says "good job Prongs. How did ya do it?"
"Yeah" Remus adds, looking up from his Charms homework "How did you get her to say yes?"
"I-" I actually don't know. I open my mouth to respond but close it again. Hmmmmm. I don't know, she called me James and she never calls me James, so I think that made me be different or something. And then I asked her and she looked all angry so I got pissed off, picked up my books and went to come up here but she stopped me and said that she wanted to go with me.
I notice that they are all staring at me weirdly.
"What?" I say.
:You were just staring into space for ages not saying anything, it was creepy." Moony says.
Shit, I didn't explain what happened out loud, only in my head, hmmmm, that was weird.
Lily walked up the stairs to her dormitory to see Denzi and Moo lying on Moo's bed eating chocolate frogs.
"… his eyes are so dreamy" Moo was saying.
"I guess we're talking about Remus" Lily said joining them in the choc/gossip fest.
"You guess correctly" Denzi said, eyes still on the famous wizard card (Dumbledore). She looked up at Lily and asked suggestively "How was you study date?"
"It was… really really amazingly good." Lily said reaching for a chocolate frog and ignoring the smirking and knowing looks on her best friends faces. "He was really nice and now we're sort of going to the ball together."
This the two girls were NOT expecting.
"Oh my god" Moo exclaimed "We all have dates! And your going with JAMES POTTER, one of your biggest enemies."
"He is nice though" Denzi added "Do you agree with that now Lils?"
"He is sometimes" She agreed "and he is really good looking, especially when his hair is wet."
'I knew you liked him," said Denzi, "You do like him don't you?"
"I do I just don't want to go out with him for a week and be dumped like the rest of the girls he goes out with."
"You really like him Lils" Moo said quite loudly "Or you wouldn't care as much."
"WOULD YOU THREE SHUT UP! Some of us are trying to get some beauty sleep because some of us are beautiful!" Vivian Parker yelled at them from a bed across the room. She had one of those eye things you wear to sleep on planes on and was one of the biggest skanks in the school.
Lily and Denzi got up and walked quickly to their own beds, not because Vivian said to but out of respect for the other girls currently trying to sleep in the dorm.
One was a curly black haired girl named Elizabeth, the other was Elizabeth's best friend called Alice. They were both always extremely nice, unlike Vivian who happened to have no friends in Gryffindor.
Denzi lay in bed thinking, Moo and Lily both had dates that they really liked and who really liked them. Lewis was nice enough but she didn't really like him that much. And she knew he was only going out with her because she was a girl that wanted to go with him and that he had not yet dated. He was kind of like the Sirius Black of Ravenclaw, except, she really liked the real Sirius Black. But he would never like her, and even if he did he would never take her seriously.
The day of the full moon came and Remus was dreading it. He knew that that afternoon Madame Pomfrey would come to take him down to the Whomping Willow and then Moo would ask where he was going and he would tell her that his mother was sick and she wouldn't believe him. And then of course there was the painful transformation and the many hours as a werewolf.
The seven teenagers, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Moo, Denzi and Peter, were sitting in the common room (it was a Saturday) in the most comfy chairs by the fireplace (there was no fire). Lily and James were sharing the two-seater couch; Lily was lying down with her legs on James' lap. They weren't "going out" but they were "friends", "friends" who were going to the ball together. Of course they both wanted to be more than that but they were both so happy to be getting along with each other that they didn't want to mess it up.
Remus and Moo were officially "together". They were sharing one if the armchairs. They hadn't been together for long but were so close it was unbelievable.
The other armchair was taken by Denzi, whilst Sirius was lying on the floor.
Peter was sitting up on the flood and was closest to the fireplace.
"That was so funny," said Denzi, speaking of the prank the girls had helped the Marauders pull on the Slytherins (Lily hadn't done much but stand there and try not to laugh).
"I know" Lily agreed (once they had gotten back to the common room, she had given up trying to hold in the laughter.)
"Funny? It was frikkin' hilarious" cam Sirius' voice from the floor. They all laughed again.
"The look on bloody Snape's face." Said James.
"The group shared another laugh before all falling silent and silently enjoying each others company and the memories of the prank.
Over on Moo and Remus' armchair some heavy making out began. When they broke apart Moo rested her head on his shoulder he looked down at her face.
"Your so beautiful, you know that?" he said.
"Yep!" she replied.
"And modest too." He began to tickle her.
There was a collective "aawwwwwww" from their friends and Denzi threw a cushion at them to make them stop.
"Eeewwwwww" Sirius said rather loudly "Lovey doveyness!"
"Shut up Padfoot" Said Remus, sending the cushion that had been thrown by Denzi, flying to Sirius' head.
"I'm hungry" Peter announced. So Lily suggested that they all go down to the kitchens for a really late afternoon snack before dinner.
They climbed out the portrait hole and began the walk down the many floors to the kitchens. As they passed a window on the third floor, Moo pointed at the colour of the sky.
"Look, It's beautiful, the sun, just starting to set."
A look of panic came over Remus' face. "It is?" He said "Shit! I gotta go." He turned to leavem he had to get to the Hospital Wing and meet Madame Pomfrey.
"Wait!" Moo said, jogging after him "Where are you going? Are you even going to tell me?" Hurt was evident in her eyes.
"I've got to go visit my Mum, she's sick."
Moo could tell that he was lying and she didn't like it. "Bull shit Remus! Tell me the truth."
He couldn't lie to her, but he couldn't tell her either, not yet. "I can't I've got to go"
"Don't I mean anything to you Remus? Tell me, please!" Tears were now in her eyes but she was determined to not let them fall.
"I can't tell you. Not yet, you mean everything to me, but I have to go."
"Then we are through! If you have to pretend that your Mum's sick. If you are going to lie and keep things from me, then we're over." The tears that had been threatening to fall we're now spilling down her cheeks.
Remus whipped around and grasped her arms, just below the shoulders. "Fine" he said in a whisper so only she could hear him, the anger in his voice barely disguising the hurt. "It's probably for the best anyway, now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go turn into a werewolf and spend the night in the shrieking shack biting myself so that you don't get hurt."
He turned on his heel and ran all the way to the hospital wing.
Moo couldn't believe what she had just done, or heard. Her boyfriend was a werewolf. No, her EX-Boyfriend. She had broken up with her boyfriend, WHO WAS A WEREWOLF.
Tears pouring down her face she was at the nearest staircase in seconds and ran all the way back to her dormitory.
Moo and Remus' friends stood there, none of them had been able to move since Moo had first told Remus' to tell her the truth. They had not been able to hear exactly what was being said but they got the general gist of it. The boys of course knew of Remus' condition, Lily had guessed and Denzi was looking rather confused.
Even though she was so confused, Denzi, with Lily, left the boys standing in the middle of the hall and chased after her best friend.
They reached the portrait hole and pushed aside a couple of fourth years to get inside as quickly as possible. Lily got up the stairs to the dorm first and pushed open the door, Moo was lying on her bed and crying into her pillow.
They sat on either side of her, one stroking her head and the other her back, trying to calm her down. Moo sat up, clutching her pillow to her chest.
"He…he's a werewolf"
Denzi's jaw dropped and then she began to realise that it all fit, it all made sense.
"I don't care that he is a werewolf though, I broke up with him. I can't believe I broke up with him."
"Shhh" Lily cooed. "It's ok"
"No it's not. I don't care that he's a werewolf, he needs me; he needs someone to be there for him and I need him".
Denzi took over the hugging, and held Moo until she fell asleep in her friend's arms.
Lily and Denzi both walked out of the dorm and down into the common room. They looked at each other and sighed, before collapsing onto the couch.
A/N WOW That was probably the longest chapter I've ever written. I decided not to have everything resolved then, make it more interesting, which means there will be one more chapter than I had planned (I have a chapter plan now). Hopefully, despite my little technology problem, I will be able to update faster and with longer chapters coz I've been writing during my bus rides so the chapters seem to be better.
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