A/N: I hope you like it, thanks to all the people who reviewed, it's been great so far! We've had lots of feedback and it's only the fifth chapter, keep it up guys.
This chapter was written by: beachbabe12
Remus sat in his bed, it was early morning and the other guy's were all asleep. He wondered whether he was truly meant to be with Ellie.
If it was Ellie, she had been with James though, and is his longest girlfriend on record, and she had left him, during the middle of the ball, she had left.
Sirius snored loudly. Remus shook his head and wondered whether he had danced with anyone, he probably had as he would have whined on about being all alone. And then there was James, he was such an idiot, he had done everything right, and Lily had still yelled at him. Maybe it was Lily's fault. On second thoughts, maybe it wasn't.
Ellie sat on her bed thinking, she hadn't been dancing with James, which meant that they weren't meant to be together, but who had she been dancing with? They obviously liked her, if they wanted her to stay and not go help Lily, but it was the right thing to do, after all, what are friends for?
Sirius sat down to breakfast, in a complete daze. He was thinking over and over again about who he had danced with. Who ever it was had two different coloured eyes, which made it a lot easier, and like a red, coloured hair. Which not many people had, which made it ever easier. He looked around, no one that particularly caught his eye, so he turned back round.
"Hey Sirius!" Emma bounced right into his face.
"AHHHHHHHH," screamed Sirius and he fell onto the floor.
"A bit touchy today, aren't we?" Emma teased as she helped him up off the floor.
"You were practically in my face," Sirius argued.
"You are touchy today, full stop."
"Why thank you," he said and bowed.
"You are most welcome," she said and did a little curtsey.
He looked up at her. Her smile, her eyes, those eyes, two different colours. It was different. Her hair was in weak curls from not brushing her hair before she went to bed and the make-up she usually put on wasn't there.
He took her arm and put it into a dance position, and there, in the Great Hall, they danced, just as gracefully as the night before, except this time, they knew who they were dancing with.
James got out of bed slowly and rubbed his eyes.
"Glasses," he moaned, and reached for his glasses on his bedside table.
"Food, I smell food, I need food," said James as he quickly put on some clothes and walked down the stairs to the Great Hall.
When he got there, there were two people dancing in the middle of the Hall. Two familiar people, very familiar. He edged closer and saw,
"SHIT!" shouted James. "What the hell are you two doing?"
"Dancing," said Sirius simply, and spun Emma around.
"It's like eight in the morning," James pointed out.
"You're right, it's too early to dance, we should stop," said Emma, and she slowly came to a stop. "Stupid cousins," she muttered, Sirius laughed when he heard her, he thought she actually might have wanted to stop.
From the teachers table, Dumbledore eyed them closely, and smiled when he saw Sirius and Emma had finally figured out who they were meant to be with.
"I see you smiling, Dumbledore," said Professor McGonagall. "One of your ideas have worked, but there is one couple that I don't see, no, actually two couples that you had also planned," she said eyeing Dumbledore to see his reaction.
"Ah, you see Minerva, Remus is not one hundred percent sure it is Ellie and Ellie doesn't even know it's Remus, so that couldn't work. And as for James and Lily, that wasn't the place they are destined to get together, but they will and they will get married and die together," said Dumbledore sadly.
"You know too many things," said McGonagall.
"Good to see you guys got your act together," said Ellie as she came into the Hall.
Emma giggled and gave her a look, "how was I supposed to know I was meant to be with him if we fought every morning."
"Well we all knew," said Kat. "This Ball didn't help me at all, I still don't know who I'm meant to be with and James and Lily aren't together and Ellie and Remus aren't together."
Ellie sighed as she sat down, "maybe you weren't meant to know, and maybe Remus and I aren't meant to be and maybe James and Lily aren't meant to be."
"You can say that again," said Sirius. All the girls shot him a glare. "I meant the one about Lily and James, I mean, that's like . . . oh I don't know, but like she kicks him and yells at him and tells him to go kill himself, who actually thinks they're going to get together?"
"Me," said Emma quietly, "you haven't heard Lily at night or after James asks her out, it's all you hear for the next like, day."
"Yeah," said Ellie, "it's like when you and Emma would have a fight, it would be all you would hear about for a week."
"DON'T COME NEAR ME AGAIN!" screamed Lily, as she burst into the Great Hall, following her was James, looking more hurt than he had to start the morning.
"Wasn't James just sitting next to us?" Sirius asked.
"Don't ask me," said Emma putting her hands up in the air, and for the second time that morning she muttered, "stupid cousins."
The days slowly went by, the tension between Remus and Ellie was wearing off but Kat's mood was getting worse and worse. Not to mention Lily and James, James had decided not to ask her out and Lily had decided to ignore him, as usual.
Emma and Sirius were extremely happy, which didn't help anyone really; no one except them seemed to have been helped by the ball.
"We have to get them all out of the dumps," said Sirius, trying to use words that sounded sophisticated.
"Good idea, but we decided that, like, an hour ago, we actually have to think of something to make it better," said Emma.
"Alright, like what?"
"I don't know, maybe we should set up James and Lily on a date, you know, like I say I found a really great person for Lily and you say to James you found a really hot girl for him to date and it's actually them!" said Emma, proud of her idea.
"But won't Lily just see James and walk out?"
"Arg, why can't Lily just like James already?"
"I don't know," Sirius said.
"It's was a rhetorical question," said Emma, and then regretted what she said.
"What does that mean?"
"Don't worry, just, we'll have to just hope our plan works, won't we?"
"I guess so. Should we get Kat and Ellie in on this too," Sirius asked.
"Definitely, we're going to need all the help we can get," said Emma, she kissed Sirius goodbye and went into the Girls Dorm to let Kat and Ellie in on the plan.
"I've set you up with this guy, so you can just get over James," said Emma to Lily during dinner that evening.
"Who is he?" Lily asked.
"Can't tell, it wouldn't be a surprise then, would it?"
"Alright, I'll go, but if this is one of you and Ellie's jokes then, I don't know what I'll do, but it will be bad."
"Now why would we do a thing like that?"
"So mate, I found you this really hot girl and she's totally into you, so all you have to do is say yes and she'll meet you at the Three Broomsticks at eleven," said Sirius.
James eyed him suspiciously.
"You need to get over Lily," explained Sirius, as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I thought I had when I met that girl at the Ball and then, it turned out to be her, and she didn't like it," said James sadly.
"Exactly," said Sirius, "this is why you need this girl."
"Who is it?"
"Don't know her name," said Sirius a little too quickly which made it sound like he had rehearsed it, which he had.
"What house?"
"Ravenclaw," Sirius said slowly, realizing his mistake last time.
"I'll be there," said James, "anything to get over Lily."
"You look fine," said Kat comfortingly as Lily looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a white top, with a denim skirt and some simple jewelry.
"Thanks," she said, happy with what she had done.
"You look great and you'll have the best time," said Ellie, she had broken up with James a week ago, and was happy to think about him with Lily now.
"And then this guy walked in and I just walked over to him and completely forgot about the other guy," said Jesse, who was in a daze, she had met the perfect guy, and he was in Slytherin.
"So, who was he?" asked Claudia, who had listened to the whole story twice but still hadn't found out who he was.
"Tyler Parkinson!" shrieked Jesse, who was so happy.
"You're kidding me, Tyler, that guy you liked for ages, is the guy you're meant to be with, how romantic." Claudia sighed and fell back in her chair.
"I know."
"How come you didn't tell me this two weeks ago?" Claudia asked, slightly confused.
"We wanted to keep it a secret for a while, not that it mattered whether we didn't or not, it just seemed, more, perfect."
Claudia sighed and said quietly, "and he's a pureblood."
Peter sat quietly in his bedroom staring at the ceiling. He wanted Jesse Lestrange, he really liked her.
James and Sirius had found out Jesse had danced with Tyler Parkinson before any one else, they had walked in on them in the closet. They had told her to tell them everything and they found out that she had danced with someone before hand but dumped him. They had told Remus and Peter, he knew it was him straight away.
What didn't Jesse want? He was popular, a pureblood and very handsome (according to him), why didn't she want him. Maybe it was because he was on the wrong side; he should be on the dark side. Then she'd love him back, want him, and care for him.
So Peter decided to go to the bad side, from that day on.
They say people do crazy things for love, and this was another classic example.
James sat in the Three Broomsticks, waiting for the girl who Sirius thought would be good for him. Why should he trust Sirius? Oh well, too late now.
He turned around and saw Lily walking over with Emma. He quickly turned around and pretended to be very interested in the sugar bowl.
Lily was scared; there were two guys that were alone. One was James Potter and the other was Hamish. Emma was leading her to either of them; James was behind Hamish, so she still had no idea which one she was dating for the day. She didn't think Emma would set her up with her ex-boyfriend, but why would she set her up with the person she was meant to be getting over?
Comparing the two, Lily sat down on Hamish's table, he looked utterly confused and Emma burst out laughing.
"Sorry Hamish, she got the wrong table," Emma said in between fits of laughter. Hamish nodded still looking confused.
"You mean I'm dating James? JAMES! Did you organize this? I told you I'm not listening to your apologies."
"What do you mean did I organize this, I'm as shocked as you are!" said James.
Emma had sat down at James' table too, and was looking at them, watching their reactions.
"You did this," Lily hissed, "just because you and Sirius get along fine, does not mean that everyone does!"
"Sit down Lily," said Emma, her voice rising. "James is going to say something and you're going to shut up and listen, then Lily it will be your turn to say something."
"Umm . . . ok, to start, I had no idea what was happening and that you were going to be my date. Sirius said it was someone in Ravenclaw. Secondly, I'm very sorry about what happened, and thirdly, the ball was meant to get people who are meant to be together; shouldn't you take that into consideration?"
Lily sat very still; she looked at him up and down and wondered whether he really did mean to do any harm. He hadn't made her dance with him, she had said yes and James had a point, they were meant to be.
"I'm sorry, James. You're right, you didn't make me dance with you, I guess," she paused, "I guess I like you too."
James looked up from the sugar bowl he had resumed playing with and stared into her emerald eyes. "You . . . you . . . like me too?" he asked, looking like all his Christmas's had come at once.
"Yes," she said firmly, happy with his reaction.
"Excuse me dear cousin, but Lily and I wish to have our first date in peace."
"Anything," said Emma happily and she ran outside to tell the others the news.
"How was it?" Ellie asked when Lily and James walked in holding hands.
"It was the best fun I'd had in ages, he's so funny," said Lily happily kissing him on the cheek.
"You guys should have gotten together ages ago," Kat said, looking up from her book to see another happy couple walk in.
"Hey guys, how was it?" Sirius asked.
"Brilliant, bloody brilliant," said James.
"Couldn't have said it better myself," laughed Lily.
"Wow, two couples down, two to go," said Emma.
Remus decided to get his act together. He would ask Ellie out and hope that she was the only Metemorphigus in the school.
Ellie decided to get her act together; she would ask Remus out and hope that it was actually Remus she had danced with. She didn't want to be the only one with out a perfect man, Kat would find hers soon, she was sure of it.
"Ellie, I need to talk to you," said Remus, it was late at night and he and Ellie were sitting finishing their Defense Against the Dark Arts homework.
"I was just going to say the same thing."
"Well you go first, mine's important," he said in a business tone.
"Mine too," said Ellie, wondering where this was going.
"Well I'll go first then. I was wondering whether," Remus paused, all his confidence had flown out the window, Sirius and Emma had come back in laughing about mice and Snape, they were obviously drunk.
"Would you two shut up!" Ellie yelled at them, which helped Remus a bit, it showed she was interested in what he was about to say. Sirius and Emma fell onto the nearest couch and started snogging.
"Go on, just ignore them; they'll probably fall asleep soon."
"Right, so I was saying, whether you would like to go out with me?" Remus said quickly.
"That's what I was going to say!" shrieked Ellie, "of course I will."
Remus smiled, her hair had turned bright pink and her eyes were an aqua blue colour. "Perfect."
THUD! Sirius fell to the floor and was asleep in seconds afterwards. Emma giggled and muttered, "Just borrow it," and she was asleep too. Ellie shrugged and laughed, Emma always talked in her sleep.
Kat was delighted with the news of Ellie and Remus' dating. The only thing that was bugging her was jealousy. Everyone seemed to have the perfect man attached to their arm. She was even jealous of Jesse Lestrange who had Tyler Parkinson with her twenty-four seven now.
She walked to class in a dream, thinking about the guy she had danced with, he was perfect. Her head collided with the back of someone else's head and her dream was shattered into the back of her mind.
"Sorry gorgeous," he said and flashed her a pearly white teeth.
Kat went weak at the knees; she had seen that smile before.
"I'm Sam," he said happily and held out his hand.
"I'm, who am I? Oh I'm Kat," she said embarrassed.
He laughed and put his hand through his hair. "I feel like I know you really well. What house are you in?"
"Gryffindor," she said, slightly dazed at this new guy.
"Ravenclaw, I like a girl who's in Gryffindor though, you know brave and determined."
"Oh, thank-you."
"You want to go out with me, next Hogsmeade trip?"
"Are you kidding? I'd love to," she said excitedly.
Jesse was worried; Peter Pettigrew was following her around and trying to find out all this stuff about her. He wanted to join the dark side. He was asking Malfoy and all the Slytherin's for information on how to get to the dark side. It was creeping her out, he was part of the Marauders, the most patriotic Gryffindors you could find and he wanted to be on the dark side. It wasn't a good thing.
"What is with Peter Pettigrew these days?" Claudia asked her sister.
"He's being a sneaky little rat, that's what I think anyway. He's asking us all for information and is giving to all his little friends, so I don't give him any information."
"Why does he want information on Jesse?"
"I think he's in love and jealous of Tyler. Don't tell her though, it will scare her."
"Oh, don't worry Bella, I won't, she's my best friend."
"Mine too, but you a bit more. I've missed her lately though, she's always hanging around Parkinson," said Bellatrix.
"They suit each other though," Claudia said as if it's settled everything.
Jesse and Tyler entered the Common Room.
"Have you told Pettigrew anything?" Tyler asked nervously.
"No, I was told not to by Jesse, but he's getting information from someone."
"Yeah, he gave me a bunch of roses the other day and I think Malfoy is giving him information."
"He wouldn't, he's dating our sister, he wouldn't blow her off for someone else to join the dark side."
"I'm not sure," Jesse said, "he's very devoted to the Dark Lord, he would do anything for him."
"Because you die otherwise," said Tyler.
"True, but I still don't think he would blow off Narcissa for Pettigrew, he is in Gryffindor."
"You're right, it's not Malfoy, it's none of us and it's not Narcissa. It might be Crabbe, Goyle, Avery or Nott," said Tyler, listing them off on his hand.
"Yeah, we should try and see if they're meeting Peter anywhere, you know?"
"Good idea, we should each follow one of them," said Bella.
"Right," said Claudia, "now all we have to do is sort out these stupid Gryffindor's."
"How?" asked Jesse.
"Easy, I'll give you a hint: cousin."
"Sirius?" exclaimed Jesse.
"Yeah, You get Sirius involved and Potter will fall too, and you know what will make Sirius fight back?"
"That Rodgers girl he loves?"
"Exactly, so all we do is prank her and stuff like that and you'll get Sirius involved like a moth to a light. It's the perfect plan!"
"Why are we doing this?" asked Jesse.
"Number one, to make sure we're not related to another blood traitor. Number two, we put those Gryffindor's into place, and number three, we help the Dark Lord."
"Excellent, what do we do first?"
I like the whole Peter thing, I thought that was cool, well tell us what you thought. More soon.
