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CHAPTER 5: THE MORNING SURPRISE

"Moony, Moony, Moony!" Sirius greeted excitedly as he woke up at 6:30 AM.

Remus stood up from her bed groggily. "Padfoot, it's just 6:30, why?" he asked him.

Sirius excitedly took a bath and emerged after ten seconds… or less. "Moony, this is the day when they'll announce the four lucky participants for the 'Couple of the Year'!"

Sirius went to James' bed and shook him awake. "What?" James said, looking offended at this early wake-up call. He looked haggard, with black marks under his eyes. His natural beauty was peeling off.

"Prongs, don't be such a loser because of Evans," Sirius advised.

"Don't tell me we're going to do a prank again," James said, hopelessly.

Sirius shook his head. "I just want an early change today, that's all." He pushed James to the bathroom and told him to take a bath and change to his school robes.

"Wormtail, come here," Sirius hissed to their smallest member, packing up his things for the day.

The rat obediently followed and said, "What is it, Padfoot?"

"If I signal you, talk James off the conversation, right?" Sirius asked, and Peter nodded. "This announcement will be a surprise."

James and the other Marauders went out of their room and proceeded downstairs. They sighted Kristanna and Lily, both carrying a worth of ten-foot parchment. Sirius grinned as they got out of the portrait hole; James was looking at her goddess miserably.

"Kris, you can go to the Great Hall first," Lily told her friend off. "I have to give these to Slughorn."

Kristanna didn't want to let Lily miss the announcement. "Ei, Lily, I'm really hungry."

"Go on," Lily said, pushing her up. "I'll be fine."

"Or so you thought," Kristanna hopelessly muttered. She waited until it was five minutes to seven, the time of the announcement.

"Oh, Lily, where did you come from?" Kristanna asked.

"Slughorn was still groggy," Lily explained. "He told me to leave the essay on the table. Thank heavens; I don't want to talk to him that early."

Kristanna smirked as she pulled her friend to the Hall. They sat down at the middle of the Gryffindor table, five seats away from the Marauders. Little did Lily know, the LJ Matchmaking Club members were around her, on the Ravenclaw table and on the Hufflepuff.

Sirius gave James a cup of coffee to make him wake up. Lily was starting to drink pineapple juice because pumpkin juice was not her appetite for the day.

"Prongsie, try to drink coffee, it will enlighten you a little," Sirius offered, giving James a second cup.

Dumbledore tapped his spoon on his goblet. "Greetings, students," he said, raising his hands. "Today is the eighteenth day of January and the announcement of the four participants of 'Couple of the Year'."

Sirius and Kristanna winked at each other as they saw Filch take a basket of rolled-up parchments. Their best friends didn't seem to notice. Lily was still sipping pineapple juice and James was drinking his fourth cup of coffee.

"This contest will give a hundred and seventy points to the winning couple, in short, they have eighty-five points each.

"Now, the first two entries are," Dumbledore started, straightening out the rolled parchment, "Narcissa Black and Lucius Malfoy of Slytherin!" he roared in amusement. Slughorn was clapping furiously along with the students of the said table. Only the Slytherin table applauded as the other Houses glared at their courage to throw themselves in the game. Narcissa and Lucius embraced each other and the girl planted a kiss on his cheek. Sirius looked disgusted.

Dumbledore cleared his throat loudly at the Slytherins; they stopped. "Next, we have Andre Percival and Penny Trendor of Ravenclaw," he said, beaming at the table that started to shower blue metallic, and black confetti. The confetti was care of the GH, singing their anthem. The said pair smiled at each other as they started to immobilize their fellow friends.

Dumbledore bit his lip as he smiled, looking at the two pieces of parchment carefully. He chuckled a little that McGonagall stood up and looked at the parchment. Her lip was twitching but this time, it was near to laugh. "The next pair is from Gryffindor. Our Head Boy and Girl," the Head Boy and Girl, who didn't hear the first dramatic statement though people started to look and whisper about them, still continued their drinking ambush," Lily Evans and James Potter!"

James sputtered the fifth cup of coffee all over Peter's face in surprise. He then glared at Dumbledore, who gave an eye-twinkling smile on him. Lily knocked the goblet of pineapple juice on the table and the juice started to spread on the white tablecloth. She stood up and looked at Dumbledore, then at the bemused James, and then at Dumbledore again. She sat down again and her mouth still dry with the incident. James' fan club looked at Lily in distraught and the group, composed of eight members, walked out of the Hall. Lily's woo-ers howled while crying.

"Good work, Kristanna," Sirius said, giving a thumbs-up as he sat beside Kristanna.

"Good work, Sirius," Kristanna said, offering a hand. He shook it.

The cheering from Hufflepuff and Gryffindor diminished as Dumbledore let out a hand. "Students, remember that we still have another pair to announce," he said. The House tables started to whisper to each other because there were no remaining parchments in the basket. "From Gryffindor, once again," Dumbledore said, waving his wand, and conjuring a parchment out of nowhere, he read the piece of parchment and continued, "Miss Kristanna Spencer and Mr. Sirius Black!"

Kristanna removed her hand from Sirius' grasp as though she was electrified and stood up. "Sirius Black, what in the world did you do?"

"Kristanna Spencer, what the hell did you do?" Sirius also asked, standing at the same time and uttering the words at the same time.

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"I… don't know!" Sirius managed to shout. He pulled himself away from Kristanna and held his own neck. "You're going to kill me, Kristanna!"

"Aren't you trying to kill me when you tried to burn my face with the bloody potion?" she shouted back.

"And aren't you going to kill us in shame when you entered us to the contest?" James and Lily shouted at the two of them, who stopped talking immediately.

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