Authors Note:
Hey look I'm early :-) I was just rereading my story, because I'm going to be honest it's been a year and I'd pretty much forgotten everything - HOW DID YOU PUT UP WITH MY GRAMMAR? Seriously it was shocking and I apologize now for it all. It might take me a while to get back into the storyline, but I'll try my best - hope you enjoy :-)
Lily was lying in the infirmary trying to get her head around what had just happened when a mass of cheering fans came parading through the door with James and Sirius held high above their heads.
"WE WON MOONY WE WON!" Sirius yelled at Remus "WE TOTALLY ENIALATED THEM!"
There was just a little whimper from Remus' bed as everyone gathered around him, silence filling the air as they all saw the state he was in.
"Oh my god Moony, you look terrible!" Sirius exclaimed.
"You know Sirius you really have a way of making people feel better" James remarked.
"Will you to shut up I've a pounding headache and you two aren't making it any better" Remus groaned, rolling over and throwing the pillow over his head.
On seeing how bad he was in the rest of the crowd tactfully retreated back to the common room.
"Sorry Moony, I didn't realize" James said shamefully ducking his head.
"Ah, well, I think I should be the one whose sorry" he glanced worriedly in Lilly's direction and continued in a hushed voice "I might have slightly, sort of told Lilly my secret."
Silence.
"Well, anyone?" Remus asked carefully.
Both James and Sirius looked briefly in Lilly's direction and then back at Remus, and just sighed thoughtfully.
"Is that really it?" Remus was confused.
"Yes. On the grounds that you didn't breathe a word about our, um, slightly bending the law animegus states, that's it." James said bluntly.
"Oh thank God because..."
"FOR GOODNESS SAKE MOONY CAN'T YOU SPOT SARCASM; ARE YOU MENTAL, DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN JUST GO AROUND TELLING PEOPLE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO TO YOU WITH THIS INFORMATION? ARE YOU AN IDIOT?" James yelled at him, not because he was genuinely angry with Remus, but more because he was protective of him.
"Um, could I just say that I would never use that against Remus, and I don't think of him any differently" Lilly butted in. She had made the decision that Remus may be a werewolf, but at the same time he was one of the nicest people she'd ever met, so it was no reason to turn on him.
"No offence Lily but with your mood swings..." James started.
"Don't James. You're going to do it again." Lilly butted in.
"Going to do what?" He was confused.
"You're going to say something criticizing of me without realizing how offensive you're being, then I'll get overly annoyed with you and then we'll be back where we were three weeks ago. Just don't." That shut James up.
"Where on earth are James and Sirius, we have a party to plan!" Kara exclaimed excitedly.
"Waw, no Kara." Peter spoke out.
"What? Did you, Peter Pettigrew, just say no to me?" Kara was both offended and shocked.
"No, I mean yes, I mean, ugh. It's just that Sirius is very picky with his parties, and no-one, not even James sometimes, gets to find out what's going to happen."
"Not even for me?" Kara asked, offended by the accusation that her best friend wouldn't let her help him plan a party.
"Especially not you." Peter said, and on seeing the glare in Kara's eyes he thought it would be best if the left the common room then. Immediately. Anyway he'd heard there were some very good cream buns in the great hall.
"Can you believe him? Me? Not good enough to plan a party?" she moaned to Sasha who was slumped on the couch trying to read Alexis Palmer's autobiography - there was an entire section on her shoes that had her completely engrossed.
"Well, to be honest Kara you to have a tendency to, well, go slightly over the top with your parties, I mean remember that one in first year when it was 'such a great idea to release the eagle' and 'no-one would even notice if we fed it butter beer" Kara just glared at her and Sasha realized she was going to be given the Kara's parties lecture. It was also at that point when Sasha also thought it would be a good idea to leave the common room. Immediately. Besides, she'd heard Peter say the Great Hall had some lovely cream buns.
"Hey, Moony, do you know what that is?" James whispered across their dorm. Remus had been discharged the night before because of some amazing secret healing done by both Lilly and James.
"Yeah, it's Sirius' party box, and?"
"And... there's no Sirius around!" James said mischievously, Remus just sighed.
"Prongs, if you're implying that we secretly attempt to open Padfoot's party box before the actual party you might as well cut out the middle man and jump straight out the window."
"Phft, of course I wasn't implying that..." James quickly turned away from the party box and continued with his 'homework' (a magazine propped up inside a revision guide)
"OH MY GOD GUYS COME HELP IT'S AN EMERGENCY!" they heard Sirius scream from the common room. Remus and James jumped up off their beds and flew down the stairs, their wands poised to fight off anything that threatened the safety of their friend.
"WHAT IS IT PADFOOT!" James yelled when they reached Sirius, who was curled up in a ball in front of the fire.
"I CAN'T FIND MY PARTY HAT" He wept, and before he could tell the rest of his sob story there was a pillow in his face.
"Padfoot you git I thought there was something seriously wrong!" James moaned.
"Are you trying to tell me that the loss of my party hat, or should I say 'the life of the party' isn't something seriously wrong?" Sirius sounded hurt, his lip quivered.
Trying to avoid a 'Sirius tantrum' James just sighed and said "Fine, what a shame you poor person. When was the last time you had it?"
"I don't know, the last time we had a party, the last thing I remember was Kara inviting me to play hockey with broomsticks and a stray pork pie and that was it" Sirius relayed the painful story.
"And I'm guessing, you being Sirius Black, you didn't check the broom cupboard which just so happens to be 10 foot away?" Remus replied sarcastically as he strolled over to the broom cupboard, and swung it open to reveal the jester hat with the singing bells dangling from it, and the bristles from his first broom and some feather sticking out of the top.
"MY BABY!" he screamed as he grabbed the hat and cradled in in his arms. James and Remus didn't want to watch Sirius' creepy fatherly love for his hat and wanted to leave immediately, besides, they'd heard something about there being some amazing cream buns in the great hall.
They entered the hall to find Sasha and Peter already sat at the Gryffindor surrounding a single plate of cream buns.
"Let me guess, Sirius?" Sasha paused as she reached for the cream bun as they walked over with sullen expressions.
"How did you know?" James remarked sarcastically. "And I'm guessing it was Kara?" they nodded solemnly. "So what about these cream buns?"
"Don't you think it's slightly strange that there's just the one plate in the entire Great hall?" Remus started to say.
"I'M GOING TO KILL THEM!" Sasha screamed as her, Peter, Remus, and James walked embarrassingly into the common room, smothered in cream and bits of pastry.
"Sasha calm down it was only..." James didn't get to finish his sentence.
"DO NOT TELL ME TO CLAM DOWN POTTER" she screamed "I'M GOING TO FIND THOSE SLYTHERINS AND STICK THOSE CREAM BUNS UP THEIR..."
"Oh look there's Lilly - LILLY! Why don't you come over here and stop your friend from ripping someone's head off?" Remus pleaded.
"What on earth happened?" Lilly questioned, resisting the urge to ask if there were and cream buns left.
"Long story short, the Slytherins decided exploding cream buns would be a sufficient pay back for the rose prank"
Whilst trying to hold in her fits of laughter Lily helped them all clean up, and patiently listened to Kara's blind cursing of Regulus Black, and her constant plans on how to murder them in their sleep. She was half way through a plan that involved wasps, pillows, and boiling water when Kara came strolling down the stairs.
"Can I ask?" She asked tiredly.
"NO." Sasha scorned.
Once all of the cream had been cleared up Sirius had ushered everyone out of the common room for 'top secret party business' and anyone entered on pain of death.
"This better be a good party" Sasha moaned as they walked up the stairs towards the common room "I have had to go without my Alexis Palmer magazines all day because that idiot won't even let us past the fat lady!"
"Come on, it's Sirius" James replied, as it that in itself was an answer to her question.
"Anyway where's Lilly?" Kara looked around puzzled "I haven't seen her since she was discharged from the infirmary this morning"
"Well, there's a party going on, isn't there?" Sasha told Kara as if she was stupid to have asked the question "She'll be tucked up in a corner of the library somewhere"
Before James could make up an excuse to go and join her and apologies for almost saying something to hurt her they were in the common room. A wall of noise hit them as they entered to find Sirius already up dancing like a fool on a table.
"JAMES!" he screamed "MY BESTEST EVER PAL! COME JOIN ME!" James tried to run away put Sirius had already hauled him onto the table.
"Uh, Sirius, are you drunk?" James knew Sirius got defensive and mental at the same time when he was drunk.
"I think you'll find James, I have only drunk that amazing punch that the lovely Shanice made for us, isn't she a lovely person Prongsey?" Sirius slurred.
"Yeah... of course she is Sirius. How long is it since the party started again?"
"Uhh, about an hour" Surprised at the state Sirius was in all ready James decided it was best to leave the table Sirius was 'dancing' on and made for the door when he ran straight into Shanice who was downing some more butter beer.
"James!" She exclaimed "Babes, where do you think you're going?"
"Uhhhhh..." James tried do buy time as he didn't want a repeat of what happened in the library.
"I, Jamesy, am willing to forgive you for the little mishap we had in the library if you were to make it up to me" Shanice droned as she stared at James.
At that exact moment Lily walked through the door on her way back from the library clutching some books, it was a lot more comfortable in her dorm. It was also at that moment when Shanice glanced over at the door.
"So James, I think I know how you can repay me?" She babbled as she pressed her lips against his. Through the booming music in the background James could just hear the loud clatter of books falling to the floor. When he turned around he saw Lilly stood frozen with her mouth gaping open.
"Lilly, I..." before James could explain she ran out of the common room.
"Good she's gone!" Shanice beamed and went to turn back to James but he'd already charged out of the common room after Lilly
Authors note:
You don't want to know the amount of times I've rewritten this chapter because of either pure rubbishness (not a word but I'll go with it) and it being deleted after I downloaded microsoft and there was a whole thing with it being the wrong format and blah blah blah. As you can see I'm not exactly a computer person. Anyway, you don't care and I need to go so – REVIEW, and
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