1Falling
Chapter 7: Confessions
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Breakfast, Saturday morning:
"So everyone remember the plan?" James asked.
"Yes! I'm so excited!" Sirius answered, bouncing off the walls.
"You know how Sirius loves Hogsmeade..." Remus said at Lily and Isis' weird looks.
"Well, I'm excited, too, Sirius." Peter said, looking a little anxious.
"Oh, I bet you are. Excited for your date, eh?" Sirius nudged Peter and winked at him suggestively. Peter blushed and nodded.
"A true Marauder." Sirius claimed proudly.
James rolled his eyes at Sirius' antics and everyone finished their breakfast.
After they ate, everyone walked outside to get a carriage.
"We might have to get two." Remus suggested.
"Good thinking. Marauders in one, girls in the other!" James called.
They got into their carriages and arrived at Hogsmeade.
"Okay, first stop; Honeydukes!" called Nadia as she and the other girls ran into the store excitedly.
The boys just sort of looked at each other and shrugged, following them into the small shop.
Lily, Nadia and Isis came to a stop as soon as they entered the store, taking a moment to inhale the sweet aroma of Honeydukes chocolate.
"Ya know," said Nadia, "this is our last first trip to Hogsmeade."
Lily nodded, "Yeah, I guess it is."
Isis turned to the other girls, "Picture?"
They smiled at each other, "Definitely." they said at the same time.
Isis pulled a camera out of her bag and looked up just as the Marauders were coming inside. "Ah, perfect." Isis said as she shoved the camera into Sirius' hands, "Could you take this picture for us?"
"Er, sure." Sirius said as he pulled the camera up to his eye to shoot. The girls were all posed in front of a large fudge display, arms around each other. Lily was on the right, Nadia in the middle and Isis on the left. He snapped the picture. "There you go," he said as he handed the camera back to Isis.
"Thanks, Sirius." the girls chorused, all smiling happily.
"Ah, it was nothing, nothing at all." he replied, waving his hand around airily.
Everyone rolled their eyes and parted ways to examine the sweets.
Peter and Sirius were looking at the stranger candies such as cockroach clusters and blood flavoured lollipops. Peter was scrunching his nose at many of the things, while Sirius just looked curious and contemplative.
"Do people actually eat those things?" Peter asked about the blood flavoured lollipops.
"Vampires do." Sirius said picking one up and twirling it around before setting it back. He then turned to Peter, and said in a Transylvanian accent, "I vant to suck your blood! Ah ah ah!" he hid his face beneath his arm and hissed.
Peter laughed at him and shook his head. Sirius smiled crookedly and moved on to other treats.
Lily and Nadia were drooling ( not literally ) at the chocolate covered strawberries when James came up and joined them.
"Hey, Lily, Nadia." he greeted.
They both looked up and smiled at him, "Hey, James."
"After this, if you don't mind, I was thinking we should go to the pet store, I'll have to get a few things for my owl and while im there I can get some things for Fat Albert, too."
Lily nodded, "Okay, good idea."
"Yeah, sounds good." Nadia added. "Well, I think I'm going to get a few of these babies," she said, referring to the strawberries. "Lily, you want any? They're on me."
Lily shook her head, "Nadia you really don't have to, I can get them myself."
"Alright, if you insist. James?"
"Huh?"
"Do you want a strawberry?"
"Oh, um...no, thank you." Nadia shrugged and waited for the boy at the counter to attend to her.
"So, Isis and Remus found out we were trying to set them up."
"I heard. Remus wouldn't let us hear the end of it." James said as he leaned against the wall.
"Yeah. They're pretty mad. And planning revenge."
"Well, Remus is a Marauder."
"True. I overheard them talking in the Library. He didn't say any details, just that he had a plan, so watch out."
"Ooh, Lily Evans, eavesdropping?" He teased.
She blushed a little. "It was an accident. I was putting my book away, when I heard them talking, so I was about to go say hi to them, and I heard them say my name. I just wanted to know what they were saying about me. Anyone else would have done the same, I'm sure."
He chuckled. "I'm sure." He said teasingly.
She smacked him lightly on the arm. "You would."
"Yeah, probably. I just like teasing you." he smiled at her lopsidedly, and she rolled her eyes, but couldn't help but smile back.
"Mmm...Honeydukes has the best fudge." Isis said to Remus as they walked around the shop lazily.
"Definitely." He agreed.
Isis stopped to grab a few sugar quills and a bag of chocolate frogs.
"Isis?" Remus asked hesitantly.
She turned, "Yes?"
He cleared his throat. "I was wondering if...if you'd like to-" He stopped. "Okay, I'm just going to say this right out. Isis, I like you a lot. And I know that we're already at Hogsmeade, but I was wondering if you'd like to make the rest of today a date."
"Oh." she said surprised. "Well I'd love to." She smiled sweetly at him.
"Really?"
"Of course."
"Okay. Good."
After Honeydukes, everyone went to Zonko's.
Sirius, and James ran into the shop excitedly with Peter close behind.
Remus rolled his eyes at the three and said to the girls, "I'll catch up with you later, they'll need to be supervised in there." as he jogged to catch up with the other Marauders.
"I don't really feel like going into Zonko's right now...Do you just wanna sit on that bench over there?" Nadia said tiredly.
The other girls nodded and they sat down in silence for a while. Isis smiled to herself as she picked a flower and began to pick the petals off, one by one. Nadia leaned on the armrest of the bench and stared up at the blue sky dreamily. Lily was looking around at the different shops, and she caught James' eye from within Zonko's. He smiled at her slightly and she smiled back. They stared at each other for a while, until Sirius distracted James, and he left the window to go look at something in the store.
All three girls sighed simultaneously, and then burst out laughing.
"Okay, girls. Spill." Nadia commanded.
"And that goes for you, too." Lily added to Nadia, who just waved her hand at her and looked excitedly at Isis.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah...Soo?"
Isis blushed slightly, but answered, "Remus asked me out." she said with a smile and both Lily and Nadia squealed happily for her and gave her a huge group hug.
"That's so cute!" Nadia exclaimed happily.
"Finally!" Lily added. She and Isis turned to Nadia. "Now, your turn."
"Well, I'm just excited for my date today, naturally."
Lily and Isis rolled their eyes at her and chorused. "Naturally."
"But what's so special about Richard that has you sighing, and staring off into space dreamily all the time?" Isis clarified.
"Well, let's see." She cleared her throat. "Number one: He's absolutely gorgeous. Number two: He's very sweet. Number three: He's almost as good-looking as me, which is quite a feat, if you ask me-"
"We didn't." Lily interrupted her.
Nadia just sent her a look. "Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes...Number four: He's the nicest guy in Hogwarts, I swear, not to mention Number five: the most good-looking one, too."
"Not true." Isis and Lily said at the same time.
Nadia raised her eyebrows. "Well, I know who Isis is referring to, but please, Lily, do tell."
Isis turned to Lily, and they both looked at her expectantly.
"Um...w-well." Lily stuttered.
"Come on, just spit it out."
"Fine. It's just...I think-" Lily closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and Nadia and Isis leaned forward. "IthinkIhaveacrushonJames" She said really fast.
Nadia grinned wickedly. "I'm sorry? Didn't catch that..."
Lily opened her eyes and glared at her. "Oh, you heard me."
"I know, I just wanna hear you say it again." Nadia teased her.
"Alright, fine. I, Lily Evans, have a crush on J-" but before she could finish, both Nadia and Isis tackled her and covered her mouth.
"Oooh, who does Lily have a crush on?" Sirius teased as he and the rest of the Marauders walked towards them, each with a giant bag in their hands.
Lily looked horrified and thankful at the same time. The girls all let out a deep breath, and Lily turned around and blushed when she saw James.
Isis stood up and cleared her throat. "Alright, shows over. Where to next?"
Nadia and Lily stood as well, and brushed off their robes.
"Er, right." Sirius said, confused. He looked at his watch. "Well, it's about 1:30, do you want to head to the Three Broomsticks awhile?"
"Yeah, sure. We can have a few drinks and hang around til our dates show up." Nadia agreed.
So they headed off towards the Three Broomsticks. "Hey, James?" Lily asked as they were walking in.
"Yeah?"
"Didn't you want to go to the pet store?"
"Oh, yeah. I completely forgot about that!"
Sirius coughed and muttered something that sounded like 'conveniently' as they all sat down at a corner booth.
James elbowed Sirius as he slid into the seat next to him, Lily following after James.
Lily looked at the two with a confused expression on her face, and the both just looked back at her innocently.
"It's okay, though...we can just head up there after everyone else meets up with their dates." James explained.
"Ookay, Sure."
Nadia slid in next to Lily and they ordered a round of butterbeers. Starting from the left of the booth to the right sat Peter, Isis, Remus, Sirius, James, Lily and Nadia.
"So, Lily and I were talking, and we thought it would be cool to have a costume party on Halloween night. We could invite a couple other people too, like some from other houses and years. But we couldn't think of a good place to have it without getting caught. You guys know Hogwarts better than anybody, so, have any ideas?" Nadia asked the Marauders as they drank their butterbeers.
Sirius and James looked at each other mischievously, Remus nodded to them, and Peter looked excited.
"Okay, what was that all about?" Lily asked.
"We've got the perfect place." Sirius answered.
"And that would be...?" Nadia looked at him expectantly.
"The Room of Requirement, naturally."
"Obviously." James added.
"Where else?" chimed Peter.
Remus only shrugged. Then they continued drinking their butterbeers like the matter was solved.
"Oh, yes. Of course. Why didn't I think of that?" Lily asked sarcastically, slapping her forehead with her palm. She then rolled her eyes, "What the bloody hell is the Room of Requirement!" she yelled, banging her fists on the table.
Remus shook his head and rubbed his temples.
"Oww, my ears! My beautiful, gorgeous ears!" Cried Sirius dramatically, covering his ears with his hands, nearly whacking James and Remus with his elbows. Remus clung fearfully to Isis, ducking his head. James ducked his head under the table and Lily just glared at Sirius, muttering that he deserved it.
Nadia cleared her throat. "Okay, well as entertaining as that was, would someone care to explain about this Room?"
James sat up and scooted closer to Lily looking warily at Sirius, who stuck his tongue out at him.
"Right. The room." Remus started, "Well, it's pretty self explanatory. It's a room that changes to fulfill the requirements of the people occupying it. Sirius and James came across it one night while roaming the castle. You have to walk past it three times, while thinking of a room that you need, and then a door appears and voila! It's basically an all-purpose room. It can be whatever you need it to."
James nodded in agreement. "Perfect place for parties. Or, well, anything, really."
Sirius agreed excitedly, "Oh! And we can have the house elves fix us some snacks and some butterbeer. And Pete and I will take care of the firewhiskey..." He said with a wink to Peter.
"From our special stash, for, er, special occasions." Peter nodded.
"Or just on occasions where we want to get smashed." James grinned.
"This is going to be the best party Hogwarts has ever seen!" Nadia exclaimed. "Isis, Lily and I will take care of the invites. Just let us know if there's anyone you want invited in particular."
"Perfect." Lily agreed.
Peter's date arrived first, closely followed by Nadia's, but Sirius' date wasn't scheduled to meet him for another half an hour.
"Well, excuse me for skipping out early, but I'm going to run a few extra errands before I meet my date. You know, flowers, chocolates, and the like." Sirius said as he stood up, waiting for someone to move over and let him out.
James rolled his eyes and nudged Lily who slid out of the booth to let the others out. "See you back at Hogwarts." Sirius called as he walked out the door.
"Well, I guess we should head to the pet store now, leave you two to your date." James said as he grabbed Lily's arm, pulling her away from the table. Isis and Remus waved to them from the now nearly empty booth as Lily mumbled, "Okay, okay I'm coming..."
After they went to the pet store, James and Lily were just walking around Hogsmeade, chatting.
"Mm, I'm so exhausted. Can we sit down somewhere for a bit?" Lily asked after a few hours of walking.
"Absolutely. Do you just want to go back to Hogwarts? There's not much to do here, anyway." James suggested.
"Sure, it's not too far."
"Just let me know if you want to sit down and rest somewhere, okay?"
Lily smiled at him, "Well if I get too tired, you'll carry me, right?"
"Hmm..." he pretended to think about it. "Nah...I'll just drag you along behind me."
Lily crossed her arms and pouted, turning away from him.
"Well, when you put it that way." He said as he hoisted her over his shoulders and carried her across the grounds.
"James! James, I can't believe you, put me down!"
"Mm...no."
"James!"
"Lily!"
She laughed. "Knock it off! I'm serious. I can walk the rest of the way."
"Well I should hope so, we're nearly there." He chuckled as he put her down gently on the floor. "Phew."
"What, are you trying to say that I'm fat?" Lily raised her eyebrow.
He shook his head and smiled. "Trust me, Lily, you have a great body." This comment made them both blush. James coughed, "Er, what I mean is-"
"Um...let's just, go in." She suggested, and James agreed.
They entered their common room and Lily threw herself down on the couch, leaning back and propping her feet up on the coffee table. James sat down awkwardly on the chair next to her.
"I don't bite, you know." She said, looking up at him with an amused expression.
"Right. Sorry." He said as he sat down next to her on the couch. After a few moments, they both relaxed a little. James propped his feet up and spread his arms out on the back of the couch.
Lily yawned. "I'm about to fall asleep."
"Maybe you should go up to your room."
"Mm...too tired."
She turned her head to face him. He gulped. "Do you want me to...um, carry you up?"
"No, I'm too fat for you." she smiled.
"Never."
"Good."
Lily sat up and curled her legs up underneath her, facing James.
"James?"
"Hmm?"
"I'm sorry for hating you. You're a really good friend."
"Don't be sorry. I would have hated me, too. And I mostly brought it on myself. I loved teasing you. Still do." he smiled.
"I know. You've grown up."
"You like me better this way?"
"Much"
"Good. I don't think I could stand another minute of you hating me, let alone another year."
"Oh, you liked it. You enjoyed fighting with me."
"Yeah well, it was the only way I could get you to be passionate about me. Even if it wasn't exactly the way I wanted."
"Why did you give up?"
"I didn't. I'm just trying a new approach."
"Friendship."
"Exactly."
"Well, we're friends now, right?"
"Absolutely."
"Good." Lily paused. "Well, we should go meet our friends for dinner, and then I'm heading to bed early."
"Sounds like a great idea." James replied as they stood up.
Wow...long, much? Well, for me it's long, anyway. Soo..im going to start wrapping it up in a few chapters. I know it's been a long time since my last update, and for that im sooo sorry, but those of you who've stayed with my story, thanks and I hope this makes up for it! I would really love to get some feedback on this chapter, thanks.