I think I've outdone myself!

Ch.9, Explanations, Suspicions and Tests

When Jane got back into her dormitory, thinking only of random thoughts, she met up with an angered Lily.

"Jane, what was that all about?" she asked, her hands on her hips.

It was only then that Jane remembered what had made Lily so angry.

"Listen Lily, I'm really, really sorry about the fact that I ignored you. Please, I had something on my mind. Forgive me?" she asked, using the famous puppy-dog pout.

Lily laughed. "Fine. Hey, did you find Vera?"

Jane shrugged. "It doesn't matter."

"You mean to say," Lily started, anger etched on her face, "that you abandoned me for something that doesn't matter? What happened? Where's Vera?"

"Lily, I really couldn't care less where Vera is. She broke her promise." Jane shrugged, and began getting into bed. You see, Lily had been stunned into not speaking.

This is impossible! Jane's always been overprotective of Vera!

So, what did I miss?

I want some answers. Why, all of a sudden, does Jane not care? She's always been way to overprotective!

Sorry, that's confidential. You'd have to ask Jane or Vera.

All right, I will!

"Jane, why don't you care? What happened to Vera?" she asked.

Jane sat up, and began talking like Lily was a very small little girl. "Vera promised me she wouldn't go out with Lupin. She broke her promise. I don't care anymore. End of story." she said, as she lay back down.

Lily sat down on her own bed. But Jane hasn't seen Vera since on the dance floor. How would she?...

But then it hit her.

"You made Vera make a Twin's Promise?" she asked, astonished.

"Nice finding Sherlock." Jane mumbled from under her covers.

"How could you? I knew you were overprotective of her, but isn't this going a bit far?" Lily asked, still surprised.

"I needed to make sure she wouldn't fall for Lupin. She did. She broke her promise. End, of, story." Jane said, exasperated.

Lily stared.

(meanwhile with Vera)

"Wow." she whispered.

Remus smiled. "First kiss?" she was still in his arms. She nodded.

"But I must admit, I enjoyed myself." she said with a smile, and fortunately he could not see her blush.

"Vera, would you like to be officially my girlfriend?"

"I'd love to." he kissed her again. After a bit, they pulled away.

"We should get back." he said, as he stroked her hair.

"If we must." she responded, as she pulled away, grabbed his hand and they started walking back.

"Merlin, how do you know where your going?" he asked with a chuckle.

"Do you want to know the real reason I chose Third as my nickname?" she asked.

Remus wasn't expecting this but nodded all the same.

"Okay," Vera said, stopping, "first, no one can know this, you only get to know because your my boyfriend."

(Insert really long and complicated version of the prophecy that I'm to lazy to write)

"Wow. I've never had a girlfriend who has power over earth before." he said with a smile. This answered a lot of questions, actually.

Vera smiled. "It's amazing really. I can talk to animals, and they won't hurt me. It's why I've been coming to the forest so often. It's one place I can get away from..."

"You don't regret it, do you?" Remus asked, suddenly very worried.

"Oh no, of course not!" Vera reassured him, "I just hope that I wasn't to late in breaking the promise! My life would crumble if Jane doesn't care about me anymore!"

"Shhh," Remus soothed her. They were almost near the castle, and he wanted to brace her for what Jane would be like, "even if she doesn't care, your world can't possibly crumble. I'll hold it up for you."

Vera smiled. "That was very sweet Remus. Thanks."

They reached the castle. The party was long over, and hardly anyone was around. Vera kept them both invisible until they got inside, then they used a series of passageways and reached the Gryffindor common room in five minutes.

"Goodnight. And good luck." Remus said, giving his girlfriend a peck on the cheek. She did the same.

"Thanks. Goodnight." and they headed up their separate stairs.

When Remus got in his dormitory, he was met with two pillows in his face.

"Well well well, look who just came in at...2 am after spending time with his new girlfriend." Sirius teased. Remus saw what he was implying and blushed.

"Nothing happened, it just took a while to convince her to go out with me. She had promised Jane she wouldn't see." he replied.

"Yeah, and I'm Merlin. You happen to have lipstick on your cheek, Moony." James said with a laugh, accompanied by another pillow. Soon, it was a flurry of magically flying pillows.

"And what about you and Lily, Prongs? You two looked pretty cozy on the dance floor when I was there." Remus retaliated. James' face fell.

"When she found out it was me she was falling for," James started, remembering how his conscience had explained Lily's fear of letting anyone get too close to her, "she ran."

Remus felt guilty. He hadn't meant to make James upset.

Flashback

As James took off his mask to show who he was, Lily gasped in surprise.

"No no no no" she kept repeating softly. Just as he saw tears start to form in her eyes, she turned and ran off the dance floor.

He tried to keep up with her, but she was an expert at weaving between the people, because of her petit frame. He was hurt that she would run, when Conscience said she would give him a chance.

He tried to follow her, but she soon lost herself in the crowd. She seemed to have been taking lessons from Vera. Then, conscience popped in.

Sorry I'm late, had to take care of our little Remus/Vera situation. Where's Lily?

As soon as she saw who I was, she ran.

Ahhh. You see, Lily has a problem trusting people. I'll probably get in trouble for telling you this, but before he changed, Lily's dad promised that she could always be herself. She tried to keep that promise, but he criticized her for not acting all snobby and stuck-up when his friends were visiting and she made a fool out of him the first time. He blamed it on 'youngsters' but when they had left, he yelled at her. She had a lot of trouble trusting people since then.

So, basically Lily is afraid of trusting someone again.

Exactly.

Then why did she agree to dance with me?

She probably didn't think she'd fall for you, but it would get me off her back. You see, she really does like you, but has had a bad experience that she doesn't plan on re-living. Even if you wouldn't do that to her, you'll have to prove it.

End of Flashback

"Sorry Prongs." Remus said, comforting his friend like he did for Remus when he first got turned down.

"Don't worry about it. All I got to do is make her believe that she'd be fine with me, and I've got her." James said cheerfully.

Meanwhile, with Vera.

As Vera climbed up the stairs to her dorm, she got an increasing feeling of dread. It was increased when she saw that Jane was not up here to yell at her for being late, as she normally would have.

"Er...Jane?" she asked tentatively.

"Have a nice time snogging?" Jane answered in a brutally harsh voice. But it still said 'I don't care' Vera's eyes filled with tears.

"Listen, Jane,-" Vera started, her voice cracking. But her sister cut her off by using her wand to close her hangings.

Vera broke down completely for the second time that night, and Lily helped her over to her bed. A soft blue glow surrounded Jane's hangings, and she had soundproofed her bed.

Vera's face was in her hands. She was sobbing uncontrollably. Lily was rubbing her back, and saying rude things about Jane, because she knew she couldn't hear. Soon, Vera's sobs ceased.

"Oh Lily, what do I do?" she asked, her voice cracking.

"You hold your head up high," Lily said, sounding a lot like a mother. "Don't act miserable, whatever you do. It will only make Jane feel successful, and continue."

"Y-Your right," Vera said, remembering the prophecy, "This will all blow over soon, and everything will be back to as normal as it can be. Thanks Lily." she said.

"G'night." Lily said, and went over to her own bed and to sleep, not mentioning her own problems.

But as soon as Vera was sure Lily was asleep, she screamed into her pillow.

Jane's dream

Jane looked around her. You could hear screams everywhere, and spells were flying around. As a student, running in fear of something, ran right through her, Jane realized that no one could see or hear her.

As Jane looked at her surroundings, she gasped. It was un-like anything she had ever seen. It was one of the dance halls in Hogsmead, there was only one left standing. But this one looked like it was almost finished. It was large, and old fashioned. It was a large, rectangular hall, as big as the Great Hall. But one of it's magnificent walls was down, with mortar from the bricks still crumbling. Creatures, like none she had seen before, were staggering in. They were pale, bony, and their faces were stretched and gaunt.

Students screamed as they walked in, through the crumbling wall. Spells had hardly no effect on them, and that was when Jane saw them for what they were, and screamed.

It was an army of Inferi.

The Marauders were already there, throwing useless spell after useless spell. A humungus blast of fire roared from out behind her. It soared to the Inferi, who stumbled back, trying to shield their eyes from the heat and light. As Jane turned around, she saw Lily.

Lily obviously couldn't see her, because she soon ran right through her. Jane was startled to see that she herself followed, and, close behind- Vera. It seemed that they had been at whatever kind of party that this was, as they were all dressed in dresses. Jane watched as she herself conjured up a large ball of water, in plain view of Vera, who was paying no attention, and threw it at the dance floor. It then froze into a sheet of perfect ice. The Inferi slipped and slid on it. Vera was tending to some poor wounded soul. At a closer look, she saw that Vera was crying over the person.

And that's when she woke up.

Jane had not told anyone about her dream. It was better this way, when Lily had her own problems. She was desperately trying to avoid James, who was desperately trying to follow her. Lily was terrified of trusting someone (other than her and Vera, who she knew before her father changed)

Both she and conscience were trying to get Lily to give him a real chance, but nothing worked. Vera was constantly disappearing - Jane kept telling herself bitterly that she was going to see Remus - but she was really going to the forest.

Vera was constantly studying her powers. She had discovered a lot actually. But her powers were at their best when she was outside, or near plants. Outside, she could become invisible at will, and she could always speak to animals. She knew the others were going to the RoR to study their powers, but she only saw the need once. It was during a time when she would have liked to be able to attack.

Jane and Lily had been walking with Vera to COMC (Lily was in between the two) and Remus was in the hospital wing. Don't get her wrong, Vera knew all about Remus, she was just going to wait until he told her. And that's when the group of Slytherins that Vera had blinded blocked their path.

Vera could tell by the anxious looks that Jane and Lily gave her that they still didn't know she was Third. But the Slytherins made a fatal mistake. They attacked them outside.

As the Slytheirns raised their wands to strike or curse, some sort of plant suddenly grabbed their wands from behind their backs. As they turned around stupidly, Lily noticed the ring on Vera's hand was glowing. Her eyes widened.

But then, the plants broke the wands in half, and threw the pieces away. Lily, realizing that Vera had powers as well, decided to see if Vera reacted to a large fireball appearing in front of the Slytherins. Which it did.

But Vera just smiled, and took her plants away from the fireball, as it could harm them. She could tell that Jane was now harrying Lily about using her powers in front of 'someone else'.

But that's where she was now. She had asked for the room to become something that would help her learn to attack with her powers, and she had found it. After reading through several articles, and cutting through a few lengths of rope, she could now create long, knife-like leaves in her hands. She learned also that she had excellent throwing skills.

By now Remus had come back, as that incident was a week ago. The day after he heard the story, the Slytherins had a 'rude awakening'

Remus had suggested that the Slytherins needed a wardrobe update. The Marauders had, of course, beamed at the chance.

They sneaked into the Slytherin common room, and left Sirius to redecorate. While they headed up to the boys dorms to do some reorganizing themselves.

When the Slytherins woke up that morning, in the cold end-of-November air, it was soon chaotic.

Snape was screaming because his hair-grease had turned his hair a mix of the neon colors blue, orange, and hot pink, Malfoy was screaming because all of a sudden all he had to wear were mini-skirts and tank tops, and Nott was screaming because his wardrobe had been changed with a vanishing cabinet.

And then there was Susan Puss screaming because all of her make-up (normally a sick green) was now bright pink. She hated pink. And William Snoot was screaming like a little girl, because, well, he had been transfigured into one. Tristian S'mop was screaming because his wardrobe had been replaced with flowery, pink toddler dresses. Crabbe and Goyle now only had pink, male ballerina suits as clothes.

Also, everyone's cloaks were a hot pink, and read 'I love Voldywart!'

But the screaming increased, and gained the attention of the whole school, when they saw their common room.

Sirius had done a wonderful job. It was now that there were pink and orange carpets so thick that you sank to your knees, the fireplace had a merry fire, and there were no longer weapons and spearheads on display. Instead, the walls were done in pink Barbie paper, with rude comments to the Slytherins and their house written all over it. The couches were now in Gryffindor colors, Hufflepuff colors, and Ravenclaw colors. Alternating, of course.

The Hogwarts school song was playing, and instead of bats, they now had something that resembled pigmy puffs. Pink snowflakes were falling from an enchanted ceiling, which said rude comments out loud about anyone who screamed. Instead of books like "101 Painful Curses and How to do Them' there were books like '101 Names of Stinky, Slimy, Sucky, Satanous, Snotty, Stupid, Snivelly, Smelly Slytherins' (try saying that ten times fast)

The Boulder-hole had been drawn on, and now read 'now entering the Slytherin common room, password now: Snivelly stinks!' It was also bright pink.

As the Slytheirns went up to breakfast, they were trying desperately to undo the charms. But nothing would budge. So, they tried to keep their skirts down, and their pink tights (Crabbe and Goyle) up.

The Hall was silent when they got in. Everyone was in shock. A white flash surrounded the Great Hall, as a picture was taken.

Then, all three tables broke out in uncontrollable fits of laughter.

The Marauders stood up on the Gryffindor table, and took a bow.

"I think we've outdone ourselves guys." Remus said cheerfully as he saw Vera's face turning red from laughing.

"I think you should give up being an auror Padfoot, and become an interior decorator!" James said, throwing the three boys into another fit of laughs.

"Hey Prongs, look at Lily." Sirius said, pointing his friends' crush out. Lily has placed a silencing charm on herself, so no one would hear her laughing. James' heart soared.

"P-Potter, Bla-ck, a-and Lup-Lupin, detention!" McGonagle said, her voice cracking from not laughing.

"Ah, but Minnie, it was well worth it." Sirius said in a mock serious (pardon the pun) tone.

Remus walked over to where Vera was glancing at the Slytherin table and then breaking into un-controllable fits of giggles.

"May I escort the gorgeous lady to charms?" Remus asked in an Elizabethan tone.

"Yes, the hilarious man may escort the gorgeous lady to charms." Vera said, playing along. But it was rather spoiled because she kept giggling. They walked off, hand in hand, with simply a glance from Jane. Lily had run off ahead so as to avoid James.

That day in charms, Lily (as usual) was first to master the Protean charm. Followed by James, Sirius, Jane, Vera and Remus tied (to busy flirting). They went to Potions, where Vera continued to collapse into fits of giggles from trying to help Remus get his right. The only reason Remus was able to get into NEWTs potions was from the theory work. Lily and Vera were tied for top students in Slughorn's class. Although, it was quite annoying when Slughorn kept mixing Jane and Vera up.

At COMC, Lily had a great time because they were reviewing salamanders, creatures that enjoy large fires. Lily sat the closest to the creatures crawling in a large bonfire, and everyone (minus Jane, Vera, and Remus) was surprised when she didn't get burned to a crisp when she guided a baby one back to the fire. Salamanders were animals of fire, so they listened to both Lily and Vera.

They had DADA after lunch, during which everyone sneaked glances at the Slytherin table (some had not been smart enough to un-transfigure their clothes) and bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter. Crabbe and Goyle were still in tights. During DADA, they had to try Legillimency on a partner of their choice. Vera immediately went to Remus, because he knew all her secrets, and (even though he doesn't know it) she his. But Remus was fine with this, because Vera was terrible at Legillimency. Jane and Lily went together, and James and Sirius.

They had transfig last, where (much to Lily's annoyance) James beat her. He had transfigured a pin into a live lily flower, and given it to her, in front of the entire class, making her blush. Out of the six, surprisingly, Lily was the last to master the spell, and even then she had some difficulty transfiguring a pin into a plant. Vera had mastered it after James, (no surprise, considering its plants) to the surprise of everyone.

At diner, it was another laughing fit with everyone except the 'love-sick couple' aka Remus and Vera, who were to busy continually flirting. Just as Sirius was continually making gagging sounds behind their backs. But that was stopped when a flower (in a vase, of course) apparently, of its own accord, jumped out and started attacking Sirius!

"AHHHHH! NOT THE FACE AND HAIR! AHHHHH!" he yelled, making all his friends snigger while holding in laughs. Several of the female population was trying to help their fan club leader (SiriusBlackOfficialFanClub SBOFC) The flower was currently shoving pollen up his nose.

"You know, you would make a very good prankster." Remus whispered in Vera's ear, remembering the skateboard incident.

Vera giggled. "I only like to prank when someone has annoyed me. Like Sirius was." she whispered back. They left diner together, planning a walk in the forest. It may be freezing cold out, but that's what warming charms are for.

People went up to bed, all except Lily. She had seen Vera's ring glowing, just as the plant attacked Sirius. She had decided to do a little sleuthing.

If you are thinking that Lily plans to follow Vera on her date, no, she wouldn't sink that low. She was off to the RoR, where she could find anything she needed. Hence the name, Room of Requirement.

When she reached the familiar tapestry, she walked back and forth, thinking furiously, I need to see a picture of Third.

Just as she was about to open the door and see if her suspicions were correct, she heard a very strange sound.

Lily was curios as to what the sound was, so she placed a silencing charm on herself and followed the sound. It soon turned to a certain voice, two of them. One was arguing with the other. As she got closer, she found it was two male voices.

(AN: Yes, I am going to follow the footsteps of so many other great authors and make Amos Diggory an evil Hufflepuff)

It was Amos Diggory, a Hufflepuff prefect of Lily's own year. He was a prefect, and probably would have made Head Boy if he hadn't been caught out in broom closets so much after hours.

He was with one of his closer friends, Greggory O'Pan. They were both players, only second and third, respectively, to the one and only, Sirius Black.

"...I don't see why I shouldn't go after her Greg, why would she reject me? I've never met a girl that wouldn't fall for the Hufflepuff-pretty-boy charm."

"Yeah, but she's been rejecting Potter for years now, what makes you think that she'll just be a bimbo like all the others?" that must have been Greg. And they were talking about her! She's the only one who has rejected Potter.

"Listen, I get what I want, and that's to beat Black in the race. He won't go after her because she's his best friend's dream girl, but that won't stop me. I have potions tomorrow, I'll see if I can come up with any Amorentia. If I can, she'll be much more willing by the end of dinner tomorrow." Evil Amos said with an evil maniacal laugh to go with it.

"MWAHAHAHAHA!"

"MWAHAHAHAHA!"

"Your not allowed to laugh, it's my evil plan!"

Note to reader: sorry about that there, just a little hyper fit.

Lily ran back to her dorm, as quickly as possible, only to find that Vera had arrived back from her walk.

Vera and Jane had a very strange relationship at the moment. Jane would act as if they were simply friends, not sisters, or even best friends. While Vera would be trying to get Jane to care about her again. But when they saw the state that Lily was in, they temporarily put aside the feud they were having.

"Lilsy! What happened!?" Jane asked frantically.

"What's the matter Lilsy?" Vera asked at the same time.

"I just overheard Amos Diggory-" Lily started, but was cut off by Jane.

"He's the good-looking Hufflepuff, isn't he?" Jane giggled. Vera shot her a look that made it plain that she thought Jane was a hypocrite.

Lily stared at her. "He's planning to spike my drink with Amorentia so he can get me to go out with him!"

"I know!" Vera said excitedly as she reached for her little pouch. No one wore Hogwarts robes other than for class and mealtimes, so now all three girls were in jeans and t-shirts, "Just give me a sec... I can make something that will nullify the effects of any and all potions. Including Amorentia!"

"Brilliant!" Lily agreed.

"What d'you say, that we give James a little test." Jane said, and she obviously had the attention of her friend and sister.

"What sort of test?" Lily asked.

"To see if he really likes you of course! If Diggory thinks your under Amorentia, and Potter figures it out, we can see his reaction! He'll probably try to get you to 'see sense' or something like that, but it would be perfect." Jane said enthusiastically.

Vera shrugged. "Lily can act. She could pretend to be under the influence of Amorentia, but still be in control of her feelings and actions! It's perfect!"

Lily was outvoted.

The next day, everything seemed normal. The girls went to classes, Vera spent time with Remus and Jane sneaked off somewhere. Finally, at dinner, Vera handed Lily a small crystal phial. In it was a lilac potion, a Nullifier. Lily drank it.

The girls saw Diggory looking expectantly over at the Gryffindor table. After Lily took a drink out of her goblet, which she knew was spiked, winked at the girls, and headed out of the Hall, Diggory at her heals.

The girls had planned this out very carefully. A few minutes after Lily left, the girls would go over to the Marauders and say that they found out that Amos Diggory had spiked Lily's drink.

After the boys heard this, James paled more than the others.

"Are you sure?" Remus asked.

"Positive. Not to mention that Amos Diggory just followed Lily out of the Hall!" Vera said. She and her sister were both very good actresses.

"Let's follow her! If Diggory even lays a hand on her..." James didn't finish his sentence. Instead, he ushered the other four out of the hall, and threw the invisibility cloak over them with a quick, 2-second explanation for the benefit of Jane and Vera.

By taking some quick passageways, the group ended up near Hufflepuff tower in ten minutes. (It's hard to move around in an invisibility cloak) When they turned the corner, what they saw made James want to A) go up and beat up Diggory and B) puke.

Diggory was leaning in close to Lily, to close for her own comfort. So, she asked in her sweetest and bimbo-iest voice, "Amos, would you be a dear and carry my books for me?"

"Of course, Lillian." and that made Lily want to puke. Only her parents ever called her that.

So, Lily shoved the large bundle of pointless books (carried especially for this) into Amos' arms, and he could barely see over the top.

"Uh... honey, would you mind if we drop these off at Gryffindor tower?" he asked, as he bumped into a wall for the third time.

"Tell you what," Lily started, "I'll go and drop these off nice and quick, while you get a picnic from the kitchens. See you outside by the lake" Lily finished, exaggerating the last words for the benefit of the spies she knew were there.

James wanted to make sure that nothing happened, (remember, he thinks that she is under the influence of Amorentia) so he organized everybody.

Jane, Remus, and, with much protest at having to enter a library, Sirius, would go to look up a bunch of stuff about Amorentia, and a possible cure. Meanwhile, James and Vera, who knew the grounds best (big surprise) would go outside and watch Lily and Amos.

As the group of three went off to the library, (with Sirius asking if he can switch roles with Vera) and started looking things up.

"I hope some of these have it." Remus said as he and Sirius slammed down a pile of books, with titles such as "Classic Love Potions", "Amorentia and You", "Love Potions R Us", "1001 Ways to Nullify Love Potions" and "The Loving Book of Love" the last of which, was desperately trying to kiss Sirius with fake lips on the cover.

Meanwhile, James and Vera were on their way to a perfect spot Vera knew of where you could see everything that goes on in the grounds. James took his pair of Quidditch omnoculars with him. They could see that Diggory was setting up the picnic, and that Lily wasn't there yet.

"He's slipping something into her drink." James reported. Vera stopped dead.

If Diggory was simply trying to strengthen the spell, then Vera's nullifier wouldn't have lasted this long. If Lily takes a sip from that glass, then she will be really under the influence of Amorentia!

"I'm going to go down and get a closer look." Vera said, and without waiting for James to agree, she ran off towards the lake and picnic spot.

Vera was very good under pressure. She had a plan all worked out, though it would mean practically exposing her identity to Lily. While James wasn't looking, (Lily was at the door to the grounds) Vera turned invisible and went up to where Diggory was waiting for Lily with an evil grin on his face.

"Hey Amos." Lily said as she sat down across from him.

"Hello Lillian." he replied, an obvious hunger in his voice.

Lily was just taking a drink of her pumpkin juice when she saw something that made her spit it out.

A few days ago, Vera had found something in the RoR saying that Second and Third had power over ice and air, respectively. First had some hidden ability, and the book didn't say what. So, recently, Vera had been honing her air power.

Now, a small whirlwind was making a pattern out of the leaves. It said, rather bluntly, "Don't drink it Lily!"

But this was behind Diggory, so he didn't see it. He just stared at her after she spit out her drink. Because it all landed on him.

"What's the matter Honey?" he asked in a sickeningly sweet voice.

"Oh, um," Lily had to think fast. "I just choked. Sorry." she said, and expertly leaned over to wipe some of the pumpkin juice off of him. But, in doing so, she knocked over her remaining juice.

"Oh look at how clumsy I've become!" Lily said with a very fake, bimbo laugh.

"Quite all right, Honey. Now, what d'you say we go and find somewhere a little more private?" Diggory said, the hunger in his tone. Lily paled.

But then, a large splash was heard as Jane gave the signal for all clear- in other words, they had enough info on James to get a conclusion.

It would seem that someone had dumped a sudden, large wave, right onto Diggory! If Lily didn't know better, she would say it was the Giant Squid, but she knew it was Jane.

"Oh dear," Lily started, "Here, how about you go and get changed and I'll meet you on the third floor, by the statue of Bellgora the Busy, okay? See you soon!" Lily said in her highest and bimbo-y voice that she normally just used for her parents. Then, without giving him time to respond, ran off to the castle.

Diggory swore.

Jane had indeed dropped the signal- she had seen something that might suggest the presence of Third. Also, they had the info on James.

The girls met up at their dorms, each taking a different route. Just before Vera arrived, Jane was questioning Lily about the flying leaves. But she broke off abruptly as Vera opened the door.

"Well Lilsy, we have come to a conclusion." Vera started.

"He is head over heels in love with you." Jane finished bluntly.

"Now the question is, are you going to ask him out?" Vera asked. It would seem that they had put aside whatever argument they had for helping their friend.

"Why would I? I case you haven't noticed, he's always asking me out." Lily said.

"In case you haven't noticed Lily, after the Halloween ball he hasn't asked you out once." Jane put in.

Lily thought. Conscience was currently bugging her to go down there and ask him, but she still didn't trust easy. "I'll wait. Give me 'till Christmas."

And she wouldn't hear a word of argument.

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