It was the day after and Lily was in her room sorting through the junk she had confiscated from James Potter. She was searching for a map and had so far come up with nothing. The only piece of parchment she had found was blank. Then she stopped for a second and grinned slyly to herself. Of course, these were the Marauders she was thinking about they would have put some form of concealment on it.
Pleased with herself for thinking of this she tapped the parchment with her wand and said 'revalio'. She tried again this time saying 'show yourself! I'm a prefect for goodness sake'. Again nothing happened. She was at loss for a minute but then thought of something. What if you have to say your name for it to work. The Marauders know me perhaps it will work for me! She tapped the parchment again saying 'I, Lily Evans, command you to show yourself.' For a second nothing happened but then writing started to appear on the parchment and she gasped horrified at what had appeared.
Messrs Padfoot, Prongs, Moony and Wormtail would appreciate it very much if you tried not to pry into other people's private belongings Lily Evans
She felt anger well up inside of her but them more writing started to appear:
Messrs Padfoot requests that Lily Evans buggers off
Messrs Prongs would like to add that although Lily Evans has nice hair she should take it elsewhere
Messrs Moony requests that Lily Evans give this back to the proprietors straight away
Messrs Wormtail says that Lily Evans is a know-it-all
Lily gasped and stormed out of her dorm room.
The Marauders were in the common room plotting some dastardly prank in whispers when a shadow fell over them. A shadow that belonged to a very angry red haired fifth year prefect. James smiled sunnily up at Lily and said 'may I enquire as to how you are this fine morning lovely Lily?'
Lily scowled at him and shoved the parchment into their faces. The smile immediately dropped from James's face as a sort of groan issued from his mouth. Sirius was clearly trying to hold a straight face while Remus, who was looking rather pale, enquired 'ah yes. So what did it say?'
Lily glared at him. 'What? Do you think this is funny? I just wanted to find out why you would have a piece of parchment I mean god forbid that you would actually be doing homework! Instead I am brutally insulted by people who for some strange reason have exactly the same nicknames as YOU!' Lily was yelling by the end of her speech. Everyone in the common room had stopped what they were doing and were looking at her.
Sirius couldn't help himself, a small chuckle escaped from his clenched mouth and suddenly he was on the floor laughing. 'You should see...your face...angry...parchment...' were some of the words that she managed to understand from in between laughs.
'Shut up Sirius! Remus,' here she fixed her fellow prefect with a scowl, 'I expected more from you to be honest' and then she stormed back to her dorm room leaving the parchment on the floor in front of them.
Peter gingerly picked it up and carefully tapped it with his wand saying 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good' and the map of Hogwarts materialised. 'Phew,' he said, 'it's the real thing. She left us the map.'
Sirius grinned at James who was looking slightly guilty. 'Oh come on mate lighten up, this means we're back. No more sneaking and hiding behind statues when teachers walk past'
James smiled shakily and said 'I just wish she wasn't so angry'
'Yeah,' Sirius replied, 'but that defense mechanism spell was brilliant mate absolutely bloody wonderful I wish I could have seen what it said' and still chuckling to himself he slung his bag over his shoulder and walked up to the dorm room unaware of the feminine sighs that were left in his wake.
Lily had grabbed the invisibilty cloak as soon as she was in her room and hurried downstairs again eager to find out what the parchment actually was. Unfortunately she seemed to have gotten their too late as the parchment was lying on the floor forgotten as the four boys talked. Sirius was still laughing and she felt herself burn red out of shame. She had to move to the side a little as Sirius walked past and she walked slowly over to where the three remaining boys were sitting curious as to what they were talking about.
'Prongs stop whining, if she doesn't like you get over it' Remus was saying to James. This was new to Lily, who didn't like James? Except for her of course (and she still didn't get it!). She moved closer trying to here what James was saying.
'She hates me and I think...I think I love her.' Here James sighed dramatically and hung his head in his hands. Wow he really sounds sincere thought Lily and he looks so cute when he's upset his eyes are so STOP IT LILY!
'She doesn't hate you as such' this was Peter venturing to speak to James, 'she just...doesn't...um...know you.'
James gave Peter such a look of disgust that Lily almost felt sorry for Peter...almost. He still disgusted her slightly with his twitchiness and obsessive need for popularity which in his eyes could only come from hanging out with Potter, Black and Lupin.
'She looked so angry just now, I mean she's been angry at me before but never like that' wait a minute, she had been angry at James just now. Casting a suspicious glance around the common room she could so no other angry faces. Was James talking about...her?! Before anymore light could be shed on the situation the three boys started to get up to leave but not before Lily saw the sad expression on James's face when he looked at the staircase leading up to the girls dormitories.