The Next Morning
Lily woke up to the sound of exited screaming
"AAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
"Shut up Jen, You're giving me a headache!" Came Eliza's voice, barely heard over Jen's noise.
"What's going on?" Lily asked groggily
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Screamed Jen, Jumping up and down
"No, seriously Jen, what is it?" Asked Eliza
"Look! Looklooklooklooklook!" Jen waved something small and shiny in Lily's face too close for her to really see it.
"Give me that!" Grouched Eliza, snatching the object from Jen's hands (She wasn't exactly a morning bird.)
"To Miss Lily Evans" Eliza read out loud
"Where's it say that?" asked Lily
"It's engraved onto the lid"
"The lid?" asked Lily "What are you talking about, what is it?"
"It's eye shadow" Sighed Jen "In a golden case, sent by James Potter to-"
"James has terrible taste" interrupted Eliza "This shade of pink clashes with your hair"
"Hey, I like pink" said lily indignantly
"I never said you didn't" said Eliza "I'm just saying that it clashes with your hair, and, well. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I look fabulous in pink. And if you happen to decide that-"
"No!" Said Lily, grabbing the case from Eliza "It's mine."
"Oh, come on Lily" begged Eliza "It's not like your ever going to use it. You never wear makeup"
"I will so use it. I'll use it right now" and with that lily marched into the bathroom to apply the beauty product.
"It's not fair" Eliza huffed "How come boys never send me things?"
"Well…" started Jen
"What?"
"It's nothing"
"No, what?"
"Well, not to offend you or anything, but sometimes you can be sort of…"
"TELL ME!"
"Sort of… overbearing?"
"WHAT!?" Eliza shouted
Jen realized that this had been a very bad thing to say, particularly since her friend had just woken up
"I'llseeyouatbreakfast!" Jen yelled as she ran out the door
"I'd chase after you if you weren't so darn fast!" Shouted Eliza after her, but Jen was gone. "One of these days…" she muttered under her breath
In the Girls Bathroom
Lily looked at herself in the mirror. She hated pink. Well, okay, she loved it; but how was she supposed know that the shade looked terrible on her until she'd tried it on?! Oh yeah. Eliza.
"Stupid" she growled under her breath as she made another futile attempt to get the stupid stuff off "Stupid, stupid, stupid!"
Why wouldn't it come off? Lily took a closer look at the label stuck on the under side of the container. It read:
L.P. eye shadow. Lasts 24 hrs.
Below were two lists of ingredients. Two. The first list was what you would normally expect to find in eye shadow. The second list consisted of all the ingredients that were necessary for–
Lily's eyes widened
"Oh no" she whispered
In the Great Hall
"I hate Pecans" said Sirius glumly as they were piled onto his breakfast plate
"Well, you have to eat something besides chocolate and marshmallows for breakfast" said Remus in a tone that suggested that he had said this far to many times before
"Oh yeah? What do you think that is?"
"It's too smothered in chocolate spread for me to tell"
"It's a chocolate chip pancake. Do you know what is in a pancake, Remus?"
Remus was about to give his customary answer when he was interrupted by James
"I can't believe you, Sirius"
"What?" Asked Sirius through a mouth full of pancake and chocolate
"I can't believe you can just sit there and argue about pecans after what you've done"
"Sorry mate" Sirius said as he took another mouthful of pancake "Didn't think you'd mind so much"
James made a disbelieving sound and turned his back to Sirius, arms crossed. He had been making an effort to be cold towards Sirius since yesterday evening when Sirius had come up with his 'brilliant' plan. So far Sirius hadn't noticed.
"What are you guys talking about?" whined peter "I wish you'd tell me what's going on once in a while"
"Yes, do enlighten us" said Remus
James made a girlish 'Hmph' sound to emphasize that if they got an answer, it wasn't going to be from him.
"Dude," Sirius exclaimed, unaware of James's frosty silence towards him "That sound you just made was so gay!"
"Sirius, I'm surprised at you!" scolded Remus
"What?" Sirius asked
"The phrase 'that's so gay' is a cruel, discriminatory comment that is only used by rude, unimaginative people who can't think of a more creative way to insult someone"
James laughed "Well, that pretty much sums up Sirius's personality"
"Hey, are you trying to offend me or something?" Sirius asked
"Me? No, of course not" came James's sarcastic reply
"Yes you are" Said Sirius as he slowly worked it out "You're mad at me because I sent that -"
"Help, she's after me!" Jen shouted as she tried to hide behind Remus
Sirius glanced at the entrance to the great hall, and then back a Jen "Um… Sorry Jen, but I don't think any one's following you"
"Oh?" asked Jen, her head coming up from behind Remus's left shoulder to look around the hall
"Oh indeed" Sirius gave Jen a hand up
"Oh," Said Jen, blushing
"You're blushing" Said Sirius "I'm sorry, did I embarrass you?"
"Oh. No, it's just- Oh, what was that? Yes, Lily, I'm coming!" and she took off.
Sirius looked around. He saw Lily emerging from the great hall, but doubted that her voice could have carried that far
"I didn't hear Lily say anything" commented peter
Remus ducked his head to hide a grin.
Jen caught up with an oddly cheery-looking Lily just as she was taking a seat at the Gryffindor table.
"Oh. My. Gosh." Exclaimed Lily, her voice peppy and exited, not at all normal. "Don't you think Sirius Black is hot?!"
In the Girl's Bathroom
Eliza sat in front of the mirror by the sink, applying some of Lily's eye shadow to herself. After all, it did look good on her, and lily surely wouldn't notice if just a little bit went missing…