Chapter 2

The next morning I woke up with a start and took a quick bath. When I finished getting dressed, the girls were still asleep. Grinning evilly, I started jumping around and making A LOT of noise. Josie was the first to wake up and she glared at me while I went to the Great Hall. I would let Josie wake Nona up. Heh heh, I'm evil. Nona is so going to kill me since Josie resorts to rather barbaric methods when she's waking people up. Oh well, that's life.

Anyway, when I finished eating breakfast, Nona and Josie appeared, both looking extremely angry. They sat next to me and pretended to ignore me, while I laughed.

"What is so funny Lily?" Nona asked after a while.

"Oh, just that you two suck at ignoring me. You do know that when you're ignoring someone you're not supposed to look at the person?" Nona and Josie glared at me and Professor McGonagall gave us our schedules. We groaned when we saw that we had Double Potions first but lightened up when we saw that for the first time in all our Hogwarts years we were going to have it with the Ravenclaws.

"Hmm, Lils and Willie will be able to snog during class," Josie said, grinning at me. Honestly, my friends have such an overactive imagination.

"Yeah, but so will you and Sirius," I said, smiling at her.

"No way, Lils. That's disgusting. I'm eating breakfast!"

"You were, come on, we don't want to be late," Nona said, grabbing Josie's arm. I stood up and we went to the dungeons. We arrived a few minutes before the bell rang and therefore we were forced to sit away from each other. I was forced to sit next to none other than James, although we were sitting right behind Will so maybe this class will be a bit enjoyable. James is smirking like a maniac, the git- oh, wait, who is that hottie next to Professor Hyde?

"Good morning class. I would like to present Professor Kyle Aden. He will be substituting me, since I'm going to retire. Professor Aden was only able to arrive this morning, which is why Professor Dumbledore was unable to present him during the ceremony last night. Very well, I must go now, my train will be leaving in a while," Professor Hyde said. He left the room and Professor Aden looked at us. Nona glanced in my direction and grinned.

"Hello everybody. I will take roll now and then you will do the Memory Potion." Professor Aden started taking roll and all of the girls in our class stared at him. He is absolutely handsome. He has black hair, which is brushed to the side and clear amber eyes. Nona seemed to be hypnotized by him and I smiled slightly.

"Anything funny, Lils?" Will asked me. I jumped up and looked at him. He was smiling at me and I beamed back.

"No, not really. Nona would kill me if I told you, so I better remain quiet."

Will laughed and said, "Ah, I certainly wouldn't want to make you a victim of Nona's Bat-Bogey Hexes."

"DeLonge is good with the Bat-Bogey Hex?" James asked beside me. Will scowled and turned around. I looked at James and he was scowling a little as well.

"Yes, why?" I said. Probably for some prank but it's always good to know. Besides, I'm curious by nature, so what else was I supposed to do?

"Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, will you two please pay attention and stop flirting?" Prof. Aden said and I gaped at him. He thinks I'm flirting with Potter! Really, it's obvious we're not flirting, just a minute ago James, no, Potter, was scowling! And I thought my friends had an overactive imagination.

"Sorry, Professor," James said, glaring at Aden. Aden frowned but instead of docking off points he flicked his wand and the instructions of the potion appeared on the blackboard. I shook my head and started cutting the roots for the potion. Next to me Potter was making a fool of himself by chopping the roots too thick. Sighing, I said, "Potter, if you want to get a good grade on this assignment I would suggest you cut your roots evenly." He looked at me and I just stared back.

"You're right, thanks," he said, and I was dumbfounded. James Potter saying thank you to someone was definitely a novelty. I shrugged, since I was still at loss of words. Then I remembered the thing about the Bat-Bogey Hex.

"Oh, yeah, Potter. Why were you so interested in the Bat-Bogey Hex?" I asked. He flushed and gaped at me.

"Oh, that. Er, please don't give me detention."

"I thought you wanted to break the detentions record."

"Well, you see, Evans, we do have rules. And the detentions have to be passed by a teacher, so it wouldn't count. Anyway, it's for a prank, okay?"

"What? Potter, you're the Head Boy now, you can't go around pranking like you used to do." Does the boy use his brain at all?

"Didn't know you were so interested in me keeping my Head Boy badge," Potter said, smirking at me. Ah, the audacity of the boy. The arrogance. He thinks he's so bloody handsome. Well you're not, you BLOODY ARROGANT PRAT. Okay, calm down. What did Josie say I should do during moments of insane anger? Oh, right. Breath in, breath out. Okay, maybe he is hot. But just a bit.

"I don't give a crap about whether you keep the bloody badge! It's a question of setting good examples on the rest of the bloody students!" Wow, I've been saying bloody a lot of bloody times. Oops. Ah, mission accomplished. Potter's ego was deflated a bit.

"Okay, okay, calm down, Evans. I know I'm supposed to set an example on these kids, but it's for a good cause." Potter is really getting on my nerves.

"Since when has turning other's people robes lime green and making them look like a bloody Christmas tree been for a good cause?" I still have problems looking at Christmas trees. Seriously.

"Ah, that was an exception. Er, do you mind saying bloody a little less? It's kind of difficult to fix these roots when someone is hissing bloody every few seconds in your ear."

"Bloody bloody bloody bloody bloody bloody."

"Anyway, do you think DeLonge might help us mastering the hex?"

"How am I supposed to know that?" I swear, as soon as we leave this class Potter is so going to die.

"Fine, fine! Don't help a noble cause." Noble cause my arse. Well, I'll just ignore him for the rest of the class and who knows my temper will get better.

The plan worked out perfectly and Aden actually said my potion was very well done. I left the dungeons in a hurry, not wanting to sit next to Potter for another period. Luckily, I arrived at Charms early enough and got to sit next to Josie. Nona was probably being questioned by the Marauders.

"So, Lils, what were you and James whispering so much about? Everybody noticed, except Aden, who is so hot, by the way."

"Oh, yeah, hot, but annoying. And he's not much of a teacher, is he?" Josie stared at me.

"You're just annoyed at him because he said you were flirting with Potter. Though I thought you would have forgiven him after he said your potion was good. And how can you say he's not much of a teacher if it's his first day here? Oh, and don't change the subject." Professor Flitwick arrived and told us to start practicing on the Bubble-Head Charm. Ah, there's Nona, next to Sirius.

"Right. So, uh, Will and I were talking. Like, I was smiling since Nona is obviously smitten with Aden, and Will asked me what I was smiling at. I said I couldn't tell him, since Nona would kill me. And Will said that he wouldn't want me to be a victim of her Bat-Bogey Hex, and Potter butt's in and asks if Nona is good with the Bat-Bogey Hex, which is obvious, but whatever. So Aden thinks I'm flirting with Potter and Potter gets really annoyed and starts chopping his roots unevenly. So I tell him to cut it right and remember his question about the hex and I ask him why he wanted to know. So he tells me it's for a prank and we have this discussion about whether or not his pranks are for a good cause. So I got mad at him ignored him for the rest of the class."

"Oh, well it didn't look like Potter was ignoring you for the rest of the class."

"What?" Aha, I managed to do the stupid charm. Professor Flitwick is clapping and for some odd reason, Potter is glaring at me. How is it again that I get rid of the bubble?

"He was staring at you throughout the class!"

"Well, he's glaring at me now."

"He's strange, what did you expect?" No comments. Definitely no comments.

"Okay. Let me get this straight. Potter was staring at me throughout the whole class, and now he's glaring at me. And you are telling me that I should have expected it?" I am now positive that Josie is a complete weirdo.

"Um, maybe's he's glaring at you for ignoring him throughout Potions? Ahem, cough cough. Why can't I make this bubble?" Josie began coughing as she accidently made her wand throw dust in her face.

"Right. Jose, if you would pay attention to what Flitwick said, you would know what to do. Here, it's like this."

"If I paid attention to Flitwick I would miss your story. Oh, this is interesting. Things seem oddly magnified. Ah, Nona is so lucky she has Sirius Black as her partner. Now she can see his face magnified." I giggled and tried to pop the bubble but it seemed to be unpoppable.

"Apparently I wasn't the only one who wasn't paying attention to the class. Now we're stuck with this."

"No. We can ask Remus. Hey Remy!" Remus looked at us with a tired look. He was having a difficult time teaching Peter.

"Yes, Lily?"

"How do we take this off?"

"No idea. Try saying Finite." I tried and voila! The stupid bubble disappeared.

"Thanks, Remus." Josie tried to do it and hers popped with a rather loud pop, which made us laugh maniacally, causing everyone to stare at us for a while.

After dinner, Josie, Nona, and I were sitting in a corner in the common room doing our homework. The teachers already gave us homework, honestly. I opened my bag and a piece of parchment caught my attention. I'm usually organized and it's the first day of school, I can't possibly have already gotten extra and useless papers in my bag. I grabbed the paper and aimed it at the trash can and Nona, the always perceptive person, noticed it just as I was going to throw it on the bin.

"What's that?" she said.

"Dunno."

"Well, open it, stupid." Oh so delicate.

"Okay, okay." I opened the paper and was surprised to find it was actually a note, not an extra and useless piece of parchment. It said: Dearest Lily, roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and I love you. Love, Your Secret Admirer. I read it out loud and Josie, the oh so understanding friend, snickered.

"Creative," she said and I smirked. I was forced to agree with her, since this poem is like the oldest one in the whole world. I do hope that this "Secret Admirer" gets a little more creative.

"I think it's nice. I mean, it's not the most creative of the poems, but still, what's better, someone who's down to earth and writes overused poems or someone whose head is in the air and writes too romantic and cheesy poems, eh?" Nona said, nudging me with her elbow.

"The former, but still, how do we know he's down to earth?"

"We don't, we assume he is." Josie laughed out loud and both Nona and I glared at her. Really, I know it's silly but there's no need for her to laugh like a maniac. And because of her poor sense of humor everyone is looking at us.

"Josie, will you please stop laughing?" Nona hissed. Too late, Sirius Black was already coming in our direction.

"Hullo ladies. I heard Miss Joslyn laughing just now and would love to know what she is laughing at."

"Firstly, it's Josie not Joslyn. Sure my name is Joslyn, but I prefer Josie. Secondly, since you are who you are, it's Hoppus for you. Thirdly, it's none of your bloody business what I'm laughing at." Josie had some unresolved problems with Black, like me with Potter, since Black pranked her unmercifully last year. Then on the last day of school, he asked her out. I still don't know what she did to him, but I'm sure it wasn't just a slap. Anyway, Sirius scowled and turned to us, smiling charmily. I shook my head at him and started reading my Charms book.

"Fine, don't tell me. Just pretend you're telling me something, I made a bet with James that I could discover what Hoppus was laughing at."

"How much did you bet?" Nona said slyly.

"Twelve galleons."

"Give us four galleons each and keep your one galleon and we'll pretend we're telling you something."

"Three. Then we'll all have equal shares."

"Four or nothing."

"Fine."

"So like, there were two blondes, one in each side of a lake. Then one says, how do I get to the other side? And the other one says, you already are on the other side! Satisfied-oh please!" Sirius Black was laughing his head off, and it didn't look like he was faking it. Honestly, this joke is like the oldest joke ever, and he's laughing like its novelty. The three of us stared at him for a few seconds, and he stopped laughing.

"Sirius Black, what was that?" I asked.

"Oh, it's just that I'm used to hear dirty jokes, and hearing a funny, err, clean joke, is kind of new to me."

"Right. Now leave and give us our money," I said and he left quickly. He talked to James who relucantly gave him his money. Sirius walked casually our direction and discretely threw our share at Nona. Josie scowled when he passed and I shook my head. And I thought I disliked Potter a lot.