Chapter 12

The first month of school turned out to be as normal as would be expected. James and Sirius served detention four times a week, and unsurprisingly had already lost Gryffindor 100 points. Not that Gryffindor minded much, after six years of the Marauders' foolhardy business, they had begun to not worry about the points they lost. The Marauders were normally able to give them back up again, with their clever brilliance.

Lily had been pleasantly shocked by James Potter. He had not asked Lily out a single time since they had arrived at Hogwarts. She had begun to believe he was over her, but then he flirted with her nonstop. Lily had to admit that it was a step up his immaturity scale, but that did not make it any less annoying. James had also taken his job as headboy to heart. Lily had been a little worried that he would let troublemakers off of the hook, but was surprised when he gave a Gryffindor detention for helping Peeves the Poltergeist stock up on dung-bombs.

Lily looked over at the clock. It was about three AM. She groaned and rubbed her head gently. Whenever Lily woke up in the middle of the night, she found it near impossible to go back to sleep again. Lily sat up, rubbed her eyes and swung her legs out of bed. She could hear the sleepy breathing of her roommates. She smiled gently as thought of the three boys those girls were head over heels for.

Everyone could tell that Alyssa loved Remus Lupin. Lily thought they were absolutely perfect for one another. Both were smart, clever, and outrageously funny. Lily could never stop laughing when Alyssa was around. It was exactly why Lily had gone to Alyssa back in August.

Brittney, however, was a different case. She was pretty apt about hiding her little crush on Peter Pettigrew. No one really knew why she liked him. He only excuse was 'he's different.' If he was 'different', well lets just say Lily didn't like different.

Alaina however, was ten times more obvious than Alyssa. Every time charming Sirius Black got close, she would get all red, and sometimes even get tongue-tied. Though, after awhile, Alaina had started to open up to Sirius. Lily had caught them in a corner of the common room, chatting away more than once. After much pressuring from his friends, Sirius had managed to talk to Krys in a civil way. They had broken up for good, and were able to be good friends.

All four of the girls had opened up to those boys. Of course, James still annoyed Lily to no end, but it was being able to speak to them civilly that made it worth while. Lily smiled as she thought of them, but James Potter always stuck out of them all.

"What?" Lily whispered. She could have just sworn she heard mumbling. It was actually quite scary sounding. It was not one of her roommates. Actually it was not even a female voice. Lily stood up, cautiously. She knew that she had heard the voice.

"Who's there?" Lily moaned into the darkness. She slid open her hangings as quietly as possible, not that it mattered because some one else had awoken.

"Lils?" Brittney said, loudly as she threw back her hangings. She yawned loudly, making it impossible for Lily to hear the soft, sadistic voice. "What are you doing awake?" Lily could hear Alyssa getting up, and Alaina's hushed moaning. Lily threw her fingers to her lips quieting the girls.

"Listen," Was all Lily said as she stalked, catlike the room. Lily knew her friends probably thought she was crazy.

"Sleep..." The voice whispered, and the all of the girls jumped.

"What was that?" Alaina yelled, jumping out of bed and standing between Alyssa. Lily was surprised to see that Alaina already had her wand on her.

"Sleep...Forever...Dream..Bleed..." Lily shivered at the cold voice. It was unlike anything she had ever heard before. "Die!" That was all too much for the four girls' nerves.

They all sprinted down into the common room. Alaina ran up the boys' staircase to go get their new self appointed heros. In less then two minutes, James, Remus, Sirius, and a shaking Peter were all downstairs.

"Oh Remus!" Alyssa cried and she grabbed the front of his night shirt. "They were going to kill us!" Peter stumbled into a chair, and the other three boys' eyes darkened. Remus wrapped his arms tightly around Alyssa.

"What?" James shouted angrily. He had his wand out and was pointing it randomly around the room. Sirius walked forward and grabbed a hold of Alaina's arms.

"Who, Alaina," Sirius said, with dark determination. "What happened?" Alaina just pointed up towards the girls dorm.

"In there, she said, trembling.