September 6- Common Room

Sorry I haven't written for a while but nothing really exciting has happened. Wait, scratch that, unless you count the mountain of homework we've been given.

As soon as Transfiguration started on Monday McGonagall gave us one of the longest lectures I've ever heard about how this year we will have to strain our minds, study regularly, and work as hard as we've ever done for the O.W.Ls.

Or something like that, I'm not quite sure seeing as how I was writing in this for half the time and the other day dreaming about Black's slow painful death I'm going to give him someday.

Anyway I have to try to finish this three foot essay before tomorrow so I'll write later.

October 5- Girls Dorm

I am in a major crisis here. Oh my gosh what was I thinking.

I'm in the middle of a bet with Tanya. Not just any bet, I have to get a date to Hogsmade in two weeks! TWO WEEKS!

I've only been on two dates in my entire life,

Went out on a pity date with Larry Vance because I felt to guilty to say no to him after I had copied down half his potions essay. We just spent the whole night talking about his collection of Chocolate Frog cards while he kept trying play footsie under the coffee table. Obviously that date sucked.

When I was home for the summer this year I went out with a neighbor of ours, Shawn Wilson. We went to this carnival and the date went fairly well. That is until we went on The Ripper and I ended up throwing up all my cotton candy over his shirt. He never called back.

So you can see that I'm not exactly the dating babe of the century. Oh but that's not even the worst part. No you see Tanya had to add on to that I had… Okay, hang on let me explain.

I had just had one of the worst days of my life, I hadn't finished any of my homework, I've ended up being paired with Norman the Stalker for charms, Black had successfully managed to completely ruin my homework in Potions by spilling some dratted thing all over it, McGonagall caught me and Lisa passing notes and gave us both detentions, Mandy couldn't help with Ancient Runes because she had bloody quidditch practice, Cassie and Remus Lupin had a study meeting or something so I had no one to talk to about all these troubles!

So there I was, sitting in the dorm room feeling sorry for myself and stuffing chocolate frogs in my mouth. I really wanted Cassie at the moment because she would listen to all my troubles and not tell me I'm selfish or anything.

Well, of course, I didn't get Cassie, I got Tanya. Tanya came skipping back from her date, bubbling about how Gordon Hanson is just the cutest guy ever and how his lips are, like, the softest thing in the world, and how she thinks he might be the 'one'.

Gag me. Tanya says this about all of her dates; she'll probably dump him by the end of the week.

But then Tanya sees all the chocolate frog wrappers all over the place and has the nerve

to say "ugh, Lily you can't keep eating sweets every night or you'll never get to a size 4."

I choked on my frog.

"What's the matter with you!? Can't you see I'm upset?" I shouted back at her.

Tanya was already heading to the bathroom, but when she heard that she turned around and glanced at me.

"You're upset?" she asked mildly.

The girl's a genius.

I tossed a pillow at her and nearly screamed "Of course I'm upset you idiot. My life sucks! All you guys are these gorgeous smart wonderful people and I'm just some fat dumb horrible person whose gonna end up an old hag!"

Tanya was staring at me with this weird expression on her face and you know what popped outta her mouth? "Lily are you having PMS?"

Well, I guess it was a reasonable question but that did not go over well with me. I won't bore you with how are fight went down. We started on each other- I mentioned her stupid date-she said at least she could get a date- I said I could get a date if I wanted- she said prove it- I said fine.

There she sat thinking.

"All right then Lil's," she said with this wicked smirk on her face, "would you put your money were your mouth is?"

"Of course." Stupid Stupid!

"All rightey then," still smirking evilly. "Get a date by two weeks…. and none of our guy friends or some geeky little nerd."

That drained a little of my confidence, I was planning on asking Larry Vane or something, but I still answered I'd do it.

But then my huge mouth had to shoot off again and was all "is that the best you can come up with Tanya? This won't be very hard."

I was lying through my teeth, this was probably going to be one of the hardest things I've ever done.

Tanya seemed to contemplate for a minute.

Oh, if only, if only. Maybe she wouldn't have been able to think of this horrible thing if Cassie hadn't come in at that moment and gone "oh! Remus is so nice! You guys know what he did? He-"

Only we never found out what Remus did. Because that second Tanya screamed "That's it!"

Me and Cassie gave her those stares we usually reserve for History of Magic.

"You think our little challenge is easy? Well then you've got to go out with a Marauder!"

I didn't say anything for a few minutes. Cassie was busy asking what bet and Tanya was staring at me, waiting for me to talk.

I can't even begin to tell you all the thoughts going through my head.

She isn't serious

James Potter

Oh my gosh she is serious

Sirius Black

I'm such an idiot

Remus Lupin

We are so not friends anymore

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO

You could see by the names I was going over my options (no way was I going out with Pettigrew).

Tanya was looking all smug, "What's the matter Lily, I thought the other was too easy."

And again the huge mouth shoots off with "of course I can it's no trouble at all."

Tanya looked surprised. Then something dawned on me.

"Wait if I do get a date what I get out of this."

Tanya looked uncomfortable, she knows that I would come up with something she definitely wouldn't like.

"I know….."Now it was my turn to grin evilly. "If I win you can't go out on a date for a month."

Ah, I wish I had a camera so I remembered that look on her face. She stood there sputtering like an idiot for about two minutes.

"Well, I won't have to worry because you'll never get a date with any of them."

That hurt a little, I know she doesn't think about what she says when she's mad, but really what kind of friend is she?

"I'm just glad I won't have to listen to you talk about another bloody boy for a month."

Tanya just stormed into the bathroom and I flung my curtains around my bed hiding me from view. I really hate it when we fight. But I have bigger problems! I HAVE TO GO ON A DATE WITH A MARAUDER!!!!!!!!!!

October 10 Potions

Haven't written for a couple of days because I lost this book. It was under my bed beneath this giant bowl of something that I can't get the spoon out of (a/n: I borrowed that from something but I'm not sure what).

There's not a lot to report- Me and Tanya made up the day after our little fight. You know how nice I was? I actually mentioned that we hadn't decided what I would have to do if I lost the bet. She said that I wouldn't have to do anything since I'd probably be embarrassed enough from being rejected. Can't really decide if that was nice or not.

On another note I still haven't asked one of them out. I keep hoping maybe they all have girlfriends but unfortunately, besides there regular group of fans, they all appear to be single.

I've been studying them when we're in meals together, trying to evaluate who I should ask out. At the moment I'm leaning toward Lupin.

Ugh, potions been unbelievable boring. We're having a review day were we have to write down every potion we've done so far, a description of what it does, and how our progress was on it on a scale of 1-4.

I finished the entire thing in about 5 minutes, the rest of the idiots (and by idiots I mean Slytherins) are only halfway down their page. I actually appear to be the only one done.

I have just realized something right here in this very seat. I can't ask out Lupin. I wanted Lupin because he seems like he would at least go out with me for pity. But I can't! I'm so thick, I don't believe I haven't seen it before. Cassie has a crush on him! DARN IT! DARN IT! DARN IT!

I was just looking back at some of my other entries and I saw about how she came in glowing after there study session. I also realized saw my entry on the train ride, I know I was all Oh Cassie has a crush!, but I didn't totally mean it. And they've been having all these other studying stuff and she's come back absolutely beaming every time. This completely spoiled this afternoon!

I'm going now. I have to wallow in my misery and despair for the rest of class.

Two Hours Later Girls Dorm

SODDING BLACK!

I hate that boy with every fiber of my being. He's landed me in detention. Now instead of having fun down on the quidditch pitch with my friends I'm going to be doing something or other in the potions room.

Here's what happened after I finished writing. I noticed that Black seemed kinda shifty.

Immediately I was suspicious.

No I haven't forgotten about what Sirius said on the train. My friends actually said that they think it's making me a bit paranoid since I can't keep still if we ever pass Black in the hall.

So I watched Black out of the corner of my eye. I noticed two things 1) He was only a little more than halfway done with the essay, stupid git that he is. 2) He kept looking up at Professor Slughorn then scanning the room.

Oh, but then I noticed how his eyes flickered toward my paper. The dirty little rat was cheating of me!

I remember the blood rushing to my face and squeezing the edge of the table so hard I my knuckles turned bright white.

The little git was always prattling on how muggle-borns are so beneath pure-bloods and about how they're so much smarter than me. And now he's cheating of me!

I quickly scribbled a note about what was going to happen if he continued. I slid across the table when Slughorn wasn't looking. That was when the alarm went off.

I should have known. You see Slughorn is one of the most cheating obsessed teachers in the school. We aren't ever supposed to share answers on essays. He says some crap about 'how will you learn'. It's a good thing potions is easy for me.

So the alarm goes off and Slughorn beelines (and I wouldn't think he would be able to move that fast at his size) right to our table. He was beaming he was so excited.

"All right! Which of you was it?" He peered at all of us in this excited way.

Any tiny shard of hope I possessed flew out the window when I saw that malicious glint I saw all to well in the eyes of Black.

"Professor I think this note Evans gave me might be of interest." He held up the note.

Ooh, I could really have killed him then.

Slughorn's face fell a little. It's no secret I'm his favorite student.

"Wait! The only reason I was passing a note to this filth was because he was cheating of me!" Did you seriously expect me not to say anything?

"Mr. Black is that so?"

"Professor," oh great he was going into sniveling mode. "I am perfectly capable of doing my own work! Why would I copy off of Evans?"

Little bugger spat out my name like it was a swear word. It must have taken self restraint not to call me by his usual nickname.

"He did so copy of me! Look at his paper it will probably have all the same answers as me!"

Slughorn started babbling something about how he could have the same answers as me because he had studied the same material. Blah, blah, blah, I know what I saw.

Black was grinning like he was having the time of his life. He knew he probably wasn't going to get caught, maybe told of at the most.

However I used all my self control I could muster and when Slughorn was finally finished his stupid lecture he informed me I'd have to talk a zero on the worksheet. Still I didn't snap! I just gritted my teeth so hard I'm surprised I didn't break one off.

All was well, until Black hexed me in the corridor. It all happened so fast I don't even really remember what happened. I think he thought he was being discreet or something and sent some spell that made my feet go on fire.

It was all a mess with me and him firing of the first spells that came to mind. Lisa stepped in to help and for a minute it looked like we would be able to shut him down.

But then Bellatrix stepped in. –shudder-

I have no idea were she popped out of but then she was there helping her darling little cousin. I wrote about how good she was and I can now say I found out the hard way that the rumors were true.

In less than a minute both Lisa and I were lying on the floor I'm not sure about Lisa but I think I was near losing consciousness.

It was very near breaking out into a riot before the teachers intervened. Lisa, Black, and I were rushed to the Hospital Wing. There really wasn't anything wrong with us but we had to stay for a couple of hours.

After we were released McGonagall informed me that she was very disappointed so on so on (practically the same Slughorn speech) and I now have detention for a week every night in the dungeons. Pickling newts or something.

At least Lisa will be with me.

Half Hour Later

Martin, a guy in our year that we're friends with, just told me some news about my detention tonight.

"Hey Lily guess what." I love Martin to death but you should know that he can be unbearably annoying.

"What."

"Guess."

"No tell me."

"Guess."

"Martin just tell me!"

"Just guess Lily!"

"No!"

"yes."

"NO!"

"GUESS!"

"SNAPE WASHED HIS HAIR! THERE I GUESSED, NOW WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS IT!"

Martin loves to do games like that with people, especially with me. He says I give the best reactions.

He gave me this disgusted look, "Lily the marauders wouldn't like you stealing their material."

"Then what is it."

"Well, Lisa told me about your detention-"

"Everyone knows about my detention."

"Lily don't interrupt. Now as I was saying-"

Luckily Lisa butted and actually told me.

"James Potter and Sirius Black are gonna be in detention with us. No big deal."

It really is no big deal but for some reason my stomach keeps feeling weird.

A/N: Okay so I haven't updated for a long time but I've been really busy with school and I had a mild case of writers block. Now that I've got a better idea of what to do I'll definitely update more. I think that my writings gotten a little better since schools started but that might just be me. Thanks to my reviewers, you guys are awesome! Reviews are of course always appreciated.