Remus and E.J watched Lily run by, then hopped up and walked to the corner. Remus stood behind E.J the entire time. E.J scanned the crowd.
"What the bloody hell was that about?" she asked, as she ignored all the greetings. Susan looked at James, who was still laughing.
"It was that funny, wasn't it James?" she said. James looked at her.
"Of course it was. You just heard the joke that Sirius told me?" he asked her. "Hey, E.J." E.J looked at him.
"What just happened?" she asked.
"What are you talking about?" James asked.
"Lily just ran to our room. What did they just say to her?" James and Sirius shrugged. E.J turned to Susan. "What did you just say to her?" Susan smirked.
"What does it matter?" she asked. E.J's grip on her wand tightened. "Its not my fault that your friend doesn't fit in. It isn't my fault that she doesn't matter. She doesn't deserve to hang out with me, or anyone in the same group as us." James and Sirius looked at her like she was crazy.
"And what group is that?" E.J asked. "Because, the only group that you belong to, is a pack of female dogs. And it wasn't too long ago, that you looked like the offspring of a troll and a house elf." All of the boys in the group laughed. "So- which group?" Susan stood up. She was about a foot taller than E.J. E.J who didn't give a damn about their height and weight difference, or the fact that this girl was two years older than herself, stood her ground.
"I should knock you to the ground, right now." Susan said. E.J rolled her eyes.
"Warriors take hits to give hits. So do whatever you want. Just know that you're not gonna walk out of here, you're gonna be carried." she said, as she shifted her weight from foot to foot. James got up.
"E.J, lets go." he said, as he started to take her by the arm.
"Jamie, don't touch me." E.J said, in her best calm voice.
"Yeah, take your little cousin away, James." Susan taunted. E.J laughed angrily, and pointed her wand at her, while shouting,
"Animorphmagus!" Susan turned into a rabbit. E.J picked her up, then turned to Susan's friends. "Now… what are we going to do to make Lily feel better?" Marcy Stuart was Susan's top crony. She was glaring at E.J.
"We're not doing anything." she said. E.J laughed sardonically.
"Oh- I think you will." she said. "See- if Lily isn't happy by midnight, I take little Susie Cottontail, and I throw her in front of the Whomping Willow… or- I take my broom, and I fly to the top of Gryffindor tower, and I drop little Susie Cottontail off. Either way, she won't be here to hop down the bunny trail." Sirius, James and Remus laughed. They all knew that she was bluffing. She wouldn't do anything that would kill Susie. But, she would torture her, unless Lily felt better.
"What do you expect me to do?" Marcy asked.
"Well- be creative. You know, like when you created the new you. You did that, after Susie called you a Goblin, in front of the whole house. I remember when you came to the ministry party at my house. You were ugly, with a big nose and acne. So- the fact that you can sit here, and watch your little friend talk about other people, is really- I don't get it. So- you have about two and a half hours."
"Or… I could take her from you." E.J laughed.
"The moment that you inch near me, I'll throw her at a wall… with incredibly cruel force." she said. "Are you guys ready to get Lily happy again?" Marcy folded her arms over her chest, and E.J, started to weigh Susie in her hand. "I wonder how far I could throw this." she mused aloud.
"Fine." Marcy said.
"Oh Lilsy!!" E.J called. "Get your ass down here!! I have something for you!!" Lily walked down the stairs a moment later. She walked over to E.J with red rimmed eyes. E.J looked at Marcy. "Do you have something to say?"
"Lily darling, you look really nice in that jacket." Marcy said.
"No- I'm not feeling that." E.J said. "Are you feeling that, Lily?" Lily didn't say anything.
"Well- I don't care! What do you expect me to do?!"
"I expect you to show me what you really look like. That means taking off all of your beauty charms." Marcy's face fell, and so did her boyfriend's. "You didn't think she actually looked like this, did you?" E.J asked him.
"E.J, that's enough." Lily said. "Its okay." Lily hugged her, then walked back to the dormitory. E.J looked at Marcy, then tossed the bunny to her. Without fear, she walked after Lily. When she got to the room, Lily was sitting on the bed writing something down.
"What's going on?" E.J asked.
"I'm making a change." Lily said.
"What type? Are you gonna change your personality? Or are you going to change insignificant things? Like your weight."
"You don't know what its like." Lily said.
"I don't know what its like?"
"You don't know what its like." Lily repeated in a stronger voice.
"Okay- I'm probably one of two Hispanic people going to this school. I'm three shades darker than you, and almost everyone here. I-"
"You have almost every boy lining up to go out with you."
"At what cost? Most of them think that because of my nationality, I'm easy and willing. 'Oh- she's born in Las Piedras- she must give it good.' And the bonus factor is that I have a white father. See- me and you are in the same boat. You don't think that you belong to this crowd, because of something that you can easily change. I don't think I belong with this crowd, because of something that I can't change. And I don't want to. This is part of who I am. And… its part of what makes me E.J. But- our problems are what other people think about us. What's the point? The moment that your looks change, you're going to too. What- you want to get skinny, so that you can hang out with them?! Is that what you want?"
"You know that's not what I want." Lily said.
"Because- if that's why Lily, you might as well go kiss their asses now." Lily looked at E.J.
"I don't want to change my weight so that I can hang out with them. I want to change my weight so that I can get back at them. Every person that laughed… and bring them down." she said. E.J nodded.
"Then, what's the plan?" she asked.
"Its not a premeditated plan. Its a 'carpe diem' plan." Lily said, before she and E.J hugged.
"So… who's involved in this plan?"
"Everyone that laughed." E.J nodded, not knowing that in Lily's eyes, James was one that was on her list.