The chapter after the last one- Truth or dare
A/N: Sorry it took to long to update but I had serious writers block and I have been working on my other story 'Notes with the marauders' So, here is the long awaited chapter oh and thanx to my reviewers, Allycatdolphinlover, Silvapsss, GraceyLou-Freebush101 and sealsrock-mrs.j.potter, you guys rock!!! OK enough rambling, no with the story.
"The Valentine's Ball is coming up, it's a masquerade and you can't have dates, that way you don't know who's who and they want a group of people in Hogwarts to play as the band this year." Sirius said, walking over from the notice board where a piece of parchment had appeared that morning. Sam and Remus exchanged a glance, everyone knew that Sirius thought he could sing, or rather, he knew he couldn't, just liked to make a fool of himself and sang to annoy everyone else. Bronte hit him on the back of the head and gave him a glare, telling him to just dare to try out. Sirius gulped and took the hint and for once shutting up...for about three seconds, a record for Sirius Black. James and him started a discussion on what he should do so he could get a dance with Lily and how this would work to his advantage.
It was a week after the notice had appeared on the Gryfindoor notice board and it was still the hot topic in the halls. There were rumours going around that some Ravenclaws had already got the gig, but they were just that, rumours. "Eden!!" came a shout from outside the Great Hall. Aleisha had, once again, had lost her cat. Suddenly a pink streak shot past Sirius' leg, making him scream. Everyone turned to him with shocked looks on their faces. "You do realise that you scream like a girl." Remus said, raising an eyebrow.
"Um... I was.. um... imitating Silver..yeah I was imitating Bronte."
Sirius lied, he was only a good liar in front of a teacher.
"Eden, why are you pink?" Aleisha asked picking up the pink bundle of fur that had made Sirius cough imitate Bronte.
"That, I can explain." James said, stepping away from the group. "You see, I heard from Lily that you liked purple..."
"THIS CAT IS PINK JAMES, NOT PURPLE. Although I wouldn't mind a purple cat, BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT." Aleisha yelled back, making James think that Aleisha yelling at him instead of Lily was not much of a change.
"But I thought if I did a nice thing for you Lily might-"
"GO OUT WITH YOU!?"
"Yeah..." James admitted. "I'll just jump off the Astronomy tower now, you know, save you the trouble."
"Aw..how thoughtful." Aleisha said in a too sweet voice. "Now fix my cat!!!" Aleisha said turning away and storming off.
"I think we have another Lily, she really has some problems." Sirius whispered into James' ear.
"I heard that Black!" Aleisha shouted from the entrance of the Great Hall, some 50 feet away.
"Gosh, I never knew she had supersonic hearing." Sirius muttered.
"I heard that as well Black, so shut up." Aleisha shouted again, walking into the Great Hall and sitting next to Lily. She muttered something in Lily's ear and they could see her eyes shrink as she sent a glare in James' direction.
"I'm bored!!" Sirius whined for the third time that hour. Remus and Sam were, as usual, doing their homework, so during HOM they would have something to do.
"Let's play Truth or dare!" Bronte shouted jumping up and down and clapping her hands.
"No..." Sam started but Remus cut her off. "I think it would be more fun than Potions homework." He said, shutting his book with a slam.
"I'm sorry, but did you actually agree to a game of truth and dare ?" Bronte asked in mock surprise.
Three minutes later James, Sirius, Chad, Lee, Georgia, Bronte, Remus, Jordan and Sam were sitting in a circle on the floor of the boy's dormitory, ready to start the game of Truth and Dare have you ever.
"OK I'll go first. Um..James, truth or dare?" Sirius asked.
"Hmm...Dare." James said in mock concentration. Sirius put on the exact same expression and pretended to think up a dare.
"I dare you to kiss Lily while she is asleep. Bronte, you will go and get him when she is, as I have discovered that as long as a girl is on the stairs when the boy touches the staircase it will not turn into a slide. OK James, your turn." Sirius said, ignoring the look on Bronte's face, asking him to explain how he knew that tiny bit of information.
"Bronte... I dare you to spin the bottle and snog who ever it lands on...male or female." James said, adding the last bit with a smirk on his face as he transfigured one of his quills into a empty, much to Sirius' dismay, firewhisky bottle.
"It just had to be firewhisky didn't it." Remus said, eyeing Sirius as he tried to drink the firewhisky, that wasn't there. As Bronte snatched the bottle out of James' hand she placed it on the floor and spun it. Everyone stared at it, as if at any moment it was going to explode. BANG! Everyone turned to James, but then noticed Sirius and burst out laughing. Sirius' hair was now a sickly shade of pink and his eyebrows were now supporting the Slytherin colours, one green and one silver. It took Sirius five minutes to realise that they were all laughing at him, then he noticed his reflection in the mirror. Sirius screamed for the second time that day. "James Harry Potter, put my hair back to normal now!" Sirius said in an unusually high pitched voice that sounded a lot like Lily's.
"No one touches the hair!" Sirius said, patting his hair after Remus had turned it back to normal after he had finally stopped laughing enough to get the spell words out and had gotten sick of seeing James' eyes almost popping out of his head as Sirius strangled him.
"Bronte, you forgetting something." Jordan said, motioning to the bottle that lay forgotten on the floor. It was pointing to the spot that Lee was sitting.
"I will regret asking this later, but what are the rules." Bronte said, noticing the glare that she was getting from Jordan, just asking her to try something funny.
"Ten seconds, tongue and... that's about it." James said after he noticed Jordan's glare, daring him to say what he was going to say next. After James had counted to ten, Jordan grabbed Bronte by the collar and puled her off her boyfriend.
"That's enough now!" She said.
"Wow Jordan, Lee is a really good kisser, good choice." Bronte said, causing Lee to go red and Jordan and Sirius to send her a death glare. "My turn! Remus, truth or dare?"
"Um..truth.." He said cautiously.
"Let me rephrase that. Truth or dare." Bronte asked again.
"Oh..dare." He said, catching the hint in her voice.
"I dare you to kiss Chad, James, Sirius and Lee and tell me who is the better kisser." Bronte said, obviously pleased with herself, she always came up with dares that showed people their hidden homosexual side. "Same rules that applied with me and Lee." She added, making James regret even asking her to use her tongue. "Spin the bottle to see who you kiss first." As the bottle stopped on Sirius, Remus gulped.
"Sirius, this is only a dare." He said, more reassuring himself than Sirius. After the ten seconds were up they broke apart, whipping their mouths on their sleeves.
"God Moony, you are actually a really good kisser, no wonder it takes us five minutes to get you and Sam apart, how did you get so good?" Sirius said. "Joking, joking." He added hastily as Remus and everyone backed away from his slowly. Basically the same thing happened with Chad, Lee and James, although they didn't add the good kisser comment on the end, as their names weren't Sirius, frankly (A/N : Was there a guy called Frank who made that up?) one was enough.
"Now, for the final part of the dare, tell me who was the better kisser." Bronte said, rubbing her hands together in glee. Remus hesitated. "Why don't we play I haven't instead. This is getting kind of boring." Remus said, glad to get the topic off his dare.
"OK. But you have to tell us who was better?" Sam said, wanting to hear who was better as much as Bronte. Remus mumbled something under his breath.
"I'm sorry, didn't catch that Remus." Bronte said holding the video camera that she had turned on while Remus was kissing Sirius, making sure to take out the bit where she dared him to do it, so the people watching wouldn't know it was a dare. Sirius produced the verticerum which they kept for cough emergencys and as Bronte held him down Sirius poured a drop in.
"Remus, I will ask you once more. Who is the better kisser." Bronte said calmly and slowly.
"Sam. I don't really enjoy kissing boys." Remus said truthfully. (A/N note the vertiserum.)
"Out of the boys, who is the better kisser." She asked again.
"Sirius." He mumbled as Sirius lept for joy and prceded to rub it in the others faces.
"I knew you loved me, Remmy, give me a hug." Sirius said, running towards Remus for a hug.
"No thanks." Remus said as the vertuserum started to wear off.
" Lets play I have never now." Remus said, glad to get off the subject of his dare...again.
"OK. Remus, you start." Sirius said, getting his hidden stash of firewhisky out from under the loose floorboard from beside his bed.
"Um.. I haven't gotten drunk before." He said, knowing that Sirius and Bronte would be the first two to put one finger down. All the marauders minus Remus took a swig of the firewhisky, as well as Bronte and surprisingly Jordan, who ignored the curious glance she got from Lee as she took a sip of the firewhisky, although it was considerable smaller than Sirius or Bronte's. When Sirius and Bronte were on one finger each and Sam and Remus were yet to lose a finger. (A/N that sounds like they were cutting each others fingers off, which I assure you they weren't.) "Um.. I have never kissed someone of the same sex." Jordan said, handing the bottle to Remus as they had seem him do it just minutes before. Surprisingly Sam lowered a finger as well.
"What. it was a dare!" She said, answering the questioning glances she was getting from the marauders, the marauderettes knew what she was talking about, remembering last year's game of truth and dare with the boy's at their old school. After thirty minutes Sirius was just wearing his boxers and Bronte was sitting in her underwear, completely wasted. Lee and Jordan were not far behind, wearing basically the same plus one sock each, and not as drunk as Sirius and Bronte. "I think we should stop now, you Sirius are drunk enough as it is." Remus said, grabbing his stuff from the large pile of clothes in the centre of the circle.
Next morning, Sam awoke to Bronte's moans and groans as she sat up from the mattrass that Sam and Remus had conjered up last night, clutching her head. Sam handed her the anti-hangover potion that she had prepared last night for her, Sirius, Lee and Jordan. "This is just the third time I've gotten drunk and I had forgotten how painfull hangovers are." Jordan said, prying herself out of Lee's arms that had been wrapped around her tightly. "Never again will I play 'I have never'!" Jordan vowed, even though that was what she had said last time and the time before that and yet she always played when ever asked. No one knew that she secretly enjoyed getting drunk, although she never told anyone as it ruined her miss-proper image.