Disclaimer: Harry Potter, I own not, nor any affiliated character. Nor do I own any of the Pride & Prejudice quotes mentioned or Lizzy/Elizabeth Bennett, Darcy, Jane, Wickham, or Colonel Fitzwilliam...they all belong to the lovely, brilliant, Jane Austen.

Chapter 5:

Waking up early for the second day of classes and not being able to go back to sleep is a tragedy…or maybe not for a certain redhead.

"Grrr…I just want to go back to sleep!" thought Lily seeing it was only 5:34 in the morning. She tossed and turned for a few minutes when she decided she would read until it was time to get up. Gina had been bugging her about finishing the book she got her and ranting about some uncanny similarities.

"Poor Lizzy having to put up with the antics of Mr. Collins. I'm so happy she didn't agree to marry him, but I feel bad that Charlotte felt she had to marry him. And Bingley is so much more 'agreeable' than Darcy…what a pompous jerk….this book is really getting interesting. Wickham seems very charming, maybe he and Elizabeth will get together? I can't believe Darcy was so mean to him…Okay..enough thinking, must read more!"

7:30 rolled around and Lily was still engrossed by Pride & Prejudice.

"Lils, you need to come on, we're about to go down to breakfast! Get up!" shouted Gina waving her arms around.

"No, no! I must know what happens! I'll skip breakfast…but I'll be in class on time. Go on without me." replied a very determined Lily while turning the page to begin the next chapter.

A little later on, Lily happened to look at the clock, jumped out of bed, got in the shower just long enough to get water droplets on her, and hurriedly got dressed. She was panicking because it was 8:15 and class started at 8:30, she could not be late-- McGonagal would surely give her a detention.

Lily was at such a good point in the book, it looked like Colonel Fitzwilliam was very interested in Elizabeth, Darcy proposed to Lizzy by practically insulting by pretty much saying, 'he liked her against his will and better judgment,' and Lizzy found out that Darcy was the one who ruined the happiness of her sister Jane by making Bingley move away because of "strong objections to the lady's family."

Lily was deep in her thoughts while on her way to Transfiguration. So much so, that she ran smack dab into none other than James Potter.

"Wow, THE Lily Evans not paying attention to where she's going? What IS this world coming to?" asked James while putting that famous smirky grin on his face.

"Sod off, Potter. I don't have time for you right now. For your information, I have to get to Transfiguration." replied Lily venomously, trying to cover up how embarrassed she was at being so inattentive.

"Oh, now, no need to get huffy. For your information, I was just heading to the same class. Shall we?" James said while offering him her arm to take.

Lily mentally kicked herself for not remembering that James, and then probably Sirius, was the best transfiguration student in the entire 6th year class.

When James offered his arm to Lily, she thought back to what Lizzy said to Darcy when he proposed, "From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."

She was in shock. That pretty much summed up how she felt about James. She decided she liked Elizabeth Bennett more than she did before. This girl could understand arrogant guys. "Those must be one of the uncanny similarities that Gina was talking about." thought Lily.

"Evans?" questioned James staring at Lily's face to see a small smile on her lips but a distant look in her eyes, "Evans? Are you still there?"

"Oh, err, yeah! NO! I don't want to take your arm. I don't know where it's been last or what thing it's touched," said Lily while walking away towards class and leaving James a bit confused and concerned. Lily was acting out of character to him.

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Transfiguration went by smoothly, of course McGonagal assigned some homework, but that was to be expected. The class was learning the theory behind human transfiguration-a four foot essay worth of theory to be exact. Lily teased Gina a little more about the whole "Dancercise" which was code for Remus and Gina have a crush on each other! James and Sirius noticed the same thing they noticed in Herbology--Remus staring at Gina again and even speaking briefly with her after class.

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Later that day Lily and Gina were sitting in the common room working on some homework and just talking…well more like they were talking.

"You really think he likes me, Lily?" asked Gina hopefully.

"If he doesn't, then that means I like Potter. So it's got to be true." replied Lily grinning largely. She was happy that Gina was going to have a nice boyfriend, her last one really broke her heart. He was younger than her, cute, charming, but just lost interest in her. A week later he started dating his ex-girlfriend again, and now he's dating his other ex who he told Gina that their relationship didn't mean a thing, while he and Gina were still together. So now Gina thinks he's telling this girlfriend the same thing about their relationship.

They became friends again after a long while. Gina refused to talk to him, and him her because he felt stupid. But now, they're not friends again. Gina pretends like it doesn't bother her, but Lily can tell it still does, not as much, but a little.

"Lily, you know he talked to me after class."

"I saw! What did he have to say….or ask!"

"He was just asking me how I was, and if I thought the lesson was interesting. We were talking about how its going to be fun to start transfiguring things again, and that's when James and Sirius came up behind us and bumped into Remus which made him bump into me."

Laughing heartily, Lily said, "Sounds like Potter and Black can see that Remus likes you too."

"Maybe so, Lily, why do you always call James and Sirius by their last name, but not Remus or Peter?"

"Because it's a mutual agreement we have, and I like Peter and Remus better out of the four, but Remus the most."

"But you know James likes you, he has for like forever, Lils. And he seems like he's changed, ya know? He hasn't asked you out yet, which is a record. All summer and 2 days of school? That is a record!"

"I can't just go from hating Potter, to liking him Gina. I still think he's arrogant and immature, and unless I see otherwise, then there is no chance."

"So, anyways….. what was this about James offering you his arm? That seems more mature and gentlemanlike." said Gina teasingly.

"Oh goodness. Gina, puh-leeze. He was just talking about how out of it I was, well, I don't know why he offered me his arm actually. I really doubt he was trying to be a gentleman, probably some trick. Oh, I noticed one of the similarities between me and that book!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, Darcy is just like Potter. Rude, arrogant, cocky, conceited, prideful, jerky, um…you get the picture. Elizabeth hates him as much as I hate Potter."

"Lily, dear, your only half way aren't you?"

"Yes."

"Oh, well, I think you'll like the ending."

"I'm sure I will, the book is very addictive. But, I'm starved. Let's go down to dinner."

"Me too, I thought you'd never ask!" said Gina walking over to link arms with Lily and head down to dinner.

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"Yummy! Dinner! Food!" shouted Peter sitting with the three Marauders and Shawn in the sixth year boys dormitory.

Shawn rolled his eyes, he wasn't in a good mood. He had gotten a letter from his dad saying the death eaters destroyed his grandmother's house. He didn't tell anyone yet, because he didn't feel like everyone trying to sympathize or empathize with him.

"Wormtail, mate, I know your hungry but dinner isn't at least for another thirty minutes." said a sad Sirius for announcing to his stomach it would have to wait a little bit longer.

"James, Sirius, why, pray tell did you push me into Gina earlier?"

"Accident?" asked Sirius who then began to whistle.

"We weren't looking at where we were going?" added James unsurely while twiddling his thumbs.

"Sorry Moony, won't happen again!" said Sirius flashing a sorry smile.

"I tried to be nice to Lily today." muttered James proudly, "I didn't even ask her out…I may have been a bit sarcastic with her, but she was being sarcastic too!"

"It's a step in the right direction, James my boy." Sirius said giving James a pat on the back.

"I even offered her my arm so I could be the gentleman and escort her to class, especially since she seemed a little spacey. She ran into me, was really out of it, odd…But of course, she turned it down and insulted me. I haven't had a girlfriend since the spring of the year before, but I guess she hasn't noticed." James said looking a bit out of sorts.

Sirius had been thinking about this all day and now seemed like the perfect time, especially since Prongs needed cheering up: "So, I've got this great idea for a prank…should be simple yet effective. Funny as hell too….So here's what we're gonna do…."

"That's brilliant, Padfoot! Why didn't I ever think of that?" James asked quite cheered up now. Pranking was a great way to cheer him up after Lily sadness.

"Um, because I'm special, sexy, handsome, intelligent, and wait, I guess you're those things too, but not special, that's just me!" Sirius replied but then added upon seeing the look on his best mate's face and said, "Just kidding!"

"Shawn, hey, are you okay?" Remus asked seeing Shawn get off his bed and head to the door without saying a word.

"No, I'm not bloody okay. My grandmother's house just got effing blown to smithereens. They can't find her either."

"Oh, Shawn, we're so sorry." the Marauders replied truthfully and watched as he walked out of the door down to dinner.

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"Dinner is so amazing! Man was I hungry." Jenny said while going for a piece of dessert.

"Jenny, I haven't talked to you in so long! Well last night, but now it's dinnertime and I haven't spoke to you all day!" Lily said pretending to be hurt.

"Oh you know, the usual, classes, homework, eating, classes, sleeping. That's about it really."

"Same here too. Except Gina and I did some dancerising!"

"What's that?"

Lily was about to tell Jenny since Gina and her were close to Jenny, but seeing the look on Jenny's face she told Jenny the same excuse she told the Marauders. "We were dancing for exercise, so we're calling it dancercise."

"Oh that sounds like fun!"

"It was, Sirius even started doing it with us." Gina replied smiling, "It was really cute if I say so myself."

"Lily that's a pretty necklace you have on." Taylor said, "Where did you get it from?"

"Oh, it was a gift from Mrs. Potter. Her and my mum are pretty good friends. It's a star necklace. Supposedly it's linked to a star in the sky and it'll glow green I think when I stand under it, and if I'm with my true love under the stars or some gobbledygook like that, it'll glow blue if we both have a star necklace on."

"Oh that's sweet. I don't believe in that sort of thing, but it's still cute. Me and Steven just spend so much time together, we just know we love each other without saying it. It's been about 4 months."

Jenny rolled her eyes but pretended to be happy. Lily and Gina did the same thing. They were all sad that Taylor never spent time with them anymore.

An owl came flying into the great hall, dropping a letter in front of Gina.

"Ooo! Who could it be from?" Jenny said getting excited.

"Open it, hurry!" added Lily.

"Okay, it says:

Gina,

Meet me in the astronomy tower at 8:45 tonight. I can't reveal my identity, but just meet me there.

Anonymous"

"So, are you gonna do it?" Lily asked while glaring at Brooke as she walked by wearing her robe sleeves rolled up and too much make up with both her arms wrapped around Jay. "Wait, Jay?" Lily thought, "I though she was with someone else? Oh well, she's as bad as Potter used to be."

"Yeah, I suppose I will. I'll be careful though. It could be some Slytherin trying to play a trick. You know one of my ex's ex girlfriends. You know how that one black haired girl hated me." Gina said looking somewhat annoyed.

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"Poor Shawn," thought James. He figured Shawn was telling Lily and Gina because they both looked like they were about to be in tears when he was talking to them. His attention was brought back to the lunch table by Sirius throwing a piece of bread at him.

"Hey! What was that for?" asked James preparing to throw a piece of food back at Sirius.

"You need to eat more, you're getting to skinny. No, you just looked out of it, and I wanted to get your attention, why else would I be throwing bread?" replied Sirius in a joking manner.

"CHEESE!" shouted Peter suddenly seeing a plate of assorted cheeses on the table. He lunged at it and began scarfing it down. The other Marauders began laughing and Sirius even managed to fall out of his seat, which caused more laughing. Ever since Peter knew he was a rat as an animagus, he's developed a cheese fetish. He gets very excited around it now, antsy like a rat may do.

The sixth year girls happened to look down the table and see Peter eating cheese like it had never existed until now. Lily and Gina found it disgusting and hilarious at the same time, while Taylor and Jenny just found it plain disgusting. At this point, the four girls decided that upon seeing that, it was now time to head back to the Gryffindor common room. They had to get Gina ready for her mystery person.

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"Gina, you look great!"

"Beautiful!"

"Pretty!"

"Good luck!"

Those are some things Gina heard before she left at 8:30 to head to the astronomy tower. It was a long walk up there.

"Hello?" Gina asked looking around when she got there but not seeing anyone.

She figured that whoever it was probably wasn't there yet. It was a beautiful night though, so she laid down on the floor of the tower and stared up at the stars.

She must have dozed off because she woke up with someone slightly shaking her. She nearly jumped out of her skin. It was Remus Lupin. Her first thought was, "Oh, Lily must be right!"

"Hey Gina, I'm sorry I scared you. Thanks for coming to meet me."

"Oh, it's no problem. I must admit, I'm a little surprised."

"I thought you might be. I thought it would be easier to talk here than in front of everyone."

"Oh, yeah, I suppose it would." Gina replied while still staring at the stars, scared to look at Remus.

"So, I guess you're wondering why I've asked you to meet me here."

"Um, maybe a little." Gina said laughing.

"Well, I wanted to talk to you about something."

Gina's heart began to beat faster. "Oh sure, go ahead."

"There's someone that I like, and I was wondering if you would know if they liked me."

"Oh" Gina replied, a little less happier than she intended, "Who is it?"

"Well I know that you're good friends with her.."

"Wait, you're not talking about Lily, because that's like James's girl, you couldn't possibly…"

Remus started laughing, "No, no, no. You're absolutely right, I would never do that to James. I like having Lily as a friend, nothing more."

Gina began to blush slightly: "I'm sorry, continue."

"Well, like I said, I know you're good friends with her, and I think she's really nice and very pretty, but I just felt it would be easier to talk to you than it would be to her."

At those last words, Gina had to do all she could to keep the tears that came to her eyes from pouring out.

"So, you'd have to be talking about Jenny or Taylor, and I hope you wouldn't like Brooke." Gina replied with her voice noticeably shaken.

Remus nodded and said it was Jenny.

"Gina, are you okay?"

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine." she lied.

"No, your not, you're crying."

"I am not!"

"Then why do I hear sniffing sounds and see water stains on your face? Did I say something to hurt…oh.."

Remus had figured out he had messed up. "Gina, did you think that I was going to tell you I liked you? I'm really sorry that it sounded that way."

"No, no, don't worry about it. I understand. I think Jenny would like you, she's always thought highly of you." Gina replied with the last few words barely audible due to the big sobs that were coming from her. She didn't even look back to say bye. She ran out of the tower and back to the Gryffindor common room and up to her dorm where Lily was the only one in there.

"Gina, what in heaven is wrong with you? What happened?"

Gina ran to Lily and hugged her and cried on her shoulder. "He only wanted to use me to find out if Jenny liked him!"

"Shh, shh, it's okay, Gina. He was a Marauder anyways. Don't worry about him. Do you want me to tell Jenny?"

"Yes, even though I'm sad, I think Remus will treat Jenny good. And that Doug guy in Ravenclaw is pretty cute.." replied Gina, smiling.

"That's my girl! Dry those tears and we'll go do some dancercising!"

"Can Sirius come? We told him we'd invite him next time."

"If that's what you want, then of course."

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Back in the sixth year boys dormitory, Remus told the guys what happened. James and Sirius felt bad because they felt they may have egged it on a little bit. Remus really did feel bad.

A knock on the door took Remus out of his thoughts. It was Gina. "Remus, can I talk to you?"

"Of course."

"I'm sorry, I overreacted. I just thought, people were saying, yeah…But I understand. Lily is telling Jenny as we speak. I like having you as a friend, so don't worry about it. People convinced me that I liked you because they thought you liked me. So, friends?"

"Of course." Remus said while pulling Gina into a hug. "I'm sorry we had a misunderstanding. I really am."

"Like I said, don't worry about it! I'm okay, I promise. So Sirius, Lily and I are about to do some dancercising and we promised we'd invite you the very next time we were gonna do it, so you up to it?"

"Duh! You, Lily, and Me, dancing…what could be better!" Sirius said cheerfully flashing a wicked handsome smile.

Gina melted just a little bit, but held it together.

Sirius thinking about James saying he was trying to be a gentleman by offering his arm to Lily, did the same thing to Gina, except she took his arm and giggled and smiled really big. "Let's go, dear lady!"

And off they went to do some dancercising.

Lily amazingly had a good time with Sirius.

Gina and Sirius flirted all night and had a great time, and everyone was in a great mood when they left. Sirius had taken them to the room of requirement where they actually had music this time.

When Sirius got back, James was glad he had a good time, but jealous he got to spend time with Lily, and that Lily even called him Sirius at night's end. Remus was glad Sirius had cheered Gina up.

Back in the girl's dorm, Jenny was excited about Remus liking her, and had told him so while they were down in the common room, so now they were together. (Remus decided he wouldn't tell Jenny the part about Gina getting upset.) Lily and Gina were exhausted. "Wow, what an interesting second day of school." Gina said and Lily and Jenny both agreed with her each having different reasons to agree.

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Yays for me! I got the next chapter out rather quickly this time! Lol. Well, I hated to do that to Gina, but it all will turn out okay in the end...it always does most of the time! Well please read and review and let me know that you want me to continue! Pretty please with sugar on top?