A/N: hey guys!

How are you all? Good I hope… I can ramble on for ages D but lets not get distracted. First off,

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope you all enjoy your time away from school! Coming from Australia I am on my summer vacation at the moment and loving it! I'm going away soon to America, first time on a plane!


Secondly, we have this chapter's quote:

'A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting'

-unknown

so keep shooting guys, and remember you can do what you want, be what you want, and think what you want. It's all up to you!


thirdly, special mention:

Thank you to Tas, who sent me a very funny line that I added – read it and u'll find it. It fits in perfectly!


Fourthly,

Enjoy reading this, and I hope that it adds a little bit of laughter or smiles to your day – or night.


Hogwarts – Common Room

OH

MY

SWEET

MERLIN!

You are never NEVER going to believe what happened to me.

I cannot believe what happened to me.

I

Am

So

Embarrassed

Ok I'll start from the beginning, so that you can share my embarrassment with me…

I got off the knight bus at Hgosmeade, and found one of those adoringly cute little carriage things there waiting for me.

It dropped me a little in from the school gates where it stopped so I got off. I mean… that's the intelligent thing to do! Anyway, the carriage turned around and went back to Hogwarts. I guess it had a higher calling…

Little insignificant me!

I fumed my way up the path to school.

Ok let's get one thing sorted out right here, right now. I was NOT fuming about the carriage not taking me the entire way.

I WAS fuming about that THING! How could she do that to me? One of her own?

Commotion caught my attention. Hey, I am actually a very VERY curious person. And with out a second thought – or a first one for that matter – about my safety I headed over to the quidditch pitch.

I stood at the entrance to the pitch, looking at the scene before me.

I leave this place for FIVE minutes and this is what happens? It's a riot I tell you.

A RIOT!

There's a little boy crying on the ground, groups of people around him. He probably broke something.

Good lesson actually.

NOTE to self: try and resist from breaking a bone as it leads to pain and could lead to arthritis in later years.

Very important. I would like to enjoy life when I'm old, not get shots for pain every day. I'll look like a druggie!

Well, a bigger druggie than I already am.

ANYWAYS! Getting off topic.

I – heroically – stepped forward a couple of steps. The runaway broom almost knocked me off my feet.

THANK YOU very much, but I do NOT need your help with falling to the ground. Gravity pretty much has it covered. Thanks.

People are screaming at each other. No one is getting anywhere.

Hey, I might as well do something. All this chaos is giving me a headache, and I have to catch up on homework later.

I carefully walked a little further into the pitch. This time, when the stupid thing came by me, trying to side with gravity, I jumped.

What happened next I can only explain as: The Final Straw.

This is proof that I need to call Dr. Alex.

Too bad I cant. Muggle artefacts don't work on Hogwarts premises.

I could however send him an owl, and then he would see me immediately.

NOTE to self: Owl Dr. Alex so he can check your mentality health. You could be a danger to yourself and others.

Especially yourself.

I swung my body up onto the seat… handle… thing. I think Teddy said that it was called the tree…

What was I thinking, you may ask.

Well I'll tell you. I don't think very often – and this was one of those times – but for the sake of writing something, I'll just say that I wanted revenge.

Redhead temper.

Quite dangerous actually. I remember this one time me and the twins tried to set a waste paper basket on fire to see if it was the same colour as my hair… good times. Anyway, mother started screaming as us, and I threw it at her.

Lets just say, four months of being grounded is much funner when you know the secret tunnels out of your house.

The stupid broom reacted as though it knew I was there and started to… buck and go crazy.

It reminded me of a class that I had at Beauxbatons one time.

Of course at the time I thought that this was a massive waste of time, and started a huge debate about women's rights, and how they should go out into the work force and not be the stepfordwife…

After all, we can all benefit from people who can multi-task!

Now I'm going to kill myself for using this knowledge.

You see, the class was about how to properly look after a husband. The lesson subject for that torturous day, was how to service his broomstick.

I laughed so hard I couldn't breath when my strict teacher, with hair that was glued to her head said that. Of course, no one else laughed. They all hung onto her every word like she was… important!

The point is, I know what the problem was.

I climbed to the tail end of the broomstick, it trying it's very hardest to dismantle me. And it was doing very well at it.

I vaguely remember several times where I almost fell from very VERY high heights.

Sorry. I realise that I keep dragging this on. Oh well, you will just have to listen… read… see… something.

Cough.

Yes.

Anyways, eventually I was able to pull the stupid broom's stupid loose twig free.

It gave a final buck and I came free.

All I can say is, FLYING IS AWSOME!

Free falling is the bestest thing! It's so much fun and excitement!

Of course, it's the landing that takes the fun away. And I can tell you, it HURTS!

After I hit the ground, - I landed on my back - I let out a feral animal groan and caught my breath. Being winded is NOT fun. It's horrible.

You can't get sweet oxygen into your system, and with out oxygen you DIE!

I DON'T WANT TO DIE. I'M TOO YOUNG. TAKE PETUNIA!

I stood up and was pulled straight into someone's arms. What nice arms they are too. Very well muscled.

"Don't you EVER do that to me."

He sounds so… scared; relieved; happy; passionate… sincere.

"Hey James" I croak.

He looked at me.

His jaw dropped.

I blushed.

He complimented me.

"You look beautiful."

I scoffed at him.

"Social climbing clothes. Tell anyone that I'm wearing this and I will personally make sure that you will not be able to have babies. Then I will cut out your tongue so you can't get any action. Then I will kill you."

He looks at me with raised eyebrows. I don't think he knew that I could be so violent.

HA HA!

"Um Lily," he looks into my eyes, then over my shoulder.

I turned around and wished that I could disappear into the ground.

A GAZILLION people witnessed me in my social climbing junk.

I'm so embarrassed.

"Nice look, Liller's" Teddy and Charlie called out simultaneously.

"Why You little-"

they ran.

Smart move.

I ran after them. Hey, no one ever said that I had class.

I discovered that I can actually run pretty fast. I caught up to them, but I think it's cause they slowed down… that could only mean one thing.

Teachers.

I looked up. Sure enough the staff table is full just ahead of me.

I'm in the great hall during dinner.

Oh

My

Sweet

Merlin.

I AM GOING TO KILL THEM.

"Revenge" they said.

I'll revenge you – then I realised what they were talking about and grinned.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

Innocently.

Cute and cuddly. Cute and cuddly. Cute and cuddly.

"Yeah Liller's" Daniel said from behind me, "What did I do?"

"Oh puh-lease. You're as bad as them."

"So you admit that you did it."

I grinned at all three of them.

"never!. You asked for it!"

their mouths opened simultaneously.

"Oh puh-lease"

ARE THEY MOCKING ME?

How dare me! The only one that can mock me is… well… me! But that's why I love me!

"You look like you enjoyed it." He indicated my garb.

This time my mouth opened in shock.

HOW

DARE

HE?

He has officiailly reached an all time low.

Revenge.

NOTE to self: send a letter to mother, telling her that the twins need wedding junk.

HA HA HA!

I'll show you whose boss.

I opened my mouth to reply, but James stood up and announced to his current team that a meeting would be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30.

He sat down, and pulled me down next to him.

"How are you?" was the first thing that came out of his beautifully rounded lips.

I shrugged. "ok."

I am NOT going to tell him that my entire back is one MASSIVE ache, and that I want to crawl under a rock and die. People have seen me with makeup and social climbing clothes. I'm so embarrassed.

Dinner finally ended, and people came up to me and complimented me.

Ah! The joys of being able to fake smile. I suggest to all those who cannot do it to learn as it becomes very VERY important skill.

Yes, so now I am writing this, to tell you how embarrassed I am.

Oh wait, Charlie and Teddy just sat down next to me. They obviously want something. Yep, they deffinatly want something. They just gave me chocolate.

Yay! Too bad. I'm going to enjoy this.

"How was the trip?"

Maybe they didn't want something. They both seem genuinely concerned.

"Horrible."

There was only one word for it… well that word and all the other words that mean the same thing. Is there ever one word for something?

I don't think so.

Anyway, I found myself telling them what happened. They told me to relax a little and that I didn't have to do anything that I didn't want to do.

They hugged me and left.

Oh well. Maybe they are really nice, kind and loving…

I must do some work now

Ciao.


Common Room – 3:00 in the morning

Oh

My

Sweet

Merlin!

SIRIUS IS ONE SERIOUSLY SCARY PERSON!

I woke with a start to someone poking me. He has dark features and waking to someone like that standing over you is SCARY! He clasped a hand over my mouth before I could scream and wake up the whole house.

He appolagised to me.

HEE HEE HEE!

THE Sirius Black just apologised to me! To ME!

I moaned a little and he sat down next to me.

"What are you doing up so late?"

He seems a little concerned. I have made GREAT friends here. Better than I could have hoped actually…

I indicated the half complete star chart on the table.

"Would you like some help?"

I tackled him in a MASSIVE hug that hurt my back.

"Thank you; Thank you; Thank you; Thank you."

He gave me a Black grin… one that is HEAPS warmer than his brother's.

Sirius is sort of the handsome good-guy prince charming, while his brother is… creepy.

I shudder at the thought of him… well I also shudder at the thought of select others as well…

Mother

Petunia

Malfoy

Snape.

He started talking… I stared at him. it makes it easier when people who are healping you speak a language that you speak.

Sirius does not.

"I'm sorry but my miniscule mind is incapable of comprehending such highly advanced intellectual words" (A/n: credit for this goes to a fantastic reviewer called Tas!)

I don't know why I even took astronomy in the first place.

ISHK!

He helped me finish the chart in 15 minutes.

Translated that means: He finished my chart in 15 minutes. Sirius... a man cough of many talents!

Then I let out a MASSIVE un-ladylike yawn. Sirius did not bother to hide his amusement… no one ever does.

WHY am I so funny? I do NOT understand.

Anyways, he sat back on the couch, feet out-stretched hands on head; right at home.

I mimicked his position… though I don't think that it works that well for me as I am a little runt.

"You had us really worried this afternoon," he stated.

I looked at him. "Really?"

"Especially James." Sirius chuckled. For what reason I do not know, but the mind of a boy/man/baboon/thing is hard to determine. "His eyes fell out of his head when he saw you."

I laughed nervously. Do you remember when I said that I do not do well under confrontation? Well this is one of those times. Why must he put me on the spot? Does he have no one else to draw amusement from?

He's so mean.

"James is a great guy."

Is he…

GAY?

I mean, I have nothing against gay guys as I have quite a few gay friends but… I will have to observe more closely.

We sat together in silence for a little while more. During that time I almost fell asleep.

"Okay, off to bed with you… You've had a big day."

So I'm hopping off to bed, confused about the conversation I just had with Sirius.

Too tired to care right now.

Ciao.


A/n: thank you reviewers! this one seems a bit shorter than the others... what do you think?

MERRY CHRISTMAS


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