A/N: Hi guys. Well, here is chapter 2! I know it took a while, but time's been flying by lately. Anyway, it was supposed to be about twice longer but I decided to post them up as separate chapters in the end. The next one will be up over the following week. Thanks again to Jazz E. Roisin and SorchaSaoirse for betaing this :)
Just to clear things up, here are the characters in Gryffindor 5th year. I know it might seem a lot, but I needed all of those :)
Boys: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Rupert Edgecombe, Dan Marks, Tom Kirke, Sean Fawcett.
Girls: Lily Evans, Loreen Hopkirke, Collette Parks, Becca Summers, Rose Brown, Vanessa Petrelli, Susan Wonders, Deborah Watson.
So, hope you enjoy, and remember that reviews are always appreciated!
Chapter 2:
Lily stood beside the now sealed entrance of the secret room, 10 minutes after Sirius and Loreen had gone in - or rather, been shoved in.
'How much longer are you going to leave them in there?' she heard an indistinct voice say from somewhere behind her as she leaned against the wall, pondering that very same thing.
'Oh, not long I think,' she answered airily, pushing her hands against the wall to get back up. 'A few minutes should do the trick. Although I presume Loreen will still say I should've given them more-' she turned around, her tone of voice changing perceptibly as she noted that the voice belonged to James Potter. '-time,' she finished bitterly.
He flashed her a grin. 'Aww… and here I was thinking I'd finally gotten a decent sentence out of you. Well, that's my bet down the drain.'
Lily felt a grin tugging at the corners of her mouth, but she rather felt like scowling. She settled for a sort of half-grimace and folded her arms across her chest, saying 'That's cheating, Potter.'
'Hey, all's fair in love and war Evans!' James shot back, still grinning.
Lily blushed internally at the word 'love', thinking to herself that this was a bit of both. 'If you'll excuse me Potter,' she said with an indifferent smirk, 'I'd love to stay and chat, but it's my duty to go separate the two potential love-birds back there,' she pointed over her shoulder at the closed entrance.
'Don't let me hold you back then,' James said with a characteristic smile, leaning back with his hands in his pockets.
Lily turned back towards the wall, feeling a bit flustered as she pressed her cheek to the smooth, cold, stone. 'Open up,' she muttered to the wall. It started clearing at her command, the hole in the stone widening until it was full-sized again.
Inside the dimly-lit chamber were two figures, sitting on a minute sofa and kissing passionately, seemingly glued to one another.
Lily squealed and clapped her hands over her eyes as there was an outbreak of wolf-whistling from the onlookers. 'Guys!' she cried loudly, 'do you absolutely want to scar me for life?!'
She heard some rustling, and then Loreen's voice muttering 'Sorry,' although Lily could hear the smile in her friend's voice.
She took a few steps back blindly, hands still over her eyes for extra measure.
'You can look now you know,' she heard Loreen's voice say, now much closer to her.
Lily spread her fingers a bit, peeping through. Directly in front of her was her best friend's face, flushed, grinning, and eyes twinkling happily.
Lily gave Loreen a teasing grin, glancing at Sirius - who, having now joined James was looking over his shoulder at Loreen with a grin, hands in pockets. 'Seems like you two hit it off pretty well,' she whispered to her, prodding her teasingly with her elbow.
'To say the least,' Loreen answered with a smile, taking Lily's hand and starting to pull her back to their place in the circle. She leaned to whisper in Lily's ear. 'He's an amazing kisser,' she whispered, giggling.
Lily grinned, feeling happy for her friend as they settled back down in the circle.
James beckoned to Sirius and started walking back to their space in the circle, this last one looking very cheery, as if he had just had a very good time.
'Settle down, settle down!' Tom Kirke called jokingly from across the common room as they - including a few others - took their seats.
'Well then!' Tom exclaimed, grinning at his fellow Gryffindors. 'This is turning out to be an interesting night, isn't it?' he asked with a smirk at the kissing couples. 'Let's get on with it then!' he added, placing his wand in the center of the circle for the third time, twirling it and saying the incantation.
This time it linked Susan Wonders and Vanessa Petrelli, Susan being the questioner and Vanessa the questioned. Seeing as Vanessa picked truth, Susan decided to question her about her crush, Sean Fawcett.
Blushing vehemently, Vanessa answered 'truth' when asked if it was true that she had a crush on Sean. Mortified in face of the rather innocent -but nonetheless humiliating - jeers and mockeries, Vanessa tried to make herself as small as possible, throwing a death-glare at Susan from under her curtain of smooth jet-black hair. Susan smirked back, lifting her shoulders as if to say 'that's what you get for picking 'truth''.
Feeling mildly sorry for Petrelli, James turned to Sirius, keen on questioning him about the encounter with Loreen.
'So, I take it that you had a good time with Hopkirke?' James asked Sirius, grinning.
'Excellent,' Sirius responded with a chuckle. 'That girl's got something to her…' He stared off into space with a half-smile.
James gaped at Sirius. 'Padfoot, mate, I haven't seen you looking this lovesick in… I've never seen you looking this lovesick!' He waved a hand in front of Sirius's face with a snort. 'Hark who's talking about being whipped!' James said as Sirius came out of his reverie and glanced over to Loreen.
Sirius's head snapped back to place. 'Whipped, me?' he said with a raising of eyebrows. 'You gotta be joking, Prongs. Sirius Black is never whipped.'
James snorted again, feeling quite deja-vu. 'Yeah, sure. Whatever you say mate!'
Once again, Tom went to the middle of the circle, placed his wand on the carpet and said the incantation.
'Who'd you think it'll be?' Sirius asked James, fixing the wand with his eyes.
'No idea,' James answered with a shrug.
'Take a wild guess then. I'm betting 5 knuts on Wormtail.'
James frowned at Sirius and brought his gaze back to Tom's wand, which had started slowing down. 'I'm betting the same thing on Brown,' he said finally.
Sirius smirked. 'We'll see.'
They waited impatiently as the wand swiveled around slowly and finally came to a rest before… Remus… Deborah Watson… Rose Brown… it kept spinning and James groaned. Sirius whooped as the wand passed Brown and came to rest before a very frightened looking Pettigrew.
'Hand them over mate,' Sirius said with a grin, extending his hand to James, who started digging in his pockets in a disgruntled manner.
Meanwhile Tom Kirke, who, having gotten back to his place after spinning his wand, had been linked to Peter Pettigrew, was now asking Peter 'truth or dare?'
Peter, looking scared, mumbled 'dare,' looking around at Remus, James - who had extracted a number of odd looking objects and a small pile of crumbs from his pockets but had still failed to find the coins - and Sirius as if asking for help.
Sirius grinned at Peter, mouthing 'you'll be all right'.
'And if not, we'll be here to clean up your parts,' whispered Remus with a rare look of mischief. James snickered, wiping his crumb-strewn hands on his jeans and glancing over at Tom, who was deep in conversation with Dan and Sean.
'It's not very nice, but I do wish Kirke would find something nice and humiliating for Wormtail,' James told Remus with a half apologetic look.
Remus grinned widely. 'You know what, so do I,' he said. 'I guess his weepy and gooey manners do get on your nerves after a while.'
Sirius glanced from Remus to James with an impish look. 'Yeah, no harm done,' he said to his two best friends. 'After all, no-one's been known to die of shame. Not literally at least.'
James nodded with another glance at Tom, who was sitting, brow-furrowed, on the floor. 'It looks like Kirke's having a hard time finding a dare,' he said innocently.
The three friends exchanged one malicious, scheming look, and as one, scrambled up, practically running over to Kirke and his cronies, guffawing all the way
A/N: Please review, even if it's just a word or two. I swear it helps tons:)