Lisa: Here's the next chapter my little rabid readers. I started my new classes today and things look like it's gonna be a good semester. My hardest class is English. Not that I don't like English I'm actually very good at it, but the poetry, urg! I just finished Creative Writing and now this!?

Heather: I don't see you at all during the day now!

Lisa: I know! It's awful! I'm already missing my Man's Inhumanity to Mankind class.

Heather: Sucks.

Lisa: It does.

Strippers and Beer

Sirius danced around the room with a wide grin on his face as he bought the tap to the unusually large keg behind the couch. Eight men sat in the living room of Sirius's flat, it was James's bachelor party and he was going to do this right. He had some loud death metal music blasting from the Muggle stereo in the corner and James was setting up a beer pong table in the corner.

When he finished attaching the tap on the keg he threw his hands up in the air. "Here we have it my good men! The tap is now in full working mode. Everyone gather round and enjoy." Already having a beer in his hand he decided to not take up on his own advice.

They had all showed up for the long awaited party, it was only a week after the funeral of Edgar Bones, but this was just the thing they all needed to brighten their spirits once again. Before they started the party and before they were all too drunk to see Sirius, who was of course hosting the part, made sure to have a toast for Edgar right after he gave one to James.

"Sirius's where's you deck of cards?" Benjy asked walking over with Chris, Peter and Frank over his shoulders, all three of them holding an open and half empty beer bottle in their hands.

"Uh..." The animagus replied rubbing the back of his neck. "Maybe in my room… but there's no need to find any other form of entertainment at the moment."

"Why's that?" Chris asked taking a swig of his beer.

Sirius gave them all his most famous grin that made all the girls melt, lucky for him these people standing around then were not females. "Because I have a special surprise planned."

"And what surprise would this be?" Frank asked leaning in while raising his eyebrows.

He looked over to the table to see James playing beer pong with Remus, who was losing. He looked back to Chris and Frank standing ahead of him and raised his eyebrows suggestively. "You'll see." With that he walked away to the beer prong table to watch two of his best friends get drunk off their asses.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Frank mumbled to Chris, thinking he knew what the surprise was.

"I think I am." Chris mumbled back.

"I think we all are." Peter grinned.

"I'm suddenly so happy." Benjy smiled dumbly and looked over to the three boys.

"How drunk are you getting our resident designated driver?" Sirius asked James as he walked over to the table.

James smirked and looking up at Sirius for a moment before he bounced the small ping pong ball into the cup. "I think he'll have to stay over, I don't want him flooing anywhere."

"'M fine fer flooing." Remus slurred slightly and then pausing to think about that sentence. "Okay well… maybe not so much."

Sirius shook his head. "Oh Moony, Moony, Moony… shall I introduce you to the jello shots?" He asked hopefully just wanting to see how drunk he could get his friend.

"Piss off." Remus said aiming and bouncing the ball across the table.

"Angry drunk." Sirius resorted as James took a drink from the cup.

James held out his cup to Sirius. "Could you refill please?" he asked as he plopped another ball into Remus's cup, making him have to drink more. Apparently he didn't realize how good James was at this game when he accepted the challenge.

Sirius walked over to the keg and quickly refilled the cup along with a couple more and bought them back to James. "Tell you what, Rem, go over there get something to eat, balance out some of that alcohol. I'll take over for you until then." He said leading Remus away from one end of the table and taking his place across from James.

"Uh-huh." Remus said rubbing his eyes and walking over to the small food station they had set up earlier.

James glared for a moment with an amused look. "You know I was winning that game and I planned on winning it officially and completely."

Sirius waved it off dismissively and rolled his eyes. "Prongs, mate, he's wasted beyond belief when he comes back he won't be any better, I wouldn't doubt if tomorrow he woke up without a clue on what happened here tonight. You can just say you won and he'll believe you, the boy can't hold his alcohol very well."

"Especially playing against me." James smiled up as he bounced the ball once again.

"How many drinks did you let him have?"

"Too many, but that's the game."

"Suppose so."

They gave a sideways glance to Remus who was leaning over the table with his head down. He looked like he was ready to puke, it would probably do him good anyway. But after a moment he lifted his head up and rubbed his eyes with his palms and took a deep breath.

"Hey! Rem, eat!" Sirius ordered once more when he saw his friend was just gathering his head together.

Remus looked up and gave him a thumbs up before moving over and grabbing something to eat. "Where would he be without me?" Sirius asked as he took a drink of beer.

"Probably being the first werewolf ever to become a successful Healer at St. Mungo's. No scratch that, he'd be head of the whole healer department at the age of eighteen." James replied.

Sirius nodded. "Probably."

There was a knock at the door and Sirius looked up with a smile, James on the other hand was confused. "Who's that? Everyone's here right?"

Sirius walked over and turned down the music for a moment getting everyone's attention. "Well James my good mate, all the men are here. But I think this party needs a little bit extra."

"You didn't…" James trailed off as he walked forward a couple steps.

"Oh I did." Sirius grinned and flung open the door to expose a young woman around there own age dressed in a Hogwarts robe, Gryffindor style, despite the fact she was a Slytherin.

"Hi, Sirius." She said as she leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"Oh good Lord." Remus mumbled from the corner placing a hand over his mouth and turning away for a moment, he may have been wasted, but this he'd remember.

"I'll tell you it was murder trying to cover this up walking through a Muggle building, why don't you live in a Wizarding one?" She asked.

"Lower profile, love, and its cheaper."

"You know her?" James asked raising his eyebrows.

"Oh Jim… You remember Sally, year ahead of us." Sirius explained as he placed his hand on the small of her back and lead her into the room. "I called and when she heard it was for James Potter she jumped at the opportunity."

"Sally Whitesfeild?" James asked with wide eyes. "Well you, uh, you… you look good."

She grinned. "James stop, I'm a stripper it's not a secret, we all knew it was coming. So who's the lucky lady?"

"Lily Evans." He answered.

"I knew something was going on between you two." She smiled and brushed her thick, blonde, curly hair behind her. "But let's get this show on the road, shall we?" She asked taking out a wand and magically whipping all the chairs around in a circle, she pushed James down on the seat in front of her. The rest of the boys quickly occupied the rest of the chairs, Remus was the last to sit down.

In a flash the young woman ripped off her robe to reveal a very slutty Hogwarts uniform underneath along with thigh high fishnets with a garter belt and stiletto heels, music began playing in the corner by the record player.

"Just don't tell Lily." James muttered with a small smile on his face as his former classmate began doing a strip tease in front of him.

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James was not the only one having a party that night, Lily was having her own party hosted by none other then Andy. Like the boys Andy have lugged in, or levitated rather, a large key, along with many bottles of wine. Many of the girls were getting a bit on the drunk side, especially Andy who had convinced Laura to let lose for one night.

At the moment the two friends were now singing some of the worst David Bowie karaoke in the world. It was off key, loud, it's a good thing Laura too the time to put a sound barrier around the room earlier, and obnoxious.

"HE'S OUTRAGEOUS, HE SCREAMS AND HE BAWLS! JEAN GENIE LET YOURSELF GO!" The two girls screamed throughout the room, Heather sat on the couch with a beer in her had shaking her head slowly.

They continued to sing for another thirty seconds or so before they were stopped by Maureen walking in and holding up her hands. "I think," she began with a glass of red wine in her hand. "We've all had enough of that and we just play some real David Bowie."

"He's so hot." Laura said stumbling over her own feet as she walked over to the couch. "I love his eyes."

"They're mesmerizing." Andy smiled.

"Dreamy." Maureen agreed as she placed a record on the player.

Andy giggled. "He is! Him and Tim Curry."

"I can agree with you all there." Alice said as she used her wand and magically poured herself some more wine that sat across the room from her.

Heather laughed and shook her head some more. She seemed to be the only real sober one there, either that or she was a boring drunk which they knew she wasn't.

"C'mon Heather!" Andy cried as she fell back onto the couch. "Have another drink."

"You boozed Laura up in a matter of seconds, someone has to make sure you don't teepee the bloody apartment." Heather answered as they were at her place, since Andy was now living with Remus she didn't see it fit to destroy her own home, so she was going to destroy Heathers.

Andy pouted but took a drink from her own cup. "I'm bored."

"Already?" Dorcas asked, she had broken out of her shell a bit since she joined. Now she was a great deal more comfortable, around the girl population of the Order mostly. "You've just finished your grand karaoke number; don't you want to catch your breath?"

Heather snorted at the question and took a sip of beer from her cup. "That's funny, good one." She responded with a mock laugh.

Andy stood up and walked over to Lily who was chatting it up with a few girls who waitressed at the Muggle restaurant with her and Andy. It may have been a Muggle bar, but the one woman they worked with was a squib and the other trying to pay her way through school to become a healer.

"How's our lady of the hour doin'." Andy asked putting her arm around her friend.

Lily laughed and stumbled slightly nearly dropping her wine glass. "I'm just lovely Andy." She replied. "The party's fabulous."

Andy giggled and looked down for a moment. "If you think this is great you're gonna just love what comes next." She drawled out with a goofy grin.

The red head looked confused and furrowed her brow as she turned away from their other two friends to fully face Andy. "What are you talking about? Come next, what comes next? What do you mean?" She asked quickly.

"You'll see." She said before walking over to the counter and setting her drink down. "I'm think I'm gonna go throw up, be back in a minute." She said loudly before walking over to the bathroom.

Heather's eyes widened and got up to chase after her. "Andy you bitch! I swear it if you barf all over my rug I'm going to kill you!"

Lily laughed as she watched this and placed her glass down on the end table. "Wonder what she meant." She wondered out loud.

"Lily, you naïve little thing you." Maureen said as she walked over, being the oldest girl there, although still rather young, she took it upon herself to explain things. "Think about it, what would Andy, and I repeat myself, Andy get you for your bachelorette party?"

"Edible panties?" Lily asked sarcastically.

She sighed and slapping Lily lightly on the shoulder. "Be serious."

Lily thought for a moment and then it dawned upon her and her eyes widened in shock. "Oh she wouldn't. She would? No, she wouldn't? Yes, she would, no, yes, no she wouldn't… but yes she would."

"She would." Laura said as she joined the conversation. "I've known Andy since we were seven, trust me, she would."

"I thought she moved here at six." Lily said confused.

Laura scoffed. "Well I didn't meet her off the bloody plane; we weren't really friend until seven."

There was a knock at the door, Lily began walking over to answer it but Andy came shooting out of the bathroom with Heather following her at a much slower pace. "I got it! I got it! I got it! I got it!" Andy repeated over and over as she reached the door. She gained her balance for a moment before opening the door.

On the other side of the door stood a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes, he gave them a killer smile. "Hello loves."

Andy seemed to almost melt at the door. "Hello John."

"Getting here was murder, you know you really suck at directions." He said as she let him in the apartment.

Lily gaped at their friendly conversation. "Andy, you know him? Personally I mean?"

She nodded enthusiastically. "Met him a while ago at a Rocky Horror show. He's even hot looking as a transvestite." She said excitedly to the rest of the girls.

"I didn't need to know any of that." Heather murmured as she sat back down on the couch.

"Did you get your one friend what's his name, into Rocky Horror yet?" John asked.

Andy grinned and nodded her head, when everybody gave curious looks she decided to explain. "Sirius used to think Rocky Horror was for freaks, now you can't stop him from doing the Time Warp if it gets started."

There was obnoxious laughter from Heather once again.

Andy pulled him away from Heather and over to Lily who just stared. "This, by the way, is Lily she's the lucky lady getting married."

"Hi," John said holding out his hand for her to shake, she complied. "I'll be your stripper for this evening."

"That's just funny." Heather said laughing.

"By the way how's Cheryl doin'? Did ya tie the knot with her yet?" Andy asked and then shook her head before he could answer. "Oh never mind, never mind, we'll talk later, go strip as the hot suspended Quidditch player." She said running her hand along his chest. "I have a boyfriend, I have a boyfriend…" She said to herself as she forced herself away from him.

Maureen walked over and grabbed his one arm flirtatiously. "So John, tell me, why'd you get suspended?"

In a flash a wand was whipped out from the robe and the chairs from all over the room swung around for all the girls to sit in. "I've been bad." He said as he stood in front of Lily and took off his Quidditch robe.

All at once music began playing on the record player and the women started screaming out of glee.

Lisa: Hehehehehe, strippers. I'm getting my friend a stripper for her eighteenth, hehe.

Laura: A Greek one!

Lisa: Yes, you're getting a Greek one. I just gotta say, David Bowie is awesome, I was originally gonna use Bon Jovi, but then I realized the time period would be wrong, so we all thought for a good two hours and I came up with David Bowie. Then I had to watch the movie Labyrinth, way before my time I know... I was negative four when that movie came out…

Laura: I love that movie, I love his hair.

Lisa: Me too… very hot in that movie.

Laura: But he's old now…

Lisa: Yeah… as is Tim Curry…