You guys I'm kinda embarrassed to say but turns out the whole last chapter I was spelling Becky wrong x whoops sorry x it's not spelt Beaky it's Becky x a least I hope that's right or I've gone and embarrassed myself some more x
Anywho, on with next chap x
*The beginning of the end*
Alice's big day
Lily lay on her bed flicking through a wizard fashion magazine. No matter how many times Lily saw the moving pictures she still couldn't get rid of the shock when she saw them. They truly were…well, magical.
By this time Alice had already tried on several outfits, she had hated every single one. At that moment she was throwing her clothes out of her trunk saying this like "Simply not good enough" "Why the hell did I buy this?" "Urgh!" "This makes me sick!"
You see on this particular day Alice was getting dressed for the day she had been waiting for the last three years, yes Alice Prewitt had finally got her date with Frank Longbottem!
"Wunna borrow something of mine?" Lily asked her friend without looking up
"No, no, I'm sure I've got something!" Alice said her head practically inside her trunk.
"How about your back leggings and my purple jumper? Purples suits you"
Alice stood "Yes! Yes! That's perfect! Thank you! Thank you!" she cried, jumping up and down.
Lily stood, pulling out her jumper and throwing it at Alice. Alice squealed and started changing. Lily settled back on her bed. A white fur ball launched itself onto Lily's lap; she scratched her cat behind the ear. She picked up her little cat which she named Sooty, because although the cat was pure white she looked as though she had stuck her ear and the end of her tail in soot.
"I'll just be in the common room" Lily told Alice as she picked up her cat and took the stairs, she saw Marlene and Willow completely entranced by a game of wizarding chess. Lily walked over to them still stroking Sooty.
"Hey guys! How's the game going?" Lily asked happily
"Shhhhh!" both Marley and Willy hissed in unison.
Lily huffed and flopped down on one of the closest chairs. Someone flopped in the seat next to her. Lily turned her head to see James smirking in a way that could only mean he thought he was above everyone else.
Lily raised her eyebrows at him "Potter" Lily said coolly.
"Well I was thinking –" James started
"Did it hurt?" Lily asked faking concern, she placed a hand on is forehead.
"It's nice to know you care" he said
"The day I care about you will be the day Black keeps a girlfriend for more than two weeks, and seeing as that won't happen anytime soon I guess you'll just have to stay uncared about" Lily smiled sweetly
"You know Padfoot could keep a girlfriend for more than two weeks if he wanted" James told her
"Course he could. Just like I could jump off the Astronomy tower and survive" Lily rolled her eyes "Anyway what did you want?"
"Oh yeah right" he said shaking his head "Seeing as Alice is going to be of with Frank all day, why don't you come on a date with me!" he smiled
"Potter, please use your brain! Stop making it waste space in your skull! When you asked me yesterday what did I say?"
"I believe you said, and I quote 'not even if the sun fell out of sky, Potter!" he said doing an incredibly good impression of Lily.
"Exactly" Lily nodded "So what makes you think today will be different?"
He looked confused for a moment "Hm, not sure really. Guess I kinda just hoped for once I would go to Hogsmede with the prettiest girl"
In spite of herself Lily smiled "You're so damn cheesy!" James looked at her almost as though he was about to say something, but within a second the normal guarded, cold look came back "Was that all you wanted?" Lily asked harshly
"Why do you always do this?" James asked his voice rising slightly
"Do what?" Lily snarled
"This! Everything's fine one second and then the next you're all pissed off at me!"
"Nothing's ever fine between us Potter! We have never been fine!" Lily shouted standing up.
"There you go again! Getting all annoyed over nothing!" James was standing too.
"Nothing? Nothing? You think constantly acting like a dick is nothing?" Lily screamed the whole common room had gone silent to watch one of James and Lily's legendary arguments.
"And you think that walking around with a stick up you arse is the right thing!"
"So that's what you think of me?"
"Yeah, that is what I think of you!"
"Good to know!" Lily at James as though he were the only person in the room, no one else mattered. Lily's brilliant green eyes glared straight into James' hazel eyes "At least I don't get with a different person every night!"
"At least I have a life!" James yelled at her.
"Why can't you just stay the fuck out of my life?" Lily screamed
"You guys! Please can you just stop?" Alice yelled placing herself in between Lily and James.
"Prewitt! That was just getting good!" some kid wined from somewhere in the crowd. It was only then did Lily realise how many people were watching. That was when she started to feel embarrassed. Lily looked at Alice who looked stunning in a natural subtle way; the purple was a beautiful contrast to her jet black hair.
Alice didn't even look towards the kid "Both of you, just shut the hell up!" she took a deep breath "Lily can I borrow your eyeliner?"
"Um…yeah?" Lily answered unsure; she had never seen Alice lose her cool in public before.
"Good" Alice grabbed Lily's wrist and pulled her up the stairs to their dorm
Sirius came behind James, he clasped his shoulder "So, I guess that didn't go to well"
Alice dragged Lily into their room and shut the door. Lily walked over to her make up bag and pulled out her eyeliner. "I don't want to borrow your stinking eyeliner! I just wanted to get you out of there before you and James kicked off again!" Alice screamed.
"I'm sorry Alice! He is just so annoying!"
"He's only acts like a prat because he's acted like that for the last five years and he doesn't know how to act like anything else around you. He's actually an alright guy"
"Yeah, and pigs fly!" Lily said
"I'm not even going to ask" Alice said shaking her "Just give him a chance"
"No" Lily said stubbornly "Look just go have an awesome date with Frank and don't worry"
Alice sighed "Yeah, your right. But promise you won't fight with James whilst I'm on my date" Lily sighed "Please Lily!"
"Fine, whatever" Lily muttered
"Lily" Alice raised an eyebrow
"Fine, fine, I promise" Lily sighed,
Alice smiled "So, do I look alright?" she asked spinning around.
"Great" Lily answered truthfully.
The two girls walked arm in arm back to the common room. When James saw them he walked over, he attempted not to look at Lily, but kept glancing at her.
"Al, if Frank does anything, tell me. I'll fucking kill him" James told Alice, in a deep, mature slightly scary voice.
"When your mum said 'look out for Alice' I don't think she meant this literally" James raised an eyebrow at her "Fine, I'll tell you"
James smiled but as he turned to leave he met Lily's eyes, she had to turn away otherwise she would have had a go, or that's what she told herself.
Lily, Marley and Willy were across the street from the three broomsticks looking through the window at Alice and Frank's date. No they weren't spying, just looking sneakily.
Things seemed to be going well, Lily smiled she knew they would make a good couple.
Lily saw Becky and Remus sitting together as well, she'd ask him abut that later.
Suddenly both Alice and Frank stood up, and headed towards the door. "Shit, shit, move" Marlene muttered.
The three girls ducked behind a nearby bush. Peering through the leaves they saw Alice and Frank move down the road, the girls followed by crawling behind the brambles.
"What are you three doing?" the girls looked up to see three of the four Marauders looking down on them, each seemed to be amused.
"We're just…um…sunbathing!" Willow exclaimed, she had never been good at lying even in later life.
All three guys raised their eyebrows. James was the first to realise what they were really doing, he looked up and saw the two lovebirds walking down the street hand in hand. "Spying in Alice and Frank?" he asked sounding even more amused.
Lily had to bite her tongue to keep from saying a smart arse comment. "No, not spying, just –" Marley started
"Spying" Sirius said, he then looked down at Lily "Lily-flower you haven't said anything yet. Are you going soft?"
"I promised Alice, so fuck off so I can keep my promise!" Lily growled as she stood and stalked off. Her two friends followed suit. As they left they could hear the laughs of the three boys behind them.
"They are SO annoying!" Lily cried, Willow and Marlene sighed because they knew Lily was about to start off on an 'I hate James Potter' rant which could go on for days.
Later that day Lily, Marley and Willy were all plonked on Willow's bed, each girl was taking their turn to eat a Berty Bott's every flavour beans Lily picked out a green one and placed it in her mouth. "Yuck! Grass flavour!" she cried. Her two friends laughed at her and her misfortune.
It was then that Alice burst through the door with the goofiest smile on her face. "Girl, what happened?" Marley asked. Alice came and sat next to her on the bed.
"Great! He is so sweet! Best day of my life!" Alice sighed deep in thought.
"Aw, our little Alice is growing up!" Lily cried.
The four girls laughed and Alice started telling them about every second of her and Frank's date.
The night of Alice and Frank's date Lily saw Remus sitting in the common room alone. Remus was just one of those guys you just couldn't hate, he was far too kind. Lily hated every Marauder at this time, but couldn't bring herself to hate Remus. She sat next to him. As she did he smiled at her. "Hey, Lily"
"Hey Remus" she smiled back
"You know if James knew you were talking to me, he'd be really jealous" Lily laughed, she didn't believe that. After all he only wanted her for the chase.
"Remus, you seem down. Is it about your date with Becky?" Lily asked concerned.
Remus laughed "You heard about that already?"
Lily blushed slightly "Well, I kinda saw you both in the three broomsticks"
"Spying on Frank and Alice were you?"
Lily turned a brighter shade of red "Don't change the subject Mr, what happened?"
"Well…"
"Didn't it go well?"
"No, no, it did! Just well, it just didn't feel…right, you know? She's nice and all. But we've both decided to be friends, just friends. I like her a lot, just not that way" he smiled shyly.
"I know what you mean"
"So, did you have a good time in Hogsmede?" he asked her
"Well, that's a story and a half!" Lily laughed
"I can listen" so she told him, about spying on Alice, to crawling behind the bush, to seeing his mates and having to run back to the castle to make Alice think they never left.
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