A/N: Hi! So here's another chapter. Twice in one day! To make up for not updating in two weeks! So I didn't lie sort of, I am updating before Christmas. Maybe I'll make time to write another tomorrow. I feel so of scared as well as this is the 13th chapter, unlucky (weird I know). Did you know there's a rollercoaster called 13? Yeah, I just realised I'm rambling so goodbye. MERRY CHRISTMAS! Again…

-CONVERSATION OF THE CHAPTER-

ME: Hi Lily!

LILY: Hello Chloe!

ME: I see the message got around!

LILY: Yes it did! Severus and I found out the other day and were talking about the 'real world'.

ME: Oh… Sniv- Severus?

LILY: Yes. Is that a problem?

ME: No! Not at all! You know you're a very nice person Lily… almost, too nice.

LILY: Thank you! I think you're nice as well.

ME: Aww! Thank you! I think that's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me! I'll have to invite you back again sometime!

LILY: Aww! Your welcome! And I'd love to come back!

ME: YAY! I don't really let people do this often, but would you like to say the 'on with the story' bit before you go?

LILY: I'd love to! ON WITH THE STORY!

A/N: No offence to Snape lovers if you got/get offended a bit. I don't really like him much. So, sorry.

13 (Ahh!)

James sat in his dorm, on the floor. And it was very uncomfortable. Sitting on the floor with him was: Remus, Peter, Mary, Alice, Marlene, Frank and Lily. They were gathered around in a circle, arguing over the colour of decorations for Sirius's and Gracie's joint birthday party that was in a couple of days.

'Gracie's favourite colour is red-'

'Pink is more girly-'

'Pink is a girl colour-'

'Blue-'

'Green's for Slytherin-'

'No, Sirius likes-'

'RED! JUST DO RED AND GOLD!' Peter had bellowed so suddenly.

They all fell silent and stared at him in shock. Peter never shouted. Never.

'Red and gold. For Gryffindor.' He repeated at a normal speaking level.

James along with everyone else in the room nodded.

'We'll need cake.' Mary said quietly, breaking the awkward silence.

'I'll ask Molly if she'll make a cake. Grace said her baking was delicious.' Marlene said, beaming at them.

'I'll speak to the Prewett twins and ask them to sort out food and drinks.' Remus said helpfully.

That was a good idea, if anyone knew how to get drinks and food to the common room, it was them two.

'Who wants to do invitations?'

Mary and Peter both raised their hands.

'I think we should invite people from the other houses.' Lily said.

Lily had first been reluctant to help but Marlene, Mary and Alice has persuaded her to come, for Gracie.

A sour look appeared on James's face. By saying she thought they should invite other houses, James knew she really meant that she wanted to invite Severus. James himself didn't want any Slytherin's near their common room to spoil the party and he was pretty sure both Sirius and Gracie would kill him if he was there.

'Who votes for a Gryffindor's only party?' James asked.

'I do.'

'Me.'

Was heard from everyone except Lily. It seemed everyone had been thinking along the same lines as him.

Lily glared at them all and stood up.

'I'll do the decorations. Red and gold, right?' she said loudly and left the room, slamming the door behind her.

'Why did Lily come out here slamming the door?' Grace and Sirius came into view, standing in the door way.

'We were discussing our Potions homework and Lily got angry that we thought she had the wrong answer so she left.' James said quickly before anyone else could say something different and ruin the surprise.

'Oh. So are you done with your little homework club then?' Sirius asked.

Gracie and Sirius started laughing.

James rolled his eyes at them. The only way they were sure to have a few hours together to discuss without the party without Sirius and Gracie was to tell them they were meeting to talk about their homework.

James had never seen two people run so fast out of a room in his life.

'Why didn't you run with us James? You could've been saved! Saved from these- these people!' Gracie shouted dramatically.

James pulled off a very convincing grimace.

'Remus made me stay because I forgot to do our Transfiguration homework last lesson.'

Gracie and Sirius both shoot their heads together sadly.

'Naughty boy, I'm so disappointed in you. While you were doing homework, we had some fun with some Slytherins!' Sirius said excitedly, Gracie nodding furiously next to him.

James could tell they were both bursting to tell the tale.

'What happened?' he asked curiously. This sounded as it was going to be very interesting.

'Well, there we were, walking and talking-' Sirius began.

'Multi-tasking, everyone.' Gracie added in.

Sirius shot her a look.

'-Ever so quietly and innocently-'

'James and Remus snorted. They doubted them two could ever be innocent and/or quiet.

'-when we stumbled across some slimy-' Sirius said bitterly.

'-Greasy-'Gracie once again butted in.

'-Smelly-'

'-Disgusting-'

'-Vile-'

'We get the point.' Marlene said impatiently.

Gracie huffed and allowed Sirius to continue.

''Oh who have we got here?' my horrible cousin, Bellatrix said. 'It is I, Sirius and my dear friend Gracie, here.' I replied.'

'Oh Merlin.' Mary started shaking her head and face palmed.

James couldn't help thinking Sirius and Gracie was going over the top with their story a little bit. But nevertheless, it made the story more interesting. Or, they were telling the truth and Sirius had actually said that to his cousin and the Slytherins.

James shuddered at the thought.

I bet the Slytherins wouldn't or didn't like that.

'Of course they didn't like that so-'

'If you didn't know, there was 6 of them-' Gracie informed them politely.

'Yeah, 6. Anyway, Malfoy shot a spell at Gracie and she ducked, so I shot one back and it hit him, I fired another one at Snape-'

'Snape was there?' James cut in.

'Yeah. Evil little-' Sirius said and started clenching and unclenching his fists by his sides.

'He's just upset that he missed Snape. I jumped in then and shot down Avery and Mulciber, which was pretty easy as they're in our year and nicknamed dumb and dumber by me of course. Sirius then shot the body blind spell at the 7th year-'

'Rodolphus Lestrange, Bellatrix's boyfriend.' Sirius said, grimacing.

'-but he shot one back so they basically knocked each other out. Snape shot a spell at me but I ducked and it rebounded on the wall, hitting him in the face-'

'His face was awesome! I could see it from where I was on the floor. So shocked. So stunned. So surprised-'

'Yeah. So Bellatrix and I were left standing. We shot a few spells. Her more than me I admit. She's a 7th year! I only survived because of some of the hexes I knew from the book we're leaning Defence against the Dark Arts. I mostly ducked to be honest. I guess we were making a lot of noise because not 5 minutes into our mini duel McGonagall turned up.' Gracie explained.

'She turned red,' Sirius whispered.

'Like bright red. I've never seen something or someone so red in my life.'

'It was pretty scary. She shouted herself hoarse. She lost her voice. It was hilarious. Sirius and I literally died of laughter on the floor.' Gracie said.

From the look on her face, it was obvious she was replaying what happened in her head again, as she was smirking boldly.

'She used a spell to tell us we all had detention for 2 weeks and that 30 points from each of us would be taken way. This is good for us.' Sirius grinned slyly.

'How's getting detention and having points taken away good?' asked Peter, voicing what everyone else was thinking.

'We don't care about detention. See we only got 60 points taken away, they got 180 points. I think they realised that because they started glaring at us. And man, if glares could kill, we wouldn't be here right now.'

'I think McGonagall also realised because she started smiling.' Gracie said.

'A tiny smile, but it was there.' Sirius added in.

'So we both came back to here, smiling with victory!'

They both bowed and started blowing kisses.

James, Remus, Peter, Frank, Marlene, Alice and Mary started clapping with lots of enthusiasm.

'Well done!' Alice yelled.

'Congratulations!' Marlene shouted.

'You saved us from the horrible Slytherins!' James bellowed.

'We did!' Gracie said.

'You're all welcome!' Sirius said loudly.

'You know, I reckon we should get something as a reward.' Gracie said thoughtfully.

'I agree. I think we should.' Sirius said.

'Let's go decide what we should have.' They both left the room.

They waited in silence until Sirius and Gracie returned.

'We want sweets.' They both said.

'But-'

'We want sweets. And chocolate. For saving you all.'

Most of the room sighed and handed over them sweets.

Why they all had sweets and chocolate in their pockets shocked James.

'You know we were joking right?' Gracie asked slowly.

'You were?' Remus said.

'Yeah. But if you're giving them to us, then we'll keep them.' Sirius shrugged.

Gracie nodded and they both disappeared. Again.