Once it got bright enough for breakfast, Lily and I went up to change into our robes. Once we had gotten out robes on I turned to her and held out my tie.
"Help me" I moaned "I only managed to get it tied on the train because I slipped."
Lily laughed, but showed me how to tie the tie Lily Evans; you are my new best friend.
"When I asked the boys yesterday for help, they just laughed at me I told her" then CRAP "Ummm…..Lily, today's Saturday" I said just now noticing. We looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"Wow" Lily managed to choke out after about twenty minutes of non stop laughing I can't believe that the others didn't wake up.
"Yea" I agreed wiping tears out of my eyes "We FORGOT." Then we put on jeans and T-shirts and walked out.
"Wait here" I told her "I'm gonna go wake the boys up."
Lily looked at me uncertainly. "Um…I'm not sure I want to be around them now, I'll go wake Alice up."
"Lily, James honestly isn't that bad" I tried telling her "He, well him and Sirius are just…"
"Arrogant toe-rags" Lily supplied "It's okay Ali" she said "I'm just going to wake up Alice, I just don't like James Potter and Sirius Black."
"Lily…" I tried "Remus isn't that bad, and I guess Peter isn't either" Lily just smiled at me and went back up the stairs to the girls' dormitory. I sighed, shrugged, and went up to wake the boys.
~*~
Fifteen minutes later, Remus, James and Peter were up, Remus was in the bathroom getting a glass of water, and I was sitting on Sirius's bed shaking him. Remus handed me the glass of water, which I dumped it on Sirius who woke up with a yell.
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!" he yelled.
"BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T WAKE UP" I yelled back. Then, for the second time, I burst out laughing. The boys joined me and then kicked me out while Sirius changed.
Ten minutes later when the boys came down for breakfast, James had a bruise on cheek.
"Um…." I said gesturing to cheek.
"Sirius decided to try to go back to sleep once we kicked you out, so I tried to wake him up" James started.
"So I punched him" Sirius ended bursting out into laughter. I went over to Sirius and whacked him upside the head.
"YOU TRIED TO GO BACK TO SLEEP" I shrieked. Then I rolled my eyes and headed in the direction of the great hall I think this is the way to the great hall…too bad I don't have photographic memory with the boys in tow.
~*~
In the end, with the help of a taking portrait and a ghost, the boys and I made it down to breakfast. As we passed Lily, she motioned for me to sit with her. I nodded and turned to James.
"By the way" I said "Lily really hates you." then with a smirk to rival a Slytherin, I walked over to where Lily was sitting with a brown haired girl who I assumed was Alice.
"Hi" she said as I sat down "What took so long?"
"We got lost, and the boys didn't want to get out of bed" I answered. Then turning to Alice "Hi, I'm Alivia"
"Alice" she responded so I was right"Nice to meet you" I grinned. Then I saw James waving at me from another spot at the table and pointing franticly at Lily. I groaned internally and turned to my red-headed friend.
"By the way Lily" I said "You might want to know that a certain raven haired boy who you hate is trying to get you attention" she muttered something about stupid attention seeking prats, but turned in his direction nevertheless. Unfortunately for James, as she turned to look at him he was lifting a glass and he spilled its contents all over himself. I burst out laughing. "Nice one Lily" I said.
"You're really a lot like them" she said smiling at me.
"Actually, I'm a lot like James" I said "If you can put up with me, why not him?"
"I hate him" Lily exclaimed "He's an arrogant, attention seeking, big headed, prat with an ego larger than sun!"
Ignoring the rest of her rant, I turned to Alice "She and Jams will be dating by the end of seventh year.
"Totally" she said.
"I WILL NEVER DATE JAMES POTTER" Lily screeched. Then she blushed as the whole great hall turned in her direction. Lily glared furiously at James who gave her a cocky smile back. I rolled my eyes at them and turned to Alice.
"The guys and I are gonna go explore the school, once Lily calms down, tell her" I said. She nodded to answer then turned to calm Lily down.
~*~
"Ugh! You have to stop winding Lily up" I moaned to James "It's only the second day you've known her and she already wants you dead." James just rolled his eyes. "And besides" I continued "You're both only eleven, maybe you should wait a few years, let her cool down. You might love her now, but she and you might change."
"Enough with the sentimental speeches" James cut in as I opened my mouth once again "I might only be eleven, but……." his voice trailed off.
"Exactly" I said. "Come on, the castle awaits"
~*~
Three hours and thirty seven minutes later, according to my watch, the boys and I finally found our way back to the common room. What had we found out or discovered? Nothing, Nada, Nil. We had managed to get horribly lost, and that was all.
"Three hours GONE" Peter moaned as we approached the common room.
"Three hours and thirty seven minutes gone, you mean" I corrected. "Astalavista" I told the fat lady we entered the common room, and sat down.
"Hey Livi" I turned around to see Alice "How did you expedition go?" she asked.
"James Peter Remus" I said pointing to each of them "Meet Alice."
"Hi" the chorused.
"The expedition failed, we got lost" I told her. Then noticing Lily wasn't there "Where's Lily?" Alice motioned towards our dorms. I nodded.
"Soooo" Sirius said "Who wants lunch" he got a mixture of answers all stating yes in some form.
"I'll get Lily" I said, and headed up to our dorm.
I climbed the stairs and headed into the dorm.
"Lunch!" I said to Lily, who was on her bed reading a book. She hopped off her bed and followed me down. We exited the room and tried to find thee great hall again. This time however, we found it without getting lost.
Once we entered the hall however, Lily pulled Alice away from us and, after glaring at James sat down in another spot. The boys and I sat at the other end of the table and started to eat, but were interrupted by an angry looking owl holding a red envelope. The owl landed in front of Sirius. Looking furious said person yanked the envelope from the owl, who then took off.
I gasped, the envelope was starting to smoke, and when I pointed this out to Sirius, he yanked it open and a deafening voice filled the hall.
"SIRIUS ORION BLACK! YOU WERE SORTES INTO GRYFINDOR?!" the voice shrieked "YOU HAVE BEFOULED THE NAME OF BLACK! GRYFFINDOR! HOME OF MUDBLOODS AND FILTH. WHY YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! I CERTAINLY AM, ASHAMED TO CALL YOU MY SON!" the envelope burst into flame and the great hall went silent for a few minutes.
"Well, that was my mum's reaction" Sirius said with a grin. "Her and her pure blood mania, good riddance!"
"Wait, isn't mail supposed to come in the morning?" Remus asked.
"Yea… oh well lets eat!" James said.
"Boys!" I grumbled but began stuffing my face anyways.