Lily looked around the common room frantically, looking for James. She spotted him lounging in a squishy armchair near the fire, talking to Sirius, Frank, Peter, and their other roomate Logan. HER favorite armchair. She stomped over to him meaningfully, grabbed him by the ear, pulled himout of the armchair, flashed a smile at his laughing friends, and stomped out of the portrait hole without a word.

"What the bloodyhell was that for?!" James yelled once they were out of the common room.

"Meeting. Dumbledore. Ring any bells?" she asked flustered, letting go of his ear.

"No. Oh, yeah yeah yeah I remember now. Do you know the password?"

"Password?" Lily asked fearfully, stopping in her tracks.

"Yeah, the password to get through the gargoyle."

"Um NO! I thought you knew!"

"Why would he tell me stuff?"

"Because, because, because your Head Boy. He wouldn't of picked you if he didn't think you could remember a simple password."

"Well from all of my visits there I know one thing." At this Lily glared as if saying not helping.

"Let me finish, let me finish, no need for glares. Your beautiful face will get stuck like that." Supplied James wagging a finger at her, while she blushed to the roots of her hair.

"Well the passwords are always candy. Wizard and Muggle alike, so we might be here a while."

Lily groaned as they approached the gargoyle.

"Licorice Wand?"

"Fizzing Wizbee?"

"Sherbert Lemons?"

"Ice Mice?"

"Blood Flovored Lollipops?"

"Ew gross, why would he eat those? Aren't they for vampires?"

"Well you never know with Dumbledore. One year I remember he had the password as Hot Tamales!"

"OK, yeah that is weird. Lets just get back to guessing the password, I don't want to sleep here."

" Ok, erm, Honeyduke's finest?"

"Rasberry Blow Pop?" A voice behind them asked.

Lily and James whipped around to see who it was. Dumbledore was smiling kindly at them, walking towards the rotating staircase that led up to his office.

They followed, admiring the office. There were trinkets wizzing and protruding smoke in every nook and crany.

"So Professor, what did you want to talk to us about?" Lily asked politely.

"Well first I would like to congradulate yourselves for the great teamwork you used today, with the attack. Secondly I would like to say that Miss Evans, you used a lot of skill to preform that spell. Flawless I would call it. Miss Evans." he said gently. "You are an amazing witch, I honestly think you could give Professor Flitwick a run for he money." he chuckled at Lily's reddening face.

"Thank you professor, that means a lot coming from you." Lily said beaming.

"Your quite welcome Miss Evans. Now down to business. As you probably know you have to hold prefect meetings weekly, you must organize major events, and in case of attack your job is very important. First you will order all of the prefects to secure evryone in their dormitories. Second you will fight with us. Yes Mr. Potter you get to fight. If you are of age you will be allowed to fight, but our first priority is to keep the students safe." Seeing the brightened mood of James, one he said the word 'fight'.

"Professor? Could we do a dance, or a ball of some sort? To get people's minds off the war, you know." James asked almost timidly, as he had never been in the Headmaster's office, unless he was in trouble for one of his pranks of course.

Lily looked astonished that he could actually suck up his pride, and suggest something, well girly. She smiled at him.

"I think that's a great idea professor." Lily said happily, drawling out the word great. James beamed heppily at this, Lily almost never praised him. 'She must dig me.' he thought, regaining his inflating ego.

"I must agree with the two of you. Perhaps a Halloween Ball, or a Christmas Ball, as those are two major holidays."

"Ok we'll get the prefects on it right away, at our next meeting. We'll need decorations, food, entertainment, and dress regulations, and and and..." Lily fretted.

"Calm down Lils!" James said grabbing her shoulders, and leading her out of the office, covering her mouth.

"Bye professor!" James yelled over his shoulder. In his office Dumbledore was chuckling lightly to himself, thinking that they would end up togheth someday. His plan was working.

James and Lily stumbled down the staircase. James let go of Lily's mouth and laughed at her enraged face. Her hair tips were ignited again.

"Look Lily, I'm sorry you were just freaking out. We have plenty of time before the ball. We haven't even set a date."

Lily's expression softened, and her hair extinguised to a faint glow.

"I'm sorry. It's just as soon as I became a prefect I wanted to become Head Girl. As you know I'm kind of a perfectionest, and I want this ball to be the best Hogwarts has seen in a long time." Lily said shrugging.

"Ok, well let's go back up to the common room. We don't have lessons tomorrow, since September first fell on a Friday. We can go talk to Logan and Kylie. I heard they got together over the summer."

"What why didn't I know about this?" Lily exclaimed as they started walking towards the Gryffindor common room.

"We all just found out today at the Feast, don't worry you aren't to out of the loop,"

"Ok good, I was wondering when those two would get together. Kylie has liked Logan ever since fourth year!"

"Ha, that's nothing to Logan. He's liked her since second!"

"Why didn't I know about this!?"

"Well I found out on accident. I found a picture of Kylie under his pillow one day at the end of second year."

"Wow, I still can't believe they didn't get together earlier,"

"Yeah I know. Aaaahhhhh!" James yelled. His right leg sunk into one of the trick steps, on one of the moving staircases. This made Lily laugh and laugh and laugh so hard she used James' head for support. Bad idea. This just made him sink down farther.

"Would you mind not laughing and help me out!"

"Sorry. That was just funny. You're always the one who create the trick steps. You don't know how good it is to see you be at the butt of your own prank." Lily said between giggles.

"Yeah and that's all fine and dandy. but will you just HELP ME OUT!"

"Ok, ok. Jeez so pushy," Lily said getting into a good pulling stance.

"One, two, three!" she yelled.

"Oooff,"

"Can you like get off me?" Lily yelled. She got James out of trick step, but he fell of top of her after she did so.

"Sorry," he mumbled.

"S'ok. Come on lets get back to the common room, they're probably worrying about us." she said, while he pulled her up into a standing position.

Once they got into the common room, Lily took James' vacated seat, and stuck her tongue out at him, while he sat on the floor next to her.

"So, why did you just run out of the common room, with James by the ear?" Kylie asked, leaning on Logan's chest.

"Oh, yeah about that well we had a meeting with Dumbledore about Heads stuff." James replied.

"Well why did you have him by the ear Lily?" asked Morgan tring to restrain her laughter.

"Oh, remember when Remus, Alice, and I came to the Feast late dripping wet, in mud and water? Well James here was supposed to be helping us. I was still mad so I decided to make a scene. Nothing much to it." Lily shrugged.

"Oh, well I'm going to bed girls you coming?" Lauren asked with a mischievious grin platered on her face, which started to give the guys the creeps. Especailly Sirius.

"Yeah I'm coming. Night guys." Lily and Morgan chorused.

"Yeah, night Logan. Night guys." Kylie said giving Logan a sweet kiss on the lips.

"Night." Alice said, also giving her boyfriend Frank a sweet goodnight kiss.

"Lauren's smile starting to scare me." Sirius said warily once the girls were out of ear-shot.

"I know! I was all scary, and and mischievious." Peter supplied.

"I know. It was very un-Lauren like..." Logan said slowly.

"Well knowing the girls we haev to be on our gaurd this wekend." Frank said defiantly.

"Yeah, and no pranks on them, I think they're planning something, by that look it's going to be pretty devious is my guess." Remus whispered.

Back up in the girls dorm Lauren had the rest of the seventh year Gryffindor girls lined up wondering why Lauren was grinning like crazy.

"So Lauren. What's this crazy grin you got on your face?" Kylie asked. Kylie had beautiful black hair, that cascaded down her back in ringlets. She had frosty blue highlights in her hair, that accompanied a light violet color. She had beautiful hazel eyes that could rival James' when it came to getting what she wanted. She was a nice girl like all the others, a great fighter like Alicce, she shared Lauren's view in mischeif, (That if she was pranked, the pranker would be pranked back), Lily's smarts (she was a study holic in short), and Morgans temper. She was a mixture of all of her fellow seventh Gryffindor girls. Just what they needed to make the group complete.

"Well you know how I was telling you about how the Marauders got Stinksap all over me? Also how James ditched Alice and Lily? Well I think it's time for payback. We have been the butt of to many of their pranks. Have we not?"

"Yeah!" they all chanted.

"They deserve a taste of their own medicine. Do they not?"

"Yeah!"

"We are going to get them back fot this right!?"

"Yeah!"

"What about Frank and Logan?" Lily asked.

"They laugh at us don't they?"

"Well yeah but.." Alice started, but was cut off by Kylie who was merciless, when it came to revenge that is.

"But nothing Alice. Tomorrow you're probably going to wke up with a cold, because James didn't help you get every done faster. They deserve what I've got cooked up of them." Kylie said, her eyes sparkling as they always did when she was being devious.

"Ooohhh do tell." Morgan said sitting criss-cross-applesauce on her four poster.

"Ok here's the plan." she looked at each girl individually, and started telling them the plan. When she ws finished all of their mouths were agape, eyes sparkling like never before, and wild grins starting creeping up their faces, even Alice who was normally opposed to their wild stunts.

"Oh,"

"My,"

"God,"

"That is bloody brilliant!" Lauren praised.

"I know. It's my best idea yet. When should we exicute our plan?"

"I say tonight, since tomorrow's Saturday and we can gather everyone easily." Alice said with a rare contribution to their scheme.

"Good point Alice. I am so proud of you! You actually contributed to our scheming!" Lily squealed.

"Well, this time they actually deserve it. I haven't been sick in four years! Four years!"

"Let's start now. First we need war paint. Lily?"

"Oh right!" With a swift wave of her wand a small bottle of black face paint appeared. They girls all stuck their fingers in the paint, and wiped a line of it across each of their cheeks.

"Second order of business, wands out. Lily get the two closest to the door, since you are most likely to be able to levitate two people instead of one. We all know your the Charms master of the school."

"Third camouflage. Lily if you will?"

"Of course General Kylie." and with another wave of her willow wand five sets of black sweat pants, black turtle necks, black leather boots, and black furry hats with a pompom on top.

After they got changed they snuck down the girls staircase, as silent as a mouse. When they got into the common room they headed towards the boys staircase.

Lily first, Lauren, Kylie, Alice, then Morgan in the rear. Once Lily quietly snuck up the staircase, checking the door for the seventh year boys dormitory. Of course it had to be all the way at the top of the tower. Lily quickly put a silencing charm on everybody and got to work. First she did this spell Severus taught her before they stopped being friends. It made a soft buzzing sound in people's ears around you. She modified the spell so they couldn't be heard at all. (For reference all of the guys sleep shirtless) She changed all of the boy's hair different colors. James got hot pink with red stars, Sirius a lurid green with I LOVE LAUREN written across his chest in hot pink, Remus neon yellow with flashing blue and pink polka-dots, Peter a bright red with pale pink hearts, Frank got orange with I LOVE ALICE written across his chest in blinking letters, and lastly Logan had a pale pink with red diamonds brialliantly flashing, on his chest he had the words I LOVE KYLIE.

Next she colored their skin a light read, like a sunburn. She charmed thier boxers and pajama pants feature rainbow colored blinking hearts, teddy bears, rainbows, unicorns, stars, moons, and clouds.

The final preparation was she colored their skin a sunburn color, so it looked like they fell asleep tanning. She motioned for the other girls to start climbing up, good thing the silencing charm worked, because they were laughing os hard at the sight of them they had tear in their eyes. Lily regained her poise pointed her wand at James who was closest to the door and said a complication levitation spell (not Wingardium Leviosa) that enables her to levitate more than one object, and do another spell while they are still floating as long as she remained calm. In this case James and Sirius. Lauren started to levitate Peter, silently giggling at the sight of the blinking clouds and rainbows on his boxers. Morgan was lucky and got Remus, Alice to Frank, and Kylie to Logan.

They silently walked down the staircase, and met up in the common room. Lily tapped each peron on the top of their head with her wand, sendinga cold chill trickle down their spine, disillusioning them. Now they could walk about the castle leisurely without being seen or heard.

They walked down towards the lake, with the floating boys behind them. Once they got down to the lake they set the boys down on the grass, and pointed their wands at some random rocks, Transfiguring them into water proof matresses. They easily reversed the Disillusionment Charm, so in the morning they would be clearly visible to the school. They lifted the boys onto the matresses, and pushed them off into the lake. They saw Harold the Giant Squid in the distance, and Alice being the nice person she is jinxed him so he wouldn't be able to eat the boys in their sleep.

The next morning the girls went to breakfast early with innocent faces, so they could get as many people as possible outside when the Gryffindors woke up. They headed down to the lake and started laughing. There were birds pecking at the boy's heads, as if they were berries. They went back to the castle and yelled "THE MARAUDERS WERE PRANKED OUT BY THE LAKE!". Of course nobody ever pranked the Marauders publicly in fear of being hexed into the next century, so they all ran outside following the girls lead. When they got out there there wasn't a single person that was hysterically laughing. If you weren't awake in the castle before, you were now.

Lily discreetly waved her wand and made it so their friends could hear properly again. Every seventh year Gryffindor boy immediately bolted upright frantically, looking around them. It took a few seconds to register they were floating in the middle of the lake, once they realize it they all flipped out. Lily, Lauren, Kylie, Morgan, and Alice all smiled and wiggled with fingers in a wave, in thier direction.

Sirius was especially peeved about his hair, gave the girls a murderous glare, and tried to stand up. Of course you can't do that while your floating in the middle of a lake. Following Sirius' example James, Frank, Logan, and Peter stood up. All at the same time they toppled over into the cold, murky lake water. Remus being the sensible one, sat up and paddled his way to the shore laughing at his soaked friends. They pulled him in as well as his tried his luck, by passing them in his matress boat.

Once the boys got dried off they decided to chase the girls around the school. They ran up seven floors, before they reached the common room. Alice quickly locked the portrait hole with a squelch, so the boys were locked out until they guessed the new password Alice set up 'Flutterby Bushes'. They sat outside until three in the morning with all of the other Gryffindors who weren't in their dorms, or the common room at the time it got locked. McGonnagall saved them, but said they shouldn't forget the password and gave them detention for sheer foolishness.