~A/N: OK Again really, really, really, really sorry for the delay. I don't know what's gotten into me. I blame, again, my science teacher Miss Sadler. I just can't believe she made us do a SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT! Only the eighth grade gifted class too! Which just seems to be cheesetaco (ILY BUDDY) and my class. I know it's outrageous. I really don't think that she likes us. At all. She's a really weird bugger. Did I mention I don't think that she likes us??? Well with out further ado I present you with!!!!!!!! The next chapter!!!!!!! YAYYYYYY~
"Where's Lily?" Peter asked Lauren one particularly cold, rainy November day.
Lauren looked him straight in the eye and simply said, "Sleeping. Where are the others?"
"Oh, come on," Peter said rolling his eyes, obviously amused, "Lily hasn't been to breakfast later than seven in seven years! Well minus the day she never came at all 'cuz she was sick, but that doesn't even count. Well that's not including the time she was in the Hospital Wing either. It was the day James was running around in her boxers." he said thoughtfully disregarding her questions about the other seventh year boys.
"No she's really sleeping," Lauren said after a minute of thinking, "and how did you remember that Lily's only been gone one day?"
"How could you forget that day? It was legendary!"
"What little miss perfect prefect missed a day of school? She's not that perfect 'ya know. She has a rebellious streak. Remember how she was good friends with Snape?"
Peter shuddered. He couldn't understand how somebody could be friends with the greasy, little, git. Well that's what Frank, Logan, Remus, Sirius, and James told him. They were his friends, and if all of them thought Snape was a git, he must be.
"I can't believe you don't remember that day, though. That was the day that James went to the bottom of the tower and serenaded Lily amplifying his voice, for the whole tower to hear. Then she dropped something heavy on his head." Peter exclaimed.
"Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah it was a Transfiguration and Divination book tied together wasn't it?" Lauren inquired.
"Haha, yeah James took divination too. He should've seen that coming." Peter chuckled, Lauren's little giggle chiming in.
"So when do you think it'll start to snow?" Lauren asked excitedly. Winter was her favorite time of year. When she was little she was never allowed out in the snow because, "It will get your clothes all wet, and ruined! That's not whatany daughter of mine will be looking like." according to Mrs. Lestrange. Her younger twin brother Rodolphus always got to play in the snow though. "Boys will be boys." was another one of her favorite sayings.
"Well....... Probably the first Thursday of December," he said thoughtfully, making little air-tallies with his pudgy little fingers.
"You've got that down to a science don't you? I bet you a galleon it doesn't snow that Thursday." Lauren teased in a business woman like tone.
"Your loss."
"You Marauders, what am I going to do with you?" Lauren just shook her head and took another sip of Pumpkin Juice.
"You know you love us,"
"Well......" she drawled.
"Hey, you can't deny the fact that we're all good looking." Peter himself wasn't incredibly handsome, but he wasn't ugly either. He was the same weight as Sirius, James, and Remus though their extra weight was muscle. They always joked that Peter's was baby fat. His blue eyes did look kinda water and his nose a little pointed, but it wasn't really that bad. He was just the average blue eyed, brown haired guy. Nothing incredibly special.
"Fine you caught me. So how's your love life?"
"Oh you know, just like any other single bloke's." he said nonchalantly.
"Well we're going to get you a girl friend." she said standing up peering over the heads of her peers.
"What?!"
"I said we are going to get you a girlfriend. Ok take your pick. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff." she said simply.
"Erm, Lauren you really don't have to do this,"
"Oh sod off, are you saying you don't want a girlfriend?"
"Er, no."
"Ok then, I told you choose." she demanded.
"Hufflepuff, I don't want to look stupid in front of a Ravenclaw, and the Hufflepuffs are nice enough. And Sirius has dated most of the Gryffindor girls, so that would just be weird."
"Year?"
"Erm, it doesn't matter sixth or seventh."
"Do you want nice, or wild."
"Doesn't matter."
"Monica Goldman seventh year Hufflepuff. She has soft brown curls, and hazel eyes. She's a straight E student. Her favorite subject is Transfiguration, and she likes to read."
"How do you know all of that? You just looked at her and knew all of this?"
"It's not that hard. She's in my Charms class. She's Lily's partner most of the time." Lauren shrugged, "Oh and she's reading a Transfiguration textbook and McGonnagall hasn't assigned us homework this time, miraculously. I'll got get her." Lauren said standing up not listening to Peter's feeble protest of how he didn't know how to talk to girls.
Five minutes later Lauren walked out of there with a proud smirk on her face. Not before she went over to the Slytherin table and ruffled her little brother's hair, purposefully doing it in front of all of his friends. If he was going to be an arse to her all the time at home, he was going to get some embarrassment from her at school.
Seeing as it was only seven thirty AM Lauren decided she was bored. Hooking Peter up had been fun, but now she didn't have anybody to talk to. What to do. What to do.
The light bulb suddenly lit up above her head. Well she charmed it to, but that's beside the point.
She had an idea. It's not like she meant to scare her friends half to death. It just looked that way.
She loosely tied herself up, conjured up some fake blood, and wounds (the stick on kind), and made some bloody footprints walking out the door. Then she put a silencing charm on the door so no professor would come up and inspect.
She shrieked. The shrillest shriek she could manage before her voice cracked. A fake terrified look plagued her beautiful face, as her roommates literally rolled out of their four posters. Not without adding four more shrieks to the ear splitting scream.
Now in on the tangled of limbs, pillows, and warm comforters Lauren was smiling broadly. Mission: Scream Until They Scare Themselves Silly is COMPLETE.
"WHAT IN THE BLOODY NAME OF MERLIN WAS THAT FOR?" Morgan vociferated.
"No reason." Lauren shrugged.
"You tied yourself up, made fake wounds, and footprints out the door for no reason?!?!?!"
Now inspecting her fingernails Lauren responded from her position on the floor, "Uh huh."
Not knowing how to respond the girls just grumbled and started picking up sheets and such.
Still incredibly mad about the whole waking up before the alarm even went of thing, she decided to take action. She took her goose down pillow and chucked it at Lauren's butt as she was picking up the bloody rope.
"Did you just hit me in the butt with a pillow?" Lauren asked slowly in mock-threatening voice.
"Maybe," Morgan responded in a slightly sing-song voice.
Lauren threw one back with a war cry. "ATTACK!!!!!!" she screamed, while hitting Morgan straight in the face causing little feathers fly out everywhere.
Soon enough Lily, Alice, and Kylie joined in. They summoned more pillows, and it was like a snow ball fight with pillows. They used the beds as forts, the pillows as snowballs, and their wands to conjure up more pillows. There was screams of laughter, mock terror, and just fun ringing throughout the air.
They divided up into teams subconsciously as the minutes wore on. There was Lily, Lauren, and Alice against Morgan and Kylie. The teams were matched in skill, but Lily's team ended up winning it after she started to set out 50 pillows at a time, hurdling towards Morgan and Kylie.
By the end the whole dorm was covered in a two foot deep pile of goose feathers. It looked like Christmas had come and left the snow. The only difference was there weren't any presents, trees, holiday carols, or real snow.
"That was fun," Alice exclaimed happily. "We should have a sleepover!"
"If you haven't noticed, for the past seven years we've all slept here." Kylie said jokingly.
"Oh you know what I mean. Snacks from the kitchens, Truth-and-Dare, make overs, staying up late, the works."
"Oh Alice! That's a great idea! I just have to do patrols until midnight." Lily grumbled.
"Don't you think you should just you know resign from Head Girl?"
"No!" Lily screamed jumping up on her bed clutching the area over her heart where her badge normally was.
"AH! Where's my badge!"
"I need to find it! McGonagall will kill me if I don't find it," she paused and then said, "I will kill me if I can't find it!"
"Erm, Lily,"
Ignoring the constant calls from her friends she continued searching through all the feathers in the room.
"LILY!" they all yelled in unison.
"What? This better be important. I have a badge to look for you know" she said in an exasperated manner.
"Well miss pushy pants," Kylie taunted, "we just wanted to tell you that you're in your pajamas and you keep your badge in your trunk at night."
Flushing a deep red she walked over to her trunk and opened the latch. Gleaming back up at her sat her Head Girl badge as if it were mocking her stupidity. "Oh," she said softly.
Everybody else laughed for a good 5 minutes before they finally settled down and began to banish the feathers.
By now it was 8 'o clock and they were ready for breakfast.
They grabbed their book bags and trudged down the girl's staircase starting the long walk down to the Great Hall.
The other Marauders too thought that it would snow on the first Thursday of December. Kinda weird that they all knew that, and Peter wasn't even there. Alice and Kylie went over to sit with Logan and Frank while Lily, Morgan, and Lauren went over to sit with the Marauders.
"Hey guys, where's Pete?" James asked, noticing one of his best friend's absences.
"Probably snogging-" Lauren started.
"Yeah right, Wormtail hasn't had a girl in over year." Sirius snorted.
"No really, he's going out with-"
"No seriously hon, he doesn't have a girlfriend." he said cutting her off yet again.
Lauren huffed, "For your information. I got him a date with Monica Goldman." she said smugly.
"So ha,"
"The seventh year Hufflepuff that's Lily's Charms partner?" James asked.
"The very same." she responded.
"She's hot." Sirius said approvingly earning a hard smack in the chest from Lauren.
"Ow! You know I have a tender chest."
"Yup, that's why I hit you."
"What did I do!?!?"
"You said that Monica Goldman was hot." she said simply.
"So she is!" he said spraying James with a mouthful of eggs with syrup.
"Gross Padfoot. Hey! It landed in my robe pocket!" James said grinning.
"I don't think you're supposed to say another girl looks hot in front of your girl friend." Lily said knowingly.
"How was I supposed to know?"
"Your girlfriend is sitting right there Padfoot, do you really think she wants to hear you say Lily's Charms partner looks hot?"
"You want me to lie to my girlfriend." he asked in mock-shock.
"Yeah, pretty much." Lily reassured.
"That would be unethical," Sirius said putting a hand over his heart, "I would have thought the Head Boy & Girl cared about ethics."
"Nope," they said together.
"See, your all on your own. They like me better." Lauren bragged.
"DO NOT!" he said childishly while Lauren started to sing,
"They like me better, they like me better."
"You like me better right Prongs?"
"Prongs? Hello? Prongsie? You like me better right?"
"Sorry Padfoot. You snore." James said simply causing Lily and Lauren to erupt in a goad of giggles.
"Do not." he grumbled.
"Do too; you should see all the grooves in the headboard from the vibrations."
"Shut up Potter," he said shoving James into Lily.
"Hm. I wonder why Moony hasn't joined the conversation. He usually has great advice on girls.
"Is that why I ended up hating you for six years?" Lily asked sarcastically.
"Yup, he was always the one that said 'Lay of Prongs, she hates you,' but he never once thought to use reverse psychology. So yeah, I would say it's all his fault." he shrugged.
Lily snorted. "He's talking to Morgan."
"Ahhh, that explains it. Well not for much longer. Oy! Moony! Stop looking at Monroe with googly eyes! You never look at me like that." Sirius teased.
At Sirius' outburst both Morgan and Remus turned a deep, beet red and joined in with another random topic about 'cheese'.
After Breakfast, Transfiguration
"Today we will be starting on Animagi," McGonnagall said, briskly changing herself in to a tabby cat and back again.
James, Siruis, and Peter exchanged sly looks and pretended to pay attention.
As McGonnagall dove into another lecture Lily got out her Quick-Quotes-Quill that she charmed to take notes according to the speaker's exact words.
She also got out her IMP (Instant Messaging Parchment) and gave one to James and Sirius as well as the special quills. She had the Pink Quill, James got the Red Quill, and Sirius the Blue.
Lily: It's Instant Messaging Parchment
James: Really!?!?! I've always wanted to try this stuff. They don't have it at Zonko's though.
Lily: What you don't buy anything unless it's in Zonkos?
Sirius: Nope! What else is there to buy?
Lily: . . . . .
Sirius: Exactly
James: I'm suprised at you Lily! You aren't taking notes! It's a crime.
Lily: Oh bugger. I just have to rewrite everything that my Quick-Quotes-Quill already wrote for me! I mean really, this stuff is so boring.
James & Sirius: BORING!?!?
Lily: What I mean is, I already know this. *rolls eyes* I've read a lot of books on Transfig.
James: You hate Transfiguration Lily, why should I beleive that you've read all these books about it?
Lily: Well, I just suck at it, so I don't like it. Reading on the other hand I'm good at.
James: Well that's logic I guess.
Lily: Yep. So what are you doing for Hogsmeade since you don't have a date?
James: Are you asking me to Hogsmeade Lily?
Lily: Oh! No, I'm not. Just wondering. *blushes fiercely*
Sirius: You know Evans, you really should think before you write *snorts*
Lily: Sod off Black
Sirius: No, sorry not gonna happen. You're the one who gave me the quill.
Lily: And now I'm gonna take it back.
"Evans!" the professor barked.
Straightening in her chair with the Pink & Blue Quills in hand, she answered politely. "Yes Ma'am?"
"What was I last saying?"
"Erm. Evans? What was I last saying?" she tried.
"Detention Evans!" she barked while James and Sirius could be seen snickering behind her.
"You too Potter and Black!"
"We didn't even do anything!?!"
"It's precaution." she smiled a rare smile.
Lily: LOOK WHAT YOU DID YOU GITS!
James: I didn't do anything. I wasn't the one groping around trying to get a IMP Quill from Sirius. He says hi by the way.
Lily: Well tell him that I don't say hi back, and it's ALL his fault!
James: He asks what's his fault.
Lily: *glares* Well that's hard! Maybe it's the fact that's I have detetion. Then again maybe it's the fact that I'm wearing lacey underwear *rolls eyes*
James: Your wearing lacey underwear?
Lily: No! I was being sarcastic. *rolls eyes*
James: Sirius says that it's a shame, and that you roll your eyes to much.
Lily: *smirks* dont' let Lor hear him say that.
Sirius: Heyy Lily!
James: Sorry about that, he stole the quill from me.
Lily: S'ok. Well I'm going to doodle. Toodles!
Sirius: Bye Lileeeeee!!!!
"Hey Lil'," Lauren said as they were walking to Herbology from History Of Magic.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Oh nothing much. Just wondering why you attacked my boyfriend during Transfuguration?"
"I didn't attack him," she said sheepishly, "I just lunged at him."
"Oh yeah, and there's so much of a difference." Lauren said sarcastically.
"Well he had my quill!" she whined.
"It's just a quill Lil'. Instead of just waiting after class to take it from him you had to do it when McGonnagall was telling us how mature you had to be to become an animagus. Perfect timing."
"Well it's not just a quill as you so claim. It was my Blue IMP quill!"
"You let my boyfriend use you Blue IMP quill?" she asked in astonisment.
"Well I was bored and not paying attention. James and Sirius were bored and not paying attention. It just worked out that way."
"Speaking of boyfriends. There's your little ex-cheater." she said pointing over to Greenhouse five.
"Speak of the devil." Lily sighed.
"Come on let's get this over with. I'll sit with you James and Sirius today, again."
"Hey Lily," Josh greeted.
"Davies," she nodded.
"Lily, I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry and I shouldn't have treated you like that. Please take me back." he pleaded now down on his knees.
"Oh Josh of course I'll take you back!"
"Really?" he asked in astonishment suprised by the fact Lily took him back so easily. Normally she was as stubborn as a mule.
"No," she snorted, "I'm not an idiot Davies. Now if you don't mind your blocking the door to the Greenhouse."
In defeat he sighed and turned away and went to hold hands with Renee.
"The bastard! He asks for you to blindly take him back, then he goes and holds hands with his girlfriend!" she practiacally cried in outrage.
"Drop it Lor. We're not going to the Owlry after class unless it doesn't involve sending for Muggle baseball bats."
"Extra heavy bludgers?"
"No,"
"Couches?"
"No."
"A box welding material?"
"No."
"Crackers?"
"No. Wait why would you want crackers? We have some in the kitchens."
"Well these are magical crackers. When you throw them at people heavy objects hit them instead, and the cracker comes back to you."
"Oh, well then sure we can order the crackers."
"Really?" Lauren asked excitedly.
"No."
"Well aren't you miss Negative Nancy today."
Silencing her with a glare, Lily started doing her Transfiguration essay before class started.
Another A/N: Well that's a wrap! I would like to mention my special reviewers from last chapter: Ridingstar95, FaithfulHPReader, FishPonysRock, Gin M. Weasley, appleeater123, cookiedoughYUM, cheesetaco, lilazngrl213, Scarlett, and anna. Thank you ALL for reviewing! As you know it makes me VERY VERY VERY happy! If you don't have a fan fiction account you can still REIVEW! I accept anonymus! Really I love them just as much. I'll even mention you in the next chatper! Then you'll be FAMOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! You know you want to be famous! You get to meet cool people! hehe. Well my general message here is PLEASE REVIEW! It just takes like 30 seconds. I mean it, those seconds of your life will NOT be wasted. I give you a Marauder's Promise. :]
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