"Morgan wake up! We have to get to Hogsmeade! We're going to miss the carriages!" Kylie shrieked at Morgan's lump of a sleeping figure.
"Morgan!"
"She won't wake up!" Kylie yelled at Lily.
"She never wakes up," said Lauren from her own bedside.
"Well then," Lily said walking over to her friend's bed, "We'll just make her."
"Come over here and help me push the bed away from the wall." Lily told Lauren.
"Ok, one, two, three, push!"
Once they finally got it far enough away from the wall to have one of them squeeze in there they heaved and tipped all the contents off the bed.
"What did you guys just do to by bed?" asked Morgan from the doorway eating an apple casually.
"Where were you! If your there We were supposed to leave for Hogsmeade an hour ago! I still have to get my dress for the dance tomorrow!" screamed Kylie.
"I'm not going. I already have a dress. Were you just yelling at my pillow?" she said simply walking over to her bed an magically re-righting it.
"Ugh!"
Kylie stormed out the door most likely jogging down to go get a carriage.
"So are you guys going?" Morgan asked.
"I don't have a date." Lily said.
"Sirius said he needed to go dress robe shopping then get supplies for the latest prank, so I didn't really want to stand there being ignored the whole day." Lauren said.
"So it's just us? Alice is with Frank, Kylie just stormed off to meet up with Logan and torture him for hours in a dress shop, and the Marauders are doing who knows what in Hogsmeade."
"We should have that sleepover we were talking about now! We could do eachothers nails and everything for tomorrow!" Lily said excitedly.
"Sounds good to me. What about you Morgan?"
"I don't know about you, but I'm going back to bed."
Morgan skipped the short length to her bed, flopped down, and pulled the hangings shut.
Lily and Lauren rolled their eyes and went about planning their day.
"Does a green jacket match grey pants?" Peter asked uncertainly from the changing room.
"Er- I don't know mate. I'm not a girl." Remus said.
"Well I think it does- I'm not sure though." James responded.
"You could wear green and red and look like Santa!" Sirius shouted just a little bit to loudly.
"That's a great idea, mate! Why didn't I think about that!?" Peter shouted from behind the door. You could hear the banging, clanging, and the occasional 'ouch' behind the door, but a couple seconds later Peter came out from the dressing room in an emerald green tux and maroon pants on.
"That's the one! You have to buy that Pete!" James said excitedly.
The boys went at that for about an hour before they went to Zonko's to get some fresh, non orderly, air.
"So girls, what do your dresses look like?" Sirius asked at lunch the next day.
Just as Kylie was going to prattle on about her dress Alice slapped a hand over her mouth saying suavely, "You'll just have to wait and see boys."
With a pretty smile towards a mock glaring Sirius she went even farther saying, "Come on girls. It's already two. We have to go start getting ready."
"What? We have five hours, why do we have to-" Alice slapped her other hand over Lauren's mouth.
"Becauuusssseeee. It's just something we have to do. You'll thank me later."
With that she skipped away towards Gryffindor Tower with four girls walking behind the peculiar acting Alice.
Once they got to the dorm Lauren asked, "Why did we have to get up here so early. What are we supposed to do for five hours!"
"Oh, I don't know. I just wanted to mess with Sirius."
"Aw Alice! I wasn't finished eating my steak and kidney pie."
"Trust me Lily, James wont want to kiss those lips smelling like that."
"We will not be kissing!" Lily exclaimed with a playful smack to Alice's arm.
"We will be opening the dance and then patrolling around to make sure everything is in pristine condition."
Morgan spoke for the first time since their discussion about Muggle microwaves at lunch, "Yeah Lily, and I'm Santa Claus." she said with a hearty snort.
Lily just blushed and walked to the bathroom, closing the door behind her and locking it, yelling, "I call shower first!" Then all the other girls went over and started banging on the door. Lily always took an hour long shower. Make that four hours they had to get ready.
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Four and a half hours later they were all in their gowns.
"Well, I have to go. James and I have to be there early." Lily said walking towards the door nervously.
"We'll all come with." Alice said nodding towards the girls.
Lily led the way walking very slowly trying not to break her ankle going down the stairs in her high heels.
She peeked around the corner seeing James sitting on the couch waiting for her with a white Lily in his hands. When he saw her his jaw dropped to the ground, and Lily could've sworn she saw some drool.
Lily was wearing a dark black dress the hugged her figure closely then fanned out loosely on the bottom all the way down the the floor. The sparkles glinted in the light of the fire lighting up James', now slack with astonishment, face. She had used a tanning charm on her skin to give it a healthy glow. Lauren had done her hair up in an elegant sort of way that let her hair stay down. There were sparkled bobby pins pulling her hair out of her face, splattered throughout her hair. She had on little make-up and went for a natural look spare the smoky eyes and mascara.
James himself was looking very handsome in an all black suit with a white tie, deciding to actually match rather than go like Peter who actually bought the red and green suit. He attempted to tame his unruly hair, failing miserably. He also had a white Lily in his outstretched hand. He would have looked really handsome, but the drooling kinda lost the effect.
When James finally managed to speak he said, "yolokkbeauagkhfyl," or something that sounded like that anyway. Lily took it as a "You look beautiful," and laughed her beautiful laugh. She pulled James' off the couch and led him out the Common Room still in a daze.
When Sirius saw Lauren he couldn't believe his eyes. They about popped out of his head. Lauren was sporting a silky, bright red, strappy dress that fell down to her knees. She wore red heels to pull the outfit together. Her hair was up in a twist with a few pieces falling to her face. She had on some bright red eyeshadow, black eyeliner, mascara, and foundation.
Sirius had decided on a grey suit to match his stormy eyes. He was wearing a bright red tie that had blinking Christmas Trees on it to get into the spirit of his favorite holiday. He shaved two days ago therefore having a bit of stubble outlining his jaw line. His hair was freshly straightened and he too had a flowers in his hand, only they were mountain laurels.
Morgan was next to go down. She was beaming ear to ear. Remus had asked her to go about three hours ago. Well he sorta yelled it up the stairwell, but it really had the same effect. Actually it was Sirius who yelled it saying it was Remus who really wanted the date. Still. He was her date.
She was wearing a dark purple ballgown dress that made her eyes simply pop. She looked like a princess to say the least. It was strapless sparkling and outlined in a kohl color. Her mascara perfectly parted each eyelash, and her lightly transparent lip gloss had her whole face shining. She too had put a charm on her skin making it glow beautifully. Her deep chocolate brown hair was softly curled with her side bangs straightened. She looked like a heart break waiting to happen.
Remus almost fainted when she entered the room. She looked positively dazzling to say the least. His dark kohl colored jacket matched her eyeliner perfectly, oddly enough. He had on a traditional white tie, and the ever so popular shiny black shoes. He was freshly shaven and smelled of cologne and soap. He was waiting at the bottom of the staircase with a bouquet of beautiful purple roses.
Alice had on a flirty looking midnight blue halter dress. The strap in the halter dress was sparkled and stunning. It had a silk band right under the bust the tied into a bow in the back. The dress was knee length and shimmered slightly. She had on dark blue flip flops with sparkles on the straps. Her eyeshadow was a lightly done dark blue, over and outlined eyelid done in brown. Her hair was parted to the left and swept up into a pony tailed and curled ends pinned up in the back.
Frank and Logan both were sporting black tuxes. Logan with a red and green striped tie, and Frank with a silky blue tie. Their hair was neatly combed and their scents heavenly. They were both waiting for their dates patiently by the fire. Frank had stumbled slightly when he saw Alice, as did Logan with Kylie.
Kylie was wearing a pearly pink ball gown that reached the floor as well as a beaded shawl. She had in light pink highlights that contrasted nicely with her jer black hair. She had on light black eyeliner with gold shimmer eyeshadow. Her white heels made her almost trip as she went down the stairs wobbily. Her hair was straightened past her shoulders then curled slightly at the ends.
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"And now our Head Boy and Girl will honor us with a dance." McGonagall said, smiling slightly.
The spotlight was on Lily and James in the center of the dance floor and they were swaying to the music perfectly in sync.
Lily had her head on James' chest and sighed happily.
"What?" he asked chuckling slightly.
"Nothing. It's just that I've had a really good time tonight. I had no idea you could dance."
"Yeah, well four summers of dance classes usually does the trick."
"That must've been harsh."
"No actually I love dancing. Well with you anyways. My instructor was this hairy old lady with a huge mole the size of London! Ugh- Bad memories. You don't want to know."
Other couples had started filling in the dance floor by now.
"Really? You don't look like much the dancer. Anyway, I'm a terrible dancer. Well ballroom anyway. If you weren't leading.... It'd be a disaster."
James laughed at this. "I doubt that, love. I'm sure you're a divine dancer. I'm just not going to stop leading in case you were right." he said with his lopsided grin.
"You know, this is nice. Just talking with you. I like it."
"Me too."
Just as they were leaning in for a kiss Sirius came up and asked, "Switch dates?"
Lily sighed and said, "Sure Sirius."
"So, I see you were about to bust a move on Prongs over there." Sirius said smugly while twirling her elegantly.
"I was not!"
"Yeah, sure. You just keep on believing that, love."
"But what-" Lily didn't get to finish her sentence as she was twirled right into Remus' arms.
"Hello Lily." He said pleasantly.
"Hey Remus, but me and Sirius were just talking and he really confused me and-"
"I know."
"What-"
"Official Marauder date swapping thing. We know everything. Well except James. He doesn't have a clue why we're doing this. But I think you do."
"Remus, will you please tell me what's going on."
"We're dancing."
"Yes, yes we are. I mean-"
"I know what you mean."
"Then why can't you tell me?"
"That wouldn't be any fun now would it!?" he exclaimed happily looking younger than he had in ages.
"Can you give me a hint?" she asked trying to placate him.
"I can give you advice. Dance with as many people as you can. Have fun. Oh, and don't drink the punch. Sirius spiked it."
"I think I might need some by the time the night ends." she said warily.
"Remus, thanks I-" again she was cut of by one of those darn twirls....
"Hey, Lily."
"Hey Peter."
"So how's your night been so far?"
"Oh you know. I've had three dates so far. You're number four. I have been confused out of my mind by two of them, and almost embarrassed myself in front of the third. And you?"
"Oh it's been great. I need to talk to you though."
"Let me guess. It's a Marauder date switch thing."
"How'd you know?" he asked looking a bit put out.
"Remus told me."
"Oh, well, in that case... I just wanted to tell you that you need to follow your heart and shoot for the moon."
"Isn't the saying shoot for the stars?"
"Yeah, but do you really want to get burned into a bazillion tiny pieces of ash and melted goo once you reach where you want to be?"
"Erm, no, not really."
"Well then there's your answer."
"I'm not sure what that means but thanks Peter. I'm really thirsty though. I need some punch."
Lily walked over to the punch bowl staring at it warily. She knew it was spiked but she was just so thirsty!
'Well I just wont drink much,' Lily thought to herself.
She took a slight sip and almost recoiled at the taste. It was strong!
Oh well, she was thirst and if she wasn't smart enough to have back up punch, like every other dance, she was just going to have to face the consequences.
Lily stood there tapping her foot to the music playing from over head then her attention snapped to a mop of black hair standing on stage grinning her all time favorite Marauder's smirk.
James was standing up there with the microphone. Oh god. James with a microphone. This wasn't going to be good. Or was it?
James cleared his throat into the mic, "Hello everyone. As you all know, I'm, your Head Boy, James Potter!" A random round of applause sounded causing James to blush slightly, though he swears it's the hot, non-existent, spotlight.
"Thank you, thank you. Well I would just like to introduce the most popular wizarding band on the planet! The Hopping Hob-Goblins!" James yelled into the microphone dramatically. More applause sounded throughout the hall echoing everywhere creating an amazing effect.
"Ok well, coincidentally,their lead female vocalist has a sore throat! Sooooo, do we have any good singers in the crowd who'd like to come up here?" A couple of ditzy Hufflepuffs and some of the it girls from Ravenclaw were jumping up and down in their heels going, "Ooh! Ooh! Pick me!" like a little kid in muggle grade school.
"Nobody!?" James asked astonished, "How about your Head Girl Miss Lily Evans!" All the guys in the crowd started cheering wildly and Sirius started to do the monkey creating a big circle around him of people afraid of him spazzing out even worse. The girls who wanted to be chosen stopped jumping and started scowling. The more reasonable girls were clapping politely, well except Lily's friends who started screaming in their "man voices".
The lead singer took the mic from James and said, "Thanks James. Now where is this Miss Lily Evans?"
Lily shyly raised her hand and started walking up to the stage in the center of the dance floor.
"Well Ms. Evans, come on down! Do you have any special requests?"
"Do you know My Life Would Suck Without You by Kelly Clarkson?" Lily asked sweetly.
"Well that isn't one of our songs but I guess for a pretty girl like you we can make a few exceptions." the lead singer said in what he thought was a suave way.
The guitars tuned themselves and the band started playing.
Guess this means you're sorry
You're standing at my door
Guess this means you take back
All you said before
Like how much you wanted
Anyone but me
Said you'd never come back
But here you are again
By this time Sirius, Remus, and Peter had somehow gotten out Muggle lighters and started waving them back and forth through the air causing several people to step back in caution.
'Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly,
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you
Maybe I was stupid for telling you goodbye
Maybe I was wrong for tryin' to pick a fight
I know that I've got issues
But you're pretty messed up too
Either way, I found out I'm nothing without you
'Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly,
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you
Being with you
Is so dysfunctional
I really shouldn't miss you
But I can't let you go
Oh yeah
'Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly,
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you
'Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly,
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you
My Life Would Suck Without You: Kelly Clarkson
A/N: I know the song just came out and all, but I figured that it related to the story enough to put it in there. XD
The funny thing was, the whole time she was staring at James. She was facing the audience and yet she couldn't look away from those misty hazel eyes that locked into hers.
"Wow, looks like we have a pretty good singers in the school!" The lead singer said mocking the Marauder's imitation of Lily's voice midway through her performance, breaking Lily and James out of the reverie.
The lead singer continued talking while Lily snuck off of stage to find one of her friends. Eventually she found Lauren and Sirius and decided to stick with them for a while.
"Do you mind if I steal your boyfriend for a bit?" Lily giggled.
"He's all yours." Lauren panted as she staggered her tired legs toward the punch table.
During one of the faster dances about an hour later Sirius just randomly starts babbling to Lily, "He really likes you 'ya know."
"He who?" Lily asked innocently.
"I think you know he who,"
"Really? I don't think me and he who have met."
"Oh trust me. You two have met. Even kissed maybe."
"He told you!"
"Ah, so we do know who we're talking about here, and when did you two kiss and why didn't I know!?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Lily said stubbornly trying to hide her growing smile.
"Well hypothetically this "he" happens to be old Jamesie poo over there, and hypothetically of couse, you and Jamsie poo have kissed and neither of you told me," Sirius paused for a fake glare directed at Lily, "andddd he really likes you. I mean reallyyy likes you. Seriously, no pun intended. He can't wait forever 'ya know Lils." He added softly.
"I-" she started but was cut off from a booming voice coming from center stage.
"Well fellow seventh years," James started, "it's about eleven o'clock and old Dumbly-dorr says that we have to blow this popsicle stand in exactly thirteen minutes! I think we have time for one last dance. Lily? If you would give me the honor?" He asked outstretching his hand to a very red Lily who was now wading her way through her peers.
When she stepped foot on stage the band started playing a slow song. Lily had the time of her life tonight, and this was the perfect end to it. Her head was on James' shoulder, her arms around his neck. His arms on her hips and head resting atop of hers breathing in her winterberry shampoo.
They swayed slowly to the music outshining every other couple who just looked clumsy compared to their grace.
The song ended and James went and whispered something into the drummer's ear. He nodded and took the microphone. Again.
"Ok, well before we wrap it up I want to make an annoucement. Well not really an annoucement, but a question. One I haven't asked in quite some time actually."
He turned to face Lily and smiled her favorite heart melting smile, "Evans, will you go out with me?" he breathed.
A/N: That's a wrap people! Ok I want quite a few reviews before I update again! I already have most of the chapter ready. I'll post when I get some reviews!
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