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Chapter 26: Some Leaver's ball...
"Lily?" I knew that voice. The sweet and lovely voice of my beautiful sex god boyfriend.
I turned and saw my beautiful sex god boyfriend standing behind me.
I smiled. "James!"
But before I could say anything more James silenced me, putting a finger to my lips. He looked at me lovingly before placing a kiss on my nose. His mere touch made my feet tingle warmly.
"Lily… I know we are young… and that we have our whole future ahead of us… but…" I watched him, half excited half mortified, as he knelt to the floor.
NO.
NO WAY!
"But Lily… I would like you to be my life." With a small smile he pulled out a little box from his pocket.
"Lily flower… will you marry me?"
I was tempted to scream and jump around like a monkey; my whole body was shaking as I let out a little 'YES!'
James grinned and pulled me in for a hug. He gave me the box and I opened it with shaking fingers.
The ring was… Sirius' head? And it was screaming at me.
"EBANS. EBANS. Waaakkeee uuuuupppppp." This can't be a dream? Sirius' head was now floating up into the air in front of my face. "EBANS!"
I can not believe it was a dream.
I BLAME DAMN SIRIUS ORION BLACK!
I could feel him tugging the warm covers that engulfed my body. But I ignored him. "Ebans. We have to be in the Examination Hall in a minute otherwise we can't do the Transfiguration exam…"
"WHAT?" I jumped out of my hospital bed to see Sirius leaning on my bed casually. I quickly pushed him out of my area so I could put on my uniform.
"Oh well that's polite." He remarked with a snort.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME EARLIER, SIRIUS?"
"Because…"
BECAUSE. THAT IS SIRIUS ORION BLACK'S ANSWER? I refrained from hitting him violently in only my underwear.
"Ebans… you kinda need to hurry up a bit." His voice was strained and I could see his shadow constantly checking his watch. This is probably the first time I have ever seen Sirius desperately want to go to an exam.
"YOU DON'T SAY?"
"Lils! Could you keep it down? The poor boy next to your bed with the boils is looking at me like he could kill me-"
"I DON'T RUDDY CARE IF THE BOY WITH BOILS KILLS YOU. I'LL RUDDY HELP HIM!" I then ripped open the curtains with my hands, hastily apologizing to Madam P, and grabbed Sirius' hand and ran out of the infirmary.
"Why… *wheeze* are we… *wheeze*… running?"
I sighed, choosing to ignore Sirius and just drag him along.
DAMN. I forgot to revise! Oh shoot. Oh sh!t! Damn. Oh damn damn damn damn.
We were onto the corridor where the main hall was, I increased my speed, much to Sirius' dismay and ran into the main hall screaming "I'M HERE! I'M HERE!"
Silence.
Students were still filing into the hall and now many of them were looking at me like I was mad. Which I was not. Clearly.
"Well… I am so glad you could make it, Miss Evans… Mr. Black. Perhaps you would like to join the rest of the year group and wait until everyone is here?"
I could hear some of the Slytherin's laughing at me, but I ignored them and instead gave Sirius a deathly glare.
"I thought you said we had under a minute to get to the hall…" I hissed venomously.
"Maybe I lied…" Before I could hex him into oblivion Sirius waved over James and the others.
"Lovely entrance Lils." James smirked, kissing the top of my head. I grimaced. My amazing dream was coming back to me. Oh dear.
"It wasn't that bad, was it?"
Alice nodded her head, giving me a small smile. "You looked all crazy. And your eyes were doing that twitching thing they do when you get all nervous… see! They're doing it now!"
"No they are not!" I cried indignantly.
"Oh yeah!" Remus chuckled, pointing at my eyes. "They're practically shaking." His observation made the rest of the group look at my eyes. Each of them going 'Oh yeah! They do twitch!'
"They are NOT twitching! It's just nerves…" I cried dramatically, which made everyone chuckle.
"You all ready then for the exam?" Frank grinned, stretching out his arms.
Remus let out a low whistle. "Well, Pete definitely did. I am so proud of him!" Remus messed up Peter's hair which made the boy glare at his friend.
"How can you do such a thing to poor wormtail?" Sirius gasped, pointing an accused finger at Remus.
"How ca you ruin him like that?" Sirius tutted.
"It was quite good fun though!" Peter shrugged.
My chattering teeth caught the attention of Alice, who gave me a raised eyebrow look.
"Lily…" She said carefully, "You did revise right…?"
I gulped. "Lily's not here right now… please leave a message-"
"I KNEW YOU WOULDN'!" Alice gasped, slapping a hand to her forehead. "You said you were going to revise!"
"I did a bit!" I pouted.
"I didn't do much either, Lils. It's no biggie." Izz shrugged, linking my arm with hers. "We can fail together."
Sirius let out a 'HEAR HEAR!' before McGonagall announced that everyone should be silent. We all quietly went to our assigned seats and did the writing assessment which was an hour long.
I don't think I did too badly. Just the sight of a James made me full of confidence and ready to answer the questions that were before me.
Then we had to do the practical. Oh goodie…
We were all put into 10 groups, each with an examiner. And then in alphabetical order each student did the necessary questions the examiner asked whilst the rest of the students had to stand in silence 20 feet away.
Liam Eckinson, a Hufflepuff, had just finished. And then the examiner looked down at his list. I knew already what name he was going to read out.
"Lily Marie Evans."
I saw James give me a quick thumbs up as he was called up as well.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Mr. Andrews was a small cheerful old man who smiled at me encouragingly when I walked up to him.
"Smile a little… I'm very generous at point giving you know."
He asked me to do some simple transfigurations first. Which were pretty good actually. But then the questions got harder (obviously).
"Now. Can you transfigurate this rock into a bird?" I'm SORRY?
What the hell?
"I mean, obviously you can. It was on the prospectus for two years… Miss Evans?"
Oh yeah. I remember doing this with James.
Great. Now I'm juts going to imagine him instead of doing this stupid transfiguration.
"In your own time Miss Evans…" The examiner had said that 7 times now… COME ON LILY! FOCUS.
I closed my eyes and breathed out again. All he was asking to do was to make this damn old rock have feathers and be a bird. Simple.
Remember when you had your makeover last year and James called your new creation a Birock?
"Ok. Erm, pretend your swimming, your hand needs to move from your chest outwards, so it's like pushing the air, but you need to do it quickly and as soon as you say the incantation move your arm."
I had nodded, breathing deeply as I followed James' instructions. "Escalio!" POOF!
"Oh my god! I did it! I did it!"
"My Merlin, how the f*** did you do that?" James replied, like Alice, he had been completely in awe; my bird was even more extravagant than James'.
"Oh yeah I remember now!" I exclaimed happily, earning me a strange look from Mr Andrews. I cleared my throat, pretending that I had meant to speak out loud. I had practiced this countless of times with James. EHEHEHHE. James! I made my eyes wander to where he was standing; he had successfully made the kettle meow and was now onto extra bonus questions. I gulped.
This exam is on a time limit.
SH!T.
"Escalio!" The rock squeaked and sprouted beautiful lilac feathers and grew a head, fail, feet and everything else a bird has. Seconds later McGonagall announced that the exam was over, making me breath a sigh of relief. I had done all the necessary questions, which would get me at least an Acceptable. YAY.
Dear Diary,
This year has gone all too quickly. I mean, I have actually almost FINISHED my seven years at Hogwarts already. I only have a DADA exam left! And then it's the prom! Izz has already made Sirius shop for his suit but I don't want to make James buy his yet… I mean- we still have only really gotten together. I don't want to seem desperate?
Love Lily x
P.S- BUT I HAVE A LOVELY IDEA OF WHAT JAMES WOULD WEAR. HE LOOK AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL AND… okay. I sound stupid. I'm really going now.
P.P.S.S- BUT IT WOULD MAKE HIM SOOOO BEAUTIFUL.
…
"So how many did you get through, Prongs?" Sirius smirked when we went for dinner right after the Transfiguration exam.
James shrugged his shoulders and grinned as he sat down opposite me. "Maybe about fifty… it was an easy exam." BANG.
My goblet dropped onto the table as I spat out my pumpkin juice. Nice Lily. Luckily I didn't spray James…
"How many did you do Lils?" James asked, trying to hide the smug smirk he had plastered onto his lips.
Giving him a glare I muttered "15…" At which everyone fell silent.
"Well," Alice coughed after a while, giving me a pat on my arm "That's what people are supposed to aim for, isn't it? So at least you know you won't fail."
"Oh GEE. Thanks for that Alice. I won't fail? Bloody fantastic!" I moodily stabbed my fork into the potato.
"If you hadn't been spending your time watching me then maybe you would have gotten through a lot more…" James smirked into his goblet before giving me a wink.
"I was not!" I blushed, sliding further into my seat. Unfortunately for me my friends know me too well. Damn.
"Lily!" Mari tutted. "You're sacrificing your NEWTS just to look at James?"
"When you could look at him whenever you wanted." Sirius winked.
GAH. My friends just do not seem to understand.
"If it makes you feel better Lils," James said with a soft smile, making my friends draw in to see what he had to say as he whispered "I looked at you after I had finished my exam." He didn't blush or get angry when the marauders began to tease him. He just smiled and winked in my direction before going into a debate with Sirius and Remus and Peter about the latest Quidditch news.
"Did you hear what he said?" I squeaked.
I heard Alice and Leane moan and Mari snort but I ignored them.
…
"During every end of year party we always have SOMEONE breaking the rules. And so, to make your night perfect as well as making it more easier for the teachers, we are making sure that each student has only 2 cups of wizard alcohol each."
There were gasps all throughout the room.
"But why Professor? We're leaving! We should leave with style!" Sirius whined, trying to look sad and innocent for McGonagall, who only snorted.
"If by that, Mr Black, you mean getting drunk and then puking on the Hogwarts Express, then you have an extremely strange idea of what 'leaving with style' means."
All of the Gryffindor seventh years, there's about 30 of us, were sat in the common room listening to boring McGonagall talk about the end of year ball.
"Remember it is a formal event; please refrain from showing irrelevant skin-" From this point Sirius' silent giggle fit suddenly exploded from his mouth, making McGonagall seethe and glare at him.
I expected her to lash out and bark at him, but instead she smiled. "Mr Black, I have a job for you to do concerning the Leavers Ball."
"And I'm guessing I don't have a say in this do I?" Sirius commented with a sigh, flicking his hair out of his face.
"No. You don't." Sirius nodded and shrugged his shoulders and went back to relaxing on his chair. It was only when McGonagall barked a 'NOW' at him he got up and followed her out of the door, making sure to cast us all a worried glance when he left the room.
"I'm guessing this meeting is over with then." Frank said loudly as he stood up and stretched out his muscles, for Alice (obviously).
"When is the Leavers Ball?" I had spent most of the meeting thinking about my life after Hogwarts, it's such an exciting game and-
"Lily, do you ever listen?" Izz's raised vice broke through my imagination and back down to earth. She looked pissed.
"I do sometimes… just other times I don't have the stability to listen…" Did you see that? I used a big word! And even Izz looked impressed, by that I mean she had one eyebrow raised and didn't blink as she looked at me.
"Oh stop it Izz," Leane groaned, poking the grumpy Izz in the arm. "The ball's in a week, the 20th June. You got that? Want me to write it down for you or-"
"No, I got it." I grinned, pulling Leane and Izz into a giant hug.
…..
"But I don't understand…"
"It's just normal for the guy not to see the girl's dress-"
"Isn't that at weddings?"
"…..It's the same kind of principle, kay James?"
I heard him sigh as Remus coughed behind us. He was about to say something when we saw Sirius running out of Hogwarts with a grin plastered on his face.
"IZZ! REMMY! JAM! EBS! LEAN!" He ran towards us dramatically and then engulfed Izz and Remus into a bone crushing hug.
"I MISSED YOU GUYS SO MUCH!"
"You were gone for about an hour, Padfoot mate…"
"I KNOW!"
Leane, who had just been rolling her eyes at Sirius' immaturity the whole time, snorted and asked what McGonagall had asked him to do for the ball.
At once Sirius' mood darkened. "The stupid old hag told me I have to be on drinks duty for 2 hours. And guess who my partner is? Severus fcking Snape." Even the slimey git's name made my back shiver.
"Well…" I cleared my throat, making sure that no one could see how much the name affected me, "I'll make sure I don't get any drinks when you two are there." The murmurs of agreement from the others showed I was not alone in my Snape hating.
"Wow. What nice friends I have. Leave me alone with the git why don't you?"
"Anyways, Lils, Izz and I need to go to Hogsmead and get our dresses-"
"And I need to get mine too." James interrupted, nudging Remus who, after a minute of pokes, finally said 'oh yeah, same.'
James looked at Sirius.
"Oh… nopes, I already have my suit thing."
"Already?" James gasped, shaking his head at Sirius. "But I thought us marauders were supposed to go into Hogsmead and get our suits together!"
The boy just shrugged sheepishly "Izz already went with me to get it tailored."
"Just make sure you get something green, kay?" I winked at James, kissed him quickly on his cheek and ran off with Leane and Izz.
…..
"Are you sure?"
I breathed in quietly and brought my legs up to the toilet (I had finished by the way- don't start thinking I'm not big with hygiene and bacteria…)
There were two girls in the toilet, the first I knew to be a snotty 6th year Slytherin called Hazel and the other sounded sooo familiar, I just couldn't remember her name.
"Course! It's a leavers Ball, ain't it? So why the hell can't we go? Listen Haze- if we go then there's absolutely no way he'll stay with that Mudblood. The Dark Lord said if we finish him off then he would reward us…"
Of all the conversations I pick to listen on, it's just HAS to be one like this…
"But the Mudblood is clever like the Potter brat…" Hang on a second… They're talking about James? Then I'm the Mudblood they need to get rid off?
Why would Voldemort need James?
"We attack the Mudblood first… and if she just doesn't die… then we take both to the Dark Lord, I'm sure he would appreciate it. Killing two birds with just one stone."
My legs began to shake but I kept still and silent, finally sighing in relief when I heard the toilet door open and the two Slytherin's went out.
"Lily?" I heard Izz call.
"Lils..? You in here?"
I breathed out again and fixed my hair and clothes before unlocking the bolt on the bathroom door.
She took one look at my face and said "You okay?"
"Fine." I squeaked, playing with the hem of my shirt. Izz sent me a 'I don't believe you' look but shrugged and pulled me back to our table in The Three Broomsticks.
…
"Do you think it looks okay then?" James was stood in front of the mirror in his dorm, trying to flatten down his hair whilst straightening his robes.
"You look very nice Jamesie." Peter patted James' back as he too checked himself out in the mirror. I rolled my eyes, boys.
As soon as Sirius came in from the bathroom Izz blushed. "You look nice Sirius."
The boy took one glance at Izz and blinked, trying to stop his cheeks from turning a crimson colour.
"Woah. Izz! You look… nice. No! Stunning! Beautiful! I love it! I love you! Come here!" He kissed Izz softly on the lips before pulling her into a hug. Aaaw. Those two are almost as sickening as Leane and Matt.
"Hey, James…"
"Mmmm?" He was still looking at himself in the mirror, that adorable frown on his face because there was a piece of hair that kept sticking up. If I let him go to that leaver's ball he could die.
"Hey, you alright?" He asked gently, taking hold of my hand. I bit my lip and looked into his hazel eyes.
"I don't really want to go to this ball thing…"
"Why not?" He arched his eyebrows which made me squirm uncomfortably.
"Um… because…" I sent a look to the others, who were leaning in with an excited look on their faces.
I motioned James to lean in so I could whisper in his ear. "I heard some Slytherin's in TTB's toilet… they wanted to take you to… Vol… Voldemort…" I whispered with a shiver running down my spine.
James was silent for a moment, his eyes monotonously staring at the brick wall behind me. I couldn't hear the others annoying banter, and as I turned my head I found that the room was now empty apart from James and I.
"I doubt," James said finally, with an uncomfortable expression on his face "that some sixth and seventh year death eaters would be able to kidnap student's right underneath Dumbledore's nose…" He seemed unsure himself as he spoke the words, but that facial expression he was pulling was a clear sign that I shouldn't, and couldn't, argue with him.
I could tell he was lying, and so could he.
"But what if…"
"Just leave it!"
Without saying anything I reached out for his hand and clutched it tightly. "But I'm scared for you… I don't want you to-"
"I'm not asking you to! Just stop thinking that I'm weak and I need your help!" Maybe telling him all of this was a bad idea…
"I don't think you're weak James…" I bit my lip hard, so hard that I could taste the bitterness of my blood against my tongue. This was just like the time when I had found out James had encountered Voldemort… he made James think that he was weak…
I expected James to shout, but instead I could see his shoulders shaking lightly as he angrily wiped his eyes with his sleeve. "I'm fine." He said gruffly and walked out of the dorm confidently, me following timidly behind.
Let the prom begin…
"There you two are!" James and I had just set foot into the great hall, the ceiling was charmed so that recurring fireworks sprouted and exploded into the night's sky.
"Have a nice chat?" Izz nudged Sirius in the arm and glared at him before hissing something in his ear. I saw his mouth move into an 'o' shape as James tensed beside me.
"Come on then Izz… let's go and daaaaaaaance." The two scattered off quickly to the dance floor where I could see Mari and Mitch and Matt and Leane dancing too. Peter and Remus were stood beside us, occasionally glancing at either me or James nervously.
"Hello Pothead, Mudblood and you filthy half-blood's." We didn't even need to turn around to know whose voice it was. Malfoy's. And from the sound of the high pitched giggle that came next, Bellatrix Black too. Perfect.
"Shove off Malfoy."
"Would love to, Potter. But we have other plans." He licked his slimey lips and winked at me before pushing past Remus who almost toppled over the drinks stand.
My heart was hammering fast against my chest. Malfoy's involved in this plan too… why else would he wink at me and use that annoying smirk at us…?
"Just relax, Lily."
…..
I knew that something was wrong. How could I have been so ruddy stupid? And now I was running for my dear life down a deserted corridor in Hogwarts in my dress for the prom. And I was being chased by Bellatrix Black for Merlin's sake!
Like I had heard a diversion had occurred, sending minor chaos in the prom, but enough for stupid Malfoy to get Remus and the others and try and attack us.
Perfect.
At least Leane was here with me.
"Would you two slow down a bit? YOU MUDBLOODS!"
"Lily! Don't listen to her! She's trying to trick you! Speed up! Let's get to the Gryffindor tower!" Good job I have Leane with me, eh?
Just one thing though… why wasn't Black attacking us with her wand? She could have easily already hexed Leane and I, and that worried me. Immensely.
"LILY!" There was flash of red and I saw Leane from the corner of my eye being thrown into the wall.
"LE... leane!" Bellatrix Black and Malfoy were stood in front of me, smug smiles on their faces. They had just thrown Leane into a wall. THOSE BAST-
"Hello again, Mudblood. Or should I say... sweet dreams." As soon as the words left Malfoy's mouth I could feel my body going numb... tingling softly as all I could hear was a screech getting louder and louder... until all I could see was black.
"Lily...?"
"I think we should take her to the hospital wing..."
"LILY!"
"She's not going to wake up, Prongs..."
"Shut up Padfoot, LILY!"
My eyes opened wearily, setting onto a worried James, Sirius, Matt, Izz, Remus and Mari.
"Leane..." I choked, trying desperatley to stand, only to be pushed down again by James. "Where's Leane?"
"She's at the hospital wing... she'll be fine." Matt said with a small smile. I bet Matt did some serious damage to Malfoy and Black.
"What happened anyways?" My eyes finally wandered throughout the room. It was an unfamiliar place... "Where are we...?"
"The Shrieking shack." James said with a sigh. "You, Ms Evans, had to get yourself unconcious and with Black and Malfoy and be a ruddy trap for me, eh?"
"But you're here... and so am I... and so is everyone else..." I saw Sirius ready to applaud sarcastically but he stopped at eh last moment, instead biting his lip to try and stop his smirk.
"The plan didn't work Lils..." James chuckled and kissed the top of my head softly. "We're safe. No Voldemort. Personally I think those stupid Slytherin's said that just to scare us..."
"There is one bad thing though..." Sirius sighed grumpily, checking his watch with a grumpy face.
"And what's that?" I asked, standing up with the help of James and Izz.
"The prom's over... and I missed my drinks duty! McGonagall is going to be so pissed with me!"
"At least Hogwart's over now though, you won't see McGonagall anymore!" Remus chortled.
"Hang on... we missed the WHOLE prom? I didn't even get to dance!" I gasped. DAMNIT! My dream prom has now been ruined! And why? BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO AND BE A RUDDY TRAP FOR JAMES!
I hate cliches in which the girl is always the damsel in distress. So sexist!
"I'm sure we'll have plenty of oppurtunities in the future to dance, love." And picking me up bridal style, James and the others and I set out of the Shrieking Shack and back into Hogwarts where, by no doubt, McGonagall and other teachers were wondering where we were.
...
Dear Diary,
I cannot believe that Hogwarts is finally over. Seven years I have been there. And now I am sat at home on my bed wondering what the hell I am supposed to do with my life now. The train journey back to King's Cross was uneventful, no run-ins with the Slytherin's and suprisingly McGonagall let Sirius off. She had smiled at him and patted him on the back. Then she said she would miss him. BLOODY HELL.
Something must be wrong with that Transfiguration teacher.
But now, diary. What should I do? James is my boyfriend and I have plan on staying in touch with all of my friends, mostly because they keep sending stacks of letters and we only finished yesterday! James is going to FINALLY give me my prom dance, which I have been looking forward to since my very first year at Hogwarts. Hopefully I won't trip over or something.
Wish me luck! Love, Lily x
AAAAAAH! I haven't finished the story! I mean I have. On this one, yes. Because Lily has finished Hogwarts. But she hasn't gotten engaged to James yet or had remotely enough embarrasing momets concerning her and James.
Anyhoo, please reiew! And also tell me if you want me to add the new story to this one already, or make a new one altogether? Much appreciated guys! :') x