Of Mudbloods and Sex
(A/N: heyy everyone! let's see... how long has it been? a year? don't worry - never fear! i'm back again!!! consider this chapter a HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY PRESENT!
this school year has just been so hectic... i haven't really had time to write or focus on OMAS at all (unfortunately! sorry everyone!) but i'm back and hopefully i'll be writing more...
as a little update for you all, i'm going to be releasing a brand-spanking new fanfiction this summer... look out for it! it'll be the biggest project i'll ever have embarked on - i've hired on two betas (that's right, not just jamc91 now, i had to get another one) to make sure everything's going to go as planned.
well, no more about me! i shall return to studying international relations while you all can return to the long-awaited chapter update of Of Mudbloods and Sex... thanks all for still reading this fic!)
disclaimer: all recognizable characters, settings, spells, etc are not mine, and are JKR's.
Chapter Nine - Do Somethin'
Lily and Ro sat there, staring at their mutual friend with disbelief, both wondering whether sending her off to St. Mungo's or locking her up in Gryffindor Tower would be more effective in curing her of this madness.
"Everything? Everything but sex?"
"Yes, you've repeated that quite a lot of times now."
"But… everything?"
Kirst snorted and flopped onto her back, staring up at the hangings of Ro's bed.
"You have a better idea?" Kirst retorted.
"Yes, but, I don't know if I'm up for that yet…"
"Well, look at it this way," Kirst said forcefully, turning her head so she could see her friends' faces. "If we don't do it, our plan will fail, and we'll just make fools of ourselves. We fucking put ourselves out there!" Kirst cried, waving her hands. "In front of the entire school, during the Great Feast. You can't possibly give up now!"
"I wasn't saying giving up," Ro whimpered, her eyes wide. "But we don't really have to – "
"But we do!" Kirst cried exasperatedly. "Can't you see that this is the only way?" She looked at her disbelieving friends. "The only effective way?"
Lily and Ro exchanged looks again, as if trying to read each other's thoughts. There was so much at stake here… Kirst, of course, was the most experienced one out of the three of them, thus she had less to risk. Lily and Ro knew that everything that Kirst was suggesting right now were things she had already done, with numerous guys; unfortunately, they themselves had no experience whatsoever. Sure, they did fool around a bit with some boys this summer… But those were summer flings, and didn't get too far. To them, just doing those kinds of things for this to work… To do things like that with just random people… that was foreign. Did Kirst not understand their reluctance?
Kirst waited patiently, knowing that she was pressuring her friends. Finally, Lily turned away from Ro.
"I'll do it," she said, hesitatingly. Kirst watched as her friend strengthened her resolve.
"I'll do it," Lily repeated, determination in her voice.
Kirst turned to Ro, who nodded, although her eyes looked slightly afraid of what the future might bring.
A sly smile spread across Kirst's face, and a mischeivous sparkle – not unlike Potter's – appeared in her eyes. "Good."
"Well, whatever are we going to do next?" Ro asked cautiously, after a minute of silent contemplation.
"Well… we could always crash the party." Kirst looked back up at the hangings thoughtfully.
"... Crash… what party?" Lily asked, confused.
"Uhm, the first-day-back-to-school party we have every year after the feast?" Kirst rolled her eyes, opening the hangings and getting up to open her trunk. "You probably don't remember it because you never go. Or more like, you never go to parties."
"I so do!" Lily cried, getting up to stand beside Kirst, glaring down at Kirst as she continued rummaging in her trunk.
"All right," Kirst said, standing up and admiring a cute black skirt she had just found in her trunk. She set it down before asking Lily challengingly, "Name three parties you've been to, here at Hogwarts. Go on."
Lily opened her mouth to say something, before she closed it again. She did this several times, looking like some sort of strangling fish.
I've been to parties, haven't I? she thought frantically. But alas, she still couldn't think of one single event that she had attended to. No balls? No parties, dances…?
Lily hung her head in defeat. "Fine, so I haven't been to any parties…"
Kirst snorted.
"But," Lily said, glaring, "that doesn't mean I don't know how to party!"
"Oh, really?" Kirst said laughing. She threw something dark blue at Ro, motioning for her to put it on. Ro looked it over first at arm-length before tugging it on. "Well, we'll see tonight, won't we? Do you know how to dance?"
"What kind of question is that?" Lily looked up at Kirst incredulously. She returned to rummaging in her own trunk. "Of course I know how to dance! We learnt at Karl's remember?"
"I don't mean that kind of dancing." Kirst lifted something bright from her trunk, looked at it calculatingly, before throwing it away and her head disappeared in her trunk. "I meant dancing with boys."
"Dancing with the boys?" Ro squeaked.
"Dancing with boys?" Lily asked, frowning. "There's a difference?"
Kirst laughed, finally finding something she thought would suit a Hogwarts dance and shrugging it on. "Oh, my dearest Lily… I don't mean just dancing."
"Oh?" Lily asked, looking at herself in the mirror. "Then what do you mean?"
"Dirty dancing, Lily. Dirty dancing."
"Well, what are we going to do this year?"
Sirius was lying on James' bed, looking up enthusiastically from his spot at James, who was sitting next to Sirius, reading a Quidditch magazine.
"What do you mean? In what area of our lives are you referring to?"
"Well, actually, now that I think about it, that's a good question, but I was sort of referring to tonight."
"The party?"
"Yeah."
James looked up and stared thoughtfully into space. Remus came out of the bathroom, his hair damp from his shower, and sat down next to James.
"I suppose we could attend," James started before Sirius interrupted with his barking laughter.
"When do we not?" Sirius asked, sitting up and slapping James' back good-naturedly. James smirked, and continued, "We could, perhaps bring a little special something with us…"
"Are you on the path of pranks or alcohol?" Peter asked, from his bed. All of the other three Marauders could see that he had gained some weight during the summer, looking more round than usual – his bed was slightly sagging underneath his bulk. Sirius grinned handsomely.
"Alcohol," Sirius and James said simultaneously, making Remus shake his head amusedly.
"Well, we better get ready," Sirius said, standing up and smiling wide.
"What for, my dear Padfoot?" James said, continuing to 'read' his Quidditch magazine. In truth, all he could see was Lily and her gorgeous body.
What new things are going to happen this year? James thought, dreamily.
"Prongs? Prongs? Oi, Prongs, mate!"
This last statement Sirius yelled, causing James to break out of his little reverie.
"What? Oh, right, the alcohol. Do you have any of the Firewhiskey we stole last year?"
"Jamesie boy…" Sirius shook his head. "If your head's in the clouds, how are we supposed to get pranks together this year? Our schemes, our plans?"
"Padfoot, stop kidding around," James said forcefully, standing up and shoving Sirius towards their trunks. "Now get out the Firewhiskey. We need to spike the drinks before people get downstairs… not to mention get dressed."
"What's wrong with what we're wearing right now?" Sirius asked, confused.
"One word, Padfoot," Remus said, who was now looking through James's magazine. "Girls."
James flashed a grin at Remus before turning to Sirius. Lily was going to be swept off her feet tonight. "Exactly."
All three girls stood in front of a mirror that Lily had Summoned from somewhere, looking at their outfits with a critical eye.
"Are you sure you didn't just steal someone's mirror, Lily?" Ro asked worriedly, although she was still tugging at her outfit. "It wouldn't be nice to find out it was someone's and we had Summoned it."
"Well, if it did belong to someone, it was someone stupid enough to not put an Anti-summoning charm on their stuff in Hogwarts," Kirst said, twisting a strand of her hair to put just a little bit more curl into it.
At that moment, they heard a bunch of first years screaming in the Common Room about something like a disappearing mirror of some such that one of them had and had randomly disappeared from their room in front of their eyes. The trio looked at each other before shrugging – they could hear a few of the second years, with their all-worldly experiences at Hogwarts, tell the first years that Hogwarts was such a magical place that things appeared and disappeared all the time.
"Oh, God. Kirst, what do you think?" Lily turned in front of the mirror, not sure whether or not this was 'party-girl' enough for Kirst. Lily had already switched three different outfits, each time being rejected by Kirst, and Lily was at the last straw.
Kirst turned from doing her make-up, gave Lily and once over, and grinned.
"Perfect!" Lily breathed a sigh of relief before re-adjusting her outfit so it would sit right on her shoulders.
"When do you think the party's supposed to start?" Ro asked, who was doing her make-up.
Suddenly, they heard yells in the common room.
"Get outta here, kids! This one's for us old ones!"
"Skedaddle, lads! And remember, don't drink alcohol! Your ol' uncle Sirius doesn't want you to start bad habits on the first day of school!"
"Potter and Black. Who would've guessed." Lily said, rolling her eyes.
"Well, if the party's just getting started, we should just stay up here until it really gets going," Kirst said, flopping onto her bed.
"Right," Lily said, continuing to fix her make-up. "What do you think? Is this too much, or too little?"
Ro came over to look at Lily, tilting her head this way and that way.
"I think it looks great, but whether or not it's party-style is up to Kirst," she decided, motioning over to Kirst. Kirst examined her again, before nodding.
"James is going to fall flat on his ass when he sees you," Kirst said gleefully.
"Well," Lily said, turning away so that they couldn't see her blush, "are we going to have another big entrance again? Or have we had enough for today?"
"Of course we have a big entrance. I've already prepared it," Kirst said smugly.
"Really? How'd you manage to do that?" Ro asked, while being slightly annoyed that Kirst had assumed earlier that they would be going to the dance at all.
"Well…" Kirst started.
James grinned as he watched the dance floor from the sidelines. He took a gulp of his drink – pumpkin punch spiked with Firewhiskey, as usual – and continued to look out amongst the throng of dancers. Someone – undoubtedly Sirius – had put up one of those Muggle disco ball devices and enchanted it to flash brilliant colors throughout the dark room, creating an atmosphere that perfectly matched the mood of the wildly dancing witches and wizards. James was standing alone in a corner, taking a break from dancing with all the single – and taken – girls out there. He smirked as he caught a few girls sending flirtatious smiles at him, and sipped his drink again. He didn't want to enter the crowd again just yet.
In truth, he was thinking about the trio – in other words, Lily. He didn't spot them in the mess of people in the common room, and he had been wondering for the last hour that the party had been going on whether or not she'd choose to come down. Lily and Ro had never attended these House parties, and she had no reason to start now.
But how much I wish she would come down… James thought wistfully, sloshing his drink in his cup.
Suddenly, a new song started, and the dancers on the dance floor responded. On one side, a bunch of people who actually knew how to dance had made a little circle for people to show off their moves. The rest of the room, however, was just a large pulsing mass. On the sidelines, James spotted a bunch of tittering fourth years who were extremely excited to be at the party – as a rule, these House parties were for fourth(-)years and older.
Out of the corner of his eye, James spotted a voluptuous brunette approaching him, smiling slyly. He grinned his trademark Potter Smile and leaned back against the wall, preparing to be assaulted.
"Hey, James," she said, her mouth forming around the words. James' mind went into the gutter for two seconds, thinking about something else her mouth could be around.
"Hey," he said casually back, leaning against the wall. "What's a lovely girl like you doing here and not dancing among your friends?"
"Well, my friends didn't want to come with me, you see…" she started, taking this chance to sidle next to him.
"Oh, really?" he replied, looking down at her and, consequently, down her low-cut top.
"And I was getting kind of lonely… and I wanted to see if I could find someone to keep me company on the dance floor…" He grinned.
"Well, dear lady, you've found the perfect person," he said, leaning in. She smiled slowly back.
They started moving towards the dance floor, but before they had even started to dance together, the music stopped and the room went pitch dark.
"What the fuck?" James frowned, and tried to look around for Sirius, thinking his spell must have messed up somehow.
Suddenly, a completely new song started up, but the room still remained dark. James was about to call for his best friends when a crashing sound was heard and a light came on.
"What?!"
Lily stared incredulously at Kirst while Ro looked a little scared.
"You crazy ass, you mean to tell me that we're going to be doing that as our grand entrance?"
"Hey!" Kirst said defensively. "It's a good song to do right now. And, like, you know it, too."
"Well, but, even so, I mean," Lily blubbered before finally saying coherently, "You know how much I hate dancing!"
"Well, come on, this is a dance, don't you think we should use a dance as an entrance?"
She had a good point.
"Argh!"
"I'll take that as a yes?"
James watched as the trio was illuminated at the top of the staircase. They were all dressed in outfits that showed their now flat stomachs and their finely toned legs, and their eyes were all done with dark colors, showing off their eyes.
They slowly walked down the stairs to the beat of the music as the entire room stood still and watched.
"Do you feel this?" James started as he saw that it was Ro who said this. Her voice was heard around the room as they stalked down the stairs.
"I know you feel this.
Are you ready?
I don't think so…"
The three girls reached the bottom of the stairs where the people have already left a clearing for them as they came down the stairs, and they broke out into a dance that looked well-practiced as Kirst began the first verse.
"Somebody give me my broom,
So I can ride in the clouds,
So I can turn up the base like…
Somebody pass my guitar,
So I can look like a star,
And spend this cash like…"
The girls tossed their heads before throwing a sultry look over their shoulders at their audience and launched into an intense combination while Lily and Ro joined their companion's singing.
"Whatcha gonna do when the crowd goes 'ay-yo'?
Why you standing on the wall?"
Here they pointed at all the people standing around the walls, before giving the entire room a look that said, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
"Music's storming everywhere,
So why don't you just move along?
I see ya lookin' at me,
Like I'm some kind of freak,
Get up outta your seat,"
"Why don't cha do something?" Kirst sang as the trio worked their way into the crowd.
"I see ya lookin' at me,
Like I got whatcha need,
Get up outta your seat,"
"Why don't cha do something?"
The mass of people started moving closer to watch what they were doing as Lily moved to switch places with Kirst as the head of their group.
"Now you're all in my grill,
'Cause I say what I feel,
Only rock to what's real,
Baby,"
"Bump, bump," Ro and Kirst came in.
"But I can't do that with you,
Only here with my crew," Lily glanced over both shoulders at Ro and Kirst who both struck seductive poses.
"I can roll if you can,
Don't be a"
"Punk, punk…"
As they moved in together again for the chorus, James couldn't help but realize that he had been staring nonstop for the last minute now, at the compltely different Lily Evans – a Lily Evans that sang, danced, and flirted so confidently. He couldn't help but realize that he found that his attraction to Lily was so much more potent that he found himself wondering if he could survive the year without getting in her knickers.
The girls had reached the middle of the throng, and stopped singing during an interlude between chorus and verse before standing beside each other. Slowly, with their hands running down their thighs, they semi-squatted, so the final movement was that they were grinding against each other.
A few boys in the room seemed to like this very much.
They stood up again before Ro rotated to the front again as Kirst and Lily continued to dance suggestively behind her.
"I see you lookin' over here," Ro sang, looking around the room.
"Cant you tell I'm havin' fun…
If you care like I know,
You would stop
Starin' at us,
And get your own space,
And do somethin'..."
All three of them moved again to stand next to each other before striking a last sexual pose, singing together, "Why don't you do somethin'?"
For two seconds, no one in the room moved. Then the normal disco lights came on, and the next song started, and the girls started to dance to the beat. The crowd moved in, and James stood there standing next to the brunette whom he had completely forgotten about. A punch in the shoulder brought him to attention as Sirius finally appeared by his side.
"Prongs, mate! Did you see that? Did you see that?!" Sirius was so excited he was still staring over at the girls who were too busy dancing with each other to notice that a bunch of boys were eyeing them within the crowd.
"Yes, Sirius, everyone did," James said, more calmly than he felt. He knew he had to get over there – he noticed the guys that were eyeing the three girls, and he knew that if he didn't get over there quickly, the girls would all have 'dance partners' in no time flat.
"Hey, I'm going to go over there before someone else does," James told Sirius, already starting to make his way over.
"Great idea! I'll join you!" Sirius followed James excitedly through the crowd towards the trio.
(A/N: now i'm afraid i'll have to leave you hanging there... what's going to happen if james tries to dance with lily? hmm... will an explosion go off (like it usually does?) or will something entirely different happen... what if james gets lucky? (in both meanings of the phrase...
review, perhaps?)
2nd disclaimer: song is definitely NOT mine, but is Britney Spears's Do Somethin'.