AUTHOR'S NOTE: Salvation-ala-mode is officially a life saver. I'm trying very hard to make my charachters believeable, and I realize that I'm going too fast with the plot, so I'm gonna take the time to slow it down. So thank you, Salvation-ala-mode for helping me out sooo much! And for people who think I have my James Potter facts wrong, I found these on the internet, confirmed by J.K. Rowling.
He was a chaser. He was only playing with a snitch because it is more impressive than a quaffle. And he was Head Boy. Don't ask me how, because I don't know. But he was. Plain and simple. Thanks
"Look, I don't know what happened between you two," Sirius said the next night at dinner, "but this has got to stop."
"No, it doesn't," Loraina said stubbornly.
"I've tried to apologize!" Delilah scoffed. "But little miss perfect is too stubborn to accept my apology!"
"I am not stubborn!" Loraina hissed at her.
"Really now?"
"Yeah! I am not! I'm not, am I, Lily?"
"Erm...I'm staying out of this?" Lily said.
"That's all you've said all day, Lily," James said slowly. "Are you okay?"
"I'm staying out of this," Lily said in monotone.
"Lily," James said, shaking her shoulders slightly. "Speak."
"I'm staying out of th-" she began, but Sirius shoved a roll in her mouth.
"Dear God, woman, shut up!" Sirius exclaimed. "We get that you're staying out of this."
"Sorry," Lily said. "They've never fought before!"
"We know," the Marauders chorused.
"Could you not talk about us like we're not here?" Loraina asked.
"Yeah, that would be appreciated."
"You know what? No. Until they settle their petty little argument, I am not speaking to either of them directly," Lily said, crossing her arms to prove her point.
"Oh Merlin," James groaned, dropping his head into his arms. "Lily, you're only going to add more conflict."
"I don't care!" she snapped, looking at him heatedly.
"Erm..."
"You guys are all being stupid," Sirius said through a mouthful of chicken. "I mean really. Loraina stood up for Delilah. Big whoop."
"She stood up for me and screwed herself over," Delilah said indignantly.
"And Delilah is being ungrateful."
"I am not being ungrateful!"
"I'm out of here!" Lily screeched, grabbing her books and racing out of the Great Hall.
"Now look what you did!" Delilah challenged Loraina.
"Me? You did that!"
"I did not!"
"That is it!" James growled, slamming his goblet down. "You two need to work this out, and talk it out like the sixteen year olds you are, not like the six year olds you're being!"
"Well put," Remus chimed in. When both glares turned on him with ferocious expressions, he meekly said, "Sorry. I'll take a leaf out of Lily's book and stay out of it."
That earned a chuckle from Sirius, but everyone else just kind of glared at him. He shrugged it off. He had tried.
Loraina took a deep breath before turning to Delilah. "Delilah, I'm sorry but I feel like you're being ungrateful. Your father can't possibly be that bad."
"But he is! I'm only angry because I'm afraid you're going to get hurt! You're like my sister, Loraina, and I don't want to lose you!"
"My father is really bad, too. But he wouldn't attack my friends, even if he is a bastard."
"But mine would, Raina. I'm just scared for you, okay?" Delilah sighed.
"Okay. I'm sorry," Loraina said with a smile.
"Me too."
The girls hugged and Sirius pretended to gag on his food. Remus rolled his eyes when Sirius actually started gagging and pounded him on the back a few times. James grinned, giving himself credit for the two of them making up.
"We might want to apologize to Lily," Delilah said sheepishly.
"Yeah," Loraina agreed, gulping. "You ready to face her wrath?"
"If you are," Delilah said with a small laugh.
"Let's go," Loraina laughed, linking arms with her best friend and walking out of the Great Hall without a single word to the Marauders.
"Hey!" Sirius called after them. "Thanks for saying goodbye!"
Neither of the girls showed that they heard him, but James laughed anyway. "You just got dissed."
"Lily?" Delilah said softly as they entered the Head's common room.
"I'm in here," Lily called from her room.
The girls went up the carpeted stairs and entered Lily's bedroom, which had been personalized to her taste. The comforter was a pure, white cotton. There were dark green pillows strewn on the bed, and a green fuzzy blanket over the edge of the bed. The walls were the same hunter green, and Lily had taped several pictures of her friends on the walls. There was one large picture in the middle of the wall, right across from Lily's bed, that was of Lily, Delilah, and Loraina on Christmas the year before. They were decked out in snow stuff, with pink faces and dazzling smiles. Lily was holding up a peace sign, while Delilah held up a rock on sign. Loraina made a heart with both hands, and every few seconds, they would drop the signs and hug each other, before resuming their previous positions.
"I remember that," Loraina said fondly, touching the picture with her fingertips. "That was such a fun Christmas."
"It really was," Delilah said, smiling as well.
"Have you two sorted yourselves out?" Lily asked dubiously.
"Yeah, we have," said Loraina. "We realized we were being stupid."
"Good."
"Oh, c'mere Lily," Delilah said warmly, pulling her into a group hug.
"We are such dorks," Lily laughed as they pulled out of the hug.
"You can say that again."
"What do you guys say to a good old sleepover?" Loraina said suddenly.
"We haven't had one in a long time."
"We haven't really had girl time at all," Delilah said.
"And we haven't had time to gush on the boys!" laughed Lily.
"So, let's do it! Like old times!"
"Like old times," Lily and Delilah chorused.
In minutes, the girls had told the portrait that guarded the Head quarters to tell James to sleep elsewhere. They had set up a magical karaoke machine, broke out Lily's stash of junk food, and set up sleeping bags in the common room.
"Okay, who's going first?" Lily said, indicating the karaoke machine.
"Delilah," Loraina said automatically, pointing to her friend, who laughed pleasantly and stood up.
"How about we all do the first one together?"
"Okay," Lily and Loraina agreed.
A fun, upbeat song began to play and the girls started jumping around with the plastic microphones.
Don't call me
Leave me alone
Not gonna answer my phone
Cuz I don't
No I won't see you
I'm out to have a good time
To get you off of my mind
Cuz I don't
And I won't need you
Time to dial 911
Cuz we're gonna have some fun
Hey boy you know you better run
Cuz it's a girls night
It's alright without you
I'm gonna stay out
And play out
Without you
You better hold tight
Cuz girls nights without you
Let's go GNO
Let's go GNO
Let's go GNO
Let's go
It's a girls night
I'll dance with somebody new
Won't have to think about you
And who knows what that will lead to
You'll here from everyone
You'll get the 411
Hey boy you knew this day would come
Cuz it's a girls night
It's alright without you
I'm gonna stay out
And play out
Without you
Let's go GNO
Let's go GNO
Let's go GNO
Let's go
Hey boy
Don't you wish you could've been a good boy
Try to find another girl like me boy
Feel me when I tell ya I am fine and it's time for me to draw the line
Hey boy
Don't you wish you could've been a good boy
Try to find another girl like me boy
Feel me when I tell ya I am fine and it's time for me to draw the line
Cuz it's a girls night
It's alright without you
I'm gonna stay out
And play out
Without you
You better hold tight
Cuz girls nights without you
Let's go GNO
Let's go GNO
Let's go GNO
Let's go
It's a girls night.
They all fell on the ground, laughing at each other's ridiculous dance moves and exhausted from screaming the lyrics to the song. After getting situated in their sleeping bags and temporarily putting the karaoke machine away, they got started on the gush fest.
"Okay, so who does everyone like?" Delilah asked as she flopped onto her stomach, putting her chin in her hands.
"I don't really like anyone," Loraina said automatically. When she received dubious looks from both of her friends, she rolled her eyes. "Fine. So I have a miniscule crush on Remus. But we're talking tiny."
"Fine," Delilah groaned. "I was so convinced that you liked him a lot!"
"I hardly know him," Loraina said with another eye roll.
"That's how it is with James," Lily chimed in. "I mean, I think that I like him, but I don't really know him, do I?"
"Sirius is creeping me out," Delilah stated plainly. "He keeps giving me these weird, glazed over, love sick kind of looks."
"He looooooveeeessss you!" Lily sang teasingly.
Delilah, to her friends' surprise, blushed and hid her face in her pillow. "YOU LIKE HIM!" Loraina screamed.
"Okay, so maybe a little," Delilah said quietly. "I'm gonna use you guys' bullshit excuse of 'I don't know him', okay?"
Lily and Loraina both laughed, and the girls changed the subject away from the Marauders.
Author's Note: Okay, so I'm not entirely sure what happened to this chapter. Suddenly, it became one of those obnoxiously corny chick-bonding chapters, but I think it ended up okay, because it focused a lot on the friendship between the girls, which I don't feel was really emphasized enough. I think the next chapter will focus on the Marauder friendship, because I haven't really written much about them.
Review, please. I will update either way, but I would really like some feedback.
