…And in the Twenty Second Hour…

"Peter, just tell me what it is!" Lily persisted, but Peter ignored her in favor of scribbling on the parchment.

He had been ignoring her or shushing her for the past five minutes. But Lily couldn't understand it…Why would you tell someone that you had something to tell them, and then say nevermind? It was driving her crazy. She HAD to know what it was. Obviously it was something big. It had to be. He had said it so ominously that she was sure that it was something terrible.

The more she thought about when he had said that, the crazier the memory got. She was almost at the point where she couldn't remember what had really happened, but she was sure that it had been something like-

Flashback

"LILY!" Peter said in hushed, panicked tone, "I have to tell you something." He put an EXTREME amount of emphasis on that last word, and as he said it, storm clouds broke out in his eyes. His eyes became darker, the lines of his face more serious. His WHOLE BODY was SCREAMING that whatever it was that he had to tell her, it was going to be the most important thing she would ever hear.

And Lily could SWEAR that his gaze shifted over to Remus, James, and Sirius. It had to be James. James must be in trouble. Maybe he had done something awful. Whatever it was that Peter had to tell her, Lily HAD to know what it was and she had to know NOW.

"What is it?" She asked in a terrified voice, but Peter had just laughed and waved her off.

"Oooooh nothing." He said offhandedly before his gaze shifted back to where the boys were standing. They shifted so fast, it was almost undetectable. Then, suddenly, Peter lost his nonchalant look, and the storm clouds were back. He was suddenly very, VERY serious. "I'll you…later."

There was that extreme emphasis again.

End flashback

And now that we've seen the flashback of what Lily is absolutely certain is the truth and has in no way been overdone by her overactive mind, we know why she HAS to find out what Peter has to say.

"Peter, if you don't tell me, I'm going to lose my mind!" She said shrilly as she none-too-gently ruffled her hair with both hands in anxiety.

He looked up from his paper with a lifted eyebrow. "Your hair is a mess."

"Tell me!"

He sighed. "Lily, it's no big deal, relax. I'll tell you when-"

"NO!" she pleaded. "Tell me now! Tell me! Tell me! TELL ME!"

"Good grief!" He looked rather annoyed but Lily didn't care at the moment. The curiosity alone was going to kill her.

"Tell me!"

"Fine!" He sighed again. "I just remembered that the other day-"

"Hey Lily, can I have a piece of your candy?" James popped up from no where with the Easter basket that the evil owl had brought. She almost screamed in agitation but managed to control herself.

"Yeah, sure," she waved him off. "Go over there, don't look at the questions."

James was grinning as he walked away with the basket. Lily took a split second to appreciate his backside as he walked off. He had nice backside. At least, that was what Lily thought. Even when she had hated him, she could still appreciate a good butt.

Shaking away her thoughts of butts, and failing miserably, Lily turned back to Peter.

"Ok, butt—I mean, what were you saying?"

"The other day," he started quietly, "actually, it was like a week ago…or was it two weeks? I forgot, let me think," he scratched his chin in thought.

"I don't care when it was, just tell me!" She snapped impatiently.

"Yeah, it was most definitely three weeks ago," Peter continued as though he hadn't heard her. "I know it was three weeks ago because it was right after that quidditch match versus Hufflepuff where James almost-"

"Oh for the love of-" Lily said in exasperation. "Just tell me already!"

"Fine," Peter said, looking offended. "Two weeks ago, I was in my room…er, actually, I was in the bathroom," he blushed. "You know…"

She stared. "Taking a crap?"

"Lily!" He looked appalled before he suddenly chortled. "Yes. Haha…you said crap."

Once again, Lily thought about how gross boys were. "Please just get on with the freaking story!"

"Oh yeah," Peter said, "so I was laying some cable-"

Despite her impatience, Lily burst into a fit of giggles and Peter soon joined her.

"What are you two laughing about?" Remus called from the other side of the room.

He was only answered with more giggling.

"Ok...anyway, continue," Lily finally said after a moment.

"Ok," Peter nodded. "So I was dropping some dumplings-"

"OH MY GOD!" Lily burst into laughter again and quickly tried to compose herself. "Stop doing that!"

"Doing what?" Peter asked with a mischievous glint in his eye.

"You know what!"

"Alright," he said slowly as she got her laughter under control, "so I was-" he stopped and looked at Lily as she fought to control herself, "using the bathroom…When Sirius and Remus walked into the room. They were talking, and honestly, I don't know how they didn't smell it because it was BAD."

Lily pinched her leg to keep from laughing.

"Continue," she told Peter through gritted teeth.

"But they were talking about you…and James…and how to best…get you two together…."

Flashback

Peter quietly washed his hands as he listened to Sirius and Remus talking in the next room. He wasn't particularly trying to be quiet, but he had the strange feeling that at some point later in time he would wish that he had been silent and listened to what his friends were saying. So he quietly pressed his ear to the door and what he heard was-

"They're fighting so much more lately, I don't know why," Sirius was saying, "and everytime they fight, Prongs becomes more and more depressed. I hate seeing him like that. He says that she asked him out for the next Hogsmeade trip last week. Do you believe that story?"

"Actually," Remus said, "her friend Debbie told me that it was true….Wow…I don't know how they're going to stand each other's company for a whole date if they keep fighting so much. Lily's got to like him at least a little if she asked him out."

"Maybe," Sirius said. "And if she doesn't…Remus, we have to make her. We have to do something or else Prongs is going to run and jump off a cliff in all his misery."

"So what do you propose?" Remus asked.

The room fell silent for a long while. Peter almost thought that maybe they had left without him knowing it when suddenly Sirius spoke again.

"We could always-"

"I know!" Remus said suddenly, "let's lock them in a room together!"

"No," Sirius said, sounding excited, "let's TRAP them in a room together!"

"Yeah, we could get some of that magical glue and put it on the lock or something," Remus said, sounding like he was really enjoying himself. "They have different time amounts you can get…twelve hours, six hours, and twenty four hours."

"Twenty four hours!" Sirius said happily. "We can trap them in a room together for twenty four hours and MAKE Lily like him. I'm positive it could work."

"Why wouldn't it?" Remus piped cheerfully.

Sirius laughed. "It will work! And when it does, Prongs might be so grateful that he gives me his broomstick!"

"Um…ew."

"Not that, you perv," Sirius said, "I mean his actual broomstick."

Remus chuckled and the sound of someone getting hit echoed through the door to Peter.

"Ow," Remus said, "Anyway…I guess we'll get some next week when we go to Hogsmeade."

"Yes, definitely."

End flashback

"IT WAS REMUS?" Lily burst loudly, causing everyone in the room to turn to her.

"Well, technically, it was both of them," Peter pointed out, "But…yeah, Remus came up with it."

"What was me?" Remus asked worriedly.

"YOU trapped us in here!" Lily pointed an accusing finger at him. "This whole thing was all your idea!"

"Oh…what do you know…?" Remus said sheepishly, "I guess it was….sorry."

There were several things Lily could do at the moment. She could scream, she could cry, she could throw herself down on the floor and kick and scream and cry, she could go lay down in her bed and wish really, REALLY hard for this nightmare to be over, she could attack Remus, she could throw Remus out of the window, she could wait until she got out of here and hexed Remus to within an inch of his life, she could run over for no reason at all and grab James's amazingly toned butt, or she could take it like a lady.

Lily couldn't decide which of these she would rather do, so she did the same thing that anyone would do.

She pulled out the booze.

Or to be more precise, she picked the booze that she had already pulled out and took a big swig of it. Yes, because alcohol can fix all your problems.

Let's not forget that, kids.

…

A/N: LOL please don't take that last line seriously. Alcohol fixes nothing!

Just to add some random fun to this, pick one of those things that Lily wanted to do and whichever gets the most votes, Lily will do in the next chapter.