Sorry if you were waiting for this chapter but I was doing the 40 hour famine where I gave up my computer and I was on a bush walk so I couldn't write anything. But here it is chapter 8 I know that Lily is suppose to hate James and Sirius so this is the chapter where Lily will have to choose between Snape and the others. Sorry to give it away.

Chapter 8: New Kids

Since some kids from the other year stayed during the holidays we were able to take the horseless carriages up to the castle like before when we rode in them down to the station. Snow was falling on the carriage roof as we were taken up to the castle. The snow was only falling lightly and I didn't mind standing outside while we were waiting for Peeves to unlock the Great Hall doors.

"Brr, its freezing." Lily murmured her teeth chattering.

"I'm not that cold but it would be nice to get inside." I replied.

"I'm glad that Potter and Black are behind us with your brothers because they annoy me so much and just get on my nerves." Lily randomly said.

"They're not that bad." Kerry said next to me.

"Well Potter is so arrogant that everything is about him, Black just has a certain way of annoyance that ticks me off and they both can't help but prank innocent people." Lily stated.

"Yay," Alice cheered as people started walking up the few stairs into the hall.

"Yes James may be a bit off a show off but he is nice to everyone, and Sirius is a really nice person and so what if they both like pranking people the Slytherins deserve it most of the time and everyone gets a laugh even if they're the victim." I said trying to convince Lily but she gave a little huff and sat down next to one of the Gryffindor prefects.

"Hey what's up with Lily?" Nick asked me as he and the others sat down next to Remus and Peter who were across from us.

"She's just annoyed at them two," I said jerking my finger at James and Sirius who were starring at one of the blonde Ravenclaws.

"Welcome back everyone, now before we begin the feast I have the pleasure to announce that three new students will be starting this term after moving from France. Two of the students will be in the first year and the other is going to be a 4th year." Dumbledore explained as the three new students were followed by Professor McGonagall into the Great Hall and up to the sorting hat which was sitting on the stall like it did when we were all sorted.

You could tell that they were all related but instead of waiting to be sorted the oldest one was walking to the Ravenclaw table and high fived one of the older Ravenclaw boys.

"Yes welcome back Greggory," Dumbledore said as the other two girls stood looking around the room unsure of what to do.

"Cummins, Mellisa," Professor McGonagall said wasting no time and getting into the sorting.

Melissa looked at her older brother sitting down then back to her twin sister standing behind her before walking up to Professor McGonagall and sat down on the stool once the hat was lifted onto her head.

"Hmm," we all heard the hat say and saw the mouth/brim moving but couldn't hear what it was saying as it talked to Melissa silently. "Gryffindor!"

Melissa slipped off the stool and skipped over to our table taking a seat next to Lily who was offering her room.

"Cummins, Perri."

The other girl walked up to the stool and the hat was placed on her head. Unlike her sister the hat didn't take very long in sorting her and she too joined the Gryffindor table, sitting down next to her sister. I didn't know if it was just me but there was something about the girls that I didn't like, it may have been the way they shot daggers at me before they sat down or smiled so sickly at Lily but the truth was that they didn't seem like the people that I wanted to hang around with and I was annoyed at how I would have to share a dorm with them.

"Now I have a few words to say but that can be done after the feast so dig in."

I piled my plate up with food but not wanting to look like a pig this time I limited my food amount to two plates which was about the same as everyone else. Sirius and Dylan managed to eat four platefuls of food plus desert which was mainly treacle tarts and an assortment of lollies.

"Well I've had enough," I said getting up from the table. Nick shot me a look saying 'you finished' but I just ignored it and followed one of the prefects up to our tower catching up to Lily. I pulled her to the side and down a corridor away from the two new twins that were on either side of her.

"Watch out for those girls, there's something about them." I warned her then pulled her out and acted like nothing happened walking back to the prefect leading us to the tower so we could know the password.

"Okay so the new password is Mistletoe and it will change next week but I will put the new password up in the common room before it changes." The prefect said before walking back down to the Great Hall but was blocked by Alice, Kerry, Remus and James who were coming up to the 7th floor right outside the portrait where I was standing so I decided to wait for the others.

As they reached the top of the stairs and came up to me I said the password and opened the Portrait into the common room.

"Hey so did anyone notice anything weird about the two new girls?" Alice asked.

"No except that they were gorgeous," James said in a daze.

"Let's get to bed, since classes start tomorrow anyway." Remus said dragging James up to their dormitory.

"Night," I said and followed their lead by going up to bed.

When I got into our dorm I saw the two twins throwing stuff everywhere. My bed was already covered with their junk and it looked like they had claimed it even if by trunk was placed at the foot of the bed by the built in draws and they didn't even bother to check the draws for the clothes I had left over the holidays.

"Excuse me, not wanting to disturbe you but that's my bed." I said trying to sound polite but mostly rude.

"Well I like this bed so I'm claiming it." The girl, Perri I think her name was said sitting on my bed. "I hope you don't mind do you?" She asked stating that I was suppose to say no I don't mind but I wasn't going to give in to her.

"Actually I do mind and since I was here first I claimed it first so you can have that bed over there." I sternly told her.

"No! I'm quite happy here and you can't do anything about it." Perri sternly said back.

I heard the door open and I knew that Alice and Kerry had walked in because I could hear them chattering away about Dylan and Remus, how cute and awesome they were, then joined by Lily who said that she could stand those two and Nick but not James and Sirius. Instantly the chatter stopped and the tension in the room rose as Perri and I glared at each other. Melissa had rushed to Lily's aid hoping that she would help them claim my bed for Perri.

"OMG Lily this girl here came in while we were sorting out our stuff and just started at us for no reason," Melissa said trying her hardest and failing to sound scared at me.

I had to roll my eyes. "Lily you do realise that they have taken over our beds," I said just noticing that Melissa had her stuff and extra pillows on Lily's bed.

"I'm sorry Melissa, Perri but those are Max's and my beds so you are going to have to move your stuff to the last two beds by the door." Lily told them, softly but sternly just like McGonagall.

"But why would we want to move to those beds when we can have these?" Perri stubbornly said going back to reorganising her stuff.

I could see the annoyance in her body language and whatever she liked about these girls was gone.

"You are going to have to move," Lily told them one more time.

"NO!" both the girls shouted together and pulled the covers over and hopped into bed.

"Oh No you don't!" I shouted approaching Perri and lifting up my mattress to tip her off the bed.

Perri who was shocked rolled off the bed and landed with a thud on the floor boards. I then went over to Lily's bed and did the same to Melissa but I had to shake the mattress a bit because she was expecting it and was digging her nails into the mattress. Melissa landed with a louder thud and started crying.

I ignored her and yelled at the two twins, "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TAKE WHAT ISN'T YOUR'S YOU EITHER GO TO THE TWO LEFT OVER BEDS OR YOU GET OUT AND LEAVE!" I yelled as loud as I could but the twins were ignoring me as well and Perri was standing next to Melissa to see what happened.

"YOU HORRIBLE GIRL, YOU JUST HURT MY SISTER, HER ARM LOOKS BROKEN AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GOT THE DECENTY TO APPOLOGISE, YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE END OF THIS! WE HAVE JUST BEGUN!" Perri huffed as she and Melissa walked out of the dorm heading for the hospital wing flicking her silky blonde hair behind her right into my face so that it whipped me.

"Ouch," I murmured and I heard footsteps running up the stairs into our room. "What on earth was with all the noise and why was one of the new girls crying and supporting a broken arm?"The fifth year old prefect called Molly asked looking at us suspectingly.

Of course once one of the prefects rushed up to our room the rest of the Gryffindor tower had too.

"Please Miss, it wasn't exactly our fault, you see those girls came in and tried to take, Lily's and Max's beds after they asked them to move. Then they rudely said no and acted like spoilt brats when they were asked again. Max got them out of their beds and onto the floor but one of the twins, Melissa I think fell on her arm and broke it." Kerry explained the best she could but left out the part where I lifted out the mattress and dropped them out of bed.

"I see well Professor McGonagall will want to hear about this and determine the punishments." The prefect announced and left herding everyone out and back to their beds.

"That was amazing Max." Kerry exclaimed and Alice nodded with agreement, Lily looked like she was about to nod then frowned.

"What do we do now?" She asked. "I don't think they're going to be too happy tomorrow morning and there is still all their stuff sprawled across the room.

"We could hide it." Alice sheepishly suggested.

"No." I plainly said.

"We could push their beds out of the circle and over in the worst parts of the room." Kerry suggested.

"Maybe, but I have a better idea." I told them and they all moved closely to listen in.

"We can probably do both those things but we need something to show them that they can't mess with us."

"I've got it, ask Potter and Black to prank them." Lily said quickly and excitedly.

"Lily," all three of us said not believing our ears.

"That's what I was thinking." I said but trying not to make sure I was boasting.

"It's brilliant tho," Alice said.

"Well the first thing tomorrow we'll ask James and Sirius if they want to do it." Kerry said.

"I'm sorry but I can't ask them. Potter and Black just get on my nerves whenever I'm in the same room as them." Lily explained.

"But Lil's it was your idea." I whinged.

"I know, but I don't like them pranking other innocent people but since Perri and Melissa deserve it they can prank them, and like I said Potter and Black just get on my nerves, ever since the train ride on the way here." She replied, her face showing a pinkish tint of embarrassment. "I know that you three are friends with them but can you please let me not me friends with them."

"Okay, I can respect that you don't want to be friends with them and I want you to understand that you can be friends with whoever you want but I might not be." I told her.

"Same here, you can be friends with Snape, I won't care even if I don't exactly like him you've known him better than I have so it's up to you to chose your friends." Kerry said.

"Aww thanks guys you're the best friends I've ever had," Lily said wiping away the lone tears that had fallen down her cheeks as she hugged us all.

"Not wanting to break up the friendship, but I'm not one to show my emotions and feel them as deeply as you guys do." I said pulling out of the hug and went to fix up my bed.

"What are we going to do with Perri's and Melissa's stuff?" I asked.

"Well we could hide them in the boys dorm." Alice suggested.

"Nah, but I know what to do, hang on."

I wrenched open the window forgetting that it was winter until a cold draught filled the room and snow blew in onto my bed. "Hand me their stuff when I get to the window." I said jumping out.

Before I reached the ground I spread my wings out and soared straight up. Kerry had the first pile of clothes and belongings, handed them to me and I scattered them along the grounds. After about ten trips all their stuff was scattered from the courtyard to the edge of the forbidden forest and I was back in the room before Perri came back to bed.

" are my clothes!" she screamed and if anyone was asleep they wouldn't be now.

"What," I said rubbing my eyes pretending that I was asleep even though I just got into bed.

Lily and Alice had pulled their curtains apart pretending to have just woken up. It was 11 O'clock and Perri had been gone for an hour so we could make it look like we had been asleep since she left.

"You!" she shot me daggers as she ripped my curtains apart.

"What?" I said sternly.

Kerry would have been the best to get us out of this situation but she also happened to be the deepest and quickest sleeper out of us all and was sleeping soundly.

"If you don't give it all back I'll, I'll..." she stuttered.

"You'll what?" Alice said bravely.

I was kind of surprised, Alice was the one who always lurked in the shadows behind Kerry and me and mainly hung around Lily when we all hung out together. In our little group of four it was me and Kerry who came up with the fun and brave ideas, Lily would always check our homework and help us if we got stuck in a class while Alice was the comforting and silent type, yet she could always get the conversations going and make the best jokes.

"I'll tell my brother."

"Ooo I'm scared," I laughed.

"You won't be when he gets through you as a matter of fact." She said not convincingly.

"Well we don't have your stuff." Lily said walking up to her and looking down to her face.

I only just realised that the two twins were really small, but thin for their age. I was the tallest since I was made by scientists and all us bird kids were tall for our age, even Amelia. Lily, Kerry and Alice were about the same height but the two new girls were much smaller than us. Of course they weren't ugly but really pretty. Both were identical with bright blue eyes, long straight blonde hair. Perri was wearing a bright pink headband that pushed her hair off her face and a heart shaped silver locket.

"Where is my stuff?" she screamed this time causing one of the Gryffindor prefects, the 6th year girl I think to come into our dorm accompanied by Professor McGonagall.

"What is all this racket? Its 11 O'clock and everyone is trying to sleep, but since you 4 are making such a racket everyone is wide awake." She looked over at Kerry's bed, her curtains were drawn shut and you could hear her breathing deeply. "Well almost everyone."

I had to hide a smile and I knew that McGonagall was too, no one could sleep through any off this in the whole Gryffindor Tower but Kerry could and she was in the same room.

"Ms they stole my stuff." Perri innocently and perfectly said.

"We don't have her stuff Ms," Alice truthfully admitted.

It was true, we stole her stuff but we didn't have it anymore.

"Excuse me Professor McGonagall, since I couldn't sleep through the racket that these girls were making." A 2nd year girl said and instantly knew that she was a teacher's pet who was willing to do anything to make herself look good. "I looked out the window to see where the noise was coming from and I noticed all these clothes blowing around on the Quiditch pitch."

I glared at the girl trying to get her to shut up but it was no use the 2nd year just smiled at me behind McGonagall's back.

"That's probably my stuff, they must have taken it outside." Perri protested.

"I think they did too Professor." The 2nd year added.

"Thankyou Annabelle for that information would you please go back to your bed now. You too Hanna." Professor McGonagall told the 2nd year and the prefect to go to bed before she turned on me, Alice and Lily.

"What made you three think about taking Miss Cummins clothes?" She asked.

"Well Professor it was just me that took them, not the others." I admitted.

"Detention Miss Ride, with me for a week and you will be taken outside by Mr Filch to collect anything that belongs to Miss Cummins." I gulped, but I could survive a week of detentions the boys always get detentions and they still break the rules, I'm not going to be any different.

"Professor Melissa's stuff isn't here as well." Perri sickly said in her best good girl act.

"We'll Miss Ride we better get to Mr Filch right away or it will be 2 weeks of detention." McGonagall announced and waited for me to leave the dorm so she could take me down to Filch's office.

Well that's chapter 8 done. I hope you liked it. Please tell me what you think of the two twins I want to try and make them the ones that gossip and have to do everything perfectly. Please Read and Review. If I don't get 10 reviews by the end of September I'm going to stop writing. Also if you want me to add anything please tell me. If you have any ideas please tell me. I want to know your feedback and what you didn't like.

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