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I do not own of JK Rowling's wonderful work, only the characters that you may not recognize from the original story.
"How can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know."
Finally it was Friday. The day the whole school had been waiting for since the announcement of the Halloween ball in September. Girls gushed to each other as to what they were wearing, while boys shrugged off others judgements when it was found out they did not have a date.
The school was buzzed with excitement. A night to laugh and be kids was needed to lighten the mood in the dark times that the children of twelve to seventeen faced. For such a young age, they knew too much. Too short was their days of adolescence.
That morning Lily had woken up extra early to watch the sun rise; somethng she hadn't done in a long time. She watched as the magnificent colors danced across the sky, pulling up the sun as the day began. She was hoping for some answers, but it just prodded her with more confusion.
She wondered the whole week what she was to do. Lily could barely even handle talking to James anymore. All her words had become jumbled whenever he was around, her palms sweaty and her heart thudded so hard and fast that it made her breathing become rapid, making her light headed. An all around disaster on feet Kela had told her.
Patrolling at night had been exceptionally difficult, when only it was James and Lily walking around in the dark. She had begun to bring study notes with her, to make her seem busy. But really she ended up reading the same word over and over again, while trying to think of a witty way to tell James.
But still Lily was unsure. She had found her mind drift back to the time before summer when she had sat with James watching the sunset. How comfortable she had been with him. Sitting in silence or talking, it felt right.
'No Lily! This is James you are talking about.' She thought as she applied makeup to her face. 'He's just got you physically attracted to him. You can't honestly think you'd be together. It's just your pheromones talking.'
She looked at herself in the mirror one last time before dashing towards the great hall, avoiding walking with James.
"Hey Lils', where's James?" Kela asked suspiciously as she saw her red headed friend dash into the great hall alone.
"Uh, he's not here?" Lily stuttered. "I thought he had already left..." She shifted her eyes from looking at Kela. Her two best friends would always be able to see behind the lies she spoke.
"Nope. Not yet." Sirius said in between mouthfulls of sausage and pancakes. "He always waits for you. Don't want no one coming up and hexing ya."
Lily tried her best not to roll her eyes at his comment. "Well isn't that thoughtful."
Sirius shrugged and went back to his food. Remus sat beside him with a look of disgust. "Do you even stop to breathe?"
The others stopped to look at the seventh year. "I multitask actually, Moony. You should try it sometime."
Marcy, Kela, Lily and Peter laughed. "I do, but I also like to be able to taste my food."
Sirius once again shrugged and kept on eating.
"You guys excited for tonight?" Remus asked the girls.
"Yes! I have been dying to wear my costume! You?" Kela exclaimed.
Remus smiled. "Yeah, it'll be nice to relax for a night."
"Easy for you all to be excited. We have to patrol till two in the morning AND clean up after the ball. This night is going to suck." Lily sighed.
"Well we all can help you clean up if you'd like." Marcy offered.
Lily smiled. "That would actually be great. I don't even know if we can count on the Prefects with helping, no offence you two." Lily gestured to Remus and Marcy. "But do you think the others will actually stay behind to help?"
James plopped himself down on the other side of Sirius across from Kela. "Stay behind for what?"
Lily stopped talking and looked down at her plate. Kela hid a smirk. "If the Prefects will actually stay behind to help clean up. We don't think they will, so Sirius, Peter and I are going to stay and help the four of you."
"Ahh.." James nodded. "Then we got patrol. Right Lily?"
Lily nodded. "Uh, yeah."
The classes begun and the students felt as if each minute lasted an hour. Kela looked to see only a mere two minutes had past since the time when she had looked to see the time. She really enjoyed the birthday present Lily had given her in her sixth year, a watch.
She had found it to be most helpful when she got bored and wanted the class to be over.
Kela was thoroughly looking forward to the evening ahead of her. She was going with her best friend and would be hanging out with people that she had truly begun to really care for. She felt as if they had begun to become a small family. Well six of them at least. Kela scrunched her nose when she looked over at Peter who was digging into his nose.
'Gross!' She thought.
The one thing about potions in her seventh year that Lily hated was how Professor Slughorn liked to change up the partners to make sure that everyone was doing equal amount of work. Normally she would of paired up with Kela, Sirius and James would of gone together and Remus and Marcy would be together. But not today. Slughorn had decided to torture the class. Or that's just how Lily felt.
She was partnered up with Sirius. He was none-stop gabbing about the nights upcoming events, which included James.
"Aren't you excited? Spend the whole night with me! And well James. And I guess the others. But mostly me, no James. You and James will have lots to do, won't you?" Sirius questioned.
Lily felt like she was being interrogated. Her face had become flaming hot, with the redness it brung. "Yes. Being the Head students, we do have a lot to do. Read me the next instruction."
"But you two get to spend so much time together!"
"Sirius. Next instruction!"
"Are you avoiding something Lils'?"
"Sirius?" Lily said sweetly.
"Yes?"
"READ ME THE NEXT INSTRUCTION NOW!"
"Fine. Avoidence! Chop the root into thin equal slices... James thinks you hate him... And add them in one at a time, stirring counter-clockwise."
"Okay. Okay. What? How? Stir it."
"You tell me Lils'."
Lily sighed. This was going to be a long class.
James watched closely as his best friend was paired up with the girl that had grabbed his heart.
"...so you just have to add two pinches.. James? Earth to James! Are you even listening to me?" Marcy flailed her arms in front of the head boys face. "Hello?"
"Huh? Oh yeah. Stir. Yup." James shook his head. "Sorry, what Marcy?"
"Oh, James!" Marcy sighed. "You really need to take five minutes to not think of Lily. Please, then we can discuss what is on your mind."
James laughed, his face turning red. "That obvious?"
"Uh huh!" Marcy shook her head.
As lunch began, the excitement in the air wasn't hard to see. Many people sat in groups gushing over what each other was wearing, or who was going with who.
"Is it just me, or does no one realize we still have classes?" Marcy asked the others.
"They're just excited! Like me!" Kela laughed. She too could feel the giddiness in the air. "This night is going to be remembered."
"Or not.." Sirius murmured so only himself, Remus and James could hear. The three boys laughed as what was to come.
"What was that?" Lily narrowed in on the three gryfinndors. "You three promised nothing bad would happen. Bad equals not remembering."
Sirius and James exchanged a look. "It's not that big of a deal. There'll be lots of parties tonight. There's gonna be one in every house, well maybe not Slytherin one. But you get the point. Just loosen up for once, Lils!" James pleaded. This was the first time the two have spoken all day and he felt it was headed in the direction he did not want to go.
"You said nothing bad would happen. And I swear if it does you will never, and I'm saying this to all three of you," Lily pointed at the three boys across from her. "you will never have children. I will make sure of it. Myself and my black high heels."
"You're wearing high heels? That's hot!" Sirius raised his eyebrows at her. "Black ones are even hotter."
Lily rolled her eyes and got up to leave. "I'm going to pretend that you never said that. Are you all coming to class?"
Finally the students were released from their afternoon classes. Most ran up to drop off their books and talk with one another about that evening.
There was a light snack to be served an hour after classes were done, since dinner was going to be two hours later then usual.
Lily sat in the heads room finishing up her potions essay that was due on Monday. With only two inches left, she quickly took stretched our her limbs and turned her head to James' door. He was off with the marauders, doing something. Lily did not want to know the details as to what they were doing. She only knew that it involved tonights escapades.
She sighed. 'You miss him, Lily.' She thought to herself. 'He's not going to wait any longer. There's so many girls after him. So many prettier girls after him.' Lily thought back to the rumors that she had heard during the week. Of all the girls planning on seducing James tonight with their costumes. 'Maybe he's better off with one of them.'
"Got everything?" Remus asked as the four marauders made their way up one of the many tunnels in Hogwarts.
"Yeah, I hope we didn't forget anything." James commented after sticking his head out to make sure the coast was clear. "We should just drop this stuff off in my room. So Lily doesn't see it yet."
The other three agreed and headed quickly to the heads room before going to grab a quick bite to eat.
The seven seventh year gryfinndors quickly chatted and ate a bit before all heading back to the heads room to get ready.
The three girls parted from the four boys as they headed into Lily's room. The others sat themselves down on the couches chatting since, boys did not need nearly as much time as girls do getting ready.
"So Lily, are you ready for tonight?" Kela asked with a glint in her eye.
"Uh," Lily frowned. "should I be scared?"
"Nope." Marcy smiled. "Just ready."
"Ready for what exactly?" Lily asked.
"To tell James." Kela smiled.
"Tell him..."
"That you are smitten over him of course!" Marcy and Kela giggled.
"Tonight is going to be the best night ever!"
A/N: Is that a bit of a cliffhanger? I think so!
Next chapters preview:
Her eyes held tears as she saw what was going on. Never had she thought it would hurt so much. She was too late. She had waited too long.
Her heart dropped as she knew that her life had forever changed, she would not have the happy ending.
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!
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