Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen this is Bob and I will be your tour guide. Much to popular belief this is not my first tour guide position, in fact I was a tour guide at sea world but it wasn't my fault the kid fell in, I only dared him I didn't double dare so he didn't have to do it. Anyway lets get going......
Disclaimer: Blueskywillow does absolutely not own Harry Potter - Past, Present or Future, she merely runs the tour. And just to mention she doesn't get paid either, after all the tour is free.
Chapter 7
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The week passed nearly the exact same way. Lily and James snuck off at every chance they could. On Saturday morning Lily had gotten up early to meet James. It was just past eight o'clock when she came back to her dorm again. She wasn't expecting anyone to be awake yet so she tip toed into the room and lay down on her bed. She lay there thinking about James when a sound interrupted her thoughts. Lily sat up on her bed. The noise had come from the bathroom. Lily heard it again. This time it was more distinctive than before. Someone was being sick. Lily walked lightly to the bathroom door and opened it slightly. She peeked through the crack and to her horror she seen Michelle being sick in the toilet. Lily ran into her friend.
"Michelle? Michelle are you okay?" Lily asked panicked. Michelle jumped up and wiped her mouth. She ran over to the sink and washed her face. "Michelle?" Lily asked again. Lily was now standing behind her friend. Michelle looked up and into the mirror. She looked at Lily then smiled.
"I'm fine Lily. I just had too much chocolate last night." Michelle said shrugging. Lily didn't fall for it. 1) Michelle couldn't lie to her and 2) Michelle didn't eat chocolate. Lily looked at her friend again. "I'm fine." Michelle pushed. She turned round and went to walk away from Lily when Lily blocked her path.
"Michelle you're not okay." Lily said. A thought then crossed her mind. "Your not...Bulimic, are you?" Lily asked urgently. Michelle smiled.
"Don't be silly." Michelle said.
"If you're not bulimic then what's wrong?" Lily asked sympathetically. Michelle went to walk away again but Lily grabbed a hold of her arm and looked into her eyes. Michelle tried to avoid her gaze but couldn't. Michelle couldn't help it; Lily's emerald eyes were so trusting.
"I'm...pregnant." Michelle said looking down. Lily's eyes widened. Lily let go of her arm.
"Are - Are you sure?" Lily asked. Michelle shrugged.
"I'm late." Michelle replied sitting on the edge of the bathtub.
"But maybe it's just irregular you know this month. How late is it?" Lily asked. Michelle looked at the ground.
"3 weeks." Michelle said quietly. Lily's eyes widened.
"But - But you told me during the week that you...." Lily trailed off.
"I'm sorry I lied. I just didn't know what to say." Michelle said putting her head her hands. Lily looked at her friend; She looked so helpless, so vulnerable. Lily walked over to her and hugged her.
"Are you positive? I mean have you taken a test?" Lily asked comfortingly. Michelle looked at Lily and shook her head. "Well then, we can go into Hogsmeade today and get one." Lily said. Michelle hugged Lily. Lily took Michelle back to bed then went down into the common room. Barely anyone was up except for a few second years'. Lily walked up the stairs to the boys' dormitories and knocked on the seventh year boys' door.
"Whadya want?" A voice called from inside. Lily banged at the door. Footsteps could be heard then the door swung open and Peter stood in the doorway in a pair of Quidditch pajamas. Lily tried not to laugh. She walked into them room and Peter closed it behind her. James was lying on his bed talking to Sirius who was also lying on his bed but was only wearing a pair of boxers. Remus walked out of the bathroom. Lily looked round at the room. It was exactly the same as the girls except a lot messier.
"And what do we owe for this very unexpected visit?" Sirius smiled.
"Can we talk?" Lily said impatiently to James. James looked at her with his eyebrows furrowed then nodded his head and stood up.
"Don't keep him to long now Lily, we have practice soon and we know how you girls like to make it last." Sirius laughed. James, who was holding a qauffle in his hands, threw it at Sirius. It just missed him but Sirius got the point to shut up. James walked out of the room with Lily. They went down to the common room and sat in the corner so they couldn't be heard.
"What's wrong?" James asked, concern in his voice.
"I need to borrow your cloak and the map." Lily said.
"Why?" James asked.
"Michelle and I need to go into to Hogsmeade." Lily said. She looked at the ground.
"Why?" James asked again
"Look James, I can't tell you. Not right now anyway." Lily said pleadingly. James looked into her eyes and knew it must be important if she couldn't tell him. "Is that okay?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, of course it is. It must be important." James said.
"Thank you." Lily said sincerely. James smiled at her. Half an hour later Lily and Michelle were standing in a secret tunnel on their way to Hogsmeade. Michelle had knew about the map and the Invisibly cloak for a long time so it didn't shock her when she seen it. What shocked her was that James had actually given it to Lily.
"How did you get it off him? I've been trying for ages but he would never give it to me." Michelle said as they walked.
"He owed me a favor." Lily lied. They walked on in silence. Finally Lily voiced the question that had been on her mind.
"Michelle, don't get mad at me for asking but who is the guy?" Lily asked. Michelle looked at the ground and didn't answer. Lily got the point not to push the subject any further. They didn't talk until they got to the end of the tunnel. They slowly opened the trap door that led into the Three Broomsticks. Lily and Michelle slipped out of the pub and walked towards the apothecary at the end of the street. Michelle and Lily walked in and looked around the place. They then stopped when they seen a familiar figure. Madame Pomfrey, the new school nurse, was standing at the counter. Lily and Michelle hid behind one of the large shelves until she left. They didn't realize were they were standing until Madame Pomfrey walked out of the shop.
"That was easy." Lily commented. Michelle had gotten very nervous when she seen the pregnancy test on the shelve. Lily noticed this; she picked up the test. "I'll get it." Lily said. Michelle nodded then walked out of the store. Lily breathed deeply then walked towards the counter. The old woman behind it gave Lily a look then put the test in a bag. Lily walked out of the store as fast as she could. Michelle was standing outside the door. Lily put the bag in her back pack that the cloak and the map was in then linked arms with Michelle and walked back to the Three Broomsticks. Meanwhile James was on his broomstick watching practice below him. He was barely even watching it, he was to busy thinking about a certain red head. Sirius, who was a beater, noticed that James was staring into space and threw a bludger at him. It missed him by an inch but James hadn't even noticed it. Sirius flew up beside him and tugged at his broom. James nearly lost his balance, he looked at Sirius.
"What was that for?" James asked angrily.
"Just wanted to bring you back to earth." Sirius laughed. James rolled his eyes. "Who were you thinking about?" Sirius smiled.
"None of your business." James smiled. Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Want to go to Hogsmeade after practice?" Sirius asked.
"Can't." James replied.
"Why?" Sirius asked his eyebrows furrowed.
"Lily and Michelle have the cloak and the map." James said.
"Why have they got it?" Sirius asked a tinge of anger in his voice.
"Cause I owe Lily one." James lied.
"Why?" Sirius asked outraged.
"She caught me with the cloak and the map and threatened to give it to Dumbledore but I begged and pleaded with her not too. So I kind of figured I owed her one." James said.
"Oh. Why did she want it?" Sirius asked.
"Her and Michelle needed to go into Hogsmeade." James said. "It must've been really important, that's what Lily wanted me for this morning." James said.
"Why didn't Michelle come and ask for it?" Sirius pondered.
"Dunno, she probably thought I wouldn't give it to her cause she has been begging for a lend of it." James said. "You know Michelle hasn't been herself lately." James said thoughtfully. Sirius was very quiet. "I wonder what's wrong with her? I hope nobody has been messing with her. I'd kill anyone who hurt her, she's practically another sister to me." James said. Sirius looked at the ground. Michelle meant a lot to him as well but not the same as she meant to James, He felt something.... different for her.
After a while James decided to end the practice early. Nobody was concentrating including him. James and Sirius were walking through the castle towards the common room when they spotted Lily and Michelle walking towards the corridor. Lily looked at James and give him a small smile, then stopped.
"I'll give you everything later, okay?" Lily said looking into his eyes. James nodded.
"I'll probably be in the common room." James replied. Lily smiled at them both then walked on.
Michelle didn't even look at Sirius. Sirius watched her go. Something was wrong and he was hoping it wasn't what he was thinking. Lily led the way towards the prefects' bathroom so Michelle and her would be in private without any interruptions. Lily walked through the portrait hole first. The bathroom was very luxurious. There was red velvet curtains around the windows and the tiles had a design of a mermaid on them. Lily shut the door behind Michelle and locked it. Lily set her bag down on the counter and pulled the test out of it. She read the box then looked up at Michelle.
"What do I do?" Michelle asked nervously.
"All you have to do is pee on the stick." Lily said handing her the box.
"Ewww that's gross." Michelle said scrunching up her nose.
"Don't worry about that, now just go." Lily said pushing her towards a cubicle. Michelle stopped.
"But I don't need to go to the toilet." Michelle said. Lily rolled her eyes. Then over took a glass that had been sitting on the counter beside the sink and magically filled it with water.
"Aquaindo." The glass filled to the top. Lily handed it to Michelle who gulped it all down. Five glasses later Michelle ran into the cubicle. Lily tried to suppress a laugh. She sat down on a couch that was sitting against the wall. She took the Marauders Map out of bag. James had shown her to work it a long time ago. The Map spread out across the whole paper. Lily looked at all the small dots on the picture; her eyes fell across a dot that was standing in the entrance hall. The dot read James Potter Lily smiled to herself until she seen another name go towards him Kerry Bell. Lily sighed, she hated feeling jealous when James was around another girl especially a Slytherin. The two dots then became one and Lily's eyes widened, she then noticed that another name was near them, Serveus Snape. Lily prayed that it was only a hug and nothing as serious as a kiss. She tried not to kiss Jordan in front of James, but it wasn't always easy. She wanted to just dump Jordan and tell the whole world about her and James, but she knew she couldn't....
Lily was sitting in James' car. He had picked her up that evening to go on a date to the cinema. When the film had ended James and Lily had went for a drive before Lily had to be home. Lily was lying on top of James staring up at the sky (James had brought the convertible). It felt so good being in James' arms, she felt safe there. There were only two places she ever felt safe and that was at Hogwarts and in James' arms.
"James?" Lily said suddenly.
"Yeah?" James asked kissing the top of her head.
"I wanna break up with him." Lily had said this really fast that James had thought she had said something else. James sat up almost throwing Lily off him. He looked into her eyes.
"You wanna break up? Why?" James asked panicky. Lily looked at him then started laughing.
"Not with you, you idiot!" Lily laughed. James sighed then hugged Lily tightly. "I wanna break up with Jordan." Lily said into his shoulder. James pulled back.
"Why?" He asked.
"Isn't it obvious? I wanna tell everyone about us." Lily said.
"Lily I want to tell everyone about us as well, but now isn't the right time." James said. Lily looked into his eyes.
"There's something you're not telling me." Lily said her eyebrow furrowed. James sighed. He knew he could never keep a secret from her.
"If you break up with him and we come out, I will be seen as the worst in the world. My father can't afford to have me splashed all over the Daily Prophet, especially since elections are coming up in a few months." James said his eyes pleading with her.
"I understand. Especially since your dad is running against Jordan's dad in the campaign. It would make your family look really bad." Lily said leaning against his chest. A few minutes past before anyone spoke.
"It's just that I don't want to have to see you with other girls." Lily said.
"Just like I don't want to see you with Jordan." James said. "It'll be hard Lil, but it'll be worth it in the end." James kissed the top of her head.
Lily looked back down at the paper. James was now in the hall with the Marauders. Lily looked up as Michelle came out of the cubicle. Lily looked into her eyes she could see the fear in her eyes. Lily stood up and hugged her friend. She needed all the comfort she could get. They waited for a few minutes. Lily looked at Michelle again.
"I think it's time." Lily said.
"I can't look." Michelle said. "You do it." Michelle urged. Lily stood up and walked into the cubicle. She picked up the pregnancy test and looked at it. There was three little baby faces on the stick. Lily walked back out with it.
"What does it say?" Michelle asked. Lily looked at her friends.
"You're.... pregnant." Lily said. Michelle sat back down on the and he head fell into her hands.
"Lily what am I gonna do? I can't bring up a child on my own. And I have my education to think about." Michelle sobbed. Lily sat down beside her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"The first thing you need to do is tell the dad." Lily said quietly. Michelle looked up and wiped her face.
"You're right Lily. This should wipe the stupid smile of his face-" She stood up and started pacing. "-He was the one that said we didn't need a fucking condom." Michelle said getting angry. "Well I hope to god that he's happy now!" Michelle shouted as tears flowed from her eyes. Lily stood up and pulled Michelle into a hug. Michelle collapsed into her arms and started to cry uncontrollably. After five minutes Michelle let go of Lily. She wiped her eyes.
"I better go tell him. It's now or never." Michelle said washing her face in the sink.
"Do you want me to come?" Lily asked. Michelle shook her head.
"It's best if I go alone. Wish me luck." Michelle said before unlocking the bathroom door and leaving.
"Good Luck." Lily whispered as the door closed. Lily sat back down on the couch. Her best friend was going to become a mum. Lily was in shock over this. Lily then looked at the pregnancy test box again and re-read the back of it. Her eyes widened in shock. Lily was wrong, the three baby faces meant-
"Michelle's not pregnant!" Lily said standing up. She grabbed her bag and threw the test inside it then ran out of the bathroom in search of Michelle.
Meanwhile Michelle was walking into the hall. It was lunchtime and the place was packed. Michelle's eyes were red and her cheeks were blotchy. Michelle didn't really care what she looked like. She walked into the hall, she knew people were looking at her but she just didn't care. She spotted Sirius sitting with his friends and a few girls who were gathered round the four boys. Sirius wasn't being his usual talkative self when Michelle approached the group. The small group stopped talking when Michelle stopped beside them.
"You alright?" Remus asked concerned. Michelle didn't pay any attention to him; she just looked at Sirius.
"We need to talk." Michelle said to Sirius. Sirius stood up and nodded his head. Without another word they left the hall together. The Marauders and the group of girls stared after them.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked her in the entrance hall.
"Not here. We need to go somewhere really private." Michelle said.
"Sure. Come on up here." Sirius said leading her up a flight of stairs.
Meanwhile Lily was running down another flight of stairs towards the great hall. When she got to the door she stopped and looked around. Michelle was no where to be seen. Lily walked over to James.
"Have you seen Michelle?" Lily asked urgently. James looked at her.
"Yeah she was just here with-" James began.
"Where did she go?" Lily asked.
"Out there with-" James was cut off again.
"She's not there anymore. Where the heck could she have went?" Lily said. James stood up.
"I think I might know." He said leading her out of the hall.
Meanwhile Michelle and Sirius entered a small room that was hidden. There was a couch and a fireplace. Sirius sat Michelle down on the couch then sat beside her.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked. He was desperately hoping it wasn't what he thought it was. Michelle looked at the ground then looked up. She took a deep breath.
"I'm pregnant." Michelle said. Sirius didn't know what to say. After a minute Michelle spoke. "Well say something."
"I-I d-don't know what to say." Sirius stuttered. "Wow. Are you sure?" He asked looking at her.
"Of course I'm bloody sure! I'm a woman I know what's going on in my own body!" Michelle shouted as she stood up.
"Calm down, okay. I'm just making sure." Sirius said standing up. There were a few moments of silence.
"Look I don't expect you to take responsibility or anything. I just thought you should know." Michelle said quietly. Sirius looked at her.
"What? Michelle I'm going to be there for you, no matter what." Sirius said putting a hand on her arm. Michelle looked at him and smiled.
"You will?" She asked.
"Of course. Your having my child, as scary as it is, I'm gonna be here." Sirius smiled at her. He then pulled her into a tight hug. Suddenly the door swung open and Lily and James came in.
"Sirius!" Lily said in shock. "You! Your the-" Lily began.
"You know?" Sirius asked. Lily nodded her head.
"Know what?" James asked confused.
"I'm pregnant." Michelle said. James eyes nearly fell out of his head. He looked from Sirius to Michelle.
"Well actually..." Lily trailed off. Michelle looked at her.
"What is it?" She asked.
"You're not pregnant." Lily said shrugging.
"Oh thank fuck for that!" Michelle and Sirius said sitting down on the couch. James was lucky there were nerves attached to his eyeballs otherwise they would have fallen out.
"You see I accidentally read the test wrong. Three babies means you're not pregnant." Lily smiled weakly.
"I'm gonna kill you." Michelle said. "But I love you too much." Lily smiled at her.
"I love you too, I'm just sorry I put you through that." Lily said sitting down beside Michelle. James still looked very shocked and Sirius had his head in his hands.
"Lily, if I'm not pregnant then what could be wrong. I mean I've never been this late before." Michelle said. Sirius looked up at Michelle, as did James. They were both looking at the girls interestedly.
"Maybe, it's just a bit irregular." Lily said.
"I hope so. Although I must say I am a bit happy not having my period. I mean I can be happy now for a while." Michelle smiled.
"You, happy? Now there is something that happens regularly." Sirius said sarcastically. Michelle hit him in the arm. She then stood up.
"I think this calls for a celebration." Michelle smiled. "Who fancies getting drunk?" She smiled. Sirius stood up.
"I do." He said.
"You always wanna get drunk." Michelle said as they walked out of the room.
"Yeah but you love me." Sirius said.
"You wish." Michelle said rolling her eyes. Lily and James watched them leave. They were back to there same old routine. James closed the door behind them. He smiled at Lily and sat down beside her.
"That was a scare." He said.
"It was." Lily smiled at him. James then leaned in and kissed her. Lily then lay in his arms.
"James, do you understand now why I'm still a virgin?" Lily asked.
"Yeah. And thank god you still are. If I had to go through what Sirius just went through, I would probably die." James smiled. Lily looked at him then kissed him in the lips.
"I'm glad you understand." Lily smiled at him. Lily then sat up and looked at James. "Did you kiss Kerry?" Lily asked really not wanting to know the answer.
"No. I was only hugging her." James said. Lily sighed relieved that it was only a hug. "She had come up to me and we were talking and I seen Snape looking very envious so I hugged her. I would've kissed her but then I thought of you." James smiled. He leaned in and kissed her sweetly.
That night Michelle had went out partying with the Marauders. Remus and Peter didn't know why she was there but they didn't really care because Michelle was fun to be around when she was happy and drunk. Lily hadn't went because she had to hang out with Jordan. She really wanted to go but James had told her it hadn't been that fun without her. He had also told her of the million times he had to split Michelle and Sirius up but to Lily's shock they weren't fighting they were making out.
"I don't want a repeat of the incident of what happened today." James had told them. They instantly broke apart but ten minutes later they were found in another corner making out. A few days later Michelle had gotten her period, she was very happy about this, as was Lily.
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