Moments
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Chapter 27:
My alarm blared loudly. I sat up quickly, rubbing my eyes.
"Turn that off!" Brendan grumbled.
I reached over and turned off my alarm. Too late everyone was awake.
"What the hell, James?" Fred groaned looking at his watch, "We barely went to bed two hours ago."
I started gathering clothes so I could hop in a quick shower.
"Don't you want to see the looks on everyone's faces?" I said excitedly.
"What did you do?" Jace asked.
I grinned. "You'll just have to get up and see."
I dashed into the bathroom so I could take a shower.
"Shit, James is up first. He's going to use up all of the hot water" I heard Brendan said.
I'm not the one who takes forever in the shower. That's Fred.
Ten minutes later I entered the common room surprised to find it so full.
"James? Wow" Ali was sitting with her friends by the fireplace.
"What?" I said, "Did you notice I didn't shave today? I'm thinking about growing out a mustache. I'd make me look cool right?"
Chasity snorted from her seat.
"I'm surprised to see you up before ten" Ali explained.
"I get up before ten sometimes" I replied. Rarely, but it's been done before.
"What did you do?" Ali asked.
"Nothing" I replied holding my hands up innocently. "What is it with you sixth year girls thinking I'm always up to something?"
"Because you usually are" Chasity replied.
"Hey, I'm ready. We can go down to breakfast now" Ali's friend Macey said as she came down the stairs. "James, you're up? What did you do?"
The girls sitting on the couch laughed and I rolled my eyes.
"I hear the house elves are serving Pumpkin pear strudels for breakfast," I lied, "It's my favorite."
"Liar" Ali said.
I rolled my eyes.
"Come on, I'll have breakfast with your friends. Try and get them to like me." I whispered to Ali.
"You can try."
I shrugged. I really didn't care if they liked me or not.
I wrapped my arms around her and followed her friends out of the common room. They were all chatting away about a supposedly dreamy sixth year Reavenclaw who is newly single.
"This guy sounds like a douchebag. You girls really go for that?" I asked
"Ali fell for you, didn't she?" Chastity asked.
I frowned. I'm not a douche.
"James isn't a douche," my girl defended me, "he used to be a bit of a whore, but he changed."
I frowned at that assessment too.
"Hey now! I was never a whore" I chastised.
"You slept around, a lot" Macey said.
"I did not. Snogging and the occasional oral does not make me a whore."
"Really James?" Rose scoffed.
What? Everybody does it.
"I need to find you a bloke. You girls know her best, who does she have a crush on?"
Three girls shouted back "Scorpius."
I spluttered and coughed while Rose chastised her friends.
"Malfoy? Are you serious?" I couldn't help not I started to laugh. Oh, Uncle Ron would throw a fit if he ever found out.
"Shut up, James. I do not like Ma-AAAAAHHHHH!"
At that moment Rose had stepped on a stair and it turned into a slide. We all watched at the top until she got to the bottom and landed in a little pool.
Suddenly three sets eyes turned to me.
"What?"
We heard another scream and looked around.
"Over there" we all looked as another staircase turned into a slide and Professor Bailey went sliding down.
"I never expected him to scream like a girl" I muttered.
"Did you do this to all the stairs?"
"Me? I didn't do anything, but I bet that whoever did do this wouldn't have done a half-assed job."
Ali rolled her eyes.
"Come on, I want some pumpkin pear strudels." I gave the girls a little push and watched them go.
"That's not going to help them like you."
"This water is freezing! James Potter, I'm going to kill you!"
Who knew the quiet Macey would be the violent one?
"Let's find another slide, babe. I have a feeling like your friends might know a couple of good hexes."
They did, I managed to dodge a couple as we entered the great hall. I think they were over reacting for a fun ride and a bit of cold water. Fred wanted to go with the portable swamps but they're harder to remove.
Soon enough the whole hall was filling up with wet students who were either laughing or irritated. The teachers were the funniest, some of them even screamed.
The best part is that Fred and I put up cameras at the middle and bottom of the slides and they were instantly projected to a screen in the great hall so we could watch as we ate.
"There are over three hundred staircases in the school, it must've taken forever" Jace said a little miffed he wasn't in on the action.
"Nah, it was a piece of cake" I shrugged.
"Did getting locked out of the girl's dormitory inspire you?" Rose asked.
I nodded, "My wife doesn't like having to go up and down the stairs all day" I shrugged.
"Aw."
Not everyone like the slides. Ravenclaw girls were very upset their hair got wet when they landed in the pool. That was probably the funniest part. Messed up hair, wrinkled clothes, and ruined make-up.
A simple warming charm would make sure no one had to eat in wet clothes. Unfortunately for the youngins that is a grade five spell. They had to hope there were friendly older students.
"Time to go to class James" Ali said tugging on my sleeve.
"Eh? So soon. We haven't even got owl post yet."
"Come on."
I didn't realize she was trying to save me until it was too late.
"Potter! Weasley!"
I winced but then quickly put in my best smile.
"Hey Headmistress McGonagall," do not laugh, do not laugh, "hahahahahahaha." I couldn't keep it in. Crooked glasses, wet clothes, wet and messy bun, Minnie looked absolutely hilarious.
"Since the two of you appear to have so much free time you can spend today fixing the stairways."
"But Professor we have NEWT revisions to work on, you wouldn't want us to fail would you?"
"Don't try that with me. The only reason I'm not handing out detentions is because I can't prove it was you."
"I was just as shocked as you are professor. When I watched my poor cousin Rose take the first fall I thought she was going to break something. For a Weasley she is surprisingly uncoordinated." I dodged a flying muffin.
McGonagall glared at Rose. Bonus points for me.
"No throwing food in the Great Hall, Miss Weasley. We'd hate to have another school wide food fight."
When McGonagall left I let out a sigh of relief.
"What happens when the staircase moves? Will we go flying off the end?" I heard a first year ask.
"Of course not mate, that's dangerous" Fred replied.
"When the staircase, or rather chutes, start to move the ground will get sticky and you won't be able to move" I added.
"Define sticky?"
"Better yet, how are we supposed to get up the chutes?"
"Walk? Run?" I shrugged.
"What? But they're huge. There's no way we can run up the whole thing."
"Guess we're all getting detention for skeeving classes, then" Fred shrugged.
McGonagall was serious about making us remove our jinx. All I wanted to do was catch up on some sleep, but no one was able to get to their classes and McGonagall insisted Fred and I be the only ones who removed the jinx. I'm sure it would've gone quicker if the teachers helped out. It had taken me and Fred a week to put together the spells to do it and hours to get each stair and she expected us to undo it all by lunch or else spend every Saturday in detention for the rest of the year.
Let's just say by the time lunch came around I was dead on my feet.
"James, do you have to take up so much space?"
I was sprawled out at the Gryffindor table while Ali fed me.
"Yes, I do" I replied without bothering to see who spoke.
I must've drifted in and out of sleep because when I woke up food was gone and replaced by magazines.
"Wuzgoinon?" I rubbed my eyes.
"We're planning the baby shower" Rose said.
"Baby shower" I sat up. "What's that? A prank? Are you going to make it rain fake babies in the Great Hall?"
"No," some of the girls laughed, "not everything is a prank."
"A baby shower is a party thrown for pregnant people where people bring gifts the baby is going to need like a pram, diapers, onesies, strollers" Macey said.
"Seriously? That sounds wicked. You guys are going to buy all this stuff?" I picked up a magazine and flipped through the pages.
"Merlin's pants, does that say Galleons?" I showed Ali a stroller.
"Yep."
"Babies are expensive. Can't we just wave a wand and poof a cheap homemade stroller."
"No, it's not safe. The spell might wear off then poof the baby is sleeping on a rock instead of a pram."
That doesn't sound right. "I'm gonna speak to Minerva and Cameron," Transfiguration Prof, "about this."
"Ok. You gonna keep referring to them by their first names?"
"Not to their faces."
The girls kicked me out after I kept commenting on the baby stuff. Why do we need a garbage bin just for diapers when we can just banish them? Is a changing table really needed can't we just use the pram? Neither one of us can drive a car so is a car seat really needed? It's my baby too, don't I get a say? The reply I got was "Shut up and be happy."
Girls are so demanding.
A/N: my sister I expecting twins when I was browsing the web for a baby shower gift I was like omg those prices, so I know how James feels, lol.o