A/n: All right, here's a little fic from me. ITD BE SOOOO NICE IF YOU'D ALL
R/R *hint hint*
CHAPTER 1: OFF TO A PRETTY NORMAL START
It was the morning of the first day of the beginning of 6th year. Well, technically you could call it the second, because we had arrived here the day before, but other than the sorting ceremony, and getting sick to our stomachs from overeating, we really hadn't done too much.
I was in the bathroom changing into my school clothes. I had woken up a bit earlier than usual, so I would be able to get dressed, get my school stuff together, wake up Kate, convince Majandra that she looked perfectly fine in glasses and that her outfit was just the coolest, make my bed, make sure the 1st years didn't get lost on the way to the Great Hall, and finally, eat.
I gave myself a once-over in the mirror. I thought I looked pretty good. I was wearing Petunia's black bellbottoms that I had "borrowed" for the year, or at least until vacation, and a red shirt with some cute little design on it. Not that it mattered, I thought, as I put my robes over my outfit, no one would see it. Sometimes these uniforms could really get to you. Like when, lets take today, you were wearing a cute new outfit but no one would get to see it. Oh, well. There were worst things in life. Like being stranded on an island and coming back 20 years later to find out every one had forgotten to you. Or turning into a monkey. Or being deformed. Or many things, come to think of it.
I peered closely at my hair in my reflection. It was my worst affliction. It was a dark red, and stuck out like a gorilla would walking around in London. All right, maybe not THAT much, but it was still pretty damn annoying, when you were trying not to attract any extra attention to yourself. It went down to my mid-back, which made it extra-annoying to brush, and if I didn't brush it, well, I don't even want to describe what it would look like.
Plus, I had to put this annoying gunk in my hair otherwise it would be all wavy. I must have asked my mother a BILLION times over vacation to get it cut, but she wouldn't allow it. Of course, she forced me to come along with her while she got HER hair cut, making me read some stupid magazine about the ten best ways to style frizzy hair, but that's another matter.
I did my one hundred-stroke ritual and put it into a loose ponytail. It wasn't my greatest look, but as long as it didn't make me look deformed it would do. Now that I was done with that, I stepped out of the bathroom, and back into my dorm room to get all my books ready.
I looked through my book bag quickly to make sure I had all my books, when I realized I hadn't even labeled any of my notebooks! This may not seem like a big deal to you but I liked all my stuff very NEAT and ORGANIZED. I quickly calmed myself down from this HORRID surprise and dumped out all my books on my bed, and in doing so I completed the third agenda on my list, i.e. waking up Kate.
"What in G-d's name are you DOING?" she started out in a mumble and ended up in a low yell. She sat up in her bed angrily rubbing her eyes and said "Some people like to sleep around here,"
"Well, you were going to have to wake up sometime so what better time then the present," I said not looking up from labeling my books. I groaned when I realized I would have to alphabetize my books and remake my bed, which had gotten all creased from my books that I had thrown on it.
"You're groaning? What in G-d's name is there to groan about this early in the morning? We shouldn't even be up this early in the morning!"
"I have to re- alphabetize my books AND remake my bed!" I complained even though I knew Kate would be highly unsympathetic. In fact, she'd probably make fun of my obsessive-compulsive neatness disorder, as she liked to call it.
"You little neat freak," she said "You wake me up for something that's organized-related. You are the worst best friend in the world,"
"I'm utterly and completely sorry," I said in a half sarcastic, half genuine voice. Actually that got me thinking though because how can you say something sarcastically and genuinely at the same time? Don't they cancel each other out?
Looking down at my mess I realized I didn't have time to ponder the inner workings of my mind so I quietly reorganized and alphabetized my books, and remade my bed. By now I was wide-awake and sunlight had begun to stream in from my windows.
I heard Majandra as she, as usual fell off her bed. She'd been doing that since first year and still hadn't been able to break that habit.
"Damn," she muttered, as she felt around for her glasses "Oh, hey Lil,"
"Hello, Majandra. And how are you on this fine day?"
"Horrid. I just know one of the immature boys are going to make fun of my glasses," she flung herself on the bed and basically woke everyone in our dorm up by fake sobbing "Why? Why me? Why do I have to be tormented in this way!"
She was answered my at least five pillows which all flew her way. I giggled as all the girls got up glaring and muttering curses under their breath. We were in no way what so ever morning people.
"If I had at my way school would be outlawed, we would sleep all morning, eats lots of candy, stay thin and..and..Um… and lots of good things," Claire Larret lamely finished.
"Brain not functioning this early in the morning?" I asked.
"Brain NEVER functioning," Morgana her twin sister intervened. They were identical in every which way except for their hair. Claire's was short, pixyish, and bright purple. (HER mother let her cut AND die her hair!). Morgana's was long, even longer than mine, and light blonde.
"Oh, shut up!" Claire retorted.
"Lily, help me!" I heard Majandra call. I rolled my eyes and joined her.
Finally when Majandra and Kate were both decent, we went down to the Great Hall to eat. We sat down next to James Potter and his crazy crew and gave each other looks of annoyance. It wasn't that James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were mean; they were actually pretty nice. And it wasn't that they weren't popular because believe me, they WERE.
James was captain of the quidditch, Sirius was...well, he was Sirius. Remus was really nice and smart, and in my opinion taking advantage a bit by the people who liked to rely on him to get their homework. And Peter was also great in his own ways and they were all fine by themselves or in small doses.
But together...well, last year Majandra and I had to work with them for a project and found out that together they could be UNBEARABLE. Lets just say that after our meetings, we were lucky to come back whole, as humans, and with no different or extra body parts.
Plus when you sat near them, you had to watch groups of girls come over plopping down on either one of the boys' seats and then when there was none, they sat on yours. VERY ANNOYING. And then you had to listen to the giggling, and the flirting, and the annoying nonsense gossip...and UCH!
We ate pretty silently and as fast as possible as people started to come over to talk to the four. When we finally finished and where on the way to class, Kate let out a huge breath and said "Finally! Now I can breathe again. I was suffocating from all those girl's perfume!"
"And I was suffocating from the dung bomb Sirius threw," I added.
"I think Sirius is cute!" Majandra admitted, laughing.
"Yeah, so do I. Doesn't change the fact that he DID throw that dung bomb and it DID smell," I added "You don't like him, do you?"
"Hell, no!" Majandra shook her head vehemently "He made fun of my glasses!"
We looked at her in a way that clearly showed our opinions that she was crazy so she defended herself saying "Well, he DID!"
Kate and I exchanged glances as we walked into our first class.
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The day passed by pretty quickly with nothing unusual. We were all getting back used to class, homework, ect. When class was finally was over I ran to up to the girl's dormitories and the first thing I did was throw off my HUGE, UNBEARABLE, DRAB robes. I fixed my pony and smiled in the mirror.
"Finally! Cute clothes time," I announced as I posed in the mirror.
Kate joined me in the posing, pulling up her skirt until it barely covered her underwear and tied the bottom of her shirt into a knot. "Don't I look, Gorgeous, Dahling?"
"No, you look like a slut," I answered her stating the truth. Well, she pretty much did and I wasn't one to lie!
"Sure. You're just jealous," she said in a careless matter manner, pulling her skirt back down and tossing her curls.
I just rolled my eyes. I had been rolling my eyes lately; It was becoming my new thing. Kate saw me doing that and threw her lipstick at me. She has horrible aim though so it didn't come anywhere near me but she did have to apologize to a frightened first year for hitting her with it.
After, Kate and I felt we looked our best, we left the dormitories to parade around in our outfits in the common room. I sat down on the couch watching the latest argument between Morgana and Claire. They were always arguing around one thing or another so it had become a Gryffindor tradition to crowd around them while they were at it; It was pretty funny stuff.
As I was sitting there, James Potter ran into the Common Room and sat down right next to LUCKY me. Actually though, he hadn't been so bad today. I had noticed something about him that had changed over the summer. He seemed to have grown up more during the summer. Don't get me wrong, he still did the whole prank thing with his friends, but he did it in a different way. He was more serious now. Though what happened next disproved my whole theory on him.
"Helloooooooooo Lily," he said loudly moving closer towards me.
Now if had been Kate or Majandra, I would have raised my eyebrow and told them to stop hanging out with chimpanzees because it was influencing them or something like that, but being it was James, someone I didn't know to well I just answered him saying "Hello to you, too," while moving farther away from him.
"Enjoying the show?" he asked pointing the twins.
I nodded my head thinking, Why the HELL is he talking to me???!
"So how's school so far?" he said trying to prolong the non-existent conversation.
" Fine," I answered. Now wasn't that an interesting answer.
"Well of course for you it is, being teacher's pet and all,"
"I am not teacher's pet!" I said, offended.
"Um, yes you are!" he looked at my face and upon seeing my frown hastily changed his tactics saying "Geez, Lil, I was only kidding. You don't have to get so worked up about everything. Lighten up,"
"Excuse me?"
"Well, you're always doing your homework and studying and being neat and all that,"
"What's wrong with all that? Oh never mind. I just remembered I forgot something in my room. Sorry," I said a bit frostily getting up. Honestly, he could be a prat. OK, fine, so maybe I had gotten a bit annoyed for a stupid reason, but that was no reason for him to start giving me a lecture about my character flaws. HONESTLY!
I met Majandra as I was going back to the dorms who said "So what were you and James talking about before?"
"Oh, things," I said in a vague way, not in the mood to give a whole commentary on our melodramatic conversation.
"You better not start LIKING him! Remember, his friend was mean to me!"
"OH NO! James is nice but in no way do I like him. He can be pretty obnoxious, too, sometimes,"
Truthfully, some people really need brain surgery. I mean me and James......NAH! I THINK NOT!
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CHAPTER 1: OFF TO A PRETTY NORMAL START
It was the morning of the first day of the beginning of 6th year. Well, technically you could call it the second, because we had arrived here the day before, but other than the sorting ceremony, and getting sick to our stomachs from overeating, we really hadn't done too much.
I was in the bathroom changing into my school clothes. I had woken up a bit earlier than usual, so I would be able to get dressed, get my school stuff together, wake up Kate, convince Majandra that she looked perfectly fine in glasses and that her outfit was just the coolest, make my bed, make sure the 1st years didn't get lost on the way to the Great Hall, and finally, eat.
I gave myself a once-over in the mirror. I thought I looked pretty good. I was wearing Petunia's black bellbottoms that I had "borrowed" for the year, or at least until vacation, and a red shirt with some cute little design on it. Not that it mattered, I thought, as I put my robes over my outfit, no one would see it. Sometimes these uniforms could really get to you. Like when, lets take today, you were wearing a cute new outfit but no one would get to see it. Oh, well. There were worst things in life. Like being stranded on an island and coming back 20 years later to find out every one had forgotten to you. Or turning into a monkey. Or being deformed. Or many things, come to think of it.
I peered closely at my hair in my reflection. It was my worst affliction. It was a dark red, and stuck out like a gorilla would walking around in London. All right, maybe not THAT much, but it was still pretty damn annoying, when you were trying not to attract any extra attention to yourself. It went down to my mid-back, which made it extra-annoying to brush, and if I didn't brush it, well, I don't even want to describe what it would look like.
Plus, I had to put this annoying gunk in my hair otherwise it would be all wavy. I must have asked my mother a BILLION times over vacation to get it cut, but she wouldn't allow it. Of course, she forced me to come along with her while she got HER hair cut, making me read some stupid magazine about the ten best ways to style frizzy hair, but that's another matter.
I did my one hundred-stroke ritual and put it into a loose ponytail. It wasn't my greatest look, but as long as it didn't make me look deformed it would do. Now that I was done with that, I stepped out of the bathroom, and back into my dorm room to get all my books ready.
I looked through my book bag quickly to make sure I had all my books, when I realized I hadn't even labeled any of my notebooks! This may not seem like a big deal to you but I liked all my stuff very NEAT and ORGANIZED. I quickly calmed myself down from this HORRID surprise and dumped out all my books on my bed, and in doing so I completed the third agenda on my list, i.e. waking up Kate.
"What in G-d's name are you DOING?" she started out in a mumble and ended up in a low yell. She sat up in her bed angrily rubbing her eyes and said "Some people like to sleep around here,"
"Well, you were going to have to wake up sometime so what better time then the present," I said not looking up from labeling my books. I groaned when I realized I would have to alphabetize my books and remake my bed, which had gotten all creased from my books that I had thrown on it.
"You're groaning? What in G-d's name is there to groan about this early in the morning? We shouldn't even be up this early in the morning!"
"I have to re- alphabetize my books AND remake my bed!" I complained even though I knew Kate would be highly unsympathetic. In fact, she'd probably make fun of my obsessive-compulsive neatness disorder, as she liked to call it.
"You little neat freak," she said "You wake me up for something that's organized-related. You are the worst best friend in the world,"
"I'm utterly and completely sorry," I said in a half sarcastic, half genuine voice. Actually that got me thinking though because how can you say something sarcastically and genuinely at the same time? Don't they cancel each other out?
Looking down at my mess I realized I didn't have time to ponder the inner workings of my mind so I quietly reorganized and alphabetized my books, and remade my bed. By now I was wide-awake and sunlight had begun to stream in from my windows.
I heard Majandra as she, as usual fell off her bed. She'd been doing that since first year and still hadn't been able to break that habit.
"Damn," she muttered, as she felt around for her glasses "Oh, hey Lil,"
"Hello, Majandra. And how are you on this fine day?"
"Horrid. I just know one of the immature boys are going to make fun of my glasses," she flung herself on the bed and basically woke everyone in our dorm up by fake sobbing "Why? Why me? Why do I have to be tormented in this way!"
She was answered my at least five pillows which all flew her way. I giggled as all the girls got up glaring and muttering curses under their breath. We were in no way what so ever morning people.
"If I had at my way school would be outlawed, we would sleep all morning, eats lots of candy, stay thin and..and..Um… and lots of good things," Claire Larret lamely finished.
"Brain not functioning this early in the morning?" I asked.
"Brain NEVER functioning," Morgana her twin sister intervened. They were identical in every which way except for their hair. Claire's was short, pixyish, and bright purple. (HER mother let her cut AND die her hair!). Morgana's was long, even longer than mine, and light blonde.
"Oh, shut up!" Claire retorted.
"Lily, help me!" I heard Majandra call. I rolled my eyes and joined her.
Finally when Majandra and Kate were both decent, we went down to the Great Hall to eat. We sat down next to James Potter and his crazy crew and gave each other looks of annoyance. It wasn't that James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were mean; they were actually pretty nice. And it wasn't that they weren't popular because believe me, they WERE.
James was captain of the quidditch, Sirius was...well, he was Sirius. Remus was really nice and smart, and in my opinion taking advantage a bit by the people who liked to rely on him to get their homework. And Peter was also great in his own ways and they were all fine by themselves or in small doses.
But together...well, last year Majandra and I had to work with them for a project and found out that together they could be UNBEARABLE. Lets just say that after our meetings, we were lucky to come back whole, as humans, and with no different or extra body parts.
Plus when you sat near them, you had to watch groups of girls come over plopping down on either one of the boys' seats and then when there was none, they sat on yours. VERY ANNOYING. And then you had to listen to the giggling, and the flirting, and the annoying nonsense gossip...and UCH!
We ate pretty silently and as fast as possible as people started to come over to talk to the four. When we finally finished and where on the way to class, Kate let out a huge breath and said "Finally! Now I can breathe again. I was suffocating from all those girl's perfume!"
"And I was suffocating from the dung bomb Sirius threw," I added.
"I think Sirius is cute!" Majandra admitted, laughing.
"Yeah, so do I. Doesn't change the fact that he DID throw that dung bomb and it DID smell," I added "You don't like him, do you?"
"Hell, no!" Majandra shook her head vehemently "He made fun of my glasses!"
We looked at her in a way that clearly showed our opinions that she was crazy so she defended herself saying "Well, he DID!"
Kate and I exchanged glances as we walked into our first class.
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The day passed by pretty quickly with nothing unusual. We were all getting back used to class, homework, ect. When class was finally was over I ran to up to the girl's dormitories and the first thing I did was throw off my HUGE, UNBEARABLE, DRAB robes. I fixed my pony and smiled in the mirror.
"Finally! Cute clothes time," I announced as I posed in the mirror.
Kate joined me in the posing, pulling up her skirt until it barely covered her underwear and tied the bottom of her shirt into a knot. "Don't I look, Gorgeous, Dahling?"
"No, you look like a slut," I answered her stating the truth. Well, she pretty much did and I wasn't one to lie!
"Sure. You're just jealous," she said in a careless matter manner, pulling her skirt back down and tossing her curls.
I just rolled my eyes. I had been rolling my eyes lately; It was becoming my new thing. Kate saw me doing that and threw her lipstick at me. She has horrible aim though so it didn't come anywhere near me but she did have to apologize to a frightened first year for hitting her with it.
After, Kate and I felt we looked our best, we left the dormitories to parade around in our outfits in the common room. I sat down on the couch watching the latest argument between Morgana and Claire. They were always arguing around one thing or another so it had become a Gryffindor tradition to crowd around them while they were at it; It was pretty funny stuff.
As I was sitting there, James Potter ran into the Common Room and sat down right next to LUCKY me. Actually though, he hadn't been so bad today. I had noticed something about him that had changed over the summer. He seemed to have grown up more during the summer. Don't get me wrong, he still did the whole prank thing with his friends, but he did it in a different way. He was more serious now. Though what happened next disproved my whole theory on him.
"Helloooooooooo Lily," he said loudly moving closer towards me.
Now if had been Kate or Majandra, I would have raised my eyebrow and told them to stop hanging out with chimpanzees because it was influencing them or something like that, but being it was James, someone I didn't know to well I just answered him saying "Hello to you, too," while moving farther away from him.
"Enjoying the show?" he asked pointing the twins.
I nodded my head thinking, Why the HELL is he talking to me???!
"So how's school so far?" he said trying to prolong the non-existent conversation.
" Fine," I answered. Now wasn't that an interesting answer.
"Well of course for you it is, being teacher's pet and all,"
"I am not teacher's pet!" I said, offended.
"Um, yes you are!" he looked at my face and upon seeing my frown hastily changed his tactics saying "Geez, Lil, I was only kidding. You don't have to get so worked up about everything. Lighten up,"
"Excuse me?"
"Well, you're always doing your homework and studying and being neat and all that,"
"What's wrong with all that? Oh never mind. I just remembered I forgot something in my room. Sorry," I said a bit frostily getting up. Honestly, he could be a prat. OK, fine, so maybe I had gotten a bit annoyed for a stupid reason, but that was no reason for him to start giving me a lecture about my character flaws. HONESTLY!
I met Majandra as I was going back to the dorms who said "So what were you and James talking about before?"
"Oh, things," I said in a vague way, not in the mood to give a whole commentary on our melodramatic conversation.
"You better not start LIKING him! Remember, his friend was mean to me!"
"OH NO! James is nice but in no way do I like him. He can be pretty obnoxious, too, sometimes,"
Truthfully, some people really need brain surgery. I mean me and James......NAH! I THINK NOT!
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