Thanks:
Emma Dobbs, Caity, Mary, HAZY DAYZ, phillygal, hazeleyedmarauder, Magical Poof, HHR227.
I hope you enjoy this just as much as the last one. As I said, most of the things but James's glasses are found in the first three days of the week. Oh, and James's boxers. I'm going to borrow the idea from Sleepover-the way that Julie gets Steve's boxers…
I've just read the reviews of Sleepover on a website, and they're so rude! Apparently, it's boring for over-12s, and shouldn't be watched by over-14s. WELL, I'M GOING TO BE 16 THIS YEAR! And I like it. Hmph!
I really hope you enjoy this! Please read and review!
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Chapter 2, Day 1
Mei was sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room, her short straight black hair swinging loosely around her shoulders and her brown almond-shaped eyes looking at her nails, to see how much damage there was to them-she liked chewing them. She looked up and saw Peter in front of a marble Wizard's Chess set. He was alone, and so Mei got up and walked over slowly.
"Hey," she said softly. The boy looked up and his gaze met hers.
"Hello, can I help?" he asked.
"Oh, I was just wondering if you wanted a chess match?" Mei asked, indicating the chess set. "I'm Meiying, but my friends call me Mei."
Peter smiled and said pleasantly, "Of course! That would be great. I'm Peter. I don't believe we've met? What year are you in?"
"Sixth," Mei said with a soft smile. She sat in the chair opposite Peter and immediately noticed that the side she'd be playing with was white. If she didn't manage to beat Peter, at least she could quickly take her king…
They played quite well together-they were matched quite evenly. But eventually Mei managed to just beat Peter.
The boy stared at his place and said softly, "You…beat me? I've never been beaten before."
Mei laughed. "I don't remember the last time I played with such an amazing chess player. You're incredibly good."
"Not as good as you, though," Peter replied ruefully. "Hey, do you want to have another game sometime? Here again, tomorrow?"
Mei smiled. "It can't hurt, so sure!" She smiled warmly and bid her goodbyes, and then went up to the Gryffindor girls' dorms, tightly clutching the white king in her hand the whole time.
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Lily, being the bright one, had decided that she wasn't going to follow James wherever he went (like Darlene was), but casually talk to him when they were in the Common Room.
She wasn't planning on bumping into him. Literally.
She'd picked up her things from the table in the library where she'd been doing her work. She turned around and started walking towards the exit, not watching where she was going. She hit something hard and fell to the floor, dropping all her books and scattering her papers in a circle around her. She hurriedly began picking things up, tucking her hip-length bloodred curls behind her ears and surveying the area with emerald eyes the shape of Mei's. Suddenly, another hand went into her vision, and began picking up some of the things she couldn't reach.
Lily looked up and said, "Thanks, and sorry," before she fully registered who it was.
James Potter was helping her. Lily Evans, a lowly unpopular Sixth Year, to his magnificent popular self.
The boy smiled kindly at her and said, "No problem. Here are your things. Actually, do you want me to carry some of this? And are you going back to the Common Room? We'll walk you there."
Lily noticed that there was Sirius standing there next to him. He'd also picked up some of her things, and was cradling them in one arm whilst eating a biscuit with the other. She smiled gratefully and said, "Thanks, that would be great."
The boys walked beside her, and asked her a few things like, "What year are you in?" Lily was glad of the company, and rushed up to her dorm with a wide smile on her face when they got back, hurriedly excusing herself. She dumped her things beside her bed and collapsed on it, smiling broadly.
Downstairs James was staring at where Lily had been moments before. "Who was that?" he asked softly.
"Um…I dunno. I remember her from something…I think we have Transfiguration with her or something. Let's ask Moony. He should know."
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Remus was working at a table in the library behind a stack of books. He was writing a lengthy report on the views of a potion that was able to change the colour of people's skin (it wasn't like he could remember the name of it, but he'd recognise it if he read it) to green.
Just as he was about to write a piece on the after-effects of the potion, a girl with long straight golden blonde hair that reached her elbows and blue eyes hurried around the corner and whispered to him, "Is there anywhere here that I can hide? There's a crazy Darling following me."
Remus chuckled at the description, knowing that the only people she could be talking about were either Darlene, Honey, Scarlett or Regina. "Er," he began thoughtfully. "Why is she after you?"
The blonde shrugged. "She started spouting crap that I was going to steal her boyfriend, not that she has a boyfriend…she sounded like Honey when she's after Sirius and trying to kill Kairi at the same time."
Remus chuckled. "Hide under this." He threw the girl the invisibility cloak, which he'd brought with him in case he needed to stay in the library after dark.
"It's a cloak. She'll notice someone hiding under a cloak."
Remus laughed. "Just wear it. Trust me."
The blonde yanked it over her head quickly and stood against the stacks.
A girl with short black corkscrew curls walked around the corner, and Remus winced, recognising Scarlett. The girl never ceased to be after him, it seemed.
"Remy!" the short and annoying girl cooed. "Have you seen a blonde girl in the past few minutes? She took something of mine, and I'd really like it back."
Remus shook his head, and then he widened his eyes, as if he'd just remembered something. "Oh, you mean the cute girl who looked like a goddess? Yeah, she passed here. She went that way. She moved very fast." He pointed in the opposite direction to where the girl really was.
Scarlett smiled widely. "Xylia! I'm coming to get you!" She turned and rushed in the direction Remus had pointed, calling, "Thanks, Remy!" over her shoulder as she went.
The moment she'd vanished, Xylia threw the cloak off. "What happened there?" she asked softly.
"Oh, that's an invisibility cloak. It's James's. I just thought you'd want to hide from her-I know I did."
Lia shook her head. "That's not what I meant. I mean, you helped me. And you don't even know me. We're in the same year, the same House, the same classes, and you've never had any idea I even existed. Like Sirius has no idea who Kairi is, and James has no idea who Lily is, and Peter has no idea who Mei is. So why help me? What's the point?" She turned to walk away, when Remus reached out and grabbed her hand.
"Wait, Lia!" he said, using her nickname forcefully, to let her know he'd heard it before. "I have heard of you. You're one of the Violets, aren't you?"
Lia chuckled. "The Flowers, actually."
Remus shrugged. "Violet Venom, isn't it? The only opponents of Pink Poison, or the Darlings as you seem to call them. Isn't that right?"
Lia nodded. "We named them that coz they are so sickly and bitchy! And pink." She shuddered. "I mean, all of us but for Lily look good in pink-she's a redhead-, but still, we'd never be excessive about it."
Remus laughed. "You wear a lot of purple, though."
Lia beamed. "Ah, but of course. We're Violet Venom, therefore we must try to make ourselves seem as true to our name as possible."
"Well, us Marauders are very proud of you. We only wish it was us who'd come up with such a nickname for the Darlings. Disgusting, foul creatures they are."
Lia was suddenly struck with an idea. She wasn't banned from telling the boys about the contest. Remus seemed
like a sensible person, and he should find it amusing…if told in the right way, Sirius and James (and probably Peter)
would find it funny, too. So she told Remus about the competition.
The moment Lia told Remus about the things that she needed from him, he laughed loudly (only to be growled at by Madame Pince). Then he took out his wand and pointed it at his head, muttering a spell that allowed parts of his hair to come off. He handed them to Lia. "I hope that suits. As for the boxers…well, those Darlings are incredibly stalkerish. Let's see about putting a spell on the dorm door to stop them coming through if they try to take them. I quite fancy the idea of watching all your friends coming in, though…it should be funny to watch. Please don't tell your friends about the fact I know, eh? I'm certainly not going to tell mine. It'll be funnier that way. I'll tell them later."
"Can I spend the rest of the week with you at times, please? Just to make it look like I'm getting to know you? And I think it'd be funnier if we just switched the signs about so that the Sixth Year Dorm was labelled Fifth Year…then the Darlings would have to steal someone else's boxers. But put the spell on as well."
Remus nodded in reply and picked up his things. "Do you want to go back to the Common Room now?" He offered his arm and Lia hooked hers through it, laughing all the while.
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They arrived back at the CR and were immediately pounced on by James and Sirius.
"Moony! Do you know a redheaded girl in our year? Do you know what she's called?"
Lia spoke up. "Oh, that's my friend Lily! Why did you want to know?"
James shrugged, looking away in the distance. "Lily…" he breathed softly. "Suits her perfectly…"
Sirius laughed and replied for his friend, "The girl accidentally bumped into him earlier and he's been dazed ever since."
Lia smiled at the messy-haired boy who was still looking out into nothing and mouthing her best friend's name, and said, "Just so you know, if a Chinese girl ever comes near you, it's Mei, so don't ignore her, and if an African girl ever talks to you, Sirius, it's Kairi. Talk to her. Anyway, I must dash. Bye, and thanks, Remus!" She waved to the three of them and scurried up to her room, where she laughed aloud at the sight of both Lily and Mei staring at the ceiling dreamily.
Lia saw Mei had put a white chess king on her dressing table. She hurried over and picked it up and put it in a pouch with the hair. Then she charmed it so that only one of the four of them could get into it (so the other team couldn't steal anything of theirs, even though the Darlings didn't share the same dorm as them).
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Downstairs, Remus was staring where Lia had gone. Sirius looked worried, wondering why both of the boys had gone mad.
"Why are you looking like that, Moony?" he asked. "I mean, sure, she's pretty…"
"She's not just pretty, she's a goddess. And she's nice in her head, too…she has a great personality. You two'd like her, actually."
"Is she your girlfriend?" Sirius asked, knowingly. Remus shook his head hurriedly, knowing it couldn't possibly be true. After all, she couldn't like him. She probably had a boyfriend of her own…
Just then, Lia rushed down the stairs and grabbed Remus's shirt. "Boxers!" she said. "Are you forgetful?"
Remus popped back into reality, and he took Lia's hand and pulled her up the stairs quickly, to the other two boys' amusement.
"Wonder what they're gonna get up to there, eh…so much for not going out…" Sirius said suggestively.
"Get your mind out of the gutter," said a tall black girl with waist-length black ringlets clipped back in a barrette and dark brown eyes. "They wouldn't be doing anything."
Sirius watched this girl with one eyebrow raised, and then he realised that this girl must be Kairi-the African.
Remembering Lia's request, he smiled and said, "What makes you say that?"
"Well, Lia's too sensible to do anything, and anyway, I'm pretty sure they're not dating. I think they only met an hour ago."
Just then, a girl flew through the open portrait and flung herself at Kairi, yelling, "YOU STOLE MY SIRIUS FROM ME!"
The ditzy blonde broke off after she said that to turn to Sirius and say, "Hi Siri, babe," before she turned back and slapped Kairi across the face.
Sirius did the only thing he could think of. He may have been a little stupid, but he was not dumb, and not about to have girls fighting over him. He grabbed Kairi and pulled her close to him, so close that her nose was pressed into his chest. "Stay away from her, please!" he told Honey quickly and desperately, to try and stop her from attacking Kairi even as he held her. "Don't ever try and hurt Kairi again! It's not her fault she's a friend of mine. So move!"
Honey growled at Kairi, but she turned and walked off haughtily (and obediently).
At that moment, Lia came hurrying down the stairs, waving a pair of brown and white striped boxers. "I'VE GOT THEM, KAI!" she yelled as she ran. She leapt down the final few steps, rushed over, grabbed Kairi's hand, and pulled her out of Sirius's grasp and up the stairs after her, leaving Sirius staring rather bewilderedly after the two.
"What an amazing bunch," he said softly. "Well, mate, we finally met the Flowers…"
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I hope that satisfied your munchies…
ly all,
Cazzy xxx
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