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Chapter 5 everyone! Please R/R, and ya know I don't own anything non-recognisable. My duty here is to thoroughly amuse you all!
This is going to be quite short, as nothing really of any importance happens today. The last chapter should be the next one.
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Chapter 5, Day 4
Violet Venom spent most of the day counting their objects. Mei had told Peter about the competition and the fact she'd give his boxers back when they'd finished, and he'd laughed and agreed that if it stopped the Darlings talking to them, he'd be fine with it.
As it was, only Lily had anything left, but James had spent the whole day in his dorm (which was a very rare occurrence, but he was hoping the thief who'd stolen his boxers would come back) and so she couldn't get in there to raid his drawers.
Finally, it was ten to eight and Lily was getting frantic. James was still up in his bedroom, and she was going to go up there if he didn't show soon. Remus, who'd noticed Lily's discomfort, called, "James! Get down here now!"
The boy hurried down the stairs, and as soon as he reached Remus, Lily walked over to James and plucked his glasses off his nose (scraping his ears as she did so). She then grabbed the other girls' arms and pulled them all out of the Common Room before James realised.
James stared behind them…or what direction he assumed they'd gone in. "What was that for, Moony?" Remus explained to him the competition. "Oh, so that's where my boxers went! But why wasn't I informed?"
Remus shrugged. "I don't know, but we were all told."
James sighed. "Maybe she didn't like me enough to tell me?" he asked softly.
"Let's go and see, shall we?" Remus asked with a mischievous look on his face. "Grab the Cloak and some glasses and we'll all go down and see if our girls win."
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The Darlings lay their items out on a table that Scarlett had conjured up. They had every item they were supposed to get…it seemed.
The Flowers also lay their items out, next to their enemies'. They also had everything.
"Hey! They're not my boxers!" Sirius hissed from the Marauders' hiding place behind a particularly grotesque statue of a naked man on a horse's back.
"They're not mine, either," Remus hissed back. "Lia and I switched the signs; they're the Fifth Years'."
"Oh, so that's why Renny's been stalking them!" Peter sighed with a laugh. "Fantastic idea, Moony."
"Oh, It was Lia's idea," he said modestly. "She's the Queen of the pranks."
James shushed them and pointed to where the Darlings were talking.
"Since we both got all the items, we should do a tie-breaker," Regina said. It was the most articulate sentence any of the eight had ever heard her say (with the exception of the sentence about the dance). It seemed that she wasn't as dumb as they all thought. Neither was Scarlett, because of the transfiguration of the table.
Kai nodded. "Yeah. What do you think we should do?"
Honey spoke up. "Well, my Sirius would have no-!" She was caught off guard by Scarlett's hand clamping over her mouth, even though she kept talking.
Scarlett told them over Honey's incoherent mumblings, "We decided that the Dance would be a good thing."
Darlene continued with, "Basically, you have to get your Marauder to ask you to the Dance. That will show us who've got to know them more, and who the Marauders like more. The Dance is tomorrow evening. You have all of tomorrow morning and afternoon to get them to ask you. Everything's allowed."
"Everything?" Lia asked, a little speculatively. "Even cheating?"
Darlene looked a little put out at this. "Anything that gets you a date. Think body parts and enlargement charms."
Mei chuckled. "You mean, basically we could give ourselves three tits and they might ask us? Yeah, yeah. Fun."
Scarlett shrugged. "You heard the girl. Now scram!"
The Flowers grabbed all their stuff and walked off, leaving the Darlings whispering inconspicuously about their ideas for cheating and getting the boys' attention.
The Marauders, hiding behind the statue, made an unspoken agreement that they wouldn't ask the Flowers unless they knew it was the Flowers, and they definitely weren't going to ask the Darlings.
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Sorry for the length, but like I said-nothing really happened! And tomorrow is it, guys! The last chapter!! Hope you've all enjoyed it as much as I have! - coughs105reviewsonffnetcough -
Well, I have an announcement to make. My darling ff net reviewers won't get this for a while, because some hilariously funny human being has decided to change my email password, and my email has now been disabled, which means that I can't update my fics on ff net! CRAP! I'm so mad!
But anyway, love ya,
x Kirstie x
(aka x THE HYPER ONE x)
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