A Fairy Tale

A Fairy Tale | Chapter 7

Lily woke up feeling very weird...but in a good way. She felt oddly happy. Lily smiled brightly and got out of bed.

"Good morning!" she sang.

"Mmhprmm..." Andie muttered, turning on her side and hugging her comforter tighter.

"Wakie-wakie!" Lily drew back the window curtains, letting the sunshine take over the room.

"Lily!" Ronnie complained. "Close the curtains!"

"Sorry, no can do," Lily said happily. "Now come on! Get up! We'll be late for breakfast."

"What time is it?"

"Time to get up!" She ran into the bathroom, grabbing Andie's comforter on the way.

"Oy!" Andie got up grumbling. "What's up with her?" she asked Ronnie.

"I don't know," Ronnie replied. "Lily's usually not a morning person. We almost always have to tell her the room's on fire for her to get out of bed."

"Does anybody wonder why she believes us every time?" spoke up Cassandra Sharpie, their fellow roommate. She and her twin, Cecilia, had also woke up, due to Lily's uncharacteristic morning behavior.

"What's up with her?" Cecil asked. "She's been all...weird ever since yesterday night."

"Hmm..." Ronnie thought this over.

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Lily rushed her friends to the Great Hall for breakfast. She spotted the Marauders and hurried over. She sat down next to James.

"What do you think you're doing, Evans?" James asked as Lily smiled adoringly at him.

"What do you mean, Jamie?"

"I meant why are you sitting here? Next to me. Looking at me that way. Calling me 'Jamie.'"

Lily smiled. "I love the way you talk."

"Right," James said, scooting away. He tried to focus on his toast, but it was extremely difficult with someone staring at him. He put his toast down.

"All right, what's your deal?" he asked her.

"What do you mean, Jamie?"

"Stop that!"

"Stop what?"

"Calling me 'Jamie!'"

"Okay."

"Why are you acting like this? Is this some sort of prank?"

"Would you like more butter on your toast?"

"Answer me!"

"Answer what?"

James sighed in frustration. "Forget it," he muttered.

Lily's grin widened. She scooted closer to James and rested her head on his shoulder. James shrugged her off.

"What are you doing?" he asked. "You're contaminating me!"

"I could listen to you talk all day," Lily said dreamily.

"Tell your friend to leave me alone!" James yelled at Ronnie.

"Lily, leave him alone."

Lily didn't. In fact, she didn't left James alone for the whole day.

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"When is this potion going to wear off?" Sirius whispered to Remus. They had just witnessed Lily writing Mrs. Lily Potter and James Evans on a scrap parchment in Transfiguration. "I mean, I love the idea of James and Lily being together, but 'James Evans' just drew the line."

"In exactly six days," Remus replied. "I wonder how this is going to end..."

Don't we all?

A Fairy Tale | Chapter 8

Lily followed James around everywhere the next morning (and later on, day). It didn't really help that she had every classes with him.

James sat down in his usual seat in Transfiguration. Sirius was about to sit down next to his already seated friend, but Lily had squeezed in next to James first. Sirius pouted, tempted to protest but a nudge from Peter reminded him that it was a good thing for Lily to sit next to James. Well, for Lily at least.

"Why are you sitting next to me?" James asked Lily.

"Because you're here, silly," Lily giggled.

James sighed, muttered something about Lily's abnormality, and turned around to look at the rest of the Marauders.

"Are you sure you guys don't know anything about why," James paused and cast a glance at Lily, looking for a word to replace her name, "she's acting this way?"

"Nope, not a clue," Sirius said.

"Nothing here," Remus replied.

Peter shook his head.

James turned and looked at the girl sitting next to him. She smiled lovingly.

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The rest of the morning classes were all pretty much the same. By lunch, Lily was overjoyed, for she had been paired with James for a potion project.

The Hogwarts scholars took their place at lunch. Lily sat next to James once again and unnecessarily helped him with his food. Their friends noticed that James did not protest too much.

"What's up, Prongs?" Remus asked.

"Well, it looks as though she's not going to leave me alone," James said, shrugging. "I figured I'd just let her do whatever she wants. It's not like she's going to stop if I say."

"True," Ronnie commented, watching Lily sliced James's sandwich into perfect little triangles.

"Besides," James continued. "She's not doing anything bad to me. Might as well let her treat me like the god that I am." James grinned slyly. "Perhaps she's finally admitting her undying obsession for me."

"Open up, sweetie," Lily cooed, holding up a triangle-shaped piece of sandwich. James opened his mouth and Lily fed him. "Good boy." Lily smiled and kissed his cheek. James reddened slightly.

"Is he her obsession or dog?" Andie said disgustedly. Sirius couldn't resist it, and barked. "What was that?" Andie asked.

"What was what?"

"That."

"What?"

"That."

"What?"

"That--that thing you just...did. It's like...you barked."

"Oh that."

Andie gritted her teeth. "Yes that."

"That wasn't a bark. It was a...burp?"

"What's with the question mark?"

"What question mark?"

"Up there. Two sentences ago."

"Technically, those weren't sentences. They ended with question marks, making them questions."

Andie opened her mouth, as if to reply, but probably decided against it, and said nothing.

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The Marauders sauntered into their dormitory tiredly. Sirius headed for his bed and flopped down. Remus walked to his bed and laid down. Peter fell over on his bed. James made way to his bed and was about to drop dead on it, right then and there, but...but it wasn't his bed! At least...it didn't look it.

James's four-poster bed was replaced by a...a...well, James didn't know what it was, but it looked like something you'd find in a Barbie Dream House! The usual red curtains were replaced with silky pink ones. A white and pink comforter was on his bed instead of his deep crimson one. His pillow, usually plain and white, was not there anymore! In its place was a...a...did James dare to say it?

A...

It was a...

It was a fuzzy, heart-shaped pillow!

What in the world is going on??

"Ahh!" James screamed.

"What is it Prongs?" Remus muttered, yawning.

"This--my bed--it's--pillow--girly--what--FUZZY--pink!" You can probably say that he was too shock to put together a comprehensible sentence.

"Hmm...pink..." Sirius mumbled.

"Guys! Wake up!" James cried. He was met with silence. James sighed, sneaking a peek at the...the...he was not going to say it.

"Oh, hi James," Damien Walker said, coming out of the bathroom.

"Damien! Do you know what happened??"

"Oh you mean your sissy-looking bed?"

"Don't say that!" James hissed.

"Yeah, I know what happened."

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"Who did...this?"

"It was--"

"Hey Jamie!"

James turned around groaning.

"It was Lily."