11 July 2012
We were sitting in the common room by the fire, The Marauders' usual spot, to wait for them.
'I still think this is way too badass for your style Lily.'
'But it's fun Lissy. That's the point. I think he needs a taste of his own medicine.'
'Awwwww. Our Lily's all grown down.' she said in a fake proud voice.
'Hey. I can have fun and still be mature.'
'Yeah right.'
'Hello ladies. And what brings you to our humble abode?'
We looked up to see Black and the rest of The Marauders. Melissa looked at me, questioning wether I was actually going to go though with it.
'Well, we thought that, seeing as how you've obviously been slaving away trying to work out the second task, which is obviously gruelling work, you might want to wind down.' I pulled a bottle out of my bag.
'Well we have been working very hard.' said Potter with faux modesty. He really hadn't but he wasn't going to complain.
They had led us up to their dorm room because guys couldn't get access to ours. I handed everyone a glass, telling them that we'd be less likely to get drunk if we drunk out of glasses because we could pace ourselves. We no, of course they would get drunk.
I made sure to give Potter the glass with the measly amount of extra strong potion in it. Not enough to notice but it would do more than its job.
We dove straight into the firewhiskey and watched eagerly as Potter toasted something I wasn't listening to and took a big gulp of whiskey. Now we just had to wait for morning.
Meanwhile the guys had other ideas. Ones that involved getting hammered and dares. Yay. But a small price to pay for a genius prank.
I was beginning to feel tipsy which probably wasn't helped by the fact that I'd had to hand upside down by the bedposts for the last five turns.
Sirius's dare. I had a good one.
'Take your top off and go and chat someone up with this' I flicked my wand at him and a tattoo appeared over his heart. A bright red love heart with the words: James Potter Always, written boldly across it in cursive. This caused a very drunk Melissa to shriek with laughter.
'I hate you Lily Evans. I'm sorry for poisoning you, I didn't really want to kill you.'
His comment would normally have earned a glare and a cold shoulder for days but in my slightly intoxicated state I just laughed and said,
'Oh Black. This is payback time.'
'Fuck you.' he half laughed and half glared.
I went downstairs before him and went to talk to Jody. About a minute later he came down and had everyone's instant and undivided attention. His tattoo was rather ostentatious.
'Hey Black. Showing your gay pride? I'm proud of you mate. Good on you.' called someone. Black ignored him and walked over to Jody and me. Wimp.
'Nice tattoo Black. Very you.' smirked Jody.
'Oh this? I was drunk. And thugs happen...' okay technically that was true but...
'Yeah right. You'd barely taken a sip. For you that's stone cold sober.'
'Oh Evans. You'd know wouldn't you.' he said, suggesting something completely imaginary. Trust him.
'So Jody, looking good today.'
I rolled my eyes at him. This was him chatting her up? If this was his A game then I have no clue how he gets all his groupies.
I decided to leave them because I was getting signs that Sirius was getting into his stride. Okay I admit I might have added a bit of sparkle to the tattoo before I went back upstairs. So sue me.
'Sirius is enjoying the girl part of his dare a little too much.' I said in answer to everyone's questioning looks, 'I think he and Jody will be occupied for a while.'
I saw Melissa pout drunkenly.
'Sorry Liss. Jody knows you like him. She won't do anything wild with him. Promise.'
The remaining Marauders laughed in surprise at this. Did they really not know? Boys are so unobservant.
Lissa dared Remus to nick some of Sylvia's underwear (we knew from previous years that she exclusively wore animal print thongs) and to hang it on the doors of the great hall.
I think everyone except Peter was shocked at her. Everyone knew she was more badass than me but she was still good enough to be my friend.
'No more alcohol for you after this.' laughed Potter.
Remus successfully emerged from the girls dorms (god knows how he got up) unscathed and proceeded to disappear under an invisibility cloak (Potter has one) with James to complete the next part of his dare.
While they were gone we downed four more bottles of Firewhiskey between us. Suffice to say, I didn't remember much after that.
I woke up with a headache like the cruciatus curse and it took a while for me to get my bearings. It was way too bright and whenever I tried to raise my head the pain intensified tenfold.
I was lying on the floor of The Marauders' dorm room as were Melissa and Peter. Sirius was nowhere to be found and Remus and Potter were collapsed on their bed.
I peered over at Potter's bed and despite my killer handover, laughed my head off.
Our prank had worked.
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