Chapter 30 Deleted Scene

The Dormitory Fight from Carlotta's perspective, deleted from the chapter because 100 PAGES!

“I’m sorry, Shelley,” sighed an appeasing Lily. “Mary’s not... I mean... I know you didn’t know she was with Stebbins...”
 Fear gripped at Carlotta again and prompted her to speak, too: “Of course she didn’t know. Shelley wouldn’t—Shelley wouldn’t intentionally try to snog another girl’s boyfriend... would you, Shell?”
 It hadn’t been intended to sound like such a leading question, and yet, Carlotta’s words caused something in Shelley to snap. The blonde turned towards her, spite in her eyes.
 “Not like you,” she said, temper flaring up unexpectedly. “You would do it—you have done it, without blinking an eye.”
 “Shell...” Carlotta began uncertainly, but her friend interrupted.
 “I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT!” Shelley roared, catching everyone off guard. “HOW COULD YOU? You knew! You’ve always known that I was in love with him, and you just—did you even care?!”
 And there it was—the reproach that Carlotta had dreaded... had thought she’d avoided... here it was after all.
 “You... you never... said anything to him...”
 “That shouldn’t have mattered to you!” Shelley went on. “You were supposed to be my best friend, but you—you didn’t really care about my feelings at all! You knew, and you went ahead anyway!”
 Supposed to be her best friend. “I didn’t mean to hurt you...”
 “Of course you did!” Shelley shrieked. “You don’t care about anyone but yourself! It must have been... it must have been so exciting for you to land James Potter! You must have thought that... that stupid, mousy little Shelley wouldn’t say anything! Like—like in fourth year, when you kissed him... you must have thought I’d stay in line and behave! But I’m not going to! I’m not going to be your stupid little sidekick anymore! I’m done with that! I am done with you!”
 Carlotta attempted to get out the reply she’d prepared... that Shelley had never acted on her crush... she had been contented to sit and long, and Carlotta had only wanted to be happy... But her words sounded desperate and guilty.
 “YOU KNEW!” Shelley raged on. “You knew, and you did it anyway!” She paused to breathe; Carlotta wanted to cry, but did not dare. “But it doesn’t matter...” Shelley continued after a while, and her voice was calm again, “he’s not going to want you for very long.”
 Fear again. “What—what’s that supposed to mean?”
 “Exactly what it sounds like. If you think he’s going to want a girl like you...”
 And, as something had snapped in Shelley, something else snapped in Carlotta. “You think he’s going to want you?” She laughed. Shelley win James Potter away? It was ridiculous. Carlotta didn’t care that her laughter now was cruel... she couldn’t help it. “You think that James Potter is going to pay any attention to you, Shelley? You’ll have to do more than lose a little weight for that to happen...”
 Shelley lunged at Carlotta, but Lily stepped in.
 “Stop it, both of you!” she shouted. “Carlotta, Shelley—you two have to get a grip. He’s just a boy.”
 “He’s not just a boy!” Shelley snapped. “He’s the boy that I’m in love with...”
 “He doesn’t fancy you, Shelley,” retorted Carlotta. “He fancies me."                  
“Not for very long! I listened to every story you ever told me, Carlotta! I know all of the awful things you’ve done, and those aren’t the qualities that a bloke wants in a girlfriend!”
 “Then why are you trying so hard to be me?” Carlotta shrieked.
 “I don’t want to be you! You would have failed potions last year, if you hadn’t given Robbie Castle a hand job to do your homework for you!”
 “At least I’m not a whining, simpering little fool, who thinks that the only reason her pathetic crush never worked out is because she was ugly! Truth is, Shelley—he wouldn’t have fancied you even if you hadn’t resembled a deformed hippogriff!”
 Shelley gasped, and tried once more to reach Carlotta, unsuccessful yet again due to Lily.
 “I’m serious, stop it,” she snapped.
 “Stay out of this, Lily!” barked Shelley.
 “I’m not going to let you kill each other!”
 “This is none of your business! Stop meddling!”
 Lily deliberated for only a second; Shelley’s words clearly stung her. “Fine. Tear each other’s hair out—see if I care.” Lily moved back. Inexplicably, Carlotta did not want her to leave. Even as she stood there, a combination of guilt and fury surging through her, Carlotta knew that she ought to have been embarrassed, but she did not want that strange, uniquely positioned third party to leave...
 “I just couldn’t believe that you would do that to me,” Shelley muttered, with tears in her eyes. “You knew...”
 “I knew that you fancied a boy whom you had scarcely spoken two words to in six years,” Carlotta interrupted, also tearful. “I knew that he liked me, and he didn’t just want to sleep with me—he liked me.” That had to be explained. Shelley—to whom she had never had to explain anything—needed to understand. “So, yes, I wanted to go out with him.”
 “He didn’t know!” Shelley replied loudly.
 “He didn’t know what? That you would get skinny and be willing to shag him? First of all, you’re not even that skinny.” (This was a particular slap-in-the-face, Carlotta could tell). “Second of all, he’s James Potter! It’s not as though he’s never had options before, okay?” (Didn’t she get it?)
 “I see,” retorted Shelley. “So you’re special are you? Please! The only reason anyone would want to be with you is because you’re a guaranteed slag!”
 “And you’re so much better now? You snogged Mary’s boyfriend!”
 “So what? It’s not like Mary MacDonald isn’t going to find another boyfriend!”
 “You are such a pathetic hypocrite!”
 “You’re a whoring slag!”
 “You’re...”
 “SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!” Lily interrupted suddenly, louder than the other two and bringing them to silence. “You’re both wrong! Neither of you have the moral high ground anymore, okay? And y-y-you’re standing here, arguing, like a couple of idiots over something that is so—so—so unfathomably insignificant that I can barely handle knowing that two supposedly intelligent seventeen-year-old girls care at all!”
 “Well,” began Shelley, “she...”
 “Bloody hell, I don’t care!” Lily went on furiously; “You are both wrong! What part of that don’t you understand? Carlotta...” She turned to the brunette. “What the hell were you doing? You’ve known that your best friend was in love with him since first year—you shouldn’t have kissed him, and you shouldn’t have started dating him! You’re not in love! You did it because you wanted to, and because for whatever reason, you are incapable of understanding that you can’t do every single thing you want to do! If you didn’t have to act on every single whim that you have, your best, and—might I add—practically only friend wouldn’t be standing here shouting at you!”
 Carlotta dropped her gaze, more embarrassed. For a second, Shelley looked triumphant.
 “And you!” Lily turned to the blonde. “You’re not much better! For someone who worships and adores the bloke, you don’t seem to have a very high opinion of James! You’re going to, what? Have a long, fulfilling relationship—get married, have babies, and live in his big, fancy house—based on your trying to seduce him away from his girlfriend?! How is that possibly a good idea?! And, oh my Merlin, don’t even get started on Stebbins! I hate to say it, but Carlotta has a point! How can you stand there calling her a whore, when everything from your practically orange lipstick to the fact that you just uttered the sentence, ‘Mary MacDonald will find another boyfriend,’ makes you just as bad!”
 “I...”
 “NO! No, no, NO! I am talking now! The both of you need to get your acts together right now! I am done caring if Carlotta is seeing the bloke that you fancy, Shelley, or if Shelley is trying to sit on your boyfriend’s lap, Carlotta. Whatever. But all of this whore-calling, and shouting, and making this dormitory miserable, and... and... snogging my friend’s boyfriend to prove a point to each other—all of that ends now!” Carlotta attempted to speak, but Lily cut her off again, “And... before either of you say that this is none of my business, I am going to spare you the risk of getting hexed out that window: this is my business, because I’m supposed to have my own room tonight, and yet now, I get to spend the evening agreeing to repetitive statements about what a git Stebbins is! And, also, because the two of you are insults to the very word ‘friendship’ with how you’re behaving! AND, also, because I’m Head Girl, and there’s NO SHOUTING ALLOWED IN THE DORMITORIES!”
 She finished her speech.
 Shelley and Carlotta did not speak.
 At some point—Carlotta had no idea when—Donna had entered the dormitory from the bath, dripping wet from her shower and clothed in a bathrobe. She looked from Lily to Carlotta to Shelley, utterly bewildered.
 No one said a word. It was funny, that now, with her best friend breathing heavily and loathing her with every fiber of her existence, Carlotta should regard Lily. She looked a strange combination of tired and furious and hurt. As a result, when Carlotta broke the silence, she was uncertain as to whom she spoke: “I’m sorry.”
 Shelley interpreted the apology as her own, however. “I hate you,” she replied bitterly.
 And that stung, too.
 Carlotta looked between the other two actors in this little scene: Lily and Shelley. Shelley looked resentful and hurt and wronged. She looked angry and sad and tired, and there were tears in her eyes. But Lily—Lily was in pain, too.

And because you're all such sweethearts, here's a nice little Chapter 31 excerpt.

 “Lily,” began Remus quietly, “do you—do you fancy James?”

Love,
Jules

Questions, Chapters 30/31

How can James possibly not get the picture now?! SHE WAS ANGRY! DUH?!?! (Jewels paraphrasing)

For about twenty minutes, I think James was seriously considering the possibility that Lily was jealous. Then, Carlotta tells him about Shelley, and he begins to think that maybe that--combined with the whole NOT TELLING thing--was what pissed Lily off.
 "I suppose that explains a few things..." "Unexpected reactions..." etc.
I know we didn't really get into James's POV, which is sad, but there will be more from him in Chapter 31. And, for those of you furious with him right now, he's going to try to... square himself with everyone.

Why is Carlotta being so un-Carlotta-y? (Not being her usual carefree self)
Because she's in an un-Carlotta-y situation. More on that later.

Will Lily and Sirius get their chat?
I would say so.

More Sirius?
Sirius gets ANGST in the next chapter! I LOVE SIRIUS ANGST! Because, of course, he did sort of almost kill a guy at the end of last year, and there might be some lingering consequences. But he'll also be bonding and nicknaming and just being his wonderful cuddly self.
James also gets non-girl related angst! YAY! Which only adds to his girl related drama, which is going to be a  bit of a handful.

What's Shelley's plan?
Carlotta delenda est.

WTF, Stebbins?
A bit more an explanation on this in the future. Although, I should note that the train hook up was not intended to be the first between Mary and Stebbins.

"I was wondering how you constructed this chapter? Did you think of where everyone was an then piece it together, or did you start from one POV and then weave everyone else's throughout?"
-Off Dreaming


This whole chapter was built in my head around the platform scene. I wanted Lily to realize that she fancies James on Platform Nine and Three Quarters, JUST BEFORE she finds out about Carlotta. But I also wanted that to be at the end of the chapter, since it's kind of the dramatic high point, even though it, logically, should go right at the beginning. My original plan was to write the chapter backwards, beginning with the girls lamenting their terrible day in the dormitory, and then going back to Lily and James in the corridor after the Head meeting, and then back to the Head meeting, and then to supper, etc... "Memento" style. But that wouldn't work unless I ONLY wrote the Lily/James storyline. I wouldn't be able to do any of the other stories that needed to be done in this chapter.
So I sorted out everything that needed to happen in this chapter for each character. All of the threads were written in different documents, and basically I just wrote the story five different ways. But then some stuff got a little tricky--I couldn't remember where I had put Shelley or at what points what compartments were vacant... so I made the timeline that appears in the post below. Basically, I took five stories and stapled wove them together. 


Will James's relationship with Lily be different now that he is with Carlotta?
Yes. It was already a LITTLE different in Chapters 28 and 29, but the severity of James's less suggestive (even less teasing) self was diminished by the fact that I'm pretty sure they were eye-fucking that whole day. So how much will James change towards Lily in light of puppy killing? Somewhat. But the unresolved sexual tension is still there, and that's sticking around.


Will James as half of James/Lily be different than James as half of the puppy killers?
Sure. Being with Lily would mean something completely different to James than being with Carlotta.


What's your tumblr?
itatemyhand.tumblr.com
(never saw that coming, did ya?!)


Who do you relate most to?
Lol, all of them. Okay, that's not a very good answer. I just felt very close to Lily this chapter for some reason, but also Donna, because I just KNOW people like Charlie Plex and I want to strangle them. 
I actually really related to Marlene, though, because about a week after I wrote the Marlene/Carlotta convo, I found myself in a very similar situation... having someone for whom I don't have a lot of respect (who may or may not be the Icarus Frop inspiration, AHEM) baring his soul and looking for advice. And you can't be like, "You're better than this," because... they're not. It's really difficult trying to be honest, nice, and helpful, when a total misogynist is claiming that he was the sweetest boyfriend in the world, and it's just not faaaair that this girl dumped him.  




So... what can you tell us about Chapter 31?


Lily is getting a pen pal.


Donna will invent new and creative ways to avoid talking to Madam Keepdown.


Remus will ask his question from the train. 


Dumbledore approves of ships that don't kill puppies.






Love,
Jules

Chapter 30 Music

But before I get too far into the chapter I just really, really want to thank you all for reading and reviewing. And I always say that, but I really do mean it. Whether it's posting on here, or reviewing, or leaving nice things in my Ask on Tumblr, you guys give me so much encouragement and support, and you make it so much fun for me to write LAT. Words cannot express my gratitude to all of you for being so wonderful.

Alright, onto the Chapter stuff.

Below Be Spoilers for Chapter 30. Do not read before you have finished. 

So, parts of Chatper 30 are kind of confusing. I thought I would post for you all the sketchy timeline I used to sort out who was where at what time.

9:50 Lily on the platform

10:00 Train leaves

10:05 Shelley visits the other G. Girls

10:25 Carlotta and James go the prefects compartment

10:30 Prefect meeting begins

10:45 Carlotta runs into Shelley

11:00 Carlotta and Shelley meet up with James and return to the Marauders

12:00 Marlene and Donna go to find food; they run into Charlie and then Adam

1:30 Mary and Stebbins meet up

2:00 Sirius doesn’t know who Shelley is

2:30 Lily begins patrols

3:30 Lily and Remus finish patrol; Shelley leaves the Marauders

3:45 Marlene returns from Prudence’s compartment

4:00 James and Carlotta leave to make out

4:15 Carlotta freaks out and goes to find Lily, but confides in Marlene instead

5:00 Marlene runs into Shelley; Donna leaves Bridget

5:15 Donna speaks with Cassidy Gamp

6:00 Donna encounters Adam

7:00 Train arrives

7:20 Lily comforts Marlene in the Entrance Hall

7:30 Sorting starts

7:45 Dinner starts

8:45 Dinner ends; Shelley and Stebbins are found out

9:00 Head meeting begins

9:10 Mary rants about Shelley

9:30 Head meeting ends; Marlene speaks to Adam in the Common Room

9:50 Lily returns and yells at everyone

10:00 Carlotta returns to the dorms

10:30 End

^That =100 Pages

Oh, and lest any of you be thinking of yelling at me, one of the excerpts I gave you did end up getting cut. It was Carlotta's POV on the shouting at the end... I decided to keep that only to Lily for a couple of reasons... one, drama, and two, it's 100 fucking pages already. 

Something else that sadly got cut was Reg Cattermole, who originally played a little role in this chapter. His plotline was not sustainable, sadly. But, have no fear, he'll be back soon enough.

More Marauders in the next chapter than there were in this chapter, too. 

As for Chapter 30, which part was your favorite? (I-V)

And are you on Shelley's side or Carlotta's?

On the potential AVPM reference:
Lol, actually... that wasn't a AVPM reference. It's just a HP reference, and there's some other stuff going on with that... (I'm sorry, my brain is dead, I am not explaining myself well at all), but if you want it to be an AVPM reference, let it be, baby.

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“You’ve got your new girl, and your attempts to flaunt her do absolutely nothing to me, because if she’s stupid enough to publically acknowledge association with you, she’s not even worth my sympathy. But somehow, even I don’t think that anyone can be quite that thick, and sooner or later, she’s going to realize that you’re not worth the effort, too.”

(It's not who you think it is. Either of them.)

-Part III

Still working on the chapter, but I'm flying through part III so hopefully that bodes well...

2/17

“Are you trying to get a shoe launched at your head, Meloni?” 
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“Well,” said Marlene, “I am quite brilliant.”

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“As the only here who has tried to off herself,” said Carlotta, “I think it might be a good idea.”

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“Well, we’ll have to catch up soon,” said Sabrina lightly. “So much to tell! Oh, did you hear?” She leaned confidentially forward. “Carlotta Meloni and James Potter.”

--

I am trying very hard not to just fall asleep, because I really want to finish Part II tonight. Part I and Part V are done. Part IV has maybe two scenes left. 

Not a real holiday????

Well, even if ^that is your belief, I hope you have a happy Valentine's Day, because it's a real day at any rate, if not a real holiday, and I like people to have happy days.

Personally, I have no issue with Valentine's Day. If you're in a relationship or have a reliable FWB (not that I am encouraging such arrangements, because they tend to go south and not turn out at all like "No Strings Attached"), celebrate it. But I don't think single people should feel threatened by the day. I'm not, and that's partially because we're rewarded with International Get Drunk Day St. Patrick's Day just a month later. 

Also, in my experience, people with good romantic relationships don't make a huge deal out of Valentine's Day. They'll buy a card or flowers or candy or they'll go out to eat, but for the most part, they ain't bothered. If some non-single person tries to make you (if you're single) feel like crap for not having a "special someone" in your life on February 14th, ask their friends what feature that person is most insecure about and taunt them about it... remind them of the divorce statistics and sarcastically note that you hope they are the exception, not the rule... throw a cupcake at their face, don't do any of those things, and remind yourself and them that you a fucking snowflake and being single doesn't suck nearly as much as it does in Katherine Heigl movies... or at all. If you need proof, go read The Frenemy, because, while I feel she is a little overly negative against relationship-y people from time to time, that blog will remind you of a thousand reasons why not having a boyfriend (girlfriend?) really isn't a big deal at all.

IDK. If you DO hate the holiday though, I suggest you make up a tradition that you can carry out with your friends... buy a cupcake together and make (good hearted) fun of that really obnoxious couple that thinks they are SO gonna last forever, even though everyone knows they're gonna break up in like two weeks. Even non-organic, made-up holidays are good if they remind you to make fun of people celebrate the people you love in your life. With cupcakes.

Yes, that is bacon on that cupcake. Apparently, it's a French Toast cupcake with bacon. Epic or awful? I don't really know.

I'm not updating today, but I have a few excerpts.

Part I

James got to his feet. “What happened?”

His girlfriend merely sighed, though it was comforting, at least, to know that someone in Gryffindor tower had not heard all of that. She patted the space on the bed beside her. “Sit down? I have something to tell you...”

Part II

To be in love, even superficially, on the first day of school is a wonderful thing indeed.

Part III

“...There’s your food. Enjoy it. I’m off.”
 “Off where?” asked Lily.
 “To sit with Bridget.”
 “Bridget doesn’t want you to sit with her,” Lily advised.
 “How could you possibly know that?”
 “How could you possibly not know that?” 

Part IV

“You weren’t ready,” said Lily. “It’s not your fault.”

“It is though. I was so stupid...”

“No, you weren’t. You were just getting out of one really complicated, really intense relationship, and you weren't ready to jump into another one. That’s not your fault. None of this is your fault.”

“But it’s not his fault either...”

“No,” Lily agreed, and something in her tone changed. “No, he had every right to move on, too.”

Part V

It made a strange kind of sense, and Lily wondered why she had never thought of it before. Then again, she had never really connected James with anyone in her mind before. He had dated that weird Sarah girl back in fifth year for a while, and there had been a slew of others linked to him (either by reality or rumor), but—and perhaps it was because it was Carlotta—this new relationship seemed so much more real to Lily.
 No, Lily had never thought of James really with anyone before, but she could not deny that Carlotta made sense.

<3 <3
Happy Monday!
Love,
Jules 

2/12

James excerpt as requested.

“At the risk of sounding like a complete girl,” began the Head Boy, “are you angry with me?”

 -Chapter 30, Part V

Lol, it's a little bit lame, I know, and I was SO close to giving you a tiny excerpt from the last scene of the chapter, but I changed my mind, because I want that scene to be completely fresh when you read it =P

Love,

Jules

2/10

My plan is to finish up Part IV tonight. Part I and Part V are about three quarters of the way done. Part II is about halfway done, and Part III is about a third of the way done. Make of that what you will.

Carlotta looked between the other two actors in this little scene: Lily and Shelley. Shelley looked resentful and hurt and wronged. She looked angry and sad and tired, and there were tears in her eyes. But Lily—Lily was in pain, too. 

-Chapter 30, Part I

Update in... hopefully less than a week?

Cheers,
Jules

Moderately Relevant

"Dear Prudence"

"Here Comes the Sun"

"Golden Slumbers"

"Sexy Sadie"

"Eleanor Rigby"

Stuff and more Stuff

[Warning: there is a youtube video at the end of this post. Hitting spacebar might cause it to play and have some believe they are going insane. =P]

Kiss and Tell updated. And there was much rejoicing.

I'm just.... they're just.... Lily and James for life, baby.

With regards to TLAT update... Idk. It might be a little longer than I thought, but not because I'm lazy. I'm just really taking my time with the chapter, and there are a couple of reasons for that.
1. I'm writing comparatively long segments from POVs that I don't usually write extensively. For example, Lily's thought patterns come much more naturally to me at this point, as do Marlene's and Donna's, but Mary and Carlotta are very different, so I have to make sure I'm doing it right.
2. There's so much subtext I have to battle through. It's like, I'm writing James's thoughts (for example) without actually writing James's thoughts, and I want to make sure I'm communicating all the characters well.
3. A lot of things are changing in this chapter, or, a lot of things have already changed by the time this chapter rolls around, so that I have to establish change and then elaborate upon it. I don't know if that will make sense to anyone but me, but... yeah.
4. It's the first chapter of a school year, which means a lot of things HAVE to happen (i.e. train ride, sorting, Dumbledore speech, new teachers, etc.) and that just takes time.

So, all of that means that I'm kind of working my way very methodically and thoughtfully through the construction of this chapter, which is funny, because its probably the most emotional thing I've written since Chapter 25.

Here's kind of a fun spoiler.
Besides the already alluded to introductions, there are three new characters stepping up.
Eran Ramsay
Valentina Ramsay
Fiona Keepdown


Also, here's a tiny excerpt regarding the Head Dormitory situation.

“Oi! That’s right! I get my own room!”

“Did you forget?”

“It hadn’t occurred to me. Will it just appear at the top of the stair, like it did for Frank?”

Lily nodded. “And there will be one on the girls’ end of the tower, too.”

“Do we get our own Common Room?”

“What?”

“Our own Common Room.”

Lily frowned. “No. Where on earth did you get that idea?”

“I don’t know,” admitted James. “I feel like I read it somewhere.”

I think I'm much cleverer than I actually am, yes.

And some inspirational music, lol.

Love,
Jules

Non-Spoilers, Chapter 30 Edition

Marlene is an awful sister.

Donna is still darker.

Psych Healers are trendy.

Lily has "Ticket to Ride" stuck in her head.

Carlotta doesn't want flowers.

James is not Sirius's mother. Or father. That he knows of.

Birthdays

So apparently everyone in the world was born in the beginning of February. When I'm more awake tomorrow, I'll post better Happy Birthdays, but in the meantime, here's a not terribly spoilerific but amusing excerpt from Chapter 30.


Happy Birthday to one and all!

“Well that’s funny, because, actually, I spent the summer working in a pub to support my brothers and sister, read all four volumes of Waffling’s Magical Theory, finished the books on the list for next term, completed my homework before August, helped MacDonald with hers, and ordered around a well-respected Auror. And, I’m sorry, you got a tan, did you say?” 

Love,
Jules 

"It's My Party"

Lesley Gore

The Chiffons

Chapter 30's song title... can't recall if I've posted this yet.

Love,

Jules

Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions

'Cause I haven't done one of these in a while.

Where does the Marlene/Carlotta exchange take place?
Le train.

Is Clancy the other girl that tried to kill herself?
No, that was a girl named Linda (Ch. 10, I believe mentions that). Clancy is... well... eh, you'll see. Lol, she actually is only barley in Chapter 30, but she'll be popping up a bit in 7th year.

Wait, I already answered all the other questions. Hmph. Well, I COULD tell you who has a section of the chapter, if you guys WANT. Although, I won't say which person goes with which part just yet.

Happy Chinese New Year =P
Love,
Jules

UNRELATED EDIT:
Dr. Who Series 5 spoilers.
How have I never seen this before?
 

Space Gandalf. 
"Slightly a little bit over half..."
Not mates... forget mates. (LOL Donna)
Maybe one or two... I didn't really notice.
"Metal dog." Jules = dead.

2/2/11

Happy Groundhog Day!

Right now:

Carlotta:

Marlene:

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“This is completely different from Miles...” said Carlotta impatiently.

“Yes, dear, it is,” replied Marlene. “This is so, so, so much better.”

-Chapter 30, Part I

1/31

“The thing that you don’t understand about me is that, naturally, I’m not a nice person. I am one of those mean, popular bitches, who wants nothing more than to mock the girls who bite their nails and chew on their hair. Usually, I hold all of that in, because Lily makes me feel bad about it. But for you, I’m going to make an exception, clear? My advice to you is stay out of my line of vision, because—y’know... out of sight, out of mind, and... you do not want to be on my mind.”

-Chapter 30, Part II

Oh, the drama!

Happy Birthday, Lily Part II

Left to Right: Frank, Alice, Shelley, Mary, Prudence, Adam

Remus, Sirius, James, Lily, Marlene, Lathe

Peter, Carlotta, Reginald, Clancy, Donna, Luke


***

Also, because I'm pretty much a sucker for the Anonymouses =P:

“You’re kind of self-righteous,” said Carlotta.

Lily sighed. “Kind of? As in, it’s kind of my defining characteristic?”

Happy Birthday, Lily Evans Potter!

"The entire room had lit up upon her entrance, and yet none of these details had any effect upon Lily. She barely saw them, for suddenly her eyes were blurred by tears.

Her breathing grew heavy and staggered. She fell back against the closed door and pushed her hair away from her face, forcibly attempting to fend off the attack of panic that quickened her heart and made her head spin.

No good at all."

-Chapter 30, Part V

Music and Things

Chapter 30 is so much fun to write.

Here's some music. Although, there's one song that is pretty much just writing the chapter for me, but I'll post that with the update.
Fine. Tiny, tiny spoiler:

"And, oh my Merlin, don’t even get started on Stebbins!"

(Chapter 30, Part I & V)
Love,
Jules

Excerpt

“I don’t eat meat.”

“I remember."

“But I won’t glare at you if you do eat it.”

“And I do.”

“I don’t like lies.”

“Duly noted.”

“I don’t intend on telling any, and you’d better not either.”

“But what if you don’t catch me?”

“Is that a joke?”

"Yes.”

“Warn me next time.”

-Chapter 30, Part I


Love, 
Jules