Lily Evans stepped into the Great Hall and scanned the Gryffindor table for her boyfriend Sirius Black. They had been together for almost 6 months now, since the beginning of their forth year.
Finally she spotted him sitting in between his best friends Remus Lupin and James Potter.
Lily walked over to Sirius and placed her hand coyly over his eyes and whispered into his ear "Guess who?"
Sirius spun around in his chair to face his girlfriend.
"Morning Tiger Lily."
Lily giggled at his pet name for her. It had come from their first meeting;
She had just sat down as the Gryffindor table after being sorted by the sorting hat and Sirius had nocked pumpkin juice onto her lap, and when he began to laugh at her she started to scream and shout at him. Sirius Black had been thoroughly shocked by this reaction and had begun to apologise.
"Morning Lily."
"'Lo Lily" said James and Remus.
"Morning boys"
Lily squeezed in between James and Sirius and began fondly playing with Sirius long dark brown hair, pushing in behind his ears and stroking the back of his neck.
Sirius squirmed under her touch, "I wish you wouldn't do that Tiger Lily, you know I don't like it."
"Sorry Siri, I forgot, I'm just so excited to see you." Said Lily as she dropped her hand from Sirius neck.
"Hey James have you got a date for the Hogsmead trip next weekend?" asked Lily, as she served herself some French toast and bacon.
James looked up at Lily from the letter he was reading. "No not yet, there is someone I wanted to ask but she isn't really, well let's just say she's taken."
Everybody laughed.
"When has that ever stopped you mate?" barked Sirius with a mouth full of food.
Remus lent over the table and smacked his jaw shut. Sirius moaned in pain and Lily stroked his chin lovingly.
"So who is this girl then Prongs?" asked Sirius "Do we know her?"
"Oh crap I almost forgot I left my Charms essay up in the dorm. I better go get it, ill see you guys in Potions okay?" said James as he jumped up, grabbing his bag and heading towards the entrance to the great hall.
Sirius shrugged and continued to stuff his face. Lily looked at Remus; they both knew something was up.
"Did he just completely avoid the question?" asked Lily looking back down at her own breakfast.
"I think he did," replied Remus "I think I'll go talk to him. Ill seen you guys in double potions okay?"
Remus stood up and followed the path James had travelled not moments before.
Remus caught up to James as he was standing in front of the portrait hole entrance into Gryffindor tower.
"Hey man. What was that all about back there?" asked Remus as he stepped through the portrait hole with James.
"Dunno what your talking about mate." Replied James as he strode across the common room and up the stairs to the boys dormitory.
"You know very well what I am talking about James. Back there, in the Great Hall. What was this non-sense about this girl? Who is she?" pestered Remus as he followed James up the stairs and into their dormitory.
James strode over to his bed and collapsed. He was tired; you could see the rings underneath his eyes. Last night had been a full moon and all of the Marauders had been out all night. Remus had taken some Pepper Up potion given to him by Madame Shelly the nurse, but he and Sirius couldn't ask for any as the nosey nurse would probably start asking questions and somehow figure out that he and Sirius were illegal animagi. However Sirius looked fine this morning, he had the unremarkable knack of being able to party hard all night, not get a wink of sleep and still play a full game of quiditch the next morning and not fall off his broom once. That was one of the things James envied about his would-be-brother.
Remus walked over and sat opposite James on Sirius bed.
"C'mon Prongs, out with it." He said.
James sighed, "Okay, ill tell you, only if you promise not to say anything to ANYBODY, that includes Sirius and Lily, especially not them."
Remus looked confused but the emotions James could see in his eyes told him to go on.
"Alright, well you remember that time in 3rd year, before Sirius started hanging out with Lily, when she and I were paired in Duelling class? Well I kind of got to know her a bit then a supposed and I began to have feelings for her." By this time James had started to run his hand through his head, it was something he did when he became nervous or agitated or even bored.
Remus just looked at James with horror playing with his handsome features.
"Waaa…?" was all he managed to say
"Yeah I know. It's really bad. I mean, she's Sirius' girl." James began to pace up and down the dormitory, while Remus sat on Sirius' bed watching him
"So earlier when you said that you wanted to ask someone but she wasn't available, you were talking about Lily weren't you. Gees Prongs, you don't make things easy for yourself do you?" said Remus as his voice finally returned to him.
James has stopped pacing and was sitting on his own bed once again. "So what do you think I should do mate?"
"Sorry dude, I have no clue. You could also talk to Padfoot about it. I don't think he's actually THAT into her, but I could be wrong. I mean I haven't seen him with the same girl for more than a few weeks." Said Remus thoughtfully.
James sighed.
"I recon you should just forget about her mate. Go to Hogsmead next weekend with Marlene McKinnon, you know, that blonde chick in Hufflepuf? She's hot, and she's got a body to boot." Said Remus as he picked himself up off the bed and walked over to the door. "C'mon Prongs, lets move it or we will be late for double potions."
Lily and Sirius walked down the corridors towards the dungeon in complete silence. The only noise was the shuffling of footsteps. Lily was swinging their arms in between them and Sirius was looking around the corridors, praying that one of his fellow Marauders would come and save him from the horror that was his girlfriend.
Lily was all together bad, Sirius just wasn't used to having a girlfriend for so long. The only reason they had stayed together this long was because he didn't want her to hate him if they broke up. Sirius was, if nothing else, a gentleman when it came to his friends, and he considered Lily almost like a sister, except for the fact that they were dating, cause that's just wrong. The other reason they were still together was that Lily was an AMAZING kisser, and she knew all of his weak points, the places that made him feel really frisky.
As they walked down the last corridor to the potions classroom, Frank and Dimitri walked around the corner and joined them.
"Morning Frank, Dimitri. How was your weekend?" asked Sirius casually.
"God damb Black you know very well it was ruddy awful. Not only did you charm all of the hot water to stain everything, including me, pink, but you also put itching powder into my shoes. Oh, morning Lily." Ranted Dimitri. Frank simply stood next to his brother looking between him and Sirius; he could tell they were going to start something again. Just what he needed, he would have to write home to his mother tonight and tell her why her favourite son had been suspended from classes for a day, AGAIN!
"Well you shouldn't have aimed that bludger at me during quiditch practice on Thursday." Yawned Sirius lazily.
"You know very well that was an accident Black." Screamed Dimitri.
Frank walked around his arguing brother and towards Lily.
"Morning Lily, how are you today?" he asked
"Morning Frank, I'm fine, simply tired is all. How about you?" Lily asked as she tore her gaze away from Sirius.
"Fine, fine. At the rate these two are going we will never get to class. I think I am going to keep walking, would you like to walk with me?" ask Frank as he held out an arm from Lily to take.
That was one of the things Lily loved about her friend, he really was very chivalrous, and not just occasionally, but all the time. Frank was one of those guys that would open the door for a lady, and pull out her chair, and offer to walk her to class, and insisted on paying for everything (he was from a very well off muggle family).
Giggling Lily accepted his outstretched hand and shouted over her shoulder, "Siri, I'm going ahead to class, please try to play nice with Dimitri."
Lily and Frank walked down the corridor leaving Sirius and Dimitri to "talk-it-out".
The pair darted into their potions classroom as Professor Slughorn closed the door promptly behind them.
Frank walked across the room and sat promptly next to Remus and James. Lily walked over and squeezed in between Remus and James.
"Morning class," he said in his chipper, singsong voice. "Today we will be brewing a particularly dangerous potion when in the wrong hands," he winked at James and Remus. "Today we are brewing a Love Potion."
"Remus, will you work with me? You know how lousy I am at potions." Asked Frank
"Yeah sure mate. Now worries." Replied Remus.
The pair walked over to the front of the classroom and collected two trays of ingredients and brought it back to the table where Lily and James were sitting. James refused to look at Lily and Lily looked dazedly off into the distance.
"So Lily," said James, Lily jumped, she had been staring so intently out the window she had completely spaced. "Do you want to work with me then?"
Lily looked around the room, scanning it for Sirius but he had not showed up yet.
"Sure, why not." She said and smiled at him.
Finally Sirius stumbled into the classroom and all eyes bore into his sole as he did so, then they realised that I was Sirius Black, THE Sirius Black was the one that had disturbed their silence and their gaze softened. In some girls cases they began to flutter their eyes flirtatiously and Lily shot them all warning stares and she gestured for him to come and join herself and James.
Just as he started to walk over towards them Professor Slughorn waltzed over to him.
"Ah! Black my boy. Where have you been? Off with a little vixen ey." He said and chuckled.
Lily gasped and pouted.
"Oh quite right Mrs Evans, you were in the class from the beginning so we would hope that's not what he was up to. Anyway Mr Black I am going to have to ask you to come up to my desk and read from the text book as there is not enough time left in the lesson for you to participate in the class task." He said and continued to walk around the class and inspect their potions.
Sirius turned and rolled his eyes at his best mate and girlfriend. James sighed and Lily giggled as she continued to stir their potion anti-clockwise
As the lesson went on, Lily found herself enjoying James's company more and more, and James began himself feeling more and more attracted to Lily. Towards the end of the lesson James thought to himself as he sat down for the eighteenth time in a row (to avoid showing Lily his true feelings) after Lily's hand brushed across his own "This could get VERY complicated VERY quickly"