A/N Before you read this chapter, I'd like to describe the characters to you (Sam please be quiet);
Sirius: Loud, dark brown hair, strange black eyes, funny.
James: Prefect (hard to believe), prankster, jet black hair, brown eyes.
Remus: Prefect, shaggy dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, looks tired due to his furry problem, is the "good one" out of the bunch besides Pettigrew the suck up.
Peter Pettigrew: Chubby, bald spot because of a nasty hex a girl played on him, blue eyes.
Lily: Flaming red hair, emerald green eyes, rosy cheeks.
Kayla: Dark brown hair, chocolate-brown eyes, small and slender (only fat one here is Pettigrew), friends with James and Sirius since she was three.
Samantha: Light brown hair, hazel eyes, tall.
Hope: Tall, brown hair, brown eyes, tougher than most people.
Brock: Blonde hair, who-knows-what-color? eyes, on the short side.
There you go, this is just a filler chapter to show you what their characters are like, but read the next chapter and you'll really like it!
Breaking Away from Confusion
Chapter 1: Notes and Kisses
Mrs. Landerson's voice droned on in Muggle studies as the Marauders, Kayla, Samantha, and Lily passed notes.
Prongs: Guys, this class is really boring, why did we choose to take it?
BrightEyes: sigh Maybe it's because we needed to brush up on our Muggle history if we ever want to go into the their world and live among them.
Padfoot: But I thought it was just a class that we went to in order to catch up on necessary sleep!
BrightEyes: Yeah, that too... wait, why is my name BrightEyes?
Moony: 'Cause Sirius describes your eyes like sparkling stars in a clear sky...
BrightEyes: Okay, okay! I've heard enough.
Lily-bean: Guys? Shouldn't you be taking notes?
BrightEyes: Heck no! This class is so boring! Besides, I can copy off from you, Samantha, or Hope any day!
Chickenlegs: Hey! I was reading that note too ya know!
BrightEyes: Oops, my mistake.
Padfoot: Kayla?
BrightEyes: sighs Yes?
Padfoot: Have you decided if you are going to Hogsmeade with us or not yet?
BrightEyes: I guess I'll go, but only if Samantha goes too! Heck I need a supervisor when it comes to going to Hogsmeade with you guys! I almost agreed to more than one drink last time!
Prongs: Yeah, that was awesome! I've known you since we were born, yet you never even picked up a drink until that night! But after that first bottle that you swigged down a little too fast, you almost threw up from the taste and said you were going to stick with root beer.
Moony: Jeez, we gotta get this girl to loosen up.
Chickenlegs: Tell me about it... Just last week...
Slap! Mrs.Landerson's wand hit the table, scaring all six note-writers horribly.
"Stop writing notes to each other and start taking notes for class!" she scoffed, snatching the notes from Samantha's hands. As she swiftly read it over, all six of them glared at each other uneasily and Kayla put down on the table in an ashamed manner.
"Miss Davis? Do you have something to say for yourself?" Mrs. Landerson asked, crossing her arms profusely. Kayla looked up innocently.
"Um, sorry?" she tried, but it was to no avail
"Two nights of detention for you Miss Davis!" Mrs. Landerson exclaimed, about to return to her lesson when Sirius jumped up.
"No fair! All she said was sorry! Why does she of all people get detention?" he challenged, making the teacher whirl around and give him a smug look.
"Oh don't worry, Mr. Black. You will be getting the same amount of detention,"she shrieked, going back to her teachings of the modern Muggle race car. The Marauders and the girls went back to writing their notes, now cautious that they were under watchful eyes.
BrightEyes: Sirius, did you just stand up for me? Without anything in it for you?
Padfoot: Is it so hard to believe that I can be good sometimes?
BrightEyes/Prongs/Lily-Bean/Chickenlegs/Moony: Yes!!!
Padfoot: Way to go guys. You've wounded my ego!
BrightEyes: Seriously, Sirius. Why did ya stand up for me?
Prongs: Maybe it's 'cause he's dreamed of marrying you since you first said hello to him in the hallway of my mansion on a play date.
Padfoot: Prongsie! That's not fair! You made a Marauder's promise never to reveal that ever!
Prongs: Oops? Come on, Padfoot, it was bound to get out sometime! I'm serious!
Padfoot: No, I'm Sirius! Besides, at least I haven't admired Lily-Bean from a distance while you were spying at her on the top of that tree back home!
"What?!" Lily shrieked aloud, startling the whole class and the teacher. She looked around nervously, sinking lower into her chair.
"Miss Evans, would you please explain that outburst of yours?" Mrs.Landerson asked, raising an eyebrow. Lily searched her mind desperately but could find nothing.
"Er, Mrs. Landerson?" James piped up. "If I could speak for Lily, I think what she was referring to was the absurdity of the Muggles cleaning their house by hand. How do they do it?" Mrs. Landerson scowled and glanced back at Lily.
"Is that right Miss Evans?" she asked.
"Yes, ma'am. I mean, if I had to clean my room by hand I think I'd die!" Lily played along, relieved that she had a decent excuse.
"Very well then, class dismissed." The class gratefully picked up their belongings, some yawning and rubbing their eyes after the eighty minute naps. Sirius, James, Kayla, and Lily rushed out of the room, leaving a bewildered Samantha and Remus behind.
"You're lucky you saved me back there or I would have probably killed you by now," Lily hissed at James, earning an amused chuckle from Sirius.
"You just be quiet, Black," Kayla snapped, pulling him by the arm into Potions. "We have some talking to do." Sirius' eyes pleaded with James for help but James had his own problems.
"You were spying on me? Where? Which tree?" Lily was demanding to know. James flickered his eyes from one place to another, averting her face.
"Potter, you answer me!"
"I so didn't spy you from a tree! I was on a broomstick!" he cried, not realizing his own words until he saw the horrified look on Lily's face.
"Oh, crap. I've got explaining to do, don't I?" James asked, as Lily nodded and pulled him by the arm into Astrology.
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BrightEyes: So let me get this straight; you've liked me since we were three?
Padfoot: You know, we should be paying attention instead of writing notes.
BrightEyes: And you know perfectly well that you don't give a care about stupid things like paying attention in class! Now answer the question!
Padfoot: OKay, fine. Yes, I guess I've sorta liked you for a while.
BrightEyes: No trick?
Padfoot: No trick. So, now that that's off my chest, wanna go out with me?
BrightEyes: You know, I would laugh out loud at that comment but I'd majorly get in trouble and we already have two detentions.
Padfoot face falling: So I take that as a no?
BrightEyes: I'll go out with you when James and Lily both kiss each other willingly!
Padfoot: Yup, definitely a no.
BrightEyes: Ya think?
BlackLover: Watcha guys talking about?
BrightEyes: Er, nothing Hope.
The rest of the day went on like a movie stuck on fastfoward. Lily refused to talk to James and Sirius and Kayla avoided each other at all times, purely out of embarrassment. Hope followed Sirius around like a puppy dog and Samantha went and flirted with her crush, Brock. The end of the night resulted in all the girls sulking on their beds miserably.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Kayla asked.
"Sirius hates me."
"Broc is avoiding me."
Lily and Kayla stared at the others longingly.
"You guys are miserable from rejection; that's normal. But being miserable from a guy liking you? Now that's not normal," Lily exclaimed. Kayla's face grew hurt and she stared downwards.
"Jeez, Lily-Bean. Didn't know you could be so harsh," she said. Lily looked up in bewilderment, confused.
"Um, I was referring to myself and James, but tell me your problem."
"Must I?" Kayla whined, looking at Lily with sad eyes.
"Yes! Come on BrightEyes, tell us! We're your friends!" Samantha urged.
"Sirius asked me out," she stated simply, laying her head on her pillow and closing her eyes.
"What?" Hope shrieked, feeling utterly jealous at the moment. Kayla opened her eyes to look at them.
"He asked me out during Potions."
"What did you say?" Samantha demanded.
"I said no." The room grew strangely silent as the baffled girls wondered what had gotten into Kayla.
"But Kayla, Black is the only guy you've loved since you first set eyes on him at James' house!" Sam pointed out.
"Besides James but you only love him as a brother," Lily added as if it were the most important fact of her life.
"I know," Kayla sighed. "But I don't know if I can go into one of those kinda one week relationships with him." The rest of the night was carried on in silence, each girl with her own troubled thoughts.
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"This really sucks," Sirius said. "The girl I love rejected me and her best friend won't stop chasing me!" James stared at him friend sympathetically, secretly feeling the same way himself. He had chased Lily down all day, trying to convince her that he hadn't seen anything bad (though he had managed to see her in her underwear, which was so not bad for him), but she wouldn't even talk to him. The door creaked open and Brock then walked in to find all four friends lounging about and doing nothing.
"Um, do my eyes deceive me or are the great Marauders actually home on a Friday night? What could cause such nonsense?" Brock asked dramatically as if the world was about to end.
"Girl problems," Sirius and James muttered in unison. Remus and Peter weren't in love and they didn't think anyone liked them anyways. So Pettigrew sat reading his History, and Remus was doing unfinished homework. Brock nodded, flopping down onto his bed to read a Quidditch magazine.
"Do you guys think Samantha is cute?" he suddenly wondered aloud, realizing
too late what he had said.
"Whoa, raging hormones much?"Sirius joked, surprised he was having a conversation with Brock, who hardly ever paid attention to them.
"Um, Samantha's cute but Lily is hawt!" James exclaimed, staring off into the distance.
"Keep dreaming, Mr. Prefect! I don't know if she'd ever go out with you!" Brock laughed. He returned his gaze back to the magazine but wasn't really reading it. HIs mind was somewhere else, two rooms away.
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On Saturday night, Sirius skipped throughout the commons room singing,
"We're going to Hogsmeade, we're going to Hogsmeade!"
"Would you shut your mouth before all of Gryffindor is begging to come?" James hissed. The boys were all ready with their invisibility cloak and all, but now they were just waiting for Kayla. When the door finally opened, Kayla walked out wearing a pair of casual jeans and a Gryffindor hoodie, and was literally pulling Lily out of their dorm.
"Lily! You have to come and make sure I don't pick up a drink!" Kayla whined and Lily finally gave in. They were all thrown under the invisibility cloak, a very hot and uncomfortable predicament. They managed to make it to a secret tunnel unseen, but Lily had been tense the whole time as she stood so closely next to James. Lily loved James, and she knew he loved her. But he had also "loved" alot of other girls who had been dumped within a month. When they were finally free of their airtight cloak, they began to talk quietly to one another; girls to girls, guys to guys.
"There's the exit," James pointed. The climbed out, surprised to see that everything was busy on this night, where as it was usually quiet until you went into a bar.
"Let's go guys!" Kayla shouted over the noise, pulling Remus and Sirius on each side of her into The Three Broomsticks. Lily was about to follow when a hand shot out and grabbed her arm.
"Follow me," a velvety voice whispered in her ear; the voice of James. James pulled Lily along in the rain, leaving the rest of his friends back in Hogsmeade. Lily wondered why James Potter , of all people, was holding her hand in the rain to bring her to a place that she knew nothing about. The sweet drops of rain trickled down on Lily's flaming red hair.
After what seemed like hours of walking together, they finally reached a spot under a tree surrounded by rose bushes. They both walked into the clearing and James surprised Lily by taking both of her hands and looking deep into her sparkling emerald eyes. Lily practically gasped at how handsome he looked with the water running down his nice face and through his messy black hair.
"Lily, what do you think of me?" he asked. Lily though deeply for a moment, then answered the wya she truly felt, leaving out the feelings of love and loniging.
"I think that you can be immature, rude, a joker, and the biggest jerk known to man-kind!" she began, but then her eyes softened. "But that is only to the people that you hate. To others you can be the most generous, caring, loving guy I have ever met." James was shockd with her answer, but definatley pleased.
"Why, James? How do you feel about me?" she asked. James knew what he needed to do.
"This, Lily Evans, is what I think of you." And with that, he bent down and kissed her full on the lips.
