"James! Sirius! We're going to be late for class! HURRY UP!" Yelled Remus Lupin, a seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a who belonged to the marauding group of…well…the Marauders! He looked at his watch and stopped tapping his foot to yell at his friends again.
"JAMES!SIRIUS!GET YOUR SODDING BUMS DOWN HERE BEFORE WE MISS CHARMS!" They already missed breakfast (which Remus was not happy about, since two nights ago was a full moon) and he did not want to miss his first class of the first day of his last year at his favorite school.
He was picking up his bag when a boy stumbled out of the bathroom, with his glasses hanging askew, and his robed in disarray. Yep. That was James Potter for you. The most sought after bachelor in Hogwarts history, the Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain, and the leader of the Marauders, rolling on the ground like an idiot. The Marauders consisted of: himself, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew (Marauder in training, yeah…still…after seven years!). A very satisfied Sirius, naked with only a towel around his waist, came walking into view from the other side of the doorway, with a huge smile on his face. Remus groaned.
"Sirius, you imbecile! We have to be IN class IN five minutes and you STILL aren't dressed!" Sirius shrugged and went in search of his pair of lucky boxers. Remus shut the door with his foot to give Sirius privacy from the swarming girls who had noticed him walking out of the bathroom without any clothing on. Though, James was disappointed to see, no sign of red dancing hair. Yeah, James was in love with the most nerdy (but beautiful in his mind) girl in the school. Her marks on her O.W.L.'S were a 24 out of 30! Extremely better than James' 17/30, and Remus' 20/30, making James come in third.
"Today is the day—" Sirius paused to zip up his fly, "—that I will make an oath to myself to date every seventh year in Gryffindor!" He slipped a loose shirt over his head then pulled a scrunchy, that one of his ex-girlfriends had given him, and pulled his hair into a ponytail, revealing his bright gray eyes that held as much mischief as they did any other day that James had known him.
"Peter already went to breakfast," said Remus, trying to change the subject from girls, "Here are your bags, now lets go!" James fixed his glasses, took his book bag and slung it over his shoulder, following Remus out of the dormitory into the common room, where his breath caught in his throat as he spotted a certain red head laying on her stomach with her feet in the air crossed behind her. Her name was Lily Evans. James all-time crush going on…six years come to think of. Yep, almost six years exactly. The first day James had fallen in love with her was on the train-ride to Hogwarts in the first year. SO, to be technical, Six years ago was the first time he had fallen in love with an angel, and he had never stopped loving her since, even though he had had multiple girlfriends before, and the other fact that Lily never paid a lick of attention to him, except when she was giving him detention along with Sirius for sending off a dung bomb in the great hall of something. She had obviously felt his eyes on her because she looked up and smiled. Smiled at him! James Potter, now head boy along with the girl of his dreams! Boy, did he luck out this time! He smiled back, a little more awkwardly, and she resumed to a book she was reading by the fireplace. Then it struck him. Lily Evans, one of the most punctual person's in the history of Hogwarts (though far from her best friend, Aphrodite) was sitting in the Common Room like nothing was happening, and 'supposedly' Remus had told them that they only had about five minutes till classes started. He looked at Sirius, who was probably thinking along the same lines as him because he was now glaring at the back of Remus' head.
"You sure that classes start in five minutes, Moony?" asked Sirius who stopped in his tracks and folded his arm across his chest with a look that said "Bring it, loser" Remus looked at his bag as if looking for something he had lost. James smiled and decided to play along.
"Yeah Moony old buddy! If classes are about to start, then way is Lily sitting over there?" Lily looked up at the mention of her name.
"What?" she asked politely.
"Got to go, you two! Bye Lily!" Remus dashed out of the room with Sirius trailing behind him, waving his wand threateningly at Remus and scaring a bunch of second years that were coming into the common room from the Great Hall. James shook his head and looked at Lily, who still looked confused.
"Sorry, Evans. I am almost as confused as you." And with that, he ran after his two best friends to go eat breakfast.
"Boys…" Lily thought to herself. Her two best friends ran down the stairs and plopped down on either side of her.
"What's up, Lil?" said her friend, Jen. Her full name was Jenny Mara. She had brunette hair with natural highlights, and it reached her mid-back. She also had hazel eyes and glasses which had made many people in the past confuse her and James of being twins, or siblings. Lily's other friend, Aphrodite, or Aphy, was definitely in resemblance to a goddess. She had the usual, blue eyes, blonde hair, but there was something about her….something that other girls didn't have…a sort of calmness, charm—definitely opposite of Jenny, that made her different from the others, which was the first thing that had made her friends with Lily. She was the sensitive, considerate one. Jenny was the fiery devil that had sparked many relationships in her earlier years at Hogwarts. They were lily's shoulder angels, and she loved them both as if they were her sisters.
"Jen…guess what happened before you two came down?" her eyes were sparkling with mischief. Jen looked thoughtfully confused for a second then she smiled, with her own mischief.
"I don't know Lily," she said eyeing Aphy, who was sitting with her own smile behind Lily's back. She loved it when Lily got all gossipy.
"James Potter smiled at me! THE James Potter!"
"Well, what did you expect? He's probably going to smile at you a lot this year, I mean, you are head girl and he's head boy which means—" She smiled wider then ever. "You two have to move into the head dorm tomorrow!" Aphrodite rolled her eyes. She wasn't the 'gossip type' as some people described her. She was more of a bookworm then Lily for goodness sake!
"Come on, you guys. Let's go get some breakfast." And together, the three of them walked down to the Great Hall, with their arms hooked, and their book bags over their shoulder smiling and talking about what classes they might have that day, Aphrodite more interested then Jenny and Lily of course. They sat at their usual spot at the Gryffindor table, only a few seats away from the Marauders, who had their heads leaned suspiciously low across the table whispering to each other and occasionally glancing in the girls direction.
"James, you'd better tell me now." Said Sirius in a warning tone. "Who do you like! I can't blackmail you unless I know! What are you looking at?" A third year turned back to his breakfast after looking at Sirius suspiciously after he had mentioned blackmail. James groaned.
"It's not like you already know!" He whined, not even noticing Remus, who was looking intently at the group of the three girls.
"I think I know." Remus finally said, setting his napkin down. He looked at Sirius. "Who has James known since he got here?"
"A lot of people!"
"Remus! Don't tell him! HE'LL BLACKMAIL ME!"
"Well! I've got to live up to my name somehow! What else are Blacks known for!"
"Lying and Cheating?" people were now starting to stare.
"Remus PLEASE!"
"Sirius, if you can't figure it out, then your thicker then Dumbledore's beard!"
"I quite resent that statement, Mr. Lupin." said Dumbledore on his way to the teachers table and seating himself next to Professor McGonagall.
"Okay," said James giving up, "You win. DO you promise not to tell anyone?"
"I promise!" he replied gleefully. James didn't feel too good about this.
"Okay…I like…Lily."he whispered
"LILY!" James felt like passing out right then and there. Again, she looked up from her conversation to look at him confused.
"How are you, Lil's?" Sirius quickly mended.
"Fine…" she raised a delicate eyebrow and went back to her conversation. James loved it when she did that, you know, look all like she was better than Sirius, which she WAS, by a long shot.
"Nice going buddy…" said James bitterly.
"Okay…here's the deal. You have to find out ten things about her from her best friends and report back to me, or else I spread it!" James looked at him horrified and shocked, then he glared.
"Fine…" he mumbled. "When do I have to start?"
"Right now!" Sirius said with more enthusiasm then James had ever heard him use before. "AND you have to make her fall in love with you by the end of the year!"
"WHAT! But…but…"
"Butt's are for Donkeys, and Lily's are for you!" he jumped up and left the Great Hall.
"Better go ahead and get over with question number one." Remus said and pushed James up to Lily, almost knocking her over.
"Sorry, sorry—I didn't mean to—can I talk to you Jenny?" he stuttered. Jenny looked confused and sort of sorry towards her best friend, who looked sad that James Potter wanted to talk to her friend and not her. "Can you come too, Aphrodite? I need to ask you guys a question…privately." He winked at Lily and gave her the smile that had melted so many hearts before and she suddenly felt weak in the knees, but she resisted, not wanting to miss her first class AND look stupid in front of everybody by feinting just by the sight of a hot guy.
"Course' Potter! Come on Aphy! Meet you in Runes Lily!" once Lily had left the Great Hall, James had made his attack.
"Okay, I need you to do a favor for me." He said, cutting to the chase. Both girls raised their eyebrow. Unlike Lily, the sight of James in need did not make them weak in the knees.
"Shoot." Said Jen.
"Can I ask you ten things about Lily?" James asked.
"Excuse me?" said Aphrodite with a hint of venom in her voice. She was very protective of guys who wanted to date her two best friends (even though it was hard to keep up with Jenny's; she seemed to have a different one every week!); this seemed like kind of the same situation, even if he was only looking for information…which sounded worse if you think about it. (STALKER!xP)
"Why do you want to know?" asked Jenny putting her hands on her hips, then her eyes widened. "You don't want to become her stalker do you!" She very much emphasized the word in question.
"NO! Oh, Merlin no! no, no, I want to know because…because…" 'Oh my gosh, I can' believe I'm going to say this in front of her two best friends!' "Because…I think I'm in love with her." He stared at the ground, trying to hide his blush.
"Potter, are you serious?" asked Jenny incredulously. She couldn't believe what she hearing.
"No, Back is." He said smiling, and then got rid of his smirk at the sight of fury in Aphrodite's eyes.
"Okay James. We will make you a deal." Said Aphrodite with her arms now crossed against her chest.
"We will?"
"You will!"
"Yes." Said Aphrodite, matter-of-factly, rolling her eyes. "If you can use the information we inform you of and fill Lily's heart with 'happiness', then yes. We will tell you one thing about her every day. Now, If you will be so kind as to move, You two—" she referred to James and Jenny—"have first period charms with Remus, unlike Me, Lily, and Sirius, Who have Ancient Runes, and we are all going to be late in…thirty seconds." She blinked then shot off in the direction and the other two ran as fast as they could up three flights of stairs to their charms room. Right before the three split up to go in different directions, Aphrodite yelled over her shoulder,
"We start tomorrow!"
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