CHAPTER 1: Arrogant prats & gossiping girls

It's amazing how interesting your shoelaces can become when one is feigning disinterest. In fact James was so caught up in acting he almost missed what he had been listening for.

Lily was raging at him for…something. Not that this was anything new, it happened so often that he really didn't know what she was yelling about. This was not what he was listening to however.

He was trying to find out if Clover Lalonde was free. Turned out she was. James turned his back on Lily completely (who now looked quite offended, no wait, highly insulted) and went over to Clover and her friends.

All of them giggled with delight as he gave them his trademark lopsided grin, then said "Hey Clover, mind if I talk to ya' for a sec?"

"Of course not!" she practically squealed. They headed over to a secluded but not quite empty corner of the Common Room. "So James, what did you want to talk about?"

"I was wondering you free Saturday night?" He used his most charming voice.

"Yeah I'm free!"

"Great. So meet me in the Astronomy Tower for dinner at say… 7:30?"

"You bet! See ya' there!" She went back over to her friends who pumped her for details. James made a mental note to check Clover off of his list of girls.

"So see you hooked another." Said Sirius, slightly startling James from behind.

"Yup, what about you?"

"Well, you sure you want to know?" At this James just shrugged. "Fine be that way. I got a date with, wait for it, none other than Lily Evans." James gave a short bark of laughter; he didn't believe it for a second.

"You Serious, Sirius?" James grinned, Sirius hated that. He nodded. "How'd you do it?"

"She lost a bet." He said simply.

"What sort of bet?"

"I bet her that I could get a better grade on the Charms essay. She thought otherwise. I won so I get one date with her." Sirius grinned cheekily, with just a hint of smugness. It was too much, James went into hysterics.

At this point Lily was talking to one of her best friends, Hannah, probably about what a jerk Potter was. James nudged Sirius in the side and pointed to Lily, "Watch this"

He flicked his wand at Lily and said, "Glacius Bucketus." Suddenly a bucket of icy cold water was dumped over her head. Her scream could be all the way to the fifth floor. In the mean time James and Sirius were laughing so hard that they could scarcely breathe.

"JAMES POTTER! DETENSION!" Lily's green eyes were blazing like newly polished emeralds. She glared at him with a burning hate like no other. James sobered instantly.

"Why do you always have to take the fun out of things Evans?"

"Why? Because, you're always walking around screwing with people's lives. Because you're the most pompous, overbearing, pigheaded jackass ever to walk the planet! That's why Potter! Or are you to dense to understand that?" Lily was shrill and on the verge of screaming, "Oh by the way Sirius, the date is off. I don't care if I lost the bet; you're nearly as bad as him. So bugger off!"

"Come on Lils, we don't need to stay in their presence any longer." Said Hannah with a slight smirk, "Oh James, Sirius look down. You might not be going anywhere for awhile."

She had transfigured their legs into mermaids' tails. The Common Room erupted in laughter as Lily and Hannah left.

"That was great!" Lily exclaimed about five minutes after she and Hannah had left the Common Room.

"Thanks. I got the idea from that book about magical sea creatures that Andromeda was reading" Hannah replied.

"Anyway those two are hardly better than that poor excuse for a human being, Malfoy!" Just as Lily and Hannah had rounded the corner into the corridor that led to the Library, Lucious Malfoy nearly ran into them.

"Speak of the Devil." Lily said in a disgusted tone.

"Watch it Malfoy! Do the world a favor and go drown yourself in the lake!" Hannah said none to kindly.

"I'd watch what I said if I were you Lerona. You're acting more and more like a Slytherin everyday. Move over Mud-Blood." He added to Lily. Lily had just pulled out her wand and was pointing it at Lucious threateningly.

"You must be sniffing the bleach you use on your head; because if I were you I'd be scared witless of Lily Evans when she has a wand in her hand."

Lily meanwhile was pulsing with anger and in a sudden burst of rage screamed, "Impedimentia!" Malfoy was thrown back ten feet through the air and into a wall. Incidentally he was knocked unconscious.

"These are the times that you have to remember when the sky is falling and the worst thing you can do is look up." Said Hannah with relish.

They heard a low whistle from behind, then, "You really did a number on him Lily, and I totally approve!" Their friend Jen had just walked over to them. She and Hannah were cousins and only a day apart.

"Where have you been? You missed Potter and Black lose their legs!" Lily exclaimed. Jen chuckled evilly.

"I was in the Library. I managed to finish our homework for the week, did extra Charms, and still had time to finish 1000 Remedies for Petty Pranks, and by the sounds of the gossip more than a few people could do with reading it." Jen then gave small cough that sounded suspiciously like 'Lily'.

"You know you read to much, right? All of you do." Andromeda (also a friend) had just turned up, "I put a limit on the amount I read outside of homework."

"Not that it matters, half of what you actually do read is strange or perverted!" Hannah said. In first year, Jen had called Andromeda a 'crazy pervert' in her sleep. It had been a long-standing joke ever since.

"Hahaha, I'm laughing my arse off." Andromeda said sarcastically.

"Reading isn't a bad thing," Lily said, "You just happen to prefer being lazy. So were you off snogging that prat Sirius again?"

"For your information he's still in the hospital wing. It took him and James a while to get there. Apparently they tried levitating each other, and ended upturning their arms into wings. Remus took pity on them and cast a successful levitation spell."

"Remus, really? He always was the most practical and mature of the Marauders." At the mention of Remus' name Jen had become slightly more interested.

"You seem more obsessed with Remus, than Andromeda is with Sirius." Lily said. Jen and Hannah both snorted.

"But Lily we forgot! Jen only "admires" him." Andromeda laughed.

"In my opinion, all the Marauders are the same. Arrogant, immature jerks who don't know what's what." Hannah said positively. "Snape is cuter than those four."

"You're smoking something, aren't you?" Lily said. "As much as I think it's wrong for the Marauders to pick on him, he is soooo not cute."

"I second Lily's opinion, I don't think he showers!" Andromeda said.

"Maybe cute, but not cuter. You have to admit that when their hair is all windswept they look really hot!" Jen said.

"Whatever. But I stand by what I said." Hannah stated with as much indifference as she could muster.

This conversation/debate/one person on three argument continued right into dinner. Jen was restating what she had said about the Marauders hair, with Andromeda nodding her head, when they showed up.

"Do mine ears deceive me or did Angelic Jenny just say we looked sexy when our hair was windswept?" Remus said taking the vacant seat next to Jen.

"I think she did." Sirius taunted from across the table.

"One, Lupin, don't call me that! Two, I said you tried to hard to make your hair look like that."

"But, Jen, you know you're perfect; and," James said in a sly tone, "I do believe you're lying." Of course right then Andromeda slapped James (with a pointed "hmmf" as she did so) and Hannah kicked Remus under the table.

Lily watched this whole ordeal with an amused expression and thought 'It's only what they deserve.'

A/N this is my first fic so please be kind. If you would like a character profile do ask. Advice is greatly appreciated! The next chapters will be partially written by my cuz Hannah. Yes Jen and Hannah are based o her and I. Plz review! It will make me very happy if you do