"Good morning Padfoot!" Sirius stirred, awoken by James and the racket he was making in the dormitory.

"Morning Prongs," he mumbled, half asleep still and groggy at being woken up from his usual dreamless sleep.

"Erg," Remus moaned as he sat up, "You guys know some of us are trying to sleep here. Prongs, what are you doing?"

"Oh, sorry Moony, I was just looking for a clean robe to wear today." Replied James as he continues to rummage through his stuff.

"What's the need for a clean robe anyway?" asked Sirius. "Why can't you just wear that one there?" He pointed to a robe on the floor.

"Well, I um, I'm going to ask Lily Evens out today, and I want to be clean. Oh, what the hell... Accio Robes!" Instantly all James' robes flew at him and landed on his lap. "That's better," he said as he pulled a clean black robe from the pile and proceeded to dress himself.

Later that day Sirius, Remus and Peter, were sitting in their favorite chairs around the fire in the common room when James calmly entered through the portrait hole. He walked straight through the common room and headed up the stairs toward the dormitories. Sirius got up to follow.

"Sirius, don't go. We need to study!" Remus called after Sirius.

"For what?" Sirius asked.

"For our N.E.W.T.s"

"Those aren't until next year!"

"Well, Sirius, I still don't think you should go."

"Why not?" Sirius was looking firmly at Remus.

"He needs to be alone."

"I'll see you guys later." With that Sirius turned on his heal and marched up to the dormitories. Sirius entered the room; he noticed that James was still clothed, yet in bed.

"Prongs?" Sirius looked questioningly at James as he approached the bed. "How was your luck with Lily?"

"My day was fine. Thank you Sirius, but I'd rather like to go to bed now. Good night." And with that he shut his eyes.

Sirius went back down to the common room and sat down next to Remus.

"How's James?" Remus smirked.

"I don't understand! He was fine this morning. I wonder what happened to him."

"Maybe Lily shot him down?" Remus patted Sirius' back.

"Naw, it can't be that. She has said no hundreds of times, and he never took it this bad. Something else must have happened... Oh look! There's Lily, I'll go ask her if there was anything odd about James when he talked to her."