Books over her head, Lily Evans sprinted towards her Transfiguration class. Rain was pouring down all around her, but she didn't care. Lily loved the rain. She could've stood there for hours, as the water soaked her robes and ruined her new shoes. But Lily Evans had never been late to class before, and she was afraid her little run-in with Sirius Black a few minutes ago was going to make it so.

Lily paused a minute, because she was going to be late anyway, and thought about what Sirius had said to her earlier that morning.

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Lily had just finished her breakfast in the Great Hall, when she heard a familiar voice shout "Evans! Over here!" It was Sirius Black.

"Why should I come? Give me a good reason why and I might!" I had responded in an equally loud and obnoxious voice.

"Just get over here, you..."

By that time I had already reached him and responded with an extremely bored "What do you want?"

"Oh, um, can we go over there?" Sirius was clearly a little embarrassed as he pointed to the top of the deserted staircase that led out of the Great Hall.

"Um, okay..." I had responded.

When we reached the top of the staircase, Sirius almost immediately hissed "Go out with Potter."

"Huh? What? No! Why?" Why is he asking me this? I thought.

"Just a week. Please! You just need to!"

"No, no, no, and for the heck of it, another no!"

"Do it...or else..." Sirius sounded like he was plotting the prank of the century. Which was not good.

"Umm...uh, sure?" My response came out more like a question than an answer.

"Good. Do it in Transfiguration today." And with that, Sirius sauntered away, in his usual manly fashion.

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By the time Lily entered Transfiguration, Professor McGonagall was already standing at the only empty desk, tapping her foot and pointing at the chair. All she said was "Detention. Tonight. 8 o'clock PM sharp." Lily was really upset. It was going to be her first detention EVER. When she thought nothing could get worse, she noticed who she would be sitting next to. Sirius Black and that foul, insensitive Potter. Black must've planned it. Now she couldn't avoid Potter. She couldn't avoid asking him to go out with her. Sighing, Lily took her seat and took out her wand, a quill and two pieces of parchment. One for class, one for asking Potter out. Lily started to copy the Transfiguration notes, but Sirius shot her a menacing look. Lily switched to the other piece of parchment.

Dear Potter, she started. Lily scratched it out. She had to call him James to make it believable. After writing for a couple minutes, she went over her final copy.

Dear James,

I've been thinking about it a lot lately, and I think I like you, too. Will you please go out with me? I hope you say yes!

Love,

Lily

Just as she was about to hand over to Potter-No, call him James-Lily mentally scolded herself. As Lily had the note about halfway to James' desk, McGonagall walked all the way to the back of the class, where Lily was, and snatched the note out of Lily's outstretched palm. McGonagall opened the note and read it. "Well, well, well, Miss Evans. It looks like we've had a change of heart."

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