Losing Lily
Chapter 1
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"Hey, Lily!" called a 7th year boy who was franticly trying to get a certain redheaded girl's attention.
"Go away, Potter," she replied.
"Awwww, no need to be mean," James Potter said.
"She said go away," said a dark haired boy who had been accompanying Lily.
"I wasn't talking to you, Snape. Besides, don't you have a hole to crawl into?" James said as he glared at him, "So," he said turning to Lily, "you wanna go to Hogsmeade with me?"
"No," she replied sternly, "I don't. Let's go, Severus," she said as she started to walk away.
"Okay," Snape as he glared at James from over his shoulder.
That night in the common room
"I don't get it!" cried James as he plopped down on one of the common room's chairs, "Why doesn't she like me!"
"Maybe it's because you're so ugly," teased Sirius.
"Hahaha, very funny," said James, "any other ideas?"
"I dunno, James," said a very nervous looking Peter Pettigrew.
"Maybe," said Lupin thoughtfully, "if you stopped picking on her friend, Snape, she would like you better."
"Ha!" Sirius laughed, "He wouldn't last a week!"
"Betcha I could," said James.
"Okay, you're on," Sirius said, "If I win you have to dye your hair orange and purple."
"But, if I win, you'll be given a makeover, courtesy of Moony and I," James said.
"Deal," said Sirius as he shook James' hand.
"Well, I'm headed up to bed" said James as he got up.
"Sweet dreams," teased Sirius.
Meanwhile…
"Ugh! I can't stand him!" Lily Evans cried, "He's such a git, I mean he picks on you, my best friend, and then expects me to go out with him afterwards!"
Severus nodded as he listened to his best friend's troubles.
"You should try to get him back," he said quietly.
"But what should I do!" said Lily.
"You should go out with one of his friends," Severus said, "His giant ego wouldn't be able to handle it."
"Great idea!" exclaimed Lily, "But which one? Not Peter, he's not as close to Potter as Lupin and Black are," she said thoughtfully, "Black is just like Potter and I couldn't handle his ego. So that leaves Lupin."
"Lupin it is then," said Severus as smiled.
I know Lupin will fall for Lily, I mean who wouldn't? thought Severus, She's smart funny and brave. Not to mention, she's beautiful! Plus, Potter couldn't handle anyone, but him dating Lily.
The Next Morning…
"Wakie, Wakie!" screamed Sirius in a sing-song voice.
"Shut, up!" moaned James, his voice muffled by his pillow.
Sirius gave an overly dramatic gasp as he said, "Now that's not very nice, is it? Besides it's 7:30. Time for breakfast!"
"Be down in a minute," mumbled James as he got up from his bed.
"Okay," said Sirius as he went down the stairs to the common room.
After several minutes of searching the floor (which was covered in clothes) for his robes and taking on the hopeless task of trying to flatten his hair, he came down the stairs to the common room.
"Oh, look!" exclaimed Sirius as he pointed to James, "Sleeping beauty has awakened!"
Lupin and Peter laughed as Sirius pretended to "Bow" to "his Majesty".
"Well," said Lupin, "I wouldn't call you a beauty."
"You're right," said Sirius as he turned to face James again, "forgive me sleeping ugly."
"Shut up," said James as he looked in the mirror. He was quite the opposite of ugly. He had dark hair with hazel eyes.
"Well, we better get to the Great Hall," said Lupin as he glanced at his watch.
Once the Mauraders were at the Great Hall they took their usual seats at the Gryffindor table.
"So, did you finish that charms paper?" asked Sirius,
"Well actually-" said James, but before he could finish, a new voice from behind James interrupted.
"Morning," it said.
James turned around to see none other than Lily Evans taking a seat next to him.
"I knew you'd come to your senses," he said.
"Not quite, Potter," she said sternly. "So," she said as she turned to Lupin,HHHHhHhuhk "How are you?"
"Alright," he said, "How about you?"
"Oh, I'm fine," Lily said, "now I was thinking we should meet in the common room tonight to get started."
"What! Already!" exclaimed Lupin.
"Yes, tonight," she said in an annoyed voice, "we've lots of work to do!"
"Okay," said Lupin, "I'll be there."
"Great," Lily said as she got up from the table, "I'll see you then! Bye, Remus!"
"What the HECK was that about?!?" exclaimed James.
"Oh, its nothing," said Lupin. "She's my partner for our charms project, and wants to get started on it tonight."
"Okay," said James "but she called you Remus! She's NEVER called ANY of the Marauders by their first names!"
"Maybe she's fallen madly in love with me, and my dashing good looks," joked Remus, "I mean who could resist me?"
"Still," started James.
"Don't worry, mate," said Lupin. "She probably said it on accident."
"Okay," said James even though he didn't look very convinced.
"Ummm, guys," said Peter. "We're late for D.A.D.A."
"Oh, no!" James said sarcastically, "we wouldn't want that, now would we?"
"Come on," said Lupin as hen got up from the table, "let's go."
Once in D.A.D.A. the Marauders took their seats, Sirius with James and Peter with Remus.
"Now," said their D.A.D.A. teacher, Professor Stultopso, "who knows what charm you use against a rectona? James, do you know?"
"Wha- Oh!" said James. Drat I really shouldn't be spacing out in the middleclass. Oh well. "Umm, I dunno Professor," he replied lamely.
"I see," Professor Stultopso said. "Well, perhaps Miss Evans can answer for us."
"You should use the spell fortono against a rectona," Lily said in a very confident voice.
"Good, good. Five points to Gryffindor. Now does anyone know why we use that particular spell?"
"Because rectonas hate heat and that particular spell produces a large amount of heat that causes a rectona to shrivel up," James blurted out before he could stop him self. Shoot that made me look like a big-know-it-all. Way to go, James. He looked around to see every one looking at him. They had good reason to. The Marauders (save Lupin, the goody two shoes, well for a Marauder at least) rarely participated in class, much less blurted out stuff (that is stuff that actually was right). Lily Evans looked astonished to see him answer a question, and correctly too.
"Well, Mr. Potter," said Professor Stultopso, "this is quite a shock indeed. Yes that was correct and well put too. Ten points to Gryffindor."
James had never been so glad to leave a class in his whole life. He could hardly stand the stares the class was giving him. It was very awkward.
"So, mister know-it-all," said Sirius, "this means you'll do my homework now, since you're a smarty pants."
"No," James said, "it doesn't"
"Well, it was worth a try," said Sirius.
"Hey, Potter," said a voice from behind.
"Hey," they said after catching up. It was Lily Evans.
Oh my God! She's finally going to go out with me now that I've shown I can be intelligent! Thought James.
"Good job, Potter. I didn't know you actually paid attention during class," she said.
"Well, uhh yeah of course I do," he stuttered. "So, you umm, you wanna go to Hogsmeade with me?"
"Nice try, Potter, but it's gonna take more than one intelligent answer in class to charm me," she said.
"Oh," said James looking disappointed, "okay."
"Did you see the Professor's face when you got it right?" she asked.
"Yeah," James said. "He looked astonished."
"It really caught him off guard," Lily said. "You caught all of us off guard. I mean who would have guessed that James Potter, the same James Potter who pulls over half the pranks in the school, would actually be listening during class."
Wow, we're talking and she called me James! This is amazing! I need to pay attention in class more often. James thought.
"Well, I'll see you later," she said as she walked down the corridor to her next class.
"Yeah," James said quietly. "Bye."
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Author's Note: THIS IS NOT MY STORY! Repeat: THIS IS NOT MY STORY! My super cool friend Taylor wrote this, and I'm just publishing it for her. And fixing all those quotation errors. Acck! No, I didn't mean it Taylor! Ahem, anyways, please review and tell us what you think.