Prologue [Sunday]
"Just look at her, James," I said, "Emma Maddison.... hottest girl in our year."
He swiveled his shaggy head around and looked at her. She was leaning down, retrieving a lost quill and I had a perfect view of her lacy red knickers.
"Really, Sirius? I think you can do better than that." Lily said sensibly. Damn her.
"Psh, nice try, mate," James said, grinning at me. "As if you could even get her to look at you."
"I could get more than her looking at me!" I said indignantly. "I'll have her screaming my name!"
James snorted at me. "Yeah, yeah..." he said.
"WANNA BET?!" I asked.
"Uh oh," Remus said from behind his massive textbook.
"What?"
"Bet time. These never end well," He said, flipping a page.
"its all in good fun, ol' Mooney. You're such a wet blanket. Right, Wormtail?" I asked, turning to Peter, who was sitting against the tree, propped up as if he couldn't sit on his own.
"Y-yeah..." he sounded startled that I was talking to him at all, as if he wasn't in the FABULOUS 4…That was my own personal name for our little posse.
"Yeah, I wanna bet." James said, ignoring everything else in classic James fashion.
"Alright, 10 galleons for each girl I get into bed by next Sunday at midnight"
"Agreed."
We shook on it.
"Why you..." Lily said. "You shallow, immoral, disgusting little creep! You pig, I can't believe you're allowing this idiot to just OBJECTIFY women like we mean close to nothing! You're such an enabler, James Potter!"
"Lil, let me explain. If he doesn't get his sex, he becomes unbearable, you--"
"Make your little excuses! You're not gonna change my mind!" James looked at me as if to say, "Well, shit! What do I do now?"
"This is your deal, Mate" I said. "You made your bed now you gotta sleep in it!" I laughed to myself and walked towards the house for a mid-afternoon snack cortesy of my connections in the kitchens
***
Later that night as we were paring to go to sleep, James said "Oy that was NOT fun. Evans is going to drive me round the bend one of these days, Mate".
"I'm telling you, just shag her and move on. I mean really, fuck sleeping in the bed, just shag on it!" I said, fixing him with stare. But he just shrugged it off and busied himself with something else, like he usually did when it came to Lily Evans.
"So, you gonna earn those Galleons, Padfoot?" Remus asked from where he was changing into his pajamas.
"Yeah," I said. "I'm starting with Emma tomorrow."
"Good luck," he responded, snorting and rolling his s.
"Hey, hey, hey, HEY!" I said, getting up and standing on my bed. "I am starting to become SERIOUSLY offended by your lack of faith in me!"
"Get down, Sirius," James said, rolling his eyes. I claimed into bed grumbling to myself. I listened to the sounds of my 3 friends climbing into bed.
Finally, James blew out the candle and, as an afterthought, I said into the dark "I'll show all of you....you'd best be ready to hear Emma Maddison screaming my name..."