Chapter One
She looked at the boy sitting in front of her in the exam, transfixed. He never looked her way. Ever. Casalameer King wasn't exactly attractive, but she wasn't UNattractive, either. She had long black hair, almost the same colour as Sirius', light grey eyes and a slim build. She'd be very attractive if she put a little more effort into it but she was more interested in studying and well...studying Sirius. It wasn't that she was trying to go unnoticed but she just didn't feel that anyone would look her way anyhow. She was feminine, but just too shy. She was the girl everyone scanned once and never thought about again. She had the look of a girl who blended in crowds and made no effort whatsoever to be noticed. She was conscious of this, though there was one boy she wanted to be noticed by. Sirius Black. He was in the same year as she, in the same house, (Gryffindor) and was in all of her classes. He tilted his chair on two legs and casually leaned back. She sat up hopefully and wished that he would turn around. Casalameer looked around the room and noticed James doodling on his question sheet. Peter was looking nervous as usual and Remus was engrossed in his exam. Exam! "I'd better get going on this or else I'm going to flunk out!" Cas worried.
"Give five signs that identify the werewolf"…
After the exam, Cas watched Sirius, James, Peter and Remus walk out towards the lake. Someone behind her tapped her on the shoulder. It was Lily Evans. "Are you coming outside? Daphne and I are going to go hang out by the lake." This was the perfect chance to watch Sirius some more. "Sure, I'll come." Cas replied. They made their way outside and the hot sun made her shade her eyes. Fifty yards away she could see the four boys sitting beneath a tree, James playing with what could only be a snitch. "Honestly," Lily muttered, "He's such a show off. If anyone else had stolen a snitch Madam Hootch would have kittens over it. But does he get in trouble? NooOoo!" Daphne, who was walking on the other side of Lily giggled. After a few minutes they arrived at the lake and proceeded to take their sandals off and slowly walk through the cool water. Cas turned her head to see if Sirius was watching them but he was looking elsewhere. He was watching some Slytherin boy named Severus Snape who always seemed to be at odds with the Gryffindor Four. "Oh God, there they go again," Lily muttered. "Why do they always have to pick on him?" Cas watched James and Sirius as they proceeded to taunt Severus until finally they flipped him upside down so that his underwear was showing. "Okay, that is ENOUGH!" Lily bellowed. She marched over to the five boys and started yelling. Cas and Daphne looked at one another. "I'm not going over there!" Daphne said. "Neither am I," replied Cas. "Once that temper of hers goes off, you don't want to get in the way." They watched from afar as Lily stormed off towards the castle after ripping into James. "Well THAT was pretty tame of her," Daphne chortled. "Let's go back to the common room and wait for her. Maybe she'll have calmed down by then." And so they did.
After a long night listening to Lily's incessant babble over how James Potter was going to end up living in the streets and how he put good students to shame, the three girls decided to go up to their dormitories for some much needed sleep. Cas had just gotten into bed when Lily turned towards her and whispered, "I mean, he wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't such a show off! Why does he have to act like he's so great?" "I dunno, Lily," Cas muttered sleepily. "If you don't like him that much then why do we keep talking about him?" Lily glared at Casalameer and turned onto her other side, her back to her friends. Cas giggled quietly knowing that Lily Evans DID in fact like James Potter, just as SHE liked Sirius Black.