A/N: Hey all you folks here for a good laugh! Well you are going to get one. My name is Adella, and I would just like to say that my writing style and hell, even personality are the opposite from that of my friends', Brooklynn and Clary. And seeing as this is a round robin story, we'll sure have a hard time making it work. So please, I warn you, this story might cause loss of breath by laughter.

Chapter One: Can't he see me?

It was a dreary day outside, rain falling continuously since hours passed. Gloomy was the sky as thunders shook it from time to time. Saturdays were meant to be cheerful, but for Lily, it seemed like today would not be so. She was currently seated in a common room chair, huddled under a blanket and staring at the fire. But unlike many others, she was not letting her mind wander to thoughts of unknown origins. Instead, she was actually staring at the fire. She observed the bright flickering shape, and how the deep color glowed, not giving an exact shade. The gentle dance drew patterns in the air, rippling with heat.

Lily immediately sat up straight, slamming her head forcefully against the back of the cushioned chair. Only she would spend a Saturday cuddled up in the common room observing fire, while others found things actually worthwhile to do.

She looked up at the clock of planets. It was about time for lunch anyhow. She put the blanket away, instantly met with the cold that seemed to come hand in hand with being in Britain. She carefully folded up the blanket, putting it neatly away by the side table near the couches. Lily ran her fingers through her hair a few times, smoothing it out, before she headed out of the portrait hole and into the outside hallways. These it seemed were filled with people. They enthusiastically waved at her as she passed by, but when she failed to wave back and instead gave them a glare, they could be found running for their lives in the opposite direction. Smart people.

Lily Evans was not to be messed with while in a bad mood. As a matter of fact, Lily Evans was not to be messed with, period. She finally reached the Great Hall. The food instantly caught her attention. But that was when she heard a call from behind her.

"Evans!"

Yes, Lily Evans was not to be messed with.

"Potter," she hissed back, as though it were a word of great insult.

But James Potter seemed not to notice.

"Wow," James said, putting his hands up in mock surrender.

"Somebody's a little cranky today," he teased in a ridiculing voice.

"Oh bugger off Potter!" she yelled at the top of her voice before going to sit down at the Gryffindor table. Though she was forced to admit that her hand had been itching to grab her wand and mumble a few illegal hexes that might have cut off certain body parts. She angrily grabbed a turkey sandwich from in front of her. Taking big bites, she felt the presence of someone sitting next to her. Her fists clenched, causing a few bites of the meat in the sandwich to fall out.

"I told you to screw off Po-" she stopped when she looked next to her to address the object of her yells. Sitting next to her, looking completely bemused, was a light brown haired boy.

"Oh, sorry Remus, I thought you were James!"

There was only one person who could calm Lily down during one of her rampages. Her best friend, Remus Lupin.

"Oh, don't worry. I think he's a little busy right now," Remus said, chuckling.

Lily looked around. True to Remus' word, James was sitting at the end of the table, laughing with his obnoxious girlfriend, Belle Boscawen. And apparently, the name Belle meant beautiful. But there was another name Lily could think of for Belle, a name of which would fit perfectly, but would not be considered appropriate to fit in this content.

She watched as Belle dramatically flipped her charmed straight, bleached blonde hair and stared up at James, with a nearly worshipping gaze. Lily rolled her eyes and turned back around to Remus.

Remus was also a Marauder. It was a little group which James seemed to lead. And supposedly, the Marauders were closer than brothers. And so, every night, during dinner, to sit with her best friend, Lily was also forced to sit with his prats called friends.

She smiled across to Remus and proceeded to eat her lunch as Remus beside her cracked open a book, of which he loved as he would his best friends, and very nearly, spouse. As the words captured his attention, she stole a glance. And then another, and another. Was it really that odd to love your best friend? But she was too frightened to say anything. Not only would she be rejected, but she'd also loose a friend.

But she truly doubted that he knew of her chronic obsession.

"Do I have something on my face?" Remus asked, catching Lily's stare.

Or, at least she hoped he didn't know.

"Oh, er…yeah. Here, let me get it," she said quickly, reaching her arm to wipe away an imaginary food particle.

He raised an eyebrow before going back to reading. Lily blushed deep red, flaming as did her hair, eating again and ordering her eyes to stay away from the gorgeous face next to her.

Suddenly, Lily noticed the strange absence of the pattering rain above her. She looked up and saw a wonderful sight to see whilst it was a Saturday. The rain had stopped and the sun was showing from behind the storm clouds, which was a rare sight of occurrence in Britain.

Remus noticed as well what she was admiring.

"I daresay that means the Hogsmeade trip is not canceled after all." He said, a sigh of relief heavy in his tone.

Lily squealed, which wasn't much like her. But every girl had an occasion to squeal, and this seemed to be hers.

She grabbed his hand resting on the table.

"We have to go to the new store! I think it was Gladrags Wizard Wear?" She burst out excitedly, squeezing his hand tightly.

Remus looked back at her with an expression of pure terror.

"Oh…Sorry, but the rest of the Marauders and I have already, er…planned something."

Lily looked at him, an eyebrow quirked with suspicion.

"And what, exactly, have you four planned to do?"

"Er…"

Lily rolled her eyes.

"Alright, go have fun frolicking with those wanke—friends of yours."

"You're great Lily!" he complimented, standing up and giving her a brief hug before running off to the rest of the Marauders to start planning their wonderful Hogsmeade day.

Lily just sat rigid in her seat. Remus had hugged her! Her mind started to phase into mental overload.

Remus hugged me. Remus hugged me. Remus hugged me.

She had to suppress another squeal. That had to be the greatest hug ever. It was a nice, warm hug, filled with the tender feelings that were Remus. It was gentle, and that's what she loved most about it. She let out a sigh. The hug made her feel just plain happy.

Could today get any better?

"Come on! Come on!" Alice yelled, dragging Lily to Gladrags. There was still a suffocating humidity in the air, but the sun was shining, and to Lily, that was all that mattered.

The two girls ran as fast as they could to the opening of the shop. They passed by the Three Broomsticks, where the Marauders were entering. She saw Remus huddled with Sirius. This immediately caught her attention. She stopped.

"Hey Alice. Maybe we should go get a butterbeer or something first," she suggested, really wanting to find out what was so important about the Marauders' discussion. Or more importantly, Remus' discussion. In fact, so much she cared about it that she didn't even pause to notice that the group's leader, James, happened to not be there, which was indeed a very rare occurrence.

But Alice did not see the need to stop for a drink, though it was perfectly harmless. She was too intent on the potential shopping spree, for shopping was what she knew was the meaning of life, though against this point Lily debated many times before, of course meeting no agreement.

"No Lily! We have to get there quick or we'll be not able to get inside too soon and it'll take at least an hour or so!"

Lily sighed, "But Alice! I'm really thirsty, and it's just one drink. No big deal that will make, right?" But this did not seem to change Alice's mind any.

"Lily, we are going, now." She said calmly before quickly snatching up Lily's arm and pulling her towards where they were headed.

And Lily looked desperately back as she was tugged away. Through a window, she saw Remus, Sirius, and Peter sitting with three mugs being placed in front of them. Peter looked as though he didn't know what he was doing there. But that wasn't what she currently cared about. She saw Remus and Sirius talking, urgently it seemed, about some issue or another. Some issue that she desperately needed to know. If only she could be in there. Though Alice would gasp at any mention, Lily would have preferred it to shopping at this new store.

But they reached there, instead of Alice magically changing her mind and deciding that eavesdropping on Remus was where they ought to be. And Lily was very tempted to magically have Alice change her mind. A large group of girls were crowded around the store, of which was locked by an encompassing magical bubble, made to sparkle lovely colors of pink and purple. Alice looked disappointed by the great masses. She turned around to give Lily the "I-Told-You-So" glare. Lily and Alice tried to shove their ways through the crowd, elbowing this person, kicking that person, and then squeezing through until they reached as close to the front doors as they could manage. There were apparently five minutes until the manager of the store showed up to break the seal and start the first day for the shop.

Lily used these five minutes to scope around in the crowd, seeing who she could recognize. It was then that she saw someone that made her sides split with laughter. Within moments, she was clutching onto Alice with a severe loss of breath, but still laughing her heart out. James was standing in the front of the crowd with Belle, looking near suicidal. Alice spotted what Lily was pointing at with a shaky finger, and she too burst out with insane giggles.

James too, spotted them. And soon after his face twisted with anger. He narrowed his eyes at them and looked away. This made Lily laugh even harder.

Soon the manager stepped up, Trigewal Marsmet. He was dressed in rich silk robes of green and gold, Gladrags' colors. He held up a wand to his throat, muttering a spell. Soon after, his voice bellowed out.

"Thank you all for attending the opening of Gladrags Wizard Wear. I would like to announce to all those here that this opening week, we will be having a sale of 50% off each article of clothing."

This statement was followed by many yells and cheers as all the girls turned red with excitement, something that, often, could only be done by a clothing store.

Trigewal held his wand up high and touched it to the seal.

From the place his wand there was set burst ripples to all directions of the dome. And as they waved, the seal broke away, giving open access to all.

There was an immediate rush to get into the shining new store. Lily grabbed Alice's hand and with her shoulder shoved away the glass door. The inside of the store was huge, even having a beautifully built, amber staircase spiral to a second floor. And there were dress robes of all sorts all around. From the gorgeous to the just plain wacky. Or so thought the other girls. Lily just stood there, mouth wide open, gaping. Dress robes?

"Lily, what's wrong?" asked Alice, wondering why her friend wasn't excited as was she.

"Alice…" Lily whispered, as though what she were about to say was something of terrible crime, which to her, it was.

"Yeah?" asked Alice, really curious.

"These aren't dresses! They're robes in different colors with lace!"

Alice looked shocked.

"What the hell did you think dress robes were?" She practically yelled out, greedily looking at all the new dress robes she could spot.

Lily looked at Alice shocked. If she, one day, took Alice to a muggle dress store, Lily was sure Alice might faint with the shock that dresses were actually allowed to be that beautiful. And so, she decided not to chance it.

"Well, I thought it would be something better than this." Lily spat out at the dreaded dress robes, disappointed. Alice rolled her eyes.

"Well you aren't going to do much better than this, so come on!"

Alice dragged Lily over to a giant rack of clothes as she protested feebly the whole way there, mind wandering back to Remus, as it so often did.

"Alice, just look at them! This is a fashion crime," she whined when they reached the newest dress rack; she was rather irked when Alice just waved it off.

Alice thumbed through the clothes on the rock and finally found something.

"Look at this!" She squealed, holding up a robe of frightening bright harlequin. Its bodice was nice fit, Lily admitted to herself, but, it still did as most robes did. It stopped slightly above ankle length, was a smidgen loose, and had billowy long sleeves. And not to mention the hideous color

"You have to try it on!" Alice gushed.

Lily raised her eyebrows.

"With this hair?" She asked. Even she knew how hideous she'd be with a dress like that on.

"It'll just make me look so hideous! I wouldn't wear that anywhere."

At this, Alice started to laugh.

"It's not about buying them," she explained.

"We are going to try on the wackiest robes we can find."

Lily grinned. This sounded a lot more fun than she had expected.

"Then what are you idling for? Let's go!"

~oOo~

Lily collapsed, exhausted into her bed. It was not that it was time for bed. Far from it, in truth. Even dinner had not yet begun. But the shopping excursion took so much out of her. Robes after robes they had tried. And true, they were pitiful excuses for dresses, but it had been fun. Not even trying those "gorgeous" dress robes most of the girls had gone after.

Lily and Alice tried on the wackiest outfits that could ever be found on the planet called Earth. Lily's personal favorite was a black one which contained foot long purple frills and puffed out so that it barely even fit into the dressing room stall. She was considering buying that for Halloween, which was but a few weeks away. But now, Lily just wanted to pass out. The only thing, in fact, that hindered her from peaceful rest was her growling stomach. She reluctantly got up from the soft-as-heaven bed in which she tried to slumber.

She walked sleepily down to the common room. And tried to get to the Portrait Hole as quick as she could. The sooner she could get dinner over with, the sooner she could go to sleep. And wouldn't that be a relief?

She harshly threw the portrait open and slammed it close.

"Now! Now! Watch yourself there young lady!" shouted the Fat Lady as her portrait made a large banging sound.

Lily merely growled as response. She seemed to do that a lot. Such would a tiger, or so said her parents. And this was why, at home, Lily was nicknamed Tiger Lily. Great embarrassment that was.

She reached the Great Hall and was immediately hit with the chatter of the entire school. Just bloody great. It was a headache just waiting to happen.

She sat down at the table, in a secluded place by the end. She wasn't up to the chatter of the Marauders today. And apparently, even Remus wasn't worth it. She saw them all give her quizzical looks as she sat separate, but they dismissed it. She wasn't important enough. Great.

She looked down at her meal of grilled chicken with a bake of mashed squash on the side. Delicious.

Yes, even to herself, Lily was known to be rather sarcastic.

She stabbed the chicken with her fork and was about to bring it to her mouth when she felt the gaze of Remus Lupin on her. She looked at him, without turning her head. He was staring at her, with an expression she couldn't decipher. But just the fact that Remus was taking glances at her gave Lily the jitters.

As she ate her dinner, she noticed that Remus gave her many stares. And, with any other, it would be unnerving. But with Remus, it made her heart want to rip and tear its way out of her body (she was also violent, as you may have noticed) and just be able to soar. And that feeling, she loved.

Very soon, dinner had finished, and the desert popped up. She grabbed a small bowl of ice creamed and gobbled it down. Lily, then, tossed the bowl back onto the table and stood up. Finally. It was time to sleep. She walked back up to the Gryffindor Common Room. No one else was yet there. She guessed they liked to take their time and enjoy their desert, whereas she was just waiting for it to be done with.

She was just reaching the back of the common room, near the stairs to the dorm rooms, when she heard the portrait hole open. The Marauders were walking in, full of talks and jokes. And there was Remus in the middle, laughing with all the rest. Oh heavens, he was a sure sight when he laughed, when he was actually happy. Then Lily saw his eyes turn and stare into hers.

"One minute mates," she heard him tell the rest of the Marauders. And then he jogged over to the other side of the common room, where Lily was standing, curious.

"Hi Remus," she said.

"Hey!"

"So, how was your guys' day?" she asked, inwardly chuckling.

"Oh, that was okay, but there was something else…"

"Mhm?" she asked, really interested now.

"Well, I just wanted to ask you something."

Lily expected to feel that sinking feeling in her stomach that he didn't want to talk about something more, but she didn't. It was a strange feeling, but she guessed that she had realized from his nervous face that this would be a question worth hearing. But she stopped herself before hope took her to crazy conclusions.

"Yes Remus?"