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~November 12, 1975~

"Wormtail, would you hurry up?" 5th year Sirius Black called out to his round comrade. 

"I can't go if you guys keep rushing me!" Peter Pettigrew replied, sticking his head out of a bathroom stall.

Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and their two friends Remus and James had been eating breakfast in the Great Hall contently until Peter's runny scrambled eggs started to disagree with his stomach. Upon this discovery he immediately begged his friends to accompany him to the bathroom claiming he didn't want to arrive late to Transfiguration alone. James and Sirius quickly complied with him, grateful for any excuse to get the Transfiguration teacher, Professor McGonagall, in a tiff.  Remus being the prefect he is reluctantly followed determined not to let his friends be too tardy. They all sat sprawled on the newly polished floor listening to Peter hum a cheery tune behind the stall door. 

"Peter," said Remus Lupin irritably sweeping his light brown hair out of his amber eyes, "There's only... 17 more minutes to get to class!" He finished checking his watch.

"Keep your shirt on Prefect boy; we'll be there in time for you to dust McGonagall's erasers!" Said Sirius with his pale blue eyes shining joviality.

"Now Padfoot, you can't tarnish Moony's perfect prefect record, no matter how jealous we are." Commented James with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

Remus's three friends snorted ruthlessly at James and Sirius's little wisecracks. After all, they were the Marauders and harassing prefects just happened to be one of their specialties.  Once Remus's fellow prefect Lily Evans had tried defending Remus from his friends by commenting that James and Sirius were merely jealous only resulting in their thunderous, mocking laughter and more teasing.

"Hardy har har... laugh it up." Remus said with a slight smile.  He knew his friends didn't really mean it and they were just teasing so it didn't really bother him.

"Anyway, it's not that I wanted to get to class early, I just promised... someone I'd meet them in front of the library before class."  He finished avoiding his friends' eyes.

"Who, your sister?" Questioned Sirius suddenly looking very interested.

"Of course not." Said James looking at Remus slyly. "He was going to meet Lysandra." Finished James referring to Remus's girlfriend of three days.  He was pleased to see his werewolf friend blushing.

"Ohhhh...." Said Sirius also giving Remus sly looks.

Remus decided it was best to change the subject.  It was one thing for his buddies to tease him about being a prefect, but when they talked about his so- called love life things always got a bit awkward for him.  He checked his watch again, trying to shift his longish hair so it could hide the blush on his pale cheeks.

"Wormtail, really can't afford for McGonagall to catch us in trouble again.  Do you want her too add on to the three month long detention with Professor Chester? We might actually get stuck with Filch!"

"Oh yeah... I almost forgot about that." Said Sirius remembering the memory of McGonagall scolding them in her office for being caught sneaking back in the castle well after midnight. They had been wandering around Hogsmeade having the time of their lives only to find McGonagall guarding their secret passage upon their return.

James scoffed at his friend.

"You probably can't remember what you had for breakfast and that was 10 minutes ago!" He sniffed the air around him and scrunched up his face in disgust.  "Peter, are you sure you only ate eggs? You're making my stomach turn! Sheesh!"

"Sorry James..."  Peter said the embarrassment evident in his high pitched voice.

"We'll wait for you outside." Said Sirius getting up and walking towards the door.

"All right!" Said Remus to himself, trying to figure out how he would sneak to the library.

"Oh no you don't, wolf-boy you're staying with us." Snickered James grabbing the back of Remus's robes.

They all sat in front of the bathroom door waiting impatiently for Peter.  After a while Remus decided to strike up conversation yet again.

"So who do you think told on us? You know, about the secret passageway to Hogsmeade."

"Who always tells on us?" Sirius snarled.

"Well..." Said Remus a little taken aback, "There's Filch, Mrs. Norris-don't ask me how-, Prefects, Evans, Jules..." Said Remus ticking each name off his finger as he went on.

"Think Slytherin." Said James stonily.

"Okay. Malfoy, One of Padfoot's annoying cousins, Padfoot's annoying brother..."

"Is it really that hard?"

"It's Snape!"

"Oh.  Should've got that."

"Sheesh Moony, you need to stop hanging around Wormtail so much, you're acting more like him every day!"

"I heard that Sirius!" Bellowed Peter form inside the bathroom.

Sirius ignored Peter and paid more attention to an upcoming passerby.

"Well speak of the devil, old Snivellus himself!"

Remus and James turned to face to greasy haired Severus Snape standing before them apparently cursing himself for coming to the bathroom alone.

"Well look what the cat dragged in!" Said James joining Sirius on his feet. "We were just talking about you."

Snape took a deep breath and tried not to lose face.

"Would you pathetic imbeciles move so I can go inside the restroom?  Not everybody is dying for the chance to speak to the oh-so terrific Marauders." He said in an icy tone scowling at them. Sirius decided to ignore this comment.

"Where's your little boyfriends Snivelly? I usually can smell ol' Lucy and Bratty Randy all the way from a mile away."

"Oh don't worry," Said James. "They'll probably come swimming behind Sevvie in the trail of grease he left behind him on the way here."

The two friends started cackling loudly at their own joke as Remus sighed and looked around nervously.  Snape's expression just showed more hatred.

"It's better they didn't come.  We wanted to teach you a private lesson."

"That's right." Said Sirius reaching under his robes for his wand.  "You sang to McGonagall about our little outing so we were thinking of teaching you a jig to go along with it."

Snapes eyes got extremely round as he turned on his heel to go but it was too late.  Sirius and James both fired two very strong jelly leg curses at him.  Snape's legs were now wobbling all over the place uncontrollably.

"Here we go again..." Said Remus rolling his eyes.

"You have to loosen up first, Snapie!" Shouted Sirius over Snape's helpless whimpers and screams.

"Now you-a dance-a for us-a!" Said James imitating a bad Italian accent.  He and Sirius both shot off dancing hexes towards Snape's who was trying to dodge unsuccessfully.  Snape started dancing wildly while shouting threats and cries to the pair.

"Wait till I- you'll- I'll-" Sputtered Snape with rage while doing rapid knee-highs and clapping his hands.

Sirius and James ignored him entirely and continued laughing and mocking.

"Now I remember where I saw this dance before!" Exclaimed Sirius. "When we were at your place over Christmas break James, watching that muggle cartoon.  You know the one with the short kids with the big heads. The white and black dog that always had the little yellow bird following him danced just like this! On that kid's piano!"

"Ohhh... you mean Snoopy from 'Charlie Brown'?" Both friends collapsed into laughter after that.  They rolled around on the floor clutching their stomachs and sputtering as Snape danced on. 

"Only 4 more minutes..." Remus said to no one in particular.

Peter came out the bathroom drying his hands and looked at the scene before him bewildered.

"I miss anything?"

"Well," Remus started "Sirius and James confronted Snape and attacked him-"

"He fully deserved it!" Declared James pausing from his laughter.

"Right. And now were not only going to be late for class, Lysandra will probably dump me for standing her up, and I have the feeling someone is about to come around the corner..."

Just as Remus said that three girls ambled around the corridor corner.  The girl in front with her blazing emerald eyes set her eyes to the scene and immediately set off toward them, her fiery hair blowing behind her. This girl was obviously the prefect Lily Evans.  The second girl sighed and rolled her light gray eyes to the ceiling as she ran a frustrated hand through her flaxen hair and continued after her friend in attempt to restrain her.  The third girl, who shared many traits with Remus such as her straight, pointed nose, her small ears, and her amber eyes, went directly to Severus and released him from the curse.  Snape landed plop on the floor apparently too dazed or tired to do anything more than sprawl out on the tile.

"Potter, Black, what do you think you're doing?!" Lily shouted. Then she added, "Oh yeah, I forgot.  You two DON'T think!"

The boys looked around nervously.

"And you." She pointed towards Remus. "You-are-a-prefect! (AN-one of my favorite lines from OotP!) How dare you lollygag around here while your friends harass people when your badge is at stake? Have you nothing better to do?" Lily raged on.

"Like meet your girlfriend?" Suggested the blond girl beside Lily, wearing a very similar scowl only towards Remus.

"Err... H-Hi Lysandra..."

"Don't 'hi' me! Lily I'm going to class with Sunny and Faye. See you later." She snarled as she stalked off.

"Honestly, Remmie don't you and your friends do anything but pick on poor Severus? Look at him! Can't you see what pain you're causing him?" Exclaimed Remus's little sister Julia. Snape's blanched cheeks seem to enliven with shades of magenta as Julia showed so much pity towards him.

Remus turned to Peter.

"Don't you think it's funny how every time those two start something I'm the one who gets yelled at?"

"First of all," Started Sirius, "Stop yelling at Remus! It's not his fault we warped his fragile little mind! Second of all he tried to go to meet you Lynn but as I said before, we warped his fragile little mind! Third of all, Evans what the hell gives you the authority to- Jules don't touch that-that-thing!"  Shouted Sirius as Remus's little sister attempted to help a vibrantly blushing Snape dust himself off.

Throughout this whole conversation James just crouched in his position on the floor gaping at Lily with some kind of dreamy look in his eyes.  Peter noticed and nudged Remus.

"What's up with James?" He whispered motioning to his friend in his dreamlike stance.

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"Oh great there's the bell! I hope you're happy Potter!" Said Lily huffily.

"I'm not." James said breaking out of his odd manner. "I won't be unless... you go on a date with me."

At that comment everyone stopped what they were doing to look at James as if he had lost it.  It was a strange sight to see when it was common knowledge to the whole school that Lily Evans and James Potter hated each other with a passion.  Lily looked alarmed and for a second it seemed she stopped breathing.  Then suddenly she swept her hand back in a fist and pounded it right into James left cheek.  Everybody gasped.

"Never! I wouldn't go out with you even if you were the last guy on earth! Never speak to me again you disgusting pig!" She exclaimed angrily as she blushed with fury.

She turned on her heel.

"Come on Jules! I'll walk you to your class and explain to Professor Flitwick why you're late." She said without even stopping.

Julia stopped chiding Remus and walked briskly after her, leaving the four boys alone.

"Wow." Remus, Sirius, and Peter said together under their breaths.

James sat there nursing his cheek trying to smile.

"Where did that come from?! You Hate Evans, remember?" Sirius reminded him.

"She's... wonderful!" James said getting to his feet and walking ahead to face McGonagall's wrath, humming lightly to himself despite the bruise forming on his face.

His three friends stayed behind and looked after their friend as if he had gone mad.

"He's lost it!" Cried Wormtail.

"No he hasn't, he fancies Evans!" Said Remus

"That's even worse!" Whimpered Sirius.

"Oh, come on!" Remus said pulling up his two friends and setting off for class.

"How long do you think this will last? He could get hurt... again!" Asked Peter worriedly

"If it lasts." Corrected Sirius.

"You guys know as well as I do that a girl can't hold James attention for more than...two weeks tops."

"What do we do until then?"

"We should just wait it out until James realizes how stupid he's being..."

~ 52 weeks, 3.5 seconds, and 353 "We should just wait it out until James realizes how stupid he's being... "'s later...~

"...and don't you guys just love it when Evans pins her hair back in a bun?" James babbled on while walking on the grounds of Hogwarts heading to Herbology with his three best friends.

"Well, Mr. Prefect guess what?" Smiled Sirius turning to Remus.

"Her hair really does look great that way?"

They were used to James drone on and on about Lily ever since that fateful day in November.  Though Sirius was more than unhappy to realize Remus's prediction about James forgetting about Lily proved to be wrong.

"It's been exactly a year since that-that-"

"Evil scarlet temptress?" Peter suggested.

"Thank you Wormtail. Since that evil scarlet temptress Evans put some kind of freaky love spell on our buddy. By the looks of things I don't think he'll be over it on two weeks. What about you?" Sirius said with false cheeriness oozing from his voice.

"Well...-"

"I don't know about you but I don't think the 'wait it out' plan was quite the way to go." Peter whispered.

"As I was saying, maybe if James actually went out with Evans just once he'd see that she obviously hates him." Sirius continued.

"But Padfoot, he's been trying to get a date from her for a year now! What makes you think she will now?" Remus voiced.

"As I said before we won't be using the 'wait it out' plan. We'll use the 'friends who cant keep their noses out of their freind's love lives' plan." Stated Sirius proudly.

"Just, super." Remus sighed as James ran ahead to the green house to greet Lily amongst her friends.

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