A/N: I want to thank everyone who already likes the story even though I haven't even posted the first chapter. Sorry it took longer than expected to get up, but thats what working does to me. Hope you enjoy it! x3 scribble
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"Prongs, why are there so many first years?" Sirius Black whined to his best friends, James Potter.
James didn't answer. He was staring at his crush of four years, Lily Evans, and had blocked Sirius out.
"Prongs? Prongs!" Sirius waved his hand in front of James' face, but it was slapped away as James turned to glare at him. He put on an innocent smile.
"What?" James hissed.
"Never mind," Sirius sighed over-dramatically. "It's obvious that you love Evans more than me, so I won't talk to you anymore." He turned his back to James, who just rolled his eyes and went back to looking at Lily, and faced his other friend, Remus Lupin, "You love me more than Evans, right?"
"Nope, sorry," Remus said, not taking his eyes off of the sorting.
Sirius sighed again and looked across the table to the last of the Marauders, Peter Pettigrew. He gave Peter his best puppy dog pout that seemed to ask 'You love me, don't you?'
"Not really," Peter said shaking his head.
"You guys suck, you know that?" Sirius said with a frown on his face. He turned to face the front and saw that Dumbledore was standing up. He said his usual "Tuck in!" and the food appeared on the table. Sirius grabbed the closest dish and piled food on his plate. He picked up his fork and began eating. After a while he paused to look around the rest of the hall. Towards the end of the Gryffindor table he noticed a girl he had never seen before sitting next to Lily. She wavy brown hair with a few blond highlights that come down just below her shoulders. She was looking away, so he couldn't see her face, but from behind he thought she looked pretty good.
"Hey Moony, who's that girl sitting next to Lily?" He asked, not taking his eyes off of her.
"Did you listen to anything Dumbledore said?" Remus asked shaking his head.
Sirius paused for a moment before exclaiming happily "Yes!"
"Oh yeah? What did he say then?" James asked skeptically.
"He said 'Tuck in!'" Sirius said nodding his head seriously.
Remus rolled his eyes and said "She's the new girl. I didn't hear her name because you were being dramatic about being ignored. But she's a transfer from some school in America, our year I think."
"Oh," Sirius said, looking at her a little longer before turning back to his food.
"Padfoot, you know this isn't the last meal you'll ever eat," James said. He had a disgusted look on his face from Sirius stuffing his face.
"Well I'm sorry I'm hungry," He mumbled.
James just shook his head.
After the feast, Dumbledore made his usual start-of-term announcements and dismissed them to bed. The Marauders stood up and headed out of the hall. They were on the third floor when James broke away from the rest of the group saying good-night.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Sirius asked as he stopped to watch James walk away down the adjoining corridor.
"I'm Headboy, I get to stay in the Head Dorms," James said over his shoulder.
"Oh, right. Have fun with Evans!" Sirius called to James' retreating back.
Lily, who had been coming up behind them, heard Sirius and smacked him on the back of the head before following James down the corridor.
"OW! What the hell is wrong with you! Sirius exclaimed, rubbing the back of his head. He sent a glare in Remus' direction, who was trying to pass off his laugh as a cough. "Bloody Evans and her violence," he muttered.
"I heard that, Black!" Lily called over he shoulder.
"You were supposed to!" Sirius yelled after her.
She responded by waving her wand up in the air.
Sirius grabbed Remus and Peter and walked away from the corridor, "Hurry, before she hexes."
Remus laughed "Are you afraid of big bad Lily?" He mocked.
"Shut it!" Sirius snapped. They walked the rest of the way in silence. Sirius pouting, Remus holding back laughter, and Peter not wanting to be the one to talk first. When they reached the portrait they stopped and Sirius looked at Remus "Password?" He asked.
"You'll love it. I got to choose it. 'Marauders rule'" Remus said smirking.
"Yeah we do!" Sirius exclaimed as he made his way through the common room. Some of the girls left in the common room giggled and waved to him as he passed, but he just ignored them all and continued up to the dormitory.
Remus noticed this and asked "Sirius, are you sick?"
"No, I don't think so, why?" Sirius asked distractedly as he looked through his trunk for his clothes.
"Because you just ignored a common room full of girls," Peter said from his bed.
"Oh, well I'm tired!" He defended himself. He got changed then climbed onto his bed. "Good-night." He said before closing the curtains. Half an hour later Remus could hear Sirius' soft snores coming from his bed.
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The next morning Remus woke up first, as usual, and went about his business getting ready. After a few minutes, James came into the room.
"Morning Moony!" He shouted.
Remus rolled his eyes "Morning."
"Who's there?" They heard a mumble from Peter's bed.
"Your favorite stag!" James exclaimed jumping on Peter's bed.
"Gerroff" Peter said, his voice muffled by the blankets.
"Not until you wake up!" James said.
"Okay! I'm awake. Happy now?" Peter said. He pushed James off of the bed and got up to get changed.
"Very!" James said. He looked over towards Sirius' bed and noticed that he was still asleep. He smiled evilly and conjured a bucket of water, slowly opening the curtains. He lifted the water right above Sirius' head and prepared to dump it, but Remus made it vanish. "Hey! I was going to wake Sirius up!" He yelled.
"Let him sleep, just this once. It's a Sunday, so we don't have to get to classes. Just leave him a note to meet us later." Remus said. "Actually, I'm surprised you're awake, Prongs."
"Yeah, well when you have Lily as a roommate it's impossible to not wake up at the crack of dawn. She blasted some weird kind of music when she was in the shower! I'm going to have to put up a silencing charm," James said. He looked through Sirius' trunk until he got a quill, parchment, and some ink. He quickly wrote a note for Sirius before following Remus and Peter down the stairs.
Two hours later Sirius finally woke up. He noticed a note on his bedside table and picked it up.
Padfoot,
Remus decided to be nice, so we let you sleep in. Meet us at the Quidditch pitch when you're done with breakfast.
-Prongs
He yawned and got up to change. Once he was done he headed down stairs to the kitchens. He got a bit to eat before he headed to the grounds. As he made his way onto the Quidditch pitch, he didn't see his friends, but he saw a girl in the center who was kicking a ball into a net that was attached to some kind of metal stand. He headed over to her as she was summoning back the ball.
"What're you doing?" Sirius asked when he was standing right next to her. Now he was closer he noticed that it was the girl he had noticed at the feast. The new student from America.
"Soccer," She said. She bent down to put the ball on the ground.
"Soccer?" He repeated. He was pretty sure he had never heard of it before.
"Oh right. England. Um football," She said. She began backing away from the ball. She got a look of concentration on her face, then ran towards the ball and kicked it with her left foot. The ball soared through the air and missed the right pole by a few inches. "Damn it!" She cursed, summoning the ball again.
"What the bloody hell is football?" Sirius asked.
She sighed and turned to look at her. "It's a sport. A muggle sport," she explained.
"Oh, you're muggleborn?" He asked.
"Yeah," She said defensively "You got a problem with that?"
"No, no problem," he said.
"Yeah, well there's no need to ask what you are. It's obvious that you're a pureblood," She said sourly.
"And what makes you say that?" Sirius asked.
"You didn't know what soccer was," She said simply, her tone lighter than before.
"Oh, and all Muggles know about it?"
"Yeah, it's like Wizard's Quidditch. You can't not know about it," She said. She turned away and began to set up the ball again.
"And how is this a part of soccer?" Sirius asked watching her kick the ball again. This time the ball went in the goal at the top right corner.
"It's the main point of the game. To get this ball into that goal," She explained. "Right now I'm just practicing my shot."
"And it's important because..."
"Because you should be able to score a goal in a game. It helps you win," She said like she was explaining it to a three year old.
"So what's your name?" She asked after she took another shot.
"Sirius," He said. "Sirius Black." He watched her carefully for a reaction to his last name, but she didn't seem to know it. "How about you?"
She opened her mouth to answer but was cut off by someone calling "Oi Padfoot! Get your flea bitten arse over here!"
The girl raised an eyebrow at Sirius before setting up the ball again. Sirius hesitated before running off to join his friends.
"Pads, who's the girl?" James asked as Sirius fell into step with him.
"I don't know," Sirius said shurgging.
"Well you were talking to her, weren't you?" Peter asked.
"Yes, and she was just about to tell me her name before antler-head here interrupted me!" Sirius said moodily.
"Antler-head?" James repeated laughing.
"So what did you want?" Sirius asked once James stopped laughing.
"Well since we asked you to meet us here, don't you think we have something planned?" Remus asked. Sirius looked at him expectantly but Remus just shrugged. "Prongs was bored. He figured you'd entertain him."
"Great! You ruined my chances with the new girl for nothing!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Oh stop being so dramatic," James said. "Come on, I want to show you the Heads' Dorm. It's so big!"
"Maybe I don't want to. Maybe I want to go back and talk to Soccer-girl," Sirius said.
"Soccer-girl? What's up with the weird nicknames?" James asked. He grabbed Sirius' arm and pulled him back to the castle.
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A/N: There's the first chapter! Hope you liked it! Next chapter coming soon. Please review and tell me how I did.
