The Woos and Woes of Love

Ch.1 Summer Surprises

Disclaimer- Everything belongs to J.K.Rowling (except all that is mine)

James Potter and Sirius Black were stretched lazily across the Potters' plush couches, enjoying their last blissful hours of freedom. They had a good reason to be lazy, for they had spent nearly the whole day testing new pick up lines on various muggle girls, playing gobstones and chess, and flipping through the latest Quidditch magazines.

Truly tiresome work, that is.

Suddenly Sirius snapped from his comfortable stupor, and grinned. "So, looking forward to seeing Evans again, James?"

"Yeah, sure Padfoot," James replied sarcastically. "I'm also looking forward to rubbing McGonagall's feet."

Sirius's smile flickered for a second at this traumatizing image, before grinning and moving on to a more pleasant thought. There were a lot of things Sirius liked to do, and aggravating James to no end was quite fun. He just loved to push people's buttons.

Red ones, big ones, small ones, sparkly ones, any button would do. But since there were no buttons around, he decided to instead provoke James.

"Aw, come on, when are you going to admit your truly undying love for-"

James's face twisted into a disgusted scowl. "Get real! Never in a million years could I see myself with, with her."

Sirius laughed. "Aw jeez Prongs, she's not that bad."

James glared at him. "YES, she is! She's horrible, always getting me into trouble," his voice went several octaves higher, "Dumbledore, lookie what Potter has done! Oh me, oh my, I'm peeerfect, and I neever break the rules, blah blah blah."

Sirius raised his eyebrows. "She's never turned us in before. And, we hardly ever get caught."

"Well, on the rare occasions that we do, we know who's to blame."

Sirius started to shake his head, but then he stopped suddenly and a scowl replaced his boyish grin. "You know, you're right," he said, as James nodded in agreement. "She's an awful person, plus, she's quite ugly with-"

"She's not ugly!" James cut in abruptly, but then quickly covered his mouth. Starting to grin again, Sirius cocked his head. "I, I mean, she's not ugly, she's uh, atrocious! Yeah, that's it, ugly's just not strong enough a word."

"Right," said Sirius, a now amused look dancing across his face.

James looked up at him. "Oh, shut up!" he yelled, as he stomped childishly up their winding staircase. Laughing heartily, Sirius followed suit, exaggerating his steps as he thundered after him. Mrs. Potter appeared at the top of the stairs.

"What are you two up to? You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

Sirius grinned at Mrs. Potter, then James, before saying, "Sorry Mrs. Potter! Jamesie was just mad cause I found out about his little crushie wushie on-"

"Sirius!!" James roared. He lunged at him, causing two almost fully grown males to go tumbling down the stairs.

Mrs. Potter walked half-way down the staircase and put her hands on her hips. James cringed, anticipating a long scolding and plenty of stern lectures on correct indoor behavior. What he wasn't expecting was for his mother to smile endearingly and clasp her hands in pleasant surprise. "Oh... my little James has a crush? And who is this lucky someone?"

He would have gladly accepted the scolding.

Before James could stop him, Sirius smiled and said, "Ah, it is but the infamous Lily Evans." James shot a death glare at him, before looking back at his mother.

"No, I don't. I, er- I just.." James's scowl turned into a blush, which, unfortunately for him, both Sirius and his mother caught sight of.

"How delightful! I expect to meet her sometime in the near future, ohh, what a fantastic girl she must be." Before James could say protest any further she ran up the stairs, smiling.

"Er, I'm tired, gonna go to bed, n- ugh, Sirius!" Sirius had pulled James back down just as he was about to escape.

"Ah ah ah, you think you can get away that easily?" Sirius asked, obviously intending to torture him on the interesting new findings.

"I s'pose not. Listen, I really don't wanna-" James started, in his last desperate attempt to get away.

"Alright, so tell me, all these years you've been asking her out- they weren't just to annoy her?"

James sighed. Sirius was much too persistent.

"Well, I dunno," he replied in a defeated voice. "I mean, she's just so different from the other girls. For some odd reason I'm attracted to that."

Sirius raised a brow. "Attracted to that? As in... want to snog her, attracted, or want to get married and have bundles of kids, attracted?"

"Snog," James replied quickly. Then he grinned. "What, you think I'm goin' soft?"

"Nah..." Sirius flashed a grin to match his. "But I was worried about you for a second there, mate."

A/N: Thanks so much for reading! I know this chappie is a short one, but it's sort of like as test to see if I should go on. If you liked, please review, it would really really make my day. Thanks! : )