A/N This was originally a personal headcanon for Louise Small, but I enjoyed writing it so much that I decided that I'd turn it into a fanfiction :)

I hope you enjoy it and if you want to, please leave a review because then I can improve my writing :)

The Fat Lady's portrait swung open and Louise stepped into the Gryffindor common room.

"Woah," muttered Sirius. James looked up from the Daily Prophet he was reading and gave Sirius an irritated look.

"Just ask her out, Padfoot!" he said as if it were the easiest thing in the world.

"Pah, you can talk, Prongs! Cough cough, Lily, cough cough," Sirius retorted. James stood up and moved over to Sirius. He sat on the arm of Sirius's chair.

"Well, Padfoot, my friend, I have asked Lily out and I will again! Anytime! It's easy!" James always sounded overly confident when talking about Lily.

"Go on then. If it's so easy," James said. "She's right over there." He pointed to the sofa by the fireplace where Lily was sitting next to Louise, who had just sat down.

"I will if you ask Louise first," James said defiantly.

"Okay, fine then," Sirius said, determined not to show James that he was nervous. He stood up slowly and walked confidently across the room. He stopped directly in front of Lily and Louise's sofa. They had been chatting away happily but stopped abruptly when Sirius approached.

"Hi, Sirius," Louise said, blushing slightly and tucking her blonde hair behind her ear.

"I'll leave you two alone, shall I?" Lily asked and stood up. She winked at Louise behind Sirius's back which made Louise turn scarlet.

"Did you want to ask me something, Sirius?" Louise asked nervously. She looked up at him with her big brown eyes and he melted inside.

"Yes," he said, determined not to mess this up. "Do you want to go to the Three Broomsticks with me next Hogsmeade weekend? Don't worry if you don't, I mean, I can understand that you wouldn't want to, but I…" Louise interrupted him quickly. She had never known Sirius to be nervous.

"Of course I do!" She smiled that smile that Sirius loved so much and he grinned like a little child.

"Great!" he said, beaming. "Well, I'll talk to you soon?"

"Yeah, talk to you soon," Louise said happily and bounced away, her golden hair swinging. Sirius was pretty sure he heard squealing from the girls' dormitory and he beamed.

"Nice one, Padfoot!" James made Sirius jump as he whacked him on the back.

"Yeah," Sirius turned to face his friend. "Now it's your turn." The colour drained from James's face. Sirius laughed. "Come on, Prongs, you have to keep up your end of the deal!"

"I will," he said. "I'll ask her out after tea." He started to walk towards his dormitory, but Sirius grabbed his shoulder.

"Oh, no you don't, Prongs," he said. "Ask Lily out now, or you I'll hex you." He drew his wand with his free hand and pointed it at James. Sirius had no intention of actually hexing James, but it was a threat that had worked before and he hoped it would work again now.

"Okay, okay, fine!" James said, defeatedly. "I'll do it." He looked around. "Where is she?"

"In her dormitory," said Sirius. "Just go up and knock on the door!"

"Oh, I'm not falling for that again, Padfoot," James said. "I know the staircase turns into a ramp." Sirius laughed.

"Okay, fine," Sirius said. "I was hoping you had forgotten about that. Just get one of the other girls to go and get her."

"No," James said. Sirius sighed and walked over to the bottom of the girls' dormitory stairs.

"What are you doing, Sirius?" James asked, following him over.

"LILY! JAMES WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!" Sirius bellowed up the stairs. "There you go, Prongs, problem solved." James glared at him, but didn't protest.

"WHAT DOES HE WANT?" Lily shouted back from her room. Sirius laughed.

"Don't you dare shout it, Sirius," James said to Sirius through gritted teeth.

"Okay then," Sirius said. "HE DOESN'T WANT ME TO SAY!" There was movement from upstairs and Lily appeared at the top of the stairs. She looked annoyed.

"Yes?" she said impatiently.

"Come down here, Lily," James said. "I don't want the whole common room to hear."

Lily huffed and came down the stairs. She stood in front of James and put her hands on her hips.

"Yes?" she said again.

"Well, err..." James stammered. Sirius whacked him in the back and James turned and glowered at him. Sirius just looked away and pretended he didn't know what had just happened.

"Well, um, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the Three Broomsticks with me next Hogsmeade weekend?" James said nervously. Lily raised her eyebrows.

"Oh," she said. "I thought you were going to admit to putting that frog in my bag the other day."

"You knew that was me?" James queried.

"Of course I knew it was you!" she said. "No one else would do something like that. Except Sirius maybe." She gestured to Sirius and he pretended to raise a hat.

"Well, Sirius dared me to," James said, trying to defend himself. Lily snorted.

"If Sirius dared you to jump off the Astronomy Tower, would you do it?" she asked. James sighed.

"Do you want to go out with me or not?" he asked impatiently.

"I'll get back to you on that," she said with a cheeky smile and flounced back up the stairs to her dormitory. James turned to Sirius.

"Well, it's not a no," he said hopefully.