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Mixed Up Love

The Halloween Dance

James and Lily stepped into the Heads Room. Lily made her way over to the red couches strategically placed in front of the fireplace. She sat down and looked into the fire. She watched the dancing flames until she felt James sit down beside her. "What spell did you use just there?"

"With Belletrix?" He asked sounding amused.

"No, with Peeves, yes of course with Belletrix!" getting louder with her last words but couldn't hold back a slight grin. James saw it too and grinned back. Looking into the fire he shrugged "Just expelliarmus, the disarming-"

"I know what it is!" Lily snapped laughing.

James laughed, too, fully aware that this was probably the first civil conversation he had ever had with her. He took special notice in Lily's laugh, he thought it was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

"You can perform non verbal spells?" Lily questioned sounding serious.

"Only a few simple ones but it worked, didn't it?"

"Yes, I suppose so." Lily sounded distant, staring into the fire, once more. "Well, then good night, Potter." With that she got up and headed up to her room.

"Hey, Lily!" James called after her.

"Yes?"

"Are you going to the Halloween Dance, tomorrow?"

"Well, of course, I am. We organized it! Remember?"

"Well, of course I remember but I was wondering if you were going with anyone?"

"Actually, I was planning on it yes."

James took these words hard and disappointment must have showed on his face.

"I was planning," Lily continued "on going with Alice. More to look after her, really. She's a very bright girl but the second a boy with the name Sirius Black enters the room, she goes crazy." She was now sitting on the couch again with James. He was grinning, but not his usual cocky lopsided smirk, a general caring, interested grin.

"I have known a lot of girls with the same problem. " James laughed. He couldn't get over how beautiful Lily looked in the firelight. The way it made her hair glimmer and her eyes shine. "But you know, maybe if Alice was okay for a little bit you and I could-"

"No," Lily interrupted curtly.

"What?" James asked confused.

"You heard me Potter. I know you got Bellatrix to stop but I still hate you." She stood up and walked behind the couch to get to her room. She stopped as she stood behind James and whispered in his ear. "I'm not changing that quickly," She walked away into her bedroom slamming the door behind her.

James looked into the fire and grinned. "Maybe not quickly, but you'll change Evans,"

Halloween morning came soon. The great hall was full of excitement for the upcoming dance that evening as they gathered for breakfast. The marauders sat on one end of the Gryffindor table. Lily and Alice sat on the other.

Lily rolled around her eggs as Alice talked on and on about that same old Sirius Black. "Isn't his hair so cute… isn't he so funny… isn't he this… isn't he that…" Lily was sick of it. That particular morning Alice ignored the plate of food in front of her nd instead stared over at the marauders, trying to get a glimpse of Sirius.

"Did he look this way?" She asked suddenly, practically jumping out of her seat.

"No he didn't Alice," Lily told her annoyed. She hadn't had a normal conversation with her in ages. It was all about Sirius.

"Can we please go sit a little closer?" Alice begged, already getting ready to move down the table.

"I'm alright close enough to Potter as it is," said Lily taking a bite out of her toast.

"Hello Alice, Lily, mind if we sit here?"

Lily nearly broke her plate. Alice almost did as well. "Of course!" Alice exclaimed.

Sirius Black sat down next to Alice, his friend Peter Pettigrew sitting down with him. Remus Lupin sat down by Lily and James sat down on her other side. She moaned as she finally took in that the four marauders had joined them.

"Hello Lily," Remus said brightly. Remus Lupin had to be the only decent marauders. He was a prefect and actually studied unlike the other three. And that was why Lily preferred him out of the four.

"Hello," Lily answered quietly, trying hard to look away from James.

"How are you Alice?" Sirius asked. Alice giggled and her cheeks turned bright red.

"I'm good," Alice said trying hard to stop blushing.

"Well girls your lucky this morning," Potter said, exchanging a sly glance with Sirius. "Your sitting with the marauders."

"How is that lucky?" Lily muttered, pushing her food around.

All four boys grinned. "Why wouldn't it be?"

The rest of the day the marauders followed Alice and Lily around. They seemed to be everywhere. One moment they would be following behind them, the next they would be standing at the end of the corridor waiting for them.

Alice continually flirted with Sirius every opportunity she got. James moved closer and closer to Lily every chance he got. The day was quite an unenjoyable one for her.

And then it was time for the dance. Lily left the heads dorm the moment she was ready so Potter couldn't catch up with her. As she walked swiftly down the hall she heard that familiar pestering voice calling, "Evans!"

Potter ran up behind her and fell into step with her. He ran his hand through his hair and tried to start a conversation with her. Every time he opened his mouth nothing came out.

"What is it?" Lily asked after a minute of unbearable silence.

"Um well, well I just wanted to know if maybe you'd reconsider going with me?" Potter asked hesitantly.

"No," Lily said firmly, and ran off to find Alice. She was depressed by what she saw. Alice had already found Sirius. Along with the rest of the Sirius Black Fan Club.

She watched as Sirius was hounded by at least twenty girls that would die for his attention. Sirius looked her way. Lily gave him a deathly glare. She was way too upset from James asking her out, to be kind to his best friend. He started walking over. He has the nerve to walk over here after what James just did. She was stunned.

"Lily, enjoying the dance?" The girls sighed, one actually fainted.

"No, not at all. But you seem to be." Lily pointed at the flock of girls hovering behind them. Sirius seemed to take no notice in what she had said. He only continued.

"Well, why aren't you?"

"You know right well, why not! Don't you dare act like that, Black!" Lily stormed off towards the Heads Room.

Saturday. Lily thought as she woke up. She put her head back down and then proceeded to listen to her stomach grumble.

After ten minutes, she couldn't bare the empty feeling. She walked off and got dressed, to go down to breakfast.

She was afraid that Potter was waiting in the common room, so she opened the door just slightly. He had, apparently, already left. She let out a sigh of relief as she sleepily walked over to the portrait hole.

Lily walked into the girl's dormitory to find Alice. She hadn't been at breakfast.

As much as it pained Lily, she was not going to let their friendship slip away. She walked up the round staircase until she reached the door marked 'seventh years', and pushed the door open. She finished brushing out the tangles in the back of her head with her hairbrush but stopped as she smelled something foul. Inside was a strange sight. Lily found Alice standing over her cauldron, with a Zonko's box in her left hand.

"Lily. Were you looking for something?" She however did not move her eyes from the cauldron.

"Um, no, I was just…wondering…if you were…"Her eyes were also staring at the light pink potion. "Alice, what are you doing?" She put her hairbrush down on her friends' bed and leaned over her shoulder.

"Oh, Lily, it's nothing really." Looking up for the first time.

"Alice, tell me this isn't what I think it is." Lily said in a warning tone.

"It's, um, it's, well, it's a love potion."

"A what?" Lily asked amazed.

"It's a love potion from Zonko's. But, really, it's nothing."

Afraid of the answer Lily looked into her friends eyes, "Alice, whose it for?"

"Sirius Black." Staring at the potion again.

Lily gaped at her. "Sirius Black? Have you gone completely mental?" She practically screamed.

"He is dreamy," Alice muttered focusing hard on her cauldron.

"What on earth has gotten into you?" Lily exclaimed. She was acting like a member of the Sirius Black fan club more and more each day.

"Oh I know he likes me Lily!" Alice said, looking at her friend through pleading eyes. "He… he just needs a little push that's all,"

Lily leaned against her friends four poster. "Alright, do what you want," She sighed. She would never understand how anyone could like one of the marauders. She knew she would never.

"Lily, could you hand me my hairbrush, I left it just on my bed?" Alice asked, pink smoke rising from the cauldron. Lily turned around and grabbed one of the two hairbrushes that had been tossed on the bed.

She didn't notice it had red hair on it instead of brunette.

"Thanks," Alice said, snatching it away. She to didn't notice the red hair as she dropped it into the pink flowing mess. "It's done!" She declared happily, scoping up some into a small clear vial. "Well slip it into his food at lunch."

Lily moaned. "Does that mean we have to sit with the Marauders again?"

"Lily! Please! We'll just sit with them for a second so we can slip the love potion into Sirius's food and then we can go sit somewhere else." Alice was begging.

"Alright," Lily grumbled. "What are you going to put the potion it?"

Alice grinned and pulled a box of chocolate cauldrons out from her trunk. Carefully she tipped a little bit of the potion into each cauldron smiling as she worked. She closed the box and tucked the cauldron and the remaining potion out of the way.

"Or could we just do it now?" Alice pleaded, getting up slowly.

Lily sighed. "Alright, lets go

"Sirius!" Alice called find them,

They walked back down the marble staircase into the Gryffindor common room.

Alice squealed as a tired looking Sirius followed by a plump Peter walked into the common room from the other side.racing over to her.

Sirius looked up and grinned his handsome smile at her. "Would you like a chocolate cauldron? My mom just sent them to me,"

"Sure," Sirius said, plopping one into his mouth. "Let's go Wormtail," And he and Peter walked out of the Gryffindor tower.