James woke the next morning to Sirius snoring softly. Remus was already up, and already dressed.
"Morning Moony" James said, stretching sleepily.
"Morning Prongs" Remus replied cheerfully.
"And so the torture begins again" Sirius sighed, woken up by the quiet talking. He was referring to the poor excuse of a friend called Peter Pettigrew. Sirius really didn't like him.
"Yes, indeed Padfoot" Remus said, understanding where he was coming from.
"Well, let's go!" James said slipping into his robes. The trio walked out of the dorm and down to the great hall. Wormtail joined them.
"Hi James, you two" he said looking at Sirius and Remus. Sirius was fed up with Peter, only actually paying attention to James.
"Hello you" he said snidely back. They reached the great hall. James sat down and Sirius sat on one side with Remus on the other.
"No fair! I was gonna sit there!" Peter said.
"Sorry Peter" Sirius smiled rudely.
"Yes, sorry Wormtail, they sat first" James reasoned. Peter walked around to the other side of the table.
"I really don't like him" Sirius said.
"Neither, but" James started.
"But he loves you?" Remus said.
"You don't think he's gay do you?" Sirius joked. James smacked him and started eating. Peter never came to sit with them, he sat with someone else. Lily turned up.
"Hey James, Sirius, Remus" she said sitting across from James, "Where's the short one? Peter" she asked.
"Down there, I stole his seat" Sirius said smiling.
"You evil soul" she said smiling. She was joking, of course. James laughed.
"Lily, you know me so well" he chuckled.
"So James, what have you got planned today?"
"Not much, school work I suppose" he said.
"Wanna meet up down at the lake after classes?" she said.
"Ok" he said smiling, "What should I bring?"
"Yourself!" she smiled. Severus Snape walked past.
"Hey Snape" James said.
"Potter" he nodded, "Hello Lily" he smiled.
"Hi Sev" she smiled, weakly.
"Want to meet up after classes?"
"Sorry Sev, "
"She's meeting up with me" James interrupted.
"Oh really?" Severus said, looking down at Lily, "Well, goodbye Lily. Potter. You two" he said.
"Why is everyone calling us 'you two' today?" Sirius said. He was getting seriously annoyed.
James was walking with Sirius and Remus to potions when Peter turned up.
"Hello James. You two" he said.
"For god's sake you! My name is Sirius and this is Remus!" Sirius said.
"Sorry, anyway, James" he started.
"Peter, what are their names?" James said, intrigued.
"Ummmm" he said, thinking hard. Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Steven and Raphael?" he said.
"NO! Sirius and Remus!" Sirius screamed.
"Wormtail, if you can't remember their names then you have a real problem" James said.
"What problem Prongs?"
"I don't want to be friends with you" James said walking off. Peter was in shock. He just stood there, watching as the person he looked up to walked away. He needed to learn the other two's names fast, but how?
"Potter" Severus said, pulling him to the side, "I want a word with you".
"I never said I wanted to speak Sev" he said.
"I don't care" he said.
"Ok, what do you want?" James said.
"Stop hitting on my Lily"
"I'm sorry, did you just call her, your Lily? Because, I am the one going out with her" James said. He over stood Severus by heaps, he wasn't scared. Suddenly Severus launched at him! Punching him in the face and stomach.
"I have known her much longer than you Potter!" he said, "You have ruined everything".
"Severus! What are you doing?" Professor Dumbledore said, then he saw James, "Why are you always involved?" he asked.
"I don't know sir" he said still lying on the floor, holding his nose with one hand and covering his eye with the other.
"Sirius, Remus, take James to the hospital wing, Severus, come with me" Dumbledore finished. Lily had seen the whole thing, from when Severus punched James in the face.
"Are you alright?" she asked as Sirius helped James up.
"Yeah, I think" he sighed, "For someone so puny he packs a punch".
"I never thought he would do that" she said looking as her former best friend was lead to the principals office.
"Neither did I to be honest" James said. Sirius and Remus lead him off. Lily walked into potions, hoping James would be ok for their meet up that afternoon. She was looking forward to it, the first thing she had looked forward to in a while actually, besides class. She smiled to herself, James was special.