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"Remus look!" I hit his shoulder softly. I looked back up and watched as the star shot through the sky.

"Amya, make a wish" I felt Remus hold my hand gently as I closed my eyes and quickly made a wish and turned to face Remus, who was already looking at me. "We should go in for dinner" he said looking deeply into my eyes and leaning towards me slightly.


I leaned into him slightly and lost my footing causing me to fall and take Remus down with me, we fell with me on top Remus' hands instinctively went to rest on my waist and held me there tightly.

"Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?" Remus had check every inch of my body to make sure I didn't have bumps. I pushed his hands away.

"Remus I'm fine. Let's go get some dinner." I got up off him and held out my hand to help him up. As we stepped through the big oak doors we got bombarded by Sirius as he ran past with James trailing behind him. We all got knocked to the ground and ended up in a big pile of body mass. Sirius' bark like laugh could be heard as we untangled ourselves. I could see Lily in the corner of my eye fuming, her face was almost the same colour as her hair. I was not going to be the one to tell her that it clashed with her hair. James helped me off the floor and turned to lily a sheepish look on his face. Sirius cleared his throat.

"'Dear Lily,

I would like to formally invite you to the Halloween Ball, now I know you normally say no but I want you to know I have changed over the holidays, if you decline this offer it will be the last time I will ever ask you out, I am truly sorry for all the hardship I have put you through the years past and I wish to apologise, I would like to apologise in person but you make me feel things I have never felt before, I act stupid in front of you because I don't know how to act around you, you make me so nervous and I'm afraid of that feeling so I am apologising now instead of making a fool of myself again.

Yours James xx'

Aww James that is so cute I never knew you had such heart" Sirius feigned fainting but caught himself before he hit the ground, I gently slapped him as I watched James' face turn even redder than Lily's hair. Lily's face went back to normal and she even smiled. I grabbed Sirius' sleeve and Remus' hand and dragged both of them backwards into the great hall to leave Lily and James alone.

"What the hell did you do that for?!" I screamed at Sirius.

"James needed to grow some balls, so I grew some for him, they have been growing in a lab under my bed for weeks" he shrugged and sat down at the table and started to pile his plate high with food. I sighed audibly and sat down across from Remus who was already hooking into a big steak, James joined us shortly after but I didn't see peter. Although he has been acting slightly weird I didn't think he joined the dark side until at least 6th year. I shrugged to myself and continued eating.

As dinner was vanishing and dessert was starting the conversation turned to Quidditch,

"So Quidditch tryouts are on Friday, Amya are you trying out this year? Or do I have to drag your butt out of bed every morning for my pleasure?" James asked leaning in towards me.

"Neither thank you James, I like my beauty sleep nor do I feel like running drills with you on the Quidditch pitch. Plus I'm going to be swamped with homework all this year anyway." I told him shaking my head and filled my plate with sweets.

"come on please Am, you're the best Quidditch player I know, please just tryout" he gave me the puppy dog eyes and I looked away from him, then from the corner of my eye, I saw Sirius join in and I caved.

"Fine, ill tryout," James and Sirius cheered, "On one condition, there is no personal Quidditch meetings at dinner breakfast during classes or when I'm trying to study, got it?" James sobered up and nodded his head. Then Sirius got up from his seat and cleared his throat.

"Everyone, Amya here is going to try out for Gryffindor's other beater along with myself of course, so please try and see if you can find someone better than she is, if you do, I will pants myself in front of the whole school" he bowed and then James got up and did a little happy dance with him. I bowed my head and slammed it on the table in front of me.

"I am friends with idiots" bang "why?" bang "why?" I never thought I would actually be sitting here thinking this. I have loved the marauders since they were introduced in the third book, but they are so different from how Snape characterises them in his flash backs about James. I smiled at the thought that I finally got what I have been dreaming of.

"So down to business," Sirius started in a hushed tone. "Tonight is the annual party in the common room, I've already snagged some firewhiskey from Minnie's office…" I continued to listen as James' eyes grew to the size of saucers and Sirius was becoming more serious, I shook my head and laughed at the boys as sweets slowly faded away.

After dinner I raced to the common room so that I had time to get changed, because knowing Sirius the party would start as soon as possible. After some time Lily joined me in our room.

"I want to help you Amya, I know we haven't really been the best of friends these last couple of years but you seem pretty cool and I wish I had been friends with you, so I'm putting my foot down and we will be the best of friends" she had the biggest smile on her face and I felt myself smiling back. She spun on her heel and made a beeline for her closet, she started throwing things out and then one flew in my direction I caught it.

"That will be your dress for tonight" she said looking me up and down, then she guided me over to her vanity, she set to work on my make up as the music from downstairs got louder and louder. She curled my hair as well then told me to go and change. I walked out of the bathroom just as lily finished curling her own hair. She quickly slipped into her green dress. The lime green of the dress complimented her hair and eyes beautifully. I was wearing a plain black dress with a simple gold belt just under my bust. Lily spun the full length mirror around so I could see how I looked. I looked myself up and down, lily had done an amazing job at my makeup, it was dramatic without being too over the top and my waist length hair fell into soft curls down my back I hugged her tightly,

"Thank you so much Lily, you look so amazing too, James will not be able to keep his hands off you tonight." She grabbed my hand and we made our entrance, Lily changed the music with magic and we made our way down the steps. All eyes were on us, I was just praying that I wouldn't fall. My eyes found Remus and suddenly my palms were all sweaty. Remus was standing there wearing dark wash skinny jeans and a black printed tee, his eyes caught mine and we instinctively moved towards each other.

"Amya, you look beautiful tonight" he said as we met in the middle, his arms encircled my waist and we slowly swayed along to the thumping music in the common room. I spotted Sirius dancing on the bar drunk off his face already and James as he sheepishly made his way to Lily.

I stayed with Remus for majority of the night, but I didn't drink a heap Remus didn't either tomorrow was first day back to classes. Sirius went off with some blonde bimbo to her dorm, James went with Lily to hers and I went up to Remus' dorm as both Sirius and James were in my dorm with their respective others.

"Follow me" Remus said grabbing my hand and leading me up the stairs to his dorm room. "You're sleeping here tonight, I'm not sure were peter of frank are so we have the dorm to ourselves, I have some chocolate and we can play exploding snap if you want" I nodded and he walked over to his top drawer and pulled out a pair of trackie pants and an oversized sweater and handed them to me to put on. I walked into the bathroom and took off my dress and put on his clothes, bringing the dress out I hung it on the chair in front of his desk and crawled into bed beside him where we ate chocolate and played exploding snap until three o'clock in the morning where we crashed with my head on his chest.