Disclaimer: I am not J.K Rowling, as you can probably tell from my writing.

~(*)~ Hello. Here is the second chapter to my fan fic. I am going to rewrite, I think, about a paragraph so that you understand what I am trying to write now. I'm not sure how long this one will be. So just bear with me. :-D ~(*)~

After Lily slammed the door, all was eerily quiet in the dorm. By now, some sun light was filtering in through the windows, and everything was surrounded by a cheery glow. Well, almost everything. The boys were looking sullen.

James looked over at his friends and asked, a bit apprehensively, in response to what Lily had said, "Would that be such a bad thing?" Sirius just shot him a nasty glare as he went to go get his clothes on, and Remus just sighed and made his way towards the bathroom.

James sat down on his bed, thinking all about what had just happened in the past seven hours. Everything had been fine when Remus and Sirius asked if he wanted to go down to the kitchens to get something to eat. James had agreed, and after they got back, they sat down and started eating. They had pretty much just finished when Lily came bounding down the stairs.

He had decided that he was only going to play with her for a while, maybe just torment her like he always did. But after she executed that move, and he was sprawled on his back, he should have known that Lily was in for some trouble.

But tying her to a chair in the Boys' Dorm? Good God, what in the Hell had Sirius been thinking? Was he going to plead for insanity? Even he wouldn't have believed that, even though Sirius was a very good actor.

But if he really thought about it, Lily had sort of deserved it. But that was just cruel, thinking that anyone deserved to get tied up to a chair, even the infuriating Lily Evans.

Finally, after thinking along this line for a while, he came to the conclusion that he really didn't care what Lily Evens thought of him. It's not like she could do anything that could hurt him: after all, she was just a hard hearted girl who had never actually grasped the ability to play a good prank. But then again...she was pretty good at rounding up those Slytherins when she needed their help. And Lord knew how big of a crush Snape had on the girl; he would always be there to help her. . . .

Ok, so maybe she could do a little damage control on his James' life, but still, he would always be safe until he had his best friends (and partners in crime) the Marauders. Who were, at the moment, rummaging around the dorm, looking for clothes and taking a shower. Well, maybe they weren't always going to have his back, but that's okay, they would be there in theory.

"Good God," James thought, exasperated with himself. "Am I going to start writing my will next? She's not going to do anything."

He must have said that last pert out loud, for Sirius looked over at him and asked, "Who's not going to do anything?" He was now putting a shirt over his head, and when he asked that, his words were sort of muffled.

James opened his mouth to answer, but was saved by Remus coming out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist. James knew that a few girls would have loved to be seen in this room, but the only ones that ever came in here were, here he shuddered, Lily, Tasha, Lily's other friend Bekki, and Melissa. Although James really minded about the other three girls, he couldn't say that he particularly minded when Melissa came into the room. . . .

Now what put that thought into his head? James knew that Melissa was a pretty girl, Lord, every guy at school knew it. Lily's entire little posé was fully made up of the cutest girls in school. If a guy didn't like Lily ( and James instantly thought that that was a smart thing: not liking Lily) he would most likely like either Melissa, Tasha, or Bekki.

Trying to get those disturbing thoughts out of his head, James looked over at the clock that was on his bedside table. It was 9:00: time for breakfast. Seeing a way to get out his mind, James said, "Hey, it's time for breakfast. Lets see if we can get that little prank that we were talking about yesterday before we were so rudely interrupted done."

Sirius nodded his head and Remus just looked at him like he was crazy. "You do realize that I'm not dressed right?"

"No, that's enough clothes for me to deal with." James said. "Hey, I have an idea, why don't you go nude? I mean, you be making all of the girls at school happy, not to mention me." And James gave him a big grin and ran out of the room before Remus could answer.

After he left the room, Remus turned to Sirius, who was, at the moment, heading towards the door, and asked, " Does James have a little secret that he needs to get out of the closet? Because I do believe that he was just coming onto me."

By the time Remus got downstairs and into the Great Hall, breakfast was half over and every spot was taken. Even his usual spot, the one next to Sirius and across from James, was taken up. But, instead of James and Sirius purposefully not saving him a seat, it became obvious that half of the girls in the school had chosen to sit in his seat. Which would have been fine except for one small little detail; the only open spot was next to a sixth year girl named Amanda Shemwell. Amanda had had a little crush on Remus for three years now, and it was, at least in Remus eye, not meant to be. After all, she was only a sixth year.

Remus headed over to the open seat, and started shoveling food onto his plate, totally oblivious to the looks that Amanda and her little fairy looking friend were giving him. He was starting on pouring himself a glass of milk when Amanda said in her very heavily accented voice, "What happened to Lily?"

Remus almost dropped the jug of milk, but, luckily, he had pulled it up just a few moments before it fell, causing only a few drops to land onto the table cloth. "Um," he said in a high pitched voice that sounded nothing like his own. "Um, what?"

Amanda rolled her brown eyes and asked, very slowly as if he were dense, "What. Happened. To. Lily?" She then slid a sideways look to her friend Kristen, one that clearly asked what on Earth had she been thinking when she started liking him.

"Oh," he said in a somewhat normal voice. "I guess that there was some ort of mishap with something." He took a drink from his glass. "Why do you ask?"

Amanda pointed a cryptic finger over to where Lily was sitting, next to Melissa and Tasha, her wrists tightly bound by gauze. She was trying to drink out of her own glass, but was having problems holding the glass in her hands. Damn that Sirius.

"I see," he said in a similarly enigmatic tone. He then got up off of the bench, grabbed his things for his first class, and started heading over to where Melissa was sitting. From behind him, he heard Amanda give an unceremonious "Hey!".

As he walked over to where Melissa was sitting, many people came up to tell him about the Chudley Cannon expo their parents went to, and would he like to see pictures? Also, a few sullen looking girls came up to him and asked if he knew that Korry and Frenda broke up. Remus wanted to ask just who in the Hell were Korry and Frenda, but knew better than to ask, for those girls had really long nails. . . .

Finally, Remus was able to get over to Melissa just as she was picking up her books and her bag for her first class of the day: Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was, as he was striding up to Melissa, that he realized that he had absolutely no reason to be there. Really. He had just dodged many people just to get next to her and realize that he didn't NEED to be there.

Then it hit him. He could try to apologize to Lily for that cruel act of insanity that Sirius had done. He knew that she wasn't going to be very receptive, but that was OK. At least he wouldn't look like a complete ass.

"Lily." He said as he got up to her. She wasn't holding anything, which led him to believe that she had gotten someone else to carry her stuff, probably Melissa, if her extra books and bag were any indication.

Lily turned around to see as very upset looking Remus before her. It was, in that moment, that Lily realized that Remus was probably the only Marauder that actually had some heart, even if it was only a little bit. After all, while he hadn't really set her loose the night before, he hadn't exactly mocked her for it either. Also, he had brought Melissa up with him tha morning. He really was a nice guy. If only there was some way that she could show honor him. . . .

Lily gave Remus a curt nod, one that showed nothing of the mental battles that were going on inside her head, and said, "Remus."

It was then that Lily realized that he was beginning to look a bit uncomfortable, almost as if he was afraid that she was about to start screaming her head off at him.

"Look," Remus started, trying not to let it show that he was beginning to look very uncomfortable under the gazes of four of the cutest girls in the whole of Hogwarts, Melissa most of all. "Look, Lily. I am terribly sorry about, erm, last night. I mean, I know that you didn't deserve any of what partook last night, and I was wondering if I could make it up to you some how. . . .?" When he finished his sermon, he was looking as if he would feel that it was alright if she started smacking him upside the head.

But, instead of doing bodily harm to him, Lily just smiled an award-winning smile and said, just as happily, "It's ok, Remus. I mean, it wasn't your fault that your clinically insane and asinine friends tied me to a chair." She shrugged as if it really didn't bother her, even though Remus knew that it did. "And unless you want to help us keep those assholes away from me, there's really nothing you can do that could really help me."

Remus nodded his head and said, "I would be more than happy to keep those, erm, jerks away from you. Might I propose that I walk you and your friends to class?" He was looking nervous again, as if he had somehow said the wrong thing.

But, apparently he had not, for both Melissa and Lily both hastened to assure him that indeed he could walk them to class, and that he was doing them a great favor by walking with them.

As they walked, Melissa and Lily kept up an avid conversation about the important announcement that the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Lenzi, was to give that day. Rumor had it that it had something to do with spending a week inside of the Forbidden Forest, while others said that it had something about becoming an Auror for a few days. All he knew was that it was something to do with the NEWTs. But with so many possibilities, Remus didn't know which one was correct. And, if truth be told, he really didn't care.

By the time they all got into the classroom, almost everyone was in their assigned seats, with only a couple minutes left to go until the bell rang. Remus said good bye to Melissa, Lily and the rest of the gang, and headed over to his seat next to two girls by the names of Jan and Astrid.

"Ooo," Astrid said in her high pitched and giggly voice. "Looks like the sweet and innocent Remus Lupin has finally gotten a girlfriend. It's either that, or he's pinning after someone." Jan giggled at this, and Remus wondered what in the Hell the professor had been smoking when he did the seating arrangements.

Remus sat down in his chair and was just getting his stuff out when Professor Lenzi promenaded into the room, a happy look on his face. Just as he walked to his desk, the bell rang, signifying that Hell was beginning again for the second time that week.

Professor Lenzi was a tall man with balding brown hair and moustache, each patched with gray. He had a potbelly that was greatly obtuse, and was always happy. He was forever in a good mood, but once you started disrupting the class, he would soon become a great disciplinary, sending you to the Head Master's office without showing any penitence.

He smiled at the class and said, quite evenly, "Hello class." He looked at everyone in the classroom one by one, before he started off on a big sermon. "I have been given word that you guys need to be given a harder NEWT than what we usually give our advanced students. Even though I hate to admit it, you guys are much more advanced than what I am usually sent to work with." He looked at them grudgingly, as if he was too fierce to show any pride for them.

"You children are more advanced, so, naturally, you need to be given a harder test. This comes to what I am about to tell you. This year, your NEWTs will be to spend a month in the Forbidden Forest. In groups of two."

Everyone gasped at this information. How were they going to survive without their makeup and magazines? It was all so distressing. Well, distressing to almost everyone except for Severus Snape who was smiling in the corner.

Lily and James had entirely different reasons to be upset though. What about Quidditch? This was the only reason Melissa would forgive Lily for the bruise that was undoubtfully about to appear on her face. For as soon as Mr. Lenzi mentioned that they were going to spend a month in the Forbidden Forest, she pitched her face upwards, biffing Melissa square in the jaw.

"Mr. Lenzi?" Lily asked, somewhat hurriedly, not to mention loudly.

James groaned, knowing what was about to happen.

"Yes?" He answered, a bit apprehensively it might be added. After all, Lily was practically always intoning about some of the most useless things, and always causing him to get into a big debate.

"What will happen to Quidditch?" She was looking at him, her bright green eyes very intense. Quidditch was everything to her, and taking it away just so she could spend some time in the Forbidden Forest wasn't really a reason at all.

James shot his head up from the desk he was sulking on. That was not what he had thought Lily was going to ask the teacher; he had thought that she was going to get into some row about the inhumanity of it all. Or at least solicit why she couldn't bring her beauty supplies.

"Well, you will not be able to play of course." He was looking at Lily as if she was quite dense, and was perhaps wondering why she had been put into the advanced class in the first place.

"That's not what I meant." Lily hastened to assure him. "What I meant was that I am captain, and that my team will greatly suffer if I am not there."

James snorted in response to this outburst. Oh yes, suffer indeed.

"Well, then you're Captain upon removal will take over," Professor Lenzi continued as if he were talking to a toddler and not a full grown girl. One that would probably be able to kick his ass if she thought about it.

Lily glared at the teacher. "My Captain upon removal is going to be away as well, professor." She said everything in a clenched voice, the memory of her being tied up by the Captain Upon Removal's best friend.

The teacher looked at her like she had missed something important, "Well then, Miss Evans, you will just need to talk to your Captain Upon Removal to find a replacement." Then he brushed his hands on his robs as if he had just cleared up the problem.

Lily was still glaring at Professor Lenzi, but kept her mouth shut. After all, she didn't want to get sent down to Professor Dumbledore's office; he would ask why her wrists were bound, and she sure in the Hell didn't want to get into that.

Meanwhile, James was sulking and leaning back in his chair, all the while thinking, More time with the enemy, oh goodie.