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Chapter Two: Lily Joins

He immediately grabbed his mouth in an attempt to lessen the pain.

"JAMES POTTER!" she shrieked as she stood up. "WHAT ON EARTH PERSUADED YOU TO DO THAT!?"

He stood up to defend himself but instead had to dodge as another fist nearly came into contact with his face and he decided the best option right now would be to run. Fast. Now I know what Sirius meant. That bastard…

Still holding his jaw he sprinted up the stairs to the boy's dormitories, and threw open the door to his own room with Lily close behind. They ran in circles around the room, dodging objects and jumping beds.

As James decided to use Sirius as a shield and ran behind him, Remus decided that, despite how hilarious this looked, it was time to end it. "Stop!" he yelled and Lily froze at the commanding voice.

"Stay out of this guys" she said as she realised who else was in the room "It doesn't concern you."

"Actually Evans, it does. See I dared James to kiss you" admitted Sirius with a guilty look.

"You did WHAT?" she glared at Sirius.

"Now, now Lily lets not overreact. We simply got bored and decided to play a game of truth or dare" explained Remus.

"But did the dare have to include me?" she whined.

"Well it was the worst one I could think of at the time" said Sirius.

"And why did you pick the worst one?" she asked getting annoyed.

Sirius looked at his feet and Remus answered "because he wanted revenge for laughing at him" she looked confused and he added "because of another dare"

She thought for a moment "Can I play?"

The group stared at her as if she had just sprouted wings. "You want to play truth or dare with us?" asked James who was now out from behind Sirius and had forgotten all about the pain in his jaw.

"Yes" she answered and James smiled. She wants to hang out with me. I mean us. This is the happiest day of my life!

"But why? Don't you hate us?" asked Peter

"Well, other than Remus" added Sirius.

"Ofcourse I do, but right now revenge seems so compelling" she had an evil glint in her eye which made the smile plastered on James' face falter.

"Well before we start we have to tell you that we're using Veritaserum for the truths" said James. Lily nodded.

They all sat in a circle again, with the bottle in the middle. Around the circle it went James, Sirius, Peter, Lily and Remus, but just as James reached for the bottle, Lily interrupted him.

"Wait. I think I should know what truths and dares have been done already, just to make it fair"

Sirius groaned and James snickered.

"Alright then Lily" began Remus "I started and asked Sirius who the first girl he kissed was and when, and he said Chelsea Butler, fourth year."

"Then I spun" continued Sirius "And it landed on Peter, so I dared him to propose to McGonagall in his boxers" he smirked.

"But she ended up barging into the room and Peter got rejected" said Remus and Peter whimpered.

"Why was she in your room?" asked Lily.

"She was yelling at Padfoot for stealing from the kitchens but he talked his way out of a punishment" said James scowling at Sirius.

Lily rolled her eyes and made a gesture that told them to continue, so Peter said "Well after that I-I spun the bottle a-and it landed on Padfoot again" What is with these bizarre nicknames… thought Lily.

"So naturally, Remus took over and dared Sirius to 'stick his head out the window and sing the song he always sings in the shower'" finished James grinning.

"And what song was that?" she asked curiously.

"Dr Jones" said Remus and everyone except Sirius roared with laughter.

"Haha, yes very funny but can we move along please people?" said Sirius bitterly.

When everyone stopped laughing Lily asked "So that's it so far?"

"That and lover boy getting the kiss he always dreamed of" Sirius added grinning as Lily and James narrowed their eyes at him.

"Prongs it's your turn" Remus cut in and James reached for the bottle and spun. It landed on Lily.

"Truth or dare?"

"Truth" she answered and Remus put a few drops of Veritaserum on her tongue.

"Ok. Who do you think is the most attractive guy here?" asked James smirking.

Lily's eyes widened and she tried to stop herself but couldn't and blurted out "Sirius Black"

Everyone gasped at her answer and she put a hand to her mouth trying to stop herself from saying anymore but the effects of the serum were too strong and she added "butjamesisstilldamnhot"

At this point she felt like crying. Now they knew that she thought James and Sirius were hot. Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap… she repeated over and over in her brain.

James looked shocked whereas Sirius looked smug. "You think I'm hot do you Evans?"

She scowled at him but didn't say another word, she was too scared that she might blurt out something else that she didn't want anyone to know. Like the fact that James looks so cute when he's shocked. She smiled at him then remembered where she was and who she was with and quickly got rid of it and spun the bottle. She didn't even notice Sirius' huge grin after she had smiled at James.

The bottle spun and ended up landing on Remus. "Truth or dare?" she asked him calmly, as if she hadn't just admitted that she thought her two greatest enemies were attractive.

"Truth" he replied and Sirius put some Veritaserum on his tongue.

"Ok then Remus, who was the first girl you ever snogged and when" she asked

"That's not fair! I already asked Padfoot that."

"Yes but I wasn't here was I?" she said with a smirk.

"Fine" he grumbled, turning pink.

Uh-ho. Poor guy, I don't think he's ever snogged anyone. I gotta help him out thought James. But just as he was about to speak Remus answered.

"Sarah Smith, third year"

Everybody's mouths dropped open in shock. "Oh my God. Moony, how'd you manage that? She was the hottest chick in school back then, no offence Lily" said Sirius.

"Offence taken" she said scowling.

But Remus didn't answer the question for he was too busy spinning. The bottle landed on James.

"Truth or dare?"

"Dare" said James (he wanted to impress Lily).

Remus grinned evilly and said "I dare you to let Lily kick you in her place of choice"

James groaned. "Why does everyone always take their revenge out on me?"

"Because you're an annoying, arrogant prat and Remus, you, are a God!" she said giddily.

James and Lily both stood up and as Lily walked in front of him he closed his eyes and then waited. A few seconds later he felt a hard blow to the shins and fell to the floor.

"Damn your strong" commented Sirius and Lily just smiled.

"I've wanted to do that for so long" she said as James got back up and into the circle with a limp, eyes watering slightly.

"Hey mate, at least she didn't get you in the balls" said Sirius.

"You know I was thinking about it, but with me being a prefect and all I figured I'd spare him" Lily replied.

"Hey Wormtail. You haven't said anything in a while, not that that's unusual" said James, trying to steer the conversation away from his 'bits' in case Lily changed her mind.

"L-lily's v-very intimidat-ting" he said and then cowered as if she would kick him too.

"Relax Peter I'm not going to hurt you" she said smiling and Peter smiled back.

"Guys you wanna take a break and grab some lunch?" asked Remus.

"Sure" the rest chimed in.

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When they got to the Great Hall it, much like the common room, was pretty much deserted. Only a few people were sitting at each of the tables, the rest of them are probably outside having fun thought James.

"Hey, why don't we finish the game outside later?" he asked.

"Yeah that sounds like fun" answered Lily without looking at him, which was a good thing considering the huge grin on his face. Maybe today will be my lucky day. I'll ask her out again but thins time she'll say yes! He thought. But I gotta wait until the time is right…

The five of them went to sit at the Gryffindor table, Sirius and James across from Lily, Remus and Peter. Lily decided to go for a little lunch as she wasn't that hungry, and had a salad and a chicken wing.

"Geez Lily" said Sirius "No wonder you so skinny, you hardly eat at all!"

"I do to" she protested "But I'm just not hungry at the moment"

"Sure" he replied sarcastically and she glared at him.

She began to eat and thought that the boys would too, for they had already filled their plates, Peter with so much fish and chips that Lily thought that he would surely pop once he ate it all, Remus with so much salad, potato, sausage and gravy that some of it was pouring onto the table, Sirius with spaghetti, five chicken wings and three bread rolls and James with huge helping of potatoes and at least one of every piece of meat on the table. But Lily was sadly mistaken, for now they had placed all of the sauces and dressings they could find in the middle of the table. Each of the boys were then closing their eyes and blindly grabbing the first thing they touched.

Lily stared in shock as they opened their eyes and some of them groaned. "I got tomato sauce" said Sirius happily.

Remus then called out "Salad dressing" and James said "Vinegar" then groaned.

"Oh well mate. Could have been worse" started Sirius "Just look at what Wormtail got" at that James snickered.

Lily curiously looked over to see a very pale Peter holding a tube of Wasabi.

"Um guys" she said trying to get their attention.

"Yes Lily" replied Remus.

"What the hell was that about?"

"Oh that was just the usual sauce run" said Sirius

"Sauce run?"

"That's right she's never seen it before" he said slapping his forehead.

"Well" continued Remus "The sauce run is just a little something we came up with in second year to make meals a little more… interesting"

"See you put all the sauces in the middle of the table then pick one bottle" said James.

"And then you have to use the whole bottle on your meal" finished Remus.

"Oh" was all Lily could say. What kind of an idiot would do that? she thought. Then, regaining her senses, she rolled her eyes and muttered "guys…"

A few minutes later and, to Lily's great surprise, everyone had finished eating. Everyone except for Peter that is, who had barely even touched his food which was now drenched in the whole tube of Wasabi thanks to James. He's so immature thought Lily as the boys egged Peter on to eat.

Finally Peter took one chip and put it in his mouth and about two seconds later he was running from the Great Hall as quickly as he could screaming "hot, hot, hot, HOT!" earning stares and laughter from the surrounding students and even Lily had to admit it was a pretty amusing sight.

After Peter had left the four decided to let him off eating the rest and headed for the Black Lake. "Do you think he'll find us alright?" asked Lily.

"Yeah he should, I mean we told him where we were going" answered Sirius and the others agreed.

When they were all seated near a tree at the Black Lake they decided to go on without Peter because he would probably take a long time.

"So whose turn is it anyway?" asked Sirius.

"I believe its Prongs' turn" replied Remus.

"Yeah and I've got the bruise to prove it" grumbled James and everyone else chuckled.

"Oh damn we forgot the bottle" said Lily.

"That's ok I'll get it" said James taking out his wand (once again trying to impress Lily).

"Actually-" began Lily but it was too late.

"Accio bottle" said James.

They heard a crash and looked up, the bottle had smashed through the window of the Marauders' room and was rocketing toward Lily.

Fortunately she ducked just in time and the bottle landed on a nearby clump of leaves, unharmed.

Sirius was the first one to speak "Smooth Prongs, smooth" he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Shut up Padfoot" he replied getting up to help Lily who had fallen on her back.

"I don't need your help" she said bitterly, getting to her feet and brushing herself off "If you had just listened to me for two seconds you would have found out that I have a bottle in my bag"

James was now starting to blush deeply but she took no notice and continued.

"But no, you have to do everything yourself because James Potter doesn't need anybody else but himself. Well fine!" she said walking towards the clump where the bottle landed and picking it up. "Take you damn prize" she thrust it into his hands "because you got it all by yourself." And with that she turned on her heel, picked up her bag and headed back towards the castle.

"Wait Lily!" called out James hurrying after her. Well it's now or never I guess. "Will you go out with me?"

She turned around, her face now red with rage "God! Your such and immature prat!" she screamed and she left through the castle doors, James staring at her retreating back.

"Very smooth" said Sirius from behind him "But unfortunately I think that means no".

James turned and glared at him before heading towards the Gryffindor tower and their room. By now Remus was standing next to Sirius watching James.

"I don't understand how you can be such a jerk while you best friend is upset" said Remus shaking his head.

"Hey. You know I'm not good with all that sympathy shit" Sirius replied "So I do the next best thing"

"Make him more upset?"

"More or less" he said, both still staring at the spot where their friend had just disappeared. They stood in silence for a few minutes when Sirius said "I'm going to get those to together if it's the last thing I do"

"What?" said Remus now staring at Sirius, mouth open in shock at his friend's last words.

"C'mon I mean, it's like I'm making up for six years worth of damage" he said smirking "Very fun damage" he paused, thinking "And you're going to help me do it"

"WHAT?" he yelled "No, no, no, no. Don't go roping me into all this"

Sirius pouted, turning to Remus with puppy dog eyes. Damn thought Remus puppy dog eyes work so much better when you can turn into a actual dog.

He groaned "Fine. I'll do it" and Sirius' face lit up instantly.

"You know this is probably going to end up backfiring on us right?" asked Remus.

"Probably. But it'll be fun while it lasts" he replied happily. Remus just sighed and began to walk back up to the castle with his best friend.

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