James kept his word and picked me up at seven p.m. sharp the next day. He looked very nice in his long, black, dress robes. He didn't say much and to my surprise he acted very gentleman like. He gave me a very pretty red rose corsage that went around my wrist and matched my emerald-green dress robes very nicely. He escorted me to the ball, and as expected, when we entered there was a bit of staring and whispering. I knew how shocked many of those students must have been. I shocked myself when I accepted the date.

We quickly made it to a table where Sirius and Remus were chatting. They stood and Sirius whistled. "Why Lily," he smiled, looking me over, "you look gorgeous."

"Thanks," I smiled and looked around, "where are your dates?"

"Oh," Remus blushed, "mine's getting punch and Sirius' is dancing with Peter."

"Peter?" I couldn't help the surprise in my voice.

"Yup," Sirius laughed, "who knew the little guy had that hidden talent. He's not bad from the looks of it." he said as he glanced at the dance floor.

I looked over at Peter and saw he was gracefully leading a petite blonde around the dance floor. To surprise me even more, I noticed there were a couple a girls lined up to be the next one he danced with. I was glad for him, for once poor Peter held the spotlight.

"Didn't he take miss," I searched my brain for the name of the girl he had hooked up with a while back, "miss what's her name, you know Sirius?"

"How can I forget?," Sirius stared at Remus and Remus looked down at his drink, "I was almost lunch meat for Black Wing because of that girl. No, I don't think Peter's still with her. Can't seem to keep them long, that's Pete for you." he shrugged. "But hey he's having fun tonight." Sirius said, casting Peter another glance before looking back at Remus. "Oh. here comes our dates. Shall we ask them to dance Remus?"

Remus gave Sirius an odd look, almost as if he were longing to dance with Sirius himself. He smiled when the fast song came on and nodded. The two meant their dates and led them to the dance floor.

I looked towards James, who was now the center of attention of some of our fellow Gryphindors. He seemed caught up in another of his wild adventure stories. I laughed as I saw how animated he was getting. I figured his story could take a while so I planted myself in the nearest seat. I turned my attention to Remus and Sirius.

It was then that I noticed that the two seemed to be paying more attention to each other than their dates. The song had changed into a slow song and though Remus was dancing with his date he was glancing up at Sirius. Sirius was doing the same. It almost seemed as if those two fancied each other, but I thought that couldn't be the case. I shook off the feeling and stood up as James approached me and held out his hand. I took it and gladly followed him to the dance floor, I wanted to get a better look at his two friends.

While dancing with James I took the occasional glance towards the two other boys and noticed it again. They definitely both carried the same longing look in their eyes. Then it hit me. My mind flashed back to the past week when I was stalking Remus. Sirius had managed to show up each and every time I was walking with Remus in the hall. Sirius had shown up at each of mine and Remus' study sections. Sirius always insisted that Remus help him in his potions lesson. That should have made me more suspicious than anything. Sirius Black was excellent in potions, he was one of Slughorn's, our potions master, personal favorites along with myself. Remus was terrible at potions, the only class he did poorly in. Sirius had even popped up when I had made a fool out of myself and asked Remus to the dance. Then another slap in my face hit me when I recalled the rumors last year of the famous 'Ode to Sirius Black'. "Since it wasn't James that interfered with Remus asking me, could it have been Sirius?" I questioned to myself. It was that minute that I became determined to see if I was right.

After that night I became a bit obsessed with my quest to find out if the boys really liked each other. I did a bit of stalking and came to the conclusion, I was right. The two were inseparable. Sirius preferred sitting next to Remus to any of the girls who offered. Sirius preferred partnering up with Remus to any other person in all the classes. Sirius would occasionally place a friendly arm around Remus during their break times or after a class. True Potter or Pettigrew would do that to Remus and Sirius also, it was a guy thing, but Sirius would do it to Remus more often.

Remus was a bit less obvious about his preference, but I picked up little things. Remus would sit a bit closer to Sirius than the others. Remus would help Sirius first through a difficult problem. Remus would come to Sirius first if he needed something. The boys' preferences might have not been obvious but for someone observing them closely, like myself, it was clear.

So what was I supposed to do? The two boys were obviously crazy for each other. I couldn't possibly sit around and wait for the two most stubborn men (next to Potter, of course.) in the magical world to take action. Being the caring female I am I was determined to play matchmaker.