James woke up, sun shining brightly in his face, but then the sun was blocked by a shadow of a mirror...and then the thing reflected in the mirror came into focus, it was the most revolting, horrifying, utterly repugnant...
"SIRIUS"
"Aww, I was just getting to the part when you turned around and sow nothing behind you and got paranoid wondering what was being reflected... and then you realized it was you, and you bowed down to me telling me I truly was the fairest in all the land and..."
"SIRIUS"
"Fine, fine, I'll stop... but seriously what is that thing on your face?

"Haha Sirius, that's not funny"
"then whydya laugh? Huh huh huh?" "But no I'm serious (no pun intended) there is something on your face."
"Wha...WHAT? NO!" said James
"THERE CANT BE! It's Hogsmeade today. I have that date with Evans today."

Just then Remus walked in. "You know James, you're making me think that you really don't like Lily. If you did you would show her some respect, and calling her by her last name is definitely not a form of respect"
"Well it becomes a habit after 4 years of doing that, I mean its not like we were exactly 'bosom buddies' for the past four years" stated James
"EXACTLY MY POINT " yelled Sirius, "Her brain was somehow addled with, she never would have agreed to go out with you on her own accord "
"AS I'm sure you are aware, I have previously stated, NOTHING is wrong with her BRAIN!! It's the charm of James Potter coming into action."
"Whoa James? What's that thing on your face, well... it's not really a 'thing' so let me rephrase that... WHAT THE HELL IS WITH YOUR FACE??"
James ran to the mirror in the boys dormitory and groaned. His whole face was covered with boils.
"Well, not to worry" said Remus briskly "I can undo that with a flick..." "Oops"
and Sirius burst into hysterics.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FACE?" yelled James
"he...tur..." said Sirius, and burst into another fit of laughter.
"Hey" said Peter walking in to the common room "why is James's face purple?"
"WHAT!?!?! " hollered James, "you turned it PURPLE ?!?! Of all the colors, why did you turn it PURPLE? That's one of the least manly colors there is! I can't impress Evans with my face being PURPLE!!!!!"
"Hem, hem" said Remus "Lily, not Evans."
"SAME DIFFERENCE!!"
"And anyways," interjected Remus, "I said I'd get rid of the boils, and I did. I just happened to do something else in ADDITION to removing them."
"Well," said Sirius, looking down, just incase he started laughing, "girls have that one make-up cover-up stuff, maybe we could sneak into the girls dormitory and use some...or quite a bit... or like 3 bottles."
"Excuse me," said James, "but since I'm not of the feminine gender, I don't especially favor the idea of wearing 10 pounds of make-up on my face."
"But its probably not even ten, maybe like three, and would you rather go looking like... that?" Sirius asked in a disbelieving tone.

James sighed. "Fine," said James, "but don't blame me if we get caught!"
"You guys... wait!" said Remus, who liked to read for fun, "In 'Hogwarts, A History" It says that—"
"It says a lot of things, in a lot of books Remus," said Sirius, "and we don't have the time to hear all of it. Come on James, let's go"
"Whatever," said Remus "suit yourselves."
And so James and Sirius set off to the girls' dormitories. They started running up the stairs, and when they got to about the 7th stair, the stairs turned into a slide, and they fell back down. Remus was there to greet them at the bottom of the slide.
"That's why you should listen to me," he laughed.
"That was NOT FUNNY! " yelled James, "I need to find a way to get rid of the PURPLE FACE that YOU gave me. "
"Why don't you do the SMART thing and go see Madame Pomfrey?" asked Remus
"Becaussee... tell him James."
"Because obviously...um... we don't feel like it."
"Yeah," agreed Sirius, "That's why, so HA!"
"Um... okay, if you 'don't feel like' doing what I suggested, than what are you planning on doing about it?" asked Remus.

"OKAY! FINE I'LL GO SEE MADAME POMFREY!"

After Madame Pomfrey scolded him, and fixed his face, he went back to his dorm to get dressed for Hogsmeade, meaning Lily.

After getting dressed, James waited for Lily at the door in the entrance hall. When she came down the Marble Stair case, he was stunned at how pretty she looked in a pink floral (A/N: not those icky Hawaiian floral things) skirt and a plain white t-shirt. This was definitely not something that Lily wore everyday, considering she spent most of her time in the Library.

She dressed up just for me, James thought.

"So Lily, where do you think we should go?" asked James

"How about Madam Puddifoot's? I think it'll be a lot warmer and quieter in there."

James usually tried to stay away from Madam Puddifoot's, even if he managed to get a date with a really good looking girl. But for Lily, he was willing to spend their whole Hogsmeade trip there.

They came to a halt outside the tea shop, and went it. It was indeed very warm in the shop, and very...pink.

"Come on James! I see an open table!" said Lily, dragging James to an open table towards the center of the room.

James noticed how uncomfortably close they were, but then he looked in Lily's emerald eyes, he remembered how lucky he was to be on a date with her. Madam Puddifoot came and took their order, and left James and Lily alone.

"James, I just want you to know, that you've made me the luckiest person ever today." said Lily. James looked at Lily, surprised she was saying this on only their first date. After all, she had hated him for all these years.

"I feel the same way Lily!" said James a little too eagerly. Lily giggled a total girly-girl giggle (usually something she would not do), and they talked for the rest of their time in the tea shop. James was surprised at how mischievous Lily turned out to be. She told him of all the things she had done to get back at her sister Petunia, and he told her about all the things he and Sirius had done when they were younger. After about an hour at Madam Puddifoot's, Lily suggested that they head back to Hogwarts because she still had some essay that she needed to finish. James agreed and suggested that they do their homework together.

As James and Lily arrived in the entrance hall, they saw Peeves floating around. He looked like he was up to something.

"OH LOOK IT'S POTTY AND HIS WEE LITTLE FRIEND!" They continued walking, ignoring Peeves.

"I SAID, 'OH LOOK IT'S POTTY AND HIS WEE LITTLE FRIEND!'". James and Lily continued walking, still ignoring Peeves, but this time, it was a mistake.

Peeves appeared to have what looked like a fisher's net, and he trapped Lily in the net.

"Help James! Help," yelled Lily.

"Don't worry! I'll save you!" (A/N: hehe deja vu :D)

James got out his wand and started shooting spells at Peeves.

"You're gonna have to do better than that POTTY!" said Peeves in a mocking voice.

James shot one last spell at Peeves, but Peeves was not fast enough. Peeves stopped shouting, but he dropped the net holding Lily.

"AHHHHHH!" screamed Lily, and for the second time that week, Lily fell to the ground and hit her head.

"Lily! Lily! Are you okay? Do you want me to take you to the hospital wing?" asked a worried James.

Lily looked up at James and the expression on her face changed from confused to angry.

"POTTER, YOU ARROGANT PRAT! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" yelled Lily, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO USE THAT STUPID SPELL? I COULD HAVE GOTTEN A CONCUSSION FROM FALLING ON MY HEAD!"

James was confused for many reasons. Why did Lily think that James was responsible for the fall, and why did she suddenly hate him again? He watched as Lily walked off to the hospital wing, yelling about how arrogant James Potter was.

"Hey mate! How'd the date with Evans go?" James turned around and found Sirius and the rest of the Marauders coming in from Hogsmeade.

"I don't know." said James, "The date was okay, but afterwards everything just went...crazy."

"What do you mean?" asked Peter.

"Well, we came in, and then Peeves picked up Lily, and accidentally dropped her. She hit her head again, and then she blamed me for dropping her, and then started calling me Potter again! Then she just stormed off to the hospital wing."

"Wow, she sure is loco!" said Sirius, who was seriously (A/N: no pun intended. Those puns get annoying) proud of himself for being able to use another language.

"I'll say," agreed Peter.

"Are you still going to chase after her James?" asked Remus.

"You betcha," replied James before running off towards the Hospital Wing yelling, "LILY! YOU KNOW YOU LOOOVVVEEE ME!"

While Peter and Sirius cheered James along, Remus stood there shaking his head, wondering how in the world he became friends with such strange people.