A/N: Thanks for the reviews! Yes, this isn't one-shot and there are still six more chapters to come after this one today…

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Chapter 2

Potter,
do you happen to know, why the heck Slughorn asked me to help you with Potions? Potions?! YOU? Have you hexed him or something?
Lily Evans

Lily,
maybe Slughorn thinks that I could use some help.
James

Potter,
well, he surely is right then, but the help you need is for your mental health, not potions! And TWO TIMES A WEEK? Why an earth should you even be good at Potions? Of course, I know that you had your cauldron exploded twice within one and a half months, and that you killed that bird with your Coloring Potion, but how is it my problem? Couldn't Remus help you? Or anyone else but me?

Lily,
the cauldron thing wasn't my fault. The second time, it was Sirius.

Potter,
that's not the point. You're hopeless, but why should I lose my freedom because of it?

Lily,
but it really WAS Sirius. I swear. He had already finished the Sadness Potion and because Remus didn't want to talk to him, he decided to try what would happen if he emptied a bottle of frog legs into my potion. Well, as you remember, it exploded. But Sirius is such a good actor that no one believed me. Anyway, it was his fault.

Potter,
you'd better keep an eye on your potions.

Lily,
you could teach me that.

Prongs,
I'm sorry to interrupt your intense conversation with Evans (well I'M NOT and McGonagall has been staring at you five minutes behind her spectacles so let it be already) but I really need to tell this before Peter gets that I'm writing to you and tries to find out what I'm saying. When I was going to the bathroom after the breakfast, I decided to go to the second floor, you surely remember the bathroom no one has used since Peeves painted it pink, and well anyway I was going there and you will never believe what I saw, PETER WITH A GIRL! A GIRL! IN A CORRIDOR! Think about that!
Padfoot

WHICH GIRL?

Not Evans, don't be scared. I'm pretty sure it was Rose Galloway, the Ravenclaw girl who's a year younger than we, but I wasn't in fact able to see anything but her dark brown hair, so to be honest I'm not so sure who it was. Fuck, just last week I thought I could do her.

Well, maybe Peter leaves a piece of her to you.

Prongs,
you and your dirty imagination.

Thanks and back at you.

James,
what does the last note mean? I wasn't following. What has Sirius done?
Remus

Nothing. But Wormtail has A WOMAN.

WHAT? WHO?

Moony, you should focus on learning. What if they ask about this in N.E.W.T.?

Shut up, Prongs.

Rose Galloway.

What?

That girl. Wormtail's girl.

Peter,
do you have something going on with Rose Galloway? Because if you have, I have to say that she's a really nice girl and that I hope you haven't allowed Sirius to brainwash you and make you believe that one can't keep the same girl for more than two weeks, because Rose Galloway isn't really the type to be with only for two weeks. She's more like two month's type, whatever Sirius would say.
Remus

Remus,
who told you?
Peter

James.

Oh, fuck. Calm down, we were just kissing.

Are you seeing her?

No. I'm not as obsessed as James is. I can just kiss a girl without wanting to marry her.

Moony,
why Peter keeps staring at me? Does it have something to do with something you were writing to him? Does he think that I'm going to steal Rose Galloway from him? You can tell him that he needs to get it to his fat head, that I like LILY EVANS and no one else! As far as I'm concerned, Peter can go to hell or at least to Forbidden Forest with that Ravenclaw girl.
James

James,
I'd be delighted to.
Peter

James,
we all know that you can't get to your fat head anyone but Lily Evans. Personally I think that it's far better than Sirius' habit of changing the girl he's trying to pick up twice a week, but I guess Sirius and Peter don't admire your commitment like I do. And to be honest, I also think that you should calm down with Evans. Your plans aren't working. It's not helping that you're trying to make her head explode with all those notes or that you're trying all you're worth to make her do something with you. And no, I'm not speaking about wardrobes. You've kind of stuck with your attack phase, but maybe you should change it a little. Or more. For example, you could try being just friends with Lily.
Remus

Remus,
I don't want to be her friend. How can you think that I could handle it? Being near her without making any propositions? I don't even have that kind of friends! I mean, girls. Friends, who are girls, and to whom I don't make any propositions.
James

James,
well, maybe THAT's your problem. Maybe you're interested in Lily only in a superficial way if you can't see any benefits in being just her friend.

Remus,
I'm in LOVE with Lily Evans and well, I'm really not interested in her only in a superficial way as you put it. Merlin, what's wrong with you today? I'm just so in LOVE with her that I wouldn't be able to be casual with her.

James,
you're seventeen.

What was that supposed to mean?

Hormones. Besides, you'll have plenty of time to fall in love with many other girls in your life. I'll promise, okay? Of course, it could happen that for some reason Lily suddenly ends up loving all the things she now hates about you, but to be honest I don't think that's ever going to happen. So maybe you should focus on finding someone else.

Prongs,
why won't you talk to Moony?

Pads,
Moony claims that I'll forget Lily.

Thanks to Merlin that it was Moony who said it. He's always right.

Shut up.

Now I have to find someone else than Rose Galloway. The seventh year in this school has been going on for almost two weeks already, and I haven't got any woman yet! If I'm not gonna catch up, Remus will soon be claiming that I have lost my ability or something. Or, what's even worse, the girls could think so, too, and then I'll never get anyone. Merlin, James, why do you have to be so boring and have that eternal crush on Evans? We could be the most wanted men in Hogwarts' history!

I am. I'm just even more wanted, because there's even more challenge about getting me, because I'm not interested, because I'm in love with Evans.

Girls lost their interest in you in the fifth grade, Prongs, when you had embarrassed us all by singing that Muggle song to Evans at the breakfast in front of the whole school. Remember? You have just been staring at Evans so fiercely ever since, that you haven't noticed that no one runs after you anymore.

All You Need Is Love? That song? Evans liked it even though she hasn't admitted it yet. If I was available, I'd have a girlfriend within a few seconds.

You have such an imagination! By the way, have you seen Moira Abbot's robe recently? I'll bet it's lacking some buttons. In fact, all the buttons should be denied, they are just in the way. And have you noticed that Abbot has kind of nice nose? A little strange, but quite nice anyway. Or chin. I don't know. Moony is so much better with this kind of things. Anyway, I think that since Peter got Galloway, Abbot might be my next target.

You keep to your Hufflepuffs, dog.
James

Have you ever been in bed with a Hufflepuff?
Sirius

No.

It was a rhetorical question, which means that I knew the answer. Unless you haven't told me everything. James?!! And anyway, I have to say that if you ever get over your little obsession about Evans, you should definitely try Hufflepuffs. Of course, I can't be certain that they all are the same, but I've got some VERY DELIGHTFUL experiences.

Sirius Black,
if I ever happen to read a note written by you that is written during the lesson again – which, I have to say, is very unfortunate time to do anything but study – and if the topic is unsuitable or ethically unclear I have to arrange a discussion with the headmaster. And that discussion is going to be serious.
Professor McGonagall

Moony,
what is she trying to say? Do you get it?
Sirius

Sirius,
it means that you're in trouble.

Moony,
finally.

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Potter,
what are you doing? You should focus on studying.
Lily Evans

Evans,
what are you doing? You should focus on studying, but you use your valuable time writing me notes. Are you sure that you don't want go to Hogsmeade?

James Potter

Potter,
I don't understand who taught you to be so irritating. It has to be in your genes.

Evans,
I know nothing about any genes but I can assure that I haven't got them.

Lily,
YOU ALMOST DROPPED SOME FROG GRASS INTO THIS POTION. What's wrong with you? Are you laughing?
Alice

Alice,
sorry.
Lily.

Potter,
for two months I have been trying to teach you some potions (and I want to remind you that I'm still doing it only because Slughorn told me to and I don't want my teacher to think that I'm lazy), but how can you imagine that you'll learn anything, if you don't even listen to the teacher? If you keep on acting like this, I'll have to teach you 'till the spring!
Lily Evans

Evans,
I'll take that as a promise.

Potter,
it wasn't a promise, it was a threat. If you aren't able to do a proper Coloring Potion (and proper means that it must not kill anyone) before Christmas, I'll give up. No matter what Slughorn says. And you are the one who will explain to him that you're are a lost case and teaching you is complete waste of time, because you aren't learning anything, and because of that there's no need to be angry with me, because I really can't teach you anymore.

Evans,
there're still one and half months 'till Christmas. I have plenty of time to learn, and don't worry, I haven't got slightest intention to make you quit teaching me. I like it very much. Besides, you haven't tried to hex me in two weeks.

Potter,
that's due to the fact that you haven't tried to hit on me in the last two weeks. If you keep on being approximately human and not a brainless idiot, as usual, I'm going to try not to hex you. You know very well that I don't break any rules without a good reason with black, messy hair and an incredible ability to be irritating.

Evans,
you have an obsession about me.

Potter,
go to hell.

Evans,
you wrote that last note (okay, not the last but the one before it) for several minutes, although you could have used that time listening to the professor. If you still claim that you don't like me, you must at least have an obsession about me.

Potter,
your logic isn't working. I'm not interested in you nor have an obsession about you, and in fact it's completely otherwise and you know it very well. You're just trying to mess up my head.

Evans,
is it working?

Potter,
no. Is Peter still seeing Rose?

I guess. I don't know about them anything I didn't already know on Tuesday. I guess it was when we talking about this, wasn't it? I guess they aren't fighting anymore. Remus thought that their fight was about dating. You know, Pete wants to keep things as they are and Rose wants to be his girlfriend, not just a random girl with whom Pete enjoys himself. But this morning they smiled at each other when they passed by in the corridor. Sirius calls it the breakfast smile. To be honest, I could bet that they won't stay together much longer. I mean, if Rose really wants to date him and Pete just wants to have fun, doesn't Rose get tired of him quite soon? And if Peter still doesn't want to make any commitments, I guess that's it.

What's the breakfast smile? And I really don't get what's in Peter's head. If he really likes Rose, why wouldn't he date her for real? What's so fun with sneaking in the corridors and claiming that they aren't doing anything serious, when they are still together every other evening?

You don't want to know what the breakfast smile is. And sneaking in the corridors definitely has its pros. For example, if Peter should fall for someone else, Rose couldn't blame him because they never had a real relationship. And Peter doesn't have to write about her to his parents or take her to his place on holidays or argue with Sirius about if having a relationship is stupid or not.

Potter,
you have to tell me what the breakfast smile is. Otherwise I'll tell you to make Love Potion next time I'll teach you and then I'll make you and Blanche Martin drink it and she falls for you and you're lost forever.

Evans,
I can take care of myself. And I don't think the potion would work on me.

Potter,
it works for anyone. I'm sorry, but you have no change to escape. Blanche will take you to France and you'll live there until the end of your miserable life. You'll have five dark-haired children and they are all idiots. How sad. Now, the breakfast smile.

Evans,
it's from the Sirius Vocabulary. It means "let's smile for now, but wait until I've eaten my breakfast, I bet we'll have plenty of time to fuck on McGonagall's table".

Potter,
you're SICK.

I said you won't like it.

You could have lied. And I'm not shocked at all. MCGONAGALL'S TABLE?

You know it, right? In her classroom? And don't ask me, Sirius has always had a good imagination what comes to fantasies.

Has Sirius ever dated anyone?

For real? I don't know. One summer he had a thing going on with a Muggle girl. She was quite nice, she had kind of similar eyes to yours, even though Sirius never admitted it. Emily lives quite near to my place and I guess I played with her when we were children. Anyway, Sirius saw her and after that he just kept telling me that I should get to know her again. I don't even know if he was planning something already, but then I began to talk to her again and Sirius got to know her, too, and one day I realized that I was sitting under the apple tree when they were lying on a lawn together and giggling. SIRIUS GIGGLED TOO. It was quite frightening. He looked like he was really in love, and then the autumn came and he wrote Emily a few letters and there it was. Last summer we saw Emily a few times, but he had started seeing someone else. The boy was tall, taller than either one of us, a little like a door or something, and his hair was so blond that we were wondering if he was from Sweden. We called him Svensson. Sirius threw a few water balloons at him, so I guess he really liked Emily.

A blond who look likes a door? I guess Emily has quite bad taste when it comes to men.

Thanks for the encouraging words.

YOU don't need any encouraging, Potter, you're are ARROGANT and STUBBORN enough without it, believe me.