Chapter 2: Girls & Boys
The day after Operation Lils and Prongs was made up, James and the other Marauders were at breakfast when the girls came down and sat with them.
"Good morning Miss Evans. How are you this lovely morning?" James asked suavely.
"I'm very good, thank you Mr. Potter," Lily said deciding to play along.
"That is just great, Lils." James said back with a little cockiness in his voice.
Great, Lily thought, he's decided to ruin it by acting cocky. Why does he do that? How am I ever going to tell him I like him? It'll just boost his ego up even more than it is already. I don't know! Maybe he isn't always like this… who knows.
Meanwhile, Remus and Sirius caught sight of Diana Jordan, Elanor Hart, and Veronica Potter.
Diana Jordan was one of Lily's best friends along with Veronica and Elanor. She has long, straight, black hair and warm grey eyes that are always full of life. Veronica, or Roni, has long, curly, black hair, but has blue-green eyes. She is a lot like her cousin James Potter, which is odd because Lily absolutely loves Veronica, but totally despises James, or so she says. Elanor, or more commonly known as Ela, on the other hand has short blonde hair that just reaches her shoulders and light blue eyes, who just so happens to go out with Remus.
"Hey sweetie, how's your morning so far?" Remus asked Ela, his girlfriend, as he gave her a sweet kiss on the cheek before continuing to eat his breakfast.
"Fine and a lot better now that I've seen you," Ela replied as she started to put some food on her plate.
"Hey, Ela, Diana, Roni, can y'all meet Remus and me in the common room later? We need to ask you girls some stuff." Sirius said after swallowing a mouth full of eggs.
"That depends on what it's about, Sirius," Veronica said somewhat cockily.
"Geez, Roni, I don't think there's not one person in this school that doesn't know you and James are related, I mean you and him act almost exactly alike. Are you sure you and him are just cousins and not twins?" Sirius asked thoroughly interested.
"NO! James and I are just cousins. First of all if we were twins we would look alike, which we really don't, so there you go." Veronica said very annoyed now.
"Roni, sweetie, you don't have to look alike to be twins. Have you ever heard of fraternal twins? They don't usually look alike, only identical twins really look alike. So there you go, sweetheart." Sirius said as if this was all obvious.
"First of all, DON"T call me sweetie or sweetheart. Second … never mind!" Veronica said thoroughly annoyed now.
"Lils, do we have to sit here?" Veronica wined.
"Roni, it wasn't my idea to sit here. If I recall correctly, it was you and Ela who wanted to sit here. You wanted to sit near Sirius and Ela wanted to sit beside Remus or Remy as I believe she called him." Lily said with a smirk on her face. Roni looked at her in horror for revealing her secret; the secret was that she liked Sirius.
"You wanted to sit beside me? YAY! Roni loves me! Sirius Orion Black and Veronica Elizabeth Potter for life! Oh, we're going to have such beautiful children. They'll have such nice hair and hopefully they'll have your beautiful blue-green eyes!" Sirius said all in one breath.
"SIRIUS! Huh!" Roni said as she stormed from the Great Hall.
"Wow, Roni's worse than you are most of the time, Lils." James said astonished at his cousin's behavior.
"Well thanks James. You and Sirius are a lot alike. I'm surprised Roni didn't slap him. I would have, and maybe in stead of that I would've kicked him where it hurts. Then he wouldn't be able to have children. Oh well…" Lily said as she continued to eat her breakfast.
"Any time sweetie. I'll let you know how bad you are 99.9% of the time if you want. NO! She wouldn't kick somebody there, would she? Would you? No, don't answer that, I know you would, you have," James said as he involuntarily flinched and grabbed his crotch.
Lily laughed at James as he grabbed his crotch. She had kicked him there so many times that when ever somebody said anything about kicking he would flinch and grab himself. I hope he can still have kids… I might just want to have kids someday. Wait! Did I, Lily Marie Evans, just think about having kids with James Andrew Potter? Lily looked at him with curiosity for a minute before coming back to her senses.
These looks didn't go unnoticed by James. I wonder… she seemed …I know don't maybe I was just imagining things. I do that quite often. James thought as he watched Lily eat her breakfast.
Later that day in the Gryffindor Common Room Remus and Sirius were waiting for the girls to show up for their meeting.
"Well, it's about time! Do you know how long Remy and I have been waiting for y'all to show up?" Sirius said sounding like an overprotective mother as the girls came down from their dormitory.
"Well, I'd say about thirty seconds, seeing as we started coming down at exactly ten 'o clock, just like you told us to, Sirius." Roni said to him in an annoyed voice.
"Oh, well then, okay. Let's get started then. The reason Remus and I have 'invited' all of you down here for this meeting is well, because we want to get James and Lily together. Are you going to help us or not?" Sirius said rather bluntly.
All three girls looked rather surprised by their meaning of this meeting, but really shouldn't have; all of them were anticipating this. They knew that if James didn't get Lily to see him in a new light soon Sirius and Remus were going to do something about it.
"Well, I guess-," Roni got out before Sirius so rudely interrupted her by his rather loud yells of triumph.
"Oh yeah! James will have Lily snogging him senseless by Christmas. I'm sure of it." Sirius said through his random pattern of yells of triumph.
"SIRIUS, CALM DOWN! GEEZ! YOU'RE THE MOST ANNOYING PERSON I'VE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE TO MEET!..."Veronica yelled, but while Veronica was busy yelling at Sirius, Sirius watched in disgust as he saw Ela and Remus sit down in an armchair and start snogging each other senseless.
Diana sat down in a very comfy armchair by the fire while listening to her best friend scream her lungs out at Sirius Black while her other best friend was snogging the life out of Remus Lupin. Geez…Roni and Sirius are almost exactly like James and Lily, except James and Lils are a lot worse. Diana thought to herself before her thoughts were interrupted by none other than Sirius.
"OKAY! Remus, stop snogging the life out of her! Roni, sweetie, can you stop your ranting long enough for me to complete the meeting? Now, down to business. Are y'all going to help us or not, you never fully answered." Sirius said very forcefully.
"Of course we'll help get Lils and Jamsie together," Diana answered for all three girls.
"Diana! Maybe I didn't want to help!" Roni said angrily.
"Oh please, like you'd give up the opportunity to spend even more time with Sirius." Diana replied smiling.
"Diana! Huh! Fine I'll help, but you shouldn't go around saying secrets!" Veronica replied some what defeated.
"Okay, ladies, back to business. We need a plan. Any ideas?" Sirius asked while smiling at the fact that Veronica wanted to spend time with him.
"Well, we could get Lily to see James doing something good, like helping a first year or something along those lines," Ela suggested.
"Hon, that's a good idea. What do you think Sirius, is that good enough for you?" Remus said while kissing Ela on the cheek.
"That's fine by me. Operation Lils and Prongs, Part 1: Girls and Boys; is a go!"
The next day in the Great Hall during breakfast:
"Hey Lils, I think you should look over at James. You won't believe what he's doing." Ela said.
"I have a pretty good idea of what he's doing…" Lily said as she turned to look over at the Marauders. James was sitting there helping a first year do his homework. "Oh my God! James Andrew Potter is actually helping a first year finish their homework! The world must be coming to an end; either that or he's up to something. He doesn't help someone without there being a prank involved." Lily said not believing what she just saw James doing.
Ela looked at Lily for a moment or two thinking why the heck does she think that it has to do with a prank? He's changed since last year; hopefully she'll realize it before it's too late.
James looked over at Lily to see if she noticed him helping out a first year. She did, and that's not all, for some reason she seemed angry about it. She must think its part of a prank, or something…She still thinks I'm an arrogant, bullying prat. James thought to himself while becoming more depressed by the minute.
"James, buddy? Are you okay? You look depressed." Asked a very concerned Sirius.
"I'm fine…I think I'll head on out to class. See you in Transfiguration." James replied trying to give a smile, but failing miserably.
"Guys, I can't believe Lily still doesn't think he's changed. I mean, as soon as she saw James helping that first year she got angry!" Sirius said angrily while glaring at Lily.
Why is Sirius glaring at me, I didn't do anything to him. Lily thought to herself when she saw Sirius glare at her for some reason.
"Lils, I doubt James was playing a prank on that little first year. He's changed a lot this year, whether you believe it or not." Veronica said knowingly.
"Whatever! Roni, you might think that, but until I see something that truly proves he's changed I want nothing to do with him!" Lily said defensively while gathering her stuff and storming out of the Great Hall and to the Transfiguration room."
When she got to the door of the Transfiguration room she saw James already there, but decided to ignore him while she thought, Do I really hate him? I mean …no. I don't hate him, but do I like him as all my friends think? I can't like him…Well at least he can't know that I like him until he changes some.
"Remus, we need a new plan. We have to get Lily to see something that will really show her that James has changed." Veronica informed Remus after the bell rang and they were leaving the Great Hall.
"Okay… Let Diana and Ela know that we're going to have another meeting tonight in the Common Room, same time as last night. Okay? Well, see you later Veronica." Remus said as he walked away.