Chapter 3

A Little Lost

Thankfully the 1st of September fell on a Friday so I had the whole weekend to regenerate. That and I could adapt to the time difference. Since I slept into eleven o'clock, by the time I physically got up I was wide awake. Not bothering to get changed fully I threw on some trackies, a hoodie and my leopard print slippers. With my long dark brown hair pulled back into a sloppy messy bun I stealthily ripped open Lily's curtains. I then discovered that she had left me. That bitch. Half walking and half jogging I went down the spiraling staircase to the common room. I found Lily, Dorcas and Marlene had situated themselves in front of a window to the side of the tower. I walked over to them and sat smack bang on Lily. Her punishment for leaving me.

"What' up my lovely's?" I asked looking around at them.

Lily pushed me off her lap. "Well we woke up at a respectable hour and ate this marvelous meal called breakfast! Not that you have ever eaten it, because that would require you waking up before 8am."

In reply I snorted and poked my tongue out at her. Yes I am the picture of maturity I know, I know. Glancing around the common room I saw a set of eyes that kept flashing over towards Lily every few seconds. Seems like somebody *cough* James *cough* couldn't keep their eyes of our dear Lily. The four boys were sitting on the red very comfortable looking armchairs in front of the fire. As my eyes passed Sirius's face, my own eyes widened slightly when realising that he had been already looking at me. He smirked and gave me a wink. In response I… yet again stuck out my tongue at somebody. Marlene saw this and turned her head towards me giving me a knowing smile when she realised who it was directed at.

"Trust me honey, you really don't want to go there" frowning I turned and looked at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Well Sirius Black is notorious for being… to put it plainly, a player" intrigued, Lily and Dorcas joined the conversation.

"What about James? Is he… one of those as well?" Lily looked a little crushed as if she already knew the answer.

"James isn't as bad as Sirius, but he is still a bit of a player. Thought Sirius is definitely worse out of the two." Dorcas didn't say this in a bad way, just with caution, like she didn't want to hurt Lils feelings.

"Well that sucks… just a lil bit disappointing. I mean by the way he looks it is a little obvious" I said trying to lighten the mood a little. Lily rarely gets sad, but when she does I seem to be the only one to be able to pull her out of it. Once again my gaze found Sirius, he was still looking at me. Judging by my confused expression his too became confused. Which was slightly annoying since I would have looked like a confused moose and him a cute little puppy with his head to one side. There was one thing I knew for sure. I was not going to let myself fall for his charm. Nor would I let Lils get hurt. Going back to Lily she still looked a little down, so I did what I do best.

"Hey Lils show me food, I hunger." I pulled her up with me and left Marlene and Dorcas to do their own thing. Bless them, looking out for us already.

"You alright cuz? You look a little heartbroken. Crushed. Dev-"she cut me off

"STOP! I'm fine. Well I guess, you know I just thought he was different as cliché as that sounds, he seemed so nice and genuine."

While we walked she just stared at her feet.

"It seems so stupid that I'm practically pinning over a boy I have literally only known for less than a day if you include sleeping. I don't even know his middle name!" Lily half laughed and half sniffed.

"It's okay Lils, remember there are plenty people on the land! What's one boy? Who cares! There is plenty fresh meat to eat! And I mean that literally because I still haven't eaten yet."

Abandoning the depressing atmosphere, we linked arms and joyfully got lost. Not that we realised this at the time.

Around half an hour later it sort of hit us.

"Jamie, if it took us approximately seven minutes to get from the Hall of Greatness to the common room, why has it taken us thirty minutes to get to another corridor?"

I stopped abruptly. Which then caused Lily to crash into me then fall on the floor.

"That is an eggcellent question my dear sweet cousin. Ah yes apologies my wording is a little off. See this is what happens when I don't get breakfast. Oh and get off the floor your bloody idiot, this is serious."

Grudgingly I helped her off the floor.

"Back to the matter at hand. I think we are lost. I swear everything looks the same around here. Who knows maybe we are going the right way?" I looked around again and pondered for a moment.

"We could always ask someone?" said Lily

"Oh yes! Why didn't I think of that? Silly me! You bloody idiot this corridor is more deserted then the middle of Australia! Except no Kangaroos, rather disappointing actually."

This shall be interesting.

"Maybe we could make a commotion so people get intrigued and see what the noise is and ask them?" said Lily. Gosh she's a genius!

"An eggcellent idea Lils! What did you have in mind?"

"Or you could use your wands?" Lily and I quickly swung around –which probably gave me whiplash- and found the source of the voice. It seemed like fate hated us. James and Sirius we behind us

standing, or leaning against a wall in Sirius's case. I glanced at Lily and she was trying hard to avoid looking at James.

"Your humble servants are here to serve you" said James bowing.

Lily went slightly pink in the cheeks and shook her head.

"What happened to the attempted overthrow?" I asked Sirius. He just shrugged, I frowned getting confused again.

"You have been relieved of all your responsibilities, now we have plans getting even more lost. So if you would excuse us."

At this James's smile deflated slightly at Lily's words.

"The least we could do is take you to the great hall so Jamie can get her food."

That was seriously tempting… food, Lily, food… Lil- FOOD.

"Yeah why not?"

Lily cast me look as if to say 'dumbass you were supposed to say no' whereas mine said in return 'food'. After our silent conversation we ended up going with the two boys. We backtracked for a fair while.

"You know if you only turned right here and not left then down twenty staircases, you would have made it" said Sirius smirking at me.

"Not my fault that Lily was leading us not me! Terrible sense of direction that one" I whispered the last part loudly so Lily could hear me.

I was then pushed by Lils, which in turn caused me to collide into an unsuspecting Sirius. Lily smirked, happy with what she caused and also that she wasn't the one on the floor this time.

"GAHH LILY! Sorry Sirius!" I tried getting up only to trip over his foot and fall back down.

"Woah normally Lils is the clumsy one no- DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER EVANS. NO TOUCHY!"

Both James and Sirius started laughing at us. Eventually I left my beloved floor – with help from Sirius – and proceeded to find the Hall of Greatness. Bout bloody time.

Oh and we were even a little early for lunch! Wait no. Breakfast. I'll just stick with brunch. I could see Marlene, Dorcas and Alice waving us over, so Lily and I started to make our way over.

"Hey you guys are free to sit with us! I'm sure there's room for two extra" James looked so hopeful.

"Uh sorry we – mean sorry, but we – um no."

Lily stuttering.

Say what now?

She started practically running towards the other girls, rushing to escape the pink blush climbing up her neck. I sighed and started following her. Then a tug on my elbow stopped me from going any further.

"Jamie wait a sec, can I ask you something?" After a brief hesitation he continued.

"Why was Lily acting a little cold towards me before? Or was I just imagining it?"

Oh crabsticks.

"What? Uh…umm psh no? Whatever do you mean?"

He gave me THE look. The look my ass.

"Okay alright fine. Lils just doesn't … how do I say this? Uh trust males with your... Lifestyle. And frankly neither do I"

"Lifestyle? What do yo – oh that. Did the girls tell you that I'm a player? Jamie, I swear! I think that I really like Lily! I wouldn't hurt her like that."

I sighed.

"James… I'm sorry but I can't do anything about you 'thinking' that you like her! She might only be my cousin, but she is my best friend and my sister. I am not letting her get heartbroken over this. I don't let my family get hurt. Sorry, but I'll see you later."

Not looking back, I walked over to where the girls were sitting, then I did what I had to. I ate lunch. And you know what? It was bloody amazing.

Since we had the whole of Sat – well half of Saturday and the whole of Sunday to chill and do nothing the girls decided to give us a tour, so that we wouldn't get lost. Again. Which would probably happen anyway. Many times. Looking down the table I could see James. He looked a little crushed. I felt bad but then again, Lily will always come first to me, I would take the avada kedavra curse any day for her. Sorry James. But then again he will probably get over it, I mean seriously he's known her basically for not even 24hours. Come on. Looking further down the table I saw Sirius frowning. At first I thought it was at me but then I realised, after following his gaze it was directed at Marlene. This in turn caused me to start frowning as well. What did Sirius have against Marlene? I made another mental note to ask Marlene about it. Which reminded me.

"Marlene… how did Remus get those scars? They look pretty serious" I didn't mention the werewolf part, I wasn't entirely sure why I didn't.

"Remus's scars? Uh well no one really knows, he always has them. Every time he comes back from holidays their really bad and he's always getting fresh scars. I personally think that that his parents are abusive towards him. But no one except the rest of the Marauders know the real reason, everyone has their own theory" Marlene looked as confused as I felt.

I pondered that. Remus was indeed becoming an increasingly complicated mystery. Hm.

After lunch the girls minus Alice, showed us the grounds around the school. They introduced us to the gamekeeper Hagrid, who was just lovely and I think he was half giant. That or someone took a little too much growing potion. Lils immediately fell in love with his little puppy Fang, who was barely up to our knees.

After we pulled Lily away from Fang, they showed us the most beautiful, most amazing, most spectacular Quidditch Pitch I have ever seen. Immediately we raced towards it. I pulled out the puppy eyes and went as far as going onto my knees.

"Can we please go for a ride? Oh please oh please oh please!?" Lily soon joined me on the ground. Intentionally this time.

"Oh stop it! Yes you can! Now go there are spare brooms in the broom cupboard over there" Marlene and Dorcas laughed at us as we ran over and grabbed a broom. This is the life. Lils and I loved flying, back at Blumont we both were on the Quidditch team. Lils was a chaser and I was a beater. After around five minutes of flying around we were joined in the air by none other than James and Sirius. How and why were they always popping up!? Are we being tracked or something?

"Hey! I didn't know that you two could fly?"

James looked flabbergasted.

"Well. How about a games of two on two? Girls vs. Boys?"

They accepted. One thing about Lils and I is that when we played without each other, we sucked, but put us together and we rock the house. We can do anything.

I'll skip past the game which lasted til dinner, the girls left within the first ten minutes complaining about dying of boredom. Although the boys were extremely surprised when we won.

"Yeah that's right! Bow down to us peasants"

Lils and I laughed and put our brooms away. "You two play amazing together! You're going to be trying out for the team aren't you?" asked James.

"What positions are available?" I asked getting excited.

"Pretty sure only a chaser and a keeper are open? Isn't that right Prongs? They were seventh years last year, so their spots opened up." Answered Sirius. Damn.

"Damn that's disappointing, looks like I won't be trying out if there's no beater position." I sighed, but Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"You play beater? Same!"

"Well I have to take my anger out on something now don't I? Although it seems I don't have anything to take it out on this year… any takers?" I winked at him. He laughed.

"Yeah I agree 100% with you, can't go getting suspended for violence now can we?" now it was my turn to laugh. Lily interrupted our conversation by being the voice of reason.

"We should probably start heading back soon now to get dinner, we don't want a hungry Jamie now do we?"

"Ah yes we should be! Care to walk with us to dinner?" said Sirius holding out his arm. A sexy arm at that. I pondered for a moment there, eh why not? There's no harm being friendly, I think that being friends with them is safe enough. I mean it doesn't guaranty that I'm going to fall for him. Don't be silly. I smiled and took his arm. On the way to the castle was a little small chat, but there wasn't any awkward atmosphere at all, which I was thankful for. Even Lily and James seemed comfortable. When we walked into the Hall of Greatness there wasn't many people inside yet at the table. We decided to join them for dinner seeing no harm in it. Just before dinner commenced the rest of the girls slid in next to us and Sirius slightly glared at Marlene from across the table. Since he was opposite me I kicked him in the shin. He flinched out of surprise and I subtly looked very interestedly at the table, scratching it with my nails. Grinning mischievously at me he kicked me back. Little bugger. My eyes narrowed at him and he gave me a wink.

Oh this is war.

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