Ok, so I know I haven't updated since… like last year… literally. So I have finally found the motivation to write another chapter.

Lots of thanks to:

michaeljnluver: Hi, thanks for the review! Hope that idea of Sirius imitating Lily works for you – I'm glad you liked it! Anyway, thanks SO much for reviewing!

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Also, sorry if I missed anyone in the thanks – it's been so long, I couldn't find proper records of who reviewed. I'm not sure, but thanks to Dan-Radcliffes-Girl anyway – I'm so sorry, but I can't seem to find if you reviewed or not, but thanks anyway just in case!

Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own any of the Harry Potter stuff, JK Rowling does. But I own my computer, that's a start…

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"The three of them then headed off to Divination, one of their most boring subjects."

When they got there, they dropped their bags and braced themselves for an extremely boring lesson with Professor Eva Gedrewal, self-proclaimed Divination expert. Their heads beginning to spin because of the heavy perfume and incense, they idly sipped and swished their tea in the chipped teacups, three rows in front of James, Sirius, and Remus (Peter was late – probably deterred by Peeves). Behind them, the three Marauders were daydreaming about who knows what. When everyone had finished drinking the unusually strong tea, they set their cups down and glanced halfheartedly up at Professor Gedrewal.

"Now class," began the unaware professor. "Seeing as you have all consumed the potent tea, carefully examine the dregs at the bottom and refer to the shapes and meanings listed in your textbooks." And with that, she twirled off, leaving a momentarily clear path of air leading to her pile of cushions.

Lily peered slowly into her teacup, only to find funny lumps of dregs that were a funny color of purple. Great, she thought, I have no clue what this is supposed to look like… a hippo? A clown with an abnormally large nose? Or maybe Stonehenge…?

Lily was interrupted by Trinity, who leaned over and whispered, "Hey, guess what – mine looks like wolf, but it's sitting in a large sofa. How absurd."

She looked over at Scarlet who was poking her finger into her teacup with an amused look on her face. Scarlet caught Lily's eye and held up the teacup so she could see the bottom, which had dregs in the shape of little happy faces and doodles. Lily quickly grabbed an extra teacup from the table and stuffed it over her mouth to keep from exploding in giggles.

Finally she consulted the textbook and turned her cup every which way to try and find a matching shape. Eventually on page 278, she found a picture of a couple kissing and when she turned the cup a little to the right, she was astonished to find the exact same pattern – the Lover's Sign.

Three rows back, James was trying to find his pattern in the textbook, and on the destined page of 278, he found the same pattern as Lily. As they were both staring at the bottoms of their cups, they checked the meaning, which read:

"The Lover's Sign, the most powerful of all love tea readings, indicates that love is nearby and one must look around and be observant to find it."

At this both James and Lily swiveled their heads around to see the people around them. Lily looked at everyone, thinking, Christopher Thomas? No. Allan Davis? No. Lucius Malfoy? Definitely not. Sirius Black? No way. Remus Lupin? Mm… no. James Potter? James Potter! He's staring straight at me! Um… um…. No… yeah, NO. But why is he staring at me… and grinning in that awfully annoying way? It couldn't be… could it? He couldn't possibly have had the same reading… No, divination is just a bunch of rubbish… but still… what are the chances that he has the same thing?

Then she thought of them kissing like the symbol in the tea dregs. Her mind began to fill with the thought, but then she realized what she was doing, and whom she was with. She gave a small squeak of shock and accidentally dropped the teacup, not that Professor Gedrewal cared.

As the teacup gave a sickening crash on the hard floor, she looked back at James and he had put down his cup with a very happy smile on his face. No, no, no. Not Potter, she thought, Not Potter, not ever! It's just a silly pile of tealeaves. Just a mound of damp grass. Yeah, that's right, just some wet greenish purple stuff.

Eventually her peers stopped staring at her befuddled face and returned to staring blankly into their teacups, some of them actually pushing their dregs around with their fingers to make it look like the reading they wanted. Lily slowly got up and carefully picked up the pieces of broken porcelain, trying to clear her mind of James Potter.

After class, Trinity and Scarlet asked her what was up with the Peter-Pettigrew-like dropping of the teacup. She told them about what had happened, but left out the kissing part.

"Oh, well, divination is just a lot of guessing," said Trinity, hesitantly.

"Yeah, don't think about it too much," agreed Scarlet.

And with that, they left for the Great Hall for lunch.

Further down the table from them was Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, discussing something furtively – obviously James' rehashing of divination.

"Wow, good going, mate," Sirius congratulated James between mouthfuls of cured ham and crisps. "You actually made a girl drop a tea cup because of you – definitely an improvement."

"Well, not that you can't get a girlfriend, because I mean, we're the Marauders, we each have a fanclub-esque group following us everywhere," Sirius added hastily, seeing the indignant look on James' face. "Because you could probably get a date with anyone you wanted… well except Lily – she's an exception." As he said this, a group of girls began offering each of them (except Peter) massages or to feed them, but Sirius waved his hand, and they all dispersed in giggling masses. They all shot Peter pitying glances.

"Yeah, yeah, I know," James said. "But I'm getting tired of talking about it."

"Well, Remus, what's up with you and Trinity?" Sirius asked, looking for a change of subject.

"Oh," began Remus, his face beginning to flush red. "We… um… well, in transfiguration––"

Then he noticed Sirius and James giving him amused looks at becoming all flustered. They were feigning completely innocent faces of interest, barely concealing the highly amused and knowing looks they kept shooting at each other.

"Oh shove off!" he said, though he was grinning, giving them both light shoves on the shoulders.

"Sorry, Moony, we have to give you a hard time about it – it's all in the proper order of ribbing," James laughed.

There, hope everyone liked it. Again, sorry I haven't updated in forever. Please review!

Claire Belle