Lily's reaction was not what most people would be. She tightened every muscle and shut her eyes, the things you learned by being tortured by James Potter.

Rough hands from quidditch…Not a bad body she was pressed up against at the moment. She was shaken out of her thoughts by whoever it was.

Nervously she turned and her emerald eyes turned wide.

"What the bloody hell do you want!" she practically screamed.

Regulus Black stared at her helplessly, releasing his hold on her arms and turned her so she was facing him.

"Listen…You might be worse than the dirt on my shoes but the Slytherin boys would like to give you this." He said coldly, staring at the cleavage she displayed.

He offered her a green velvet box and bowed slightly after she took it but pretended to fall forward and grabbed her chest hard, which earned a high pitch scream from Lily

"You little pervert!" she screamed hitting him on the shoulder as he shrugged his shoulders innocently and walked back to his friends whistling as they made their way down to the dungeons.

James came running towards the dark corner Lily had been standing in, panting with his hands on his knees.

"Are you alright?" she asked curiously raising an eyebrow but mentally slapped herself, 'Lillian, he's made your life hell for years, you don't care if he's alright! But…maybe you do...'

Lily's mental battle went by unnoticed to James as he coughed, "I was going to ask you that, Evans." He scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Sorry…" she squeaked without thinking but glared at him.

"You came sliding in like a madman I thought there was something important you wanted to tell me." She snapped and cheered silently.

James blinked rapidly; it had been awhile since they had actually argued, like she didn't end up walking away as soon as he opened his mouth.

A step in the right direction! A/n: He's so wrong…

He smirked and sighed, walking closer to her and took her hand, but his plan was forgotten as the box caught his attention, "What's that? Who's it from?" he asked suspiciously.

She rolled her eyes and sighed, "I don't know what it is…It's from Black's little brother." She muttered.

"Well open it while I'm here…so you know…If it's cursed or something." James said sounding brave but blushing at the fact that he had just said that.

Lily nervously picked up the box and opened it slowly, gasping and her eyes grew large.

"What? What is it!" he asked impatiently.

"Look…" she offered letting him see it.

Inside laid an ornate necklace with a green serpent made out of emerald, with a white gold chain.

Lily's head swirled, she wasn't a Slytherin why did they give it to her?

James' brow furrowed and he turned it over and scoffed, "Sorry Lily…they're up to no good." He said trying to hide the necklace from her view.

"James give it here…what are you doing! It's mine." She said angrily grabbing it and grumbled, "It's beautiful."

She sighed and turned it over and her breath caught in her throat and her eyes grew wide. "Oh…"

"Lily, don't worry about it alright?" he offered feeling bad and sighed, "I told you they're no good… Just like Samuel Barnes." He added quietly, earning a glare from her.

"You were right about this but maybe Sam just likes me!" She said in agitation.

"Lily, none of those boys paid a speck of attention to you before you came out dressed- dressed…Like that!" he said exasperated.

"Well neither did you! How dare you accuse them of doing the same thing…" she hissed angrily.

"I paid attention to you…" James said feeling dejected.

"Making my life hell is not the kind of attention I want!" she shouted angrily turning on her heel and stalking up the stairs towards the common room.

Lily had poured out the story to an eager Jazz and Elle as they nodded and scowled in all the right places to satisfy their friend.

Jazz sighed and rolled her eyes, "Lillian…You're an idiot. You did this to make him look at you, right?" she asked bluntly.

Miss Evans turned a deep red and shook her head, "You did it to me! I let you so maybe I could get a date…its hard when everywhere I go Jam- I mean Potter is embarrassing me!"

"So, I think he likes you." She muttered shrugging and Elle nodded excitedly.

"Lily! Did you see the way he reacted when Sam asked you and you said yes? It was funny! But whatever…I think you two are cute together."

"Cute? He's brilliant looking but I look like Christmas in- Well…Never mind it's December isn't it?"

"Lily. Stop! He might be horrible to you, but maybe the way to get him back for turning you into…you. You should stop taking it, maybe you should just go back to the extremely happy girl you were in fifth year." Elle suggested, earning an elbow in her side from her sister.

Lily's mouth opened to protest but shut it, sighing, "I am happy." She said softly.

"Before we dressed you up tonight, Lils… You looked so depressed writing in that stupid little book and walking with your head down unless you were up here with us." Jazz corrected softly and became uncharacteristically silent.

Lily stared at her friends and shook her head, "I don't know what you're talking about. I thought I was fine. That book is important but I- I got to go." she muttered walking out of the dorm in a hurry.

Elle looked at her sister and sighed, "She's in denial. And James is insane. They go together." She said smiling sadly.

Lily's breathing was extremely labored by the time she reached the astronomy tower and slammed the door to the notorious couple hangout open.

Lily glared at the couple that looked quite busy but a low "Get out." from Lily Evans had the girl running and the boy staring at her.

"Look, I won't give you a detention because I don't know who you are but just go!" she said shakily on the edge of tears but surprisingly the boy never moved.

"I said-"

"I heard what you said Evans I'm just going to stay here though." Said a smooth voice from the corner and he stepped out into the moonlight and took Lily's hand and led her over to lean on the edge of the tower with him.

"So…Why are you here?" he said carefully, not wanting to upset her more as he buttoned his shirt carefully and picked his tie up from of the ground.

"Why would you care? All I'm doing is interrupting you right?" she said spitefully, her cheeks a flaming red as she stared down at the dim grounds below, refusing to look at him once, for everyone knew that voice. And she didn't want his attention as well.

"Evans, don't be rude to me for once and answer please." He grumbled fixing his hair carefully until it satisfied him.

"Well, if you want to know. My best and only friends just told me I'm depressed and need to cheer up and that I dressed like this to impress Potter." She admitted quietly.

"Well, the little twins were right. You are depressing. And you didn't dress like that for James?" he asked curiously.

"No I did not! And you don't even hang out with me, how do you know anything about me?" she said in indignation.

"Lily. Everyone knows it. James told me about the pendant you got. What did it say?" he asked softly.

Lily sighed and finally looked him in the eye, "Mudblood of the year." She said choking back a sob and surprising the both of them, ran to him and wrapped her arms around his waist.

He was surprised to say the least but gently patted her on the back, looking down at her sadly.

"Listen, Evans, I know I'm not nice to you. But chin up alright? It'll be better for everyone that way. Especially you and James."

"Thank you Sirius." She said quietly and hugged him a little tighter before letting go and walking out of the astronomy tower.

On her way down the stars she heard him call her name and she turned smiling, "Hey, Evans, can you see if that girl I was with is still around and send her back up? Oh yeah, and check and see if that Jasmine twin loves me, like all the other girls in this lovely castle!" he called merrily, and turned and disappeared back into the tower.

"Well, that ends the friendship with Sirius Black." She muttered and turned rolling her eyes to go back to the Common Room.

As soon as Lily walked down the stairs, in disgust as usual, Sirius scrambled around in his robes for his trusty mirror.

"Prongs! Prongs! This is important, come to the astronomy tower!"

"Her, Padfoot, I'm not in the mood to hear about which girl you snogged in that exact spot, m'kay?" came a soft somewhat miserable voice.

"No, No, James. Lily Evans, yes you're e Lily was just up here and we had this amazing thing. She was crying and she did this crazy thing with her tong-"The mirror went black, meaning James was on his way.

Minutes later, Sirius held up his arms to prevent what would happen if James attacked or hurt him in some way. But nothing came.

James stood there staring at his best friend blankly, "How did you know I liked Lily?" he said coldly.

"It was pretty obvious mate. Sorry." He said shrugging, "But I didn't kiss her, but she was here! And she was crying!" Sirius said in a hurry to make sure his friend stayed but didn't kill him in the process.

"You're so confusing Padfoot…Just tell me what really happened."

"Fine." Sirius told the story with extreme excitement, assuming it would get his friend of the depressing state he was in. "Well what do you think?" he asked cheekily.

"I think it's great. But what does it have to do with me?" James asked sullenly.

"Duh! If she hugged me, think of what she'll do to you!" he said happily, which made his best friend burst out laughing until he calmed down wiping tears from his eyes.

"Sirius, your logic is so confusing, but she hates me. And she should, I've made her miserable so now she's making me miserable. We're going to be even in about three to seven years." He said staring at the ground and shrugging.

"No no, Prongs listen, if she's happy…That means if you act normal. And not like the evil git you normally are to her. She'll forgive you! I think she forgave me, I'm not sure." Sirius mused.

James stood and shook his head, "I'll never be more than her friend. But I'll try to be, even if it kills me." He said softly and his best friend clapped him on the back, "That's the Marauder spirit I like to see!"