A/n: you know what I'd really appreciate? Some feedback. That'd be great. Thanks. (and now you think I have an attitude problem, which I don't really, I'm just…not having the best day ever.)
Moreta's thoughts Marieth's conversationsChapter 4
After James found out that Lily and Moreta were close friends, he started practically stalking Moreta. The first time this happened, she gave it up as coincidence. The second time, she started to wonder if he was under the Imperious Curse. By the third day, Moreta was seriously concerned about his sanity. The fifth day, she gave up wondering. She ducked down a deserted corridor and when he had stopped at the opening to the hallway, grabbed him by the tie, swung him around and pinned him to the floor. She then dragged his stiff with shock self into an equally deserted classroom. Moreta decided to be blunt.
"What the heck do you think you're doing?" Okay, very blunt, perhaps borderline harsh.
"What!"
"Don't give me that crap." Straight to the point, that's our Moreta! "If you want to talk to me, just freaking talk to me. If I don't' want to talk to you about Lily, as it's VERY obvious that's who you want to know about, I simply won't."
"But I-"
"And please, STOP stalking me!"
Somehow, that conversation actually helped. Moreta became friends with all the Marauders, (how could she not with James always hanging around?) and was settling into a comfortable routine. Along with the other Marauders she had convinced James to ask Lily out once more. If she said no, that would be it. Moreta talked to Lily the night before he was to ask her.
"Promise you'll give him a chance?"
"uhhh…" she heaved a sigh, "I guess"
"Okay, good night."
"night"
When Moreta came back from running and visiting Marieth that morning, she was shocked to see all of the Marauders (except Peter) up and looking very disgruntled.
She raised her eyebrows; "Do you want to tell me before, or after my shower?"
"Oh, why not wait till later, even if you take excruciatingly long showers I doubt anyone'll be up by the time you get back." Black glared intensely at James. "I swear Prongs, you will pay for this."
"Shut up Padfoot, I'm thinking…" and he lapsed into silence looking slightly sick.
"Ooookay then, I'll just…be back in a bit." She ran up, took the shower, and was back with her hair in those fancy little braids she almost always wore within twenty minutes. "So tell me," Moreta directed her question at the angrily conscious ones, "Why?"
"He's so ridiculously nervous, he woke all of us up by jumping on us. Peter slept through it somehow…" Lupin trailed off, looking like he had got even less sleep than James. Which, thought Moreta, definitely wasn't good, considering Potter had huge dark circles under his eyes. James began to mutter to himself, the words were unintelligible until lily began descending the steps. He suddenly shouted, "Lily, I think I love you, will you please go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend?"
The uninvolved three held their breath, looking up at Lily.
"Yes," She said quietly. James seemed to have his ears especially tuned to her voice because his head snapped around.
"Really?" he asked in disbelief.
"Really." She confirmed. (A/n I realize that this situation is extremely convenient. It just makes my life easier.)
James finished the conversation with a highly lame "I'll see you, then." He then proceeded to run up the stairs to actually get some sleep, while Lily went to take a shower/bath relaxing thingamabob. This left Sirius and Remus staring blankly at each other while Moreta was silently shaking with unsupressable laughter. They all got over their shock and/or laughter around the same time.
"Why on earth do you get up so early?"
"So I can go running," she answered, running a hand through her hair nervously, "I'm a morning person."
"Obviously he's not," said Remus, kicking a sleeping Sirius off the couch. "I'm not much of a morning person either. Although once I'm awake, I stay awake." A long, comfortable silence followed this mini-conversation, but it was interrupted by Sirius' snoring.
"Wanna go get breakfast?"
"Sure."
Once they got to breakfast, conversation began between the two. Mostly asking the normal questions about an acquaintance borderline friend. Suddenly, Sirius popped up at the other side of the table.
"Moony, do you really think I appreciate being dumped for the first decent-looking girl that comes around?"
Remus started to blush while Moreta glared at Sirius. "We were having a perfectly civilized conversation before you came around."
"Ah, but I'm not sure that's what my buddy Remus wants, and I'm sure that it's not what you want."
Then he winked. He actually WINKED. Moreta was appalled at his base assumptions. She sat there for fifteen whole seconds. Then, she suddenly stood up and reached across the table, slapping him. Hard. And this wasn't just a normal girl hard slap. Being a Jedi gives you a lot of power. In fact, if she had really wanted to, she could've made him bleed. Fortunately for Sirius' sake, she was still slightly confused and there was a fairly large table in between them.
"OWWWW!"
"Oh my gosh Sirius, did she hurt you?" Quite a large group of girls had popped out of nowhere, basically fourth years and under (the ones he hadn't snogged in a broom closet simply because they were 'too young'). They proceeded to fawn all over him for a while. Remus had this weird look on his face, and Moreta was looking slightly pained. Then, surprise surprise, Fernanda looked over.
"Hey, you're the freaky new girl that goes running at five in the morning!"
"Ewwww, but that's like-"
"Physical exertion?" Moreta questioned.
"Yeah and ugh, sweaty…"
Moreta raised her eyebrows, "And why, pray tell, do you get up at five in the morning?"
"Well, it's not to do something disgusting like running."
"No?" she smirked.
"Well, I get up at five to pick out clothes, shower and do my hair, that way, I have an hour for each!" Fernanda exclaimed proudly.
"Hold on, you wake up at five to pick out an outfit that happens to be the same everyday?"
"What is wrong with that?" Chorused all those girls.
Sirius, Remus and Moreta looked at each other, then burst out laughing. Then they walked out of the Great Hall and to class, leaving several bewildered young girls behind.
The Saturday of Hogsmeade came.
After her morning run and shower, Moreta went back in to the dorm to see a very panic-stricken Lily sitting straight up in bed.
"Lily, what's wrong?" Moreta asked hesitantly.
"What if I actually start to like him after this? What would I do? What if he'll hate me after this and I'm the one chasing him down? -"
"-and what if you both like each other and it work out?" she asked gently, "Don't worry, it'll be fine. I'm the one who should be worried, the other three Marauders are showing me around Hogsmeade."
Lily choked out a small laugh.
"You will be fine, Lily. Now, get your butt out of bed and get ready, James's probably already waiting for you." She grinned sheepishly while she ran out of bed and into the shower.
A/n: review!