A/N: I got nothin'. On with the story.

Plan D: Birthday Surprises

"Guess what tomorrow is?" I asked, bouncing on my bed gleefully.

"Uhh Saturday?" Tried Peter.

"No idiot." I said, "It's Evan's Birthday."

"So?" asked Remus, looking up from his book.

"So…" I began, waiting for the dramatic pause to set in, "I'm going to give her the best Birthday gift ever!"

"And that is…" prompted Sirius teasingly.

"Me!" I said ecstatically. "She won't be able to resist! After all, it is her Birthday."

My friends sighed and went back to what they were doing. Sirius destroyed another one of Peter's pawns and Remus flipped a page in his book.

"You guys…" I whined, "This is important to me. I'm going to decorate the common room for her tonight, will you help?"

Sirius looked up from the chessboard. "That depends," he said slowly, "Will this decorating involve any silly-string, permanent sticking charms, eggs, and/or toilet paper?"

"Uhhh no." I said.

"OK. Then no deal." He said turning back to his game. "Dammit Peter!" he cried, "You're not allowed to move more than one piece at a time for Merlin's sake!"

"Remus?" I asked hopefully.

"Sorry Prongs."

"Peter?" I tried desperately.

"Sure I'll help!" he said, jumping up a little too eagerly and sending the contents of his sandwich and the chessboard flying.

On second thought…

/-o0o-/

"Lily, Lily! You have to see this!"

It was Mary shaking me out of bed. I looked at my watch. It read 6:30 on Saturday morning. "Mary what the heck!?" I cried as she shoved slippers on my feet and all but dragged me to the door.

As we got down the dormitory stairs I looked up groggily and blinked, several times. Looking down at me was a gigantic pink banner, the size of a classroom, with my face on it. Pink streamer and confetti littered the common room virtually everywhere. Underneath the banner was a smaller sign that read: "Happy Birthday Lily. Will you go out with me?"

And there he was. None other than James Potter, strutting over to me, covered in confetti and holding a little heart shaped card. "Happy Birthday Lily." He said.

I was speechless. Horrified even. It was a good thing Mary had shown me this early or the entire Gryffindor tower would have seen it. "Y-you did this?"

He seemed to take my stuttering as a compliment and beamed. "Only the best for you, Lily-flower." He said in an insufferably pathetic tone.

"Potter." I said again. He looked at me expectantly. "My Birthday was last week!"