Sirius came woke James up that morning, smiling. As James rolled over and rubbed his eyes, he had flashes from the night before. Red hair, a brilliant smile, and green eyes. He was interrupted from his half-asleep state by Sirius screaming excitedly at him.

"James! James! Wake up! JAMES!"

"Sirius, shut up. I'm wide awake now, thank you," James quickly said before Sirius screamed again.

"James, I know her name!!! She told me!" Sirius kept screaming, unfazed.

"Ok Sirius, what is it?"

"Scarlett! She's from Ravenclaw. James, she is sooo awesome!" Sirius was literally jumping up and down from excitement.

"That's great Sirius. Did you have coffee this morning?"

Sirius looked down at his feet. "Just like four cups…but I needed it. I stayed out all night with Scarlett and I didn't get back until 3:30 in the morning." So did I, James thought, but I'm only going to have one cup of coffee.

"Sirius, I'm just warning you, with all that coffee, you're going to have to pee all day and you will crash by lunch." James warned his friend, but Sirius was too occupied with his thoughts of Scarlett to really take notice.

After James got dressed in a dream-like state, he went down to the common room. Lily was sitting on one of the chairs nearest to the fireplace, reading a book. She looked very pretty as the early morning sunlight glinted off her fiery red hair. She glanced up at the sound of his footsteps coming down the stairs, and she smiled. He smiled back and hurried down the steps to her. She rushed up to him and hugged him, her head resting on his chest. He looked at her and remembered the night before….

As they walked into the Great Hall, hand in hand, nobody seemed to notice. But by the time they had reached the Gryffindor table, almost every eye was on them. Girls were whispering to each other. Around the Great Hall there was gossip. Why are Lily and James holding hands? When did they start dating? What happened between them? But Lily and James took no notice, as they were stuck in their own world. James glanced down the table and noticed the absence of Sirius. He must be with Scarlett, James thought. Then he went right back to staring into Lily's eyes.

Down at the Ravenclaw table, Sirius was laughing along with Scarlett and her friends. He had learned a lot about her, and now she didn't seem like such a mystery. But there were still some strange things going on with her that couldn't be explained. Like how her eyes kept changing color; one minute they'd be blue, the next minute they'd be brown. But what was really freaky is that her eyes were bright purple a lot. Purple isn't even a normal eye color, Sirius thought. At least not bright like hers is. But it was only a nagging thought in the back of his brain. He saw her, and all doubts disappeared. He thought she was amazing.

Lily sat on her bed in the girl dormitories. She was thinking about James and how it was only a little more than a week since their first date. She remembered how she had been so angry, and had yelled at him. But she also remembered the security she had felt in his arms at the Shrieking Shack. She realized that then was when she had started to fall for him. She had just been in denial the past week. James was really a great guy and she wondered why she had hated him all those years.