A/N: we dont own harry potter.
Phantom: Thanks for the reviews, and hope you enjoy this one. I know it wasn't really said in books or anything, but we have Snape on the Quiddich team as well here. She wanted him on it, I didn't... I lost. Ha, it's kinda obvious where the cutoff of where I handed the chap off to Whitelighter is. Now I'm rambling. Moving on.

A year had already passed, and the Marauder's friendship grew even stronger.

Sirius had come up with the nickname for the group because they kept on sneaking around and finding other hidden rooms and passageways, making them their own with various odds and ends. They had even made Tara an 'honorary-but-unofficial Marauder'.

Now it was barely a month into their second year. A lot of things had changed. Because she hadn't seen the boys most of the summer and beginning of the year, though they did get a few words in during one of the passings, Lily had tried to reel Tara in with her circle of friends. Tara liked Lily, but she also figured Lily's friends wanted her with them just to see if they could get closer to Gilderoy. She also made friends with Severus, but kept her distance because of the way that she had first encountered him, during his fight with James. Fights between them nearly constantly broke out, but Professor Johnson always seemed to be looking out for them, baling them out yet still giving them a just punishment all the same.

The blonde was now sitting under a tree in the courtyard, reading one of her books of the new subject Johnson was teaching, Magical Marine Creatures. She looked up and glared at her brother who was about five feet away, trying to juggle a few silver balls.

"Look at this! Ha ha!" Gilderoy laughed.

Tara rolled her eyes and looked back at her book, then let out a yelp when she felt a hand go over her mouth. She went to yell for Gilderoy, but he was too absorbed in what he was doing. She let out another muffled yell, and then stopped when something flicked her head. She looked to the side and saw that it was Remus who had his hand over her mouth and he had flicked her head to make her stop screaming. She pulled his hand off her mouth.

"What's your problem?!" she hissed.

"Shh. Come on. Do you want to come with us or just watch your brother get drooled over all bloody day?" Remus hissed, getting to his feet just as a bunch of people had come over to see what Gilderoy was up to.

She sighed. "Help me up, would you?"

Remus took her hand and pulled her to her feet and led her over to where the rest of the marauders were. They both had to laugh because James, Sirius and Peter were now lying down on the ground in three fifths of a pentagon, staring up at the sky. They also felt bad for Peter since Sirius had his feet up on Peter's chest, so the blonde was getting quite an awful smell, and James had his feet up on Peter's legs, so Peter didn't have much of a way to escape if come need be.

"There you are, Goldie Locks! I haven't seen you in ages!" Sirius called. "Come on, then!" he patted the spot above him.

Tara chuckled. "And you're doing what, exactly?"

"Who cares? Just come on!"

Tara sighed and looked at Remus. Both of them went over to the three and lay down, completing the pentagon. Sirius put his head up on Tara's shins and got comfortable, just as James did the same with Remus. She couldn't help put laugh when she went to put her head down and ended up putting it on Remus' bicep, but he didn't seem to mind.

They all looked up, watching as a few clouds passed by overhead.

Sirius sat up slightly when he saw one of the clouds. "Hey, that one looks just like-" he found that he had three wands pointing at him.

"Sirius, say 'Polly' and we'll all jinx you into the next century. Well, all of us but Peter, that is," James said.

"Why? Who's Polly?" Peter asked, gagging and cursing for his stupidity of opening his mouth so he breathed in the smell coming from Sirius' feet.

"DON'T GET HIM STARTED!" James, Remus and Tara yelled simultaneously.

" I wasn't going to say Polly…" Sirius said. " Even though I do miss him…I was going to say that it looked like a doughnut,"

" How do you get a doughnut out of that?" James said.

" I don't know," Sirius said. " It's my imagination…"

" Sometimes I wonder with you," Remus said. He shook his head and laughed.

" I think it looks like a quaffle." Peter said. "It's even the same color,"

" There's a reason for that!" Tara replied quickly. "It IS a quaffle!"

Everyone's eyes widened at the quaffle that was heading towards them.

"Get out of the way!" Remus yelled.

They all scrambled from their spots, Peter being the last since he had to wait for Sirius and James to get out of the way.

" Oh I'm sorry did I startle you?" a drawling voice said, coming up to them. " I hope my quiddich practice didn't bother you."

It was Snape walking up to them with quiddich robes on. He had made the Slytherin team earlier in the year.

" We wouldn't want to hurt Potter here, since the big game is next week,"

" No we wouldn't," Sirius said, picking up the quaffle that had almost hit them. He shoved it into Snape's arms. " He's the best player there is,"

" There are a lot of people who would beg to differ," Snape said. " Good day,". He walked away towards the quiddich pitch, leaving James and Sirius to glower at him.

" Don't let him get to you," Remus said. " He's a nothing. James you know you're the best... er, on Gryffindor," he added, looking at the blonde girl beside him who just glared at him playfully.

" I know," James said. " And he'll realize that when I beat him in the game next week,"

" We'll show him," Sirius said. " And his little girlfriend, too!"

" Do you think he's going out with that Lily girl?" James said.

" I think he is," Sirius said. " She doesn't seem to bad does she though? I don't know what she'd be doing with him,"

" Yeah." James muttered.

Remus and Sirius shrugged befor starting back towards the castle, but Tara pulled James back. "You like her, don't you?"

"Who?" James asked.

"Lily, of course! No one would sound that miserable talking about a girl possibly being taken by another person that they hate if they didn't!"

James blushed, then sighed. "Don't tell anyone,"

Tara winked at him. "Your secret's safe with me. Come on, we've got to catch up," the two ran after Remus and Sirius.

A/N: please review.

-Phantom Whitelighter