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James sat with his head down looking into his breakfast a though hoping it would start talking and give him all the answers in life. It was only when he felt someone kick him from under the table that he looked up. He shot an angry glance at Sirius who simply nodded his head in the direction of the door. Lily was walking into the room, a sugar quill in her mouth and several other pieces of candy filling her hands. James let himself smile warmly before looking back at his breakfast. She looked so beautiful and innocent as she ate the candies he gave her. You would never be able to tell that she had a rather nasty side.

He almost completely lost his cool when she sat down next to him. Sirius didn't help matters forcing her to notice who she had sat next to and by doing so giving James the perfect chance to speak, something he was dying to do.

"Look Jamesie! Dear Lilykins liked her gift!"

He smiled slightly looking at Lily out of the corner of his eye. She seemed to be wincing a little, probably waiting for him to say something rude. To stop himself from saying that rude thing he quickly turned to Peter who was talking about the upcoming Quidditch game against Slytherin. As he gabbed away about how he planned to knock the Slytherin keeper off his broom in the match he watched as Lily looked at him with a rather puzzled look. He wanted nothing more than to melt at the sight of those green eyes. his stomach kept doing little flips every time she would look his way or accidently brush up against him with her arm, it was torture.

He was so thankful when the bell rang, he almost ran out of the Great Hall. He kept that pace up all the way to class, where he sat down at a desk in the back. He was the first one in the room and Professor McGonagall seemed quite surprised by this, or maybe it was the fact that he was alone. He wasn't for long though, seconds after James got settled in Sirius came in the room.

"Morning Minnie my dear!" he called to McGonagall as he walked towards James. She grunted looking somewhat aghast at his brazing.

"You seemed to be in a rush this morning Prongs my dear." James turned to look at his friend while he got his books out.

"Since when have you called everyone "dear" Padfoot my dear?" Sirius sniggered before answering

"Well I haven't the faintest idea where it came from but I quite like it. Don't you Minnie dear?" the look McGonagall gave him would have made lesser men than James and Sirius pee themselves with fright, as it was however James and Sirius merely burst into laughter, a laughter that continued until all the class had filled into the room and taken their seats. Remus and Peter took the seats in the isle next to them. Remus gave them a reproachful look while they tried to control their laughter, which only made them laugh harder. The rest of class was dreadfully boring, except for when a Hufflepuff boy got chewed out by McGonagall for not having his homework. Finally the bell rang and he, Sirius, Peter, and Remus headed towards charms class.

"Thank goodness it's Friday!" Sirius exclaimed as they walked. They all agreed.

"You know what next Friday is, don't you?" James said Sirius thought for a second while Peter looked puzzled, Remus was the one to speak next

"Full moon."

"Right you are, Moony my good man!" James looked to Sirius with a look of upmost mischief glowing in his eyes, a look Sirius readily retruned.

"So my dear gentlemen what shall we be doing this Month?" Sirius said while rubbing his hands together evilly. Peter looked excited, as did Remus, James rolled his eyes

"My dear again? Are you really so desperate for a catch phrase Padfoot?" Sirius mock punched him in the arm as they walked into class. Charms went much faster than Transfigurations class did. In no time at all they were walking and laughing towards the Great Hall for lunch before Potions. Or maybe it felt quick because they spent the entire class passing notes to each other making plans for next Friday. Naturally Potions class dragged. Slughorn went on and on about the dangers of love potions gone wrong, it was a struggle for James and Sirius to stay awake.

After about an eternity the bell rang. As they walked out of the class James stared at Lily who was walking just ahead of them.

"I think it's time for part two of our plan James." Remus said in a hushed voice so they wouldn't be overheard. They gave him a puzzled look. He nodded towards Lily and went on

"Well you have her attention James, now you have to make her realizes how she feels."

"I thought that was the whole point of James ignoring her." Said a frustrated looking Sirius.

"You've got to make her jealous. Once she realizes why she's jealous you'll have her."

"How am I going to do that?" asked James mirroring Sirius's frustration.

"Easy. You date another girl."

"WHAT?" Remus put his finger over his mouth to tell James to keep it down "I'm not going to date another girl!" James knew this plan of Remus's was dumb. How was he supposed to date another girl? When Lily did finally realizes how she feels he'd have to break up with the random chick, and he wasn't very good at break up

"Well you could just pretend to date another girl." Peter offered helpfully

"Oh yeah like what? Pretend I've got some foreign girlfriend? I don't exactly see how that would make her jealous." His friends really weren't helpful at all.

"Peter is right you know James." James and Sirius looked at Remus and then each other agreeing silently that he had finally lost it. Seeing this Remus went on

"Just get another girl to agree to pretend to date you. Maybe someone on the Quidditch team."

"How's he going to do that? Last time I checked girls don't exactly like knowing their being used." Sirius had said exactly what James was thinking.

"Well obviously he'd have to pay them somehow." Remus said as though it should have been obvious.

"Yeah he could offer her concert tickets or something!" Peter added excitedly.

"Yeah! Although it might have to be something more than concert tickets." Seeing the look Sirius and James exchanged Remus began to get frustrated.

"Well if you have a better way to get her to realize she loves you, go right ahead. All I'm saying is getting Lily jealous is a good idea and you're not likely to ever beat in in potions so that leaves dating another girl."

"Whatever. Come on James or we will be late for Quidditch practice. You can talk to this mad man later." Sirius said while walking towards the pitch. Mostly they walked in silence, Sirius was too busy flirting with the girls they passed to be good company.

"Remus is right, isn't he?" James finally asked as they reached the locker rooms. Sirius barley looked over when he spoke.

"Oh probably. Isn't he always?" his tone seemed somewhat disgusted.

"Well shit." Sirius chuckled as he pulled on his robes. James quickly pulled on his robes and grabbed his broom and headed towards the pitch.

"Who do you think I should ask?" he asked Sirius as they headed towards the middle of the pitch where the team was waiting.

"Hmm, well I think dear Moony was right about having it be someone from the Quidditch team. You're already on a talking basis with them. I wouldn't go with Ashley, she into you, and Carrie is dating some other bloke, so that leaves Mary. She's probably your best bet, plus she's friends with Evans or something." They had reached the team now so James couldn't say more than thanks.

"Alright team we got the match against Ravenclaw coming up, and if we win we are in good shape for the cup, if we lose we can't hope for more than second place. So let's have a good practice." And with that the team kicked off. James wasn't much good this practice, he was to distracted about how to ask Mary, he missed two goals and several passes. The rest of the team flew wonderfully though and James felt sure if he could just get his mind off of Lily they would win. All to soon they were heading for the locker rooms and Sirius was giving him a nudge that said get it over with mate. So mustering up all of his courage James went to talk to Mary who was putting her shoes back on

"Can we talk for a minute?" she looked up surprised

"Sure." She sat up and looked at him. "What's up?" James took a deep breath and sat down next to her.

"Well um I don't really know how to word this but..." he paused to try to think of how to word it

"You're not booting me off the team are you?" she was glaring at him angry and before he could figure out how to use his mouth she went on "Because you're the one who played like suck today not me, ok so that pass I threw you may have been bad but really you should have caught it and" he held up his hands to stop her, a nervous grin on his face.

"No, no! Of course I'm not kicking you off the team! You're my best chaser! I just wanted to ask you something about Lily."

"Oh." She sat down looking relieved. "Well what about her? I've already told you where he bed was. By the way those chocolates were really sweet." He smiled nervously

"Well you know I love Evans right?" she nodded and gave him a "dah" look so he went on. "Well do you think um we could go out?" it was the best thing he could think to say, he could feel his cheeks going red. This was so awkward.

"I'm very confused. You just said you love Lily."

"Yes, I do."

"And yet you want to go out on a date with me?"

"Well sort of..." Nope it wasn't getting less awkward.

"Sort of?" she raised an eyebrow and gave him a look that clearly said you're bonkers.

"Well Remus came up with this bonkers plan to get me and Lily together where I ignore and she falls in love with me but now he says I need to make her jealous by dating another girl but I don't want to really date someone else so I thought maybe you could just pretend to be my girlfriend and then when Lily comes to her senses we could both go about our merry way and I was hoping you could help me but I totally get it if you don't want to but I could pay you or something" he said all that very fast and in one breath leaving himself red and out of breath. She sat looking at him for what felt like hours.

"ok." She said simply with a shrug.

"Ok what?" he couldn't believe his ears.

"Ok I'll do it." she said rolling her eyes. she stood and walked towards the door stopping just as she reached it "Well aren't you coming, honey bear?" repressing the shudder he felt at hear her call him such a stupid name he stood up and took her outstretched hand and together they walked towards the castle.

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