Here's another… I know, I'm amazing.

"Well, uh, Lily, I was uh, wondering if maybeyouwouldgotoHogsmeadewith me." Sirius and I were peering around the corner, watching our best friends. James was mumbling and Lily was looking confused. They needed some serious help.

"What?" Lily asked as she took a step forward. She hadn't heard what he asked her. Stupid James. His face was getting redder by the minute and he was starting to sweat.

"Dammit James, just do it!" Sirius hissed a bit too loudly. James' eyes darted over to where we were and Sirius gave him thumbs up. Lily noticed James looking towards us and she caught my eye. I raised my eyebrows in a suggestive, joking manner. She smiled at me.

James turned his attention back to Lily, and straightened up, his confidence slowly coming back. He cleared his throat.

"I was wondering if you would go to Hogsmeade with me. Like on a date. Together." Lily's eyes widened and I laughed. Just a few weeks ago she hated him, couldn't stand to be near him. And now she wasn't slapping away his attempts for a date? What is going on in this world?

"Well, uh, I don't know. Maybe?" James' eyes widened. Lily just halfway accepted a date offer from JAMES POTTER.

I stepped away from the wall and started jumping up and down. "Say yes, say yes, say yes!" I squealed. Sirius laughed at me.

"I thought you didn't like James." Sirius asked me. I stopped jumping.

"Well, its not that I didn't like him, I just didn't like him very much. There is a difference. Plus, look how cute they are!" I started jumping again. Sirius waved at me to stop and shushed me. Lily and James were talking.



"Maybe means..?" James was confused. AWWWW.

"I'll tell you later?" I could tell that relief just spread through his body. He relaxed and a smiled came on his face.

"Well then I will talk to you later Lovely Lily!" I almost burst from happiness for my best friend when James picked her up and hugged her. The look on her face was priceless also; it was a mix between surprise, and terror. Before her anger could fully come out though, he had put her down and ran off down the corridor towards Sirius and me.

"Well mate, I think maybe is a definite start!" Sirius clapped James on the back and grinned. James gave a look of surprise as he noticed how Sirius and I were together, but it was quickly gone.

"Well, I'd better go before she kills me!" James looked back and saw Lily stomping towards the three of us.

"Yeah, I'll go with you." Sirius and James waved goodbye to me and ran off just as Lily made her way over. I smiled knowingly at her.

"Don't you give me that look missy!" Lily snapped as she looked around the corridor. I smiled.

"You and James eh? I did not see that one coming! Why didn't you tell me you liked him?" Lily's face turned red in embarrassment.

"I do not know what you are talking about." She crossed her arms and shook her hair onto her face to cover the blush that was on her cheeks. I laughed at her. She was thick sometimes.

"Lily, I was just listening to that whole you and James thing over there. He asked you to Hogsmeade. YOU SAID MAYBE. That's not nothing."



"FINE. I'll tell you. But lets head to the kitchens, I still need chocolate." So we walked to the kitchens and Lily told me the story of her and James.

Apparently, while I have been hanging out with Remus, she has been talking to James more and more. Why I have not noticed, I have no idea. While Lily does her homework in the Library James comes over and talks to her and sometimes actually works along side her.

"So….You and James are friends?" I asked her, still surprised at her change in heart over James Potter, prankster extraordinaire. We were sitting in the kitchens, finishing our brownies and milk, talking.

Lily shrugged. "Yeah, I guess we kind of are." She smiled and licked the chocolate fudge off her fingers. I gave my plate to a willing house elf and thanked them for the delicious dessert.

"Well, I'm happy for you. Now, go say yes to him and have fun in Hogsmeade!" She laughed as we walked out of the kitchens and into the dark hallway.

"It's not that simple, Sophie. How do I know that he isn't going to treat me like one of his other girlfriends? I'm not looking for a quick one-week sex only thing. I need a boyfriend, a real boyfriend."

"Well how do you know that he is? I think you should give him a chance; that would be the best thing to do." She shrugged.

"I'll think about it. Anyway, have you done the homework for Professor Montenegro yet? You could copy mine if you like." So we walked arm in arm down the dusty corridors to the common room, talking about our latest Defense Against the Dark Arts homework.

When we reached the common rooms, it was late, already 2 o'clock in the afternoon.



"How long were we in the Kitchens?" I laughed and sat down in an arm chair next to the fire. Lily sat opposite me.

"No clue, it didn't seem that long. What class do we have last? We probably should have studied during our free period." I pulled my schedule out of the book bag that I dropped on the floor next to me.

"Herbology. Did you finish naming the plants? I couldn't figure out what the last one was. You know the one that told jokes whenever it was being cut?" Lily pulled her homework out of her bag and checked the answer for me.

"That's the Mongolian Humorous. What about number two?" We continued to compare answers until it was 2:30, when we had to start heading down to the greenhouses.

When we reached the ivy covered doors of green house seven, class had just begun. Lily and I found spots furthest away from the teacher, so we could play tic tac toe without the Professor seeing us. Thirty four games later, class was dismissed and Lily and I were walking across the lawns back to the castle.

We saw the Marauders just ahead. They were headed toward the big oak tree by the lake, where a certain greasy haired Slytherin was sitting with his nose in a book. I turned to Lily and saw that she had already pulled out her wand.

"Those prats! Snape isn't even doing anything wrong! Lets go before the Marauders do something stupid, again." I nodded and Lily and I changed our course and quickened our pace. When we reached the group of boys, they were arguing.

"I don't think we should do anything Padfoot. Snape hasn't even been bothering Lily and Sophie lately!" The boys were still away from Snape, who hadn't noticed anything and was still reading. We walked up behind them and cleared our throats loudly.



"Ah hem! What are you guys up to?" Lily crossed her arms over her chest and started tapping her foot impatiently. James gave her a nervous smile, Sirius was looking at his feet and Remus was digging in his robes for something.

"Well, Uh, you see Lily, we were just headed over to the lake to... uhhh...skip rocks!" James said as if he made up the story just then. Which he had, I knew it and so did Lily.

"Uh huh. So you wouldn't happen to be heading towards Snape?" I asked as I tried to hide a smile that was trying to work its way onto my face.

Lily has always lost her temper towards the Marauders when they are torturing people. Especially Snape, which I do NOT understand. Every chance he gets he is calling her a mudblood, and me foul names that I will never repeat. I have always thought that their antics were funny, it's not like he doesn't deserve it! But I have been trying to be angry at them, for Lily's sake.

"We most certainly are not!" Sirius said as a look of "anger" came across his face. "How dare you assume we would do something like that? Especially with how much you are always telling us how you hate it when we would do that. We would never want to disobey your wishes Lily dearest!"

I burst out laughing. I couldn't help it; they are so full of it!

"You guys seriously need to come up with something different than that!"

The three boys gave each other sideways glances and shrugged. Lily scoffed at my behavior and walked off. When I was done laughing I waved goodbye to the guys and ran off to catch up with Lily.