Chapter Eight

"Have no fear the Marauders are here!!" James, Remus, and Sirius exclaimed as I opened the door to my apartment.

I laughed and rolled my eyes, "yes because I was beginning to feel lost without you guys. Please come in," I stepped aside as the three of them and their luggage came into my living room.

"Nice place you have here Lils," Remus said hugging me.

"Thank," I replied.

"Where's the food?" Sirius panted as he looked around my small apartment, found the kitchen, then bolted to it.

I laughed and shook my head. "Lily, how are you?" James asked me as he very awkwardly hugged me.

"Never better thank you. But let's not get into how all of us are doing. why don't we go down to Starbucks and get some coffee. It's only ten in the morning and I have yet to drink anything today."

As soon as the boys came in we all left, on foot, to go get something to eat. Walking down the streets with the Marauders is a very interesting task, James and Sirius being the trouble-makers they are tended to 'accidentally' trip innocent bystanders as they were hustling down the busy streets to get to work.

"So what is this 'Starbucks' that you speak of?" Remus asked with a confused look on his face.

All I could do for the first minute was laugh, of course they had never heard of a Starbucks considering that they are Wizards working with Wizards so they wouldn't know what one was. "Well it's this coffee house that sells not only coffee, but bagels, muffins, and almost any kind of breakfast bread you can find."

"Wait, what is coffee," Sirius asked, "and what kind would I like?"

"It's this hot drink almost like tea, but it's stronger. And I think you would like coffee just plain, or black."

"Sounds yummy." Sirius said as he licked his lips and rubbed his stomach.

We were all sitting down at a table sipping our coffees. James had insisted that I get a muffin because I stupidly claimed not to have eaten yet. I know I couldn't tell James, or any of the guys for that matter, about my problem just yet.

"So Remus how has your love life been going?" I asked Remus.

"Absolutely dreadful, all the girls I ever date want to know why I have to be gone for two days during the month. And I can't tell them about my 'furry little problem', well not until one of them means a lot to me. Sirius how about you tell Lils about your love life. It's far better than mine."

"Aww do I have to Moony?" Remus gave him a death glare, "Ohkay then... I have been in a relationship with this girl Charlotte Dixon. She was in a grade above us and she works with the Ministry in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and one day in the elevator I met her and we have been dating ever since."

"That's great Sirius!! What does she look like?"

"She has medium brown hair, the prettiest blue eyes ever, but her ears stick out a little. Ears kind of bug me when they aren't perfect, but I have learned to look over the fact that she has irregular ears and focus on the more positive things."

"Oh I remember her!! Wasn't she in Ravenclaw?"

"Yes, she has brains and looks!!" He punched his fist in the air. "I would say for you to ask about Prongs, but considering the fact that he hasn't had a girlfriend since you broke up with him it would be a very short story."

James and I both grew rather red in the face, "Is that really true James?"

"Well I haven't found someone that was quite like you Lils."

I had finished with my muffin and I was at a loss for words, "wow James. If you will excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom then we can leave and see the city." I got up and walked to the bathroom, once in the bathroom I made sure nobody was in any of the stalls, silenced the room, disinfected the stall I had gotten in, bent my head so would be level with the toilet, and stuck my middle finger down my throat.
I probably would have never done that if I had noticed that James Apparted into the girls bathroom.