Chapter ten

A/n- Glad to know I still have your support, sorry for getting a little senti :ppp... But I seriously thought that you all are getting bored of the story and completely abandoned it for a day... But of course I couldn't do that we still have to see their reaction for peter, Snape's worst memory in book five, death of Sirius and James and Lily in five and seven... And many more...

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From the next day, Sirius started following Marlene around like a puppy, serving food for her, carrying her bag for her between classes. Marlene thought it was actually cute to see Sirius behave like that. Girls were literally swooning on seeing him around her. But for obvious reasons Marlene was not willing to believe that Sirius may like her more than just a good shag.

And what was worse, she couldn't find anyone to date her on Saturday. Sirius could be really scary when he gets angry, and add his extra loyal potter with him and they are enough to mark their territory over girls they like. Now Marlene could understand why Lily hated James so much, he wouldn't allow a guy to so much as stare at her, let alone ask her out.

So basically she had only two options. Ask a guy out herself, that would mean having to taint her ego, but lets face it, no guy in his right mind would refuse her. The other option was to give in to Sirius' attempts and risk breaking her heart again. She wasn't sure, she was over him in the first place.

She of course chose the first option. Desperate times call for desperate measures and hence she asked Amos diggory out, the first time Sirius left her alone since morning. Marlene was grateful and a little bit jealous of Ginny, who had practically dragged Sirius away from her.

Sirius scowled at Ginny for Breaking his act', but let her steer him away.

Chapter fifteen

The Quidditch final

"He sent me this... You won't have to do all the work alone this time, Hermione, I'll help."

"Awwhh look at him, being so sweet. Of course he cant see her cry!" Lily swooned.

"Oh, Ron!"... Finally, Hermione drew away.

Lily giggled.

"Ron, I'm really, really sorry about Scabbers... tried to grab her hand as she swung it back.

"Ooh feisty! I like that" Sirius said and the guys started laughing. Lily raised an eyebrow at James, who smiled at her sheepishly. "Don't worry babes, you are feisty too" Lily muttered a small 'pervert' but she was smiling. Somehow she didn't seem to mind the dirty comments from James.

"Ron, get off!... Harry and Ron choked back laughs.

"She certainly is feeling rebellious today! You should always stay away from nerds on such days." Remus said.

It was hard to tell whether Professor Trelawney... kicked it open and climbed down the ladder out of sight.

"Whoa!" they gasped.

It took a few minutes for the class to settle down again... he even forgot to be horrible to Crookshanks.

"He's trying to take some burden off Hermione, they are so cute!" Lily sighed happily, remembering, how James used to finish off her work when she accidentally fell asleep, working late in heads' dorm. "Or may be trying to help Hagrid?" Remus offered. Lily glared at him for breaking her fangirl moment.

Harry, meanwhile, had to fit in his homework... something very large was trying to get out of his stomach.

"How come you never get this nervous, you are the captain after all" Lily asked James tilting her head slightly. James was ready with his answer on the tip of tongue 'coz its me', but he knew he was surrounded by people who loved him for who he was, not his usual cocky self that he usually portrayed himself as. He could be himself in front of them, even Lily. "I do get nervous, I just never show it." James replied sincerely and he knew he gave the right answer as Lily smiled at him, the smile she only reserved for him. Had he known he just had to be himself, they'd have been together way earlier.

"You're going to be fine" Hermione told him... Harry felt himself blushing.

Ginny rolled her eyes.

"Okay- no wind to speak of- sun's a bit bright... Sorry didn't see her"

James looked like he could breathe fire. James' obsession with Quidditch at times scared Lily a bit, but she could now see, he had the pressure of his whole house, sometimes three houses, to give his best, each and every time. Lily could clearly remember the days after lost Quidditch matches, James would be sulking in his room, Sirius would arrange its-not-your-fault-cheer-up-we-still-love-you parties, and Lily would try to be less rude towards him till he started behaving normally.

A moment later, Fred Weasley chucked his beater's club... and Bole and Derrick collided with a sickening crunch.

"Wow! A simple chicken trick" Remus said.

"Ha Haaa!" yelled Lee Jordan... clutching his broom, completely winded.

"Ooohh.. That must have hurt" Lily said, involuntarily clutching her stomach. "I'm gald you've got Fred and George on your team. The slytherins are taking advantage of more female population on your team." James said. Ginny glared at him, clearly offended "Oh right because boys are so much better at Quidditch than girls" "I didn't mean that, Lily here would kill me if I said something like that, I just meant that girls mostly don't play dirty, they have a lot of talent, just not as much violence" James said but Ginny was still glaring at him. "Don't look at me like that! I too have two girls on my team" James said raising his hands in surrender.

Madam Hooch was beside herself-... Firebolt's tail and was pulling it back.

"That cheating m*therf*cking b*stard!" James yelled and continued cursing, some of which Lily haven't even heard. Lily patted his arm to calm him down. Her touch seemed to do it "Sorry lils, for swearing... But how can he sunk so low! Doesn't he have a player's pride!"

"You-"

Harry was angry enough to hit Malfoy... her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

"Awwhh I just love Minni sometimes" Sirius grinned.

Alicia took Griffindor's penalty... beating his wings hopelessly against his fingers.

They all broke into cheers "Yes Yes Yes Yes..." James chanted picking Lily up and placing a wet kiss on her cheeks "You gave me an amazing son Mrs. Potter, I'm so proud on him" James was too happy to even realize what he was saying. Lily was blushing mad and did the only thing she could do, buried her head in James' chest.

Then Wood was speeding towards him... he could have produced the world's best patronus.

A/n- A little short, but this chapter was oh so amazing in the book, I felt like one of the Griffindors, happy beyond belief. I have read these books so many times, over and over, still they make me laugh and cry just like the first time.

Love you JKR...

Already started the next chapter..

xoxoxox..