Sirius was in shock. He lay on a couch in the staff room, oblivious to anything going on around him.
He perked up when he heard James and Lily talking as they walked into the room.
"Hey," he sulked.
"Hey, Padfoot. Listen-" James said.
"No, you listen," Sirius interrupted. "I've got several questions to ask you."
Lily and James sat down and Sirius continued. "First, you said that ring was your grandma's Lils. I didn't know you were a liar."
"I'm not. I'm a Marauder," she shot back.
"Aren't you happy for us, Padfoot?" James asked.
"Yeah, I am. Congratulations. But I don't get it. Why didn't' you tell me?" Sirius said.
"We wanted to, mate. We really did," James said.
"Then why didn't you!?" Sirius demanded.
"We knew that if we told you that you wouldn't let us hear the end of it," Lily explained.
"Come on, Lils. I wouldn't do that," Sirius protested.
"Yes, you would," James replied.
"Fine. You were smart to not tell me," Sirius said. "I've got another question. Lily you hated James this year, didn't' you?"
"No. Not really," she said. "We had to fake it, other wise you would have found out."
"Oh. Were you even dating?" Sirius asked.
"Nope. I just asked her to marry me and she said yes," James said. "Of course we were dating."
"Since when?"
"Since the meeting we had in Diagon Alley," said Lily.
"What?!" screamed Sirius. "Fine. When did you get the time to go on dates. You were always sick on Hogsmeade weekends."
"Yeah, about that. Sirius, we weren't sick during any of the Hogsmeade weekends," Lily said.
"Then why weren't you there?"
"That's the thing, though, Paddy. We were there," James said.
"Prongs, don't lie to me. You weren't there," Sirius stated.
"Sirius, technically James and Lily weren't there. But we were definitely there," said Lily.
Sirius nodded, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, what?"
"Yeah, Lily. I know what you're talking about and I'm still confused," James said.
"Care to explain?" Sirius asked, crossly.
"Of course I would, my dear Padfoot," James said. "You remember all the couples that would randomly walk up to you and Moony, right?"
"Yeah, the hot chick and the jerk guy, always the same. Why? Wait, never mind. You were not those couples! There's no possible way you were those people!" Sirius yelled.
"Sirius!" yelled Lily. "Calm down, you idiot!"
Sirius shot her a dirty look.
"Padfoot, maybe you forgot that Lily is a genius and I'm a Transfigurations master," James said. "It was us, all of those couples."
"No way," Sirius argued. "I can spot Transfigurations. Those chicks were hot, and I would've been able to see through it if they weren't really hot."
"Wow. Maybe you didn't notice it because the person who transfigured was just incredibly cute to begin with," Lily said with a smile.
"Well, I, okay, that makes sense. But the guys couldn't possibly have been Prongs. They were all rich, spoiled, arrogant, good looking, jocks."
James just look at Sirius over his glasses.
"Fine! Give me one more reason! One more piece of proof!" Sirius demanded.
"Easily. How could that first girl have known that you had recently been a red head, Sirius?" asked Lily.
"Fine! But that's only less than ten dates. And you're still getting married?"
"How thick are you, Paddy? I've spent almost every single night with Lily for an hour or two while she wrote lesson plans for me," James said. "We got to talking a lot."
"Are you really happy for us, Sirius?" asked Lily.
"Of course, Lils! Two of my best mates are going to get married. I've watched the two of them fight for seven years, and now they're going to get married. I'm incredibly happy. Just disappointed that they chose to not share it with me," Sirius said.
"Wow, Sirius. That was deep. I didn't know you had a passionate side to you," James kidded. "Except of course when it comes to those poor girls you dated."
"Shut it, Prongs! If you even think of telling one person, I'll-"
"You'll what? Beat me? Hex me? You've done both before," James said, jeeringly.
"Stop it!" screamed Lily. "This is supposed to be happy. Not happy to the point where two best friends want to kill each other."
The two looked at each other and said, "Sorry, Lils. We didn't mean it."
Lily shook her head and looked at James, who nodded, knowing what she meant.
"Sirius. We want to ask you a question," she said.
"Sirius, you're one of Lily's best mates, and you ARE my best mate. We wanted to ask you, will you be our Best Man?" James said.
Sirius sat there, baffled. "Are you kidding?"
"No," Lily said. "We agreed. We want you to be our Best Man."
"Okay," Sirius said. "Now that I've heard Lily say it, I know you aren't kidding. Of course I'll do it. Who's Maid of Honor?"
"Ugh! You're hopeless, Sirius!" yelled Lily.
"I know. But I'm serious," said Sirius with a laugh.
"I don't know. Probably my sister, if I can get her to even come to the wedding," Lily said.
"Great," Sirius said. "Then I resign my duty as Best Man."
"Sirius!" yelled James.
"I was kidding. I was kidding. No need to kill me yet," said Sirius, hands raised.
"Thanks for saying yes, Padfoot. It means a lot to us," James said.
Just then, Remus walked in with a book. "Here, Lily, this is your," he said, giving it to her.
"Thanks, Remus," she said, putting the book in her bag.
"Hey, Moony," Sirius said, popping up from the floor. "Did you know we saw Lily and Prongs on a couple of their dates?"
"You must be mistaken, Paddy. The only times I've seen them together, they're screaming at each other, in the hospital, or James was making Lily write lesson plans for him."
"We did see them. Well, not them, really, but we saw Lily and James on a couple dates," insisted Sirius.
Remus raised his eyebrows and said, "Alright, who confounded him?"
"It does seem like he's confounded," James admitted. "But he's right. All those hot couples you saw in Hogsmeade, they were all us."
"Really? Wow, that's very impressive Transfiguration," Remus said.
"Thanks," Lily and James both said.
"Congratulations guys! I'm going to sleep," Remus said, leaving.
"Yup, me too. See you all tomorrow," Sirius said.
Lily and James parted ways with a kiss, shortly after, to spend their last night at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.