A/N: Something happened this weekend that made me feel like crap, so I write to let out pain. I always say reviews help me to write, but this week I don't need motivation; I need to know that people actually enjoy something I out heart into. Please enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I own a pretty homecoming dress, not Harry Potter.

Onomatopoeia (Inspired by Karly Black)

"I love you," Lily said, throwing herself into James' arms.

"Awwww!" Sirius smiled.

"CANNONBALL!" James flung himself into the Black Lake.

"SPLASH!" Sirius shouted.

"Oh no!" Lily cried, knocking over her crystal ball.

"CRASH!" Sirius said across the room.

"Sirius! Seriously, stop with all the sound effects!" Remus yelled at him across the Common Room. "We're all really annoyed!"

"Grrrrroooooowwwwwlllllll…"

Better

Remus entered the common room one night after his patrol only to find his friend Lily curled up crying on the couch nearest the fire.

"You okay, Lils?" he asked, sitting lightly down next to where her head lay on a pillow.

"No."

They sat in silence for a few long moments, letting the heat and light from the fire surround them.

"I saw James kissing another girl," the quiet redhead spoke.

Remus didn't know what to say. His mate had always been a player, but never had Remus dreamed that he would cheat on Lily. She was the first girl James had ever actually been in love with.

"Well," he said softly. "I know it doesn't seem like it now, but it can only get better."

Distraction

The musty air in Trelawney's attic classroom was worsened in the heat of the late spring. The sunlight entering through the window illuminated the floating dust particles, contributing nothing but exhaustingly high temperature to the already fatigued class.

This is ridiculous, Sirius scrawled on a piece of parchment, passing it to James. His friend read it, taking out a quill and adding his own neat handwriting to the paper.

Why do we even have class anymore? We get out in two days, and we've already taken the OWLS.

I don't know, Sirius replied. He looked around before writing more. Can't we just go back to the common room?

"Black! Potter!" the bug-eyed professor looked up sharply from her crystal ball to glare at them. "Please, no passing notes! It's not good to get distracted in my class. Not good at all!"

James, returning to their correspondence after rolling his eyes, wrote If we get distracted in her class we all might catch a glimpse of the Grim and die. Say, want to get some ice cream?

Rejection

It was a sunny autumn day in their sixth year when James announced his new plan. "I am going to get over Lily."

The other three boys just stared skeptically at him. "James," Remus started, "is this really a good idea? I mean, you've admired her for over five years. She's just starting to come around!"

"All I seem to know anymore is that she's rejected me too many times to count. I need to ask out a girl who will actually say yes for once. Starting now." James walked away from the group, approaching a gaggle of pretty fifth year girls who had been admiring him ever since they had spotted him walking out of the castle.

Sirius and Peter and Remus watched from afar as the girls flirted and giggles, batting their eyelids at an impressive speed. They watched James grin. Then the mood shifted. Although the boys were more than fifty feet away, they could see James' grin turn into a contemplative frown.

"Ooohh!" Sirius whispered. "I think he's just been rejected. Again."

Hours

James sunk in his desk chair. He had been writing up his monthly auror report at the ministry since early that morning, and all he wanted was to go home and kiss his wife. Lily was the only thing that kept him going on days like these, making his hard work and time spent away from home worth it.

At the end of the day he raced home, barely closing the door behind him as he ran over to Lily and picked her up bridal style.

"James," she breathed, bringing her arms up to encircle his neck. "Why are you so excited to be home?"

"I'm always excited to see my home after a long day at work. It feels like it's been years!"

"Honey, it's only been a few hours! I didn't go anywhere."

"I hope you never will," he replied, kissing her. "Just one hour feels like a decade without you."

A/N: Expect a lot of updates this week. Thanks for your support. Read and review, please!