(Okay, again, no Harry Potter stuff is owned by me! I'm so ashamed! :;runs away, crying, ashamed to not have thought of the idea in the first place::)
IMPORTANT: Okay, I'm changing the name of this story! I really don't like Lily &James: The 7th year & how they got together. So the new name is going to be: A change in heart. Is that a better title? I hope it is, because my last one really did suck! I hope you read this so you are aware of the change. Okay thanks!
Now thanking my reviewers:
ShawdowFox991 - Thanks for reviewing to my little story! And I hope I updated soon enough for you! And I hope you review again!
Mystic Wind - Thanks! That part was meant to be kinda humorous. So I'm glad you liked it! And thanks for reviewing again! I hope you do for this chapter too!
Shamrock13 - Thanks, and I DID note the sarcasim, well, at least after I read I was supposed to. But its okay, I like sarcastic people. I happen to be one. So thanks for reviewing, and i hope you review this chapter as well!
Fan-of-HP - Okay, you're review was the one I really wanted to see the most, and you didn't even tell me if I'm forgivin or not? Well, now I wait again in anticipation. Did you forgive me? Oh well, I hope you did, and thanks for reviewing again! It means a lot to me!
Shortywithbrains - I liked you're 'yah!'s. And yes Cat and Sirius are finally together! Yah! So anyways, thanks for reviewing again shorty!
Dee Ann - It was no problem at all! I've been trying to cut back on the cliffhangers! So I'm glad it was appreciated! Thanks for reviewing again, and I hope you'll review again for this chapter!
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Rosebeth - I know, Maria didn't help him out all too well. But oh well, they will get together, eventually. I'm not saying how, I'm not saying when, I'm only saying who. Well, thanks for reviewing again!
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Now onto the story of mine!
Chapter 21: Sirius' date
The next few days flew by without much action. Boring the students of Hogwarts with notes, and homework. But then came the Hogsmeade weekend that all, but maybe one,was hoping for, came.
"Come on Sirius! You have to go meet your date!" James yelled into Sirius' ear, attempting to wake him up.
"Cat?" Sirius asked, forgetting his dare for a moment.
"Don't you mean 'Ryan'?" Remus said from beside James.
Every Marauder was awake, with the exception of Sirius. Cat, Maria, and Lily were standing by the door, waiting to do another make-over for Sirius.
"This is priceless!" maria said excitedly, as they watched three of the Marauders trying to wake up Sirius.
"Well, frankly, I feel kind of bad I'm sending my boyfriend out on a date with a guy!" Cat said.
"Come on Cat, you have to admit, inside you're dieing of laughter!" Lily said.
"Well, I guess you're right." Cat said, a small smile daring to meet her lips.
"NO!! Not Ryan!" Sirius yelled.
"Yes, Ryan. Now come on, the girls are here to do your make-over." Remus said, as he and James dragged him out of bed, and into the bathroom.
"But i don't wanna!" Sirius complained, sounding as if he were three.
"So! I thought you said a Marauder would never back out of a dare." James said.
"Well, if I ever did say that, I'm taking it back right now!" Sirius said sitting on the floor of the bathroom. "I'm not going!"
"Oh yes you are." Remus said smiling with joy, of seeing his friend in this kind of state.
James walked over to the shower, and turned it on, sending down freezing water. "In you go!" james said inthusiastic.
"No way!" Sirius yelled.
"Petrificus Totalus." Remus said simply, pointing his wand at Sirius, causing him not having the ability to move even an inch.
James and Remus grabbed Sirius from under the arms and placed him in the freezing cold shower.
Sirius let out a loud scream when he was put into the icy water, and Remus quickly removed the spell from Sirius, and sprinted out the door with James.
"He shouldn't take too long." James said with a huge smile on his handsom face.
"What did you guys do to him?" cat asked sturnly.
"Nothing much, just woke him up a little more ifficently." Remus replied showing an identical grin.
"That sounded horrible!" Maria blurted out, laughing slightly.
"Yea, he sounded like a little kid!" Lily said laughing just like Maria.
"Don't make fun of him!" said Cat. "Okay, now that I've defended him, that was hilarious!"
Six people went down on the floor clutching their sides, laughing at their friend.
Sirius walked out of the shower, and grabbed a towel to wrap around his waist. He slammed the door open to find three mouth's stop laughing.
Maria, Cat, and Lily had all been laughing so hard tears had been coming out of their eyes. As Sirius walked out of the bathroom, and they got a good look at him, they stopped immeadetly.
All three girls stood up in unison, continueing their stares at Sirius. Their eyes travelled up and down his body, from his soaking feet, to his towel, up to his head.
Sirius shook his head from side to side, spraying his friends with water. But as the water splashed on the girls faces, none left their stare from Sirius.
"Uh girls?" Remus said, shaking his hand in front of their faces.
"Sirius, mate, I think you better put on something more then a towel." James laughed as he saw the expression on each and every girls face.
"Yea-yea-yea-yea, um, need, you, towel, more, now, too, less." Maria said, not noticing her words made no sense in that order.
"Agree, I. But-but-but-but i no complain much." Lily stuttered after maria.
"Same, be me here. No complain what I with be seeing!" Cat said as James tossed Sirius back into the bathroom, with some boxers and pants.
The three girls snapped out of their trance, leaving themselves with odd expressions on their face.
"You should have seen you three! You guys didn't make sense! 'I be see like what i towel you on!'" James mocked, putting on one of the stares. "I swear, none of you took your eyes off his towel!"
"Well, um." Lily began before giving up on defending herself with words, and decided to launch at him instead.
Lily had tried to knock James down, but lost her footing and instead rammed her body into his, causing them both to land onto Remus' tidy bed.
The moment both their eyes locked, they had forgotton all their surrondings. Both just stared into the other's eyes, not noticing that four of their friends, were staring with huge grins plastered on their faces.
Sirius walked back out of the bathroom, with at least his pants on, and noticed Lily and James.
"What are you two doing?" Sirius asked, making them break their stare and turn bright red.
"Um, it's not what it looks like." Lily yelped as she fell off of James, and onto the floor.
"What did it look like?" Sirius asked curiously, loving the fact that both their faces got redder and redder.
"Well, um, you see I fell for - I mean on, I fell on James, when I tripped." Lily said, going, if even possible, redder then her hair.
"Sure..." Sirius said with a cheeky smile.
"It's the truth." James said helping Lily up from the ground, feeling a shock going up through their hands.
"Ow." They both said in unison, shaking off the feeling.
"Well, will you guys hurry up! I want to get this date over with as soon as possible!" Sirius said sternly, as he walked back into the bathroom.
"Um, yea, sure!" said Lily following him, and her two bestfriends, back inside the bathroom.
"You okay, Prongs?" Remus asked, as him and James, waited for the girls to finish up with Sirius.
"Yea, of coarse, why?" James asked as his face finally returned to its normal color.
"James, do you still have a thing for Lily?" Remus asked with a sturn look on his face.
"If I told you the truth would you get upset?" James said.
"No. I'm not the one, who would suffer from it." Remus said simply.
"Well, um - Hi you guys! Done already! Well that's good!" said James as Lily, Maria, and cat stepped out of the bathroom.
"Yea, Sirius is just changing into what we brought him." Cat said.
"What did you bring him?" Remus asked.
"We brought him, a pair of jeans, a light blue blouse, and some heels." Maria answered.
"Poor Sirius. That reminds me, when muggles dress up their dogs for christmas. Isn't that a wierd coincidence." Remus stated.
"Yea, it is!" James said, putting two and two together. (Okay, the fact that Sirius IS a dog. Just helping those who didn't get it.)
The girls laughed slightly, not able to get the full effect of what was really so funny.
Sirius stepped out of the bathroom, with a not so happy look on his face. "Come on you guys!" Sirius said storming out of the room.
As they all headed up to the Great Hall, they found Ryan waiting for Sirius to show up.
"Hey you guys! And helloooo Susie." Ryan greeted them, as he reached down and kissed the top of Sirius' hand.
"Yes nice to see you to." Sirius said, in a fake high-pitched voice.
"Where's Sirius?" Ryan asked James.
"Sirius? He's sick, sorry he wanted to see you two off, but he couldn't. You see, Maria's cousin and Sirius were really close. You could say that they might even be the same person!" James answered with a huge grin on his face.
"Well, should we go then?" Ryan asked.
"Um, yes! Well, Lily and James, are going to come with us! Sorta like, um, what do you call it?" Sirius said with a girlish voice.
"A....double date?" Ryan questioned.
"Exactly." Sirius said, smirking, as he turned to see Lily and james looking awkward.
"Well, should we go now?" Lily said as they maid their way to the Entrance Hall, and out toward the carriages.
"We'll meet you guys later okay?" Cat said as she was dragged into a carriage with Remus, Peter, and Maria.
"Well, their day should be interesting." Maria said as they saw the four of them go into the carriage behind them.
--In the other carriage--
"So, Susie...how long are you going to be at Hogwarts? Because you must be visiting." Ryan asked Sirius.
"At least he noticed something." James whispered in Lily's ear, making her giggle with half humor, and half nerves.
"Well, I shouldn't be here much longer." Sirius screached.
An awkward silence devoleped between the group, and Ryan quickly changed the topic. "So, Lily, James, um, no offence or anything, but I thought you two couldn't stand eachother." He said noticing how the two had been laughing before.
"About that, well, I don't know. I guess things just happen. We kind of just became friends." James said, not liking the change of topic.
"Friends? Oh, I feel stupid." Ryan said.
"Why?" Lily asked suddenly interested in what he had thought before.
"I should have known better. What with your history and all." Ryan said, apparently hadn't heard Lily's question.
"What are you rambling on about?" James asked.
"Well, you might find this hard to believe. But...I thought that you two were..." Ryan said biting his lip, debating whether or not he should say.
"They were what?" Sirius asked, in his same mock-girl voice.
"Well, I thought they were dating." Ryan said somewhat embaressed.
"Well, that's what you call funny! I distinctly remeber Lily here, telling our James, that the Giant squid had a better chance then he did!" Sirius laughed.
"Yea, almost forgot about that." Lily said, remebering that day back in fifth year.
"But, that's in the past. Me and Lily are just friends now." James said.
The last sentence rang in Lily's head, putting her in a somewhat more saddened mood. 'Why does that line effect me like that? James is right. We ARE just friends. I can't believe I would have thought anything diffrent then that. Am I admitting something here?' Lily questioned herself, staring outside the carriage window as they finally made it to Hogsmeade.
"Lily! Earth to Lily!" Sirius, or 'Susie', was calling her name, shaking a hand in front of her face. "We kind of lost you there."
"What? I've always been here." Lily stated.
"We know that, just you were kind of out of it. Right after James stopped talking." Sirius said again, moving inches away from Ryan every second.
"Oh sorry. So where are we going first?" Lily asked, changing the topic.
"Um, I don't know, where do you want to go?" Ryan asked, directing his question over to Sirius.
"Let's see. Let's go to Zo-" Sirius stopped as James jabbed him in the ribs.
"Think like a woman!" James whispered to him dangerously.
"I mean, let's go to a cafe." Sirius said grudgingly, trying to sound as much like a woman as possible.
"I know the best spot! And practically no one knows its there. well, maybe except for some of the smarter students." Lily said walking down the road in front of the three boys.
"Come on!" Lily said pulling back a little, and grabbing hold of James' wrist. "Let's go." She dragged him ahead of Sirius and Ryan.
"Shhh! I want to see if he'll hit on Sirius!" Lily whispered, letting the familiar tinge creep through her hands.
"Can you hear anything?" James asked as she let go of him.
"Sorta, but it'd be eaiser if I could just read their lips." Lily whispered back.
"Well, then, get in front of me. Act like you just want to talk to me face to face, and look at me, but not directly. So then you can see their lips." James said, stating a pretty good idea.
"Okay then." Lily said turning to face him. She stared at her feet as she walked backwards, to make sure she had her balance. Then when she had decided she did, she looked right at James, not feeling so balanced anymore.
"Can you see them?" James whispered.
Lily shook her head slightly as she stared deep into james' hazel eyes. Lily shook her head slightly regaining a clear head, and tip-toed slightly to see over James' shoulder.
"He's flirting!" Lily said excited.
"Which one?" James asked, knowing the answer already.
"Ryan's actually hitting on Sirius." Lily said in awe.
"Well, you do make a sexy woman." James joked.
"Thanks." Lily said feeling a little shakey.
"Oh look they're coming toward us." Lily said as she turned around to stand next to James. Sirius came up to her other side, as they approached the small cafe.
"Madame Orozco's cafe delight." Lily read the sign out loud to the others. "But you haven't seen this before have you?" Lily said as she walked in.
"Nope, never knew it was here." Ryan said as he followed her in.
Although, Sirius and James couldn't say the same thing. The marauders had found the cafe during a full moon, but none had entered it before.
James walked in after Sirius, and they found Ryan and Lily waiting for them.
"There you are love." Ryan said.
"Oh, hello." Sirius replied in an almost bored voice.
"Come on, we have a table." said Lily as she walked toward one at the end of the place. "Madame Orozco, over here please." Lily called over the owner.
"Hey Lily." A young witch, probaly around her early 20's said.
Madame Orozco, had light brown hair that was somewhat wavy. She wore her hair high, and had carmel brown eyes.
"Hey, how are you?" Lily asked sweetly.
"I'm fine, thanks. So who are your two friends. I can't seem to remeber them. But I already know James."
"Oh, well that's Si-Susie. And that's Ryan." Lily pointed out. "Um, four coffees."
"You remeber me?" James questioned.
"Yea, you guys were going into your fourth year, when I left Hogwarts." She said with a smile, that made her look wise beyond her years. "Looks like you two have finally stopped fighting."
"Um, I guess so." Lily said feeling awkward.
"Good thing too. You're a cute couple." She said with wider smile. "I'll be back with your coffees." She left, not giving James or Lily a chance to set her straight.
"Coffee? What's that?" Sirius asked his voice sounding eerie.
"It's a muggle drink. It helps some people wake up in the morning." Lily stated plainly.
"Why couldn't you have givin me some of that this morning!" Sirius said, completely out of charecter.
"What's wrong with your voice?" Ryan asked, a little frighten from Sirius' outburst.
"What, oh yea, um, I guess my voice is a little hoarse. I think I need my coffee." Sirius said, back into his woman's voice.
"Oh, right." Ryan said scooting a slight inch toward Sirius.
Lily and James on the other hand, found this situation extreamly humorous. Both were laughing hard, holding onto the other for support, getting some suspicious looks from other people in the small cafe.
"What's so funny? Or do you just like to laugh as a couple?" Sirius asked, putting an imphasis on 'couple'.
This shut up both Lily and James, and they waited quietly for Madame Orozco to come back with their drinks.
Finally Madame orozco retuned with their coffees, and she set them down on the table.
"So how long have you two been going out?" She asked, staring at Lily and James, looking slightly rosy in the cheeks.
"We're not going out!" James and Lily said in unison.
"Sorry, I just kind of assumed by the way..." she said in an appolgetic tone.
"By the way we what?" Lily asked, softening her tone.
"Well, you two are sitting kind of close, and you two were laughing like a couple, and I don't know, you give out a couple vibe." She answered, leaving right away
"Couple vibe? That's ridiculous." Lily said scooting away from James, noticing that their elbows were touching.
"Yea, I know. Who would have thought of a more stupid thing?" James answered.
"Come on, I'm not that thirsty any more." Lily said, jumping out of her seat, and grabbing Sirius by the arm.
"Ow, your hurting me." Sirius complained, back in his regular voice.
"I want this day to end now." Lily said angrily.
"But deary, don't you remeber, this is a dare, and you're joining us!" Sirius said back in his girl voice, as James and Ryan came up behind them.
"Where should we go now?" Ryan asked.
"Why don't we go to a play, because that would just make me day!" Trying to show the sarcasim in the sentence with his girly voice.
"Great idea! There's a play going on over in the Three Broomsticks!" Ryan said bolting out the door, dragging Sirius along with him.
"We better go catch up." James said as him and Lily bolted out the door too.
They reached the Three Broomsticks, all out of breath, rushing inside. "Look the play, its starting!" Ryan yelled as they found some empty seats.
The three Broomsticks had been redecorated for the play. The floor was levitated slightly showing a platform, The tables had been removed, and the seats were arranged to look more like it would in a muggle theatre.
Ryan sat on the edge of the row, next to Sirius, and Lily next to him, and then James. The play was about a tragic beast, who fell in love with a beautiful girl in a local village. This beast was really the blacksmith for the village. But once a month he would hide in the forest for a week, as he took the beast form. Although even as a beast he still had a warm and caring heart. The people of the village never understood what this kind man had to go through. Only the village beauty, his love, ever stood up for the blacksmith. Yet he knew nothing of it. He deeply loved her, but couldn't utter a word of it to her, in fear of what she might think. Untill eventually he was forced to run for his life as he heard the villagers were attempting to kill him. Little did he know, he had been poisoned already. As the man was inches away from death, his one came to his side. He admitted his feelings for her and shared a kiss showing their love for eachother. As death was about to over come him, true love's first kiss gave him the strength to survive.
"This is such a sweet play." Lily said as she watched onto the show.
"Yea, real sweet." Sirius murmered saracstically.
Ryan looked over at Sirius, who to him was Susie. And slowly put his arm around Sirius' shoulder. Sirius looked at him with a look of pure disgust on his face.
"What do you think you're doing?" Sirius asked Ryan, with a sturn look on his face.
"Um, well, I just thought I might-"
"Well, don't think anything ever like that again!" Sirius almost yelled in his ear.
"I'm sorry, it's just that-"
"Forget it!" Sirius yelled jumping up, and leaving.
"Come on Lily, we have to go get him!" James said grabbing lily and pulling her out of the theatre, as the beauty and the man (beast) were sharing a kiss, and about to learn he was going to live.
"Where's he going?" Lily asked, a little annoyed she couldn't finish the play.
"To the Shrieking Shack most likely." James said letting go of lily's wrist to let the feeling leave his hands.
"I'm not going there, it's haunted." Lily said stopping in the middle of the road.
"Oh come on! I've been there tons of times! It's not haunted." James said trying to persuade Lily.
"Then what are all those howls that people say they've heard?" Lily asked, eyeing him suspiciously.
"I would have thought, you could have guessed that!" james said, looking over toward the Shreiking Shack.
"Well, I haven't. So who is it making all that noise?" Lily asked annoyed.
"Remus! Now let's go!" James said dragging her up to the doors of the Shack.
Lily felt a little stupid as she walked in through the doors, and into a very dusty room.
"Sirius!" James yelled, hearing his voice echo back to him.
"What!" Sirius yelled from upstairs.
"Come on! Don't be like that sirius, Ryan didn't mean anything by it!" Lily said as she walked up the steps, dust flying behind her.
Lily walked into a room, with a very dusty small matress in it, and Sirius sitting on it, looking angry.
"But, that was disgusting!" Sirius said, " I have no idea, how you girls do that."
"Sirius, WE actually like it. But don't worry, its a good thing you don't." Lily said sitting besdie him on the bed.
James walked into the room with them. "Come on you guys. I'm tired, you want to go back?"
"Sure do! I have to get out of these clothes!" Sirius said jumping up, and running back down the stairs.
"Come on, let's go too." James said helping her up.
--Back at Hogwarts--
Once Lily, James, and Sirius were back to the common room, Sirius bolted up stairs to take another shower and change into his clothes.
"Well, I think I'm going to go to the Heads' room." Lily said starting to leave back through the portrait.
"Wait! What heads room?" James asked.
"Are you serious James?" Lily asked.
"Yea, I never heard about any room for just the heads." James said exasperated.
"Come on, I'll show you. I haven't been there yet either." She said heading out the portrait.
Lily walked down a few flights of stairs, and across some corridors, until she stopped at a knight.
"Hello, Miss Evans." The armor said bowing down. "Password?"
"Um, now what did Dumbledore say it was? Oh yea! Heads House!" Lily said.
The knight stepped aside and allowed them access to a door. Lily pushed the door open, to find a beautiful room inside.
The room had soft velvety deep red carpet. It had many windows covered with golden curtains. A large fire place was set infront of a red couch, with gold trimmings. The walls had been painted gold, and many portraits of other heads hung there. And right in the middle of the floor was the Gyrffindor symbol.
"Wow!" Lily said in awe as she took up every detail of the room in. "Oh look!" Lily said moving toward one of the Portraits. "It's the first heads! Alexandor and Cassandra."
"I almost forgot my parents were heads." james said softly as he walked toward a picture.
Lily came and stood beside him, looking very closely at the two people in front of her. "He looks exactly like you, except his eyes are brown." Lily said remebering the strange effect thaat staring into James' eyes did to her.
"Yea, every Potter man has looked exactly like their father." James said, moving his attention toward his mother.
"She's beautiful." Lily said beside him, looking over toward there too.
"Yea. You know, they hated eachother for a long time before they hooked up."
"Really? That's odd, but in a way sort of like a fairy tale. You know the ones muggles read to their kids." Lily said sitting down in front of the fire.
"Well, sort of, I guess." James said sitting beside her on the couch. "So got any brothers and sisters besides Petunia?"
"Nope, no one else." lily said kind of dissapointed.
"Your parents must have been real flower people." James said a little sarcastic.
"Well, my dad thought that there was nothing more precious then a flower. So first came Petunia Daisy Evans, and then Lily Rose Evans." Lily said.
Lily looked up into James' eyes, and saw once she had said 'Rose', a little tinge of pain could be seen in them. "I'm so sorry James." Lily whispered, looking away from his eyes.
"Don't worry about it. You know, you reminded me a lot of Rose." James said.
"How so?"
"Well, Rose always had this fighter in her, and didn't let any one step on her. I saw her pick fights with guys that would have beaten me in. And then, she had eyes just like yours. They were the most beautiful green in the world. You know, that's part of the reason I fought with you so much during fourth year."
Lily looked a little embaressed, but listened to the rest of James' tale. "I don't get it."
"Well, it sounds stupid, but I was mad at you. For even reminding me slightly of my sister. And I hated you because you got to live and my sister had to die. I still feel bad about ever thinking that." James said staring into the fire. "Sorry."
"Don't be sorry James. I assure you that there has been a time where I just wanted you to die too." Lily said. "But I guess you changed my mind."
"And you changed mine." he whispered.
"James, I don't know if I can ever be like you." Lily whispered as she placed her head on James' shoulder.
"Why would you want to?" James said smelling the aroma Lily's hair sent.
"Your just so strong." Lily said, feeling herself drifting off to sleep.
"Um, I think that's from Quiditch."
"No, no, I don't mean like that." Lily said, noticing James lieing down slowly.
Lily now had her head rested on James' chest, she could hear his heart beat, as his chest went up and down slightly.
"What do you mean then?" James asked, resisting the tempation to stroke her hair.
"I don't know of I could ever have the strength to talk about, well you know, like you can talk about your sister." Lily said softly, closing her eyes, feeling the warmth on her face causing her drowsiness.
"Don't worry, in no time, the pain will slowly go away. It just takes time." James whispered into her ear, as he heard Lily's breathing become heavier.
James stared at Lily's sleeping form, not daring to move her. "accio blanket." James whispered. A red silky blanket flew over to his hand, and he wrapped both of them with it.
"Good night Lily." James said, stroking her soft red hair, that shimmered from the light of the dancing flames.
"Night James." Lily mumbled, still asleep.
James rested his head on the arm rest, and closed his eyes too. "I think I'm in love with you." James whispered, before he fell asleep just like Lily had.
*Well, that was my longest chapter EVER! But I said it was going to be. I hope you guys liked it. And no cliffie! Are you happy? I hope so. Do you guys like longer chapters then the shorter ones? Well tell me in a review. SO REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!
Next Chapter: Well, I don't exactly know. Well yea, bye!
IMPORTANT: Okay, I'm changing the name of this story! I really don't like Lily &James: The 7th year & how they got together. So the new name is going to be: A change in heart. Is that a better title? I hope it is, because my last one really did suck! I hope you read this so you are aware of the change. Okay thanks!
Now thanking my reviewers:
ShawdowFox991 - Thanks for reviewing to my little story! And I hope I updated soon enough for you! And I hope you review again!
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Chapter 21: Sirius' date
The next few days flew by without much action. Boring the students of Hogwarts with notes, and homework. But then came the Hogsmeade weekend that all, but maybe one,was hoping for, came.
"Come on Sirius! You have to go meet your date!" James yelled into Sirius' ear, attempting to wake him up.
"Cat?" Sirius asked, forgetting his dare for a moment.
"Don't you mean 'Ryan'?" Remus said from beside James.
Every Marauder was awake, with the exception of Sirius. Cat, Maria, and Lily were standing by the door, waiting to do another make-over for Sirius.
"This is priceless!" maria said excitedly, as they watched three of the Marauders trying to wake up Sirius.
"Well, frankly, I feel kind of bad I'm sending my boyfriend out on a date with a guy!" Cat said.
"Come on Cat, you have to admit, inside you're dieing of laughter!" Lily said.
"Well, I guess you're right." Cat said, a small smile daring to meet her lips.
"NO!! Not Ryan!" Sirius yelled.
"Yes, Ryan. Now come on, the girls are here to do your make-over." Remus said, as he and James dragged him out of bed, and into the bathroom.
"But i don't wanna!" Sirius complained, sounding as if he were three.
"So! I thought you said a Marauder would never back out of a dare." James said.
"Well, if I ever did say that, I'm taking it back right now!" Sirius said sitting on the floor of the bathroom. "I'm not going!"
"Oh yes you are." Remus said smiling with joy, of seeing his friend in this kind of state.
James walked over to the shower, and turned it on, sending down freezing water. "In you go!" james said inthusiastic.
"No way!" Sirius yelled.
"Petrificus Totalus." Remus said simply, pointing his wand at Sirius, causing him not having the ability to move even an inch.
James and Remus grabbed Sirius from under the arms and placed him in the freezing cold shower.
Sirius let out a loud scream when he was put into the icy water, and Remus quickly removed the spell from Sirius, and sprinted out the door with James.
"He shouldn't take too long." James said with a huge smile on his handsom face.
"What did you guys do to him?" cat asked sturnly.
"Nothing much, just woke him up a little more ifficently." Remus replied showing an identical grin.
"That sounded horrible!" Maria blurted out, laughing slightly.
"Yea, he sounded like a little kid!" Lily said laughing just like Maria.
"Don't make fun of him!" said Cat. "Okay, now that I've defended him, that was hilarious!"
Six people went down on the floor clutching their sides, laughing at their friend.
Sirius walked out of the shower, and grabbed a towel to wrap around his waist. He slammed the door open to find three mouth's stop laughing.
Maria, Cat, and Lily had all been laughing so hard tears had been coming out of their eyes. As Sirius walked out of the bathroom, and they got a good look at him, they stopped immeadetly.
All three girls stood up in unison, continueing their stares at Sirius. Their eyes travelled up and down his body, from his soaking feet, to his towel, up to his head.
Sirius shook his head from side to side, spraying his friends with water. But as the water splashed on the girls faces, none left their stare from Sirius.
"Uh girls?" Remus said, shaking his hand in front of their faces.
"Sirius, mate, I think you better put on something more then a towel." James laughed as he saw the expression on each and every girls face.
"Yea-yea-yea-yea, um, need, you, towel, more, now, too, less." Maria said, not noticing her words made no sense in that order.
"Agree, I. But-but-but-but i no complain much." Lily stuttered after maria.
"Same, be me here. No complain what I with be seeing!" Cat said as James tossed Sirius back into the bathroom, with some boxers and pants.
The three girls snapped out of their trance, leaving themselves with odd expressions on their face.
"You should have seen you three! You guys didn't make sense! 'I be see like what i towel you on!'" James mocked, putting on one of the stares. "I swear, none of you took your eyes off his towel!"
"Well, um." Lily began before giving up on defending herself with words, and decided to launch at him instead.
Lily had tried to knock James down, but lost her footing and instead rammed her body into his, causing them both to land onto Remus' tidy bed.
The moment both their eyes locked, they had forgotton all their surrondings. Both just stared into the other's eyes, not noticing that four of their friends, were staring with huge grins plastered on their faces.
Sirius walked back out of the bathroom, with at least his pants on, and noticed Lily and James.
"What are you two doing?" Sirius asked, making them break their stare and turn bright red.
"Um, it's not what it looks like." Lily yelped as she fell off of James, and onto the floor.
"What did it look like?" Sirius asked curiously, loving the fact that both their faces got redder and redder.
"Well, um, you see I fell for - I mean on, I fell on James, when I tripped." Lily said, going, if even possible, redder then her hair.
"Sure..." Sirius said with a cheeky smile.
"It's the truth." James said helping Lily up from the ground, feeling a shock going up through their hands.
"Ow." They both said in unison, shaking off the feeling.
"Well, will you guys hurry up! I want to get this date over with as soon as possible!" Sirius said sternly, as he walked back into the bathroom.
"Um, yea, sure!" said Lily following him, and her two bestfriends, back inside the bathroom.
"You okay, Prongs?" Remus asked, as him and James, waited for the girls to finish up with Sirius.
"Yea, of coarse, why?" James asked as his face finally returned to its normal color.
"James, do you still have a thing for Lily?" Remus asked with a sturn look on his face.
"If I told you the truth would you get upset?" James said.
"No. I'm not the one, who would suffer from it." Remus said simply.
"Well, um - Hi you guys! Done already! Well that's good!" said James as Lily, Maria, and cat stepped out of the bathroom.
"Yea, Sirius is just changing into what we brought him." Cat said.
"What did you bring him?" Remus asked.
"We brought him, a pair of jeans, a light blue blouse, and some heels." Maria answered.
"Poor Sirius. That reminds me, when muggles dress up their dogs for christmas. Isn't that a wierd coincidence." Remus stated.
"Yea, it is!" James said, putting two and two together. (Okay, the fact that Sirius IS a dog. Just helping those who didn't get it.)
The girls laughed slightly, not able to get the full effect of what was really so funny.
Sirius stepped out of the bathroom, with a not so happy look on his face. "Come on you guys!" Sirius said storming out of the room.
As they all headed up to the Great Hall, they found Ryan waiting for Sirius to show up.
"Hey you guys! And helloooo Susie." Ryan greeted them, as he reached down and kissed the top of Sirius' hand.
"Yes nice to see you to." Sirius said, in a fake high-pitched voice.
"Where's Sirius?" Ryan asked James.
"Sirius? He's sick, sorry he wanted to see you two off, but he couldn't. You see, Maria's cousin and Sirius were really close. You could say that they might even be the same person!" James answered with a huge grin on his face.
"Well, should we go then?" Ryan asked.
"Um, yes! Well, Lily and James, are going to come with us! Sorta like, um, what do you call it?" Sirius said with a girlish voice.
"A....double date?" Ryan questioned.
"Exactly." Sirius said, smirking, as he turned to see Lily and james looking awkward.
"Well, should we go now?" Lily said as they maid their way to the Entrance Hall, and out toward the carriages.
"We'll meet you guys later okay?" Cat said as she was dragged into a carriage with Remus, Peter, and Maria.
"Well, their day should be interesting." Maria said as they saw the four of them go into the carriage behind them.
--In the other carriage--
"So, Susie...how long are you going to be at Hogwarts? Because you must be visiting." Ryan asked Sirius.
"At least he noticed something." James whispered in Lily's ear, making her giggle with half humor, and half nerves.
"Well, I shouldn't be here much longer." Sirius screached.
An awkward silence devoleped between the group, and Ryan quickly changed the topic. "So, Lily, James, um, no offence or anything, but I thought you two couldn't stand eachother." He said noticing how the two had been laughing before.
"About that, well, I don't know. I guess things just happen. We kind of just became friends." James said, not liking the change of topic.
"Friends? Oh, I feel stupid." Ryan said.
"Why?" Lily asked suddenly interested in what he had thought before.
"I should have known better. What with your history and all." Ryan said, apparently hadn't heard Lily's question.
"What are you rambling on about?" James asked.
"Well, you might find this hard to believe. But...I thought that you two were..." Ryan said biting his lip, debating whether or not he should say.
"They were what?" Sirius asked, in his same mock-girl voice.
"Well, I thought they were dating." Ryan said somewhat embaressed.
"Well, that's what you call funny! I distinctly remeber Lily here, telling our James, that the Giant squid had a better chance then he did!" Sirius laughed.
"Yea, almost forgot about that." Lily said, remebering that day back in fifth year.
"But, that's in the past. Me and Lily are just friends now." James said.
The last sentence rang in Lily's head, putting her in a somewhat more saddened mood. 'Why does that line effect me like that? James is right. We ARE just friends. I can't believe I would have thought anything diffrent then that. Am I admitting something here?' Lily questioned herself, staring outside the carriage window as they finally made it to Hogsmeade.
"Lily! Earth to Lily!" Sirius, or 'Susie', was calling her name, shaking a hand in front of her face. "We kind of lost you there."
"What? I've always been here." Lily stated.
"We know that, just you were kind of out of it. Right after James stopped talking." Sirius said again, moving inches away from Ryan every second.
"Oh sorry. So where are we going first?" Lily asked, changing the topic.
"Um, I don't know, where do you want to go?" Ryan asked, directing his question over to Sirius.
"Let's see. Let's go to Zo-" Sirius stopped as James jabbed him in the ribs.
"Think like a woman!" James whispered to him dangerously.
"I mean, let's go to a cafe." Sirius said grudgingly, trying to sound as much like a woman as possible.
"I know the best spot! And practically no one knows its there. well, maybe except for some of the smarter students." Lily said walking down the road in front of the three boys.
"Come on!" Lily said pulling back a little, and grabbing hold of James' wrist. "Let's go." She dragged him ahead of Sirius and Ryan.
"Shhh! I want to see if he'll hit on Sirius!" Lily whispered, letting the familiar tinge creep through her hands.
"Can you hear anything?" James asked as she let go of him.
"Sorta, but it'd be eaiser if I could just read their lips." Lily whispered back.
"Well, then, get in front of me. Act like you just want to talk to me face to face, and look at me, but not directly. So then you can see their lips." James said, stating a pretty good idea.
"Okay then." Lily said turning to face him. She stared at her feet as she walked backwards, to make sure she had her balance. Then when she had decided she did, she looked right at James, not feeling so balanced anymore.
"Can you see them?" James whispered.
Lily shook her head slightly as she stared deep into james' hazel eyes. Lily shook her head slightly regaining a clear head, and tip-toed slightly to see over James' shoulder.
"He's flirting!" Lily said excited.
"Which one?" James asked, knowing the answer already.
"Ryan's actually hitting on Sirius." Lily said in awe.
"Well, you do make a sexy woman." James joked.
"Thanks." Lily said feeling a little shakey.
"Oh look they're coming toward us." Lily said as she turned around to stand next to James. Sirius came up to her other side, as they approached the small cafe.
"Madame Orozco's cafe delight." Lily read the sign out loud to the others. "But you haven't seen this before have you?" Lily said as she walked in.
"Nope, never knew it was here." Ryan said as he followed her in.
Although, Sirius and James couldn't say the same thing. The marauders had found the cafe during a full moon, but none had entered it before.
James walked in after Sirius, and they found Ryan and Lily waiting for them.
"There you are love." Ryan said.
"Oh, hello." Sirius replied in an almost bored voice.
"Come on, we have a table." said Lily as she walked toward one at the end of the place. "Madame Orozco, over here please." Lily called over the owner.
"Hey Lily." A young witch, probaly around her early 20's said.
Madame Orozco, had light brown hair that was somewhat wavy. She wore her hair high, and had carmel brown eyes.
"Hey, how are you?" Lily asked sweetly.
"I'm fine, thanks. So who are your two friends. I can't seem to remeber them. But I already know James."
"Oh, well that's Si-Susie. And that's Ryan." Lily pointed out. "Um, four coffees."
"You remeber me?" James questioned.
"Yea, you guys were going into your fourth year, when I left Hogwarts." She said with a smile, that made her look wise beyond her years. "Looks like you two have finally stopped fighting."
"Um, I guess so." Lily said feeling awkward.
"Good thing too. You're a cute couple." She said with wider smile. "I'll be back with your coffees." She left, not giving James or Lily a chance to set her straight.
"Coffee? What's that?" Sirius asked his voice sounding eerie.
"It's a muggle drink. It helps some people wake up in the morning." Lily stated plainly.
"Why couldn't you have givin me some of that this morning!" Sirius said, completely out of charecter.
"What's wrong with your voice?" Ryan asked, a little frighten from Sirius' outburst.
"What, oh yea, um, I guess my voice is a little hoarse. I think I need my coffee." Sirius said, back into his woman's voice.
"Oh, right." Ryan said scooting a slight inch toward Sirius.
Lily and James on the other hand, found this situation extreamly humorous. Both were laughing hard, holding onto the other for support, getting some suspicious looks from other people in the small cafe.
"What's so funny? Or do you just like to laugh as a couple?" Sirius asked, putting an imphasis on 'couple'.
This shut up both Lily and James, and they waited quietly for Madame Orozco to come back with their drinks.
Finally Madame orozco retuned with their coffees, and she set them down on the table.
"So how long have you two been going out?" She asked, staring at Lily and James, looking slightly rosy in the cheeks.
"We're not going out!" James and Lily said in unison.
"Sorry, I just kind of assumed by the way..." she said in an appolgetic tone.
"By the way we what?" Lily asked, softening her tone.
"Well, you two are sitting kind of close, and you two were laughing like a couple, and I don't know, you give out a couple vibe." She answered, leaving right away
"Couple vibe? That's ridiculous." Lily said scooting away from James, noticing that their elbows were touching.
"Yea, I know. Who would have thought of a more stupid thing?" James answered.
"Come on, I'm not that thirsty any more." Lily said, jumping out of her seat, and grabbing Sirius by the arm.
"Ow, your hurting me." Sirius complained, back in his regular voice.
"I want this day to end now." Lily said angrily.
"But deary, don't you remeber, this is a dare, and you're joining us!" Sirius said back in his girl voice, as James and Ryan came up behind them.
"Where should we go now?" Ryan asked.
"Why don't we go to a play, because that would just make me day!" Trying to show the sarcasim in the sentence with his girly voice.
"Great idea! There's a play going on over in the Three Broomsticks!" Ryan said bolting out the door, dragging Sirius along with him.
"We better go catch up." James said as him and Lily bolted out the door too.
They reached the Three Broomsticks, all out of breath, rushing inside. "Look the play, its starting!" Ryan yelled as they found some empty seats.
The three Broomsticks had been redecorated for the play. The floor was levitated slightly showing a platform, The tables had been removed, and the seats were arranged to look more like it would in a muggle theatre.
Ryan sat on the edge of the row, next to Sirius, and Lily next to him, and then James. The play was about a tragic beast, who fell in love with a beautiful girl in a local village. This beast was really the blacksmith for the village. But once a month he would hide in the forest for a week, as he took the beast form. Although even as a beast he still had a warm and caring heart. The people of the village never understood what this kind man had to go through. Only the village beauty, his love, ever stood up for the blacksmith. Yet he knew nothing of it. He deeply loved her, but couldn't utter a word of it to her, in fear of what she might think. Untill eventually he was forced to run for his life as he heard the villagers were attempting to kill him. Little did he know, he had been poisoned already. As the man was inches away from death, his one came to his side. He admitted his feelings for her and shared a kiss showing their love for eachother. As death was about to over come him, true love's first kiss gave him the strength to survive.
"This is such a sweet play." Lily said as she watched onto the show.
"Yea, real sweet." Sirius murmered saracstically.
Ryan looked over at Sirius, who to him was Susie. And slowly put his arm around Sirius' shoulder. Sirius looked at him with a look of pure disgust on his face.
"What do you think you're doing?" Sirius asked Ryan, with a sturn look on his face.
"Um, well, I just thought I might-"
"Well, don't think anything ever like that again!" Sirius almost yelled in his ear.
"I'm sorry, it's just that-"
"Forget it!" Sirius yelled jumping up, and leaving.
"Come on Lily, we have to go get him!" James said grabbing lily and pulling her out of the theatre, as the beauty and the man (beast) were sharing a kiss, and about to learn he was going to live.
"Where's he going?" Lily asked, a little annoyed she couldn't finish the play.
"To the Shrieking Shack most likely." James said letting go of lily's wrist to let the feeling leave his hands.
"I'm not going there, it's haunted." Lily said stopping in the middle of the road.
"Oh come on! I've been there tons of times! It's not haunted." James said trying to persuade Lily.
"Then what are all those howls that people say they've heard?" Lily asked, eyeing him suspiciously.
"I would have thought, you could have guessed that!" james said, looking over toward the Shreiking Shack.
"Well, I haven't. So who is it making all that noise?" Lily asked annoyed.
"Remus! Now let's go!" James said dragging her up to the doors of the Shack.
Lily felt a little stupid as she walked in through the doors, and into a very dusty room.
"Sirius!" James yelled, hearing his voice echo back to him.
"What!" Sirius yelled from upstairs.
"Come on! Don't be like that sirius, Ryan didn't mean anything by it!" Lily said as she walked up the steps, dust flying behind her.
Lily walked into a room, with a very dusty small matress in it, and Sirius sitting on it, looking angry.
"But, that was disgusting!" Sirius said, " I have no idea, how you girls do that."
"Sirius, WE actually like it. But don't worry, its a good thing you don't." Lily said sitting besdie him on the bed.
James walked into the room with them. "Come on you guys. I'm tired, you want to go back?"
"Sure do! I have to get out of these clothes!" Sirius said jumping up, and running back down the stairs.
"Come on, let's go too." James said helping her up.
--Back at Hogwarts--
Once Lily, James, and Sirius were back to the common room, Sirius bolted up stairs to take another shower and change into his clothes.
"Well, I think I'm going to go to the Heads' room." Lily said starting to leave back through the portrait.
"Wait! What heads room?" James asked.
"Are you serious James?" Lily asked.
"Yea, I never heard about any room for just the heads." James said exasperated.
"Come on, I'll show you. I haven't been there yet either." She said heading out the portrait.
Lily walked down a few flights of stairs, and across some corridors, until she stopped at a knight.
"Hello, Miss Evans." The armor said bowing down. "Password?"
"Um, now what did Dumbledore say it was? Oh yea! Heads House!" Lily said.
The knight stepped aside and allowed them access to a door. Lily pushed the door open, to find a beautiful room inside.
The room had soft velvety deep red carpet. It had many windows covered with golden curtains. A large fire place was set infront of a red couch, with gold trimmings. The walls had been painted gold, and many portraits of other heads hung there. And right in the middle of the floor was the Gyrffindor symbol.
"Wow!" Lily said in awe as she took up every detail of the room in. "Oh look!" Lily said moving toward one of the Portraits. "It's the first heads! Alexandor and Cassandra."
"I almost forgot my parents were heads." james said softly as he walked toward a picture.
Lily came and stood beside him, looking very closely at the two people in front of her. "He looks exactly like you, except his eyes are brown." Lily said remebering the strange effect thaat staring into James' eyes did to her.
"Yea, every Potter man has looked exactly like their father." James said, moving his attention toward his mother.
"She's beautiful." Lily said beside him, looking over toward there too.
"Yea. You know, they hated eachother for a long time before they hooked up."
"Really? That's odd, but in a way sort of like a fairy tale. You know the ones muggles read to their kids." Lily said sitting down in front of the fire.
"Well, sort of, I guess." James said sitting beside her on the couch. "So got any brothers and sisters besides Petunia?"
"Nope, no one else." lily said kind of dissapointed.
"Your parents must have been real flower people." James said a little sarcastic.
"Well, my dad thought that there was nothing more precious then a flower. So first came Petunia Daisy Evans, and then Lily Rose Evans." Lily said.
Lily looked up into James' eyes, and saw once she had said 'Rose', a little tinge of pain could be seen in them. "I'm so sorry James." Lily whispered, looking away from his eyes.
"Don't worry about it. You know, you reminded me a lot of Rose." James said.
"How so?"
"Well, Rose always had this fighter in her, and didn't let any one step on her. I saw her pick fights with guys that would have beaten me in. And then, she had eyes just like yours. They were the most beautiful green in the world. You know, that's part of the reason I fought with you so much during fourth year."
Lily looked a little embaressed, but listened to the rest of James' tale. "I don't get it."
"Well, it sounds stupid, but I was mad at you. For even reminding me slightly of my sister. And I hated you because you got to live and my sister had to die. I still feel bad about ever thinking that." James said staring into the fire. "Sorry."
"Don't be sorry James. I assure you that there has been a time where I just wanted you to die too." Lily said. "But I guess you changed my mind."
"And you changed mine." he whispered.
"James, I don't know if I can ever be like you." Lily whispered as she placed her head on James' shoulder.
"Why would you want to?" James said smelling the aroma Lily's hair sent.
"Your just so strong." Lily said, feeling herself drifting off to sleep.
"Um, I think that's from Quiditch."
"No, no, I don't mean like that." Lily said, noticing James lieing down slowly.
Lily now had her head rested on James' chest, she could hear his heart beat, as his chest went up and down slightly.
"What do you mean then?" James asked, resisting the tempation to stroke her hair.
"I don't know of I could ever have the strength to talk about, well you know, like you can talk about your sister." Lily said softly, closing her eyes, feeling the warmth on her face causing her drowsiness.
"Don't worry, in no time, the pain will slowly go away. It just takes time." James whispered into her ear, as he heard Lily's breathing become heavier.
James stared at Lily's sleeping form, not daring to move her. "accio blanket." James whispered. A red silky blanket flew over to his hand, and he wrapped both of them with it.
"Good night Lily." James said, stroking her soft red hair, that shimmered from the light of the dancing flames.
"Night James." Lily mumbled, still asleep.
James rested his head on the arm rest, and closed his eyes too. "I think I'm in love with you." James whispered, before he fell asleep just like Lily had.
*Well, that was my longest chapter EVER! But I said it was going to be. I hope you guys liked it. And no cliffie! Are you happy? I hope so. Do you guys like longer chapters then the shorter ones? Well tell me in a review. SO REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!
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