A/N: Not the Dance, so you can skip this chapter if you want! It's gonna be short, of course!

Lily awoke to wings fluttering in her eyes. She saw it was an owl, and also saw that it was 10:30 am.
She took the letter from the owl, and scanned it.

Lil,
It's 10:30 already! Are you still sleeping? Hurry and come downstairs, people think I know who asked you out to the dance.
James

James,
Sorry, be down in a minute.
Lily

She quickly dressed, and hurried downstairs, as she promised.
The scene that met her was very interesting. Everyone, minus Sandy and Peter, were huddled around James, who was scrunched in a couch.
"Honest, I don't know! Why don't you ask her!" He was saying, sounding very convincing.
Lily began to laugh. "Hi guys!" She called from her spot on the stairs. She stepped down and towards them.
"Lily!" Alex said, rushing over to her. Sirius wasn't far behind.
"Who are you going to the dance with?" Sirius asked.
"Let's keep that a secret, shall we?" She answered, smiling. "Alex, Courtney, I need to talk to you quickly," She said, telling James without saying anything that she was asking them about his friends.
"So," Lily started, then noticed Sirius leaning over Alex's shoulder, attempting to listen. "Go away, you," she told him. He complied, rather foolishly.
"As I was saying. What do you two think about Sirius and Remus?" She asked, hoping for the best. It came.
"They are both really nice," Alex said.
"Yes, and are good for photos," Courtney agreed.
"Wonderful, that was all I needed to know," Lily said.
"Why?" Courtney asked curiously.
"No reason," Lily avoided the question, and led the group back to the couch. She sat down next to James, and while the other four started chatting about who asked Lily to the dance, she took her opportunity to say "They think Sirius and Remus are nice."
James looked relatively happy. "You two!" He yelled, motioning to the only other two boys in the common room, because it was vacation. "Over here!"
They walked over. "They said yes, all you have to do is ask," James told them, not minding Lily.
"Wonderful!" Sirius said, and immediately proceeded to ask Alex, who said yes.
Remus looked a little nervous and asked Courtney in a more private way.
"Could I talk to you a moment, Courtney?" He asked.
"Toady is a day for private conversations," Alex joked.
The two went over to a corner, and James and Lily started a conversation, which didn't last long.
"Lily, who are you going with?" Sirius whined.
"Ok, I'll make you a deal," she told him. "I play a game of wizard chess with you, and if you win, I tell you, and if I win, you sit and suffer," she smiled, knowing what pain that would cost Sirius.
"Deal!" He cried, and immediately produced a board and his pieces. Lily summoned hers, and the game began.
About midway through, Remus and Courtney came back, both looking very pleased. "What's going on here?" Remus asked. Lily explained the situation to him.
He smiled at Sirius, then pointed out to Lily that her knight was going to be taken.
"Hey!" Sirius complained. "That's not fair!"
"Is now!" Lily said, and proceeded to checkmate him.
"Oh no!" Sirius said, in mock sadness. Then he grinned evilly. "The deal was that I wouldn't ask you anymore. Not that no one else could ask you," he said, putting away the chess set. As he did, a blank piece of parchment fell out.
Lily picked it up. "What's this?" She asked him.
As one, Remus', James' and Sirius' (A/N: hey, notice their names all end in s?) eyes widened in horror.
"Nothing!" Sirius said, making a grab for it.
"Hey! I think I will look at this for a minute!" Lily said, pulling it out of his reach. Alex and Courtney immediately took up the post of guarding her while she inspected it.
"It must be important, or they wouldn't care so much," Lily deduced, as Alex pushed Sirius into a chair. "Reavelious!" She said softly. Nothing happened.
"Let's see. Maybe you need to give authorization?" She thought. "I am Lily Evans, and I would be very grateful if you showed me what you are hiding."
"Mr. Moony greets Ms. Evans, and compliments her lovely red hair."
"Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and also says that if you ask the Marauders, they will tell you what this is."
"Mr. Padfoot says that even such an intelligent student as Ms. Evans could not decode this parchment."
"Mr. Wormtail would like his parchment back."
Lily gaped, but as she read over it, suddenly understood. Padfoot was Sirius! James said so before detention, so these other three much be James, Remus, and Peter . . . But what is this?
"Ok! I figured it out, partially!" Lily called, and her guards stepped back.
"Ok, now before you say anything, let me guess. Moony," she pointed to Remus, "Prongs," she pointed to James, "Padfoot," she pointed to Sirius, "And Peter is Wormtail, wherever he is. Now, all I need to know is what this does?"
The quickly recovered from their shock of her figuring out the code-names so easily. "So you figured it out," James started. After glancing at the others to make sure it was ok, he proceeded. "This is the Marauder's Map, and as I am sure you have guessed, we are the Marauders."
"Ooh, a map! What does it do?" Alex asked.
"Well, I don't think we are able to tell you that, but, you see, I solemnly swear I am up to no good," James said, and with a smile, tapped the parchment. Lines spread from where the wand had touched it, and before their eyes, a map of Hogwarts was on the paper.
"Wow!" Lily said, picking it up. "Wow! Did you make this?"
They looked proud at having her praise, and nodded.
"But what do you use if for?" She asked.
"Sneaking around school, you know, that type of thing," Sirius said, offhandedly.
"You know, you could get in serious trouble for this," Lily told them.
"Yep! But it's fun!" James told her.
The spent some time looking at it, then James pocketed it when Peter and Sandy showed up. The finished off the day with Wizard Chess.

A/N: Please review! I might put the dance in the next one, I am not sure, it will be soon though!