By the time Rosmerta arrived at Hogwarts she had recived more then her fair share of compliments. She walked into the great hall with Lily feeling pretty confident and definately happy. Lily and Rosmerta sat down at the Gryffindor table and were talking rapidly when the Marauders entered the Great Hall. Rosmerta looked over her shoulder at them, then rolled her eyes in hatred. "Wow," she said to Lily, unenthusiastically,"looks like those stupid marauders have gotten even uglier over the summer, if that's at all possible."

Rosmerta and Lily laughed at the Marauders as they tried to find a spot at the Gryffindor table before the sorting ceremony. As they first years swarmed in they all turned towards the front to see who would be in Gryffindor and who would be in the other houses. They sat bored and about to fall asleep as the hat went through half of the kids without picking a single Gryffindor. It was starting to seem as though another house had bribed the hat into refusing to give Gryffindor house any new students. Finally about five were chosen in a row. Wait, six, no, now seven, eight? It grew up to thirteen before there were no more kids left to be sorted. Rosmerta and Lily shrugged their shoulders and commenced to their dinner, without a problem. It wasn't long before most the Great Hall clearly heard Sirius begin his call to mock Rosmerta, except he seemed confused. "Hey, where's Rosmerta?? Did she finally stop eating? Lord knows she could afford to miss a few meals at the least, but she'd love this stuff!"

~*~ From the Marauders Point of Veiw ~*~

"Sirius, Rosmerta's here, and she can't afford to miss a single meal!"

"What are you talking about James, didn't you see Rosmerta last year, she is F A T fat!She couldn't have lost that much weight over the summer, plus, her distorted pig face would have given her away by now."

"Sirius, she's here, and both her and Lily look really good. I wouldn't mind asking Rosmerta out, she in no way has a pig face."

"What?"

"I'm serious Sirius, she's hot this year, you might even like her, if you'd bother to get to know her."

Sirius looked deep inside himself for a moment. He had always liked her, even though he didn't want to. That's when he started to force himself to see her flaws. That's why he started making fun of her, because he didn't want to be her friend. He didn't want to love her the way he did. He didn't want her to be sorted into Gryffindor those years ago. He didn't want a girlfriend. He didn't want anything to do with females. Sirius shook his head, he had to find some flaw other then weight to make fun of her for then. "WHat about those stupid glasses?" yes, those would do.

James looked at Sirius seriously. "Gone, she got contacts"

Sirius tried to program something else in his head. "Acne?"

"She never had any to start with"

"Her frizzy hair?"

"Smoothed over"

"Her fashion sense??" this was Sirius' last resort.

"She definately got some, just look at her, she's down at the end of this section."

Sirius looked down, a little afraid. He spotted her next to Lily. "Wow, you weren't kidding. Damn it!"

James looked at Sirius oddly. "Well, I didn't think you'd take it so hard. Why do you care so much? Lily looks better to, but you now that I like her and just jokingly make fun of her, so I'm not that upset. Why are you so pissy?"

Sirius looked down. "Promise not to freak?" Upon James' nod Sirius continued "Well, I've liked her for as long as I've been a part of the Marauders. Since we all got sorted into Gryffindor. But I don't want to so I just kept making fun of her. Now she's really as perfect on the outside as she is on the inside, and I have to love her."

James looked sick. "Cheese balls!"

Lupin and Wormtail started laughing at the insult and soon wormtail was choking on his food.

James turned to Sirius and shook his head slightly. "I like Lily, but I'm not about to splurt out all this poetry crap. Just start being nice to her, carry her books for her, just stop insulting her. Then when she's all soft ask her out."

Sirius sighed. He was gonna have to work off all the shit he'd pulled on her. This wasn't going to be easy. He was gonna have a lot to prove to Rosmerta this year, and the only way he was gonna pull it off was the thing he had the most trouble doing, respecting her after all this time. Sirius looked over at James. "I suppose you're right. Are you gonna try and hook up with Lily? You two would make a cute couple."

James heeved a gigantic sigh and looked down the table at Lily. "You know, if I do manage to hook up with her it'll be soo easy for me to die happy. I hope I will. I'll definately try. Here's the deal, you try for Rosmerta, I'll try for Lily. If either of us gets the one we want we'll work from the inside to make the other get who he wants. Deal?"

Sirius took one last glance at Rosmerta. "Deal."