A/N-hey I have decided that maybe this isn't going to be a short fic. Not to say that it is going to be a majorly long one or anything. Oh well here we are.

Disclaimer-they're not mine, so don't sue.

Chapter Two: The Realization

Lily dropped the bravado as soon as she left the boy's dormitories.

Damn that was incredible! She touched her still tingling lips. Like electricity, she mused. She walked briskly to her own dormitory.

"This can't be happening! I like James! He may be a little arrogant at times, but this was just a prank! To get him back for bragging about me. I don't like Sirius."

Even to her ears this sounded weak.

"I don't."

She didn't notice the girl behind the dormitory door as she flung it open.

"OWWW!"

Lily jumped about a foot in the air.

"OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL!?!?"

The girl came out from behind the door shocked.

"Lily!"

She sounded scandalized.

"That was a bad word!!"

Lily snorted.

"Emma Grady if you have never said a 'bad word' in your life I'll-"

Her best friend cut her off.

"Kiss Sirius Black?"

Emma smiled and Lily choked.

"What would give you the idea that I would do that?? Why would say that?"

Lily was practically screaming. Emma looked highly amused.

"Well?"

Lily was almost to the point of crying. Emma stopped grinning.

Lily never cried so this must be serious. (a/n: ha ha I can play on words too.)



"Lily what is it?"

Lily contemplated telling her. *Emma can totally keep a secret. * She sighed.

"Okay, I kissed-"

She stopped; outside the door they heard running footsteps and screaming. They caught snatches of the conversation.

"SIRIUS!! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!"

and

"BUT JAMES SHE KISSED ME!!!!"

Emma 's jaw dropped.

"I knew this was serious but not that Sirius."

Lily tried to smile at her best friends weak joke.

"Well now you know."

Emma looked excited.

"Was it…you know?!"

Lily grinned for the first time since the fiasco.

"Yeah it was, like…electricity dancing across our lips."

Emma shook her head wonderingly.

"Wow. I want something like that! Peter is too shy to even ask me out! Much less kiss me!"

Lily suddenly jumped back to the here and now.

"Oh no Emma! What am I going to do though? "

She groaned and flopped onto her four-poster bed.

"Life is not fair!!! It was all supposed to be a prank! I wasn't supposed to fall for him!!"

Emma sat next to her friend.

"Hun, really do you think that you like him like that? Or are you just looking for some danger?"

Lily picked up her head and looked at Emma.

"Dangerous? Seriously! He sleeps with a teddy bear!"

Emma snorted.

"Okay, maybe not dangerous, but at least mysterious. And…manly."

While Lily spluttered Emma continued.

"Have you seen his chest?? Washboard abs!!"

Lily's eyes got as big as saucers.

"Are you serious??"

Emma got a wicked idea.

"Sure I am. And I can prove it. Come with me."

Emma pulled her best friend from her wallowing position on the bed.

"Come on it'll be fun!"

She sketched out the plan for Lily and they both giggled. Immoral and impious thoughts chased each other throughout both the girls' minds.

They snuck from the dormitory and across the hall to the stairway leading to the common room. Emma went halfway down and hid by a large plant. Turning to Lily she whispered.

"Now this is a simple first year spell so you shouldn't have any problems. But remember, not until I give the signal!"

The two girls held back innumerable giggles and got into their prearranged positions. Lily marveled at her friend's ability to make her feel better no matter what and the fact that Emma had never pulled a prank in her life. To make her forget about the horrible yet somehow wonderful thing that had just ruined her life. (a/n: hey we're teenagers our days are not complete without at least five cases of someone or something ruining our lives.) Sirius was dodging the many various objects being hurled at him rather well. James was trying to get his hands on him but Sirius just wouldn't stand still. Lily took out her wand and whispered a small spell

"Dissapario Meche"

Suddenly Sirius' shirt had disappeared, along with the rest of his outfit, except for a pair of blue silk boxers with white penguins chasing each other around them. He froze and looked down bewildered. His well-muscled chest and washboard abs were quite evident. Lily was glad to see that her friend wasn't on the Marauders' side as Lily had many times wondered. The common room erupted in giggles and gasps as the entire female population of Gryffindor turned to stare at their half-naked Chaser. Sirius stood bewildered for a second too long and a well-thrown flowerpot from James (who was still oblivious to his plight.) hit him in the head. He fell to the floor blissfully unconscious.

Lily positively glowed until she heard a gasp and saw Belle Lalaine run from the just opened portrait hole to the unconscious Sirius and kneel down. "Siri?" she shook him but he just lay there with a trickle of blood making its way down his cheek. Belle shot James, who had just noticed his best friend, a dirty look. "Well don't just stand there like a dolt, help me!" she grabbed a first years wand from a table and conjured a stretcher. "I don't know what the hell happened-" James started to explain but Belle held up her hand. "I don't really think I want to know either, but I do have one question." She looked at James in the eye. "Why is my boyfriend half naked in the common room?" James looked down at Sirius and scratched his head, "Um…now that I can't answer."