Hey hey hey! Thanx for all the great reviews, they're some of the best I've gotten so far. This probably won't have much hardcore emotional stuff, I'm kinda emotioned-out. One of my best friends was assaulted, and another friend of mine is now pregnant, and the father is the guy she kept trying to set ME up with! This too much for my little 14-year-old mind!!! I'm too naïve for this!!! aaaaaaaack! Lol, anyways, hope ya enjoy this chapter, sorry that it's really crappy. PS the evil squirrel outside the window keeps looking at me...damn evil squirrel. Chelsea_________________________________________________________________

"JAMES POTTER GET YOUR SCRAWNY ASS IN HERE NOW-WHAT THE HELL DID YOU AND YOUR LITTLE FRIENDS DO???" Lily's voice screeched through the Gryffindor tower, scaring all the morning's twittering birds away. James and Co. laughed quietly to themselves; the timed dungbombs they had planted in the girl's dorms the night before had gone off right on schedule.

"Prongs old buddy, we might as well go and see our handy-work, not to mention she'll be wanting us to clean up and all.you know?" Sirius stopped laughing and started walking briskly towards the door. Remus sniggered.

"Clean my ass, all you want to do is see all of them in their pajamas." Remus muttered to James. James laughed.

"Well, as we all know, Lady Lily is calling, but I would suggest putting something less revealing on Sirius, you never know what she has planned." James snorted again, seeing Sirius scramble for a pair of pants to cover the fluffy ducky boxers.

And so 20 minutes later, showered and dressed in clean robes, the boys marched over to the girls dormitories. Lily had stopped shouting at them about 5 minutes ago, and they were certain that was because she decided to start cleaning already. They walked in, Sirius in the lead (practically drooling from anticipation), followed by James and Remus.

"Lily-o, Lily-o? Where for art thou Lily-o?" Sirius peeked in her bed. The room was still utterly rank, but Lily was nowhere to be found. Moving to the next bed he found 6 girls, the rest of the dorm, huddled in Kirsten's bed. As soon as he poked his head in, they drew the covers around them, giggling flirtatiously, and batting their eyelashes. "My dears," they giggled some more, " where is the fairest in this land, Lily?"

Kirsten squinted her eyes, and wrinkled her nose as if in deep concentration. "Uh, Lily, uh, Lily went to the showers to try and get rid of the smell from her hair. She said not to tell you guys she was there, but to tell you to clean up." She smiled at him for a few moments but a cloud passed over her face, "Oh shit, me and my big mouth," She muttered to herself.

"Thanks love.James. did you hear that?" Sirius called, but James was already gone.

Lily sang softly to herself in the shower. The hot water ran down her back, slowly fogging the glass shower. It was her favorite, because she felt like she was drifting in a sea of fog, where no one would, or ever could, reach her. She started singing a new muggle song she had heard from Nelly (had to get that in here), that had a bouncy tune to rev her up for her inevitable struggle to get the guys to clean up the dorm.

It's getting hot in herre 'so hot' so take off all your clothes 'I am getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off'-"

"You know, I understand I'm hot, but you've already got all your clothes off and-

"JAMES-" Lily gasped and grabbed her towel, bringing it in the shower and accidentally soaking it. He didn't pay attention and kept going.

"-Another idea would be to turn the hot water off, 'cause you know it's fogging the glass up, and horrors! I can't see anything!" He paused for a moment and Lily cut in.

"JAMES POTTER WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?" She could hear him laughing quietly, and the laughter was evident in his voice.

"Well, Lily-dearest, you were calling me earlier, were you not? I do believe the exact words went something like 'James potter get your scrawny ass over here', and I do believe I came, didn't I?"

Lily stepped out of the shower in time to see him looking at his butt in the mirror, muttering about how his ass wasn't that scrawny. She cleared her throat, causing him to turn and blush. Quickly recovering himself he stated in a somewhat indignant voice, "Well, ask anyone else to test my ass and see if it is scrawny and not toned, and I'll wager they'll gladly tell you it isn't." Lily laughed and walked out, back towards the common room. James followed, cracking comments continually. As they reached the common room James was going on about how hot he was and how if she ever wanted him to join her in the shower, they could certainly heat things up. Lily elbowed him in the stomach, and walked over to the rest of the marauders, who were being fawned over by their ominous fan club.

"Is our dorm normal smelling?" She asked Sirius. He didn't answer, just stared at her for a couple moments, his jaw dropping slightly.

"Yes, the dorm is clean." Lily smiled at Remus who answered, then nodded her head towards Sirius with a questioning look. "Uh, Lily, you do realize you're only wearing a sopping wet towel?" Remus pointed out. Lily looked down before blushing red. James sat down on the floor next to where she was standing and started to tug on the towel slightly to annoy her.

"Well, you see, James here startled me, so I didn't have any dry towels left. However," she paused, "Sirius?"

"Hmmm?" Sirius looked delighted that a beautiful girl in only a towel was talking to him. "What is it love? I'll do whatever it is you want me to do." He had a dreamy expression in his eyes. Lily smiled for a moment, her eyes dancing with mischief.

" I was having a discussion with James, and he told me ANYONE would be glad to test his ass for scrawny-ness. I'm assuming you'll oblige?" With that Lily flounced up the stairs leaving James and Sirius staring shocked at her back, and the rest of the Gryffindors rolling with laughter.

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James sighed contentedly to himself. Operation get-lily-from-malfoy was only in its first stage, but was working like a charm. He had managed to get in Lily's good graces (as much as he could), and was on his way in finding a way to break the two of them up. The way she had looked in that towel this morning.he grinned to himself.

"Whatcha grinning about?" he could feel his ears go red as Lily stared down at him on the floor. Most of the common room was starting to empty out after the morning's episode, and Lily had just emerged from her dorm, fully clothed, much to James disappointment.

"Quidditch!" he knew Lily wouldn't ask, he had never seen her on a broom, or even listen to Quidditch talk. He was right.

"Well, whatever." She turned and addressed the whole group. "Okay, I'm ready, let's go."

They attended breakfast, which was uneventful except that Lily had received a strange letter. She had opened it, to discover it was totally blank. Thinking it was a joke she had turned to the Marauders, but they all earnestly shook their heads no, and she dismissed it, thinking it must have been an accident.

Later they walked in to potions, arms linked, singing silly songs. Professor Malfoy looked at them sternly before deducting 5 house points, and telling them to sit down and shut up. Lily moved easily to sit with Lucius and Severus, while the Marauders (especially James) glared at Malfoy and Snape. Mafloy, having fun with the three miffed boys (hey, I've been leaving Peter out a lot, haven't I? Oh well, he's there with them, he's just not important enough to be of any consequence) started winking in their general direction, and putting his arm around Lily. When they were assigned a practical lesson, Malfoy and Lily finished quickly, both top students. Malfoy gave her a massage, much to James's displeasure. Lily turned and looked, and shot a disapproving look at the boys, while telling Lucius to leave them alone. Eventually the class ended. As they filed out, the tension was so thick it could have been cut with a knife. Malfoy walked Lily over to the Marauders, and when she pecked him, he deepened the kiss, enjoying the boys' hostility. Lily finally broke the kiss and backed up, smiling at Lucius. Malfoy turned to James and nodded. "Potter" his voice was low, an obvious challenge. Lily started to look worried, she didn't want another fight. "Malfoy", James returned the nod, glaring like a basilisk. If looks could kill.

_________________________________________________________________________Dun dun dun!!! What's gonna happen! Are they gonna fight? Is Lily going to cry? Will James's look kill Malfoy (ya right, we all wish) If you wanna know (and I know you do!) REVIEW PLEASE!!!!