Crazy in Love
By: Destiney Weasley
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, in this fic that includes the marauders, Lily and Arabella Figg or whom ever else may happen to show up in this fic.
Summary: James is totally infatuated with Lily Evans. She secretly likes James but often tells him to bugger off afraid of ruining their friendship. What happens when two of their friends try to set them up? Utter chaos when Peter gets involved.
--Chapter Two--
Lily and her friends had run into Nathan Johnson in Diagon Alley. He was a seventh year Ravenclaw, who happened to be the Ravenclaw quidditch captain. Lily had really hit it off with him but didn't realize how well until she got an owl from him.
"SAPPHIRE!"
"RAYNE!"
Lily heard footsteps coming up the steps, then her door burst open as the two girls came crashing threw it totally out of breath. Rayne had flour on her face and dough in her hands while Sapphire was holding an open bottle of nail polish, her fingers painted a soft lilac color.
"What happened?" Sapphire asked.
"I didn't do it." Rayne replied out of habit "er, what is it that I didn't do by the way?"
Lily had lived with the Figg family for the past two years ever since her parents were killed. Her sister Petunia wanted nothing to do with her or her kind. So Arabella Figg, being the kind and loving woman that she was, took Lily in under her wing to raise her along with the twins.
"What did you do?" Lily asked suspiciously.
"Me..er, nothing" Rayne replied focusing on her dough.
"What happened?" Sapphire asked for the second time.
"You will never guess who wrote to me" Lily said cheerfully, she was smiling from ear to ear. She really liked Nathan and wanted to be more than just a friend.
"Who" the two girls inquired.
"Nathan Johnson" Lily replied dreamily.
"What!?" Rayne exclaimed and questioned "that hot quidditch captain of Ravenclaw?"
"That would be the one" Lily replied smugly. That sure was the one he was definitely hot with warm brown eyes, creamy rich brown hair, and a fit physique.
"Not bad; he has a decent body, gets good grades..a prefect I am almost positive, and did I mention hot" Sapphire said, she knew everything about everyone at Hogwarts. She was gossip central.
"Isn't he seeing Rachel McDonald?" Rayne asked.
"That is so last year, he caught her cheating on him" Sapphire replied.
"She cheated on him, what would possessive someone to cheat on him of all people. If I were to cheat I would do the cheating with him not against him" Lily added.
"You know Lily dearest, I know another fine quidditch captain. He has a great body, gets top grades, is double the hotness of Nathan and is funny as all hell gone west" Rayne said amusedly.
"I would have to agree with Rayne on this one" Sapphire added.
"If you think he is so hot and so funny, why don't you date him?" Lily asked angrily.
"Because James is a nut" Sapphire replied matter-of-factly.
"So I deserve the nut, I don't like nuts" Lily whined.
"Yes you do" Rayne replied.
"You admitted it" Sapphire confirmed.
"Alright, I thought that my admitting my tiny AND I MEAN TINY crush on James would mean that the two of you would stop talking about him. Instead you are bringing him up more and more. I see the fruit loop everyday during the school year and now you are bringing the almond into our summer, which is supposed to be......how should I say this, nut free" Lily ranted.
Lily was trying to forget about James and her feelings for him. She couldn't do that with her two best friends always bringing him into their conversations. She wanted to know how she was supposed to suppress her feelings if James is brought into every conversation they have.
"Fine, no more about James" Rayne replied stopping Lily's rant.
"So the other prat wants to date you then?" Sapphire asked excitedly.
"Yes Nathan asked me out and I am going to give it a go" Lily replied.
"That is great!" Sapphire exclaimed.
"Yeah great" Rayne muttered.
"So, is it official are you two an item?" Sapphire asked excitedly.
"Yeah as soon as I owl him back my answer" Lily replied smiling.
"Er, if you will excuse me, I have some..homework to do" Rayne said somberly.
"Homework?" Sapphire and Lily questioned.
"Yeah, that's right homework" Rayne said defiantly.
"What is wrong with you?" Lily asked suspiciously.
"Nothing" Rayne replied quickly, a little two quickly according to Lily.
"No, something is definitely not right" Sapphire retorted staring suspiciously at her sister.
"I am just feeling a little under the weather" Rayne added after seeing the looks they were giving her "well cheerio."
Lily watched as she turned and walked away from the room before they could ask her anymore questions. Lily looked at her disbelievingly. Rayne couldn't possibly be jealous of Lily, could she? Why was she acting so strange, like some travesty had been committed. Lily didn't like the way Rayne was acting, not one bit, it was very suspicious.
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Sirius was pacing his family parlor. He had just gotten an urgent owl from Rayne she was going to show up any minute now, according to the letter. She had some important information on the Lily and James situation. What it was, Sirius wasn't sure as she hadn't written in the letter any of the details. He had chosen Rayne over Sapphire because Sapphire liked to blab and couldn't keep secrets as well as Rayne.
Rayne showed up five minutes later using the floo network "so, what's up, what was so urgent that you needed to see me in person?" Sirius asked "didn't get enough of me in fourth year, huh?"
"Fourth year, fourth year" Rayne questioned as she pondered "What happened in fourth year? Let me think I got nothing, at least nothing important otherwise I would have remembered."
"Come on, how can you play me like that?" Sirius asked in mock hurt.
"Are you sure it wasn't my sister?" Rayne asked continuing her charade "she is the blonde Figg after all."
"You know you will always remember those two months as they were the best months of your life" Sirius replied. He had dated her for two months back in fourth year, most noted that this was his longest relationship ever.
"Oh yeah baby" Rayne said sarcastically "anyway I came to tell you about Lily, so don't get so full of yourself next time."
"Right..now, what did you want to tell me about Lily?" Sirius questioned.
"Lily has a boyfriend, one going by the name of Nathan Johnson. You know that really hot seventh year, oh my God is he hot, I wouldn't mind a go at him come to think of it" Rayne replied.
"I know that prat, he dated Rachel McDonald" Sirius retorted.
"How could she even cheat on him?" Rayne asked forgetting why she was there in the first place "he is so hot."
"Well, when you think about who she cheated on him with, there really was no contest" Sirius replied pompously. She had cheated on Nathan with him.
"Who?" Rayne questioned curiosity getting the better of her.
"Me" Sirius replied proudly.
"Pig" Rayne shot back disgustedly.
"A damn good looking one, I might add" Sirius retorted.
"Okay, can we say egotists?" Rayne replied rolling her eyes "Anyway, can we get back to Lily? As I was saying Lily is the proud new girlfriend of Nathan, so where does that leave us?"
"Not a problem" Sirius replied.
"What do you mean?" Rayne questioned in confusion. It was so a problem, with Lily dating Nathan, there was no way for them to get her together with James.
"You are going to break them up" Sirius replied casually.
Rayne was outraged and appalled. He wanted her to come in between Lily and Nathan by basically coming onto Nathan "Oh bloody hell, have you freakin lost your sanity? I will not do that to my best friend."
"Why not?" Sirius asked as if it were no big deal.
"Why not? Oh, you are bloody insane. I would be known as the whore of Hogwarts, not to mention that Lily would never speak to me again. Friends don't do that sort of thing to each other, it is ludicrous" Rayne replied hotly.
"Look, how else are we going to break them apart?" Sirius asked logically.
"Why don't you talk one of your little whores into doing it, because I sure as hell am not a whore and I don't know what gave you that idea, you stupid git" Rayne said angrily.
"Fine, maybe I will" Sirius retorted "I know you aren't a whore, lord knows I know from first hand experience."
"Not for lack of trying though, men are such pigs" Rayne replied hotly.
"And women are too bloody sensitive" Sirius added.
Rayne turned and walked back over to the fireplace, muttering curses under her breath. Sirius could be such a jack ass at times. It was a wonder why they were still friends, they had nothing in common. Well maybe quidditch but that wasn't much to base a friendship on. Although there was that time after they broke up it was hell until they decided to be friends again. Maybe she did need him as a friend.
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Sirius had just sat James down and told him about Lily's new boyfriend. James wasn't affected by it, somehow he knew that the relationship wouldn't work out, it was doomed to failure. He did however have other things on his mind, like why Lily wouldn't give him a chance.
"Why doesn't she like me?" James asked depressed as he thought about it.
"She does" Sirius replied matter-of-factly.
"How would you know?" James asked suspiciously.
"I have heard from a close friend of hers" Sirius said mysteriously.
"What did you hear?" James asked his attitude doing a total one eighty. He was right she does like him, his intuition hasn't been wrong all along like he was starting to suspect. Still if she liked him why wasn't she admitting it to him.
"Prongs you are trying way to hard. For now just try being her friend, listening to her, being there when she needs someone to lean on and most importantly stop fawning all over her" Sirius replied.
"I don't know I really like her. I am just showing her how much I like her" James retorted.
"To her you are joking around, she doesn't know that you are being serious. And it does get kind of irritating to see one of the most eligible bachelors at Hogwarts acting like a crazed lunatic when ever Lily is present" Sirius said.
"Is that what she wants, just a friend. I can't be just a friend to her" James said honestly "I can't bottle my feelings up like that, she may be able too but I can't."
"Going the way you are, is a turn off to her" Sirius replied "it is sort of sick in a twisted sort of way."
"Alright..for now, I will just be her friend. No more hugging, kissing, asking her out. For now, anyway" James remarked sourly. This was going to be tough for him, turning off his feelings was something he has never done before but it was worth a shot if it would work in the end. James and Lily were destined to be together, he just knew it.
By: Destiney Weasley
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, in this fic that includes the marauders, Lily and Arabella Figg or whom ever else may happen to show up in this fic.
Summary: James is totally infatuated with Lily Evans. She secretly likes James but often tells him to bugger off afraid of ruining their friendship. What happens when two of their friends try to set them up? Utter chaos when Peter gets involved.
--Chapter Two--
Lily and her friends had run into Nathan Johnson in Diagon Alley. He was a seventh year Ravenclaw, who happened to be the Ravenclaw quidditch captain. Lily had really hit it off with him but didn't realize how well until she got an owl from him.
"SAPPHIRE!"
"RAYNE!"
Lily heard footsteps coming up the steps, then her door burst open as the two girls came crashing threw it totally out of breath. Rayne had flour on her face and dough in her hands while Sapphire was holding an open bottle of nail polish, her fingers painted a soft lilac color.
"What happened?" Sapphire asked.
"I didn't do it." Rayne replied out of habit "er, what is it that I didn't do by the way?"
Lily had lived with the Figg family for the past two years ever since her parents were killed. Her sister Petunia wanted nothing to do with her or her kind. So Arabella Figg, being the kind and loving woman that she was, took Lily in under her wing to raise her along with the twins.
"What did you do?" Lily asked suspiciously.
"Me..er, nothing" Rayne replied focusing on her dough.
"What happened?" Sapphire asked for the second time.
"You will never guess who wrote to me" Lily said cheerfully, she was smiling from ear to ear. She really liked Nathan and wanted to be more than just a friend.
"Who" the two girls inquired.
"Nathan Johnson" Lily replied dreamily.
"What!?" Rayne exclaimed and questioned "that hot quidditch captain of Ravenclaw?"
"That would be the one" Lily replied smugly. That sure was the one he was definitely hot with warm brown eyes, creamy rich brown hair, and a fit physique.
"Not bad; he has a decent body, gets good grades..a prefect I am almost positive, and did I mention hot" Sapphire said, she knew everything about everyone at Hogwarts. She was gossip central.
"Isn't he seeing Rachel McDonald?" Rayne asked.
"That is so last year, he caught her cheating on him" Sapphire replied.
"She cheated on him, what would possessive someone to cheat on him of all people. If I were to cheat I would do the cheating with him not against him" Lily added.
"You know Lily dearest, I know another fine quidditch captain. He has a great body, gets top grades, is double the hotness of Nathan and is funny as all hell gone west" Rayne said amusedly.
"I would have to agree with Rayne on this one" Sapphire added.
"If you think he is so hot and so funny, why don't you date him?" Lily asked angrily.
"Because James is a nut" Sapphire replied matter-of-factly.
"So I deserve the nut, I don't like nuts" Lily whined.
"Yes you do" Rayne replied.
"You admitted it" Sapphire confirmed.
"Alright, I thought that my admitting my tiny AND I MEAN TINY crush on James would mean that the two of you would stop talking about him. Instead you are bringing him up more and more. I see the fruit loop everyday during the school year and now you are bringing the almond into our summer, which is supposed to be......how should I say this, nut free" Lily ranted.
Lily was trying to forget about James and her feelings for him. She couldn't do that with her two best friends always bringing him into their conversations. She wanted to know how she was supposed to suppress her feelings if James is brought into every conversation they have.
"Fine, no more about James" Rayne replied stopping Lily's rant.
"So the other prat wants to date you then?" Sapphire asked excitedly.
"Yes Nathan asked me out and I am going to give it a go" Lily replied.
"That is great!" Sapphire exclaimed.
"Yeah great" Rayne muttered.
"So, is it official are you two an item?" Sapphire asked excitedly.
"Yeah as soon as I owl him back my answer" Lily replied smiling.
"Er, if you will excuse me, I have some..homework to do" Rayne said somberly.
"Homework?" Sapphire and Lily questioned.
"Yeah, that's right homework" Rayne said defiantly.
"What is wrong with you?" Lily asked suspiciously.
"Nothing" Rayne replied quickly, a little two quickly according to Lily.
"No, something is definitely not right" Sapphire retorted staring suspiciously at her sister.
"I am just feeling a little under the weather" Rayne added after seeing the looks they were giving her "well cheerio."
Lily watched as she turned and walked away from the room before they could ask her anymore questions. Lily looked at her disbelievingly. Rayne couldn't possibly be jealous of Lily, could she? Why was she acting so strange, like some travesty had been committed. Lily didn't like the way Rayne was acting, not one bit, it was very suspicious.
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Sirius was pacing his family parlor. He had just gotten an urgent owl from Rayne she was going to show up any minute now, according to the letter. She had some important information on the Lily and James situation. What it was, Sirius wasn't sure as she hadn't written in the letter any of the details. He had chosen Rayne over Sapphire because Sapphire liked to blab and couldn't keep secrets as well as Rayne.
Rayne showed up five minutes later using the floo network "so, what's up, what was so urgent that you needed to see me in person?" Sirius asked "didn't get enough of me in fourth year, huh?"
"Fourth year, fourth year" Rayne questioned as she pondered "What happened in fourth year? Let me think I got nothing, at least nothing important otherwise I would have remembered."
"Come on, how can you play me like that?" Sirius asked in mock hurt.
"Are you sure it wasn't my sister?" Rayne asked continuing her charade "she is the blonde Figg after all."
"You know you will always remember those two months as they were the best months of your life" Sirius replied. He had dated her for two months back in fourth year, most noted that this was his longest relationship ever.
"Oh yeah baby" Rayne said sarcastically "anyway I came to tell you about Lily, so don't get so full of yourself next time."
"Right..now, what did you want to tell me about Lily?" Sirius questioned.
"Lily has a boyfriend, one going by the name of Nathan Johnson. You know that really hot seventh year, oh my God is he hot, I wouldn't mind a go at him come to think of it" Rayne replied.
"I know that prat, he dated Rachel McDonald" Sirius retorted.
"How could she even cheat on him?" Rayne asked forgetting why she was there in the first place "he is so hot."
"Well, when you think about who she cheated on him with, there really was no contest" Sirius replied pompously. She had cheated on Nathan with him.
"Who?" Rayne questioned curiosity getting the better of her.
"Me" Sirius replied proudly.
"Pig" Rayne shot back disgustedly.
"A damn good looking one, I might add" Sirius retorted.
"Okay, can we say egotists?" Rayne replied rolling her eyes "Anyway, can we get back to Lily? As I was saying Lily is the proud new girlfriend of Nathan, so where does that leave us?"
"Not a problem" Sirius replied.
"What do you mean?" Rayne questioned in confusion. It was so a problem, with Lily dating Nathan, there was no way for them to get her together with James.
"You are going to break them up" Sirius replied casually.
Rayne was outraged and appalled. He wanted her to come in between Lily and Nathan by basically coming onto Nathan "Oh bloody hell, have you freakin lost your sanity? I will not do that to my best friend."
"Why not?" Sirius asked as if it were no big deal.
"Why not? Oh, you are bloody insane. I would be known as the whore of Hogwarts, not to mention that Lily would never speak to me again. Friends don't do that sort of thing to each other, it is ludicrous" Rayne replied hotly.
"Look, how else are we going to break them apart?" Sirius asked logically.
"Why don't you talk one of your little whores into doing it, because I sure as hell am not a whore and I don't know what gave you that idea, you stupid git" Rayne said angrily.
"Fine, maybe I will" Sirius retorted "I know you aren't a whore, lord knows I know from first hand experience."
"Not for lack of trying though, men are such pigs" Rayne replied hotly.
"And women are too bloody sensitive" Sirius added.
Rayne turned and walked back over to the fireplace, muttering curses under her breath. Sirius could be such a jack ass at times. It was a wonder why they were still friends, they had nothing in common. Well maybe quidditch but that wasn't much to base a friendship on. Although there was that time after they broke up it was hell until they decided to be friends again. Maybe she did need him as a friend.
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Sirius had just sat James down and told him about Lily's new boyfriend. James wasn't affected by it, somehow he knew that the relationship wouldn't work out, it was doomed to failure. He did however have other things on his mind, like why Lily wouldn't give him a chance.
"Why doesn't she like me?" James asked depressed as he thought about it.
"She does" Sirius replied matter-of-factly.
"How would you know?" James asked suspiciously.
"I have heard from a close friend of hers" Sirius said mysteriously.
"What did you hear?" James asked his attitude doing a total one eighty. He was right she does like him, his intuition hasn't been wrong all along like he was starting to suspect. Still if she liked him why wasn't she admitting it to him.
"Prongs you are trying way to hard. For now just try being her friend, listening to her, being there when she needs someone to lean on and most importantly stop fawning all over her" Sirius replied.
"I don't know I really like her. I am just showing her how much I like her" James retorted.
"To her you are joking around, she doesn't know that you are being serious. And it does get kind of irritating to see one of the most eligible bachelors at Hogwarts acting like a crazed lunatic when ever Lily is present" Sirius said.
"Is that what she wants, just a friend. I can't be just a friend to her" James said honestly "I can't bottle my feelings up like that, she may be able too but I can't."
"Going the way you are, is a turn off to her" Sirius replied "it is sort of sick in a twisted sort of way."
"Alright..for now, I will just be her friend. No more hugging, kissing, asking her out. For now, anyway" James remarked sourly. This was going to be tough for him, turning off his feelings was something he has never done before but it was worth a shot if it would work in the end. James and Lily were destined to be together, he just knew it.