Sirius sunk in his chair and slowly reached for the bag on top of his head. Everyone was on the edge of their chairs.

Inch . . . by inch . . . by inch . . .

There was a loud boom that came from the Slytherin table. Everyone immediately looked over in the direction.

"Do that funky chicken right boy!" There was Snape on top of the table with a greasy afro doing the chicken dance.

Everyone stared in silence at him. There was a wave of laughter that burst through the Great Hall.

"S-S-Sirius! Why didn't you t-t-tell us about this p-p-prank?" James said, pounding his fist on the table, laughing so hard.

Sirius shrugged, grinning sheepishly under the bag.

James, still laughing, looked over at the Ravenclaw table once again. Lily was glaring over at them and James immediately stopped laughing and looked over at Sirius.

"Um, S-S-Sirius, Lily l-l-looks like she's going t-t-to kill you!"

Sirius's eyes got wide and he looked over at Lily, who was already cracking her knuckles.

By now Snape came to his senses and jumped off the table, running out of the Great Hall.

Lily lifted her chin up at Sirius and moved her finger in a 'Come here,' motion.

Sirius kept shaking his head no and got up. As if Sirius was the leader, everyone else stood up too and started walking out the door discussing the prank and heading towards there dorms.

Lily started heading towards Sirius and Sirius looked around wildly.

"Let's go guys!"

All the Marauders started running towards the Great Hall door, swimming through the crowd. Once they finally made it through the crowd, Sirius wiped an invisible sweat off his face.

"That was clos-" Sirius screeched like a girl as Lily came out of nowhere and pushed him roughly into the wall.

"Who do you think you are to interrupt Professor Dumbledore like that?"

"Don't hurt me!" Sirius said, shrinking down to the ground, looking like a deer in headlights.

"Bull!" Lily grabbed the bag off Sirius's face and threw it to the other side of the corridor. By now they had formed a crowd.

Everyone, even Lily, gasped.

Sirius looked at everyone and then buried his face in his hands. His shoulders started to shake.

"Sirius, oh my, I'm sorry. I . . . I didn't know!" Lily said, her eyebrows frowning.

"Look at me!" Sirius burst into laughter, standing up.

Slowly, one by one, everyone started laughing.

Lily wiped a tear away from her eyes and smiled up at Sirius, while shaking her head.

"You're something else!" Lily said while putting a friendly arm around his shoulders.

For some unknown reason, James felt jealously build up inside of him as he started walking slowly behind them feeling left out.

Sirius turned around and grinned at James pulling him to his other side, putting a friendly arm around his shoulders too. James grinned, pushing his glasses up.

"Hey, wait up!" Remus's deep, sexy voice called from behind them. (A/N: Haha, I had to put that in there, I love Remus. He's my favorite Marauder because I like the romantic, shy type of ish guy ::blush:: and that's what he reminds me of.) Being a werewolf had made his voice change way back in first year.

Yes, James, Peter, and Sirius knew about him being a werewolf, but we'll discuss that later on.

Sirius, Lily, and James waited for a second and Remus and Peter caught up with them. James put his arm around Remus and Remus put his arm around Peter.

Lily grinned to herself. Maybe this year was going to be better.

Lily's eyes got big as she felt Sirius's hand go lower.

"Sirius!" Lily slapped him across the cheek and Sirius just grinned.

"What?" he asked innocently.

Lily cut in between James and Remus and then put both of her arms around them. For some strange reason Lily felt herself blush.

"Bye you guys!" Lily said as they finally reached the corridor that lead in two directions.

"B-b-bye!" they all imitated James again and James stomped his foot in frustration and stormed off to the left corridor.

Lily, and the others laughed and Lily watch Remus, Sirius, and Peter chase after James apologizing.

Lily shook her head and looked at the ceiling for a few minutes, then headed for the Ravenclaw Tower.

***

"It's a beautiful morning!" Sirius said cheerfully the next morning; too cheerfully.

"Ok Sirius, what did you do this time?" Remus asked, spreading some butter on his toast.

"Nothing at all sir Moony. Can't a guy say it's a beautiful morning?"

"No," Remus said dryly.

"Haha," Sirius said sitting down.

Sirius glanced over at the Ravenclaw table.

"S-S-Sirius . . . don't tell me y-y-you-"

But it was too late.

A loud bird noise came from the Ravenclaw table and everyone looked over there. There was Lily Evans with a bird beak and her hair was up in a Mohawk.

Everyone started laughing but James didn't.

"Why did you do that S-S-Sirius?"

Sirius shrug, "Just because she didn't have to embarrass me last night by taking my bag off!"

"T-That's no reason to do that!" James stuttered, defensively. James was about to punch Sirius (Which he seriously would've regretted later on) but Lily got there before him and punched Sirius.

Lily squawked at Sirius, her beak moving up and down. Sirius couldn't hold it in even though he was slowly forming a black eye and burst out laughing. He crawled under the table before Lily could punch him again.

James said a spell under his breath and Lily's beak and Mohawk disappeared.

"Sirius Black, get out from under the table before something extremely bad happens." Lily whispered warningly.

"Miss Evans and Mr. Black! That is enough!" Professor Dumbledore called from the Head Table, eyes twinkling behind his glasses. "I would like you both to apologize to the other and 5 points will be taken from each of you."

"Sorry," They both mumbled.

Lily glared at Sirius and ran out of the Great Hall. James couldn't decide whether to glare at Sirius or not so he decided to chase after Lily.

"L-Lily!" James called, seeing her figure ahead, running. Lily didn't stop or even turn around but ran into an empty classroom. James ran in there once he got to the classroom.

James looked around the room wildly, when he didn't see Lily in there.

"L-L-Lily?" James called.

"Go away James!" Lily said from behind one of the desk.

James looked behind each desk until he got to the Professor's desk and saw Lily sitting Indian style, leaning on the desk.

Lily wiped her eyes. Was she just crying?

"A-are you alright?"

"James," Lily sighed, "I actually thought we were all friends and then Sirius had to do a prank on me and humiliate me in front of the whole school! All I wanted was friends. I can't really stand the girls in my dormitory because they are too serious and read TOO much . . . I have no friends at home. My sister makes sure of that."

"Lily d-d-don't worry about S-S-Sirius. He's just l-like that, and always h- h-has to get back at p-p-people who embarrass him. And I'll b-be your friend Lily. How does y-y-your sister make sure you don't have any friends at h-h-home anyways?"

Lily shook her head and as if a reminder she covered her wrist. But even though Lily was fast, so was James. He grabbed her arm gently and gasped.

"D-d-does she abuses you L-L-Lily?" James asked staring at her bruised wrist, eyes wide.

Lily pulled her arm away and said stubbornly, "It's none of your business James."

"I-If I'm your f-f-friend, then yes, it i-i-is."

Lily sighed and played with the hem on the bottom of her robe.

"Sometimes," she whispered.

Lily broke out of her shell and burst into tears as James pulled her into a hug.

"Why does life have to be so hard?" Lily said angrily.

"L-L-life is what you make of it L-L-Lily. It can b-b-be good or b-b-bad. I mean l-l-look at me and my s-s-s-stuttering! I hate it but I t-t-try to make the best of it, a-a-all you need L-L-Lily is friends and the Marauders can do that f-f-f-for you Lily."

"Thanks James," Lily said, standing up on her own. "Let's head for classes. What do you have first?" Lily said as if nothing had happened, wiping her eyes.

"C-Charms."

"Dang, I have Transfiguration. What do you have after Charms?"

"C-C-Care of Magical Creature."

"Great! Same here! I guess I'll see you there then," Lily said smiling and giving James a hug. James hugged Lily back a little longer than necessary.

Lily smiled again and walked off towards Transfiguration while James stared at her back and then turned around and headed for Charms.

***

Professor Flitwick snatched the note off Sirius's desk.

"I will not tolerate writing notes to each other in this class! Is that understood?" The professor squeaked. He then cleared his throat and read aloud their note.

James felt like he was about to die of embarrassment.

James,

Do you like Lily or something? You were all defending her when I pulled that prank.

Sirius

Sirius,

No . . . she's just a friend and ONLY a friend. At least I don't go pulling pranks on my FRIEND!

James

Hey Stutter Boy,

Looks like someone has a crush!

Siriusly Black

I am about to SIRIUSly murder you Black,

Ok ONE: I DON'T have a crush on Lily . . . ok, maybe A LITTLE one but that's IT!

TWO: Don't ever make fun of me and my stuttering AGAIN!

JAMES

Jam-

Professor Flitwick looked up from the note he had just finished and stared at the two boys.

"Ten points from Gryffindor. There is no need to go around declaring your undying love to Miss Evans in Charms class."

James sunk in his seat as the class snickered.

When the class ended, James rushed out of the classroom with the whole classroom chanting, "James likes Lily! James likes Lily!"

Meaning all the Gryffindors AND the Hufflepuffs.

James dreaded going to next period.

***

"Hey James!" Lily said cheerfully, scooting over to give James some room next to her. James sat down, face red like a tomato. "What's wrong?"

'Good, she hasn't heard yet.'

"N-N-nothing. Sirius and I-I-I just got in a f-f-fight."

"Ohh," Lily said getting out her notebook, ready to take notes for the class.

'Dear someone please help me!' James thought when a crowd of Hufflepuffs entered. They giggled when they saw James sitting next to Lily.

"James likes Lily! James likes Lily!" They yelled across the room, giggling.

"What?" Lily said, looking up from her notebook, from where she was writing her heading down.

"He told Sirius in a note during Charms class!" One of the girls giggled again, waving her hands animatedly.

"Is this true?" Lily said, blushing, turning towards James.

'Great,' James thought. 'Just when we became friends!'

***

A/N: MUHAHAHAHAHA! I decided to end there . . . AND I UPDATED LIKE AFTER A YEAR! YAY! This story, I decided is going to be roughly around 5-7 chapters most likely. There's going to be a cute meaning behind everything. And I'm SO sorry for the long wait everyone! I had SIRIOUS writer's block on "What's The New Girl's Name?" and that's my main goal to finish!

Oh, has anyone seen Ghost Ship? That movie is strange, but I loved it! It was really bloody but still good. People at first told me it was stupid but hey I liked it! It was weird thinking how many people would kill others just for gold . . .

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Questions:

Mandy Brocklehurst: Hmm . . . interesting, a Lily like Hermione. Yeah, I am trying to make her more down to Earth. Thanks for the idea of an abusive sister! It was a good idea for her results on being tough! THANKS! Ohh, yeah at first I kind of got away from drawing but now I'm back in it! I'm drawing fairies, dragons, and all the good stuff!

Ceecee: That quotes was: A diamond is a girl's best friend, they're sharper than knife I love the Daughter's of the Moon books too!

me the third : I honestly have no clue if Hagrid said Lily was in Gryffindor. I don't think he did . . . but then again I haven't read the books in so long and I've read them four times!

thistlemeg: YES! IMPERFECT MARAUDERS! HAHAHAHHA! I love them imperfect too! Makes them seem more real!

I'm glad you people like my version of Lily and the Marauders!

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