It was a nice day; yes indeed a very nice day. Lily Evans was sitting in her apartment looking out the window, it was sunny and warm, and it was her second summer after she graduated from Hogwarts. She was waiting for her boyfriend James Potter. They never really said they were going out, but it was more of an unspoken understanding. They started 'going out' at a Christmas Ball they had to plan in their seventh year when they were the head students.

It was James's birthday, and for his gift, she got tickets to go to the Tricky Tricksters last concert. They were his favorite band after all. She sighed as she remembered the argument they had one night in the common room about that.It seemed so long ago, but it was only a little over a year ago. Lily was pulled out of her thoughts by a loud popping sound. She looked up, slightly startled, into the smiling face of James Potter.

"Hey there," he said, leaning down to kiss her. Lily would've answered, but another popping sound interrupted her train of thought, and she looked around the room to see who it was this time.

"Sorry to.uh.interrupt," Sirius Black sniggered, and then disappeared with another pop. Lily just shook her head and then turned to her boyfriend.

"You ready for you're gift?" she asked, hardly able to contain her own excitement. He smiled and nodded his head, resembling a small child who was offered a piece of candy or something else of the sort. Just as she was reaching into the deep pocket of her robes yet another pop filled the apartment. This time it was Andrea Mick, Lily's best friend from school.

"Anyone seen Remus?" she asked, pulling her thick curly blonde hair back into a pony tail. They both shook their heads and she was on her way when the fifth pop filled the small apartment.

She pulled an envelope out of her pocket and handed it to him. He took it cautiously, knowing that she still didn't believe that it wasn't him that put a curse on a note that she wasn't supposed to get in seventh year that made her bald. When he opened the envelope his eyes got wide and his smile grew until it about took up his whole face.

"I love you, Evans," he said, hugging her tightly. "How did you get these?" He demanded, looking at the tickets to make sure they were really there and not just a figment of his imagination.

"Ah that is for me to know, and for Sirius not to tell," she said, knowing that he was around there somewhere by the small pop coming from the other room. They laughed as they heard a muffled 'damn' coming from the kitchen.

Soon Lily and James were on their way to the Tricky Tricksters last concert. When they found their seats, they found that they were sitting next to one of the girls from the Christmas Ball. She remembered them because as soon as they sat down she asked "So, are you still grown up James Potter?"

James smiled, "Not tonight" he said happily. Lily sighed, but no one heard it because one of the most popular Wizard Bands of their time was up on the stage, getting ready to perform.

Lily liked them, but they weren't her favorite band. She knew most of their songs because of James, and she couldn't help but sing along with the crowd as they played the first song. (Ok these lyrics are Sum 41's.don't sue me lol)

"I'll never take part in the growing population

Or waste my time with further education

To get what we know, is just a big show

Where they want to control

So jaded and frustrated

It's all so complicated

Fashion, no passion surrounds me"

By the end of the concert, they had played five more songs they had planned. Lily had to admit that it was a great concert. She had a lot of fun, and she knew for a fact that James had loved it. Every time he got a change he would hug her and say 'thank you thank you thank you'.

They got back to Lily's apartment at about one thirty in the morning, and almost dropped from exhaustion. "I'm so tired," James said, sitting down on the couch and leaning his head back.

"Stay here then, I'm sure Sirius can stay home alone." She said, sitting next to him. He chuckled and put his arm around her shoulders.

"It's Sirius we're talking about here, anything's possible." He was about to thank Lily again, but he heard a soft snoring sound. She fell asleep.

The next morning, Lily woke up to find her limbs tangled up with James on her couch. After struggling for a few minutes she gave up and just lay there watching him sleep. 'He's so cute when he's asleep' she thought to herself.

"Mmm" James groaned and pulled her closer to him. "I love you," he whispered in her ear. She turned her head slightly so she was looking at him. "I love you more," but he had already fallen back asleep. Lily sighed and tried to get back to sleep, but she was up and that was that. While waiting for her boyfriend to wake up, Lily found out that she had thirteen cracks in the paint in her ceiling, one bubble in the paint on the doorway to her bedroom, and the carpet had a spot of paint on it by the kitchen door.

She was bored. Very, very bored. Finally after another half hour of staring off into space, James woke up from the sound of Sirius appaperating.

"Ah Wormtail said I'd find you here Prongs," Sirius said, sitting on the chair beside the couch.

"Whaddya want Padfoot," James asked, poking Lily on the nose playfully.

"I was going to ask you how that concert was, and tell you that I found us a bigger apartment, but I can see when I'm not wanted." Sirius sniffed over dramatically and then disappaparated out before anyone could even blink.

"I hate it when he does that." James said shaking his head and laughing. "Wait, did he say he found us a bigger apartment?" Lily nodded her head and watched his face light up. "We have to go find him!" he practically yelled, trying to stand up knocking both him and Lily into a heap on the floor.

"He'll be back, James, he always is," Lily said, laughing as they tried to untangle themselves. In a few seconds they were both standing and trying to smooth out the wrinkles in the robes.

Sure enough, just as Lily said he would, Sirius showed up in the middle of breakfast that morning, literally in the middle. James almost choked on his egg when Sirius appeared on the table in front of him. "You guys ready to go see our new place?" Sirius asked cheerfully. His question was answered when Lily chucked a piece of toast that was smothered in butter at the back of his head, causing it to stick to his hair for a few seconds before sliding off onto the table with a soft thudding noise. "Ok then, I'll check back later." then with that, he left again.

James sighed, and finished his breakfast before going home. When we got there, he found that everything had been moved into boxes with the owners name on them. He looked around at the semi-empty apartment for any sign of the other two people that lived there. Of course he found none because Peter was at work, and Sirius was no doubt out bugging either Peter or Remus while they were at work.

After checking to make sure that everything of his was packed up, he went into the kitchen to see if there was still anything in the refrigerator to drink; he didn't feel like drinking anything that was conjured at that moment.

He opened the fridge and taped on the pitcher of pumpkin juice was a note in Peter's writing.

"Prongs

I had a feeling you would want some pumpkin juice.anyway, the address of the new place is 'Marauders Paradise'. Sirius thought of it.

Wormtail"

James, Sirius and Peter shared an apartment, while Remus lived with his mother still because she was ill. They decided that once she was better they would find a bigger place and the four of them would live together. James put the note down, and then walked across the street to Lily's apartment so she could go as well.

James loved the apartment, it was great, everything that they needed, there was only one thing wrong with it. It was in Hogsmeade, and Lily lived in London. "Just appaperate James, or floo, it's not that big of a deal," she said. James shrugged his shoulders, and they went to look around. It had four bedrooms, one bathroom a kitchen, living room, and a dinning room. It not an apartment, it was more like a flat; it took up the whole floor above one of shops.

They could see why Sirius was so excited about it. The living room was a light shade of blue with a darker blue carpet. Some one had already brought the sofa and chair over from the old apartment, and the wireless was sitting on its stand against the wall across from the couch. The dinning room already had the table and chairs, and the walls already had some pictures on them. There was one of the marauders from every year at Hogwarts. Seventh year was different, instead of just the four boys standing in the common room, it had Lily, Andie and Shelly as well and they were all standing out by the lake in their graduation robes.

The kitchen however was completely empty except for the white linoleum floors and the sparkling white counters. They went to look at the four bedrooms; they were all pretty much the same except for color. Sirius had already claimed his bedroom; cautiously they opened the door to look inside almost afraid to know what it looked like.

It had light gray walls lined with pictures of the marauders and their friends. There was an empty picture frame that he always had. Lily had always wondered why he had an empty frame all the time but when she asked he would just sigh and shake his head. She decided that she would have to ask James some time.

His bed was already there, and so was a dresser that had more pictures on it. Sirius had always liked pictures, he liked taking them, he liked looking at them, and he liked everything about them. The next room was empty and had light blue walls like the living room, only it had hardwood floors. The other two rooms were both white with wood floors. James decided that no matter what room he ended up with, he was going to do some of his own decorating.

On their way out the door to go get lunch at the Three Broomsticks they saw Remus and Andrea walking down the street with some boxes.

"Hey," James called, walking over to the others. After they dropped the boxes off at the new apartment, the four of them headed off to lunch. They were soon joined by Peter who worked as a part-time bar tender there when he was on his lunch break.

"Did ya get my note Prongs?" he asked sitting down at the table with a brown paper bag in his hands. He pulled out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as James nodded his head. "Nice isn't it?"

"Yeah, it is," Remus said, "Oh by the way, I call the blue room."

"You mean the one next to Sirius's?" Peter asked, taking another bite. Remus nodded his head. "Ok, Well James do you have a room claimed yet?"

"Nope, I don't care what room I get, I'm going to uh...redecorate it anyway."

"OK, then I'll take the on that's closest to the living room."

When everyone was done eating, and Peter had to return to work, the others went back to the old apartment to get some of their things to take over to the new place. Soon, with the help of a lot of magic, all of the boxes and extra possessions were at the Hogsmeade apartment getting sorted into the rooms they needed to go in. This normally would have been a very difficult task given the number of boxes, but Lily had read about a sorting charm that helped a great deal in this situation.

They sat on the floor watching the boxes arrange themselves all lost in their own happy little worlds.

a/n: Ok, this was supposed to be a sequel, but I just decided that I'd just continue on this, sooo there ya go, chapter six I guess.lol Hope you liked it

Thank you to all of the wonderful wonderful reviewers!! I love you guys!!

-Manda