Foolish Love By Miss Marauder

Disclaimers: I do not own Harry Potter and crew; J.K. Rowling does, she owns 'em all - except for April Urman and Ada Quintana.

Author's Notes: Thank you for all the reviews! They're very encouraging!. Yea!! I'd like to thank my betta readers, friends and of course my reviewers for supporting my story! Thanx a bunch! *sniff, sniff* Hope u likey my 2nd chappie!

C. de Shey: Damn gurl! U gotta a lot of stories goin'! hehe I luv Sirius 2! He's great!

Me, Who Else?: thanx! Hey, do u know Noriko? I saw ur reviews for her story, Not Tonight!!! Well, c ya around!

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*Last paragraph from chapter 1 (

The crash happened all so sudden, because when James opened his eyes, he was laying flat on top of someone. A very attractive girl, with flaming red hair in a now messy bun and amazingly emerald-green eyes; their faces only inches apart.

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*Chapter 2 ( Smiles and a New Target

It was the new Headgirl, Lily Evans. She was never the social butterfly and she always had her nose stuck in a book. James and his friends never noticed her because she was the complete opposite; quiet, unsocial, a party-pooper, innocent- well, boring! The only person she hung out with twenty four-seven was her best friend, April Urman, whom was now standing over James and Lily.

April cleared her throat rather loudly, making herself noticeable as she observed James's and Lily's 'awkward' position. ( Remus was staring intently at her.)

James gazed at Lily seductively. ( He was still on top of her and their faces were still inches apart) He was wearing the biggest smile that it didn't even fit his face.

" Why, good morning to you, young lady." He said twinkling.

"Ugh! Get off of me, Potter!" Lily scowled.

James leaned in closer to her face. " You have beautiful eyes." He said sarcastically.

"Get off of me NOW, you arrogant jerk!" Lily cried as she tried to shove him off, but she didn't meet his strength.

"Merlin, someone's cranky this morning." He replied still smirking. (He still did not remove himself off of her)

Sirius got up from the floor dusting off his robes, but stopped when he realized how James was extremely irritating the red-head. He looked around and gazed at April's impatient expression and decided to clear his throat so all could hear.

"Uh, James? We - uh,. we better get going - Blimey! Classes start in ten minutes, let's go!" He grabbed James by the hood of his robes and yanked him off Lily. "Sorry 'bout that girls!" Sirius called out as he and James rushed towards the door. (James had already struggled through Sirius's grasp.)

"Peter! Remus! Let's go!" Sirius called out once again.

Remus gave Lily a hand to get up and she began dusting her robes. She was oblivious to the fact that Peter observed Lily up and down, and back up again as if he could see right through her robes. (Peter seemed quite interested in her.) After he was done 'scanning' her body he finally took off after Sirius and James. Meanwhile.

Remus looked at the girls apologetically and then focused back on April. She had thick, straight, dirty-blonde hair with black tips that cascaded down to her slim waist. Remus seemed to be mesmerized with her big, honey-colored eyes.

He felt like such a fool just staring at her because no words seemed to come out. He had never been so speechless in his life. Of course he had seen her before (A/N: Duh, she's been goin' to Hogwarts for six yrs.), but he had just been to darn shy. (A Marauder, SHY?!) April was drop-dead gorgeous, so of course pretty much every guy in Hogwarts asked her out, but they would always receive a "no" or she would dump them a couple days later. She was a hard-to-catch.

In the Marauder's opinion, April Urman and Lily Evans were quite attractive, but too geekish for their reputation. Remus always had a thing for April since their first year (A/N: awww), but he was afraid that his best friends would criticize him or make fun of him for having feelings for a nerd; or that April herself would just say no and turn him down. He didn't want that.

"I-.I-.I'm re-really sorry. My friends, hehe- the-their a lil' crazy. Sorry 'bout them." Remus stuttered through a weak smile, his eyes still fixated on April.

He snapped out of his trance when he caught Lily running up the stairs (again, because the 'fall' with James had stopped her in the first place) to fetch something that she had forgotten to take to classes; probably a book. He then looked back at April. "Damn, she's beautiful." He said to himself.

April looked at Remus. She tilted her head to the side and gave him a warm, understanding smile. ( At that, Remus's heart sunk to his stomach and melted.)

" Oh, it's o.k. No worries, Remus. No harm done." She replied sweetly, flashing Remus her pearly-whites.

"MOONY!!!" Sirius's loud, obnoxious voice was heard outside of the Gryffindor Tower. (A/N: Sirius, u gotta luv him!)

Remus jumped and snapped back into reality. He and April exchanged warm smiles and twinkling eyes.

"Well,- uh,- I better go.- bye!" He said blushing a little.

"See you at class, Remus." April replied simply.

He was walking backwards (because he still can't keep his eyes off her) heading for the door.

"Yea.o.k. See you -bye." He said still smiling (and blushing). He was still walking backwards when he tumbled over a piece of furniture making him fall to the ground. THUMP! CRASH! SPLAT! April gave a giggle and pretended that she didn't see him 'eat it', so she ran upstairs to join Lily.

Remus, now flushing a bright scarlet red from embarrassment, sprang up from the floor and ran out of the Gryffindor Tower not bothering to look back.

"Merlin! Why I'm I so fucking stupid?! She must think I'm a love-sick fool! Why am I acting like this around her! I've never had this much trouble with a girl before. Damn it!" He began cursing under his breath, until he met eyes with his three best friends.

"Damn boy! What took ya so long?!" Sirius complained.

"Uh.Err-"

"Holy! We better eat breakfast now because classes start in like six minutes!"

"WHAT!? SIX MINUTES?!" yelled the other three so loud that some nosy little first-years in the hallway had to turn their heads to look.

"Dude, we're going to be late! And I'm starved! Let's go! We gotta run for it!" cried James as he and the rest of the Marauders galloped down the hallway dodging and pushing Hufflepuffs out of their way. (A/N: hahaha! Hufflepuffs suck!- I'm so cruel)

They barged into the Great Hall and saw that most students were already leaving their tables heading for their first class. The Marauders quickly sat down at the Gryffindor table. Remus sat across from Sirius and Peter across from James. (James and Sirius always sit together - well, - that is, unless they spy a hot girl to sit next to.) They tried to jam their breakfast down their throats as fast as they could.

"Ha ha ha! Vid vou see va feshpressions von fose ffuffleffus' vaces fwen vwe vran vem fover?!" (TRANSLATION: did you see the expressions on those Hufflepuffs' faces when we ran them over?!) Sirius tried to exclaim with a whole piece of toast crammed in his mouth making him look like an overgrown chipmunk. Not to mention he was spraying wet specks of pieces of toast on Remus's face as he spoke. Remus flinched and closed his eyes with irritation when the specks of food sprayed his face. (Sirius is oblivious to his 'bad' table manners.)

"Fhey Vames! Vwas var first fla-" (TRANSLATION: Hey James! What's our first cla-) Sirius continued, but was interrupted by the irritated Remus Lupin (He was still gettin' sprayed by Sirius's specks of food.)

"Damn it, Sirius! Close your vile, disgusting mouth!" Remus screamed wiping his face, " I didn't even understand one word that came out of that fucking mouth of yours! Don't talk with your mouth full! Geez!"

Remus shut his mouth and looked straight up at the glaring Remus. The group went quiet. Too quiet. Sirius broke the silence as he swallowed the rest of his mutated toast making a large, loud gulp.

"Our first class is Defense Against the Dark Arts, Sirius." James said. " Com' on let's get going!"

The Marauders ate their fill and headed to D.A.D.A. class. They arrived just in time. As they entered the class, they spied Lily and April sitting in the very back of the classroom. (As usual.) Lily rolled her eyes at James. He just gave her his award winning smile which made the rest of the girls in the class room go googily eyed and flutter their eyelashes at him. He smirked once again and sat next to Sirius.

April's eyes met with Remus's and gave him a warm, comforting smile. Remus blushed a bit, but smiled back and then took a seat next to Peter.

James gave a soft chuckle as he watched Sirius giving all of his concentration on trying to squish some sort of bug that was crawling on their desk with the tip of his quill. Sirius never liked paying attention to the old geezer Professor Garamound anyway, so he continued on trying to eliminate the poor, lame, pitiful bug.

After watching Sirius's impatience with the insect, James turned around hoping to catch eye contact with Lily. Success! He did! He winked at her as he gave her playful seductive looks. Lily blushed a little (she couldn't believe why!), but scowled and rolled her eyes once again at James.

"Ugh! I hate James Potter! He's so. he's so. so rude and obnoxious. I don't know why girls love him so much! He's such a stupid, arrogant jerk!" Lily scoffed to herself. But, she just couldn't forget about those hypnotizing sapphire eyes and that big charming smile of his. " Ok! So.so he's good looking!" she continued to herself. " But he's just so full of himself!"

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Their first day of school seemed to crawl by at a snail's pace. It was nine o' clock pm and James sat alone (alone? That's very rare. He's usually surrounded by girls) slouched in a comfy armchair reading a book called 'Quidditch Game Techniques' by Sterling Wolff. James had played Seeker for almost five years now, and being in his seventh year, he is also the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain. Sirius and Peter were the Gryffindor Beaters and Remus kept score. ( A/N: You know, Thomas Lee Jordan's job?) James sighed as he held up a chart with all the Gryffindor students' names listed for the Quidditch team tryouts.

The silent, scarlet and gold Common Room and the crackling of the warm fireplace was interrupted right when the rest of the three Marauders came barging in through the door.

"How's it hangin', Prongs?!" Peter exclaimed as Sirius plopped himself into another comfy armchair next to James.

"Next coming week are the tryouts." James replied, but Peter and Remus had already gone upstairs to their dormitories ignoring James's reply.

Sirius gazed into the crackling flames and then back at James who seemed to be zoning out, staring at the staircase, smirking.

"Do I really wanna know what's on your mind, Prongs?"

"I think I have a new victim." James replied, ignoring Sirius's sarcasm, still staring off in space.

"Huh? Sorry what? Come again?" Sirius asked scratching his chin, not paying any attention.. (Sirius isn't a very good listener -but he'll work on it.)

James finally turned to see Sirius's puzzled, tired look and smiled slyly. " This year, I'm adding a new chick on to my list."