Can you win me?...

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Author's notes: Ok, let's just pretend that in my story James lives in a muggle neighborhood but only magical people / non-muggles can see it. Ok?...

Well, have fun reading, hope you like it, enjoy it, and approve it, bla bla bla. Don't forget to review! ; )

Chapter 1

Lily sat on her bed, her face covered in green facial mask, while reading Teenwitch magazine. Lily was a very beautiful girl; most of the guys in Hogwarts had their heads full of her attractive smiles, but then, no one could blame them. Lily had a pale and silky smooth complexion that suited her jade eyes that usually sparkled, setting the fiery colour of her hair. Lily was one of those I-don't-care-what-you-think kinds of girl, but in a good way. Even though she was not very good at dancing, she had an amazing voice. Her most stunning feature was that she was extremely intelligent and excelled in many of her classes, especially Charms, getting many points for her house, Gryffindor. She had guys that were desperately trying to get her to go out with them, nervous out of their wits. Lily could sometimes be undoubtedly stubborn. "She's a hard one to get" A guy was once caught saying.

Her two best friends sat on the floor; one doing her hair and the other doing her nails. Like all girls throughout history, this time of pampering was often times filled with gossip.

"Did you hear about James Potter?" exclaimed Lorelei, with an eager expression spreading across her slightly tanned face.

Lorelei was another one of those "cool 'n' popular" girls. Being an attractive brunette with skin that was easily tanned, eyes of deep grey- black, and lips pink and soft only added to her gift of flirting, which was why no one was surprised if a long line of nicely dressed guys stood in front of the Gryffindor porthole ready to be picked as her "boyfriend of the day". It was quite hilarious, really. Unlike Lily, she was a fantastic dancer; she could do all the moves in break-dance like the Clock, the Windmill, and the Various Freezers. You could leave it to her to distract anyone-especially guys-and be the spotlight of everything. Unlike Lily, she hated classes. Going to parties was more her thing.

"I know! I can't believe it myself! James Potter actually dating Jessica Morton; am I blind? Because I can't see a thing he sees in her." Ally continued, her eyes sparkling in amusement.

Ally was the "lifesaver". She could get anyone, including herself, out of anything. With her seducing and charming smile, and her quick mind, she could say anything and make any guy melt, but as for girls; speechless, then all she needed to do was walk Smart huh? And to add a spark to all this; she had smooth, slightly freckled skin and dark meaningful blue eyes setting a glow to her raven hair. She seemed to be a perfect girl- everyone kept saying this. She was cool, pretty, a dancer, a singer, smart, but no one - except her best friends of course - knew how insecure she felt sometimes; caused by the memory of her not-so- happy childhood. Now, however, she had a great life.

Lily's deep green eyes darted from left to right as she skimmed down the article- 'Why an instant body slimming potion is a No-no' - She looked up, her face the light green of her eyes because of the facemask, and commented; "Well, I guess you're right, but probably when you get to know more about Jessica Morton, she could be a pretty cool friend..."

Seriously, who was she kidding? Those two girls eyeing her right this moment were her two best friends- what was the point of her denial?

"Err...Lily? You know that Jessica's just doing this because she knows you have a crush on James and you're her biggest enemy." Ally reasoned, but Lily just kept quiet.

Are you-"'Lorelei started, but Lily quickly cut her off, knowing what she was going to say.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Even though the most gorgeous and absolutely charming guy that I apparently have a huge crush on is dating the girl that I somewhat dislike, I think I'm alright with it." She commented.

Here she goes again, denial, denial, denial. Although she knew that her friends didn't believe her, she was safe for now. She didn't need to tell the truth until the 1st of September- the day when they would all go back to Hogwarts. They were all glad for entering their 6th year.

At least, that's what she thought...

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James Potter, who lived in the same neighbourhood as Lily, also had his best friends over: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. They were there for a week and they planned to make the most of it. By this they, of course, meant making pranks on the girls. This time, their unfortunate victims were Lily and her friends, who coincidentally were having a slumber party that day and the next.

James Potter was a very popular boy. Of course this was obvious due to his slightly tanned skin, dark brown eyes, jet black hair that was incredibly messy (to his surprise, many girls found it very "cute"), and a charming smile that could make any girl melt at the sight. He was also the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, which explained his swift and somewhat graceful movement on the dance floor. Right now, he was rivaling in Charms with none other than Lily Evans.

Sirius Black was a "playboy" as many girls called him, but this didn't stop them from trying to get his attention let alone be his girlfriend which he intentionally changed every week, because he said that anything more than that amount of time is going to get "BORING". It was very easy for him to get a girl, for he was intelligent, mischievous, and with styled raven hair, eyes of all shades of blue that fitted well with his quite pale skin- he could make a girl fall for him at first sight.

Remus Lupin was a quiet boy who liked to spend his spare time reading books if not doing a prank or two with his other best friends. Remus had light brown hair that he liked to style in spikes, he was known as the soft one in the group, and with his eyes of deep sea-grey, when anyone looks into them; they seem to be dragged into a completely different world-a mysterious world.

All of these three gorgeous guys had well-built bodies of course.

Peter Pettigrew. If you see him walking down a street without those other three boys, I assure you that you wouldn't even think that he had anything to do with them. Peter has a short round body, but his face almost always wears the same expression; one full of dread. Since he started hanging around with the other three, Peter's "cool by association" title has earned him a few ladies, who all, by the way, say it's his smile.

That finishes it off doesn't it? Four slightly different guys, with different interests and different looks who could be very similar once you got to see them doing something together. Well, best friends meet in weird ways

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"Ok. Next question: If your boyfriend were about to dye his hair in rainbow colours, what would you say to him?

a) "TAKE THAT WIG OFF! YOU'RE STARTING TO LOOK LIKE MY EX-BOYFRIEND!"

b) "Honey? Are you trying to break up with me?..."

c) Or, "HAHAHA, good joke..."

While saying this, Lorelei chuckled in between words. Ally made no pretension of being shy as she was already bellowing with laughter and Lily was shaking in laughter with small hiccups interrupting, causing everyone to laugh harder.

"Can you imagine if James ever gets the chance to actually date Lily, and he dyed his hair in rainbow colours and being told off like he looks like her ex-boyfriend?" Ally exclaimed, still roaring with laughter.

"Oh my God, I can see that weird look on his face now!" Lorelei agreed, grinning widely.

Lily just sat there, her face fixed in a serious expression as if to say; that-is-totally-NOT-funny and she said, "Excuse me, I thought we were having-"

She suddenly stopped when she heard a sound; she put her finger onto her mouth, indicating to be quiet. She tilted her head toward the direction to where the source of the noise seemed to be coming from.

They all approached the window, and they heard people speaking, and they immediately knew to whom those voices belonged; James and Co. Ally, Lily, and Lorelei smiled evilly- they knew the boys had a prank in mind, well, so did they; the girls had a plan.

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"Shh, dimwits! The girls could hear us!" James whispered harshly.

"Ok, lord of the dimwits- who always like to tell the more inexperienced dimwits to shut up..." Sirius challenged.

"Shut up!" The other three whispered hoarsely.

The Marauders were right outside Lily's bedroom and with the help of "Zonko's Joke shop's sticky-finger", they could glue themselves temporarily to the wall, making a line of flattened bodies all surrounding Lily's grey window; acting as if they were some sort of spy agents, they peeked into the girls' window. The coast was clear so James tilted his head to the bag that Remus was holding.

Peter and Remus rummaged into the bag, with their other hand stuck to the wall, so they wouldn't fall off; and after a few moments of searching they found what they were looking for- the "stink n spark bomb". The Marauders grinned, imagining the faces of the shocked witches. Their grins widened.

James shook his head, if he wanted that shock to actually happen, he better start working. So he gathered the bombs, and divides them evenly between him and Sirius. They looked at each other, and with assuring nods they opened the unlocked window and climbed in. When all of them have entered the room, they were all ready to shout, BOO!" and throw the stink and spark bomb but all stopped when they saw Sirius- who was first in line- wide-eyed and jaw-dropped. The other three looked in the direction that where Sirius was looking, and boy, were they dead.

The three girls were standing on their bed wands ready, and a tomato ketchup bottle each. They were grinning, with the knowledge that the boys were cornered and defenseless. Right after Sirius' shock-faze begun' the girls charged like some crazy soldier in a 16th century war, and the boys hadn't even had a second to think of what to do before they can feel tomato ketchup all down their front, back and hair- yep.

A quick while later, the girls pulled their wand out, shouted; "Petrificus!"

The spell was taking place; the boys hardened into a statue, and fell face- flat to the ground. Ha! That must've really hurt.

"Poor boys" Lorelei muttered, still smiling at the petrified body lying in front of them.

"Yeah, I know. We did GREAT!" agreed Lily.

"That's for messing with us!" Ally exclaimed, talking to the boys more of than talking to her best friends.

"Err...What do we do now? We can't just leave them here, if Petunia or my parents see them; they're not going to be so happy" Lily observed, her eyebrows digging into her forehead.

"I know," Ally started, "We could just send them to their own house-you know, by that what's the flying charm again Lily? Anyway, just leave them soaking in that ketchup soup. We better make the Petrificus charm longer though, so it'll last until just before breakfast. If James' mom sees them like that, I'm sure she's going to do something better than our little scheme just now" Ally snickered, seeing the story in her bright blue eyes.

Lily and Lorelei nodded simultaneously, and they all set off to continue their plan.