On New Years Eve, the six of them were playing exploding snap in the common room. An owl flew in trough the window, and dropped something on the couch.
'I give up.' said Lily. 'Ali, here's all my cards.' She gave Ali her cards, and picked up what the owl had dropped, which was the latest copy of Witch, and started leafing through it.
'Hey! That's mine!' said Ali indignantly.
'That's why you got my cards.' replied Lily. 'You're winning now, don't stop.' She got out her wand, and pointed it towards her dorm. 'Accio pen and paper.' A ballpoint pen and a notepad came flying towards her, and she started writing.
'What are you writing with?' asked Sirius. 'That's not a quill and the parchment looks funny.'
Lily giggled. 'It's a pen. I'm sick of having to dip quills in ink. And it's called paper. It's better then parchment. Muggles have better stationary.
Sirius took the pen and paper, and wrote 'hello'. 'Whoa, this thing IS better than a quill. It doesn't look good though. But this paper stuff would rip too easily.'
'Sirius, give it back. I'll get you your own pen later. And I'll even throw in some white out.'
'White out?'
'Just get back to your game.'
Sirius shrugged, and returned his attention to snap.
About 5 minutes later, Lily started giggling, then burst out laughing. 'Bells, Ali, you've got to see this…' The two girls looked, and started laughing. Remus tried to see, but the girls held it away from him.
'What is it?' asked James. The three girls looked at James, and burst out laughing again.
'Spill.' said Sirius. 'Or your hair mysteriously turns green.'
'Ok.' said Lily, when she regained control of herself. 'It's something that will inflate both your oversized heads, and your fanclub. She cleared her throat. 'Sick of posters and articles about guys who are way too old for you?' she read. 'Teenage Witch has compiled a list of the 10 most dateable teenage guys. There are life-size posters of the top three.'
'We have to stick them up!' said Bella. 'We could have a little shrine!' Ali and Lily started giggling, and, looking at the Marauders strangely, giggled again.
'Get to the point.' said Sirius.
'Ok. The number 1 dateable teenage guy is…James Potter!'
'What?' they said in disbelief.
'Number 2…Sirius Black!'
'Holy…'
'And number 3, Remus Lupin!'
The three boys took on a stunned silence. Ali grabbed the magazine, and lifted out three posters, spreading them out on the floor. The three boys were grinning, winking, and raising eyebrows flirtatiously in the posters. The three girls grabbed the mag, and the posters, and ran upstairs to their dorm.
'Damn.' said Sirius. 'That was unexpected.'
James grinned. 'I am THE most dateable teenage guy. This can only mean good things.'
Someone cleared their throat at the top of the stairs, and the boys looked up.
'I want my broom ride now.' said Lily.
'Now?'
'Yes.'
'But…'
'Now.'
'You're so mean to me.'
'You know you enjoy it.'
'That's not relevant.'
'Get the broomstick.'
'You have to come, the only way out's through a window.'
'Fine.' She followed him into his dorm, and he got out his Nimbus 1000.
'Remind me again why we're letting you ride on our brooms that nobody else has even touched before?'
'Because you didn't tell us about the animagi.'
'Is that the only reason?'
'And you really wanted to be that close to me.'
James rolled his eyes. 'Get on behind me.' she did, and put her arms around his waist. He flew out the window, and out to over Hogsmeade. They hovered in the air. 'Ok, where do you want to go?'
'Anywhere.'
'Ok.' He flew off, and they passed over miles of countryside. Suddenly he stopped.
'What happened?' asked Lily.
James looked at his watch. '3…2…1…'and he turned around and kissed Lily. When they broke apart, he said. 'Happy New Year Lily.'
'Happy New Year James.' He smiled, and flew her back to the castle. When they got there, Sirius and Remus were in bed, asleep, coz it was pretty damn late. Lily got off, said 'Told you that you wanted to be close to me.' and left.
Damn, thought James. Why did I kiss her?
Because you like her. said an annoying little voice in his head.
No, I don't. She's just a friend.
You like her
No I don't.
Yes
No
You know you do. She knows it too.
No I don't. I only kissed her because it was the New Year, and you have to kiss someone, and she was there. I DO NOT like her as more than a friend!
Surprisingly, the little voice didn't reply.
