Two weeks later, James was sitting by the lake, thinking. Not about anything in particular, just thinking. He heard sobbing and turned around, and Lily was running towards him. He was torn between ignoring her because of the whole Snape thing, and comforting her, because she was crying and all. Or running away, because teenage boys were never very good at dealing with emotion .Before he actually got around to deciding, Lily threw her arms around him and started sobbing into his shoulder. Soon she stopped crying and said 'I'm sorry about Snape. He-they dumped us.' She burst into a whole new round of sobs. Thank you Instant Tears charm.

'I'll curse him.' James said into her hair, in the best comforting voice he could muster. 'I'll beat him up or something. I can't believe anyone would hurt you. I'll make him regret it.'

'You'd really do that? Even after we were so horrible?'

'Of course.'

'Um…then I might have a little, tiny, miniscule, practically non-existent confession to make.'

James looked at her suspiciously. 'What?'

'He…er…didn't dump me. I dumped him.'

James slowly stepped away from her. 'Then, why exactly did you tell me he did?'

Lily suddenly found that little clump of grass on the ground extremely fascinating. 'I kind of…wanted to see how you'd react. You know, if you still liked me at all.'

'I still like you.'

I don't know why. We left you guys for Slytherins!'

'You were never that smart to begin with. Put it down to temporary insanity.'

'Thanks…I think. Anyway, I have to go and use probably a whole bottle of mouthwash. Slytherin saliva. Gross.'

James sat back down and tried to make sense of what had just happened but after an hour he was still confused so he went to find Remus and Sirius, who were in the dorm.

'I will never understand that girl.' said Sirius.

'You should have seen Bella.' replied Remus.

'Where's the logic?' wondered Sirius.

'Hey' said James, because they hadn't actually noticed him yet.

'I assume you were treated to the same thing by Lily.' Remus commented dryly.

James nodded. 'I've been trying to figure it out for the last hour, but still….nothing.'

'I know.' groaned Sirius. 'They have got to be the three most stressful, high maintenance females on the planet.'

There was a knock on the door, and Lily, Ali and Bella came in.

'Hi!' said Bella. The four boys (Peter was there too) stared at the girl who had been so upset last time Remus saw her.

'Anyway, we're here because, Sirius, I wanted to ask you if you'd had a nice life?' said Lily.

'You're not about to kill me, are you?'

'No.'

'Oh then I would like to take this opportunity to mention you have horrible taste in guys.'

'You have no idea.' said Ali, sitting down.

'So, I see your room hasn't gotten any neater.' said Bella. 'Actually it seems worse. Wow, I had no idea that was possible.'

'Speaking of apologies.' started Ali.

'Nobody was speaking of apologies.' James told her.

Ali glared at him. 'SPEAKING OF APOLOGIES, you guys haven't said sorry to us yet.'

'Why would we say sorry?' exclaimed Sirius, understandably more confused.

'Because you ignored us for two weeks!'

'But you-'

'I'm waiting'

'But-'

'Still waiting.'

'I still don't see why we should-'

'I'm not immortal you know.'

'I know, but-'

'Apologise.'

'For what.'

'Hurry up Snuffles.'

'I'm sorry. Happy now?'

'Good dog.'

The other six were grinning. Ali was one of the few people who could get Sirius to do practically anything, and always agree with her.

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A week later, the whole school was alive (I was going to say buzzing…but no) with excitement about the Valentines Day Ball. The Marauders except for Peter (A/N there you go Maria), were playing truth or dare in the common room. It was pretty late, so it was deserted. Of course, that might also have been due to the dungbombs that Sirius let off earlier, but whatever.

'Ok Bella, truth or dare?' asked Remus.

'Truth.'

'Who was a better kisser, Bagman or Avery?'

'Ludo, I guess. Ok, Lils, who is the hottest Marauder?'

The Marauders (minus Peter) all grinned. Of course, Peter might have been grinning at the time, but he wasn't there so we'll never know. Lily looked at each of them. 'Don't make it easy for me do you Bells?' She studied all of them. ;Ok, sorry everyone, but I always liked stags.'

James' grin grew, and Sirius put on what he thought was a hurt face. 'But Li-leeeee, don't you love me anymore?'

'Don't worry Snuffles, Lily's blind.' said Ali.

'You're just saying that coz James is your brother, and that's sick and wrong.' said Lily.

'Then who do you think Bells?' asked Ali.

'I know you think Remus.' Lily interrupted.

'Uh, that's because that is who I think is.'

'I don't NEED to tell you who I think, because you two should be able to see it too.'

'Yeah Als, hope you and Sirius bring the pitter-patter of little feet in to the wizarding world.' Lily replied sarcastically.

'Per-lease. He's better than James.'

'Ali, I'm disappointed in you. To think you can't even see Remus. What a pitiful existence you must lead!'

'Well, I, can't belive both of you. Ok, Ali has an excuse but Bella! It's James! Hello!'

'So I guess that's who you're taking to the ball?' asked Ali sarcastically.

'I guess it is.'

'Hey, um girls…' started Remus.

'Oh look, ARABELLA, your future date's talking.'

'At least he can, unlike Sirius, who's just sitting there!'

'Coz he doesn't need to talk to beat Remus!'

'So I suppose,' commented Lily. 'Those two are your date's now?'

'I suppose so.'

'Well, duh.'

'Don't talk to me like that!' exclaimed Lily.

'I'm not, Little-Miss-Bitch over there is.' Bella almost shouted. Ali slapped her across the cheek. Bella looked murderous.

'Uh, people…' said Sirius tentatively.

'Let's just go upstairs so everyone doesn't have to see what I'm going to do to you!' Bella yelled.

'You'll have to put a silencing charm there too! Or maybe you actually need intelligence to think of that!'

'I'll kill both of you in a second!' screamed Lily. Who even in this fake fight, was getting annoyed at the strange looks from those people, still in the common room (they had high smell tolerance).

'Well, you may as well do it where there won't be any witnesses!'

'FINE!'

The three girls stormed upstairs, and everyone heard a door slammed shut. Sleepy people started coming out and asking what happened. The Marauders told them, from what they had gathered (they were still confuzzled) the girls had had a fight, about them. It helped their egos, and got them dates to the ball, so it was all good. The sleepy people then rediscovered that the dungbomb smell was still there, so they went back to bed. The girls crossed off Step 6.

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Ok…sorry I didn't update in ages, and later I'm going to write another story that matches OotP.  If u review I'll update this and my other stories faster.

Luv, tori