A/N: Hey! What's up? Here nothing much... well as you can see I've decided
to stick to the Marauder's memories which are what I like best. Badger,
Nikki... I don't know what to say but thanks! You're the best! I love you
two loads! Thank you, thank you , thank you, thank you!!! I'd be nothing
without you! (I'm not actually "something" but, anyhow...) And since The
Quidditch Pitch has been a little... unestable these last days, I'd like
you two to e-mail me! You know? Im_not_a_werewolf@hotmail.com? 'Cause I'd
really like to get to know you two better, got it? Well... on with the
story, hope you like it! C.U.! LOVE YA!
MOONY
The second day, when Harry woke up, Remus was already gone. Bill Weasley told him that he had to take a rest but he promised to return and stay with him that night. The rest of the day, Harry waited for Remus. Everytime the door opened he looked that way waiting to see Remus' face and the book in his arms. Every single Weasley came, also came Prof. McGonagall and Hagrid, even Cornelius Fudge... but there were no signs of Remus. Harry was getting grumpy when at last Remus came to take over Molly. Harry was beaming and as soon as Molly left, he requested his story. Remus read James' memory but this time Harry didn't asked too many question, just one. 'Can you tell me something about the time when my mum and dad started going out?' he asked. Remus thought a little and agreed 'Ok... let me tell you about your parent's first date' Harry grinned and laid in his bed, listening to Remus. 'Lily and Sirius got to an arrangement... He would date Cassie as long as Lily dated James. They were both "sacrificing themselves" for their best friend. Obviously, after a little while it stopped being a sacrifice to Lily and I truly believe Sirius got to care very much for Cassie. Sirius never said no to a 'Maiden in Disstress' but Lily definitely was NOT having the time of her life... at least at the begining...
James had spent all the Halloween morning trying to flat his hair and was forced by Sirius to give up and went down to lunch. They were supposed to meet Cassie and Lily at two in the Common room before going to Hogsmeade. Remus was trying to make Nikki understand something about Arithmancy, when Sirius and James sat next to them. 'Bloody Arithmancy!' bellowed Nikki, throwing all the papers away 'I should have dropped it in third!' 'Tough time?' asked Sirius sitting and taking a bite from his bread. 'Nah... could be worse' shrugged Nikki as Remus put the papers toghether with a move of his wand. 'Say, James... are you ready to finally go out with Evans?' asked Remus 'Ready? If I'm ready?... of course I'm not!' he said trembling nervously 'What if I say something stupid? What if I spill something on her robes? What if she doesn't like my hair? What if...' 'Could you stop that please?' asked Sirius 'You'll be fine! Let the "What if"s alone!' Nikki was trying her best not to laugh at the panicking Head boy. 'You know, James?' she said 'Lily's not gonna kill you if it doesn't goes great' 'No, he's gonna kill himself' whispered Sirius in her ear, making her spit all her juice back to her glass. 'Don't you have a date too, Black?' she asked Sirius. He nodded. 'I always have a date, Niks... I'm going out with Cas White' Now Remus spited his juice back to his glass. 'Cassiopea White?' he asked Sirius, his eyes wide. 'That's the only White I know, do you know anyother?' he said not looking at him and helping himself more Yorkshire Pudding. James was now looking stranged at Sirius. 'Why?' he asked him 'You always said that you would finish the other houses before taking out a Gryffindor' Sirius shrugged 'I guess not'. Remus threw a look at James but said nothing. 'We better get going, Jims, let's get our cloaks and wait for them' they got up and left, James panicking one more time. 'But Sirius! What if I try to hold her hand and she takes it away?' Remus sighed. 'You like her, Cassie I mean, don't you?' asked Nikki. Remus blushed and shook his head violently. 'No way!' 'Then who do you like?' she pushed 'Hum... You!' he said smiling proudly of his recently made up lie. 'Who do you think you're talking to, Lupin?' she asked, looking at him with her eyebrows up 'I wasn't born yesterday, you know?' Remus sighed again 'Am I that obvious?' 'Well... you're not as obvious as Pettigrew drooling over Potter' 'Hey! For your information, I'm trying to eat here' said Remus 'So could you please leave the fat one out of this?' Nikki laughed and picked her things up. 'Lupin?' she asked. He looked up at her. 'Wanna come to Hogsmeade with me so we can keep an eye over Black and Cassie?' 'Only if we get to laugh at our corageous Head boy taking out the Head girl' 'All right, It's a deal' she smiled and they shook hands 'See you in the Common Room in twenty minutes!' she waved as she left the Great Hall. After a while, Remus checked his watch. Ten to two. He was finishing his lunch when Peter skipped into the Great Hall. 'Hello Moony! Have you seen...' he said smiling stupidly. 'He's going out with Evans. I'm sorry Wormtail, I must go.' He finished his pumpkin juice in a rush, got up saying 'I've got a date with Meadowes, see you tonight in the Halloween feast!' and stormed out heading to the Gryffindor Tower, leaving behind a very confused Peter. A little later, Cassie and Lily were walking down Hogsmeade main street with Sirius and 'The-boy-who-freaked' (A.K.A. James Potter), heading to the Three Broomsticks. Cassie was laughing at Sirius' charming jokes (If they weren't funny, she would have laughed anyway) and James was silently walking next to Lily when Nikki and Remus started following them, hiding now and then so they weren't seen. As Sirius unleashed all his charming personality and threw Cassie his most prefabricated smile, James was just looking at his shoes and thinking madly that if he opened his mouth he would screw everything. 'So...' said Lily, feeling bad for how was James acting that definitely wasn't his usual big-headed self 'It's going to be a nice Halloween night tonight' 'hu huh' said James, still decided to don't look at Lily 'Halloween is my favourite festivity' 'Git! Why did you said that! That was SO lame...' thought James immediately. 'Really?' asked Lily 'Halloween is my favourite too' 'Yeah?' James looked at her hopefully and when he found a smile he thought he had died and arrived in heaven where an angel was welcoming him. 'Are you OK, Potter?' asked Lily after James had stared for several seconds. 'What? Who?... me? Fine!' he mumbled quickly. Nikki and Remus were hardly holding their laughter behind a tree a few meters behind. 'Hey! Guys!' yelled Sirius whose arm was already over Cassie's shoulder 'I'm going with Cassie to the Shrieking Shack... wait for us in the three broomsticks!' and ignoring their friends desesperated looks wishing them to stay, they turned away and left. That caused trouble with Nikki and Remus. 'Shit! They're splitting!' cursed Remus. 'Who do you want to follow?' asked Nikki 'Dunno...' lied him 'I can't believe Cassie is already making out with that twit!' spatted Nikki, almost forgeting about Remus crouching next to her. 'Why don't we join Lily and James in the three broomsticks and scare the crap out of them?' she added grinning evilly. 'How?' asked Remus, not really liking the idea of Sirius and Cassie being left alone. 'Well... just seeing us entering toghether will do, don't you think?' said Nikki, cleaning the mud out of her robes 'Besides, James could use some help and I think Sirius is going just fine' 'That's exactly what I'm worried about' thought Remus as he smiled and followed her silently. James' freezing silence was getting on Lily's nerves, even more than any stupid comment he could have said. They were sitting in front of eachother drinking their butterbeers calmly when a well-known laughter broke into the bar. Both, the Head boy and girl looked up to see from where came Nikki's usual laughter and both jaws dropped when they saw her arm wrapped around Remus'. 'What are they doing here?' asked Lily. 'Dunno...' James had forgot he was with Lily 'What I want to know is what are they doing TOGHETHER?!' 'Hey, Lily!' waved Nikki as a very embarrased Remus was being dragged along with her to Lily and James' table. 'What are you doing here?' asked Lily again, while the arriving two took a sit. Remus was avoiding James' gaze by looking at Lily. 'Nothing actually... we were just around and decided to came in for a butterbeer, right Remus?' answered Nikki as if nothing out of the usual (as two people that barely talked to eachother entered a bar crowded with students by the arm) had happened, when James caught Remus' eyes and mouthed 'Remus?'. Remus looked away and just nodded. 'Nikki, would you mind comming to the bathroom with me?' asked Lily, with her "I-need-to-talk-to-you-now" face. When Lily and Nikki had left James stared even more fixedly at Remus. 'Moony... what is going on?' he asked really seriously 'Nothing' 'Moony...' that last one sounded more like a threat. 'Sirius is out with Cassiopea!' whined Remus finally. 'Of course he is! You haven't told him anything and you know he doesn't sees things like that even if you wrote it in the back of his eyelash!' Remus wasn't looking at him when he mumbled 'I know' 'That's why you're out with Nicole? Because Sirius is out with White?' Remus shook his head 'Nope, she asked me out' he said taking a sip from James' butterbeer. 'Remus, you're one of my best friends... but I don't buy that shit, why are you here?' 'To follow Sirius and Cassiopea' 'And how did you dragged Nicole into this?' 'She wanted to follow them too... it was her idea!' 'But as you see they're not here!' 'We know, but you seemed in deeper trouble, although I don't know how "deep" is Sirius now, if you know what I mean...' 'Oh... You're right!' James hide his face behind his hands 'This is going like hell! We have barely talked!' 'It could be worse, you know that, don't you?' 'Gee, Moony... how encouraging!' said James sarcastically and taking his butterbeer out of Remus' hands, panicked again 'Oh! Here they come!' 'Try to bring up a topic you could both like' whipered Remus as Nikki sat in front of him. James threw him a terrified look and tried to follow his advice 'Erm... How are you doing in Transfiguration, Evans?' asked James. 'Fine I guess... Prof. McGonagall said I'm already an "O" in NEWTs level!' said Lily with a proud smile on her face, James really got out a topic Lily would like to talk about: her marks. Nikki got Remus and herself a butterbeer as Lily kept talking and grinning about her marks '... and Flitwick said that with the last 432% of my last year charms test, I'm already in the top ten students in Hogwarts at the moment!' James was smiling stupidly as he saw her happy but Nikki was about to doze off. 'Wow, Evans! Congratulations!' smiled Remus, making Nikki wake up with a kick. 'Why do you still call her "Evans"? This is the seventh year of our lives that we're spending toghether and you can't call her Lily?' she said sharply. 'Ok... Lily, then' said Remus shrugging 'Happy now?'. 'Very' she smiled 'It's not like Black does... calling everyone with "s", Niks, Jims, Rems, Lils... it's too much' she took a sip from her butterbeer and added quite commandingly 'You can call her Lily too, James'. James was staring at Lily when he asked 'Can I?' Lily sighed and agreed. That give James a little more confidence... too much maybe because he started talking about the last Quidditch game where he had made this magnificent move and when he showed her how he had swirled to get the Quaffle dropped her butterbeer. Luckily, over Remus and himself and not over her. 'Oops... Sorry, Rem! Lily, can I get you another butterbeer?' 'No, James, I'm fine' she said quickly as Mme. Rosmerta hurried to clean everything and everybody with a flick of her wand. 'Be more careful, Jamie!' she said after bringing Lily another butterbeer. 'Sorry, Ro! It won't happen again!' he smiled and waved her as she left. Nikki threw a quick glance at the opening door and reported under her breath 'Here comes Black and this week's girl' 'Hey!' said Cassie standing next to the table as Sirius magically brought two more chairs to the table for them to sit. 'Rems? What are you doing here?' asked Sirius with an equiring look in his face, apparently not noticing Nikki. 'He's with me' she said 'But we were just about to leave, weren't we Remmy?' 'Remmy?' asked James and Sirius in unison. 'That's my name...' Remus sighed looking down at his feet or rather at Cassie's lovely new shoes. 'Why don't you come with us, Cassie?' asked Nikki 'I know you love Honeydukes!' 'Wanna come, Sirius?' she asked him Sirius looked at James and he nodded with a tiny smile. 'Ok, Jims, Lils... catch ya later!' he said as everyone got up and left. Cassie and Nikki headed quickly to the sweet's shop but Sirius walked a little back with Remus. 'Way to go, Moony! You're out with Meadowes!' 'No, I'm not!' Remus said defensively 'We were trying to help James, whose date with Lily was on its way down as you left to make out with poor White' 'Make out?' said Sirius surprised 'Not with Cassie! She's way too smart to be caught by me on our first date!' Remus sighed and blushed as Nikki and Cassie stood in the middle of the street stopping them. 'Let's go back and enter from the back door so we can hear what they're saying' said Cassie, causing Remus to flinch. 'Ok, Rosmerta will let us in if I ask her' said Sirius turning back. They entered to the bar unnoticed and sat on a table close to James and Lily, hidden behind a giant pumpkin. James and Lily had remained silent again after everyone left, but James was still feeling more confident. 'Hum... Lils, can I call you Lils?' 'I guess... only Sirius calls me Lils, but if you like it' 'I like it... but it's not that I don't like your name, I mean, it's beautiful!... but so is Lils and... well, almost everything about you...' he said blushing a little and making her blush a little too. ['That's so sweet!' whispered Nikki holding Cassie's hand. 'Shhh... they're gonna hear us!' Cassie whispered back. The four of them, sticking their ears to the pumpkin] 'You probably know this already, but I like you a lot' Lily was not looking at him but he held her hand from across the table. She was about to take it away but James hold it tighter. 'Please, Lily... give me a chance...' he begged and her dazzling green eyes met his hazel ones. 'Please...' he repeated. Lily sighed one more time and bit her lower lip, feeling sorry for him. 'Potter, I...' 'James' he interrupted her 'Or Jamie if you like it, or big headed git, twit, prick or whatever you may like to call me, but please, don't walk away from me!' Lily rolled her eyes 'You want me to stay even knowing that you won't score with me?' she asked. James nodded, still holding her hand. 'Even knowing that you don't like me the way I like you, or that you don't like me at all' he said 'Give me a chance to show you who I really am... Please' ['Come on Lils, don't go!' whispered Sirius now 'Ooh, I feel like a spy!' 'Shut it, Bond!' snapped Remus 'They're gonna hear you!'] 'Lily, I swear you don't really know me... Give me a chance, I won't let you down' Lily looked again into his eyes. Yep, he was being honest and she could really see that. 'Ok' she said 'How's this? I'll hang around with you this week, as friends, and if we can get on well... I'll go out with you again' James beamed and jumped up. 'Great! You won't regret that Ev... I mean, Lily!' He went down in one knee and kissed her hand before finally letting go. Lily couldn't supress a smile. In the other side of the pumpkin, they were all smiling to each other until they heard Lily saying 'Let's go to Honeydukes with the others!' Sirius freaked and elbowed Nikki in the stomach, who hit Cassie's nose with her head, who stepped on Remus' hand. A nano-second later, Sirius fell over Nikki, who fell over Cassie, who fell over Remus, who knocked over the pumpkin. James and Lily found themselves staring (as everyone else in the restaurant) at Sirius over a pile of teenagers mixed with crushed pumpkin. 'Hello guys!... erm... we're back?' he said smiling innocently. 'I won't be back if you don't get up!' choked Remus from under the three of them. Sirius got up and helped Nikki and Cassie up. Cassie's hand was stretched towards Remus when James reacted. 'What the bloody hell...?' but he stopped as Lily started laughing. He looked at her and all his anger was washed away. He smiled. Whatever made her smile, would made him smile. Sirius started laughing too and the hole bar followed as always happened when Sirius did something like that in public.
... Mme. Rosmerta made me repair the pumpking, laughing as Sirius hugged her asking for forgivness. Lily and James just laughed at us' told Remus 'That week we barely spoke to your father since he was always with Lily. He made her laugh and embarrased both of them infront of the hole student body by walking around with a sign that said "I'm Lily's sex toy" and as happened to everyone, she got used to him and got the hang of him in the second date. By the third date, they were formally pronounced head boyfriend and head girlfriend by Sirius' he finished. 'What do you mean she got the hang of him?' asked Harry, fully awake although it was really late. 'She discovered she could made him do whatever she wanted if she asked in a certain way' answered Remus. 'Which was...?' Remus whispered something in Harry's ear. Harry went red and laughed. 'Moony!! Way too much information!' 'You asked!' he said defensively 'Besides, you wouldn't be here if she hadn't get used to him... Now, time to sleep' 'Aww!' he whined 'One last story?' 'No way, It's long past midnight... you've gotta drink this dreamless sleep potion and go to sleep, or the Healer won't let me stay anymore!' Harry snorted loudly and drank the potion. 'Don't go before I wake up!' he warned Remus as he fought his eyelashes that fell heavily. 'I won't' said Remus and holding up his hand added 'Marauder promise'.
The second day, when Harry woke up, Remus was already gone. Bill Weasley told him that he had to take a rest but he promised to return and stay with him that night. The rest of the day, Harry waited for Remus. Everytime the door opened he looked that way waiting to see Remus' face and the book in his arms. Every single Weasley came, also came Prof. McGonagall and Hagrid, even Cornelius Fudge... but there were no signs of Remus. Harry was getting grumpy when at last Remus came to take over Molly. Harry was beaming and as soon as Molly left, he requested his story. Remus read James' memory but this time Harry didn't asked too many question, just one. 'Can you tell me something about the time when my mum and dad started going out?' he asked. Remus thought a little and agreed 'Ok... let me tell you about your parent's first date' Harry grinned and laid in his bed, listening to Remus. 'Lily and Sirius got to an arrangement... He would date Cassie as long as Lily dated James. They were both "sacrificing themselves" for their best friend. Obviously, after a little while it stopped being a sacrifice to Lily and I truly believe Sirius got to care very much for Cassie. Sirius never said no to a 'Maiden in Disstress' but Lily definitely was NOT having the time of her life... at least at the begining...
James had spent all the Halloween morning trying to flat his hair and was forced by Sirius to give up and went down to lunch. They were supposed to meet Cassie and Lily at two in the Common room before going to Hogsmeade. Remus was trying to make Nikki understand something about Arithmancy, when Sirius and James sat next to them. 'Bloody Arithmancy!' bellowed Nikki, throwing all the papers away 'I should have dropped it in third!' 'Tough time?' asked Sirius sitting and taking a bite from his bread. 'Nah... could be worse' shrugged Nikki as Remus put the papers toghether with a move of his wand. 'Say, James... are you ready to finally go out with Evans?' asked Remus 'Ready? If I'm ready?... of course I'm not!' he said trembling nervously 'What if I say something stupid? What if I spill something on her robes? What if she doesn't like my hair? What if...' 'Could you stop that please?' asked Sirius 'You'll be fine! Let the "What if"s alone!' Nikki was trying her best not to laugh at the panicking Head boy. 'You know, James?' she said 'Lily's not gonna kill you if it doesn't goes great' 'No, he's gonna kill himself' whispered Sirius in her ear, making her spit all her juice back to her glass. 'Don't you have a date too, Black?' she asked Sirius. He nodded. 'I always have a date, Niks... I'm going out with Cas White' Now Remus spited his juice back to his glass. 'Cassiopea White?' he asked Sirius, his eyes wide. 'That's the only White I know, do you know anyother?' he said not looking at him and helping himself more Yorkshire Pudding. James was now looking stranged at Sirius. 'Why?' he asked him 'You always said that you would finish the other houses before taking out a Gryffindor' Sirius shrugged 'I guess not'. Remus threw a look at James but said nothing. 'We better get going, Jims, let's get our cloaks and wait for them' they got up and left, James panicking one more time. 'But Sirius! What if I try to hold her hand and she takes it away?' Remus sighed. 'You like her, Cassie I mean, don't you?' asked Nikki. Remus blushed and shook his head violently. 'No way!' 'Then who do you like?' she pushed 'Hum... You!' he said smiling proudly of his recently made up lie. 'Who do you think you're talking to, Lupin?' she asked, looking at him with her eyebrows up 'I wasn't born yesterday, you know?' Remus sighed again 'Am I that obvious?' 'Well... you're not as obvious as Pettigrew drooling over Potter' 'Hey! For your information, I'm trying to eat here' said Remus 'So could you please leave the fat one out of this?' Nikki laughed and picked her things up. 'Lupin?' she asked. He looked up at her. 'Wanna come to Hogsmeade with me so we can keep an eye over Black and Cassie?' 'Only if we get to laugh at our corageous Head boy taking out the Head girl' 'All right, It's a deal' she smiled and they shook hands 'See you in the Common Room in twenty minutes!' she waved as she left the Great Hall. After a while, Remus checked his watch. Ten to two. He was finishing his lunch when Peter skipped into the Great Hall. 'Hello Moony! Have you seen...' he said smiling stupidly. 'He's going out with Evans. I'm sorry Wormtail, I must go.' He finished his pumpkin juice in a rush, got up saying 'I've got a date with Meadowes, see you tonight in the Halloween feast!' and stormed out heading to the Gryffindor Tower, leaving behind a very confused Peter. A little later, Cassie and Lily were walking down Hogsmeade main street with Sirius and 'The-boy-who-freaked' (A.K.A. James Potter), heading to the Three Broomsticks. Cassie was laughing at Sirius' charming jokes (If they weren't funny, she would have laughed anyway) and James was silently walking next to Lily when Nikki and Remus started following them, hiding now and then so they weren't seen. As Sirius unleashed all his charming personality and threw Cassie his most prefabricated smile, James was just looking at his shoes and thinking madly that if he opened his mouth he would screw everything. 'So...' said Lily, feeling bad for how was James acting that definitely wasn't his usual big-headed self 'It's going to be a nice Halloween night tonight' 'hu huh' said James, still decided to don't look at Lily 'Halloween is my favourite festivity' 'Git! Why did you said that! That was SO lame...' thought James immediately. 'Really?' asked Lily 'Halloween is my favourite too' 'Yeah?' James looked at her hopefully and when he found a smile he thought he had died and arrived in heaven where an angel was welcoming him. 'Are you OK, Potter?' asked Lily after James had stared for several seconds. 'What? Who?... me? Fine!' he mumbled quickly. Nikki and Remus were hardly holding their laughter behind a tree a few meters behind. 'Hey! Guys!' yelled Sirius whose arm was already over Cassie's shoulder 'I'm going with Cassie to the Shrieking Shack... wait for us in the three broomsticks!' and ignoring their friends desesperated looks wishing them to stay, they turned away and left. That caused trouble with Nikki and Remus. 'Shit! They're splitting!' cursed Remus. 'Who do you want to follow?' asked Nikki 'Dunno...' lied him 'I can't believe Cassie is already making out with that twit!' spatted Nikki, almost forgeting about Remus crouching next to her. 'Why don't we join Lily and James in the three broomsticks and scare the crap out of them?' she added grinning evilly. 'How?' asked Remus, not really liking the idea of Sirius and Cassie being left alone. 'Well... just seeing us entering toghether will do, don't you think?' said Nikki, cleaning the mud out of her robes 'Besides, James could use some help and I think Sirius is going just fine' 'That's exactly what I'm worried about' thought Remus as he smiled and followed her silently. James' freezing silence was getting on Lily's nerves, even more than any stupid comment he could have said. They were sitting in front of eachother drinking their butterbeers calmly when a well-known laughter broke into the bar. Both, the Head boy and girl looked up to see from where came Nikki's usual laughter and both jaws dropped when they saw her arm wrapped around Remus'. 'What are they doing here?' asked Lily. 'Dunno...' James had forgot he was with Lily 'What I want to know is what are they doing TOGHETHER?!' 'Hey, Lily!' waved Nikki as a very embarrased Remus was being dragged along with her to Lily and James' table. 'What are you doing here?' asked Lily again, while the arriving two took a sit. Remus was avoiding James' gaze by looking at Lily. 'Nothing actually... we were just around and decided to came in for a butterbeer, right Remus?' answered Nikki as if nothing out of the usual (as two people that barely talked to eachother entered a bar crowded with students by the arm) had happened, when James caught Remus' eyes and mouthed 'Remus?'. Remus looked away and just nodded. 'Nikki, would you mind comming to the bathroom with me?' asked Lily, with her "I-need-to-talk-to-you-now" face. When Lily and Nikki had left James stared even more fixedly at Remus. 'Moony... what is going on?' he asked really seriously 'Nothing' 'Moony...' that last one sounded more like a threat. 'Sirius is out with Cassiopea!' whined Remus finally. 'Of course he is! You haven't told him anything and you know he doesn't sees things like that even if you wrote it in the back of his eyelash!' Remus wasn't looking at him when he mumbled 'I know' 'That's why you're out with Nicole? Because Sirius is out with White?' Remus shook his head 'Nope, she asked me out' he said taking a sip from James' butterbeer. 'Remus, you're one of my best friends... but I don't buy that shit, why are you here?' 'To follow Sirius and Cassiopea' 'And how did you dragged Nicole into this?' 'She wanted to follow them too... it was her idea!' 'But as you see they're not here!' 'We know, but you seemed in deeper trouble, although I don't know how "deep" is Sirius now, if you know what I mean...' 'Oh... You're right!' James hide his face behind his hands 'This is going like hell! We have barely talked!' 'It could be worse, you know that, don't you?' 'Gee, Moony... how encouraging!' said James sarcastically and taking his butterbeer out of Remus' hands, panicked again 'Oh! Here they come!' 'Try to bring up a topic you could both like' whipered Remus as Nikki sat in front of him. James threw him a terrified look and tried to follow his advice 'Erm... How are you doing in Transfiguration, Evans?' asked James. 'Fine I guess... Prof. McGonagall said I'm already an "O" in NEWTs level!' said Lily with a proud smile on her face, James really got out a topic Lily would like to talk about: her marks. Nikki got Remus and herself a butterbeer as Lily kept talking and grinning about her marks '... and Flitwick said that with the last 432% of my last year charms test, I'm already in the top ten students in Hogwarts at the moment!' James was smiling stupidly as he saw her happy but Nikki was about to doze off. 'Wow, Evans! Congratulations!' smiled Remus, making Nikki wake up with a kick. 'Why do you still call her "Evans"? This is the seventh year of our lives that we're spending toghether and you can't call her Lily?' she said sharply. 'Ok... Lily, then' said Remus shrugging 'Happy now?'. 'Very' she smiled 'It's not like Black does... calling everyone with "s", Niks, Jims, Rems, Lils... it's too much' she took a sip from her butterbeer and added quite commandingly 'You can call her Lily too, James'. James was staring at Lily when he asked 'Can I?' Lily sighed and agreed. That give James a little more confidence... too much maybe because he started talking about the last Quidditch game where he had made this magnificent move and when he showed her how he had swirled to get the Quaffle dropped her butterbeer. Luckily, over Remus and himself and not over her. 'Oops... Sorry, Rem! Lily, can I get you another butterbeer?' 'No, James, I'm fine' she said quickly as Mme. Rosmerta hurried to clean everything and everybody with a flick of her wand. 'Be more careful, Jamie!' she said after bringing Lily another butterbeer. 'Sorry, Ro! It won't happen again!' he smiled and waved her as she left. Nikki threw a quick glance at the opening door and reported under her breath 'Here comes Black and this week's girl' 'Hey!' said Cassie standing next to the table as Sirius magically brought two more chairs to the table for them to sit. 'Rems? What are you doing here?' asked Sirius with an equiring look in his face, apparently not noticing Nikki. 'He's with me' she said 'But we were just about to leave, weren't we Remmy?' 'Remmy?' asked James and Sirius in unison. 'That's my name...' Remus sighed looking down at his feet or rather at Cassie's lovely new shoes. 'Why don't you come with us, Cassie?' asked Nikki 'I know you love Honeydukes!' 'Wanna come, Sirius?' she asked him Sirius looked at James and he nodded with a tiny smile. 'Ok, Jims, Lils... catch ya later!' he said as everyone got up and left. Cassie and Nikki headed quickly to the sweet's shop but Sirius walked a little back with Remus. 'Way to go, Moony! You're out with Meadowes!' 'No, I'm not!' Remus said defensively 'We were trying to help James, whose date with Lily was on its way down as you left to make out with poor White' 'Make out?' said Sirius surprised 'Not with Cassie! She's way too smart to be caught by me on our first date!' Remus sighed and blushed as Nikki and Cassie stood in the middle of the street stopping them. 'Let's go back and enter from the back door so we can hear what they're saying' said Cassie, causing Remus to flinch. 'Ok, Rosmerta will let us in if I ask her' said Sirius turning back. They entered to the bar unnoticed and sat on a table close to James and Lily, hidden behind a giant pumpkin. James and Lily had remained silent again after everyone left, but James was still feeling more confident. 'Hum... Lils, can I call you Lils?' 'I guess... only Sirius calls me Lils, but if you like it' 'I like it... but it's not that I don't like your name, I mean, it's beautiful!... but so is Lils and... well, almost everything about you...' he said blushing a little and making her blush a little too. ['That's so sweet!' whispered Nikki holding Cassie's hand. 'Shhh... they're gonna hear us!' Cassie whispered back. The four of them, sticking their ears to the pumpkin] 'You probably know this already, but I like you a lot' Lily was not looking at him but he held her hand from across the table. She was about to take it away but James hold it tighter. 'Please, Lily... give me a chance...' he begged and her dazzling green eyes met his hazel ones. 'Please...' he repeated. Lily sighed one more time and bit her lower lip, feeling sorry for him. 'Potter, I...' 'James' he interrupted her 'Or Jamie if you like it, or big headed git, twit, prick or whatever you may like to call me, but please, don't walk away from me!' Lily rolled her eyes 'You want me to stay even knowing that you won't score with me?' she asked. James nodded, still holding her hand. 'Even knowing that you don't like me the way I like you, or that you don't like me at all' he said 'Give me a chance to show you who I really am... Please' ['Come on Lils, don't go!' whispered Sirius now 'Ooh, I feel like a spy!' 'Shut it, Bond!' snapped Remus 'They're gonna hear you!'] 'Lily, I swear you don't really know me... Give me a chance, I won't let you down' Lily looked again into his eyes. Yep, he was being honest and she could really see that. 'Ok' she said 'How's this? I'll hang around with you this week, as friends, and if we can get on well... I'll go out with you again' James beamed and jumped up. 'Great! You won't regret that Ev... I mean, Lily!' He went down in one knee and kissed her hand before finally letting go. Lily couldn't supress a smile. In the other side of the pumpkin, they were all smiling to each other until they heard Lily saying 'Let's go to Honeydukes with the others!' Sirius freaked and elbowed Nikki in the stomach, who hit Cassie's nose with her head, who stepped on Remus' hand. A nano-second later, Sirius fell over Nikki, who fell over Cassie, who fell over Remus, who knocked over the pumpkin. James and Lily found themselves staring (as everyone else in the restaurant) at Sirius over a pile of teenagers mixed with crushed pumpkin. 'Hello guys!... erm... we're back?' he said smiling innocently. 'I won't be back if you don't get up!' choked Remus from under the three of them. Sirius got up and helped Nikki and Cassie up. Cassie's hand was stretched towards Remus when James reacted. 'What the bloody hell...?' but he stopped as Lily started laughing. He looked at her and all his anger was washed away. He smiled. Whatever made her smile, would made him smile. Sirius started laughing too and the hole bar followed as always happened when Sirius did something like that in public.
... Mme. Rosmerta made me repair the pumpking, laughing as Sirius hugged her asking for forgivness. Lily and James just laughed at us' told Remus 'That week we barely spoke to your father since he was always with Lily. He made her laugh and embarrased both of them infront of the hole student body by walking around with a sign that said "I'm Lily's sex toy" and as happened to everyone, she got used to him and got the hang of him in the second date. By the third date, they were formally pronounced head boyfriend and head girlfriend by Sirius' he finished. 'What do you mean she got the hang of him?' asked Harry, fully awake although it was really late. 'She discovered she could made him do whatever she wanted if she asked in a certain way' answered Remus. 'Which was...?' Remus whispered something in Harry's ear. Harry went red and laughed. 'Moony!! Way too much information!' 'You asked!' he said defensively 'Besides, you wouldn't be here if she hadn't get used to him... Now, time to sleep' 'Aww!' he whined 'One last story?' 'No way, It's long past midnight... you've gotta drink this dreamless sleep potion and go to sleep, or the Healer won't let me stay anymore!' Harry snorted loudly and drank the potion. 'Don't go before I wake up!' he warned Remus as he fought his eyelashes that fell heavily. 'I won't' said Remus and holding up his hand added 'Marauder promise'.
