"Hi Kim!" Courtney called brightly, falling gracefully into a seat next to Kim. "Ohmigosh you'll never guess. Oh," she looked at the Marauders in what was supposed to be wide-eyed surprise. "I didn't realise. Sorry, that was totally rude of me," she smiled sweetly, while Lily sat down on the opposite side of Kim, amused as she watched her friend get ready to flirt as much as she could. "I didn't know you were talking. Sorry. I'm Courtney, by the way. Courtney Ad-"

"Addison," one of - Sirius Black - them finished for her, smiling slightly. "Yeah, we know."

"You do?" Courtney smiled again and tossed her hair. "And how would that be?"

Lily looked towards a boy with sandy hair, sort of a cross between brown and blonde. Remus Lupin. "Hmm," he said thoughtfully, raising his eyebrows. "Courtney Addison, Kimberley Jackson and Lily Evans. Probably the most popular girls in Hogwarts. No, I have no idea how we know you."

Lily smiled. She liked him. Just in a friendly way of course. Daniel was the best boyfriend she could ask for. They'd been together for ages. So long the whole school practically thought of them as one unit. Danny & Lily.

Besides, the Marauders should wear a sign, she thought to herself. In fact, they didn't have to. Their reputation told everyone what players they were.

Still, that didn't stop girls from flocking to them.

And at that moment she could see her best friends doing exactly the same thing.

"And obviously, you're Head Girl," James Potter said, not having to add the fact that he was Head Boy. The whole school had pretty much passed out from shock when they realised he was getting the badge. And Lily had had to sit through some very boring meetings with him present.

Lily nodded.

"Right. So you're Head boy and girl, and we're both groups of the most popular people in the school," Sirius went on. Lily glanced at him. She'd have called him conceited, but she'd been called that many times in her life and hated the word. "So how come we've never met properly before?" He flashed a killer smile.

Courtney twirled a lock of her hair in her fingers. "Oh, I don't know. I mean, you would have thought I paths would have crossed, wouldn't you?"

"You would," Sirius replied, nodding seriously.

Remus leaned across the table to carry on talking to Kim. "Well. We'll just have to make sure we get to spend more time together, won't we?"

Kim grinned in return, then Lily looked up when she heard James talking to her.

"It was you who met my brother, right?"

Lily's forehead creased slightly, as she tried to remember what she was talking about. "Um, you're brother?"

"Yeah. At-"

"Oh! At the Ministry. Yeah. Anthony Potter?" Lily said, as she realised. She'd met James' older brother when she'd gone to the Ministry of Magic for a course she was doing.

"Yep. That's the one. You did really well that day, you know," James told her matter-of-factly.

"And how would you know that?"

"Oh, I don't. But Ant also said that you had the most gorgeous eyes he's ever seen. Which he was right about. So I figured he was also right about you doing well, too," James replied smoothly.

Lily stared at him in surprise for a minute. She didn't really know what to say. She'd been complimented on her eyes a lot before, but she hadn't seen that one coming.

"Hi," Danny and Mattie said simultaneously at that moment, making Lily glance quickly up at them as they sat down.

"Oh, hey," Mattie added when he saw the girls were talking to the Marauders.

James, Sirius and Remus smiled broadly then and stood up swiftly. "Hi. Well, I guess we should go. Nice talking to you! See you around. I hope," Sirius said, before walking off.

Lily watched them go, thinking to herself.

It was just James Potter. Like the rest of the Marauders, saying anything to make girls fall for him.

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