The Diary

 Chapter 2: Something Interesting and Exploding Snap

Moony, Wormtail, and Padfoot all looked up at James when he left.

"What's the matter with him?" Sirius asked.

"I have no idea." replied Remus.

"Maybe it's the food." Wormtail said with a smirk.

"I reckon someone should go after him." Padfoot said

"Nah, I reckon Prongs just wants to be alone right now. We should just leave him alone and we can talk about it later to him."

"Words of wisdom from Moony." Padfoot said sarcastically.

10 minutes later

The Great Hall was abandoned and everyone was either on grounds or in their common room.

Lily and her friends were sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room talking about a good way to get Potter back when Sirius, Peter, and Remus walked in. The four girls all looked up at them and had a face on of utter disgust.

"Now, Evans you and your friends should really have better manners. Maybe we should give you a few pointers on how to act in front for The Marauders."

Lily knew exactly who it was; she didn't even have to turn around. It was Potter. "Let's go, before these so called marauders start thinking they are actually better then us." And with that Lily, Emma, Lauren, and Jessica got up and left the common room and went into their dorm room.

"I can't stand him!" Lily said fuming. "He thinks he walks on water! He is soo soo grrrrrrrrrrrrr!! He's so bad there isn't even a word for it."

"We know exactly what you mean." Jessica cooed. She didn't actually mean that because she never actually hated anyone as much as Lily hated James.

"Why does he have to be such a prat!? Just once I would love to have a normal conversation with him not getting into any fights or anything. I would love to get to know the smartest boy in our year." What did she just say? She had no idea what come over her. She never actually thought that would come out of her mouth.

"Umm, Lily, you do know what you just said right?" asked Emma utterly confused. One moment it was I hate James. Then the next moment it was I want to get to know him.

"Uhh, yea but I don't know why I said it. It just came out."

"Okay, then that settles it. I'll be right back." Jessica said and with that she got up and left the dorm room. Lily was about to say something but couldn't get it out of her mouth in time before Jess left.

"What do you think that she's doing?" Lauren asked Lily and Emma uneasily.

"I don't want to know and frankly I'm afraid to know." Emma exclaimed.

In the Common Room

When Jess got to the top of the stairs she saw the marauders and they were surrounding what looked to be an old piece of parchment. She walked downstairs and being as clumsy as she was she tripped. When she stopped, she was in the Common Room and the boys were looking at her like she had three heads.

Feeling a bit embarrassed she brushed herself off and walked over to the four boys.

They were still looking at her when she reached them.

"Is there something that we can help you with?" Sirius asked.

"As a matter of fact, Padfoot, there is." She retorted.

"Oh and what would that be; the proper way to walk down a staircase?" Sirius said sarcastically.

"Actually, James, Lily said something very interesting upstairs." She said.

"Oh did she and what would that little interesting thing be?" Prongs said looking up at her with his smirk-ish grin. He wanted his friends to think that he was calm, collective and cool. But he really wasn't. Inside he was jumping up and down. He didn't know why though. He couldn't explain it. All he knew, it was something about Lily....OMG I JUST CALLED HER LILY!! I MEANT EVANS!! I MEANT EVANS, he screamed to himself.

Jess didn't know how she was going to say this but she had to now that she was there. "She said she's very tired of bickering with you and would very much like to actually talk to you in a civilized manner." There she said it. She was so glad that it came out so good, she was afraid that they would think that Lily had some sort of crush on James.

"Oh, she does, does she? Well you can just turn around and tell Evans that James is....." Padfoot began but was cut off.

"Interested, and whenever is good for her is good for him." James finished Sirius' sentence. All of Prongs' friends were staring at him flabbergasted with their mouths hanging open.

Jessica beamed; she couldn't believe it went so well. I hope Lily is as happy as James was. She walked up the stairs and couldn't wait to tell her friends what was said.

"James, are you okay? Did you drink some bad pumpkin juice?" said Moony concerned.

"No I'm fine really, but I am sick of all the pranks that we pull on each other; it's time we grew up." And with that James got up and headed to his dorm.

He couldn't believe what had just happened. He walked past the girl's dorm and stopped. He wanted to hear what they were saying about what just happened.

"He said WHAT?!?" that was a voice James knew, it was Lily.

"He wants to become friends with you. Isn't it wonderful? Oh, come on its great news. You two have been at each other's necks since first year and now it's your 6th year. That's six long tedious years. I mean I'm soo exhausted of all the bickering; I hate it, but I always go along with it because you're my friend, Lily and plus I never ever made a move on Sirius because he was the best friend of your arch enemy and I think he is really cute and I'd love to get to know him a bit more." James couldn't believe what he was hearing; was the Jessica telling her friends that she liked, Sirius? Haha this was getting better by the moment.

"You like Sirius Black!?! You're joking right? Tell me you're joking!" Prongs knew that that was Emma's voice.

"No, I'm not. Is it a crime to like the one the only Padfoot?"

"No, it's not. Fine I'll do it! I'll go with James to wherever he is going to take me, but only under one condition." James heard Lily say and was he correct did she call him by his first name, James? James was in heaven and yet he still didn't know why.

"Which is?" said Jessica

"That you make a move on Sirius TONIGHT and he has to make a move back!" James didn't have time to waste. He had to beg Padfoot to do something. He didn't hear the rest of the girl's conversation because he ran downstairs.

"I thought you were going to bed?" said Moony, looking quite quizzical.

"I was, but then I over heard something." James told his friends everything that he heard and when he finished talking he looked up at Sirius to see if he was going to say anything.

"Jessica Willows likes me? You're kidding right?"

"Nope! So Padfoot what are you going to do about it?" James didn't like the sound of that. He new what was coming, Sirius was going to say that he didn't like her and ruin the chances of him and Lily talking.

But what James thought was coming never came. "The first thing I'm going to do is usher you three upstairs. There you go scoot. Oh and Prongs, your date with Evans is safe with me! Oh guys, is my hair alright?" All of his friends laughed. Prongs knew that he was having great luck.

When they got up to their dorm they immediately looked at Peter and said you know what to do Wormtail. Peter gave them a smile and in an instant he was a rat. He scampered out of the room and stood of the landing looking through the bars of the railing down to the common room. To his surprise Jessica wasn't there yet and Padfoot was looking anxious.

Then both boys heard a knob turn and at that moment Sirius jumped on the sofa and grabbed a random book from the floor. He tried to look consumed in it, but he wasn't he was looking at Jess.

She walked down the stairs with her hands behind her back. Padfoot thought she looked innocent, but he knew for a fact that he was looking at a gorgeous girl.

"Oh, hi Sirius. I didn't know you were down here. I was just looking for a book that I think I left her."

Sirius knew for a fact that she wasn't but he wanted to seem nonchalant. "Oh. Hi Willows. I was just reading."

"Please don't call me Willows. I do have a first name you know." Don't get cocky this has to go over well she thought to herself.

"Sorry, Jess. Maybe I can help you find your book? What does it look like?" This is going to go over well; Sirius promised himself that it would.

"its Oh well, umm.... brown and big...." She started.

"Jess, do you want to play a game of Exploding Snap?" He said trying to make this conversation move along.

"Umm, sure Sirius. I'd love to."

Wormtail thought this was going over very well. He couldn't wait to get back inside and tell Moony and Prongs. They played for about a half an hour and then it stopped abruptly.

Sirius and Jess were laughing hysterically, but then stopped suddenly because their eyes met. They both got absorbed into the other's eyes and then slowly moved towards each other and kissed. It was a short kiss. They looked at each other and smiled. Then they started talking about how long the other one liked the other.

Wormtail was half asleep during it. He thought it was even more boring then, History of Magic and that was absolutely horrible. Then something woke him up. Jess and Sirius were standing in front of the girl's dorm. They slowly moved toward each other again. They kissed. It was long and passionate.

When they pulled apart they both were wearing a broad smile. Then they said good night. Padfoot watched Jess go through the door and then walked over to his dorm door and for some odd reason he looked down. He saw Wormtail. He bent down and picked him up and opened the door to the dorm room.

"Look what I found guys, a rat!" said a fuming Sirius.

"Oh hey, Padfoot. How was your umm...meeting?" Prongs said sarcastically.

"Why don't you ask the rat? I'm sure he'd know." He dropped Peter on his bed and quickly Peter changed back into a human.

"Now Padfoot we just wanted somebody there if u needed back-up. I mean only for Prong's sake." Moony said in a sweet sort of voice.

"Well," Padfoot said as he collapsed on his bed, "when you put it that way. I'm getting ready for bed guys I'm dead tired."

Moony and Prongs both screamed, no at the same time.

"We want to know everything and we want to know it now." Prongs stated. He was to excited he wanted to make sure that he got a chance to talk to Lily, to make up for everything that had happened the years before.

"Well, if you must know," said Sirius, "she came down looking for her book. Then we started to play Exploding Snap and then we talked and we both got a good night kiss. Not a big deal, guys."

"Umm, are you forgetting that you kissed twice?" Wormtail stated.

"Oh god! Must we get into so much detail? The point is that we have liked each other but never did anything about it because our best friend happens to hate the other. Okay? I'm going to sleep now. Good night!" Sirius said. He was extremely happy he couldn't believe what had happened.

All the boys fell asleep fast; all but James that is. He just lied awake and thought about where Lily and he would go on their first meeting. He didn't want to call it a date because he wasn't sure if that's what it was. There was one thing that he was sure of; he was excited. He was bubbling with excitement. When he finally fell asleep the last thing on his mind was Lily.

Meanwhile

When Jess, was in her dorm room her friends cornered her and they made her tell them everything.

When Jess finished she had a broad smile on her face. "I don't believe that he actually likes me. This is too amazing. I'm never going to be able to sleep tonight, I'm that excited." Jess was in a daze. She just had the most wonderful time of her life and she had Lily to thank for it. When her head reached the pillow all she was thinking about was Sirius and to her amazement she fell into a deep sleep very quickly. She never woke up once and she dreamed about Sirius.

The only one of the girls that wasn't able to fall asleep was Lily. She couldn't believe what she was doing for her friend. She didn't know why but she was excited. She supposed that she would have a good time with James; at least she hoped so. What she said before was true, she did want to get to know Potter better and she didn't want to bicker with him. She wanted to be civil and have a decent conversation and not get into a fight with him. More importantly she wanted him as a friend. That was her last thought before she fell asleep.

Ok so that's the second chapter! Yay! SO yeah I know that there was a few mistakes and such in the 'The Prank' but I'm gonna try to go back and fix them, but since this is my first story here I'm still not that great at all this, so just bare with me. Ohh yea, I almost forgot. In the first chapter it may seem like its choppy, but that's the way I wrote it. I actually put a pretty design to show a break. This happened in between the times when the Marauders are talking and Lily and her friends were. It's supposed to give you the feel that this is all going on at the same time but in different places, but the pretty design never showed up. The thing is I saw someone that had a design to break up parts of there story, but it didn't show up on mine, so I don't know what to do. Oh and I didn't put a disclaimer because I don't know what to have it say so if anyone knows PLEASE review and tell me what to put in it. (Hey I think that I was able to put the design thing in this chapter. Gets up and does happy dance and I did it all by myself too.)

Review Thank yous:

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