A/N- squeal I love my reviewers… -

Lily flipped through yet another Witch Weekly magazine muttering about how she was going to scream if she saw another article about Love Potions that went awry. It was Saturday, which meant it was a whole week from the Incident. That was what Lily referred to it as- the Incident. Her friends had told her to lighten up, and that it couldn't have been horrid to be stuck in a closet with the almighty James Potter, but Lily seriously disagreed. She and James had actually managed to thoroughly cow Sirius after the Incident. Lily didn't think he'd be trying it again anytime soon. Of course, Lily was wrong. This was, after all, SIRIUS we are talking about. Asides from being a week away from the Incident, it was also the day of Ayrah's 'date' with Remus.

Lily had stuck to her word saying that Ayrah was gorgeous normally and didn't need to dress up. Claire had enlisted the help of Rose, a Ravenclaw friend who Lily and Ayrah had helped tutor before. Rose eagerly agreed to help and she and Claire insisted on going over Ayrah's entire wardrobe. That was infact, the reason why Lily was sprawled on her bed reading Claire's magazines.

After a whole hour, nothing had been decided other than the fact that Ayrah was going to wear her flared jeans.

"What about the pheasant top?" Claire asked holding it up.

"Hmmmm… I don't know. Make-up or no make-up?" Rose asked.

"I really have no clue. But if I had make-up I do NOT want to be slathered in it," Ayrah said, wrinkling her nose at the thought.

"Well, let me just try some on you… If you don't like it than you can wash it off," Rose said opening her make-up case.

"Wait, hair up or down?" Claire asked eyeing Ayrah's waist-long black hair.

This time Lily actually answered. "Definitely down," she said. "Just dress casually! It's REMUS. He likes you already! You don't NEED to impress him!" she said with a pleading note in her voice.

"I guess… but I want to all the same!" Ayrah said.

"That's the spirit gal!" Claire cheered and held up a white blouse. "Too dressy?"

"Well… A little bit… I'm thinking layers for Ayrah… I think we should go for dressy in a casual way- but not too dressy," Rose said.

"What about this underneath a sweater?" Claire asked again this time holding up a red tank top.

"That should work. Here Ayrah. How do you like it?" Rose asked giving Ayrah a mirror.

"Hmmmm… could you do it a bit lighter… I don't want to appear to be trying…" Ayrah said.

"Good idea!" Rose said wiping all the make-up off.

"I give up on you guys! I'm going down to the Common Room alright? And don't let them get you all fancy Ayrah! Okay?" Lily asked not able to stand any more girlishness. Her friends, completely understanding her abhorrence of anything remotely 'girly' barely glanced at her.

"Okay! So we have my outfit down right?" Ayrah asked Claire.

Lily rolled her eyes and closed the door. "Phew!" she breathed then walked down the steps with a stack of Claire's magazines.

"Lily! Is Ayrah up there?" Remus asked her as soon as she came into the Common Room.

"Oh yeah! Claire and Rose are having a ball picking her outfit out and stuff. The girlishness was starting to choke me… I needed to have a breath a fresh air…" Lily said rolling her eyes.

"Wait! I don't have to dress up do I?" Remus asked panicking.

"No, no. I think they've decided on a 'dressy in a casual way' look, so no need to worry. They don't believe me when I say that you don't need any impressing," Lily said wryly.

"She's perfect the way she normally is! You're right, I don't need any impressing. I just need assurance!" Remus said looking extremely nervous.

"Hey don't sweat it! Ayrah clearly likes you, you two will be the perfect couple! Oh and at least PRETEND to be impressed when she comes down alright?" Lily asked.

"I probably will be anyway. Does she really like me?" Remus asked trying to make his voice sound casual, not hopeful.

"Both of you are so incredibly blind. Duh she likes you!" Lily said rolling her eyes. "Well, I see Rose and Claire coming down… That means Ayrah is finished," Lily said.

Sure enough Ayrah stepped down to the Common Room. She was wearing a white cardigan and underneath she had a red tank top. Her hair was down looking as silky and perfect as ever. Lily had always envied Ayrah's hair. Ayrah wore flared dark blue jeans and sneakers. There was barely any trace of make-up on her face. She smiled shyly at Remus.

"Wow, Ayrah! You look great!" he said smiling at her and sounding truly sincere. Rose and Claire high-fived behind them. "Shall we go now?" he asked as if in Court, offering his arm.

Giggling, Ayrah took it and replied, "Okay."

Together they exited the portrait hole.

"They make the perfect couple, don't they?" Lily asked almost a bit wistfully.

Rose and Claire nodded.

"I hope we'll all find someone as perfect for us as Remus is to Ayrah," Claire said. Lily agreed, though she never knew that the person would be so close…

"So where do you want to go?" Ayrah asked.

"Depends. Where do you want to go?" Remus asked.

"No I asked first. Where do YOU want to go?" Ayrah asked smiling.

"Fine, you beat me to it. Want to check out Zonko's?" Remus asked.

"Sure! I'll be shown around by one of the experts!" Ayrah said laughingly.

Remus just laughed as they walked together to Zonko's.

"Hey Sirius!" James called.

"Yeah?" Sirius answered back.

"Do you think Ayrah's the girl for Remus?" he asked.

"Hmmm? Oh yeah. Definitely. Some people are just meant to be with each other," Sirius said wisely (failing to pull off his 'wise' look).

"Yeah I guess…" James said.

"What's the matter Jamesie? Thinking of a certain FLOWER?" Sirius asked teasingly.

"Huh? Flower?" James asked. After a moment he got it. "Ugh! You mean EVANS? Are you crazy? I told you before! I. Do. Not. Like. Her. Okay Sirius?"

"Touché… You know your heated denial could just verify my point more!" Sirius said smiling.

"UGH! You are impossible!" James said throwing his arms up in despair.

"You know… that's what exactly what Lily says and does to me too!" Sirius said earnestly.

James growled. When was Sirius ever going to let go of the silly notion about He and Evans (he shuddered at the thought) being together?

"That was really cool!" Ayrah said as she and Remus walked out of Zonko's with bags filled with prank items.

"You know, you're the first girl who has ever actually taken a genuine interest in stuff in Zonko's!" Remus said delightedly.

"So do I pass the 'Remus test?'" Ayrah joked.

"With flying colors," Remus said gazing down at her. He quickly snapped out of it. "I chose last time. Your turn. Where do you want to go?" He asked.

"Oh ummm… How about Honeydukes? Hey you know… we should start putting those look-a-like Sugar Quills we bought in Zonko's in action!" Ayrah said wickedly.

"Great idea!" Remus said. "Race you there!" He started at a dead run.

"No fair! You got a head start!" Ayrah yelled.

Sirius looked at Rose, Claire, and Peter and began to pace. (Claire had dragged Rose into it saying that if she was going to have to suffer through a Sirus meeting, then she'd bring someone down into it as well.) "The last plan was a setback. It failed. But we can still do this! We will prevail! James and Lily WILL get together darnit!" Sirius cried nobly. "Hey are you two girls listening to me? HELLO?"

"Hi Sirius. Face the facts. Lily and James. Hate. Each. Other. Okay?" Claire asked rolling her eyes.

"That's just on the outside! Come on! If we keep on doing this, then they'll start to gradually like each other!" Sirius said. Rose snorted and he glared at her.

"I was thinking mistletoe-"

"Black, in case you haven't noticed, this is NOVEMBER. Christmas in NEXT MONTH," Rose pointed out.

"So? We can wait. Bide our time. That way Lily and James won't suspect us anyway," Sirius explained.

"I don't know why we're doing this," Claire said dully as she scooted her chair in closer to begin plotting again.

"Because you love me," Sirius said smiling earning himself two whacks on his head. "Owwie!" he pouted.

Rose and Claire smiled innocently.

"Great! That was great!" Ayrah gasped as she remembered the shocked looks of people as they took a sample of their Sugar Quills.

"They should know better than to take candy from strangers!" Remus said chidingly.

"Right, sure. I almost felt bad. But the side affects wear off anyway!" Ayrah said brightly.

"That's right! It's kinda cold, want to go to the Three Broomsticks?" Remus suggested.

"Sure! Butterbeer, here I come!" Ayrah said. "Race you!" she said after she started running.

"That was very cheap!" Remus shouted after her as he began to run too.

By the time they got to the Three Broomsticks, Remus had caught up to Ayrah. He smirked while Ayrah stuck her tongue out at him. Then both seemed to realize how incredibly close they were. Just… inches… apart… Ayrah quickly turned and walked into the place flushing a bit.

Remus followed. "I'll go get our butterbeers," he offered.

"Th-Thanks," Ayrah said mentally scolding herself. She had been doing so well before and had managed not to make a fool of herself and had actually ENJOYED herself, she couldn't start blushing and stammering like a fool. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she didn't notice that Remus had already arrived with the butterbeers and had set one in front of her. He was busy with his own thoughts.

How do I ask her? He wondered. 'Ayrah, I want you to know that-' No… that sounded dumb. Direct approach? 'Ayrah will you go out with me?' No… He should tell her that he liked her before asking her out. 'Ayrah I really like you and-' that sounded pathetic already. He sighed and then saw Ayrah accidentally knock over her butterbeer making it spill over the table onto his clothes. He looked up to meet Ayrah's mortified eyes.

"It's oka-" he began but was cut off by Ayrah wringing her hands.

"I'm so incredibly sorry. I don't know how I could be so clumsy! I'm so sorry! I really didn't mean to and I-" Ayrah stopped. Remus had taken her hands and gently placed them down. She stared at him for a moment, and then they both leaned in. Their first kiss was innocent and sweet, when they broke away they stared at each other some more.

"I suppose this would be a good time to ask you to be my girlfriend," Remus said quietly.

Ayrah just smiled and leaned in to kiss him again.

"Yes."

A/N- REVIEW please! I didn't do much changing at all… There wasn't that much to change and I couldn't really change Remus and Ayrah's date though I'm not too pleased about it…