Lily woke up bright and early the next day. She had a hard and trecherous task waiting for her, finding a date for the Halloween ball. She would have to start with the best and then work her way down. The best would have been the Gryffindors. However Sean, and Munguldus both had girlfriends, Sirius and Remus were like brothers so that would just be disgusting, and there was no way she would even consider taking James, or even Peter for that matter. She would never ever take anyone younger than her and she knew for a fact that all of the 6 and 7 years had already been asked, with the exeption of Joe Dinkle, but he was way too disgusting. Next came the Ravenclaws, Lily sat down at a near by table in the Common Room and pulled out a piece of parchment. She grabbed her quill and started to write names, and then proceed to cross them out. "So I'm not datable material then" said Sirius pretending to be hurt. "First of all you already have a girl friend or should I say girlfriends, and I would never consider taking you to any where were it could be taken that we were going out. And same for Remus." "Gee, thanks" he replied. "I see good ole Jamie and Pete crossed of to, neither of them have girlfriends." "Like I would ever go anywhere with Potter of my own accord." "Okay, I understand that one, but what about poor Peter." "No offense, or anything, but being seen with him would sooo ruin my reputation." "Isn't that sweet, Lily's to self-centered to even care about how others feel. Really nice Lily." It was James. "Shut up, pig. I don't give a damn how you feel. And Peter doesn't care anyways. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go find my date." She glared at James and stomped out of the common room. "Jesus Christ, I hate that bit..." "Shut up, James. You know she's like my sister. You insult her, you insult me." "Oh, God, here we go again. It's only Lily you stand up for. Why not me? She always deserves what she gets, I don't. It's like she permenantly on PMS." " Yhea, you never deserve what you get? Oh, I'm sure." "Well at least, I'm not a back stabber." "I am?" "You two, break it up now, c'mon." Remus had intervened just in time. James looked ready to sock Sirius one, and Sirius had the same look on his face. "Listen, you may love Lily"he motioned to Sirius "and you may hate her" he nodded at James. "But either way, don't argue about her. Sirius, you and Jamie talk about every other girl in the school, why do you get so worked up about Lily?" "Because, you idiot, Lily is practically my sister! I won't let anyone talk bad about her." "Yhea, well I'm practically your brother, that doesn't seem to matter when Lily is talking bad about me." "That's because I know that you can handle it, Lily will go do something stupid, like commit suicide or something." James rolled his eyes, "You're right, I forgive you" James stuck out his hand and Sirius shook it with a grin. "So do you think there's anyway she won't get a boyfriend?" "Are you joking?" replied Sirius.
However downstairs in the great hall Lily was having no luck. "So Lindsey, any guy available? she asked hopefully. "I'm sorry, girl, there all taken." "Every Ravenclaw guy is taken?" "Well, with your descriptions, yhea." she replied Lily turned to face Kelsey, a friend from Hufflepuff. "What about you, any guys available?" "Lily, you're just sooo picky. There were no guys left." She said it with a guilty expression, as if it were her fault. "Oh my God! What am I going to do? I cannot take any Slytherin or James and Peter!" She let out a long sigh, and looked ready to cry. "God, why?