The girls had gathered around Lily's bed and were looking skeptically at the door as Lily barged in. "Listen, I'm dating James! Why do you all have such a problem with that?" Lily asked angrily. "Because how bad he hurt you last time! Don't you remember? He'll do the same thing again. I bet he didn't even say sorry to you. He's to pig- headed to do that." Cried Arabella, like she was stating the obvious. "How can you say that?" Lily cried back " You weren't there, you don't know what happened, you don't know what he said. He actually apologized to me. He said 'Lily I'm sorry." Lily's face was turning red with the anger. "He did?" Asked Elizabeth, a look of shock on her face. Lily nodded her head. "Okay, we'll give him a chance, but if he does break your heart, we're allowed to say I told you so. Do we have a deal?" asked Montreal. "Of course" Lily replied. The whole common room could easily hear both Lily and James. They knew exactly what was going on and who was mad at who.

James made his group sit on the bed as he stood in front of them. "Sirius, what the hell were you doing embarrassing us like that in front of the whole entire school? In front of all the teachers and Dumbledore. Where do you get off doing that?" He screamed. "No, the question is, when are you going to learn to stop hurting Lily? Because you know that she is going to end up hurt at the end of all this. Not you, but her. James you forget that she likes long relationships. You don't you hate it! You're going to break her heart and I can't let you do that." Sirius had risen of the bed and had his fists clenched into balls. "How do you know that I don't want a long term relationship? You're to busy with Lily to even bother with me. "How dare you" spat Sirius. "What are you going to do, punch me? Go ahead Sirius, hit me. See what happens." He moved in a flash. Not even Remus, who had amazing reflexes, could stop him. Sirius leapt on James and started to punch him. James hit him back; it was a full-fledged fight between best friends. Sean, Munguldus and Remus tried with all their might to pull Sirius of off James, but to no avail. Down in the common room everything had gone silent. They had heard a lout thud and a groan. Now they could hear Remus yelling at the top of his lungs. "Sirius, oh God, get off him! Get off him. The door to the boy's common room bounced open and the two boys scrambled down the stairs. James leapt on Sirius' back and grabbed him by the neck. "Yhea, this is what happens Sirius, you shouldn't have done anything." Somehow Sirius managed to get James of his back and then turned around and punched him hard in the stomach. Just at that moment the girls walked into the common room. Lily let out an ear- piercing scream. Without thinking she ran to Sirius and tried to pull him off. Tears were streaming down her face as she shouted. "Sirius, James, stop it, please, please, stop it." Arabella too, had rushed to Lily's side and helped her pry Sirius of James. She too, was crying. The punching had ceased; James had a bloody lip, nose, and two black eyes. Sirius was in the same condition, but he had somehow managed to get a large cut across his forehead. Lily stared at the two boys with a look of disgust on her face; the rest of the group mirrored her expression. Both of the guys were panting heavily and looked as if one more punch would have knocked them out. "Someone go get Professor McGonagall. She'll hopefully give you both two months of detention." Lily shook her head. "How could you?" Her voice trembled and both of the boys looked at the floor, soaking the carpet with drops of blood and sweat. "James, you told me you were going to talk some sense into your friends, not knock some sense into them." She choked back a sob; she just hated to see them so mad, she let out a long sigh. "And Sirius, I know what this fight is about. I'm a big girl, okay? I can make my own decsions. And James promised me that he wouldn't break my heart this time. I think I can handle myself. And my God, if I can't I know not to go to you. I'll talk to someone else. "Lils, c'mon I was trying to prot." Sirius started. "Don't even think about it." Cried Arabella. "Cause at the moment we're still dating." She began to shout at both Sirius and James. It was weird for the common room to see that Sirius accepting being yelled at. Normally he would have broken up with anyone who had the nerve to yell at him. But now, he just looked ashamed, as did James.
Lily sat down on a red overstuffed chair next to guys and was crying softly into her hands. Professor McGonagall barged in; she took one look at Sirius and James and her lips tightened, her face showed her disgust. "You two, get up now." She said sharply. Sirius and James got up keeping a good distance apart from one another. For the first time in their life they actually looked scared, but there was also remorse in their faces. They looked as if they really were sorry. "I can't believe them, uhhhh, I just can't believe them!" She said after they had left, she turned to Remus, Sean, and Munguldus, who were nodding in agreement. "Don't nod your heads at me! I'm blaming this on you guys too! Why didn't you try to stop them? What were you thinking allowing them to fight?" Her red hair was flying all over the place. "Lily, sit down and shut up." Remus spoke first, he looked at Lily firmly. The common room gasped, they were ready for the explosion. Surprisingly it never came. Those who knew the Marauders &Co. knew that Remus was able to boss Lily about. He was like the father while Sirius was like the brother. "I'm sorry you guys, I just.just can't believe they would be so stupid to fight over something like. me! I know that you all may not agree with us dating, but please, accept it. I don't want us to be mad about something as stupid as this." Lily curled her legs under her as she said this and hugged her knees. She looked so vulnerable like that. "Sorry, Lil's, you're right. We were wrong to not give you guys a chance. Now we just have to hope that Sirius and James will make up." Munguldus replied.
Most people in the common room were in shock. The first years were in shock because they had just seen a fight, and everyone else was in shock to see best friends brawling like that. Especially best friends as close as Sirius and James were to each other.
The Co. in Marauders and Co. waited with Lily and Remus for James and Sirius to get back. Slowly the common room emptied. "You don't think they've been expelled do you? I mean for fighting, I didn't think they could expel." Voiced Arabella, a worried shake in her voice. "No they don't expel for fighting. I was in a fight with Carlton, you know, from Ravenclaw." Sean let out a sigh "beat him to a pulp, lost Gryffindor 50 pts and got detention for three months. Good times, good times." "When did that happen?" asked Lily in shock. "What can we say, you missed a lot!" said Catherine Spinnet. "Yhea, I sure did." Lily replied. She let out a sigh, and then the portrait burst open and in came Sirius and James. They were silent. The "Co." was silent. The common room was silent. Lily stood up and looked into James' eyes, and then she turned and looked at Sirius. "I'm going to bed, we WILL talk in the morning. Understand?" Sirius and James nodded their heads. Lily turned her around and walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitories. With that everyone went the separate ways.