DISCLAIMER: Like I've been saying, I don't own anything! Except my part of the plot... and the characters I made up... nothing else! Can I just make a general statement for all chapters before and after this one? I DO NOT OWN IT!

(A/n: The almighty author has gotten tired of Lily for the moment, so therefore she (Lily) is being boring and isn't worth writing about, or at least from her point of view... until further notice... and by the way, you won't be stuck reading about raspberry cheesecake for the rest of the story, honestly, seriously, Padfootly, Markly...)

James woke up with that strange feeling you get after you've been crying. Squinting slightly in the light he pushed his glasses onto his nose and sat up. Pulling the scarlet hangings from around his bed back, he suddenly stopped, the memories of the last night flooding back. Holding his head in his hands he almost started crying again.

Sirius: "Prongs! Got anymore raspberry cheesecake hidden?"

James: "Go get some from the house elves..."

Sirius: "No... I'll just go to breakfast... if you'll join me?"

James: "You're the most incoherent, food obsessed person today..."

Sirius: "RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE!!!" James's depressive, sulking mood vanished, it was impossible to remain unhappy when in the company of someone so obviously... well... HYPER! James ran down into the common room, falling over a chair onto the floor. Sirius laughed at him and ran out of the portrait hole.

Lily (a/n: fine, I lied, she's not gone forever) was sitting at breakfast, but James and Sirius joined Remus at the other end of the table from her. She looked almost like she would like to come over and join them, but instead left. James's eyes followed her until she was out of sight, hoping, maybe, for her to turn back and make eye contact with him...

Sirius: "Prongs...?"

James: "Mark?"

Sirius: "Mark??"

James: "Mark!"

Remus: "Mark!?"

Sirius: "Seriously..."

James: "PADFOOTLY!"

Sirius: "You already used that pun once..."

Remus: "I don't get it..."

James: "Neither do I."

Sirius: "But, seriously..."

James: "Markly!"

Remus: "I don't get that one either..."

Sirius: "Prongs, chill..."

James: "Go on..."

Sirius: "I need some raspberry cheeseca..." his words were cut off by a piece of pink cheesecake hitting him squarely in the mouth. It was raspberry cheesecake... Looking around wildly for the guilty one, who was invisible, he licked some cheesecake off his mouth.

Peeves: "You said you wanted..."

James: "Good aim, Peeves!"

Peeves: "Thank you! I got twenty-three other people, including Snape... twice... do you think he washed his hair after I hit him?"

Sirius: "Pohmluph noght" his speaking was slightly obscured by the cheesecake in, on, and around his mouth.

James: "Excuse me?"

Sirius: "Oii theadt blaobleee noght!"

Peeves: "You make no sense!"

Remus: "Never did..."

James: "I thought he was making more sense than usual..."

Sirius finally had swallowed enough cheesecake to speak.

Sirius: "I said: probably not."

James: "No you said 'pohmluph noght' or something along those lines... but at least you got your cheesecake..."

Sirius: "Speaking of CHEESECAKE, Peeves, have you been THROWING RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE AT PEOPLE??"

Peeves: "Yes! Very pretty it looks when it hits them too..."

James: "Wrong answer..."

Sirius: "YOU RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE MOLESTER!!" Peeves simply threw another piece of raspberry cheesecake at him, hitting the side of his head.

Sirius: "PEEEEVEEESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

James: "Thank you Peeves..."

Sirius: "PRONGS!!! YOU AND PEEVES!! YOU RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE MOLESTERS!!"

Remus: "Padfoot?"

Sirius: "What?"

Remus: "Let's finish quickly so we can go get some more raspberry cheesecake from the house elves, okay?"

Sirius: "I'm done!"

James: "Me too!"

Remus: "I guess I am too..."

The three of them left, laughing. The house elves, being rather helpful, had managed to find a raspberry cheesecake for them. It wasn't until they had eaten almost half of it (this time with forks and plates) that James realized the significance of raspberry cheesecake. It was no long just a food, between him and Sirius it was a reminder that showing emotions is not always weak and that family is not always the people who are related to by blood.

James caught Sirius's eye, smiling to show that he understood.

Sirius: "Bit slow, Prongs."

James: "It's MONDAY! I'm allowed to be slow until lunch on Monday"

Remus: "Class starts in ten minutes..."

James: "I don't need to go to class... I can learn Divination on my own..."

Sirius: "I'll skip with you..."

Remus: "See you at lunch, then" he left.

James: "No... let's go, we'll need to go to Transfiguration..."

Sirius: "Fine... I only vanished half my kitten last time..."

James: "I managed to vanish all by one ear..."

Sirius: "I thought we were fine in Transfiguration, though, seeing as that we both can..." He stopped, both of them knowing he was going to mention their being Animagus, but the house elves were all listening in. They left, going to Transfiguration class...

They entered Transfiguration just as the bell rang, panting slightly they saw two seats, one by Remus and the other by Lily. James took the one by Lily, getting him a glare.

McGonagall: "We will be working in pairs today, constructive criticism is an import tool is successfully mastering the vanish spell. We will all be vanishing kittens..."

Lily and James ignored each other for the first few minutes of trying to vanish their kittens before Lily broke the silence.

Lily: "I'm stuck with you, Potter..." James smiled to himself, happy to no longer be ignored by her.

James: "Better me than Sirius..."

Lily: "He isn't that bad..."

James: "Today he is..."

Lily: "But you're his best friend, you can't hate him!"

James: "I don't hate him! I meant that if you mention raspberry cheesecake to him, he'll literally explode..."

Lily: "what?"

James: "He's being a bit... let's call it obsessive, over it."

Lily: "You're acting rather strange yourself..."

James couldn't think of a reply, so instead he concentrated of vanishing his kitten. To his amazement on his second try he managed to vanished it completely.

Lily: "Impressive..."

James grinned: "Finally!"

Flitwick: "Fifteen points to Gryffindor! Good job, Mr. Potter!"

Lily: "Showoff..." but to her amazement she also vanished her kitten completely ten minutes before the bell rang.

James: "Showoff..."

Lily: "No, I was just keeping up with you!" She smiled at him with such sincerity that he almost had to smile back.

James: "Whatever you say..."

Flitwick: "Helping her, Mr. Potter? Another fifteen points to Gryffindor!"

James: "She did it on her own..."

Lily: "He just gave me some hints..."

James: "But she's the magical, wonderful one!"

Flitwick: "Good job, both of you!" James and Lily beamed at each other, both of them forgetting the tension that was between for the time.

After the lesson Lily walked with James, Sirius and Remus to the North Tower for Divination.

James: "Has anyone seen Wormtail recently?"

Sirius smirked: "When you left last night he was giving Remus the whole 'join me in finding out about Dark Arts' lecture, so Moony told him to go talk to Snape."

James: "Brilliant, Moony!"

Sirius: "and so Peter tried to hex him, only he missed and hit me instead... so Remus and I both hexed him, along with about ten other people... unfortunately, we couldn't figure out the counter curses for his combination of... ailments... so he's in the hospital wing."

James: "Will he be alright?"

Sirius: "Most likely..."

Remus: "And if not soon, he'll go to Mungo's, he'll get sorted out..."

Lily: "You aren't worried?"

James: "We are... but he deserved to be hexed for trying to convert Remus... You did give him the whole 'you are making the wrong choice, stay on our side' talk before hexing him, right?"

Remus: "Of course!! Prongs, I am on your side!"

Sirius: "He knows."

James: "I never doubted you two... my brother and my best friend..."

Lily: "Brother?"

Sirius: "Not by blood..."

James: "Related by same intentions, and of course, affection..."

Lily: "So Mark is your brother and Remus is your best friend? Then what am I?"

James: "You are my love..." Lily was almost shocked at his open admitting of it...

Sirius: "You're the thing that makes his heart beat... the only reason he gets out of bed in the morning, except for RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE." Lily was slightly confused by the amused look on James and Sirius's faces...

Lily: "Raspberry cheesecake?"

James: "I can get you some..."

Sirius: "No, it's all MINE!"

Lily: "You're right!"

Sirius: "Me?"

Lily: "No, James..." James suddenly realized, she was calling him James again!

James: "I am?"

Lily: "Yes!"

James: "Oh... about what?"

Lily: "Sirius and the raspberry cheesecake..."

Sirius: "Sounds like a book name... Sirius Black and the Raspberry Cheesecake..."

James: "Or James Potter and the Brother Who Only Loved Raspberry Cheesecake."

Sirius: "Not true! I love more than just raspberry cheesecake..."

Remus: "...like...?"

Sirius: "Raspberry cheesecake... Watching the full moon... Severus Snape... and what do you love, Prongs?"

James: "I love... watching the full moon, raspberry cheesecake... my mum and dad, my brother, Lily Evans..."

Lily: "No, you hate me."

James: "No. I hate myself for not being perfect enough for you. I love you for expecting perfection..."

Lily: "Then if you love me, prove it to me! Be perfect!"

James: "What do you think I'm trying to do?"

Sirius: "Raspberry cheesecake..."

Lily and James were both about to reply, but the silvery ladder leading to the Divination classroom lowered above them. Ascending it they found seats; James, Remus and Sirius sitting around a table together and Lily, who had gotten tired of them, went to sit with Sarah, who had been ignoring her since she met 'Erika with a k' obviously had decided she wasn't that bad after all...