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James' POV

I laughed as I quickly pulled the invisibility cloak off my head, and stuffed it into my bag. It was late, so I doubted anyone was around, but I glanced up and down the corridors anyway before I climbed through the Portrait Hole into the Gryffindor Common Room.

This woke the fat lady up. And it didn't please her either.

With a "-don't understand why you have to go out late so often... swear it's only to disturb me..." the painting swung open and let us enter the room.

Sirius and I had been out. Just sorting some things for a little thing we wanted to happen at breakfast tomorrow. No big deal.

We had met Remus and Peter by the Portrait Hole on the way back.

We thought the Common Room would have been empty, but it wasn't. There were three girls sat around one of the tables. Two of them - one with bobbed, short blonde hair and the other with long, straight black hair - looked bored and tired. The other one was bent over a book, though she looked a little frustrated.

She glanced up as we walked into the room, and continued to watch us for a few seconds. You know when you can just feel someone's eyes on you? Yeah, it was like that.

It turned out that Sirius could feel her eyes on us too.

"She is so watching us..." he murmured, grinning slightly.

I rolled my eyes as he pulled something out of his pocket.

"What are you doing?" Peter asked curiously.

"Finding out what her name is..." Sirius replied, staring hard at the piece of parchment in his hands. Not just a piece of parchment. A little thing called the Marauders Map. It may not sound like much, being a piece of parchment, but I swear that little thing's a Godsend.

"Sirius, you can't use that to just find out their names," I sighed.

"Why not? C'mon, we'll check if anyone's noticed the Great Hall yet as well," Sirius reasoned.

Like he'd really listen if I were to say no.

"Okay..." he murmured, tracing his finger over the parchment. "Lily Evans. Got it."

"And what do you plan to do now?" Remus laughed.

"Oh... I'll figure something out..." Sirius smiled. He glanced over at her.

"Tessy..."she was saying, looking at her friend pleadingly. "Help me... please..."

The one with the long black hair shrugged and said something back.

"Got it," Sirius said. He started to walk over towards them and then leaned over this Lily's shoulder to see what she was working on. She didn't even notice him.

I mean, how could she not notice him? I think I'd notice if someone was leaning over my shoulder. Idiot.

Right, why was I getting so annoyed about this? It wasn't as if it was something out of the ordinary. It was just Sirius. And I don't have a problem with him doing stuff like that.

I heard him tell her the answer to whatever she was working on. When she realized he was there, you should have seen the look on her face. Urgh. It was pathetic.

Okay, so I was being a little mean. I didn't even know the girl.

Right then. So I'd join in this conversation too. All for the benefit of getting to know her, of course.

"Charms is okay, I s'pose..." Sirius said, as I joined them. "But I like to make my own rather than use the ones they teach us in Charms."

Tuh! As if he makes them up himself. We make them together. And I told her that. But Sirius just brushed me off, smiling as he introduced us.

Not that it looked like it was any surprise to her. Oh yeah, she'll have heard about us from the Quidditch team. She smiled politely though and introduced herself and her friends.

We already knew their names of course. Told you the Map is a Godsend. But we did the same as she did. Smiled politely and said hello.

"Well, thanks for that again. I guess I'll see you around. 'Night!" she suddenly said, slamming her book together and standing up.

"Yeah. 'Night..." Sirius replied, staring after her as she started her way up the stairs towards the girls' dormitories. Tess and Helen followed her, after a quick goodbye.

And Sirius continued to stare after her. I knew what the look on his face meant.

"Sirius, come on," I said, forcing a laugh. I pulled on his arm, trying to fix his gaze on something or someone else. "She's just a lowly sixth year." So I didn't really mean that. Maybe it'd mean something to him.

Apparently not.

"Yeah... but she's a cute sixth year," Sirius grinned, turning to me at last.

I guess... yeah, she is a cute sixth year.

Lily's POV

When I went to my dormitory that night, I don't think the other girls quite believed that I was talking to Sirius Black and James Potter. They told me that they believed me, but I don't think they really did.

What do they think I am? Some sort of liar?

But I proved I was right the next morning.

"So, what have we got first?" I asked, as I took my seat for breakfast in the Great Hall. I was a little late, as I'd had a bit of a crisis with my hair, and something must have happened before I arrived.

There was a bit of a commotion at the Slytherin table, and a lot of laughter from our table. Hmm. I guess the Marauders strike again.

"Divination," Melanie answered me. Dorm friend, our Mel.

"Divination? Great," I replied dully. A whole hour of sitting in that boiling hot room with absolutely nothing to do. Fun.

I began helping myself to some breakfast when I felt someone touch my elbow.

"Hey," that someone greeted me.

Oh. My. God. I love the sound of his voice, I've decided. 'Hey.' So simple, yet he makes it sound so perfect.

. . . Yeah, I was becoming a bit of a teenage fan girl. And a pathetic one at that. But! Ah well.

"Hi Sirius," I turned to face him, smiling brightly.

The looks on my friend's faces. They were just... amazed. I knew they didn't believe me! Well, besides Tess and Helen.

He grinned. "And so we meet again."

Yes. The gorgeous Quidditch player and the cute sixth year meet again. Interesting.

"So we do," I replied, smiling.

"Did you see what we did?"

"You mean at the Slytherin table?"

Sirius nodded.

"No... Sorry, I must have missed it."

"Oh. It was great, you should have seen it! Well. . . I've got to get to Potions," he said. "But have fun in Divination! I know how exciting it can be," he added sarcastically. "'Bye!

He walked off towards his friends then. I'm surprised James was best friends who talked to a 'lowly sixth year'.

"Oh, wow. Sirius Black just talked to you," Ashleigh said bluntly.

"Really?" I laughed. "Because I wouldn't have known that."

"No, I mean... whoa, you actually know him."

Are you starting to guess how popular the Marauders are?

"Come on then! We're gonna be late for Divination," I suddenly said, deciding to ignore Ashleigh's last comment.

"Oh no, the horror," Helen murmured. "Besides, wouldn't she 'see' that we would be late?"

"Just come on," I giggled, pulling Helen out of her seat and steering her in the direction of our first lesson.

Helen only hates it because apparently she's going to die. We get told this every single lesson. What such a short, tragic life she's going to lead... it's quite amusing actually, but it gets old. Even Helen finds it funny every now and again. It's just the teacher. She really believes it.

However, this lesson was quite interesting.

I had my tealeaves read. We've done that about a million times, and mine always seem to come out in just a pile of junk that means absolutely nothing whatsoever.

But today the Professor read them for me.

And guess who's going to have a tall, dark stranger walk into her life?

"So, do you think it's possible she's already met this tall dark stranger?" Tess grinned, when Trelawney told me.

"It could be possible, I suppose... The reading's can sometimes be a little late."

"Really?"

"Hmm... or this could mean something else," Professor Trelawney said, looking at my tealeaves again.

It's okay; I'll stick with the tall dark stranger, thank you.

"It could also mean that you're about to have a fatal accident. Or even fail an important test."

Isn't that two things? And she says she can 'see'.

"Are you sure?" I asked. "Or is that Helen's cup by mistake?"

Helen sighed, a slight grimace on her face. "Lily, shut up. You know mine will have about ten ways for me to get killed. A fatal accident isn't good enough for me."

The rest of my day passed quite well. I didn't have a fatal accident or fail a test, at least.

I had a lot of time to think about what Trelawney said though. The tall dark thing, fine. But was Sirius really a stranger? Everyone knew him and his friends. Besides, wasn't every single prediction that came out of Trewlawney's mouth absolute crap?

Yeah. Oh well. It had been fun to hear anyway.

Sirius' POV

Ooh, Snape's face when he saw me talking to Lily this morning.

It was classic.

So I've found a new way to get to him. Looks like he has a little crush on Miss Evans... aww.

I'll have to do something about that. A trip to Hogsmeade's coming up. I'll have to ask Lily along.

No, that sounds mean. I do like Lily. And she is cute. So I'll ask her out. I'd just be killing two birds with one stone.