Chapter 5: You never get what you wish for.

Sydney stood next to the wall with the rest of the class for their 2nd lesson, which was transfiguration waiting to be ordered into seats. She was hopelessly praying to be sat next to one of her friends, this however wasn't going very well, seeing as Olivia had been sat next to Peter Pettigrew, Cassidy was next to a boy from Ravenclaw with Sirius three tables behind them, shooting evil looks at the boy, and Lily was yet to be seated.

"Sydney Edge and, well you need help in this subject so you can sit by Remus Lupin" the strict teacher, Professor McGonagall, ordered. Sydney knew there was no point in trying to make her change the seats and she didn't want to make Remus feel bad because she was trying to move away from him.

"Lastly" said the Professor, consulting her sheet, "We'll have Jackie Andrews and Matthew Johnston in these seats at the front, and James Potter can you go and sit in that corner there, and next to you will be…Lily Evans"

The smile on James Potter's face was amazing. It seemed never ending as Lily's face contorted into shock.

"Professor…can't I sit next to someone else please…I'll take anyone, I'll even swap with Olivia and sit with Peter, no offence Peter" Lily exclaimed.

"I'm sorry Miss Evans, but you have been slightly slipping in this subject, and Potter is, well, brilliant at Transfiguration and I thought he would be able to help you" the teacher said turning to her board and waving her wand, the work appeared.

Lily sighed deeply and made her way to the back of the classroom, where an eager James Potter was waiting for her.

"Annoy me and you won't be able to have children for the rest of your life" Lily mumbled to him, as Professor McGonagall started to explain something.

"I love you too, Evans" James grinned, and leaned back in his chair, watching her as she stared towards the front of the room with rapt attention, as the teacher changed from her human form into a cat and back.

Lily slumped in her seat with her head in her hands as she watched her friends take their seats and starting to tuck into their lunch.

"I can't believe that in two out of three subjects, James Potter has been stuffed up my bottom…don't the teachers have anyone else to torture, at least I can be freed from him in Arithmancy" Lily said.

"Oh didn't you know Lily, he is in our Arithmancy class, he just had to go and see Professor McGonagall about something and wasn't able to attend lessons or something" Cassidy said, taking a tuna sandwich.

"Just what I need" Lily sighed banging her hand on the table.

Lily looked around and noticed he hadn't arrived for lunch either, as she gazed down to watch a laughing Sirius and Remus, who were watching Peter who had a bit of tomato in his hair.

Afternoon classes were fast, including Sirius throwing a fit in Potions because he said the grease in Severus Snape's hair was making him feel nauseous, the Professor gave him a detention for being so rude, which wasn't better as Sirius jumped for joy and started shouting about how many more detentions he had then James Potter.

Olivia and Sydney were sitting in the Common Room, looking through magazines and laughing at different articles, when James walked in.

"Where have you been, dear brother?" Olivia said smiling up at him, as he stood over them with his hands in his trouser pockets.

"McGonagall was telling me she wouldn't tolerate my misbehaving, and the woman made me sit there and listen to every single prank that we've ever pulled in Hogwarts…I mean, come on, if I hadn't pretended that I had to do my homework when she started third year, I would have been there for the next three days" James sighed, smiling a little bit.

"Aw poor James" Sydney laughed.

"And it's not even fair, she didn't make the others sit there, although some of them were amusing, you should have seen how her lips totally disappeared when she described the prank we pulled on her in second year, when we made her stand in front of the whole school and play bagpipes and sing some very disgusting words…it was quite entertaining" James smiled, his grin growing wider, thinking about the memory.

"I got detention for that one too" Sydney said thoughtfully.

"Yeah, because you didn't know when to stop laughing, you had to scrub out Filch's office" Olivia laughed.

"Yeah I know, it stank" Sydney said, smacking Olivia.

"Well, sis, "James said, hooking his arm around Olivia's neck. "You are welcome to become part of the Marauder's any time you like…you just have to make Evans go out with me"

"I'd rather join Hackett's club" Olivia said laughing. Hackett was a snotty nosed kid who had tried to make a gang of snotty nose kids and turn them against the Marauder's. He had given up that possibility of that when the Marauder's hung him mid-air in the Great Hall, threatening to take his y-fronts off.

"You're only saying that because we wouldn't undress you at all" James smiled at her.

"And there's definitely that" Sydney smiled.

"Prongs" Sirius shouted across the Common Room running over. "Were going to go pull the prank, you coming?"

James was about to answer, but his eyes became distracted by someone behind him. Sirius turned to see Lily Evans with her hands on her hips, with a grinning Cassidy behind her.

"No you will not go and pull any prank on anyone" Lily threatened. "Because if you do, I will…I'll give you both detention…I am still Prefect"

"Evans…we'd be delighted to take detentions from you…whatever comes from you must have something valuable within" James smirked.

"Don't try to sweet-talk me Potter…I refuse to be applied to that…now I will not allow you to leave this Common Room…and if you do I will be taking it with Professor Dumbledore" Lily said, turning red.

"Dumbledore" Sirius smiled. "Lily…no offence, but Dumbledore's spoken to us before about pranks… and he does find them amusing, we'd be more scared if you said Mrs. Norris" Sirius smiled, turning to James, who amazingly looked as if he was thinking.

"Actually Sirius, we can't pull a prank today…we have detention tonight" James said quietly.

"Oh right" Sirius said. They started to walk off and they heard Sirius muttering about trying to impress Evans and how it would never work, whilst James tried to shake his thoughts away about the redhead.