Dressing in my Sunday's best, I was thoroughly excited about it. It's my 5th year! I am 15! It's great! Some how though, I get this feeling I will end up in tears by the end of the day. At least I can spend the day with my best friend, who is muggle-born. You know of her, Lily Evans. She has red hair, stunning green eyes, and a soft spot for the colour lime. I am Hope. Hope McKinley.

The thing Lily doesn't know is that she has a secret admirer. If she knew, she'd kill him, and I ain't making it up. James Potter. He's fit for sure, not my type, but he is totally head over heals for Lily. She loathes him, for real. Doesn't it always feel like the people who don't want love, get it, and you are always stuck on the sidelines wondering 'Why not me? Am I ugly?' Well I do.. It makes me so sad.. Lily tells me nothing is wrong with me, but what is she suppose to say to her best friend? You are so ugly no one will love you?! No course she wouldn't! James belongs to a group called the 'Marauders'. I get along with Remus, he's so sweet and funny. He can get awfully pale and he is always down on himself. But he is such a sweetie and when I am sad, he makes me feel better, although I do feel guilty that I run to him.. I get these compliments, and he is still sad when I leave! I wish I could help. Then there is Peter.. He is always nice to me, and he admires James and Sirius. Peter is such an honest boy, he could never do any wrong! He's like a friend to me, but he'd be hopeless in a crisis, the little sod runs away like a little mouse at the first sign of trouble. Then there is Sirius. He is so untidy, but he's cool. I don't have a real relationship with him, he's too busy with James causing trouble, to Lily's detest. They pick on poor Severus. He's our age but in Slytherin, and they hurt him.. Sometimes I see him crying after they've attacked him. Lily always defends him, but he hates muggle borns.. Calls them Mud bloods! But the poor boy.. The thought of him crying, it's so sad. He does have greasy hair, but they tease him for his good job and devotion in tests. I wouldn't be surprised if all this taunting doesn't hurt him in the long run. I do try to help him, but he pushes away. I will help him more though, I promised to myself for new years I would.

I will give you a description of the boys, and me too, before I go outside to converse, haha. James is tallish, not the tallest, not the shortest. He has deep brown eyes, scruffy browny black hair with is clean cut until halfway up the bacl of his head, and has it long-ish so it just tips into his eyes and on the top of his hears for a centimetre. He has glasses. He had contacts but well.. Sirius and him got into a play fight, and lets say they got stuck, so glasses it is! James has this grin, when he grins its like really big and cheesy, but its so cute and irresistible, he makes you smile that way. You feel like pinching his cheeks. As for his body, he has a good body, not extremely muscley, he had the pinched look like he'd grown fast, but he wasn't unhealthy and starved looking, and the amount of food he packed away, you would know why. He had a flat stomach though, and his chest was sort of firm, don't try and head butt his chest, it kind of hurts. (No, Peter dropped his quill and I bent to pick it up and so did James – he was being nice that day – and I copped a heedful when I came up..Ouch.) Now Peter, He's kind of chubby and he's short. He has little blue eyes, which are sort of thinned and small because of his chubby cheeks, his hair is sandy, mousy blonde, and is cut short except for the top which is half a centimetre longer. His smile is kind of freaky but cute, its small like the rest of his facial features, but his teeth are a bit yellow, only because of the junk the boys make him test before they use it on Severus. His body is chubby but he isn't fat. He's like a teddy, you poke it and he squeaks, but your hand isn't lost, right? Severus. Well His eyes are dark, his hair is dark. His eyes though are sunken. Not his frame, but his eyes. He is just so sad, It would be great to see them sparkle. His smile.. I cannot comment, I have never seen it.. His body? Well he is covered by robes but I did see it one time, in second year. We had swimming in the lake, his hair was short then not the 'Sirius' length. He had a tall looking body and he was thin. Not toned, just thin. But he is going through puberty now.. so I have no idea what his body looks like now. Ah now Remus. His hair, brown and blonde, his eyes hazel, able to change any colour. His hair was always short, not like a buzz cut, but like probably like a number 4 or 5? Who knows. His smile was warm and inviting, but you could tell he was hurting, but he would never force it, he would always smile if it was worth smiling for. His body was medium sized, he was thinnish but not lanky. I never saw it with no clothes on, he's very modest, Remus is, which is why I guess I love him so much. Not passionate love, but friends, I know he isn't sleazy like the other boys at Hogwarts. Sirius has shortish hair with longish sides like James, really the cut is like James except the back has longish bits at the back as well. His cologne was strong like but it was that smell, you'd want to wear. It was Lynx, I don't know which one.. I think it's called phoenix. But yeah, he always smelled yummy. His eyes were a bluey black. They also could be brown, depended if he was sick. His smile was charming, and he had such a cheeky smirk. He was a trouble maker all over this one was. His body, well no girl hadn't seen it, No he wasn't a man whore, he just.. flashed his goods. He was the tallest and had a tonish abs and chest. More than the rest but it was grossly toned, just slightly. And Me. Well I am tall, probably Remus sized. I had a flattish stomach. Sometimes it was a bit podgy, like any girls, others it was really thin and how I liked it. I hated my smile, it always looks huge and made my ears look big. My eyes were hazel.. Really I was like a female Remus. Except I had a year long tan. And I would smile. I am nearly always happy.

I yawned. I was meeting Remus in the library for my birthday. We would share our answers for our homework. It's funny that way, I hate studying. I got dressed quickly and followed Lily downstairs. She would always miss breakfast to avoid James. I just simply grabbed some toast and snuck it into the library. I handed Lily some toast, as Remus walked in, holding a flask full of pumpkin juice.

'Fanks.' Lily said grabbing the toast and taking a bite.

I smiled, watching Remus walk towards us.

'Ello.' He said smiling slighty.

'Is that a smile.' I said gasping.

'Yeah.'

'What's made you so happy then, eh.' I said nudging him in the ribs.

'The comments I heard at breakfast.' Remus said simply taking a sit at the table, Lily tried to smile, her face puffy, as the Librarian scowled at her as she made her way to the restricted section.

'Comments?' I said, bending over towards him, propping my head up with my arm, resting my palm on my chin.

'James and Sirius.'

'Ahh, should have known. Bout Lils?' I said, as Lily nearly choked on her remainly bit of toast.

'Yeah... and you.'

'Me? What nasty thing today? Is my nose getting bigger or something?'

'Actually no, Sirius is infatuated with you.'

'Ha haha.. Ok, now be serious!' I said laughing it off.

'Oh ok. He isn't infatuated. But he does like you.'

'Sirius Black, one of the biggest trouble makers, interested in one of the dump girls? Wonders cease to amaze.'

'Come off it. Your pretty.' Remus said scribbling an answer into his book.

'Sod off.' I said giggling, pecking him on the forehead.

'I happened to know Hogwarts, back to front, so I cannot hide.'

'I was being stupid.' I said raising a brow and giggling.

'As I was being daft.' Remus replied, chewing the end of his pencil.

'Hope, your letters are here!'

I squealed and leapt from the table. Lily was struggling with a pile of gifts.

'Well, I suppose its best now, my leg is cramped cause of it.' Remus said pulling a box from under the table.

'Oooh!" I said, taking the box, and scrambing the paper off it.

It was the prettiest book. Well it was a journal. It was covered in purple shimmer moonstone with blue letter saying Hopes Journal. I could have died. Inside on the first page was scribbled a message. All the boys signed it.

To dearest Hope,

Happy 15th

Hey Hopey,

Have a great birthday!!

Lots of pressies! I got you some chocolate frogs in our dorm.. Well had..

Sirius got Hungry..

Lots of Love, Peter.

Hi Hope,

Geez you are getting old, OLDDDDD!

Lots of Love and hugs, James.

Ps. Don't show Lily what I wrote on the next page.

Hey Hope.

I second what James said.

You should come out with us sometime – I know you like troublemaking.

Love you lots – Sirius.

Heya Precious.

Have a great birthday, enjoy the journal. It took me FOREVER

To find it!

Lots and lots and lots of Love, Your Guy Bestie Remus. Xx

Over the next page was just signing and scribbles. A note at the top read.

'Sorry, I did try to stop them, and keep it on one page.' It was Remus's handwriting.

James scribbled a heart.

J.P

4

L.E

'Aww that's so sweet.' I said as Lily came over, and I quickly flicked the page back.

'What is?'

'Look at the book Remus gave me! And I got a page of birthday messages from the boys!' I said smiling.

'It's very pretty – Remus my birthday is December 2nd, remember!' She said giggling, returning to sorting the cards to the presents.

I flicked the page. And Remus poked a string of words with his wand. They were jumbled, but they were now forming a paragraph.

'You have to read it aloud for it to jumble again, I'll give you spell for that later, My Idea the spell was.' Remus said. I just laughed.

H – How can you be mine

O – How I think of you all the time.

P – Pretty, and forever in my heart.

E - Enlightening, however, where to start.

'Who wrote it?' I said jerking my head towards Remus.

'Look below.'

I know I am not exactly what you wish for..

Sirius.

'He's such a romantic. I'd never have guessed.'

'Yeah, You don't figure Sirius Black to exactly be the poetic type either.'

'Yeah.'

'Peter did that for you.' Remus said pointing to a picture of hearts and flowers, and a Rat. Also my name in capitols with a rainbow in the background.

'Aww that's so pretty!'

'Just wait. You'll like this bit best!' He said getting exciting, poking an ink dot in the centre of the page.

The rainbow suddenly got colourful and the flowers where smiling and would follow where your finger went. The hearts would beat, and the Rat would squeak and give you a flower, which when you grabbed it from the book, it turned into a long stemmed, midnight blue rose, with the most delicate scent.

'Oh.. Wow.' I said, I was speechless.

'He worked so hard to do that. We had a bit of trouble at first with the spell. His hair was hot pink for an hour, before we found the counter curse.' I smiled.

'So, Peter did that all by himself?' I said.

'With a bit of help from James. And this was my idea.' Remus said, blowing on the flowers, and they emitting shooting stars of colour into the room, turns into bubbles and floating down towards me, before popping with kiss sounds. I giggled. They flowers were blushing and smiling towards Remus, and he stroked them with his index finger and they purred. Odd for flowers you might say, but I thought it was so sweet!

'Wow, that is so wonderful! Thank you so much!' I said getting up, pulling Remus up with me, and hugging him tightly. He flinched.

'What's wrong?'

'Oh that.. I hurt it climbing a tree, no big deal.' He said weakly smiling. I kissed on the cheek, and rushed towards my other presents.

'Oh wow! Heres a present from Peter.' I said grabbing it and ripping the paper.

Inside was a flower, like a daisy, and when you poke the centre, it sung a song.

'You are my sunshine,

My only sunshine,

You make me happy when skies are grey.

You'll never know dear,

How much I love you,

Please don't make my sunshine go away.'

The flower would then bow, and turn lifeless.

'Aww that is so pretty!!' I said putting it next to the journal from Remus.

'This one is from me!' Lily said beaming.

I unwrapped the big purple bow from the top and undid the green wrapping paper. Inside the box was a brand new purple quill, filled with purple ink, a refillable purple ink jar, and a homework diary.

'Aww that's so cool!' I said picking up the quill. 'It matches my journal!'

'Sorry bout the homework diary.. It was on sale and you are hopeless with your homework..' She giggled slightly.

'It's cool, I shouldn't forget it this time!' I said placing it at the end of the table.

'Oh, look inside it.' Lily said jumping up.

I reached inside and found a slip of paper, it was torn, and in Sirius's writing. It was a note to Lily.

'He wrote that letter to me earlier in the year.'

I sighed, smiled and placed it in my journal.

'Heres a present from James.' Lily said handing me it.

I unwrapped the paper, and heard a creak of the library door opening.

Inside was a gold egg, that shone rainbow colours around the room, like a lamp.

'Wow! I like this isn't it pretty!!' I said placing it on the table, as it emitted a burst of rainbow colour.

'And this is from Sirius.' Lily said handing it to me.

'What's from me?' He said, his hair all scruffy, as well as James's, both having mud on them, and Peter who happened to be the worst off.

'The present.' I said grinning and starting to unwrap it.

Sirius glanced the table and saw the presents.

'Aww it's not much compared to this stuff.' He said taking a seat near Remus. James's eyes went wide, spotting the journal in such close proximity to Lily.

'Mind if I urr, read this.' He said quickly, seizing the journal. I giggled, as Lily looked at him funny.

Inside Sirius's box was a hand carved, unicorn horn bracelet with crystals along the outside.

'Oh My God. It's so beautiful.'

Lily squealed next to me when she saw it.

Sirius had a goofy smile on his face, and James was dreamy like. Until I coughed, which snapped him out of it.

'Oooh, Black shiny paper!'

'Three guesses who it's from!'

'It can't be?'

'Well you'd think not wouldn't you.. But I read the card!'