Disclaimer: I really wish that I owned Harry Potter…I mean, then I would have enough money to buy a car. I could quit my job and be well off. But hey, that's a fantasy world.

It was just Jordan's luck that the following Saturday was a trip to Hogsmeade. Sirius ran up to her in the hallway, grinning uncontrollably, and suggested that they go Madam Puddifoots for their first date. Jordan looked like it was taking all she had in her not to murder Sirius on the spot. Lily helped lead her away to the dormitory, where she then began to scream her head off, ranting and raving about the whole situation.

"Either he's going to die, or I'll jinx myself senseless!" Jordan shrieked, pacing in her dormitory.

Lily winced. "Jordan, you'll just have to live through it," she reasoned.

Jordan whirled around. "Lily, you would think I was insane if the situation were reversed and I said the same thing," she countered.

Lily frowned. "That's because James is an ignorant, pig-headed—"

"Yes, we all know what you think of James," she interrupted, waving the excuse aside with her hand.

Lily glared. "If the situation were reversed, I would live through it," she shot back, standing up and walking to the bathroom to get ready for bed.

Jordan glared at the bathroom door as if it would burst into flames any minute.

Suddenly, Robin walked into the room. She stopped when she saw Jordan's unwavering gaze from the door.

"Did I miss something?" she asked warily, shutting the door behind her.

"Jordan was griping about her date again," Lily yelled from the bathroom.

"Oh, ok," Robin replied, dropping her books on the floor beside her bed.

"I was not!" Jordan yelled defensively. "I was contemplating what to do about it!"

"You were griping," Robin concluded out loud.

Jordan groaned. "Good night," she snapped, drawing closed the hangings around her bed. Suddenly, she ripped them back open. "Where were you, Robin?" she demanded, watching James' cousin with curious eyes.

Robin kept her face to her trunk. "I was studying," she muttered.

"Where?" Jordan pressed.

"In the library," Robin replied.

"With who?" Jordan asked, getting off of her bed and walking over to her friend.

Robin's reply was a hurried murmur, too fast and too low to understand.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" Jordan asked, her suspicions about to be confirmed.

"I was studying with Remus," Robin yelled a bit loudly.

Jordan began laughing uncontrollably. Lily suddenly wrenched the door to the bathroom open, her eyes wide and a toothbrush stuck in her mouth. "What?" she yelled.

Robin's face flushed uncontrollably. "We were studying!" she hissed, her eyes narrowed.

"If she's saying that, then we really know what she was doing," Jordan commented, causing herself and Lily to burst out laughing uncontrollably.

Robin's eyes widened. "Oh my God!" she yelled, whirling around and smacking Jordan on the head with her hand.

Jordan couldn't keep herself from laughing, despite the attack from her friend.

Robin huffed and jumped on to her bed. "We did nothing like that," she hissed, her eyes narrowed angrily.

Lily smiled. "We know you didn't," she replied, walking over and sitting with her friend.

Robin groaned. "Glad to know that now," she muttered, a small smile creeping on to her face.

Lily grinned. "C'mon, let's just go to bed," she suggested.

Just as the lights were about to be turned out, Robin spoke up.

"Oh, and Jordan? We're waking you up early to help you get ready for your date."

The reply was a pillow flying across the room and a few muttered curses. Robin grinned and fell into a very peaceful, contented sleep.

Lily groaned and woke up to the ever annoying beeping of her alarm clock. She groggily climbed out of bed and crawled into the shower, the cold water bringing her to her senses instantly. When she left the bathroom, she found Jordan smacking Robin with a pillow.

"Wake up! We're going to Hogsmeade soon!" she yelled.

"Fine!" Robin yelled, throwing off her covers and throwing her own pillow at Jordan. With that, she quickly began to get dressed.

Lily raised an eyebrow. "You're dressing up today," she commented.

Robin's face reddened. "No, I'm not," she retorted, keeping her eyes downcast.

Lily shot Jordan a knowing look. "Looks like someone else has a date today," Jordan commented before taking refuge in the bathroom.

Robin's eyes blazed. "Jordan!" she yelled. "I'm going to kill you!"

"Sirius, I'm going to kill you for that remark!" Remus yelled, beating at the door to the bathroom and shocking everyone. Normally, he was always soft-spoken and calm. Now…well, now he was scaring everyone in the dormitory, even the fearless James Potter.

"Uh, Remus?" James asked uncertainly. "Are you okay?"

Remus whirled around. "Implying that I did something with Robin last night when I did nothing of the sort does nothing to make me feel jolly in the morning!" he yelled.

Sirius peeked out of the bathroom. "Bloody hell, I'm sorry!" he cried. "I didn't know that you would get so worked up over it!"

Remus sighed. "I'm sorry," he replied. "It's just that the full moon is coming…" he trailed off.

James, Sirius, and the ever-present Peter nodded their heads sympathetically. The full moon meant that Remus would become the thing he hated the most: a werewolf. He wasn't allowed to be around his friends at all when he was in his form, and that said nothing of the transformation process, which Remus had said was, "blindingly painful". It didn't help that the Marauders weren't any closer to becoming Animagi to help him through the process.

James suddenly grinned. "Well, mates, today will be a good day. I know it," he commented, pulling on his cloak.

Remus smiled. "We may only hope," he replied.

Sirius nodded his agreement. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "I just remembered! My date with Jordan is today!" he yelled, running back into the bathroom to take care of his gorgeous locks.

Remus groaned. "Don't forget to change out of your Christmas socks, Sirius," he called. "Jordan may not like that."

"She'll like the socks or else she'll find herself in the middle of the Arabian desert by nightfall!" Sirius yelled through the door.

James laughed and shook his head. "Sometimes, I think he prizes those socks too much," he commented.

"That's an understatement," Peter piped up.

Lily had finally calmed down Robin enough to ensure Jordan safe passage when she chose to retreat from the refuge of the bathroom.

But, that didn't seem like it would be happening any time soon.

"You can't make me go on a date with Sirius!" Jordan yelled defiantly.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Jordan, you had better get out of there right now!" she yelled.

"No!"

Robin rolled her eyes. "Well, I'm not going to be late. I'll see you guys later," she said, standing and leaving the room.

"Ok," Jordan called. "I hope you have a good time with Remus."

Robin ran back into the room, and promptly began banging on the door. She suddenly whipped out her wand and screamed a quick curse that caused the door to begin shaking.

"Bloody hell!" Jordan yelled before the door suddenly flew open and Robin charged in, murmuring a quick curse that caused Jordan to become paralyzed and completely movable by her friends.

"Hurry, Lily!" she called. "We gotta get her ready for her date!"

Sirius was pacing in the common room. "Where could she be? You don't think she stood me up, do you?" he asked.

"Sirius!" James yelled. "You're worse than a girl who waits for you on a date!"

Sirius gave a nervous laugh. "I guess so," he admitted.

James grinned. Looking up, he spotted the three girls coming down the stairs from their dormitory, but one individual caught his eye:

Lily.

Stop it, James, he thought. You're over her. There's no way that it could ever work between you two, and she's not even willing to give it a chance.

Lily saw James' stare. She saw the dejected look in his eyes. Immediately, the bottom of her stomach dropped out. Why was she feeling so bad? This was James Bloody Potter, the man who'd been hitting on her since third year, and had a crush on her since first. Why was she feeling so bad about it? She shook her head free from the thoughts. It was nothing to worry about. It was only James. But then again, he had stopped hitting on her. Not that she missed it; she was happier than ever that he had given up. But why? What was the reason for his forsaking her as a goal?

Sirius swallowed. "You look…er, nice, Jordan," he commented.

Jordan smiled slightly. She really wanted to turn around and scream at Robin and Lily. She also wanted to give Sirius a piece of her mind, but she was determined to be in a good mood. But her main reason was because Lily threatened that if she didn't, Jordan would be waking up in the Slytherin dungeons one of these days.

"Thanks, Sirius," she replied, secretly liking the compliment. Whoa, that was unexpected, she thought.

Sirius grinned. "Well, shall we go to Hogsmeade?" he asked, offering Jordan her arm.

Jordan smiled. "Let's go," she said taking his arm as the two marched from the common room.

Meanwhile, Remus and Robin had already started down the path to the village, taking intently with one another. Their arms were hooked, too, Lily noticed.

She nudged James. "Look who's together," she commented quietly.

James grinned. "Remus denies it, but we all know it's true," he replied.

Lily smiled. In that instant, she realized that being friends with James wasn't all that bad. In fact, she kind of enjoyed it. She felt a nagging in the back of her mind though. She shook her head, trying to ignore it. Instead, she headed down to Hogsmeade with James and a few other neutral friends.

The first stop for any true Marauder was the Zonkos Joke Shop. There, Sirius unloaded his pockets and filled them back up with dungbombs, stink pellets, Exploding Snap cards, and more. He introduced Jordan to an endless amount of novelties, many of which she bought. Laughing and grinning uncontrollably, they left the shop on their way to Honeydukes.

James laughed, carrying an enormous back of prank toys. "Slow down, Sirius!" he yelled. "It's not like things are going to vanish into thin air!"

Sirius grinned. "True," he yelled. "But it's cold out!"

Jordan laughed and, still hooked by the arm, was pulled into Honeydukes.

Lily shook her head in disbelief. "Well, I never thought I'd see the day when those two got together," she commented. "They're like night and day."

"With a common love of pranks," James chirped.

Lily smiled and looked up at James, catching an odd look in his eyes. I wonder what he's thinking, she mused to herself.

"Hey James!" screeched an annoyingly high pitched voice.

Lily cringed, the sound hurting her ears. "Who the bloody hell could that be?" she muttered.

A short, black haired girl with startling gray eyes appeared, grinning broadly. "Hey, Jamesy," she said, putting an annoying addition on the end of his name.

James grimaced. Please, if there is a God, make her go away, he pleaded silently. "Hullo, Andrea," he commented stoically.

She giggled, as if saying her name was a secret the two would share forever. "So how have you been?" she asked shyly.

James shrugged. "Alright, and you?" he asked, trying to be polite. In truth, he wanted to get the heck out of there. Fast.

Andrea giggled again. "I've been good, but not as great as I am now with you," she replied, looking at James with love-struck eyes.

Lily rolled her eyes. Please, she thought, wanting to vomit. She's a flake; a ditz.

James was thinking the same thing. "If you'll excuse me, Andrea, I've got to go. I'm, uh, escorting Lily to…The Three Broomsticks!" he cried, thinking fast.

Andrea's eyes turned cold as she looked at Lily, their height exactly the same. "Oh really?" she asked.

Lily tried her best to keep her hand from straying to her wand. "Yes," she replied, deciding to play along with the lie.

James' eyes were wide. Since when did Lily lie? Better yet, why was she lying for him? Did she like him? Forget it, Potter, he thought. She doesn't like you like that. The girl just annoys her, that's all.

Andrea frowned. "Well, maybe I want to take him," she challenged.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Sorry, he and I are going together," she replied.

Andrea's eyes flashed. "You want him?" she asked.

Lily laughed. "James and I are friends. But, no one deserves to be around someone as controlling and annoying as you are," she shot back.

Andrea's eyes widened. "James, are you going to let her say that to me?" she demanded.

James nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."

Andrea's eyes turned dark, and she shifted her gaze back to Lily. "You put him under a spell, you witch!" she yelled.

"Yes, I would be a witch if I was attending Hogwarts, now wouldn't I?" Lily asked, growing more and more irritated by the girl each moment.

Andrea took a step towards Lily. "I'm warning you: stay away from my James," she hissed, then whirled on her heel and stalked off.

James looked up the sky. "Thank you, God," he hissed, holding his hands together.

Lily rolled her eyes, unable to keep the amused smile off her face. In an instant, she became serious again. "Who was that?" she asked curiously.

James sighed, walking down the path with Lily. "Well, she's another admirer of me," he began, sounding slightly arrogant but annoyed at the same time. "Andrea's annoying. Nothing more than a fly on the wall."

Lily nodded. "I'm sorry that you're followed by so many idiots," she commented.

James laughed. "You have your fair share, you know," he retorted, grinning.

Lily was taken aback. "What do you mean?" she demanded.

James grinned, looking forwards again. "Guys like you, Lily. A lot of them do. Heck, you have a fan club!"

Lily's eyes widened, causing James to chuckle. "I'm honestly surprised that you didn't know that, Lily," he commented.

Lily shrugged. "I try not to pay attention to that kind of stuff," she replied.

"Yeah, I noticed," James muttered so quietly that Lily could only hear a small murmur come from his lips.

"What was that?" she asked.

James sighed. "Nothing," he replied, walking into the Three Broomsticks. Inside, he and Lily found Remus, Robin, Peter, and another fifth year from Ravenclaw named Taylor, a cousin of Jordan's. James and Lily bought their own mugs of butterbeer and took their places at the same table. The group made light conversation, talking about how much of a git Snape was, how much homework they had, how much they hated Malfoy, and so on.

Not twenty minutes later, Sirius and Jordan stumbled into the Three Broomsticks, their cheeks rosy from the cold. Both were laughing uncontrollably as they clumsily made their way over to the table where the rest of the group was seated.

"That was amazing!" Jordan cried, suddenly taken over by another fit of giggles.

Sirius grinned. "I've never seen Malfoy so speechless!" he commented. "Ah, what a slice of heaven it was."

Jordan grinned in response.

James gave the pair a questioning look. "What happened?" he asked.

Sirius couldn't keep the grin off his face. "Malfoy saw us on the street and went into a conniption," he explained. "He started commenting that Jordan was a disgrace to her family."

"Then Sirius jinxed him," Jordan put in proudly.

Sirius grinned. "It was after that that he figured out we were together for the day, and that really got him steamed."

"So Sirius hexed him again," Jordan added with a grin.

James laughed. "Sounds like your day was good," he commented.

"Amazing," Sirius replied, taking a seat at the booth and scooting over for Jordan to sit by him. "I haven't had this much fun in a while."

Jordan blushed slightly. It was evident that both of them had been surprised by how much fun they had together, when only last week they had been at each other's throats.

Lily gave Jordan a knowing look before returning back to the conversation.

The group opted to return to Hogwarts not much later, taking the winding pathway up to the school. They chattered happily the entire time, laughing, teasing, and everything else that best friends do. The dinner in the Great Hall was amazing, and only tasted so much better after the wonderful day they had had. For once, the boys and girls were all hanging out together and hadn't fought in hours. It was almost a miraculous event, considering that they had fought with each other almost daily in the past.

The girls retreated to their dormitory that night, wanting nothing more than to fall to their beds.

But waiting on the windowsill of the girls' dormitory was a solitary black owl, his regal eyes searching for one person in particular. Jordan walked briskly over to the own, snatched the letter from its beak, and ripped it open. She swallowed hard before quickly changing for bed.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked.

"My aunt's sick again," Jordan muttered. "I have to go look after my cousins."

Robin nodded understandingly. "I know how that is. I was always taking care of my cousins when I went to Beauxbatons, because my relatives lived in Paris. I hated it," she commented consolingly.

Jordan nodded. "That's life, though," she replied, climbing into bed. "By the way, Robin, how was your day?" she asked, quickly changing the subject.

Robin smiled. "Well, I spent the day with Remus. Oh, it was amazing," she said with a sigh. "We went all over Hogsmeade, and we were always talking!"

Jordan cast a grin at Lily. "Sounds like someone's in love," she commented teasingly.

Robin's face flushed. "I am not!" she yelled, throwing a pillow at Jordan. Lily and Jordan both laughed, knowing that it was true while Robin pouted.

Jordan yawned. "Well, today was pretty good, you guys," she said sleepily.

Lily couldn't help but think back to the look in James' eyes when he had been talking to her. "Yeah, it was," she responded idly, slowly falling into sleep.

Hey! I'm finally back! But you all have my classes last semester to blame: Honors English, Honors Spanish 2, and American History, all of which had a LOT of homework. But I finally finished this chapter, and I'm pretty proud of it.

Ok, I know that Jordan and Sirius' day sounds slightly…odd. Is Sirius in character? Does it seem unrealistic?

Second, I know that this is a bit more "Mary-Sue" type quality than the last chapters. Is it good, or do you want something else? Please, let me know.

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