"James," Sirius said, flopping down on his best friend's four-poster bed in a dorm that they had shared for the last four years, "this is insane. What makes you think that she'll suddenly change her mind about you?"
James jumped onto the bed just inches away from Sirius' head, snorting with laughter as his best friend jolted upright and gave him a look of mock hatred. "Just because I can tell. This year is going to be different."
Now it was Sirius' turn to laugh, though maybe, James thought, it hadn't been all that necessary for Sirius to laugh so hard that he had fallen off the bed and began rolling on the floor, clutching his stomach, as he was doing at the moment. James jumped down lightly next to Sirius and punched him on the shoulder.
"Sorry mate," Sirius muttered after he stopped laughing. "It's just, you say that every year. It gets more funny every time." James scowled disapprovingly. Sirius socked him in the thigh and reached out, beckoning for James to help him up. Rolling his eyes, James held out his hand.
"Really, if you hadn't already gone out with every girl we know, you would have more choices left. You need to get your mind off Lily for a while," Sirius said more soberly. James opened his mouth to argue, but before he could get a word in, Sirius had picked up a pillow and tossed it at James' head, causing ten minutes of rough pillow fighting to follow.
Finally the two collapsed on James' bed side by side, staring at the deep red canopy above them.
"Really, mate, have you ever thought of dating anyone else?"
"Padfoot, if you saw her the way I saw her, you'd focus on nobody else…"
"Prongs," Sirius said, flinging his arm across James' stomach in a half-hearted punch-like action, "if I saw her like you did, we'd both be lovesick idiots, and there'd be no one to make sure we didn't do something entirely stupid."
James grinned. He could think of a million times when he had done something 'entirely stupid' in attempt to impress Lily, and every single memory involved Sirius standing some 100 meters away laughing hysterically. And yet, somehow, this was the best kind of support James could ever wish for.
Ta da! Chapter two complete. Sorry it was short. Just thought I'd set up the mood. Just so that everyone knows, they're in their 5th year at Hogwarts, and they have much in store for them.