Flipped

By: Lost my Marbles

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P.S. I really like this chapter.

Chapter Two

(A/N-- This chapter will have a Quidditch scene.)

Lily woke up smiling on Wednesday of the second week of school. She opened the curtains wide for everybody in the dorm. They all groaned. "Lily!" She just grinned at them.

She had absolutely no idea why she was in such high spirits.

"Angel, I've had an idea!" Lily announced as soon as Angel stepped out of bed.

"What?" Angel asked groggily.

"Let's pay a visit to the boys!"

Boys Dorms--

James woke up by Sirius throwing a pillow on his head. (Sound familiar?)

"Ow! Padfoot!"

Sirius grinned evilly. "I've got to go take a shower. I threw the pillow just to make sure that you wouldn't get up before me and use up all the shampoo."

"How, by waking me up?" James asked.

"Yeah!"

"Padfoot, that doesn't make any sense."

"Well, senseless is my other middle name!" Sirius announced.

"I thought you said your middle name was Immature," said James.

"That's why I said Senseless is my other middle name, dungbrain!" said Sirius, racing to the bathroom.

James realized that he had been beaten, and decided to resolve to just banging on the door, demanding for Sirius to open up. "SIRIUS! OPEN THE DOOR! I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!"

He could just see Sirius smirking on the other side of the door. "Nuh-uh! I won't open up. I'm gonna use up all the coconut shampoo! See how you like it!"

"Fine," James grinned. "I'll just have to use my unopened shampoo then."

He could practically see Sirius' eyes widening. "You have…new shampoo? What smell?"

"Not saying!"

"Prongsie!" Sirius wailed.

"Nope!" James grinned even more evilly. "Actually, on second thought, I'll tell you. My shampoo smells like…"

James could almost hear Sirius saying, "Not vanilla, not vanilla, anything but vanilla…"

But it turned out James' shampoo was, "Vanilla!"

"NO! I'll never let you use the bathroom again!" Sirius screamed. "Fine, maybe I will. Fine, I will. In five minutes…that is, if you promise you'll let me use your vanilla shampoo! Girls love vanilla!"

"Well, how about the body wash?" James smirked. He had the upper hand now.

"I'm gonna use that up!"

"I've got new body wash too. In some scent that smells really good!" James grinned. (A/N-- Now you have to picture a scent that you've smelled before but you aren't exactly sure what it is, and it smells really good. That's what James' body wash smells like.)

"Oh Jamesie!" Sirius wailed. "You're gonna get so many more girls than me this year! Don't you feel even the slightest bit sad for me?"

"No," James replied. "First of all, you should've brought your own shampoos and body washes, from my house, that is, and two, the only girl I want is Lily Evans."

"Oh, so you still like her?" Sirius asked.

"I—"

"Excuse me, Prongs," Remus interrupted. "May I ask why you and Padfoot are having this conversation while he is in the bathroom?"

"Uh—why are we Sirius?" James asked.

"Because I'm going to use up all the coconut shampoo!" Sirius said gleefully. "And the chocolate body wash!"

Peter sighed. "I didn't know we had chocolate body wash."

"Well, Pete," Sirius said from inside the bathroom, "that's because I've kept it secret. You all know that coconut and chocolate go very well together!"

"Um…excuse me!" a soft female voice cut in. James, Remus, Peter all turned around. Lily! It wasn't just Lily, it was Angel too.

"Hey!" Sirius demanded, stepping out of the bathroom, finally. "Why so quiet all of a sudd—" He stopped at the sight of the two girls and rushed back into the bathroom, because he had been dressed in nothing but a towel.

Angel giggled.

"We just came to see how you were doing," Lily said. James dived under his sheets to hide his boxers.

"Well, why in the morning?" he asked. "Why not when we were more…decent?"

"We'll shut our eyes if you ask!" Angel told him.

"Shut your eyes then!" James said. "And you! Padfoot! Take your shower!"

"Aye, aye Prongsie!" was the reply from the bathroom.

James managed to put on his pants and a clean shirt before stepping out of his bed. "You can turn around now!"

Lily and Angel whipped around. "So…what's been going on in here?" Lily asked. "We heard some sort of chaos from down in the Common Room…"

"Sirius has gotten into one of his fits about the shampoo," James explained.

"I DID NOT!"

James smirked. "See?"

"What for?" Angel asked curiously.

"Well, apparently, he wanted to use up all the coconut shampoo today and—"

"He uses coconut shampoo?" Angel asked. "So do I!"

"Anyway, I told him I have new shampoo and new body wash, and he got all 'upset'."

"Is that it?" Lily asked, smiling. "So what flavor is this nice new shampoo and body wash?"

"You'll see as soon as Sirius gets out of the shower. Now get down to breakfast and we'll meet you there, won't we Moony? Pete?" James nodded to them.

"Prongs! How many times do I have to tell you? Call me W—"

"Sure, Prongs," Remus said, ignoring the fact that Peter was talking.

"So what is Pete's nickname anyway?" Angel asked.

Peter seemed delighted to explain. "It's W—"

"Wormtail," Remus told her.

Angel scrunched up her nose. "Wormtail?"

"AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT EXACTLY?" Peter demanded.

"Well, nothing!" Angel lied. "Well, I guess it's time for breakfast! Come on, Lily."

Lily and Angel exited the boys' dorms and stayed in the common room. About a half an hour later, the Marauders showed up.

"I want to smell your hair!" Lily announced to all of them.

Sirius raised his eyebrows.

"It's a conversation that you missed, Sirius," Angel explained.

"Smell mine first!" he said as he leaned over so Lily could reach. She sniffed.

"Ahhh…" she almost swooned. "It's…coconut and chocolate. Those two go really well together, you know?"

James frowned. "Try me!"

"Jamesie! Lily almost fell on top of me, because I smelled so good!" Sirius cackled.

James stared at him.

"Lean down, James!" Lily tapped him. He leaned. Lily ruffled his hair a little bit and smelled.

"Lilac and vanilla!" Lily sighed. "Absolutely amazing."

"Lily didn't fall on top of you! Lily didn't fall on top of you!" Sirius chanted. "Ha ha! She almost fell on top of me! Ha ha! She almost fell on top of—"

Lily cut him off by fake-swooning into James' arms. James stuck his tongue out at Sirius. "Nyah! Yeah, she did!"

Sirius stuck his tongue out back at James. "So? She's your girlfriend!"

"I am not his girlfriend!" Lily protested, pushing James so she could get up.

"Well, almost," Sirius told her.

"No!"

"Yeah-huh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yeah!"

"No!"

"Yep!"

"No way!"

"Yes way!"

"Me? His girlfriend?"

"Yeah! You!"

Lily gave a small laugh. "HA! What a joke. And a nasty one too!"

Sirius winked and dragged James out of the portrait hole.

Outside the portrait hole--

"She's so yours, Prongs," said Sirius, grinning. "I can tell."

"Oh no she's not!" James protested. "You can just see she's just as fed up with me as she was last year. Besides, I told you! I'm not going after her anymore."

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Sure…just upstairs you said 'the only girl I want is Lily'."

"So? I was just saying that. I don't like her anymore. I'm serious!"

Sirius gasped. "I thought I was Sirius!"

"Padfoot!"

Sirius snickered. "I can't believe you're so blind. It's obvious she has something for you…"

James ran a hand through his hair. "She does? I mean, no she doesn't!"

Sirius snickered again.

James grinned evilly. "Well, I know who does have a thing for you…"

"Who?" said Sirius quickly.

"A certain…Angelise Marle…" James grinned even wider.

"What're you grinning like an idiot for?" demanded Sirius.

"I'm grinning at someone who just can't seem to ask a girl out," said James smartly.

"I can too!" said Sirius. "And I'll prove it to you! Tonight! No, tomor—no, how about next year, I'll ask her out?"

"Padfoot," said James. "We're not even going to be in Hogwarts next year."

"I was hoping you wouldn't notice."

"I, Mr. Prongs, am going to see to it that Miss Angel will go out with Mr. Padfoot."

"Is that so?" said Sirius. "Well, I, Mr. Padfoot, will see to it that our special little Lily-flower will go out with Mr. Prongs. Have we gotten ourselves a deal here?"

"A wonderful one," said James. And they shook hands on it.

Breakfast in the Great Hall--

"What was that upstairs?" Angel asked.

"I, er, just wanted to smell them," said Lily.

"Oh sure," said Angel, rolling her eyes.

"Really! That's it! Why? What ever else would there be?"

"You weren't just trying to get James to actually notice you? Or were you just flirting?" smirked Angel.

Lily flushed. "No, I wasn't flirting! And besides, he already does notice me. I just need him to notice that he notices me."

Angel sighed. "Jeez, Lils."

"It's all very complicated," said Lily.

"What's so complicated about it?" asked Angel. "You like James. You're trying to get him to notice you. He obviously likes you, but he's doing a fantastic job of hiding it."

Lily stared. "That's what you think?"

"That's what I know," said Angel. "I happen to know that James is going crazy for you. And you are going crazy for him."

"No I am not!" said Lily indignantly. "But I do know…"

Angel's eyes widened. "What?" she asked quickly. "What do you know?"

Lily grinned. "Well, I happen to know that a certain someone has a huge thing for a certain Mr. Black?"

"Well, that someone just can't be me, can it?" said Angel smartly.

"Actually, it is," said Lily. "I happen to know that you are practically in love with him."

"If that's true, then you're practically in love with James!" huffed Angel.

"Fine, you're right. I do have a teensy crush on him," said Lily. Angel started laughing uncontrollably. "I said teensy!"

Angel grinned. "It's okay, Lils, we all know your secret…"

"What do you mean 'we all'?" asked Lily quickly. "You…you didn't tell anyone, did you?"

"No, I just was saying that to tease you…"

"Oh, okay then."

Just then, the Marauders came marching into the Great Hall. All four of them, laughing like best friends should do. They seated themselves directly in the center of the Gryffindor table, where they usually sat. Everyone reserved the Marauders' seats.

Lily and Angel watched as they talked and laughed and whispered and sent smirks over to the Slytherin table at Severus Snape.

Lily sighed. "They're the bestest friends I've ever seen."

"Bestest?" asked Angel, raising an eyebrow at the improper grammar. "Well, I guess you're right. They are. They do everything together, they are totally loyal to each other, they never get in fights, they may be a bit on the pranking side, but all in good fun, right?"

Lily smiled. "I wonder what it would be like if I was part of a group like the Marauders…"

"You have me, Lils," said Angel.

"Oh I know! I'll always have you! You'll always be my best friend!" said Lily. "It's just…I guess I'm jealous that they are such good friends, like all the reasons you listed…"

"I know what you mean."

Lily nodded with a small smile and then quietly went back to drinking her pumpkin juice.

Other end of the table--

"Prongs, it's been ages since we've pulled a prank on Snivellus!" Sirius whined.

"I know it has, hasn't it?" said James.

"Why haven't we been pulling pranks on Snivellus?" Sirius demanded.

"I'm over pranks, Padfoot. Abby told me to mature a little, so I'm maturing. Mature pranksters don't pull pranks," explained James.

Sirius raised an eyebrow. "Right. You probably aren't aware of how weird that sounded. Anyhow, speaking of our dear little Abagail, what ever happened to her?"

"She's probably off with some boyfri—" James gasped. "Boyfriend! I wanna see what snotrag is going out with my little sister!" James got up out of his seat and stormed out of the Great Hall.

"That's what you call overprotective," muttered Sirius. "It makes no sense. She probably isn't even with a guy anyway!"

"Where's he going?" asked Remus.

"He's off to find Abby," said Sirius. "Wanna come?"

"Sure!" Remus and Sirius followed him.

"Hey wait for me!" Peter ran after them.

Back to Lily and Angel--

"Where are they going?" asked Angel.

"I don't know, but I think we should follow, don't you?" said Lily. "I mean, it's not everyday you see the Marauders actually abandoning their food…"

"Too true."

Lily and Angel grabbed a piece of toast and raced out after the Marauders.

James--

James didn't have to look far to find Abby. She was passionately kissing a certain Toby Arnold from Hufflepuff. James looked livid. Toby wasn't the trusty type.

"ABBY, GET AWAY FROM HIM!" James roared.

"That's what you call overprotective," Sirius muttered again.

"Padfoot, you already said that," Remus told him.

"Oh."

Both Abby and Toby were scared. "James, what did he do?" Abby asked carefully.

"He went out with you! Without permission!" James yelled.

"What?—" Now Abby looked livid. "I CAN CHOOSE MY OWN BOYFRIENDS! WITHOUT YOUR HELP!"

"Yes, you can," said James. "Except I need to know who they are, so I can tell you if they can be trusted or not! Abby, I've got more experience!"

"What are you talking about?" shouted Abby. "Toby can definitely be trusted, right guys?" she added, looking at Sirius, Remus and Dung. They shifted their feet. "Toby?"

Lily and Angel suddenly appeared. "What's going on?"

James was glaring at Abby. Abby was wide-eyed at Toby. Toby, Sirius, and Remus were shifting their feet guiltily.

"Toby, are you saying that you can't be trusted?" Abby questioned.

"Well…"

"Well, what?"

"No, I can't," Toby confessed.

"What do you mean?" Abby looked frightened.

"I…I went out with you on…on a dare."

Abby's eyes widened and filled with tears. "Is…is that true?"

"Yes," Toby looked at his feet.

Abby held back her tears and narrowed her eyes. "Well, then. You can just tell your friends that I broke up with you." Abby stormed off.

James glared at Toby as he went off after his sister.

Lily and Angel stared at the scene and followed James.

Sirius and Remus shrugged and followed everybody.

Peter, who had been exceptionally quiet, went back to the Great Hall to finish his breakfast.

Abby--

Abby was in a particularly bad mood. James could be so inconsiderate sometimes. Okay, so Toby wasn't exactly the most trustworthy of boyfriends. But James didn't have to go and make a huge scene in front of everybody!

She seated herself next to the lake, and watched the giant squid make its usual rounds for food. Suddenly, James (the idiot himself) burst outside.

"ABBY!"

Abby rolled her eyes and stormed away from him. Sirius and Remus were suddenly by his side. Then came Lily and Angel. Ahh. Just the girls she decided she wanted to talk to. Abby made her way just around James, Sirius, and Remus to talk to Lily and Angel.

"Can I talk to you two?" Abby asked.

"Sure!" said Lily.

"Why not?" added Angel.

James stared openmouthed. Abby cast a triumphant look his way and followed Lily and Angel back up to the Gryffindor tower.

James--

James didn't understand why Abby didn't want to talk to him. He was her brother after all.

"Prongs, how come you blew up at her like that?" Sirius asked.

"She can't just go out with people. We all knew that Toby Arnold wasn't to be trusted," said James. "If she asked me, I could've told her that. And we'd've all been saved the trouble."

"But Prongs," said Remus reasonably, "I don't think blowing up at your sister was going to get you anywhere…"

"I get it now," said James, irritated. "But why did she want to talk to Lily and Angel…and not me?"

"Well, they're girls," said Remus.

"Girls are comfortable discussing stuff together," supplied Sirius. "It's the way they were built."

"Well," said James. "I guess I'm fine as long as she sorts out her problems in whatever way she can."

The Seventh Year Girls Dorm--

"So," said Angel. "What's your problem, er, what's your name again?"

"Abagail," Abby said, "but I prefer Abby, if you don't mind."

"Abby," said Lily. "Nice name."

"Well, my problem, I guess, is James," said Abby quietly.

"He's everybody's problem," muttered Lily.

"Yeah, I know," said Angel.

"How come?" asked Abby.

"Long story," said Lily impatiently. "Anyway, back to you."

"He's so overprotective!" Abby complained. "He thinks he's the world's nicest big brother, to scare off all my boyfriends! It's not fair! And do you know how many girlfriends he's had? Plenty more than I have! And still he thinks that all the guys I date are terrible!"

Abby took a deep breath and continued her rant. "Okay, I admit, so Toby was a bit shady, but that doesn't mean everyone is! I mean, there's this one guy, Jason Kinderson, he's really nice, and he's in Ravenclaw. But I know that James is going to find something wrong with him! And I thought I could talk to you two because you have more experience."

Lily stared. "So what's the problem again?"

Abby sighed. "He's so overprotective! He thinks he's the world's nicest big brother, to scare off all of my—"

"Okay, okay, we got it!" said Angel hurriedly. "So what exactly did you want to talk to us for?"

Abby looked thoughtful. "Well, I sort of thought that you know, you and Lily hadn't exactly been the best of friends with James, and I thought you'd know how I feel…"

"That's for sure," muttered Lily. "Did we help?"

"Yeah, actually, it was really nice to get that off my chest," said Abby. "Oh, I've gotta go." And with that, she rushed out of the dormitory.

Angel asked, "How come she had to leave so soon?"

"I feel like I'm forgetting something," said Lily, totally ignoring Angel, and tapping her foot on her bed. "Something…that I need to do…"

"Er…"

"OH I KNOW!" Lily yelled suddenly. "I need to get James to practice Chaser with me. Or Seeker or whatever it was that I'm gonna try out for."

"Right, you said that you wanted to try out for the Quidditch team."

"I should go ask James if he'd practice with me," Lily said, and she rushed out of the dormitory.

"That's funny," said Angel to herself. "Here we are all talking about how James is the bad guy, and suddenly Lily wants to go play Chaser with him. Odd, isn't it."

Boys Dorms--

The Marauders were on the floor, planning their next big prank on Snivellus when they heard some banging on the door.

"JAMES!"

It was a female voice. "Quick! Hide the plans!" James told them. They stuffed them under his bed.

"Come IN!" James yelled.

Lily walked in. "You told me that you wanted me to try out for the Quidditch team. But I need practice. Will you practice with me?"

"Er…um…"

"I'll do it!" said Sirius excitedly. "I'll practice Chaser with you! I'm Keeper. This'll all work!"

"Er, sure, Sirius," said Lily. "C'mon!"

Sirius grabbed his broom and James' broom and him and Lily walked out.

Quidditch field--

(A/N-- Sorry to interrupt, but…right now I've kind of gotten writers block, so bear with me if it's gotten boring. Believe me, I will NOT stand for it. It will be better soon. Pity that it has to be at a Quidditch scene! Well, enjoy anyway.)

Lily climbed easily onto James' broomstick and she watched Sirius climb onto his. Then she remembered back in the boys dorms. Why didn't James want to come practice with her? Hmph.

"Sirius, how come James didn't want to practice Quidditch?" she asked, hoping she sounded like she didn't care too much.

Sirius looked at her. "Don't tell him I told you, but we were kind of in the middle of planning a big prank."

"On who?" Lily asked suspiciously.

"Snivellus, of course!" Sirius told her.

"He still picks on him?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't—oh." Sirius looked like he just mentally slapped himself. "Whoopsie."

"What do you mean 'whoopsie'?" Lily rounded on him. "After that whole OWLs thing, he hasn't learnt anything!"

"Well, you know, he—"

"And you! You don't do anything to stop him! So even you haven't learnt anything about not picking on people that aren't worth it!"

"Lily, we all—"

Lily's face became all red and Sirius was afraid she'd burst out in blisters. When she next spoke, her voice was all raspy. "You, grr, Marauders, snort, are the dumbest, most," –Lily made a violent movement in midair— "rudest, most—RRAAAHH!—you insolent—stupid—GRRRR!"

Sirius was curious. "Why do you get so worked up over Snivellus?"

Lily lunged at him, forgetting she was sitting on a broom. Sirius flew upwards so fast, he was a blur. He watched her from above.

Lily tripped over the broom and began cursing James.

At least she didn't burst out in blisters…

(A/N-- Do you agree with me? That was dumb wasn't it… Don't worry, that's not all.)

(A/N-- I don't mean dumb stuff. I mean that's not all with Lily and Sirius and Chaser practice.)

Boys Dorms--

"I wonder what Lily and Sirius are doing…" said James suspiciously.

"Prongs, they wouldn't be doing anything you'd be upset about…" Remus told him. "Sirius is your best friend. He would do anything…"

"Oh I know," James told him. "I just want to know if Lily wants to be Seeker or Chaser."

"Uh huh."

"Really! And d'you want to know something? I think Sirius should've been Quidditch captain."

"Really?" Peter asked.

"Yeah," James said thought fully. "He's a lot more patient, he's a born leader, he's got much more imagination, he's really nice to everyone, he's got a great sense of humor… There're plenty of reasons why Padfoot's a lot better than me."

"Prongs, there was probably a perfectly valid reason why Padfoot wasn't made Quidditch captain and you were," said Remus reasonably.

"And what might you say that would be?"

"Well..." Remus paused. "That's for Dumbledore to know. It's not up to me what information he decides to share with you."

Outside--

Lily sighed. "Okay, Sirius, let's get back to Quidditch practice. Don't tell me anything else that'll get my temper up."

Sirius flinched. "Right. First, how about we practice with a game of catch?"

"Catch?" asked Lily. "As in catch the Quaffle?"

"Yeah!"

"Are you sure? Isn't that a bit childish?"

"Well, maybe, but it's essential if you want to be a good Chaser…"

"You do have a point there, Sirius."

Sirius kicked open the trunk with all the balls in there and picked up the Quaffle. Then he mounted his broom, watched Lily do the same, and passed the Quaffle to her. She almost missed it, but she caught it with the tips of her fingers.

"You know, I thought catch would be easy!" Lily told him.

Sirius just grinned. Lily and Sirius played a really rough game of catch. They flew all around the stadium and threw the ball to each other. After a while, Lily got so good at it, she felt that she would be able to catch the ball with her eyes shut. (Not that she tried and succeeded or anything…)

"You're a really good teacher, Siri!" Lily panted when she and Sirius finally touched down to the ground.

"Thanks! And DON'T call me 'Siri'!"

"Well, are we going to continue with doing more today?" Lily asked.

Sirius shrugged. "It depends on if you're up to it. I am, certainly."

"Okay, let's do more!" Lily told him, mounting her broom again. She flew up about fifty feet above the ground and yelled back down to him, "COME ON!"

Sirius grinned and flew up to join her. "Okay, now we're going to shoot some goals. We'll pass to each other and we can work on your aim."

"But won't it be easy without the Keeper there?" asked Lily.

"You'll see…"

Sirius tossed Lily the Quaffle and they flew over to the goal posts, passing to each other along the way. Lily threw the Quaffle to the goal post and…she missed the ring.

She paused. "You're right, it isn't as easy as it sounds."

"You'll get the hang of it eventually," Sirius said.

"Do you know how to Beater, Chaser, Seeker, and Keeper?"

"Yeah," Sirius said modestly.

"How?"

"I practice…"

"Why?"

"Because I like to."

"But why?" Lily pressed on.

Sirius sighed. "Because I wanted to be Quidditch captain. And so if I was Quidditch captain, it would help to know every part."

"But James became captain…"

"I know. I was ever so happy for him. It's okay that I'm not captain because Prongs is better than me in every aspect."

"Not in Quidditch…"

"Only in Quidditch," Sirius grinned. "Just kidding. I think he's a great captain, because he is!"

Lily grinned too. "So, after practicing goals, then what are we going to do?"

"Then I thought we'd fly around with the Bludgers so you'd practice dodging, and then I thought I'd play Keeper and you'd practice shooting the balls around the Keeper."

"Okay, then what?"

"Well, then I thought we'd see what you needed to work on…"

"Oh okay."

Sirius and Lily practiced shooting goals and then they flew down to the ground. Both of them had worked very hard that day.

"That was really fun!" Lily told him excitedly. "Let's practice more tomorrow, I'm all wiped out."

"Yeah," agreed Sirius, just as excitedly. He ran his fingers through his hair. "Ooh, a knot!" He pulled out a comb and combed his hair through. "That's much better."

"So…tomorrow, same time?" Lily asked, giggling.

"Yep!"

Sirius and Lily made their way up to the Gryffindor tower.

Girls Dorms--

"Sirius is SUCH an awesome teacher!" Lily excitedly told an equally excited Angel. "I think I'll be a great Chaser by the time Sirius is done teaching me!"

"So you're meeting him tomorrow too?" Angel asked.

"Yeah."

"Ah."

Boys Dorms--
"What did you do?" James demanded the second Sirius walked in.

"Well, first we practiced passing to each other, and then we—"

"I didn't mean like that, I meant…you know…!"

"No, actually Prongs, I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Did you do…anything with her?"

"No, after passing, we practiced scoring," Sirius told him, having no idea to what James was trying to get at. "Tomorrow we're going to practice with the Bludgers, and then I'm going to play Keeper so she can—"

"You're meeting her again? Tomorrow?" Sirius detected some jealousy in his voice.

"Yes."

"Can I practice with her tomorrow?" James asked.

"Sure!" Sirius told him excitedly, thinking that Lily would have a great experience practicing with the Quidditch captain.

Tomorrow--

(A/N-- You know, this whole part is going to be about Lily and the Quidditch tryouts. I guess some little things are going to happen, but you know, nothing much really.)

Lily held James' broom in her hand in the common room as she sat next to Angel. The Marauders came down the stairs from the boys dorms.

"C'mon Sirius!" Lily got up.

"Um, actually Lily, Prongs is going to practice with you today…" Sirius said uncomfortably.

"That's fine right?" James asked.

"No," Lily told him. "I want Sirius to practice with me."

James scowled. "Why?"

"Well, I don't know, I just do," Lily said.

"Too bad, I'm practicing with you."

James and Lily went out to the Quidditch pitch. Lily used Sirius' broom while James used his own. James released the Bludgers. "Sirius told me that's what you were going to do today."

"Yeah," said Lily. "Hmph."

She mounted her broom with the Quaffle. She passed to James, who caught it and threw it back to her. Then she flew stationary while she threw it…a Bludger came flying and knocked her clean off her broom. James flew under her and caught her before she hit the ground.

"Potter!" Lily yelled. "Stupid Bludger!"

"Er…"

"Go get Sirius!" Lily instructed.

"Why?"

"Because I prefer him teaching me."

"How come?" said James darkly.

"Because!"

James tramped back into the school.

Common Room--

(A/N-- Lily and Sirius are becoming good friends! And only good friends. Don't get the wrong idea.)

"Padfoot!" James yelled. "What on earth did you do to her?"

Sirius looked up from the Marauders Map. "What do you mean?"

"You've brainwashed her or something, she wants only you to teach her!"

"Prongs, I didn't do anything…"

"I know."

"So…I've gotta go?" Sirius asked timidly.

"Yes, take my broom," James handed his broom to Sirius. "I don't know what she's doing, but if she wants to get me upset, it's certainly working."

"Heh, heh?"

"She's so…"

"I really don't want to know," Sirius told him. "I'll see you later, Prongs."

"Yeah," said James miserably.

Outside--

Lily didn't know why she didn't want James teaching her. She did have a huge crush on the guy, didn't she? So what was her problem? Why did she want Sirius to practice with her? She was acting like a spoiled little girl. Who cares who practiced with her? Lily felt that Sirius and her were becoming very good friends. Maybe that's why. Maybe she felt a lot more comfortable with a good friend than with a crush.

She saw someone coming. Sirius!

"Sirius!" she called. "I've got your broom!"

The figure didn't answer.

"Sirius!" she called again. "Can you hear me?"

Still no answer.

The figure came closer. She saw that it wasn't Sirius, but a hooded figure in a black robe. She squinted her eyes to see him. It was a foggy night, so it was the easiest thing to do. The hooded figure came closer.

Lily's eyes widened. "Who are you?" she asked cautiously. The hooded figure did nothing, but he/she clamped their hand over her mouth and tied her hands behind her back. Lily stood stock still. What on earth was going on?

"MMPH!"

"Shut up, you little girl!" said the figure in a hoarse voice.

Lily was enraged. No one talked to her like that. She bit the figure's hand. The figure screamed in pain.

"SIRIUS! JAMES! HELP!" Lily screamed. "HELP! HELP!"

Sirius had coaxed James into coming with him to practice. James and Sirius raced to the Quidditch field. They had been following the screams, which had become a bit more muffled.

"…MMLP! …MMLP!"

At the Quidditch field, they saw a sight. A hooded figure in a black robe was holding their hand over a girl (with red hair)'s mouth and holding a wand at her neck.

"Don't move!" The figure warned. He had a hoarse voice.

"It's Lily!" James hissed to Sirius.

"I know!" Sirius hissed back. "What are we going to do?"

"I…I don't know!"

Sirius stepped closer. "We don't mean any harm," he said to the figure.

"I know that you fool!" the figure yelled. "I'm only holding her prisoner like this because I don't like girls!"

"Why not?" James asked incredulously. "Especially this one! Isn't she beautiful?"

"They have cooties, you idiot!"

"Cooties?" Sirius asked.

"Yes cooties!" said the figure. "If you kiss a girl, you get cooties! It's a Muggle thing."

"Cooties?" James asked.

"Cooties," said Sirius.

"Cooties?"

"Cooties."

"Cooties?"

"Lily!" the figure said. His voice was no longer hoarse, Lily noticed. In fact, it sounded really familiar… "Lily!"

Lily's eyes snapped open from her really odd dream. She saw Sirius' face. "Hi, Sirius."

"Are you okay?" Sirius asked. "You were muttering in your sleep."

"I had a really crazy dream," Lily said. "C'mon let's get go—what's Potter doing here?"

James had come along to oversee the practice. Sirius had insisted. "We need the captain of the team to see what we're doing!" he had told him excitedly.

"C'mon Lily, let's get started!" said Sirius, mounting his broom. Lily impatiently snatched James' and flew up to join Sirius.

"Prongs, can you release the Bludgers!" Sirius called.

"I thought I already did!" was the reply.

"Wh—" Sirius was interrupted by a sudden ramming in his stomach; a Bludger had got him. "OUCH! THAT HURT!"

Lily started laughing uncontrollably until the Bludger rammed her too. "Stupid Bludger!" she screeched.

James started laughing down below. The Bludger came and knocked him as well. "Curse it!" he rasped.

Sirius and Lily passed the Quaffle to each other, carefully avoiding the Bludgers. When they got to the goal posts, Lily threw the Quaffle hard and…yes! It went through.

They did this repeatedly until Lily got very good at it, and then they decided on a break.

(A/N-- Boring? Let me know…)

(A/N-- Chapter 1 was 24 pgs long, so Chapter 2 has to also be 24 pgs long. At the moment, it's still short about 7 pgs.)

(A/N-- I never thought Quidditch could be boring, but if I continue to write the way I am right now…)

(A/N-- No more Quidditch.)

Lily lay down on her bed. "What's wrong with me?" she wondered out loud for no apparent reason at all.

"Nothing's wrong with you," a voice said. Lily nearly jumped three feet high, but then she saw it was only Angel.

"Gosh, Angel, don't do that!" Lily scolded as her pulse slowed down a little. "And what were you doing up so late at night, anyway?"

"I could ask you the same question," said Angel, raising an eyebrow.

Lily sighed. "I know you could, Angel, and the truth is that I've been out practicing Quidditch and then I took a walk. I should've told you. What're you doing up, anyway?"

"I was waiting for you."

"Oh, that's so nice of you!"

"Good night Lily."

"Good night Angel."

The Quidditch tryouts went fine, as usual, but unfortunately, Lily didn't make it onto the House Team.

Boys Dorms--

James woke up the next morning and all that he was aware of was the fact that he was the only one awake in their room. Yes! He thought happily. Finally, I'll get the bathroom before Sir—

Sirius suddenly rushed past his bed and into the bathroom, causing a great gust of wind to hit James square on the face. That idiot, pretending to be asleep and throwing me off completely…

James decided to get up and whack Sirius upside the head. But in order to do that, he had to get Sirius out of the bathroom. "Sirius!" he yelled. "I need the bathroom!"

"Well, that's a pity, isn't it," Sirius sneered.

James hurried to the bathroom door and pounded on it. "Well, at least I hid my shampoo so you wouldn't be able to get at it. I lent it to Moony."

"Don't bring me into it, Prongs!" said Remus irritably as he woke up hearing his name mentioned.

"So what if you lent it to Moony? I got my own!" cackled Sirius.

James was horrified. "How? When? Where?"

"I paid a fifth year…Robert something."

"You paid a fifth year."

"Yep! And he was actually a genius! He got me a pack of five."

"Five!"

"Yeah. All different smells too!"

That was all James could take before he fainted. Well, he didn't really faint. He fell to his knees, and then flat on the floor (A/N-- I saw someone doing that after they lost a game a volleyball). But on the way down, he bumped into a bookshelf and sent it toppling on top of him, bumping into his funny bone, and the resounding crash caused Remus to sit up bolt upright in bed to see what had created the commotion.

"Prongs, what are you doing down there?" Remus snickered, not something he usually did.

"I—got—hurt—" James wheezed, clutching his elbow. "Hit—funny bone—not—funny—"

Remus only began snickering louder. Sirius burst into laughter from inside the bathroom. A couple of seconds later, the shower turned on, only to be turned off precisely on-the-dot thirty minutes later.

Breakfast, Great Hall--

Lily served herself hash browns and topped it with ketchup when the Marauders walked in. Lily almost made place for them next to her and almost told Angel to do so also, when they all sat down beside Marshmallow and her group of friends.

Marshmallow, Cream, and Sugar were rather popular, like the Marauders. They called themselves "The Sweets." Lily thought that was a stupid name.

Marshmallow's real name was Miriam Boksnick. But all the students called her Marshmallow and all the teachers called her Boksnick. She was a blonde. She was originally a brunette, but she dyed her hair blonde, and ever since then, she became an idiot. It was as if all the smarts she got from being a brunette disappeared. She had brown eyes that sparkled somehow, as if she had enchanted them, or something.

Cream was Creole Smothers. Funny name, if you asked Angel. Cream changed her hair color every week, and this week was blue. Bright blue. Her eyes were blue too. Really blue. Such a deep blue that not even Peter (who had the bluest eyes the Marauders had ever seen) could compete with. The teachers all called her Smothers. The students called her Creole, no matter how hard she tried to get them all to call her Cream.

Sugar was, from last month, Sirius's girlfriend, although you could see he was getting bored of her sometimes. (He would unexpectedly begin flirting with Creole.) Sugar's real name was Sabrina Salem. She had the blackest hair Lily had ever seen and the darkest of eyes. Sometimes, she was scary. No one knew why she called herself Sugar. But everyone knew she was perfectly capable of 'inconveniencing' you if you didn't call her that.

James and Marshmallow started having a passionate conversation that Lily was bothered about. She leaned closer to try and hear what they were saying.

"…tell anyone, did you?" Marshmallow was saying.

"No, why would you think so, Mir?" James asked.

"It's Marshmallow, James, and you didn't tell Evans and Marle, did you? I've seen you hang around with them a lot…"

"Tell them what?" Sirius interrupted.

"That—" Marshmallow looked around furtively, "that James and I are going out."

Lily's eyes widened at Angel, who was also listening.

"Oh I knew that!" said Sirius. "What's so secret about it?"

"Nothing," said Marshmallow simply. "I just like having a secret."

"From who?"

"The rest of the school."

Remus shook his head. "Marshmallow, sometimes I think you really are a dumb blonde."

Marshmallow's nostrils flared at Remus and Remus looked disapprovingly at her. It was obvious that Remus didn't like her very much. Lily angrily decided that Remus had that right idea about her.

"No, she's not," said James, kissing her quickly.

That burned Lily up. She collected her bag and hurried out of the Great Hall, purposely bumping into James on the way. He turned around for a moment, to see who bumped him, and saw Lily rushing away.

He turned back to Marshmallow. "Er…that was Lily."

James got up and looked around. Lily seemed to have already gone somewhere. He left the Great Hall, giving Angel a questioning look. She shrugged. Marshmallow was following him yelling, "So you're calling her 'Lily' now?"

Marshmallow followed James all the way up to the Gryffindor Common Room. (Marshmallow was a Gryffindor, herself.)

"Password?" the Fat Lady asked when James got up there.

"Er…" In his haste, James had forgotten to find out what the password was from Remus; the password had been changed the previous day.

Marshmallow caught up with him. "What's wrong, James? What's the password?"

"I…don't know…"

"That's bad," said Marshmallow in a voice that was obviously as soothing as she could make it. "Now tell me why you want to talk to this Lily. Conjure up chairs, James."

James conjured two fluffy armchairs. "Mir, do we really have to talk right now? In the middle of the hallway? Do you know how odd this looks?"

"Yes, and don't call me Mir."

"Why? Because, honestly, I don't know why I'm following her. But I suppose I have no chance of catching up with—" James suddenly had an idea. He leapt up and approached the Fat Lady again.

"What?" she said irritably.

"Did you let Lily go in there?" James asked.

"No, not Lily, no," said the Fat Lady, surprised. "I thought you were going to ask about…oh, never mind."

James gave her an odd look, but he started back to the Great Hall. Marshmallow ran after him. James had no chance of finding Lily in the whole castle, so he needed the Marauder's Map from Moony.

He was halfway back to the Great Hall when he remembered that he had the Marauder's map. He pulled it out and checked it quickly before Marshmallow caught up to him; he didn't want her to see. It was a Marauder secret. He scanned it. Lily, apparently, was hiding, and she was rather hard to find. But finally, James found her; she was lurking in the Astronomy tower.

James snorted as he put the Marauders Map away. The Astronomy tower is where you're supposed to go at night. It was a romantic spot to meet with your boyfriend or girlfriend. But Lily, obviously, had no sense of such things.

He hurried there anyway.

Marshmallow arrived at the Great Hall, didn't see him, and went back to go eat.

What in the name of Merlin was Lily doing up at the Astronomy tower anyhow? What gave her the nerve to go up there? How dare she? James was thinking these nasty thoughts about Lily as he climbed up the practically never-ending stairs to the tower. Why did the Astronomy tower have to be the highest room in the castle?

What gave James the nerve to be so upset at Lily like that? That had never happened before… There had not been anything to be upset about before, though. What was different? James was really confused. What had he done anyway to get Lily angry like that? Was she even angry? Was it possible that it wasn't James she was angry at?

Obviously, James had a lot going through his mind as he climbed those godforsaken stairs.

Finally, he reached the last stair, now thoroughly annoyed with Lily. But now that he was up, he couldn't just well go down without fulfilling his purpose of going up anyway, right? So, he quietly stepped into the tower and took in the whole view.

Lily was perched on the windowsill, looking down. She was swaying dangerously, as though one little push would be enough for her to drop all the way down. James decided not to startle her.

So, what could he do?

Absolutely nothing, that's what. He couldn't say anything. But if Lily turned around and saw him standing there, she would be under the impression that he was spying.

But then, Lily did something unexpected and turned around with her eyes closed. Who does that! Thought James furiously, but thanking her at the same time for doing so. She walked to the middle of the tower (or at least, what she supposed was the middle) and started talking.

"I really do like him," Lily said quietly. "I like him a lot. I wish he knew." She paused as she lowered her head, obviously focusing on her thoughts only.

"Why doesn't he like me?" she asked to nobody. James could neither make head nor tail of who on earth she was talking about. "Why doesn't he care anymore, when I care so much? What is the deal with this guy?"

James just stood, trying to make up his mind of whether he should talk or not. But Lily continued.

"Will he come up to find me now? Will he start to pay more attention to me? God, I wish I hadn't been so annoyed with him before… I wish he would talk to me again, like he did last year…"

And James understood who she was talking about…him. She loved him. And all at once, six years of fancying her all came back into him and he realized that he loved her too, very much. He didn't even stop to think before he slowly walked forward and captured Lily in a heartwarming kiss.

In one split-second, Lily had opened her eyes and saw she was being kissed by her dream, James Potter. All emotion came rushing into her at that moment, and she channeled it all into kissing him back passionately.

The kiss lasted almost an eternity to Lily before she pulled away slowly and smiled.

James bit his lip. "I…I didn't mean to do that…"

"I know you didn't," said Lily. "But I'm not mad at you… When did you come?"

"Not too long ago," said James sheepishly. "I was looking for you. Why did you bump me anyway?"

Lily shrugged nervously. "Jealousy?"

"Well, of course, but—"

"I felt sort of like you were betraying me," Lily continued over James. "I was…listening to you and Miriam talk and I didn't really like what I was hearing…and seeing…"

"I suppose you wouldn't," said James.

"No, and I got mad at you when she asked you if you told anyone that you were going out and you said you didn't even tell me and… James!" Something dawned suddenly on Lily. "You shouldn't've—we shouldn't've—arrgh—you and me, we couldn't!—we can't kiss like that! You're dating Marshmallow, aren't you? You just can't kiss me! We must pretend like that never happened! We—"

"Why?" James interrupted calmly. "I'll just break up with her next time I see her."

Lily's mouth flung open. Tears began forming at her eyes. "I knew you'd never change, James," she whispered as she marched out of the Astronomy tower, crying.

James had no idea what to do. One minute they were getting along fine—kissing, even!—and the next, Lily was mad at him again.

"Now what?" James asked to no one in particular (not that anyone was there). He shook his head and went down, convinced he was going to be late for Transfiguration.

And indeed he was. Professor McGonagall had almost deducted ten points from Gryffindor, but James had smooth-talked his way out of it.

Today, they were doing Vanishing.

"The incantation I am about to teach you now is one of the most difficult things you will ever learn in this school, and it is incredibly important for your N.E.W.T.s," Professor McGonagall told the class. "Everyone say Evanesco!"

"Evanesco!" chanted the class. James, Sirius, and Remus looked boredly at each other; they already were perfect in Vanishing. Peter, on the other hand, was having a lot of trouble just saying the incantation.

"Now, you all try it," instructed Professor McGonagall. "I have provided you all with a toad. Successfully Vanish your toad, and you will progress to a raven. Begin!"

Peter had a go at it. "Evenacso!" he said, waving his wand hopefully. Nothing happened.

"Wormtail!" said Sirius. "You aren't even saying it correctly. How do you hope to Vanish something without even saying the spell properly?"

"I don't know!" Peter wailed. "I can't do this!"

Sirius rolled his eyes and went to go help him.

James found this opportunity useful to talk to Moony privately. "Moony, I've…got a problem."

Remus looked up from his book. "Go on…"

"Well, today, when we were talking to those Sweets…" James told Remus the entire story of what happened up in the Astronomy tower. "And then Lily said, 'I knew you'd never change, James,' and she left crying! I don't know what I did to upset her at all!"

Remus shook his head. "You idiot."

"What?" James asked indignantly. "What am I supposed to do if she all of a sudden starts crying for no reason?"

Remus cleared his throat as if he were going to give an exceptionally long lecture. "Well, first of all, you shouldn't have said that you were going to break up with her right away. I mean, you did cheat on her didn't you?"

"So? I like Lily now!"

"That's exactly what the problem is! You gave Lily the wrong impression! She's probably thinking that if randomly you see another girl, then you have no problem kissing her! That you are perfectly comfortable with cheating on Lily! So, if you see another girl and kiss her, you'll break up with Lily. Do you see where I'm going with this?"

James began to understand. "Yeah…"

"So, you shouldn't've said that. You could've said that you'd try to forget about the kiss and that you couldn't just break up with Miriam, right? And then you could have told Lily you love her and you always wanted to be with her, but you were stuck with Miriam. Don't suggest anything. Wait until Lily asks you to do something."

"Like what?"

"Like, I don't know!"

James sighed. "Thanks, Moony. You really put it in perspective for me."

"Shut up."

"What?"

"How else can I explain it? This is as clear as I can translate a girl's mind for you, okay?" said Remus irritably. "Now, let me read!"

James Vanished his toad and Professor McGonagall gave him a raven. He Vanished that too, and she awarded twenty points to Gryffindor. Sirius also managed and so did Remus, and miraculously, so did Peter, so eighty points were awarded to the Marauders that day.

Meanwhile--

"Angel, I need to talk to you," Lily whispered urgently during Care of Magical Creatures class. "But I can't do it in front of…" She gestured at "the Sweets" and the Marauders.

"Oh, I see," said Angel, and Lily guessed that Angel really didn't see anything.

Professor Kettleburn, who just gave a yell of pain as he was burnt for the third time that week, dismissed the class early, as he needed to cure himself.

The next class was Divination and Lily didn't have any time to talk to Angel properly in between, so they decided to talk during their irritating time with Professor Hardlebee, who claimed she was a true Seer. Lily and Angel liked her; she was fun.

"This is a load of junk," said Angel, peering into the crystal ball and seeing nothing but fog.

"Now, don't give up so easily!" said Professor Hardlebee, making Lily and Angel jump. "Let me have a looksee, now."

She gazed into Lily's crystal ball. "I see a figure…he—or she—is coming closer…I see…hair…messy hair…it's…black. It's definitely a he…and he's wearing glasses…"

Lily stared at her disbelievingly; she was describing James.

"Wait! There's another one! It's…it's…it's a girl…and she's coming closer to him…! And they're…oh my!..."

"What? What happened?" said Angel, not being able to bear the strain of not knowing what was going on.

"They were…er…" Hardlebee hesitated. "I don't know if you should hear things like this…"

"Come on Professor!" said Lily. "You can tell us…"

"They were kissing!" she whispered. "And the girl…she was you, Lily!"

Lily flushed. "Are you sure you're telling the future, Professor?"

"Of course I am! Why do you ask?... Oh…you already…" Hardlebee had a look of dawning comprehension. "I see."

"Right," said Lily, flushing even more; she hadn't told Angel yet and Angel was staring at Lily. "Sorry, Angel! This is what I needed to talk to you about…" she said as Hardlebee fluttered away.

Angel sighed. "What a problem. You kissed James Potter? I can't believe it…"

And at that moment, James turned up next to them. "I need to talk to you Lily," he said desperately.