A/N: I would like to say first off that I don't own Harry Potter. Secondly, I want to thank squigglywiggly, my first reviewer. So here is chapter two.

Chapter Two – The Bet

We find the Marauders in the common room talking, like everyone else, about the up coming ball.

"So, who are you lot asking to the ball?" Sirius asked the group.

"I'll probably ask that Ravenclaw girl, Cindy Segers," Remus replied nonchalantly.

"Cindy Segers!" Peter exclaimed. "I was going to ask her." He said dejectedly.

"Better luck next time mate," Sirius said. The Marauders had a strict policy that who ever called 'dibs' on a girl first got to ask her out. "So Prongs, who is the unlucky girl who will be persued by you?" Sirius asked playfully.

"I don't know," James answerd. "Its not like I have trouble getting dates, I mean, any girl with eyes would go out with me," He said with a cocky smirk.

"You want to put your galleons where your mouth is?" Sirius asked.

"Sure, what do you have in mind?"

"How about a little bet. I will find you a girl who doesn't care about what's on the out side. I will find a girl who can resist your charms and who will not swoon every time you speak to her."

"Good luck," James said sarcasticly.

"Oh, I don't need any, but thanks any way."

The girl's dorms

"So, who do you think you are going to go to the ball with?" Lily asked Alyssa when they retired to their dorm.

"Probally Sirius."

"Ugh, don't say any of their names in my presence!"

"Lily, why do you hate them so much?"

"Its not all of them just that Potter"

"Well what is it about him that rubs you the wrong way?"

"Its just that…. I don't know I just can't stand him," this was a lie ofcourse. She knew exactly why she hate James Potter, it was because….. well she hadn't even fully admitted it to herself, because it brought up too many painful memories.

"Well I don't understand it at all. I like all of them just fine."

"Yeah well I look at a little more than what type of shoes someone is wearing before I judge them." Lily said under her breath. She loved Alyssa and all but she just couldn't stand the way she looked at the world around her. Lily had always been taught that it wasn't nice to judge people by outward appearances. The girls stayed up late talking and laughing together, enjoying the fact that they were back at school.

The boy's dorms

The Marauders had returned from Hogsmeade and were now sitting around talking about the ball again.

"So Padfoot, have you found my next victim yet?" James asked.

"Nope, not yet. How about we say I will find one in two days or the bet is off."

"Okay, sounds good."

The boys spent the rest of the night talking and laughing just like the girls.

The next day, Sirius and Remus (who had offered to help with the search) searched for the perfect girl for the bet.

They decided to look in the library after classes. (A/N: where else to the nerds hang out?) When they reached the library the only girl that they found was a girl with stringy black hair, acne, and no obvious makeup. She was perfect.

"Oh Prongs," Sirius sang as he walked through the portrait hole.

"You rang?"

"We found her," he replied with a mischievous grin.

"Wow, it only took you one day to find the girl of my nightmares. I'm impressed."

"Thankyou."

"You're welcome. So, who is she?"

"Well that's the thing. We don't know."

"What?"

"Well, we saw her in the library this afternoon but neither one of us knows who she is."

"Let's ask Peter, he knows just about everyone."

"Hey Pete!" Remus yelled as Wormtail walked through the portrait hole.

"Yeah?"

"You see that girl over there in that corner reading?"

"The one in the black clothes?"

"Yeah her. We need the 411 on her."

"That's Lily Evans, muggelborn, she is in all of our classes and she is the only one with higher grades than James and Sirius except in transfiguration."

"Wow Wormtail, you are like and idiot savant."

"I know, it's a gift."

"So, Lily Evans," James said with a smirk, "I hope that you're ready for this."