"At least give him a chance, Lily!" Sirius exclaimed with exhaustion as he chased an irritated Lily Evans down the corridor. She groaned in frustration and stopped in the middle of the hallway, turning so rapidly to face Sirius that they're heads almost bumped against one another. Sirius stepped back in surprise, his eye brows raised and grinned. "So you'll give him a shot?" he asked.

"Let's try to get this through your thick head, Black," she started, her face red as her hair, "I-WILL-NEVER-DATE-POTTER. He is conceited, immature, just plain mean, rude, disrespectful, and absolutely desperate for having you do his dirty work for him every day of this week," Lily finished, each line more bitter than the first.

Sirius raised an eye brow with a smirk. "It's gotta break you down at some point. Besides, this week was my shift. Last week it was Remus," he shrugged. Lily shook her head impatiently and walked away from him.

"Unbelievable," she sighed to herself.

"Be fair, Evans! He's wanted you for ages now," Sirius told her seriously.

Not turning around, Lily responded, "I don't care. You guys have to leave me alone, I have enough to worry about, okay!"

Sirius ruffled his hair away from his eyes and made a burst of speed to get ahead of her. He put his hands on her shoulders. "What will it take?" he asked her pleadingly, "I want my friend to be happy, Lils, and you can do that. Now, what can I do? Maybe a date with charming old me would do it?" he suggested raising his eye brows up and down with a wise grin on his face.

Lily scowled at him. "Okay, how about this," she suggested pushing all of her books into Sirius' hands. He held them with a grunt of surprise as Lily reached into her pocket and pulled out a galleon.

Sirius made an awkward face. "I don't have money. I just emancipated myself from my parents, see," he finished with a proud tone in his voice.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Good for you, but I meant we will flip for it. Heads I win, and tails you lose," she said a hopeful smile on her face, "Now, if you win, I will go out on a date with James. If I win you will go out with my best friend, and leave me alone about this whole James thing for the rest of the years that we live."

Sirius grinned widely, leaning down a little to keep her books in his hands. "All right! I even get a date Flip it!" Lily didn't mention that Sirius had always turned down her best friend, just like she turned down James. Minor detail, eh?

"Okay, you sure you got the rules? Heads I win, tails you lose," Lily repeated very slowly trying not to burst out laughing.

Sirius narrowed his eyes, "Just flip the galleon already," he said as though he was sure he could get this for James. Lily put the coin on her thumbnail and with a flick; it went up in the air. She caught it quickly in her hand, and Sirius watched carefully trying to make sure she wouldn't cheat. Lily made enormous effort not to roll her eyes.

"Tails. You lose," she exclaimed with a grin. Without even thinking about it, she set the galleon on the top of Sirius' silky black hair and grabbed her books from him.

She gave him a soft smile. "I know you want James to get a date with me, but he has everything. Sooner or later that boy will see that he only wanted me because I don't want him," she explained as kindly as she could as Sirius took the coin from his head disappointedly, "Keep the galleon. You'll need it." She finished.

Sirius sighed deeply.

"Oh and Sirius!" Lily called out making him look up, "Your mind is your biggest enemy. Think about it."

He looked after her, utterly confused. He scoffed and ruffled his hair. Lily walked off leaving him there with the galleon.

"Pish posh," he said to himself with a smirk and he walked to class, "I have no enemies."