Love Makes The World Go Round

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A/N: Oh yeah- if the writing is in italics- it means that it is what someone is thinking...

Chapter Five: Siriusly Disturbed...

Lily wrapped herself underneath the covers of her bed, struggling to fall back asleep. She had an anxious feeling overwhelming her and that was causing her to fall into a fitful sleeps, in which she would wake up from every 10 or 20 minutes. With her mind wandering everywhere, she started reflecting on the day that has passed.

The first day, she thought somberly to herself, of the last year I'll be here. Maybe Alex is right. Maybe I need to live a little. I've spent the past six years, playing by the rules. I've spent so much time abiding everything that I forgot to have fun.

That's not true! You had plenty of fun with Alex! Lily's mind reminded herself. But I was always the downer in the group, always having other things on my mind, like getting caught or homework and studying.

Lily's mind then went to a conversation she had with Alex after the Sorting Ceremony. Alex had told Lily that she needed to finally give James a chance... That he was actually worth it... That James deserved a chance...

Everyone made sure to mention to Lily that James had transformed over the summer into a more reliable person. Especially Sirius, who kept yelling at random times, "LILY FLOWER- your Jamesy Daisy changed just for you! I'm serious Sirius!"

Lily didn't know what to believe. The only encounters she had with James that day was at the corridor, at the meeting with prefects, and after helping the first years. Except for the first reunion, she hadn't had much of a chance to talk to him. And that encounter, she remembered, wasn't very pleasant. She ended up shoving him onto the ground.

Maybe I am being too harsh on James... I barely gave him a chance today... Ok, Ok.. I'll give him a few chances but if he didn't actually have this "miraculous" change that everybody keeps talking about, I'm going right back to my yelling-at-him days.

And with that, Lily was finally able to settle down and fall into a deep and thoughtless slumber that lasted all night and to morning.

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James was lying on his bed, when he saw something soar through the air. He abruptly sat up and looked around for the flying object.

He then saw what it was: a picture of Lily. And it wasn't any old picture- it was HIS picture that he kept in his luggage. It was the only picture that James had of him and Lily- it was the only picture that Lily willingly let someone take of her with James.

He picked up the picture off the ground and stared at it. It was taken at Hogsmeade the year before. James and Lily were actually getting along for once when Peter had a camera and took a quick picture the two of them, laughing. However, Lily in the picture was now yelling at James and swatting him on the head while James just kept laughing, with a hint of amusement in his eyes.

James looked around to see who was the culprit that threw the picture. He looked under Sirius' bed and found him, trying to muffle his laughter.

"Gosh, Padfoot! Seriously, I would think that years of hiding from people, you would think of a better place to hide than under your OWN bed!" James said, now laughing with Sirius.

Sirius gave a charming smile, saying, "Well I figured since I was hiding from you, you would be too much of a dimwit to look under my bed!"

"Hey!" James threw a pillow at Sirius' head. "But why did you throw the picture of Lily?"

"Umm I don't know... Maybe because that was the ONLY thing to get your attention! I wanted to remind you that tomorrow night is a Marauder night."

Marauder night was code for the Marauders for full moon. They always said that just in case someone was listening in on their conversation. Even if they couldn't see anyone around, they knew that you couldn't always trust your eyes. Someone could be using an invisibility cloak at anytime.

At full moon, the Marauders, with the exception of Remus, would turn into animagus. James turned into a stag, giving him the nickname of Prongs. Sirius turned into a black dog, giving him the name of Padfoot. And, last and certainly least, Peter turned into a rat, giving him the name Wormtail.

James knew that your animagus form was different from each person and was the animal that suited you the most. So he found it quite odd that Peter turned into a rat; however, he just figured that just meant that he was small and weak like a rat.

And the one person who wasn't an animagus was Remus. But he was the reason why the three other Marauders became one. Remus was a werewolf, being bitten as a young child. So every month, around the full moon, Remus would become very ill and then on the night of full moon, he would transform into the beast. In James' mind, it was kind of ironic. Remus was the least "beastly" of the Marauders when he was his true self.

But James and the other Marauders knew that Remus had no control over his transformations and that Remus truly hated that part of him. So in order to help Remus and keep him company, the other Marauders became animagi. Remus had never told anyone else of his transformations except for his family and Dumbledore, and the Marauders would never tell a single soul unless it was an emergency.

James' mind went back to the present and replied to Sirius' question.

"Yeah. I knew. So are we going to meet tomorrow night at our usual spot?"

"Yes. But we need to be extra cautious. Remus' girlfriend is getting rather inquisitive, if you ask me."

"She's just concerned about him being sick all the time. She wants to know what's up with him."

"Yeah yeah yeah..." Sirius said in an impatient tone. "I don't know why you two bother wanting an actual long-term relationship. I'd rather be with a girl for a short time and snog and do all that good stuff but have no commitment. No commitment means no questioning where you're at all the time, no having to answer to somebody. It's great."

"You just wait, Sirius. One day, when you finally meet your match, you'll know why Remus and I want a commitment with the girls we love."

"Whatever you say, Prongs."

Just as Sirius said that, their other roommates, except for Remus, who was in the hospital wing, getting ready for his transformation, walked into the room, jumping into their beds.

James climbed back under his sheets, after placing the picture carefully onto his dresser. He stared at it, until his eyes finally drifted off to sleep...

Pretty soon the whole dorm room was full of snoring and deep breathing except for one person...

Sirius looked up at the ceiling, with his heart beating at a slow and steady pace. He thought of what he and James talked about- finding someone and settling down.

Little did any of Sirius' friends know that Sirius already found the girl whom he wanted to be with forever... Except she was the one that he shouldn't have feelings for. She was the one already taken... by one of his best friends.

"Bloody hell," Sirius whispered to himself, before falling into a fitful sleep.

A/N: Hey, I hoped you all liked this chapter! You'll probably find out next chapter who Sirius fancies. But I promise you this won't really focus on Sirius and the girl he likes. It will stay mostly on Lily and James, with this lil' triangle as a minor storyline... Well please REVIEW! The more reviews I have, the faster I'll post the next chapter!