A/N: Like I said, I'm going to do bits & pieces of future years. And I decided to start with fourth year.
"Oy, James!"
"Hey, Sirius!"
James Potter and Sirius Black grinned at each other as James walked onto Platform 9 ¾ with his father walking behind him, carrying James's owl, Soren. Sirius walked over and relieved Mr. Potter of the barn owl and started chatting with his best friend.
"How was your summer?" Sirius askedJames shrugged. "It was okay. Stocked up on a load of Dungbombs, Stink Pellets, and anything else I could hide from Mum."
"Where is your mum?"
James sighed. "Sick. She's had a really bad cold. How was your summer?"
Sirius scowled. "The usual. Mum was horrible, Regulus was a git, Dad wasn't around much, and Bella, Narcissa, and those other twits visited. I mostly hung out with Andromeda which was the highlight of my summer."
"Sorry, mate," James said, clapping his friend on the back. He turned to his father. "Dad, I'm going to go get on the train. I'll owl you and Mum in a week or so."
Mr. Potter nodded and gave his son a brief one-armed hug. "Take care of yourself, James. And please don't get in too much trouble, okay? Your mother and I don't need an owl every other day saying you've blown up a toilet."
"Gee, we've never tried that before. Thanks for the idea!" Sirius said brightly, grinning. Mr. Potter rolled his eyes and Disapparated. "Let's go find Remus and Peter, shall we?"
"Just ask him out."
"No way!"
"Why not?"
"'Cause we're friends and he'll probably think I'm weird or something."
"Amber, I hate to break it to you, but you are weird."
Amber Young shoved Lily Evans, grinning. "Shut up."
Lily grinned back at her and pointed at Remus, who was talking and laughing with Sirius, James, and Peter Pettigrew. "Just go up to him, ask if you can speak to him alone, and ask him out! You've liked him for three fricking years."
"Have not," Amber lied. "I've only liked him for one."
"Uh-huh. Then why do you have pieces of parchment covered with his name from first year? Remus Lupin, Remus Lupin, Remus Lupin."
"You called?"
Amber and Lily both jumped. "Do you have to sneak up on us like that?" Amber whined to Remus. "That's not very nice."
Remus shrugged and a grin crept across his pale face. "Were you two talking about my wonderful good looks?" he joked.
Lily started to say something but was interrupted by James yelling, "Evans! That you?"
"No, Potter, I'm the Easter Bunny," she muttered darkly.
James stood beside her, Sirius and Peter only a few steps behind. "I hardly recognized you. You've changed over the summer." He casually put his arm around her shoulders. "I was thinking, maybe you'd do me the honor of going on a date this weekend?"
"Not a chance." Lily pulled away from James, shot Amber a look that clearly said 'See? Asking someone out isn't a big deal. Even if it's someone like Potter,' and said out loud, "I'm going to go find Samantha and Patty. Bye." With that, she walked away quickly.
"Well, it was worth a shot. I'll just try again sometime," James said.
"Leave her alone," Amber said sharply. "Her older sister gave her a hard time over the summer. Trust me, I was over there and got my share of it." She pulled a face. "That Petunia is such a–well, never mind." She shook her head and said to Remus, "Rem, can I talk to you for a second? In private?" She glanced at the other three boys.
"Why can't we hear?" asked Sirius, pouting. "Both of you are our friends."
Amber rolled her eyes. "Actually, never mind. I-I can't remember what I was going to say anyway. See you later." She turned and disappeared into the crowd.
"Why do girls always do that?" Sirius said. "They're always disappearing when you're just thinking about a good line to start casually flirting."
"Er, Sirius? Are you talking about Amber? As in, our friend Amber Young?" Remus asked, raising an eyebrow.
Sirius's face turned crimson. "No. I didn't mean it like that. Er–I'll see you lot later," he muttered, taking off in the opposite direction of the girls.
Peter, James, and Remus rolled their eyes at each other.
A/N: That was a snippet of them getting on Platform 9 3/4 for fourth year, in case you didn't know. James asked Lily out for the first time, Amber nearly asked Remus out, and Peter even made a small appearance, even though he didn't say anything. Click the button and review!
