A/N: Merry Christmas everyone! Even though I'll probably post this after Christmas. Consider this chapter a late present from me! Did I mention I'm considering a prequel? It's called "Before the Blur", and it's set in the Marauders' sixth year. It'll be about how Lily actually had something that vaguely resembled a love life, Sirius and Morgana's extremely messy break-up, James' crazy schemes that are supposed to win Lily's heart, and how he found out about Lily's secret wish. Tell me if you think it's a good idea!

" You have got to be joking" said Lily, as she watched Morgana parade around the dormitory wearing her newly purchased Halloween costume- an extremely revealing black rubber catsuit. "What are you supposed to be, anyway?"

Morgana thought for a moment. " Catwoman" she replied smugly. Lily and Skye exchanged looks. Morgana loved the Halloween Ball, and they suspected this was because it was the only time she could show as much skin as she wanted without getting put on detention for " distracting other students".

" What are you going as, Lily?" asked Skye. Lily took her costume out of its bag as gently as she could. " I thought I'd go as a fairy this year" she said, hanging her costume up. The costume consisted of a shimmering green fairy dress that came to just above her knees, and a magnificent pair of green and gold butterfly wings. " It's so pretty!" exclaimed Morgana. " I bet James is going to love it"

" Not as much as Sirius is going to love that catsuit!" replied Lily, with a mischievous grin. Morgana blushed when she heard Sirius' name. She had had quite a nice dream about him last night, but she thought it might be wise to keep it to herself. " So, Morgana, how'd it go with Sirius last night?"

" But I didn't go out with Sirius last night, I was finishing my Potions essay, remember?" Morgana didn't have the faintest idea what Skye was talking about, and she didn't particularly like the evil grins on Lily and Morgana's faces. Lily reached into her drawer and pulled out a small black thing that looked like a tape recorder. "Let me refresh your memory" she said, pressing the "Play" button. To Morgana's amazement, her own voice came out of the tape recorder- and it said " Oh Sirius, you shouldn't have!", which just happened to be what she had said to Sirius in her dream when he handed her a red rose. Morgana cringed even more when she heard herself saying " It's beautiful, of course I'll marry you!" Lily pressed the " Stop" button and watched in satisfaction as Morgana turned a shade of scarlet that would have made Godric Gryffindor proud.

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" Honestly, just watching those four is putting me off my food" remarked Remus. " I am really starting to regret ever getting involved in James' crazy scheme to get Morgana and Sirius together" Skye sighed and pushed her plate of scrambled eggs away. "I know exactly what you mean" she said. " All day long it's 'James this' or 'Sirius that'- it's driving me insane!" Remus grinned. "Do I detect a hint of jealousy?"

"You certainly do" replied Skye miserably. "Do you have any idea what it's like being the only single one out of all your friends?"

"Yes"

"Oh, yeah."

Remus paused and looked at Skye thoughtfully. It's about time I got a girlfriend, he thought. And Skye's actually kind of pretty. Maybe… he moved closer to Skye, who seemed to be thinking along the same lines as him. He's no James or Sirius, but he's not bad looking. Maybe…

She moved even closer so their faces were less than an inch away from each other. They looked into each other's eyes- and suddenly realised what they were doing and let out blood-curdling screams at the same time. Remus pulled away from Skye and ran as fast as he could towards the library, and he was pretty sure he saw her running in the opposite direction, just as disgusted as he was about what nearly happened.

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" So, Prongs, what do you think we should do to Snivellus today?" asked Sirius. He and James were sitting at the back of an incredibly boring Muggle Studies class. " Prongs?!" James was staring off into the distance again, and it was clear from his vacant expression that he was thinking about Lily .Sirius sighed and poked James with his quill as hard as he could. " Ow!" said James, scowling. "What did you do that for?"

" I had to get you back down to Earth somehow" replied Sirius, as though poking people with quills whenever they start daydreaming about their girlfriends was the most obvious solution in the world. " Anyway, what do you want to do to Snivelly today?"

"Well…"A truly evil grin slowly spread across James' face. " Lily told me about this Muggle prank where you write something funny on a piece of paper( that's what Muggles use instead of parchment), then you stick it on someone's back and they go around wearing a sign that says Kick Me all day."

" Brilliant!" cried Sirius. "How about I write I'm a greasy-haired git with no friends?" James nodded eagerly, and handed Sirius some parchment. Sirius wrote out the message, attached Spellotape to the corners and handed it to James, who bewitched it so it glided across the classroom like a large, black and white butterfly before stopping to rest on Snape's back. Just then, the bell rang and Snape stood up and walked out of the classroom, completely unaware that people around him were pointing at his back and stifling giggles.

James and Sirius decided to follow Snape around for a while, (Just to see how long it took him to realise something was on his back) but apparently Lily had other ideas. " James, can I talk to you for a second?" she said. " Aw, Lily, can't it wait 'til later?" whined James. " Me and Padfoot were going to follow Snivelly…" he trailed off when he saw the dangerous look in her eyes and knew it would be pointless to argue.

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Lily tried desperately not to look into James' eyes, because she knew she'd never be able to go through with it if she did. What she was about to do was probably the meanest, nastiest, cruellest, most despicable, horrible, evil thing a girl could possibly do to her boyfriend-she was dumping him for someone else. True, she didn't actually know what this someone else looked like, but he was sweet, caring, mature ( which was something James certainly wasn't) and a very good kisser. And that was good enough for Lily.

She took a deep breath, and said, " James there's something I have to tell you".

" What is it ,Lily?" asked James, putting his arm around Lily- who burst into tears. She couldn't help it, he was being so kind- and she was going to break his heart, " I'm s-so s-s-sorry, James" she sobbed. " I just c-can't do this anymore- it's over"

Right then and there, James could have sworn he felt his heart shattering into thousands of tiny, irreparable pieces. "What do you mean, it's over?!" he demanded. " Is it because of Snape? Because I'll stop hexing him if you want me to- Please, Lily, don't do this!"

" It's not Snape" whispered Lily. " Why, then?" yelled James, almost in tears. "What is it? Did I do something wrong? Is it the fangirls?" he grabbed Lily and hugged her, never wanting to let her go. " It's not you" said Lily, pushing him away. "It's….it's someone else."

Someone else. The two most horrible words in the English language. As soon as James heard those words, his eyes filled with tears. " Someone else" had stolen Lily, his Lily. James took one last look at the love of his life before turning and walking sadly up to Gryffindor Tower, not wanting Lily to see him cry.