Disclaimer:
Once again I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters....happy?! I said it now so let's just continue on with the story!
Oh yeah........and the journal entries on not gonna be in italics, but the chapters for the journals are.......so you'll know when I switch to journal mode.
Ch 2. Special Number 147
The Marauder's Journal
Ch 1. 147 times
James fell onto his bed. The seventh year would be starting and he STILL could not get Lily to go out with him. She had turned him down for the one hundredth and forty seventh time. Yes, he counted. A lot of things in James's life had something to do with the number 147. For example, he broke the rules and was never caught at Hogwarts 147 times. He had jinxed Snape 147 times. He had gotten detention.......
Prongs: Wait a minute. What does this have to do with the story?
Padfoot: Nothing. We're just telling about your wonderful number 147.
Prongs: 147 is not my lucky number!
Moony: Hey! That's the 147th time he said that!
Prongs: Grr..............
Moony: Anyways.......on with the story.
Anyways, you sort of get the point. But this was one incident in which the number 147 was not a good thing nor something to be proud of. Right now he was comtemplating all possible ways he could get Lily to go out with him. He remembered what Lily had said to him in their fifth year.......
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down the corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can--I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK."
What did she expect him to do.........change his personality? He had wondered that all through his sixth year and in the end of the school year, he asked her.
"Evans....what must I do to make you go out with me? Change my personality?" a very frustrated James asked.
"Well, yes Potter." Lily replied without even looking at him. "If you can deflate that big head of yours and show that you, indeed, have a nicer side then I will go out with you."
"But I do have a nicer side!" he almost screamed, but decided not to and settled with, "So, basically, Evans, if I show you my nicer side you'll fling yourself at me and scream, 'Take me, I'm yours!'"
Lily frowned at him. "Bad move, James" he thought to himself.
"No, Potter." she replied. "If you show me you CAN have a nicer side than yes."
"How bout showing you it right now?"
Lily gave him a strange look and burst out laughing. "Oh, Potter........." She attempted to finish her sentence, but ended up laughing even harder. She walked away from him laughing, leaving James extremely confused.
So it was either changing his personality or giving up on Lily going out with him. Either did not sound welcoming.
He heard Sirius approaching. Sirius had appeared at his front doorstep during his fifth year with a suitcase and broomstick. A very heavy suitcase to be exact and a very expensive broomstick. James had already figured out why the broomstick was expensive, Sirius's family was loaded. But he wondered what Sirius could ever put in that suitcase. I mean that thing weighted a ton.......
Padfoot: Ok...now we're getting off topic.
Prongs: But this is the part where we introduce you!
Moony: Has anyone seen Wormtail? I'm starting to worry.
Prongs: Last we saw of him, he had left because Padfoot scared him.
Padfoot: Can we please just get back to my point! I mean who really cares if....
Wormtail: Sorry. Needed to find my quill. I was borrowing Moony's you know.
Padfoot: CAN WE PLEASE JUST....
Prongs: Continue on with the story? Of course Padfoot......we will.
Padfoot: No wait! That wasn't what...
Well, ever since James's tiresome attempt to get Sirius's suitcase to his room, Sirius had stayed with them.
"Padfoot," James questioned as he raised his head, "do you think I have a nicer side?"
"Of course, Prongs. What makes you say that?"
"You really don't think I need to change my personality?"
"Prongs, why would I want to think that?" Padfoot raised one eyebrow. "You're not having mood swings are you?"
"No." James put his head back down on his bed. "It's just Evans...."
"Evans?" Padfoot stared at James, "You should really stop listening to her. The last thing I want you to become is some nice guy who..."
"You think I want that to happen?" Prongs jumped out of his bed. "I just want Evans to go out with me!"
"Well......." Padfoot thought about this for a moment, "Maybe just be nice when you're around her."
"I try to be......"
"But not hard enough mate." Padfoot stood up and started pacing back and forth, "If you really want Evans to go out with you, you really have to pretend you're a different guy." Padfoot then threw an envelope at him.
"What's this and what does this have to do with Evans?" James said as he picked up the envelope.
"Hogwarts letters."
"And what do Hogwarts letters have to do with Evans?"
"Prongs, that's the 147th time you've asked a stupid question like that."
"147 again?"
"And that's the 147th time you've said that."
James glared at him, "You said that last time I said that."
Sirius ignored him.
"Padfoot, when you want to curse me with 147, do it properly."
Sirius once again ignored.
"If you really want to go out with Evans," Sirius continued walking around as if he was lecturing a class, "You have to listen to me."
"Oh great, Padfoot. So now I have to take Padfoot's 'How to get Evans to go out with me' class."
"No Prongs, just listen. Be nice to her. Treat her how you treat me. Like a friend. Then move on from there."
James lay down again. "She'll probably suspect something."
"James this is exactly why I have a more successful love life than you do."
James glared at Sirius. "I could have a successful love life if only Evans could go out with me!"
Sirius stopped pacing and plopped down right next the James on his bed. "Then listen to my advice."
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Author's Note:
Ok………I'm so sorry to those unfortunate people who had to wait for the second chapter……..but I was busy.
Yes, you will find out Sirius's advice in the next chapter.
James is quite pathetic isn't he?
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