Chapter 1:

"Remus, he's such a prat! Why do you hang out with him?" Lily asked of her friend, exasperated. "Lily, he's my friend, and he's not that bad," Remus replied. The two were sitting on Remus's four poster bed.

"Remie, he is the stupidest knob jockey I have ever met," Lily said, "He's so arrogant and cocky, so sure that he could bed me that I just…" Lily let out a scream of frustration.

"Lily, James isn't all that bad-" "Ugh, I knew I should never have brought this up," She interrupted him.

Remus sighed, "Just open your mind to new ideas, new people..." He trailed off, staring into her striking green eyes.

"Lily, James isn't all that bad-" "He's not all that bad? He's not all that BAD? Do you think magically copying my diary and posting it all over the common room wasn't 'ALL THAT BAD'?" Lily screamed.

"No, it wasn't alright of him to do that... but Lily, you've got to forgive." He wanted to tell her right then and there what James had told him, but it would destroy the thought that lingered in his own mind, swirling, spiraling out of control...

"I suppose you're right," She sighed, her thin frame collapsing slightly.

"Sirius, I think Lily's really mad at me," James said to his best friend. "Yeah mate, what else is new?" Sirius replied. "But Sirius,"James complained as he lay down on the common room sofa, "this time I think she's really mad."

"Like, bewitch-her-skin-to-turn-blue-for-an-entire-week mad, like in third year? Or, stare-at-her-ass mad, like every day?" Sirius asked.

James sighed. Sirius already knew the answer.

"Mate, what can I do?" James asked. "Well, you could stop doing bitchy things to her… You know, just a suggestion…" Sirius replied.

Lily went back to her dorm at about 10 o'clock. A few minutes after, the rest of the dream team, (Sirius, James and Peter), entered the dorm to go to bed. Remus was already lying in his four poster, pretending to be asleep.

"Oh bugger! I forgot my things in the common room," exclaimed Peter as he trudged out of the dorm and down the steps. Remus no longer was pretending to sleep, for he was snoring like mad.

"CHRIST! Could he get any louder?" Shouted James as he took off his school robes before changing into pajamas.

"I know mate, terrible innit?" Replied Sirius. "I know-" James was interrupted by a mumbling sound.

"Wot's that?" asked Sirius. "Shh!" The two listened very closely to their friend, in his dream-state. "I loooove you too, Lily..." muttered Remus in his sleep. "WOT?" roared James. Sirius looked baffled.

"Now, mate, no reason to be upset."

"Oh god, oh god, this can't be happening! She's sure to like him better…" James began to rant, "I've got no chance now!"

"Look, James, the reasonable thing to do is to ask him about it at breakfast, alright?" Sirius said sensibly.

"You're right," sighed James. "For now all we can do is get some sleep," said Sirius as he climbed into his four-poster.

"And with that, I'm going to turn in. Night James."

"Night." James replied, stiffly lying in his bed.

Soon he heard Sirius join in on the snoring. James did not sleep that night.