What happened next…

Disclaimer: J.K Rowling wrote the books not me. I don't own anything. Except the characters I made up.

Summary: James likes Lily but are his feelings returned? Will Lily ever give in and go out with the marauder or is them even being friends asking too much? These two questions can only lead to confusion, fun, and much more. Rated m for later chapters. R and R.

Author's Notes: Thanks to my first two reviewer's bellaluna7 and miss-mags-ak for my first two reviews. I hope that I will get more. Reviews make me post quicker. Hope you like this new chapter. I noticed I made some really stupid grammar and spelling mistakes in my first chapter so I will try hard to correct them on this one. Oh and also I got a complaint on my last story that I wasn't paying enough attention to what era it was meant to be based in and shouldn't mention modern things that haven't been invented yet in the 1970's when Lily and James were growing up. Well I just want to clear up that I am not writing this story in the 1970's as I think I would make loads of mistakes and sound ignorant. I am writing it as though they were in our time. So please so was send me mean reviews saying that I am ignorant because I put a modern song in my story. Hope you like it the way I chose to write it. Thanks for reading. xoxoxox

Chapter 2

The girls carried on sitting by the lake that day, talking and laughing. They talked about the stupid things that had happened this year. Their talk though changed when they got to the topic of, what else, the marauders.

"So Cressida are you actually interested in Black or are you just going to keep flirting and occasionally letting him grope you in potions?" Lily asked picking a flower out of the ground and putting it behind her ear.

"I don't know, I am just having fun with him at the moment. We're just friends with extras. But I do like him. He can be different sometimes, when he talks about things when he isn't trying to be the big man. I like that side of him, it's different. No other guy ever acts like that around me. They always have to be showing off but sometimes he doesn't act like that. Its nice." Cressida said putting her hair behind her ear and looking uncomfortable, she never opened up and said things like that, she wasn't the type of girl to be interested in a guy's personality its usually just whether or not it'll be good fun.

"That's why I like Remus," Amaryllis said, "I like to be wild and everything but sometimes it's nice to have something different with a guy. He doesn't… I don't know what it is. He's different from the other marauders you've got to admit. He's got a secret, a side no one else has seen. I like that. I am so sick of these completely obvious boys who see us and immediately make assumptions about us." She said her eyes down and frustration shows on her face.

"I know exactly what you mean, that's exactly why I don't like James, he's so calculating. It's like he's worked out everything a normal girl would completely fall for in a second and uses at every opportunity to use it on me or some other girl that's caught his attention. I know he's not always like that, I mean I think he isn't. I think he can be selfless but only to people he really trusts mainly the marauders. I mean do you remember that time he took the fall for Sirius when he would have been suspended and would have got sent home. I still wonder what Sirius did that day that was so bad. One prank too many I guess. I wish James would act like that more, be a bit more selfless." Lily said sighing almost saying it to herself more than her friends.

"Lily I know you like him, why don't you just give him the chance to show you this side, I would give Remus the chance but he doesn't seem to notice me at all. I don't know what I would do with him if I got him though. I mean none of us have ever had a serious boyfriend before you know. Lily because she has her bodyguard James not letting any boy near her and if they do come near you they tend to disappear for a while then turn up three days later in a hidden closet. Cressida because she's much happier going from guy to guy flirting and leaving them wanting more, With me I've been putting it off I suppose having too much fun with you guys to think about boyfriends. Don't you think its time?"

"Yeah I guess, but all of us dating a marauder. Its just too cliché. I think that you guys should go for it. I am happy just as I am." Lily said.

"Lily I say we all just let whatever happens happen. I mean the summer is coming so there is no point in doing anything that could ruin the summer so we should just stop thinking about everything so much." Cressida said.

"Can we sleep under the stars tonight like we used to. I don't want to go inside. Its warm enough we don't even need blankets." Amaryllis said already sounding tired.

"Yeah, let's stay here forever." Lily said sighing and lying on her back and looking at the stars.

The next morning the girls awoke when the sun came up over the hills. They all ran into the castle to shower and change before breakfast hoping no one had noticed their absence. They climbed the stairs if the great castle and when they got to their dormitory got cleaned up and changed their outfits to something different. It was still the weekend and was now Sunday so they changed into casual clothes.

When they were all ready to go they went back downstairs as though they had slept peacefully in their dormitories. The common room was no longer empty as it had been when they went upstairs. It had a few early risers who had got up to do their homework, which they hadn't got done the day before.

They went down to breakfast, as they were all hungry after skipping dinner the night before. They went down the school passing a few people, some they knew who they stopped and said hi, others they didn't know. Most people stared at them, as they were quite well known in the school. The girls didn't know why they were so well known though as they didn't do anything to get themselves known. This is exactly what Lily was thinking when they walked through the doors into the main hall where they sat at the gryffindor table in their usual seats.

"Guys," Lily asked while her friends filled their plates with food.

"Yeah?" they both said.

"Why does everyone in this school know who we are? When we haven't actually done anything very exciting." Lily asked taking a bite into a buttery piece of toast.

"Well… um… I actually don't know," Amaryllis said.

"Well it's probably because we're beautiful intelligent right?" Cressida said smirking at her boastfulness.

"Let's ask someone." Lily said still wanting to know. "Excuse me." She asked a second year gryffindor girl with mousy blonde hair and big glasses.

"Yes?" The little girls said looking scared to be talk to by these older pretty girls.

"Hi, we were wondering if you knew our names?" Lily asked first of all.

"Well yes of course, you're Lily Evans, you're Amaryllis Hammertone and you're Cressida Hunt." The girls said pointing at each girl and getting all three names right.

"Right, how exactly do you know who we are?" Cressida asked through a full mouth of cereal.

"Well because you're all going out with the marauders aren't you? That's what everyone says anyway." The girl said. At this the three girls broke down in laughter and stamped their feet.

"Well we don't need to bother about going out with them now apparently we already are!" Lily said.

"Thanks… um… what's your name?" Amaryllis said.

"It's Sienna," The girls said from behind her glasses, which swamped her face.

"Right, well thanks Sienna you've been great." Amaryllis said.

They all then turned their attention to the four sixth year boys who had just walked into the main hall. They all walked as though no one was watching them but actually the whole hall was. The infamous marauders, gorgeous, apart from peter, and always in trouble. They sat in their places right across from Lily and her friends as always. They always sat there, as though it was their rightful place across from their girls. No wonder people thought they were all going out.

"Morning," Lily said giggling still from what Sienna had told them.

"Did you know people think we are all going out?" Cressida said immediately getting to the point. The boys didn't even blink from behind their tired eyes.

"Yes why?" James said taking the entire plate of sausages and putting about ten on his plate.

"Hungry Potter?" Lily asked amazed at how much he ate.

"Yes thanks," James said putting a whole sausage in his mouth.

"Well why do people think we're going out when we're not?" Amaryllis asked trying to keep hold of this conversation.

"Look around Hammertone," Sirius said, "why wouldn't people think we are all together? I mean we sit together at every meal, we're together quite a lot. You're blatantly in love with me and my two not as good-looking as me friends, "his friends and the girls snorted at this, "Whether its your choice or not. I sometimes think you wouldn't like the idea of being our women," Sirius said sniffing pretending to be sad and the girls smirking.

"And why is it such a bad thing to be dating us? We are fine specimens of men." James said flexing his quiddich obtained muscles.

"Yes, yes very impressive." Lily said looking very unimpressed. "Look we're not going out okay? Just to clear it up." Lily said getting up from the table to leave with Amaryllis and Cressida following. Just as she was leaving James grinning said randomly,

"Hey Lily want to spend the summer at my house?" He said this grinning waiting for a reaction. Lily turned around placing a hand on her hip and staring him straight in the eyes as though he was the craziest man on earth.. She looked at both her friends and they grinned as well waiting for her to yell at him for being extremely random and annoying. Lily winked at her friends before taking a breath and pretending to be angry. She opened her mouth as though about to yell and just said,

"Sure Potter meet you on the train, I'm bringing these two as well of course." James looked at her strangely.

"What?" he said obviously not expecting this reaction.

"I said sure," Lily said again loving the shock she was seeing on his face.

"Okay, are you serious?" James said waiting for her to break down laughing any time now and tell him he was an idiot and that she didn't really mean it.

"Nope, its perfect timing actually, I don't want to go home as my sister is getting married and Cressida and Amaryllis's parents said I can't stay round as they're going away and don't trust them not to go wild so this is great. See you then." Lily said turning to leave again. But before she left she said one more thing.

"Don't think anything of it Potter, I still think you're an arrogant pig, but you're an arrogant pig who I will be staying with." Then she left. As she left James sat there in shock.

"Mate did that just happen?" He asked Sirius.

"Yeah, what was that by the way? She was leaving and you randomly ask her to stay with you? Talk about not acting cool." Sirius replied.

"Yeah but it worked didn't it," James said grinning as it finally hit him that Lily Evans would be staying at his house this summer.

"I guess it did," Remus said smiling secretly from behind the Daily Prophet.

The girls had just left the hall when Lily's friends grabbed her and sat her down on the steps to the stairs.

"Check her temperature 'illis I think she's ill." Cressida said.

"Sid I think she's gone crazy." Amaryllis said actually looking a bit worried.

"Guy's I am not going crazy, I have got purposes for my randomness. I accepted one to see the look on his face and two for you to spend the summer with his friends. They'll be staying with him. So you can thank me now." Lily said looking smug. Her friends jut looked at each other though.

"You seriously expect us to believe that crap. You like him, admit it. The first chance you got to go round his house you took it. God he is the most random person ever I wonder why he suddenly asked you to come round. He asked at a good time obviously what with you saying yes." Cressida said.

"I guess so." Lily said walking up the stairs to the common room. The other two girls trailing behind her. She was quiet thinking.

Do I like James? The first thing I thought of when I said yes was not my friends love lives, it was how much fun it would be to stay round his house. But that doesn't necessarily mean I like him does it?

Her friends coming up behind her and grabbing her arms and squealing interrupted her thoughts though.

"One week till we break up!"

"Oh Sid. I see you have decided not to let Sirius wait for the summer then? What was it you were saying about not ruining the summer." Lily said smirking.

"Screw that I am going to be living with Sirius Black for two whole months!" Cressida squealed jumping up and down and doing her happy dance.

"God I can't believe I agreed to this and I can't believe we break up in a week. Though I can't wait to get out of this place for a while. The exams almost killed me." Lily said.

"I know what you mean," Amaryllis said. "Come on lets go pack!" Then she grabs her friend's arms and dragged them upstairs quicker.