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A Boyfriend, A girlfriend and a Fight

The next day was Monday and the second day of classes. Lily had Transfiguration, Herbology, and Divination and was NOT looking forward to it. The first two classes wouldn't be too bad, but she had heard that the new Professor was going to make their first partner's their long-term partners. And that meant that she would have to be in a close proximity range with Owen.

James however was looking forward to the day's classes. He had Transfiguration, his by far best subject, with Lily. Then he had Herbology, with Lily. Then last he had Divination, with Lily. This day was looking up.

The Marauder's were late for Transfiguration and saw that the new teacher, McGonnagal, was not there yet. So they sat down in their seats and started to loudly talk to each other not noticing the other students dutifully writing down things from the book or the teacher coming up behind them until it was to late.

"Mister's Potter, Black, Lupin, and Pettergrew, nice of you to join us. However, you are all late so that will be 5 points each from Gryfinndor. Now please, if you will please open your books to page 12 and begin reading and taking notes on the spell that will transform a muggle pencil into a watch." She snapped at them. She then walked swiftly back up to her desk.

The four Marauder's opened their books but instead of starting to take notes, Sirius and James got out a different piece of paper that would allow them to communicate without passing it.

When James writes it will be in Italics, and when Sirius writes it will be in bold.

Prongs, can you believe she took twenty points off of us because we were late?

I know! I heard that she was the head of Gryfinndor too!

Off of her own house? No. That can't be. NO teacher has EVER taken that many points off of their OWN house in one sitting. I mean that's just not –

Logical. I know….

Here James's writing trailed off and he began looking in another direction.

Prongs. Prongs! STOP LOOKING OVER THERE! Prongs, its just Lily.

James' attention flew back to the paper and his eyebrows furrowed.

JUST Lily? JUST LILY!

Yes Prongs. JUST Lily. She's not that important.

Padfoot my friends, you have never experienced true love. You haven't even kept a girlfriend for more than three days.

Well then my friend. I think my luck has changed.

How so now Padfoot. (Sarcastic writing)

I have had a girlfriend since… Friday night.

I don't believe it. Anyway, it hasn't been three days since then. Three days is tonight.

Aren't you even going to ask me who it is?

FINE. Who is your girlfriend?

You forgot the magic word!

Padfoot!

Fine, fine… I'll tell you… Danielle Ginther.

Dani?

"Mr. Potter, Mr. Black. May you please inform what is so intriguing about the piece of paper that is in front of you that you can't even take notes properly?"

James, who was sitting next to Peter, said, "Why, Professor. I am ASTOUNDED that you think that I haven't been taking notes!" He grabbed Peter's notes. "See? Here they are!"

She scowled at him, "Then where are YOUR notes Mr. Black."

"MY notes? Why, MY notes are in my bag. I already took notes on this chapter during summer break!"

James held back a laugh.

"Fine. Then show them to me."

Sirius reached into his bag and pulled out a piece of parchment completely doused in ink. Then he feigned a look of shock. "Professor! I don't know what happened! My inkbottle must have exploded or something! Professor, honest!"

The professor continued to glare at the two students but then turned back to the rest of the class having no proof that they had done anything.

James looked around the class with a grin plastered on his face. This grin fell when he noticed Lily giving him a small glare before she scooted closer to that new Slytherin that always hung out with her and the new Gryfinndors.

Hey, Padfoot! Who is that Slytherin that Lily's been hanging out with lately?

Instead of Sirius answering Remus did. That's Kevin Kikkert, Lily's boyfriend.

James stood up in his chair, furious. Lucky for him the professor had just dismissed the class so she couldn't take any points off.

As soon as they were out of the classroom James turned on Remus. "Who in the world is this Kevin?"

"I told you Prongs. He is her boyfriend. They met in the summer and now they are going out!"

James stopped walking. Sirius turned and looked at Remus. "Hey yeah! I remember! He told us, Kevin that is, when Lily was pretending to be that Charlie person!" He grinned at James, "You were there too!"

James just looked around, despair all over his face. "I thought that that was part of the act." He said before walking off towards Gryfinndor tower ignoring his friends who were telling him that Herbology was the other way.

Lily walked out towards the Herbology greenhouse all smiles. She had talked to Kevin, Matt, and Isaac and they had forgiven her. Plus, Professor McGonnagal had complimented her on her work. On top of that even Potter had yet again gotten himself into trouble. Of course she wouldn't mention around her friends that she was happy about that but she was none the less.

Herbology was pretty easy and no homework was assigned giving Lily the time to work on the transfiguration essay. It was 12 inches on the charm that they had been studying in class. They couldn't use the notes that they had taken as the assignment either. Lily was relieved. The notes she had taken had been messy and rather incomplete.

Deciding to skip lunch, Lily went to the Library to pick up more books on that topic. She found several books mentioning it and one whole book that was devoted to it. She grabbed them all, checked them out and headed up to the common room.

Halfway there she ran into Jessica and Ashley whom she hadn't spoken to all day.

"Lillian!" Jessica screeched.

"Jessica, Ashley! Wow, I haven't spoken to you all day! How are you both?"

"We are just great. Oh! Are those books for the transfiguration essay? That's a tough one. Do you mind if we do it together? You know, a study group?"

Lily smiled, "Sure! Come on! Not many people will be in the Common room because it is lunch time so we can get the best spots!"

The three of them worked on the essay until almost quarter after two when Lily slammed her book shut. "Well, I'm all done! What about you two?"

"Almost!" was Jessica's reply.

Ashley didn't answer, she appeared deep in thought. Lily waited patiently for several moments before Ashley too slammed her book shut. "Yes, finally."

Less than a minute later Jessica was done as well, and they all set off for the entrance hall so that they could go outside.

"Thanks Lillian for all your help!" Ashley said.

"Yes, you really are a whiz on all of this." Jessica put in.

Lily blushed and started to fuss about it. "No, no! It's not that, I mean… I just read the books you know?"

A deep voice behind Lily startled her and made her turn around...

James stayed on his bed after Transfiguration, not even getting up for lunch. He heard several people coming in and out of the tower but he couldn't make out any of the voices. Remus, Sirius, and Peter came in after lunch to try and get him to get up.

"Hey Prongs!" Sirius said. "Didn't mean to make you so upset! Come on! Let's go curse Snape or something."

James just sat there not saying a thing. Not even cursing Snape would make him in a better mood now. That would just remind him of when he did it after O.W.L.S. and Lily had told him off.

"James, you can't stay there forever." Remus tried to reason.

"Yes I can. I can stay here till I die." James retorted.

Peter gasped not knowing that he was just kidding. "J-James, y-you d-don't m-m-mean that do you?"

James started to get more upset and not even seeing Sirius whack Peter on the back of his head said, "Of course Wormtail. I will stay here on this bed till the day I day, which will be June 24th of next year."

Remus tried to talk to him again but was interrupted by Isaac and Matt coming into the room laughing their heads off. James groaned, great some of Lily's friends, and the BEST friends of that Kevin Slytherin who Lily was going out with.

Matt and Isaac stopped laughing when they saw James lying on his bed.

"Are you ok James?" Isaac asked.

"Yeah, is somethin' wrong?" Matt chimed in.

"Just peachy." James mumbled.

Isaac and Matt looked at each other wearily and went over to sit on Matt's bed. Then they shut the curtains.

"Hey Pro-James, Sirius, me and Wormtail are going to go for a while, alright?" Remus said getting no response from James.

The three Marauders walked out of the dormitories and common room two of whom were following Remus.

"Hey Moony, where are we goin'?" Sirius asked.

"To find Lily of course."

"Uh… why?"

"To see if she will talk to Prongs."

Sirius laughed. "Lils – talk – to – Prongs? What a joke!"

Remus rolled his eyes and continued walking.

"Uh, Moony? I got to go to the library…" Peter piped up. "I'll catch up to you both later ok?"

"Fine Peter." Remus said distractedly as he continued searching for Lily. "Ah, there she is."

Remus quickly walked up to Lily, Sirius trailing behind not willing to rush with him.

"Lily, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Uh, sure Remus. I'll catch up to you guys later ok?" She said to Ashley and Jessica. "What's the matter?"

"Well… it's James."

Lily's face turned cold. "If you want to talk about him I'm just going to leave." She said as she started to turn around.

"Lily wait!" Remus said as he grabbed her arm. "Lily, he skipped Herbology class and well… I doubt he is going to Divination either."

"And that is MY problem because…"

"Can you just talk to him?"

"NO! It's not my fault that he is skipping classes. It's his, and possibly you Marauders."

"Lily, I know. But please, it will make him go to cloud nine, and then maybe he will go to class."

Lily sighed. "Look, you KNOW that I don't care anything about him. Why in the world should I do this for him? Plus, if he isn't in class, then the teachers get a break and they can actually TEACH. Like what was he and Black doing this morning. I KNOW that Potter just took Peter's notes. MAYBE it has something to do with that."

"Lily, we KNOW why he is like this. Can you just talk to him for ONE minute? PLEASE!"

"Tell me why he is like this and I'll CONSIDER it."

Remus shifted uncomfortably. "I really should't say…"

"Alright, then I'm going to leave."

But before she could leave Sirius came around the corner and half shouted, "I'LL TELL YOU LILY!"

Lily groaned. She just wanted to get out of there, she didn't want to talk to Remus, she didn't want to talk to Black, and she DEFINATLY didn't want to talk to Potter. "What now Black?"

"Pr- James is upset 'cause you have a boyfriend."

Lily rolled her eyes. "Nice try you two. Very nice try, I mean, you had me fooled for about… 3 seconds! I think that it's a record. Now I just want to leave, alright?"

"Lils, Isaac and Matt are still in the dormitories. You can just talk to them! James will light up a little just at the sight of you." Sirius pleaded.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Fine. But only because I actually DO have to talk to them. But would you, Remus, go catch up with Jessica and Ashley and tell them that I won't be able to come out there after all?" Remus nodded and Lily walked off fuming. It was true that she had to talk to Isaac and Matt, but they were planning on getting together after classes in the library to discuss it. She kept walking gloomily up to the tower kicking herself mentally for agreeing to even go up into the boy's dormitories.

Isaac and Matt were on Matt's bed discussing a new idea for a prank when they heard the portrait slam.

"Sounds like someone had a bad day." Isaac muttered silently.

They waited a while to hear where the person was headed and heard soft footsteps coming up the stairs. Then…

"Isaac? Matt? You guys in here?" Lily said softly, hoping to avoid attracting any attention from Potter. The effort didn't work, Potter had sat right up, a smile plastered on his face.

"Why Lily, what brings you to the male dormitories at this time of day."

Lily's face turned beat red, Isaac and Matt couldn't tell if it was because of embarrassment or anger.

"For your information, Potter," Lily spat the last word, "I came up here because I needed to ask Matt and Isaac a question."

"Whatever you say Lily dearest." Potter said with his cheeky grin. "But I am afraid that I must leave you now. You see, I must find my fellow friends" Lily snorted "to see about the homework assignment from Herbology."

Lily, Matt, and Isaac watched him leave and then looked at each other with a smirk on their faces.

"So Lily, what question did you need to ask us?"

"No question. Lupin just asked me if I would just come up here and talk to you guys to see if that would get Potter and his obnoxious self out of here and possibly into class next period. Not that I care really but I just wanted to tell you of a plan I had for the prank on them."

Isaac and Matt looked at each other and laughed. "What's so funny!" There was no answer. "WHAT IS SO FUNNY!" Lily screamed at them.

Isaac slowly started to slow down his laughter. "It just seemed to us that you just told a little white lie that wasn't so little."

Lily's face turned red with fury. "I DID NO SUCH THING."

"Fine, fine, whatever you say. Now, your idea for a prank?"

Lily smiled and whispered her idea, the smile on Isaac's and Matt's faces growing bigger and bigger the farther into the plan she got. "So," Lily started concluding, "We'll still do the same distraction as the other one but we just put something different into their cup!"

"Brilliant."

"I agree with Matt… Bloody Brilliant."

The rest of the day went by pretty quickly. Divination was a bore for Lily AND the Marauders. There was no group work, only lectures, (for which Lily thanked the stars) and the Marauders just chatted the whole class period. Dinner was the usual. Lily sat with Jessica and Ashley and Matt and Isaac slid next to them half-way through dinner getting bored from where they were sitting. Lily finished her homework for that day fairly quickly and headed up to bed early.

There you go! That's two updates today! Enjoy!

Also, I don't like this chapter title, so if you have a suggestion for a better one tell me and I'll change it. Thanks!