So, does Lily call you Jamesiepoo now? Or maybe she calls you Jamesie-Wamesie?

Padfoot! Come off it!

I do NOT call him Jamesiepoo, nor do I call him Jamesie-Wamesie, thank you!

Maybe Jamesie-Bear, then?

STOP IT!

Lily, if you ever call me any of those things, I will die of embarrassment. You know that, right? Not to mention my pride will be destroyed…my masculinity gone…

I know. And never call me Lilipops, Lilibear, or Flower. I hate those names!

Really? I will have to keep that in mind…

Uh-oh. Be prepared to get annoyed, Lily. Once Sirius knows your secrets, he will never let you live them down.

Joy.

Hey Lily! James.

Ahem.

What are you doing over here, sitting next to them? Go sit by Peter.

NO! YOU go sit by Peter!

They're MY friends, Black! MINE!

No, they're MINE!

How so?

THEY LIKE ME MORE THAN YOU!

Please, Black. How can anyone like YOU more than ME?

CLEARWATER!

They're my friends! Go away!

NO! I was here first!

So?

So…so…I WAS HERE FIRST!

I've heard them admit that they like me more!

YOU DID NOT!

DID TOO!

DID NOT!

DID TOO!

DID NO-

EMMA! SIRIUS! ENOUGH!

Yeah! We like you two the same amount.

Come off it, Prongs. You like me more than her, I know you do. We're best mates!

Well…we ARE best mates…

Fine! But Lily likes ME more than you, right Lily? Because WE'RE best mates!

Yes, that is true…

Let's not get dragged into this, Lily.

You're right. We can't argue over silly stuff like this! Can't we all be friends?

NO!

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

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"We need to do something, so they will at least tolerate each other," said Lily, pacing in the common room with James.

"Well, yeah, but what?" said James.

Suddenly, Lily had an idea. "Ok, James. You're good at starting trouble-" James looked at her pompously at this point. "So plant dungbombs in a corridor or something, and frame Emma and Sirius so they'll have to do a detention together!"

James narrowed his eyes, deep in thought. "Er…ok, but when they do get that detention together, it could make things even worse."

"We'll just have to take that chance, I suppose. Now what sort of easy distraction can you make in a corridor, James?"

James looked at her in awe, thinking finally he was able to talk to Lily (without her slapping him) about his second favorite subject, pranks (his first favorite subject was quidditch, obviously). "You-you really want to know?"

"Of course I do! I won't slap you, I promise," she teased.

James grinned. "Well, alright. We could do the classic dungbomb thing, or we could flood the bathroom in that corridor…or we could go a bit more modern by setting an invisible line at the entrance to the corridor, and when people cross it they cannot come back, they're trapped, and their uniforms turn into pirate costumes that won't come off?"

Lily grinned. "That one sounds perfect." Her eyes lit up. "I have an idea! Could we, somehow, put Snape in that corridor? And make his costume pink?"

James stared at her, bewildered. "You…er…you want to prank Snape? Are you sure? You…erm…don't seem like that kind of person," he said, thinking of all the slaps he had gotten from her when he hexed Snape.

Lily grinned. "Of course I do! It will be fantastic! And it will be our first prank together," she added.

James became even more surprised. "Our…our first prank? As in…many more to come?"

Lily winked at him. "Maybe. If this one goes well," she said to James in a mysterious tone. She then walked away, James staring after her in awe, thinking about how much she had changed. I reckon Sirius is right, he thought. I HAVE had a bad influence on her.