Chapter 2:

As Lily and Audra left Madame Malkins' another group of rambunctious teenagers made their way to Florean Fortescues's Ice Cream Parlor. As they walked they jokingly tried to curse each other. They all seemed rather spry save for a short, pudgy one who was hit by every curse that was thrown at him. By the time they got to Florean's the boy resembled a walking mushroom that had a rather alarming amount of mucus-colored fungus spreading along its top.

The waiter recognized them immediately as the foursome usually came at least twice a week. He called out, "What did you do to Pettigrew?"

The boy with messy black hair and hazel eyes laughed before replying, "Wormtail will be fine. Just some innocent fun."

"Yeah James is right," said another as he winked at a couple of passing girls and shaked his black hair back to reveal his handsome face.

"Ah stop showing off Sirius," sighed a pale, almost sickly looking boy with tannish blonde hair and blue-grey eyes.

Sirius grinned, "You might as well ask me not to breathe."

Suddenly Sirius perked up looking like a wolf about to snatch its prey. "Look who it is!" he shouted joyfully. James Potter turned around to see two girls walking his way and not just any two girls but two beautiful girls that go by the names of Lily and Audra. As Sirius lightly jogged to meet them James stayed behind knowing how much Lily despised him. Audra gave him a little wave before turning her attention to Sirius. James couldn't help but smile at the thought of what was about to occur. Audra and Sirius had been dating on and off since 5th year and since it was now an "off" time there was a definite guarantee that there was going to be a show down.

Sirius leisurely took the last few steps toward Audra and Lily as he said, "Hi Audra long time no see. Still a cold-hearted, frigid bitch?"

Audra fired back, "It certainly seems like you're still a cocky asshole…" then knowing his soft spots she added, "with really bad hair."

Sirius quickly grabbed a brightly colored pink mirror out of his back pocket as he said worriedly, "What's wrong with my hair?"

Audra grinned, "I was wrong. Your hair is the least of your problems. Right now I'd be worried about the way you're 'coming out of the closet.'"

"Coming out of the closet?"

"Yeah, I guess your pink mirror is just a subtle way to say 'I'm Here and I'm Queer.'"

Sirius replied vehemently, "I am not queer."

"Sure, denial is the first sign."

Remus and the still mushroomlike Peter chose that moment to appear. "Sirius, I need your help fixing Peter. When I tried the counter curse he just started to sprout things that look remarkably like…never mind. Hey Audra. Hey Lily."

Lily smiled. Finally she saw someone she liked. "So Remus, did you get Head Boy?"

"Yeah, but Midge Grundy got Head Girl so I'm not that excited."

At this Audra piped up, "Midge? My Midge? Aw, she must be as proud as a puffer fish right now."

Sirius, still not paying attention to Peter's mushroom's ever-growing testicle display grinned mockingly. "Oh and I am the queer one you say? Who says 'as proud as a puffer fish anyway?' I'll tell you who. The leader of the gay parade."

Audra sighed, "Can we now get to Florean's? Fag boy needs to sit down. He's getting moody."

Lily knew that despite her friend's comments she still fancied Sirius. But even if it gave Audra time with Sirius she definitely did not want to go over by James. He was a git, and not just any sort of a git, but a big, egotistical, slightly-good-at-quidditch-one who was about as charming as a snake with diarrhea. She kept repeating this to herself as she got closer and closer to him. It made her feel obscurely better. Little did she realize that James did not say anything even remotely bigheaded. He only said, "Hey, Lily." But from the expression on her face he might as well as said, "Go drown in a large vat of shit."

James blushed feeling like a retard in an accelerated learning classroom. To hide this he busied himself by finally helping Peter. As he collected his thoughts he decided he should try to say something witty and charming to Lily that would really impress her. "Think idiot," he said to himself, "I could tell her about something interesting, hmmm…I know quizilla. Yeah I can hint about a personality quiz I took that made me look kind and thoughtful. James you are a genius. Yes I know. But do you know? I know I should stop having conversations with myself. Right."

As he cleared his throat he mentioned the first quiz that came to him, "So have you ever taken the 'What Dysfunctional Care Bear are You' quiz?

"The What?"

"I was gay bear."

James could not believe he had just said that. He might as well of gone over and goosed Sirius right on the tush. But to his surprise Lily started cracking up. "Gay bear! Really?"

James opened his mouth to reply but then Sirius came up, "Come on. Let's order."

James and Lily went to follow the others. James thinking, "I made her laugh." Lily thinking, "Gay bear! Really?" Neither of them noticed a rather sinister figure staring at them from the corner of their eye.

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OOOHHH! Spooky! So what do you think? I like this chapter a lot better than the first. If you couldn't figure out that the foursome in the beginning of the chapter it was Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and James Potter. Also when James is talking to himself the italicized words have no extra special meaning that was just to help you figure out that he was conversing with himself. Finally quizilla is an actual website, if you didn't know, and there really is a 'What Dysfunctional Care Bear are You' quiz. I took it. I got gay bear. That was my inspiration for that part of the story. For those picky readers that will state that James would not know how to use a computer in the first place my answer to you is "Screw You!" No just messin' again. I just believe that as James is not anti-muggle he'd have visited a muggle friend over the summer and learned a lot about different muggle stuff, not wanting to be the type that is ignorant. Plus since he likes Lily he'd want to impress her with his knowledge. Wow, this was a long author's note. Don't worry they all won't be this massive. Peace Out.