Chapter 2: First morning of classes

"I say we place bets as to how long it'll take James to get Lily to fall for him," Sirius said to his three best friends as they sat at the Gryffindor table during breakfast.

James shook his head and continued eating as the other two laughed.

"Well," Remus Lupin said thoughtfully. "I'd have to go with 2 years."

"Two years!" James shouted in outrage. "I bet you I can get her to like me in two weeks!"

"Ok, James," Sirius said as he smirked mischievously. "You're on. If you can get Lily to like you in two weeks then…" he trailed off thinking.

"Then you'll go stripping!" Peter Pettigrew shouted gleefully.

"I know you want to see James naked, Peter, but that is over the friendship limit," Sirius said sarcastically.

Peter blushed and continued eating his pancakes.

"How about," Remus said thinking out loud. "If James wins, he gets to pull the ultimate prank on Sirius. And is Sirius wins he gets to pull the ultimate prank on James."

"It's simple enough to work… sure! I like it," Sirius said.

"Yeah. I'm just wondering what prank I should pull on Sirius after I win," James said through a laugh.

"You wish! I will so win this bet! Lily wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you or a Cornish pixie," Sirius laughed a bark-like laugh and flung a bit of egg at James's forehead. James caught it and flung it right back into Sirius's eye. The two then began a mini food war until three girls walked through the doors.

(Before breakfast on the first day of classes in the girl's dorm)

That morning was a bright one. The sun shined through Bridget's curtain in just the right angle so that it hit her exactly in the eye. She groaned and turned the opposite way, but was met by a pillow in the face and someone jumping on top of her.

"Wake up sleepy head!" Lily shouted energetically. Lily was a morning person and always woke up at 6 o'clock no matter what day it was. Whereas with Bridget, if you didn't shout at her and shine the sun in her face she would never wake up. Bridget discovered a while ago that she was stronger if she was sleepy, and she could easily shove Lily off the bed because though Lily was tall and had actual curves, Bridget had the sheer determination of sleeping till noon. She threw Lily off the bed and heard the 'thump' of her hitting the hardwood floor. Lily stood up, pulled the covers off of Bee, and grabbed the water that Teddy was brushing her teeth with and poured it on Bee's head. In a flash Bridget had sprung from her bed on to Lily and knocked her to the ground as they began to playfully fight.

"OK! I give up!" Lily said surrendering. "But you just messed up my hair and I was all ready to go too."

"Next time, don't wake me up," Bridget replied grumpily and walked into their large bathroom to take a shower. She got ready in about 10 minutes thanks to the fact that she was a Metamorphmagus. She pulled on her uniform that was a plaid skirt, which went to her knees and fanned out in a bell shape (since it's the 70s, girls don't wear really short skirts yet). Then she put on a white button down and searched through her trunk for her red tie. After she'd gotten her tie on, she pulled a black sweater-vest over her head with the Gryffindor crest on it and slipped her feet into some small black boots that had a 2-inch heel rising up to just below her knees. She stood up, grabbed her turquoise tote bag, and walked out with Lily and Teddy down to the Great Hall.

The three girls walked into the Great Hall unnoticed by all but one. James looked up when he saw Lily walk in and looked at her till Remus kicked him in the shins from across the table.

"Make it a little more obvious why don't you?" Remus said sarcastically.

"Eye contact is the key to a good relationship," James said in a dignified way.

"Not the relationships I have," Sirius said jokingly.

Remus shook his head and stood up to go talk to Teddy. They had started dating at the end of last year and were still as happy as ever. Some kids in younger years used them as their role models to good relationships because they had such a comical and comforting relation.

"Morning," Remus replied simply, kissing Teddy on the cheek in a polite way.

"Hey, you didn't wait for me this morning in the common room," she said taking a bite of her muffin.

"Well I did, but you three took so long that I got too hungry to wait any longer," he said with a playful smile.

"That's because these two got in a wrestling match over waking up," Teddy said jerking her thumb over at Bee and Lily who immediately started looking around as if searching for who Teddy was talking about. Remus laughed at this and grabbed an apple off of a platter.

Just then, Professor McGonagall came around with the schedules for all the Gryffindor students' yearly classes. The remaining three Marauders's examined their schedules and saw that both James and Sirius had all the same classes together.

"What were they thinking putting the two of you in all the same classes?" Peter exclaimed in a surprised tone.

"They obviously weren't thinking at all," Remus replied walking back to be where he was originally seated and grabbed his books and looked around at the other students. "Come on, we have Charms first with the Ravenclaws so we better get moving if we want to sit in the back," he said and started walking to catch up with Teddy.

James saw Lily walking with Bridget and immediately sped up to meet her at the end of the table. Sirius saw whom he was going after and laughed.

"Hey there Evans," James said in a mellifluous tone.

"What do you want, Potter?" Lily said in an annoyed voice.

"I just wanted to say that you look remarkably sexy today."

"Piss off, Potter. You're such a pig-headed fool," she then sped up and walked ahead of the others.

"Nice going, James," Bridget said since she'd seen the whole conversation unfold.

"I don't know what to say to her! I was completely honest and she still hates me! I just don't get her," he finished in a pitiful way.

"I think you were a little too honest if you get my drift," she said.

"No, not really," he answered in a moody tone.

"James, how daft can you be?" Sirius said joining in on the conversation.

"What?" James questioned. "If I'm not honest then she'd yell at me for lying so how do I even talk to her?"

"I'm not helping you, I can't loose this bet," Sirius said smiling at James.

"Prat," James mumbled under his breath as he punched Sirius in the arm.

"What bet?" Bridget asked.

"James bet me that he could get Lily to fall for him in two weeks and if he does he gets to pull the ultimate prank on me. But if I win then I get to prank him, and it will be a good prank just wait and see," Sirius finished.

"She won't see because I'll win this bet," James said as they walked into Charms and the Marauder's took their seats in the back and the girls sat in the front.

The students tried to pay attention but it was hard because everyone was still talking about their summers. Lily started taking notes about the class and over at the next table Bee and Teddy were playing an intense game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

Peter is not a main character in this story because I can't get his personality to a way that I like it. Anyways, I'm writing this story off of the top of my head so if some of it doesn't make sense then I'm sorry, just tell me in the reviews (coughcoughnudgenudge) by pressing that little button down there.