"Lily, dahling, you have got to get a grip! All you've done for the past three years is work! No boys at all! Don't you have a love-life! I've had at least 7 different boyfriends! You have yet to have anyone after Diggory!"

Skye was really in a fury on the Hogwarts Express as the girls headed to their fourth year of school. She had been jumping on everyone's backs ever since her last boyfriend broke up with her. Lily gave her a look of pure disgust as she continued reading on the way up to Hogwarts for their fourth year of schooling. A couple of minutes later, Frank and Alice came in to say hello, followed by the Marauders. The Marauders had lessened their attacks on the Divines, but were still the kind of people to pull pranks, sneak out, and hex people for no reason. James and Sirius were the two out of the four that were really arrogant jerks. They thought that everyone loved them, and had no idea really to love anyone other than themselves. Fourth year was the big mark for the unity of the two groups. When the Marauders came in to say hello to the girls, Ariel and Emily held their breath. Remus went and sat down between Ariel and Emily, while Peter plopped down in between Remus and Emily. James sprawled out over Lily, who immediately pushed him to the floor, and Skye sat next to Sirius. They talked for a while, the whole time Lily ignoring the fact that James was trying to get her attention.

What is it that I'm doing wrong?" James muttered to himself.

"Well, mate, I think you just aren't her type. You haven't exactly showed some compassion for anything than what she hates most about you." Remus came out of nowhere. James had thought he was alone in the common room.

"W-what? Oh, hey Moony."

"You are going to have to change if you want her that badly," he said quietly.

"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm not after anyone…I'm just tired – I'm going to bed." He headed up to the dormitory, leaving Remus chuckling to himself.

'4 years, 4 years, and he still doesn't realize it. Will he ever grow up?' Remus thought to himself, as he walked up to bed…

"Will he ever grow up? Just sprawling himself all over me – he thinks that's funny, does he? Well it's not!" Lily pouted on a couch in the common room.

Skye plopped down next to Lily, along with Ariel and Emily and put a hand around Lily's neck and pulled her close.

"Aww, wittle Wiwy has a wittle cwush on James!" cooed Skye. She, along with Emily and Ariel, were laughing into tears when Lily lashed out at them into a pillow fight. There were feathers everywhere. Once they were all too tired to move, they cleaned up the room with a charm, and headed up to the dormitory to get in bed.

"I don't like James! That's just sick, Skye, it really is. But I think Ariel's got a little thing for our friend Remus…"

"Oooooh!" All the girls cried and moved their fingers in a ticklish way, even though they weren't near each other.

Ariel hid under the blanket, came out, and cried out, "Oh really? Well I think Emily's got a little thing for little Petey!"

"I do not! He's not even my type! He's Peter…he's…"she trailed off as Lily interrupted her.

"Perfect for you! You know it Emily! I say go for it…right, girls?"

Lily looked around the room at the other two girls, who started chanting the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song about Emily and Peter until they were too tired to move.

"Oh, Lily…Lily, Lily, Lily…one day you'll see. Everyone's noticed…you'll end up together in the end…" Skye muttered under her breath as she listened to the other girls pass out under their sheets. Eventually, she too fell into a deep sleep, dreaming endlessly about the one person who had finally shot her the look she'd been waiting for since day one at Hogwarts…

"So, Prongs, what's up with you and Lily? Seemed to be getting a little cuddly on the train there, eh, guys?"

The other Marauders all laughed until James saw fit to mention Ariel and Emily.

"There's nothing going on, we're all just friends. Well, except you and Lils, she may always hate you; mate, unless you clean up your act!" Remus said to James while they were all upstairs.

"Ah, please, she'll never like me. I've got to think of something; maybe I should just take more notice of her? See what she likes?"

"Prongs, mate, that probably won't help. She'll still hate your guts. I don't know why you keep chasing her; there are plenty of other girls out there, why stay stuck on her? Just move on man!" Sirius said

James took in what he said, and then said quietly, so no one could hear, "I don't know Padfoot. Just something about that girl…"

For the rest of the year, James did everything he could to make Lily notice him and to make her like him more. She, however, just got more and more upset by the way he treated other people and even her at times. Skye kept telling her to just give him a chance, but no go. Lily was just too stubborn for her own good. Meanwhile, in the dark part of the world, Voldemort continued to gain more and more followers. By the end of that year, all Slytherins in year 6 and above had the dark mark. The younger ones who wanted to be Death Eaters as their later careers, sucked up to the older Death Eaters, and eventually had their names down to have theirs put on their left forearm as well. James and the Marauders continued to put down more names for Death Eaters, and Lily continued to punish them in her own way. By the end of the year, James had lost 90 of the hope he had that Lily would notice him.