A/N: I love the Marauders so much and I've wanted to write a fic about them for ages and I've finally started one! Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter One

James Potter was the most popular teenage wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was the Quidditch Captain and the best Seeker that Gryffindor Quidditch Team had ever had. He was the guy that the girls practically drooled over and the guy that all the other boys wanted to be. He was extremely handsome with incredibly messy jet-black hair and hazel eyes that were no longer hidden by his glasses thanks to a spell that he used on himself to make his eye vision perfect. He grinned at a group of girls that were staring at him and they all turned away, blushing, and began to whisper excitedly to each other. James scanned the Leaky Cauldron, trying to find the one girl that had captured his heart. To James this girl was the most beautiful girl in the world with her stunning red hair that fell to her waist in soft curls and her emerald green eyes. James loved everything about her; the way her hair shone whenever it caught the light…her tinkling laugh…James could stare at her for hours. She was perfect and James was going to win her heart –

"Oi, Prongs, can you leave Planet Potter for one minute for me to talk to you?" Sirius Black interrupted his thoughts. Sirius Black, just as popular as James. He could pull of the cool and casual act, which was something that James had never mastered. He was charming and very good-looking with his long dark hair that fell gracefully into his grey eyes that had enchanted so many girls. He was just as tall as James, but slightly more muscular. He was a Chaser for Gryffindor Quidditch Team and James Potter's best friend.

"What?" James asked, still trying to find the girl that he had been chasing since his first day at Hogwarts.

"Jesus, Prongs, will you get over her already?" Sirius said, sounding annoyed. "You're driving me insane! Just give it a rest and…" But he trailed off as Lily Evans and her two best friends entered the Leaky Cauldron. James jumped out of his seat and began calling out, "Lily, hey! Over here!" Lily turned, tossing her red curls over her shoulder, and raised one eyebrow at the sight of James practically jumping up and down with eagerness.

"James, you're embarrassing me," Sirius muttered, though he too was slightly crimson at the sight of one of Lily's best friends: Alexandra Fields, an incredibly pretty muggle-born girl who was, like Lily, top of all her classes. She gave Sirius her cheeky grin that made his heart pound.

"Sirius, why don't you just ask Lexa out?" Remus asked curiously. Remus Lupin was another member of the Marauders and a werewolf. He was handsome in a rough-around-the-edges sort of way with his untidy light brown hair and his pale blue eyes that had a weary look to them.

"What?" Sirius demanded, outraged. "You think I like her?"

"Is it because she's muggle-born?" James said angrily. He knew that Sirius wasn't like his pure-blood maniac family, but after hearing Sirius call Lily a mudblood without realizing what a horrible word it was he wasn't sure.

Sirius stared at his best friend with a disgusted look on his face. "You really think I'm like that?" He said in a low, furious voice. "You think I'm like the rest of my bloody family? I couldn't care less if someone was muggle-born or not! It makes no difference to me, Potter! I thought you would have realized that after all these years." And with that, Sirius stood up, scraping back his chair, and stormed out of the room.

James groaned, putting his head in his hands. "Way to go, Prongs, way to go," Remus said quietly, getting out of his seat and heading over to Lily's table. James watched jealously as Remus was greeted warmly by Lily.

"How was your summer, Remus?" Lily asked with a smile. Remus shrugged, not really wanting to tell Lily that his father's dead and his mother's now dying from grief and that he had to transform into a werewolf without his friends' company so he was alone for the full moon.

In the end he just said, "Okay I guess. What about you three?"

Lily replied, "It was pretty good apart from my sister Petunia being a stuck-up bitch as usual." Lexa snorted, but the petite girl with shiny black hair tied back into a plait and sapphire blue eyes that were focusing intensely on the book that she was reading didn't even look up.

"How was your summer, Caitlyn?" Remus asked her. Caitlyn Wolfe finally looked up from the book that she was reading and her full ruby red lips curved into a smile.

"Lupin," She said, her eyes shining brightly.

"Wolfe," Remus mimicked. "I see you haven't changed, bookworm."

"Right back atcha, Moony," Caitlyn replied. "How are Bighead and No Brain doing?" Remus looked confused for a moment and then she realized that Caitlyn was talking about James and Sirius.

"They're not that bad, Caits," Lexa said defensively, toying with the silver locket that she always wore around her pale neck.

"You're only saying that because you lurve Black!" Lily teased.

"Do not!" Lexa argued.

"Do too!"

"Okay, guys, you're acting like children," Caitlyn whispered. Remus smirked.

Sirius Black sat down on the bed in his room in the Leaky Cauldron. With an angry yell, he took off one trainer and hurled it at the wall as hard as he could.

"Jeez, calm down, Black," said a female voice from the doorway. Sirius looked up to see Alexandra Fields leant casually on his doorframe, arms folding across her chest. A stupid grin crossed Sirius's face at the sight of the brunette beauty.

"Wow, Sirius, you don't look that charming when you do your natural grin," Lexa informed him, sitting down next to him. "You okay?" He shook his head.

"James and I had a bit of an argument," Sirius replied, his head drooping so that his hair fell even more into his eyes so that he probably couldn't see. He shook his head like a dog, shaking his silky hair out of his face.

"What about?"

"Something stupid," Sirius answered as Lexa stared at him with a look of concern. "Can I ask you a question, Lexa?" She nodded and Sirius asked, "Do you think I'm some stupid pure-blood obsessed prat who hates muggle-borns?"

Lexa couldn't help it. She let out a giggle, followed by a snort of laughter. Soon she was rolling around the bed in a fit of snorts and giggles. When she finally managed to control her laughter, she said, "Sirius that is the stupid thing I've ever heard. Yes, you're a prat at some times, but you are not like your family. You don't have to be like them. You're you: Sirius Black. Not just a Black. Don't even think for one second that you're like them." And she kissed him on the cheek and left the room.

A/N: Hope you guys liked it! Review please!

Next chapter: Train journey! Wormtail and Snape and some other people come into the story.