Chapter Two

Lily Evans, Alexandra Fields and Caitlyn Wolfe made themselves comfortable in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express. Lily and Lexa were playing a game of Exploding Snap whilst Caitlyn was busy reading Werewolves: Fact and Fiction.

"I swear I'm going to end up murdering Potter this year," Lily muttered darkly. Lexa and Caitlyn smirked.

"He's not that bad, you know," Lexa told her, pushing back her shoulder-length layered dark brown hair.

"Why are you friends with James, Sirius and Remus?" Lily asked curiously.

"Remus isn't that bad," Caitlyn chipped in. Then quickly added, "But Sirius and James are idiots and Peter is just plain annoying." Lexa raised one eyebrow.

In the Marauders compartment, James and Sirius still weren't speaking. Remus was trying to read a book whilst Peter kept going on about his skiing holiday.

"Peter!" Sirius eventually snapped. "Shut up! I don't even know what skiing is!"

"Don't tell him to shut up, Black," James snarled. "Why don't you piss off back to your pureblood Slytherin mates?" The next thing he knew, James was being pushed up against the wall as Sirius offered to 'beat the crap out of him'.

"Hey!" Lexa shouted, sliding open the compartment door. "Sirius, put him down!" Sirius let go of James and then turned to Lexa. "What do you want, Fields?" He demanded angrily. Lexa put her hands on her hips.

"I came here to see if you and James had stopped behaving like prats," She replied coolly, taking the book that Remus was reading out of his hands. "Hogwarts: A History, sounds fascinating, Remus. I think you and Lily are the only ones who have read that book!" Lexa fixed her jade green eyes on Sirius.

"Black, apologize to Potter," She said firmly. Sirius stared at her, outraged.

"You can't tell me what to do, Fields!" He exclaimed.

"Watch me," Lexa said icily. "Now apologize!" Sirius glanced at James, looking like a pathetic little school boy, as he said quietly, "I'm sorry for being a prat."

"And I'm sorry for accusing you of that thing," James said meaningfully. Sirius grinned.

"Okay, now you boys play nice," Lexa told them, ruffling James's already messy hair, and strode out the door. On her way down the corridor, she bumped into Severus Snape.

"Sorry, Lexa," Snape mumbled, blushing. Lexa smiled at him and said, "Its okay, Severus. Anyway, I'd better get back to Lily and Caitlyn. I'll see you later!"

Back in the Marauders compartment, Sirius watched jealously as Lexa talked with Snivellus.

"Seriously, Padfoot, you really should ask Lexa out," James said. Remus rolled his eyes. James and Sirius were about to have the 'Alexandra Fields Talk' for the one hundredth time.

"I don't fancy her!" Sirius practically screamed.

"Sure yah don't," James muttered.

"She's just a mate!"

"If you say so, Padfoot…"

"I don't fancy her!"

"Uh-huh…"

"I don't!"

"Whatever you say…"

"PRONGS!"

"What?"

"I don't fancy her!"

"So you've said a million times! But she's all you ever talk about!"

"That isn't true!"

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

"Then what are we doing right now?"

Sirius didn't reply, his face flushed and his eyes narrowed. "I don't…" He started.

"…fancy her!" James, Remus and Peter finished in unison.

"So are you gonna ask her to go to Hogsmeade with you?" Remus asked.

"Maybe," Sirius mumbled.

A/N: Aw, Sirius is so cute! Review please!

Next chapter: First day back.