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"Shut it, Peter!" James was reacting to Peter making kissing sounds. Peter was reacting to the news that James wanted to ask Lily to Hogsmeade for Valentines Day weekend. They were placed under a tree next to the lake that was big enough to provide shade. James thought Remus had hexed it, considering it was still winter and bright leaves had come from strong branches, clearly out showing the rest of the trees. The maurders deemed it their area and that was that.

Remus was humming 'James and Lily sitting in a tree…' just above his breath.

"It doesn't mean anything." James said. "Sirius takes a different girl each time and you guys don't make anything of it!"

"Hey man!" cried Sirius, "it's tough, these Hogsmeade weekends, for people like me!"

Peter piped up, " Oh! Yes! Hi, I'm Sirius, and I have to chose which girl out of five hundred I'm going to take out today! Pooooooor me! Booooooo- hoo!"

"Shut it Worm," Sirius through a pile of grass at him. "Girls are gits…"

"That should be out slogan!" Said Remus jokingly from behind his book. "Girls Are Gits. We can be called G.A.G..."

"...gag...? " Peter mumbled to himself

Sirius was quick to reply: "Well, let's not go that far. They're not that bad."

James shrugged and mumbled, "Lily's not a git…"

"Very good, James. Now play dead." Said Sirius, "She is coming this way, though…"

"Hey guys. I'd stay and chat and all, but it's getting almost a little cold out here."

"Hey Evans, hold up." James stood. "Er- what are you doing?" She had thrown her book bag over and begun to climb the wall. Once she had gotten to the top, she replied, "I'm going back inside, like I said!"

"Why not use the gate?" he asked. "Which, by the way, is three yards to the right of you, and a whole lot easier!"

She looked over at the gate as if seeing it for the first time, then looked back with an unreadable face. "What fun is that?" James then heard her mumble something along the lines of, 'don't even know why this dumb wall is here anyway… not like it's off grounds.' She sat on top of the vine- covered wall, one leg on each side. "Can I help you, Pot'er?"

"Er- Do you want to uh, got to hogsmade with me this weekend… -ish…?"

"Sure"

The remaining three boys exploded. "Jamesie and Lily sitting in a tree! K- I-"

"Oh, please!" Lily cried. She sat up straight, imitating professor Hobbs when he had something important to say, " Ahem… I think, therefore I am single!" she smiled and slid off the side of the wall while the boys laughed.

A few minutes later, a large gray owl came soaring down and landed, more or less, on Sirius' shoulder. It looked clearly tired and beaten as always.

"Letter not at breakfast means letter from home…" Sirius muttered in a sing- song voice. The boys were quiet as he read it. James was levitating dead leaves a couple feet off the ground, apparently in his own world. When Sirius finished, he stuffed the letter in his pocket with a casual face.

"What's up…?" Peter asked carefully.

"Nothing I didn't expect." He replied.

"Oi!" Cried James, "Who wants to go and get the squid to come up?"

The others persuaded him against it, and they headed up to the common room instead, where no one but James noticed a small, black box Sirius had brought out to place his letter in, then hide back in their room…

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"We are supposed to meet everyone at the Three Broomsticks at two. That leaves us an hour to do whatever, and then half- an- hour because I need some more ink. Then we-"

"Lily, calm down."

"Yes, alright. So what do you want to do?"

Lily had always been amazed at how many little shops there were around Hogsmade that nobody ever noticed. Everyone was too busy being busy at Zonkos or the other main stores to see any of the smaller ones. Sometimes Lily thought that if someone were showed a blurred picture of a flower people would know what it was, but if they were shown a picture of a petal, they wouldn't have the slightest idea at what it was from.

"Oh, I don't know, Lily, what should we do?"

They were walking down the main, cobble-stoned road. It was crowded to the brim with Hogwarts students in robes, flowing both up and down the street, and in and out of shops. James had to hold onto Lily's shoulder as to be sure they didn't get separated. They made their way to the center of everything, and sat down of the edge of the fountain.

James had always considered awkward silences a moment for opportunity in a conversation. A time where you could observe what a person is like when they are not engaged in discussion, or a comfortable place to decide what to talk about next. This, however, was not comfortable.

"We could go over to the joke shop…"

He was quick to respond. " Nope, no way. Too many people. This crowd is more than enough for me."

"Oh, right. Okay." Lily had indirectly learned of James' claustrophobia through Remus, or maybe while James had mentioned it during a conversation with someone else. They had never talked forwardly about it. There had never been a need.

"I have an idea." James stood just in front of the fountain, and looked up.

Lily looked up to see as well, but found nothing. 'What is he doing?' the red head thought, and stood next to him and looked at the sky again. After only a couple seconds of utter confusion, a small third year noticed them looking upward, also puzzled and bent his head back. JUST FOR A SECOND! But long enough. As the short kid in robes walked away nervously and clearly wondering why in gods name he had to be so stupid as to look up for, and what the hell was up there anyway, James and Lily doubled over in laughter. Then, gave the appropriate reaction to the sudden lack of tensity in their necks.

It is amazing, Lily observed, how many people did not even notice, much less stop to look up to see, what Lily and James were supposedly staring at. It reminded Lily of the sunset that people became far too busy to watch. It made her sad to realize that people are unable to notice a couple of people doing something out of the ordinary. What if their had been something spectacular in the sky, and people are moving at such a fast pace, or too embarrassed to lift their head to see?

After about another ten minutes of staring with various interchanging looks on their faces toward the sky, Jessica and Sirius walked by. Jessica took more than enough time to realize that they were staring at nothing in particular. Sirius simply shook his head, and escorted the confused Jessica away, leaving behind Lily and James who had exploded in laughter.

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Sometime later they all met up at the three broomsticks as planned. When asked what they spent their time doing, a small smile was shared between the two, which was wildly taken in a different way.

"Wow, Lily. I had no- well, I can t say that, I did have some idea…" shrieked Alice.

Sirius merely shook his head again. " How many d'ya get?" he asked, referring to how many people they got to look up.

"Only eighty- one," James replied, massaging his neck.

Lily smiled. "You mean, eighty- two. You fooled me as well."

(DISCLAIMER: None of the character Jessica's brain cells were eliminated during the making of this chapter.)