The Great Hall laughed as four boys sat back in their chairs smugly. Smirks were placed on their faces as they watched their victim waiting for the tears.

The victim looked straight at the boys and transfigured herself back to normal. The boys' smirks were stricken from their faces as they looked gobstuck. The victim slowly walked over to the boys and leaned over the table, her hands resting on the table holding her up, looking them each in the eyes before speaking. Her brilliant red hair fell over her shoulder as she talked.

"I suggest a favor to you. Never pull another prank on me first off because I can reverse it with a snap of my figures and second because you will be sorry if you do." Her voice was unnervingly calm, but threatening at the same time. She stood up pulled her hair back behind her ears so that it fell just to her shoulder blade. Smiling to everyone she turned and walked back down to the end of the table where her friends and breakfast were waiting for her.

The boys watched their victim go back to her life as if nothing happened. Other students looked at them with fear, everyone knew that they were serious when they said don't mess with the Marauders. Silence eerily fell upon the Great Hall as everyone watched to see what they boys would do. No one expected the girl to act first. Briskly she had finished her breakfast and was now ready to head out of the Great Hall. On her way out she stopped in front of the boys.

She stopped right between a chubby on and one with unruly hair and glasses. Leaning over the one with unruly hair's shoulder she whispered in his ear, "Now, now Potter, you wouldn't want to be pulling anymore pranks on me for that could be disastrous for you. I know much more than you think I do. I will see you in class Potter."

She stood up and started heading for the doors again but not before stopping, turning around and saying to the Marauders loudly for the whole Great Hall to hear, "I hope you boys listened to my warnings…Oh and Potter you can breathe now." With that she turned on her heels and walked out of the Great Hall, leaving four boys starting at the place she had just been.

It was only when she left did anyone begin to talk again, and all the talk was about what had just happened. Four boys continued to stare and it wasn't until her friends walked by about three minutes later did they all slowly turn their heads towards each other.

"Prongs are you breathing or are we going to have to take you to Madam Lucia?" one of the boys with intense blue gray eyes spoke.

The boy with messy black hair and glasses looked at his friend and took a big breath in, "Yeah I'm breathing no need me to take me to Madam Lucia."

The other boys laughed at their friend. A stern looking lady marched up to them. "Potter, Lupin, Black, Pettigrew what were you thinking transfiguring Miss Evans like that?"

"Well Prof. She insulted us. So we had to repay her for her kindness." Sirius Black smiled at the strict professor.

"Detention tonight eight o'clock do not be late." With that Professor McGonagall walked away.

"That went better than expected," James Potter smiled at his friends.

Sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room staring blankly at the roaring fire Lily Evans thought about what had happened.

She could never fully understand the Marauders. They sometimes could be really kind and nice and help out the smallest of the first years then there were other times where they would prank anyone who was in a three foot radius of them. Lily sat there thinking when it hit her that what she hated about the Marauders was that she couldn't figure them out like she could everyone else. With everyone else she could see how she needed to act around them but not the Marauders seemingly she didn't want to be the way to Marauders probably wanted her to be.

Unnoticed to Lily as she sat there thinking about the Marauders her friends had come in and sat around her waiting for her to come out of her thoughts.

"Lily Bean you there? Darling?" Evie Tanzel asked cautiously? Her honey brown hair waved down to her shoulders and her hazel green eyes showed concern. She was snappy; you really didn't want to get on her or her friend's bad sides because she would do anything for them.

"Why can't I seem to get them?" was all that Lily replied. The other girls replied.

"Oh Hun no one will ever be able to understand them." Joie Matthews tried to comfort her friend. Josephine hated her name almost as much as she hated her dirty blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes that clashed yet looked amazing together. She had a loud personality and was always joking around but could be really serious if needed.

"Yeah sweetie, they are just stupid trouble makers." Lily's final best friend patted her on the back. Cadence Pierce was something else you could say. She had chestnut brown hair that went a few inches past her shoulders. Her blue green eyes were sprinkled with spots of hazel and no one besides her friends could read her emotions through her eyes which according to them they showed through like an open book. She was quiet but loud at the exact same times, as well as confident but shy.

Lily, Joie, Cadence and Evie were the best of friends as long as they could remember. They met at a play ground when they were five. Lily was the only muggleborn. Well Evie was a half-blood, and Joie and Cadence were purebloods. When they met they instantly bonded but Evie, Cadence and Joie never mentioned magic not knowing if the others knew about it.

Then they all happened to see each other on Platform 9 ¾ during their first year and were all excited. Evie, Joie and Cadence explained everything to Lily who acted like she belonged as well as any of them.

The four girls decided they were going to start a little torture game with the Marauders. As they were planning they didn't noticed that their victims walked into the room smiling. Cadence and Lily were sitting on the couch well Joie and Evie were sitting on the chairs right besides it. The Marauders slowly walked up behind the couch and James whispered hello in Lily's ear.

This caused Lily to jump in her seat and her shoulder slammed into James's chin.

"Owwwww!" James hollered as Lily tried to apologize.

"Oh Potter I am so sorry I didn't know you were there. Didn't your mother ever teach you not to sneak up on a Lady?"

"Yes but it was also her who taught me to give up on something I really care for and Lily that thing happens to be you." James regained his composer and smiled at Lily who in turned rolled her eyes at him.

"Now Potter I for one would think that you of all people could come up with something better than that. May be I set expectations for you too high." Lily chuckled turning back to her friends.

"So how are you fine Ladies doing?" Sirius asked hopping over the couch sitting in between Lily and Cadence putting his arms around both of them.

"Aw Black I thought you would have figured that none of us like you when we turned you pink and purple last year?" Cadence replied shrugging Sirius's arm off her shoulder.

A group of seventh year Gryffindor's entered the room. One of them noticed the group and went over to sit with them. Dylan Fisher walked over to Evie and sat with her. "Now Black what are you doing to torment these beautiful ladies?" Dylan asked Sirius.

"I did nothing I just asked them how they were!" Sirius screeched.

"I do believe I know these fabulous creatures here better than that and you must have done more." Dylan laughed.

Sirius glared at Dylan. It was well known through out Hogwarts that Dylan Fisher and Sirius Black do not get along since Sirius had used Dylan's sister Elizabeth as a flavor of the week in his 5th year.

"Fisher get over yourself just because you're with Evie doesn't mean that you can speak for the girls."

"Black I bet I know them a ton better than you."

Joie, Cadence and Lily rolled their eyes at the boys. Lily turned back around to James. "Now Potter did you have anything to tell me or can I assume you just came here to get your chin shammed into by my shoulder?"

James looked up at Lily, she was amazing, no girl ever talked to him like that they usually tensed up and giggled a lot. No but Lily and her friends were so different. They had a friendship that could rival the Marauders.

"Well you see…."

"Potter either spit it out or go find your flavor of this week for I don't have time to have to deal with you stuttering I have homework to finish." Lily sighed out of boredom. Everyone sitting in the common room stopped to see what was going to happen between Lily and James. Everyone knew that Lily was one of the only ones that could brush James aside with out being murdered.

But there was something different about this time, James face conveyed a confused anger, "What do you mean go find my flavor of the week? Evans how do you even know I have one."

"Let's count all the girls you have been with this year. I'm sorry lets not because that would take till I was old and gray and personally I would rather spend my years doing something better. Now as I said go find your flavor who I am guessing according to what I saw right before dinner it would be Marcella Rogers."

Every gasped. No one told James Potter off about his many girlfriends. Well no one but his friends and that is exactly what Lily Evans had done. The girl who he had transfigured earlier that day for really no apparent reason and who he wanted more than life itself. Lily Evans could make him do anything but she was the only one who didn't realize that.

Lily stood up and walked over to the Girl's stair case that led to the 6th year girls' dorm. "Ladies slumber party tonight, don't forget Kaitlyn Wentworth is throwing it and you know she won't be happy if we don't show up."

Kaitlyn Wentworth was a 7th year Gryffindor known for her Girl Only Slumber Parties. To be invited you were one of the privileged few if you were invited before 5th year. Lily and her friends had been invited during their 3rd year when Kaitlyn's older sister Becka was in charge of the parties.

When Becka left Hogwarts Kaitlyn took over the slumber parties keeping the old invite list the same as well as adding some new people.

Lily disappeared into the Dorm Room leaving her friends to fend for themselves with the Marauders.

"So Caddy, how about you and me at Hogsmede this weekend; I promise that you will have fun." Sirius smoothly slipped his arm back around Cadence.

"I'm sure Jason would just love that Black."

"Caddy really you don't have to make up boyfriends, you know you love me."

"Now now Black I don't love you because if I did I wouldn't be with Jason now would I? And also don't call me Caddy. You know for a fact that I don't let anyone call me that." Cadence again shrugged Sirius's arm from around her.

"Not true, I do remember hearing your dearest Jason call you Caddy just this afternoon." Sirius smiled.

"You know Sirius if you weren't my friend I might have killed you by now."

"No Cadence sweetie you definitely would have killed him by now." Joie laughed.

Cadence had a thoughtful look upon her face, "You're right Joie, I would have murdered him by now."

Lily reappeared with her Charms homework. "Lily Bean darling, you know I love you but that essay isn't due for three weeks." Evie smiled at her friend.

"Yes Love but those will be three weeks I won't have to think about it"

"So Lily Billy Bear, my dear friend here, Prongs, is desperately in love with you even though he won't fully admit it and is wondering if you would accompany him on the next Hogsmede trip." Sirius smiled at Lily shooting glances at James every so often getting ready to run for his life.

"Ha-ha Potter, getting your friends to ask me out for you? Too scared to face me after this morning and that great embarrassment I gave handed out to you." Lily gave a small smile. James glared at Sirius and got ready to launch himself at him, "Now Potter you really wouldn't want to be doing that don't want to get a detention would you?" Lily's eyes were trained on glaring at him as if trying to drill a hole through his head.

"Plus James you wouldn't want to get punched back by Sirius." Evie laughed.

"No, Potter wouldn't get punched by Black..."

"See Evans, I knew you loved me. Thank you for sticking up for…"

"Black would get in trouble for punching a girl if he tried to punch Potter."

The Common Room was silent and they all looked at Lily. James quickly turned from glaring at his best friend to looking flabbergasted at the love of his life. Sirius was on the floor clutching his stomach laughing.

"You didn't just say that Evans." James voice got menacing.

"I'm afraid I did, oh well too late can't change the past and really don't want to. Actually that's a lie. If I could change the past I would take you out of my life." Lily crossed her arms across her chest.

Lily's friends started at her to James.

"Lily, Hun I think we really should get going and get ready for the party." Joie smiled nervously at Lily hoping to get her out of the Common Room before James attacked her.

Lily, Joie and Cadence stood up. "Evie sweetie I know that you want to be with Dylan but we really must be going." Cadence smiled at Evie.

Evie stuck her tongue out at Cadence but got up anyways to join her friends.

The girls had left a minute before when the Marauders were left with Dylan. "So Fisher I don't see any point for you to be anymore your precious Evie isn't here anymore." Sirius sneered at Dylan.

"Black I have just as much right to sit in the Common Room as you do." Dylan glared back at Sirius.

Dylan and Sirius sat glaring at each other ignoring the awkward silence that had fallen around them. They were so concentrated on glaring at each other and not being the first to blink that they didn't realize when James, Remus and Peter headed up to the 6th year Boys' Dormitory.

Dylan finally got bored of glaring at Sirius and stood up to go find his friends. Sirius watched as Dylan left and whooped for winning. "Did you see that Prongs? I wore him down and I won!" Sirius cheered before realizing that his friends had left him alone in the Common Room.

(In the boys Dorm)

James laid on his bed starting at the top day dreaming. "You know I didn't get myself hurt today by Lily. That has to be an improvement. I mean most days I am physically wounded by her as well as emotionally that means that she must start liking me more."

"Or that she just didn't think about hurting you or didn't have the energy or was simply ignoring you," Remus replied not looking up from the book he was reading.

James frowned at that idea but was interrupted by Sirius exploding into the Dormitory before he could reply.

"HEY YOU GUYS I WON! I BEAT FISHER! IT WAS AMAZING FABOULOUS YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!" Sirius was cheering for himself once again.

As Sirius finished his cheer (a good ten minutes later) the boys heard large amounts of giggling and laughing coming from the 7th year Girls Dormitory.

"I wonder what happens in those slumber parties." Sirius walked out of the Dormitory and looked across at the Girl's Staircase, "If only we could get up there."

"Padfoot we have tried every year and every year we have failed. Why would this year be any different?" James looked at his friend.

Sirius looked at the Common Room and spotted a fourth year, "Hey you!" Sirius called out to her.

The fourth year looked up at Sirius curiously. "Yeah Sirius?" She replied batting her eyelashes.

"Can you do me a big favor?" Can you go tell the girls in the 7th year dorm that they are being much too loud, and well you are in there I want you to plant this in there." Sirius said well producing a small bee.

Remus and James gave Sirius strange looks. "Padfoot what makes you think that they wont notice a bee and how will this help."

"I saw it once on a Muggle show when James's parents were buying and doing everything the muggle way."

James flinched at the memory. "Oh that that time."

"Well anyways they had a little chip that they could hear what the person was saying. And it was on a small flying bug."

"Um Padfoot I'm sorry to tell you but in those shows they use fly's not bees."

"Oh well my plan will work. I planted the listening charm and the seeing charm on the bee so we can watch and listen to what they are doing in there." Sirius grinned at his friends.

The fourth year looked at Sirius and nodded bringing the 'bee' up to the 7th year girls' dorm.

Loud music was playing from a radio and a group of about one or two dozen girls were all laughing and dancing to it when they heard a small knock on the door. Kaitlyn made her way to the door and opened it to see a shy fourth year she couldn't remember the name of.

"What do you want?" She asked semi-rudely.

"I was told to come up here and say that you guys are being too loud and are disturbing the Marauder's peace and quiet."

"Peace and quiet? Yeah right, go tell the Marauders if they have a problem with our amount of noise to wear ear plugs and stop bringing down the party"

"Peace and quiet? Yeah right, go tell the Marauder if they have a problem with our amount of noise to wear ear plug and stop bringing down the party." The voice of Kaitlyn rang through the 6th year boys' dormitory.

"Gentlemen we are in for an interesting night." Sirius smiled at his friends