"Oh no, not again." Fifteen year old Lily Evans sighed as the familiar brown owl landed in front of her food. Sighing again, she pulled the roll of parchment from the owl's leg.
'Lily,
Do you feel lucky this morning? Maybe this morning is the one where you'll agree to go to Hogsmeade with me! What do you say?
-James Potter-'
Lily rolled her eyes and scribbled a pleasant little no, then gave it to the owl, which flew down five seats and gave it to its owner.
"Maybe you should just sleep with him and get it over with." Lauren Hartigan, one of Lily's closer friends suggested. She looked into Lily's glaring eyes then quickly added, "Just kidding." and leaned over her food, hiding behind a sheet of dark brown hair.
"Honestly, I don't see why you won't give him a chance. He's not as bad as he seems you know." Linda Levans interjected. She had grown up living next door to James and she couldn't see why Lily wouldn't give him a chance.
"Ah, well, boys are crap; we would do so much better without them, except for that whole continuing the species thing." Elyzabeth Etat sighed.
"Not all boys are crap, thank you very much." Lauren smiled and waved down to her boyfriend of 3 weeks, Remus Lupin. "Just because you got involved with Sirius Black, and we did warn you not to." Lauren smirked slightly.
Lyzzi opened her mouth to retaliate when her brown owl dropped two letters in front of her. She dove into the letter and read them eagerly. Lauren stared down the table dreamily looking at Remus. Linda turned back to her eggs. Lily looked at each of her friends in turn and smiled. Even with Potter being the annoying git he was, these girls made Hogwarts great.
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"Aww, tough luck, again. You should be used to it now." Sirius sighed, pulling a pitcher of pumpkin juice towards him and watching James read the short note his owl just brought him. "Perhaps you'll give up this time," He looked at James hopefully, but got an offended stare in return. "Ah, well, I thought I'd try." Sirius laughed.
"Seriously though, it seems kind of hopeless sometimes, doesn't it?" Peter sighed.
"Ahh, I've always got a chance." James smiled, slipping Lily's note into his pocket.
"Wasn't her letter yesterday, 'Potter, you haven't got a chance. –Evans'" Remus smiled.
"Wow, how do you know it word for word?" Sirius looked shocked. Remus glanced down the table before leaning into the group.
"Werewolf memory, annoying as crap." Remus sighed. He glanced down the table and smiled at Lauren, who was waving at him.
"It's not right you know." Sirius looked at Remus, "It's not fair to Lauren, you don't like her as much as you used to."
"Since when have you cared?" Peter laughed.
"I Don't…" Sirius looked slightly uncomfortable, "It's just…well, I thought I'd let Remmy know."
Sirius's eyes bore into Remus's. Remus turned away quickly; he couldn't understand why Sirius could make him feel so guilty. Luckily, he was saved when James decided breakfast was over.
"Come on guys, we need to think of a new way to ask her tomorrow…" James led the group back into the common room for what was sure to be one of their more boring Saturday mornings.
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"No, no, no!" Lyzzi laughed at Lauren in their dormitory. Lauren was holding a calculator upside down pressing random buttons.
"Here," Lily reached over and put the calculator into Lauren's hands the right way. "This way you can read the numbers."
"Yeah, but I made it say hello!" Lauren flipped the calculator the other way again.
"It's tough to be friends with Pure-bloods." Lily shook her head, smiling.
"I know. We muggle-borns are so much better." Lyzzi smiled back.
"Must not hex Lyzzi to pulp." Linda smiled.
"Oh please! You wouldn't hex a fly!" Lauren smiled.
"No, but I will do this." Linda grabbed the nearest pillow and brought it crashing down onto Lyzzi's head. All hell broke loose as the pillow fight continued on.
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"Okay, we need to come up with something original, something she'll never see coming." James paced in the corner of the boys' dormitory that the Marauders were sitting in.
"Jeez Prongsie, you've been after her for a full year now, the girl doesn't want you, give her a break." Sirius tossed a paper ball into the air and let it fall down again.
"But…but…" James sighed and sat down on his bed, "what if I give up right when she decides that I'm date-able…No I can't give up!" James sighed.
"Nice try mate." Remus whispered to Sirius, "I'm sick of all this Lily talk too."
"Thought I'd give it a shot," Sirius tossed the paper ball back into the air and thought back to what he said to Remus earlier that morning about Lauren.
Meanwhile, Peter was snoozing on his bed, bored to no extent.
"Padfoot, mate, you okay?" Remus asked. Sirius let the paper ball fall onto his face and he didn't even flinch.
"Huh? Oh… yeah, I'm fine." Padfoot scratched his nose and sat up. "Prongs, why don't you try a different attempt? And NOT ask her. That way, maybe she'll get confused as to why her normal owl didn't come and come over asking what was wrong."
Remus gasped, "Paddy! I'm astonished with your thinking! How long did that take to come up with? A month, A YEAR?"
"Shut up!" Paddy threw the paper ball at Remus.
"That actually isn't a bad idea." James thought for a minute. "All right, I'll go for it! But, if nothing happens, Paddy, I'm blaming you entirely!" James slouched onto his bed staring out the window, praying that Lily Evans would finally make a move the next day.
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"Lily, when are you EVER going to say yes to James? I mean, it's been FOREVER that he's been sending you notes every morning!" Linda threw her pillow down after a tiring half hour fight.
"The minute she says 'yes' to James. Is the minute I start dating Snivellus!" Lauren joked, throwing her pillow on top of Linda.
"Come on, guys. Give her some slack. Lauren, what would you do if Sirius sent you a note EVERY morning, asking you to go to Hogsmeade with him?" Lyzzi asked, collapsing on a couch.
"I would probably say 'yes'." The girls stared at her, wide-eyed, "Come on, we all know Mr. Sirius Black is good for laughs! I would say 'yes' just because he would be fun to go into Zonko's with. Of course, that's if I wasn't dating my Remmy!" Lauren had a glazed look over her eyes as she stared into the common room fire.
"Lauren, you should know by now that he hates to be called Remmy; even if by you!" Lyzzi tried to make Lauren understand every time she called him that.
"There she goes again. Every time Remus is mentioned, she zones just thinking about him. Who knows how long she'll be gone this time! I understand that she likes him and all. But, goodness, I'm dating Peter, I like him. But, I don't get into this dreamy mood every time he's mentioned!" Linda tried getting Lauren back by continuously hitting her over the head with a pillow.
"Give it up, Linda. She's not coming back." Lyzzi sat down at a table and opened her Transfiguration textbook, "I can't believe McGonagall assigned a two-foot essay on training to become an Animagi!"
Lily threw her books on the table next to Lyzzi and started her essay.
"What's the point of knowing how to be an Animagi, if you have to be registered to be one?" Lauren asked, finally coming out of her dreamy state.
"Wow! Lauren, that's DEFINITELY a record! 5 minutes! I'm impressed!" Linda clapped rather sarcastically and laughed with the others.
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A/N from Pad: Well, our first chapter! TWOOT! Go us:P :D Yeah, hope you guys enjoy it! And don't forget to review! We seem to be addicted to those… though I don't get many :tear:
A/N from Rem: Yeah well, with one down, who knows how many more to go! This story should go on for a good long while. See you all later.
