Disclaimer: Unless I'm getting a huge birthday present, Harry Potter isn't mine.

A/N: I have gotten many reviews from people saying 'Who's Erinn? Is that Tessa's middle name?' All I can say is that Erinn was the original name I had planned for the Monterey twins but I switched it to Tessa because I like that name better. But I changed it so it says Tessa now. Thank you to ctc for pointing that out for me!

Chapter 3—James

If you didn't know who James Potter than you had serious issues.

Yes, the name James Potter was very important because it belonged to one and one boy alone.

This boy was incredibly hot, had a great physique, funny, smart, charming and had the sexiest hair around.

James Potter was a one of a kind guy that every female adored.

But who wouldn't? With his messy I-just-got-off-a-broom black hair and his warm hazel eyes, James Potter was the official ruler (along with Sirius and Remus (A/N: I hate Peter. Bye Rat) of course) of Hogwarts.

James had his own fan club. The JPFC (James Potter Fan Club) were a bunch of girls who had meetings all about James and how they wished that they could have the honor of dating him.

However, the most popular seventh year girl at Hogwarts, Kellie Crosby, already took James.

Kellie was one word: hot. With her glossy blonde hair falling down her back and her beautiful blue eyes, Kellie oozed perfection. Why shouldn't she be? She was a pureblood, just like James, her father; Stephen Crosby was the Minister of Magic of England, her mother was the famous Amelia Renette Crosby, who owned half of England. Unfortunately, Amelia had the reputation of being a cold sorceress around everybody.

James and Kellie had been together for the past two years and now Kellie was starting to talk about marriage. She talked about it constantly. Writing it down or talking about it to her annoying friends, Morgan Jennings and Marissa Everhard.

Even though James adored his girlfriend, he could not see himself marrying Kellie. Ugh.

James longed for a change but when and how? He just couldn't break up with Kellie. He still liked her a lot.

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"Hey, James." Called a familiar deep voice.

It was an early October day, right after class ended for lunch and James was walking down the hall, accompanied by none other than Kellie Crosby, Remus Lupin, Marissa Everhard and Morgan Jennings.

James turned around to see the black haired, dark blue-eyed boy named Sirius Black.

"Sirius." James greeted.

Kellie rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"

"Easy, Kell, easy." Sirius backed up and put his two index fingers out to make a cross. "I'm not gonna bite. I just want to talk to Prongsie."

Kellie narrowed her blue eyes. "I still don't know why you call him that."

"It's a Marauder thing." Remus said, backing up his two friends who gave each other a startled look. "You know how it is."

"We know Remy." Marissa said sympathetically, clinging onto his arm like it was his life support.

"Well, I don't care if it is a Marauder thing." Kellie snapped. "Whatever you say to James you can say in front of me."

Sirius raised his eyebrows. Kellie was known to be a notorious bitch all the time but around James, she was ten times worse.

"I'll tell him later." Sirius muttered walking next to his girlfriend, Morgan Jennings.

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As they walked down the hallway, the six of them spotted three girls walking in front of them.

"Look," Kellie smirked and her blue eyes went cold. "It's the Human Christmas Tree and her two friends, the Twins."

One of the twins (James could never tell which one) looked back and muttered something. Like magic, the three girls switched sides automatically so that they were nearest the wall.

As they passed the three girls, James glanced towards them. Yes, there were the twins—Erica and Tessa Monterey. James' family knew the Monterey clan very well. However, he was slightly confused at the other girl accompanying them.

"Who's she?" James asked, pointing a thumb at the red haired girl who had her head down. "Is she new?"

Marissa took one look back and gave a high-pitched annoying laugh. "Lily Evans? Puh-lease."

"Isn't she in our Potions class?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah," Kellie said, waving her hand like it was no big deal. "So? What's your point?"

"Just wondering." Sirius replied. "You know me, I'm always observant."

Remus coughed something that sounded a lot like, "Yeah right!"

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The rest of the day passed by horribly for James. Kellie and her cronies could not shut up, Sirius and Remus were arguing about where Washington D.C. was located (and James was certain that those two had no clue what Washington D.C. was), his teachers had given him a lot of homework (he wouldn't do it until the next day. He was such a procrastinator) and to top it all off, he had a headache.

It wasn't until dinner when everything went crashing down.

James, who had finally settled down to eat some nice soup, was suddenly clapped on the back.

Sputtering and choking, James whirled around to see a grinning Sirius Black.

"Prongsie." Sirius said joyfully.

"What do you—cough—want?" James asked weakly, the soup still burning in this throat.

Sirius shrugged. "Nothing."

"So you made me choke on soup for nothing?" James asked in outrage.

Sirius nodded. "That sums it up pretty nicely."

James could have beaten Sirius up, but he was feeling too kind.

As he tried to take another bite of soup, Kellie sat down next to him. She had a happy twinkle in her eye, something that James rarely saw.

"Guess what Jamie?" Kellie squealed.

"What?" James snapped.

"Okay," Kellie said, smoothing down her already perfect blonde hair, "When I was in the bathroom today, fixing my make up, I happened to hear Georgiana Lewis talk about something which she heard from Cammie Sweetin, who heard it from Jessey Alvarez who heard it from Keith Grader who was eavesdropping in on—"

"Kell," James said tiredly, trying to take a bite to eat, "Just get on with the story."

"Anyway," Kellie went on. "So I found out that we MIGHT be having a Halloween Ball! Isn't that exciting?"

"Yeah," James muttered, wincing at the thought of getting dressed up. "Sure."

As soon as Kellie left (saying something about searching for matching Prince and Princess outfits) James turned to Sirius with a desperate look on his face.

"I hate balls!" He muttered.

"So do I," Sirius replied shuddering at the thought of wearing a tuxedo and a tie. "But, unfortunately, Morgan will make me go with her and then god knows what. I swear, I think I'm gonna go after Shelley Kravitz. Morgan's too boring."

James snorted. Sirius was known for being a notorious womanizer. He dated a girl one week and then dumped her next week.

But a ball?

James shuddered and pushed his bowl of soup away, suddenly not hungry.

"Can life get any worse?" He asked aloud.

"Mate," Sirius laughed, helping himself to James' discarded food. "Life gets suckier every day."

How right Sirius was.

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Ehh, not me best chapter but Hehe, Chapter 4 will be lots better...I promise.

I'm sorry about how long it took me to write this up. I had serious (no not that SIRIUS pun) writers block. :

Next chapter should be up by this week! I don't have school on Monday! Woot.

Until next week!

--Greekchic