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A/N- I redid the first chapter. Go back and read it if you haven't yet. REVIEW or else you'll feel guilty and I'll feel sad!

"You got beat up by a girl," Sirius said, sounding shocked. Sirius Black was James' best friend and second hottest guy in all of Hogwarts. He was pureblood, hated his family, and had longish black hair that fell into his grey eyes.

"For the last time- she did not beat me up!"

"Oh yes, of course she didn't," Sirius began sarcastically, "And that's why you have a black eye, right?"

"Sirius?"

"Yea?"

"Sod off."

"Sheesh, you sound like Evans whenever she's talking to you."

"Shut up," James muttered while throwing a shoe at Sirius.

"See; she's wearing off on you! Now you're even throwing stuff at people."

"I've always thrown stuff at you. Everyone has always thrown stuff at you; especially girls…mostly girls…just about every girl we know and-"

"I get it," Sirius replied irritably, cutting him off.

"Besides, I'm throwing stuff at you. You are not a people."

"Haha; very funny Prongs," Sirius said sarcastically.

"I'm glad you think so," James said brightly, ducking, as Sirius threw the shoe back at him. "Wow. It does rub off on people," he murmured quietly as him and Sirius pulled on their robes and ran down to the common room to meet Remus before breakfast. Remus Lupin was another of James' best friends; he was smart, blonde, likeable, fairly good-looking, sensible and the most honest out of the gang, which wasn't really saying much since 'the gang', aka The Marauders were the pranksters of the school.

"Remus, ol' buddy, ol' pal," Sirius chimed, slapping Remus on the back, causing the book he was reading to fall from his hands.

Remus muttered a greeting that sounded more like a growl than anything else, as he reached down to pick up his book before turning to look at them. He looked surprised when he looked at James, "Why do you- Lily," He stated knowingly.

Sirius looked at him, amazed. "How do you do that? Are you psychic or something? Why didn't you tell me this? Am I the only one who didn't know? Am I psychic too," He paused, "I am! I know what I'm thinking," Seeing the disbelieving and disturbed looks from people surrounding them, he added, "Well I bet you don't know what I'm thinking. If you're so psychic, what am I thinking right… now?"

Remus slapped a hand to his forehead and shook his head disappointedly. He looked up at Sirius and repeated this motion. "No, Sirius, I am not psychic, and neither are you. You're more like…psychotic."

Sirius scratched his head. "Why does everyone keep saying that?"

Remus rolled his eyes, and turned to James, ignoring Sirius. "So, what did you do this time?"

"Whatever do you mean Moony," James asked innocently.

"I mean, Lily gave you a black eye; that's not like her. She's thrown stuff at you, cursed you, cursed at you, and screamed at you until she couldn't breathe, but I don't think she's ever hit you before- at least not hard enough to do that," he pointed to James' black eye, "What did you do that made her hit you?"

"I didn't make her hit me. She just has a temper."

"You're avoiding my question," Remus stated the obvious.

"Ikindasortakissedher," James replied quickly in one breath.

"Excuse me? Please tell me I didn't hear you properly and that you did not really kiss her," Remus replied hopefully.

"Okay; you didn't hear me properly and I didn't really kiss Lily."

Remus narrowed his eyes, "Now tell me the truth."

"Pick-y, pick-y. One second you want me to lie, the next you want the truth-"

"James," Remus spoke dangerously, cutting him off.

"Okay. You did hear properly and I did kiss Lily."

Remus covered his face with his hands and let out a muffled, "Why? What could have possessed you to make you act so thick!"

"Um…I don't know… We were kind of getting along," Remus gave him 'a look' and he corrected himself, "Okay, so we weren't yelling or killing each other."

"Although she did punch you," Sirius pointed out, finally giving up on trying to use his non-existent mind powers to see through a 6th year girl's shirt. Remus nodded, agreeing.

"Do you want to hear the story or not," James asked, irritated. Remus nodded. "Okay then- as I was saying, we were kind of getting along and I walked away to go up to bed. But, once I was halfway to the staircase, I stopped and turned back around."

"You have no conscience, do you?"

James glared at Remus but chose to ignore the comment, "And I saw her sitting there with her legs to one side of her, concentrating on her assignment, but we all know she was really thinking of me. Anyway, you know how she gets when she's concentrating, her eyes sort of glaze over and she bites on the right corner of her lower lip. She just looks so cute and innocent. So, I walked over to her and kneeled down next to her; she didn't even realize I was there at first. Or she pretended not to know probably, because, she loves me and she wanted it too. Anyway, I just, kind of, leaned in and gave her a peck on the cheek- I barely brushed my lips against her cheek before I stood up. Barely! And then-"

"Pow," Lily indicated hitting James, talking to a group of three girls, all her age. "I punched him and walked away."

"Wow. You're so brave Lils." said Ada Borealis, looking at Lily with pure admiration through her deep blue eyes. Ada was half Italian and half English with extremely curly, elbow-length dark brown hair; the perfect contrast to her porcelain-like skin. She was Lily's best friend, and had been since they were toddlers; she was half-blood, with a muggle father and a witch mum. Ada had inherited her mother's beautiful eyes, which were naturally a deep blue but became a beautiful shade of violet, depending on the weather and her mood.

"I can't believe James Potter kissed you," squealed Chloe Deluca, twirling one of her flaxen locks around her finger, her pale green eyes opened wide. Chloe and Lily had met a week into their first year, when Lily had 'saved' her from a small group of 2nd year boys who were taunting her and had almost made her cry. Lily had ran towards the group and pushed two of the boys down; causing them to get skinned knees, and screamed at the remaining one until he realized that his friends had scampered away- then he ran after them, following close behind. Chloe and Ada had been friends ever since. Chloe was American; she had grown up in America until she was 11. Then her family had moved to England so she could go to Hogwarts; the same school her mum had attended.

Chloe's mum was also American, and had lived in England only for the 7 years she attended Hogwarts, going back to America over summer and for the holidays. She was in love with America, and moved back after school ended. She married her Hogwarts sweetheart and had two children; Chloe and Bryant Jr., named after his Dad who had died 4 years after Bryant was born, when Chloe was only seven.

"Don't act so cheerful about this Chloe," Mishca scolded and then turned to Lily, "He had no right to kiss you Lily, even if it was only on the cheek! You never hinted that you wanted to be kissed; you yell and curse at him all day long for Merlin's sake! He's not half as bright as his grades claim, if he thinks a girl working on an assignment and not paying any attention to him is an invite for a kiss. He deserves that black eye, and he better be happy you won't let me go after him as well!" Mishca De La Reusse was half English, one quarter French, and one quarter Swedish, with long, straight and strong ebony-colored hair which she always wore in a pony-tail. She was the determined girl, with the fierce dark green eyes and bronzed skin, who always got her way, but didn't usually take advantage of that fact. She was a chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and could have just about any guy she wanted, but she chose Remus Lupin.

"Glad to see there are some sane people in the world," Lily said, eyeing Chloe strangely as she bounced up and down where she sat, coiled her hair around her finger, and blew a big pink bubble of chewing gum from her mouth.

"It is amusing though, when he practically…and literally chases after you, begging you to go out with him, and when he calls you cute little nicknames-"

"It is not," Lily interjected.

"and hugs you from behind and puts his arms around you and plays with your hair," Mischa ignored all of Lily's protests, "And constantly tries to show off for you."

"He doesn't try to show off for me, he just thinks he's the best thing out there."

Mischa continued to talk over Lily, "It's hilarious, and slightly pathetic, watching him do all that, only to have you shove him away or curse him…or both. But then he does it all over again anyway."

"Well, at least Ada's still sane," Lily said. Mishca rolled her eyes at Lily. -Pop- The bubble Chloe had been blowing exploded all over her face, covering her nose and chin.

"Did you get butterfilies?" Chloe asked dreamily.

Mishca opened her mouth to say something (probably along the lines of "Of course not!"), but Lily cut her off, "If a revoltingly light feeling in the pit of your stomach that makes you want to puke and scream at the same time qualifies as butterflies, than yes," she said sarcastically.

Mishca closed her mouth, then opened it again, closed it, then opened it again as if she was, for once, unsure what to say. When she did finally speak, she did so in a voice she rarely used; soft, sounding shocked and disbelieving, "You…you felt light? Like…like your stomach just dropped out for a moment," she asked.

"Yes, and it was utterly revolting," she exclaimed, looking at her friends, wondering why they were all looking at her like that. Seeing as none of them answered her curious expression, she asked, exasperated, "What?"

"Oh my God, Lils…you," Mishca started, still speaking softly.

Chloe squealed delightedly, "Ah! She got BUTTERFLIES!"

Lily looked taken aback, "Did not."

"Did too," Chloe said.

"Did NOT!"

"Oh my gosh, you did too!" She was laughing joyously.

"I did NOT get butterflies from," she shuddered, finishing, "Potter," saying his name as if it were a contagious and deadly disease. She looked to Ada for help, but Ada just sat still, looking shocked. "Oh Merlin! You're all on crack!"

"Er…okay then. Well, Hogsmeade awaits us," Ada said, eyeing Lily disbelievingly.

"What? No- Ad- I," she began, stuttering, then boldly, as if what they were talking about was both impossible and ridiculous, "Ada, I did NOT get butterflies from Potter! Will you stop looking at me like that?"

"Uh, yes. Ada's right. Right-o then, come on!"

Lily looked at her friends helplessly, "You guys," she started, "I did NOT-"

"OKAY," they all chorused.

"Hogsmeade here we come," Mishca yelled jumping into the air.

"Hogsmeade can wait twelve minutes; we need to eat," said Chloe, who had spit out her gum and was back to acting…semi-normal again.

"Twelve? Why can't you just say ten or fifteen, like a normal person," Mishca questioned her as they all began their descent down the stairs towards the common room.

"Being normal is vastly overrated," she replied airily. They all laughed a bit as they reached the common room. 'Just what I need- James I'm-Merlin's-gift-to-women Potter', Lily thought miserably, trying to pull her friends towards the portrait hole before they saw who was in the common room, but her pulling was to no avail.

"Hi James," Chloe called in a sing-song voice, walking towards the group, "Hello, Sirius," she said seductively. Ada and Mishca followed her, leaving Lily standing behind until she, reluctantly, followed them, her arms crossed in front of her chest. Mishca sat in Remus' lap; her arms around his neck. Chloe collapsed on the couch; her legs resting on Sirius. Ada sat in a chair after saying a quick hello to them all, and Lily stood; avoiding James' eyes and glaring at Chloe for dragging her- 'Fine,' Lily admitted- coming over here.

Lily couldn't help but glance at Potter, but as soon as she did, she regretted it. He had been looking at her as well; although she had a nauseating feeling that he hadn't just happened to glance at her as she glanced at him, but had been staring at her the whole time. She quickly turned her gaze away, but smiled smugly nonetheless after seeing his eye. 'My black-eyed satisfaction,' she thought, cheering up just a bit.

"Girls, I thought we were just going to go down for breakfast and then head to Hogsmeade," Ada said after noticing how uncomfortable Lily was and Lily silently thanked her.

"Yea, come on," Lily said, hoping the other two girls would agree.

Reluctantly, Chloe pulled her gaze away from Sirius and turned to look at Lily and Ada, a sudden look of inspiration lighting up her face. 'Oh no. This can't be good,' Lily thought, knowing that look all too well and knowing Chloe would open her big mouth and talk without asking anyone else what they thought. "Oi! You guys want to come to Hogsmeade with us," she asked hopefully as Lily mentally slapped her palm to her forehead…and then physically did so as well.

"Ew," she said, looking at Ada who was looking back at her helplessly, knowing Lily didn't want to be around James at the moment... or ever for that matter. Lily only shrugged her shoulders unhappily at Ada, who took that to mean that they couldn't take the invitation back now but she would surely attack Chloe later.

"Ooh! Come with us Remy. Please, please," Mishca asked in a higher-pitched tone than normal, making Remus laugh. Lily looked back at Ada to signal something, but noticed that the girl wasn't looking at her anymore. She was looking at Remus sadly, 'Almost longingly,' Lily thought. 'No, she couldn't be,' she corrected herself, trying to shrug off the feeling that something was wrong with Ada.

Five minutes later, after Remus had fixed James' black eye, much to Lily's displeasure, the three guys followed the girls into the Great Hall, where they had a quick breakfast before leaving to Hogsmeade. 'Hogsmeade with Potter. Why me? Hogsmeade is like heaven, James is like the devil in disguise; he doesn't belong there. At least not anywhere near me.' Lily thought miserably, arms falling back into place across her chest as they crossed Hogwarts grounds.

As they were walking, Mishca maneuvered her way around all the people so she was standing next to Lily, and gave her an apologetic look. Lily glared at her, but quickly nodded her head in forgiveness. They both smiled at each other and Mishca looked over Lily's shoulder, suspiciously. "You better not try that unless you want another black eye and a few new bruises, James," she said teasingly, but warningly at the same time.

Lily turned around sharply, and saw James quickly moving his hand from a place dangerously near her waist, and ruffling up his hair with it instead, blushing. She glared at him, but let out an involuntary laugh, seeing him blushing and thinking of her 'black-eyed satisfaction'. Mishca and James soon joined in on her laughter, not quite knowing what they were laughing about, but finding whatever it was so funny that all three of them were in tears from laughing so hard within a few more steps. They were holding onto each other, trying not to trip and fall, which didn't work because, when Mishca tripped over her own feet, she accidentally brought them all down with her.

They didn't stop laughing then either, even when the rest of their group stopped and stared at them awkwardly, asking what in bloody hell was so funny. They rolled around in the grass, clutching their sides while tears rolled down their cheeks. After a few moments, they began to breath almost-normally again, still trying to stifle the laughter that would escape from their lips every few breaths.

"James, calm down," Sirius said, eyeing him like he was crazy. James just smiled maniacally at him and stuffed his fist in his mouth. At this, Mishca and Lily burst into a fresh set of giggles and didn't stop for about five minutes. Wiping the tears from their eyes, they slowly stood up, still smiling wide, and walked with their friends as if nothing had happened, but occasionally glancing at each other and bursting into small fits of muffled laughter.

Fifteen minutes and about 32, according to Chloe, laughing fits later, Lily, Ada, Mishca, Chloe, James, Sirius, and Remus were in The Three Broomsticks, drinking glasses of butterbeer that seemed to calm them all; even the three laughing loonatics. Sirius opened his mouth to speak, probably to ask why Mishca, Lily, and James had lost every ounce of sanity they had and had became giggling wrecks, but he was cut off as the door to The Three Broomsticks opened and in walked a short, rather round boy with mouse-like features and brown hair.

"Peter, come sit down," Sirius called to him. Peter, who fawned over Sirius and James, was another of The Marauders.

Peter walked over to them nervously, but didn't sit down, "Hi…everyone."

"Sit down, Wormtail. Want some butterbeer? Sirius'll pay for it." James offered.

"I will," Sirius questioned.

"You will," James answered.

Peter looked at them nervously as he talked in the whiny, quiet voice of his, "Er, no. It's okay James. I- uh."

"Oh, sit down," Sirius said and added rather rudely, "You can't possibly have something better to do. Unless someone else is more important than us?"

Peter looked taken aback, "Of course not. It's just that-" he looked around the room as if searching for someone. Obviously not seeing them, he sat down. "But, only for a few minutes," he added.

Five rounds of butterbeer later, the girls were getting quite bored with sitting around and talking; they wanted to shop! There was nothing interesting going on in The Three Broomsticks anyway. Well…there hadn't been anything interesting going on until a short brunette girl, who Lily recognized to be a 5th year Ravenclaw, stomped over to their table and started yelling at them loudly and quickly. Once the girls paid more attention, they realized she wasn't yelling at them all; only Peter.

"How dare you Peter! You ask me out here and I cancel all my other plans and then you stand me up! I could have had a great day with my friends today, but instead I spent near two hours getting ready for this date and then almost half an hour waiting for you while you forgot all about me! You- you deceitful bloody prat! I hope you get Avada'd!" And with that, the girl ran out of The Three Broomsticks- all the girls noticed the tears in her eyes but doubted that the boys did.

Every single girl in The Three Broomsticks was glaring at Peter, until he finally recovered from what had happened, jumped from his seat and ran after her, calling, "Michelle! Michelle, wait!" The Three Broomsticks was silent for a moment, everyone's mouths hanging open. Simultaneously, everyone began whispering;

"He's not good enough for her anyway."

"Did Peter just stand Michelle up?"

"Did you see her stomp out of here like that?"

"Wouldn't want to be in his place right now."

"Did Peter just stand Michelle up?"

"She seems really mad."

"I wouldn't forgive him."

"I wonder if she'll give him another chance."

"Did Peter just stand Michelle up?"

"Er…I guess that would be our cue to leave," Ada pointed out awkwardly. There was a chorus of "Yea," and "Uh-huh," from around the table as the group got to their feet and began shuffling out the door. Once outside, the tension seemed to ease.

"Where d'ya want to go next," Remus asked the girls as Sirius and James both shook their heads, knowing what was coming.

The girls glanced at each other, and the guys saw pure evil in the looks they were exchanging. They turned back to the guys, smiling sweetly. 'Too sweetly,' the guys thought, eyeing the girls carefully before they suddenly sang out in one voice, "Shopping," they all yelled happily as the guys groaned.

"Oh, you know you love shopping too," Mishca teased.

"Of course we do. We especially like trying on robes and asking each other if they make our arses look big. So exciting," Sirius said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

"Who doesn't," Chloe asked, smiling slyly.

"Well, where to first," James questioned.

Sirius instantly replied excitedly, "Zonko's!"

"No way; Zelda's for sure," Chloe said happily, leaving no chance for anyone to disagree as she grabbed Sirius and began to run towards the clothing store, dragging him behind her as the rest of the boys rolled their eyes, but followed reluctantly behind.

"Come on girls; we've been here for like, an hour," Sirius whined.

Lily giggled, walking out of the dressing room and twirling around. "It's been almost ten minutes."

"Well that's still ten minutes too long," Sirius said, pouting. He paused and looked as Lily was striking a pose. "You look bloody hot."

Lily blushed and looked at herself in the mirror, straightening out a few wrinkles in her outfit. "So, you and the rest of the guys are having a horrid time, aren't you," She asked, smirking after looking over her shoulder in the mirror.

"Duh."

"Really? Because they look like they're having a lot of fun," Lily said, turning around and nodding in the direction of Zonko's, where both boys were laughing as they entered the shop.

Sirius spun around, gaping, before running out the door and across the street. Lily saw him slap James and Remus on the back of the head. 'Woohoo! Go Sirius,' she thought, smiling as she walked back into the dressing room to change.

After putting back the clothes she had been trying on, she stopped before putting back the last item. It was a beautiful blue, amulet-like charm on a silver chain. She held onto it for a while, just looking at it, oblivious to the fact that James was watching her from across the street. Reluctantly, she set the necklace back as her friends came out of the dressing rooms with the clothes they wanted to buy. "Aren't you getting anything," Chloe asked Lily.

Lily shook her head and smiled. "Nah," she said all the while thinking of all the beautiful clothes around her, but mostly thinking of the necklace. She quickly changed the subject before her friends could bug her about never buying anything when they went shopping together, "How bout we go to the ice cream shop next?" Her friends nodded their heads and Lily threw the necklace one last longing look before walking off towards Zonko's to get the guys.

"Guys! Ice cream shop! Come on," Lily yelled obnoxiously as she entered the shop.

A brown-haired guy, probably just a few years older than Lily, walked up to her and slipped his arm around her waist, "Hey baby, wanna lick my ice cream cone."

Before Lily had time to wriggle from his grasp and hex him into oblivion, someone else had already grabbed him by his shoulder and turned him around. In seconds, he was on the ground, holding his bleeding nose. Lily looked up, confused by how fast everything had just happened, to see James standing above the bleeding boy, glaring at him, looking deadly. He looked up at Lily, but didn't say anything as he walked out, followed by the rest of the guys.

"What just happened," Lily asked Mishca before they walked out.

"I'm not sure…"

Lily nodded her head. "Okay."

They looked around and realized that the rest of the group was walking towards the ice cream shop. They began walking away, but Mishca stopped and held up her pointer finger, "Hold on a sec," she said before turning back around and kicking the guy on the floor hard between his legs. She smirked at Lily before they both ran off towards Ada, Chloe, Sirius, Remus, and James.

They were all kind of quiet as they walked away from Zonko's, except Sirius. He was LAUGHING, hard. "Wow. The wonders of muggle dueling. You," He clapped James on the back, "Are my new hero mate." James glared at Sirius. "Wha? Jeez, why's everyone so uptight," he questioned, looking around at the gang.

"Bugger! I left my Sugar Quill in Zonko's you guys. I'll be right back," James said to everyone as they rounded the corner away from Zonko's and Zelda's.

"Sometimes I think you'd lose your head if it wasn't attached to the rest of you James," Remus said, chuckling.

"I'll come with you," Sirius said turning around.

"No, it's okay," James replied, almost too quickly.

Sirius smiled at him slyly. "You gonna by me a present huh?" James looked at him curiously but Sirius just nudged him 'knowingly'. "It's okay. I know you will."

"Er, yah...sure...okay. Well...I'm going now...without you," James said before walking back into Zonko's.

A/N- it's rushed, i know, and maybe kind of confusing, but i wrote it around 4 AM, with no sleep. SO yah;; REVIEW or else you'll feel guilty and I'll feel sad!

-Devin