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"PRONGSIE!" Sirius ran into their shared room and jumped onto James's bed where James sat with a book in his lap that he didn't seem to be reading.

"Prongs? What's wrong bro?" A tone of worrying crept up in his voice when he took in James's appearance. His eye's were a little red on the edges, had he been crying?

"She has a date." There was no emotion in his voice but Sirius could almost feel the pain in himself, they were close.

"With who?" Not that it mattered really, but Sirius needed to know who they now were set on hating.

"Marcus Jonas" Crap, he's actually a nice guy, the keeper on the Gryffindor team.

"What are we going to do about it?" Nice guy or not, James was family and he would always come first.

"Nothing." The emptiness in his friends voice was beginning to scare him.

"You sure mate?"

"Yeah, if he makes her happy than..." His sentence trailed of into nothingness but Sirius got the point.

"Don't give up, it's just a date, let's see what happens."

"Fine, yeah, okay."

"Maybe you should try to talk to her?" Sirius sucked at giving advice but he hated the look of his brother that sad.

"About what?"

"Dunno, apologize maybe, or ask why she dislikes you. Or snog her, that should work." Sirius had no idea what he was saying.

"You're mad, you know that, right?" Something resembling a smile crept up on James's face, Sirius always cheered him up.

"Yeah, I know" Sirius stood up and headed for the door but when he reached it James spoke.

"Eyy Pads, thanks."

"No problem" James may be pathetic, locked up crying in his room, but he really was a great guy.

The clock was almost nine and the Gryffindor common room was slowly emptying. Lily however was getting ready for a prefect patrol. Not that there was to much to get ready for but mentally she was a nervous wreak. The patrol was with Severus. Her ex-best friend that she hadn't spoken to since he'd begged for forgiveness in the middle of the night outside of the common room.

"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Remus asked, "I can take your place if you want."

"No, you look awful, no offense, you should be resting." The full moon had just passed.

"I'm fine, I'll do it." In truth Remus was about to pass out but Lily was his friend and there was almost nothing he wouldn't do for his friends.

"No, I'll have to speak with him sooner or later. I hid from him all summer and that's not who I want to be, I want to be stronger than that, I want to be someone that faces her problems head on."

"You're terrified, aren't you?" Remus knew her pretty well.

"Horrified!" She admitted, and than burst out laughing. Lily had one of those laughs that, when you you hear it you can't resist laughing to, so there they sat for a minute just laughing there heads of for no reason.

"I'll be fine" She said with a reassuring smile before she stood up and left the common room.