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Sirius watched as Lily entered the Breakfast Hall. Her face was very red, which meant – in Sirius's mind – that she:

a) Had been running long distances through the hallways

b) Had just been embarrassed

c) Had fought with James, or

d) Had just seen James naked.

Sirius voted option d, though b and c were both plausible in their own right. A he discarded for being too clean.

He grinned to himself as she saw how close her friends had sat to the Marauders. She rolled her eyes and sat two seats down from Sirius: next to Tamara. Sirius chuckled evilly, causing Lily to shoot him a worried look. He just grinned, and turned back to his breakfast: she'd find out later.

And she did. It was a few seconds later when James walked in, clean and dressed. He looked around, seeing two spots that were clear near his friends. One was next to Peter. The other was between Sirius and Lily.

Three guesses to the seat he chose.

Correct.

He sat next to Lily.

Lily watched out of the corner of her eye as James sat next to her. She ignored him, or tried to. She reached out to grab her usual; toast with strawberry jam. But she remembered what 'Potter' had said to her, and changed direction to a couple of sausages and eggs.

Beside her, James raised his eyebrows, "No toast?"

Lily looked across at him evenly, "No." and, because it had been her intention to point that out, she added, "See? You don't know me so well after all."

"Wow, Lily. That's like the first time I've ever seen you eat anything other than –." The rest of Tamara's sentence was seriously hampered by Lily's palm over her mouth. "Mphp phmph!" she complained.

James smiled at Lily, his eyes crinkling at the edges, "No," he said, "I don't know you at all."

Lily dealt with this the only way she knew how: by ignoring it. Or him, as the case may be. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but changed her mind and turned back to Tamara.

"Smooth, Prongs." Sirius observed, "Very smooth."

James turned around to look at his best friend, "I didn't say anything!" he objected.

"That's the point. You let her walk all over you, my Buck. That's suicide for the male species! Don't let them know they have the upper hand!"

"You're considering females to be a different species?" Remus asked ironically.

"Well they're hard enough to understand." James said, flicking a glance over his shoulder to Lily.

"Yeah, personally I don't think they speak the same language that we do." Sirius added.

"I didn't know sex was a language."

At the same time, both James and Remus turned to Peter, "Shuddup."

"That, Peter, is something you wouldn't know about," Sirius said smugly.

"And you would, Black?" Tamara asked, grinning slyly at him.

Before Sirius could answer, Lily interjected with, "Could we please change the subject to something more suitable to the breakfast table?"

Sirius grinned at her, "Making you uncomfortable, are we?"

"No." she said defiantly.

Sirius looked ready to argue the point, but James stopped him with a hand on his shoulder, "Sirius, just drop it." He turned to Remus and began talking about the Charm Spell that they were supposed to be practising.

Sirius made a face at the back of James's head before listening with one ear to their conversation.

Looking over at the girls, he noticed that Lily and Tamara looked to be getting quite animated in theirs'; Tamara's cheeks were flushed, bringing a sparkle into her eyes. Sirius hummed to himself, grinning.

Tamara shook her head vigorously, "No, you're absolutely wrong. Nothing can contradict an Avada Kedavra curse!"

"What about some really old magic?" Lily insisted, "There has to be some defence."

"No, it's impossible to block. Nothing in history has ever stopped it." Tamara said.

"Hmm…" Lily trailed off, "I'm going to look into that." She sat thoughtfully for a moment, eating quietly.

Next to her, James watched as her fork went towards her plate… actually, his plate that she had mistaken her hers. And that – very sharp – fork had narrowly missed his hand! Lily, apparently unaware, had skewered a piece of James's half-eaten bacon. James's mouth was open as he watched his food being transferred to Lily's mouth.

"Umm." Sirius, also watching the food, began, "You're not going to… eat that, are you?"

Lily glanced at him, "And why wouldn't I?" she asked coolly, thinking he was going to be snide about her figure.

"Cause it's mine!" James burst out, "And I was eating it!"

Lily's gaze flickered down to the bacon, "Ew!" she dropped it hurriedly onto James's plate.

Tamara, chuckling, chose this moment to interrupt, "Yeah, it would be like kissing him!"

Lily shuddered slightly.

"Hey!" James objected, "It wouldn't be that bad."

Sirius was still laughing as they walked towards Charms. As they spotted Snape, Sirius sobered up, "Do we have every class with Slytherins?" he growled.

"Nearly," Remus answered, "You just notice those ones that you have with them, mostly because you get into trouble and have to stay in."

Sirius grinned and shrugged, "Small price to pay."

They lined up outside the classroom, laughing and joking. When Professor Flitwick arrived and opened the door, they filed in and chose seats.

"Today," Squeaked Flitwick, "We shall be revising what we covered last lesson. I do hope that you practised it as I told you to as the students who can show me that they have satisfactorily completed it, they may have the rest of the lesson as free time." Several students, the Marauders included, grinned happily.

"You may begin," Flitwick said, "Miss Evans, could you show me yours please?"

Lily picked up her wand, "What type of wooden object, Professor?" she asked.

Flitwick thought for a moment, "A dragon, please. Small mind you, Miss Evans."

She grinned at him, waved her wand – she had already masted the skill of not having to speak the incantation – and created a tiny replica of a dragon, perfect in every detail. Flitwick applauded, "Well done, Miss Evans. Full marks, as usual. You may go to the library if you wish."

Lily smiled, "I took the liberty of bringing a book with me, Professor."

James and Sirius, watching, rolled their eyes at each other. Professor Flitwick, unfortunately, saw it, "Black, Potter," he said, "You next."

Sirius grinned, "But what if we're hopeless and can't do it?"

"Just show me."

Sirius sighed extravagantly, waved his wand and created five small wooden darts to shoot out of his wand and towards the opposite wall. Professor Flitwick ducked as they flew past his head and glared, "Trust you to do that, Black."

Sirius just grinned and shoved James forwards, "Your turn, Prongs, my boy."

After muttering the incantation, James created a small wooden rose. After the professor nodded and walked to the next student, James stood, and walked to Lily's desk, placing the rose on her books.

She looked up from her book, and glanced at the rose and then finally looked up at James, "That is so corny."

James shrugged and smiled, "It could have been a lily, Evans."

She blushed slightly and looked down, to read her book again.

James sat in the seat next to her to watch Remus and Peter try their luck. Sirius, James noted, had retrieving his darts, and retreated back to his seat.

Sirius looked at his darts, then at the wall. He wrinkled his nose slightly, then took aim and threw one to where they had hit before. It landed a couple of inches to the left. He made a face and tried again. He hit.

Starting to get bored, Sirius looked around for a more interesting target. At that moment Severus Snape sat down, two seats in front of him. Sirius's eyes lit up. Taking casual aim, he threw the dart towards Snape. It flew neatly through the air, past Snape, to smash Lily's inkbottle.

"Dammit!" she exclaimed as ink went everywhere. Everywhere included her book, and James's lap. James spun around in his chair and glared at Sirius, who tried – and failed – to look innocent.

Sirius stuck his tongue out of the side of his mouth slightly, concentrating. James watched, nonplussed as the next dart flew from Sirius's hand to the other side of Snape, towards Tamara's chair. It hit it and rebounded. Tamara turned and stared at Sirius, who winked. She seemed to melt slightly and turned back to the front, smiling to herself.

"What are you doing, Sirius?" James asked.

Sirius made another face, not really paying attention to anyone else, "A little to the left."

James looked from Sirius to Snape, to the dart in Sirius's hand. His eyes widened,"Oh no."

This time, the dart left Sirius's hand and landed straight in the back of Snape's head. Sirius paled, "Too far." He whispered.

Everyone turned to look at Snape as he screamed.

James nodded in agreement, "Yep… a tad to far."

A/N: well there you go.. another chapter done.. i hope that it was ok.. please review.. see that purple box to your left.. yeah.. it's not just there for decoration.. hint hint!

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