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"Okay," Lily said. "What's up?"

James took a deep breath and shocked her with his question: "Lily… will you go out with me?"

Her green eyes widened in shock. James Potter, the one who constantly mocked and ridiculed her, was asking her out? What? "What did you just say to me?"

"I said, will you go out with me?" He waited expectantly for a response.

Lily sucked in her breath. Maybe Alice was right… maybe James did like her!

"Are you serious?" she asked him. She didn't want to say 'yes' and make a fool of herself because it was some big joke.

"No, I'm James, not Sirius."

Lily glared at him. That joke was way overused.

"Yes, I'm serious," he finally answered.

"Um… I dunno James… can I think about it and tell you later?" she asked. She was still too shocked to even think straight.

"Sure," he said brightly, and got up. "Talk to you later, Lily-Bean."

"Hey! Don't call me that!" she exclaimed. He turned and just smiled his lopsided grin at her. They had started calling her that after a Herbology incident in first year, which Lily was not going into details about. Though she supposed it was a cute nickname…

Lily watched James as he walked out. He did something very odd. He stopped for a moment at the bookshelf in front of her table and gave a wink. Was he winking at the books? Lily wondered. No, of course not. That was stupid. Someone was probably there spying on them. Her temper flaring up once again, she got up and walked quietly to the bookshelf, where she saw a dark-haired boy trying to get away without being seen.

"SIRIUS BLACK!" Lily yelled, stopping him in his tracks. She received and annoyed look from Madam Pince that clearly said Shut Up, Now.

He turned to face her. "Oh, hello Evans. Fancy meeting you here."

"Save it, Black. Why were you spying on us?"

Apparently he decided to play dumb. "Spying? Moi? No, I was simply looking for a book."

Lily put her hands on her hips. "Out of the magazine section specializing on 'How to Get Your Man?'" she asked, trying to suppress a grin.

He faltered for a moment, and then grabbed a copy of Witch Weekly. "Yeah, of course! Who hasn't read that article?" he asked incredulously.

"I thought you were looking for a book."

"Eh. Book, magazine, same difference."

Lily narrowed her eyes. "Black, save it, you're coming with me. We're going on a little walk," she said, grabbing his ear and dragging him out of the library behind her, ignoring his "Ow, ow, ow, ow…" Some members of the Marauder's Fan Club gasped in outrage, but knowing Lily's reputation and seeing her face, said nothing. Sirius groaned. James was definitely going to owe him for this one.

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"Alright Black, talk," Lily Evans said as she sat him down under the beech tree next to the lake.

"What would you like to know, Madam?" Sirius asked, blinking up at her.

"I would like to know what the hell you were doing listening to our conversation."

"I told you, I was getting the magazine -"

"Sirius, unless there's something about your sexuality you've been withholding from us, I don't think you'd be getting that article."

Sirius thought quickly. "How do you know I wasn't getting it for Alice?"

Lily laughed, "Sirius, you're always trying to keep her away from boys, not trying to lead them to her!"

"True," Sirius agreed. He was very overprotective of his childhood friend.

"So what's really going on?"

"I – I can't tell you that."

"I already know," Lily told him, a mischievous grin on her face that was eerily similar to one James got sometimes.

"What? You know about the bet?" he asked, shocked. "How?"

"I don't like to give away my sources," she said coolly. "But why?"

"…Well, I made it originally with James. I didn't think you'd go out with him, so I got him to ask you out to see."

"What does the loser have to do?"

"Pay fifty galleons."

"Fifty galleons? Fifty galleons? That's what I'm worth?"

"Are you flattered?" he asked.

She slapped him. "No, you moron, I should very well think I'd be worth more than that!"

"Women…" Sirius muttered, rubbing his cheek.

Lily started to walk away, then turned and said, "By the way, thanks for the info, Sirius. I'll be sure to tell Potter who my source is."

"What? You didn't know about it?"

"No. But I figured if I pretended to, you'd tell me." She walked away, turning back once to wave sarcastically to him.

Sirius shook his head. "She'd make a good Marauder!" he said, laughing at the mere thought of Lily Evans hanging out with them. As if that would happen.

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Alice walked down a random hallway, lost in thought. Her friends were so confusing. Lily liked James, James didn't like Lily but he asked her out anyway, Sirius was having a different relationship every three days, and Remus liked somebody but she couldn't figure out who it was. And frankly, she didn't give a damn about Peter's non-existent love life. That little twit had annoyed her since the first day she met him. Plus there was Frank Longbottom, pretty boy sixth year, a little clumsy, a little awkward, and absolutely perfect.

Oh yeah. There was also the fact that she had been pretty sure she liked Remus. As if their lives weren't complicated enough, just the other day Frank had started talking to her.

She wasn't sure why she liked him, though. Alice had liked a few boys in the past, but did nothing for fear that Sirius would kill them when he found out. She knew she was certainly pretty enough to get a boyfriend – she was very slim, average height, had long shiny dark hair and big sparkling silver eyes. But she had basically lost interest in boys for a while, because she knew nothing would ever happen.

But today she had been talking to Frank, and had randomly thought, Whoa, he's pretty cute when he's thinking about things. He furrowed his eyebrows together and a dreamy look passed into his kind brown eyes. Now Alice wasn't sure what to do. She was supposed to think these things about Remus, then it would be perfect, she and Lily would be going out with best friends. She supposed she should go find Lily and talk to her about it.

She set off towards the library where she figured Lily would be, and checked her usual table. She wasn't there. Damn it Lily, why do you have to change your patterns now?

She was walking back to the Common Room when she saw Lily walking from the opposite direction, twirling her long red hair angrily. That's how you could always tell when Lily was mad. She twirled her hair around her finger.

"I need to talk to you!" they both said in unison, and laughed.

They walked into their dormitory and sat down on their respective beds, which were right next to each other.

"Alright, Lils, you first," Alice said.

Lily took a deep breath. "Al, your "brother" and Potter are the biggest prats on the planet!"

"I know…" Alice said sighing sadly.

"Do you know what they did? Potter only asked me out because your brother made a bet with him!"

"James asked you out?!"

"Yeah."

"What'd you say?"

"That I'd talk to him later about it."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Kick his ass."

"Good plan."

"Alright, that's settled," Lily said. "What's up with you?"

"I think I like someone."

"WHAT? Really?" Lily asked excitedly.

"Yeah."

"Who?"

"Um…" She muttered something inaudible.

"What'd you say?"

Alice blushed. "No! I'm not gonna tell you!"

"Al…" Lily moaned. "Please? Pretty please? Come on!"

"No! You'll laugh at me…"

"No I wouldn't! Come on, just tell me."

"Fine," Phoenix said, glaring at her. "Frank………Longbottom."

Lily screamed and jumped up. "Really?! I'm so excited! He probably likes you back too because of the way that he-"

"Lily, no! I can't tell if I like him because he's talking to me or what…"

"Alright," Lily said, sighing a little as she started for the stairs. "Now if you'll excuse me, I believe that there are two black haired boys downstairs that need their asses kicked."

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