Alright, this is the first chapter that I've written all on my own, the rest I just edited, so if it's a bit different that's why. Tell me what you think please.

James Potter could not believe it. He had been rejected, and by a girl like Lily Evans no less. That had to have been the first time something like that happened to him.

"It's a strange, strange world," He thought this as he lay in bed, it was probably around 5:30 the next morning and their was no way that he was falling back asleep. There was also no way that James was paying Sirius, he was not going to give up that easy.

"James, why are you awake?" A groggy Remus rolled over to see his friend sitting up looking lost in thought. "You know she rejected me," his voice sounded almost as pitiful as he felt..

"You only told me like six times at dinner last night,"

"Don't even talk to me about dinner, Lily was supposed to have gotten back to me by then, but instead she spent the entire time whispering furiously with Alice and shooting me death glares,"

""Sorry mate, maybe somehow she found out it was a bet, I mean I know Lily pretty well and you have just about the same chance as a snowball in hell to get her to go out with you if she knows you're making money off it,"

"You can be my in then, you'll spew goodness about me whenever the two of you are together and-" The look on Remus' face was enough for even James Potter to stop. "Whoops, you like her don't you…"

"I did," Remus shook his head slowly his shaggy hair moving from side to side, "But today I met someone, of please James just let me talk about a girl just this once,"

"Oh alright, lets talk about you for a change,"

"She wonderful, I think she is the kind of person that can transform at will, maybe she won't mind that I can transform too," a dark look flitted across his face. "Anyways, I almost knocked her down today, I swear I was acting as clumsy as Frank Longbottom and she was so nice about it. I think that she is a cousin of Sirius',"

"One of his nutty Slytherin ones eh?" James raised an eyebrow, he knew about Sirius' family tree.

"No, Tonks, she's umm, a fourth year and a Gryffindor at that, she has such a nice smile," Remus stared dreamily off out the window.

"Someone's in love," James sang happily, if he hadn't found happiness at least his best mate could.

"Whatever," Remus blushed, "Back to Lily, she is my friend you know, I cannot have you making her the girl for this week or another, if she says yes you'd better not fool around,"

"Me, fool around? Never," James made his most innocent face hoping that Remus wouldn't remember that he'd just dumped another girl the week before.

"All I'm saying is I don't want her getting hurt,"

"Oh all right, nothing will ever happen to your precious Lily-Bean," With that James rolled over deciding that he should at least pretend to be asleep for the next hour or so.

In the girls dormitories a very similar conversation was being held. "Ally, it was a bet, I'm only worth 50 galleons," Lily wailed this miserably looking at her friend with a most unhappy face. "So you've said," Alice replied dryly, this conversation had been held many times in the past day. "But I actually considered saying yes, I'm so stupid, why on earth would James Potter like me?"

"Stop it Lily, stop it this instant, I cannot have you acting like this, what happened to the girl who was going to kick his ass? Come on, you're better than that, he's the stupid one not you!"

"Yeah, but now what am I supposed to do?" Lily whined as she rolled over onto her back. She was much weaker in the morning hours when her feminist side had not yet kicked in, "You know I've liked the prat since first year…"

"I'll remember that the next time you deny it,"

"He's so infuriating sometimes though, how am I supposed to get back at him? He's always the one making me angry,"

"Well, you could lead him on only to reject him…"

"I don't want him thinking that he has the upper hand, not even for a little while,"

"You could confront him about it,"

"He'll smile at me and I'll forget what I'm going to say and why I'm mad,"

"You're hopeless then sorry,"

"Alice," Lily was whining again.

"Fine, just ignore him, don't give him anything not even your anger,"

"Do you honestly think that will work?"

"What does James Potter really have, nothing, but no one refuses him anything, and I bet you're the first girl to reject him. Any other girl would fall to her knees just to get the chance to talk to him. That's not you, show him that,"

"You're brilliant, except I still like him,"

"Oh details, you're a big girl don't let it get in the way,"

"I'll try," Lily turned to face her friend with a knowing smile on her face, "I saw you talking to Frank today, does the way you were looking at him mean that you are over the Remster?"

"Don't call him that, it's so weird. Yes, okay, so I maybe sort of kind of like Frank instead, but don't get any big ideas, why would he go out with me?"

"Here you are telling me I have an inferiority complex, he is probably already rehearsing what he's going to say to you when he asks you out tonight,"

"Oh, and what makes you think he is going to do it tonight?"

"There is a Hogmede trip in two days and yesterday he asked me if you preferred the three broomsticks or Madam Pudifoots,"

"And what pray tell did you say?"

"Madam Pudifoots," Lily laughed at the look of horror on her friends face.

"You know that the three broomsticks is my favorite pub," Alice cried indignantly and then stopped to realize exactly who and what they were talking about. "He actually asked you that?!"

"Would I lie to you?"

"No I suppose not, but maybe he was just kidding," Alice paled, "What if Sirius put him up to it? A great prank to play on his best friend,"

"Remember, I'm the one that your bosom buddy likes to play pranks on, you're the one he plans them with,"

"Not so much anymore, there isn't very much room for a girl with the marauders,"

"Yeah," Lily was quiet for a moment as she nibbled thoughtfully on the inside of her thumb. "I guess the two of you aren't as close as you used to be, well I'm going to get back to bed, we've got a test in potions today and I don't want to fail,"

"Like you've ever failed anything," Alice mumbled as she flipped onto her side in an attempt to get a little bit more sleep.

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"Lily-Bean, fancy seeing you here," James approached his target with a smile that was probably too large to be real.

"Really," she replied coolly, making an effort not to look into his eyes, "I would have thought that you would have been expecting me," she surveyed the room her eyes cut across James, "Seeing as we're at breakfast!"

"Hmmmm, anyhow I'm wondering if you might have an answer for me,"

"An answer?" she asked her voice a mask of innocence.

"To a question I asked you an important one…" James eyes betrayed how uneasy he was feeling.

"Well, I can't seem to remember anything important ever coming out of your mouth," Alice felt like cheering, Lily was doing much better than she could have imagined.

"Fine," a smile eased onto James' face, "Lily, go out with me,"

"No, I don't take orders from smarmy little boys thanks,"

"Have it your way Evans, refuse me, but I'm not giving up on you. You realize that don't you?"

"I'm not realizing anything, anyways Alice and I have some business to attend to, so if you don't mind we can discuss how it feels to be rejected later, alright Potter? Ta," with that Lily walked away leaving a rather shell-shocked James and a whooping Sirius.