A/N: Hey! Keep those reviews coming! Don't be shy! Usually I get a little more reviews per chapter in my other fics, but I know a lot of you are reading this according to my stats page so here is an update for you who did review, and also for the silent people who don't like to review,

Disclaimer: I so sadly don't own Sirius Black #drools#… or any of his friends…. #sob!#

Chapter 3: Can James do it?

They strided into the Great Hall,

"Good Morning, Lily," said James walking towards the Gryffindor table,

"Good Morning, James, did you sleep well?" James was right now in heaven; Lily just called him by his first name!

"Like a puppy," He said dreamily

"Hey! That's my line!" said Sirius catching up to them. "Oh yeah, Prongs when do we execute plan 6,779 –"

"Sirius, I'm surprised at you! Pranking? Really I thought better of you… 5…. points… from… Gryffindor…" Said James very slowly and painfully

"I'm very proud of you, James, you're finally looking towards better things." Said Lily taking a seat.

"Sirius, what did I tell you!" whispered James warningly at Sirius

"Good Morning Remus,"

"Morning Lily,"

"How was the Charms essay?"

"Relatively easy, I proofread it 7 times."

"I hope you get a promising grade – like always,"

"Same for you,"

"Thank you, James how did you're essay go?" asked Lily

"Essay? There was an essay? Umm, I mean yeah, I've been working on it…"

"Good, it's due today" James sulked in his chair; he did NOT know there was an essay.

"Um, how long is it supposed to be Lily? I uh, got carried away and I want to know if I uh, wrote to much or not,"

"It is supposed to be 4 feet on the illusion charm,"

"Thank you," James was right now thinking when Charms was to see how much time he had, He racked his brain for his class schedule: Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, DADA, History of Magic, and Double Muggle Studies With Ravenclaw. Charms is his second class. Crud.

"This is feeling weird," Sirius whispered to Peter, "It's so…. Polite,"

"Yeah," agreed Peter, " It's usually, fighting and Lily screaming 'POTTER!' every five minutes, and Prongs on occasion has to go to the hospital wing!"

"It's not normal here,"

"I think it's gonna be a long 24 hours,"

"You're telling me," They continued eating try to ignore the polite conversation going on next to them. Lily was finally talking to Remus a little more, which is a surprise that James is actually happy about it, because when Lily wasn't looking, James quickly opened up his Charms book, and flipped to the chapter of the Illusion Charm. He dug out some parchment and started scribbling the essay. Lily then looked at him.

"Uh, I – uh, I'm copying the essay again – uh, it's an editing method Moony uses and it works!"

"Ok, James,"

"Finally you use that method Prongs! I'm proud,"

"You really use that method?" whispered James,

"Yeah Prongs, don't you remember?"

"No… Moony, I may take some of your advice from now on."

"Good," James continued on his essay, he was really desperate, it was time for Potions and he had only written 2 feet! He had to finish the essay during Potions.

"Moony?" asked James sounding a little desperate, while walking towards the dungeons.

"Yeah Prongs,"

"Could you take my Potions notes for me, I really need to finish the Charms essay –"

"Can't help you mate, against the rules."

"Darn it, well I guess I'll have to multi task."

"Good luck with that," They arrived in the Potions classroom.

"Good Morning Class," said Slughorn, "Today will be studying Veritaserum, then tomorrow we will be making the Potion, I'll be assigning partners tomorrow so be prepared, now who can tell me about Veritaserum, Miss Evans?"

"It is a powerful truth potion, all you need is a few drops and the victim will tell everything you need to know – it's long lasting."

"Very good five points to Gryffindor," While Slughorn blabbed on and on about the Potion, a lot of the kids in the classroom had their eyes on the Head Boy, he was writing on two pieces of parchment, a.k.a. Charms essay and Potions notes, it looked rather interesting, scribbling furiously on one, and then on the other writing al little slower, looking up at the blackboard every once in a while. James finally finished the essay, and put it in his bag and was able to concentrate more on the class. Soon class was over,

"Impressive multi tasking," said Remus

"Thanks, I might have missed a few things though,"

"Ok, I'll help you out later – after breakfast tomorrow,"
"Thanks, Moony,"

"No problem,"

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"Morning, class," said Flitwick, "I expect you all finished you're essays on the illusion char –"

"I did it!" said James excitedly waving a piece of parchment,

"That's nice Mr. Potter, um, I would summon your homework, but I'm afraid it would knock me off my books, so, I'd like you all to turn them in right there on my desk." James ran up to the desk and put his piece of parchment on it. He skipped back to his desk happy to get rid of that thing. Soon the class followed his lead.

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"I never want to see that essay again," said James talking with his fellow Marauders,

"We'll hold a special burning party for it!" said Sirius,

"What's wrong with the essay?" asked Lily walking up to them. Sirius and Remus backed away.

"Uh, I – uh, where did Padfoot and Moony go?"

"I don't know, it seems you're doing well with the bet,"

"Yeah, it's harder than I thought honestly,"

"Really?"

"Well, do you really want to know the truth?"

"Ok,"

"I did not know there was a charms essay."

"So that's what you were doing in Potions,"

"I knew Moony couldn't help me out and take my notes for me so I could finish it, so I multi tasked, and my wrists are never going to forgive me." Said James motioning to his sore wrists. Lily laughed,

"I'll let you get away with that, but you seemed to be paying attention to all the other classes."

"Glad you noticed,"

"What class do we have next?"

"Our last one - Muggle studies,"

"Let's go then –"

"I can't believe it," said a cold voice behind them. They turned around, there stood, the one, the only – Severus Snape, dun, dun, dun. (Cue scary music) "You're actually trying to complete this bet? Is the mudblood's friendship really worth it?"

"Don't call her that" Lily gave James a look, "P- please…" said James with clenched hands, one on his wand.

"Call her what? Mudblood?" said Snape a little louder. James was breathing deeply, his palms were sweating, he wanted to hex the daylights out of Snape, but he couldn't.

"S-s-sev- er, Snapy- s-s- No offence your name has a lot of S's in it, um…" James started coughing, "Could you- please- hang on for a sec- I'll be right back…#cough# I need to clear my throat," James ran to the nearest broom closet and hid inside. Snape and Lily looked a little puzzled. Until they heard James yell in anger from inside the closet. There was a lot of banging, and then an explosion. James then limped out of the closet, with a scorched face and pink hair.

"Lily, Severus – hey I said it! Ouch," James touched his right leg with hands and kept limping towards them. "I think I messed up the voice- clearing spell, um, apparently I accidentally hexed myself, ooh, ouch." he said crossing his fingers, he purposefully hexed himself – he had to hex someone! "Lily, can you – ouch- help to the Hospital Wing?"

"Sure James," She took his arm and they walked – well James limped, out of the hall, while Severus shook his head and walked off in the opposite direction.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch,"

"James, you didn't really 'accidentally' hex yourself did you?"

"No, you're right, but in you're case it's better than hexing – Severus…"

"True,"

"Does it ruin the bet?"

"I don't know I'll have to think about it, but I think I'll let it fly."

"Thank you,"

"Don't thank me yet,"

"When is muggle studies?"

"I ten minutes we better get you in and out of the hospital wing,"

"That shouldn't be to hard, I only hit myself with a minor hex," They did get in and out of the hospital wing fast. James leg was much better, the scorch marks were gone, but there was still a little bit of pink highlights in his hair. They got into Muggles Studies on time.

"Good after noon class, I'm Professor Twit, today for Muggle Studies, we will be studying Muggle things from the Future, Dumbledore himself, got these, I'll will divide you into groups of ten, since we don't have enough future gadgets to share, when I call your name you will sit at one of the group tables. For this table I have… From the Ravenclaw House: Alex Twit and Shelby Chantelle, From Gryffindor House: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Rebekah Riva, Peter Pettigrew, Charlotte Seraphim, Kevin Carroll, and Lily Evans," The ten students sat at the table. "You ten will be studying this lap top, here is a guide which tells you all about what it does and other things you will have this for a month and then you will be given something else."

The others nodded. While Twit was calling other students to the 'ipod' group, they started to talk.
"So, at least we all know each other." Said Sirius starting the conversation.

"Yeah, well knowing my dad," said Alex, "He likes to put me with some people I know, he's supportive of me making new friends, but he does know I like to hang around the same crowd."

"Professor Twit is you're dad?" asked Sirius "I did not know that," Remus rolled his eyes.

"Let's just start reading the guide." Said Kevin, after some skimming,

"Apparently there is a game on here," said Shelby,

"Yeah, once we figure out how to turn this thing on, maybe we can figure out how to play it," said Charlotte,

"Um, I think you push this button," said Rebekah reaching out to press the button,

"Don't push it!" said James. Too late, Rebekah pushed the button, and there was a noise coming from the computer. Soon popped up a blue screen with different icons.

"Well at least we've made some progress…" said Remus,

"Now what do we do?" asked Kevin

"I think we've made a good enough start, we can come back later for homework, the classroom is going to be unlocked so the students may study their objects, for it will only work in here." Said Lily, then the dinner bell rang,

"I don't know about you guys but I'm hungry," said Sirius,

"Ok, we'll come back tomorrow during free period," said Shelby, the others agreed and headed to dinner.

"Lily, do I pass the bet?"

"It still goes on till tomorrow until breakfast James, you'll know then."

"Ok,"

That night in the girls dorms, Lily couldn't figure out if she should let James pass or not,

Should I let him pass?

He's Potter,

But he did really well today

He's still Potter,

He's changed

He'll go back to his normal pratty self the minute he enters the Great Hall for breakfast!

But – I'm not listening to you – you annoying conscience! Lily went to sleep – she is never arguing with herself again.

A/N: I hoped you liked it! Next chapter we will know if James wins Lily's friendship and they will end up in the Sims! So review and I'll give a new chapter full of Sims!

Shelb