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"Hey, Lils, where are you going?" James asked. He saw Lily with her cloak on, heading out of the common room.

"Oh, I'm just going on a little walk with Shaun," she replied.

"Oh, um, bye then."

"Bye!" Lily responded cheerfully.

Once Lily was out of the common room, James let out a sigh. When was she going to dump this guy?

"Hey Prongs, it's your turn now," Sirius told his friend, they were playing Wizards Chess, and James was losing horribly.

"What, oh, um, sorry Padfoot. Must have zoned out for a second," James answered.

"Okay, get off your bloody ass and go follow her."

"What? Are fucking mad?" James asked. "She would see me… besides, I haven't stooped that low, yet."

"Oh, for the love of God! You've got the cloak and the map. Just follow her. Besides, I'm bored and need something to do."

James looked at his friend for a moment, this was the fun loving Sirius that had always gotten into trouble with James. He was always there to back James up whenever needed.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go," James responded as he jumped up off of the comfortable chair he had just been sitting in.

"Do you think that Moony and Wormtail would want to come?" Sirius asked.

James thought about it for a second, "No, there's not enough room under there for all four of us anymore."

In a matter of minutes James and Sirius had gathered up the Marauders' Map, the invisibility cloak, and started toward the Hogwarts grounds.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good," James whispered as he tapped the map with his wand. On the previously blank piece of paper, a map of the Hogwarts and Hogsmeade grounds had appeared. James saw two dots labeled next to the lake, not twenty meters from where he stood. They were labeled Lily Evans and Shaun Dunstan. That was where James wanted to be, now all he had to do was get closer.

James was about to take a step forward when he felt Sirius' hand grab his shoulder. "Padfoot, what the hell are you doing?"

"Before we go over there, I need to know that you won't make a complete ass of yourself."

"Padfoot, there's nothing to worry about," James reasoned.

"Yeah? Well what if you see them snogging? What are you going to do? You can't make them stop," Sirius told him. For once Sirius was truly right. What would he do?

"I promise I won't do anything dumb."

Sirius released James' shoulder and the two made their way over toward Lily and Shaun. James could hear Lily suppress a giggle, and not the kind that is heard after a funny joke. There was Shaun, kissing her. James saw Shaun's hands wrap around Lily's waist.

James stood there, dumbstruck, he honestly didn't know what to do. And luckily for James, he didn't have to know what to do. Sirius bent down and picked out a big chunk of dirt and nailed Shaun in the head with it.

"What the fuck?" Shaun said as he pulled away from Lily. He reached his hand up to touch his head and grasped onto the chunk of dirt.

Lily had a look of fear, confusion, and anger on her face. The fear being that she thought she did something wrong, the confusion because she wondered why he had stopped, and the anger because he had stopped.

"A piece of dirt just hit me in the head," he told her. Lily relaxed a little, still curious as to how it got there.

However, these thoughts were soon gone from her mind as Shaun leaned in to kiss her again. He ran his tongue along her mouth, pleading for entrance. Lily almost immediately allowed his entry, but it seemed as soon as his tongue had slid into her mouth, Shaun pulled away.

"God damn it! What the fuck is going on?" he cried out in frustration. There was now another pile of dirt attached to him, except this time it reached his cheek.

Now Lily was seriously wondering what was going on. The first time it could have been coincidental, but two times that he got hit with dirt, that was just strange.

"You know what, I think we should probably be heading back to the castle. I've got Astronomy class tonight and I've got to get washed up," Shaun informed Lily.

Lily frowned a bit but answered, "Yeah, I've still got to finish an essay for Potions."

The couple then headed back toward the castle, taking their time so that they could be together longer. Usually this would have irritated James, but he was thankful that night. It gave him and Sirius time to rush up to Gryffindor Common Room without looking conspicuous.

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"You should have seen it, Padfoot nailed him in the back of the head with a clod of dirt," James laughed.

"Yeah, the guy's face was priceless. For being in Ravenclaw, he looked pretty damn stupid," Sirius added. Peter was laughing hysterically at the story; he always was a suck up toward the other Marauders. And him doing so just boasted the egos of James and Sirius.

"And then, they go into to kiss some more, and Prongs hits him in the cheek. I really thought it was going to nail them in the mouth," Sirius told the group, then added, "And it would serve them right for not keeping their mouths shut!"

All four guys were laughing as James and Sirius explained in thorough detail what Shaun said and how it made Lily upset.

After a few moments, the laughter had died down and Remus said, "I'm not sure that was the best idea you've ever come up with."

The looks of the three other boys were in shock and confusion.

"You see, if Lily ever finds out that you spied on her and ruined the evening, then I expect she'll be pretty mad at you," Remus explained.

"Moony, how the hell is she going to find out? We had the cloak on," James assured his friend.

"Yes, but what if you let it slip sometime, by accident."

"Relax, everything will be fine, Lily will never know what happened, at least if you all promise not to tell anyone," James told the group.

"Won't tell a soul," Sirius promised.

"Marauders promise?" James asked his fellow Marauders.

Each of the boys lifted up their right hand and said, "I solemnly swear that I will not tell anybody about what has happened. If I do, then I will be damned by my fellow Marauders and forced to live with the shame of betraying another Marauder as well as losing all my best friends." This was the pledge that the boys had made up in their first year at Hogwarts, when they found out about Remus being a werewolf. Ever since that day they made a pact and little pledge that they would keep forever and ever.

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