James and Lily spent the remainder of the evening out on the terrace, not bothering to go back inside. Around twelve thirty Mrs. Potter went and told Lily that her parents were getting ready to leave, all the while smiling like a mad person to them both.

"So I guess she knows." Lily said when they were alone again.

"She always knows what's going on, it's kind of scary." James smiled.

"I'm fairly sure that your dad knows, I'm not too sure if she would tell my parents though.The rest of the marauders know… So that leaves Simone and Raven." Lily remarked.

"I'm sure Remus may have hinted what was going on to Simone at some point during the evening." James replied.

"Oh how I wish that those two would get together and get it over with." Lily sighed.

"In time, he can't push away his feelings forever. He really does like her, he's just scared." James replied as he pulled Lily up from her seat.

"But of what?" Lily threw her hands in the air in frustration. "It can't be the whole were wolf thing." Lily said the last part in a whisper.

"That's because it's not because of that. I think that he's just scared. He's never liked any one as much as he does her. And we all know that he doesn't exactly have the most outgoing personality in of the group." James tried to reason.

"No matter how hard I try, I will never understand that boy." Lily sighed as she lightly dug her shoe into the snow.

"No one ever will." James replied as he watched her.

"So I guess its just Raven. Are you going to tell her tonight?" Lily asked, turning back to face him, regaining her smile.

"You know what? I don't think I will."

"Why not?" Lily asked.

"We should have a little fun with her." James grinned evilly.

"Why?"

"Don't tell me that you never figured it out." James crossed his arms over his chest, by Lily's blank stares he figured that had no idea of what he was speaking of. "They've all been plotting for us to get together for a while now." James smiled at the look on her face.

"What? How do you know that?"

"Well I had my suspicions, and slowly everything started coming together. Then Sirius confirmed that I was right, and how my sister is hell bent on getting us together. So I figure why not make her sweat it out? We'll tell her when we get back to school." James shrugged. "Besides it will be a good lesson for her, she has to realize that she can' control everyone's destiny." James stated.

"You're horrible."

"Yet I have a feeling that you're still going to go along with my plan." James smirked.

"Of course, I said you were horrible, I didn't say you were wrong." Lily smirked in return.

"Do you want me to walk you to you're door?" James asked.

"Not if your going to hide this from Raven."

"Oh." He frowned.

"But when you tell her, you can walk me to any door you like." Lily smiled coyly, which immediately brought a smile to the boy's face.

"Bye James." Lily tip toed quickly and kissed him on the cheek before scurrying off to meet her parents.

That night after much pressing of the matter, Mrs. Evans finally got it out of her daughter that she and James were now official.

"Are you happy now?" Mr. Evans asked as he and his wife got ready for bed.

"Ecstatic." Mrs. Evans beamed at her husband.

"He's a good kid, and he has his head in the right place, but that doesn't mean that I won't be having a talk with him.

"Now Adam don't you dare embarrass her, I will not have you ruining something this important.

"Rose, calm down. I like him, I promise to go easy on him." Mr. Evans assured his wife as they settled in bed and drifted off to sleep in each other's arms.

Lily crept out of bed and made her way expertly in the dark over to her window. She pushed her curtains aside slightly as she looked into James' room. His window was closed but she could make out three shadows moving around back and forth. She smiled to herself and went back to bed; still cant believing what happened that night.

The next day at the Potter household there was chaos everywhere. House elves were rushing around trying to put the house back to its original state. Raven how ever decided that it was now or never. She walked by her brother's room where she could here her boyfriend making a ruckus as usual. She considered telling him that she going to tell her parents about them, but if she lingered any longer she would loose the little nerve she had in the first place. She walked downstairs to the room where both her parent's used as an office. She straightened herself out and knocked on the door, when her father called to enter she exhaled and bravely walk inside.

"Hello darling." Her mother greeted her daughter as she looked over her newspaper.

"Hey mom and dad." Raven chuckled nervously.

"Is there something that you would like to tell us?" Mr. Potter asked looking up from the papers he was signing.

"Um yeah, I have something I need to tell you guys." Raven paused trying to come up with something.

"What is it dear?" Her mother asked, knowing what this was all about.

"I was just wondering, what do you think of Sirius?" Raven tried to ask casually.

Keeping a straight face Mrs. Potter responded "He's a good kid, a little weird, but he's a good kid."

"He's also a bit of a trouble maker, and soon he's going to have to realize that he can not always act this way." Upon seeing his daughter start to frown he added "But that's most likely because, well we all know what his family is like. For some one in his situation he's doing pretty well at keeping his head on straight."

"Well that's good to hear." Raven sighed.

"Is that why you came in here? To find out what we think about a boy that we have known for most of his life?" Mrs. Potter asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well kind of, you see I came here to tell you… Oh never mind." Raven mentally cursed herself for being scared as she walked towards the door; she had her hand on the knob when her mother spoke.

"Did your coming here have anything to do with the fact that you and Sirius have been dating for the past four months?" Raven cringed at the words and froze in her spot, she slowly turned around getting ready to be yelled at, but there was silence.

"How did you guys find out?" Raven practically whispered.

"That's not important, what's important is why didn't you tell us sooner?" Mr. Potter asked.

"It's not that I didn't want to or anything like that. I just was worried that you guys wouldn't approve." Raven began shifting uncomfortably.

"The only thing that we don't approve of is the fact that you were not honest with us from the beginning." Mrs. Potter sighed as she put her paper down.

"So you're not mad?" Raven asked cautiously.

"No Raven, we are not mad." Her father replied.

"And you approve?" Raven asked, a smile creeping onto her face."

"Well that depends. Does he act like the gentleman that we have raised him to be? Does he respect you? And does he treat you like the princess that you are?" her mother asked, already knowing the answer.

"More than anyone ever could." Raven smiled as she thought of the boy upstairs.

"Then that's all that matters." Her mother smiled.

"Oh you guys are the best!" Raven ran over and gave each of her parents a hug and a kiss. She was definitely relieved. She ran to the door getting ready to leave, when her father called out to her "By the way I will be having a talk with him very soon." Raven turned around to look at her parents once more "I guess that's fair." Raven replied although it was clear that she was nervous.

When Raven opened the door she was practically ran over by one of the house elves. "Miss Potter I am glad I found you! urgent letter!" The house elf bowed and rushed out of the room.

"Oh are you kidding me?"

"Raven what is it?" Her father asked.

"Mandatory Quidditch practice…Today, in thirty minutes! The day after Christmas! Oh this boy has lost his mind completely." Raven huffed as she stormed out of the office and upstairs to her brother's room.
"Did you get this piece of crap?" Raven asked as she barged into her brother's room.

"Yeah, we just got it." Sirius mumbled as walked over to greet his girlfriend.

"Gee I'm glad that I'm not on the team." Remus said to no one in particular.

"Wonder if Lils got her letter yet?" James asked no one in particular. Before the words even got a chance to settle in the air some one was heard next door, who was without a doubt Lily, shouting something along the lines of "Is he out of his mind?"

"I think it would be safe to say yes." Remus mused, he then looked around. "Where's Simone?"

"She went over to Lily's house. If I'm not mistaken she's going to sleep over there tonight and then she's going back home tomorrow."

"Oh." Disappointment was all over Remus' face.

Everyone turned their attention to James' window, there was someone/something knocking, which didn't make sense since they were on the second floor. Remus pulled the curtains aside a bit to look at what was causing the sound. "I swear, sometimes I really do think this girl has lost her mind." Remus sighed as he opened the two doors. Lily came flying in on her broom abruptly stopping and jumping off, not looking too happy.

"For Christ sakes Evans, this is a muggle neighborhood. What if you were seen?" Remus asked.

"Oh relax Remus its not like I flew down the street. Can you believe this? It has to be a prank." Lily remarked as she straightened herself out, her cheeks were pink from being exposed to the cold air, or maybe it was he fact that James was staring at her.

"Afraid not." James answered as he took a seat at his desk.

"Lils did you leave Simone alone at your house?" Raven asked.

"No, I just opted for the sensible route." Simone panted, is obvious that she had ran. As soon as she entered the room she plopped down on James' unmade bed.

"Is she dead?" Sirius asked as he started poking at the still figure. "ah she lives." Sirius declared when she shooed away his hand.

"We need to be leaving soon." Raven sighed. "Where are we supposed to be going anyway?"

"It says to meet him at the Leaky Cauldron and from there we take a Port key to some field that he found." James answered we might as well get changed. You guys coming?" James directed the last part to Simone and Remus.

"Nah I think I'll go to Diagon Alley instead, I have some supplies that I need to restock on." Remus responded.

"And Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Potter invited me to go out with them today." Simone responded as she sat up.

"She did?" Raven and Lily chorused.

"Yeah just before I walked out the door Lily's mom invited me just in case I didn't want to go to practice. That's if you guys don't mind." She quickly added.

"No go ahead, just make sure she gets me something." Raven replied as she walked out to her room to go change.

"Yeah I don't mind either." Lily replied as she mounted her broom.

"For the sake of the magic community Lillian just walk!" Simone half shouted.

"Fine." Lily hopped off her broom.

"Oh you two can stop acting like the other isn't there now, Raven is in her room." Sirius smiled at James and Lily. Lily quickly ran over to James and threw her arms round him.

"Okay come on you still need to go home change and get to Diagon Alley in twenty minutes." Remus pried the two apart and pushed Lily out the door. Ten minutes later the four teens were standing in the dark leaky cauldron with the other two members. All were waiting for the captain.

"Okay guys thanks for coming on such short notice." Chandler walked into the pub holding onto a teddy bear. "Everyone please grab hold quickly, we have ten seconds."

"A bear, how manly of you." Sirius smirked at his captain. Five seconds later everyone felt a tug at their navel and they were soon standing on a snow covered field.

"Chandler where are we?" Lily asked cautiously.

"On a field." Chandler replied.

"Really?" Sirius replied sarcastically.

"Scotland." Chandler replied nonchalantly.

"Scotland?!" Everyone shouted.

"Relax besides the property is owned by a wizarding family, so we can fly freely."

"Chandler what's the deal here?" James asked.

"Yeah, it's the day after Christmas for crying out loud." One of the Chasers added.

"Okay well as you all know this year for the Quidditch Cup there is a battle for the first time between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor to get a chance to play Hufflepuff for the Cup."

"You brought us to another country just to tell us something we already knew!" Raven took a threatening step towards the captain.

"No hold on." He took a step back. "It seems that there have been new arrivals at Hogwarts during the break. The Watson brothers, Perhaps you heard of them?"

"Wait you mean THE Watson brothers? The Watson brothers who have an automatic contract with the Chudley Canons as soon as they're done with school? Do you mean those Watson brothers?" Lily asked incredulously.

"Yep, due to rising negative activities, their parents took them out of Durmstrang, and due to pressuring from their parents they have already been sorted."

"Well?" The third chaser asked.

"Robert Watson was made a sixth year Ravenclaw…And his brother Emmanuel was made a fifth year same house. Now Emmanuel has decided to wait until next season to join the team but his brother did not. Gray was so excited that he kicked off his seeker just so that he could be on the house team."

"So you want us to spend our break practicing just because of one person even if it were the both of them this would be stupid. Oh this is ridiculous; you might as well tell us that you have no faith in us." Raven threw her hands in the air.

"It's not that I just want us to be prepared, besides we haven't practice in this weather type all season." Chandler chuckled nervously.

"Chandler you are walking on thin ice." Sirius said to the seventh year as he and the others mounted their brooms.

"More thing, uh Lily how are you?" Chandler walked over to the red head.

"Well I could be at home in my bed." Lily replied pointedly.

"Now I have been thinking that maybe…Well you have working hard…"

"Oh don't even." Lily replied, anger starting to make way in he voice.

"It's nothing personal Evans it's just that he's much bigger than you and you're a girl, so that's already two disadvantages." The captain tried to reason.

"Wait are you saying that you want to replace me on the team because I am a girl!" Lily shouted, immediately catching the attention of her fellow players, causing them all to fly back down. If there was one thing that Lily hated that was gender discrimination.

"No, no never." Chandler shifted his weight uncomfortably as everyone on the team landed back on the ground.

"What?" Raven asked in an almost whisper.

"You want to get rid of Lils?" Sirius asked not believing the boy.

"No of course not I was just going to tell her that she needs to do more individual training. You know because this guy is more experienced." Chandler lied.

"You really are treading on thin ice." Lily warned before she took off into the air.

James was right on her tail, shouting for her to stop. She didn't stop until she was about a hundred feet in the air and down the field. "Are you okay Lils?" James asked cautiously, but she wasn't listening she was too busy muttering to herself. He flew a little bit closer to her to hear what exactly she was saying.

"Imagine the nerve of him that an Evans can't take on some punk from Durmstrang. I mean I don't see what the big deal about them is. If they were such good players, how come Bulgaria didn't even try to recruit them?" Lily muttered bitterly.

"Oh come on, don't pay any mind to him. He's just getting nervous, this is his last year and he wants to win everything. What he's forgetting though is that we've been winning all season, and that you're one of the best players on the team whose been making it so. He's just afraid of the fact that their new and he hasn't anytime to study them and their techniques."

Lily smiled at him; dating James Potter was definitely not something she was going to regret. "One of the best?" Lily inquired.

"Sorry doll, but no one is better than yours truly." James smirked. He flew back to the ground in an attempt at trying to avoid her hitting him, but she was right on his tail.

"Thanks James." Lily stopped suddenly.

"For what?"

"Thanks for cheering me up. I'll train so hard that when we win our match against Ravenclaw I'll make him feel stupid for ever considering the option of getting a guy to replace me." Lily smirked in self satisfaction at her plan.

"Lily you don't have to, you're good enough." James tried to reason, but it was a lost cause.

"James I don't want to be good enough, I want to be the best." Lily glared at the captain who was on the other side of the field getting an earful from all the other players. James and Lily flew over to rejoin the group.

"Are we going to get started anytime soon?" Lily asked, coldness dripping from her tone.

"Yeah, I'll release the balls." The captain muttered, he was already stressed out and they hadn't even begun practice yet. The quaffle and the bludgers were released and the rest of the team started their practice.

"Are you going to release the snitch anytime soon?" Lily asked impatiently, she was the only one who was still on the ground. She was leaning lazily against her broomstick watching Raven and Sirius taking turns protecting their team mates while the other hits the bludgers in random directions.

"Listen Lily, I am really sorry for acting like a jerk I'm just…" Lily barely listened to what he was saying. He was saying something familiar to what James had said but yet it seemed more genuine coming out of James' mouth.

"Can you just release the snitch?" Lily cut him off.

"Right um well actually I have some directions for you." He started nervously, he quickly looked at her to see if she objected but she was silently watching James passing the quaffle around.

"Okay so, what I'm going to do is release the snitch and I want you to do three laps around the field before you go searching for it. I want you to repeat that process until you can catch the snitch five times in ten minutes or less. When you have accomplished that, if there is still time, I want you to start on catching it eight times in fifteen minutes or less." He didn't receive an objection, actually she didn't say anything at all she just mounted her broom and patiently waited for him to release the snitch. When he did she kicked off and started her laps.

Practice basically went like this for the next six hours. At random points during practice her team mates would stop and stare in awe as she sped around the field, not letting the cold get to her. Everyone else was barely able to move. Within the first hour Lily managed to catch the snitch five times in four minutes flat, and two hours later she managed to catch the snitch another ten times in eight minutes. Something that she honestly thought before that day was impossible. After that Lily would just throw the snitch in a random direction and speed off after it until she heard Chandler shout that practice was over.

"Okay guys this was a great warm up, now next practice will be in two days and we will spend that time running and doing land exercises so you can leave your broomsticks at home." Everyone threw him venomous looks before grabbing onto the port key. They were all once again in the dark Leaky Cauldron and noticed that it was practically empty. Raven looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was almost ten. With out saying good bye to their captain very one took turns using the fireplace to get home. This was how the rest of their vacation was used; practice on top of practice on top of practice.

On their last day of their break the girls' fathers decided to have their talk with the new boyfriends. Raven knew that it was more than likely going to happen today and she had yet to tell Sirius.

"Come in." James yelled from the other side of the door. Raven walked in to her brother's room only to find no Sirius.

"Where's Sirius?" Raven asked.

"Geez sis, you can't even go a few hours without seeing him?"

"Oh go sod off, this is important." Raven replied.

"What's important?" Raven turned around to find Sirius walking out of James' bathroom. It was obvious that he had just taken a shower because his hair was still wet and lying down.

"Okay so I should have told you this when it happened, but then we had to go to quidditch practice and I kind of forgot about it, and I know it's going to come up some time today, so I wanted you to hear it from me first so that you aren't caught off guard. Do you understand?"

"Yeah , I think so. Now what are you talking about?" Sirius asked.

"I told mom and dad about us." Raven blurted out as quickly as possible.

"You did what?" All three boys asked.

"What did they say?" Sirius asked weakly.

"They weren't mad, actually they told me that they've known since November."

"November? But how?" Remus asked.

"They wouldn't say." Raven sighed.

"Are you sure they weren't mad?" Sirius asked carefully, when Raven shook her head no a grin spread across his face. "So they really do like me." Sirius announced.

"Well I wouldn't go off celebrating just yet; daddy wants to talk to you?"

"Ah I'm not worried." Sirius waved her off… "Wait should I be?" He asked.

"I don't know, but tell me how it goes." Raven smiled and walked out.

That afternoon Lily stood outside her father's office, pacing for the past five minutes, wondering what her dad was saying to James. Another five minutes passed and Lily heard a loud thud, it was soon followed by loud laughing. James came out of the office wiping tears away, while trying to stop laughing.

"James what happened?" Lily asked.

"Aw man, now he is a great guy." James replied as he walked out of the house, not even throwing lily a second glance.

"Daddy what was that?" Lily asked.

"Aw man, now that is a great kid." Her father rambled on as he made his way up the stairs. Next door something similar was going on with Mr. Potter and Sirius.

Their first Monday back Lily and James decided to start having their fun with Raven. They planned to tell her at dinner that night, but not with out messing with her head starting at breakfast.

"Rave you will never believe what's just happened!" Lily came bouncing into the Great Hall.

"What?" Raven asked.

"I have a new boyfriend." Lily beamed at her shocked best friend, everyone was enjoying her reaction.

"What? Who? Didn't you just break up with what's his face?" Raven asked outraged.

"Yeah but that was like two months ago." Lily frowned slightly at the thought of Eddie, and what a waste of time he was.

"Well who is it?" Raven asked bitterly.

Lily smiled at her best friend. "Well he's smart; he's at the top of most of his classes. He's nice and I've arranged for him to meet you all tonight at dinner. Oh Rave I think that you're really going to like him."

"Isn't that just peachy?" Raven muttered sarcastically.

"Yeah it is." Lily answered, choosing to ignore her friend's attitude.

"Well congratulations are in order for both of us." James announced.

"What do you mean mate?" Sirius asked going along with everything.

"Well Rave, remember that I was hinting that I might find someone soon?"

"Yeah." Raven whimpered.

"Well I asked her out today. And she said yes." James announced.

"I need to get to class." Raven announced bitterly as she packed her things and walked out of the Great Hall. When she was gone everyone joined in laughing; only feeling slightly guilty about what they were doing. All through out their classes and in between their classes Raven kept a sharp eye out for any indications as to whom these two people were but she spotted no one.

Later on, Raven took as long as humanly possible to get to the Great Hall. When she sat down she noticed that Lily wasn't in sight and James was talking to Chandler near the teacher's table. She took this as her opportunity to "talk" with the rest of the group.

"What the hell is wrong with you all?" Raven hissed as she took her usual seat.

"What are you talking about?" Simone asked.

"You! All of you not caring at the fact that Lily and James are now dating people that are not each other."

"Well just because we don't show it, it doesn't mean that we don't care, we're just waiting to see who it is, then we'll make our judgment." Remus tried to reason.

"Yeah let's just relax." Sirius put his arm around his girlfriend. At that moment Lily came bouncing into the Great Hall for the second time that day. James saw her and began laughing at the overly amount of enthusiasm she was showing.

"Hey guys, are you ready to meet him?"

"What ever." Raven sighed as she pushed away her plate of food. She crossed her arms over the table and rested her head upon them. Lily waved James to come over, when he stood right behind Lily as she tapped her best friend on the shoulder. Raven lifted her head only to see her brother.

"What? You're going to present your girlfriend too? Well you might as well go get her." Raven mumbled as she put her head back down. Everyone just stared at her in amazement at the fact that she hadn't caught on. James then wrapped his arms around Lily's waist and brought her closer to him, this had attracted most of the female attention of the great hall. This time Simone called for Raven to turn around. Raven turned around and stared at the scene before her for a few seconds with a blank stare.

"Oh come on Raven!" Sirius yelled in frustration. Then she understood, her eyes became as big as saucers.

"Oh my goodness, are you serious?" Raven jumped out of her seat. "Oh if this is just some sick joke please tell me now." Raven looked expectantly from the red head to her brother.

"We're for real." James replied.

"Prove it." Raven said eyeing them skeptically.

"What don't you believe us?" Lily asked, but before she could get a response James dipped his new girlfriend and kissed her in front of the entire school, both of them smiling into the kiss.

"Oh my…" Raven stood there speechless. "You all knew didn't you?" Raven turned her attention to the rest of her friends.

"Of course we just wanted to mess with you." Sirius grinned.

"And to teach you a lesson not to interfere in other people's lives." Remus added.

"Lesson learned." Raven smiled as they all took their seats. Lily then told her that he had actually asked her at the party on Christmas day and that the note she received the day they left for home was from him. Later on towards the end of dinner, Dumbledore took this as an opportunity to introduce the two new students. In Lily's opinion she didn't see what was so special about them, they both looked pretty average. Robert, the eldest, had short brown hair and brown eyes. There was no warmth in them but there was also no hatred, they were just there staring at everyone, the same went for his brother. Emmanuel also had brown hair, but he wore his in short spikes. They weren't noticeably muscular, but they weren't thin. "There's nothing special about them." Lily was the first to speak amongst her friends.

"We'll find out for sure at the match." Sirius remarked.

END O' CHAPPIE!!!!!