Lily walked downstairs to find that her father was giving Sirius that talk. The talk that the lustful girl can only desperately await the end of; the fraternally vital one that all dads have given. Lily wanted a hole to swallow her up and eat her forever. She would never survive this. Sirius was sitting up straight on the couch, staring at her father as he paced back and forth in front of him.
"How old are you, son?" Her dad interrogated suspiciously.
"A mere boy of 127,"
"Do you do well in school?"
Sirius hesitated for a moment. "No, sir."
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"16, sir, all of which are at least a year older than I."
"Do you like Lily?"
"As I said, I aim for the older ones, sir."
"As a friend, then. Do you like my Lily as a friend?"
"Actually, sir, her regard for the rules annoys me."
"And your name again?"
"Sirius Black,"
"Are you from around here?"
"Not…not exactly, sir."
Lily's mother came to the rescue at that point. "Breakfast everyone. Sirius, I insist that you join us," Grateful to her mother, both for stopping the interrogation that was threatening to send a wave of giggles from Lily, and that her mother had dropped her ill-temperament towards Sirius, Lily and Petunia made their way towards the door to the kitchen. She was sure she heard her dad beam, "He's perfect!" with a good-humored smile and whisper consolingly to her mother, "I approve,"
Sirius apparently heard this, too, and gave her a sideways glance, to see how she felt about this. She didn't feel like showing him EXACTLY how she felt about that, particularly since she didn't know, and so she put her head down very quickly and began stuffing her face with toast and eggs.
And so that morning they left for King's Cross, all in good spirits, except for, of course, Petunia, because she just couldn't bring herself to be happy about anything to do with Lily except maybe just that she was leaving.
Lily kissed her mum, her dad, and took Petunia aside and told her to write, and that she didn't want to cause her dislike, and that she wanted to know about everything that's going on, at which Petunia only scowled and said that she shouldn't expect her to follow that order.
Sirius had long since found James with his trunks and after politely thanking her parents, left through the barrier. Lily ran in, and quickly found her seat with her best friend, Emmeline Vance.
Ever since then, Lily always seemed to find herself and even Emmeline tied up in the adventures with the four boys who called themselves the 'marauders'…and that's the way it started.
Later in her third year, James had just gotten over things with Sirius and going to her house and everything, but after assurances from both that nothing was going on between them, he resumed to be his usual, arrogant self. Lily found that if she was giving him a chance just by joining in on such missions, and therefore, keeping her promise to her mother.
Some guy that Lily didn't know soon entranced Emmeline, and she gushed over him so much, that Lily was going more and more to Sirius and the other Marauders for the regular sort of friendly things. James tended to join in a little less, and ever since that letter, when it was just them, it was unbearably awkward, but he still consented for Lily and Emmeline to help them in their mischief as long as the girls didn't get into trouble. The only time they weren't around to help was when they proclaimed that they needed 'man time' once a month. And so they did.
One day, Sirius was cheering Lily up, after having a complete conversation with Emmeline about whether or not that guy really liked her, as they were walking by the lake.
And that was when he said, "Lily, have you ever considered that maybe she really likes this guy, and that you could learn a thing or two about the signs that one likes you, because, some certain people have been sending some, and you've been absolutely oblivious to that."
Lily was speechless. She didn't know what to say, and she didn't quite know what to say to this, but it left her thinking about so, until Emmeline was having another long talk about it, when Lily asked, "What are the signs that a guy likes you?"
"Well, they usually try to catch your eye in that accidentally-on-purpose sort of way, and they stare at you, and they like to comfort you and help you. Unless they're shy. Then they stutter and jarble up sentences so much you can't understand them." Emmeline said matter-of –factly. "But what brought this upon you? Do you like someone?" She asked, hungry for details.
"Well…" and so she told Emmeline everything about Sirius.
"Well, I think it's blatantly obvious what he was trying to say, especially someone as clever as Sirius is." And when Lily continued to look confused: "He wants you to choose between him and James."
And so Lily went to bed that night, thinking of how impossible it could be to choose. Sirius might want her to think on it, might want her to wait, and might not want her to rush. But Lily had a feeling he'd want it sooner than later. She was thinking of all of these things, staring out the window, when there was a darkened figure walking along the shore of the lake that got her attention. She knew without having to study them who it was. She needed to do this. She put on a sweater and comfy pants on under a cloak and began to walk decidedly over to the lake where the figure stood, skipping rocks across the surface.