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James POV

"At least she took the rose," I thought to myself as I watched Lily disappear around the corner. She would have no doubts about who it was from, so at least she hadn't totally written me off. For someone who was supposed to be extremely adamant about not trusting me and us not being together she seemed pretty accepting of the situation.

But the situation wouldn't be solved with roses and little poems. No, with my awful judgment I had completely destroyed Lily's trust in me. Yes, she took the rose, but that meant nothing in the long run. Honestly, I had decided on the rose as a tester. If she didn't shred the flower on the spot then she would be more receptive to my bigger and better stunts…when I figured out what those were. Lily deserved something special; something that made her feel better, made me l like an idiot, and showed her how much I was willing to do for her. There was only one person I knew who could come up with something that crazy and chaotic….Sirius Black.

It took me the entire walk back to the dorm to come up with what I wanted to say. I figured that 'hey mate so um I might have screwed up everything will Lily and I blame you a bit so you're gonna help me fix it' wasn't going to cut it. Groveling would more likely cut it…and maybe a Firewhiskey or two…but a drunken Sirius might be less helpful than a sober one, so that idea would have to go. Maybe a guilt trip? Er…not likely. He would hold that over my head for weeks if not months. No, direct would be the way to go in this situation.

Finally reaching the Gryffindor common room, I muttered the password, stalked across the room, and practically sprinted up the steps to the seventh-year boys' dorm. Knocking wasn't necessary; nothing going on inside would be any more scarring than the things I had witnessed with them over the years. Opening the door quietly, I observed the room, gaining a bit more of the composure I had lost during the talk with Lily, basking in the familiarity of the scene before me.

My eyes went to Peter first, lying on his bed with a Transfiguration textbook cracked open, the normal look of confusion etched upon his features. Remus' bed was next. He had an essay unrolled in front of him, seemingly set upon revising, but distracted by the box of Cauldron Cakes and Chocolate Frogs opened in front of him. Chocolate and sweets were Moony's weakness, no matter how important his homework was to him. Finally I got to Sirius, who unsurprisingly was not doing anything school related, rather watching the Marauders'' Map and reading a Muggle magazine about motor-bikes.

Feeling a bit better, I moved further into the room, effectively making my presence known. Being an animagus does that to a person. Heightened senses were normal for us. Within seconds three pairs of eyes were fixed on me, large smiles following immediately after.

Sirius was the first one to speak. "Prongs, mate, I was beginning to worry. Moony and Wormtail are being right prats doing schoolwork and Moony won't share his chocolate with me."

Remus looked up at that. "You know chocolate kills dogs, right Padfoot? Can never be too careful with these things."

"Oh shove it. Wormy would share with me, wouldn't you Worms?"

Peter peered over his book to mumble "Not getting involved…" before going back trying to understand the Transfiguration text.

Sirius stuck his tongue out at Peter before turning to me, obviously ready to launch into another round of "James, Moony-is-being-mean-to-me-fix-it", but Lily was more important than defending Sirius' pride at this point.

"Yes, Pads, I know, Moony is much smarter than you and therefore you lose your arguments with him. It does happen."

"Hey! That does not happe…"

"I'm not done Sirius. I need to talk with you lot, wrack your brains for a bit brilliant inspiration…girl-wooing inspiration."

I was met with three looks of confusion, before Remus finally caught on to what I was implying.

"You prat, you went to see Lily didn't you?"

My guilty look was enough for Moony, and he continued with his patronizing rant.

"Idiot, I told you not to listen to Sirius in the first place, and what do you do? You go and fool around with some bloody girl who means nothing to you and ruin any chance with Lily. And then you realize how stupid you were and this time I think you might have gained a bit of your intelligence back when you come to me for advice. I told you to wait a bit and let all of her emotions cool off, and again, what do you do? You go to her only a few weeks later and probably say something just as stupid to her!"

He cut off then, still eyeing me with his disapproving stare.

"Are you done now?" I asked.

Obviously unsure of his ability to cease bashing my awful decisions, Remus only nodded, gesturing for me to continue.

"Thanks for that mate," I started. "I know how bloody stupid I've been, but you have to just listen to me. I don't think I'm as bad off as it seems."

Sirius laughed then. "Prongs, you broke the heart of the girl you've been after for years. Remember, the one who used to turn you down even if you weren't asking her out at the time. You really think you can get her to go out with you again after everything you did?"

I figured cutting to the chase would be the most effective in shutting off the stream of insults that were being thrown my way, so I dropped the verbal bomb.

Sucking in a quick breath, I said it. "She told me she loved me."

The talking ceased, quickly replaced with looks of shock and confusion.

"She WHAT?" Sirius practically screamed.

Wormtail looked as if he was choking on something; sputtering to get his words out.

Remus just stared at me as if all of the answers to the questions I knew he must have were written on my face. He was the first to say something on the matter that didn't involve yelling in shock.

"She loves you?" he asked. I nodded and he continued. "So then why do we need to help you 'woo' her if she still loves you? I don't think asking her out again would be a problem and….ahhh." He cut off then, looking at me with a mixture of pity and something that looked like amusement, but I don't know how he could find my dilemma funny at all.

"What is it Moony?" Sirius inquired. "What'd Jamesie do this time?"

"James screwed her over so badly that she won't trust him again I'm guessing, no matter how deep her feelings for him are," Remus said, looking at me for confirmation. When I nodded, Sirius rounded on me.

"You had to listen to me mate? Really? I have random conspiracies all the time about people and you just laugh and tell me to shut my mouth. But I hear one bit of stretched gossip about you and Lily and suddenly my word is fact? I love seeing you squirm but I do not love seeing you mope around like an injured puppy, and you do that when Lily rejects you. So fix this before I have to go beg her to take you back myself so you'll stop moping."

"I know I know I know Sirius. I was an idiot. Enough said. That's why I'm asking you three to help me. I told her that I'm going to win her trust back, and the only way I know how to do that without being boring is something large scale, like our pranks, but not as destructive. More like me making a fool of myself to show Lily that I'll do anything for her. Also maybe help with writing an endearing speech about how much I love her and why she should still trust me. Can you all help?"

Bracing myself for the proclamations of "no way" and "get her back yourself", I was delightfully surprised when the three best friends anyone could have came through.

"James," Sirius said, "of course we'll help with Lily. The gears are already going in my head. We'll have her back in a week tops."

Remus had a smirked expression when he added, "We'll help with anything you want James. Lily's my friend too, and I don't want to have to do prefect duty while listening to her complain about you."

Peter just offered me a small smile. "If she loves you this should be easy James," he said. "Then we can get back to wrecking normal havoc. Not girl-wooing havoc."

I smiled at all of them then, happy that I had friends like these to help me get Lily back.

Sirius leaned closer to me then. "Okay, this is what we'll start with."