"We really need to get you a girlfriend Wormy." Sirius drawled as he shoved his tenth chocolate frog into his mouth. Pete stuck his middle finger up at Sirius and scowled, making James and Remus laugh.
"You haven't got one either Padfoot," he sulked.
All four boys were sat on James's four poster bed eating the latest basket of sweets that Sirius's admires had sent him.
"I have a date to Hogsmede mate, do you?" Sirius retorted and winked at James.
Pete said nothing else but sat there grumpily while James, Sirius and Remus talked about the girls that he could possibly date.
"What about Abby Tindal?" James said helpfully, thinking of the small and slightly plump brunette in Hufflepuff. Peter looked at James hopefully then, obviously keen on the idea and finally spoke up.
"Yeah I wouldn't mind dating her," he said.
"Better get cooking up a love potion them Worms," Sirius barked and James burst out laughing while Remus coughed to hide his. Peter's face turned beetroot and he almost choked on the huge sweet he'd just stuffed down his throat.
"That's not very kind Padfoot," Remus said in a very forced voice as James continued to chuckle.
"Ah I was only kidding. You know that don't you Wormy?" Sirius replied in high pitched girly voice – which sounded suspiciously like Abby Tindal's – and batted his eyelashes in Pete's direction.
"Sure Padfoot," he said weakly after James had patted him on the back hard to dislodge the sweet which he'd spat across the room, causing James's owl Merlin, who had just come in with a new letter for James, to give Wormtail an extremely dirty look and fly back out of the window still clutching the letter.
"Good. Anyway we'll get straight onto the Abby situation don't you worry Wormtail. We'll have you shacked up by Christmas!" Sirius gloated, fully aware of the effect he had on the female population.
"We will?" Remus said in a more cautious voice.
"Of course!" Sirius crowed patting Pete on the back and giving James a high five.
"Ok then," Peter said in a much more cheerful voice.
Probably thinking about the day he has his first snog James thought amused.
"Right, step one… get them talking and while she's occupied slip something into her pumpkin juice," Sirius continued happily, not noticing the pillow that Pete had just sent flying at his head.
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It was the second week in September before Sev tried to talk to Lily but sooner or later it was bound to happen. She knew that he wasn't just going to disappear out of her life like she wanted him too. So on the Monday of their second week back when Lily saw Severus approaching the Gryffindor table with a determined look on his pale face her stomach sank with dread.
She'd been preoccupied all breakfast by the marauders. Potter and Black had been shoving Peter towards the Hufflepuff table since they'd come down but his arse seemed to be glued to the bench. Black had then resorted to throwing a bread roll at Abby Tindal's head from across the Great Hall to get her attention and call her over. Lily and Marlene had nearly wet themselves watching Pettigrew trying to stutter out something intelligent while poor Abby stood there looking confused and embarrassed. It wasn't until Black had told Abby loudly that Peter wanted to ask her out that he managed to get anything out at all. In fact all he'd done was nod. Luckily for him Abby didn't get much attention – possibly because of the fact she looked like a small hippo with a wig on Marlene pointed out – and accepted his offer beaming before rushing off back to her own table to whisper frantically with her friends. Potter and Black had then patted Pettigrew on the back rather hard while Remus just smiled at his friend and then they'd all gone back to shovelling food down their necks at a disgusting rate as if nothing had ever happened. It was as Lily watched Pettigrew begin his third full English breakfast that she noticed that Sev had gotten up from his table.
When he reached her he looked straight into her eyes and smiled slightly. He had huge bags under his and she could tell he wasn't sleeping properly. Probably up all night thinking of ways to kill Muggle's, Lily thought bitterly as she stared coldly back at him. Marlene, Hestia and Alice had all stopped eating and were looking at Snape with the same disapproving looks.
"Lily can we talk?" he murmured quietly, twisting his fingers together in front of him.
"No." Lily replied sharply, glaring at the boy in front of her at pouring her hurt into her green eyes.
"But Lily please," he begged. He looked like he wanted to say more but something was holding him back.
"She said no!" Alice snapped causing Severus head to snap round and look at her. His eyes became just as cold as Lily's as he scowled down at Alice.
"Mind your own business." He hissed, he face now ugly.
"Shut up Snape and flap back to your table. I don't want to talk to you ok!" Lily growled at him. She was furious he had dared to talk to Alice like that. As soon as she had spoken Snape focused his hurt gaze back at Lily for an intense second before striding out of the Great Hall, his robes billowing behind him like bat wings.
Lily let out a long sigh and Hestia rubbed her back soothingly.
"Thank Merlin he pissed off," Marlene said angrily. Lily nodded in agreement and looked at Alice apologetically.
"Sorry about that Al, he shouldn't have talked to you liked that." she said softly.
The small girl beamed at her friend and shook her pixie head.
"Don't apologise Lils, it was fun!" she laughed and reached across the table to ruffle up Lily's hair.
It was about time she remembered that it wasn't her place to apologise for Snape. They weren't friends anymore.
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Potions was the last lesson of the day and James and Sirius were in a good mood as they loped along to it. They'd completed phase one of getting Wormtail and Abby together and felt quite smug about it. Moony strolled with them in a happy silence as well. He'd had an apparently amazing conversation with Marlene in the library.
"Your too soft mate," Sirius was saying wisely, "You should just tell her you want to rip her pants off and she'd be all over you."
Remus winked and James chuckled knowing that good old Moony would never be so rude to a lady.
"I'm more subtle my friend. It works every time," he said grinning, "In fact Prongs should take a leaf out of my book, maybe Lily would give him a second look."
James looked outraged as did Sirius.
"How's she supposed to know I fancy her if I don't tell her? She might forget!" he said frantically, looking at Padfoot for support.
"Yeah, we all know that Evans secretly loves Prongs' compliments. Trust me women get hot on that stuff," Sirius said as if it was obvious.
"I don't think so somehow." Remus said amused.
By then they reached Potions and walked in to find everyone standing at the back of the room. Slughorn was at the front smiling jollily at everyone, his fat stomach hanging over his belt.
"Today you'll be assigned your Potions partners for the rest of the year," he boomed cheerfully, holding a piece of parchment in his large hands. Everyone started whispering or groaning at the fact that they weren't going to be working with their friends this year.
"Hope I get Evans," James said quietly to Sirius who winked at him and motioned to where Lily was standing with Alice, Marlene and Hestia.
"Hope I get her friend Hestia over there, I haven't talked to her much since I asked her to Hogsmede. Every time I come close to their little pack Evans says something about needing to be somewhere and they all scurry off!" Sirius whispered back smirking.
"Right everyone, settle down!" Slughorn called and looked down at the list. The first few pairs were called out and they went to sit with each other around the room, some looking pleased while others looked appalled.
"James Potter and Lily Evans," came the shout that James felt like he'd be waiting all his life to hear. Sirius whooped and punched him and Remus grinned at him. Lily however did not look thrilled and marched over to a table at the front of the room, her back rigid. James trotted happily after her and whistled as he put his books on the desk next to her and sat down.
Sirius was paired with Marlene and Remus was paired with Alice. Pete got stuck with a very grumpy looking Hestia and Sirius pouted after her as she went to take her seat beside Wormtail.
His hard work done Slughorn pottered happily back to the front of the class and smiled at Lily fondly. It was no secret that she was his favourite and the Slytherin's often took the piss out of her for it.
"Right class let's get started then shall we? Please copy down the notes on the board and then proceed to get the ingredients needed. You know the drill by now. I'll be coming round in half an hour to check your progress!"
Lily picked up her quill and began scribbling down the notes. James loved the concentrated look she got when she really focused on something. Finally he wrote down the notes himself, taking special care to make his writing as neat as possible in case Lily looked at it. He was only a quarter of the way through when she dived up out of her seat and raced off to the ingredients cupboard. Damn she's fast he thought admirably. He'd just finished when she came back, clutching all her equipment in her small hands and placing it carefully on the desk. He winked at her when she glanced at him and he got a glower in response. He laughed softly and blew her a kiss as he made his own way to get everything he needed. Sirius was 'coincidently' at the cupboard as well and grinned when he saw his best mate.
"Bad luck with Hestia," James said shaking his head as they looked behind them to see her giving Pete a nasty look. He'd just spilt frog spawn all down her skirt.
"Nice luck with Lily," Sirius replied nodding towards where Lily was throwing things gracefully into her cauldron, Slughorn was already stood behind her, no doubt showering her with words of praise.
"Yeah," James replied pleased.
After gathering everything up and booting Sirius in the back after he'd said that he could see Lily's tits through her bra today, James found his way back to the desk and noticed that Lily was already done. Her potion was a perfect baby blue colour and shimmered in her cauldron.
"Nice one Evans," James said "Oh and by the way I can see your tits through your bra,"
All the rest of the class heard was a loud bang as James was sent flying onto his back.
My laptop's broke (why me?) so I'll be updating from my nans, I only go about once a week so please forgive me for the crappy amount of time I keep you waiting. Hope you like this chapter anyways :D chow!