October 20- In my bed

Sighs blissfully I love my life.

Last night's already slipping away so I have to hurry and write it all down.

So James told me to be at the common room no later than nine. And I had to wear a long cloak to make sure no one saw what I was wearing underneath.

When I got down to the common room I only saw James and Black. They both grinned at me as I rushed down.

"Hey Evans," Black smiled at me.

"Where are Lupin and Pettigrew?"

"They've got dates in different houses; they're picking them up now."

"And where's your date," I noticed nobody was approaching Black.

"I never go to a club with a date Evans," he wagged a finger at me, "that means you can hook up with as many stranger as you want."

"Here's you ID," James handed me a small card.

According to that I was seventeen and had already graduated Hogwarts. My name was Michelle Evans and it had a surprisingly okay photo of me.

"Where'd you get the picture," I asked James.

"Mandy Kishi loaned it to me. We better leave," James offered me his arm while smirking a little.

We went and met up with Lupin and Pettigrew. Lupin had Ravenclaw Rachel (who's last name's actually Albans) and Pettigrew had this curly blond Hufflepuff that's even shorter than me. Her names Suzie Hanson and she was actually quite nice. Don't know how Pettigrew got her.

We snuck down and were at the back door. And I was still wondering how we were going to make sure we weren't seen. Then James took out something he was hiding under his cloak.

It was an invisibility cloak!

Those are so rare a lot of people have gone their whole life without seeing one. I almost yelped when I saw it.

"Well, I'm off to get some supplies," Black said cheerfully. I had no idea what he was talking about.

I would've asked except then James pulled me close and put the cloak on.

I thought I'd faint right there.

"Okay let's go," James whispered.

We walked to the village and ducked into some ally where we took off the cloak.

"How are we going to get it back?"

He flashed me that grin of his, "It's coming right now."

This huge dark shape came around the corner. Of course I embarrassed myself to oblivion when I shrieked and jumped on top of the filthy garbage cans.

Is turned out to be this huge dog and I now know for a fact dogs can laugh. Seriously it was laughing at me! James was trying not to… but wasn't being very successful.

"He won't hurt you," he tried to assure me.

"How is that," I pointed at the beast, "going to get your cloak back up?"

James snickered, "You could say he's very well trained, couldn't you Pads."

"Pads?"

"Short for Padfoot," James muttered.

"You named the dog after Sirius?"

James grinned.

The dog carried the cloak back for the other three and we all walked toward the club.

The clubs called the Raven, it was built over the summer and opened at the beginning of the year and so far it's been all the rave.

As soon as we stepped through the door it seemed I was dragged off by Rachel and Suzie.

"Ehmagosh I had no idea it was you! Why didn't you tell me when we met in Hogsmeade?" This was Rachel

"Ooooooh, James was right, you do have gorgeous eyes," this was Suzie.

"Uh, where are we going?" This was me, meekly being dragged who knows where by Rachel and Suzie.

We ended up in the bathroom. At first I thought maybe they were going to interrogate me but it was actually just checking make-up.

Rachel kept saying she'd never have guessed it was me (little insulted at that) while Suzie nervously checked her hair.

"So Lily," Rachel turned to me, "have you ever been to a club before?"

I shook my head and she continued, "When you dance make sure it doesn't look like you're being electrocuted, don't drink a lot then try to dance, if you make-out don't do it in the dancing area, if you need to throw up don't let your date know that's what you're doing."

Back then Rachel sounded like she knew what she was talking about. Suzie just smiled at me and kind of shrugged.

When we went back out James was looking sort of irritated, "I don't really appreciate you kidnapping my date Rachel."

Rachel was so caught up in smothering Lupin she didn't hear. So James just took my hand and led me toward the bar.

"What do you want to drink?" James asked..

"Uh, firewhiskey," it was all I could really think of.

"Two firewhiskey," James threw a galleon on the table.

"Gotta see ID, man," the bartender said.

I took out the fake and gave it to him. I think he looked at me suspiciously.

"Michelle Evans?" I nodded.

"You're a little small for seventeen," he sounded hesitant.

"Bad end of a shrinking potion," I said, trying to sound casual.

But I guess the excuse was good enough cause he handed me my drink. When he slid James's ID back across the table I got a look at his fake name.

"Harry Potter? Well, I guess it is a common name."

James looked offended, "I love that name."

I giggled but then stopped when I sipped my drink. I can know say I learned the hard way why it's called firewhiskey.

James was looked at me with this amused expression and I wasn't about to let him laugh at me. So I took a giant gulp which anyone should be proud of.

Of course I nearly coughed up a lung after, but we won't count that.

We danced. Not many really know this but I'm really pretty good at dancing. I took classes when I was little and really whenever I hear music I just let it take over and my body does what it will.

Okay that sounded really corny but I couldn't think of any other way to describe it.

We had a lot of fun actually. I think we were probably the best couple out there.

Cassie will be happy when I tell her Rachel wasn't being as lucky as I was on the dance floor. Every time I looked over there Rachel was sliding all over the place in her seven inch heels. Poor Lupin didn't know what to do and had to save her from breaking her legs at least five times.

I think Pettigrew and Suzie didn't dance. I'm grateful; can you imagine the sight of Pettigrew dancing?

Sirius had a number of partners but I think his favorite was some girl with Black curly hair; he danced with her at least eight long times that I saw.

But you can only dance for so long so me and James took a break.

"Hey, let's go out for some air," he whispered. We went out the back door into an ally and around to the back. The club is right below Hogwarts and there looking up at the castle, with it all lit up and the stars glinting, I don't know if I'll ever see something more beautiful in my life.

"C'mere," James patted the place next to him on the grass.

We were quiet a few moments, but it wasn't awkward.

"Tell me about yourself," that was James.

"Like what…" I asked.

"Start with your family," he said, leaning back like he was getting ready for a long story.

"I'm muggle-born and we live Leeds. There's my mom, she's my hero. My dad's great too, he works in the drill company. Then there's Toony-"

"Toony," James took his eyes of the stars to look at me.

"Short for Petunia, she's my sister. We were really close when were little but then she got jealous of me when we went to Hogwarts. She's dating this awful boy; she met him at dad's work."

"That sucks," James muttered.

"What about your family," I asked, laying back like he was and staring at the stars.

"There isn't a whole lot to say. My mom and dad are great, I'm an only child. I do have a lot of cousins but there all older."

"That sucks," I repeated after him.

"So tell me about your friends."

"Oh, I could go on about them forever," I said.

"I have the same problem. How about we try to stick to the basics then?"

"All right. Let me start with… Tanya. She's a big flirt, as you should know (James grinned) but I still love her to death. On my first day at Hogwarts me and her stayed up talking so long we had bags under our eyes the next morning. We get into fights but we always make up."

James smiled softly, "She's your best friend."

"Yeah she is. Mandy's a great friend too. I met her on the train, I remember she smuggled in a broom and burst into tears when they wouldn't let her try out for the quidditch team. She's a big party girl, I think she's had more butter beer hangovers than any of us." I smiled at the memories.

"What about the blond, Lisa right?"

"Lisa… it's hard to describe her. She's really popular with the guys I guess. Really she's smartest out of all of us. She's probably going to get straight O's this year."

"Then there's Cassie," I sighed and James looked up, "she's going through a bit of a rough time with her family and she's been a little depressed. I mean she's always been quiet but lately she even more now."

We were quiet again for a few moments before I said; "now you tell me about your friends. Do me a favor and start with Pettigrew, I've always wondered why you were friends with him."

James rolled his eyes, "You've got to forgive him for telling the secret sometime, you know."

"Never!" I cried.

James chuckled and continued, "Peter's a good guy. Maybe he isn't the smartest ever but he's a good friend. He's got a knack for being able to work out kinks in any of the pranks."

Whatever, like this apologizes for the fact he blabbed my secret.

"He lives somewhere in the country with his mom and dad, he's an only child."

"What about Remus?"

"Moony," James sighed like I had with Cassie, "he's…got a problem that I can't really talk about."

"Personal," I guessed.

"Yeah, he manages but it's still hard on him. He lives in Leeds too."

"He's muggle-born?"

"No, they just pretend to be muggles. His dad works in the Magical Creatures Department at the Ministry and his mom's a secretary for another department."

"People say he's the one that talks you guys out of getting expelled."

James laughed loudly, "That's true. He's a brilliant pranker also. Half the stuff we pull wouldn't go right if it wasn't for him."

"Does he like Rachel," I asked as I tugged grass up from the ground. I was asking this question for Cassie, hoping James would say no.

"Not sure, I think he just wanted to have a date."

"She's trying to get Jessie Anderson to add him the fan club," I informed him, smirking when he blanched at the name of Jessie.

"Last is Sirius," I said, settling down on my back to look at the stars, "is he really named after the Dog star," I asked pointing up at the star. I'm a pro at pointing out stars; Astronomy is my second best subject after Potions.

"Yeah maybe that's why he loves dogs."

"Okay, go on."

"Well, we met on the train in first year and we were alike so we became good friends. He lives in London, it's him, Regulus (I made a face) his mom and his dad."

"Everyone calls him the ladies man of the group," I informed James.

"Well, I think he just wants to get in as many girls as he can."

"What, he's not going to date when he gets older? I could always picture him as a playboy."

"No it isn't like that; it's a lot more…complicated."

"How," I turned over on my stomach and elbows to stare at him.

James looked a little uncomfortable, "uh, Sirius wouldn't want me to tell."

"What is it? I swear I won't tell."

If you can't tell I'm a sucker for secrets, and this sounded especially interesting.

"He'll get really mad …"

"Please, please, please, please tell me!"

"Swear you won't tell?" His eyes stared into mine.

I raised my hand, "Scouts honor."

He looked puzzled, "what's scouts-"

"Never mind, so why does he want to get in as many girls as he can."

"Because he's engaged," James said simply.

"What! Isn't he cheating on her then?" I asked shocked.

"Oh, they aren't together. They don't even like each other. Sirius is thinking of anything he can to get out of it, but until we get out of Hogwarts there isn't much he can do."

"Who is it, someone I know?"

"You really wanna know?"

I nodded eagerly.

"It's Bellatrix."

I think my eyes almost popped out of my head.

"Really," I asked dumbfounded (isn't that a funny word)

He sighed, "Sadly yes. They've been engaged practically since they were born."

"But they're cousins. That's sick!"

"The Blacks are a sick family," the way James said this I understood he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

After that he changed the subject to what my favorite music was, that lead to us talking about the differences between muggle music and wizard music. Then on to Muggle Studies and what their favorite classes were.

"I heard Jessie Anderson only took Muggle Studies so she could be in the same room as you," I giggled a little.

James made a face, "the stalker drives me nuts."

"You mean, you don't like the fan club?"

"Fan club?" He looked stunned.

"Well, it unofficial. You know; the girls always hanging around you guy?"

"Oh…" He still looked surprised.

"I thought you liked the attention."

"Some of them can be annoying," he admitted.

"Then why don't you tell them to bugger off?"

"It'd be rude," he said shrugging.

I was going to open my mouth and complain but decided I didn't want to bring Jessie Anderson into our date anymore. So I changed the subject.

"Oi! There you are!" We looked up to see Sirius staggering toward us

"I've been looking all over for you Jamsie," he said loudly.

I heard James groan.

"I swear this is the best club we've ever been too. You know who I ran into-"

He tripped and James had to help him up.

"C'mon," he said to me, "Moony knows a charm to make him a bit more sober."

We went back in and found that Rachel had finally broken off a heel, she wasn't hurt but it was obvious she was pretty embarrassed.

Remus had to fix Rachel's shoe, sober up Sirius, summon Suzie's lost cloak, and to clean off his pants where Sirius barfed all over them. So you can't really blame him for wanting to head back to the castle.

"But the night's just starting Mooney," Sirius yelled loudly.

"Then let's go get something to eat from the kitchens," Remus said tiredly.

That dog helped us back up to the castle again, I've got no idea how the trained it so good. Anyway we all went to the kitchens and broke off into couples again, except Sirius who just stuffed his face with whatever.

"What do you want," James asked me, waving at all the food and deserts placed around.

I immediately jumped for the triple fudge brownies. Those are to die for. James laughed but he took even more than me.

James and I snickered over at Rachel who was asking all the house-elves how many calories everything had and we talked about little miscellaneous things I can't remember.

Unfortunately, the night couldn't last. Remus must've finally cracked after having to hang out with Rachel all night long. He suggested (more like forced) us all to go back to our common rooms.

He and Pettigrew had to go drop off Rachel and Suzie and Sirius waggled his eyebrows at us and went up to their dorm.

That left James and I.

"You have fun tonight," he asked.

"Of, course," I giggled, I knew my voice sounded nervous.

"I did too. You're a lot of fun Lily."

"Same with you."

"Do you want to, uh, do this again sometime?"

"I'd like that," I muttered.

There was a pause for a moment.

"I guess I'll go to bed. G'night," I said quietly and began to head toward the stairs before he caught my arm and pulled me back gently.

Then…he kissed me.

No, it wasn't just a peck but it wasn't huge either. Just a kiss that lasted a few seconds.

After we broke apart he grinned and said, "Well, now you don't have to be as mad at Wormtail."

"Why," I asked breathlessly.

"Now you've had your first kiss," he smiled and I blushed.

We finally said our good night's and when I came up I had to tell the whole story to all the girls before they would leave me in peace.

And know even though my hand is terribly cramped from writing so long I'm still in pure bliss.

Sighs blissfully again I really do love my life at the moment.

P.S. Cassie was particularly pleased when I told her about Rachel. I still can't believe I'm the only one that's figured out she's totally crushing on him.

A/N: Ugh, the last part of this chapter was awful. Oh well at least it's done.

I can know saw that I've officially learned me lesson, I will never promise a specific time I will update ever again because I'm absolutely awful at keeping that promise. So all I can say is that I will update the next chapter as soon as I can.

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