A/N: Okay, from now on we go back to third person narration because from here on out I want to get every character's feelings and opinions across. I will, on occasion, switch to Lily's POV, but I'll warn you beforehand.

When Lily woke up, she was warm, there was some sort of blanket on her and she was leaning against something soft and also warm. She dared to open her eyes. James's beige leather jacket was draped over her and she was leaning against his sleeping form, head on his shoulder. Somehow, she was okay with that, she felt safe and comfortable for some strange reason. She turned her head slightly and saw Remus and Sirius sitting across from her, both having very different smiles on their faces. Remus's smile was a triumphant grin, something of a finally, or what I always knew would happen has finally happened. Sirius's smile was somewhat mischievous, but his smiles always were. It also looked like he was biting back laughter. When Lily moved a bit in her seat, she felt something else, James's arm around her waist. She was still perfectly content even knowing that. She tried to get a little bit more comfortable and James woke up, immediately whipping his arm from her waist. He looked down at her sleepily.

"Uh, sorry, Lils, I didn't mean to…" she placed a finger over his lips.

"It's fine. Actually, I'm glad you did," she answered. Sirius and Remus leaned back in their seats, looks of pure astonishment on their faces. Lily sat up and so did James, trying not to act awkward.

"So, um…Lily," James began. Lily knew what was coming and no longer dreaded the question. "About the first Hogsmeade visit tomorrow, do you want to go with me on a, you know, a date?"

"I'd love to," she said with a grin. If Remus and Sirius looked astonished before, now they looked staggered, almost falling out of their seats. "How long were we asleep?" Lily asked, looking to Remus.

"About two hours, actually. I almost had to tie Padfoot up, he was so tempted to do something evil while you were asleep, maybe draw on your faces or something. You looked so peaceful, we didn't want to wake you," answered Remus. "The train should be arriving at the school at any second now."

"Oh no, we have to change," realized Lily, looking to James. Sirius and Remus had already put their robes on, and were ready, but James and Lily were still in their casual clothes. Lily went to stand up on the seat and pull her trunk from the luggage rack, it almost slipped, but James caught it, having stood up to help. The two lowered it gently to the ground and Lily opened it, digging through it frantically until she had her robes. Sirius's eyes lingered on the bras she had packed as they had become unearthed in her digging.

"Padfoot, please, show some respect," said Remus, looking up at the ceiling. Lily closed the trunk after having pulled out all of her robes. She looked at the boys expectantly and they looked back confusedly.

"Well," she urged. "I obviously can't get changed with you in here."

"Oh," said Remus, standing up and opening the door. The other two followed him and Lily shut the curtains to the compartment door and changed quickly, almost in a daze. She was confused, very confused, and didn't quite understand why she had just said yes to James, and yet she was glad that she did. When she slid the doors back open again the three boys were standing outside talking, but Sirius, who had been leaning against the door, fell through at Lily's feet, head hitting the floor. Lily let out a hushed giggle.

"So, Evans, you do think I'm funny," said Sirius, sitting back in the seat cattycorner from Lily who had already taken the seat she had been in the entire ride. James came in and, to everyone's surprise, sat next to Sirius, across from Lily, and Remus sat next to her again. Only a few seconds after they had gotten situated, the train came to a screeching halt, throwing Lily across the space and into James. He steadied her as she blushed. Then he stood up, his arm around her waist as she regained her balance. After it was okay to get off the train, they all levitated their trunks from the train. Of course, James had a different approach. As Lily was walking ahead, he hit the backs of her knees with the trunk, making Lily fall into a sitting position on the trunk.

"Need a lift?" he asked with a smile. Lily just let out a quiet musical laughter. And stayed sitting on the trunk as it glided off the train. After they got off the train, they left the trunks for the caretaker and the house elves to get up to the dormitories. When they entered the Great Hall, it was packed full of students younger than them. They sat down at the Gryffindor table in the front and waited for the sorting of the first years who were entering the room timidly. They clapped accordingly when their house names were called by the hat and then Dumbledore gave his start of term speech, going over rules and new teachers and then the feast began after many silent complaints from Sirius who was very hungry by now.

James and Lily left the feast early for patrol and waited for the rest of the students to get to the common room. Patrol on Fridays didn't end until about midnight. They walked in silence; sometimes James would grab Lily's hand as they walked. When patrol finally ended and everyone was in their common rooms, they went back to the Gryffindor one, pausing before going in.

"Lily," began James in a quivery voice.

"Yeah?" she asked warily.

"You didn't say yes to me just because of what Sirius said about the reputation you carry, did you?" he asked. She could tell he had been mulling over this for a while now, debating on how he would ask.

"It was a very, very, very, minuscule part. I really do like you, James. You've changed, a lot, you've finally decided to grow up and I'm glad."

"Well, I can't have grown up, Padfoot would never let me," said James with a laugh, picking up Lily and throwing her over his shoulder. She began pounding on his back and almost screaming, her red hair flying everywhere. James was laughing the entire time, about to say the passwords for the portrait.

"James! Put me down, put me down! If we walk in there like this, everyone will be able to see up my skirt and I will be that Sirius is in there and he'll be staring, you don't want that do you?" He put her down gently, saying the password and entering the common room. The only people in there were three seventh years, Remus, Sirius, and a sleeping Peter. Sirius, who looked over when they entered, saw Lily's rumpled hair and immediately jumped to conclusions.

"Lily Evans was snogged," he gasped. "Prongsie, your dream has finally come true, you snogged Evens. So, Evans, how was it?" Lily shook her head in disbelief and went o sit on the couch and resisting the urge to slap Sirius upside the head.

"Padfoot, shut up. Lily's not like that, he hair's like that 'cuz she tripped in the corridor, that's all." That was a good save on James's part. He went and sat next to Lily, putting his arm around her shoulders and hugging her close so that she was leaning against him. "Plus, I'm sure Lily's snogged before so it's no big deal." Lily looked away from James, going slightly red in the face. He grabbed her cheeks and turned her face to his. "What, you've never kissed anyone before?" he asked, sounding perfectly astonished.

"No," said Lily shyly. Remus had clapped a hand over Sirius's mouth to stop him from busting with laughter.

"Hey, that's okay, we'll take it slow, I promise," he said softly, almost a whisper. He kissed the top of her head and she turned to look at him again.

"You don't have to," she said softly, seizing the opportunity to kiss him on the lips. What Lily didn't expect was the length of the kiss. He placed his hands on her face and leaned back, Lily was now practically on top of him. He moved his hands to her waist to support her. All of her friends who had ever dated James always said he was one of the best kissers at Hogwarts, in any year. He began kissing her neck and she tried to frame words with her heart thudding in her chest like crazy, her pulse racing and her stomach filled to the brim with butterflies.

"James," she said, trying to be coherent.

"Hmm?" he asked, not looking up at her.

"You're a really good kisser," she said, the butterflies flapping in her stomach and making her feel nervous. She was nervous, nervous that she wasn't a very good kisser, but her fears were short-lived.

"So are you," he said. He kissed her once more on the mouth, his fingers tracing her backbone before she scooted away from him and sat back down on the couch. James leaned forward too, propping himself up on his elbows. Sirius couldn't hold in his laughter any longer and was busting up in the corner, Remus was trying to quiet him, but to no avail.

"Um," began Lily. "I'm gonna be right back. I have to put on my pajamas." She fumbled up the stairs and put on a pair of sweat pants and a form-fitting t-shirt.

Meanwhile

"When's the next full moon," asked James, coming to sit at the table where his friends were.

"Saturday night, tomorrow," answered Remus, looking out the window to see the moon almost full.

"But that's my…no, it's fine, I can cut it short, but we'll have to tell her or she'll think I don't want to be with her," said James thoughtfully.

"I agree," said Remus. In fact, I'm very surprised she hasn't figured it out already, her being as smart as she is. I think we should tell her. I feel bad keeping a secret like this from her, after all, she is like a sister to me."

"I guess we should," said Sirius. "How do you know we can trust her though?"

""I just know, Padfoot, don't worry about it, now go and get the map, and hurry up, she'll be back at any minute," said James. Sirius escaped form the room, going up to the boy's dormitories and running into their room where everything had already been set up. He grabbed the map and came downstairs. He sat back where he was before and they waited for Lily to come down.

"Hey, Lils, can we show you something?" asked James as she came down the stairs.

"Yeah, sure," she answered. "Hold on, does this have something to do with your nicknames?" She strode over to the couch and sat down, James going to sit next to her and Sirius coming to sit across from the coffee table in front of them. Remus stood up and began walking around the room with the map in his hands. "Does this have something to do with the fact that Remus is a werewolf?" Their heads snapped up to look at her. For about the fourth time in one day she had surprised them.

"How did you know about that?" asked Remus, his tone sounding proud and yet astonished.

"It was blatantly obvious. I figured it out back in my fifth year and I didn't want you to treat me any differently, so I didn't say anything," she admitted sheepishly. "I mean they call Moony and you are in the hospital wing once a month and always just after the full moon. Plus, Madam Pompfrey's pathetic excuses constantly being repeated also gave away that you weren't really sick or she didn't really need help with something in her office. Plus I've seen you crossing the grounds with her form the window before, not to mention those three as well, all leaving the tower late at night."

"You are very observant, Evans," said Sirius.

"Did Sirius Black just compliment me in some way?"

"Of course not," he lied quickly.

"Sure, sure," said Lily sarcastically. "So, how do the nicknames fit in with Remus being a werewolf?"

"Well," began Remus. "First of all, there's this map," he said, handing the piece of seemingly blank parchment to James. James pulled out his wand and touched it to the map.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," he said. Immediately, ink began to appear on the paper at the tip of James's wand and spanning out form the tip all the way to the corners of the paper. It was a complete map of Hogwarts, but what Lily was surprised at were the dots on the page. There was one for each teacher and one for each of the boys and one for each of them. Remus walked towards the fireplace and on the map, his dot moved forward a fraction of an inch.

"Amazing," she breathed. She looked at the heading on the top of the paper. "Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs would like to present to you the Marauder's map," she read. "You made this?" She followed Dumbledore's dot with her fingertip as he paced in his study. McGonagall was asleep at her desk and the other teachers were in their offices and chambers either working or sleeping. The Lily noticed a completely new set of corridors, one form the willow, one from a hallway and a few others, all leading off the map and close to the forest.

"Yeah, we made it back in fifth year," answered Sirius.

"How?" she asked, still slightly breathless.

"Why don't you ask them," said James pointing to a phrase that appeared on the paper.

Mr. Moony would like to bid the lady a good day and say that creating this map was no walk in the park. He would like to volunteer the fact that he did all the research on the spells that had to be cast on the silly piece of paper that the lady holds within her hands.

Lily looked up, completely surprised.

"It has a bit of our minds in there. It's what we would say if we were asked. The map knows you because you already have a dot that we placed when we first made it. It knows you by name and it knew a long time ago when we first created it," said James casually. He pointed to a phrase that appeared just below Moony's.

Mr. Prongs would like to say first and foremost that the most beautiful woman in the world is holding the map at the moment, and he would also like to tell her that he was the one who cast the spells for the dots along with some help from another friend

Lily blushed and watched as more words appeared on the page.

Mr. Padfoot would like to agree with his comrades on the comments on how beautiful the lady is and would like to say that he helped and assisted Mr. Prongs with the spells and charms, etc. that had been cast on this map. He would also like to invite the lady to a secluded broom cupboard somewhere.

Lily snorted and looked to Sirius, who was laughing at what the map had said.

"What?" he asked innocently, flashing his charming smile. "It is what I would say, and don't you find me in the slightest bit cute?" Lily had to lie there, he was considered the best-looking boy in the school with his thick locks of dark brown and black hair that hung framing his face perfectly and his I-don't-care attitude, not to mention the smile.

"No," she lied quickly, kissing James on the cheek. When she looked down the map had written something else.

Mr. Wormtail would like to say that he was the one who drew everything and would like to congratulate Miss Lily on her recent union with Mr. Prongs over there. Congratulations to you, too, Prongs.

Mr. Prongs would like to thank Mr. Wormtail.

Mr. Moony would like to say that he is very tempted to cheerfully beat Mr. Padfoot to death for making such a rude and obnoxious comment to the young lady that he thinks of as a sister.

Mr. Padfoot resents that.

Mr. Prongs would like to tell both Messrs Moony and Padfoot to shut up or he'll beat them, both.

A/N: reviews please people, or the story will be discontinued.