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I should probably tell everyone that I'll be updating my stories once a week.

I should also say that the character names I use have meanings behind them, I have stories behind the story, I take parts from the Harry Potter books and add them in my fanfic stories, so it isn't all random.

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Some time around the middle of October Lily decided that it was time for a Hogsmeade visit.

'James,' she said one evening in the Head Boy and Girl's common room, 'I think it's time for a Hogsmeade visit. Don't you agree?'

James looked up from his book. 'Is this an indication that she wants to go out with me?' James thought. 'Uhh…yeah, I think it's about time that we had a visit. I mean it's already been a month and we need to go out for a bit.'

'Hmm…that's exactly what I had in mind. So, when do you think we should have the Hogsmeade visit?'

'Well, it has to be on a Saturday…So how about just next Saturday? I mean no other year has any exam or anything yet…well not that I know of…'

Lily grabbed out a notebook and a quill from her bag and jotted everything down. She then wrote down the Hogsmeade visit date in her diary. 'Ok, well then who should ask McGonagall?'

James raised his eyebrows at her.

'Fine, I will.' And she jotted everything down.

The next morning Lily went to see McGonagall and asked for permission for a Hogsmeade visit the next Saturday. Permission was granted and Lily's spirits were high. This was the first thing as Head Girl she got to do.

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'So, you asked McGonagall?'

'Yup. It's next Saturday. She said that she would put it up on all the notice boards. It'll be great to get out for once this year.'

'And it'll be great to go out with you Lily.'

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For the rest of the week, James was deciding whether or not to ask Lily out. Sirius had noticed that James was preoccupied.

'Helllooo? Earth to James Potter! Can you hear me?'

James was having with himself, thoughts raging through his mind.

'C'mon James! This is your chance! You haven't asked her out in a while!'

'You got to be joking! I've asked her out every Saturday since err…a long time ago.'

'That was before mate'

'Yeah, well, like she's gonna go out with me after what I've put her through.'

'Well then this is your chance to make it up to her.'

'And what if I do something wrong?'

'Well then say it's and accident.'

'And get hit over the head? No.'

'You are PATHETIC!'

'Am not! I'm trying to find a way that she can't reject going out with me.'

'SEE WHAT I MEAN? You are one hundred percent PATHETIC!'

'Oh shut the hell up! Like you can do any better.'

'Betcha I can.'

'Betcha you can't.'

'Can.'

'Can't.'

'Can.'

'Can't.'

'FOR GODSAKE PRONGS! WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU? I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW YOU CAN ASK EVANS OUT AND YOU DON'T EVEN ANSWER ME! THIS IS ABOUT YOUR BLOODY CRUSH ON EVANS!'

'Huh?'

Sirius took a deep breath and said, 'I've been telling you how you can get Evans to go out with you.'

'Oh really?' James mumbled. Sirius, as if he could get Lily to go out with James. He didn't even know how strong James's love was.

'Yes, really, now will you please listen to me.'

'Since when have you said please?'

'Just shut up and listen…'

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'So, a Hippogriff won't care if you insult it. Awesome! I wouldn't mind if the Marauders were hippogriffs. Don't you agree?'

Lily sighed. 'No, Ruth, that's wrong. Hippogriffs do care if you insult them. That's the first piece of information you should know about hippogriffs. Never insult a hippogriff.'

Ruth's face dropped, 'Oh, shame. Hey… I wouldn't mind being a hippogriff, then McGonagall wouldn't tell us off for hurting the Marauders.'

Ami started to get annoyed 'Uhh yeah…Ruth do you mind being quiet for a moment? We're trying to work here.'

'Oh, sorry. It's just that this is REALLY boring. I mean, who wants to know what you should and shouldn't do when you meet a hippogriff. Like we're ever gonna meet one. Well, maybe yes, we might…buts what's the chances? 'cause-''

'Ruth… we're trying to work and you not helping.'

'Ok, ok, fine. I'll shut up for once, happy?'

There was a five second pause.

'Oh, look who it is…'

'Ruth, how many times has Ami said for you to keep quiet?'

'No, I'm serious! It's the Marauders here.'

'Shut up Ruth!' Ai cried. She usually had a lot of patience but she seemed to have lost it from Ruth babbling on about any random thing that went through her mind for the past two hours.

'Oohhh…even Lupin is here Ai…ooohhh…'

'Oh shut up,' snapped Ai, her face flushing.

'Heya ladies,' Sirius said to the five friends, and sat down next to Malana. 'Hello Malana.'

'You can sit there on a three conditions. One, don't talk to me. Two, stop breathing, and three, drop dead.'

'I'd do anything for you Malana, anything.'

Ruth snorted, 'Yeah, apart from not talking to her, stop breathing and dropping death.'

'Look Black, we're busy. What do you want?' Lily asked.

'Nothing. I don't want anything.'

'What's that meant to mean? You don't want anything.'

'Actually its Moony who wants something.'

'Err…yeah. I came to err…ask Ai if she err… wants to er…go out with me to Hogsmeade.'

Ai blushed.

Ruth tried to stifle a giggle.

Malana raised an eyebrow.

Ami stared.

Lily ignored all of them.

'Oh…umm yeah…sure…' Ai's face grew even redder.

Sirius grinned a wicked grin, which no one took any notice of. 'Your friends can keep you company as you go along. Moony himself is quite nervous too, so we're coming with him.'

'Can you guys come with me?'

No one answered.

'Please?'

Still silence.

'Please?'

The silence continued.

'Can anyone please make them come with me?'

Sirius grinned mischievously. 'Pwetty pwease wif chewy on top?' (a/n I know that most of the time in my fanfic when things are in italics they are thoughts but this isn't. Sirius SAYS it)

'ALRIGHT! QUIT WITH THE FACIAL EXPRESSION AND ACCENT!'

'Fankyou.'

'What did we say?'

Ai and Sirius grinned.

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'So what did they say?'

'They?'

'Ok, what did she say?'

'She said yes.'

(in a Mr Burns accent from the Simpsons, an American television show) 'Excellent…excellent…'

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On Saturday morning Lily, Ruth, Ami and Malana were watching Ai trying on different pieces of clothing on.

'We're only doing this for you ok Ai?'

'I know.'

'So, could you please hurry up? I really want to go to Honeydukes.'

'And I need to buy a new quill, mine is broken.'

'OK! I get the point. Just hold on.'

'Ai, we've held on for the past fifty thousand years!'

'You're not that old are you?'

'Yes, she is that old and very fragile that if you don't handle her with care, her anger will crack!'

'That was meant to be a rhetorical question.'

'Should I wear this light blue shirt with a denim jacket on top and this denim skirt or this light green pants and this baby pink shirt?'

'OH FOR GODSAKE! ANYTHING WILL DO!'

'Hmm…I think I'll wear the pink top and Black skirt.'

'Yeah, it looks perfect on you now let's go!'

'Is that sarcasm in your voice?'

'URGH!'

'Patience is a virtue Ruth, patience is a virtue…'

'You and your proverbs…' Everyone muttered.

(a/n this next bit is B-O-R-I-N-G so yeah. Good luck…but then again you gotta read this to understand the story.)

After a few hours listening to Ai, they finally met up with the Marauders in the Entrance Hall.

'Well you five took your time,' said Peter.

'Yeah, we were waiting for Ai to finish picking out her outfit.'

There was a pause.

Sirius nudged Remus.

'Ow! Oh, and you look really…nice.'

Ai smiled weakly and blushed.

'Er…Hello people? Are we going?'

'Yes, let's go.'

'Oh good! I'm hungry, I need sweets.'

'You're always hungry Ruth.'

Ruth ignored this comment and walked out with the rest of the group following behind her.

They arrived in Hogsmeade not long after.

'Remus, why don't you and Ai go into Madame Padifoot's?'

'Oh, sure.'

There were nine in the group and when Remus and Ai left, there were 7.

The rest trudged on until they were in the very centre of the Village.

'Well, where does everyone wanna go?'

'How about we go get a fire…er… butterbeer from the Three Broomsticks?'

'Well you guys can go. I'm going to Honeydukes. See you all later. I'll meet up with you back at Hogwarts.

'Meh, whatever.'

'Bye.'

'see you.'

So the 6 of them went to go get a drink while Ruth went to pig out in Honeydukes.

When Sirius had drained the last drop from his glass, he got up and said, 'Well see you all later. I'm off to Zonko's. Anyone want to join me?'

'What do you think?'

'Suit yourself.'

So, Sirius left.

So the 6 was down to 5.

Malana now got up and said, 'Well guys, I gotta go and by my quill because apparently someone sat on it and broke it. Besides, I need more ink. Don't you need some too Ami?'

'Oh yeah, of course you remembered since you were the one who spilt it all over me.'

Malana smirked. 'Well I'm sorry, I'll pay for half of what you buy.'

'What I buy? That means I pay. So how do you pay for what I pay?'

'What?'

Malana and Ruth continued to jabber on while they walked out of the door.

So, the 5 went down to 3.

Peter knew that what he had to do now.

Peter knew he didn't want to do it.

Peter knew he had to.

Peter knew what would happened if he didn't do it.

He knew what the Sirius would do to him.

'I'd better get back up to the castle to finish off my Defence Against the Dark Arts homework.'

'Bye Pettigrew, good luck, and make sure you finish it. Do you need help?'

'Nah, I think I'm fine.'

'Well see you.'

'Yup see you Wormtail.'

'Bye.'

Peter shuffled out of the bar.

There was an awkward silence between James and Lily now.

'Well, do you er… wanna go up to the Shrieking Shack?'

'Sure.'

There was a pause.

'Let's go now.'

So now, the two of them climbed up the view in silence and admired the view around them.

They reached the top of the hill and they sat on a rock not making any eye contact.

'Well, I guess we should get along with each other, now that we've nowhere go and no one to go hang out with.'

'That's right Lil, you gotta get along with me.'

'Oh shut up Potter.'

'Why should I?'

'Why shouldn't you?'

'Why should I?'

'So we aren't getting along are we?'

'Well you started it.'

'Did not.'

'You told me to shut up.'

'Yeah that's because-''

'And now it's my turn to say shut up.'

This time it was Lily's turn to have "shut up" said to her by James.

Lily glared at the warm smile James had spread on his face, sighed and turned away to look at the Shrieking Shack.

'This is stupid. I'm just gonna try get along with him by changing the subject.' Lily thought.

'Potter, I've read that the Shrieking Shack is the most haunted in Europe. Isn't it lucky that in Hogsmeade that we have it here? I mean, yes, Hogsmeade is a small village but it has a really famous building here. I wonder how many ghosts are in there.'

'Oh…' said James and he walked up beside Lily and turned to face the Shrieking Shack, 'well…it's meant to be heaps haunted…That's what Dumbledore said and same with Moony…'

'Wouldn't it be an interesting mini adventure to venture near it and take a look inside?'

'NO!'

Lily jumped suddenly at James's 'NO!'

'I…I mean, I've hear that there's a HUGE crowd of really active and violent ghosts. You know, they smash things, fight all those sort of things. Dumbledore probably comes down every month to er… patch it up a bit because of the ghosts.'

Lily smiled.

'What's so funny?'

'Oh, nothing's funny. I just know something that you would have thought or still think that I wouldn't know what I know.'

James's face remained blank as if still awaiting an answer.

'Huh?'

Lily looked around to see if anyone was watching.

She moved closer to James.

James's eyes became rounder.

Lily's nose was almost touching James's.

'I know that Lupin is a werewolf,' she whispered.

James gasped.

'Since when did you realise?'

'Well, at the beginning of second year, I noticed that Lupin disappeared every month, and when we were studying boggarts his was a full moon. Then I went to do some research in the library.'

James's knees became week.

'You won't tell anyone would you?' he asked anxiously.

'Well, I know that he's the nicest out of all the Marauders, he has high grades, he is not a bad sort of person, and if I've kept my secret for four years, I think I can still keep it for the rest of my time.'

James gave a sigh of relief.

'But I still don't know why Dumbledore let him into school. I mean it's really dangerous. Lupin could hurt someone.'

'If I tell you something about Moony, promise me you won't tell anyone.'

'I promise.'

'You promise you'll promise?'

'I promise that I will promise.'

'Promise that you'll promise to promise?'

'I promise that I will promise to promise.'

James opened his mouth again to start another sentence with promise.

'Have I told that secret that I promised you? That secret about-'' Lily scanned around them again, and moved in close and whispered, 'what happened on the Hogwarts Express in second year…'

James's face grew red.

Lily smiled nicely, 'so I can keep anything.'

'Ok, well, the Shrieking Shack is actually not haunted.'

'I-It isn't? B-b-but all the books say that it is. In the History of-''

'Lily, the howls and everything is actually Moony. He goes in there when it's the full moon.'

'Wow… so that's where he goes. So he doesn't go home every full moon, like he usually says…'

'Looks like that your not the smart one this time.'

'I guess not…'

Both of them turned around again and faced the Shrieking Shack.

Both were in silence.

James lifted his left arm and put it around Lily's shoulders.

Lily looked up at him and smiled.

James smile back.

Lily put her head back down and enjoyed the scenery.

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'I really liked the day we had James.'

James and Lily were standing in the Entrance Hall. James and Lily had walked back up to Hogwarts together after going around to all the shops trying to find their friends only to be told that they left ages ago.

James smiled at Lily's use of James.

'So did I.'

'So I guess we finally did get along with each other today.'

'I guess we did.'

'Well then, I suppose we're also friends.'

'Only friends?' James thought. James forced an unhurt smile. 'I guess we are.'

James held Lily's hands and drew her close.

He smiled down.

She smiled up.

Lily loosened her right hand from James's grip.

She drew her hand to his face.

James bent his head down lower to her face.

Lily touched his face.

'Well, I guess I'll see you around more often, now that we're friends.

James stopped in an awkward position.

He was about to kiss Lily but he never made it.

Lily had drawn herself away.

James quickly corrected his aspect.

'I guess we will.'

'Well, I'm off to find my friends. Bye James.'

'Bye Lily.'

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