A/N: Thanks for the encouragement people. I know these chapters are short, but it's the beginning of the year, not much will be going on in Lily's life to write about. They will get longer :)

Status: Successful (again)

Where: On Alice's bed

Mission Marauder: Sirius Black was a huge success! And much easier than we thought it would be.

This is what happened:

I tracked down Sirius Black

He said "of course I'll come down this lonely deserted corridor with you, Lily flower"

I rolled my eyes

I cursed inwardly for rolling my eyes

I explained myself

He shrugged and said sure

That was the easy part. It's what happened afterwards that was truly amazing. And mainly embarrassing. We were walking back along the corridor to the great hall, chattering away aimlessly, when I saw it.

"It" was a bucket. A bucket of what looked like bright green slime. And Sirius Black was going to walk straight underneath it.

"BLACK, NO!" I yelled out frantically.

In the moments after that I do not know what ran through my mind. Did I not want his reputation as "the-never-been-pranked-prankster" to be tarnished? Did I feel like having a splash about in some green slimy stuff? Who knows? Either way, I jumped up pushing him out of the way.

And then came the slime. And loads of it. It trickled down my back and into my shirt. It bubbled away on my hair! I grimaced, stuck to the spot.

After Sirius had recovered (from his laughing, and believe you me, there were tears), he pulled himself together and tried to get the slimy gunk the hell off of me.

But nothing worked. No spell, nada. So Sirius started to grin again and then mock-seriously saluted me.

"Lily Evans," he began, "for your valiant efforts to save I, Sirius Black, king prankster of Hogwarts, I now present to you the honour of using my first name,"

I raised my eyebrow at him, amused.

"Is that all?" I wondered out loud, "because this slimy stuff is capable of finding its way onto your shirt," I smiled evilly at him and he got the message.

"No need to be rash Lily!" he started with a wink, "Okay, how's this, I'll do our next transfiguration homework for you," he finished, smiling sweetly.

"Deal!" I said, relieved. Damn transfiguration for being my weakness.

So we walked back towards the common room now (we missed lunch) and Sirius asked me confusedly.

"Isn't it against the rules to cheat on homework, Lily flower?" he asked openly, "Perfect Lily Evans; she cheats!"

I snorted out loud. Honestly? Me, perfect? What library do these people get their jokes from because it sounds pretty fictional to me?

"Rules? What cause I'm a prefect I have to have a stick up my arse? Give me a break," I said, snorting again.

"Oho! My Lily fleur! You are a rascal," he said with a wink, "but honestly, I never knew you had this side to you! You even said," he begins to mock-whisper, "a-r-s-e!" he finishes cackling happily.

Oh, Merlin. If I wasn't covered in slimy (and smelly) gloop right now I would honestly set him very straight, with a few choice words. But I settle for a roll of my eyes and a small grin and wander upstairs.

Alice only takes one look at me and cackles her head off like the demented witch she truly is. So I decide to share my beloved gloop with her by sitting on her bed.

After explaining what happened, let's just say, the tears of mirth might have been rolling off of her body and onto the floor, dancing in their own laughter.

It's really not that funny.

But I digress, I have to go and get this awful slime out of my hair.

Till then!

Status: At peace

Where: My own common room (yes, the very cosy one)

Has anyone ever told you how amazing footstools are? They are just so comfortable. Practically massaging.

But of course no one has ever told you that, you are a diary. One that I must right in not too.

Anyway, after I'd gotten the gloop out of my hair and had a very long shower, I set of for another prefect meeting with James.

It went well, nothing majorly important to note, other than the fact the prefects where all buzzing with the idea of a Christmas Ball.

Same thing every year, Dumbledore won't allow it. But James says he'll work on him, so maybe.

Anyway after he (probably falsely) raised the hopes of the young people, we issued patrol timetables. Thank god we weren't scheduled on tonight, so we made our way back here.

On the way we talked about many things:

Homework

Qudditch

Ice cream flavours

Qudditch

Quidditch

So yes, mainly Quidditch. I didn't mind though, bless him, he does have a match coming up in 2 weeks time, I don't blame him from being so eager, even I want to see us win the cup for once.

After the quidditch/ice cream/homework talks we moved onto the subject of Black. Or should I say Sirius.

"So I hear you've been giving permission to use Sirius' name," James began proudly, the one a mother might use, honestly.

"Does he report back everything to you?" I asked in mock shock, "Or did you stalk me invisibly or something," I said chuckling at my joke.

For some reason, James went oddly uncomfortable, but then he told me that Sirius was a very impersonal person, and being allowed to use his name was an amazing feat, apparently.

"So did he tell you about the," I lowered my voice and looked around the corridor in pretend secrecy, "the a-r-s-e too?"

James burst out laughing and his laughter told me all I needed to know. That Sirius and his big mouth.

"So," I began, hesitant now, "Do you lot really think I'm 'Perfect Lily fleur' then? Cause if that's what you all think, then you're all wrong! I am not perfect you know and…"

My voice trailed away when I caught sight of James 'face. He looked so…serious (no pun intended).

"Lily," he began softly, startling me, "of course you're not perfect and no human is, so don't feel pressured…and if your referring to it the way you think I am, then let me tell you, your no stick in the mud, your company has been the funniest I've had all day!" He stopped, looking hesitant.

And then he says something which makes me feel sort of queasy, the guilt washing over me again.

"I wish we had put aside our differences before Lil, because yeah, I thought you were fun before, but now I know you're a hundred times better than I could have imagined."

And then he smiled and turned around and left me outside the portrait.

My head was spinning like honestly, what was that meant to mean? So here I am now, pondering. Footrests supporting my feeble feet.

Mission Marauder is complete, so why am I still feeling so guilty? The way he looked at me when he said what he did, it seemed like he really did enjoy my company.

Well, I don't know what I should do, but I know what I'm going to do. And that is to show James Potter the time of his life.

I'm going to make him feel like he was right to decide to become my friend.

And although that would be an awesome spot to stop, I must make a little…

NOTE TO SELF: Do not tell Alice about this. She will be spouting theories for the next 10 weeks.

That is all x

A/N: sorry its taking so slow to kick off, but I can't just have Lily fall in love with James straight away can I? There will be more Lily/James bonding soon, so keep a lookout:) and review! X