Hi everyone! sorry for the wait. i've been busy with writing scholarship essays and stuff so i hadn't had the time to do anything until now. so what did you all think of the last chapter? getting good or what? yeah i'm trying my best hehe...i have another question for everyone: Has anyone seen the previews to the new harry potter movie?!! if you have then you'll notice that harry's hair is shorter now... i hate harry's new hair cut...ABSOLUTELY HATE IT!!! GRRR!...ah, oh well...back to the story, with out further adu:

Chapter 5.

Early Morning Arguments and Something about Sleepwalking

"Hey, Evans! Wake up!" James shouted from outside Lily's door.

Lily moaned.

"What does he want now?" she mumbled to herself, rolling over the gigantic soft bed and slipping on a white robe that had the letter 'L' embroidered in green on it.

"What is it, Potter?" she asked, the door barely opened for her to see James with one eye.

"Evans, get up. Breakfast time!" he said, poking his head through the door.

"Argh! I'm going back to bed. It's only…Damn it…5:30a.m! Why are you up so early?! she asked, her face in an angry frown.

"I always get up this early on the first day of school. It's a Marauder thing," he said matter-of-factly. "But it's just for today."

"Oh," she yawned.

"Yeah, well, hurry up and get dressed," James pressed, as he tried to open Lily's door more so that he could get inside.

"No, I'm going back to sleep," she replied, weakly pushing James out of her room.

"No, your not going back to sleep. You're going with me to breakfast," he insisted rather forcefully. Lily didn't take kindly to his tone of voice so she refused even more.

"No, I'm not going with you to breakfast."

"Yes, you are."

"No. I'm NOT!"

"Yes. You ARE!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"NO!"

"YES!

"YES!"

"NO!…wait! What? Why did I just say no?" James asked puzzled.

"Because I'm NOT going with you. It's way too early. Just go and take one of those ditsy sluts that fawn over you all the time. I'm sure they would like to go," she said with venom dripping from her voice.

"Hey, that hurt," said James in a fake sad tone.

"No, it didn't. You're just being a baby."

"Heh, I'll be your baby," James retorted haughtily, his eyebrow raised in a suggestive way.

"Hmph, in your dreams, Potter! Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to bed!" Lily shouted, getting tired of his arrogance so early in the morning; she soon closed the door in his face.

"Evans! Pleeeaaase go with me!" James whined pathetically.

"I said NO, Potter, and I mean NO!" she yelled from the other side of the door.

"PLEEEEEEEAAAASE?"

"Nuh uh, not even if you gave me a 100 million pounds."

"Pounds?? Isn't that muggle money? Why would I have muggle money?"

"Just go away or else I'll hex you into next Thursday! JUST-LET-ME-SLEEP!"

"Fine, fine," James muttered under his breath before he gave up and stomped out of the Common Room all the way to the Great Hall.

James entered the Great Hall hoping to find the Marauders. Sure enough there they were, sitting at the end of Gryffindor table. Sirius looked half asleep and was serving, or more like spilling, large amounts of porridge onto his bowl. Next to him was Remus, who was looking at Peter's new class schedule.

"G'morning, guys," James greeted not too cheerfully.

"Good Morning," the boys replied.

"Sit here," said Sirius, now suddenly awake and scooting over to give James a space to sit.

"Did you sleep well?" Remus asked.

"Yeah, I slept ok."

"How was your first night with Lily?"

"Yeah, Prongs. Did anything happen?" Sirius teased.

"No, nothing happened and I don't expect anything to happen," James said miserably.

"Why do you say that, Prongs?" asked Sirius.

"I dunno," replied James, serving himself some eggs and bacon. "I just don't think anything's gonna happen."

"James Harry Potter! Are you feeling alright?" Remus asked suddenly, looking at his friend in disbelief.

"Yeah, I'm feelin' alright. Why do you ask Moony?" James responded, now putting more eggs and bacon on his plate. He didn't seem to notice the large amount of food that was beginning to fall onto the table.

"Well, it's not like you to just give up so easily," Remus replied simply. "I don't think your trying hard enough."

"Yeah, mate, try harder! I mean if you really like Lily then show her," Sirius added expertly.

"How?" asked James skeptically, running a hand through his messy hair.

"Well, first, you need to be more considerate of her feelings. For example, you know already that she doesn't like for you do that thing with your hair," said Remus matter-of-factly.

"What thing?" he asked, again running his hand though his hair.

"That thing," Sirius said, nodding to James' movement and then mimicking the same motion but exaggerating it more.

"Oh…yeah, that. But I can't help it. It just happens when I'm not even thinking or when I'm trying to think."

"At least try to keep it to a minimum," Remus said.

"Ok, I'll try," he murmured back in annoyance.

"Now, next would be your Flirting Technique."

"My 'Flirting Technique'? What's wrong with that?!" James asked, outraged that Remus would even question his 'technique'.

"Hey, yeah, Moony," said Sirius, turning to Remus suddenly. "What's wrong with Prongs' technique? He always gets the girls, even when he's not trying. Besides, I don't see your technique working well," said Sirius, half joking- half serious. Sirius had now been eyeing some pretty Hufflepuff 7-year girls; the pretty girls noticed his stares and giggled at the attention. Sirius only smirked and then reluctantly returned to his friend's conversation.

Remus shot Sirius a dirty look then resumed with his explanation concerning Lily.

"Well, for your information, there are quite a lot of girls that like me, but let's not get into that. What I'm trying to say is that if James wants Lily to look at him differently, then he should try a different approach. From what I can tell, Lily doesn't seem to like the loud, egoistic type. No offence James," Remus added quickly, then continued to speak. "She's more of a calm person compared to you, Prongs. So it would make sense that she would connect more with a person who is more like her. Just look at the boys she's gone out with. Remember Jacob Stans? He was calm and composed, or what about that Ravenclaw, Daniel was it? He was like that too. She obviously likes mature guys."

"So, what are you saying?" James asked curiously, trying to figure out where Moony was going with this. James could be really thick headed when he wanted to.

"I'm saying that you need to grow up a little," Remus said as if talking to a three year old.

"What?!" asked James, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Moony's gone mad!" laughed Sirius.

"No, I haven't!"

"Yes, you have! Never in a million, no, a billion years would James grow up! Look at him!" Sirius pointed to James who was making a puppy face. " It's James we're talking about!" he finished, still laughing hysterically.

"Think what you will, but if you don't change, James, then you'll never get her," Remus said gravely.

"Get who?"

The boys jumped up from their seats as the new arrival took a seat in front of Sirius.

"Oh, Gwen. Good morning," said Remus smoothly.

"G'morning, Gwen," James and Sirius replied in unison rather unenthusiastically.

"Hello there, boys. Did all of you sleep well?"

They all just mumbled incoherently. Gwen suppressed a giggle as all the boys had replied at once.

"Did you sleep well, Gwenny?" Sirius asked.

"Hmph, not-at-all! Damn Liz wouldn't shut up about Re-"

"Shut up about what, dear Gwen?" asked Elizabeth coolly; at that precise moment, she was making her way towards their table.

"Oh, nothing," Gwen said quickly, grabbing a plate and filling it with food.

"Yes, that's what I thought…anyways, g'morning, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter."

Peter had been asleep on his plate this whole time, and just now had woken up with a jolt to the greeting.

"G'morning," they all replied boredly.

"Where's Lily?" Elizabeth asked. She waited patiently for Remus to scoot over to give her room to sit.

"Well, I tried to wake up our Sleeping Beauty, but she refused to get out of bed," said James.

"Oh, don't tell me she still hasn't gotten up?" asked Elizabeth in worried manner.

"Nope. Still sound asleep."

"Uh oh. Not good, James."

"Why is that, Liz?"

"Well," Gwen cut in, "Lils isn't exactly what you call a morning person. And if someone doesn't drag her out of bed then she'll never get up," said Gwen matter-of-factly.

"Really? Then I guess what she's doing now is sleep walking?" Sirius said oddly.

At that moment, Lily had walked in the Great Hall with a large smile on her face.

"Ok, maybe I was wrong this time, but I swear she's usually not up this early," Gwen confessed. "She's probably just excited about her first day of school, but mark my words, she won't be such an early bird tomorrow," she finished with a grin.

"Heh, I'll keep that in mind," James replied, thinking of the many ways he would have to wake Lily up from then on.

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