"What are you talking about Wormtail, why would I- oh…" and at this Sirius looked over to the pool entrance as well, and just in time to see Lily Evans and two of her friends walking in. Remus had noticed too and was now looking at James to see his reaction. Sirius was the first to speak.

"Ok now mate, we need to be smooth here. You've got to have a plan. No just barging up like you usually- HEY!! PRONGS!! GET BACK HERE!!" for without warning James had jumped out of the pool and started toward Lily.

"Bloody hell, this is not going to end well," Sirius muttered to himself as he too hopped out of the pool. Remus was obviously thinking along the same lines as he had put his book down and was glancing towards where Lily had entered.

James was almost upon her know, a huge grin plastered to his face and his hair tousled from the pool. Lily apparently hadn't noticed the Marauder's presence, well, until now that is.

"'Ello Evans. You come here to swim?" James asked when he reached her.

Lily rolled her eyes while her friends giggled behind her.

"Swim? What a silly idea, Potter. Why would I come to a pool, to SWIM? You just get funnier every day," and with one final mean glare at James, stalked off to the other end of the pool, her friends still giggling like mad.

"Evans..." Sirius drawled as he nodded his head in her direction.

"Black," she said without stopping.

However as she passed Remus's chair she stopped to smile at him.

"Good afternoon, Remus."

"Hello, Lily. How are you?" Remus asked pleasantly.

"Oh, you know, the usual," she said and jerked her head towards James.

"I'm sorry about him. He really does mean well though."

"Yeah I'm sure. Well anyway, good seeing you again Remus."

"And you," he replied as she continued to walk around the pool.

She and her friends sat down in three chairs across the pool from where the marauders had dumped their stuff. As they began to take off their over clothes Remus turned to hear James sighing beside him.

"I just don't get it mate. She talks to you! And you're not even that great looking!" James said in an exasperated voice.

Remus shook his head and smiled, knowing that James didn't really mean all that he said around Lily.

"Perhaps your lack of gentlemanly-like behavior?" Remus asked sarcastically.

"What do you mean Moony?" Sirius said walking up to the group, with Peter tailing behind him. "Prongs here is the epitome of gentlemanly."

"Only compared to you, I'm afraid, Sirius." Remus said.

"Excuse you MR. Moony! I come from the Ancient and No-,"

"The Ancient and Noble House of Black, yes we know Sirius. However, considering the fact you claim to be unrelated to the Blacks most of the time, I don't think that counts as a valid excuse."

Sirius scoffed, but obviously couldn't come up with anything to say to that, so turned to James and said, "So Prongs, ol' boy, what's our first plan of action?"

On the other side of the pool, Lily sat chatting with her friends as they performed sun block spells and charms to keep their hair from getting messed up by the pool water.

"Isn't he just adorable, Lily?" Her best friend Susan asked.

"Who?"

Her friends rolled their eyes but Susan answered anyway.

"Sirius Black!"

Lily laughed. "Adorable? More like horrible. But James-," Lily cut herself off at this remark.

Shite! She told herself. I almost admitted I thought James was cute! Maybe they didn't notice, she hoped.

But it seems her friends had noticed as their eyes were wide open and they were staring at Lily as though she had told them Christmas was tomorrow.

"You like James Potter!" They squealed together and immediately began prying Lily for details.

"So what do you think their talking about over there?" James asked to no one in particular.

"Who knows, probably some stupid girl stuff," Sirius said from the ground where he had taken up Remus in a game of Wizard's chess. "Come here and help me Prongs, Moony's kicking my arse again."

Remus smiled. "You're not doing so bad Sirius," he said, only as his knight picked up Sirius's castle and catapulted it off the board. "You're only 12 pieces down."

"AHH!! I give up Moony. Go back to your book and let me wallow in my misery with Prongs."

James however, was not watching the chess match anymore.

"Oi, Prongs, watcha looking at?"

However James apparently couldn't speak, and they soon found out why. He was watching Lily, who was making her way across the pool towards them.