"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" Meave said repeating herself.

"Damn it! We're lost!" Lily ran her fingers through her hair in a frustrated way. James and Sirius laughed at the situation.

"What, this isn't funny." Maeve said. Sirius laughed at her.

"Come on Maeve! Don't be so down. Look let's take a right and then a left, walk a bit and then we'll see." Lily looked at James.

"How do you know where to go?" James sighed

"If you lift your pretty head up you'll see that a right and then left and then walking a bit and you'll come a lit street, alley I don't know. But I DO know there's light there." Sirius looked at his best friend in awe.

"You are smart. And all these years I thought you cheated on your final exams." James slapped him while the girls laughed. They went James' way.

"Let's sing a song!" Sirius said after a while.

"I'm not going to listen to you singing." Maeve said.

"I have a very good voice and I will dedicate you a song.

'Hey there Delilah what's it like in New York city, I'm a thousand miles away but girl tonight you look so pretty, yes you do, Tim square can't shine as bright as you, you know it's true'

and because I don't like the chorus I am going on

'Hey there Delilah, Don't you worry about the distance, I'm right there if you get lonely, Give this song another listen, Close your eyes,

Listen to my voice it's my disguise, I'm by your side.'

And skipping the chorus again

'Hey there Delilah, Don't you worry about the distance, I'm right there if you get lonely, Give this song another listen, Close your eyes,

Listen to my voice it's my disguise, I'm by your side.'

Skip, skip, skip

'Hey there Delilah you be good, And don't you miss me, Two more years and you'll be done with school, And I'll be making history,

Like I do, You'll know it's all because of you, We can do whatever we want to, Hey there Delilah here's to you, This one's for you.'

And skip the last chorus." Sirius was right, he had a good voice and Maeve looked at him in a new light. She never knew he could sing.

"But you can't sing." She said bluntly

"Yes I can. I just sing off key to annoy you."

"Black, you poofhead, you forgot the best verse!" Lily started singing her favourite verse.

"A thousand miles seems pretty far, But they've got planes and trains and cars, I'd walk to you if I had no other way, Our friends would all make fun of us, And we'll just laugh along because, We know that none of them have felt this way, Delilah I can promise you, That by the time that we get through, The world will never ever be the same, And you're to blame." James this time was transfixed.

"Wow you can sing!" He said.

"I sure can." She grinned.

"Hey! How about when we go to Hogwarts, provided one of us is head, we should make a kind of band." Lily's eyes lit at Sirius' suggestion.

"Yeah, like one from each house. This can promote friendship between the houses."

"Yeah, Slytherin and Gryffindor will only be friends when hell freezes over." Sirius told Lily.

"That, my dear, can be done with a simple freezing spell. I think my idea is really good."

"MY idea Lily darling." Sirius said.

"No mine."

"Mine."

"Mine."

"Mine."

"Mine."

"Yours."

"M- What?" Sirius grinned at her.

"You see I thought if I said yours you would get confused and then say mine. See I'm smart."

"No you're an idiot"

"No I'm not."

"Uh- Yes you are. No one in their right mind would be confused." Lily told Sirius.

"Well like it or not, it DID work. I got confused, so there!" He looked down at them when he heard it.

"Sirius?" His friend asked him sympathetically.

"What?" Sirius said gruffly.

"I'll visit you when they lock you up." Sirius looked at James with a glint in his eye. James took it as a cue to run.

"Jaaaames?!" Sirius ran after his friend. They ran and swerved and managed to get through the dark alleys. They didn't notice that they had ran into sunlight and onto the road. Drivers started honking at them and yelled words Sirius didn't even use. The boys looked at each other shocked and ran back to girls, thus earning them more honks and worse words.

"LILY!"

"MAEVE!" The girls came talking calmly and soon saw the boys rushing towards them.

"Drivers, mad! They… Kill us! Murderers!" Sirius rested on Maeve and tried telling her what happened but he was out of breath.

"Lily, mean people want to kill us." James whined.

"Oh, did the poor baby get scared?" Lily hugged him.

"Will you protect me?" James made his eyes as big as possible.

"Of course!" Lily laughed and put her arm around his waist. James grinned and put his arm around her shoulder.

"You ain't gotta take care o' me. I'm a real boy." James said in his southern American accent which took him five years to perfect.

"Pinocchio said that and look what happened to him." Maeve said. Lily laughed while the two boys looked bewildered.

"Pinocchio?" Sirius asked after looking at James to see who would ask the question.

"Yeah… Muggle story. Too long to tell you now." Maeve said.

"Oooo look at store. I like that coat!" Lily looked at a shop window.

"You want to go in?" James looked down at her. She looked up at him and nodded. He, still having his arm draped around her shoulders, opened the door and let her in.

"How much is this coat?" Lily asked the sale assistant.

"Forty-five pounds. We also have it in white and black." Lily looked at the green coat.

"Hm… May I please see the black one?" The sale assistant disappeared for a while and then came back with a black coat.

"Is it a size 14?" The sale assistant nodded. Lily untangled herself from James and took the coat. She tried on the leather trench and posed a bit in front of the mirror. James looked at her. 'She looks so hot in the coat. Damn. Since the night I kissed her, what are we? A couple? She sure is acting like she likes me.'

"James what do you think?" James snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Lily.

"It looks great Lils." Lily looked in the mirror again. She took it off.

"I'll buy it." The assistant smiled at her.

"Great. I'll wrap it up." Lily took out her wallet and paid for her coat. She exited the shop looking happy.

"Where's Sirius?" James asked suddenly noticing his hyper friend wasn't around. Lily looked around and saw two people in the alley.

"I think we found them." Lily and James walked towards their friends. They were tangled up together getting it on. Lily coughed but they hadn't noticed. James coughed louder. Still they took no notice.

"HELLO?" Lily screamed. The couple pulled apart. Maeve was red in the face and her purple hair was all around the place. Sirius grinned sheepishly.

"Hey Prongs, Hey Lily-Billy" Sirius said while Maeve tried hiding her face in his shoulder. Sirius put a protective arm around her. Lily and James smiled.

"How did this happen?" James asked.

"That doesn't concern you." Sirius told him.

"Well there are a couple of shops left that I want to check out. You guys coming?" Lily asked them.

"Yup." Maeve had calmed down and now was her normal pale colour. Her dark eyes with eye liner accenting them looked happy.

James and Lily resumed their old position. Maeve and Sirius were holding hands and pointing interesting things out to each other.

"Look at that shop. It sells animals!" Maeve went to window dragging Sirius along with her without knowing.

"Awww, look at that white kitten!" Maeve pointed at a kitten that was no bigger than her palm. Sirius led her in the shop while James and Lily looked at the other pets. They soon exited but this time Maeve was holding a cage with the small kitten in.

"Sirius you shouldn't have!" She kept saying but she couldn't help admiring her new kitten.

"I'm going to name you Bobby." She said to the kitten. The kitten purred.

"It doesn't like that name." Sirius said wisely. "You should name him Boxfile." Maeve looked at him.

"Come again?"

"Boxfile. Cool name. No?"

"No" She said. Sirius' smile drooped.

"Pleease" He begged.

"Sirius…" She couldn't resist those eyes. "How 'bout we name him Jinx? Jet? Maple?" She said.

"Jet's going to be my future kid" He announced. "Maple will make me too hungry, so Jinx it is." Lily and James looked at each other and turned around so that their friends couldn't see them laughing silently.

"Let's name him Boxfile!" James imitated Sirius.

"Sirius…" Lily tried to do her best to impersonate her best friend.

"No, no let's name him Maple!" James put on a high voice. In the background he could hear both of them arguing about the name of the cat.

"No, no, no! How could you think such a name. My stomach, which is very big by the way, will not stand it especially when I'm hungry." Lily put on a deep voice. This made both her and James laugh. The argument in the background subsided and the found out Maeve had won.

"Hello Jinxy boy." Maeve cooed at her kitten. It meowed back at her.

"Can't I take him out?" She begged her friends.

"No Maeve. We won't be able to go to the shops Lily wants to." Sirius said putting his arm around her waist.

"So Lily where to next?" James asked her. She looked up at him and pointed to a shop about five metres away.

"There. I want to see the jeans." They all walked and when they reached the door Maeve and Sirius stayed outside to play with Maeve's new kitten.

"Hey Jinxy. I bought you" Sirius said to the little kitten.

"Yes he did." Maeve told him.

"Um can I please see those jeans in the window?" Lily asked the sale assistant. The assistant looked at her and James and smiled.

"Yes my dear, what size?"

"Size eight please." The assistant looked at her.

"Oh no dear, you look much thinner. You are surely a size six."

"Well then, may I please have both of them then?" The assistant smiled at her and went to bring her the jeans.

"Size six Lily? We need to plumpen you up." Lily laughed and hugged him tighter.

"I do eat. I eat so much" James nodded. He saw her how she ate while they dined at Hogwarts.

"Here you go dear." The assistant handed the two jeans to Lily. She found a dressing room.

"Wait here and tell me your opinion." She told James. James nodded and sat on a small stool. She wore the first pair but they were too big. She tried on the size six and they were perfect. She really had lost weight and she didn't like it. She used to be a size 12 but she lost a lot of weight when her grandmother died.

"James are they good?" She came out of the changing room. James stared but Lily didn't notice. She was too busy looking, if they looked good, in the mirror.

"Th-the-they're really good." James managed to say. Lily looked in the mirror again. Her jeans were tight on the thighs but flared out at a bit the bottom.

"I like them. I'm getting them." She looked around and spotted something else. "Look at that cute skirt!" She ran over to a rack of skirts. She found a swishy black miniskirt.

"Ooo, hang on another minute I want to try it on." Truth be told James was getting bored but he stayed if it was to see Lily wearing that short skirt. She exited a few seconds later and James chocked. Luckily Lily didn't seem to notice.

"Wow." Was all he said.

"Nah, it shows too much." She said inspecting her legs in the mirror.

"No it's great. Come on I want to gooo" James whined once more this day.

"Fine. Hang on let me change." Lily paid and they went out to see Sirius and Maeve holding the kitten and cooing over it.

"After you guys decide to stop playing mother to a CAT, can we go home? I'm hungry." James patted his stomach which gave a loud lurch.

"Alright, let's go home. We've got lots of food." Lily said.

"How come you never gave us any for breakfast then?" James asked and Sirius put in a 'Yeah!'

"Because chicken and roast potatoes with a strawberry tart for desert is not usual for breakfast." Lily said.

"Who said?" The boys said at the same time.

"I say!" Lily said in disgust. "Chicken for breakfast?" She emphasized the word 'breakfast'.

"Well Lily I wouldn't have said no to that either." Maeve told her.

"Whatever. Let's go home."

And so they did. Hand in hand they all went to Lily's house.