"Lily! Oh my God, how did it go?" Mary asked, bursting with excitment.
On an ordinary day, Lily would have curious as to how Mary knew that it was not going to your average, everyday picnic, but this was no ordinary day. In fact, Lily couldn't even think of a day that had been so extraordinary. Lily tried to keep her emotion at a reaonable, not-embarrassing level... but she couldn't. She exploded.
"Oh my God! Today was the best day of my life! Guess what happened Mary? Guess what happened. at first it was just just your everage picnic, but I could feel something was going to happen Mary, I could feel something amazing was going to happen! I mean, how amazing is that? Pretty amazing if you ask me! Anyway, we had all of this great food, and then, and then..." Lily faltered to a stop after her exuberant speech.
"Then what?" Mary asked, her eyes alight with exhilaration, just at hearing the story.
"Then.." Lily breathed in deeply. She hadn't actually said it out loud yet.
"Yes?" Mary prompted.
"Then... WE KISSED!" Lily shrieked in Mary's ear.
"OH MY GOD!" shrieked Mary in responsed.
They both danced around in their bedroom untill they were exhausted, and Lily had expended all her energy.
"I just can't believe it," Lily whispered, laying on her bed, "I just can't believe that someone as fantastic as him, could be interested in me! Me, Lily Evans! And I can't believe I didn't do anything sooner, I mean he's such an awesome kisser!"
"So you admit that you like him?"
"OF COURSE I DO! DID YOU NOT GET THAT FROM THE WHOLE KISSING BIT, OR WHAT?"
"Sorry! Just asking. It's just, you seemed so protective about it before."
"Yeah well, things have changed now haven't they?" Lily said. "Things have changed alot," she muttered to herself.
--
"James! How did it go?" Remus asked.
"Okay."
"Really?" asked Peter.
"It was FANTASTIC! The best day of my life! I finally kissed Lily Evans!"
"Thank God you got over your off in the fairy world stage and finally made a move cause look at Sirius." Remus said.
"What do you mean?" James asked.
"Look at him." Remus replied as James turned to look at Sirius.
"What the hell is wrong with him?"
"You actually don't know?" Peter asked.
"No, should I?"
"Yes! He's acting exactly how you have for the last 4 years." Peter replied.
"You mean I was that love struck?"
"Yep." Peter said.
"Really?"
"Yes." Remus agreed.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!" Peter and Remus both shouted.
"Okay, okay! What do we do?"
"Well we have to get Mary to like him. It's the only thing that worked for you." Remus said logically.
"Okay and how do we do that?"
"I don't know, ask Lily." Peter replied.
--
"Lily?"
"Uh huh."
"Does Mary like Sirius?" James blurted out before he could stop himself.
"What?!" Lily said in surprise, turning around on the couch she was sitting on to look at him. "Why do you want to know?"
"Because... Sirius has gone into an 'I am off with the fairies dreaming about Mary' stage. And the only way to snap him out of it is to get Mary and him together." James replied.
"And how do you know this?" Lily asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because apparently, well according to Remus and Peter, that's exactly how I was for the last 4 years until today."
"4 years? That's how long you liked me for?"
"Well I liked you for 2 years and loved you for the other 2."
"You love me?" Lily asked looking at him with suprise and pure happiness.
"Yea, I just didn't know how to tell you and you seemed to hate me."
"I'm sorry. Really sorry. I think I love you to James. I thought it was hate, but I think I actually crossed that small line between love and hate a long time ago, I just didn't have the courage to admit, and sometimes you were just so insufferable and annoying I felt like running into a wall!" Lily said laughing at the end. James joined her.
"Anyway how do we get Mary and Sirius together?"
"I know this game, it's a muggle game, it's called Truth or Dare."
--
"Everyone lets play a game! Truth or Dare!" James shouted running into the lounge room after dinner, where everyone was sitting.
"What's that?" Sirius asked looking at James.
"It's a game where someone asks someone else truth or dare, and after they pick one they ask them a question, which they have to answer truthfully if it's truth. Or dare them to do something if they pick dare. And if we don't think your answer was true in truth or you refuse to do the dare I get to punish you. With ice, lots of ice." Lily finished, grinning evilly.
"Let's Play!" Sirius shouted jumping up and sitting on the floor with everyone else to form a circle.
--
"Sirius, Truth or Dare?" James asked.
Sirius weighed the options in his head. Truth they might make me admit I like Mary and I can't do that so that leaves dare. Nothing will be worse than admitting my feelings for Mary.
"Dare." Was his reply.
"Okay, I dare you to admit your true feelings for Mary," Mary blushed crimson and looked at the ground nervously twisting her hands. Sirius stared at his best mate in shock.
How could he do something like this to him? He was Sirius Black, he shouldn't be embarrased but doing this was going to embarrass him. Afterall he had never felt this way about anyone before.
"There's no way to get out of this, is there?" Sirius asked, crossing his fingers.
"Nope, unless you want ice in your clothes, your food, your bed, your wardrobe-" Lily replied smilling cheekly.
"Okay, I get it. Mary, I really, really like you. I've never felt this way about anyone before and I want you to be my girlfriend although I completely understand if you don't want to, I mean you probably don't even like m-" Sirius stopped talking abruptly as Mary threw herself at Sirius and started kissing him quite passionatly.