Sirius froze, he opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by James.

"You were the first to know!" James bellowed.

"What are you talking about," Sirius replied.

"Don't play dumb with me! You know I've loved her since I was eleven! And then I overhear the two of you making plans to meet up later! I'm not stupid! I know you're fooling around with her! And you're dating her best friend!" James ranted.

"You're wrong," Sirius replied.

"BULLSHIT," James exclaimed.

"Please let me explain," Sirius begged.

"Why should I?" James asked while glaring at Sirius.

"Because…" Sirius began.

"Because what?" James asked becoming more irritated by the minute.

"She loves you," Sirius whispered.

"Why does that have anything to do with it!" James exclaimed.

Sirius stared back wide-eyed, "Did you hear what I said?"

James was recalling what happened and his mouth dropped open. "She loves me?" He asked in a bit of a daze.

"Yes," Sirius replied. James who seemed to be the happiest person in the world at the moment broke out into a dance. After a minute he stopped.

"But that doesn't explain what you two were planning," James stated.

"We were planning a prank," Sirius replied.

"How in the name of Merlin's third nipple did you get Lily freaking Evans to do a prank?" James asked bewildered.

"Well, it's a long story," Sirius replied.

"I would imagine so," James said.

Sirius rolled his eyes and began, "Well, when we did our patronuses in D.A.D.A. I discovered that her patronus was changing. It was becoming a doe! So I confronted her and she admitted her 'feelings', but she didn't want me to tell you so I blackmailed her…"

"You what?" James exclaimed.

"Shut up I'm not done!" Sirius yelled. "So she became my maraudical apprentice. That's why she's been helping with pranks and such. So when she told you she loved you when she was drunk it was true, but you see she thought that I told you her secret and she set my hair on fire,"

"I knew that wasn't a potion gone awry!" James exclaimed.

"Congratulations you're a genius," Sirius began sarcastically. "And that brings us to when you heard us talking. She was going to make Snape wear a Gryffindor to make up for the hair incident. The end. " And with that, Sirius bolted out of the dormitory leaving James smiling to himself.

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Sirius ran down to the common room to find Lily, Marlene, Grace, and Alice chatting by the fire.

"Can I talk to you a second," Sirius panted. Lily nodded and he pulled her into the hallway.

"He knows," Sirius stated plainly. Lily's eyes widened.

"There's been a hell of a lot of yelling today so just let me explain," Sirius said which did not improve Lily's worsening mood.

"I had to tell him. He thought that the two of us were hooking up. And he's my best friend so I couldn't have him think that I was hooking up with the girl of his dreams," Sirius said.

"What do I do?" Lily stuttered.

"Find him. You love him. He loves you. What's the worst that could happen," Sirius said.

"I just want to go to bed," Lily admitted.

"Fine. Fine. I guess he can wait another day," Sirius stated. Lily and Sirius walked into the common room. Sirius plopped down on the couch and wrapped an arm around Marlene and Lily said goodnight to her friends and was about to exit the common room and walk to the Heads dorm when something blocked her path. it was an arm. She looked up to see that the arm belonged to James Potter. A face that she didn't want to look at without a good night sleep under her belt to process her thoughts about him. But in a few seconds she wasn't able to think at all. Because after a few seconds James Potter was kissing her, and the only thing that mattered was that Lily Evans was kissing James Potter back.