~ Three Weeks Later ~
"Sirius, it's okay!" Lily said for the umpteenth time, her arms around my neck.
I pulled away. "He's refusing to talk to me Lily. How on earth is that okay?"
"He's just upset - you two always tell each other everything so you keeping this huge secret was a shock. Now I'm not saying its okay to storm off like this!" She added, after seeing my glowering face. "But I'm just trying to get you to see-"
"Its not just me though. He's ignoring Remus as well." Tears started to cloud my vision. I had never gone this long before without James - well, since after I met him, anyway.
Lily sat there for a minute, her red curls shining brightly in the sun. "I have an idea..." I looked at her, inquisitively. "I hope you know that you'll owe me, big time."
…
It was midday and James Potter was walking down to the lake. Lily Evans, as in LILY EVANS had asked him to meet her by the lake at lunch. AS IN THE LILY EVANS HE WAS IN LOVE WITH. If he could dance and cartwheel and jump for joy, he would have rolled all the way down to the ice cold water. He could see her in the distance, her beautiful hair shining like a beacon.
When he got down there, beaming, Lily stood and stonily glared at him. "I have a deal to make with you. I will go on one date and ONE DATE only, if you make up with Sirius." And with that done she left and walked back up to the castle.
James looked at Sirius, who emerged from behind the bushes. "Really? Now you're using Lily?"
"It was her idea. Can we sit?" Sirius gestured to the benches. James started to open his mouth but was interrupted - "Let me speak. I'm sorry I never told you about me and Remus. I though you'd find it strange and odd and weird and would judge me. My parents always said this situation was wrong. I mean, I know you're not my parents, but I was scared and I'm really sorry. I know we tell each other everything but-"
"Why the hell would you think that I would care, Sirius? Are you actually dumb? I don't give a crap! You could be attracted to Moaning flipping Myrtle or the Bloody Baron and I wouldn't care! Well, maybe not Moaning Myrtle..." James added as an afterthought. "You're an idiot!"
"Wait..." Sirius stopped in his tracks. "You don't care?"
"Of course not!"
"But you've been avoiding me ... And refusing to talk.. And avoiding Remus!" Sirius cried.
"No I haven't! YOU guys have been avoiding ME! I thought you'd decided to ignore me!" Indignantly James retorted, his messy hair waving in the wind.
"You have got to be joking me."
…
Twenty minutes later Lily spied them walking up the moving staircases, arm in arm, planning their latest prank on, well, the next poor sucker they decided to inflict some embarrassment on.