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Sam
"Go out with me Evans?" James asked Lily for the third time since we'd gotten off the train.
"You wish," Lily responded sighing.
"Yes, I do. You know, seeing as I'm headboy, and you're headgirl, we should be spending quite a lot of time together this year. It's only a matter of time before you realize how exceedingly handsome I am and fall in love with me," James said smirking.
Lily rolled her eyes. "In your dreams Potter," she walked off without another word, but James was not to be discouraged.
He turned to the rest of us saying, "She'll realize it sooner or later." We all tried to hide our laughter.
"Prongs, the day Lily Evans says yes to you, will be the day the world ends," I said ducking behind Sirius before James could realize what I'd just said. He frowned slightly.
"We'll see about that," he said.
"Only one problem Prongsy," Sirius said. "You're not exceedingly handsome. That role is reserved for another."
"And who would that be? Wormtail?" James said. Peter did his best to look upset, but he ended up laughing.
"Oh you know who," Sirius said.
"You think Voldemort is better looking than me?" James cried staring at Sirius in horror. Sirius just sighed.
We all clambered into the last carriage, and I knew the whole ride would be filled with James and Sirius fighting over who was better looking.
"It's obvious I'm better looking! Ask Sam!" Sirius cried.
"Sam will just take your side like always!" James protested. That wasn't true, but I didn't interrupt.
"Then ask Kaelin!" Sirius reasoned.
"Fine. Kaelin which one of us is exceedingly handsome?" James asked.
"Oh stop it. You're both ugly!" she said causing James and Sirius to stare at her with shocked looks. Neither one of them was expecting that. The rest of the ride was silence for the first time in Marauder history.
"Think I should tell them I was just kidding?" Kaelin whispered to me when we got off at the castle. I shook my head still laughing as we watched James and Sirius sulking towards the castle.
"Nah, let them suffer. They deserved it," I said.
Remus came over then and said, "How long do you think they'll be like this?"
"They'll have forgotten all about it by the time the sorting starts," I said. Indeed, the moment we walked through the big oak doors, Sirius and James were smiling again. Probably planning their first prank. We sat down right as the doors opened again revealing all the first years.
They looked terrified, and I remembered my first day. I didn't have time to worry as I had to calm Sirius down who thought for sure he was going to be put in Slytherin. When it came his turn, he was white as a sheet, but when the hat said Gryffindor, he smiled. I'd already been sorted, and he joined me.
"Hey, Kaelin isn't that your brother?" I asked pointing to a little boy with light brown hair. She nodded watching him. He could've been Kaelin's twin if not for the six year difference. He was among the last to be sorted, and when the hat called out Ravenclaw to a little girl, Mcgonagall called his name.
"Matthew Thomas!" the little boy stepped forward looking scared. He looked over at Kaelin and I, and we smiled. The sorting hat was placed on his head, and not a minute later, it had shouted GRYFFINDOR! Everyone clapped as Matt walked over to our table. He between me and another first year girl.
"Great job Matt!" Kaelin said. Sirius and James made a big show of shaking his hand, and I remembered Matt had never met them. He'd only met me when I spent two weeks at Kaelin's one summer.
"Matt, this is Sirius, James, Peter, and Remus," I said. Matt smiled.
"I know you guys! You're the marauders!" he said excitedly. The four boys beamed at the fact they were so well known. "Kaelin talks about you a lot, Remus." Kaelin turned bright red at this and glared at her brother. He returned the look with a look of innocence. Remus was blushing too, but he just laughed it off. Sirius and James exchanged looks and then looked at me. I knew what they were thinking.
"So, what's our plans for this year?" I asked, and again Sirius and James exchanged looks.
"Pull the greatest prank ever, and get Lily to go out with me," James said. I rolled my eyes.
"Ok, and how do you propose to do that?" Kaelin said trying to forget what just happened.
"I have my ways," he said.
Sirius snorted. "Yeah, and that's worked so well hasn't it?" he said earning a glare from James. I sighed. Would they never stop fighting?
"HeyProngs," Remus said. "Have you ever though maybe she really doesn't like you?"
"Nope, she's in love with me! She just won't admit it!" he said joyfully. This earned him a slap from Lily who had heard him.
"I most certainly am not!" she said. I laughed at James' shocked expression when he realized she was standing right there. The rest of dinner went much the same, and it wasn't long before we were heading up to the common room. As it was around midnight, and we had classes tomorrow, we all went right to bed.
I sat on my bed watching Kaelin brush her teeth. "So Kaelin," I said smirking. "What's all this Remus talk?" She jumped about a foot in the air and gasped. She finished brushing her teeth before she answered.
"I don't know what you're talking about," she said sitting down on her bed.
"Oh really?" I said. She was turning bright red again.
"Yes really!," she said. Then she smiled evilly. "How about you and Sirius?" I started laughing and fell off the bed hitting the ground hard thankfully we were the only ones in the room.
Until Lily walked in. "Why are you on the floor?" she asked amused.
"Oh, she's just realizing her hidden feelings for Sirius Black," Kaelin said.
"I do not like Sirius!" I cried tackling Kaelin pulling her onto the floor with me. "He's my best friend!" Lily raised her eyebrows.
"I for one, agree with Kaelin," Lily said. I glared at them both.
"I don't like him!" I said. "But you can't deny you like Remus," I said to Kaelin. She was blushing furiously again.
"I do not!" she said.
"When will you realize you do?" Lily said. "It's obvious!" Kaelin shook her head.
"No," she said stubbornly. I sighed and got into bed still laughing.