"You know what, it was brilliant because you weren't in it, Black."

"And without me, the summer was probably torture." James piped up, grinning, feeling almost proud of the fact he hid for ten minutes without both Remus and Lily knowing they were there in the room. "Just admit it, you missed my smile." His grin widened giving Lily an example of the smile she 'missed'.

"Yeah, like I missed a headache." She assured him, his silence was enough to tell her she had won whatever fight they were having. It seems that nothing had changed since last year. It appeared that the two of them settled back into the old routine.

"Awh, c'mon, Evans you shouldn't lie to yourself. It's not good for your health, I can promise." James moved closer forward so his elbows where on his knees and his hands holding his head up, looking at her with direct eye contact; this was always how he killed his prey by staring someone down expecting them to crumble, which they so often did. But this rarely applied to Lily as she had become accustom to James Potter's many ways of getting Lily to back down, this time instead of Lily walking away (which was rare) she called back at him.

"Since when have you cared about my health, Potter." She moved closer to him looking at him directly in the eye, mimicking the position he was in. She was playing the game he wanted her to play , trying not to show any discomfort about having his eyes burning into her skull. She looked over at Remus, who sat in the corner of the room still, to see him clenching his left hand tight and in his right held his book which he also clenched tightly it looked as though he was about to dig is nails into the book. Scared and worried, Lily leant back and looking concerned at the boy who still had his head the book and refused to acknowledge the fight going on consciously but it appear some part of his mind had acknowledged it and refused to let it go unnoticed. The reason Lily was a little bit scared was not because she thought Remus could hurt a fly but the fact it appeared Remus had no knowledge of what his hands were subconsciously doing . Something told Lily that too wasn''t paying much attention to book, and based on the book title (and the first sentence that she read over Remus' shoulder before; in fact she had seen him reading that book before) it was incredibly dull and slow book. It seemed that he hadn't turned a page within the last five minutes and Remus was extraordinarily fast reader.

"Moony." Sirius whispered, causing him to unclench his fists and his head to shoot out of the book he was reading - obviously he had only just realised what he was doing.

"Sorry." He got up turning to Lily. "Sorry" he mumbled once again walking out of the room clutching the books tightly in his hands.

"Well, Evans you still didn't tell me how good this summer was." Sirius quickly changed subject averting Lily's attention from peculiar behaviour of Remus Lupin. "I bet Evans you went around Europe on a shagging marathon. 20 guys every 20 miles."

"Sounds like a bad porno."

"What"

"A bad- never mind." Suddenly realising that the wizarding world had no concept on pornography whatsoever- apart from naughty magazines that Sirius kept under his bed at all times; and he thought no one, apart from James, knew about it. "For your information I went to Italy, it was boring and uninteresting and for the whole holiday I sat whining about how I wasn't with James Potter because the truth is, I love you,"

"Really?"

"No, you're a prick."Lily replied, looking out of the window again, hoping they would leave so she could be left alone even if just for a little while.

"Ouch, Evans." James lifted his hand to his heart, whereby Sirius tended to James jokingly and patted his head and rubbed his back, checked his temperature and even imitating James' pathetic puppy dog face at Lily - and Lily was trying to suppress her laughter. It was fortunate that within the next couple of seconds Lily heard a recognisable voice at the door .

"I didn't know you were into that kind of thing, Sirius - but you know, whatever floats your boat." It was Mary; thank God. It was like she was Lily's fairy godmother who had come down from heaven with sarcasm and wit as her weapon and she would save Lily from James Potter and Sirius Black. The brunette walked over and sat next to Lily who jumped on her.

"We were just talking about Lily's especially good summer that she has yet to us the details of." Sirius it seemed had become the expert of changing subjects of the summer; but only if the topic that it changed to was one involving Lily Evans and her surprisingly good summer. Mary let go of Lily and raised eyebrow; now she wanted to know about Lily's summer. "Apart from the fact she went to Italy."

"It wasn't that good, and I don't understand why you were so interested." She muttered looking down at her hands fiddling with them.

"Because after you said 'My summer was... good'" (Sirius took this opportunity to produce a high pitched voice which Lily supposed was meant to be an imitation of her) "You did this little smile." From the corners of his mouth he imitated the exact smile she did to Remus and few minutes earlier. James smirked and turned away and Peter giggled like a schoolgirl in the corner as he had been doing for most of the time they were in here.

"Sirius, why in Merlin's name are interested Lily's sexual exploits that clearly never happened, I think you fancy her more than James does." Mary laughed. The boy began making stupid fake throwing up sounds and actions with Lily scowling at him. He was stopped by James Potter hitting his arm to get him to shut up. It appeared that everyone had ignored the last part of Mary's statement out of kindness to James Potter, but it still echoed in Lily's mind. It was confirmed James Potter did fancy her.

AN- originally I wanted Mary to come in saying "sup sluts" thanks to my loving sister (I decided against it don't tell my sister)

maybe one day she will come in and say that (I will do it)