Disclaimer: I wish I owned Lily and James, but I don't. And it would probably be bad if I did, because I'm in love with James Potter.

Summary: James is an ass to Lily. She hooks up with Remus Lupin out of drunken curiosity to spite James and her huge crush on him. Too bad curiosity killed the cat.

ONE VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: If you read the first chapter, I've changed this story a bit and re read the summary to understand why its different.

It's a nice long chapter so enjoy!

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Chapter 2

Very Intoxicated Idiot

"Knock Knock."

I looked up from my Charms essay that I was currently rewriting due my dear best friend James Potter when he 'accidentally' lit it on fire in the Common Room. Asshole.

"Drew, I think its for you." I called into the bathroom as I stuck my quill behind my ear. The door opened, and so much steam came out that I had trouble seeing my friend. "Um, was it hot enough in there?"

"No." Drew said seriously. She brushed her shoulder length highlighted brown hair, eyeing the door to their room suspiciously. "Who did you say it was?"

I shrugged, knowing full well that it was Amos Diggory, about to come in and harass Drew.

Before she could open the door, it burst open, revealing none other than Amos. I rolled my eyes as they began their usual morning routine.

"Diggory, get out of here!"

"Why?"

"Because I'm practically naked?" Drew slapped his hand away from her face.

"And?"

One loud, frustrated shout of a spell, and Amos was out of the room faster than ever.

Amos Diggory had this weird obsession with Drew and never left her alone. He was always around. Wherever we went, he was there. Sometimes by the lake under our oak, we could see him stalking around the bushes. Creepy.

"Cool." Drew said, happy that Amos was gone. "So, Lily are you hanging out with us today? We'll be by the lake under our oak again."

"Mm, how I'd love to but unfortunately I have to finish this," I pointed down at my parchment, "and then I will join you."

Drew shrugged and as soon as she was done dressing, she picked up her bag and was on her way out the door.

Now I was alone. Smiling, I heard a faint "Not now, Amos." Echo from downstairs and she smiled at his bothersome attitude.

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Those Marauders loved to secretly torture us. This was the common rule with the four guys, they had either dated or pranked every girl in sixth year. Me and my fantabulous friends were on the unfortunate side of the spectrum--well, unfortunate for most. Drew, Faye, and Persephone had never even considered dating Sirius (no), James (NO), Remus (maybe), and definitely not Peter (Ew).

I was obviously a different story.

James's POV:

"Come on, Prongsie." Sirius said when James landed on the grass, all sweaty and frustrated. "Cant you just shag her and be done with it?"

I just looked at him.

He could be--insensitive at times.

"Why not? That's what I do. And my party is tonight. You'll be drunk, she'll be drunk. It'll be perfect!"

"Sirius, there is a slight problem even if I were like you." I collapsed onto the ground and sat with my arms stretched out behind me. "She has a boyfriend."

"Has that ever stopped me?" Sirius asked.

Ignoring him I said, "You haven't gotten Drew anywhere near our dorms, so there."

Sirius glared at me. "I haven't even begun to try with her."

"Whatever." I sighed and looked off to the side. "Hey, you invited her and her friends tonight, right?"

"Uh…" Sirius said.

"Do it today."

"Fine." He said unhappily.

"You can get in with Drew." I coaxed. Wrong of me, I know. But this is for Lily!

His face changed a bit. "Well, lets go, I know you need a shower to smell nice for little old Lilykins."

I ignored him.

"Hey what happened to your girlfriend?"

"I think she is wandering around with Gregor somewhere."

"You just let her go on and about, with other lads?" Sirius asked.

"Eh, I'll break up with her tomorrow, then."

"Let her down gently, James." Sirius clutched his heart sadly.

I laughed and headed for the Gryffindor Common Room with Sirius. Then Sirius left me to go flirt with a girl he hardly knew.

Thanks, best friend!

Lily's POV:

Packing up my parchment and pulling the quill from behind my ear, I decided I could work on it at the Oak. Maybe I would run into my lumbering oaf boyfriend Harold by the lake, since we were having some problems and needed to talk.

Oh, right. Heh…

I have a boyfriend named Harold. He--well, that's about it, actually.

It was the beginning of the term and still warm, as a result I pulled on a pair of gray jeans and a brown lace camisole before I put my hair up in a pony tail. Dragging my unnecessarily heavy books along, I heaved them onto my shoulder and left the room.

Walking along the halls, I ran into a couple of people I knew and smiled at each of them as I walked by. Dropped my favorite silver ring as I waved at an impossibly nice girl named Gretchen Carson, I cursed and stopped to pick it up. As I stood, my smart ass moved forward without looking up, still trying to get the ring back onto my fat finger and bumped into someone's chest. Some boy's chest.

"Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going--" I looked up. James. Of course. "Oh."

He looked down at me.

I tried to ignore him and side step, but I was slightly cornered.

"Watch where you're going, Evans." He smirked at me. "I know you'd love to touch me, but all you have to do ask."

God I HATE him.

I didn't even know what to say.

"I'd rather touch the--"

"Giant Squid?" He interjected. "Right, well I've heard that one before. You're running out of other options."

Was he about to start this whole asking me out thing again?

"I don't even know if the Giant Squid would have you."

Guess not.

I pushed past him angrily instead of crying out a really lame comeback. Which I was really good at. Trust me.

Fucking James Fucking Potter. Little prick.

He honestly didn't understand what he could do to a girl. No matter how rude, or malicious he was, he was still appealing.

Why? Who bloody knows! I sure as hell don't because his fucking charm works on ME.

I shook off thoughts of him and kept walking as I reached the grass and spotted my mates lounging around under the Great Oak which we called our Great Oak. I walked up and noticed that Faye was sitting Indian-style, her blonde hair in braids and she weaved daisy chains through them. I smiled at my pretty friend and sat down against the tree next to Drew who was lying on her stomach, reading a fashion magazine.

"What took you so long?"

I grumbled something inaudible and opened my book.

"Did you run into lover boy?" Faye asked, handing me a daisy chain. She had millions on her lap. How long had she been there?

"Cute." I gave her a dirty look and went back to the book

"What?" Faye asked me sweetly. "We saw him walking towards the castle so I assumed."

"Don't assume." I said and then noticed that we were missing someone. "Where is Persephone?"

"I don't know, have you seen her?" Drew asked, flipping a page.

"She's probably stalking the Marauders." Faye said matter-of-factly. Sad thing is that we weren't making fun of her. It was probably true.

"Well, James and Remus were here for a bit." Drew said, turning a page. "Oh! That's cute."

I looked up, annoyed.

"Don't worry, Lil." Faye smiled. "He was only telling Drew that Quidditch practice was cancelled so she should tell her brother because he couldn't get a hold of him."

"Why would I worry?" I tucked a strand of auburn hair behind my ear, squinting out at the Quidditch Pitch. Idiot. Acting like I wasn't interested in Potter was the dumbest thing I could ever do around my friends.

Faye and Drew rolled their eyes at each other. See?

"What?" I couldn't look at them.

"When are you going to be done denying this thing you have for James?" Faye asked me as she put probably the twenty second daisy chain around her neck.

"I don't know." I sighed. "I need to find some way to just stay away from him as much as possible." But he was always around.

"I've got it!" Drew looked up.

"What?" I closed my book. At this rate I would never get this crap done.

"How about you hang out with your boyfriend more?" Drew asked with an innocent smile.

"Thanks." I said.

"Am I wrong?" Drew raised her eyebrow.

"No," I crossed my arms indignantly. "We're just having problems right now, you know that."

Faye and Drew did another one of their looks.

"God," I covered my eyes with my hands. "I hate you."

"Lil."

"Yes?"

"I forgot, Patrick says he never wants to see you again and he's sorry." Faye murmured.

"What?" I asked happily. "Why the sudden change?"

Faye shrugged.

"That's very odd." Drew remarked.

I looked up to see Seph who was walking up finally. She came and sat down next to me. "Seph."

She turned around with a questioning face.

Faye nodded to the left and smiled.

As soon as she saw the Marauders wandering around in their pack 100 feet away, she literally ran around in circles from excitement.

Drew and I groaned.

"Go go go!" Faye laughed at her.

Then Seph sprinted away.

I shielded my eyes from the pretty setting sun to watch the Marauders back away in horror, but to my surprise, they didn't. Sirius even hugged her. Then I noticed that I was staring when Remus looked our way and I quickly looked down.

"Is it me, or are they walking towards us?" Faye mused absentmindedly, picking a daisy out of the ground.

I looked up to see Seph bouncing around each boy energetically.

Drew and I gave each other horrified looks as they approached.

"Hello ladies." Sirius spoke in his arrogant drawl.

Drew kept on reading and Faye kept on pulling daisies, but I listened.

I smiled to show acknowledgement.

He went on, "We, the Marauders are having a party in the Gryffindor Common Room tonight at ten p.m. to celebrate my birthday."

"Oh, Happy Birthday, Sirius." I smiled.

He sort of ignored me. Ooooookay, cool guy.

Faye leapt up and put a daisy chain around his neck. "Happy B-Day." And then fell to her stomach again.

"Thank you." I could tell he was thinking we were an odd bunch of friends. "So, can you make it?" He seemed like he didn't really want to invite us much.

"I'll be there." Seph said with a maniac smile. "For sure."

"I guess we can go." Faye said slowly, wincing at Drew's already pissed off look. She hated the Marauders, obviously.

Faye smiled and nodded.

"We'll be there." Seph grinned.

James gave me a warm smile, "See you tonight."

What the--?

Then they were gone and Seph started to roll around on the grass excitedly. "Did you see? DID YOU SEE!" She jumped up and shook me. "They treated me as an equal! Gosh."

"Right, that's quite exciting." Faye murmured, uninterested in what she was saying. None of us really were.

Drew stayed silent and the burst out. "Why did you say we'd go?"

"Because they all came over and asked us very nicely." Faye said simply.

"Its time for dinner, ladies." I got up slowly, dusting myself off.

Drew rounded on me. "You don't seem very unhappy about this."

"Well, I figured I could just be there and socialize. I mean, free alcohol." I stammered.

"That's not why you want to go." Drew said.

Dammit. My master plan, foiled!

"Dinner time!" I announced.

As we walked, Drew mumbled and grumbled for about forty years about Sirius and his prat-like ways.

"He doesn't seem to understand that you can have friends that are girls, does he?" Faye asked.

"He thinks girls are shagging objects." Drew said bitterly.

Faye threw a couple of daisy chains around the people we knew as we walked by on the way to the Great Hall for dinner.

I kind of just stared at Faye, who had about fifty daisy chains around her neck.

"Do you ever do homework?" I asked her.

Faye sighed all spiritually and pulled a couple off to lei me and Drew.

"Get off me." Drew smacked her hand away and I took her daisy chains nicely.

"Babe!" Harold, my boyfriend called from the entrance of the Great Hall.

"You look nice today, love." He kissed me softly. Mmm.

"Thank you." I tried to genuinely smile up at his 6'1 frame. He was a Quidditch Keeper for Ravenclaw, after all. Having a fancy for Quidditch players, right? Yeah yeah I know what you're all thinking.

I took his hand and we walked over to the Ravenclaw table.

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"Why does she always walk over there with her stupid boyfriend?" James mused.

"He's her boyfriend." Remus noted simply.

"Oh." James really needed to stop thinking aloud. "But he is so dumb. I'm much smarter and obviously ridiculously dashing. He's like a big, lumbering, dumb, troll."

"James," Sirius said, "You're a Marauder, can't you think of a better insult than that? And leave her alone, insulting her and her boyfriend wont help her fancy you any."

"Well, he's gotten about half of that down so far." Peter quipped.

James saw Remus smile at that comment.

He was about to retort when he noticed Lily stand up suddenly and stomp over to her friends furiously.

Lily's POV:

"I cant take it anymore!" I complained as I plopped down next to Faye. "Charlotte this, Charlotte that. Why doesn't he just bloody marry the girl already?" I asked wildly. Maybe a little too wildly, I think I scared a couple of small first years nearby.

"What?" Faye asked her with that scary worried tone she always had.

"I hate her." I just sat there and fumed. And ate. A lot.

Lots of pie will do the trick.

Oh, lots of pie will NOT do the trick. I'm already feeling sick, having shoved down a couple of pieces.

I hope Harold sees me eat like a piggy. That would definitely top off my day.

Drew, always the health conscious one, gave me a very odd look. "Why are you eating like that?"

"I need chocolate." I looked around the table like a crazed madwoman.

"No you don't." Persephone ripped the chocolate muffin out of my hand.

"What is the matter with you?" Faye asked.

"Can't you three allow me to eat away my sorrows just this once?" I begged miserably and then noticed Persephone. "Where did you come from?"

"I've been here the whole time." Seph stared at me as if I was a loon. Me, a loon? Never.

"Uh, Lily?" Someone said from behind me.

I turned around, pies shoved all around my face and all, to see Harold looking down at me expectantly. I smiled, showing all my goey pie filled teeth.

He sat down next to me. "Why'd you leave?" He asked quietly.

Anyway, who cares about that git, we fought a little and he went back to his table. Same schpeel.

By the way, when the Marauders walked in, Sirius handed Drew a rose and sat down. She only stared at it, a bit scared. Then Faye figured out that it was a formal invitation to the party tonight.

"Why'd he give it to you?" Seph asked, a bit resentful.

"Because he loves her and wanted to show his true affection for her." I said sarcastically. Hah, yeah right. He hated all of us.

We all laughed pretty hard and started to branch off to more important conversation.

James' POV:

We all heard Lily's comment on the rose. Ouch for Sirius.

He looked a bit unhappy but what could we say to him anyway? He was the one who acted dumb and arrogant all the time because he took a liking to Drew.

Are you calling me a hypocrite!

Then I saw Remus staring at Lily again. Dammit.

"So, who is getting drunk tonight?" I tried.

"Me." Sirius cheered up.

I knew it would do the trick.

"Remus?" He asked.

"No, not tonight mates." He sighed. "I think I might just stay for a couple of hours."

"What? Why?" I asked. Happily. That meant more Lily for me. That is, if I could get her to talk to me.

Lily's POV:

Later, in our dorm, I was being "convinced".

"Lily, nonsense, its good that Harold is being a douche bag because now you can break up with him and get with James!" Drew said simply.

I looked at her. "Are you crazy? James is--NO!"

"Well, lets just get your mind off Harold tonight. It's a party!" Drew said. "Even if its for pratboy and the female population of Hogwarts will be wearing the smallest mini dresses and more makeup than a fifty pence prostitute."

Faye gave her a strange look.

"Well great, now I can drink away my problems." I said sarcastically.

Drew stopped. "That's what I do."

"Please go, Lily please?" Persephone begged me on her knees and held her hands up to me. "You said you would go."

I sat there for a few seconds and attempted to see that it would be fun. Although my idea of fun is not watching my huge crush flirting and hooking up with a bunch of random girls. "Fine, whatever." I sighed.

"Yes! Thank you!" Seph and Faye danced around the room excitedly. Eventually they dragged me off my bed of sorrows and made me dance with them in our underwear. Yeah, you thought your friends were crazy.

I slipped on brown cords and a long billowy green tank top. Might as well look cute, no? My messy hair fell on my shoulders and I didn't really care about that.

"Can we go please?" Seph, the ever patient one was practically crawling up the walls.

We walked down the staircase to arrive at the dimly lit common room that reeked of booze. Music was loud and kids were already drinking.

The Marauders had figured out how to sound proof a room so that no one could hear anything, even if they were a millimeter away. I heard them talking about it in Transfiguration one day when I was staring at James.

I mean--what?

I pushed through two fellow sixth years lads to get to the alcohol. They kind of winked at me in a sloshy gross way and I pretended to see someone across the room and waved fanatically to get away. Then they turned around to see me waving at the alcohol table.

I grinned and poured myself a shot. Or two. Or five. Whoa, that was all for now. I was feeling a pretty woozy already.

(A/N: Um, I'm relating this to my personal experiences, embarrassingly enough, so if you think five shots doesn't get you pretty drunk, you are sorely wrong.)

Drew came up to me about ten minutes later and smiled at me. "Lily, thank you soooo much for making me come. I mean I still hate basically everyone here, but there are plenty of attractive lads to work with."

I laughed at her drunken state and stumbled around to find a seat. I was loosening up a little bit. Or a lot a bit. But who was counting?

I found Faye. She was pretty drunk, but so was I. She went over and sat with some girls from our year. Party pooper. I could have sworn I saw Seph sneaking around each Marauder. Even drunk she worshiped them, but who was counting?

I turned around and knocked into a table and lost my balance while someone caught me.

I looked up, positively horrified to James Potter--holding--me. I wrenched myself out of his grasp and steadied myself. Then this girl with purple came up and clutched his arm with her talons, looking up at him with puppy eyes.

Little bitch.

I turned away and walked over to a corner and sat down. Alone.

I saw miss purple hair positively hanging on James and I was so distracted I didn't see that Remus Lupin had just walked up to me. Ew, I was staring at him.

Stop being such a stalker, Lily.

"Remus!" I gave him a generous hug. I barely knew the guy, but who was counting?

"Having fun?" He sat down next to me, against the wall, on the floor.

"Oh, of course!" I smiled at him. He was pretty darn cute. With those blue eyes and sandy hair. Not bad. Right. How had I never noticed that before?

Then the weirdest and worst possible thing that could have happened, happened. We looked at each other, our faces close. Then, just to spite James, I grabbed his face and planted my lips on his.

Heh, yeah. I'm really stupid. He seemed surprised, but he kissed back. He was a really good kisser, not gonna lie. I felt kind of guilty because I didn't even like Remus. Heck, I didn't even know him! But I was drunk so I pushed it away, and who was counting anyway?

He tugged on my lower lip with his teeth slightly and I was pleasantly surprised. Oh, so you want to play it like that?

I gave him a few ferocious bites on his neck and we kept going at it. It was oddly satisfying. I wouldn't ever get James anyway, so why not? And who the hell was counting?

Sirius's POV:

I looked over at Remus and Lily hooking up all over the place and prayed that James hadn't seen them yet.

Oh, good. Some girl was distracting him. Some hideous girl. Alright, buddy you can do much better than that.

I made my way over and started to speak but it was too late. James had seen Remus and Lily and dropped his jaw unintentionally.

"James--" I tried.

He didn't say anything and just walked up to our room faster than a fast fast thing on fast pills. (A/N: Anyone read the Louise Rennison Georgia books? Haha!)

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A/N: I had SO MUCH FUN writing that chapter! My favorite yet of all the stories I've posted. I think its because I like writing hook up scenes.

Did you guy understand the "But who was counting?" bit? Drunk people say that a lot. More than a couple of times. Or maybe that's…just…me?

I HOPE YOU LIKED IT. Free sex dreams about James Potter for those who review!