A/N: I am sooooo sorry I didn't update yesterday! I wasn't feeling very well, and I didn't even have enough energy to type! I made sure this post was extra long to make up for it. Hope you all like it, and again, I'm really sorry!

review responses:

carol: Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it :D Hope you keep enjoying it and like the next chapter too :)

000kayko000: Yeah, but when I read OOTP and saw the argument between James and Lily, I always thought that was quite harsh as well, though it was completely justified. I hope I'm not making Lily out to be too much of a bitch mind, but I just imagined that James, to her, was one of those people that make you inexplicably angry, you know? Thank you once again for reading and reviewing, please enjoy the next chapter :)

appleeater123: Thanks, it was a lot of fun to write :) thanks for reading and reviewing as always, and I hope you like this next chapter too :)

quirky-as-alice: I take it you liked the last chapter XD, good! Well, J.K said James was a chaser, so in my story he'll be a chaser too, I think they only said he was a seeker in the movies to make some sort of connection to Harry. Anyway, thank you very much for reading and reviewing, and hopefully you'll enjoy this chapter too :)

Fairywolf: Oh it's completely fine, you don't have to review every chapter, you've stuck with this since the start, and just knowing I have readers is enough :D Wow! That review blew me away! I'd love to be a professional, it's just coming up with an idea, really. Maybe someday, eh? Until then I can practice with fan fiction :) Of course, I'll have a dedication in the 'book' to all my fan fiction reviewers :D Now, onto Regulus. Well, as he's in Slytherin, and a different year to Sirius, he obviously won't be around a lot. But, the reason he hasn't been in for a few chapters will be revealled in the next chapter (I'll give you a hint, it has something to do with Snape ;)). Thank you, as always, for reading and reviewing, I hope you enjoy this chapter too :)

splatteredpaint: Haha I know, it's sweet to read cause no matter how angry I make her, we all know what'll happen in the end! And you were right in your preditction :D. I know, Quidditch is brilliant, when I was younger and the books first came out, I had the full HP costume and the broom, I was like nine and used to pretend I was flying around the house playing Quidditch. It was brilliant! Haha, I love moments like that, I'm saying all boys are idiots when it comes to matters of the heart, but the guys I know are so dense when it comes to girls, it's quite hard to watch sometimes haha. I'm really glad you liked it, and I hope you enjoy this chapter too. Thanks for reading and reviewing, it means a lot.

Geniia: Thank you :) Here's the update, hope you like :D

AiLi17: Thanks, glad you liked it :) The Marauders are my favourite too. And it's okay, I welcome anything that can improve my writing, otherwise how can it be improved, eh? Anyway, I'm sorry if a few typo's have slipped through, I really do try to make sure spelling and grammar is right, I promise I'll try harder :) Well, I British, and over here, realise is spelt with an 's', not a 'z'. I know there are a lot of english words spelt differently in America, I hope that's alright. And I went through and made sure all my 'alots' were changed to 'a lots' :D Thanks for reading, reviewing, and helping me improve my writing of course, hope you enjoy this chapter.

Bookworm315: Thanks! I hope you like this next chapter, and upcoming chapters :D

neive lillrose: Thank you :D I'm glad you liked that part! Thanks for reading and reviewing, I hope you enjoy this next chapter and all future chapters. See you at the end of the story, lol.

pensieve1392: Oh it's fine, you do have good english :) glad I could make you smile. Yeah, Sirius had such a hard life, but I like to think when he was younger he was happy, and for me, the guy deserves a little love...but not just yet ;). I'm glad you like Holly too, OC's are hard, because there's always the Mary Sue cloud hanging over you when you're writing them, I tried hard with all of my characters to make them as believable as possible. I know, he almost seems too sweet to turn, but he does unfortunately, that is inevitable...but yeah, he turns back, so in the end he did the right thing :). Haha, I know James is young but I just couldn't wait to have a bit of romance in the story, you know? Thank you for reading and reviewing, I'm glad you're enjoying the story and I hope you like this next one too :)

Disclaimer: No, I don't own HP, unfortunately. Kinda wish I owned Gary Oldman, but we'll not get into too much detail about that :D

Another A/N: Dear God I'm so excited for this chapter. There's a part of it where...well...damn I want to tell so bad!!!! Sorry, I just had to say something *smiles sheepishly*


The Marauders Tale: The Hogwarts Years

Chapter Eleven

Drama Filled Lives

All too soon, the Quidditch tryouts were upon James. He'd tried his best to behave, and had only lost twenty points for Gryffindor after he and Sirius decided it would be fun to mess with Snape's Hair-Raising potion, causing all those around him to inhale the bright blue fumes emitting from his cauldron to lose their hair. Unfortunately, Lily, who was Snape's potions partner, was affected, and rather heated shouting match ensued in the common room after the lesson.

James and Sirius entered the Quidditch changing rooms, realising they had gotten there too early.

"What should we do?" asked Sirius, putting down his broom and beaters bat and turning to face James.

James pondered for a moment a slow grin spreading across his face.

"Let's fly."

Sirius's eyes brightened, and he jumped to his feet.

"You're on Potter; I still haven't forgotten that time you drew on my head!"

James chuckled at the memory and the two friends made their way outside and onto the Quidditch pitch.

After half an hour of dive bombing each other and racing around the pitch, James spotted Jonny and his team, along with the others who were trying out make their way onto the pitch. He called to Sirius, and the two touched down expertly and hurried back to the changing rooms. James wasn't surprised to see only people trying out for the team present; Jonny made it strictly clear that there were to be no onlookers. As much as he loved his cousin, when it came to Quidditch, Jonny was a completely different person; quite a formidable person, if truth be told.

Jonny and his fellow team members disappeared into the captain's office to discuss how they would go about finding their new team members, leaving those trying out to their own devices in the changing room. A surprising number of Gryffindors had chosen to try out, and James recognised many of them from the groups of girls who were supposed members of the Potter/Black fan club. For some strange reason, James had noticed a lot of girls had joined said club (unofficially, it wasn't a real club, just what Lily and her friends called the collective grouping). He wondered if they were only there because James and Sirius were too, since Jennifer and Georgia, the Gryffindor third years whom James had often spotted giggling and pointing at he and Sirius, were also there, and he knew they weren't exactly the 'sporty' type.

James spotted Holly chatting to a couple of fourth years, and waved her over.

"Hey Holl's, nervous?" he smirked.

Holly rolled her eyes, "You wish, come on James you know how good I am."

"And they say we're big headed," sniggered Sirius. Holly felt a flush creep up her face, and the strange swooping sensation she'd felt on the train returned. James noticed too, frowned. Sirius seemed oblivious to the entire thing.

After about ten minutes, Jonny and the remaining team returned and asked those trying out to follow him outside. Currently, there were four spaces available, two chaser positions, a beater and a seeker. The only members on the team remaining were Jonny, who was this year's captain and played keeper, Geoffrey Michaels, a burly fourth year who played beater, and Jessica Brown, who was in third year and played chaser.

"Right, Jonny clapped his hands together, "Now we have four openings, two for chasers, one beater and a seeker, so if I can have my chasers on the left, beaters in the middle and seekers on the right."

The gaggle of students broke into groups, and James noticed the giggling girls who were trying out either went to the chaser or beater groups. Jonny glanced at the groups, and frowned, "Also, can anyone who isn't in Gryffindor please leave, I know I'm good looking but you're really no use to my team."

James and Sirius roared with laughter as several disgruntled girls mumbled and groaned and stalked off the pitch. Jonny shook his head and smiled, "Honestly, what idiots...right, we'll try my chasers first," he turned to the petite girl with mousy brown hair on his left, "This is Jessica Brown, chaser extraordinaire," Jess rolled her eyes, "I want you lot in the air and we'll try some passing exercises, then you'll all have to try and get past me. Seekers and beaters, you guys wait here until I call your group."

Sirius gave James a thumbs up, and retreated to the edge of the pitch where he began chatting with the blushing third year girls who had chosen his group. James glanced at Holly, who was staring at the ground, and frowning. Finally it hit him, and he was rather annoyed he hadn't seen it before. Holly liked Sirius...this could be a problem. James shook his head, deciding he'd deal with it later, and focused on getting through the tryouts.

There were six people trying out for the chaser positions; James, Holly, Georgia, two third year boys and a fourth year girl. They rose into the air and began passing the Quaffle around the circle they'd made. Georgia was terrible, and kept dropping the ball every time it was thrown to her. The fourth year girl was a little better; however nerves seemed to be holding her back. One of the third years, Jake, only seemed to be there to mess around, and had even tried flirting with a rather annoyed Holly. James, Holly and the other third year boy, Max, caught the Quaffle every time, and seemed to be the most promising.

When it came to trying to score, James surpassed the entire group. He was naturally talented at Quidditch; it ran in the family really. He managed to score every single time, much to the delight of Jonny. Holly did equally as well, however missed the last goal when she and Jonny began the usual bickering siblings usually par take in. Max managed three out of five goals, the female fourth year managed three too. Jake, the third who had been messing around had flown off to chat up some of the beaters trying out, and wasn't called back. Jonny had a pretty good idea who he wanted to choose, but he still wanted to have a think about it.

The beaters were next, and there were five trying out for the position. Sirius, Jennifer the third year, and three other third year girls. It was an easy contest; Sirius was the only person who even knew how to hold the bat properly. Jonny got rather angry during the try out for the beaters and told the girls there and then that Sirius had the position and they might as well 'bugger off'. Sirius, of course, was thrilled, and made quite a spectacle of himself by throwing his arms around Jonny (whom he'd become good friends with last year) and pretended to cry. After calming his laughing team members down, Jonny called the seekers into the air, and one by one released the snitch for them to find, whilst he had Sirius and Geoffrey handle a bludger.

Only two people tried out for the seeker position, Kelly Fredrics, a pretty blonde third year, and Elaine Wilder, a red haired fourth year. Kelly caught the snitch within thirty seconds after spectacularly avoiding a well placed bludger by Sirius, resulting in a speechless Jonny, who had to be slapped by Jess to bring him back to reality. Elaine caught the snitch after five minutes, and was almost knocked off her broom by a bludger. There wasn't really a contest here.

The team landed, and Jonny ushered them back into the changing room.

"Right, I'll post the list up tomorrow morning, so make sure your up bright and early. Those I've picked will then come and find me at breakfast and I'll give you the training schedule, now off with you!" he waved his hands dramatically, and took Jess and Geoffrey back into the office to discuss his choices.

"Well, how did you think it went?" asked James, as he, Sirius and Holly made their way back to the castle.

"I think I'm in," grinned Sirius, earning himself a punch in the arm from James.

Holly shrugged, "I think I did okay, if it wasn't for Jonny towards the end I'd have made it."

"Well I thought you were brilliant," Sirius winked at her and flashed his most charming grin. Holly blushed furiously, and mumbled something about not being that good. James allowed himself a small smirk, but otherwise, said nothing.

After bidding Holly goodnight, James and Sirius burst into their dormitory loudly, much to the annoyance of Remus.

"Guy's I'm trying to read here," said Remus irritably. James chuckled, and clapped his friend on the back.

"Sorry mate, won't happen again."

Remus swatted him away with a smile on his face, and continued reading his book.

"How were the tryouts?" asked Peter excitedly.

"I've basically already made the team," said Sirius as though it was the most obvious thing in the world, "And I'm pretty sure James and Holly have made it too."

James nodded, and then turned to Sirius," Which reminds me, stop flirting with my cousin."

Remus and Peter sniggered at the look on Sirius's face.

"Mate I haven't been flirting with her," he said defensively, "You said last year she's off limits, like Lily."

James shook his head, "Well you must have done something, I think she likes you."

Sirius's eyes brightened and a large grin split his face, "Really, well maybe I'm just that irresistible." James snorted, and threw a pillow at Sirius, "I'm serious mate, stop it, I know what you're like."

Sirius frowned, "What do you mean 'you know what I'm like'?"

James shrugged, "I dunno, no offence mate, but you just seem like the love em' and leave em' type. Holly's too young for stuff like that...just...I dunno, try and let her down gently."

Sirius turned to Remus, who was silently nodding, "You think the same, dont you?"

"Well, you're always flirting with your little fan club, and as soon as someone new joins you ditch the old ones and move on, and the girls have only been interested for two weeks!"

Sirius feigned a look of hurt, "I can't believe I'm that transparent...so much for being the mysterious 'oh so handsome' member of the group."

James, Remus and Peter burst into fits of laughter.

"Seriously though," said James, wiping a tear from his eye, "Just, I dunno, go out with one of your fans so she gets the message. She's pretty stubborn, I think that'll be the only thing to put her off."

Sirius waved his hand in understanding, "Say no more, I'll date as many girls as I can if it'll make you happy."

"I think I've created a monster," chuckled James, causing them all to fall into bouts of laughter once again.

~**~

Holly hurriedly dressed the next morning, stubbing her toe as she raced from the room. She spotted James and Sirius already at the notice board, and hobbled over to them.

James frowned, "What's wrong with you?"

"Stubbed my toe," she grumbled. She glanced up at the list nervously.

Seeker

Kelly 'she's taken my heart' Fredrics

Beater

Sirius Black (shock horror)

Chaser

James 'the Lion' Potter

Jolly Holly Knight

Sorry to all those who didn't make it, maybe next year yeah?

Those who did, get your arses down to the Great Hall...NOW!

Lots of love and hugs and kisses, Jonny.

Quidditch Captain and all round hero.

"My brother is a complete weirdo, but congratulations to us all," beamed Holly, hugging James. She turned to hug Sirius, but stopped herself just in time, blushing furiously. This time Sirius noticed, and a stupid grin crossed his face...James found it rather amusing, and yet annoying that his cousin (who was still seen as the baby of the family) could possibly have a crush on his best mate. He'd always though they were far too young for things like that, but then again, he'd admitted to himself he liked Lily (he still hadn't told the others) and Sirius often enjoyed the odd flirt with the hoards of admirers he had so suddenly gained.

Remus said on more than one occasion that James had his fair share of fans too. James had no idea where they had come from, if he was honest, last year the 'Potter/Black' fan club had mostly been people who thought they were funny. Now it was girls! He was growing up far too fast...not that he minded the attention, of course.

"I love Jonny, though I can see there being a bit of an uproar about this," reasoned James after a moments reflection.

"What do you mean?" asked Holly as the three headed towards the portrait hole.

"Well, his sister, his cousin and his cousin's best mate all chosen, think about it."

"Hmm...that could cause a problem, but I think he picked the best people," reasoned Holly. She glanced at Sirius to see his reaction; however he was looking at a group of second year Ravenclaws.

"You know, Cleo Carmen is really quite good looking," he mused, winking at a small, curly blonde haired girl. He'd found winking seemed to be the best trick to get the girls smiling. Cleo waved back, and then began chatting excitedly with her friends. James glanced at Sirius, and nodded. He turned to look at Holly, who had an indescribable look on her face.

"I'm going to find the girls," she mumbled, before turning on her heel and racing back to the common room. James bit his lip, but knew it was for the best. Holly was too young to be worrying about boys, especially boys like Sirius Black.

"I think it worked," he grinned. Sirius matched his smile, but suddenly felt a little sad. Maybe he shouldn't have been so abrupt about it.

~**~

Holly gave the password (Flobberworm) to the fat lady, and came face to face with Chris, Bridget and Lily who were about to climb through.

"What's wrong?" asked Lily, noticing the sad expression on Holly's face.

"Black, he's going to ask out Cleo Carmen," she spat Cleo's name as if they were poison. Lily sighed, she'd had a small inkling about Holly's feelings for Sirius, and hugged her friend, "Oh sweetie, don't worry about it, you can do so much better than Sirius Black."

"She's right, there's a ton of guys who'd wanna go out with you!" assured Chris.

"And anyway, you're far too young to be worrying about boys," reasoned Bridget. Holly nodded, and forced a smile to her face.

"You're right, what was I thinking. Sirius Black...HA! As if, come on, I have to go see Jonny."

"She got over that quickly," chuckled Chris, "Wait...why do you have to go and see Jonny?"

Holly turned to face her friends, and grinned, "You, my dear friends, are looking at the new Gryffindor chaser."

Lily, Chris and Bridget squealed with excitement and pulled their friend into a group hug.

The four friends entered the great hall laughing and joking with each other. They took seats not far from James and his friends, whilst Holly went to find Jonny.

"She seems to have gotten over that pretty quickly," chuckled James as he watched his cousin receive the Quidditch timetable and discuss her new appointment with her brother. Jonny had assured James and Sirius that no one would say anything about the fact that because they were related they would be on the team. Jonny was well like by the Gryffindors, and he was sure they'd trust his judgement on this one.

"Gotten over what?" asked Remus as he and Peter joined them at the table.

"Sirius said he was going to ask Cleo Carmen out in front of Holly so she'd stop liking him," explained James, "And it worked, she's back to her old self, I can't believe it was that easy."

Sirius however, was frowning, "Why did it take her so little time to get over me....I mean....this is me we're talking about....I'm gorgeous!"

James, Remus and Peter glanced at each other, the burst out into laughter. Laughing seemed to be a common occurrence between these four friends.

"I think you should start saying stuff like that in front of Lily, then maybe she'd get off my back."

"She still not talking to you?" asked Remus.

"I caused the girl to go bald Remus, I'm lucky I'm still in one piece!"

"It was brilliant though," chuckled Sirius, "You know, she doesn't look too bad bald."

James punched Sirius in the arm and laughed, "Back off Black, she's mine."

~**~

The rest of that week passed in a haze of excitement for James. He'd already owled his parents about making the team, and would have his first meeting on Monday. During the week they had run into Sirius's brother Regulus, who was simply thrilled that his brother and James had made the team. Regulus would regularly sit with his brother and his friends during meals, much to Sirius's delight, and seemed to have made some okay friends. They hadn't seen him hanging around with Snape or Narcissa yet, though they knew it was just a matter of time.

James and Sirius met Holly in the common room on Monday after dinner, then made their way to the Charms room Jonny was using for the teams' first meeting of the year.

When they arrived, they found their team mates already there. Jonny and chaser Jessica Brown were standing next to the blackboard looking over a diagram of some sort of Quidditch formation. Geoffrey Michaels, the other beater, was chatting away to Kelly Fredrics, the new seeker.

Jonny turned to the doorway and grinned, beckoning his new team members over.

"Alright before we start, I'd like to say congratulations and welcome to our new members," Jonny, Jess and Geoffrey applauded the new members, and took their seats. James grinned at Sirius and Holly, feeling welcome already.

"Now I'd like to make a few comments on our new members, first off are our chasers, who as you probably have realised, got their talent from me."

The team chuckled, even James and Holly laughed.

"You two flew really well yesterday, and your tactics match Jess's, so you two were perfect for the team," continued Jonny, beaming. James and Holly both flushed as the team applauded them again.

"As for our beater, there really was no contest," he grinned at Sirius, "And even though I've been told not to stoke his ego too much, you really were incredible mate, well done!"

Sirius stood up and took a bow, much to the annoyance of Holly.

"And finally, I think I speak for all of us when I say Miss Fredrics here blew us all away with her incredible catch at the tryouts, you were amazing Kelly."

Kelly blushed furiously, and smiled at her team mates. Sirius winked at her, and Holly felt her blood boil. He really was an insufferable little berk, even if he was handsome.

"Right, now that we've got that all sorted, lets press on. Our first match of the season is with the Slytherin's. I've seen their practices, and they have a strong team this year, so I'm afraid we'll be training alot," continued Jonny.

"Don't worry Jonny, this is our year," smiled Jess, "I can feel it!"

"We haven't won the cup since my first year on the team, but this year...Jess is right, I can already see we have a bloody good team...this year, we win it!"

The team cheered, and James felt himself falling in love with the team already.

After an hour and a half of preliminary introductions to the various formations they would be focusing on, Jonny reminded his new team their first training session would be on Wednesday, and shooed them away. James was extremely excited to begin training for the games. He knew Jonny would be an incredible captain; he was probably even more passionate about Quidditch than he was, and that was certainly saying something.

~**~

James and Sirius bade Holly goodnight, Sirius wincing at the coldness of her tone when she spoke to him. Although he and Holly had never specifically got on, they had been quite civil towards each other at the end of last year. He knew why it was, and couldn't help but feel guiltier each time he saw her icy glare directed at him. Holly wasn't a girl to be trifled with.

Meanwhile, James pondered his own relationship with the girl who was quickly becoming the only subject of his thoughts. Lily. He couldn't understand why she still hated him so much; he honestly didn't think he was a bad guy. Just because he had a little fan club, I mean, who would refuse attention like that? And just because he and Snape didn't get on...Lily didn't get on with James, that made her just as bad as him didn't it? He didn't know why he was still so hung up on her, there was just something about her, He couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was...it was just...everything! Everything about her fascinated him, and drew him in even more. He loved her.

By god...he loved her.

When did it become this confusing, he thought. He couldn't love her; he was twelve for Pete's sake! But he did. James Potter loved Lily Evans...and he sincerely doubted he'd ever stop, not that he'd admit it to anyone. No, that was just a little too weird, if truth be told.

As the two boys entered their dormitory, they spotted Remus and Peter sitting on Remus' bed discussing something. Peter had a serious look on his face, a look that didn't leave when James and Sirius made their presence known.

"Who died?" asked Sirius, flopping down on his bed and kicking off his shoes.

"Remus has to go and see his mum again," said Peter, shooting a disgusted look at Sirius. The colour drained from his face, and he shot up.

"Oh shit, Remus, I'm sorry mate, I didn't know..."

Remus waved his hand with a small smile, "It's alright, she's not on her death bed, dad just wants me to visit."

Sirius nodded, and relaxed back against his pillows. It was already pretty dark, and the moon was almost full. Quite a pretty sight, really.

Sirius blanched. Moon. Almost full. His head snapped towards Remus, his eyes wide with fear. No. No, that was too farfetched even for his over active mind.

"Sirius, I said it's alright," said Remus laughing, noting the look of horror on his friend's face. Sirius forced a nervous chuckled, and turned his head, avoiding looking out of the window. He cast his mind back to his astronomy lessons last year, and tried to remember when the full moon had been. Of course it was impossible to remember when Remus had gone last year, so he tried to remember any holidays Remus had missed.

He remembered Halloween; he'd looked a little peaky then. And when they returned from Christmas he'd looked exceptionally pale.

"James, can I borrow your invisibility cloak?"

James looked up from the book Remus was showing him, and frowned.

"Sure, but are we not invited on this little midnight wander?"

"Uhh...no...actually, I wanted to go ask Cleo out...if you don't mind?"

James shrugged, and dug out his cloak, "Sure, just don't lose it or anything, okay?"

"Cheers James," he took the cloak and bounded from the room. James looked suspiciously at his friends, "Why ask her out now, why not wait until tomorrow?"

Remus shrugged and went back to his book, "You know Sirius, he's probably working on that whole mysterious stranger thing."

James and Peter laughed at this, and shrugged of Sirius's strange behaviour.

~**~

Sirius crept through the silent rows in the library, searching for a book on astronomy. It was too risky to get his own copy out, so this would have to do. He found what he was looking for, and quickly hid himself in one of the back rows. Making sure he was still covered, he flicked to the back of the book, which showed last year's moon phases.

"Oh shit!"

~**~

Lily, Holly, Bridget and Chris decided to have themselves a little sleep-over that evening in the common room. Chris had brought a substantial amount of sweets and chocolate with her from home, and had spread them all out on Lily's bed. They'd decided to include the third years Jennifer and Georgia, who had hung around the common room for some odd reason, and were shooting furtive glances towards the girls.

"So Lily, I heard James Potter asked you out at the Quidditch tryouts a couple of weeks ago," asked Georgia, her tone slightly accusatory.

Lily glanced up from her collection of chocolate frog cards, "Yeah, he did."

"We heard you said no," piped up Jennifer, flicking her sandy blonde hair over her shoulder.

"Yeah, I did."

"Why?" asked the two girls in unison.

Lily frowned, "Because I didn't want to...is there something wrong with that?"

"Everything is wrong with that!" cried Georgia, "Do you even know how many girls in this school like James! And you turned him down!"

Lily bit her lip to stop from laughing; however Holly, Bridget and Chris had no such luck.

"Georgia, do you like James?" asked Chris.

"Of course," said Georgia without preamble, "Why wouldn't I?"

"No idea," chuckled Lily, "Why dont you ask him out?"

Georgia seemed to ponder this for a moment, "Alright, maybe I will!"

Holly burst into a fit of giggles, "Do it now, he's in his dormitory."

Mary jumped to her feet, and hurried towards the boy's stair case, closely followed by the other girls.

"Oh this is going to be good," grinned Lily.

~**~

James yelped as six girls suddenly burst into his dorm room. Fully aware that he was shirtless, he blushed, and dived behind Remus.

"What's up?" asked Remus, as though nothing was wrong.

"Georgia has something she'd like to ask James," said Lily promptly, fighting the urge to laugh. Oh, this was perfect payback for James, Georgia was a complete fool!

James, who had managed to pull on a shirt whilst hiding behind Remus, peered around his friend, and frowned.

"What?"

Georgia stepped forward, one hand twisting a strand of dark hair around her finger.

"James, I was actually wondering if you'd like to go out with me."

James's jaw dropped, and Lily, Holly, Bridget and Chris dove behind Georgia and Jennifer to hide their smirks. James glance at Remus, who seemed rather shocked himself.

"What...you mean...like as...my girlfriend?" he stuttered.

Georgia nodded unabashedly, "What do you say?"

At that moment, an ashen faced Sirius entered the room, running right into Holly.

"Watch it Black," she hissed, shoving him back. Sirius ignored her, and frowned in confusion at his friends, all thoughts of his previous realisation flying from his mind.

"Are we celebrating something?" he asked.

"Georgia just asked James out, and we're waiting for his answer!" replied Lily.

Sirius glanced at Lily, then to Georgia, then to James, and grinned.

"He'd love to."

"What?!" cried James and Lily in unison. Georgia squealed, and hugged Jennifer.

"James, you're officially going out with Georgia...uhh...the third year...now sod off girls, I need to talk to these lot," he jerked his thumb at James, Remus and Peter, who were still wide eyed with shock.

"Alright, see ya tomorrow James, meet me in the common room so we can have breakfast together," she blew a kiss at him, and left the room.

"Sirius, will you go out with me?" asked Jennifer hopefully.

"No, now out, the lot of you."

Jenni huffed, and stalked from the room, followed by Holly, Bridget and Chris. Lily took one last incredulous look at James, then left too. Once the door was shut, James rounded on Sirius.

"What the bloody hell was that!" he cried, pointing at the now empty doorway, "Do you have any idea how annoying Georgia bloody King is!"

"So that's her second name, and of course I do," replied Sirius lazily.

"Then what....why....wha...SIRIUS!"

"Relax, it's all part of the plan," replied Sirius, tossing James his invisibility cloak.

"What plan?" asked Remus, quirking an eyebrow. Sirius sighed as if it were obvious.

"Listen, Evans planned this whole thing."

"What's that got to do with....wait...what?" exclaimed James, "Evans....why?"

"Aaahhh, payback," said Remus, realisation dawning across his face.

"Payback?" asked Peter, "I dont get it?"

"Lily knows how much Georgia annoys you, heck, the girl annoys everyone; I bet she told her to ask you out as a sort of payback. If you'd said no, Georgia would have hounded you constantly...payback," explained Remus.

"Exactly, but she didn't expect you to say yes."

James frowned, "Alright, that's wonderful and everything, but now I'm bloody going out with the girl! Won't that annoy me even more?"

"Yes," replied Sirius and Remus in unison. Peter still looked confused, and shrugged at James.

"Listen, if you act like she doesn't annoy you, then Lily's plan will backfire...just go out with her for a couple of weeks, then ditch and say you've decided to be single for awhile or whatever," continued Sirius.

James mouthed wordlessly at his friends.

"I have reason to believe this will show us Miss Evans' true intentions...I happen to believe she may have a little crush on you," added Sirius with a smirk.

"Has a crush on me...she bloody hates me! How on earth can she have a crush on me!" cried James.

"There's a fine line between love and hate James, the fact that she picks on you for the slightest thing suggests she may be fighting deeper feelings," explained Remus. James's shocked expression slowly began to fade, and a small smile began to form.

"You think she likes me?" he asked hoarsely.

Sirius nodded, "Deep down, maybe...and this little experiment will tell us. If she's jealous, she likes you, got it."

James nodded, and grinned.

"You two are genius's, you know that."

"I try," said Sirius lazily, pulling on his pyjamas, "So we can confirm that you do indeed fancy Lily Evans?"

James rolled his eyes and tossed a pair of rolled up socks at Sirius.

"So how did things with Cleo go?" asked Remus.

Sirius stiffened, and shook his head, "Umm, she was asleep already, I'll ask her tomorrow."

"Pretty early for her to be asleep," mused Peter. Sirius shot him a glare, causing him to recoil.

"Nah, probably had a busy day, anyway, I'm tired. Goodnight boys, we have a big day ahead of us!"

~**~

"I can't believe I'm going out with James Potter!" cried Georgia, hugging her friend and jumping around the room like a lunatic.

"Neither can I," mumbled Lily. Bridget heard her, and looked at her interestedly.

"You alright Lils?" she asked.

"Yeah, just annoyed that my plan didn't work...I didn't know he liked her."

Bridget bit her lip. There was more going on here than met the eye.

"You know, James didn't actually say yes, Sirius did."

"He didn't say no either," she muttered, "I'm going to bed."

Bridget nodded, and hugged her friend, deciding she'd pursue whatever was going on tomorrow. Deciding to abandon their sleepover, the girls packed up their things and trudged up the staircase to the dormitories.

Lily pulled her bed hangings closed, and buried herself under the covers. Why was she bothered by this? She could always get James back another way. So what if he was going out with Georgia, she didn't care. Closing her eyes, Lily pushed all thoughts of that night's events far from her mind, and sighed. She'd deal with it in the morning.

"You know Holly, this makes us practically family now," she heard Georgia say from outside her room.

"I'm thrilled, I'll be sure to send the family a letter announcing the wonderful news," Lily chuckled at the deadpan voice of Holly. At least she had her friends to cheer her up.

Oh, such drama filled lives already. Well, it made life a little more interesting, especially when you spent a lot of time with four boys who seemed to have made it their personal goal in life to play tricks on the entire school.


Well, what do you think? Any good? Not worthy of the good name fan ficition? Let me know :)

I couldn't resist, I'm giving another teaser :D

"Mate...are you...a...a."

"Yes," whispered Remus, "I'm a werewolf."

p.s: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh XD