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As October slowly made its way through the month, many students around the school found themselves worried over who they would take to the ball. Boys seeking out girls, while girls whispering to each other to see who was still available.

The weekend of Hogsmede finally arrived and many students found themselves thankful to get out of the school where the only thing to talk about was the Halloween ball. It was a day to stock up on all the sweets the desired, or a day to spend with the person they thought to be just as sweet.

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Kela woke up bright and early with slight butterflies in her stomach. After meeting up with Will, several times, she had agreed to meet up with him at Hogsmede. Butterflies appeared as she realized that people might think they were going out. It made her nervous as to what people might think. And even a certain someones thoughts ran through her mind.

"MARCY!" She yelled, waking up one of her best friends.

"Goodness Keke! Your gonna drive me mad with waking me up like this all the time!" Marcy grumbled sitting up in her bed.

"Sorry. But really? You should be getting up now anyways. And I'm having a state of panic right now!"

Marcy rubbed her eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Oh you know nothing that big. Just the fact that I'm meeting WILL at HOGSMEDE and EVERYONE will SEE US TOGETHER! No biggie. Nope none at all."

Marcy laughed at her friend. "Oh Kela! It's gonna be all right. Don't even worry about it."

"But I am! Where's Lily? I need her here too!" Kela burst into the bathroom. "I'm taking a shower."

Marcy laughed and pulled the covers back over her head, hoping to get at least fifteen more minutes of sleep.

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Lily woke up that morning at the break of dawn, to watch the sunrise. Something she still loved to do. It was such a simple thing in life, yet so magical. All the different colors reached beyond the stars making her smile.

The one thing that she thought kept her in balance between the muggle world and the wizarding world was the sun. It was the same in either world powerful, dominant and breathtaking.

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Butterflies rose in James' stomach as he got ready for Hogsmede. He had not officially asked Lily to Hogsmede, but he knew that she had not said 'yes' to anyone. So in hope he thought she'd want to hang with Marcy, who'd be with Remus, who'd be with his fellow Marauders. So essentially James was hoping that he'd get to spend the portion of his day with the red head.

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Remus headed down the boys stairs to wait for his girlfriend, on the couch, in the gryfinndor common room. He looked at his watch to see it was only five to eleven, so he was early.

Only thirty seconds ago, as he went to close the door to the seventh year boys dorm, he had watched as Sirius sprung out of his bed to hit the showers for a mere three minutes, before getting dressed. He knew from all the years of witnessing this that Sirius will make it down the stairs with thirty seconds to eleven. Then he would proceed to complain about how the girls were taking forever, when they'd appear a mere minute later. It had been like this every Hogsmede trip since their first one in the third year.

Remus looked into the fire thinking of what he needed to buy while at Hogsmede. Marcy had suggested getting a couple costumes. He had agreed thinking that it would be fun. Marcy usually had a good sense on what to wear.

Just as Remus looked at his watch again, Sirius came running down the stairs. "What the bloody hell is taking those girls so long? We need to be at the entrance in five minutes!"

Remus rolled his eyes. "They'll be coming down, right about now." Just as he said this the girls were seen at the top of the staircase. "Hello love. You look beautiful."

A huge grin spread across Marcy's face as she looked up to look Remus in the eyes. "Thank you! You looking quite dashing yourself! Ready?"

Remus nodded and grabbed her hand, leading the way. Kela and Sirius fell in step beside each other with Peter in tow.

"Hot date?" Sirius asked casually.

Kela looked up. "Yup! Can't wait." As soon as the words left her mouth, Kela regretted saying them as Sirius' face fell with her response.

"That's great. Don't do anything stupid and get yourself pregnant. No one likes to date a mother." He grumbled, not able to come up with a snarky remark.

Kela tried to look Sirius in the eyes, but he was avoiding eye contact. "I'll remember that."

Sirius walked along in silence. So badly he wanted to ask Kela why she was going with anyone but him. To grab her and tell her straight up that she was making a mistake and she should go with him. To bring her in close and kiss her so softly. To tell her that he was falling for her.

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James walked out of his room, looking around the common room, but it was still empty. He wondered if Lily had maybe already left. "Lily? Ya still here?"

Lily's bedroom door flew open. "Yes. Just trying to find my mittens. It looks a bit chilly out there."

James chuckled. "You do realize you're a witch Lily and can just summon it."

Realization crossed Lily's face. "Oh sometimes I forget that. It's weird to think you can do magic for such simple things." Lily summoned her other purple glove. The single glove flew from below her bed. "Wonder how that got there?" She murmured to herself.

James laughed. "Come on Head girl or we'll be late!"

Lily giggled and ran to the entrance. "I'm pretty sure you're being the slow poke now. Race ya!"

James laughed. "Oh I don't think that's fair game. See my legs are about twice the length of yours."

"Ha! You're just scared of getting out done by a girl!" Lily stood on her tip toes trying to be face to face with her fellow head student.

James patted the top of her head. "There, there, wee one. You'll do just fine."

Lily shoved him into the wall. "What am I doing fine with?"

James bit his lip from stopping himself on saying what he really wanted to say. "Everything Lils' everything." Lily looked up into James' eyes to see the sparkle that she loved to see. As Lily realized what she had thought, she mentally slapped herself. She was not allowed to think like that.

James watched Lily as she had an inner battle. "You all right over there?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine."

"Don't look like it."

She shrugged. "It's nothing."

"Come on Lils'. I thought by now we'd be able to tell each other stuff."

Lily frowned. "I think we should be able too, too. I just, don't know. Ya know?"

James nodded. "Yeah. It seems like I don't really know about a lot of things anymore."

A stitch filled Lily's heart as she heard James' words. "Maybe it's the fact we're graduating. And growing up."

"Yeah. You know," James stopped walking at the top of the stairs where they lead to the grand entrance. "once we leave here, I'm scared that I'm gonna lose people. Some that I just gained as friends."

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Marcy wrapped her fingers in Remus' as the small group of seventh years made their way down to the small village. Reluctanly Kela had bid her fare well to her best friends and had went off with Will and his friends leaving a grumbling Sirius to be stuck beside Peter. Lily had ended up pairing off with James, it just seemed natural for the two.

"So what are you dressing up as?" James asked trying to keep their earlier conversation out of his mind.

"It's a surprise!" Lily giggled. "What about you?"

"Jamsie here is gonna dress up as a fairy princess!" Sirius butted in. "It'll be quite lovely."

Lily laughed. "Oh, I bet you'll win best costume."

James rolled his eyes. "Don't be jealous when my legs look better in tights then yours do though. That's all I need." He slung his hand across his forehead with a dramatic sigh.

"Oh darling, I'm sure you'll make all the other girls jealous with such amazing calves." Lily was shocked at herself with replying in such a tone. She noticed that so were Sirius and James. But both were amused with her response.

"Don't worry sista! We'll keep everyone in check." Sirius told her in his woman voice. "Come on girlfriend, we needa hurry before all the good stockings are gone!" He grabbed Lily's arm making her walk faster behind him.

Lily laughed looking back to reach for James' arm. "Come on Jamsie! Don't wanna be late."

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All afternoon Lily found herself in a fit of giggles, while spending her day with the main marauders. She thought them to be hilarious, when they weren't being mean to other students. As the four of them, Peter followed them, not wanting to be with the two love birds, made their way from shop to shop Lily had managed to slip away for a few short moments to gather the pieces of her costume she needed. Still not wanting to the boys to see it she had charmed them to become smaller and weightless then stuffed them in her jean pocket.

While roaming the grounds of Hogsmede she had helped Sirius pick out the right hat for his costume and James the right sword so that it wouldn't drag on the ground or appear to short along his long legs.

Finally around three o'clock they made their way to the Three Broomsticks for a bite to eat and a butterbeer. Lily had planned on meeting up with Kela here, so the two girls could head back to the castle together and meet up with Marcy there to have a girls night.

She peered around unable to see her blonde friend. "Have you guys seen Kela at all?"

The three boys looked around. "Not since this morning." James shrugged. "Isn't she off with Will Carmen anyways?"

"Yeah, but we made plans to meet here now." Lily sighed. "Oh well. I'm starved. Shall we order?"

Sirius smiled. "I like this woman, Prongs! She wants food. You fit in perfectly Flower!"

Lily giggled. "Why thank you kind sir."

Sirius looked at her. "You called me sir."

Lily looked around puzzled. "Yes..."

"Weird..." Sirius shrugged. "Me? A sir. I like it. I think from now on you ALL should call me Sir Sirius, the serious."

The other three rolled their eyes at Sirius. "Really, Padfoot? It's more like, Sir Sirius, the stupid." James laughed.

Sirius turned and punched his best friend on the arm. "Hey! I resent that."

As the afternoon went on the group ordered food and discussed the weekend after, soon Remus and Marcy joined the four. When the six of them were about to leave Kela came running in threw the door, apologizing for being late saying she lost track of time with a grin on her face.

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Lily sat in her room, looking at a photo album she had made from her first three years at Hogwarts. It amazed her how much her best friends had changed. Both looked so much older now. No longer were any of them the small scrawny girls. Now they all were young woman as Lily's mother put it.

A soft knock interrupted Lily's thoughts. "Come in."

James slowly opened the doors. "Hey."

She looked up smiling. "Hey yourself."

James walked over to look at she was looking at. "Wow that seems like eons ago." He said pointing to a picture of the three girls being bamboozled from the four boys with snowballs in their second year.

"It really does hey."

James looked down. "Mind if I sit for a minute." Lily patted the seat beside her on the bed. "Everyone looks so much older now."

Lily laughed. "Naturally that's whats happens when you grow up James."

James gave her a slight shove. "You know what I mean."

Lily giggled, realizing how close they were sitting. Their legs touched and she could feel his breath on her neck as he looked at the album. "Ye.. Yeah. It's.. umm.. crazy."

James looked down at the red head to see her cheeks begin to turn color. He had never seen such a beautiful sight as that of Lily right then, she was biting her lip, trying to make her blush go away. "So the girls are coming over here?"

Lily shook her head to gather her thoughts. "Yeah after dinner. That's all right?"

"Oh yeah. Could Remus and Sirius come too? It'd be like another GIGANTIC sleepover!"

Lily laughed at James' enthusiasm. "That sounds like a brilliant time."

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