The entire common room was filled you could hardly move around, the music was pounding and drinks were being passed around. Rebecca sat with Remus off to the side playing chess and sipping on their own butterbeers.

"You don't want to join in on the party?" He yelled so she could hear him.

"No, bad things tend to happen when I drink, I would prefer to keep my name clear while I am going to school here, trust me this is better." She said with a smile and took a drink of her butter beer. Lily walked over and sat down frowning and Rebecca picked up one of the butter beers and handed it to her.

"Come on Lily, it's a party, relax a little."

"This is the reason why we have prefects and head boy and girl, to keep stuff like this happening; I mean can you imagine the mess that this is going to leave? Not to mention what would happen if McGonagall walked in. I could lose my head status."

"Lily its 11 o'clock, McGonagall is probably asleep right now. Have a butterbeer and relax." She said and put the butter beer in to Lily's hands and made her move on the chess board.

Lily sighed and took a drink as she looked across the room at James playing exploding snap with Sirius, his tie wrapped around his head and glasses lopsided as he grinned broadly while throwing down his cards, chatting with the Quidditch team around him. She had partly hoped to spend a little time with him, after all she hadn't gotten to see him over the vacation and as much as she hated to admit it, she had sort of missed him and his goofy ways.

"If you just walk over there he will get up and talk to you." Rebecca said as she leaned over.

"What?" Lily said as she snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Rebecca.

"James. Just walk over, I bet you he will drop everything and come talk to you." Rebecca said with a smile.

"I don't know, I don't want to bother him."

"Lily, if the guy has been after you as long as he has, I think all he wants is for you to walk over. You look so gloomy, go talk to him." She said and went back to the chess board.

"Hey." She said as she looked at the board and saw she had lost.

"You gotta stay focused Becky." Remus said with a smile.

"I think you cheated, this piece was clearly over here." She said as she pointed to a piece.

"Want to play again?"

"No, that's the 5th time you have beaten me." She said as she watched Lily get up and walk over to the group shyly. James looked up from the cards and smiled at her and she smiled back at him and he said something to Sirius who rolled his eyes and James got up and walked over to Lily.

"So what do you want to do?" he asked leaning his back against the wall.

"I don't know, uh. We can be destructive." She said blandly.

"I don't know if that's really a great idea." He said and she chuckled.

"We can try running up the stairs and see who gets the farthest."

"I would much rather not."

"Well we could." She said and paused as she looked around. "Go push over drunk people, I'm thinking it would be something like cow tipping, have you ever done that?"

"I can't say that I have and as fun as that sounds, someone could get hurt."

"But it will keep us entertained."

"How about something that doesn't injure people or destroy things?"

"That's about where my knowledge of things ends Remus." She said with a sigh and he smiled.

"How about a walk?" She asked as she looked at him.

"It's after curfew."

"Use that map thing you have." She said with a wave of her hand and took a drink.

"H-how do you know about that?" he asked shocked.

"Ran in to James, Black and Peter one night and I saw it, genius by the way. Did you guys make it?"

"Uh yeah." He said slowly as he rubbed the back of his neck confused.

"Remus I am not going to say anything about it, it's pretty neat."

"Yeah we made it fifth year."

"Very useful, I guess that's how you guys get around without getting caught, that and the cloak."

"How do you know about that?"

"Well your little friends aren't exactly that quiet when sneaking around, I nearly killed them one time when they snuck up on me."

"Oh."

"That's pretty ingenious you know, using the map and cloak."

"Thanks." He said and quickly took a drink of his butterbeer.

"So do you have any new year's resolutions?"

"I haven't really thought about it. What about you?"

"I think I am going to try being nice." She said looking at her bottle and then looked at him.

"Oh?" He asked interested.

"Yeah, I mean I am just going to start letting things go, be cool, smile a bit more, less angry face." She said and scrunched up her face and he laughed.

"Yeah we will see how long that takes." She muttered sarcastically and took a drink.

The party continued until everyone got together for the count down. Rebecca sat with Remus by the window as she watched Sirius and James counting down.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Everyone shouted, throwing up confetti and blowing horns that one of the younger students had brought for everyone. Rebecca smiled at Remus as she tossed up some confetti in to his face and laughed as he raised his eyebrow at her and she pulled him in to a hug.

"Happy New Year Remus." She said with a smile as she pulled away from him and he removed a bit of confetti from her hair as he smiled at her and looked at her lips as he held his breath and brought his eyes back up to hers, their faces were only inches apart.

"Becky-." He said and suddenly she was pulled away and in to a hug from Michael who picked her up and spun her around.

"Happy New Year!" Michael yelled and put her down and she looked back at Remus who was being hugged by Sirius and she sighed before Jenny and Tessa hugged her wishing her a happy new year.

Remus glanced back at Rebecca who was hugging Jenny and Tessa and he mentally scolded himself as James came bounding over and gave him a big hug.

"I'm bored." Rebecca said as she sat around the common room with everyone who was currently catching up on homework that was due the next day, all which Rebecca had finished.

"Becky why don't you read?" Lily asked from the couch where she was sitting with James. The whole school had started talking about them, wondering if they were going out or not due to the time they spent with each other and how they never fought any more. Rebecca knew it was only a matter of time before they would be going out; they stared at each other all the time with goofy little smiles.

"Let's go have a snowball fight; I haven't had one of those in years." Rebecca said as she stood up and looked outside.

"Becky we have home-."

"That sounds absolutely wonderful." James said as he stood up and Lily frowned at him.

"Come on Lily, we have been up here for hours, I think a little fresh air would do everyone some good."

"Guys we have homework that is due tomorrow." Lily said and Sirius shut his book.

"Yeah that sounds fun. Moony?" Sirius asked as he looked at Remus. "Wormy?"

After much pleading and bargaining with Lily they finally got her to agree to go outside for a snowball fight.

Oh they way outside Rebecca ran in to Andrew standing outside the Great Hall with Claire.

"Hey Andy." Rebecca said as she walked up and he smiled at her.

"Hey Becky."

"Hi Claire." Rebecca said as politely as she could and Claire gave her a courteous nod.

"So we are all going outside to throw around some snowballs, why don't you join us?"

"That sounds like fun, what do you say Claire?"

"I don't really want to go play in the snow." She said dryly. "But I will watch you." She said with a forced smile at Andrew.

"Alright, I'll meet you guys outside, let me just go grab my gloves and hat." He said and Rebecca headed outside where the boys had split up from the girls concluding a boys against girls match.

"I don't think it's really fair that you have all guys." Jenny said with a frown.

"You have Walcott; I think that's good as any." Sirius said and Rebecca rolled her eyes.

"I could kick your ass any day, pansy." She said and kicked some snow at him.

"Hang on guys, we don't start yet, we need to build forts alright?" James said with a wild grin, his cheeks already red from the cold.

"We call the big log over there." Sirius said quickly as he pointed off to the side where a large fallen log laid.

"We get that one over there. We have the uphill advantage, sucks to be you." Rebecca said as she pointed to a relatively smaller log and stuck out her tongue out as the boys' faces faltered slightly.

The girls rushed over to their log and started to build up a wall of snow on top of the log as Jenny and Tessa started to make snow balls.

"Don't worry, they have nothing on us." Rebecca said with a grin at Lily.

"I don't know." She said and bit her lip.

"Come on Lily, have a little faith. Andy is coming." Rebecca said with a wink.

"Are you guys ready?" James called out and Rebecca peered over the log.

"Ready to kick your ass." Rebecca said with a laugh and sat back down.

They all stayed in their forts for a while waiting for the other to make a move and Rebecca peered over and looked at James.

"So are you going to do something or what?"

"Always wait for the opponent to make the first move."

"Good rule to live by, unfortunately I live by that as well, so if one of us don't make a move we are all going to freeze to death out here."

"Ladies first." James said with a laugh.

"Age before beauty."

"You're older than me."

"Shit I am." She said and paused. "How about rock, paper, scissors?"

"How about you just go?"

"How about I don't and say I did?"

"How about you do it and say you didn't?" James called back cheekily and Rebecca groaned and then turned to Lily. "Lily go over there." Rebecca said with a grin.

"What? Are you mad?"

"No, because James is crazy for you and I know he wont hit you and because of his undying affection for you, he wont let anyone else either, just tell him you're cold and you want him to warm you up or something.." Rebecca said as she nudged Lily. "Once you get close enough, throw a snow ball and run back, we'll cover you from here."

"I can't throw that far Becky." Jenny said and Rebecca smiled.

"Try your best."

"That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard." Lily muttered.

"She had a point though." Jenny said and Tessa nodded.

"I am not going out their because of this little idea of yours that wont work." Lily said.

Lily walked out from behind the protection of the fort and glanced back at Rebecca, Jenny and Tessa who motioned her forward.

"Behold, our secret weapon." Rebecca called out and the boys peered over.

"Really? Is that the best you have?" Sirius said.

"Touch her and I will kill you Pads." James threatened.

"Come on mate, it's obviously a trick of some sort, something Walcott probably thought of."

"James. I'm cold." Lily said and gave James a pout.

"Come on mate, don't do it." Sirius said and Rebecca chuckled at how well her plan was working.

"C-can you warm me up?" Lily asked and James gave her a pleading look. "Please?" She asked and James stood up and Sirius grabbed a hold of him.

"I'm just going to give her my jacket." James said and pushed Sirius off of him. The moment that James stepped out from the cover of his fort Lily pelted him with a snow ball right in the face and shrieked as he fell over in shock and she ran back to the fort.

"Sorry James." She called over her shoulder and got behind the wall. "I feel kind of bad." She said with a small smile.

"Hey guys." Andrew said as he came out with Claire.

"Dibs on Andy. Buttface get over here." Rebecca yelled.

"Not fair, you guys have 5 people." Sirius called.

"So, we are girls." Rebecca said sarcastically as she waved Andrew over and he rushed over and sat down next to Rebecca.

"Alright we need a plan of attack." Rebecca said as she looked over the wall.

"I say we just take them head on." Andrew said and grabbed a few snowballs and Rebecca grinned and grabbed an arm full and she and Andrew rushed out towards the other side, dodging snowballs from James and Sirius.

"Get them." Rebecca yelled as she jumped over the wall and started to pelt them with as many snowballs as she could with the other three girls following in pursuit until they ran out of snowballs.

"Run away, run away." Rebecca yelled with a laugh as she rushed back to their fort.

They all got back and Rebecca noticed that Lily was missing.

"Where is Lily?" She asked as she looked over and saw Lily with the boys.

"Hey that's not fair." Rebecca yelled.

"All is fair in war." Sirius said and Rebecca rolled her eyes.

"Well I don't think she minds that much any ways." Rebecca said with a laugh as she saw James and her huddled together.

The fight ended with the girls driving the guys out and absolutely destroying their fort and ammo until they had them buried in the snow with snowballs being pelted at them.

"Told ya we would win." Rebecca said with a grin and screamed as Andrew shoved snow down the back of her shirt and she turned and threw snow in to his face and tackled him to the floor, stuffing as much snow in to his clothes as she could.

"Andrew, I am cold, let's go inside." Claire said impatiently and Andrew sat up and looked at her.

"Come on, the snow doesn't hurt." He said and threw a small snowball towards her and she gave him a frown.

"I'm going inside." She snapped and turned around and walked back in to the castle.

"I think I should go, good fight though, nice try guys, you always need to remember you want Becca on your team, always." Andrew said as he brushed himself of.

"We'll keep that in mind next time." James said with a grin and brushed some snow out of Lily's hair.

History was not a fun class; in fact, saying that it was not fun was a huge understatement. This had to be a punishment, seriously. 2 hours of History of Magic, 2 hours of the same droning voice, 2 hours of Sirius Black throwing wadded paper balls at the back your head was a punishment and Rebecca wasn't sure what exactly she had done lately to deserve it. It took everything in side of her to not turn around hit him as hard as she could in his smirky little face. She wanted to see if indeed she could perhaps be nice to people, stay out of fights completely, and let things go but she was dead sure that after two days Sirius was going to break her New Years Resolution.

She turned around and looked at him and he leaned back in his chair as if he had been listening all along and had in fact not been throwing paper at her.

"Sirius no joke, keep doing that and I WILL castrate you." She said as calmly as she could and turned back around and looked back up at Professor Binns talking and she rubbed her temples and sighed. Just as she thought he had stopped she felt another small wad of paper hit the back of her head and she looked back at him and he crossed his arms over his chest and raised an eyebrow at her as if daring her to do something.

"Professor." Rebecca said interrupting Professor Binns.

"Yes Miss Walcott?"

"Mister Black over here is being a disruption and I am finding it hard to concentrate." She said and Professor Binns looked at Sirius.

"I am just sitting back here minding my own business, I have no idea what she is talking about sir, see, here are my notes." Sirius said holding up a piece of parchment with writing.

"Miss Walcott class is almost over perhaps you can concentrate until then." Professor Binns said and went back to the lecture and Rebecca looked back at Sirius who stuck his tongue out at her and she turned back around and tried to go back to writing notes but as she looked back down at her paper she realized she had only written a few notes, having had been distracted by Sirius the whole time.

Soon class ended and Rebecca gathered her stuff quickly and threw her bag over her shoulder and headed out, glancing at Sirius' paper and saw nothing but scribbles and random sentences and he smirked and tucked it in to his bag and she took a deep breath and walked out of the classroom and saw Lily and James talking outside and turned down the hall to the Charms classroom not wanting to disturb Lily and James.

"Okay, so this is an A right?" She asked Remus as she pointed to the chart of ruins they were supposed to translate.

"Yeah, remember, the line is thicker on this side than the other." He pointed out and she nodded and looked at him.

"What?" He asked with a small smile and she shrugged and leaned back in her seat.

"You have wonderful eyes." She said and he looked at her surprised and she mentally slapped herself, geeze that didn't sound lame at all.

"Oh, thanks." He said and bit his lip and looked around.

"Your birthday is coming up." She said and he nodded and shuffled his papers.

"So is Jenny and James'." She said with a sigh and there was a long silence between them before her stomach growled and she laughed.

"I'm starving, want to head down to dinner?" Rebecca asked as rubbed her stomach.

"If you want."

"Alright let's go." She said and started to gather her stuff and leaned against the table as she waited for him.

"I'm terribly sorry." He said as he rushed to get everything packed away.

"No please take your time, don't rush on my account." She said as she scuffed her shoes on the floor as she waited.

"Alright ready." He said and put his bag over his shoulder.

"Alright let's go." She said and they walked out of the library.

They walked down to the Great Hall and were stopped by an angry looking Claire.

"You stay the hell away from my boyfriend, do you understand?" She spat as she poked Rebecca who pushed her hand away.

"Don't touch me."

"Stay away from my boyfriend or else."

"I have no idea what the hell you're talking about so please get out of my face before I rearrange it for you."

"I saw you and him out in the snow the other day; keep your little claws away from him."

"You need to calm down-."

"No you need to stay away from Andrew, he is mine."

"Okay first off Andy is not a possession dear; second off he is my best friend so I am not just going to stay away from him just because you are a crazy psychotic bitch."

"How dare you." She said and pushed Rebecca.

"I think that's enough for now, what do you say we go to dinner?" Remus said as he stepped in between Rebecca and Claire.

"I would very much prefer to continue this though Remus." Rebecca said as she looked at Claire.

"Stay away from Andrew." Claire said and Rebecca sighed.

"Listen, you need to get over this, I have no idea what this is really about but you definitely need some strong drugs or something but back the fuck off, I am not going to stop talking to Andy alright?" Rebecca said and Claire glared and her and took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"Fine then." She said and turned on her heel and walked down the hall.

"You should have let me take care of it Remus."

"I thought you said you were trying to be nicer to people?" He said humorously and she rolled her eyes as they continued down the hall.

"What the hell was I suppose to do? Smile and tell her I have no problem with it and I will cut off all communication with Andy? I think not, I have no idea what he sees in her, she is such a bitch." She muttered as she glanced down the hall at Claire turning the corner. "I honestly have no idea what her problem with me is, she is the one that stole away my best friend."

"Well I mean maybe she doesn't see it that way."

"Are you taking her side?" Rebecca asked shocked.

"No, I am not taking any one's side; I am just saying I think I can see where she is coming from."

"Yes I am the crazy one." She muttered and walked down the hall quickly.

"Becky I didn't mean it that way-."

"I don't really feel like snapping at you since you're my friend so just…back off right now." She said and turned around and walked in to the Great Hall. Remus sighed as he watched her go wishing he had kept his mouth shut.

James and Lily walked down the hall together in silence, checking the classrooms as they did their rounds and James stopped and turned to Lily.

"Is something wrong?" She asked as she looked at his nervous expression.

"Lily I…" He said and faltered for a moment and bit his lip as Lily looked at him slightly concerned.

"James-." She said and he took her hands and looked at her.

"Lily I really like you, I mean I always have, ever since I met you, you weren't like all the other girls, I always knew that you were different. I never knew just how amazing you were until I put everything aside and got to know you. I think you're funny, sweet, smart and beautiful and I know I have done some really stupid things and said a lot of stupid things but Lily I really do like you and I know you hate hearing this but I truly mean it and I can honestly say I am not the same person I used to be." He said and paused as she stared at him.

"Lily will you be my girlfriend?" he asked and she smiled and nodded and he stared blankly at her.

"Did you just nod yes?" He asked and she laughed.

"Yes I did. I like you James and I am so glad that I got to know you, you aren't who I thought you were, and you aren't anything like I thought you were." She said and he grinned broadly and wrapped his arms around her and picked her up.

"She said yes!" He yelled and spun her around and set her down.

"Oh you have no idea how nervous I was to ask you, I was sure you would shoot me down." He said and took a deep breath. "I can't believe this is actually happening, Lily Evans just said that she would be my girlfriend, I need to tell everyone, I need to-." He was cut off by her kissing him.

"You talk too much some times." She said with a smile as she pulled away from him and he smiled and cupped her face as he pulled her in to another kiss.

Rebecca woke up to Lily humming to herself as she combed her hair in the mirror and Rebecca looked at Jenny and Tessa who looked at her oddly as well and Rebecca walked over to Lily.

"Lily?" Rebecca asked and she looked at Rebecca with a smile.

"Morning Becky."

"Everything alright?"

"Yes, everything is wonderful." She said and Rebecca looked at Jenny and Tessa oddly and they shrugged at her.

"Why is everything wonderful? What is so wonderful that has you singing like a song bird at 8 in the morning?"

"Well, last night while James and I were doing our rounds, he just so happened to ask me out." She said and put her brush down. "And I said yes." She said and Tessa and Jenny shrieked and Lily laughed.

"Yeah like we didn't see that coming." Rebecca said with a smile and ruffled Lily's hair who gave a small frown. "I need a shower, congrats Lily." She said and went in to the bathroom as Tessa and Jenny bombarded her with questions.

Please R & R

Thanks for reading, i hope you enjoyed it, next chapter will be up shortly, yesterday i just spent all day writing so i got quite a bit done =)