"Okay everyone." James said, calling everyone in their defense group together. "EVERYONE!" He yelled when they didn't hear him.

The crowd became silent, looking at the messy-haired boy with five of his friends standing behind him, wands out, though they were held loosely in their hands; they weren't going to be using them soon.

"Okay, so this is the first meeting." James went on. "We're not planning on doing much besides getting a name for this group. So if you have one just raise your hands and one of them will write it in the air."

Slowly people raised their hands.

"Defense association."

"Future Aurors."

"Protection Training."

More and more names came their way, and they were all writing names in the air in gold lettering.

After about an hour of arguing over names, they got majority on one name.

"Guardians?" Loralei said, looking at the last name in the air. "That's our majority?" She was obviously surprised. "I personally was going for certified badasses."

Laughter rang through the room.

"Thank you! I came up with that one." James told her, grinning.

"Probably why it didn't get chosen." Lily whispered to her best friend.

Loralei covered her mouth to try to muffle her laughter.

"Okay, congratulations, we're called The Guardians." James told them. "I think this is enough for today, next week we'll have a real lesson that my sister, Loralei will be leading."

Everyone slowly dispersed out of the classroom while the five of them stayed back.

"Guardians huh?" James asked.

"I'm still calling us Certified Badasses." Loralei muttered.

"Of course you are." Lily rolled her eyes.

"That's what the leaders should be called." Loralei decided, ignoring Lily. "We're the ones that started this."

"I agree." Sirius told them. "I want to be a certified badass."

"Then it is decided. We are Certified Badasses." Loralei said, taking her boyfriend's wrist to look at his watch. "Come on, it's time for dinner guys."

"I'm a girl." Lily told her.

Loralei rolled her eyes. "Really? I didn't notice! I've only seen you naked about a hundred times, and slept in the same dorm as you for six years."

Lily rolled her eyes, and put her hands on her hips, though Loralei could see that she was trying not to laugh.

"I don't know what you're on, but I really wish you would share." Lily told her.

"Do you now?" Loralei held out her hand. "Come here little child, I have candy."

Lily took her hand, and loralei pulled her towards her, before linking their arms and making Lily skip with her.

"Loralei's happy." Remus mentioned after the girls left the classroom.

"Yeah, it's starting to creep me out." James told them.

"Be nice," Sirius told them. "So how are you and Lily doing?"

James grinned. "She talks to me willingly now."

"So are you going to ask her out again?"

James shook his head. "Nope."

The other three boys stared at James.

"What?" He asked

"This is the longest you've gone without asking her out." Remus told him.

"It's freaking me out." Sirius told him.

James rolled his eyes. "Shut up."

"You look like Loralei when you do that." Remus told them.

"Merlin, you're not turning into her are you?" Sirius asked as James started walking away.

"You know, his hair is looking a bit lighter." Remus said, following him.

"And he has gotten a bit sassier."

"And he stopped asking her out!"

"SHUT IT!"

"How're things with Sirius?" Lily asked as she braided Loralei's hair in their dormitory after classes on Monday.

"Good, really good." Loralei told her. "I'm happy."

"I can tell." Lily told her.

"I shouldn't feel this happy." Loralei told her. "Both of my parents are dead."

"You have every right to be happy." Lily told her. "You just know that you can't change what happened. You know you just have to carry on."

"Usually it takes people longer to though." Loralei said.

"So you move on quicker, there's nothing wrong with that." Lily told her. "You're just ready to take on the next bad thing to happen."

"What if bad things only happen now?" Loralei whispered. "What if this year was just to get me ready for sadness and disappointment?"

"You don't believe that. You're always the one that's ready to take on the world." Lily told her. "What's gotten into you?"

Loralei shrugged. "I just don't see how everyone can deal with life when it sucks, and then it looks like it's going to get better, but then it just gets worse."

"You have to have the bad things to have the good things."

"I know, but does it really have to have all the bad things in one year?" Loralei asked. "It's just like, hit after hit, and I don't know if it's going to bleed into this year, and if it does I don't know how long until I break; until all of us break."

"Well, that's why we have each other." Lily told her. "We're supposed to lean on each other, even though I know you don't like doing that."

"I don't like feeling weak." Loralei muttered.

"It's not weak to need help." Lily told her. "So whenever you feel down, just come talk to me. I'm not going to use it against you."

"I know you wouldn't." Loralei told her.

"Well, that's what you're really scared of." Lily told her. "That someone's going to use what you tell them against you."

"You know me too well." Loralei told her. "It's starting to get a bit scary."

"Yes, I agree, but I've put too much time into this relationship to give up now." Lily teased.

"I agree with that statement. I mean, it's taken for ever to get you to this point, if I had to start over it would be terrible!" Loralei replied.

"I know, it'll take another five or six years." Lily agreed. "Can you believe that? I'll be twenty-two!"

"That's if you start now." Loralei added. "If it takes another ten years to find another one you'll be thirty-two!"

"Damn, I'll be old then." Lily smiled.

"With a bunch of redheaded children." Loralei told her.

"I'm guessing yours will be blonde then." She replied.

"Me a mother? We both know I'd suck."

"Kids love you, you babysat for the Weasleys, all the time last summer."

"Because they were adorable ginger kids." Loralei told her. "I'd screw up my own."

"All parents screw up their kids, its a sign that you did a decent job." Lily told her.

"Your kids are going to love you,-until they hit their teens then they'll love you again when their in their twenties." Loralei told her.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Thanks, Lore."

"You're welcome sweetie." Loralei tilted her head up and batted her eyelashes at her friend.

"Stop moving your head, you're messing up the braid."

"Sorry."

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