~(*)~ Well, I just came to find out that my formatting was off on this ff, and I decided to fix it. I know that you guys care so much. ~(*)~

Lily sat strapped to a chair.

She wiggled her wrists, and found that they were tightly bound robe ties to a chair. She looked around and saw that she was inside of the boy's dormitory. Lily groaned. She didn't know how she got that way, but she was pretty much certain that she knew who did it.

After that horrendous nightmare that Lily had had that night, she went downstairs to finish reading her book, Pride and Prejudice, only to no avail. For when she got down there, she saw that her archenemy, James Potter, sitting with his annoying friends Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Hoping to get her book and leave before they saw her, she trotted down the stairs, picked up her book, and was about to head back up the stairs when she heard, "Now, where do you think you are going, Evans?"

The person who spoke was none other James. He was lying on one of the couches in front of the fire, while Sirius and Remus sat on the floor around them. He obviously thought that he was much better than even his so called friends. And, if she was like him, she probably would think so too.

Ever since the second year, James H. Potter had been the most popular boy in all of Hogwarts. He was on the Quidditch team, a prefect, was in a lot of the advanced classes, and was very handsome. Lily was all of these things (Well, except for the handsome part...), yet she had never gained any of the popularity that James had. And, even though she was the captain of the Quidditch team, James was still more popular than she was.

"Oh, I don't know, Potter," she spat the words like some kind of swear, "up to my room?"

James exchanged mischievous glances with his friends and said, "I don't think so, Lily." He never called her Lily unless he was about to do something harsh. Which was exactly what he did. Because, a second later, Lily was pinned to the ground by James and CO.

Now, this would be heaven for almost all of the girls at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, which was only natural, for all of the guys were extremely good-looking. Sirius had black hair, shinning gray eyes, and a great body (or so she was told by most of the female population at school). Remus, on the other hand, had brown hair, blue eyes, and the body of a Quidditch player (even though he didn't play). But James, James had the best body of Marauders. He had messy black hair, light blue eyes trimmed with small black glasses (which only made him cuter), exceedingly tall, broad shoulders, and a square jaw.

But, of course, Lily was immune to their charms.

"God, get off." Lily said through clenched teeth.

"Ok, Remus, Sirius, get off. I got her," James said. And, after they got off, and some of the pressure was relieved from her chest, she was able to breathe again. Well, that is until James, getting up from off of her himself, moved. Lily, thinking that she was going to get off easily, went to prop herself up, was pushed down.

"Where are you going?" James asked with one of trademark smirks.

"Well, you're letting me go aren't you?" Lily asked quite foolishly. James just shook his head in response.

Then, all of the sudden, James was straddling her. His legs were around her hips, his hand pinning her wrists to the floor. This was, of course, a very uncomfortable position for Lily to be in. It reminded her of what she had seen not too long ago with Sirius's ex girlfriend Iona. They were wrestling after a big fight that they had had. As it was, that was the end of their relationship.

"James," Lily said in a warning tone. Lily was known around school to be a very. . Noncommittal. She wouldn't let anyone get near her; she only had three friends. Bekki, Tasha, and, Melissa. And, even though she was academically very smart, and was on the Quidditch team, she didn't have very many friends. Also, it was said that she wasn't willing to get into any serious relationship.

And, even though she was staggeringly beautiful, she would always be an insolent, ambiguous, and insubordinate girl. Being the only girl in twelve years to be the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, she would have been respected if it weren't for one thing. She was insufferable. She would demand practices almost everyday, work them to the bone, and she would always stick top schedule, no matter if it was rain, snowing, or was hotter than Hell.

But, besides all of this, Lily was, even though she had no clue of it, extremely sought after. Looking at her as he pinned her down, he could see why. With her shoulder length riot of russet colored curls, that looked as if crying to be plucked. Her body was curvy, long and muscular, and everything that most guys looked for in a body. Along with that, her eyes were a shining green that looked as if they were searing into your sole . . . Hell, James would have been attracted to her if not for one thing: He loathed her and her annoying habits. Not many men could say that they weren't enthralled by her, but James could.

James did not seem to notice that Sirius was sulking in the corner of the Common Room, lying on top of Lily as he was. Neither did he see that Remus was starting at James with interest. James very rarely handled his pranks alone. Not that he needed the help. It was just that James and the Marauders made a vow that they would do their pranks together.

Remus had never really minded when James took command of the situation. Actually, he didn't mind at all. He preferred not helping actually; it allowed him to let his mind wander on other things. Like how he was going to get Lily's friend Melissa Zelifko to fall for him. Remus had "loved" Melissa since the first time he had seen her, way back in their first year.

With her glowing blond hair, and perfect teal eyes, she was everything he ever wanted in a girlfriend. Not to mention the fact that she was sarcastic, playful, and didn't care what people thought of her. Remus didn't like participating in pranks involving Lily because he knew that Melissa, above all else, loved her friends more than anything, and would most certainly kill anyone who hurt any of her friends.

But, seeing how James was doing most of the work, Remus didn't need to worry about Melissa putting a death warrant on his life. So, as he looked on, he thought about Melissa. Almost on impulse, Remus' mind shot towards his bedroom, where, under his bed, he had a picture of her.

In it, Melissa was smiling, putting her arm around him and Lily. Remus wasn't even supposed to be in the picture, but, just as they were about to take the picture, he jumped into the camera. Melissa, seeing some potential, for some reason unknown to Remus, put her arm around him and smiled into the picture. Remus loved her smile. She had the cutest dimples he had ever seen, and he . . .oh, there were many things that Remus loved about Melissa. But there was no time to wander with his thoughts, for Lily was putting up quite a fight where James was concerned.

James was sprawled on his back. Lily had just used her newest move. Well, it was a new one to him. She had pushed up his elbows, and kneed him in the back. It was a move her father had taught her over the summer. Lily guessed that her father had thought that boys were swarming over her like bees on honey, which was actually so far from the truth, that it was funny.

Lily, realizing that she only had about thirty seconds before James would get up from the floor, she raced towards the staircase. But not quick enough, for as soon as she reached the stairs, she was grabbed by the wrist and turned around. But, instead of James, it was Sirius. Lily had never seen him with such a tight expression on his face. Meanwhile, James was withering on the floor in pain. Maybe she hit him harder than she thought. Remus wasn't there: he had ran upstairs the minute she had gotten away from James.

"Oh, um.... hi Sirius." She said trying the pull her wrist out of his grip. "Um...I just think I'll be going. Buh-Bye now." Nut Sirius just shook his head, black hair smacking him in the forehead. Sirius was really creeping her out.

"You won't be going anywhere for a long time, Lils. Not for a long, long time." His gray eyes were smoldering like coals in a fire.

"Um. Why's that?" Lily asked, somehow knowing that she was in for some big trouble.

"I think you know, WHY Lils. Only question you should be asking is for how long?" And, he picked her up and headed towards the Boys' Dorm.

Lily had been in the Boys' Dorm many times before. Once in her fourth year, when Professor McGonagall had lost her voice and had sent Lily up to start yelling at the boys. But that was three years ago, and she hadn't been in there since then; and she never wanted to go back in there again.

But, apparently, she wasn't going to get her wish fulfilled. For Sirius, with a look of determination on his face, kicked open the door to the dorm and set her down on the bed closest to the doorway. Lily, for some unknown reason, knew that it was James' bed. Perhaps it was the picture of a black haired woman wearing light blue dress robs, or maybe it was the Quidditch magazine on the pillow. Or maybe, God forbid, it was by some intuition that told her that it was his bed. Lily just about puked when she thought of this.

Lily was so surprised about being lead into the Boys' Dorm by none other than Sirius Black, that, by the time Sirius popped up with some rob ties, she could not move. With revelation, not fright. Lily did not even get scared. Well, at least that's what everyone else said, and, Lily just adapted to it.

In about thirty seconds, Lily was tied down to a chair-Now where did the chair come from?- and she couldn't move. Sirius, despite being somewhat dumb (well, in Lily's opinion) really knew how to tie a person to a chair. Lily, after having this thought, gagged. She didn't even want to know what made her think of that.

Remus was, Lily noticed, sleeping. Well, he was until Sirius went over to him, slapped him across the face, growled, "Get up, Pop n' Fresh" and slammed his foot onto the floor.

"I'm up, I'm up. What do you want?" Then he saw Lily and raked his hands through his brown hair. Then he looked up towards Sirius, his blue eyes pleading. "Please tell me you didn't. I don't think I could forgive you if you did" Lily was looking at them with wide eyes. What was Remus talking about?

Sirius didn't answer. He just said, "Keep an eye on her," and went out the door. Probably to go and get James off of his bony butt. Meanwhile, Remus was muttering under his breath, "She'll never forgive me. How could I let this happen to her best friend?"

How COULD he let this happen to Melissa's best friend? Getting tied up to a chair in the Boys' Dormitories. Sirius was really sinking to new lows. For a brief moment, he thought of heading towards the Girls' Dorm, where he knew he'd find Lily's friends. But, he knew, from past experience, that Melissa was a silent sleeper, and probably would wake up even if there was a war going on in the Great Hall. But, at least he'd get brownie points for helping save her best friend.

Remus was heading towards the door, had his hand on the doorknob, when it opened up to find Sirius and James standing in the doorway. Sirius glaring in Lily's direction, James holding his butt. Lily probably would have laughed had it not been for two things. One, she was pretty sure that Sirius would do something harsh. Two, she was gagged with, (here she shuddered), a sock.

Lily knew that Sirius was taking things way out of proportion. God, she only knocked James on his ass. What? Was James sensitive him his "Manly parts"? Lily highly doubted it. James was as much a "player" as Sirius was. Only Remus (excluding Peter) was interested in a steady relationship. The only problem was, he couldn't find the right woman for himself. Which was really too bad, seeing how Remus was such a sweet, caring, reasonable person. If only Lily could-

Lily's thought about setting Remus up with someone was cut off when, the man in question said, "Sirius, what ARE you doing?"

Sirius, all of a sudden, looked calm and said, "I'm just paying her back for what she did to our bestest bud, James." But Remus, you could tell, was not falling for it. He just shook his head, and asked, "What she did to James, Sirius? Or what she did to you?" Which was very odd because, to the best of her knowledge, she hadn't done anything to him. But, Sirius must have known what Remus meant, for he started answering the question, even though it was obviously a rhetorical question.

Lily, thinking she could at least try to get her hands undone from her ties, started wiggling her wrists around, only to find that if she did, the ties cut into her skin. Hearing her sharp intake, James said, to everyone's surprise, "Sirius, that wasn't necessary. I can fight my own battles." Which struck Sirius as extremely funny. "Of course you can, Jamie. Especially when you're lying on your ass ." Even Lily could find the humor in that.

Finally, loosing his patience, Remus through his hands up and said, rather forcefully, "I give up. When McGonagall comes here in the morning, I refuse to be here when she finds Lily, TIED TO A CHAIR!" He yelled the last part. And, with those words, Remus gathered up his comforter and dragged it towards the door, which he slammed when he left the room. Leaving Lily alone to the mercy of two crazy men.

Or maybe it was only one crazy guy, for James, copying Remus said, "You've gotten yourself into a load of trouble now," and too picked up his comforter and dragged it downstairs. Only Sirius stayed, muttering, "Wish I could leave," and he hopped into bed, leaving Lily to herself. After about ten minutes, Sirius was asleep. Lily knew he was because she could hear him snoring. And, about five minutes later, Lily herself fell asleep.

Melissa woke up to find the bed next to hers empty. That bed belonged to Melissa's best friend, Lily. This wasn't a new habit: Lily was known to get up during the night and read. Thinking that this was the only reason for Lily's absence, Melissa took her clothes from her dresser, got a towel from the cabinet, and headed towards the bathroom, where she would have a nice, long, steamy shower.

When Melissa got out of the bathroom fifteen minutes later, she was that her friend Tasha was already up. Passing Melissa on her way towards the same bathroom Melissa just came through, she asked, "Have you seen Lily?" Melissa just shook her head and answered, "No. She's probably downstairs." Understanding the meaning of what Melissa said, she shook her own head and said, "Well, you'd better go get her up before the boys do first." And, then she went through the bathroom door.

Melissa, conscious of what Tasha meant, grabbed her glasses and headed out the door. When she got outside of the door, she then bounded down the stairs. When she got off of the stair landing, Melissa realized that someone was indeed sleeping on the couch. Only, Melissa saw that it wasn't Lily that was sleeping. No, not at all. For, wrapped up in comforters, were none other than Remus Lupin and James Potter; on separate couches of course.

Melissa made her way towards Remus. His brown hair was plastered to his forehead, and a few pieces were in front of his blue eyes, which were closed at the moment. Melissa had known Remus for seven years, but she didn't really know much about him. Unlike Lily, Melissa was outgoing and talkative, and liked to meet new people. Which was really weird, because Lily was very introverted. It made you wonder how two very different people could ever become friends.

Realizing that she wasn't going to get much information by just staring around the room, Melissa smacked Remus across the face. After about the third smack, Remus woke up with a loud, "Not again, Sirius." Then he opened his eyes, and blushed. He had just realized that he had yelled at the girl of his dreams, which did not seem to make her mad at all. Well, if her peals of laughter were any indication.

"Sorry," Remus muttered, still blushing, and not quite looking at her in the eyes. But she was smiling, which gave Remus confidence. "It's ok," she said still smiling. But then her face grew worried, and Remus found out why just when she asked, "But, um . . .have you seen Lily? And her eyes traveled towards James.

James woke up. He didn't know why. Normally, he slept much later than this, and he never went out of his schedule. Well, unless there was Quidditch practice. . .As soon as he opened his eyes, he knew why he woke up, even though he had no idea why Melissa could wake him up, just by looking at him. When he turned his head to get a better look at her, he realized something that he never thought he'd realize before. Remus was helplessly in love with Melissa. He could see why of course, just as he saw why so many boys were in "love" with Lily. Melissa was beautiful, with her shimmering long blond hair that went to her waist. And her teal eyes that changed colors. And, her body was a lot like Lily's. Lean, muscular, curvy. . .

Good God, what was wrong with him? Was he going to start to realize everything beautiful about ALL of Lily's friends? Then, all of a sudden, one of Lily's other friend, Bekki came down the stairs. Before James could come up with any thoughts for Bekki, and before Tasha came downstairs, he ran up to his room, his comforter trailing behind him.

As soon as he kicked open the dormitory door, his eyes fell to the girl who was still, tied up to a chair. Apparently, she was still asleep, so, James, being the total exhibitionist that he was, took some clothes out of his trunk that was at the foot of his bed, and started changing., having taken a shower the night before.

It was then, that he realized, that the air had suddenly changed in the room. Spinning around, James saw that Lily's face, which had been hanging loosely to one side, was now being strained to the other side. Obviously, Lily was awake.

Grinning, James made his way to Lily. He knelt at the foot of her chair, knowing that she couldn't do exactly what she wanted to, which was, of course, kick the living daylights out of him. "Why hello, Evans. Have a nice night?"

And, after he said that, she was exactly where she was right now. Tied to a chair, in her pajamas, staring at her foe James H. Potter- bare-chested- who was, at this moment, mocking her. Oh, well this was just great. What did she deserve to get this done to her? I mean, she did, kick James' ass, but that didn't really make it all right to tie her to a chair, and gag her with a sock. James got into fights frequently with Serveus Snape and Lucius Malfoy, but did they ever end up tied to a chair? If they had, she couldn't remember.

Lily, seeing how she could answer verbally, just glared, which only made James happier. Which only served to make Lily madder. If she could have, she would have choked James. Choked him and enjoyed every minute of the pain that she knew he would endure.

But, she was saved from dong anything harsh, for at that moment, the door few open, and in walked Lily's two new favorite people, Melissa Zelifko, and Remus Lupin. While Remus looked very uncomfortable, Melissa looked like she was about to raise Hell. Which was not, of course, a rare expression to see on her face. Lily was then reminded of the time in their fifth year when, as usual, James had thought that it would be funny to play a little prank on Lily. Only, instead of the usual waking her up by throwing cold water onto her face, James had decided to play his little prank during Quidditch practice, one week before the Quidditch Cup.

While Lily was guarding the goals (she was Keeper), James was supposed to be practicing looking for the Golden Snitch. But, instead of following directions, he had decided that it would be fun to pay the rest of the players to attack Lily while she wasn't looking. Well, James' little prank worked much better than he had anticipated it to, for, instead of merely hurting Lily a bit, he had made her get hit in the head by one of the Beater's bats, rendering her unconscious. Thus, making her miss the Quidditch Cup. Of course, no one let James take the blame. They just said that seeing how Lily was a girl, she, naturally, wouldn't have been able handle the pain. From that year on, the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team members would barely even tolerate her. But that was just like them, they were all boys under James Potter's mind control.

Remus was very uncomfortable. He should have known what would have happened when he took upstairs to the Boys' Dormitories; all Hell would break loose. But, apparently not, for Hell had already frozen over. Well, that's all that could have happened, for there was no other way that James would be at the foot of Lily's chair (or rather, the chair she was tied to), not wearing a shirt. Obviously, Melissa was thinking something along those lines, for why else had she not started to beat the crap out of James?

But, as it turned out, Remus was wrong (And so was James if his worried expression meant that he thought that Melissa was going to beat him), for Melissa just started laughing her ass off. She was leaning on Remus for support (which he didn't mind one bit) because she could barely stand up, while everyone looked at her like she was crazy. Which, incidentally, only seemed to make her laugh harder.

After five minutes had passed and Melissa still hadn't showed any signs of her laughter breaking up any time soon, Sirius came out of the bathroom ,where he had just taken a shower. He had a gold towel wrapped low around his waist, and he was raking a hand through his wet hair. After he saw Melissa standing by the door wearing her school uniform, which meant that she had the upper hand (She was wearing clothes, and he wasn't). And, seeing that he was at a disadvantage, he started whistling and headed towards the bathroom tha he just came out of.

Melissa said, her voice a little rough from all of the laughing. "Oh, no you don't," Melissa said, her voice a little rough from all of the laughing. "You aren't going anywhere."

James was still kneeling at the foot of the chair when he realized that Melissa had switched her anger onto Sirius. Well, maybe not, but he still thought that it would still be ok for him to get up and change his clothes. Which he did, but not until he passed by Melissa on his way towards his trunk.

It was as he was putting on a shirt, that Lily's other friend Tasha walked into the Dorm. Tasha was staring quite intently at Lily, who was still tied to a chair in the middle of the room. "Um...you guys?" She asked. "Yea, I don't know if you know this or not, but Lily's tied to a chair in the middle of the room." James thought that this would have been her cue to go over to Lily and untie her, but she just stood where she was; in the doorway staring in on all of them with wide eyes.

James, realizing that if he didn't do it, no one was going to untie Lily from her chair, made his way over to the back of her chair, and untied her wrists; not realizing that everyone thought that this was a very strange thing. Then, he made his way to the front of the chair and untied her ankles. And, finally, with care (this was only because he was afraid of what she was going to say), took the gag/sock out of her mouth.

Not only did he not want to endure the pain that he knew he would have faced if he had not helped Lily, he also was trying to impress one of the girls in the room. Which was, incidentally, the same girl that Remus liked.

This was going to be a very long year. . . .

Lily was so mad, she was practically seeing red. What was Melissa playing at? Didn't she know that there was nothing funny about what had just transpired? There were probably going to be bruises on her wrists for a long time. Who knew that rob ties could hurt so much? Lily sure hadn't.

But, Lily wasn't wasting time on thinking about that. For, right now, Lily was trying to make sure that she didn't kill two of her best friends. It would be OKAY if she killed Sirius, James, maybe even Remus. For, wasn't he the one who had done nothing about helping find Melissa, Tasha, or Bekki in her time of need?

Trying not to loose her head, Lily started yelling, "WHAT WERE YOU GUYS THINKING?!" Well, so much for not loosing her head. Everyone (or rather, everyone who was in that room at that time) was looking at her with wide eyes.

"Well, um....I don't know, Lils." It was the first time that anyone had ever seen (or heard) Melissa get scared.

"Well, you'd better find out quickly, or else I'm gonna KILL SOMEONE!"

Feeling that this was the time to try to take over the situation, James said, rather calmly, "Now Lily, don't loose your head."

Lily looked at him with nothing but malice in her eyes. "Don't loose my head? DON'T LOOSE MY HEAD?! You know what, Jamie? If you don't leave me alone, you're gonna loose your head!"And, with those words, she stomped out of the Boys' Dorm. But not until she screamed, mostly to herself, "I hate you James Potter, and I'll never speak to you again!"

~(*)~ So, what do you think? This is a fan fic that I was thinking about posting on HarryPotter.com, but then I realized that it might be a little odd. Actually, it's odd now because they character POVs kept on getting switched around. *sigh* I hope you don't hold it against me. Please R/R. I can always use the help. ~(*)~