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So...I guess I should talk about myself. My name is Lily Evans and I'm currently a seventh year Gryffindor. And here's my story.

…It had all started a couple of months ago when my Charms, Flitwick, gave us an assignment to make a random story about anything. It was the second to last week of 6th year and teachers couldn't really teach anything of importance so Flitwick figured that we deserved a little fun after a year of endless work and stress. I was really excited. Finally, a chance for me to show that I'm not just the girl who always knows the answers or the girl whose name no one can ever really get right.

So that night, I was huddled in my favourite, shady corner of the library. I was bent over the table, scribbling all of my frustration onto my parchment. With my brain whirring and my pen flying across the page, I was in my own little world. And that was my favourite place to be, away from life and into a world where everything was perfect besides the little problems that always get solved in the end. I was so transfixed in my work that I literally jumped when I heard a deep rumble of laughter near me. I was startled. Why was anyone so deep in the library? I was in the unforgivable section; the librarian loved me and let me sit here away from my fellow students. I was in so deep that everything was covered with a thick layer of dust and webs from spiders long dead. The only place that wasn't filled of earth's natural sign of aging was where I was sitting. I was shocked until I heard the voice of the laugh.

"Yuck, Padfoot, can we leave already? I can't imagine the amount of people who've done the dirty deed in this same spot hundreds of years ago. Ugh, I can just feel myself breathing in STDs that don't even exist anywhere else except this place." I recognized the disgruntled voice of James Potter. I smiled and giggled a little to myself. A little too loudly it seems, if the startled gasp I heard next is any indication.

"What the hell was that? I swear, Padfoot, they're laughing at me right now, sending me images of their nightly romps. Corsets and codpieces flying everywhere." This time I could hear the shudder in his voice, a voice that was getting closer…

"Oh, grow up, Prongs. We have to do this for Moony. Besides, you can't get STDs from just breathing them in; you have to come in contact with something that touched their bits. Like this bookcase, for example." I heard Sirius Black say before a thud and a groan.

"Dammit, Padfoot, I've got STD and spider web in my mouth." James said before I heard him mumble scorgify several times. I giggled even louder with Sirius' loud bark covering up my laughter which seemed only a foot away. With a gasp, I blew out my candle and crouched under the table. I heard Sirius and James steps come closer but no feet appeared. With shock and bewilderment, I listened as James and Sirius walked further away without any sight of them. It seemed even the light they had to have been holding to see in the dark was invisible to me.

After I assumed the coast was clear I cautiously climbed back into my previous seat, and quietly arranged my stuff into my bag. What was up with me lately? Why did I suddenly find James' voice charming and Sirius' antics funny? But, most importantly, how were they invisible? It didn't take me long to realise what they had. An invisibility cloak, something that is definitely the secret to the success of the Marauder's long history of prank. I was pondering this latest development when I heard footsteps approaching me again. A little less frantic than last time, I carefully crouched under the table and waited until I heard their footsteps again. Suddenly, they appeared right in front of me. I stifled the gasp that almost escaped my lips.

"Hey, here's a table that doesn't seem to be infested with sexual diseases, Prongs." Sirius said with a soft chuckle as he sat down, his foot almost hitting my bundled up legs. I scooted away frantically and held my breath. How long was I going to continue sitting here, until they left? That could be for hours. I was mentally hitting myself at my stupidity when James sat down a centimetre away from my body. This was the closest I have ever been to him, I thought with an internal dreamy sigh. Wait, did I just have an internal dreamy sigh in my head? Have I been breathing in too much dust?

"Hmm…Okay, so this book looks promising…Aha! Alright, so apparently, all Moony would have to do is…drink a pint of vampire blood with crushed up nails and raw meat from a werewolf that was killed on the full moon…Delicious, he'll love that. Alright, next book." Sirius said. My eyebrows furrowed. What were they talking about?

I heard James open up a book and that wave of dust that wafted out was just enough to make my nose itch and my mouth open. With horrifying realisation, I sneezed.

"Mate, did a bunny just sneeze? Was that you?" I heard Sirius exclaim in wonder.

"No! I have a manly sneeze." James said defensively. "But who was that? It sounded awfully nearby." He said as his head went under the table and his hazel eyes locked with mine. "Hey... Leslie? What the hell are you doing? How much did you hear?" James asked 'Leslie' with annoyance, shock, and slight panic. I conked my head on the table as I crawled my way out and wondered how this moment could get any worse. It did.

"N-not much." I mumbled with my head down. "I-I um was…counting how many s-s-spiders were under the table?" I closed my eyes and groaned externally. Did I really just say that? Merlin, I might as well added that I was so transfixed trying to figure out a name for spider number 16 that I didn't even notice them there. I looked up from my brief self misery to see Sirius and James holding in their laughter.

"I said that out loud, didn't I?" I muttered with dread and flaming cheeks. They nodded, letting a little laughter out. I sighed and left without another word, their laughter ringing in my ears.

Its not like I'm not used to laughter at my expense.

"See you later, Leslie!" Sirius called mockingly after me. I sighed sadly and whispered.

"It's Lily. My name's Lily."

The next morning I woke up to my best and only friend, Audrey, shaking me awake. I groaned as the light hit my eyes. Just as suddenly, Audrey's porcelain face and bright grey eyes were in my sight. As much as I love Audrey, I can't stand to see her face in the morning especially since I was having a very delightful dream about a certain tall boy that I can't quite recall the face of.

I groaned louder and buried my face deeper into my pillow. But Audrey would have none of that.

"Uh-uh, Lily, you know what time it is! It's time to wake up and smell the roses of another beautiful day!" I uncovered my eyes and looked over to the open window.

"It's pouring and freezing outside." I said with annoyance as I cuddled even deeper into my sheets. Audrey rolled her eyes at me. She has to deal with this every morning.

"So what? Besides, you'll get to see hot James this morning!" She sang in a sing-song voice. I blushed deeply and murmured.

All the more reason to get up.

"All the more reason not to get up." Audrey scoffed at my blatant lie and walked away.

"Alright. If you want to be that way, but, just so you know, he's behind the door asking for you." I jumped out of bed quickly, ran to the mirror, and brushed my hair. Looking at myself, I went over all my faults. My stomach stuck out, my hair was too bright, my eyes are too far apart, and my legs are too short. My colouring makes me look like a bloody Christmas elf all year long. Why would James Potter want to talk to someone who looks like this? I wondered as I hurriedly changed into jeans and brushed my hair again. With a sigh, I opened the door and tried not to smile as brightly as I wanted to.

James' POV, 6 hours earlier:

"See you later, Leslie!" Sirius shouted after that weird girl. Who would have thought that someone so quiet could be so odd? Although, it was kind of sweet how she kept on stumbling over her words. After the laughter died down, I got serious.

"How much do you think she heard?" I asked anxiously. This could ruin everything. She could be spilling the story to the whole school right now. How we have an invisibility cloak and that Moony is a werewolf. I repeated all this to Sirius. His face turned solemn.

"Even if she figured it out, I don't think she would say anything. Besides, there isn't much to link Moony as a werewolf since we hadn't been talking for long and we didn't even mention it once. Just in case maybe we shouldn't mention it out loud anymore. Who knows who could be watching," Sirius said with a suspicious look around him. "Besides, she probably doesn't have anyone to tell it to."

"You're right. I don't think I've ever seen her with another person." I said with a sigh. I love challenges and risks but when it comes to the possibility of Remus' life here being compromised, I've never been so nervous and this is one situation I can't flirt my way out of...Or maybe I can.

"I'll go talk to her tomorrow anyway. Okay, back to work." I said as I reached toward another dusty book. I checked under the table again to see if another mysterious girl was sitting under the table counting spiders. I really hope she was joking about that. And if she was, then I want to figure her out. It's weird; she had this sort of mysterious air around her that I want to know more.

"Hey, Sirius, what do you think about her?" I asked curious. Sirius looked up dazed from the book he was reading. His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He had already forgotten.

"About Leslie. Is that even her name? It doesn't sound right. Ann? Sophie? Lily? Yeah, Lily." I nodded with a self satisfied smile. I had remembered her name and with a spark of realisation, I remembered her last name. "Lily Evans, what do you think about her?" I asked Sirius.

He thought for a while. "She's probably the weirdest bird I've ever met. For the first six years, I don't remember seeing her anywhere and then suddenly, she's sitting under our table apparently counting spiders and talking out loud. I don't meet birds like that very often. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing." He said finally, flipping through the worn out pages of another tome absentmindedly.

"I have a feeling...that it's a good thing. It's odd. I have this urge." Sirius raised both his eyebrows at that. "Not like that, you perv. She just…seems so sad all the time." I say with furrowed eyebrows. Sirius just looked at me in an odd way and opened his mouth.

"And what does this urge tell you to do?" He asked with a quirked eyebrow.

"Befriend her." I said simply, bending my head toward the book. From the corner of my eye, I could see Sirius quirk his eyebrow even more.

"I'm not even going to ask why."

"I'm serious about this, Padfoot. When I go talk to her tomorrow, I'm going to personally take an interest into her life." I said with a self important air. Sirius quirked his other eyebrow. "Oh, for Merlin's sake, Sirius, stop doing that! And stop looking at me like I admitted I'm in love with Malfoy." He just drew back and raised both eyebrows with a saucy smile.

Sirius dropped his smile and took on a serious expression. "Tell me, Prongs, how long have you been in love with Mr. Malfoy?" I conjure up a dreamy expression and put my hands under my chin.

"Ever since I first saw him bullying that first year in the corridor. That sneer on his face was just…beautiful. Made me want to drag him over to the nearest cupboard and soften that curl in his lip." I said in a awed high pitched voice. Sirius dropped his seriousness and burst into laughter. I joined in and that was the last we spoke of Lily Evans for that night.

An hour later, Sirius and I were leaving in dejection when I stumbled on something. I bent down curiously.

"Hey, I think its Lily's bag. She must have left it here when she ran away." And suddenly my sad mood brightened. "Hey, this is the perfect excuse for me to talk to her!" I exclaimed with a smile across my face. Sirius rolled his eyes at my exuberance and pushed me forward.

"Come on, lover boy. Let's go to sleep so you can dream about Malfoy and Lily." I laughed and shoved him.

The next morning, with freshly showered hair, I'm standing outside Lily's dorm with my broomstick at my side and Lily's handbag on my shoulder. I had to use my broomstick to get up the girl's staircase. Brill, right?

It is 11:30 on a Saturday and I think Lily is still sleeping since she wasn't at the Great Hall for breakfast. After knocking and waiting outside for a couple moments, a pretty girl with grey eyes and perfect skin opens the door. Her eyes widen when she sees me and she seems genuinely surprised. She glances behind herself and turned back to me.

"Hi, I'm Audrey McKinley." She stuck out her hand and smiled at me hesitantly. I smiled at her reassuringly and shook her hand firmly. Always have to have a proper handshake.

"I'm James Potter. Lily left her handbag in the library and I just came to give it to her." I nodded toward the handbag on my shoulder.

Audrey nodded. "Ah, well, I can give it to her if you want." She said as she extended a hand toward the bag. I blushed slightly as I moved my shoulder away.

"I actually wanted to talk to her so I might as well give her the bag at the same time." I said, smiling my flirtatious smile so that the blush on my face wasn't so obvious. Her grey eyes widened a smidge but disappeared before she gained a knowing smile.

"And what did you want to speak to Lily about?" She asked. I wracked my brain for a response.

"I was...just going to ask Lily if she would tutor me in Charms since she's the top of our year. I don't have the best grade in Charms and when I went to the library yesterday I saw Lily there with her bag but then she left without it so I thought that I might as well ask her while I brought her bag." I said with a sudden burst of inspiration. I patted myself on the back mentally in congratulations. What I said was true, I don't have the best grade in Charms and this is the perfect excuse to befriend Lily, granted if she agrees to it. She might still be a little embarrassed about last night.

Audrey stared at me for a couple more seconds, and I felt bead of sweat travel down my face as I waited. Finally, she smiled slightly and nodded her head.

"Alright, I'll just go wake Lily up then. This might take a while." I chuckled nervously and watched as she shut the door behind her. After she left, I breathed a huge sigh of relief and just thought about the current situation when the door opens and out comes Lily Evans. She's wearing jeans that are slightly too short for her already short frame, making her look like she's ten instead of a sixteen year old. But what I'm really thrown by is Lily's face. I had never really looked into her eyes and it was too dark in the library to really see them.

Her eyes are the greenest green I have ever seen in my life. Usually green eyes have undertones of blue or hazel so they never look like pure green. But she has pure green eyes; eyes not muddled by the presence of her other parent's genes. They're truly beautiful.

She stands hesitantly and chews on her lip but tries to seem more assured by smiling slightly at me before leaning against the door. I smiled back at her and start talking.

"Hey, Lily." I say and Lily's green eyes widen as she looks thoroughly surprised. I smiled. "What? You didn't think I knew your name? Of course I know Lily Evans' name, the girl who is the top of our year in Charms. Not to mention, the girl who counts spiders under a table and names them." I teased with a chuckle and a friendly smile; trying to tell her that I am not mocking her. It didn't work.

She frowned and talked in a murmur so low that I had to concentrate to really hear what she was saying. "If I remember right, you and Sirius called me Leslie last night. Besides, I was joking last night, I was doing homework when I heard you two gallivanting and whispering about STDs." So it was her that had laughed! "I didn't really feel like dealing with anyone so I ducked under the table. When I didn't see anyone but heard them, I think I figured out why the Marauders are so successful." She said with a slight smile. My eyebrows furrowed. Shit.

I stepped forward and grabbed her arm steadily. "Please, don't tell anyone. It's a family heirloom; my father gave it to me. I'll do whatever you want. You can even use it sometimes." I said desperately. This was one of the Marauders' secrets that could not be divulged to the public. The novelty of the Marauders would be ruined if everyone knew how we do our work.

She chuckled derisively and gently pulled her arm out of my grasp. "So you're bribing me to be quiet?"

"No!" She just looked at me. "Basically."

Lily sighed. "I don't need to be bribed; I won't say anything. I also won't say anything about Remus'...little problem." She says like it's obvious that she won't say anything. My eyes widened and I bent my head toward her.

"How long have you known?" I whispered after I checked to see that nobody was around.

She backed off a little and whispered as well. "Since the middle of fifth year. I was prefects with Remus and it wasn't that hard to connect the dots. I haven't told anyone, if you're worried about that, and I don't plan on telling anytime soon." She said with determination. I looked at her silently, accessing her honesty. She gazed back at me steadily.

I nodded slowly. "You should tell Remus that you know." I said finally. She looked down and bit her lip.

"I already have." That threw me for a loop. I had never heard from Remus that anyone else knew about his affliction. Why didn't he tell us?

I pushed my betrayed feelings down. "Alright. Well, here's your bag. You left it yesterday at the library." She nodded and took it from me.

"I didn't even realise. Thank you." She hesitated. "I guess I'll see you around then." She said as the side of her lips quirked up and turned toward the door.

"Wait!" I shouted. "I wanted to ask you something. I know that you're the top of our class in Charms and I was wondering if you could help me with homework. Only if you want, of course." I said with a shy smile. Lily stared at me with those disarming eyes and hesitated again.

"I don't know. I have a ton of homework lately." She said finally, her head bent toward the floor. I chuckled at her blatant lie.

"It's the 3rd to last week of school. Teachers aren't giving much homework these days." She looked up at me and retorted.

"Well then why do you want me to help you with your homework?" She said in a voice that if I knew Lily better, I would think she was flirting with me.

I smiled and chuckled again. "Touché. I guess what I really mean is, could you help me with some concepts that I don't understand and want to understand before holiday starts and I forget everything." I looked at her hopefully and smiled one of my flirtiest and brightest smiles.

Her pale cheeks turned a pale pink and she nodded. "I guess I could do that. What day and time?" I thought quickly.

"How about today at seven in the library?" She nodded and turned toward the door.

"Thank you again for my bag and I'll see you then I suppose." She closed the door behind her before I could say anything back. I chuckle to myself; once again my smile has done the whole job.