JAMES.
"Sirius," I mused, as we sat in front of the crackling fire, trying and failing to do a transfiguration essay.
"What?"
"Do you know any Muggle bands?"
"What?"
"Like, singers. But muggles."
"Um... well, there's... Someone Marley? Dylan Marley? Oh wait, that's Bob Dylan. Um... is it Bob Marley? I think it is."
"Any bands? Or good songs?"
"The Beatles," Remus said, looking up from the huge book he was reading.
"What?"
"The Beatles."
"I think we're having two different conversations here."
"The Beatles is a band, James."
"Muggles name their bands after animals?" Sirius asked, "So is there a band called Padfoot out there?"
"I don't know. I read it-"
"In a book. Yes." I smirked. Remus smiled apologetically.
"I think we should start a band."
Sirius, Remus, and Peter (who had been fussing over his essay fretfully) all stared at me with looks of incredulity.
"A band?"
"Can you sing?"
"I don't know how to bloody well sing, you twat, Peter."
"Well I definitely can't."
"Guys." They all shut up. "I want to sing a Beatles song for Lily."
Silence, leaving me to realise how stupid it sounded.
Then Sirius laughed, and the tension snapped.
"You got it bad, Prongs."
"You really like her, don't you?" Remus smiled his sad smile.
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SEV.
"Why can't I come into your common room?" I knew what she was going to say, but I wanted to hear her say it again.
"It's the Gryffindor common room, Sev, not the Slytherin one. Anyway, I thought you chose to hang out with your death eater pals instead of me?"
I felt, yet again, the stab to my heart as she said it.
"I-"
"No excuses. You chose your way, I chose mine."
"Lily-"
"Sev, I know you - better than you know yourself. If you could have chosen another way, it would have been the first thing you did."
I looked at my feet, because I knew it was true. If I could have chosen Lily over Mulciber, Avery and the rest, it would have been my first choice.
Lily looked at me with a mixture of pity and resentment, then said, "Abercrombie and Witch," and slipped through the portrait hole.
I was about to walk away - I could have followed her, but who was I kidding, she didn't want me to - when I heard a scream, and a burst of noise.
Pausing, I heard Lily say, "Oh my god," before a song started to to play.
"Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true
So please, love me do
Whoa, love me do
"Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true
So please, love me do
Whoa, love me do
"Someone to love
Somebody new
Someone to love
Someone like you..."
I blinked at the portrait hole to the Gryffindor common room as the song exploded into chorus, harmonica being badly played in the background with a steady beat.
As the song finished, I heard Lily trying to stifle laughter, being saying, "Potter, the Beatles broke up five years ago."
Potter!?
James Potter sang a song for Lily? I had to restrain myself from bursting out with derisive laughter.
"What? But... you still, like, listen to them, right?"
"Next time, try Queen." There was another laugh from Lily, a click, and then, "What are you still doing here?"
Lily stood, irate, with her hands on her hips, staring at me furiously.
"I, uh, I heard you scream. So-"
"You heard me scream, so you waited outside to see if I was okay?"
"Well, then I heard the singing-"
"Oh, you're a Beatles fan now, are you?"
"No, I was wondering who was singing-"
"Sev, just go to your common room."
"Where are you going?"
"To finish my transfiguration essay in the library. The common room is going to be disruptive for a while."
"How come?"
"It's going to take James Potter and his clique a long time to learn Bohemian Rhapsody."
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JAMES.
"Remus."
"I know, I know, I'm sorry!"
"Five years? Five years?"
"Well, maybe the book was a bit outdated..."
I sighed, and collapsed into an armchair.
"What did she mean, 'next time try queen'?" I looked at Remus. He shrugged.
"Maybe it's another band," Peter said.
"Who would name a band queen? That's just dumb."
"The Beatles is more stupid," Sirius noted.
"I'll ask in Muggle Studies tomorrow," Remus said.
"Lily Evans is going to be head over heels for your antlers, Prongs."
"She already is," I grinned, "she just doesn't know it yet."
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FanficBOOK ONE in the MARAUDERS SERIES [Completed] Lily's always thought Potter was an arrogant toe rag. But people change. Like her best friend. And the arrogant toe rag in question. People change enough to change Lily, and she's finding herself falling...
