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STAY

"Prongsieee..... Oh Prongsieee".

"Sirius, my friend what brings you here?" asked James looking up from his Charms essay.

"Well, I was hoping you would give me advice.... On like you know... girls".

"Wow.. the great Sirius Orion Black needs my help... with girls" snorted James.

"It's about Marlene, I want to do something special for her, we've barely had any time alone you know" he said.

"Well for starters, you guys are always together, except you keep snogging her. And second, if you really know her you'll know what she wants. Just remember all the conversations you guys had" suggested James.
Sirius scrunched his face up as he thought back to all the things Marlene had told him and looked back at James with a smile.

"Thanks mate" he said before leaving.

Minutes later he popped back in, "Come to think of it, you should do something for my Lily Flower too, she deserves it" he said and disappeared again.

Yeah I should!

He got up and ran towards McGonagall's room. He knew Lily was in the library and would came back late at night.

"Potter, what a racket you have made. Why are you hear at this time anyway" asked McGonagall, her eyes keenly examining James.

"Well professor I was hoping if you could help me with something" he said, his hands nervously fidgeting.

"And what in the name of Merlin would that be?" she asked sharply.

"Professor if you could just come with me for a few minutes, I would be grateful" he pleaded.

"Come on then, make it quick" she said.

James hurriedly led the way.

An hour later

"Thank you Professor, I can't say how much this means to me" he thanked. "Well Potter I didn't just do it for free. I expect your transfiguration essay by Wednesday in return for my help, in whatever it is you are planning" she declared.

"Well Potter, I must get going now and let you continue with your - um- shenanigans" she said, trying to hide her admiration for James.
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"James, we need to go patro-... Oh My God! James Henry Potter, I love this" she said beaming at James, who was sitting on the couch, a huge smile plastered across his face, clearly proud of his work.

He had McGonagall's help, obviously.

He had decorated the dorm with flowers that were floating all over the dorm, clouds that looked like cotton candy drifting across the ceiling, yellow sparrows twittering all around the dorm and fairy lights all around them.

It was absolutely delightful. "I'm guessing you like it" grinned James as he leaned it to kiss her.

"I do. I love it. And I love you." she said, as she sat down on the couch.

"But we do have patrolling to do" she said her face falling at the thought.

"Oh, I arranged for that. The Hufflepuff prefects will cover for us today" he said, proud of his management skills.

"Good, cause i have no interest in going today" she said nestling closer to him. They sat there holding each other when Lily broke the silence.

"How did you do all this?" she asked.

"Oh Sirius gave me the idea but McGonagall did the work" he explained.