James Potter ruffled his already messy hair and slung a very heavy backpack over his shoulder. It was mid-May and the seventh years gathered in the entrance hall for their annual end-of-year camping trip.

"Sirius if you don't get a move-on they're going to leave without us!" Remus said as Sirius Black threw the entire contents of his backpack onto the floor.

"I'm not going anywhere until I'm definite that my spray is in here!" He said spreading out the assortment of clothes and hair products he had just thrown onto the floor.

"Why can't you just borrow some of ours?" James asked, folding his arms impatiently.

"Prongs mate, this isn't just any spray," Sirius said with a smile, "This is my guarantee of a female filled holiday."

"And how can a spray guarantee that?" Remus said disbelievingly.

"I dunno, it just works." Sirius shrugged.

"And…how do you know that it's not just your boyish charm that attracts all these girls, Padfoot?" James winked.

"Because the last time I chat up a girl when I didn't wear it…let's just say it was an experience I won't be forgetting any time soon." Sirius said his eyes wide. James and Remus exchanged a disturbed look while Sirius began to cram everything back into his backpack.

"How do muggles fit everything into these without magic?" Sirius said holding up his now full backpack, "You couldn't even fit a cauldron in them!"

"If you don't hurry up I'll fit you in my backpack and drag you outside whether you're ready or not!" Remus said irritated.

"Ok, ok Moony I'm ready…" Sirius said, throwing his backpack onto his shoulder.

"Finally," James smiled.

The three boys made their way to the entrance hall where the teachers were attempting to split the seventh years into their houses. Slughorn and his little club of students were huddled in the corner, Lily Evans and her friend Ellie Phelps amongst them looking rather bored.

"Mr Longbottom and Miss Prewett will you kindly cease groping each other so I can put you into groups?" Professor McGonagall said looking rather flustered, "Lupin, Black, Potter, over here! Professor, would you kindly let me take the students off you now? They need to be organized!"

With a wide smile, Slughorn nodded to McGonagall before returning his attention to the students. Eventually, he reluctantly let them go, much to the joy of Lily Evans and her friend. The girls joined the Griffindoors, only a few students away from James, Sirius and Remus.

McGonagall handed Slughorn her clipboard and quill before addressing the students.

"We will be leaving shortly, so will all of you please make sure that you have your wands on you?" She called out, clearly having experienced this beforehand. After no-one ran back up to their dorms she continued.

"Now all of you, I am sure, have been put into groups, please stay in them; they will be your houses and travelling groups. You can…mingle when we get there! In Professor Slughorns hands are the teachers allocated for each group, Professor if you would kindly…"

"Oh ho!" Slughorn said, suddenly realising why McGonagall had given him the clipboard, "Well yes...erm…righto! Griffindoors with Professor McGonagall, Hufflepuffs with Professor Flitwick, Ravenclaws with Madame Pomfrey and…oh yes! Slytherins with me! Although I must say Minerva my dear I really don't think that camping-"

"Griffindoors follow me!" McGonagall said ignoring Slughorns plea and the Griffindoors followed her out of the entrance hall. Running ahead, James threw an arm around Lily's shoulders with a broad grin.

"Morning Evans," He said as they reached the carriages, "Why don't you come sit by me? I'll keep you warm."

"It's the middle of May Potter," Lily spat, pushing his arm off of her shoulder, "And I don't want to be anywhere near you let alone sit by you!"

"Don't worry Lilypetal my love, once you get some fresh air into your lungs you'll come to your senses."

"The day I fall in love with you, Potter, will be the day I shoot myself."

"Ah but Lilyflower, you have already been shot with cupid's arrow. All you need to do now is admit it."

"Your terrible sense of humour is only one of the reasons I will never go out with you, Potter." Lily said viciously, "Now leave me alone!" James stuck out his bottom lip as Lily crawled into the carriage followed by Ellie who gave him an apologetic look as she sat next to her.

"Better luck next time mate," Sirius said patting James on the back.

"I don't think there's such thing as one hundredth time lucky." Remus said as he crawled into the carriage to sit by Ellie.

"Ah we live in hope." James grinned as he sat opposite Remus and Sirius took a seat next to him.

"So near and yet so far Lilypetal," James sighed at Lily as she rolled her eyes and paid attention to Ellie instead, "She wants me really."
"Sure she does." Remus smiled, pulling a book from his backpack.

"How did you manage to find a book amongst all your other stuff?" Sirius said in awe.

"I discovered a little something called organization, Sirius," Remus smirked, "Maybe you should try it sometime."

"Sassy," Sirius winked, "Hey, Prongsy, don't you think Remus has a bit of an attitude all of a sudden? Reckon he's finally hit puberty?"

"Funny." Remus said sarcastically, but James was already too busy staring longingly at Lily Evans.

***

"Doesn't she look pretty when she sleeps?" James said absentmindedly as he continued to stare at a slumbering Lily Evans. Sirius, on the other hand, was not paying as much attention to his friend as he was Becky Taylor, who, at this moment in time, had her tongue glued to his. Slightly disgusted by this, Remus attempted to drown out the wet sloppy sounds by becoming fully absorbed in his novel.

"Hi…hello…hello?"

Snapping out of his absent state, Remus looked up to find a slightly bashful looking Ellie staring right at him.

"H-hello?" Remus said confused as to why Ellie Phelps would want to talk to him. Remus had never taken much notice to Ellie Phelps; to him, all she was, was Lily Evans' friend. They had never properly spoken; there had been no reason to. Why did she pick now when he had reached quite an interesting point in his novel?

"Sorry, my bag's gone under your seat…can you..?" She smiled.

"Oh…oh!" Remus said, just registering what she was saying, "Err…yea sure." Bending down, he pulled the bag from under his seat and handed it to her.

"Thanks," She smiled. Ellie turned and gently lifted Lily's head, placing her bag under her, "If she's going to sleep on me at least make it comfortable right?"

Remus smiled politely and returned to his book.

"Whatchya reading?" Ellie said suddenly, to which he responded by raising the cover of the book a little so she could read it.

"Any good?"

Remus nodded his head but did not answer. Giving up, Ellie placed her head gently against Lily's and closed her eyes. Sirius kicked Remus' leg to get his attention.

"Nice going." He mouthed, gesturing Ellie, but Remus just shook his head.

"What?"

Author's note: Ok so this is the intro to a fun idea that randomly popped into my head. I promise the chapters will be longer, this is only the intro. Bring on the mush! Once again, like I say at the beginning of all my fics, PLEASE REVIEW! xxxx