"We- are going out. And no I will not stand for your objections or anything of it-" Marlene spoke adamantly as she pointed at Lily grabbing something from her closet and handing it to her friend before pulling another dress for herself. "We'll both end up with permanent frown lines from worry if we don't have some kind of break." Marlene knew Lily. Knew that her best friend would have been just as she was, trying to find some kind of answer for everything that had happened. To Marlene it felt all consuming. Forgetting to breathe from the over whelming notion of actively doing something than idealing wasting time waiting for someone to do something.

"Besides that, we need to get you a date before the whole world burns into fire around us and we end as lonely spinsters with cats for company." The witch spoke sarcastically with a light smirk on her face. While granted it was true, with the state of the world a love life was far from a priority. Yet still wasn't it life that they were all wanting to protect? "So-.. anyone you have your eye on? Or do I need to pull out my very highly qualified wing woman status once more? Just ask, Sirius he can verify."

"Why are in here again Lily?" Remus asked for the third time, although he knew fine well why they were here. Remus hadn't told anyone about his secret outside of the marauders, but the longer he had known Lily, the more he realised she could be trusted, and as such had told her a few years past when she had seem him struggling at work after a particularly difficult moon cycle. "Do you not think we're going to get caught? I mean where even are Alice's family? This is very bad for business."

Standing outside the hopping pot andromeda took a long drag of her cigarette. The night air had always been a comfort to her, refreshing, cool, sobering most of the time. Tapping the end, Andromeda watched as the ash flaked away and fell to the floor, barley noticing the person on her left until the fire red of their hair was too noticeable to ignore. Andromeda knew one person in particular with that colour hair and she was fond of one Black in particular, but no others to her knowledge.

"Lily Evans." She said politely, without really looking at her. "You're looking well."

"If you fall on me red I swear I'll disown you-" The witch laughed with a light teasing smirk playing on her lips; evident that she didn't mean it for one second as she laced up the muggle roller skates that Lily kept taking about. "You know I love you- but if I break my leg and have to be wheeled to Mungos, I'm blaming you. What's the fun of this cute outfit if no one can take it off me at the end of the night?" The witch whined as she held onto the side and stood up looking at the roller rink with skepticism. She'd ice skated before sure and ballet had been mandatory from her mother; yet still even with her refined balance from quidditch with four wheels on each foot it was enough to make even the most balance person unsteady. "Are you sure this is a good idea Lil?" The witch asked, for the first time a genuine concern edging her tone.