A/N: Hey everyone! This is my first story, and I would appreciate if you would R/R. I’d like to apologize for my future mess-ups, for I may not have time to update as much as I would like to until my activities have been reduced, even on my first day of school, I won’t be home until 10 PM. Sundays are my only off days at the moment. Now here’s my first fan fiction ever!(:
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I’m going to have to see it to believe it

Lily Evans was sitting in the Head’s compartment, straightening her Head Girl badge, and waiting for the new Head Boy to arrive. She was hoping it was going to be her friend, Remus Lupin, but when she asked, he had said that he didn’t get the badge, but he hinted a fellow Gryffindor did. She couldn’t even consider Sirius Black or James Potter could get it; they caused too much trouble, and she highly doubted Peter Pettigrew got it either, so she was guessing it was Frank Longbottom, the only other Gryffindor guy left.
The door opened behind her and Lily turned around to see nothing but the Head Boy badge, and she looked up to see no one other then James Potter. Her heart sunk and mouth imitated a perfect “O”.
“Missed me, Evans?” James Potter asked, hazel eyes sparkling.
Lily closed her mouth and muttered, “Why did Dumbledore do this to me?”
“Oh c’mon, Evans, I’m not that bad,” James said, showing mock sadness.
Lily opened her mouth to retort but closed it quickly as all the other prefects have entered. Remus Lupin walked in last, and smiled at both of them, Lily wanted to shoot daggers back.
“So, Lilykins and I,” James started, but changed his speech as Lily narrowed her eyes at him, “Lily, sorry, and I are the new heads this year, and err, I didn’t exactly prepare anything else to say, so popcorn Lily!”
Lily first shot an annoyed look at James, but began talking, “As Potter just said, we are the Heads this year, and I, unlike him prepared for this,” Lily shot another annoyed look at James Potter, “Here are the new passwords for the common rooms, fifth year prefects will lead the first years to the common room, and please make them feel welcome. Here also are the patrolling schedules, they will automatically change when me or,” she winced, “Potter write on our copy. That’s all for now, but we will meet next month to set-up a Hogsmeade visit, so you can go now.” Lily finished lamely.
All the prefects besides Remus filed out, and the three of them were left in the compartment, they all sat in silence for a few moment before Remus was the first to talk, “So, Lily, didn’t I hint that a fellow Gryffindor had the badge?”
Lily glared, and answered, “Yes, but I was under the impression it was Frank Longbottom; now if you don’t mind, I’ll be leaving to find my friends.” And she walked out without hearing another word.

P A G E B R E A K (:

“You will not believe who is the Head Boy!” Lily exclaimed as she slammed the compartment door shut.
“I’m guessing from the red in your face it’s none other then James Potter,” answered Alice Prewett smiling.
“You have got to be kidding! Aw! Lils I’m so sorry!” Mary apologized.
This is usually how her two best friends usually acted like, Alice being sarcastic and annoying, and Mary being sincere and apologetic, even though things were never her fault. They were her two best friends in the whole wide world, through thick and thin.
Lily scowled, but answered, “Yes, James Potter, and he is such an arse!!”
Her friends listened to her rant and rave till she was blue in the face, and Lily automatically felt better. How did she ever survive without them? Lily started to space out as her friends started gossiping and talking.
This was the beginning of her seventh year, and her last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It would extremely difficult considering N.E.W.T.’s would be coming up at the end of the year.
Better then it was going to Petunia’s wedding… Lily thought to herself. I don’t know what she sees in the walrus of a man, but I’m still happy for her…Not ever was Petunia happy for me though, Lily thought viciously.
“So, Lily what did you do the first weeks of summer?” asked Mary, interrupting Lily’s thoughts.
“I had Petunia’s wedding, remember?” Lily answered, with only a little trace of poison in her voice.
“Ah, yeah, I remember now! You said it was the most awful wedding you’ve been to,” said Lily’s other best friend, Alice Prewett.
Lily snorted, “Yeah, her dress was covered in feathers...” she said cracking a smile.
“Good afternoon ladies!” boomed Sirius Black as he walked into their compartment, “Mary, Alice,” he said, bowing to both of them, “Lilyflower!” he exclaimed, opening his hands toward Lily, as if he looked like he wanted a hug.
“Why are you here, Black?” Lily asked straightforward, ignoring his gesture.
“What? I can’t come and visit my fellow Gryffindors?” asked Sirius, with mock surprise. Lily glared at him with her intense emerald eyes and answered, “Since when have you just liked to visit us?”
“Since Lisa Lewson has a hard slap,” Sirius answered as if he was commenting on the nice weather outside.
“So, you finally told her you were cheating on her with not one, but two of her dorm-mates?” Alice asked with interest.
“Yeah, I got bored of her anyways.”
“Sirius, you are such a pig,” Lily pointed out.
Sirius barked out a laugh, “Thanks, Lilyflower; you know how to always compliment a man.”
Lily glared in response. “Leave, Black. I don’t want all the marauders attracting in here.”
But surely enough, as soon as Lily finished her sentence, the remaining marauders burst in, James Potter in the lead.
“Hey Evans!” said James as his hazel eyes lit up with excitement, “Mary, Alice, nice to see you yet again,” James added in after moment’s pause.
“Oh, psh, he only has eyes for Lily,” Alice whispered to Mary, who started to giggle.
“What are you laughing at?” Lily asked, narrowing her eyes.
“Nothing!” chorused Alice and Mary at the same time, Alice’s big brown eyes widening in mock innocence, and Mary’s bright blue ones brimmed with tears of laughter. Lily rolled her eyes at the obvious lie, but decided she didn't want to know.
“So, Evans…” James began, but Lily cut him off.
“What pick-up line are you going to use this time Potter?”
“None,” James answered smugly, “I was just going to ask what you did over the summer, but it’s got to be a positive that you’re thinking about me and my pick up lines.”
“I hate you, Potter,” said Lily in a matter-of-fact voice.
“You know what they say about hate, Evans. They say it’s a very passionate emotion,” said James, positively beaming now, “You’re having passionate thoughts about me right now.”
“Yeah, too bad I’m thinking passionate murder; your idea of passionate will never happen,” Lily retorted.
“I wouldn’t be too sure, Lilykins,” said James, putting his arm around her shoulder.
“Buzz off Potter,” Lily said as she shrugged off his arm off, she quickly stood up and turned to the direction of Remus Lupin, “Remus, we have to patrol the train soon, should we leave now?”
“Yes, I think it’s a good idea to leave now, before you slap James,” Remus answered. As soon as they were out of the compartment, Lily noticed Remus’ sickly color and weight loss.
“Remus, are you okay?” she asked, “Is the full moon coming?” She’d known that Remus Lupin was a werewolf, since their 5th year, she really started putting the lunar cycles and his “sick days” together.
“Yeah, in two days, but Lily?” Remus asked.
“Yes?” Lily answered.
“Thanks for caring, and not telling everyone,” Remus said quietly.
“Oh, Remus, it’s okay, it’s not as bad as you think though, none of the Gryffindors will judge you,” Lily said.
Remus snorted, “Haha! You make my Lycanthropy seem like such a little detail, you know that’s just like James…”
“No. Just no, Remus. He is the world’s biggest arse, and I will not give him a chance,” Lily said simply.
Remus sighed, “But, Lily, he’s changed, he’s not so arrogant, he rarely even hexes Severus anymore, he’s changed,” Remus said emphasizing on the word changed.
Lily narrowed her eyes at him and responded, “I am not going to go out with James Potter.”
Remus sighed, and gave up, “So how was your summer? Did Petunia give you hell still?”
“Yeah, she just didn’t talk to me though this year, but she married a complete walrus, fatter then Slughorn!” she said cracking a smile.
Remus chuckled and asked, “I thought you liked Slughorn?”
“Yes, I do, just not his physique,” Lily answered.
Remus laughed again and asked another question, “So what subjects are you taking this year?”
“Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Ancient Runes,” Lily answered, “What are you taking?”
“All the same, again,” Remus answered, “Are you still thinking of becoming a Healer?”
“Yes, and you’re still undecided?” said Lily.
“Yeah, but you know all the Marauders, except Peter, are taking all the same classes…Including James,” Remus added a tiny bit on emphasis on James’s name.
Lily just rolled her eyes, and said, “Yeah so are Alice and Mary, so I won’t have to be tortured.”
The train’s whistle blew, signaling that the train was nearly into the Hogsmeade Village.
“Let’s go back into the compartment, the train’s nearly there,” said Remus.
“Ah, I don’t want to face Potter, but hey, maybe you’re right, maybe he actually did change,” said Lily, but she added, “But, I’m going to have to see it to believe it.”
Remus just smiled and nodded, and mentally patted himself on the back.


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Last Beginning Feast
“Welcome students, new and old, back to our wonderful school! Now before we eat, I need to make a long, painful speech about Flitch’s list of non-allowed items,” Dumbledore said seriously while unfolding an extremely long piece of parchment. Flitch looked gleeful and excited, while all the Marauders groaned, many of the other students joined in. Dumbledore chuckled, made the long parchment disappear and snapped his fingers to summon the food.
“He was joking?” Peter Pettigrew asked.
“No Wormtail, this is invisible food that we can’t eat till Dumbledore finishes listing all the prohibited items,” Sirius said sarcastically while taking a huge bite out of a chicken leg.
“Oh,” said Wormtail, putting the food down. James smacked him in the back of his head, and rolled his eyes.
“So, you guys ready for the prank? When are we setting them off?” James said as Remus sighed.
Sirius excitedly answered, “I think we should set them off right as Dumbledore finishes his speech. It’ll be later then usual, and people will worry.”
“Actually, Padfoot, that’s a pretty good idea,” Remus complimented Sirius, who in turn grinned, with a mouthful of chicken showing.
“Black, could you swallow like a normal human?” Lily asked, eyeing Sirius’s mouth.
“Face it Lily, I’m handsome even with a mouthful of chewed chicken,” Sirius said cockily. Lily snorted at him, but all the same let it go with muttering, “Ignorant toerag.”
They ate without problem, but the other students were looking at the Marauders expectantly, waiting for the beginning of the year pranks, but it never came. People started whispering and worrying that the Marauders’ pranks would not continue this year, because James Potter was Head Boy.
Boy, we they wrong.

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All the Marauders were determined to make their seventh year full of pranks; it would be the ending of the most famous era of troublemakers. They were going to use James’s power to get them out of trouble, and to pull better pranks. As Dumbledore stood up, the whole crowd of students hushed and listened for the Headmaster.
“Ah, I hope you rather enjoyed this meal, but I was quite surprised it was uneventful,” Dumbledore said, eyeing the Marauders who winked, Dumbledore chuckled in response. “Flitch has asked me to explain that there are 189 items on the prohibited list, and to see it, visit Flitch office. Also, first years keep in mind that the Forest is prohibited, and some of our older students need to keep that in mind also,” he finished, looking at the Marauders, who again acknowledged them, but this time by waving.
“Now for more serious matters… I know most of you have heard of an evil wizard that is taking power, his name is Lord Voldemort,” a shudder issued through a majority of the crowd, but not to the Marauders or Lily. But on the Slytherin side of the Great Hall, many looked enraged or amused.
“If you suspect any strange going-ons, I highly suggest you talk to a teacher, or to myself, or even to the new Heads, Lily Evans and James Potter. But let’s not dwell onto dangerous matters unless needed; now off you go to bed.”
The Marauders all grinned and gave each other the thumbs up. In seconds’ time, the whole Great Hall erupted in colorful and extremely large fireworks that while the Marauder’s voices, magically loudened said, “Did you think we could miss the beginning of the year prank? Guess again, we’re still here, and better then ever…Expect many pranks…Be afraid, very afraid. Love, The Marauders.”

The whole school, except the Slytherins, cheered and clapped toward the Marauders who were now standing on the table bowing. James was the first to hop down, and say, “Lily, don’t forget we need to visit Dumbledore’s Office now,” he paused “Do you want to walk with me?” James asked politely (he had gotten the idea from Remus).
Lily, in return look shocked, but nonetheless saw Remus showing the thumbs up to her, “Yes, I let’s head up there now.” James looked pleased with himself that he actually lasted more then 5 minutes without Lily yelling at him. As the walked up the stairs, James ruffled his hair, a nervous habit he picked up accidentally.
“Do you want to take a shortcut up there, it’ll be a lot faster,” James promised.
“Yeah, I’m bushed, I want to get to sleep soon,” Lily answered. James pulled away a tapestry of a meadow, which showed a lot of stairs going up, Lily groaned.
“You know I can carry you up the stairs, if you like,” James suggested, but he knew he’d push his luck too far.
Lily rolled her eyes and said, “What, do you think I’m one of your fan girls, who will be swept off my feet by you?” she snorted and ran up the stairs.
So much for the politeness Remus told me to try, James thought to himself. They reached to the top of the stairs in record time, but Lily was catching her breath.
“I told you I could carry you,” James said cockily as they were outside Dumbledore’s office.
“James Potter! You complete arse! I am not some pathetic fan girl, and I will not let you carry me!” Lily screamed, she then in a normal voice, “Licorice Wands.” The hidden staircase showed itself and Lily and James climbed up.
“Goodevening Ms. Evans and Mr. Potter, I think I could have heard you a mile away though.” Lily looked abashed as Dumbledore chuckled. “Now you may be wondering why I have made you Heads, well, Mr. Potter, you may be wondering.” James cracked a smile and nodded.
“Well, you know the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort is gaining power, and there is no doubt in my mind that he wants to take over the school in the future,” Dumbledore paused, looking at Lily and James’s shocked faces, “But, never have I lost the school yet, and I will use all my power to keep it in control, but I picked you two as Heads because I thought you two were the most likely to help me keep the school under control.”
James’s and Lily’s shocked faces turned into determined faces now, and they both nodded, “It’s in your power to plan a bash this year, and to plan Hogsmeade trips. You can always find me here, but one last thing before we say good night, I need my two heads working together, so would you be willing to try to something?”
“Sure professor,” James answered, smiling, Lily looked nervous, but still nodded a silent yes. James noticed that Lily hasn’t said a single word as soon as they stepped in Dumbledore’s office.
“Good, good,” Dumbledore said smiling; he took out his wand and said, “Please put out an arm in front of you, either or it doesn’t matter.”
James put his left and Lily her right. Dumbledore waved his wand and a white chain fastened itself around both wrists. Lily looked up, wide-eyed. “Sir, these can’t be- how are we going to” Lily kept on interrupting herself, while James looked at the handcuffs wide-mouthed, and plainly said, “How are we supposed to get this off?”
“The handcuffs will separate you two again when a mutual good feeling is between both of you, which means cooperation,” Dumbledore answered, smiling, he added, “Now go to bed, both of you, there’s a weekend before classes start, the Head dorms are behind the picture of the Drunk Monks on the seventh floor, the password is ‘Unity’, good night.”
James and Lily headed down the stairs, both in a daze, but for separate reasons. Lily was extremely angry while James couldn’t believe his luck. Lily was walking faster then James and pulling his arm, she snapped, “Walk faster, could you?”
“Lily, we need to have a mutual feeling for each other, and you yelling at me will not make it better,” James said reasonably.
“Yeah, well, I’ll deal with this in the morning, I just want to go to sleep,” Lily answered, still harsh, but not as rude as before.
They approached the picture and James said unity to get into the head dorms. The common room had the same set-up as the Gryffindor common room did, with scarlet hanging, a big fireplace, and big squashy armchairs. “It’s cozy,” James commented.
“How are we going to sleep like this?” Lily asked, pulling the handcuffs up, pulling James’ hand up.
James shrugged and said, “I’m not sure, I’m guessing we’re going to have to sleep in the same bed until these disappear.”
Lily inhaled sharply, and said, “You better not try anything, Potter, or I will damage your dreams of having any kids.”
James actually looked angry at this and nearly hissed, “I don’t take advantage of girls like that Evans. I don’t know who you’re confusing me as, but I’m not like I was, and even back then I never took advantage of a girl. I’m only asking you to give me a chance, to show you I’ve changed, but you keep on storming off on me, but now, we’re stuck until you do.”
Lily looked taken aback and she would have stormed off like he said, if it wasn’t for the handcuffs, but she merely narrowed her eyes and said, “Sorry for offending, Potter, you’re right, we need to work this out, but not now, how about in the morning?” Lily asked.
James looked shocked at how quickly she changed her emotions, but nodded all the same and said, “All right, where do you want to sleep tonight? I don’t care.”
Lily thought for a second and said, “Well, let’s look at both rooms and see what the look like first.”
They both walked to the end of the common room and saw on one door it said, Lily Evans, and across it said James Potter, he motioned to go into her room at first, and they opened the door. It was exactly remodeled like her dormitory in Gryffindor tower, but her bed was twice the size. They next went into James’s room and it nearly looked exactly the same, just more boyish. Lily was the first to break the silence and said, “Let’s just sleep in here tonight; I could pass out on the floor.”
James nodded, then looked like he was right on the verge of giving bad news, “Okay, but Lily, I have to pee.”
She blanched, and said, “This handcuffs are going to be a major problem, I should probably go too.”
They walked over to the bathroom, and Lily went first, and said, “If you will look, I will make sure you’ll never see anything out of your eyes again.” James just turned the other way, then the switched and James said jokingly, “Okay, well you can look, if you want.” Lily just shuddered and turned to face the wall.
They were back into the bedroom, now facing a different challenge, getting dressed; Lily didn’t even want to think of showering tomorrow morning.
It was pretty easily, the clothes could be put on through the cuffs, so it wasn’t impossible to get the arms through.
“Now can we get to sleep?” Lily asked, as James finished getting dressed.
“Yeah,” he said jumping onto the bed, dragging Lily on too, she screamed as she flew in the air, but laughed once she hit the springs. They situated themselves and quietly fell asleep. James still couldn’t believe his luck as he saw Lily’s peaceful face sleeping, with her vivid red hair spread out around her pillow, James sighed and thought to himself, I could get used to this… And with that last thought, he drifted out in to a peaceful sleep.


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Chapter 3-
First Moment

James was woken up peacefully, the sun was shining and Lily Evans was in bed with him…
Wait, what?? James thought to himself. He then recollected last night events, and looked at the peacefully sleeping redheaded girl.
She had light porcelain skin, with freckles splattered across her face. She had a ski sloped nose, and full lips. James still thought she was the most beautiful women he has ever seen. He then noticed how awfully close she was to him, as they were in close embrace. James lay on his back when his arms around Lily, while her head rest on his chest. James knew that Lily would take this horribly; probably ending in a slap, so James, even though his instincts screamed in protest, tried to untangle himself without waking up Lily, to be in a much more suitable sleeping position.
Lily sighed contently, and fluttered her eyes open as James was moving himself. She blinked a couple times and said sleepily, “James?”
James was pleasantly shocked she used his first name instead of his surname as always, “Yes Lily?” She only groaned in response, James seemed shocked that he already so early in the day annoyed her, he asked, “What?”
“I don’t like to wake up,” she said simply, trying to go back to sleep.
James chuckled, relieved, and replied, “Well, Lily, we have to get up sometime, and it’s already ten in the morning.” Lily just yawned and sighed.
“Well, I suppose you need to eat something too, so I guess I’ll get up,” Lily said, trying, but failing to stifle a yawn.


At the same moment Lily finished her sentence, as if on cue, James’ stomach decided to growl. They both laughed, and ending up looking at each other in the eyes. James’ heart soared as his hazel eyes connected into the emerald orbs which had been softened by sleep. Lily’s stomach churned with butterflies, but looked away. An awkward silence filled the room.
She must have felt that, it was a moment, it had felt so right, James thought in his head. Lily pondered herself what had just happened.
Did I just have a moment with James Potter? No, I could not have a moment with him, but the little voice in the back of her head had argued, Maybe Remus was right; maybe he really did change…
James cleared his throat, disturbing the silence, “Err, should we freshen up before we head to breakfast?” Lily flushed, but silently nodded.
They respectfully took showers; Lily had again threatened James blindness.
“You know what’s lucky?” James asked as they walked out of the Head’s Dorm, and started to head down the hallway to the Great Hall for breakfast, Lily just raised her eyebrows in response. “That we have our wand hands free,” he finished lamely under Lily’s stare.
Lily laughed and said, “I thought you thought of another pick-up line about this,” she lifted up her right hand and James’s left, “…situation.”
It was James’ turn to raise his eyebrows as he said, “Lily, I decided that me asking you out everyday will not help me woo you over.”
Lily studied him as if inspecting his face for lies, but as she saw only sincerity in his face she answered, “Wow James, that’s actually very mature, and I really appreciate that. But you know what realization I came up with, last night?” Lily didn’t wait for James’ answer; she just looked in front of her and responded, “Only hate would get us into this type of situation. And I don’t really want to hate you anymore; can we agree to be friends?”
“Of course we can, I’d love to be your friend, Lily,” James answered, smiling. The truth was that he was dying inside knowing that Lily would only see him as a friend, but he would have to just live with it.
Lily laughed and said, “Look at everyone’s shocked faces, we’re actually walking down a hallway together without screaming at each other.”
James looked around and acknowledged all the students around and laughed along with Lily. She was right; all the students passing wore completely shocked faces that their Heads were getting along. The first years were easily noticeable, as their confused faces stood out from the shocked, for they had never seen Lily and James fight.
If the people in the hallway were shocked, words would not explain their friends when they walked into the Great Hall together, not to mention the close proximity due to the new enchanted handcuffs.
Mary and Alice opened their mouths in shock; Remus looked happy and pleased with himself while the rest of the Marauders mirrored the reactions of Lily’s best friends.
“Hey guys,” Lily said normally, not seeing their strange reactions. Alice just raised her eyebrows and looked at James; Mary still was in a state of shock; Sirius started grinning like a madman, as Remus was; Peter just looked confused. “Oh, we’re handcuffed together,” Lily started, “Dumbledore did it so we could cooperate better,” she added as she saw the still confused faces on her friends.
James lifted up his left hand, which in turn, brought Lily’s right up also.
“How are you supposed to get those things off?” Mary asked her eyes full of sympathy towards Lily.
“We need to reach a mutual good feeling towards each other,” James said eyeing Sirius and Remus, for their grins still haven’t left their faces. After James had finished his sentence, Sirius and Remus were now whispering towards each other. Now both of Lily’s best friends were giving her looks full of sympathy.
“Oh, I thought you finally got her to agree to go out with you!” Peter said excitedly. James smacked him upside the head as James’s ears burned with embarrassment. Lily also flushed too, and turned away from the Marauders to talk to her friends.
“So, what are we doing today?” James asked.
“Probably spending it with Lily and her friends, seeing as you guys are stuck to each other,” Sirius said, laughing at the end of his sentence. All the seventh year Gryffindors finished their breakfast, and wandered out to the lake to catch one of the last summer rays. James couldn’t stop thinking about Lily… How right it felt to have her in his arms, how electrifying it was to look into each other’s eyes, how it felt to be next to her. Lily tried to keep the conversations with her friends, but her mind kept on playing the moment she had with James. She wasn’t angry with him, at the moment, and she was sure he wasn’t angry with her, she felt good actually. But how long is it going to be until these handcuffs come off? She didn’t really think it would only take a day to come off, but she thought there might have been a chance when she and James agreed to become friends. She shook her heads as if she was trying to shake away the impatient thoughts.

A/N: all right, well thanks Emily and WackoJacko for the feedback(:
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Awkward Confessions by James Potter

The group of seventh year Gryffindors went outside to catch the last of summer warmth. To an outsider (or even a first year), the group looked like they had been friends forever; there was a lot of laughter and smiles seen.
But there were still a lot of buzzing thoughts going through Lily Evan’s head…Why can’t I get James Potter out of my head? He’s a complete arse!! Although, I probably should be thinking ‘mutual, good’ things about him—
Lily’s thoughts were interrupted by a nudge to her ribs; she glared in the direction of the offender and connected with James’s Potter hazel eyes yet again. Her heart beat faster, and felt the electrifying sensation for the second time today, but tore her gaze away and asked, “Yes?”
James’s face flashed through confusion, then to remembrance, “Uh… oh! We’re leaving to go to the Head’s Common Room; everyone wants to play Truth or Dare.”
Lily groaned and got up with help from James’s hand. Lily was enjoying the feel of James’s hand in hers. His hand was nice and warm, not to mention it was making her stomach flutter with butterflies. And for the third time of the day, Lily and James felt a spark.
She was standing now, but didn’t let go of his hand. James looked at Lily then her hand. She let go and looked away blushing; James couldn’t be happier. Lily Evans didn’t want to let go of my hand! She just blushed! Oh, now she’s looking away…I love her red hair…Oh crap, she’s talking; I should be listening.
“They look happy,” she stated, nodding towards to Mary, Alice, Sirius, Remus and Peter who were all holding hands and singing “With A Little Help from My Friends”.
“Yeah, who would’ve known, our friends being best friends?”
The singing suddenly stopped and Alice called over, “What are you guys doing back there? Come and join!”
James and Lily just looked at each other and shrugged. “C’mon!” The crowd of seven year Gryffindors just joined when a very confused Frank Longbottom walked out onto the grounds.
It was Alice again, “Frank! You’re the only seventh year Gryffindor left! Come on!”
It seemed like Frank would’ve done anything Alice asked, but Alice never seemed to notice. Frank was holding hands with Alice at the end, looking very pleased. Lily was holding hands with James again and she felt the warmth of his hand. On her other side was Remus holding hands with Mary, which left James holding hands with Lily and Alice; Peter was next to Mary, at the end. They started skipping and singing again.

P A G E B R E A K (: Oh my Godric, I was at a football game yesterday because I play in the marching band, and short dude jumped onto his big friend’s back and they went running off and yelling, “FOR NARNIA” and his marching band cape was billowing and everything. It made my week.



They reached the portrait of the Drunk Monks on the seventh floor right as the finished the song.
“That’s perfect timing if you ask me,” Alice said while everyone nodded in agreement.
Moments later, Peter came puffing up the stairs, out of breath, stuttering, “That... was…way too…fast…You…guys…need to…slow down…your skipping…techniques…”
All the girls laughed while James, Sirius and Remus patted him on the back and helped him through the portrait.
Everyone settled in the Head’s Common Room on the rug.
Sirius was rubbing his hands together, “All right, now that we’re all here, we can now play. Now we need a bottle of Firewhiskey, James?”
James shook his head and replied, “Nah, I haven’t had any for a while now.”
Lily spoke up, “It’s against the rules to have Firewhiskey anyways, Sirius,” narrowing her eyes.
“Yeah, well, a lot of things that we do are against the rules, we do them anyways. Hey, Wormy?”
“What?” Peter asked, annoyed.
“I dare you to go to Hogsmeade and get some Firewhiskey.”
“Not uh, I got it last time, its James’s turn.”
Sirius turned to his friend and smiled. “Prongs, you heard the man, go get it.”
“Unless Lily wants to go with I can’t.” Everyone in the room turned to Lily.
She huffed, “Fine, let’s go, but if we get caught, I’m blaming you all.”
The Heads both left the room and went down the same secret passage that they went down yesterday.
“I am honestly shocked that you’re about to break the rules, Miss Evans,” James said with a crooked smile on his face.
“Yeah, well, I knew Sirius would have forced me, or my friends and it would just be pointless to argue.”
“I was hoping you were losing your stubbornness,” James replied, joking.
“Ha-ha,” Lily laughed sarcastically, “You can’t always get what you want,” she added jokingly again.
“Yeah,” James said, “Like you,” he meant to add in his head, but said it out loud instead. Oh sh*t, what have I done? I told her we could be friends 7 hours ago, way to screw it up, James!
What did he say? He can’t have me? Lily thought in her head
Well…the second voice in her head thought.
WHAT? NO! I will not ever James Potter! Lily argued with the voice.
All right…if you say so…
He’s a complete arse! Wait…I’m arguing with myself…All right, I need to stop this, and Lily concluded her thoughts with that.
“Oh, um, I didn’t mean to say that out loud, sorry.” James was now rubbing his neck in an embarrassed way.
“Oh, it’s all right,” Lily answered. The two Heads walked in complete silence until the reached the Three Broomsticks.
“How do you even convince Rosemerta to get you Firewhiskey anyways?”
James answered as he pulled open the door and motioned her to walk in first, “It’s the Marauder charm,” he winked at her.
Lily rolled her eyes and entered the Three Broomsticks, “The same charm you use to sleep with girls?”
“Actually, that’s Sirius,” James answered, smiling. When Lily had an unconvinced expression on her face, he added, “No, really! Believe it or not, I’m still a virgin!”
Lily looked at him, and again only saw sincerity, “Oh, well, you can’t blame me for thinking that. With those rumors Lisa Lewson and her cronies are spreading around, everyone thinks you and Sirius slept with every seventh year Ravenclaw girl.”
James was now frowning slightly with his eyebrows scrunched together, which in Lily’s opinion, made him look adorable.
“I knew she’d say spread something about me when I broke up with her. She is incredibly stupid for a Ravenclaw.”
Lily smiled and followed James to the counter.

A/N: I have a diving meet tomorrow(: and I got 4th in a varsity invite yesterday too; it was awesome(:
Anyways, I have a great idea for the next chapter, I’m most likely going to write it in my notebook tomorrow, so expect a new chapter soon!(:
Thanks everyone for reviewing; I love you, and take a delicious cyber-cookie(:

A/N continued like 5 minutes later: All right, I just thought of another great idea for the chapter after the next. Writer’s block is finally over(:

sorry, i forgot to add the feedback part, my bad,
here it is(:

Disclaimer: I had a dream I was JKR…and a ninja…Too bad I woke up; it was the best dream ever.

All right, I’m waiting for the first period bell to ring or for Haley to show up so I’m going to write chapter five(:
P.S. you can skip all the bolded parts; it’s just my A/N’s during the days of when I can write.

Truth or Dare?

“Alright,” said Sirius, rubbing his hands together, “now that lovely Heads,” he gestured towards Lily and James sitting together in a love seat, “have come back with the Firewhiskey, we can start our game of Truth or Dare…Now who’s first?
Everyone was silent until James said, “Sirius, you’re so keen on this game, why don’t you go first?”
Sirius grinned and turned to Remus, “Truth or dare, Moony?”
Remus just grinned back and answered, “Truth.”

All right, YUCK, there’s people pretty much making out in front of me; I’m gonna find somewhere else to sit… Yes! I got an A on my chemistry quiz!! I’m in 2nd period right now.

Sirius immediately frowned and looked stumped. James stage whispered to everyone, “Sirius can never think of any good truths.”
“Ah, Moony, why’d you have to do this to me??” Sirius exclaimed.
“Because your dares are too crazy, except for this wack-job here,” Remus said, jerking his thumb to James who replied with a creeper smile.
Sirius returned the creeper smile and James started laughing and tried to talk during laughs, “Remember, haha, when we, hahahaha, broke into, hahah, the Slytherin, haha, Common Room?”
Even Remus started laughing while Alice said, “You did what?” with an unbelieving expression on her face.
Remus who was the only one who still had the ability to talk normally said, “Have you ever heard of the Chinese Fire Drill?” (A/N: a Chinese fire drill is when people switch beds, but they don’t know. Lmfao, funniest prank if you can fill in, the people wake up all confused )
Everyone nodded and now Frank was laughing; he remembered it now.
“So we snuck in the Slytherin Common Room and we went into Sniv-- Snape’s dorm and levitated him to the Girl’s Dormitory and put him in there. We paused ourselves and thought, ‘Why stop there?’” Remus said, paused for a laugh.
James and Sirius were composed and James finished the story. “Yeah so then we ended up switching all the 6th year Slytherin beds.”
Everybody was laughing now, even Lily. “And the funniest part hasn’t even happened yet!” Sirius exclaimed, grinning ear to ear. “We went to the Slytherin Common Rooms early in the morning, and hid under the invisibility cloak. We brought Frank with us in the morning because we thought their morning reactions would be hilarious.”
“And we were right,” Remus said laughing, wearing a near identical grin like Sirius. That was the Marauder’s trademark, the grin. “The people’s faces were priceless when they would come down. Not to mention the stairs for the Girl’s Dormitory would turn into slides everytime a guy came down the stairs, knocking down the lower years girls going down, or any confused girls walking up.”
“We were laughing so hard that we had to put a silencing charm on us,” James concluded, talking quite loudly so he could be heard over the laughter.
I’m in lunch now, my friend refuses to tie her shoes more then once a day, as she’s weird like that, and I was stepping on her shoe laces purposely untying both of them (hey, what are friends for? ) and she came up to me last period, which was band and was like “Bridget!!! Look my shoe is tied!” I then congratulated her on tying her shoe more then once in a day, but the weirdest thing happened. She didn’t tie her shoes, neither did I or anyone she knows for that matter—we are thoroughly confused and came up with 2 possibilities, someone in her class tied her shoes for her, or she magically tied her shoes with-out meaning to (I’ve seen a youtube video). What do you guys think? Everyone was laughing now, Sirius and James the hardest. It was a few minutes before everyone was in control again. It took one giggle or chuckle to set them all off into crazed laughter.
“Sirius, you still need to think of a truth!” James said grinning, because he knew it would bother his best friend.
Sirius groaned and looked at the ceiling and said, “Oh dear Godric…Okay, let me think…”
“Don’t hurt yourself,” Lily said sarcastically with a grin matching.
“Ha-ha, who knew Evans had a sense of humour?” Sirius said in an equally sarcastic tone. “What’s your favorite color Moony?”
Remus grinned and answered, “Red.” He looked around for the next victim. “All right…Alice, truth or dare?”
Je suis en classe de francais! Oh. My. Dear. Godric. This guy sitting in front of me asked why we use robots as refrigerators…Well, I…don’t know? I honestly have no comment whatsoever.
Alice pondered for a second before replying, “Truth, I’m not reckless enough to take a Marauder’s dare."
Remus mentally agreed with her, who was he to be a hypocrite? “Okay…Do you have a crush on anybody?”
Alice avoided all the eyes in the room by looking down. She muttered, “Yes,” and started blushed fervently.
Lily smiled; she knew who it was. Everyone else seemed baffled though. “Who, who, who?” Sirius asked, poking her with every “who”.
“I already answered one question that was directed to me, you’ll have to ask me another time,” Alice said smiling, her blush disappeared. “It’s my turn now, let’s see…Lily! Truth or dare?”
Lily considered this, she wouldn’t make me too anything too rash with James attached to me…Then again, Alice has been known for crazy kissing dares. Like kissing that Ravenclaw guy that passed by. Lily shuddered at the thought of John Corner.
Lily was feeling reckless, so she answered, “Dare,” with a mischievous smile on her lips. Was the trademark Marauder grin contagious?
Everyone in the room looked at Lily, shocked, especially Alice. Then Alice started to grin, “Are you sure Lily?”
“Of course, Alice,” Lily answered, only slightly doubting her choice.
“I dare you to snog the first guy to walk past you,” Alice said, “That is not in the Head’s Common Room,” she added as she saw James perk up. His shoulders sagged after the afterthought.
“But…” Lily started talking, thinking of a way for a new dare, “That be awkward with this ‘situation’?” she said, raising the enchanted cuffs.
“It’s a dare, Lily,” Alice said still grinning. “No chickens allowed!”
Lily looked stumped in trying to find a loophole; James however looked like he found one. She huffed and said, “All right, well, should I go now?”
Alice thought for a millisecond and answered, “Yes….mwahaha!”
Lily sighed and went out the common room, dragging James with. As soon as they were out of the common room, she said, “I’m really sorry that I have to do this in front of you, this is going to be so awkward, and I’m apologizing for the future. I can’t say that I did when I really didn’t because the truth will gnaw at me till I actually do it. I can’t lie too well either, you see—“
James shushed her ramblings by putting his finger to her lips. She noticed how close they were; it was awfully close for her liking. Their foreheads were nearly touching. Her heart started to race up and she blushed and looked down. James picked her face up and said, “Well you can kiss me if you want.” Lily looked confused so James continued, “We’re not in the Head’s Common Room right now.”
Lily understood and bit her lip as she thought. A few seconds later she responded, “I’m sorry, James, but I think I like being friends with you and friends don’t necessarily go around snogging each other… I’m sorry,” she finished lamely. James looked pretty put out, his usually mischievous sparkle in his eyes was gone, and his normal grin was mirrored into a frown.
He sighed and answered sadly, “I sort of expected that, but Lily?”
“Hm?”
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why don’t you want to go out with me? What’s wrong with me??”
Lily was shocked that he actually came out and asked it like that. “Do you think I’m ugly? Or still a toe-rag? Is it because of Snape?”
She choked on air for a second, “Severus?? Godric no, and I don’t think you’re ugly or a toe-rag.” Not ugly is a tad of an understatement, he’s gorgeous.
James looked pleased at the compliments and his hand unconsciously went to ruffle his hair but stop mid-way, remembering that Lily hated when he did that. “Why then?”
“Because…” she paused for a few seconds, “At first I thought it was joke that you were pulling on me.”
“Lily! This is not a joke, I swear to my grandparents’ grave and to the world that I am not joking when I say I like you!” Like is a tad of an understatement, I think I might love you.
“I know now, but still…you would hurt me,” Lily said, her voice quieting at the second part.
James took a second to take the information in his brain and suddenly turned and stood in front of her, “I swear I would never hurt you Lily. Ever,” he said, putting emphasis on the never and ever. She didn’t respond and just continued to look at the floor. James sighed and put his index finger on her chin; raising her face and forcing them make eye contact. “Get that in your head, Lily Evans. Please,” he added as an afterthought.
“I think I am starting to now,” she said, her voice still quietly.
James felt a whoosh through his stomach and grinned, “I can deal with that for now.”
Lily smiled again now, and said, “Well, as happy as I am that that was all said, what are we going to do about the dare?”
James sighed again, thinking. After a few moments he answered, “Well, how about a rain check snog?”
Lily smiled, and said, “All right, I guess I can deal with that for now,” saying the exact same thing as James did a few moment prior.
James grinned and they both headed back to the Head’s Common Room, with their fingers tingling with chemistry when they accidentally bumped.
They walked in the common room with Alice and Frank having a full-scale snogging session.
“What the bloody…?” Lily said as soon as they entered.

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