Take the Plunge

If you take my hand

We'll close our eyes and count to ten

And take the leap of faith

Come on let's go!

I'm divin' in, I'm goin' deep

In all my head I wanna be

Caught in the rush, lost in the flow

In all my head I wanna go

The river's deep, the river's wide

The river's water is alive

So sink or swim I'm diving in!

-Dive, Steven Curtis Chapman

The students of Hogwarts were witnessing a miracle. James Potter and Lily Evans being civil to each other. Well, they were heads, so it was kind of necessary, but this was ridiculous!

Most of the Hogwarts population had already been at breakfast when the two heads walked in. But as they came, it was only the first years who didn't know the head's history that weren't shocked at what they saw.

James appeared to be animatedly telling a story or joke to Lily, and to everyone's disbelief, she was laughing and seemed to be enjoying herself. And it looked like she would be laughing for a while. Not only that too, but was James carrying her book bag? Something was up.

Since the beginning of school just over a month ago, Lily and James had been getting along a little better each week. James hadn't asked Lily out even once, and had only yelled at him once. But it was for a good cause. He and Sirius had been waltzing on the Gryffindor dinner table singing love songs to the Slytherins and McGonagall. It had been funny until Sirius put his foot on Lily's plate and slipped onto her lap. Then she got mad. So she yelled. But it didn't really count because she was giggling to hard to sound mad.

Not even the first day in the train had shown a semblance to the previous years. They had boarded the train, dropped off their trunks, and then gone off to the prefects' compartment. That had been the first day of surprises.

Instead of Remus Lupin, or Riley Maud from Ravenclaw as Head Boy, Lily's companion in the head department would be James Potter. Who hadn't even been a prefect. But Lily had seen how much he had changed sixth year, so she wasn't too shocked. In fact she had thought several times last year that it was too bad he wasn't a prefect because he would make a great head boy. Clearly Dumbledore had thought the same thing. That made Lily happy. She thought like Albus Dumbledore. The greatest wizard alive.

On the train Lily's thoughts were proven correct. James had already memorized all the rules (although that may have been because he had previously broken all of them) and was prepared with a patrol schedule for everyone to fill out. He also was fair with the younger prefects. Truth be told, Lily also did these things, but she decided to let him have his moment.

And even after the meeting James had treated her as if she were just his fellow head. That is until all of the other prefects had cleared out to patrol the train, and Lily and James were beginning to walk out the door.

"Wait, Lily," James had said as he grabbed her arm and pulled her back in the compartment, "I just wanted to, don't cut me off please, I just wanted to let you know that I haven't given up on you, but, for the sake of both of ours' sanity, I would like for us to try to be just friends. Could you do that? Please? That's all I'm asking."

Lily pondered what he was saying for a minute. She didn't really expect what he was now saying to be coming from his mouth, but his words were true, and so she shrugged and answered, "I guess it wouldn't hurt to try, but mark my word Potter-"

"Could we try for James? Since we're friends and all? It would make more sense."

" Fine, James. If you go back to being a mindless jerk, you won't even get a shot at friends. And don't you dare try hexing anyone in the halls or I will shoot you down myself." Lily started to walk away and then turned, " Great job in the meeting by the way. You were great with those Hufflepuff fifth years," she said with a grin, then headed off to find her friends Heather and April in their compartment at the back of the train before heading ff for head patrol.

James on the other hand just leaned against the doorframe staring after Lily for a minute. Then he slowly sighed and sauntered off to his compartment for a rendezvous with his fellow Marauders, and maybe Frank. Who knew if Frank would be there or not? It all depended on wether or not he had gone off to find Alice yet.

"Boys," he began as he walked in, "this is gonna be the year of the century. This is the year I finally get the girl of my dreams, the lovely Lily Evans."

Remus and Sirius just rolled their eyes while Peter stifled a giggle at James' goofy expression. They had no idea at almost how true that statement was.

AN: Anyone got an opinion? The song lyrics will eventually fit with the story, and the story wiil soon get back to the breakfast table, but for now this has been Chapter 1