"Lils?" someone asked in a concerned voice. "Are you ok?" I looked up to see a pair of bright blue eyes looking at me with concern.

Alice Prewett had been one of my best friends since I came to Hogwarts.

I shook my head.

"What happened?"

"Sev called me a mudblood" I sobbed.

"That fu-

"Alice"

"Sorry. I will murder him for you"

"Thanks but he isn't worth it"

"Lils, Alice, are you ok?" I looked over to see Marlene walking in cautiously. Alice stood up with tears in her eyes and walked outside with Marlene. Five minutes later Marlene walked in and gave me a massive hug. I gave her a small smile.

"You know what. I was pissed at him for starters and now I am just angry at myself" I said reaching over for my stash of chocolate.

"WHAT!"

"Not for what Sev did. But when Potter stood up for me I snapped at him and told him he was no better"

"Oh"

"I feel really bad about it"

"Lils that was a bit harsh" Marlene said cautiously.

I laughed. "Don't be cautious Marly I know it was harsh. I am going to go talk to him"

"See ya"

James POV

Ok now I feel extremely stupid. I am crying over a girl. I am James Potter and I am supposed to be tough and what's even stupider is I didn't realise Sirius, Remus and Pete were in our room until Sirius answered the door. Then Sirius slammed the door which caused me to fall of my cause I was reaching for tissues.

"What was that for?" Remus said who was also picking himself off the floor.

Sirius looked at me guiltily.

"It was Evans wasn't it?" Peter asked. Sirius nodded slowly.

"Damn it Sirius" I said walking to the door. "Now she is going to think I hate her"

"Don't you?" Sirius asked in a small voice.

"I will never hate her" I said reaching for the map.

I found her in the astronomy tower.

"Lils?" I said when I saw the back of her red hair that I loved so much. She turned to face me and her green eyes were even brighter from crying.

"You probably hate me don't you?" she said standing up to walk towards me.

"I will never ever hate you" I said putting my arms around her. She stiffened slightly at my touch and then wrapped her arms around me. We just stood there for what felt like days talking about nothing really just generally talking. After about 3 hours I looked at my watch and realised it was 2 am.

"We should probably get going Lils" I said though I immediately regretted it.

"Ok. James if you acted like this all the time we could have started dating a long time ago" she reached up and kissed me on the cheek which was dangerously close to my mouth.

I put my arm around her and we walked back to the Gryffindor common room.

"Goodnight James" Lily said hugging me tightly. "I really am sorry"

"Goodnight Lils" I said hugging her back. "I am too"

Lily's POV

"Lily, Lily, are you listening?" Alice said waving a hand in front of my face.

"Yep" I said smiling at her.

"What were we talking about?"

"Marlene?"

"That was about an hour ago"

"Sorry"

"We were actually talking about my hairstyle"

Alice changed her hairstyle about once a month. Her hair was currently Long, straight and a very light brown. Marlene, Alice and I were all very different. Alice was the quiet one. The quiet achiever, the quiet one with guys, the quiet one with everything. She had big bright blue eyes a round face and was reasonably short so everyone seemed to overlook her. I was what everyone called the smart one. I had dark red wavy hair and bright green eyes. I was an average height and had my fair share of guys. But all the guys who I ever went out with got scared away by Potter. So nothing was ever serious. Marlene was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. The guys were always swooning over her and asking her to hogsmeade. She had curly blonde hair and dark brown eyes. She was reasonably tall as well.

"I think you should cut it short" I suggested.

"Like a bob or really really short?"

"I think you could pull of a bob"

"Yeah?"

"Yeah"

"Hmm…"

"Where's Marlene?" I said poking my head out the window.

"Probably of with some guy"

"Speaking of guys" I said as Frank Longbottom walked into our compartment.

"Hey beautiful" he said kissing Alice on the cheek.

"Hey" I said grinning cheekily. He poked his tongue out at me.

Then there was a really awkward silence.

"I am going to go know. I hate third wheeling" I said standing up.

Alice and Frank laughed. "Bye"

As I was walking past all of the compartments I noticed Amelia Bones, a Hufflepuff prefect, sitting by herself so for the rest of the ride I sat and talked with Amelia. Then the train stopped. I hugged Amelia and went back to get my stuff. I hugged Amelia and Marlene and went to go through the wall when Potter stepped in front of me.

"Thought you were going without saying goodbye did you?" He said giving me a hug.

"Goodbye Potter" I said laughing as I put my arms around him.

"No last names please, Lils"

"Ok James"

He smiled and squeezed me tighter I squeezed him tighter then pulled away surprising myself that I didn't want to let go of him.

"Goodbye Lils"

Goodbye James"

I walked away not noticing the bewildered expressions on Alice, Marlene, Remus, Sirius, Pete and Severus's face as I ran through the wall.