Disclaimer: I own nothing you recognize from anything JK Rowling has ever written. Sorry about the descriptiveness, but I had to say what they looked like.

'Potter!' A high voice screamed in the girl's dorms. 'I'm going to kill you!'

'Ooops.' James Potter looked around guiltily at the Marauders who were seated around the Gryffindor Common Room fire. 'I guess Lily found the Dungbombs I put in her bed. Better go rescue my damsel in distress.'

'Prongs, don't you think that you should go light on Lily with the tricks? I mean, she is your best friend,' Remus Lupin said, looking up from his book. He shook his sandy brown hair out of his brown eyes.

'Hey! You guys are my best friends and I don't go light on you.' James' chocolate brown eyes twinkled mischievously at the 3 other boys seated around him.

'Ah, touché,' Sirius Black said, and then stretched. He blew his shaggy black hair off of his tanned face, and winked one of his dark blue eyes at James. 'As much as we like your multitude of pranks, I don't think Lily appreciates it when they are played on her. I also think you're in for a royal ass kicking when you go up to face her.'

'Yeah, Lily sounds pretty mad. She'll kick your ass,' Peter Pettigrew (A/N: I had to add him. It wasn't my choice.) chimed in. The smaller boy with curly blond hair was slow with his opinions but always managed to make them heard. Most other students why James, Sirius, and Remus (aka the Marauders) hung out with him, as they were the best-looking, most popular boys in the 7th year, actually, in the whole school.

'Who says I'm going up there anyway, Padfoot?' James crossed his arms and glared at Sirius.

'James Harold Augustus Potter! Get your ass up here!' screamed Lily from her room.

'She does,' the three other boys said at the same time, and then dissolved into laughter.

James leaped up from his chair and ran to the stairs amid whipping sounds coming from Sirius and Remus.

'Wait, James, one of your middle names is Augustus?' Sirius called after him, and then broke down into laughter again.

'This coming from a guy whose first name is an emotion?' James shot back.

'James!' Lily screamed again.

'Look, Padfoot, I would love to stay and continue this witty repartee of insults but I gotta go.' With that, James turned and ran up to Lily's room.

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When James entered her room, he found Lily finishing up some cleaning charms. When he came in, she looked up.

'You jerk! You know I hate Dungbombs! Just because I put Filibuster's Fantastic Fireworks in your boxers last week does not mean you needed to do this!' Lily's long red hair wasn't lying straight as usual. It was rioting all around her head and her emerald green eyes were blazing. She was obviously annoyed.

'She is so pretty,' James thought. Although Lily was his best friend, James knew he was in love with here and probably had been ever since she spilled her pumpkin juice all over him on the train ride to Hogwarts in their first year. Even though he knew his own feelings, he had no idea what Lily thought about him outside of a friendship.

'Hello? Earth to James Potter? Hello?' Lily waved a hand in from of James' eyes.

'What? Oh.' James awoke from his daze.

'You haven't heard a word I said, have you?'

'Actually…no.'

'At least you're honest about it. Since you made this mess, it would only be fair if you helped clean it up. Emma and Summer will be back from detention soon and I don't want them to know what happened in here.' Lily pulled out her wand and started performing more cleaning charms.

James leaned against the wall. 'You're cute when you're angry.'

'Well, you're annoying all the time.' Lily looked up from where she was charming her bedclothes to fold right. James was still leaning against the wall, smiling innocently. 'You're my best friend, and I love you, but don't you think you play too many pranks?'

'No.'

'Ok. Can I get your help over here any time soon? Emma and Summer are going to be back soon.'

'Sure.' James got up and crossed over to the bed. "What did they get detention for anyway?'

'Something about Severus Snape, a tutu, and a Sonny and Cher song in Transfiguration.'

'Damn, that's what Sirius and I had planned for next week. Oh well. Emma and Summer are really racking up the detentions. Soon they'll have as much as me and Sirius.'

Lily laughed. 'No one will ever have that many. James, it seems like you get a detention every time you open your mouth in class. How do you manage to stay Head Boy with all of the detentions you get?'

'Easy. You're always there to cover me. Lily, you're a great Head Girl.'

Lily blushed. 'Thanks James.'

'She is so beautiful. Perfect, really,' James thought. 'Smart, pretty, funny, great body, tough, sassy. Perfect.'

'James?' Lily's voice broke through his reverie. 'James? Can you get me my sweater? It's lying on the chair over there in the corner.'

'Sure.' James went to get it. On his way back, he tripped over the trailing ends of Lily's sweater and landed flat on his back. When his head cleared, James looked up to see Lily doubled over, laughing so hard she was crying.

'If I go down, you're coming down with me.' James reached up, grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her down. But unfortunately, James pulled too hard and Lily flipped head over heels and landed right on top of James.

'Oi, Lily, I knew you wanted me but I didn't know you wanted me this bad,' James joked.

Lily opened her eyes to find herself staring straight into James' deep brown eyes. 'Wow, I never noticed what amazing eyes he has,' she thought, but then brushed the thought out of her mind.

'Umm, Lils, I can't breathe,' James wheezed.

'Oh,' Lily said softly, not moving.

James looked deep into her eyes and made a decision. He had to make a move, and it was now or never. He took her face between his hands and leaned in…

A noise came from the hallway and Lily sprang off James like something had bit her. James was slower to get up, and was still on the floor when Emma and Summer came through the door.

'Whoa,' Summer exclaimed. 'You could cut the sexual tension in here with a knife. Lily, why was James on the floor?' She flung her long dark brown hair over one shoulder, and stood waiting for the answer.

'Well, he…and then I…tripped…cleaning…' Lily stopped, obviously flustered.

'Ok, slow down, Blaze.' Emma laughed, her blond curls bouncing.

'I'm sure nothing happened,' Summer reassured Lily.

'Oh something definitely happened,' Emma replied, sniffing the air. 'Dungbombs? James, what did you do?

James burst out laughing.

'James 17, Lily 25. James, you're catching up.' Emma winked one of her amber eyes at him.

'Ok, if you'll excuse us, we're going to o plan a prank on Snape with Remus and Sirius.' Summer pulled Emma along with her. 'James, there better be no traces of Dungbombs in here when we get back!'

'Yes, ma'am!' James saluted her, grinning wildly.

Lily performed her last charm and any lingering scent of Dumbombs disappeared from the air.

James turned to her, still smiling. 'What's with the counting?'

'The counting?' Lily looked confused. 'Oh, the counting. Well, Emma and Summer find it funny to keep score of the pranks you and I play on each other. '

'I've been doing something of the sort myself, but hadn't realized the score was that high. If I want to beat you, I better lay on the pranks.'

'You better not. Can't we just be normal friends? You know, the ones with no pranks?' Lily pleaded.

'But my dear Lily, that would take all fun and meaning out of this relationship.'

'I see what you mean.'

James made himself comfortable on Lily's bed, and Lily sat in her armchair. 'Why did Emma call you Blaze?'

'That's just a nickname Emma and Summer gave me.'

'Why Blaze?'

'I don't know, perhaps because of my hair.'

'Right, the whole red thing.'

'Yeah, that.'

'Did they give you that nickname or did you earn it?'

'James, did you ever notice how some conversations get boring and awkward quickly?'

James sat up laughing. 'Ok, I'll take the hint. But it was very smooth the way you just tossed that in there.'

'Wasn't it though? They don't call me Smooth Hands Lily for nothing.' Lily realized what she had said and started blushing furiously. 'I can't believe that I just said that. '

'I can. C'mon Studmuffin, I'm going to take you to Hogsmeade so you can drown your embarrassment in a pint of Butterbeer.' James got up, pulled Lily off her chair, and dragged her towards the door.

'Studmuffin?' For a moment, Lily forgot her embarrassment and stood facing James.

'It seemed appropriate at the time.'

'At the time?'

'Yeah. Ok, I'm just going to quit while I'm ahead.'

Lily crossed her arms and looked up at James. 'You're not ahead.'

'Ouch.'

A/N: What do you think? Love? Hate? Review. Please. Well, even if you hate it, I'm still going to finish it because I like it, and its been playing itself out in my head for days.