James Potter could not be more confident. He only had eyes for, his future, lovely Lily, who was talking with a group of girls from Gryffindor. The reason? She had a bright H embroidered on her Hogwarts' uniform, as well as James. He could not say how much he was thankful to his lucky, or Dumbledore, for became head boy.

- Do you hear what I'm talking about, Prongs? - Sirius shouted in the ear of his best friend.

James was startled and almost raised the wand to his best friend.

- Damn, Padfoot! Need to scream in my ear?

Sirius laughed a contagious laugh, leading his friend Remus, to laugh too.

- Looks like we'll have to change your nickname with Remus, Prongs. You're on the moon world. - And laughed again.

- Wouldn't be in Lily's world? - Remus laughed.

James laughed with friends. After all, there was no point in denying what was in his face for years. He only had eyes for Lily Evans, and he knew that, deep down, she only had eyes for him too.

- Shut up, you two. - Said without much conviction. - I'm just admiring my future wife. - And gave a smug smile.

Sirius laughed again.

- In your dreams, my dear Potter. - Said. - She never accepted your invitations to go out and always made it clear that she hates you.

James shrugged.

- Hatred and love, a fine line separates them, my dear Sirius.

Remus smiled.

- It seems that the head boy learned some difficult words while his vacation. - Remus said.

- Moony, Moony … What does love. - Sirius sneered. - Or stubbornness.

James rolled his eyes at the two friends and continued to stare at Lily, who in turn complained to her friends who had the misfortune of having James Potter as her companion.

- But I can not stand him. - Repeated for the millionth time.

Marlene and Alice laughed at the drama that her friend did.

- Stop complaining, Lily. - Marlene said. - Alice is right, shouldn't be so bad split the patrol with James Potter. It can not be that bad.

- And besides, he has a crush for you. - Frank, friend and boyfriend of Alice said as she came and hugged his girlfriend.

Lily rolled her eyes.

- He does not has a crush on me. - Complained Lily.

Marlene laughed and pointed to a far corner, near the wagon of the monitors, which were now four Marauders - Peter Pettigrew had just arrived. But it was not Peter who drew attention but James Potter, who could not take his eyes off of Lily.

Lily looked at James and felt her face flush as much as the color of their hair. His eyes were locked on James and she held her breath. Lily didn't hate James, as told everyone and herself. She never liked the things he did, obviously, but not hated him.

- Earth to Lily. - Alice whispered, laughing.

Lily took her eyes of James, who had to blink several times to regain focus.

- You need to start our last year talking about it? - Grunted and gave her back to her friends, walked by the Marauders, without even looking at them and climbed into the wagon monitors, hoping that the trip would be the fastest possible.

Of course she wouldn't be so lucky.