Here we go, the much asked for Sequel to Desperate Situations!

Chapter 1

By the second day of their 7th year, the whole school knew that James and Lily were now an item and Lily found herself the object of several girls dislike in an instant. Though James seemed not to notice.

However, Sirius' popularity with the ladies hit an all time high at the lose of their James Potter and he didn't even seem to care that James wasn't joining him in his usual activities and instead spending time with Lily. So as a replacement for James, poor Remus was dragged around by the tall boy and forced to sit with groups of giggling girls constantly. Though this switch was getting Remus some girl attention of his own which he blatantly ignored, pretending to be blissfully unawares at the attempts to flirt with him and he was constantly teased about this by Sirius.

The bad attention she was suddenly getting by the girls of the school didn't put her down much however after one particularly good "study session" with James in the common room in which they shared their second wonderful kiss.

She had begun to learn why all the girls wanted James to themselves.

Besides being handsome, and good at Quidditch and school, he was most certainly a good kisser... not that Lily had much previous experience. But every time he moved a bit closer to her, wrapped his arms around her and placed his lips carefully to hers she felt like she would melt on the spot and everyone would find her a great puddle of mush the next morning in the commons.

What's worse... if that can even be considered a bad thing... James seemed entirely aware of her reactions to him. She could tell by his smiles whenever they pulled apart leaving her dazed and flustered. That cocky smile he usually reserved for class time, the one she used to hate but now found incredibly sexy.

Sometimes she found herself wondering why she didn't like him sooner... before she remembered how persistent and annoying he had been all those years.

No... it was only now that she'd seen the true James. The grown up James that she found herself steadily falling for. The thought both thrilled and scared at the same time. She not knowing what loves is when he seemed to know exactly what it should be.

Love. Something she wished they taught in school but was sure it would loose its sentiment if it were.

She could call it love when her heart sped up at the very site of James... which it'd been doing ever so often. Or when she was worried about him in Quidditch practices- though she'd never been worried before and probably had no real reason to be so.

But it didn't matter. She had time. James hadn't said "I love you" yet so she wasn't expected to say anything.

There was one heart stopping incident one night over homework though.

James had been helping Lily with their first Transfiguration assignment of the year- something, she hated to admit, she wasn't all that great in...

"See Lily, it's really simple actually." He slid a piece of parchment across the low table in the commons that they were hunched over. A few quick notes that she could use to write the paragraph she had been attempting when she asked for help. She resisted the urge to tell him it may be simple for him, but not for others but kept silent knowing he would probably retort with a 'You get the highest marks in all your other classes.'

"Thank you, James." She smiled at him instead and began to start writing again, but looked up when she heard him slide over, closer to her.

She stayed still for a moment, watching him, part of her hoping he would instigate a "break" from their homework. But he just hung his head back over his parchment and started to scribble away again.

After a few more moments of watching him she returned to hers as well.

"Lily..."

She looked up, placing the quill into her ink thinking he wanted to start a conversation with her.

He looked up from his parchment, his hazel eyes showing frustration. Was he stuck on his homework now?

"What?" She reached out a hand to take his essay but he pulled it away, shaking his head, a small smile coming to his face now.

"No, I don't need help... it's not that."

She felt her heart speed up as usual. The tone in his voice made it happen. There was something there...

"What is it than?"

He just continued to stare at her, the light from the fire dancing across his face, reflecting on his glasses, in his jet black hair... Merlin he was handsome...

She felt her face heat up. She was sometimes embarrassed that he still had that effect on her even though they were dating.

He opened his mouth to speak again but Sirius took just that moment to burst into the common room- yes, that's right, burst. Something she didn't think possible through the portrait hole until the great Black had pulled it off. He stopped halfway into the room, took one look at the two of them sitting there alone and broke into a huge grin.

"Sorry you two... didn't realize you had a date."

Lily felt slightly offended. Did he think her idea of a date was studying? She may have given that impression once or twice yes... but... "We're not on a date, Black, we're doing homework." She still used his last name when she was annoyed with him. 'Sirius' when she thought he deserved it.

She turned to look at James and found, to her amusement, he had gone a bright red similar to the color of her hair.

"Sure, call it what you like Evans." He shrugged, tipped his head slightly to his best friend than trudged up towards the boys dorms.

Remus entered shortly after him, looking slightly frazzled and worn. At James' and Lily's inquiring look he muttered a quick "Rona Myles." Before following after Sirius to the dorm room.

Rona Myles was a 6th year Ravenclaw who, among several other girls, took to Remus when he "replaced" James in the girl world. Remus wasn't enjoying her company but she seemed to want his 24/7.

When he was gone she turned to James expectantly, hoping he would continue where he left off, no matter how frustrated the conversation would eventually make her. But to her slight disappointment he had returned to his homework looking a little put out.

He didn't speak much for the rest of the night except to say "sweet dreams" followed by a long, slow kiss that made her feel weak in the knees before she floated up to her own dorm room.

She fell asleep thinking about Destiny and the words he had spoken to her before their first kiss during the last week of summer holidays, and for the first time she found herself thinking that maybe Divination wasn't worthless after all.

James thought this was Destiny.

She wanted to believe it.

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AN: It's back! lolz!

I hope you liked the first chapter of Part 2

I'll get into more story line stuff next chapter. This one will be a bit darker... more depressing. But it will still have lots of James/Lily stuff, not to worry!

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