Stirring in my sleep, I felt a hand on my chest, I opened my eyes to find a small redhead lying next to me, lightly snoring. This is how I always dreamt of waking, all throughout my Hogwart's years – by the feeling of Lily, MY Lily, nestled into my side, the smell of her shampoo under my nose. I sighed with bliss as Lily's eyelashes fluttered open.

'Morning James.' She said, stifling a yawn.

'Good morning Sleeping Beauty. How was your night?'

'Great, but I'm starvin- OI GET UP PRONGS!' Lily suddenly shouted, sounding exactly like Sirius. 'OR WE'LL BE LATE FOR BREAKFAST!'

'I fancy pancakes this morning, what about you, Prongs?' Lily said, continually switching voices to match those of my room mates, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

'Eggs for me please love' I said aloud whilst smiling in my sleep.

I opened my eyes to find a curious Sirius and Remus looming over my bed, unknowingly shattering my fantasy life.

'You called Moony LOVE...' Sirius said with a look of pure shock etched on his face.

'you had that dream again, didn't you, Prongs?' Moony said matter of factly, yet his eyes still questioning. I nodded then bowed my head.

'Prongs and Evans, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-mmff!' Sirius started to sing before I shoved my pillow in his face, the force of it, sending him tumbling backwards off my bed.

I quickly showered and changed into my school robes, before wandering downstairs to the Common Room, where all three of my room mates, Moony, Padfoot and Wormtail were waiting for me. As we made our way down to the Great Hall for breakfast, it was clear I would not be getting my eggs cooked a-la-Lily today, I felt my heart drooping.

'So, when are you gonna ask her out then, Prongs?' asked Wormtail after I had recounted my dream for my fellow Marauders, who seemed to find it hilarious.

'Idiot, he's asked her out everyday since fourth year.' Sirius replied indignantly.

'And one of these days, she's gonna say yes' I responded.

'Lily told you before, she's not going to say yes until you 'deflate your head', James' Moony said, not looking up from his Arithmancy book. I pondered long and hard over this statement, and replied with a simple 'How?'

'It's really up to you, Prongs' Lupin said, licking his thumb and turning the page.

'I know! I'll cover all the mirrors in our dormitory!' I cried.

'WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, Let's not get hysterical!' Said Sirius, his hands out in front of him 'Don't you think that's a bit drastic?'

'No Pads, I think it might be just what you, I mean I need.'

Padfoot huffed and kicked the table leg, but when we returned to our dorm, he made no move to stop me casting a spell to make the mirrors completely opaque.

'Now we've got the mirrors covered, what's next?' Peter asked, turning to look up at Moony.

'So begins our Prongs-Ego-Knocking quest' Sirius announced in a phoney, and might I say corny, commentator voice. 'Now onto phase two..'

'Right Prongs, I'll say a word and you tell me the first word that comes to mind.' Said Padfoot. 'Lily'

'Pretty'

'Snape'

'Greasy git'

'Hey, that's not one word!'

'Shut up, Peter!'

'Stupid game anyway' Peter grumbled.

'Ego'

'Eggo'

'What?'

'Like the waffles?'

'Oh, ok.'

'Mirror'

'Shiny'

'Quidditch'

'Awesome'

'Transfiguration'

'Great'

'Furry'

'Moony'

'Hey!'

'No offence, Moony'

'Time?'

'12:05'

'Lunch'

'Delicious'

'Shall we?'

'We shall.'

'Hey where are you guys going?' Peter called after us.

On our way to Potions, we were walking behind Evans, who was precariously balancing a stack of books and a set off brass scales on her cauldron.

'Now's your chance, Prongs' Said Sirius. I scurried up to Evans.

'Lily.'

'What do you want, Potter?

'I just came to see if you wanted my help to carry some of your stuff' I said, catching her scales when they toppled off of the Leaning Tower of Lily. 'You look like you need it.' Lily looked surprised.

'Oh! Well, if you're offering, Could you take my scales then? Thanks Potter, Uh, I mean, James, that's really kind of you.'

'No worries Lily, it's my pleasure'

On my way out of the Common Room that evening, I happened to over hear Lily talking with her friend Marlene. Well, to be perfectly honest I was under the invisibility cloak at the time, and kind of stalking them. But it's not really eavesdropping if it's about me, is it? I didn't really catch much, but what I did hear practically stopped my heart;

'So, Mary saw you walking with James Potter to Potions this morning, what happened there? I thought you hated him?'

'I did. But he was different this morning, really chivalrous, offering to carry my scales like that.'

'Maybe he's not so bad after all?'

'Maybe so.'

I did a little dance in my head and ran back to the Common Room to tell the others.