A/N: Hey, guys! Sorry about not updating with a new chapter; my birthday was on Saturday and my three best friends slept over on Friday and then I had nine people sleep over on Saturday, including all of my best guy friends and it was amazing. So here is another chapter and I really hope you like it. BTW I am so excited for Teen Wolf tonight, for any of you who like teen wolf:)

"Welcome!" Dumbledore boomed over the crowd just after all the first years were sorted. "Please, I know you are hungry but I would like you to listen to my messages that I have to tell you. To start, I would like to say that the Forbidden Forest is off limits to everyone at the school unless told other wise. Next, I would like to remind you that there is a list of the banned toys from Zonko's are on Mr. Filtch's office door. Lastly, I need to remind you about the oncoming war with a so-called Dark wizard that goes by the name of Lord Voldemort. The ministry does not want me to tell you about it but I think it's better to know that to not know. The war is getting very dangerous out there and please stay on school grounds unless you are going to Hogsmeade, thank you, you may eat now."

As Dumbledore finished his speech all the empty plates in the Great Hall filled with food and the students started grabbing at them. I looked to my left where Alice sat and I looked to my right where Marlene sat. I still couldn't believe the magic that was involved to make the food appear like this.

"Hey, Flower, can you pass me the 'taters?" Sirius said from across the table. Across from me sat James, Sirius, Remus and Peter, Frank was next to Alice.

I looked at Sirius and pointed to the mashed potatoes that sat to my left. He nodded enthusiastically and I passed them to him.

"Hey, wheres Jacob?" Remus asked, looking around the table. My eyes quickly shot at James, remembering our previous conversation. He looked at me too.

"I don't know." I said with a little sadness in my voice. I looked over at the Hufflepuff table and saw that Jocelyn wasn't there, of course.

"How was your summer, Lily?" Alice asked me. Alice and I weren't as close friends as Marlene and I were so I hadn't told her what happened to my mom.

"It wasn't my best." I said before shoving a mouthful of peas into my mouth.

"Why?"

"Alice, her mum died." Marlene spat at her. James started choking on his food. He took his napkin and wiped his face.

"Lily, your mother died?" He asked after he stopped coughing. I looked down at my lap and nodded; I didn't want my friends to see that there were tears in my eyes.

"Well, my summer was great…" Alice went into a long story about how she and her family went to a Muggle amusement park. I looked at James and blushed as our eyes met.

"Password?" The fat lady called from her picture frame as she always did whenever someone approached the Gryffindor common room.

"Dittany." I said clearly to the portrait. The Fat Lady nodded and her frame swung open, revealing the Gryffindor common room.

I walked in and everyone followed me.

"Ugh, I'm exhausted." Sirius said, yawning and plopping down on the couch in front of the fire.

"Ah, Ms. Evans and Mr. Potter, just the people I wanted to see." I turned at the sound of my name and saw that it was Professor McGonagall.

"Yes, Professor?" James walked up to her as I did.

"You will not be staying in the Gryffindor common room anymore—"

"Why?" James interrupted her, panic in his voice.

"Please let me finish, Mr. Potter. As I was saying, Heads have their own separate common room and dormitories so, if you will please follow me, I can show you." She turned on her heal and started walking toward the portrait we had just come through. James and I followed her.

McGonagall had taken us down a floor so that we were on the same floor as the Charms classroom. She brought us down a couple hallways and finally we got to a portrait of a black cat playing with yarn.

"Sarah, this is James Potter and Lily Evans; the Head Boy and Girl for this year," When McGonagall stopped talking she turned to James and I. "Sarah is an animagus but while she was in her cat form a Dark wizard casted a spell on her that made her stay this way. When she died Dumbledore put her into a portrait so she could protect the Head's common room; we trust her very well. Now, you can both choose a password that only you should know."

I turned to James.

"You can choose the password." He said, brushing the hair out of his eyes that had fallen in his face.

"Er, ok, is Cinderella ok?"

"What is that, some type of Muggle disease?

"No, it was my favorite princess as I was growing up, it's the first thing that came to mind." James shrugged and I went back to the portrait. "We would like our password to be Cinderella."

The cat meowed and then let us into the common room. When we got in it felt like we were still in the Gryffindor common room; the common room was identical. The only difference was that there were two large banners hanging from the ceiling, one with my picture on it and one with James' picture on it.

"The staircase that goes to the left leads to Lily's room and the one of the right leads to James' room, just as if you are in the Gryffindor common room. There is a pathway that leads between your two rooms, here let me show you." McGonagall started walking up the right stair case so we were going to James' room.

When we got to the top of the stair case there was a door and McGonagall opened it. When we walked in James gasped.

"This looks exactly like my room does at home!" He exclaimed.

"Yes, Mr. Potter. We have this thing set up between the two rooms and if something is placed down in your room back home then it will turn up here, same the other way, if something is placed down in this room then it will show up in the other room, but it does not work with people. The same is for Lily's room."

James turned in circles looking around the room. He stopped abruptly looking across the room at a door. "Why is a door there? There isn't one in my room."

"That leads into the hallway that in between your two rooms." She explained. She opened the door and we walked out. About twenty feet away was another door across from James' door that I knew would lead to my room. About in the middle of the hallway was a door on the left wall; the door was on the wall that was the same in the common room.

"This door leads to your bathroom." McGonagall pointed to the door. She opened it and it revealed a stair case that spiraled in a circle until it got to the floor at the bottom.

After McGonagall finished giving a tour to our new common room I had told James that I wanted to go to bed and I snuggled up in my bed, pretending I was back at home.

The next morning, surprisingly, I found myself walking with James to Charms.

"What do you have after this?" He asked me, looking at his schedule that had been placed on our bedside tables throughout the night.

I sighed as I looked at my next class. "Transfiguration."

"Ugh, that sucks. I have Care of Magical Creatures and then Potions."

"Oh, I have Potions after Transfiguration and then I have lunch and after lunch I have free period."

He looked down at his schedule. "So do I."

I smiled at him. I was surprised that I had been talking to James like this, considering that last term I hated him.

We walked into the Charms classroom and took seats next to each other. Alice and Marlene filed in and Marlene hesitantly sat down next to me, looking at James.

"Do we have assigned seats?" Remus asked as he came into the classroom.

"No?" James looked confused.

"Then why are you two sitting next to each other?" Marlene leaned forward so James could see her as Remus sat down on the other side of James. James shrugged his shoulders.

"Class, quiet down! Today we will be working on a review from last year of nonverbal spells."

The classes for the week went by quickly. I didn't have any classes with Jacob except for free period on Wednesdays which was the first thing in the morning and Care of Magical Creatures.

I had most of my classes with James but luckily he was becoming one of my best friends. I don't know why we are connecting so quickly, it is weird. Our friends keep on asking if they can come over to our new common room but we say no; we like having time after dinner to talk to each other about random stuff. Its nice talking to James, I am really glad that he changed over the summer.

Right now I am walking down the hallway with James patrolling the halls. It is around eleven o'clock and it is the first time that James and I have had to patrol. Dumbledore requested that we do patrolling on Fridays late at night because that is when the partiers usually come out.

Right now James was babbling on about how one of the prefects from Slytherin never shows up for patrolling.

"…Dumbledore really needs to talk to him because he has missed three so far—Lily, you are about to run into a wall." James said in a casual voice.

Before I could process what he said by body hit something solid and I fell back. I didn't realize that I had been looking at his face the whole time he was talking.

"Lily, are you OK?" I looked up and saw James kneeling on his knees and a hand out stretched. I laughed a little.

"Yeah, I just wasn't watching where I was going." I took his hand and I stood up.

"Were you too busy thinking?" He flashed a smile as me, not a smile like he was trying to seduce me what a friendly smile that send butterflies up my stomach.

I looked at my watch and noticed that it was 11:10.

"Oh, James, I'm sorry but I haven't really seen Jacob all week and he asked me to meet him in the Charms class room at eleven-ten. I'll be back in, like, twenty minutes. If you want you can wait by the classroom." I started walking in the opposite direction, noticing where we were and realized that the Charms class room was right about the corner. I could see his smile falter but it quickly came back.

"Yeah, I'll stay right around the corner so you don't lose me." He laughed a forced laugh and he walked me to the classroom.

I opened the door and turned to him, "It wont be long."

When I got into the classroom it was dark. I looked around for a couple candles to light but I couldn't find them.

"I'm over here." I heard Jacob's voice and I turned around. I could see his silhouette in the moonlight by the window and I walked over to him.

"I've missed you." I hugged him and sat down next to him on the windowsill.

"I've missed you too," His voice sounded distant. "How has your year been so far?"

"It has been good. I am actually becoming friends with James."

"You mean, Potter? Why are you friends with him?" There was venom in his voice.

"Yeah, we share our own common room now and we spend a lot of time together. He is actually pretty nice and hes becoming one of my best friends." I defended him.

"Potter is still in love with you, I don't know why you cant see it. I don't like it when you hang out with him, he might make a move on you." His words were slurred; it sounded like he had been drinking a little bit.

"I don't think James like me…" Then I got angry at what he said. "How do you think I feel whenever you leave and go off with Jocelyn?"

"I-… Me and—"

"Oh, I know that you leave and go off with Jocelyn so don't try to pretend you do—"

I was interrupted by Jacob smashing his face into mine. I could feel his tongue trying to get into my mouth, I didn't like it. I could also feel his hands trying to take off my shirt.

"Jacob! Stop!"

"If you want to stay with me then you are going to have to fight for me." He said before going down and kissing my neck.

I pushed him away with all my strength and he feel on the ground.

He quickly got back onto his feet as I was pulling out my wand and slapped me in the face. My hand immediately went up to my cheek and he punched me in the gut, causing me to fall over. I could not breathe. I lifted up my leg to kick him but he pushed in down on the ground and punched me in my right eye. I could not open my eye and I knew I would have a black eye tomorrow.

Squinting through my eye, I raised my wand toward him and said in my head, Flipendo!

Jacob suddenly flew backward and slammed against the wall.

I got up, able to breathe evenly now and walked over to him.

"You don't ever touch a girl like that if she doesn't want you to, Jacob. What happened to you? I don't like you like this, Jacob, we're over!" I yelled, turning to run out of the classroom, but I turned around and punched him in the face, knocking him out then ran out of the classroom and down the hall to where I last left James.

"Lily?" I heard his soft voice but I didn't know where it came from. The tears that were running down my face were obstructing my vision too much and I slammed into another solid and fell to the ground.

"Whats the matter, Lily?" I heard his voice right by my ear; I must have run into him and he fell. All I did was wrap my arms around his neck and cry into his chest.