A/N: Sorry it took me a bit to upload this chapter; hopefully, it won't take me this long to upload the next one

The dormitory of the 6th year girls was a mess; suitcases were on the way, all the drawers were open, bras could be seen on the floor, school ties hung from bed posts and clothes were everywhere.

As Lily was unpacking her stuff, she looked back to that same day 5 years ago: her first day at Hogwarts. She remembered how scared and excited at the same time she had been. She recalled how Severus tried to calm her down, and how sad she had been because they hadn't been sorted in the same House. She brought to her mind Potter's, well, James' (it was still bizarre to call him by his first name)offer of being friends. How much things had changed! .

"Lily! Stop staring at the wall and hurry up! I wanna go downstairs when we finish with this." Leah said.

"IF we ever finish with this" Katie replied.

"Sorry, I was just thinking"

"About what?" Marlene asked her

"About how much things had changed since we started Hogwarts. The first day, my only friend was Severus, whom I don't speak since the end of last year. I also thought that I wouldn't make any friends because I was a muggleborn and look at us. And even though I thought Pott..-James! and I could be friends at the beginning, I hated him for the past 5 years when he and the Marauders started picking up on Severus, but after this summer… I think I can even say that we are friends?"

"Lils, you know I love you, but you've been talking about this the WHOLE summer! Since the first day we met with the Marauders, and that was at the beginning of July! It's been two months!" Leah said with a boring expression.

"Geez, I can feel the love, thanks Le" said Lily

"No bother, hun" Leah said with a smirk on her face.

"Guys! Hurry up! There's a party going down there and we're missing it!" Susan said throwing a pillow at the two girls.

After a pillow fight that left the room even messier, they decided to leave the tidy up process for the next day and went downstairs. The Common Room was packed with students dancing, talking and drinking. Lily could see the faces of the amazed first years, all gathered together in a corner, gazing everywhere.

In the middle of the dance floor, Sirius Black was trying to dance what Lily guess was Flamenco, a Spanish dance. A group of people had congregated around him watching him tapping his foot against the floor without following any rhythm and moving his arms in circles aimlessly. Among the group of people, Lily took a glimpse of a messy black hair she had grown to know very well. James was laughing at his friend's attempts of dancing and joking with Remus and Peter.

After watching Sirius' failed attempts at dancing, Lily headed to greet some friends. While she was on her way, someone tapped her lightly on the shoulder. Lily turned around to find two smiley boys looking at her.

"Hey, Lirio" Sirius said with a broad smile.

"Lirio? What the hell does that mean? Wait! Do I want to know it?" Lily said, trying to hide a smile.

"It means Lily in Spanish. What did you think it meant? Sometimes you offend me, Lils. Now, I shall leave you two alone, I gotta keep up with the tradition of snogging at least one girl the first day at Hogwarts!" said Sirius, as he headed towards a group of 5th year girls.

"Ugh, he's incorrigible. " Lily groaned.

"I know. Anyway, how was your summer?" James asked.

"Potter-JAMES! Damn! This is gonna be difficult… I've been seeing you the whole summer!" Lily laughed. "Anyway, why is Sirius so much into the Spanish culture now? He wasn't like that 2 weeks ago! "

"Well, my dad is friends with the Spanish Ministry of Magic, and last week, he and his family (which included her pretty teenage daughter) came to visit us." Lily felt a strange pain when she heard the word 'pretty' coming out of James' mouth. What the hell was happening to her?

" They will probably come back to the Auror's Ball my family organize on Christmas and Sirius wants to impress her then, considering that her farewell consisted in slapping him and shouting at him what I presume were some really rude words." James finished his explanation.

In that moment, Lily burst out laughing. Sirius was a really good friend of hers, but considering his way of treating some girls, it was always funny to see how he was slapped by a girl, and the fact that she insulted him in another language was even funnier. James joined her.

People started staring at them, for most of them, it was the first time in years they saw them laughing together and not screaming at each other. And even though it was a good change, it was still weird.

They didn't stop laughing until tears were falling in both of their faces. When they were finally able to speak again, James asked her if she fancied a drink.

"Sure, though I still can't understand how you four always manage to throw all these parties with all this food and refreshments."

"Well, you know, a Marauder never reveals his secrets" James joked.

"And I think it's for the best, if not, I'd have to give you all detention!" Lily teased him.

While they were talking, someone had turned up the music and most of the students were dancing in the middle of the room.

"Oh, it's Celestina Warbeck's new song, I love it! Let's dance!" Lily said as she grabbed James hand and leaded him to the improvise dance floor.

They started dancing, and Lily was secretly glad that James didn't have Sirius' dancing skills. When the song finished, "Love" by John Lennon started. They looked hesitantly at each other, but after a few seconds, Lily got closer to James and put her hands around his neck. Surprised, James settled his arms around her waist. Though there was a cautious distance between the two of them, they both knew that they had never been so close.

"James?" Lily asked as she looked up to his eyes. It would be that night when she would realize that 'James' had come out of her mouth rather than 'Potter' for the first time in 5 years.

"Yeah?"

"Is your offer still up?"

"Which offer, Lily?"

"The one you suggested 5 years ago, the one of us being friends."

He looked into her eyes, and said "Of course it is, Lils"

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