Thank you so much for the reviews (smiles) I hope this chapter is better than the last (grins) and Thanks Wee Man Wolfie. I know I can count on you (hugs him).

Sirius: Hey where's my hug?

Paradise: Aww you want a hug too?

Sirius: (Nods eagerly)

Paradise: Well tough, you lied to me. So... no hug for you.

Sirius: (Pouts) I don't lie to you all the time.

Paradise: Fine (goes to give him a hug, but then stops, a grin on her face)... wait I have an idea. If I get more reviews than I got in my last chapter, THEN I will give you a hug.

Sirius: (Right eye twitches slightly and he turns to all the readers) REVIEW PLEASE (turns into Padfoot and gives them his cutest puppy-dog face) I want a hug.

Paradise: (grins sheepishly and pats the dogs head) Hope you like this chapter and please review for ol'Padfoots sakes.

Sirius: (Turns back to himself) OI, I'm not old... Enjoy...

Disclaimer: I do NOT own anything of Harry Potter, that's ALL J.K Rowling.

The meeting to say the least was an awkward one. For the beginning of the meeting, Lily couldn't help but glare at the boy who annoyed and badgered her for the past six years and James completely ignored Lily, only speaking to her when directly asked a question. It took them a while —and some helpful prompting from Remus— to finally get over that that yes they're both Head Girl and Boy, acknowledging the fact that they'reboth going to be seeing more of each other this year and both sharing a dormitory together.

They were introduced to the rest of the other house prefects and one Severus Snape wasn't at all happy about because, as a well known fact he loathed James so much and didn't find James Potter telling him what to do remotely pleasant.

Even though said boy couldn't help the smug smirk to appear on his lips clearly enjoying the horrified look on the Slytherins face. But it only stopped after Lily noticed and made a comment about his ego inflating more, which caused the conversation he over-heard to come crashing back down on him again and causing him to go into silence again.

However James found it completely ridiculous on how they were both acting. He was head boy now and this type of behaviour wasn't tolerable. He loved Lily yes, there was no way he'll be able to ignore her completely. She hated him, she made that clear –many times– he could never get her to feel the same way he did and no way was he using a love potion. When the thought come across his mind, he immediately stomped it out. He would not stoop that low, he was above that.

But that didn't mean he couldn't try to make them friends, not close friends but ones that could tolerate each other, so he tried to make an effort to talk civilly to Lily.

This to the red head had surprised her to no end. Thinking that he might start showing-off, boasting about his position or asking her out on a date again, but it never came, and he was actually being civil with her... and she liked it. Sure it's a bit suspicious that he wasn't asking her out yet, but maybe this time she could get a break from his constant badgering and arrogant behaviour.

She watched him talk to Remus and the rest of the prefect –not including Severus, who sat a little ways away from them only talking to the other Slytherin prefect– and she felt the butterflies in her stomach.

She knew it when she started thinking about him in the summer that she was falling for him. She tried to convinced herself that it wasn't true, the way his laugh didn't make her feel warm inside and smile, his mischievous behaviour didn't make her laugh and enjoy the way his eyes lit up with excitement. What Alice told her earlier was not true, she wasn't falling for James Potter.

But deep down Lily knew she did, she was starting to notice all the things her friend had just said. But if she admitted it now, she'll just prove that she's just like all the other girls who fell for James Potter. In all truth she didn't hate James, maybe at one point she did, but Remus was right about one thing –well he's mostly right about a lot of thing, but the Marauders and rarely Lily didn't knowledge his wisdom sometimes– that there was more to James than she knew.

Remus on the other hand was smiling the whole time; finally happy that James was deflating his head a little. Maybe this way he might actually grab Lily's attention without knowing it, what he didn't know how right he was.

Arriving at Hogmeade station and taking the carriages up to the castle, the feast was the usual; all the first years got sorted. Professor Dumbledore gave his normal speech of banned wizard tricks and spell, which were posted on Mr Filch's office door and the Forbidden Forest is as said before forbidden to enter. But that didn't stop Dumbledore from casting his twinkling eyes briefly on the Marauders, who only stared back at him with as much innocence as they could muster. But spoiled by the matching grins they all had on.

"So how was the meeting? Anything interesting happen?" asked Peter with his mouth full of mashed potatoes. Sirius cast a look of disgust of seeing the food moving in the rat-animagus mouth, but made no comment, turning to James and Remus expectantly.

"Nothing much, got introduced to the other prefects, shoved my badge in Snapes face and tried to make civil contact with the head girl."

"Who's the head girl?" asked Sirius drinking his pumpkin juice. Remus couldn't help but grin at the image coming into his head on what he thought was going to happen next. James signed and answered.

"Lily Evans."

As Moony predicted, the amount of juice that went into the dog-animagus mouth came spraying out in a surprising large amount of quantity. Causing him to dive into a fit of coughing, grabbing at his throat and leaving a twitchy-eyed pumpkin juice covered James to wipe his face off. Remus started to laugh as did the nearby student who saw what happened and Peter patted Sirius on the back as he tried calmed down, suppressing his own laughter.

"Oh come on Padfoot, half of your spit just splat on me."

"Well next time make sure I'm not drinking anything in front of you before surprising me," countered Sirius, casting the drying charm on James, who frowned at him.

"Was finding out about Evans being head girl that much of a surprise Padfoot?"

Sirius thought about it for a minute before shaking his head and looking at him, "guess not, but finding out that there's going to be more Prongsie-Lily time in a private common room. All alone, but the two of you, at night where anything could happen… is," he smirked and quickly dodged a flying goblet that nearly connected with his head.

"I told you not to call me that," shouted James. "And there's not going to be any alone time cause I don't think I'll be able to stand being in a room alone with her without her glaring at me," he cast a glance at the red-head who was sitting a few seats away from them, chatting with a group of girls.

He could hear her sweet laugh as one of the girls said something funny. The way her rich green eyes sparkled and her long flowing red hair bounced behind her, framing her face. He loved it when he saw her smile or laugh and he always wanting to be the cause of it, wanting those warm eyes to look at him the same way as everyone else she cared about. Just speaking and being near her without being glared at or looked upon suspiciously. It was so easy to get lost in those emerald coloured eyes that he couldn't help try to impress her, grab her attention, so they'll stay on him.

He didn't notice when a smile spread across his face, but the other three did as they watched him watching Lily. They all smiled sadly at him, his confession on the train and what he heard the girl of his dreams really think about him crossed through their minds. Yep this was going to be some year and they all prayed for a miracle, not for only the two oblivious lovesick teenagers, but for themselves as well.

James sighed and turned back to his friends. Upon seeing their faces, a blush appeared across his cheeks. "What?" he whined.

Sirius laughed and pretended to brush a fake tear from his eye, looking at Remus sadly, "Our Prongsie is all grown up and he's in love," he burst out into fake tears, sobbing into Peter's shoulder, who was shuddering with laughter.

"Where did the time go?" joined in Remus, looking at James as if he was a lost and wounded puppy, "it only seemed like yesterday when he was wreaking havoc and changing Sirius hair into neon pink."

James growled at his friends playfully. He knew they were just having fun and trying to cheer him up; he couldn't help but think it was working, "Remus… that was yesterday."

"So it was," Remus said thoughtfully, tapping his finger on his chin, grinning.

Sirius straightened up and glared at James, "by the way you'll pay for that Potter."

"Bring it on Black," smirked James.

Sure they love to prank other people, but getting into a prank war against each other was way too fun as well. Apparently they unleashed their best imaginative ideas on each other and combined them to pull on the rest of the castle inhabitancies later.

"We're not even through half of the school year yet and you guys are already planning a prank war," Remus sighed, even though it was completely hilarious and he would join in probably sooner for his liking, he hated being on clean up duty later… why the professors pinned on him for sorting out his two most mischief best friends –even though he never had the heart to tell them off- was beyond him…No wait, it was cause he had to be the sensible, logical and reasonable one out of the four of them. Curses.

James and Sirius stuck their tongues out at him, laughing.

"You know you love it too Moony," sang Sirius, giving him a mischief grin.

Remus rolled his eyes and smiled. Peter went back to eating, now that he wasn't going to have half of someone else's weight on him while he tried to finish the delicious welcome back dinner the House Elves cooked up.

"Right, I can do this, it's only Lily, it not like she going to spit fire at me or something,"thought James as he stood outside the Heads common room. He then grimaced reminding himself of Sirius spraying on him earlier.

Shaking his head, he took a deep breath, said the password and walked inside.

His eyes looked around the common room; it was well decorated with Gryffindor colours on the walls and floor. It had a nice and cosy atmosphere he decided, the fireplace was lit and there was an armchair and couch near it with a table resting between them. He saw a door leading to the head boy's bedroom, his room and next to it was Lily's. He knew the door on the opposite side was the bathroom… he faintly remembered his father telling him about how the bathroom could change to the occupant's needs, so hopefully maybe he could change its settings.

His fellow head was already there, sitting cosily on the armchair with a book in her hands. She apparently didn't hear him come in yet or she did and was ignoring him. He frowned sadly, shaking his head; he walked over to the couch and sat down heavily.

A few minutes of silence passed.

"Hey Lily, did you enjoy the feast?" well if she wasn't going to say anything, that didn't stop him.

Lily looked up from her book, "yes it was fine. It's nice to be back at Hogwarts."

"Yes it is," said James with a smile, glad he got a response from her; she smiled back slightly and returned back to her book. James sighed and leaned back. He was getting somewhere and now it was like he was back to square one.

He looked around the room, thinking of something he could talk about with her. A picture of Hogmeade hung near the bookshelves, he smiled. Maybe they could arrange an early visit to the village, he knew he would like stock up on some Honeyduke sweets as well as Remus who loved their chocolates and visit the Three Broomsticks and Quidditch store. That reminded him; he needed to arrange try outs now that they were another player short.

"Lily I was wondering—," he started, but was interrupted.

"No I'm not going on a date with you to Hogmeade," she said glaring at him. She was waiting for him to make some comment about taking her out and it was confirmed when she saw him looking at the picture of the village.

Wondering why he was being so quiet before, she had looked up and couldn't help study him a little. His hair was still messy, falling over his hazel eyes a little, a smile playing on his lips as he looked off to his side. He looked cute she thought, and then mentally slapped herself. "Come on Lily, you're not like every other girl who fell for him. Don't let his looks sway you,"she thought to herself. When her eyes followed what he was looking at, she scowled, "just what I thought…well kind of."

"I wasn't going to ask you to go on a date with me," he said, slightly put off.

Lily just rolled her eyes; sure she'll believe that. How many times he asked her out in the past can't easily be whipped out. He might have well made a world record on how many times he tried to ask her out. But she was a little surprised at the possibility that he wasn't going to ask her out.

"Whatever, the answer is still no," he glared at her; he didn't even get to say what he wanted. "You're still the same big headed jerk I know. I still can't believe Professor Dumbledore make you Head Boy."

"You don't know anything about me and I am Head Boy, so get over it," said James angrily. He was trying to make friends, why was she trying to start an argument?

Lily shook her head and put her book down on the table. He was right, he was head boy and it was stupid of her to bring it back up again. "Fine, but I'm setting out some rules."

"Rules? What rules?" he asked. He looked at her confused; she couldn't help think how cute it was.

"Argh! Stop."Giving herself a mental shake she adopts a Minerva like expression, trying to make herself as serious as possible.

James was amused and still confused, deciding to go along with Lily's request of 'rules', curious as what she might restrict him from... as if he'll actually follow them.

"Okay. Rule one; do NOT come into my room. Rule two; show up to every meeting on time. Rule three; don't leave your junk lying around—."

"I don't have junk and I can put anything I want anywhere in this room as it's equally mine as well," said James cantankerously. He thought he could wait till she finished to start complaining, but that option went out the window.

"Fine then, let me rephrase that, don't leave any prank like material lying around. Better?" she says derisively, James stuck his tongue out at her.

"Not really," he muttered. She ignored that and continued.

"Rule four, no pranking—," she was interrupted again.

"Is that just in the head common room or is Hogwarts included?" asked James in a bored tone.

Lily gave that a thought and decided to only restrict it to the head common room. No way was she going to be able to stop him from pranking the whole castle with three others accompanying him. She had tired that already, to no surprise it didn't work and she would wish to have some peace and quiet in here. "Hogwarts not included".

The only response James gave was a mischief smile. He turned his head to the fireplace; his arms propped up on his knee and he rested his chin on his hand. Making sure there weren't any other signs of being interrupted, Lily continued…again.

It was a half hour later when she finished. "Got that?"

James only nodded. He didn't catch a single one.

Seriously did she really think he'll follow her rules when he didn't even follow the professors and who was she to put restriction on him. Sure she was head girl and the love of his life and all he wanted to do was ease her off of him on his so called jerkiness, but it seemed tonight was not the night and he was head boy he can make rules for himself.

Maybe he should give it another try about the Hogmeade trip…"I don't like James Potter, he's an annoying, self-centred, arrogant and good for nothing jerk…I hate James Potter Alice and I don't care if he dropped down dead", her words echoed through his mind again, he swallowed harshly and frowned. Maybe not.

"Good," said Lily satisfied. She had doubts that he would follow them, but now he couldn't say she never told him not to do that when he'll eventually do it.

James sighed and got up. "Well now that you're finally finished. It's been a long day, so I'm heading off to bed," he said without looking at her, his expression emotionless and his bangs covering his eyes in shadow, making it hard for Lily to see his face.

He walked through the room, Lily's eyes following him. He opened his bedroom door and not once looking behind him or turning back, he entered and closed the door.

Leaving a confused, stunned and disappointed Lily alone standing in the middle of the room.

Wait…why was she confused and disappointed? Stunned sure, he didn't argue as much with her rules and he wasn't as loud as he usually was. He didn't try to ask her out on a date or flirt with her, so that can justify her reason to being surprised. But disappointed? Confused?

Was it because he didn't ask her out and Lily had to be truthful with herself, he didn't even ask her once today and his usually loud behaviour was mute. Was she so used to him asking her out that it felt so abnormal to her now or was this another side to the black-haired boy she become to have feelings for. She never got past his prankster attire to notice it. It confused her and Remus words played through her head once again for the second time. There was more to James than she knew. Why did he always have to be right?

(A/N) Well there you have it. I think I did well with this chapter, sorry if there's any spelling mistakes or errors, I checked and double checked, so I should be good (laughs sheepishly). Now please review and tell me what you think, I gotta know I'm going in the right track or I'll end up crashing if I'm not...oh and Sirius will never get his hug... so please... review (grins).

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RAMADAN MUBARAK to everyone who are fasting. Hope your fast is goes well.