Chapter Four (4) - Convincing Lily Remus followed James down the corridor, Remus nearly had to run to keep up because James was walking so fast. "What's wrong with loving Lily?" James stopped again, but this time he didn't look angry but sad. "I'll tell you what's wrong with it, the pranks I played on Lily there were only supposed to be two or three just so that she would notice me and then I would stop and we could perhaps go out. The problem is that she began to hate me after the first two pranks, and now she's ill and wouldn't come near me to save her life" Jame's sat down on the top step of the stair case and put his head in his hands. Remus sat down beside him. "James you should tell Lily" "What oh by the way Lily I only did what I did because I love you more than any other girl and I didn't tell you because I was scared and didn't think it was right to fall in love at sixteen." James laughed pathetically at himself, but Remus coughed and James looked up to fine Mel and Tammy staring up at him they had heard all that he had just said, James got up and ran off to where they didn't know. "Remus did he just say what I thought he just said?" Asked Mel "Yeah you did but what are we going to do about it?" "We but James is the one that made her miserable, Its James that's got to do the begging" said Mel "He already has its just that Lily wouldn't listen and I done blame her" "When?" Asked Mel shocked "Erm well me, Sirius and Peter thought it strange that James didn't come to dinner so that he could go somewhere and we have our ways of finding out where people are and he was in the hospital wing with Lily." "Well its simple then we send a letter to Lily from James explaining everything she cant interrupt a letter or not give it a chance to explain" Said Tammy "Brilliant I'll go find a spell that will imitate James's hand writing you two go and write a draft copy of a letter we'll meet back in the common room in an hour." They all left and did as Remus had said.

An hour had passed and they were all back in the common room, Remus had also explained what had happened to Sirius and Peter so they could help. "Right then are we using James's owl to send the letter" Said Sirius "Yeah and we'll need you to do that because it only listens to you and James" "Ok well give me the letter and I'll post it" "Hold your horses we haven't changed the writing to James's hand writing" Remus did a spell to change the hand writing to James's and gave the letter to Sirius who took it and gave it to James's owl to take to Lily. Lily received the letter and read it over and couldn't believe what she was reading for some strange reason she felt relieved and happy and felt the strength coming back to her. Lily leapt out of her bed and begged Madam Redfron to let her out in the end Madam Redfron said she could go at dinner. At dinner Lily ran down to the hall where she found a James being forced to eat something by Sirius and Remus. She ran up to him and put her arms round his neck and kissed him on the cheek. James spun round in his seat. "Lily your out are you better? I thought you hated me?" James didn't know whether to be apologetic or happy Lily just kissed him again. "I got the letter explaining everything about why you treated me the way you did" James looked over at the marauders, Mel and Tammy all of whom smiled. James took Lily round the waist and dragged her into a long meaningful kiss. The marauder's cheered as did Mel and Tammy it was about time Lily was happy.

The end