James was confused he couldn't understand why all the girls were giggling when they saw him. He'd looked in the mirror and there was nothing wrong with him he was looking as good as ever. "This has to stop" he thought as he headed towards the great hall.
"Hey what's wrong?" Remus said to a worried looking James.
"Girls keep laughing at me and I don't know why." James started grabbing food and put it on his plate.
"Well perhaps they've come to realise that you're an idiot and I am the much better choice." Sirius joined his two friends.
"Yeah in your dreams, I will always be the better choice." James looked down the Gryffindor table and saw Lily having breakfast with her friends. He could feel his heart going faster and wished he hadn't made that stupid mistake all those years ago. She nearly kissed him and then he went and stuffed the whole thing up.
"James what's this rumour about you wetting your bed?" Arthur Weasley sat down in the space next to James.
"What are you talking about?" James' eyes widened.
"I was talking to Molly and she said somebody wrote in the girls toilets that you wet the bed."
"Well it's not true; did she say who wrote it?" James asked already knowing full well who had written the note in the girl's toilets.
"No she doesn't know, but I think you might have annoyed a girl."
"Yeah I think I must have, I have an idea." James didn't want to draw any attention to himself so he waited until breakfast was over before he went to talk to Lily. He didn't actually expect Lily to tell the whole school that he had wet the bed in his first year when he'd had too much water to drink. Hopefully it would open the door for them to be friends again or maybe it was just her idea of revenge.
"Hey I'll see you in defence against the dark arts." Remus patted him on the shoulder before walking off up the staircase.
"Hey Lily." He ran down the corridor after her. "Can I talk to you?"
"Yeah sure." She remained in her group of friends.
"In private?" They walked over to a secluded part of the corridor before he continued talking. "Did you write that note in the girl's toilets?"
"Well you know all's fair in love and war; you got me in trouble with the teachers so I let the girls know your little secret." Lily giggled, which she never normally did, but having James stand so close to her made her come over all girly.
"I didn't think you were actually going to tell people about it."
"I don't think it well dent your reputation with girls they'll still be all over you in a couple of days." Lily's breathing was getting slightly heavier.
"How about you, did I go down in your estimation?" James took two big steps towards Lily who now had her back against the wall.
"Oh James, you couldn't have gone any further down in my estimation." James' face dropped.
"Did you really think that badly of me?"
"James be quiet your ruining the moment." Lily smiled at him.
"What moment?" James looked very confused. "Oh, this moment." He started to move closer to her; he couldn't believe that she was about to let him get any way near her. When he was inches away from her lips, he could almost feel them; Peeves came flying around the corner.
"Students being naughty in school!" He screamed down the corridor.
"Come on we should go to class before we get in to trouble." Lily started to walk towards their defence against the dark arts class.
"No you're not going anywhere yet." He grabbed Lily by the wrist and pulled her in close to give her a long kiss. "I'm sorry but I'm not making the same mistake again and let you go." Everything in Lily's head was telling her that she shouldn't be doing this, but she didn't care.
"I think you should be getting to class right now." Professor Dumbledore said nonchalantly as he walked passed them. Lily's face went bright red as they ran to class. She couldn't believe that she had let James Potter kiss her after the many years she had told herself that she didn't want anything to do with him. She had been lying to herself; she had never stopped liking him even though she hated him for what he did.
Lily ran in to the class and sat down with her friends who were already opening their text books. "Sorry we're late professor, we were in the library." It was almost impossible for Lily to get in real trouble as all the teachers loved her because she worked so hard. She ignored the looks from her friends that she was getting and stared intently at her text book.
"So," Mary turned her head when she felt it was safe to talk to her friend.
"So what?" Lily just kept reading her book.
"What were you really doing with Potter?" Sian added.
"Nothing we were just talking about the homework for potions." Lily lied.
"Oh fudge, even you don't go to the library that early in the morning." Mary waved her hand.
"Girls please be quiet and keep reading the task." The professor said standing on the opposite side of their desk.
"Sorry," they chimed back.
"Look I'll tell you later." Mary just smiled at her, why did she think she could keep anything a secret from her friends? She spent the rest of the lesson not really paying attention to her work and just thinking about the kiss James had given her in the hall. When he wasn't looking she would stare over at him. They didn't get a chance to talk for the rest of the day, but once dinner was over she grabbed him and took him in to the castle grounds. He just followed her until she stopped walking, which was for a good few minutes.
"Are you going to ravish me Lily Evans?" He moved over towards her and kissed her hard on the lips.
"Slow down there Potter; we need to lay down some ground rules. I do really like you, and yes in that way, but we also need to work on being friends again. You have to let me know I can trust you 100%."
"Of course you can Lilykins. I promise I won't be a complete idiot again."
"Well I'm not expecting miracles I just don't want to always be second best to your friends. I also want people to know about us; it didn't really work the whole nobody knowing we were friends."
"Don't worry, I want everybody to know that we're together, but be warned you will be known as the girl who went out with the guy who wet his bed." They both laughed at the thought.
"I'm prepared for that." She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him in for the kiss she had been waiting for a long time.
