4. Who are you?

"…took a bludger to the head…blacked right out…" someone was speaking with low voices beside me. I opened my eyes.

"Lily! How do you feel?" Someone was speaking to me.

Lily? Oh, right my name is Lily. Lily Evans. How do I feel?

"Not so good…" ah, I feel horrible! Headache, groggy, tired… I'm lying on a bed, in a light familiar place. Oh, yes the hospital wing. Surrounding me are familiar faces, I think. I recognise Alice, my best mate, Sarah, the beater on the Griffindor quidditch team, Sirius the black haired beauty with too much confidence for his own good, and … Who is that? It's obvious I know him from somewhere, a very familiar face; black unruly hair, deep hazel eyes framed by glasses that complimented the shape of his face beautifully, but I just can't place where I know him from!

"Do I know you? I mean… You look familiar, but I can't decide where I have met you before?" His mouth fell open in shock, along with three other mouths.

Especially Alice looked shocked; actually she looked pretty freaked out. "Lily! You know me right? Please, you haven't forgotten me? I am your best mate, Alice!" she blabbered on, looking genuinely miserable.

"Of course I know you! Why would I forget you?" okay, now I'm starting to get a little bit freaked out myself. "Can someone please explain to me what is going on here? If this is some trick, it is seriously not funny." I try to sit up, but I'm being held down by three pairs of strong arms. The only pair of arms that aren't trying to push me down belonged to the stranger on the right side of my bed.

"Lily," said Sarah cautiously. "Is there anyone else among us that seem unfamiliar to you?"

"No, but if someone don't explain to me what is going on right now, I think I'm going to freak!"

I felt nauseous.

"Okay, okay…just describe to me everything you remember from before you got hit by the bludger." Sarah looked anxious, but I was calmed by the way she was handling the situation.

"ehm.." I started nervously, then I blurted out with everything I could remember as fast as I could. "So I woke up at the same time as usual, went down to eat breakfast, then I had charms and transfiguration before lunch. After lunch I had care of magical creatures. Then I ate dinner, before going down to the quidditch field to find you Sarah, I have a note from Mcgonagall. I don't really remember when the bludger hit me, but it was sometime when I was watching you."

"So you don't remember…er…talking to anyone before you blacked out?" Alice said.

"Nooo… should I?" I asked, at the same time as trying to run more thoroughly through my memories, but it was all a little groggy. Sarah and Alice exchanged glances.

"Now can someone please explain to me who he is," I whined, inclining my head in the stranger's direction. I winced when I realised what a bad idea that was, my head was positively exploding. The stranger on the other hand had obviously regained his composure while I was recounting my day for the others. Therefore it was he who answered, quickly before Sarah managed to stutter out a single syllable.

"I'm nobody," he said. "That is; I'm nobody you know already. My name is Potter, James Potter"

Sarah gaped astonished, "WHAT?" she exclaimed. Potter quickly got to his feet and dragged both of my very astonished friends out of the hospital wing in a great hurry, leaving me behind before I could get any more answers, much to my annoyance.

AlicePOV

I looked angrily at James, "What was that all about; Oh, I'm Potter, James Potter," I never was good at imitating other peoples voices, but he got the idea.

"Yeah, seriously dude… what was that all about?" Sirius said, shaking his head as he followed James you into the hallway.

"Okay, okay! Hear me out here guys!" James exclaimed before we could say anything more.

"No way. I'm going back in there right now. Lily is probably just freaking out!" Sarah and I headed for the door, but we were stopped before we got more than three steps closer. I looked angrily up at James.

"Get out of my way, right now!" I tried to push past him.

"Please Alice, Sarah! Listen to me! This is my shot, don't you understand? I know I have messed up a thousand times with Lily already, but this is my chance to make it up to her. I want to make things right between us, because whether you believe it or not, I care for her. A lot."

I stopped. Shit, I can't deny him that. I know he likes Lily...well everybody knows that, but I actually believe him when he says that she means more to him than a quick snog in a broom closet. Frank told me about the doodlings in their dorm with Lily's name written all over. Sarah had also stopped, she looked at me, apparently she knew something about James as well.

"Oh, James" I exclaimed. "She's going to get her memory back, you know that?"

"I know" he said, looking down. "But I can't help but thinking that she won't think so badly of me if she really got to know me. Give me some time, please. I won't mess up this time!"

"One week" I said "in one week we'll tell her everything, if she hasn't got her memory back by then. We'll fix everything with madam Pomfrey." Then we opened the door and left the boys out in the hallway. I can't believe I'm agreeing to this…

A/N: Sorry I'm so desperately slow when it comes to publishing chapters. I'm one of those types who have to be really inspired to write stuff so, sorry again! Please review, this is my first story so be nice, but I'm all for constructive criticism! Thanks!