James noticed that a couple of days after the "Snape incident", Lily was red eyed and teary. He hoped it wasn't something he'd done, he couldn't live with himself if he had made Lily cry.

"Prongs, watch where your going!" Sirius tried to warn him, but James had already ran straight into Professor Trelawney, knocking her over backwards and sending a dozen hovering crystal balls into the air.

"I'm so sorry, Professor, I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Well obviously!" Professor Trelawney barked. She managed to get all the crystal balls hovering again and stormed off down the corridor leaving flattened students in her wake.

"Wonder what her problem is?" Remus said aloud.

"Probably saw her death in the stars, or something like that." James sighed still thinking about Lily.

"Yeah or Filch broke up with her." Sirius chuckled, flashing James a grin. Professor Trelawney wasn't one of their favorite teachers, constantly telling the boys a terrible fate awaited them. Sirius noticed James not laughing and wiped the smile off his face.

"Ok then, so what's your problem, Prongs?"

"Huh, oh nothing, it's just..."

"Lily?" Remus answered.

"Yeah, What so now your Professor Trelawney too?"

"Well I heard her crying in the prefect bathrooms, this morning, thought it might have something to do with you?"

"I knew it!" James exclaimed and started off to where she normally hung out, leaving stunned friends behind him.

"What was that about?.... Hmmm anyway..." Sirius turned to Lupin. "What was it you were going to tell me?"

"Oh, uh, yeah..." Remus stuttered. "Lily kinda asked me to this party Slughorn's having, you know for his special Slug Club, and I might of said...yes...."

"YOU WHAT!" Sirius bellowed. "Oh Moony, Couldn't you have just said no, she could have asked Snivellus or some other desperado. James is going .you!"

"That's the thing, her and Severus have had a fight, and....wait I'm not a desperado!" Lupin defended.

"Right...come on, we better go work out what your going to tell James."

"Hey...don't we have another friend.....short...pudgy...."

"Yeah where is Wormtail." They heard a faint squeak coming from behind them and sprawled out on the floor was an unconscious Peter with a broken crystal beside his head.

"Oh......"

James set his sights on Lily. "God she's beautiful." he thought. Her and Molly were sitting under their usual tree right on the lake's shore, legs stretched out in the sun, before it disappeared behind clouds again.

"Oh Potter what do we owe the pleasure?" Lily said sarcastically, recognizing the shadow of James, apparently without his gang of hooligans.

"Evans, can I talk to you over here for a minute." Lily got up hesitantly, following James down to the sparkling water.

"Why have you been crying?" He decided to be blunt and just come out with it.

"What! I don't think that's any of your business...."

"Well it is, if it concerns me...."

"Oh popular Potter, everything is about him! Everything relates to him! The world revolves around him!" Lily was on the verge of tears.

"Can't you just leave me alone!"

"I, I just...uh...I" He didn't know what to say. What was he thinking. This time it was James who stormed off.

"I told you I wasn't in the mood, Snivellus!" James roared. But Snape had continued to pester him, following him at a distance until he lost his patience.

"Oh come on, Potter, I thought you loved any chance to get out your wand, and here I am asking you for a duel, or did you and little Lily get in a fight? You know she's never liked you and you know she never will. I've always been closer to her and that just makes your blood boil doesn't it." Snape whispered behind him. James whipped out his wand and span around shouting the first spell that came to mind. "Invigorat!" And before his eyes, Snape started turning a sickly orange color and shrinking, smaller and smaller, until he was the size of a small pumpkin, in fact, he was a small pumpkin. It was the worst possible time for Lily to be running down the corridor.

"What's going on here.....oh it's you potter." she said coldly, her prefect badge flashing.

"And that's obviously a student you've hexed." She reasoned.

"It's not what it looks like...."

"Oh really, so that's not a student you've hexed, and that's not your wand your holding in your hand then?"

"Uh...no.... I'm moving this pumpkin to Hagrid's for the Halloween feast." Making the Pumpkin hover after him as he sped off to Hagrid's hut on the edge of the forbidden forest.

"Ello James, what are you doing down here?" Greeted Hagrid joyfully. He was standing outside his hut trying to shoo a great lump at his heel.

"Hi Hagrid, I just needed to get away for a while."

"Course, course. Do ya wanna come inside for some tea and rock cakes, then?"

"Actually, theres something I need to take care of Hagrid."

"Not getting up to any trouble are ya?"

"No, no....Hagrid....what's that?"

"That's fang, he's my new guard dog, ain't he adorable. Defenseless lil brute he is."

The lump at Hagrid's feet yelped, and tried to hide behind him. The pup was a dark grey color with very saggy skin and a great long pink tongue.

"Well, I better be going then, Hagrid, see you around."

"See ya, James."

As soon as James had gotten out of Hagrid's sight he performed the counter-curse and bolted before Snape realized what had happened.

"Where is prongs?!?" Sirius demanded, pacing the gyrffindor common room once again.

"Can you please stop doing that, it's getting on my nerves!" Remus cried, putting up his latest book to cover his eyes.

"Is it close to the full moon?" Peter squeaked.

"Why do you say that?" Remus growled.

"Well, you always seem a bit..."

"Cranky?" Sirius added.

"I'm sorry it's just I"m worried about how James will react and....."

"And what..." Sirius stopped pacing interested now in the direction the conversation was heading.

"Well...."

"Hey guys." James had entered the room unnoticed and sat down in his favorite chair by the fire.

"Where have you been all day?" Sirius demanded in a motherly tone of voice.

"You know here and there."

"Ah...Prongs?" Remus asked quietly getting up from his own chair.

"Mmmm?"

"Remus, I don't think this is the time." Sirius interceded. James looked up at his two best friends.

"No, go on, what?"

"I'm so sorry, but I wouldn't have said yes if I thought she would have asked you or someone else, I didn't see any other option. I couldn't say no." Remus quickly blurted out.

"What are you..."

"Lily asked Remus to one of the Slug Club's little party things." Sirius enlightened.

"Oh, I see." Remus thought James would be angry, no furious, but it hurt him more to see James so disheartened and defeated. For the second time that day it was the worst moment for Lily to appear. They heard a faint "Merlin's underpants" from outside and the common room portrait swung open to reveal Molly and Lily.

Hi Sirius." Molly breathed, throwing him a seductive wink.

"H, h, hey Molly." Stuttered Sirius, unprepared for a second. Molly giggled at the affect she had over him, while Lily stared between Remus and James, taking in the situation.

"Have fun at the party together, two perfect prefects, you deserve each other!" Talk about a bad day James was having, so he decided to end it and go to bed.

"You told him, I see." Lily looked at Lupin.

"Yeah I had to, he's my best friend."

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow then, good night Remus." She proceeded towards the girl dormitories and seeing Molly and Sirius huddled together in a corner that looked like it consisted of only arms and legs said. "Night Molly,....Black."