Chapter 9

James POV

Well, second year at Hogwarts wasn't… my best, I mean don't really have a lot to go off of, but it wasn't as good as last year. Ever sense we stared using the map we didn't get caught as much but we didn't have very good pranks to pull. Peter's mom died, so of course we had to be supportive and not pull any pranks while he was grieving. It took that boy a long time to stop; by the time he stopped it was about a week until the end of the year. I mean, he lost his mom, I could never imagine losing my parents.

Over the summer it was pretty boring, I was just counting down the days to September the First. I was counting down the days until I saw Lily. Wait! What am I saying to myself? I am dating Mary! Not Lily! I am counting own the days until I saw Mary. Oh, gosh, who am I kidding, I am in love with Evans, everyone knows it, yet I'm going out with one of her best friends. I mean, she moved on me that day in the classroom. She brought me in there after dinner to talk to me and she bloody kissed me! I mean, I had no choice but to ask her out. I don't know how much longer Mary and I are going to be together.

This year is going to be so much better. We get to go to Hogsmead and I am going to start a move on Lily this year. Like I said, my summer was really boring and so was the train ride. When I got into the castle it was like I was home again, because I am. A couple feet away I could see the fiery red hair that belonged to the beautiful Lily Evans, next to her I saw Mary, Alice and Marlene; Her best friends. I looked around; next to me was Sirius, Remus and Peter.

The days went by and soon enough it was our first trip to Hogsmead. Today was Halloween, and we were going to Hogsmead, I see some jokes from Zonko's in the future. I walked down to Hogsmead with Padfoot; Moony and Wormtail had gone down earlier.

"Prongs, are you going to break up with Mary, we all know you still fancy Lily." Padfoot said to me as we walked down the path by ourselves. I looked down to see Lily and Marlene walking down by themselves also.

"I need to soon if I want to go out with Lily. Here lets go catch up with them." I punched Padfoot's arm and started running down towards Lily.

"Hey, Red." I said coming up the rear.

"What do you want, Potter? I don't know where Mary is." She said without looking around.

"What if I just wanted to talk to my favorite redhead?" I asked with a wink.

"Let's go get some Butterbeer." Sirius suggested to Marlene. He grabbed her arm and ran down the hill without an answer.

"Why aren't you looking for Mary?" Lily asked looking at me for the first time.

"I—um… can you keep a secret?" I asked, brushing my hand through my hair.

"It depends, are you going to be nice to me this year?" She asked with a laugh. God, she lights p the whole world with that smile.

"Fine, but er, I was planning to break up with Mary." I said. I could feel the blushing rising up in my face.

"W-what?!" She tried to keep her voice quiet, but it didn't work. Everyone around us turned to look but once they saw it was me they went back to their conversations "When?" This time her voice what more quiet.

"When we are talking I'm going to go find her." A smile started to creep on her face, but she pushed it away. I couldn't believe it: She might actually fancy me! I couldn't help but smile.

"Why are you smiling, Potter?" She asked with a weird look on her face.

"No reason." I tried to hide my face.

"Look, you better not hurt her, OK?" She stopped walking and was pointing at me now.

"I wont, I wont!" I put my hands up in surrender. We walked the rest of the way talking about our summers and how the school year has been so far. It was nice. Once we got to the bottom Lily went to the Three Broomsticks to find Sirius and Marlene and I went to find Mary. I finally found her walking around with Alice. When she saw me she told Alice to go find Marlene and Lily. I walked up to her.

"Can we talk?" I asked her she nodded her head and we started to walk together. "Mary—"

"No need to go on, I know what you're going to do and I think it's the right thing to do, don't worry, I'm fine with it." She smiled and gave me a hug.

"Thank you, you made that so much easier." I smiled, she nodded her head and walked away. Well not that that was off my chest. I went to the Three Broomsticks to enjoy a butterbeer with my best mate and the best red head I've ever known.

A/N: Hey guys, sorry about the short chapter. I really want to write but I'm not in the mood to write their younger years, I'm glad they are starting to get older, but the chapters in 5th 6th and 7th years are going to be a lot more detailed because that's when Lily really starts to like James, I can't wait to write those. Also, while I was writing it I was watching the Lion King which is like my favorite movie, next to Harry Potter of course so I kept getting distracted. I keep getting ideas for when they really show their feelings for each other but I have no clue what to do for their younger years. Well, erm… I might write another chapter today, I might not. My bloody mom is having us get another cat, maybe today, but she's not even a kitten which makes it worse. Ugh. Well… bye! I hope you like the chapter, I don't really but I feel like I might not post something for a day or two because school is starting again (last week was spring break) and I have softball practice after school every day and then sometimes I hang out with my boyfriend sometimes after that. Well until next time, see ya! :P