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Summary- James has always been in love with Lily, and Lily has always though that James was a bigheaded toe rag. It is there last year at Hogwarts, and James knows that it is now or never to finally get Lily. James even has the advantage of being head boy and Lily being head girl. Well we all know that he gets her in the end…but here is how he did it.


Chapter 9- Shocking Everyone

Lily came and sat down at the table for breakfast…next to James. Besides James, everyone just started at her. She started buttering her toast. Then she just couldn't take it anymore.

"Don't everyone stop staring at me at once!" She yelled.

"Well you see Lillian, our pal James here has just told us some shocking news, and we don't believe him." Sirius said to Lily.

"I'm sure anything that James said was the truth." Lily said, and then took a bite of her toast.

"Well you see, that is what I would usually think, but this news he has told us is quite unbelievable. And this news involves you flower." Sirius said.

"Who me?" Lily said in a mock surprise way. She then lightly kicked James' foot under the table, laughing to herself, knowing he was laughing too.

"Why yes you…you see…" Sirius started to say.

"Oh shut it Black!" Kendall said to Sirius. "Are you going out with James or not?" Kendall asked, not being able to wait another second.

Lily just smiled. "Why not ask James? I'm sure he would know." She said. Her and James were both cracking up on the inside, fooling with their friends like this.

Kendall glared at Lily, then she said to James. "Could you help us out with this situation?" She asked.

"What situation?" James asked, pretending to be clueless. Lily choked on some of her toast, she was having such a blast playing Kendall like this.

"Well I'm going to go to the library to work on my paper. Catch you later." Lily said, and then getting up to leave.

"Lily!" Kendall yelled.

"Bye!" Lily said sweetly, and left.

A minute later James got up to leave. "I'm gonna go too. Later." James said.

Everyone just stared in disbelief that they wouldn't tell them.

As James was walking away, he turned around, walked backwards and gave them a huge grin, and two thumbs up. Then he turned around and went to follow Lily.

"Way to go Prongs!" Sirius yelled as James was leaving.

James ruffled up his hair in the back as he was leaving, and then went to follow Lily. To his surprise she was not halfway to the library, but waiting for him outside the doors to the great hall.

"I saw that you know." She said, but not in a mean way.

"Well I couldn't leave them hanging!" James said.

Lily laughed. She leaned up and kissed him.

"That was the funniest bloody thing ever!" Lily said, as they started to walk to the library.

"Did you see the look on Sirius' face when I wouldn't tell him?" James said. "Priceless. Purely priceless." James said.

Lily laughed. "I know, and the way Kendall was looking at me, oh that was great."

"So do you really need to go to the library? It's Saturday you know." James said laughing.

"No." Lily said smiling. "I just didn't want to deal with them, and I knew you would follow me." She said grinning at him.

He smiled, and then leaned down and kissed her. Then he grabbed her hand, and started pulling her down a hallway.

"Where are we going?" Lily asked.

"I have an idea. We better enjoy our Saturday." James replied.

Before Lily knew it, they were headed down a secret passageway.

"James where are we?" Lily asked. They were in complete darkness, except for the light coming from their wands.

"We are in a passageway under the one eyed witch." James said. "In a minute we will be in Honeyduke's cellar." James said.

"What?" Lily asked. "But…how did you find out about this?"

"Lily dear, you for get one main thing." James said.

"Oh. And what's that?" Lily asked.

"I'm a marauder. And James Potter none the less." He replied, quite full of himself.

"Oh yes, how could I forget? You are the big super marauder James Potter." Lily said mocking him.

James gave her a playful push, and then they reached the end of the tunnel.

They peeked out from under the floor tile, to make sure no one was there, and then they got out, once the coast was clear.

"Wow!" Lily said.

"Shhhh!" James said, hushing her. "We aren't supposed to be down here!" He whispered. "What do you want?"

"What? We can just take stuff?" Lily asked.

"They won't know." James said.

Lily just glared at him.

"What! Come on Lily! Live a little, break one rule." James said.

"Oh alright." Lily said.

James smiled. "Go on, pick something." He said.

Lily walked around, and decided to go with something simple. Chocolate.

She found a box of dark, milk, and white chocolate. Perfect.

James found a box of popping candy, that would explode in your mouth when you ate it. Lily wasn't in the least surprised, it was so like him to choose something like that.

"Okay, I'm ready." Lily said holing her box of chocolates.

"Yeah me too." James said, and then they headed down back to the passageway.

James went down first, so he could help Lily down.

James was holding Lily's hand, leading her down the passageway. Lily could feel shivers go all through her hand from the touch of him. She wondered if he felt the same way.

He did.

They got back to the castle and went to the heads room. Lily threw herself on the couch, and laid down, opening her box of chocolates.

James sat on the couch across from her, and opened his box of exploding candy. He put one in his mouth, and he bounced up a bit from it exploding in his mouth.

"These are bloody brilliant!" James said, taking another. "Want to try one?" He said.

Lily laughed. "No thanks, I'm good." Lily tried one of each types of chocolate, and then sat the box down on the floor. She then sat up on the couch, got up, and went over to where James was and sat down next to him. She leaned her head on his shoulder and just sat there.

He put his box of candies on the floor, and then put his arm around her. He pulled her in close to him, and then kissed her on the head.

"Thanks for taking me there today." Lily said.

"Anything for you." He said.

She smiled, and leaned on his chest. He still sat there with his arm around her, stroking her hair. She soon was asleep, she was very tired from studying all week.

Once James realized that she was sleeping, he picked her up, and brought her to her room. He laid her on her bed, gave her a kiss on the forehead and then left, closing the door.

In they Gryffindor common room--

"I can't believe this." Kendall said.

"Don't worry, what is going to happen." Remus said.

"They have been gone for hours!" Kendall said.

"This is James remember, what could go wrong." Remus said, reassuring her that everything was fine.

"And where the bloody hell is Sirius? Isn't he supposed to be James' best friend? Doesn't he care if James has been missing for hours?" Kendall said.

"He's over there, flirting with that big group of girls, as usual." Remus said.

"Uh! I can't stand this. She didn't even tell me that she's going out with James now!" Kendall said. "I'm going to go check the heads room again." And Kendall got up to leave.

"Kendall chill out, I'm sure that they are fine. You can go check and everything, but don't get too worried, okay?" Remus said.

Kendall went over and hugged him. "Yeah, thanks. I'll be back in a bit." And then she left.

Kendall walked over to the angel statue, and asked if she could get in.

"Do you have the password dear?" The angel asked.

"Well…no. But my best friend is head girl, and I really need to talk to her." Kendall said.

"Well I'm sorry dear, but you don't have the password." The angel replied.

"Uh! Well could you ask one of them to come and open up for me or something?" Kendall asked.

"Oh I suppose. Your name?" The angel said.

"Kendall Jackson." Kendall replied.

"Kendall Jackson is here to see Miss Lily Evans." The angel said, making it able for James to hear from inside.

James quickly came, and opened up the door, the angel moved aside.

"There you are Potter! Where is Lily? Where have you two been!" Kendall asked.

"Calm down. We went to Honeydukes, Lily is sleeping." James said, as they walked inside the heads common room.

"Honeydukes? How did you go there?" Kendall asked.

"I have my ways." James replied.

Kendall glared at him. "Well where is Lily?" She asked.

"Like I said, she's sleeping." James said.

"Oh don't give me that." Kendall said, heading for Lily's room.

"But she is!" James said.

Kendall burst into Lily's room, and Lily was indeed sleeping.

"Wake up!" Kendall said shaking her.

"Kendall!" James said, walking into Lily's room.

"No, you go, close the door, I need to talk to you in a minute, but first I need to talk to Lily." She said.

James just put his hands up in a 'What did I do' sort of way, and walked out and closed the door.

"Lily!" Kendall said again.

Lily woke up. "Kendall? What are you doing here?" She said sitting up.

"You need to explain yourself missy!" Kendall said.

"What did I do this time." Lily said.

"What did you do? What did you do!" Kendall said. "You are going out with James Potter! The person you swore to hate all of your life, who you became friends with this year, and are now going out with, the guy standing outside? Any of this ring a bell?" Kendall asked.

"Blimey Kendall, calm yourself, it's not the end of the world.

"Did he trick you? Did he do something to you? I mean you're…" Kendall said.

"I'm going out with James Potter." Lily said, quite calmly.

"You're going out with James Potter?" Kendall said unbelievable way.

"Did I stutter?" Lily asked.

"Lily, I mean don't get me wrong, I always knew that Potter was perfect for you and everything, and how much he wanted to go out with you, but you always told me that you would never EVER go out with him!" Kendall said.

"Well, I will have to admit that I was wrong. He is perfect for me, and he really wasn't the horrible person I thought he was. I just never really got the chance to know him." Lily said.

Kendall sighed. "Well are you sure?" She asked.

"Yes I'm sure!" Lily said.

"Well good for you Lily." Kendall said hugging her. "I just had to do the best friend thing and make sure. I really am happy for you."

James was listening outside her door the whole time. 'She admitted it.' James thought. 'She really does want to be with me, this isn't just some cruel joke! She thinks I'm perfect for her! And hell yeah I am!' He heard someone getting up and coming to the door, so he ran over to a chair, and sat down in it, pretending that he was there the whole time, when really he was pressed up against the door the whole time.

Kendall came out of Lily's room, without Lily. She walked up to him. "Listen James, I really am happy for you, I know how much you care about Lily. But just to get it over with…" She said. "If you do anything, anything, to hurt her, I'll hurt you. You finally got Lily, don't just dump her like you have done with all your other girlfriends.

James just looked at her. "I'm going to love Lily until the day I die." James said.

"Well good." Kendall said. "I'm sure she will too." She gave him a pat on the shoulder and left.