Lily moaned as Mark jumped up and down on her head. Thank god her hair was thick, otherwise she would've had bruises by now. There was one good thing Lily could say about her little alarm clock, though, and that was that he was very persistant.

"Good God, Lily! Do you ever wake up?" In a flash, Lily was on her feet and pointing her wand at the throat of a very startled James Potter.

"J - James!" Lily cried. "Don't do that again! You nearly scared me out of my skin!"

James choked as Lily's wand was pointed straight at his jugular. "Trust me Lily, it won't happen again!" Lily blushed and tossed her wand on her bed. "Did you know Amos is looking for you?"

Lily's emerald eyes, embarrassed and stunned only a moment ago, turned hard and cold. "Yeah. Mark told me."

James looked at her, his gaze a mixture of jealousy and surprise. "Mark?"

Lily looked sheepish. "Yeah." James was confused as she grabbed her alarm clock and held it up to his face. "Meet Mark the Alarm Clock."

"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!" Mark screamed as he was thrusted in James's face. James fell backward onto the bed in surprise.

Lily giggled and turned a mock-angry look to her alarm clock. "Now now, Mark! Don't startle the Head Boy!"

"But you despise him!" Mark whined. It sounded to the two teenagers like the clock was jealous. "Why are you suddenly allowing him in your room!"

Lily frowned slightly. "You are behind the times, Mark. I no longer hate James."

"But just the other day you said -"

"I said he owed me an explanation, which he still does, not that I hated him!"

James looked at Lily curiously as she tossed the alarm clock on her bed and stormed down the stairs."What do I have to explain, Lily?"

"What do you think, James?" Lily asked softly from her position on the couch. It was only seven so they didnt have to worry about being missed.

James's heart began to pound as Lily scrutinized him with her glowing green eyes. "Well, see there really is a good explanation. I was -"

"Morning Lils," Alex yawned as she came through the portrait hole.

Alexandrina Alanna Vance, you have the worst timing ever! Lily screamed at her best friend mentally. However, all of the anger eased out of her in a great rush as Alex said simply,

"I accepted."

Lily, showing a rare case of girlishness, screamed and hugged her best friend tightly around the neck. James cocked his head at Alex. Alex grinned.

"Go away."

James stiffened. He and Alex hadn't ever really gotten along. "No, Vance, you're not the bloody queen." Lily and Alex both burst out laughing this statement.

"No, you're right. I'm the crown princess!" Alex was now clinging to Lily for support. James was furious that Lily was going along with the joke.

"Yeah right, Vance. I'll believe that when Lily confirms it. When she can honestly tell me."

Lily solemned up immediately. "It's true, James. She's a princess." James looked incredeously between the two girls.

"If you two are shiting around with me, I'll have your bloody heads!" He exclaimed and then burst out laughing. "Dear God Sirius really has no chance now!"

Six hours later, the last thing on Lily's mind was laughter. Being Head Girl was exceedingly hard; the stubbornness of the prefects wasn't helping her any. In fact, it was just fuelling her vindictive mood.

"Lily!"

"WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT AMOS! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M A BIT BUSY!" Lily roared at the boy. Amos looked taken aback, but was still smiling nonetheless.

"I'm sorry about what happened between us."

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!"

"Listen, Lily, I was wondering if you'd give me a chance to redeem myself and go to the dance with me tonight -"

"No, Amos," Lily said, giving him a death glare. "I will not go with you. You annoy me to the point of no end. Even James wasn't this bad when I hated him! You broke my heart, Amos, so goodbye." And with that Lily walked over to where Will was standing.

"You okay, Lily?" he asked with genuine concern. Alex, Remus, and Courtney McFarlene, who had been hanging a large poster of a pumpkin up by the buffet table, knew instinctively to give them some privacy.

"Yeah. Amos is being a dickhead again."

Will chuckled. "He's that everyday, Lil."

"I know. He just won't stop pestering me to go out with him. Again."

"Aw Lil I'm sorry. Tell you what, why don't you come to the dance with me? I'll beat the shit outta him if he tries anything."

Lily smiled and wrapped her arms around Will in a loving hug. "I'd love to, Will! See you tonight."

James watched the situation with Lily and Will with his heart crumbling into a million pieces. The scene before him just completely shot any chance he'd had with her.

"I'm sorry, mate," Remus said, coming up behind him. Remus knew what it was like to lose the girl. The only real relationship he'd ever had was with Anne. She understood that he wasn't like James or Sirius, which she loved. Every other girl just wanted him for the sex; he was thankful that Anne wasn't that type of girl. She knew she liked someone else, it was obvious in the way she was strangely vacent with him at times. But he was thankful that she didn't openly say it in front of him.

"Dammit, I'm gonna kill him!" James whispered softly, his eyes blazing and his hands curled into fists. Lily happily skipped over to him.

"Are all the decorations in place, Remus?" she asked brightly. James scowled as Remus nodded. "Then everything's ready! See you all tonight!" Lily herded everyone out of the Great Hall.

"Colloportus!" She whispered as she pointed her wand at the door. It seemed odd that she didn't want anyone to know what spell she put on it.

"What're you going to wear, Lily?" James asked conversationally as he felt his heart drop about three notches.

"Clothes," she answered cheekily. "Is Dumbledore going to make the announcement about the Muggle device thing today?"

"I think so."

"Wonderful!"

James watched as Lily lightly jogged up the stairs into her domain. He suddenly wished he could strangle Will.

A/N - here's another chapter. hope you enjoyed it.

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