Lily slowly yawned and turned to face James on his bed. He was already facing her but still smiled when he saw how tired she looks.

'Good morning,' she said in a whisper,

'Good morning to you too, you're lucky it's Sunday because it's now 8am,'

She shoved him playfully, 'Shut up,' she laughed, 'i like my sleep,'

'I like my sleep better now because of you,' he smiled and Lily blushed.

'I'll take that as a compliment,'

'Good, because you deserve every compliment there is,' he smiled and tucked her hair behind her ear.

'Friends, James, Friends,' she laughed but blushed at the same time, 'Where's the rest of the Marauders?'

'They left for breakfast ages ago,'

'Why didn't you go?'

'I didn't want to leave you and besides, you look cute when you're asleep.'

Lily punched him lightly on the shoulder, 'and you look ever cuter when you're tired and want to punch me,'

'Oh shut it. You look cute when you're playing Quidditch.' she said,

James' eyes grew wide, 'You think I'm cute?' he said through his smile,

'When you're playing Quidditch,' she finished for him.

'Are you still tired?' he asked out of nowhere,

'Yeah, why?'

'Because I want to hug you for ages,' he admitted, blushing himself.

Lily thought it was rather cute of James to talk about her as cute, but she had to admit, James was cute all of the time. This time, it was Lily who started the hug first. She could hear James' heartbeat and she was sure it was going as fast as her own.

'There you are, Lily!' Marlene said as Lily approached the Gryffindor table with James, causing a lot of strange looks from everybody who knew that Lily used to hate James.

'Sorry, overslept.' she said as she picked up the last toast left on the table.

'We heard you slept with James last night,' Alice whispered to Lily, so only the girls could hear.

'You make it sound so bad! I had a nightmare and it included James, I got scared and went to him. That's all what happened.'

Alice and Marlene nodded and went back to their food.

There was a tap on Lily's shoulder. She turned around to find Severus Snape standing in front of her.

'Lily? Can we talk,' he said it a low voice, 'now?'

James could feel his fists clench once again, now even more than with Jack Diggory.

'No, Snape.' she replied cold and turned back to her breakfast.

'I already said I was sorry,' he pleaded,

'Yeah, and I already said that we're not friends anymore. Now leave me along Snape.' she said without looking back at him.

Snape sighted and caught sight of James sitting beside her.

'Potter,' he said coldly,

'Snivellus.' he replied even colder.

Snape turned and stormed off.

James carefully turned to Lily, who was already back to eating, and placed a hand on her leg,

'You okay?' he whispered,

Lily nodded.

'Lily,' Snape began when he approached her in the library, sitting alone reading a book.

'Snape.' she said coldly,

'Are you dating Potter?' he asked,

'I am not dating anyone! And even if I did, it doesn't concern you!' she snapped.

Snape flinched, 'You seem so friendly with Potter all of the sudden.'

Lily put down the book she was reading and looked him dead in the eye, 'I can be friendly with whoever I want, and once again, it doesn't concern you!'

'But we're friends,' Snape began but Lily cut him off,

'Were friends.' she got up and left without looking back.

Snape stood by the table, frozen.

The words repeating in his head, 'were friends, were friends, were friends.'

'I really did fuck everything up.' Snape whispered to himself.