Disclaimer: I would have gotten away with it if my Invisibility cloak hadn't gotten caught on the door handle and fallen off…

Say it; I'm awesome. Here's chapter 10! It's over 1,300 words, so don't complain that it's too short! Say it again; I'm awesome :D

CHAPTER TEN: Change of Mind

James's P.O.V.

"Yes," she whispered. The next second, she was pressing her lips to mine. My heart nearly stopped; Lily Evans was kissing me. Of her own free will. Almost instantaneously, I started kissing her back. Her mouth felt so warm beneath mine, and it nearly killed me when we pulled apart.

"Lily," I said hoarsely as I opened my eyes and looked down at the beautiful, red-headed girl who only weeks ago avoided saying my very name. She smiled, her emerald eyes bright and cheeks flushed from the combination of the cold air and a heated kiss. Slowly, she wrapped her arms around my neck and hugged me. In return, I held her close, breathing in the faintest hint of a floral scent on her hair. All of a sudden, I lifted her off the ground.

"James!" she squealed, taken by surprise. I spun her around once before setting her down on the ground again.

"What?" I asked innocently. She laughed again, and it was incredible to know that I had caused her joy. We stood for a few more seconds, unsure of where to go next, before I broke the silence. "Come on. We should get back up to the castle."

And so, we walked. Lily took my hand in her gloved one, linking her arm slightly around mine. "What class is next, anyway?"

"History of Magic; we've got about fifteen minutes."

Lily looked crestfallen. "I guess we should get going." We walked in silence, but it wasn't like the uncomfortable quietness that followed an exploding potion or one of Sirius's overly suggestive comments in the middle of a professor's lesson; it was a very calm, easy reticence. And as we walked towards the History of Magic classroom, I didn't feel the sense of dread I usually did. Lily Evans had kissed me. That was all I needed.

Lily's P.O.V.

I didn't pay any attention in History of Magic; Erica took notes for both of us while I tried to weed through the jumbled thoughts in my mind. I kissed James; James kissed me back. We kissed each other. What the bloody hell happened? I feel like dancing in the middle of the Quidditch pitch; I want to cry. What was I thinking? Was I high…? No, I couldn't have been... I need a Time-Turner so I can go back and kiss him longer. Wait! I don't want to be with Potter…oh, who am I kidding? I want to grab that boy and snog him senseless, I want to—

"You okay, Lily?" Erica asked, concerned. I had yet to tell her about The Kiss.

"Yeah, fine…" I looked around; we were in the middle of a crowded corridor. Had I really been out of it that long?

"Are you sure? You kept smiling, then frowning, then trying not to giggle all through History of Magic. I tried everything to get your attention; I even tried telling you Sirius and I shagged in your bed, but you didn't—hey!" I had grabbed the sleeve of her robes and pulled her out of the way of the throng of students crowding the halls. I pulled her into a little alcove by one of the windows.

"I kissed James!" I squealed, unable to control myself any longer.

Erica stared at me, shocked. "You kissed him?" I nodded. She actually jumped up and down; I had to hold her down when we started getting looks from students nearby. She lowered her voice. "How much tongue was there?"

"None, actually." Erica groaned so loudly I was shocked no one professors came over to break up what they thought was…stuff.

"You are not serious," she said, exasperated.

"Nope, I'm Lily," I said with a straight face. Erica glared at me, clearly irked that I had not tasted James Potter.

"Merlin, Lil, if it had been me…."

"…you would have ripped off his shirt and shagged him right there," I said disapprovingly.

"I know!" She said earnestly. I laughed; she was just as impossible as Sirius. I was surprised that the two of them hadn't been with each other yet. "So," she asked, "are you two together now?"

"I think so; he's not so bad after all," I said as we resumed walking; I was headed towards Charms and Erica was off to Divination, a subject that I still didn't know why she continued taking.

"Forgive me, Lily, but didn't I say that, oh, months ago?"

"You might have mentioned it," I said evasively. Merlin, why did she always have to be right?

"I knew you'd come to," she said matter-of-factly. She stopped walking; we had reached the split in our routes. "See you at dinner!"

I waved at her and turned left while she went up the staircase to our right. Minutes later, I had reached the Charms classroom. I smiled when I saw James in his usual seat, messing around with Sirius and Remus as Professor Flitwick tried to win the class's attention. He may have succeeded, had we been able to see his over the stack of papers he was attempting to hand out. I smiled, and, being in such a good mood as I was, took the load off his arms and continued his task.

"Ten points to Gryffindor, Miss Evans!" he squeaked. I lay three papers down where James, Sirius, and Remus were sitting, catching James's eye and winking. The look on Sirius's face was priceless as he turned to James with a what-the-bloody-hell-was-that-all-about look. I took it he hadn't told them yet. That was about as long as my good spirits lasted; Professor Flitwick gave us enormous amount of homework: two and a half rolls of parchment on "what can happen when you perform two emotional charms on one person at the same time, and why this is an extremely foolish thing to do," due tomorrow. I sighed; I'd be up late with this one.

…..

"Damn it, damn it, damn it," I said as I crossed out another line of my Charms essay. I didn't normally mind Flitwick's assignments; however, this one was one of the torturous easy-but-takes-a-lifetime types and I just couldn't get my words down on paper the way I wanted to. It was well past midnight; Sirius and I were the only ones left working in the common room (As we had elected to take Astronomy, today had been the one day we had no free period after Charms).

"You too?" Sirius said, looking up from his parchment and letting out a long sigh.

"And to think," I said furiously, "that I helped the tiny bastard in class today! And he gave me points for it! That two-faced—" I stabbed my quill into the inkpot next to me—"double-crossing—" I angrily scribbled some nonsense down—"wanker!" Sirius chuckled.

"Win some, lose some," he said, grabbing my wrist before I could splatter any more ink across my essay.

"How far have you gotten?" I asked him, spitting a strand of hair out of my face. If there was one thing I hated, it was doing something when I could be asleep.

"Just finished. You?"

"I still need four more inches. How are you ahead of me?" I asked.

"Thanks, Evans," Sirius said sarcastically.

"Sorry."

"It's fine. So, what, do you need a concluding sentence?"

"Yes."

"Just repeat your introductory sentence with fancier words; that's what I did. That two-timing, double-crossing wanker as you call him loves a good vocabulary," he smirked. I laughed weakly.

"Don't tell him I said that," I warned.

"Wouldn't dream of it. Look, Lily, I have to get to bed. I probably won't get much sleep tomorrow night; Sarah wants to—"

I held up my hand. "Spare me the details."

Sirius laughed. "Someone's feeling sexually out of shape. Let me get James," he teased, ruffling my tousled hair. It clung to my face , staticky, and I smoothed it with difficulty.

"Bad dog," I scolded. "Go to your room." Sirius burst into laughter as he gathered up his things.

"Yes, Master," he replied before straightening up.

"Is he…up there?" I asked out of curiosity, referring, of course, to James.

"Yes," Sirius said. "It is the boys' dormitory."

"Right. Well, uh, goodnight, Sirius." He gave me a strange look, as if there was something odd about me that he couldn't place.

"'Night, Evans." He ascended the staircase to the boys' dormitory, leaving me in the vacant common room.

What, no midnight hookup with James in the common room? Sorry to disappoint. I wanted more of Sirius in here, so I decided to build a little more onto his and Lily's friendship—which is just that, a friendship. So don't go getting any ideas—she's clearly with James. This was a bit of a filler chapter, but I had to put some more stuff in about James and Lily finally being a couple before I could move on to the next big event…which is coming up in the next chapter! ;D

And here's your "review job"…

List the Harry Potter movies from your favorite to your least favorite :D

For me it's a tie for first place between 1 and 7p2 (classics! *gets teary-eyed*), then 3, 7p1, 6, 2, 4, 5. I actually love them all but if I had to rate them, this is how I'd do it :)