Author's Note: The second part of the Lily/James drabbles I wrote for the songfic meme, in which you pick a character or ship you adore, and then you put your iPod on shuffle and write a drabble related to whatever song that plays within the time that the song is actually playing. (Which is why there are several of them because I had to decide what to write and actually write it in about three minutes, which - for some songs - is a lot more difficult than it sounds.) I obviously do not own any of these songs.

12. because she knows he'll be there for her.
[Belle of the Boulevard, Dashboard Confessional]
Words: 261

Back like you never broke,
You tell a dirty joke.
He touches your leg,
And thinks he's getting close
—For now, you let him.
Just this once,
Just for now,
And just like that,
It's over.

Don't turn away,
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes;
Don't be afraid,
And keep it all inside, all inside.
When you fall apart,
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes.
Life is always hard
For the Belle of the Boulevard.

James was livid—eyes-flashing dangerously, fists-clenching, seeing-red livid and no one in Gryffindor had ever seen the usually grinning Sixth Year so angry before.

"Apologize," he ordered Fenwick. "And do it before I fight whatever it is stopping me from making you regret the second you said two words to her."

It might have been amusing since Benji was half a foot taller than James and twice as wider, but the way his eyes had glazed over, or even the way he was standing—so prepared to attack the second he had a reason to do it made the Ravenclaw prefect not even dare to challenge him. "I'm er... sorry, Lily." Before Potter could call him back and make him say a more appropriate apology, he bolted.

Attempting to calm himself down before he scared as well, James turned to Lily, whose eyes were clenched shut and anyone could see she was trying so hard not to cry. "I'm sorry," he whispered. "Fenwick's a prat, and I know you can take care of yourself—you probably would have hexed him far worse than I had—but I just... I had to do something. And that stuff he was saying about you, Lily—it's so wrong. Merlin, you're probably the most amazing, most beautiful—"

Though she didn't feel much like smiling, she couldn't stop herself. "I... Thank you," she said, cutting him off.

He didn't know why, but those two words made him feel a million times better than he would have had he actually punched the smirk off of Fenwick's face.

13. because she can't censor her thoughts around him.
[White Lines, Alexz Johnson]
Words: 200

I tried to tell you, "I've got to get away."
I tried to say, "I need my space."
I've got to get some distance in between
My heart and my head,
I'm on the razor's edge,
And I've been here before;
I know the way...


She sighed, watching him laugh with his friends in the Great Hall. He had had his back turned to her the second she walked in, and she knew he was purposefully trying to avoid her eyes, but there wasn't anything she could do. They were mates now—good mates. He had been there for her when no one else had—her issues with her sister, her parents' death, that thing with Severus. She couldn't afford to lose that.

But then, why could she get him out of her head? The sound of his laughter after joking around with her during patrols. The kind-of-frustrating, kind-of-adorable way he still occasionally mussed up his hair (before catching himself and stopping). That devastating expression on his face when she turned him down for the final time...

"Just talk to him," Alice advised. "He'll understand."

"I can't," she explained.

"Why the hell not?"

"BECAUSE I'M IN LOVE WITH JAMES BLOODY POTTER," she shouted, tired and frustrated and confused and so sick of all this drama.

Alice laughed. A few seats away, James blinked, not sure he had heard that correctly, while. Sirius and Peter "whooped" like mad.

...Merlin, no, had she just said that out loud?

14. because she teases him.
[Do You Like Me?, ALL CAPS]
Words: 171

And I see you're sitting next to me...
It's been four weeks at least!
I just can't get the words right
On this blank piece of paper.
But then I wrote,
"Do you like me? Yes or no?
Do you think that I am cute?
Would you date me? (You can say, 'maybe.')
I just have to know..."


"Prongs, why have you been staring at Evans this entire Potions lesson?" Remus asked, thinking the question was harmless. "You didn't prank her again, did you?"

James rolled his eyes. "No, Moony, I didn't." Returning back to his red-head-stalking, he said to Sirius, "Does it look like she's writing on that piece of paper? The crumpled one on her desk?"

Sirius blinked. "Umm no. Why?"

He groaned. "I don't get it. It takes HALF a second to mark off a box. HALF A SECOND."

His friends stared. "A box?"

"YES! I asked her if she would go out with me, and to mark off 'yes' or 'maybe'."

Remus, Sirius, and Peter burst out laughing. "Tell me you didn't, Prongs."

"But I DID," James claimed. When their laughter increased, he frowned, baffled. "Why? Asking her in person didn't seem to work, so I thought I'd write to her instead."

Sirius only laughed harder. "No reason, Prongs. It's always nice to know when your best mate has suddenly become a pre-teen Muggle girl."

15. because she makes him dizzy.
[The Best Thing, Relient K]
Words: 272


'Cause when I looked into your eyes,
And you dared to stare right back,
You should have said, "Nice to meet you; I'm your other half."


James didn't know what was wrong with him. Every day this week, he had somehow been partnered with Lily Evans in all his classes, and something about her was just... messing with his head.

Though he knew he wasn't a particularly focused thirteen-year-old boy, he had never been so distracted in his life. Whenever she was around him, all he could notice was the brilliant red hue of her hair, or the way her eyes grew just a millimeter bigger whenever she was excited or on the verge of figuring a particular difficult spell out, the way she scrunched up her nose when she couldn't make sense of something or the way her laughter was like the softest bells twinkling at Christmastime. He could never pay attention to anything else whenever she was near (and she probably thought he was the biggest moron for being able to do nothing but stumble and stutter in her presence).

What was wrong with him?

"Hey, mate, are you okay?" Sirius asked him.

"Do you think there's something strange about Evans?" he said instead.

"What? There's something ALWAYS strange about Evans."

"No," James frowned. "I mean, like... She just makes me so... dizzy. And the world is always warmer around her. And my heart's always beating so fast, I swear it'll burst. Like if I spend another second with her, I'll implode."

At that very second, on the other side of the room, a frustrated redhead shouted, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME. IT'S LIKE HE PUT A SPELL ON ME—A SPELL!"

Sirius barked. "Whatever you have, it looks like Evans has it, too."

Notes: Thanks for reading, and please review! I actually only have like... one more drabble left to post. I've already posted the rest of them. So if you have a prompt or a drabble request, feel free to pass it along and I'll try my best! Also, thanks to everyone who reviewed my most recent Lily/James one-shot, so let your heart hold fast,which was written for the "Jily Secret Santa" fix exchange this past Christmas. I think that is the longest one-shot I have ever written, and I had a blast writing Jily as FRIENDS WITH SO MUCH UST THAT WANT TO BE TOGETHER BUT FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON ARE NOT. XD It was also incredibly hard to write, not only for the length, but because I actually have not written Jily fics in a long time. All of these drabbles were written ages ago. So if you happen to check that out, please review and let me know your thoughts. Anyway, happy belated new year, guys!