Ok new change. Birthdays. If we've read harry potter 7 we know that Lily's birthday is Jan. 30 and James's is March 27. Ok well that chapter was….i'm not sure. I kinda liked it but I'm not sure. Sorry I've been taking my sweet old time. It's just that I'm super busy during the summer time. More so than any other time during the year. Just got back from camp which was very dramatic so maybe I can use that to an advantage and put it in here, huh? Alrighttt. OH AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE AWESOME REVIEWS!!!! KEEP THEM COMING!!!!

Year Two.

Chapter Eleven.

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The months after passed by with ease. Lily and James forgetting their little kiss because James had been too caught up into his Quidditch. He was really quite good at it. There was never a time when he couldn't catch the snitch. He had to tell his friends about what happened after they left the hospital wing, so he told them how he made the Quidditch team, but left out the little part where he earned a victory kiss. The other guys would just laugh at him. He tried to push it far from his mind. Boys don't usually like girls at twelve. He was just trying to have some fun with his buddies, that's all. But Lily kept getting in the way. Sometimes his mind would just wander right on back to Lily for some odd reason. He would think about how they laugh when they're together and how much fun they really could have if they tried to have fun. But really, all they ever do is sit and talk. James thought if she really got out and they took her on one of the adventures he so frequently went on, that she would have a good time, and he would have a good time being with her. But for now, he had to focus on his Quidditch and his school work (yeah right), and leaving time open to plot adventures not only at Hogwarts, but at each other's houses over holidays.

That was another thing that was bothering James. His parents. It was nearing the end of November and he still hadn't gone to visit his parents in the hospital. Dumbledore had told him that Mrs. Potter will be alright, that she just has two broken legs and a broken arm. But Mr. Potter would never be able to walk again. They were both still residing in a muggle hospital, and James had not yet had the opportunity to leave the castle to go see them. Dumbledore said he would gladly take James over Christmas holidays because James would have to stay at the castle anyway. James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter had discussed this partially. They had all volunteered their houses for James to stay, because no one really wants to stay at the castle longer than they have to.

"Mate, I love you to death, but my house, though I'm offering it, may not be the one you want to stay at. With my parents how they are and Regulus all excited because he's going to be starting school soon…it's mass chaos over there. Plus, my family hates me…" Sirius told him.

"Okay, so that rules out Sirius's house, but that still leaves mine and Peter's?" Remus said, but Remus already knew that living with him would be difficult. With Remus turning into a werewolf every once in a while, and his family being extra cautious all the time, there wouldn't be any room for having any real fun.

"Oh, well, my family and I are leaving for…for…Ireland. Family vacation," Peter chimed in.

"Okay, so no houses available. Unless we can find some innocent, nice, loving, caring people who would take you in for Christmas…?" Sirius said sarcastically.

"Really? I don't see what the matter is. I mean, we always go around here, looking for fun, but we always complain how we never have enough time to do it. Now's our, well my, chance! Although, it would be nicer if one of you could stay with me. I'd rather not wander through the halls alone," James asked.

"Me and Remus could do it!" Sirius said. "I mean, I don't want to go home anyway, so that leaves at least me, and Remus, you don't have to, but if you wanted to…"

"I think my family wants to see me home. Just so they know I'm alright, you know, verify for themselves. But I'll be sure to see you guys when I get back. I promise." Remus said with a half smile. Remus was too adorable.

"That really could work. And then Sirius, you could be there when I visit my parents. They've thought of you as like the other son they never had!" James told him excitedly. Sirius's pride went up a few notches. The fact that he knew that he was loved by someone, even if his parents didn't, made him feel so much better about himself.

"Alright, it's settled, me and James stay home for Christmas holidays, and Peter and Remus go home and visit. Me and James will work out some secret stuff throughout the castle and show it to you guys when you get back. And of course, there will be visiting the muggle hospital…have you ever visited one James?"

James shook his head.

"Me either, so we'll go in there like we know what we're doing, and hopefully Dumbledore will know what he's doing!" Sirius said as if ending a long drawn out speech.

"Here, here!" They all yelled.

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Lily, on the other hand, had not had it as easy as James to forget their little kiss. She did not have Quidditch, or sick parents to take her mind off it. She had tried getting involved in Julia and Megan's conversations more than usual, and they could tell there was something up. They asked her about it, and she couldn't keep a secret, she had to tell them.

"Lily, what is up? You've been trying to get into every little thing that we've been trying to do and get into every conversation. Usually you just nod a lot and jump in when you get certain ideas. You don't usually brainstorm out loud. What are you trying to do?" Megan asked. She was always more open mouthed than Julia.

"Okay, but if I tell you, you've got to promise not to tell anyone. I mean anyone," Lily said.

"Ohhh, this is going to be good. Okay, before we promise, let's relocate," Julia suggested. They were sitting in the library working on an assignment that wouldn't be due for three more weeks and they were already almost done. They packed up their stuff and rushed to the top floor where the Gryffindor common room is known to be. The three girls said the password and the portrait of the fat lady swung open to admit them. They rushed inside and to the right where the girl's dormitories were. They went into the door labeled with a number two on it and slammed the door. They looked around to make sure they were alone and then locked the door. Each girl plopped her stuff onto her own bed and then they gathered into a circle on the floor.

"Okay, so you promise me if I tell you that you aren't going to tell another soul for as long as you live?" Lily asked. Each girl held out her hand and outstretched both of her pinky fingers. They all grabbed pinkies and were connected into a circle and Julia and Megan both said:

"I swear."

"Okay, well, after I got my memory back, I had to stay in the hospital wing for another night. Well Madam Pomfrey let James stay and keep my company. Well, some first year came in and gave James a letter. It said that he made the Quidditch team, and, this is where it gets secretive, he kissed me. I don't know what to think or make of it. I mean, I can't stop thinking about it and him, but I mean, I'm only eleven, soon to be twelve, I'm not supposed to like boys yet, am I?"

"I don't see a problem with liking boys yet. I think this is the transition; when we start to like boys. Besides, James made the move first, so it's really his fault if it comes down to it. And anyway, he must like you, because he made that move! It's sure fire! Just go with it," Julia told her. Lily was still unsure. She went to unlock the door and changed into her pajamas. She was turning in early. She just needed to think. About James. She had thought about every other boy that she'd ever liked before. There had really only been one other guy before. Sometimes she was ashamed to admit it, but she had to. It was Severus Snape. She wasn't really sure if she had liked him, but she had felt sorry for him. And he really was a good friend, most of the time. She remembered when she first met him and how he told her about Hogwarts.

FLASHBACK

Lily and Petunia were at the playground enjoying the last of the sunshine. They were all alone and on the best swings in the whole park. Lily was going as high as she could, she was going to jump. She was going to jump from the highest point on the swing. Petunia was too scared to go as high as Lily, which surprised Lily. She was nine years old and Petunia was eleven. And yet, Petunia wasn't as brave as Lily, not for anything.

"Lily, don't do it!" Petunia yelled. She was afraid Lily was going to hurt herself.

But Petunia was too late. She had let go and jumped, very gracefully, from the swing. She was flying through the air, literally. She landed just as graceful on the asphalt. Like a trapeze artist landing far too lightly.

"Mummy said you weren't allowed, Lily!"

"But I'm fine," Lily replied, still giggling. "Tuney, look at this. Watch what I can do."

Petunia looked around to make sure they was no one around. No one was around as far as they could tell. Lily had walked over to a bush with several flowers. She picked one up and Petunia came closer. The look on her face showed that she was split. She couldn't decide whether she was curious or upset. When Petunia was close enough, Lily put the flower into the palm of her hand and made the flower open and close its petals.

"Stop it!" Petunia shrieked.

"It's not hurting you," said Lily, but she put the flower back down on the ground.

"It's not right," said Petunia, and kept her eyes on the flower. "How do you do it?" She asked with longing.

"It's obvious, isn't it?" Said a boy who popped out from behind the bush. Petunia yelled and ran back to the swings, but Lily remained planted where she was. The boy looked like he regretted popping out, but remained where he was.

"What's obvious?" Lily asked.

"I know what you are," the boy lowered his voice.

Confused, Lily asked, "What do you mean?"

"You're…you're a witch," he whispered. Lily's face was appalled that he would say something like that when he had never met him before.

"That's not a very nice thing to say to somebody!" Lily yelled at him. She turned with her nose in the air and marched towards her sister.

"No! You are. You are a witch. I've been watching you for a while. But there's nothing wrong with that. My mum's one, and I'm a wizard." The boy said, chasing after Lily, looking like a bat. His face was turning red. Then Lily heard Petunia laugh.

"Wizard! I know who you are. You're that Snape boy! They live down Spinner's End by the river," she told Lily. She was suggesting to Lily that it was a bad part of town, not that it mattered to Lily. "Why have you been spying on us?"

"I haven't been spying. Wouldn't spy on you anyway, you're a muggle," Snape said.

"Lily, come on, we're leaving!" Petunia yelled at Lily, and though Lily wanted to hear more about this witch and wizard business, she thought it best to obey Petunia.

Lily had been thinking about it when she reached home, and decided that she had to know what it meant. She was going to ask Snape. Lily told her parents that she was going to meet a friend at the playground. As soon as she was out of sight she sprinted to the end of Spinner's End down by the river. There was a house and on the door read: "The Snapes". Lily walked up to the door and knocked. It was a shabby house. Much unlike her own. The Snape boy opened the door and was shocked to see Lily.

"I wanted to talk to you. About the witch business," Lily told him.

"Come here, and we'll talk about it," Snape grabbed Lily's wrist and pulled her into a forest by the river. The two of them were hidden behind all the trees and shrubs. They had been talking for ages. About the wizarding world in general.

"…and the Ministry can punish you if you do magic outside school, you get letters."

"But I have done magic outside school!"

"We're all right. We haven't got wands yet. They let you off when you're a kid and you can't help it. But once you're eleven, and they start training you, then you've got to go careful."

Lily picked up a twig and pretended it was a wand. She waved it back and forth and pretending it would do real magic. She dropped the twig and leaned closer and asked: "It is real, isn't it? It's not a joke? Petunia says you're lying to me. Petunia says there isn't a Hogwarts. It is real, isn't it?"

"For us, it's real, but not for her. But we'll get the letter, you and me."

"Really?" Lily whispered, afraid to voice it out loud.

"Definitely."

"And it'll come by owl?"

"Normally, but since you're a muggle-born, someone from the school will have to come and explain to your parents."

"Does it make a difference? Being muggle-born?" There was an indefinite pause. Snape had stopped to think about this question.

"No, it doesn't make a difference."

"Good," Lily said. She was worrying.

"You've got loads of magic. I saw that. All the time I was watching you…" But Lily wasn't listening. She had laid down in the grass and stopped listening to Snape.

"How are things at your house?" Lily reluctantly asked.

"Fine," he said.

"They're not arguing anymore?"

"Oh yes, they're arguing, but it won't be that long and I'll be gone," Snape said and crushed some leaves in his hands.

"Doesn't your dad like magic?"

"He doesn't like anything, much," Snape said.

"Severus, tell me about the dementors again."

"What do you want to know about them for?"

"If I use magic outside school–"

"They wouldn't give you o the dementors for that! Dementors are for people who do really bad stuff. They guard the wizard prison, Azkaban. You're not going to end up in Azkaban, you're too—" and then his face went red. Suddenly Petunia appeared hiding behind a tree.

"Tuney!"

"Who's spying now? What do you want?" Snape said. There was a pause, Petunia was searching for something hurtful to say.

"What is that you're wearing anyway? Your mum's blouse?" Petunia said pointing at Snape's shirt.

Suddenly there was a crack and a branch fell over Petunia's head. Lily screamed as the branch hit Petunia on the shoulder. Petunia burst into tears and ran away.

"Tuney!" Then Lily rounded on Snape. "Did you make that happen?"

"No." Snape said scared, but defiant.

"You did! You did! You hurt her!"

"No! I didn't!" But his lie wasn't convincing. Lily ran off after her sister and left Snape scared and alone.

END FLASHBACK

Lily remembered back at the Halloween dance. She tried to approach Severus and tell him that she was sorry and she missed him, but her friends told her not to. That it would be a mistake. Lily started crying. Not only had she missed the friendship of Petunia. Ever since Lily received her letter from Hogwarts, Petunia had been jealous and had talked to Lily less and less. Lily remembered the day she left. Petunia and Lily had the worst row yet. She tried not to remember, but the scene came back so vividly.

FLASHBACK

"I'm sorry Tuney! I'm sorry! Listen, maybe once I'm there—no listen, maybe once I'm there I can convince Dumbledore to change his mind!" Lily said grabbing Petunia's wrist so she couldn't get away.

"I don't want to go!" Petunia said and she dragged her hand back. "You think I want to go to some stupid castle and learn to be a—a—you think I want to be a freak!" Lily tried not to cry, but they were spilling over her eyes.

"I'm not a freak, that's a horrible thing to say!"

"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy…weirdos, that's what you two are. It's good you're being separated from normal people. It's for our safety."

Lily looked to her parents for help, but they weren't even paying attention. They were looking at all the people around in wizard's robes and still amazed at how they had walked through a brick wall. Lily lowered her voice as she spoke her next few words.

"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote to the headmaster and begged him to take you."

"Beg? I didn't beg!" Petunia said, he face turning bright red.

"I saw his reply, it was very kind."

"You shouldn't have read—that was my personal—how could you?" Petunia said, almost lost for words. Lily glanced at Snape, and gave herself away. Petunia gasped.

"That boy found it! You and that boy have been sneaking in my room!"

"No! Not sneaking! Severus saw the envelope and he couldn't believe a Muggle could have contacted Hogwarts, that all! He says there must be wizards working undercover in the postal service who take care of—"

"Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere! Freak!" Petunia said and ran over to her parents.

Lily got onto the train and sat alone with her new friends Julia and Megan. But after awhile, she began to wonder where Severus was. She went looking for him. When she couldn't find him, she decided to sit alone in a compartment with four other boys. After awhile the boys were getting rowdy, and finally, Severus appeared in the compartment. He sat down opposite Lily, but she wouldn't look at him. She had tear streaks down her face and just stared out the window.

"I don't want to talk to you," she said with a constricted voice.

"Why not?"

"Tuney h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore."

"So what?"

Lily glared at Severus. "So she's my sister!"

"She's only a—" He caught himself quickly, but Lily didn't catch it because she was wiping her eyes. "But we're going! We're off to Hogwarts!"

Lily half smiled.

"You'd better be in Slytherin," Snape said, happy that Lily brightened a little.

"Slytherin?"

"Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" James asked Sirius. Back then, Lily didn't know who James was, and the incident in the Entrance Hall, she hadn't recognized him at all.

"My whole family have been in Slytherin," Sirius said without smiling.

"Blimey, and I thought you were all right!" James joked, and Sirius grinned.

"Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"

James lifted an invisible sword. "'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad."

Severus made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him.

"Got a problem with that?"

"No, if you'd rather be brawny than brainy—"

"Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" Sirius came in. James roared with laughter.

"Come on Severus, let's find another compartment."

"Oooooo…" James and Sirius imitated Lily's lofty voice; James tried to trip Severus as he passed.

"See ya, Snivellus!" James yelled as the compartment door slammed. Lily and Severus went back to sit with Julia and Megan who were, surprisingly, still empty, apart from each other.

END FLASHBACK

Lily could not help but think how awful she had been to Severus since then. She had not spoken to him, nor tried to. She had thought she had a crush on him, but when she realized how much trouble he had caused her, she just thought of him as a friend. So what was she feeling towards James? She needed to stop focusing on this and start focusing on her school work. She was going to mend things with Severus and then forget about boys. And she fell asleep.

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Ok so if you read harry potter 7, which I'm guessing you guys did, then this chapter is basically stupid and pointless. This is just to catch us up to speed. So sorry that this has taken so long and I'm sorry that you waited this long for nothing really. But maybe it'll refresh your memory: )) Keep reviewing!!!!!!!