-The Writer.-

Disclaimer- anyone you recognize is J.K. Rowling's I do not own them. Everything you don't recognize is mine including the plot.

-Chapter Twelve-


"Because, he's my cousin."

"Your cousin? How can he be your cousin?"

"He's a half breed, his fathers a muggle and related to my family. I found out when I was in my fourth year. I haven't told a single soul though. I never ever wanted to see him again though."

"Why not?"

"I hate what he's doing, it's just wrong. I promised because of how I suffered when my Aunt was killed that I would do anything in my power not to see someone else hurt in that way. And since the majority of people that get hurt as badly as I did come from being one of Voldemort's victim. So I promised to stop him, even though I knew he was my cousin, and someone I trusted." By now tears were streaming down Lily's face.

Lily had always feared the day someone found out her secret. She knew that people would begin to think that she was an accomplice of him, and would do who knows what kind of things to her. James understood this, and new what it took to tell him. The trust she put in him was astounding. Lily's face was looking at the ground; she couldn't bring herself to stare into the eyes of James, scared of rejection.

James lifted Lily's face with her finger to where she had to look him in the eyes. "Lily, I would never ever tell your secret, and I would never ever reject you. So what that you're related to him, that doesn't make you a bad person yourself!" He then leaned down and placed a small kiss on her lips.

She smiled at him and hugged him, which he gladly returned. "Let's go to first period." James draped his arm over her, and she slid her arm around his waist. They took a seat near the back of the room and waited for the other members to get here all the while talking between themselves.

Five minutes after the had sat down Meg burst through the door looking like a half crazed psychopath on the loose. The thought of this made Lily laugh, making Meg turn her head her direction.

"There you are! I was so worried when you and James didn't return, are you okay? Who was that voice in the howler? You're not in trouble are you?" Meg kept ranting on and on that Lily couldn't hold back any more she just burst out laughing. Meg cut short her endless questions and stared at Lily who by this time had tears running down her face she was laughing so hard. Lily's laughter was highly contagious and Meg watched as soon James began to snicker as well, the progress to an all out laugh too.

"What's so funny?" the reply she got was Lily and James laughing harder. Meg couldn't help it she smiled largely and by the time the rest of the group got to the classroom they were met with Lily hanging on to James for dear life, Meg hanging on to Lily James using the wall as support and all of the sliding down to meet the ground.

"Oh dear! They've finally cracked." Sirius said shaking his head ruefully. "And she was such a good girlfriend!"

Lily hearing this comment laughed harder if possible, which got Remus to smile largely, and let out a small chuckle. He tried to hide it behind a serious mask but failed hopelessly. His attempt got Sam to snicker, till both of them were laughing along with the others. Then there was Sirius all by himself staring at the whole group thinking, 'Oh my gosh they really have gone crazy, and everyone said that I'd be the first to go!'

They finally calmed down, Lily's eyes were red from the tears along with Meg and James, who had been laughing the longest. They stopped just in time for the rest of the class to file in giving weird glances to the marauders (the marauders now include the girls.) who were all sitting on the ground in the back of the class. Professor McGonagall was the last one to enter, and looked at them shocked.

"What are you doing! Get to your seats, honestly!"

"Awww but professor McGonagall we were going to have a campfire moment. See we even got the fire." Sirius pleaded then said a quick few words when suddenly a blazing camp fire was in the middle of the group.

Professor McGonagall looked at them all with a look saying she was holding in her anger but she didn't now how much longer she could do it. Sirius looked up at her angelically, the complete opposite of him. Lily was holding her mouth shut but she couldn't help it any longer. A small snicker escaped as she clamped her mouth shut. The Professor shot her head in her direction and saw how hard it was for her to contain her laughter.

"Out!" she pointed to the doorway shaking with her rage. "You'll have to get your work later, I am in no mood what so ever to put up with this group today."

Sirius looked at her sullenly, even tried pouting but knew it was going to have zero effect on her. "Alright but I'm taking the campfire!" Sirius levitated the camp fire and stood there. Lily burst into muffled laughter as she had her hand over her mouth.

"OUT NOW!" Sirius went first with the camp fire and the rest filing out, many of them holding back laughter. When the professor turned around to the rest of the class she saw many of them holding back laughter also but quickly turned around. She walked to the front of the class and wrote down the assignment.

"No class today we will be doing the transfiguration of the an-" She was interrupted by the high pitch and clearly out of tune voice of Sirius in the hallway. Soon joined by the groups other voices.

"Kumbaya my lord Kumbaya….."

The kids at the front of the class heard the professor begin to mutter, and a few would swear that her eye twitched a little. "Lord help me." She walked to the door and stuck her head out. "Stop singing that song, and go somewhere lese where you're not disturbing my class!"

She walked back in while the marauder walked away, Sirius still levitating his fire.

"I'm starving….let's go to the kitchen's." Lily said after they wandered aimlessly for a while.

"Sounds good to me, I could always eat more." Sirius said leading the group to the kitchens.

"You could always eat more Sirius, everyone in the whole school knows that!" Meg and Sam laughed. Remus was the one who made the comment.

"Are you insulting me?"

"No he's just pointing out the obvious." James laughed.

They ate in the kitchens and had a grand old time, they finally persuaded Sirius to get rid if the fire, though he really didn't want to do it. They still had about thirty more minutes until there next class and still had no clue on earth what they were gong to do.

"Well I don't know about you but I'm going outside!" said Lily and she skipped to the doorway, the others having no choice but to follow her, after all she was so strong headed. She walked to the large rock next to the lake and stood there, anyone who looked at her could tell she was thinking.

"It's perfect." She suddenly said out loud making the others jump.

"What's perfect?" Sam and Meg asked cautiously, knowing that some of Lily's ideas were on the weird side.

"The water it's perfect!" and before anyone could respond she ran to the old willow tree hanging over the lake and dived in.

They all looked at her in shock as she swam around like she had no care in the world. She came up near to them and before they could react she splashed them with water then swam away laughing.

"Oh you'll pay for that." James yelled after her then dived in after her. It took him a while to actually catch her since she had a head start and was very determined to elude him. He finally caught her picked her up….with a strength she didn't know he had…..and threw her back in the water. She laughed and came up to him. They began to whisper and occasionally glance to the rest of the marauders way. The knew the sparkle in Lily's eyes meant that they were plotting something against them. Finally Sam couldn't take it anymore.

"That's it instead of them plotting against me I'd rather just join them on my own time." She then jumped in and swam out to them…they all huddled in a circle and talked glancing over t the still some-what dry marauders on the shore.

"I'm going along with Sam, you can tell that they're plotting something over there." Then she too jumped in.

Remus and Sirius looked at each other then shrugged what else had they to loose? They jumped in also and swam out to the group.

"I told you it would work." Lily laughed the shoved James playfully.

"Yeah, yeah!"

"What do you mean what would work?" Sirius asked when he got in talking distance with them….which actually was a considerable amount away from them.

"Well I told James that if we stayed here talked to each other and then occasionally glance at you that you all would eventually come in thinking that we were going to do something to you. James didn't believe me but now I've proved him wrong."

They all looked at Lily's smug face and laughed. "So who's up for a quick round of Marco Polo?" Meg asked.

They spent the next ten minutes playing Marco polo until they realized they had five minutes to get to there next class. They walked into the castle dripping wet.

"What's out next class again?" asked Sirius.

"Potions!" The girls replied in disgust.

"Then I say that we don't even bother with drying ourselves off do you agree?"

They all thought about it while still walking towards the dungeons. "I'll go with you Sirius!" Meg said, Sirius smiled at he then draped his arm around her.

"I'm with you too." Sam and Remus said them linking arms too.

"What the heck it doesn't bother me, not with how long I've been hanging out with you guys." Lily laughed as she and James walked with each other.

When they entered the dungeons the teacher was nowhere to be found but they got a lot of odd looks from their classmates. None of them asked though, just in case they weren't in a good mood. They sat at the back of the class talking and laughing among themselves. When Lily looked up she glanced around the room at the other people. She saw Samantha and her friends give her a dirty glare then went back to talking about whatever they were talking about. She saw small little groups talking in there in a small place off to the side was someone she never noticed before was a girl, all by herself.

"Hey guys I'll be right back."

They looked at her questionably but didn't say anything. They watched as she walked over to that unnoticed girl off at the side lines. Lily sat down next to her, and smiled. She looked a little shocked that someone was sitting next to her.

"Hi I'm Lily."

"Hi, I'm Amanda." Her voice was quiet, as if she was afraid to talk alone.

"How long have you been at Hogwarts?"

"I came in during the middle of the first period."

"Where from?"

"From Poland, my father was stationed there since my second year."

"That's cool, do you want to come sit with me and my friends?"

"Sure, that's be nice."

"Alright come on." Lily grabbed her hand and dragged her over to the marauders. "Guys this is Amanda, she'll be hanging out with us. That's James, Sirius, Remus, Meg, and Sam." She pointed to the different person as she said the name.

They all said hi and Lily pushed James a little and made room for Amanda on the edge. "Sorry it's a bit wet."

"That's okay, it doesn't bother me." Amanda liked to read anything not only fantasy but other things as well. She wasn't as big on fantasy as the other girls and she wasn't very good at writing but could draw amazingly. Lily looked at the sketches she had made.

"These are amazing!"

"Not really."

"Yeah they are I mean I couldn't draw like that without magic to save my life." Amanda smiled but before she could reply the teacher walked in and glanced at the six. He ignored Amanda seeing that she wasn't wet.

"What are you six doing in my classroom all wet?" they really hated this teacher. She was like an adult version of Malfoy and Snape, totally Slytherins and full of himself.

"We went for a swim." Sirius said smiling.

"And what were you doing out of class?"

"We got kicked out of it." Meg said smiling innocently.

"Ten points each from Gryffindor!" He began to walk away and to the front of the class when he stopped hearing Amanda ask Lily…. "Isn't that a little harsh?"

"And who are you?"

"Amanda sir."

"Are you judging the way I run my class?"

"She's new and was just asking ME a question. So no she wasn't judging you."

The professor looked at Lily. "I believe I asked Miss. Amanda, not you."

"Well I'm answering for her."

"Then you will have detention, and I want you out of my classroom now!"

"FINE! It's a horrible class anyway because the teacher doesn't do any actual teaching!" Not waiting for a reply she gathered her stuff and slammed the door shut on her way out.

"Any other comments?"

"Only that she's right!" Sam and Meg said then they too exited the classroom.

James looked at Amanda. "You can do what you want…if you hang out with us though you'll get a lot of detentions so it's up to you…Lily will understand if you want to hang out with someone else. This teacher only favors the Slytherins, so you might not get too much help in this class."

"I think I'll stick it out…tell Lily thanks though…and that I'll still talk to her."

"No problem!" He glared at the professor then exited with Sirius and Remus to go find the girls.

They found Lily with an angry look on her face with Sam and Meg. As they came up closer to him they heard Lily spit out venomously "That stupid old windbag. He's such an old geezer that he had no common sense or human emotions left in that rotting corpse of his."

Sirius burst out laughing, although Lily never ever used language she sure could substitute enough that it sounds just as bad. They found themselves walking the corridors once more, amazing how many times they found themselves kicked out of their classes. And for once it wasn't Sirius's fault, though it usually was.

"I have the best idea!" Sirius said suddenly making everyone look at him like 'oh no what does he have planned now?' "Since we have lunch next let's go hang out in the great hall, we can have all these fun things to do since it's empty."

The others glanced at each other then finally Meg spoke up. "Sirius I'm so proud of you….you actually made a smart idea!" the other's snorted.

"Why tha- wait a second…that wasn't very nice of you though." Meg laughed and tore away from him and ran for her dear life. She made her way into the Great Hall the other's close behind her especially Sirius. Just when he was about to catch her she made a small detour them climbed over the table.

They spent the next hour and a half playing tag in the Great Hall. Sirius suggested they play Marco Polo but his suggestion got vetoed. James was it and was chasing after Lily just as she jumped on the nearest table the great hall doors opened and in entered professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Professor Minnie. The marauders didn't noticed and the three professors stood there shocked, and then very amused. It was until Lily ran by the great hall door that she noticed them. She stopped dead in her tracks.

"Professors!" she said horrified. James wasn't quite as graceful though and due to the sudden halt of Lily he came barreling into her, making them both tip over, Lily landing onto James's lap. Everyone stood there horrified.

"Very amusing I must say so myself, but if I were you I would go ahead and sit down seeing as how lunch is about to begin." Professor Dumbledore looked down at them with a smile and a twinkle in his eye. Even professor McGonagall couldn't help but smile down on them.

"Yes professors." Lily got up and lifted James up with them then they walked to their normal seats trying to hold back their laughter. Sure enough in about one more minute or so the rest of the castle filed in laughing, and food began to appear. It certainly has been a crazy day.

They actually made it to their next class and stayed in it, but then Lily and James left early from dinner to go prepare for a prefects meeting. They walked down until they went in the room. The others wouldn't be arriving at least until about five more minutes.

"I believe that today I have been more assertive then in my whole life!" Lily said laughing.

"I know I was so shocked when you told the professor that he didn't teach very well."

"It was the honest truth. Anyways don't get me started on that otherwise I'll get all riled up again and who knows what I'll say."

The other prefects gathered in and the meeting came to order. They agreed on a Christmas ball, and a Halloween parties in their common rooms, that way we could have fun longer into the night. The girls wanted something in the spring…but they hadn't quite come up with it yet. While the others left all of the 7th year prefects were asked to stay behind.

"This years 'Going Away Ball' will be two weeks before we actually leave. All we have to decide know is what music we want. Do we want a live performer or do we want a D.J. that way we can listen to a variety of song?"

The majority of the people wanted a D.J. that way they could listen to other songs as well and not just ones by a single band and group.

"Is there anything special you want for the ball?"

A seventh year Hufflepuff rose her hand. She was very shy. "I think we should have a garden or the outside made up pretty. Because you know more people get engaged at the end of the year then any other time."

"That's sounds like a good idea to me. Write out all your ideas on it, then give me or James the list and we'll submit it to professor Dumbledore to see if he like it. Any other ideas or questions?"

No one else rose there hand. "Alright then this meeting's closed. We'll see you next prefect meeting."

The group left talking among themselves. Lily and James gathered the papers left by the prefects and put them in the folder. "Now I can go finally take a shower. I feel awful since I haven't had a shower since yesterday." Lily sighed in relief as the walked to the head's dormitory. James only laughed.

Lily immediately went to her room. She walked over to Harry who hooted twice, telling her that he was happy to see her, then gave him a treat, he then grabbed a holographic treat and gave it to Ella, stroking the dragon's head. She then grabbed her pajamas and went and took a long hot shower. When she came out a small not lay on her pillow.

Come to the small common room of our heads dormitory for a nice treat.

James.

Lily smiled and walked into the common room to see a small table two chairs candles lit and desert waiting on the table. James was nowhere to be seen. Lily smiled and walked closer. She found a tag with her name on it, and just as she was about to scoot herself in she found that James was already doing that.

"What's all this?" Lily asked as James sat down.

"Well since we had to go to a prefect meeting…we didn't get dessert."

"Dessert by candlelight different, but wonderful. Thank you."

They ate their dessert laughing and having a grand old time, it was after the dished were gone and the table away that the two were cuddled up together on the couch both falling asleep when James said what he wanted to say for a long time now.

"Lily….I love you."

Lily smiled. "I love you too." And they fell asleep perfectly content. A perfect ending of an almost perfect day.


A/N- hey what did you think. I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up especially since I left you at a cliffhanger. Thanx to all of my reviewers. And if you want I started another story if you want to check it out thanx again to the following…

-Kara Adar-

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Hope you liked the chapter,

Maddie.