Sorry! I didn't mean to make you all wait so long for this one. I feel horrible now, lol. Sorry again. We're moving this summer and we had to redo the house to be put on the market. I'll be sure to add a lot of chapters for you today while I have the computer. We'll be moving soon and I won't be able to update till everything is moved into the new house.

Sorry again everyone. Reviews would be nice. :]

--Disaster

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"Oh isn't it great to be back!" Lily clapped her hands as the carriages pulled up the drive to Hogwarts.

"Yeah," Severus replied, "Great."

Lily looked over at him sadly,

"Don't worry Sev. We'll still be friends no matter what happens this year. We always have been and we always will be. I promise."

Severus didn't look over at her as she took hold of his hand at the words 'I promise.' He felt guilty for lying to her. They both knew he wanted to join You-Know-Who though she didn't understand why. He felt the need to make his mother and father proud. It wasn't just that…he felt You-Know-Who had the right views on Muggle borns…well all Muggles that is except for Lily. Hopefully no harm would come to her after he joined. He would be sure to keep her safe by telling You-Know-Who that she was the smartest Mud Blood ever to be seen at Hogwarts. And he still believes that true. Lily Evans is a genius.

Lily and Severus parted in the Great Hall as they went to their separate house tables. Severus watched her gloomily from next to one of his sides as she laughed and ate with her friends. He picked at his food, not hungry at all. He watched as Lily laughed at something Pat had just told her. He looked a little further down the table to see James Potter watching her too. Severus remembered with a jolt to his stomach that Lily had promised sometime soon she would give James a chance. Severus didn't think James deserved that chance. She could do so much better then him. She should chose him, Severus- not James.

"Hey there Evans,"

Lily looked up and smiled at James who was standing behind Pat. Pat rolled her eyes and looked down at her food.

"'Lo James," she smiled.

"Did you have a good summer?" he asked.

"It was a summer," she shrugged, "How was yours?"

"Sirius and me had some fun," he grinned wickedly.

"I don't find that hard to believe," she muttered.

James laughed and sat down next to Pat. Lily could feel Sirius, Remus, and Peter looking at her from down the table.

"Why don't you go join your cult before they come jinx us. I know Sirius can talk Remus into it." Pat said.

James laughed and gave Sirius a thumbs up from down the table.

"He won't do anything," James said, "Sirius likes Lily."

Lily blushed when his gaze fell on her. She stuck her fork in her mouth again and looked up at James with a curious expression her face.

"Well, Potter, I'm not going to have time for any of your crap this year. It's O.W.L year and I'm afraid I will actually have to study for these," Lily said.

"Oh come on Evans. You don't have to study for anything. You're mind automatically gives you the answers," James laughed.

"There's this thing called studying, James. My brain doesn't just know." Lily rolled her eyes.

James opened his mouth to retort but Dumbledore stood up for his usual beginning of the year speech. Lily was paying rapt attention to him so James decided to follow her lead. He could feel Severus watching him from across the hall but he didn't look over the boy.

Snivellus, He thought bitterly, This is my year.