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"Remus?" I called into the Gryffindor common room, looking for the teenage werewolf. "Hey Al! Have you seen Remus?"

Alice looked up at me, and her eyes brightened. "No! But I bet he's in the library. Our N.E.W.T's are in a week, he's cramming last I knew of."

"Go figure," I muttered. We were supposed to meet up to go study, but he had already gone down. "See you Al!"

I hurried down to the library, where sure enough, the majority of the Seventh, and Fifth-years were scattered throughout the stacks. Remus was tucked back in a corner, his nose in a book.

"Remus," I whispered, sitting down and handing him a piece of toast from the Great Hall. "We were supposed to meet to study! And you've missed breakfast."

"Yeah I forgot," he said. "I've been studying since five this morning."

"Remus, it'll be alright."

"Merlin I dunno Lils," he looked up at me worriedly. "I dunno if I'll be able to get a job, or what will happen."

"Remus," I reached across the table and took his scarred hand into my two tiny ones. "Everything. Will. Be. Fine."

He smiled. "Thanks Lily."

I just smiled back and pulled out my Defense Against the Dark Arts book, before sticking my nose in it. It was nearly time for lunch when I finally stood up and slammed both our books shut.

"Hey!" he exclaimed, a look of indignation plastered across his face.

"Remus, we are going to lunch, and then we are going to study outside with the others," I said, taking his stack of books and shoving them in his bag before hoisting it on my shoulder and marching out of the library, the indignant defiant werewolf following my wake.

"Lilykins!" Sirius sang, scooting up the bench and wrapping his arms around my neck. Remus took a seat across from me next to Alice and Marlene, and James was sitting next to me.

I slipped my tiny hand into his large one. It was calloused from holding the handle of a broomstick, and from catching Snitch after Snitch. I let it's warmth spread up my arm. Our hands fit perfectly together; it was like they were made for each other. It seemed ridiculous that I hadn't realized that I loved him before this year.

I twisted towards him, and tried to reach up to kiss him, but it was proving a difficult task, due to the slight problem that Sirius still had his arms wrapped around my neck.

James chuckled as I stretched and tried to move up, but Sirius was a lot bigger and stronger than I. Finally taking pity on me he swooped down and pecked me swiftly on the lips.

I arched my eyebrow high into my red hair, as Sirius hadn't yet let go of my shoulders.

"Uh…" I looked around at the table. "Sirius?"

"Yes Lilykins?" he said.

"D'you think you could let go?"

"What?"

"Sirius, your arms are around my girlfriends neck," James laughed.

Sirius grinned a puppyish grin and let go of my neck. "Sorry Prongsiepie, but I wanted to give her a hug."

I rolled my eyes at their childish antics and loaded my plate with food. If the N.E.W.T's were in a then that meant I would go off food in a few days.

"Hey Lily," Remus said, eying the plate of food in front of me. "Don't you think you should be eating healthier? Y'know, being preOW!"

I had given him a hard kick in the shin underneath the table when he had almost said I was pregnant. It seemed that he had forgotten that that was supposed to be a secret.

The others raised their eyebrows at us, but ignored it. As Remus and I got up to go to the library to get a few more books before going outside, I raised my eyebrows at him.

"Merlin, talk about a close call!" I said.

~O-O~

The sound of scratching quills filled the entire Great Hall when June 24th came round. We were sitting in alphabetical order by last name, and our History of Magic essays were all placed in front of us.

The Professors had been right when they said that the N.E.W.T's would be advanced. The practical Potions exam we had to make an antidote to a poison within and hour and a half, and the Defense practical we had to produce a corporeal Patronus. I remembered James and my first kiss and the silver doe burst forward to tumultuous applause from the wispy little examiner. He nearly fell backwards as it galloped around the hall.

But now was the last exam. The final essay. I added my last few words with a flourish and glanced around the hall. Most people were finished, grinning to one another as they realized that they had just finished their last Hogwarts exam ever. Sev was still cramming words onto his paper, and Remus was bent over writing to the very edge. James and Sirius were leaning back on their chairs, somehow managing to pass notes to each other.

James turned and caught my eyes, blowing me a kiss. I smiled hugely and tapped Alice's leg right behind me. I felt her tap my foot and I grinned to myself. Since we were always by each other when in alphabetical order we had made up the signal to tell if the other was done with her test. We waited while the elaborate hourglass ticked away the final minutes until the end of exams.

At last the young woman stepped up to the table as the final grains of sand trickled to the bottom. With a wave of her wand our scrolls of parchment soared into a basket.

"You are free to go," she said, but an almighty cheer from the seventh-years drowned her voice. We stampeded towards the door to go and enjoy the nice weather.

The sun was shining and the Giant Squid was floating lazily on top of the lake as the Marauders, the girls, and I made a beeline for our favorite tree. We threw our things down and collapsed on the ground, spreading out in the warm sunshine.

"I can't believe it," Sirius grinned.

"Our exams are done!" Alice shrieked.

"And there's only a week until they give us our results!" Marlene grinned.

"And Gryffindor won the house cup for a seventh year in a row," Peter grinned.

"And there's no more studying to do," Remus sighed contentedly.

"And no more exams for a while," Mary smiled, flopping down on the ground.

"And I have the best boyfriend in the world," I said, intertwining my hand with James's.

"And I have a question to ask," he said sitting up.