It's their seventh year at Hogwarts and James refuses to give up. Will his efforts finally get him a chance with Lily Evans? Or will she turn on her own?

This chapter makes me hungry. If you are not in the mood to eat, do not read it yet. Go read it when you want to eat. Oh, and imagine the kitchen like your own, because I suck at descriptions.

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"Well....here we go." Remus shrugged and followed Peter.
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"These houses look so weird. They're all the same...." James muttered, looking up at number 12 Magnolia Crescent.

Lily shook her head. "It's freaky, this is the exact kind of neighborhood Petunia wants to live in."

"Who knows? She might be here." James said evilly, taking a key out of the envelope he and Lily had been given.

"Don't remind me." Lily muttered.

It wasn't just the fact that she might run into her sister here, but the fact that Petunia was already shopping for a dream house. Why is it, that Petunia beats Lily to everything, and when Lily finally gets something Petunia can only dream about having, she's punished for it by being completely ignored by her sister?

"Hey Lily! You coming?" James called from inside the house.

"What? Oh! Yeah." Lily answered, dragging her trunk over the threshold and into a super clean foyer. She wrinkled her nose. "Did Petunia already come in here?"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's so...clean."

"What? Lil Miss Evans doesn't mind a bit of cleanliness, does she?" James asked, grinning widely.

"Are you kidding? You saw our bathroom. I am a neat freak, but not as big as Petunia."

James grinned and closed the door.

"So..." He said, rocking back and forth on his heels.

"So..." Lily repeated, copying his gesture. Now or never.

"Hey James, we need to talk-"

"WHOA! What's that?" James cried, pointing excitedly at the television set in the room beside the foyer.

"A television..."

"A tele who?" He asked, confused, walking into the room and examining his new discovery.

"Vision. Television." Lily explained, following him in.

"What does it do?"

"Well...Muggles watch things on it. Movies, tv shows..."

"Cool! Turn it on!" James said excitedly.

Lily laughed, reminded of a three year old introduced to sweets for the first time. She found the remote lying on the fireplace mantel. She swiped it up and clicked the green on button.

The television faded into life with a dull Click.

"Whoa!! Hey! That's soccer!" James grinned, pointing at the screen.

Lily nodded.

"But...Where are the goal posts?" He joked.

Lily laughed, and soon James joined in.

"Can we watch other things?"

Lily nodded. "See the numbers? You can select different channels. Go on, try it." Lily said, passing the black rectangle to him.

James looked down at the remote blankly. "What am I supposed to do?"

Lily bit her lip, holding back a laugh. "Just press them, if you want a channel with more than one number, hit all the numbers in that channel. Like for 47, hit '4' and then '7'."

"Okay...." James said uncertainly. He hit '3' '0' and the soccer game dissolved, turning instead into a woman pouring ingredients into a steaming pot.

"Food! I'm starving. Let's go find something to eat." He said, following Lily's earlier example and pressing the green button. The tv faded to black.

Lily nodded and followed him out of the family room, down the hall and into a kitchen. "Ah...Home sweet home." Lily said smiling.

"Hmm?"

"I love to cook." Lily explained.

"Lily Evans will you please marry me?" James begged.

"What, cause I can cook?"

"That's just one of the many reasons I'm so in love with you."

Lily pretended to smile and turned her back on him, opting instead to open a door that led to the pantry.

"What are you hungry for?" She asked, still not looking at him.

"Whatever you want to make."

"Okay..." Lily said and inspected her options. The pantry was stocked with everything she needed to make from Japanese cuisine, all around the world and back to Australia. An idea came to her. She had once gone to America with her family for vacation before she found out she was a witch. There, she had eaten Tacos. Her family had not liked them, but Lily had loved them and hadn't had them since. She smiled, and began pulling out the ingredients she remembered to be in it. But the only thing she could take out of the pantry would be the corn shells.

She turned around, still avoiding looking at James, who was watching her intently, not knowing what to do. She scanned the kitchen. Her eyes landed on a large white fridge. She smiled and made straight for it.

"Anything I can do to help?" James offered while Lily emerged three minutes later, arm full of tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, ground beef, and salsa.

"Yeah, sure. Do you like it spicy?"

James shrugged. "Sure?"

"Okay." Lily smiled. She dumped all the items on the counter and went back to the pantry and pulled out small bottles of spices, each labled wih a sticker.

"Here, take this-" She passed him the ground beef "-And empty the pack into this." She said, pulling a cabinet open and finding to her delight, a varitey of cooking pots.

James took the pot from her, and started to unwrap the meat. He turned the styrafoam tray over, and the meat landed in the pot. "Now what?" He asked, throwing out the empty tray and turning to see Lily, who had started to cut vegetables.

"Um...On the stove." She said pointing at the appliance beside her.

"Okay." James nodded, he lifted the pot and brought it over to the gas stove.

"Turn the heat up to medium." Lily instructed, dicing the tomatoes.

James did as he was told. "Now what?" He asked turning to look at her.

As if she was in her kitchen back home, she automatically opened a drawer and drew out a wooden spoon.

"Stir it." She said handing it over to him.

"Got it."

"And start mixing in these." She said, giving him the small bottles of spices.

"How do I know when there's enough in there?"

"Depends on how flavorful you want it." Lily said, now grating the cheese.

"Oh...Can you just tell me, since I have no clue what you're making?"

Lily chuckled. "Yeah sure.." Wow, things are going pretty nice so far...She watched James throw the spices in and stir after each dash. "Okay, that looks good. Now let it cook for a bit."

James nodded. "Anything else?"

"Um...Yeah. Empty these corn shells, onto this metal tray, and stick it in the oven on medium." Lily said, ripping the salsa pack open and emptying the contents into a bowl.

"Sure thing."

After twenty minutes, the ground beef and the corn shells were cooked, the cheese grated, veggies cut and the table set.

"So how do we do this?" James asked, sitting down and looking at the different bowls of ingredients.

"Like this." Lily said, taking a corn shell. She put some beef in, on top of that a little cheese, followed by the vegetables and topped with salsa. "Here you go." She handed the taco to James, who waited patiently until Lily had made her own. Then he took a crunchy bite.

"Oh wow." He said through a mouthful.

"You like it?"

James nodded, hungrily taking another bite.

"Awesome." Lily smiled and started on her own. See Lily? He's a good guy... Said the Sirius-like voice in her head.

She shook the thoughts away. She knew he was a good guy. She didn't to be told.

After they were finished eating, they started clean up.

"That was fun." James said, passing Lily the empty dishes. Yes, they did eat everything.

Lily nodded in agreement and started soaking the plates and bowls.

"How about I wash, you dry?" James offered.

Lily shrugged."If you really want to."

James nodded. "I do."

"Okay..." Lily said stepping aside and drying her hands on the towel hung on the silver rod next to the stove.

They began to work, having both comfortable silence, and amusing conversation.

It was when there was only one bowl left to be washed, that it happened.

James grinned evilly, took a handful of foam, and smeared it onto Lily's left cheek. She gasped and smacked him with the drying towel.

James laughed and smeared more foam on her face. Laughing, Lily grabbed the water hose from beside the tap and sprayed James with it. He dodged it grinning madly and grabbed the soap bottle.

"You wouldn't-" Lily began but was cut off by a splatter of gooey soap landing on the front of her shirt.

Blinded by revenge(and the fun of it all) she lunged at James with the water hose again, James retaliating with another soap squirt. Soon, they were both on the floor covered in foam and laughing madly.

Lily's laughter slowed, and she managed to support herself on her elbows, she looked over to James. His hair was slopping wet, his glasses askew, his face had foam on it, and his clothes were soaked.

Lily's cheeks burned. What must she look like?

Wait, why does it matter what I look like? I will tell James I want to stay friends in these three weeks...I will.

James also sat up and kissed Lily's forehead. Then he took out his wand and dried the mess up, He stood up and offered Lily a hand. She took it, and he pulled her up.

"That was refreshing." He grinned.

Lily grinned back. Still not pulling her hand away from James'.

I think?

What do you think? You like? I did. And man! I was hungry. Early update 'coz I had this idea. :) Please review. Maybe I'll update sooner. No promises though :) But take the chance and hit that green button!

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