he rest of Easter break went by way too fast. After his argument with his mother James and I made sure that we were never caught sleeping in the living room together. Which sometimes meant waking up at five in the morning to hurry and run to our beds before his father came down for work. On the plus side the Potter family all seemed to have a new found respect for me after seeing just how much I could eat. I was pleased with the way the all were now treating me, well everyone except for Sirius who had taken to calling me Chipmunk, it started as Chipmunk Cheeks and then he shortened it. And just like that we were back at Hogwarts and to all of the seventh years surprise N.E.W.T's were right around the corner.

"It shouldn't be a shock!" I moaned for probably the tenth time that night. We were up late studying and by we I meant the group and by studying I meant all of us staring blankly at our textbooks and complaining every now and then.

"But it is." whispered Anna as if from sleep.

"We've known since first year that these tests were coming." Remus almost sounded like he didn't know what he was saying.

"That was ages ago!" James retroted. "Do you know how many things I knew about in first year that have since come and gone?"

"Why am I even in school?" asked Sirius as if he hadn't even heard the conversation at all.

Along with the N.E.W.T's stress came the applying for jobs stress. Most of us had sent in our auror applications as soon as we were allowed to, and waiting for an answer from Moody was painful. Also all of our teachers told us we had to have more than one option in case the first one didn't work out. It was with that knowledge that I had also applied for education school much to James's happiness.

"Evans, Potter! May I have a word?" barked Professor McGonagall probably two weeks after the break.

"Of course Professor." I said leaving the food that was in front of me right away. James looked down at his eggs and bacon wistfully but then followed my lead.

"As you are aware the end of the term is coming up." She said as soon as we were in her office. That's what I liked about McGonagall she always straight to the point.

"I think the whole castle is aware of that, Minnie." said James with a smile.

McGonagall just glared at him. "What you may not be aware of is that the Head Girl and Boy are in charge of the graduation ceremony." My smile turned into a frown in just a snap of fingers.

"What?" I asked.

"Well you know your fellow students better than even the teachers it only makes sense that you would be in charge. It's not as hard as it sounds. The Headmaster would like to say a few words so you can already make a spot for him at the end. We need to hand out the diplomas. The choir would like to sing a couple of numbers. So really out of the hour you'll probably only have to fill up thirty minutes worth. Those are easily filled by the Validictorian and in years past we've had the Heads speak. It doesn't have to be that way though you can have another professor speak or one of the students that have learned the most in the past seven years. It's completely up to you. Also you'll be in charge of the invites for the parents and someone to take a graduation picture of the whole class. Any questions?" She asked.

"Anything you would like the speakers to speak on?" I squeaked. I was now officially freaking out. N.E.W.T's, job applications, and now organizing the graduation. What else were they going to have us do?

"Not necessarily just as long as it's about graduation and the future and such."

"Next you're going to tell us that we should also plan one more Hogsmead visit before the end of the year." James joked.

"That's a great idea!" declared McGonagall. "Like a last bash for all of the students! I'm sure they would love that! When were you thinking?" I was now glaring at my boyfriend.

"I was…" She rose her eyebrow as he began to speak, "I mean next weekend?" He whimpered.

"Brilliant! You'll get on the posters for that too then. Great, we'll meet again before graduation to go over the details, have a great day!"

"James!" I screeched as soon as we were out of earshot of the good professor's office.

"I was joking." He groaned.

"Yeah, well she didn't care and now that's one more thing that we have to do. I'm already stressing out as it is. You know what that means?" I asked.

"No!" He said.

"Yes," I gave a deep dramatic sigh, "I'm going to have to start running again." Little known fact about Miss Lily Evans, I love to run especially when I'm stressed. At Hogwarts it was almost impossible to go for runs. Students stayed up late studying and couldn't leave their common room after a certain time and then those same students had to wake up early in order to get to class the next morning. Luckily we all stayed healthy and in shape thanks to how big the castle was and quidditch for those who played.

"Lily, calm down. We'll figure this out." James said taking my hand trying to comfort me. "Start at the beginning, what is the first thing on our long list of worries?" He asked.

"N.E.W.T's." I said without even having to think.

"And we're studying for those and have been studying for those since we were in first year. Really at this point all we can do is review. Next?"

That statement didn't really make me feel any better but I continued with my list. "Applications and waiting for an answer to said applications."

"Well, my dad has told me that aurors don't receive their acceptance letters until the summer so we might as well push that out of our minds. As for our other applications they are already sent in and at this point there is nothing we can do about it. We are either going to get accepted or we're not and if we don't we'll figure that out when we come to it." Now his arm was around me as we continued to walk towards the common room.

I nodded. "Graduation." I stated.

"Like Minnie just stated graduation is pretty much taken care of. We just need to find people to speak and if we do end up choosing ourselves to speak then we just need to make up a speak which really sounds hard, but probably won't be."

"Hogsmead."

"Pretty much already done we just need to remake the flyers we've been using for it all year."

"Finding a place to live." Oh yeah that was on my mind too.

"I already told everybody that if they need until the time that they can find somewhere to live they can live at my place. Mom already has a room set aside from you and if I'm being honest I'm pretty sure that they are already planning on you moving in until you can find somewhere."

"Surviving in the wizarding world by myself." I whispered.

James stopped dead in his tracks. "Lily Evans!" he almost shouted as I continued. I turned to look at him. "I don't know how many times I need to tell you that you are not alone! Yes, your parents are dead and yes your sister is a complete brat, but if you'll remember the day that I found out your parents were gone what did I tell you?"

I sighed. "You said 'Forget your sister, we're your family now.' Or something to that effect." I replied walking back towards him. "I don't want to be a burden though." I whispered.

He took my face in his hand and stared straight into my eyes. Shaking his head and leaning forward he whispered "Never." And then he kissed me.