Author's Note - Well, James is going to start changing her mind.

Disclaimer -I do not own Harry Potter or anything related, I only created the OCs and the plot.

September 1st, 1977

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"And don't forget," he said before leaving her at her compartment when they were done patrolling. "I like your temper." He grinned and walked off to his own compartment.

Why was this happening to her?

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When they arrived at the castle, many of the first years were confused.

Lily told her friends to go ahead and that she'd meet them at the castle.

"Firs' years, o'er here!" called Hagrid.

Lily spotted a little girl crying and went to comfort her, but someone beat her to it.

"Shh, it's okay. Look," he said pointing. "That's my friend Hagrid. He's going to get you to the castle safely, okay? There's nothing to worry about."

"B-but, I w-wanna go h-home! I w-want my p-parents." she cried.

"You'll be fine. Want to hear a secret?" he lowered his voice but Lily could still hear him. "I was scared when I first came, too. But eventually you get used to it and you end up loving the castle, okay?"

"Okay, M-Mister Head Boy, sir."

"Please, it's James. Now go over with Hagrid and he'll bring you to the castle."

"Okay," she turned to walk away but turned back for a second. "Thanks, James," she muttered, blushing.

James smiled when he turned and saw Lily. "Oh, hi, Lily." he actually looked genuinely surprised. "What's up?"

"Are you trying to confuse me?" Lily smiled a bit, "Thanks for helping her and not just laughing like you usually would." she paused. "You still haven't changed my mind yet, though." she said, smirking.

"I wasn't expecting to yet. But don't worry," he grinned. "I'm persistent."

"I've noticed," she said dryly.

"Where're your friends?" James asked.

"I told them to go ahead so I could help the first years."

"Well, then I guess you'll have to come in my carriage." he smirked

"And how do you suppose that?"

"'Cause it's either that or sitting with a bunch of Slytherins." James replied smoothly.

Lily rolled her eyes, "Whatever, fine."

James pulled Lily over to a carriage where Remus and Sirius were sitting.

"I'm not doing so good at the avoidance plan, am I?" Lily asked.

"Obviously not, now get in." Lily climbed in and sat across from Remus and James sat next to her.

"Where'd Peter go?" James asked.

Remus looked up at the roof, "He decided to sit on top of the carriage."

"Ohhh," James said, as though it was normal.

Sirius was doing his best to ignore Lily and she was doing the same. She didn't have to talk to him this year so the ignorance would still work for him.

"So, anyway. Congrats on Head Girl, Lily." Remus said.

"Thanks," she replied quietly.

It got awkwardly silent. Thankfully, it was not a very long ride.

When the carriage stopped, Lily took James' offered hand to help her out of the carriage, but dropped it as soon as she could.

"Well, uh, bye," Lily said before hurrying into the castle.

When she got to her friends at the Gryffindor table, she groaned. "Why did I let you guys go ahead?"

Alice turned to look at her, "Why? What happened?"

"Potter was being nice!"

Alice smirked, "And?"

Lily sighed, "He's not supposed to be nice. He's supposed to be arrogant and immature, not nice!"

"I think you should just get over it and just date him already," Sylvia interrupted.

"But I don't want to date him!" she wailed.

Erin's eyes sparkled, "Then date someone else."

"Why? So he can get beaten up by James just like all my previous boyfriends?"

"Oh, yeah. Damn, I was sure that would work."

Lily rolled her eyes. "Just remind me not to let you go and leave me with Potter."

"Whatever you say, Lil," Alice said, smirking mischievously.

"Okay, what's with the look?"

"You know you won't be able to resist him this year."

"Alice!"

They turned their attention to the front of the hall, where the sorting was about to begin.

"Anderson, Lyla," called Professor McGonagall.

The girl who had been crying outside walked to the stool nervously.

She was sorted into Gryffindor after about a minute and Lily cheered along with her table.

She saw the little girl beam when James waved at her and she hurried to the table.

The sorting continued all the way to "Zampini, Scarlet," who was sorted into Slytherin before the food appeared on the tables.

When they were all done eating, Dumbledore stood up. "Just a few announcements, as usual. First, a reminder: The Forbidden Forest, hence the name, is forbidden. Second, I would like to introduce our new Head Boy and Girl: James Potter and Lily Evans.

Three out of the four tables clapped, but there was many confused whispers.

"James Potter?" "The James Potter?!" "James? No way!"

Dumbledore cleared this throat, "Third, we will be having a Christmas Ball this Christmas Eve."

There were many excited murmurs coming from the tables.

"Quiet for just a bit longer, please," Dumbledore said. "Now, Prefects, please lead the first years to the Common Rooms. Have a good year, everybody."

Everyone stood to leave the Great Hall, the first years anxiously following the Prefects.

Lily sighed, "I have to go find Potter." She left her friends with a wave and found James quite easily.

"Potter, we have to do the patrol schedules, let's go." she said when she found him with the other Marauders.

"Do we have to?" James whined.

"Yes, we have to finish them by tomorrow. Come on," she said, practically dragging him away.

"Where're we going?" he asked.

"Library," Lily answered shortly.

"Why can't we just go to the Common Room?"

"Because it's hard to work when you are surrounded by loud students."

"Fine," he said and was silent.

When they got to the library, Lily led James to her favorite table in the corner. She pulled out a list of all the Prefects from her robe's pocket.

"What two days do you want to patrol?" she asked.

"Two?! I though it was once a week!"

Lily rolled her eyes, "There are thirteen pairs and fourteen spaces to fill. We are Head Boy and Girl so we have to do the extra."

"Don't see why some fifth years couldn't have done it." he mumbled.

"Head Boy and Girl means more responsibility, get used to it."

"Fine, I will."

"Two days. You pick." Lily reminded him.

James sighed, "I dunno, Tuesday and Thursday."

"Okay, I'm going to have the Hufflepuff fifth years on Tuesday also and Remus and Alice with us on Thursday."

James grinned, "Put the Slytherins on the weekend!"

Lily smirked, "No objections there. Okay, Slytherin seventh years Friday, sixth years Saturday, and fifth on Sunday. Ravenclaw fifth years will be on Friday also. Hufflepuff sixth years on Saturday, and Ravenclaw seventh on Sunday."

James looked confused, "And that leaves us with?"

"Wednesday and Monday are still open, we need Ravenclaw sixth, Hufflepuff seventh, and Gryffindor sixth and fifth." Lily recited.

James looked amazed, "How did you remember that?"

"I don't know, it's easy. Anyway, Hufflepuff seventh and Gryffindor fifth will be Wednesday and that leaves Ravenclaw sixth and Gryffindor sixth on Monday."

"Okay, all set then." James said, looking relieved. "Are you going to remember that? I already forgot it all."

"Yeah, I'll write it down when I get to the dorms." Lily stood. "You have to help me tell everyone their days tomorrow, don't worry, I'll give you a list. Bye!" Lily left the library and headed to the Common Room, she was exhausted.

When she reached the portrait she mumbled, "Treacle Tart" and walked up to her dorm. She quickly wrote down the schedule and then went to sleep.

Her last thought before she fell asleep was, "James seems more mature. Damn him!"

She couldn't see herself resisting his charms very much longer and she hated it.

Author's Note - Sorry if the whole scheduling part was boring. I hope you liked the chapter, it's the second one today! :DPlease vote on the poll on my profile! :D
I hope this chapter is okay, one of the pages I lost because it stopped responding, again, and I hadn't saved for a while, again. GAH!
P.S. I'm sad. I have more freckles than yesterday! *gasp* (and I have a LOT of freckles already)