AN/ High School Musical went well, thanks to all of you who wished me luck. I would have posted this a few days ago, but it wouldn't upload for some reason. Anyways, here you go. Enjoy!

A week later, Marlene and Adam had left the Potter home, leaving a much less stressful environment behind. Lily and James had finished all of their schoolwork already, so all they had left to do was enjoy their summer together.

"Your letters got here this morning." Mrs. Potter said as Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus tromped in from a morning game of Quidditch. It was a close match as Lily and Remus were about the same level of hopelessness when it came to the magical sport. "Remus, Sirius, I never know how Dumbledore knows that you two are here, but yours arrived as well."

Lily took her letter from Mrs. Potter, giving James an excited look. He grinned at her as he took his own letter, mouthing, "Good luck."

"It feels heavy enough." Lily replied nervously.

"Just open it, Lils." James suggested.

"I'm sure you're Head Girl." Remus assured the redhead. "I heard that Sally Hanson from Ravenclaw flunked her Herbology exam last year."

"That's because one of the Slytherins said he'd give her to Old Voldy if she didn't trade exams and take his instead." Sirius explained, ripping open his own letter. "Excellent, I haven't been made anything!"

Lily took a deep breath and opened her letter slowly. A bright badge fell out into the palm of her hand. She flipped it over and grinned widely, "I'm Head Girl!"

"That's marvelous!" Mrs. Potter exclaimed, pushing her son out of the way to give his girlfriend a motherly hug, "Oh, we'll have to celebrate! Remus, make sure you're Head Boy before Twink and I start on the cake!"

"Vanilla cake with chocolate icing?" Remus asked.

"Whatever you'd like, dear." Mrs. Potter gestured for Remus to open his letter.

Remus grinned and ripped open the letter. Into his palm fell…. Nothing.

"Maybe the badge wasn't ready yet." Mrs. Potter said, looking confused, "Check the letter to see what Minerva says."

Remus scanned the letter, "It says that since I already have a Prefect's badge, I won't be needing a new one! I'm not Head Boy!"

"What!" Everyone else looked stunned.

"There has to be some mistake," Lily murmured. "Who d'you think got the badge instead?"

James shrugged, deciding to open his own letter and be sure he was Quidditch Captain again. As he opened the letter, something fell into his hand. "Hey Moony, I found your badge."

Remus whirled around to face James, snatching his letter out of his hands. He let out a curse that caused Mrs. Potter to scold him sharply, which he ignored, "Prongs, this isn't my badge. Dumbledore's gone completely daft and given my badge to you!"

"Let me see that!" James exclaimed, snatching his letter back from Remus. "Oh, Minnie says I'm still Quidditch Captain as well, so that's alright."

"James, you've been made Head Boy out of the blue and all you care about is that you're still Quidditch Captain?" Lily asked.

"Give me that letter." Mrs. Potter took the letter from her son, "Is this another one of your elaborate pranks, boys?"

"You got me, Mrs. P." Sirius replied, looking at the badge that James held in his hand, "It sure looks real. It looks like we really misjudged Wormtail's abilities."

"Peter didn't make this badge," Lily said softly, taking it in her hand, "It's real James. You're Head Boy."

"Eh, that's alright. Here you go Moony." James held the badge out to his friend, who looked at it as if it might give him the plague.

"I'm not taking your badge!" Remus shouted.

"Well, it would be dumb for me to give you the Captaincy. You don't even play Quidditch."

"I'll be Quidditch Captain." Sirius piped up.

"Sod off Padfoot."

"Jeez, I was just saying I'd take it if you were offering. Don't get so testy about it."

"Why would Dumbledore make you Head?" Remus exclaimed, nearly hysterical. "All you've done is torment the poor man!"

"Well, congratulations James," Mrs. Potter said over Remus' hysterical breakdown, "I think your father will want to celebrate."

"Really Mum, I don't think that's necessary." James replied, "I don't even want the position."

"You can't give it back!" Lily exclaimed, turning from her attempts to calm Remus down.

"Why not?"

"B-b-because… Oh, I don't know!"

"Because people would kill for that badge you're holding!" Remus wailed.

"Oh, quit being a girl, Moony. You sound like Marlene." Sirius snapped, pouting because nobody was paying him any attention.

Remus clamped his mouth shut immediately.

"Really Moony, you can just take it. If anyone asks, tell them I gave it to you."

Remus took a deep breath, "Prongs, you can't give me that badge. Dumbledore gave it to you, for whatever insane reason he had and I trust his judgment. You earned it, congratulations."

Lily grinned and gave James a huge hug, "Congratulations, James!"

Mrs. Potter sniffed and wiped her eyes, "My baby boy is all grown up! And he's Head Boy and Quidditch Captain! Wait until I tell all the Auror wives!"

"Mum!" James protested, but she was already headed off to brag about her son.

"How weird is it that the Heads are dating?" Sirius asked suddenly. "I mean, talk about eerie."

"How weird is it that Padfoot actually used the word 'eerie'?" James pointed out, "I mean, really now, since when does he know words?"

"Hey! I resent that!"

"Yeah, but it's true." Lily replied with a shrug. "Your vocabulary generally leaves something to be desired."

Remus glanced at the clock on the wall, "Eh, I'd better get a shower so I don't smell like grass, sweat, and blood when I show up at Em's house in an hour."

"You guys are mean." Sirius called as the other three headed off to get showers, leaving him alone in the kitchen, "Didn't even ask me if I got anything! For all you know I could be president!"

"There's no such thing, Sirius!" Lily called back.

"There could be." Sirius stuck out his tongue, "So NYAHH!"

"But there's not."

"I hate you, you fun-sucker-outer!"

"That's what I meant about your vocabulary. You aren't even using real words."

"When in doubt, make up a word. That's my motto." Sirius dashed after his friends, "Well, no, actually it's 'when life gives you cookies, eat them', but you get my point."

"Padfoot, just stop talking." James suggested.

Sirius shrugged, "Alright."

After their showers, Remus headed off to Emmeline's and Sirius disappeared to work on his flying motorcycle, "I've nearly worked all the kinks out!" James walked into Lily's room to see what she was up to.

"Hey." Lily greeted him with a smile, "Can you hand me that bottle of ink?"

"Sure, but it's empty." James replied, picking the ink bottle up off the little table between the door and the chair. "Whatcha doing?"

"I'm seeing what I need to get when I go to meet Alice and shop for Hogwarts stuff next week." Lily tossed the empty ink bottle into the trash, "I guess I need to get ink then."

"Looks like it," James picked up a crumpled piece of parchment that fluttered to the floor as Lily pulled her robes out of her trunk. "What's this?"

Lily glanced over, "I dunno? An old piece of parchment, from the looks of it I'd say it was from first year."

"Lily Evan's Long List of Changes James Potter Would Have to go Through in Order for Lily Evans to Date Him." James read. "You made a list?"

Lily dropped her robes and grabbed the paper. "You're kidding me! I thought this was long gone!"

"C'mon, let me see it. I want to know exactly how I changed between then and now so that I don't fuck it up by changing back." James reached around both sides of Lily and took the parchment back.

"We started it our very first night at Hogwarts." Lily warned, "You may not want to read it."

"Aw, Lils, you're afraid I'm going to make fun of you." James sat in the big chair and looked at the parchment. Lily perched on the arm of the chair, but James pulled her into his lap and rested his chin on the top of her head as he started to read the list:

"Lily Evans's impossibly long list of changes James Potter would have to go through in order for Lily Evans to date him

(More commonly referred to as 'Lily's list')

Lose the glasses, they make him look dumber than he already does

Make a top grade in the class

Talk about something other than Quidditch

Actually grow taller than Lily

Sustain a horrible Quidditch injury and not play in a game but go to the match and cheer the team on anyway

Refer to Alice Prewett as something other than 'Gideon and Fabian's sister' or the ever popular 'Prewett'

Stop messing up his already messy hair all the time so that it looks like he's just stepped off his broomstick

Learn to walk around the school instead of strutting everywhere

Get Remus Lupin out of trouble instead of into it

Date a girl other than a bimbo

Break up with girl mentioned in #10 for some good reason other than 'she wasn't a good kisser'

Stop knicking school owned objects like that annoying snitch, especially since he's a Chaser

Stop flipping Severus Snape upside down and showing the school his knickers for no reason other than that Snape was born and Potter's mates were bored

Allow Remus Lupin to confess to Lily that Remus is, in fact, a werewolf

Confess that he's an animagi

Refer to Lily as 'Lily' instead of 'Evans'

Allow Lily to feel comfortable referring to him as 'James' instead of 'Potter'

Stop beating up Lily's 'boyfriends'

Stop asking Lily out in front of her 'boyfriend' or while she has one & Stop asking Lily out while he has a 'girlfriend'

Swear that he wasn't part of Sirius Black's bright idea to set Severus Snape on Remus Lupin while Remus was in his werewolf state

Stop smirking at anything that walks and falls in the category of girl like she's a hunk of meat

Stop smirking period, at least most of the time, sometimes it's cute

Get Frank Longbottom to ask Alice Prewett out

Invite Lily Evans to one of his parent's fancy parties he always brags about

Meet Petunia and decide to put up with her

Meet Lily's parents and they decide they like him

Get Sirius to meet Lily's parents and they decide they like Sirius

Get Remus to meet Lily's parents and they decide they like Remus

Get Peter to, well no, but get Frank and Alice to meet Lily's parents and they decide they like the two of them (As a couple, they've already met Alice and have decided they like her very much)

Get his parents to meet Lily's parents and invite them all to a casual dinner

Take Lily for a midnight broom ride

Finally, ask Lily out using a speech that proves that he really has conformed to all of the changes listed above and proves he doesn't want her as a trophy but truly loves her

And, most importantly, stop being a FILTY, IRROGANT, IMPOSSIBLE, ANNOYING, FILTHY, ROTTEN, TOERAG and DEFLATE HIS GALATIC SIZED EGO

I, Lily Evans, claim the right to adapt any of the changes on Lily Evans's impossibly long list of changes James Potter would have to go through in order for Lily Evans to date him at any time or to add to the list at any time with the approval of my best friend, Alice Prewett."

Lily covered her face, "I can't believe we wrote that."

"How did you manage to add all of these items to the list?" James asked in awe, "I mean we didn't learn those kinds of Charms until at least the third-year."

"It was easy. The list automatically added and crossed off items as they were needed. A simple charm, similar to the one on your Marauder's Map, was all it took."

"This is impressive Lils." James looked at the parchment, "but it looks like you shouldn't be dating me now."

"I don't have to follow that dumb list." Lily replied, "Wait, what wasn't crossed off?"

James peered at the list, "Ah, items 30 and 31 appear to need crossing off still. I believe I owe you one broom ride and one dinner with your parents."

Lily waved it off, "It doesn't matter."

"It matters to me." James replied, "Now that I know there's a list it makes it a hell of a lot easier to guess, but I want to do this right. All of it."

"The list is dumb; it's mainly from several years ago." Lily protested, "Really James, I'm happy the way things are."

"Lily, love, this list is not dumb. It helped you realize that I changed. Plus, I would have done both those things anyways; we'll just do them a little earlier now." James set the parchment on the table, "I think this proves you were as hopelessly infatuated with me as I was with you, from our very first kiss."

"I had almost forgotten about that." Lily laughed, "You wouldn't shut up."

"That's funny, because Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail claim that I haven't shut up about you since."

Lily leaned back against James' chest. "You know what; I think that's when I first started to love you. But you'll never, ever hear me admit that again."

James laughed, "I'll never have to hear you say it; I'll just look at you and know."

"Well, the entire population of Hogwarts looks at you and knows that you first fell for me that day."

"Mmmhmm, and I don't care who knows it." James kissed Lily on the temple, "Now that I've finally got you, I don't plan on letting go."

Lily tried to stand up, "James, you have to let me go."

"Do you not listen to a word I say?"

"There's an owl." Lily pointed at the window.

James sighed and released his grip on his girlfriend's waist. "You make keeping promises difficult sometimes."

"I'll always come back." Lily promised absently as she opened the window and slipped the scroll off the owl's leg. "It's from Dorcas."

James sighed. Marlene had gone to Dorcas' after she left James' house, but she had been sneaking out every night to see Adam. Dorcas was getting fed up, and she had several small spats with Marlene.

Lily scanned the letter, "They've had a huge row and Marlene's disappeared. Dorcas went to her house to apologize, but she never went back there. Dorcas thinks she's living with Adam."

James shook his head, "Marlene is like my baby sister. I don't like seeing her dating that scum nearly as much as I hated watching you date him."

Lily took a deep breath, "I know where he lives."

James looked at her firmly, "No."

"James, it may be the only way to save Marlene. I don't want to lose her friendship. She's stood by me through some really rough situations. I owe the same to her."

"Lily, I don't want you putting yourself in danger."

"If it was me, what would you do?"

James sighed, "I'd go after you."

"Exactly." Lily laid the letter from Dorcas aside.

"But this is different."

Lily gave him a look, "James, I love you and I respect your opinion. But if I don't do this, then I'll always wonder if I could have saved my friendship with her."

James put his head in his hands, Lily crossed over and knelt beside him, "James, if you're this worried, then I won't go." She laid her hand on his knee gently. "I'm not going to go."

"No, go." James looked up at her, "but if she isn't there, or either of them tries to hurt you in any way, promise me you'll come back right away?"

"I promise."

"No waiting around, thinking they'll calm down?"

"I'll come straight back."

"Can Dorcas go with you?"

"No, Jay, it has to be only me."

"Yeah, I figured." James sighed, "I don't like it, but I don't want to be the reason you lose your friend."

"I'll spend all day with you today, and I'll go tomorrow morning." Lily took James' hands in hers and pulled him up out of the chair. "What do you want to do?"

"Other than you?" James laughed, as Lily pursed her lips. "How about we go for a swim?"

"No to the first one, yes to the second." Lily gave him a stern look. "I'm going to go change. You know the lock on my bathroom door doesn't work, don't even think about trying it."

James gave her a look, "Please, Lils, I'm not Sirius."

"When did Sirius peek through my bathroom door?" Lily made a face.

"One of my cousins or something was staying with us." James laughed. "She's some sort of model or something. Padfoot couldn't help himself."

"Well, I'm no model, so you shouldn't have trouble controlling yourself."

"You're right, you're much too pretty to be a model. Nobody would ever believe you really look like that when they saw your pictures."

"Mmm, remind me to reward you for your flattery later." Lily pushed James out the door. "Meet downstairs when we're ready?"

"See you in a minute." James gave her a peck on the lips and left to put his swim trunks on. Lily smiled widely as she shut the door. He always managed to say the most ridiculous things, but he always meant them.

Ten minutes later, Lily tromped down the stairs in her bathing suit with a white skirt and pink tank top pulled over top. "Ready to go?" Lily asked, sliding her sunglasses onto the top of her head.

James shook his head, "Sorry love, change of plans. Mum needs us to stay here because she's expecting an important owl, but she has to go pick up her dress robes for the ministry party she and dad are going to tonight."

Lily shrugged, "Alright. It's still your choice. What do you want to do?"

James looked thoughtful for a second, "Let's watch one of those Muggle moving picture stories!"

"A movie?" Lily laughed. "What are we going to watch it on?"

"Mum has an old projector." James replied, "And we could conjure a screen and a movie easily enough."

"Actually, I think I have my movies in my trunk." Lily replied, "I threw everything in there when I was leaving."

"Then let's go find a movie!" James exclaimed, causing Lily to laugh. She was still amused that something as simple as a movie could fill James with so much excitement. Especially when it took nothing short of an amazing game of Quidditch in the magical world to match the level of excitement produced.

Twenty minutes later, James was struggling to set up a projector screen and Lily was coming back downstairs with several movies in hand. She shook her head as James struggled to make the screen the right height and only succeeded in bopping himself in the chin.

"You're helpless when it comes to this sort of thing. Here, pick the movie." Lily handed James the movie cases and turned to the screen herself. She had it set up perfectly in the amount of time it took James to read the back of the first movie.

"Don't you have anything exciting?" James asked, making a face, "People don't really go around bursting into song randomly."

"They don't typically fight with beams of light that'll cut off your hand either." Lily pointed out, "Movies aren't supposed to be completely realistic. That's what makes them movies."

James stuck out his tongue, then held up a movie. "I want to watch this one."

Lily took it from him and laughed, "101 Dalmatians?"

"I like dogs." James shrugged, "Plus, the fat and skinny guys look pretty ferocious."

"James, honey, this is a kid's movie. It doesn't even have real people in it."

"So?"

Lily shrugged, "Okay, my childhood favorite it is." She popped the video into the VCR attached to the projector and plopped down on the floor beside James. She stretched out on her stomach, propping her head up on her hands.

James nudged her, "Look at the puppy!"

"Yeah, I see him James." Lily smiled at her boyfriend's obvious excitement over something as simple as an animated Disney movie. All of her friends had gotten over the excitement of them by age seven, and here he was, nearly eighteen, and pointing out Pongo like a two year old.

"Woah!" James exclaimed, "I didn't know that animated women could be so scary!"

Lily lay her head on James' shoulder and cuddled closer to him; perhaps they would make a day of it, just watching old Disney movies that she hadn't touched in years.

AN: By the way, I don't own Star Wars or 101 Dalmatians either. In case you were wondering. I'm pretty sure George Lucas doesn't write fanfiction and I'm positive that Walt Disney doesn't either seeing as how he is six feet under and has been for quite some time now.

I hope you enjoyed it. There were a couple hints as to the events of the next chapters. How utterly exciting! But everything is winding down now. The story will end with their return to Hogwarts for seventh year. So just the rest of the summer to go!

Love From,

MotherCrumpet