Disclaimer- I don't own anything, yada, yada, yada.

Summary- James has always been in love with Lily, and Lily has always though that James was a bigheaded toe rag. It is there last year at Hogwarts, and James knows that it is now or never to finally get Lily. James even has the advantage of being head boy and Lily being head girl. Well we all know that he gets her in the end…but here is how he did it.


Chapter 54- Mental Images

James held his hand out to Lily; she took it and got off her bed. James kissed her on the cheek, and then said, "Come on; let's go see if Sirius wants to go celebrate."

They walked to Sirius' room hand in hand, and James knocked on the door.

Sirius opened the door and popped his head out. "You rang?"

"We think we should go celebrate." James said.

"Brilliant!" Sirius said, and then he paused. "What are we celebrating?"

"The newest members of the order." James said.

"Ah, so you finally 'allowed' Lillian to join, eh?" Sirius said.

James shot him a 'drop it' look, and Sirius did just that.

"Well let's owl Moony, Wormtail, Alyssa, and Kendall." Sirius said.

"Right then. I'll owl Moony and Wormtail, you get Kendall and Alyssa, alright?"

"I'm on it." Sirius gave a mock salute, and disappeared behind his door.

"I'll go owl them." James said to Lily.

"Alright, I'm going to get something to drink from the kitchen." Lily said.

Lily turned to go away, but James slightly pulled back on her hand.

"Lils…I really am sorry." James said.

Lily gave a small smile. "I know." She said.

James then brought Lily's hand to his mouth and gently kissed it.

Lily smiled. "I'll be up in a minute." She said, and then headed to the staircase.

Sirius sat at his desk, writing to Alyssa and Kendall, he just sealed the letters, and attached them to his owl.

James sat at his desk, finishing up his letters, while Lily stood beside him, leaning against his chair, and twirling his hair around in her finger.

This made it extremely difficult for James to concentrate; he kept getting little electric shocks from Lily's touch.

He finally finished, and sent off the letters.

After his owl flew off, he sat back on his chair, and pulled Lily down with him, so that she was sitting on his lap.

James tucked some of her hair behind her ear, and smiled.

"You really do love me." Lily said.

"Of course I love you, you know that." James said.

"I know." Lily said, she turned away for a minute, but then turned back to him and looked right at him. "But I can tell it from your eyes."

James grinned. "Really?"

"Yup." Lily said, putting her hand on the side of his face and looking into his eyes. She smiled and then leaned her head against his shoulder.

James held her tighter, and they just sat there for what seemed like the longest time until they were finally broken form their trance from a tapping on the window.

James picked up Lily in his arms, she gave a bit of an 'oof' as he did so, and then placed her feet on the ground so she was standing up.

He walked over to the window and took the notes from the two owls that had just arrived.

Lily came over to him to question him about their responses.

"What'd they say?" Lily asked.

"Remus said that he and Kendall are joining, but they already had plans tonight." James said, and then he took the other note. "And Pete's busy too."

Sirius came into James' room, and walked over to them. "Kendall and Moony are busy, but Alyssa said that she's joining the order, and that she can come tonight."

"Great!" James said. "Yeah Wormtail is busy too."

"Right then! Just the four of us! Shall we head off?" Sirius said.

"I'm ready." Lily said.

"It's a miracle!" Sirius hollered.

Lily scowled at him.

"Come on let's go." James said, and they all headed to the front yard and then apparated to Three Broomsticks.

They met up with Alyssa, and went to get a booth.

James went up to the bar to order butter beers, and then he came back with one for everybody.

"Cheers!" Sirius said. "And good luck to all of us!"

"Cheers!" The rest of them replied.

They all sipped their drinks, and then indulged into conversation.

"It's great that we will all be in this together." Alyssa said.

"Too right you are." Sirius said.

"Yeah." Lily said. "And I'm glad that Alice and Frank are there too. I heard that they are engaged!"

James cursed himself for not bringing the ring.

"Really?" Alyssa asked.

"Yeah! They are so good together." Lily said.

Sirius and James nodded in agreement.

"Yeah Frank was on the quidditch team. Brilliant chaser." James said.

Just then, a few girls walked into the pub, and one started to wave towards their table.

Sirius went pale.

Scarlet walked over to their table to bid her greetings.

"Hey Sirius! Hey guys." Scarlet said.

"Uh…hi Scarlet." Sirius said.

"How have you been? I haven't seen you since…well you know." She said in a child like giddy way.

"Uh…yeah." Sirius said, scratching his neck.

Alyssa looked at him curiously.

"Who are you again? I don't remember seeing you." Scarlet asked Alyssa.

"Oh me? I'm Alyssa." She said.

"Oh yeah, you guys were going out right?" Scarlet said pointing to Sirius and Alyssa.

"Yeah and…"

"Yeah, we are going out again. Alyssa is my girlfriend." Sirius said, cutting Alyssa off.

"Oh." Scarlet said. "Well if you ever want to…"

"HEY!" James interrupted loudly. "I THINK YOUR FRIENDS ARE WAITING FOR YOU."

Scarlet took James' hint, said goodbye, and headed back over to the bar.

Once she left, Alyssa turned to Sirius. "Who was that?" She asked.

"No one…we just uh…met here a while ago." Sirius said, not looking Alyssa in the eye.

Lily let out a half cough, half laugh.

Sirius looked at her in a pleading way, not to say anything.

"When did you meet her?" Alyssa questioned, not satisfied with his previous answer.

"Uh…July or something…"

"Right after we broke up?" Alyssa questioned.

"The day after…" Sirius said meekly.

Alyssa's eyes got big. "You shagged her didn't you?"

"NO!" Sirius said a little too quickly.

"You bastard." Alyssa said in a whispered voice.

"What! It's not like James never slept with anyone when he was waiting for Lily to come around." Sirius said grasping at straws.

Unfortunately, those were most definitely the wrong straws to grasp at.

James' eyes widened at Sirius' comment, and Lily's jaw partially dropped.

James looked over at her, to try to say something, but no words came to him.

Lily wouldn't look at him. She stood up and threw her napkin on the table, then she walked quickly to the door, and walked outside.

James was in a state of shock, and couldn't move.

Alyssa turned to Sirius, and slapped him. "You're an idiot."

She then got up and followed Lily outside.

James turned to Sirius, who too had a shocked expression on his face. James then kicked him hard under the table.

Sirius winced, but didn't say anything, knowing he deserved it.

"Are you stupid? Do you hate me? I just saved your arse back there! I got scarlet to go away! You idiot! She is never going to talk to me again! What the bloody hell were you thinking!"

James got up and ran after Lily.

Sirius sat there in shock for a minute and then followed James out the door.

James barely caught sight of Lily before she apparated.

He called her name, and she looked over at him for a split second, and then she was gone.

Although it was only for a second, it was long enough to see the tears that were running down Lily's cheeks.

James turned to Sirius and gave him a look of pure disgust. He then apparated to his house.

Lily ran up to her room, and immediately began packing her trunk.

James ran upstairs as soon as he got back home, and barged into Lily's room, knocking as he entered.

"Lily where are you going?" James asked, seeing her packing her suitcase.

She didn't respond, or look at him.

"Lily you can't leave!"

"And you can't tell me what to do!" Lily yelled at him.

Lily closed her suitcase, and grabbed it in one hand.

"Lily will you just…"

Lily turned around and threw her stuffed animal penguin at him, and then pushed past him, and walked out of her room.

James chased after her, and grabbed onto her arm.

"Lily please! You know that I love you! You know that…"

"James if you really love me, then let go of my arm."

James immediately let go.

James followed her downstairs, she didn't look at him once.

"Lily please, you can't go, it's too dangerous!"

Lily paused, and then said. "No, you know what, right now, what I can't do…is look at you."

She then apparated, leaving James standing stunned in confusion, hurt, and worry.

He had to get her back, it was way too dangerous for a witch to be traipsing around muggle London.


(A/N: Wow! SO many reviews! You guys rock! Don't worry everyone, James will eventually propose to Lily. I have the perfect set up for that, so just trust me that that will come soon enough. The next chapter will be out ASAP. I am once again bombarded with homework, so I will do my best to update soon. Please review! Thank you!)