*Hello everyone!!!!! So sorry that I didn't update this chapter sooner! Some of you have probably given up on me, but I guess you couldn't have since you're reading this but….. nevermind. So here it is! Now, a few of you, a lot of you wrote in your reviews that you think severus/lily pairing would be good. In this chapter, it's with James/ Lily, but DO NOT give up on me. I have some very surprising twists coming up that could turn that totally around! DO NOT give up on me!!!!!!!! I need your reviews!!!!! Keep em' coming!!!!!!*

Disclaimer- JK Rowling…….. JK Rowling…….. JK Rowling………. La la la la…….

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                                    Chapter Two-Quidditch!!!!

            Lily sprinted briskly down the staircase leading to the Great Hall. Her stomach growled as she thought of breakfast. Someone then stepped out in front of her and pulled her quickly into one of the hidden corridors she had discovered the year before. Severus. "How could you do that me?! Yesterday!!? He looked utterly upset. He grabbed her as she tried to leave and pulled her tightly back, his face contorted with anger. He let her go, knowing she wouldn't scatter this time. She just stared helplessly at the ground, saying nothing, a frown upon her face. He shook her. She looked up, but said nothing. He slapped her as hard as he could, and she was pushed against the wall, wincing. "That'll teach you," he muttered, and walked away. She stood only for a moment in the empty hall, then slowly made her way down to breakfast. When she reached the Gryffindor table, she noticed James and the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team were the only ones there. She kept silent and sat down to her food. James spotted her and came over, plopping himself down next to her. "Lily?" he asked softly. She just plucked at her food, staring at it as if it was amazing. She refused to look at anyone. He put his fingers under her chin and raised her face to look at him. His face had a worried expression across it. Her's was dark red from the slap she had received from Severus. "What happened?!" He had definite concern in his voice. She wouldn't let him see how weak she was. Staring him straight in the eye, trying to look like nothing was wrong, trying to keep from crying, she replied, "Nothing." It was a poor excuse, but she couldn't burst out to him. Not yet. Not here. Not now. Maybe later she would tell him. Just not now….. He realized he couldn't get anything out of her at the moment, so instead, he moved his plate in front of him and started stuffing scrambled eggs into his mouth. That got a grin out of her. He launched into a conversation with her and by the time Sirius, Remus, Peter, (grrr) and the rest of the fifth years came down to breakfast she was talking up a storm. They were all amazed on how much she could talk. "I thought she was the quiet one around here," Peter murmured to Sirius. Sirius couldn't stop laughing until Lily thumped him on the back, asking if he was alright. That got a giggle out of James and a "What?" out of Lily. It was all very confusing with all the giggles and laughs and "Whats?" until Professor McGonagoll stood up and had to yell over the noise that it was time for the Slytherin and Gryffindor teams to head down to the quidditch field. "Wish….me….luck," James finally stammered to them all through his tears of laughter. They all did, except for the Slytherins of course, (Grrr) and Lily nodded in agreement as she tried to calm herself down. All the while, Severus, who was on the Slytherin team, stared unhappily at the glowing Lily and her pile of friends, now including Peter, Sirius, and Remus, surrounding her, thinking, "That should be me!" He stamped away with his teammates out of the Great Hall and towards the field. Professor McGonagoll then yelled over the babble, "Everyone! Please shush! I mean, be quiet! Hehe! Everyone needs to be heading down to the stands and I don't see any goal of doing that right now! Move it!"  Every student in the Great Hall rolled their eyes and ran out of the castle, knocking poor Professor McGonagoll off her feet. As she struggled to get to her feet, she called out to everyone flooding out around her, "Have some respect!" They still all crouded out, seeming not to have noticed, and the lady professor was still on her behind. Lily stopped suddenly and, being outside, ran back into the castle, fighting her way towards the struggling Professor McGonagoll, who was working in vain to get up. Sirius followed her. Lily finally reached her teacher and pulled her up, onto her feet. Lily then spun around and raced back to Sirius. He looked at her in amazement and asked her as they reached the field and got into the crowded stands, "You just had to do that. Didn't you?" She gave him an enormous smile and simply said, "Yes." Sirius rolled his eyes, shrugged, and they both sat down on the front of the stands. The stands began to rise as they always did for a better sight for the watchers of the game and soon after, they heard a loud toot of a whistle, putting the game into action.  Sirius then heard a loud hiss like something was on fire and glanced at Lily, terrified.  She was calm. In fact, the sound had come from her wand as she had turned the front part of the stands bright gold and dark scarlet, saying, "GO GRYFFINDOR!"  Sirius stared at Lily, astonished. He had never been very good at charms. At that moment, Peter popped out from behind Sirius and Lily, exclaiming, "I can do that!" Sirius snickered, "Let's see then!" Peter took out his wand, which looked quite battered and rugged. He murmured a spell that sent sparks shooting at Jerry Mockham's, a Slytherin chaser, ears. He held onto his broom with one hand and clasped his other hand onto his earlobe, whimpering loudly. Both Lily, Sirius, and Remus, who had come to sit by them, burst into laughter. "Oops!" Peter cried, a look of horror upon his face. "Mr. Pettigrew! What do you think you were trying to do!?" Professor McGonagoll yelled, standing up. She raced over to him, and gripping his ear tightly, she dragged him off the field, muttering about something that sounded mostly like, " Sometimes people go too far in trying to win," while poor little Peter yowled in pain. Sirius and Lily fell over as Lily cried, "At least it was a Slytherin!" "Poor little thing," Remus replied. "Him?!" "No, Peter." A second later, Sirius cried to Lily,  "Duck!" She did as a bludger flew at her head. It skidded over the stands, then flew back into the game. A Sltherin beater scowled when he realized it didn't hit her. Lily stuck her tongue out at him. All this time, James was hovering fifty feet above the rest of the game, searching for that little gold ball. Gryffindor was losing- 40 to 10. He had to find the Snitch! Squinting at the sun, he barely dodged a Bludger shooting at him. He looked down and noticed that Lily had done the same thing. Slytherins, he thought. Maybe I can make some headless gummy bears run after them later. He squinted again, down, towards the ground. He saw a hint of gold and sped downward at a fast speed. He felt the wind rushing around him. He was almost three feet from the snitch when one of the Slytherin beaters slammed against him. He was knocked off course and thus, lost sight of the snitch. As heard a sigh of pity from the crowd, he pulled his broom into an upward position and rose once more. This time, someone was following him. Snape. "Ughh, when do you give up?" he asked Snape. "Never. I told you to get away from her. She's mine. You sure aren't a very good listener," Snape spat and glided in a sideways angle towards James. He swatted at him but James dodged it easily. "Why don't you leave Lily alone! She's already got too many problems!" Suddenly, there was a gold spark reflecting off Snape's eyes.  James looked up and there, flying maybe twenty feet away, was the snitch. He sped straight at it.  As it flew quickly around, he tried to grab it. Snape went zooming after it. They were neck and neck. Snape swerved at him again but missed. James put on a burst of speed. The crowd was howling. It seemed like all eyes on earth were on them. James reached out so far that he felt as if his arm would fall off. As the Snitch started to spin, he caught the thing by its wing. Everyone in and around screamed bloody murder.  He was lowering himself to the ground as his team piled up on him. Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and the rest of the Gryffindors knocked him down in pleasure. "You were great! Wooo hooo! We won! We won! It's your birthday! It's your birthday!" Sirius yelled as he rubbed James on the head. They had won! Ha! In your face, Snape, he thought savagely as all the crowd poured off him and started running towards the castle for a celebration. As they left, he spotted a glowing Lily, staring at him with wonder.  Everyone else had gone, including the Slytherins who had given him very sour looks as they had left. Snape was beside himself. James walking up to Lily, eyes twinkling. She eyed him with the utmost respect and smiled widely, "I think that accident of Peter's helped." He nodded, slung an arm around her shoulders, and they both set off for the castle.

*There you go! Snape's in a huff, huh? Well, the next chapter will be titled "The secret"! Oh, I wonder what IT could be about? Hee hee…… R& R!!!!!!!!*