*A/N: Once again, thanks so much everyone who reviewed! I'm sorry I haven't updated since May.. I've been a little busy what with moving and all.. anyway thanks for the suggestions, but this is kind of a short story, so I can't write really long chapters. Unless I expand on the story. Do you want me to? (

He crept into the Gryffindor girls' dormitory as sure as the shadows. He'd been there before with Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Lily and him had had many a private chat on her four-poster, eating crackers and Penguin Peanut Butter and laughing so hard that they nearly choked on the food. No matter what, James always knew how to make Lily laugh. Now he knew how to make her cry : Get kissed accidentally by an ex girlfriend.

In spite of himself, James couldn't help humming as he sneaked into Lily's room and into her four-poster. She seemed so peaceful as she slept. Her hair was in her eyes and her breathing was even. She looked twelve and not sixteen. James promptly stopped humming. What an angel, he thought, his heart welling in his chest. Finally, he bent down and his lips brushed her own in possibly the softest sneaky dorm-room kiss in all of Hogwarts history.

When he pulled away, Lily murmured something.

"I love you," James whispered back, surprising himself.

Lily made a sound, kind of like, "Mmmnnnmmmm."

"I have to go now," James said, even though she was asleep. "Keep my love. Always." He ran away.

Fifteen minutes later Lily Evans woke up and smiled. She had the best dream ever. James kissed her and..ooh, she couldn't wait to talk to him tomorrow.

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"Hello, Lily"

"Oh, hi, Lucius. I'm sorry about your nose." Lily was trying to avoid Malfoy and was looking for her next classroom. Maybe she could corner James after class. "My nose is doing better. Still a little sore, though."

He seemed to linger around Lily for some reason.

"Well, it's been real, Lucius, but I have to get going."

Malfoy's eyes fell to the ground, becoming twin pools of ice. "Oh. I see."

"No, Lucius, it's nothing personal, I just-"

"I understand. I understand only too well, Evans."

"I don't think you do."

"Oh, believe me, Evans, I have some idea of it." His eyes surveyed her for a moment. "You should have been mine," he said bitterly.

""Excuse me? Are you refferring to me as property?" Or at least that was what she wanted to say. She only got up to, "Excuse-" before he took her in his arms and kissed her.

James thought that things had changed. He thought that he and Lily were on the right foot. He was wrong. He stood and stared at his love, his Lily swapping spit with the enemy for as long as it took to regain the feeling in his legs. Then he ran.

When Lucius pulled away, there was a lascivious sneer on his face. "See how your James feels about that." He walked away.

Lily realized what he'd been doing and ran to him as fast as she could. "No no, you're not getting off the hook that easily!" She pulled out her wand. "Morgorphus!"

A long blue spark flew out of her wand, and before anyone knew, it, Lucius Malfoy's lips had shriveled up into themselves, leaving him looking like a lipless zombie.

"What did you do to me?!" he cried, only instead it came out :Raht it oo oo uh ee?!"

A crowd had gathered around him, and people were snickering. Before Lily could be congratulated by a throng of Hogwarts students, she ran out of sight.

She had reached the door of the Gryffindor boy's dormitory when she was stopped by Remus. "I'm sorry Lily. But James isn't feeling all that well right now. Given the circumstances."

"Remus, you don't understand." Lily said hastily. "Malfoy tried to kiss me because he wanted to hurt James, I didn't want-"

"Don't worry, Lily, I saw it too. I'm on your side. But James came when you two were already kissing. I tried to tell him what happened, but he won't listen."

"Oh." Lily's heart sank into her ribcage. "Perfect timing, too. I wanted to tell him that I loved him, and now." One big tear slid down her cheek.

"Oh, Lily. I really am sorry. I'll try to get to him when he's not so angry at you. But now there isn't anything I can do. You'd better go back to class."

"I can't. I made Malfoy's lips shrivel up with my wand and they're probably commissioning the SWAT team by now."

Remus grinned. "You used the old Morgorphus Spell? That's a good one." His face sobered up immediately. "But you shouldn't have done that. You broke about three rules with only one word."

Lily tried to smile, but it was no use, She settled for tilting one corner of her mouth up. "Says the boy who sneaks through the castle every week."

"Yeah well at least I don't get caught at it. You better go, I think I hear footsteps." Lily ran.