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A/N: Jeez you guys!!! When I don't write for MONTHS! your supposed to like kill me or something so I write...not that I'm trying to give you any ideas.. or anything. So.. seeing as I haven't written for forever I'm going to post more than one chapter all together. It's just shorter to do it that way...I'm also going to update my other stories!!! I'M SOOOOO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING!!

Chapter 12- Serendipity and Destiny

Lily ran up the dormitory stairs, she couldn't believe that he still believed Tracy over her. He never even bothered to ask her what happened. She knew Jen, Cass, and Mandy were running after her, but she kept going. She didn't look back, she could hardly see she had so many tears filling up her eyes. She wasn't going to let them fall, not until she was in the dormitory. She finally got in there and fell onto her bed and cried. It wasn't two minutes before the other three came in.

"Lily?"

"What?" she mumbled

"Are you OK?"

"No"

"Lils" Jen, Cassidy, and Amanda climbed into Lily's bed. Whenever the girls talked they'd always go inside one of the beds, they had sound proofed them in first year.

"Lily? What's wrong"

"You heard him, he still believes Tracy and he didn't care enough about me to find out the truth"

"He does care about you though"

"No he doesn't, if he did he'd ask for the whole story. I hate him so much, but I can't"

"Can't what?"

"Hate him"

"What do you mean?"

"We fight all the time and I have many reasons that I could hate him and never talk to him, but I can't, I can't make myself stay mad at him"

"You know what I think?"

"What do you think Cass?"

"I think all that stuff is Serendipity Events."

"What?"

"Serendipity Events, you know, Serendipity is the phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought out for"

"What's that got to do with anything"

"Every time you two fight, you always make up the next day or two, I think it's Serendipity Events. And you know, Serendipity Events lead to your destiny, along with every choice you ever make. You destiny is already made when your born, but one wrong choice and that can all change. I think that it's your destiny to be friends with James, maybe even more and that's why you can't stay mad at him"

"Your nuts"

"You know Lil, that does make sense, if for some reason you can't hate him? Maybe you do really love him and just don't know it"

"I know, that's what scares me"

Chapter 13- No More Lies

Lily woke early the next morning, before anyone else had. She quickly showered, and by the time she was out everyone else had awoken. They took turns with showers and Lily finished getting ready. She was ready before anyone else but she wasn't going to risk going down to the common room and seeing James, not after what the girls had said the night before. So, Lily waited. When the other three were finally ready they headed down to the common room, and Lily did see James. He wasn't looking at her, he seemed to be in deep thought.

Once in the Great Hall, Lily sat between Amanda and another fifth year, as far away from her old spot, by James as she could possibly get. She was still slightly mad at him, or maybe more than slightly mad at him. She just couldn't believe that he still believed Tracy over her and not only that but the fact that he didn't care enough about her to ask for the real story, whether or not he would have believed it or not. But she knew him, he wouldn't ask for the real story unless she really, really meant something to him. Which she didn't think she did. By now James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus were already sitting down eating. Lily ate her breakfast hardly saying anything, as did James. It had been a Saturday so they didn't have any classes. They had had a Hogsmeade trip to go to instead. The four girls went back up to the dormitory to change and get ready to go to Hogsmeade. That year, they had been able to wear muggle clothes on weekends and to Hogsmeade. Lily wore a short denim skirt with a dark red tank top. Amanda and Cassidy had similar outfits on; Amanda had on a black skirt with a white T-Shirt while Cassidy had a blue skirt with a blue tank top and blue sweatshirt over it. Jen had on black Capri's and a red shorty-top shirt on. They left for Hogsmeade, as fast as it was possible to without the boys trying to stop them. The four girls had previously heard something about having a Christmas Ball before Christmas that year so just in case, they were looking for good stores to get dresses at. They had some good ideas and were heading to the Three Broomsticks for a drink quick. Suddenly, Lily felt someone grab her arm, she jumped in surprise and turned around to face the person.

Lily's eyes widened as she saw who it was; she wasn't expecting that person to come up to her. But still, it was a nice surprise. He was the first to talk and he did it quickly after Lily turned around so that she couldn't move before he said what he wanted to.

"I want the real story."

Lily smiled before James talked again. "Can we go back to Hogwarts and talk?"

"Yes" She waved a quick good-bye to her friends and headed back to Hogwarts with James by her side. Nether of them said anything for awhile, until they were back in the common room. Lily settled herself on one of the sofa's and James sat beside her. Lily broke the silence between the two of them.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why do you want the real story"

"Because I want to know what really happened, and I *do* care about you enough to find out, that's why I asked."

Lily smiled again, "Thank You."

"For what?"

"For asking"

"Oh"

"I thought that Sirius, Remus, or Peter would have told you by now:

"They knew?"

"Yes, they asked in first year"

"Why didn't they tell me?"

"Because I told them not to."

"And they listened?"

"Yeah, I guess"

They both laughed for a few minutes and this time James broke the silence.

"So what *is* the real story"

"Ok, well remember that day when we decided to have the Chess tournament?"

"Yeah..."

"Well, when I was forced to go up and get Jen's chess set...."

James laughed slightly remembering the conversation between her and Jen, they had obviously had it before.

"Tracy asked to talk to me, she was the only other one up there" she trailed off for a few seconds.

"Then what?"

"Well, she told me some stuff, about you, that wasn't very good"

James raised his eyebrows slightly.

"and she told me that you were dangerous and I shouldn't get to close to you"

"And you obviously didn't listen?"

"Nope, I kinda forgot about the whole thing, until a few days later when you came in holding hands with her, I decided that I should talk to her, because one of the things that she had told me was that you had hurt her really bad before. Anyways she was telling me how she had this plan to get "with" you and she needed me out of the way because you liked me"

Lily stopped for a second and looked at James. He had his head down and she thought he was blushing a bit.

"and she thought that I liked you" James looked up this time "and I guess she just lied to me and that got me mad, and so I told her that this was war, and she told you that I told her that she wasn't good enough to be my friend, trust me, she never had intentions of being my friend."

Lily could tell by the look on his face that he believed her and she was glad.

"I'm sorry I believed her over you"

"It's OK, I guess you kind of thought you had to, beings she was your girlfriend"

"Is"

"What? What do you mean IS your girlfriend? You took her back? After what she did? Your going out with her AGAIN?" Lily was practically freaking out, ok, she was a little more than practically freaking out. She noticed that James was laughing.

Lily gasped "JAMES! What *are* you laughing at?"

"I-*laugh*-was-just-*laugh*-kidding"

"That was a horrible, horrible trick!" After saying this, Lily realized how much she had freaked and started laughing too. After they had settled down, James asked her another question.

"So, you liked me in first year?"

"Yeah, I was young and foolish then"

James looked at her and started to tickle her.

"Stop-*laugh* I-hate *laugh*-being tickled *laugh*-and you *laugh* know that!"

"Yes I do"

"Well-Stop!"

James stopped this time, but still held his hands on her shoulders, keeping her pinned to the couch. Lily had one of her hands on each of his arms. They looked into each others eyes for a few minutes. Lily couldn't help but wonder about and remember what Cassidy had said the night before. Maybe they were supposed to be *more* than friends. They had had been good friends, despite what happened in first year. But she couldn't actually love him as more than a friend, could she? She quickly pushed the thoughts out of her head.

"So, did you really like me in first year?"

James let go of Lily now and Lily sat up.

"Yeah..."

"But let me guess...you were stupid and foolish then too?"

He simply shrugged as the portrait hole opened and Amanda, Cassidy, Jen, Sirius, Remus, and Peter walked in. As they got closer to Lily and James, James gave Lily a different answer.

"No, I wasn't foolish or stupid then."

"Hey you guys!" said Jen

Lily couldn't help but wonder what James had meant by that. She didn't have a whole lot of time to wonder though.

"So....are you two talking now or did you get into ANOTHER fight so that we should all take cover before you start yelling and throwing things at each other?" asked Sirius

Jen slapped him on the side of the head.

"They've never thrown things..... and do they *look* like they're mad at each other"

"Well, you never know, looks can be deceiving"

"Yes they can, so does that mean that inside you not ugly?" asked Cassidy

"Hey! I resent that!"

"You resent that your not ugly inside?" asked Remus

"NO! That I am outside"

"So your saying your ugly outside?" asked James

"No, Cass said it! Didn't you hear her?"

"No, I heard her ask if you weren't ugly inside" said Lily

"But she said looks can be deceiving"

"They can be" said Amanda

"So are you saying I'm ugly too?"

"No, but I'm not saying you aren't either"

" `Manda, that's not what you said when you saw him in the Three Broomsticks before first year" said Lily

"I said most of them!"

"Yes, but you *were* looking at him a lot"

"So were you Jen"

"Hey! Lily was looking at James"

"Wasn't anyone looking at me?" asked Remus

"What am I? Chopped Liver? I was looking at you" said Cassidy. After she said it, her eyes got wide and she clasped her hands over her mouth.

"Well, James was looking at Lily too"

"No I wasn't!"

"Are you saying I'm not good enough to look at"

"No...."

"So you were looking at her?"

"Yes, I mean no"

"Which is it?"

"Yes" he said quietly "But Sirius and Remus were looking at you two" he said pointing at Cass and Jen

"What about me?" asked Amanda

"Oh I was looking at you too!" said Sirius

"How'd we get on this conversation?" asked Peter

" Sirius said he was ugly on the outside"

"I never said that"

"Yeah...sure you didn't"

"You guys are impossible"

"We know" they all Chorused

Conversations went like that for quite sometime before everyone went to bed. Lily and James were the last ones to leave for the night. But before they did Lily went up to James.

"Hey, thanks for asking about what really happened"

"No problem, I couldn't let you think I didn't want to know or that I didn't care about you could I?"

Lily shrugged and hugged James. "Thank you"

"Hm-mmm, I am sorry about that you know"

"Yeah."

It was quite for a few awhile, nether knew what to say. James still had his arms wrapped around her waist from the hug and Lily still had her arms around his neck. Although they looked more like they were dance without moving instead of hugging because they weren't that close. They stood there for a few minutes just staring into each others eyes like they had earlier. Lily felt weird every time her and James would touch, but it was a good weird. This brought her mind back to what had happened last night. The fact that all their friends thought they were made for each other. Lily quickly forgot her thoughts though, when James lips met hers. All thoughts instantly flooded from her and she kissed him back.

"Geez Lily! Are you planning on coming up to the dormitory at all tonight?"

"Or were you planning on making it an all night snog session?"

Lily and James quickly parted and looked up to see Jen and Sirius standing one in each stairway.

"I'm coming, I'm coming! Good-night James"

"Night Lils"

Chapter 14- None of Your Business

Lily walked back up to the dormitory with Jen. They didn't say anything all the way up, but Jen didn't bother keeping quiet once up in the dormitories.

"Lily, what took you so long?" asked Cassidy

"What? I wasn't down there *that* long"

"SHE WAS KISSING JAMES!" yelled Jen

"Jen! The whole school doesn't want to know! Let alone my parents!"

"They couldn't here that!" said Jen

"What do you mean she was kissing James" yelled Amanda

"Like, on the lips?"

"That's none of your business" said Lily

"Yes, on the lips! I saw it!"

"Can you keep secrets Jen?"

"Nope, not from them!"

"You would of told us anyways"

Lily rolled her eyes and climbed into her bed.

"Hey! Aren't you going to talk?"

"Nope"

"Why?"

"Well, it happens to be 11:00 at night and I've been up since 6:00, so I would like to sleep!"

"Sleep later"

"What is there to talk about?"

"Why'd you kiss him?"

"He kissed me"

"Why?"

"I don't know"

"What were you doing? OK, never mind, bad question"

"See! It is your destiny to be with him!"

Lily rolled her eyes again, even though it was so dark no one could see. But if you looked especially close, you could see one girl in the corner bed, glaring and glowering because of the conversation she had just heard. She swore to herself that she wasn't going to let Lily win, NEVER. She'd get James back and she knew just the way to do it.

Chapter 15- War Doesn't End that Easy

Lily slept surprisingly late the next morning. She would of slept later except for the fact that she had three 15-year-olds jumping on her bed to wake her up.

"Ok! OK! I'm up!"

"Finally!"

"What time is it?"

"11:57"

"What! Oh my god! Why didn't you wake me up?"

"We tried"

"Ok! I'll me you down in the common room"

"Fine"

Cassidy, Amanda, and Jen headed out the dormitory and down the stairs. Lily threw on her robes and was about to head out dormitory door, when it slammed open. A very angry Tracy walked through it.

"What's with you?" asked Lily

"You know perfectly well"

"No I don't" but she did.

"You were kissing my boyfriend"

"Your boyfriend? He dumped you when we were 11!"

"So! He should be my boyfriend"

"Well, he's not"

"Well he's not yours either"

"Never said he was"

With that Lily headed towards the door but Tracy grabbed her arm.

"The wars back Lily"

Lily shrugged. "Fine with me! I've got seven friends to help me" With that Lily did walk out of the dormitory. Right into James.

"Hi"

"Hi"

"What's wrong with you"

"I'll give you one guess, it starts with a T"

"Tracy?"

"Yup"

"What'd she do?"

"You could just say the wars back from first and second year"

"Oh"

They walked over to where their friends were and sat down. After about five minutes they went to the Great Hall to eat "breakfast". After eating, they went back to the common room. They split up in groups again talking about this and that.

"Lily?"

"Yeah?"

"Will you take a walk with me?"

Lily shrugged "Sure"

They walked outside and it was quiet for awhile. They got down to the lake and sat on the grass.

"Um...Lily?"

"Hmm?"

"I wanted to talk to you, about last night."

"What about it?"

"Well, um .... I'm sorry"

"For what?"

"For kissing you?"

"It's OK, I didn't really care"

"I was wondering something else too"

"What's that?" Lily asked him looking into his blue eyes.

"Well, I've like you sense like first year, and last night, well, we kissed and I was just-just-just wondering if you'd be my girlfriend?"

Lily's eyes widened in shock. She wasn't expecting this, she knew she should of been, but she wasn't.

"I-um-I"

Lily couldn't get a straight answer out. She knew what she wanted to say, or at least she thought she knew. She didn't think she wanted a boyfriend yet. True, she was 15, but she had a lot of other things to worry about, whether it was her school work or her friends. But that was James, he *was* one of her friends. She didn't want to hurt him, and she did like him, but she didn't think she wanted a relationship. She was so confused and she didn't know how long she had been thinking about it. It couldn't have been long though, because James hadn't said anything. She knew her answer, it wasn't a hard one.

"Yes" she whispered. She looked up at James and smiled. He was smiling too, or rather grinning. He leaned over and hugged her. He didn't stop at that though, we picked her up, with her arms around his neck and swung her around.

Lily was laughing and couldn't stop. She was getting quite dizzy too.

"ok-Ok! Stop! James put me down"

He stopped spinning her but didn't put her down. "Are you sure you want to be put down?"

"Yes" she said firmly, but she couldn't help letting out a giggle.

He shrugged. "Ok" He walked closer to the lake. And Lily noticed he had and "evil" look in his eyes.

"JAMES! Don't you dare" But it was to late. She had already been dropped in the freezing cold water and was soaking wet.

"You-are-so-dead!" she screamed. James grinned at her again and she pulled herself out of the water. As she was doing this though, she got an idea.

"James, I can't get up, I really can't! Help me!" she put her hand in front of him so he could grab it and pull her in. He grabbed her hand and pulled her up, but as he did this, she yanked down on his hand and he went flying into the lake.

"Oh my god! I can't believe you fell for that!" She said once he had come up to the surface. Lily performed a drying spell on herself and now she was dry and no longer cold. James pulled himself out of the water, he was now soaking wet but hadn't brought his wand with him.

"Make me dry!"

"NO!" said Lily and she started running because James was now chasing her. She wasn't nearly as fast as he was though so he caught up rather fast and grabbed Lily around the waste. She shrieked when he grabbed her.

"Let go of me! Your cold" She said as he bent down and rested his dripping wet chin on her shoulder.

"Then make me dry!"

"Fine! But let go of me! I'm all wet now!"

He let go of her and she performed the charm once again on her and then on James. They started to walk back up to the castle, both tired from running.

A/N: Thank you sooo much to anyone who reviewed and/or is reading this now!! I'll write more soon!