By the time the credits started, James' arm was around Lily's shoulders. She'd kinda gotten scared, and jumped a couple of times, so he did the arm thing to comfort her. He'd never admit it, even to himself, but he needed comforting too. The movie was freaky.

Other people were leaving, so he got up, and Lily followed him outside.

'So are we going back now?' he asked her.

'I guess so.'

'Wanna take the knight bus this time?'

Lily eyes lit up. 'I've never been on that!'

'Then come, and experience for yourself the shittiest drivers in the world! We have to find somewhere a little bit more deserted though.'

'Kay.' They walked to little side street, and James stuck out his hand, summoning the bus. They climbed on, And James paid the guy. They walked in, and sat on a bed. The bus started, and Lily jerked forward into James' arms. 'Shit! What are they trying to do, kill me?'

He laughed as the bus swerved and she fell on him again. 'Honestly! What's the point of having beds? Nobody could sleep on this thing!' She then realised she was lying on top of him on the bed, and quickly sat up, blushing.

'You get used to it.' he replied.

'Yeah, well, they need seatbelts.'

The driver stuck his head in the door. 'We're here.' Lily and James got up and walked off the bus, finding themselves outside Lily's house.

'C'mon.' They went inside, and up to Lily's room. 'Hey James.'

'Yeah?'

'Did you bring anything other than you're wand?'

'Nope.'

'Smart of you.'

'I thought so.'

'Stupid Gryffindors.'

'Smartarse Ravenclaws.' he replied, chucking a pillow at her.

She shook her head. 'Potter, Potter, Potter. So naïve. When will you learn?'

'Learn what?'

She grinned, and pulled out her wand. 'Orpantianglia.' A second went past, and then every soft toy in the room went zooming towards him, hitting him from all angles.

'LILY!' he shouted. 'GET THESE THINGS AWAY FROM ME!' (Lily put a silencing charm on the room prior to this). Lily was laughing while she watched him try and push away all the fluffy animals that just kept coming back and hitting him again. 'LILY!' His voice was really desperate now, and Lily was almost in tears. 'OK, OK, I'M SORRY!'

Lily grinned, and took the spell off. 'You're forgiven.'

'You're not.'

'Too bad, you're just going to have to wait until morning to get back at me because I'm about to fall asleep.' She got into her bed without bothering to change, and used her wand to turn out the light.

'Hey, I can't see here!' said James. 'Turn the goddamn light on.'

'Not. My. Problem.' Lily replied.

'Fine. Have it your way.' He couldn't remember where the couch was, so he climbed into Lily's bed.

'What the hell do you think you're doing?'

'I can't remember where your couch is. 'Night Lily.'

Lily didn't reply, so James just shrugged, closed his eyes, and tried to go to sleep, which he actually found pretty hard, mostly because of thoughts about the redhead next to him.

The next morning, Lily woke up to find James' arms around her waist. At first she wondered why he was in her bed, but then she remembered. She tried to wiggle free, but he was too strong from Quidditch, even in his sleep. She gave up, and just lay there. After all, it wasn't that bad.

'Enjoying yourself?' came James' amused voice in her ear.

'It's hardly my fault I can't get out of your little iron grip.' she said, annoyed, probably because she had almost been enjoying herself.

'Temper, temper.'

'I'm sorry, do you have a death wish?' She'd noticed he hadn't bothered to remove his arms yet. 'I'm hungry, can I go have breakfast now?'

'What's stopping you?'

'You are.'

'Oh right.' He let go of her, and she got out of her bed, and stood up. She walked over to the bathroom that was joined to her room, and went inside. James rolled over, and stared up at the ceiling. He saw the couch, totally unslept on, and grinned. He found it really fun to annoy Lily. She just looked really, really cute when she was annoyed. And when she blushed, like she did last night when she realised she was on top of him. And when…actually, she looked cute all the time. He grinned again as these thoughts went through his mind. He'd always liked redheads best, and Sirius and Remus knew it, which was probably why they'd made him take Lily.

Lily came out of the bathroom, still dressed in what she'd worn yesterday, and started going through her wardrobe to find some clean clothes. She pulled out tight, faded jeans and a white top, and went into the bathroom to get changed. Then she came out, hands on her hips, glaring at him.

'Are you gonna lie there all day, or maybe get up soon?'

'Nah, I'm kind of enjoying myself.'

She rolled her eyes, then messed up the blankets on the couch, so if anyone came in, it would look like James had slept there. 'Well I'm going to eat.' she said, and walked out.

James looked around her room. The millions of toys were still on the floor from last night. Then his eyes travelled to the couch. Oh, that's where it is. And bloody hell, there were a lot of books here. When did she have the time to read all of these? His stomach rumbled, so he got up, and went down to the kitchen to find Lily putting bread in a silver thing.

She turned around. 'Finally decided to come down did you?'

'Yep. Where's breakfast?'

She rolled her eyes. 'I'M making MY breakfast. You can make yours.'

James looked uncomfortable. 'Ah, yeah, about that…' Lily looked at him suspiciously. 'Well, the thing is, at home we kind of have house elves and…'

'You mean you have no idea how to make your own breakfast?'

'You could say that.'

She sighed. 'Fine. I'll make you some toast.'

'That's why I love you.'

Lily snorted, and turned back to the toaster. 'You  need psychological help.'

'Big words for little people.'

'Do you want breakfast or not?'

'Sorry Lils.'

'Die Potter.'

'He grinned. 'Now, Lily, that's not very nice.'

'Whatever. What do you want to do today?'

'You choose.'

'You won't like what I choose. What do you want on the toast?'

'Jam. Tell me what you'd choose.'

She smiled as she put a plate down in front of him. 'I want to find all my girl muggle friends, and go get pedicures, manicures, makeovers, massages, go shopping etc. etc. etc.'

'You're right, that's not exactly my thing. But hey, you do that, I'll go and do something all by myself.' He put on a sad, lonely look.

She sat down and started eating her breakfast. 'If I left you alone in the muggle world you'd terrorize the poor things.'

'I would not. You could find some gorgeous little female friends of yours to show me around.'

'No. I'll find you some perfectly normal, MALE friends of mine to show you around.'

He pouted. 'You're no fun.'

A few hours later, the doorbell rang, and Lily opened it to see five girls standing there.

There was a big greeting and hugging escapade, and James came out. 'Hey, I'm being ignored here.'

'Well, well, well, Lily who's this?' asked one of her friends.

'Oh, this is James. James this is Aimee, Angela, Sam, Flick and Sarah.'

'Hi.' he said, doing his little charming smile thing. Lily slapped him.

'Stop hitting on them.'

Then some guys came walking up to the house.

'Hey Lils.' one of them said.

'Hey. This is James. Take him, he's driving me crazy.'

'I'm not that bad.' James protested.

'I'm Aaron.' said the guy. 'This is Tom, and Rick.'

'Hey.'

'Ok.' said Lily. 'Just take him, and do stuff like I don't know, whatever, basketball or something.'

'What's basketball?' asked James.

'Oh, yeah, you don't know. Ok, just come back tonight, alive preferably, don't kill anyone, and don't sleep with all the poor defenceless little girls out there.'

'Lily, if I find the poor defenceless little girls, there won't be much "sleeping".'

'I'm leaving Potter.' Lily walked off with her friends, who kept looking back and waving.

'Are you two like, a couple?' asked Rick.

'Nah, just friends.' said James. 'Having a relationship with Lily would be…stressful. And I think she's kinda mad at me anyway. I made her make me breakfast this morning. So, we gonna go?'

'Yeah.'

That night, Lily was in her room, talking with Dominic, a stuck up boy who was a year older than her, and boring as. Her parents made her be nice to him. Right now he was going on about something…she had no idea what.

Then, James walked in and Lily jumped up, grateful for a distraction. She kissed James' cheek, and wrapped her arm around his waist.

'James honey, this is Dominic. Dominic, this is my boyfriend James. I'll be right back, I just have to talk to James for a second.' She led him outside, and closed the door. 'Thank you for coming. If I was alone with him for one more SECOND I would've gone crazy.'

'Yeah what's with the whole "James is my boyfriend thing"?'

'Lily blushed. 'Oh. That. I think he was trying to hit on me, which he sucks at, by he way, so I kinda wanted to…discourage him.'

'I see.'

'OK, we have to go back in before he starts going through my stuff.' She dragged James back in, putting on a big, happy, fake smile. Dominic was walking around the room, looking at her books. 'Dominic!' she said. 'Why don't you go down and talk to Vernon? I'm sure he's DYING for someone to talk to.'

'I'm sure James can-'

'Don't be silly, they don't even know each other. Now go on.' She ushered him out of the room, then collapsed on her bed. 'So. Did you have fun today?'

'Yeah. Muggle sports are pretty cool.'

'But nothing could beat Quidditch?'

'Exactly.' He sat down on the couch.

'I see you discovered where the couch is.'

'You're not still mad at me are you?'

'Do you have any idea how much trouble I would've been in if my parents had walked in?'

'Nope.'

'Asshole.'

'So who's this Dominic person?'

'Friend of the family. I swear he went through my clothes last time he was here.' She shuddered.

'Well I'll just have to protect you from him won't I?'

She laughed. 'My knight in shining armour.'

'My damsel in distress.'