A/N I hope you like this one.. I like it.. I don't know.. Someone really should have told me earlier that stripes was spelled wrong.. I have a very good laugh when I found that out.. Anyway I don't own anything it all belongs to J.K. Rowling.. I hope you like it.





The next week past farley fast. Debbie and Sirius made it known that they were dating by making-out on one of the couches in the common room..

Lily only told one person about what she had recently discovered.. Which was that she liked James..

"I knew this day would come.. I don't know why he didn't notice you sooner. Even if you were a little fat you were still had a beautiful personality. I don't know why I didn't notice it before.. I think it was because you were so shy and always kept to yourself. But now.. You are my best friend and you are also the most beautiful girl here.. So if James doesn't like you back then I don't know what to think anymore. There is no possible way that he couldn't like you." Debbie tried to comfort her friend about her feelings.

"honestly Debbie, I don't know what I would do without you.. I cant be friends with anyone else, they all just to like me only because of my looks and Remus doesn't seem to want to talk much to me anymore. I don't know what to do about James.. Why cant I just hate him, like anyone else would do If they were in my position. I don't know anything anymore.." Lily was so confused she really didn't know what to do anymore.

"Just do what your heart is telling you to do.. Well I have to go meet Sirius.. I'll talk to you later.. ok.. you'll be fine.. bye.." Debbie got up and left her friend to think about what she had said.

Later that night at a perfects meeting Lily and James had to sit next to each other..

Lily wanted to know what it would be like to be James' girlfriend. She knew that she didn't want to be the flavor of the month. And that is what James usually had, he had never kept a girlfriend longer then a month. Lily really didn't want to be hurt by this boy anymore.

"I asked you here to discuss the Christmas Ball.. As you know, the perfects put on the Christmas ball and feast.. So you youngsters are in charge and I will be checking up on you to make sure that you are doing a good job." Said Susan Kendall, the head girl that year from Ravenclaw. "I am going to assign each year house perfect a portion of the project to do, and you must get it done because if you don't I am sure that Filch wouldn't mind giving you detention. 5th year Gryffindor's you will be finding a band to play at the dance.." The meeting went on for a little while longer only explaining the jobs that everyone else had to do.

James and Lily had the job of finding a band.. which was going to be easy because James dad was the Minister of Magic.. He had many connections.

"James who do you want to play at the ball.. thing...?" Lily asked him when there were sitting in the common room thinking about their portion.

"The Gagging Wombats.. they would be cool.." James only suggested them because at the time they were the most popular band in the witching world..

"No I don't think so.. why not like one of the underground bands that aren't really known so it wont be such a hassle.. like The Green Beads. They are good and they have music that wont offend anyone.. I know the lead singer, we used to go to fat camp together.. I think that I could get them to play for us." Lily suggested .

"You went to fat camp? Anyway yeah that's fine.. So its settled then.. So how is life lily.." James asked..

"life Is fine.." on the inside she was thinking completely different.. she knew that she wanted to feel James's lips on her own but tried really hard to dismiss the thought from her head.

"I can tell your lying. So what's bothering you, what's on your mind. come one let it out.. you know you want to.." Lily didn't want to tell him what she was thinking.. so she made something up..

"Well my friend I will enclose her name, is having boy troubles.. She likes this boy but she isn't sure if he likes her.. It looks as though he likes her.. They spend time together and laugh but the boy has been known to be quite the player and she doesn't want to get her heart broken.. What would your advice to her be.." Lily asked James knowing full well that she was talking about him and her.. Though James didn't think so.

"If the guy is such a player then why would he be wasting his time on a girl if he really didn't like her. Your enclosed friend should tell the boy how he feels. Maybe that would make all the difference." James smiled at lily.. 'he said it not me..' she thought to herself..

"James I want to tell you something." Lily was going to tell him.. even if it killed her.. She had thought of nothing more then how she felt about him for the past week.. She needed an outlet

"Yeah lily.. you know you can tell me anything you want.. I am a good secret-keeper." James was waiting for what Lily had to say when there was a terrible and loud scream from one of the girls dorms.

Lily and James ran up to see a huge rat running in-between some of the girls' skirts as if he were trying to look up them..

James causally walked over to the rat and picked up and took it over to the boys dorms.. James knew who it was. Peter.. The slimy little rat.. that no one really liked, but for some reason Peter thought they did.

"Peter do you know what you just did. I think Lily was going to tell me something important and you ruined it. I think I know what she was going to tell me.. great." James laid on his bed.. He had thought of nothing but Lily for the past week she was in his dreams and in his thoughts all day long. He could think of nothing else.

Lily had almost said it.. It was almost out in the open but someone had to go off and scream right when lily had mustered up that wonderful Gryffindor courage but somehow or another someone always seems to worm.. there way into the middle of things..

Lily made a promise to herself that she would tell him before the Christmas ball.

She contacted Jack Reynolds (the lead singer of the green beads) and he agreed to play at Hogwarts for very little pay..

Lily and Debbie were going to hogsmeade to get dress robes that week- end. They wanted to look great.. Even if Lily didn't have a date.. yet..





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