Hey all. Sorry it took so long. School is hectic and I've been sick so…here is the chapter you've all be waiting for. Things kinda heat up a bit, =) Kinda. Some of the idea's come from a book called Deep Blue Eyes, and Other Lies.

Boy Against Girl-Chapter 11-The Lie

By: Me!

Andromada walked into the dormitory and noticed something was different. She walked up to Lily's bed, and noticed Lily reading a burnt piece of parchment.

"Lil, hi." Andromada said, trying to get Lily's attention.

"Hi 'Dromada." Lily said sadly.

"Ok girl. What's wrong?"

Lily looked up with red eyes. "Nothing."

"Lil. Something is wrong. And, wait a minute. This isn't your bed!"

"How do you know?"

"There's not I hate Potter scrawled all over the headboard."

"Oh, yeah. Well James ended up writing me love letters over the holidays and—"

Andromada's eyes widened. "Wait a minute. First it's 'James' and LOVE LETTERS? For some reason those words don't go together."

"Well—"

"Are you telling me you and James are dating?" She yelled out. Ever girl in the room turned and looked at her.

"No, well, yes, I mean—"

"Oh my gosh Lil! Why didn't you write me?"

Oh this is peachy. Just peachy.

"I didn't have time."

"LILY DAWN EVANS! What did you do over the holidays?"

"Well James came in one night, after we had an argument, he told me he was writing me letters, and well…the bed kinda ended up having to be taken away and—"

"LILY! Eww! If you're gonna do stuff like that go up to the tower! Yuck! I can't believe this! I'll never be able to sleep in here again!"

"No it's not like that!"

Andromada rolled her eyes. "Sure. Anyway, I gotta unpack."

"I gotta go talk to James, I mean Potter." Majorly. What have you gotten yourself into now Lily?

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Lily walked into the boy dormitory. "Umm…James can I talk to you?"

James looked shocked. Lily hadn't spoken to him since he had told her he was writing her letters for a joke. "Umm…sure?"

"Come out here." He didn't move. "NOW!"

He ran out and she pulled him out of the common room and up toward the astronomy tower. "I've gotta tell you something."

"Ok…"

"Well…um…this is so stupid!"

James snickered. "Probably."

"Shut up for once in your life Potter. We have got major problems."

"We? Lily, no matter how much you wish there was a we, there is no we. Never has been, never will be."

"That's where you're wrong James."

"James? You can't call me James! Only my mother calls me that!" James puffed.

"Are you calling Sirius your mum?" Lily laughed.

"NO! Ewww that's just gross!"

"Look James I do not want to be here but I have to be."

"Sure sure."

"Well, see Andromada came in and asked me how I ended up getting a new bed and so I started to explain it to her but I guess I left out all the important parts, and even though it was really mean of you to pretend to write me love letters I have too much pride to say you were only doing as a joke so…well…she and all the other girls now think we're dating." She blurted out in a rush.

He pressed his lips together, like he was trying to stop himself from smiling.

"I don't think she'll really tell anybody…but well…never mind I guess she will."

He abandoned his attempts and smiled broadly.

Lily supposed she should have been glad he wasn't angry, but his mirth was starting to grate on her nerves. It was as if the very idea that he could possible like her, and date her, was laughable to him.

Lily said, a little too sharply. "I'll understand if you'd like to break off this mad, impulsive affair we've shared."

He kept smiling, but remained quiet.

"Well aren't you going to say anything?"

"Sure. How did I get into the conversation about having the bed taken away? It wasn't exactly my fault you decided to torch it."

"Well….um…actually…well." She blushed. "She doesn't know I burned the letters and I'm pretty sure she things we broke the bed cause well…um" She coughed.

James burst out laughing. "Oh my gosh this is a once in a life time opportunity! Me and Lily Evans." He laughed more.

"It's not that funny."

"Oh yes it is!"

She kicked him in the shins and started to walk off, but then turned back when James grabbed her hand and she rammed into his chest.

"Look. I'm Sorry." Lily started. "Really. I'll do whatever you want to do about it, but if it's all the same to you, can you maybe not end this right away? I don't want to have to tell everyone we broke up when I just barely told them we were dating. I don't want it to seem like a fling." She looked up at him to make sure he was dealing alright with this. He still had that idiotic grin on his face.

"Of course not. No flings for us." He smirked again. "Darling."

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As Lily and James ran out of the dorm Sirius looked over at Remus and Wes.

"Does that seem wrong to anyone else?" He asked in shock.

"Yeah…" Remus murmured, trying to keep his jaw from hanging down.

"I can't believe James is whipped." Wes said in awe.

"Whipped?" Remus asked.

"Yeah. Where a girl has total control over the guy. Where they do whatever the girl says."

"Oh." Remus said confused. "OH!" He said again as it dawned on him. "Poor, whipped, James Potter."

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James sat down next to Lily at breakfast and put an arm around her shoulder.  She turned and would have normally glared at him, only now she couldn't.  People were staring at them, not yet believing what they were seeing.

"Hey Lil!" James said happily.

"Hi James" Lily said as noncoldly as possible.

"Shh" James places a finger on her lips. "Sorry you're still a little tiffed." The meaning shown in his eyes. "Things'll get better."

With James finger on her lips she was too scared to talk, so she just nodded.

"Good. Now lets eat."

Everyone looked at them with shock in their eyes. Sirius had his mouth hanging open.

"What?" James asked.

"You, and Lil, and—" He couldn't go on.

"So?" He denied yet said nothing.

Lily's hand was resting on the table and she looked like she was about to burst into tears or start laughing. James placed a hand lightly on hers and stroked her thumb with his.

"Don't worry Lil." He whispered in her ear and then walked out, leaving her alone.

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Lily walked into her first class and sat down by Andromada and Sirius, not even looking at or for James.

How could he leave me alone like that?  All those questioning stares…how could he be so mean?!

Sirius looked at James who just shrugged.

"Made her mad already eh Prongs?" He joked.

"I dunno, Padfoot. I think so." He looked at her, catching her eyes and for some reason neither one could move away. "Although I don't know what I did. If I knew I could apologize." He grinned. "Then we could make-out. I mean…make-up."

Lily blushed, looked down, and ground her quill into the desk. Andromada glared at him.

"Not the right thing to say." She said coldly.

James walked over and grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her out of the room.

"We'll be right back, Minnie."

Minevera didn't even want to say anything. She just rolled her eyes and started class.

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"What is wrong with you Lily?" James said, barreling controlling his temper.

"Wrong with me?! You're the one who left. I actually trusted you not to make a fool out of me." She kicked a wall. "How could I have been so stupid?"

"You weren't being stupid. I want you to trust me."

"How can I when I don't know what you're doing!"

"Just trust me and you won't need to know."

Lily turned her back to him. "I can't do that James."

He walked over and wrapped his arms around her. "Why can't you?" He whispered.

Lily sighed. This was a bad idea. James was to good at this. He actually made her believe they could get along. But he was probably pretending she was someone else, like Erin or somebody like that. "I don't know if I can, Potter."

James turned her around. "That's James to you now." And he leaned down and kissed her gently. "Come on. Let's get to class."

Lily followed and tried not to blush too much.

He kissed me!

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Month's passed and it was almost the end of the year.  Lily was still trying not to think of James as anything more than a friend, because they were actually kind of friends now. They held hands everywhere they went, but they hadn't kissed since that day in the hall. Not that James hadn't tried. Lily just wasn't sure she wanted that complication. James was probably frustrated that he'd waisted the whole year and hadn't got anything from it.

They were leaving for home in two days, but the Gryffindor's had decided to have a party before they left. Since they had won the House and Quidditch cup.  Lily changed out of her robes and into jeans and a loose t-shirt. She brushed her hair into a ponytail and looked in the mirror. She looked somewhat boring, but she didn't want any attention today.

'Not that I get it a whole lot anyway…' She thought.

Lily walked down the stairs, looking for James who normally was always waiting for her there. But, he wasn't.  She looked around and spotted him sitting by the fireplace talking to someone. A girl. But not any girl; he was talking to Erin.  He hadn't talked to her for a while, but he looked quite happy doing so now.  Lily hadn't expected their little fake dating thing to last this long. But since it had, she had just expected to end it during the summer. After they had both talked about ending it.  Now she had no one to hang out with. Sirius and Andromada were no where to be seen and doing who knows what, and Remus and Andrea were playing chess, since they  hadn't been able to play for a couple of days since he had been "sick".  She wouldn't talk to Peter for the life of her and James was talking to her.

She walked back upstairs and plopped onto her bed and started reading Hogwarts: A History.  As she read, a piece of burnt parchment fell out.  She reread one of the letters James had written her during the holidays.  But he had only been pretending, just like he had in the past month's.  A tear hit the paper and she finally realized something. She hadn't been. After a while she had started to like him. More than anyone else.  Something about them clicked, but it was over now. The tears kept flowing and she whipped them away.

Why did it have to end so soon?

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Lily sat in the train compartment, James giving her odd looks. She hadn't talked to him since the night of the party. Had tried not to even look at him. But every time she did look up she saw him giving her that odd look. Like as if he was asking her what he had done wrong. He hadn't done anything wrong, except talk to Erin, other then that he had done everything too right.

How could I have fallen for him and not even have realized it!?

 She started thinking about how things were just going to feel weird. She'd try and pull a prank but would end up feeling guilty or feel bad if he got hurt. She could see it now, she'd turn his hair pink or something and then cry about it because it wasn't the color she had grown to like so much.

She hit the bench she was sitting on and everyone looked at her.

"Lil, are you alright?" James asked.

No answer.

"Lil, are you alright?" Andromada asked.

"Yeah." Lily muttered. "Just a little upset that I have to go home and meet whoever it is Petunia's going to marry."

Andromada started giggling. "He must be dreadfully ugly if he likes her enough to marry her."

"And dreadfully boring." Added Andrea.

James walked over to Andromada and whispered something in her ear. Andromada started giggling again and then looked up at Lily.

"Lily, why aren't you talking to James?"

Lily's head shot up from the book she was reading. Andromada had asked this before and Lily had just told her it was none of her bloody business. Now she just tried to look confused. "James?"

"Yeah James. You know, messy hair, dreamy brown eyes, that evil grin. James!"

"Isn't that Sirius?" Lily grinned, and went back to reading her book.

Sirius puffed out his chest. "She thinks I have dreamy brown eyes."

Andromada threw a chess piece at him. "So do most girls. Just shut up though Siri." She turned back to Lily. "Come on, Lil. There's got to be a reason."

"Of course there's a reason. And as I said before it's none of your bloody business."

James then spoke up. "Yeah well it is my business since I'm the one being ignored. Why aren't you talking to me?" He sounded somewhat pained and very aggravated.

"If you don't know why should I tell you. Because obviously you don't know, which means you didn't realize it, which means you obviously don't care, which means—" Lily couldn't finish. She slammed her book shut and walked out of the room.

"James, I think you better go after her." Andromada muttered.

"You think?" Sirius asked. "That's a first." Another chess piece went flying across the room.

"I think you're right 'Dromada."

"James is thinking too? This is just a new day for all of us. The world must be coming to an end." Yet another chess piece went flying.

"Be back." James muttered as he walked out of the room, trying to figure out where Lily went.

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This has been Chapter 11. Tune in next time to see if James and Lily make-out, I mean make-up, or if they wander around the train forever. Reviews are loved and comments or ideas are appreciated. Thank you to all those faithful reviewers!

            -Aly