**A/N - JK owns her people, I own mine. The ones that you don't recognize are mine**

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James sat in the Gryffindor Common Room watching the fire slowly die down. Every now and then he'd look over at the portrait hole waiting for Sirius and Celeste to return. He really needed to talk to Sirius about the whole situation with Lily, but he had a feeling that Sirius wouldn't be back for another couple of hours.

He felt horrible about what had happened earlier with Lily. He was tempted to go up to her dorm and apologize, but he didn't want to make her feel worse.

"Prongs? What are you doing sitting down here by yourself?" Remus said as he walked down the stairs from the guys' dorms. James turned in his chair to look at his friend. "Just thinking I guess," James replied back quietly.

"About Lily isn't it?"

"No. Of course not," James said too quickly.

"Don't lie to me James; I've known you for far too long, I can tell when you're not being honest. Tell me what's going on." Remus sat down on the couch to the right of the chair.

'Great. Now I have to tell him.' James thought to himself angrily. He looked up and noticed that Remus was watching him closely. He sighed. "Remus, what do I do about Lily?"

Remus smiled slightly. "Well, do you like her?"

James stared blankly back at him. "Well buddy, what do you think?!" he said irritably.

Remus looked towards the fire. "I'm just trying to help James, don't get snappy with me." He looked back at James. "If you want her as much as you act like you do, then go for it. The worst thing that could happen would be she says no, but the best thing is that she could say is yes. You'll never know until you ask." With that bit of advice, Remus stood up, and walked back up to the guys' dorm.

James turned back and looked at the fire for a moment, before getting up and making his way out of the common room.

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Lily had snuck out of the common room and was lying on the ground of the astronomy tower staring up at the stars. She had never felt like such an idiot in her life. 'How could I have fallen for such an arrogant, self- absorbed jerk?!' she thought angrily to herself. The more she thought about James, the angrier she got. But then the thoughts were changed back to the kiss from their 6th year, and their kiss that they had just shared a little over two hours ago. The thought brought tears to her eyes. 'I'm going to drive myself crazy if I keep thinking about this.' As she started to get up, the astronomy door closed, and she heard footsteps in the darkness. She froze for a second before hiding behind a statue. As the person stepped forward more, she could tell that it was a tall guy. She started scooting closer to the door while still remaining in the shadows. She had just reached the door when the person's voice broke the silence. "Lily Evans, why do you have to be so.. you?" The voice of James Potter was making Lily weak in the knees. Before Lily could say something he continued, obviously not knowing that she was behind him only 5 feet listening.

"Maybe Remus is right," James said softly before turning back around and walking with his head down towards the door. Before Lily could move out of the way, James had knocked into her, knocking her to the ground.

James was stunned for a moment, but when he came back to his senses he realized it was Lily. "OH MY GOD LILY I'M SO SORRY!" He said quickly while picking her up off the ground. "I didn't hurt you did I?!"

"Calm down James, jeesh."

James looked down at Lily. "You're the most beautiful person I've ever seen Lily." He whispered into her ear.

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Celeste leaned back against Sirius' chest. They had finally made their way back to the common room.

"Sirius you're not a failure. You're the best one out of the Black family if you ask me."

Sirius told Celeste that he heard Snape, Lestrange, and Malfoy talking about how Sirius was the failure and embarrassment to the Black family. The thought of this made him sick. "I know Celeste, just, forget anything happened."

She could feel his breathing quicken. "Sirius, calm down, please." She turned to look at him. He wouldn't meet her eyes. She sighed.

Before she could say something else, James and Lily came walking into the common room holding hands.

Sirius looked up. A grin slowly spread across his face. "Woaaaah, did my Jamsie get.. lucky?" Celeste laughed to herself. 'Good, at least he's not as upset as I thought.'

James looked over and winked at Sirius. "James!" Lily exclaimed while laughing.

Celeste looked at Lily and noticed that she was blushing.