OOOOOOOHHH!! Fourth chappie ALREADY? I didn't realise... Anyway...I'm not Jkr. And nor will I ever BE Jkr. So, these, ppl, therefore, do not belong to me...exception to Gabrielle and Liela...




"Wait." He got up. "Come with me."

"Let go of me, Potter." Lily said viciously, attempting to wrestle out of his grip. But James was ready; he tightened his grip on her wrist, and continued to pull her out of the Great Hall, ignoring Lily's continuing comments and complaints. "Will you let GO?" Lily shrieked, again trying to escape, once they got out to the garden.

"No." James said calmly. He let go of her. Lily stared at him in shock. She thought about running, but James was looking at her with such emotion, she didn't dare. Instead, she walked around him and stared at the moon, only to distract herself from him.

"What?" she said. James was silent. "What?" Lily repeated, putting more emphasis. She could hear James walking, pacing around behind her, but still, he didn't say anything. "Damn it, Potter, OUT with it!"

"Fine." James said, still in the same low voice. He sighed. "Evans." He sighed again, and Lily could almost see him reaching up to ruffle his hair.

To give herself some more distraction, she again said, "What!"

"I'm trying to say something, but you keep on distracting me!" James retorted, abandoning his attempt to keep calm.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Geez, Potter, calm down."

James didn't say anything. He had stopped pacing. Lily turned her head around; he was sitting on a stone bench.




James had no idea why he wasn't saying anything; he had practiced this speech thousands of times in front of his mirror, when his friends weren't there, or else in detention. The only thing he did know was that Lily had practically stripped him of the ability to speak. Whenever he opened his mouth, he completely forgot what he was going to say. He cursed himself, and tried again. This time, it seemed to work. "Look, Evans." He started. Okay, that went well. "I know you don't really like me." Lily said nothing, so he continued. "And you know that I like you." That part was a bit hard. "A lot." And also that part. What was going on? He sighed once more. "And it really hurts me that my feelings are hurting you…I swear, Evans-I've tried to hate you, just like you do me. I tried to find something I hated about you, back in third year. I told myself to find that thing and build on that, you know? But then, I realised, Evans, two years later, that there was nothing about you I hated." James chanced a glance at Lily, but she was still staring at the moon determinedly. She looked stunning, her green eyes reflecting the half moon. Her eyes were glazed over, as though it was taking her a great effort to stop herself from crying. As James continued to watch, she brushed her red hair out of her eyes, tucking it behind her ear. She turned to watch him, and when James saw this, he jumped, and continued, still uncomfortably aware that Lily was still watching him. But when he did start, to his enormous relief, she turned back around. "And well, I didn't know what to do then…" he admitted. "All I wanted to do was comfort you, Evans." He shuddered involuntary. "I know I seemed like an arrogant berk to you, but I-you need to know that I would do whatever I needed to do to get you." He looked at the girl again, and was startled to see she was indeed crying.





Lily stood stock-still as she listened to James' heartfelt speech. The tears in her eyes had been bursting to get out for the last five minutes, but she only just let them out now. She had no idea why she was crying. The only thing she knew was that she was going to kill James for making her cry later. She wiped away another tear running down her cheek and sniffed.

A tap on her shoulder startled her, and she jumped back. It was James, and he was wearing the most concerned expression Lily had ever seen on his face in her life. "Evans?" he asked uncertainly. "What's up?"




"Bad move, Prongs." Sirius said, wincing, in a nearby Rosemary bush. He had sneaked himself and Gabrielle in when James had dragged Lily out. "He shouldn't have done that."

"And why not?" Liela's voice said. But, unfortunately, Remus had gotten here first, accompanied, naturally, with Liela. "I think it's sweet." She said gently.

Gabrielle smirked at her friend, edging closer to her. "I reckon she's going to start snogging him now." She said.

Remus grinned. "Let's take a bet." He said cheerfully. "Everyone who thinks they're going to start snogging, raise your hand, and place your bet!" Everyone raised his or her hand.




"Nothing." Lily answered, wiping away yet another stray tear. "Just nothing. Everything is just dandy! Just because my sworn enemy has just proclaimed his undying love for me, everything is just dandy! Nothing is wrong! It happens every day, right?" she let out a shaky breath. "Why am I the one who has to live this life? Why me? Why can't it be someone else? Why can't I be Professor Mcgonagall? God knows I'd just love to be her! Why, it's my life's dream!"

"Evans." James' comment went unheard. "Evans!" he yelled. "Stop yourself, for Merlin's sake!" he seized hold of both of her shoulders. "You're going to kill yourself doing that!" he said.

"Let GO of me, Potter!" Lily shrieked. "Keep your hands off me!" SLAP.




Liela winced as the friends in the Rosemary bush heard a very loud and very painful slap. "OUCH!" Sirius smiled grimly.

"I told him not to do that." He said, shaking his head, and plucking out a few stray leaves out of the bush.




James tried to recover from his previous shock. "Okay…" he muttered truthfully. "I wasn't expecting that…"

"Oh, really?" Lily asked venomously, "What were you expecting?" James looked as though he wasn't in a hurry to answer.

"Something other than that." He squeaked. Sighing, he returned to the stone bench. Lily couldn't help, but feel a bit guilty. She grimaced. She was about to apologize when James said something Lily didn't want to answer. "Why don't you like me?"

Lily's head snapped back to staring at the moon. "I don't know what you're talking about." She said stiffly.

"Come on, Evans! I've already accepted that you don't like me, just answer the bloody question and I'll leave you alone!" James said angrily. "Why don't you like me?" he repeated.

Lily seemed to have lost the ability to speak. She didn't know why she didn't like him. She wasn't even sure what she felt! In many ways, the question was impossible to answer, without admitting something. "I-erm-wha-?" she said angrily. Then she said, "I'm NOT answering that!" Lily scowled at the moon. How can it look so happy when she was having the worst day of her life?

"And why not?" James was on his feet again, and his face had turned red from embarrassment and desperation. "Just because you hate me doesn't mean you can't answer that!"

Lily took this accusation as an insult. "Excuse me!" she said. "I do NOT hate you! I don't know WHAT I feel, okay? Can't you see I'd rather be left alone?" Her voice trailed off. She looked surprised at her own daring, as though she hadn't meant it to be that fierce.




The silence lasted for more than a minute, and it was an unbearable minute for the party in the rosemary bush. The boys muttered curses. "What the-?"




James sighed, trying to find the strength for what he had been preparing for since third year. He was going to do the unthinkable, the dumbest, but also the smartest thing anyone had ever done.




He took a deep breath. "I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For everything. For all the pain I've caused you, for all the stress. It must be hard, knowing that your enemy fancies you. I'm sorry for everything, for being an arrogant little berk, for just being me. I'm sorry." He finished lamely.

Lily's mouth dropped elegantly. She looked down, as soon as she had realised what she was doing. "Erm…Thank you." she wondered whether it was the right thing to say. And without knowing what in heck she was doing, she swiftly walked over to him, and placed a hand on his shoulder.

James grinned at her. "And that's all you can say. Yup, that's the effect I have on some people." He said, nodding his head.

"Git." Lily muttered resentfully, removing the tiny hand on his shoulder. "You can't give it a rest, can you?"

"………………"

"Did you just kiss me?"




WHHHHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Yet another story done. I know how corny the ending is, but i just had another brilliant idea for another story and i wanted to get on it as fast as i can. But i don't want to be typing two stories at once...Thank you to all those who have reviewed so far!! I never would've even tried to finish this if it weren't for you. I was seriously considering discontinuing this story during the second chappie, you know? But then the reviews came...and then I'm all like, "Wow. Ten ppl are counting on me to finish this fabulous story of mine." and then i tried my hardest to continue it...and then...Well, you saw how it ended! See how much difference just ten ppl can do? NYA NYA! SO...REVIEW!! Ya see that little lavender button down there? Yeah, erm, go to 'submit review' and press GO!!! And erm, Twerkie? Why are you using myaccount?