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A/N: This is chapter two… Hope u like it… thanx for the reviews… btw if u write a review sayin u don't like the story or it's ook or something can u please say why? I wanna try and improve it, but I can't if you don't say what you don't like… Please read and review…

The rest of the first week went by pretty eventless. James still was not talking to me, I was still wondering why he cared, I was still wondering why I cared if he cared, Gwen was still crying all the time, Eden still had no idea what was wrong with Gwen, and Sirius had taken to trying to cheer Gwen up which was just upsetting her more.

As a matter of fact, things just kind of went along and stayed boring until the second Tuesday of school. That was the day when James and I were called to Professor Dumbledore's office right after breakfast.

"Lily, James; please sit down," Professor Dumbledore said calmly. Professor McGonagall was there as well.

"Now, as you know, Minerva here has been very busy lately. Actually so busy, she's finding it hard to teach all of her classes," he said looking at James and I very intently.

"As you are head boy and head girl, we were wondering if you'd be interested in helping her out," at this Professor McGonagall got an upset look on her face, as if she did not think she needed help with anything.

"Of course anything we can do," James and I said at the exact same time, causing me to giggle. James, however, did not seem to find this the least bit amusing.

"We were wondering, as the two of you are very good at transfiguration, if you'd be interested in perhaps taking over her class of first years."

"It would look great on your records," Professor McGonagall said still looking upset, "and we could do it on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, when I happen to know you have free time."

"I suppose we could do it," James said. I shot him a look, I was not very happy about him answering for me.

"Yes we'd be glad to do anything to help," I said.

"Well then it's settled, the two of you will teach first year transfiguration after your other classes on previously mentioned dates. That will be all." Dumbledore said looking pleased that things were under control.

"Thank you for your help," McGonagall said sternly. James and I silently got up, left the office, and went to our first class of the day without exchanging one word. The classes went by pretty well. After my last class, I headed back to the common room. I found Eden and Sirius on a chair making out. I walked up to them and cleared my throat. Eden threw Sirius off her. They both looked pretty winded and red.

"Excuse me, but could I have a quick word with you Eden?" I asked, quite annoyed that Eden still had not figured out that they were breaking Gwen's heart.

"Of course what do you want to say?" Eden asked, finally returning to her normal color. I grabbed Eden's ear and dragged her across the common room, up the stairs, and to their dorms where they found Gwen crying.

"Bloody hell, Lily let go of my ear," Eden screamed clearly exasperated.

"Let me just clear a couple of things up for the two of you," I screamed, "Eden, the reason Gwen has been crying all the time and avoiding you is because she had been liking Sirius for years and now your dating him."

"No she doesn't if she would she would've told me," screamed Eden, not very happy to have her making out session cut short.

"Yes I do, I have for ages," Gwen said very depressed, "I didn't tell you because I knew you'd think I was stupid."

"No you don't your just upset that I'm happy, sorry you can't stand that I have a boyfriend and you don't, but you're just going to have to get over it. I happen to like him quite a bit, and if you can't be happy for me then you're just going to have to bloody deal with it!" Eden screamed as she stormed out the room.

"I'm so sorry, Gwen," I thought I was helping.

"Well why don't you just stay out of my business!" Gwen screamed, very upset.

"Gwen, I was try--,"

"Whatever Lily, just get out," and with that Gwen flung herself back onto her bed and proceeded to start bawling her eyes out again.

After about thirty minutes of trying to talk to Gwen with no luck, I decided to go to the common room and try to work on her homework. Right when I walked in Sirius called me.

"Hey Lily come see." Sirius called. He and Eden were sitting in a chair. Eden looked quite miffed.

"Hey Sirius, Eden," Eden looked away refusing to meet my gaze. Sirius looked like he was confused, but decided to let it drop.

"James left this note for you," Sirius said with a wink. I thanked him and walked off, not wanting to spend any more time with Eden than I had to. When I sat down to do my homework, I opened the note, wondering what James wanted.

Lily,

Hey. We need to talk, meet me in the far right corner of the library at seven.

James

I looked at my watch. It was ten to seven; I had better get going if I wanted to be on time, though I doubted he would be. I walked into the library only to find that James was already there looking over quidditch plays. Practice would be starting soon.

"Hey," James looked up surprised. He obviously thought I would not be coming to meet him.

"Hey Lily, we need to talk."

"Yeah I know," I said, I really hated apologizing. "Look James I'm really sorry, I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings I just wasn't in the mood to talk—"

"Or to be teased, right? Look, I'm the one who should be sorry. I should be nicer to you; I just thought that was our thing. Me annoying you all the time and you getting mad at me. I'm sorry," James finished. I was shocked. I never in my life thought James was cared enough to realize that he had ever done anything wrong. James flashed me his picture perfect smile and ruffled his hair, not that I thought he had a perfect smile or anything and I smiled back and took the seat across from him.

"So anyway we need to start making our lesson plans," James said looking down at the list of things they needed to cover this year. McGonagall had given it to him in the great hall during dinner. I was surprised that he was even thinking about it.

"Yeah ummm what do you suggest we cover tomorrow?" I asked. I could not seem to think with him looking at me.

"We could start with notes and then have them do something hands on and simple," James said surprisingly knowledgeably. No, he was not knowledgeable I thought, mad at myself for even thinking that, "What do you suggest their first project should be?" he asked me. "Do you maybe remember what the first thing we did was?" He asked me.

"Ummm no not really maybe… I don't remember," I could not seem to think with him looking at me like that. I felt like there was a fog in my brain.

"Well I think it might have been somewhere along the lines of turning a pencil into a stick. How does that sound to you?"

"Y-y-yea that sounds great." I stuttered. James gave me a questioning look.

"Are you alright Lily, you seem less of a know-it-all than usual?"

"Yeah just a little upset," sure that was not all of what was wrong with me, but I could not exactly tell him the whole truth now could I?

"What's wrong?"

"Oh nothing… except my two best friends wish I would die."

"What happened?" he said seeming truly concerned.

"Well Gwen's liked Sirius for years and Eden somehow had no idea and now that Sirius and Eden are dating, Gwen's really upset. I tried telling Eden, but she thinks that Gwen's mad that she has a boyfriend and that I should leave her alone. Gwen thinks I should stay out of her business and now neither of them are speaking to me." It was surprisingly easy to talk to him. Before I knew it I was telling him everything that had been driving me crazy for the past… forever. "And my dad sent me a letter he and his twenty-eight-year old girlfriend are engaged. They want me to spend Christmas with them. It would break my mom's heart if I spent it with them instead of her. I don't even want to go home at all. My little sister hates me." I said pausing and turning red. I could not believe I had just told him all that.

"Wow that's a lot of information." James said.

"I don't know why I told you. I knew you wouldn't understand with your perfect life." I said trying to cover up.

"No I understand. Don't worry about Gwen she's just hurt and doesn't want to be bothered, as for Sirius and Eden, I don't know how they can not know that Gwen liked Sirius. They're obviously the only two people on the planet that didn't know," he paused, "Do you not like your dad's fiancé?"

"How could I, she's young enough to be my sister!"

"Are you sure you're not just still wishing that your mom and dad would get back together?" Wow, he was really good at this.

"I don't know, I just don't like my family the only person who gets me is my brother."

"And I'm sure your little sister doesn't hate you. Heck even if she does, I'm still jealous because it's better to have siblings that you argue with than none at all. She doesn't hate you; she's just taking her anger about other things out on you. Besides how can anyone hate you?" At that last part James face turned red, as though he regretted saying that. This part, however, made me smile.

"Thanks for the help. I didn't think you would understand."

"Anytime. Besides, my life isn't as perfect as you think." James said almost sadly. "So it's settled, tomorrow we're going to give the kids a ton of notes and then drive them crazy trying to turn a pencil into a stick." James said with a smile. "Now I'm really sorry, but I've really got to get back to these quidditch plays." This disappointed me, I wanted to keep talking to him.

"Ok well, thanks for listening. Good night."

"Like I said, anytime. Good night." James said looking at me. It was probably my imagination, but I thought I saw wistfulness in his eyes. I got up and walked out of the library. A quick glance down at my watch revealed that we had been talking for almost two hours. Those two hours sure had passed by quickly. I walked up to the fat lady and muttered the password. She let me in and I walked straight to my room and went to bed, but I did not sleep. I stayed awake for what must have been hours. I was wondering about why I felt so weird around James and why he was being so nice to me. I almost hated to admit it to myself, but I think I was falling for him.

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