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A/N: Here's the third chapter! Thanx for all the reviews I've gotten thus far!!

I woke up early on Wednesday morning and just lied in bed for a while, thinking. I had a lot to think about. Not only was it my first day of teaching, I also had to teach with James. This was going to be hard because I was very confused about my feelings for him. I was also confused about my friends. Gwen and Eden still were not speaking to me. Gwen thought I was wrong for telling Eden about Gwen's feelings for Sirius and Eden thought Gwen and I were just trying to make trouble. Suddenly the drapes to my bed were pulled open, revealing bright light and Gwen looking down at me with tears in her eyes.

"Hey Lily can you come to breakfast with me, I really need to talk to you," Gwen asked looking sad.

"Of course, just let me change."

I changed, fixed my hair, and brushed my teeth while Gwen waited silently. When Gwen and I finished, we slowly made our way down to the great hall for breakfast. I was surprised to see it almost completely empty, I had never been down to breakfast this early before. We sat down by each other and grabbed some food. I got a rather large stack of pancakes. If I had to be up so early, I might as well enjoy it.

"Lily, listen, I'm really sorry for getting mad at you. I felt like you had betrayed me by telling Eden—well you know," Gwen looked off depressed, as though thinking about Sirius and Eden still hurt her, "Now that I've had some time to think about it, I've realized that you simply wanted to help me to be happy. Anyways I'm really sorry," Gwen said apologetically. I felt so happy, I thought I would burst. I was so happy to have at least one of my best friends back. I had missed telling her everything. We talked nonstop until they were interrupted by the Marauders and Eden. We talked about my new 'job.' We talked about my feelings for James, which Gwen insisted she knew all along. We talked about just how much Gwen had liked Sirius. We talked about how much it all hurt Gwen. We only stopped talking when the Marauders and Eden interrupted us.

"Hey guys," James said looking like he was still asleep. As a matter of fact, all four of the Marauders looked like they had been up all night. Remus looked like he had not slept in days. Now that I thought about it, I had not seen any of them since she had left James in the library last night. Leave it to James to hardly get any sleep the night before he was supposed to teach our first class.

"So Lily, James, are the two really teaching, or is it just an excuse to spend time alone together, uninterrupted?" Sirius said with a smile on his face. Before James could hit Sirius, the owls arrived. I did not get anything. The rest of the day went by uneventfully, with Eden refusing to meet my gaze.

After their transfiguration class, James and I stayed behind waiting around for the class to get there. I started magically putting notes on the board. James checked to make sure they had enough pencils. After about five minutes of waiting, our class of nervous looking first years got there. James more or less took charge, which I thought was a good thing because I always got a bit nervous speaking in front of groups.

"Would everybody please sit down and start copying notes. I'm James Potter and this is Lily Evans," he said gesturing towards me, "and we're going to be teaching you for the remainder of the year." I noticed that several of the first year girls would giggle every time James would open his mouth. James was yet to notice this fact. "We're both seventh years and head boy and girl." James had just noticed that all the girls in the room were giggling at him. James for some odd reason could not fathom what he had done that was so funny. I decided it would be a good time to take over.

"You can call us Lily and James. We're both looking forward to teaching you this year. Now if you would please—" I was cut off by the door slamming open. Sirius came running in, looked around wildly, and noticing, we were actually there, ran out again.

"Ok then, as I was saying please copy down the notes and we will proceed with our first lesson," I said then turned around to talk, quietly, to James.

"I guess he wanted to see if we were teaching or not," James said with a laugh.

"To bad McGonagall wasn't here. He would've gotten detention." I said laughing. I turned around to notice that most of the class had finished copying the notes.

"Now if everyone would please put down their quills, we will show you what we will be doing today," James said, causing all of the girls to giggle. All of the students put down their quills and listened intently as James and I explained to them how to turn their pencils into sticks. Then, the students tried on their own. The rest of the class went by quite quickly, only two of the students managed to make any difference in their pencils. Before I knew it, we were giving out homework assignments and dismissing the class.

"Well, that was a good first class," James said sarcastically, "Seriously though; do I have something on my face or something?" James said looking rather perturbed. I could not help, but laugh at this. He looked so cute when he was flustered.

"No, they just so happen to think you're cute," I said, watching James turn red.

"S-so anyway," he stuttered, "I gotta get going; the first quidditch practice is today. See you later." James said running off and looking embarrassed.

I watched James leaving, laughing. He was so cute when he was flustered. Wait did I just think that? I was really starting to freak myself out. I left the room on my way to the library. I had a charm's essay due tomorrow. I was yet to start it. As I was walking down the hall, I looked out the window to see the Gryffindor quidditch team practicing. I felt a pang of sadness as I saw Eden and remembered our fight. Eden still was not speaking to me. I pushed back my feelings and continued my walk to the library. I looked around for a place to sit and saw Remus.

"Hey, can I sit here?" I asked as Remus looked up at me.

"Yeah, of course," Remus said with a smile

"Not surrounded by your usual posse?"

"No, not really. James and Sirius are practicing quidditch and Peter mumbled something about talking to someone. He wouldn't tell me who. And you where are your friends?" he asked with a smile.

"Eden's practicing quidditch—she's the new team beater and I don't really know where Gwen is at. It doesn't really matter where Eden is anyway, she's not really speaking with me right now," I said sadly. I hated fighting with people.

"Yeah, I knew about the fight, I think it was good of you to try and help your friends."

"You're obviously the only one who thinks so. Well, according to James, they appreciate it too, they just won't admit it."

"You and he have been talking a lot more than you used to." I blushed at this remark.

"Well, maybe. Anyway, have you done any of your charms essay yet?"

Remus and I sat in the library for the next couple of hours, working on their essay. We did not finish until well after dinner time. When we finished they headed back to the Gryffindor common room. When we got there I was surprised to see Gwen looking happier than she had in days.

"Hey, you look happy?" I questioned.

"Yeah, gosh Lily it's SO GREAT!!" Gwen squealed happily. "Today a sixth year Ravenclaw asked me out! He's so cute!" I felt happy for Gwen, Gwen had wanted a boyfriend for a long time. I, personally, did not see the point of it. Guys just end up breaking your heart anyway.

Gwen and I sat around for a long time, talking about Gwen's new love interest. We talked right until the house quidditch team came into the common room. James sure looked good all sweaty in quidditch robes—red and gold were definitely his colors.

"Hey Lils, can I talk to you alone for a second?" James asked. I was not sure if I could trust myself to speak in full sentences.

"Um, sure, what about?" I questioned.

"Well, I was just wondering if you were feeling better. You seemed pretty down these past few days." He seemed genuinely concerned.

"Oh yeah I'm feeling much better. Thank you for asking," I said with a smile on my face.

"Well that's good to know," he said looking happy that I was happy.

We talked for a bit longer. Just small talk. Then, I went upstairs to my room after promising James I would be at the quidditch match two Saturdays from now. I went to bed once again confused. I could not, for the life of me, figure out my feelings for James. He was being so… great. Such a great friend, or maybe more?

~~Well there's chapter three guys!! Hope you liked it! Now please go review!!~~