Disclaimer: The characters you can recognize are JK Rowling's and the characters you can't recognize are mine. There. A short and sweet disclaimer.

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"Prongs, you are going to apologize to Lily, right?" Remus asked James at breakfast the next morning.

"I'm only going to do it because you're forcing me to," James replied sourly.

"Looks like ickle-Jamsie got up on the wrong side of bed today," Sirius smirked, spooning some oatmeal into his bowl.

"Wormtail, you're going to choke if you continue eating at that speed," James warned Peter grumpily.

Peter managed to tell James between mouthfuls of bacon that he had always eaten at this speed and that he had never choked before, not even once.

To this new piece of information, James threw Peter a sulky glare and continued picking at the food on his plate.

"Prongs, they're here." Remus nudged James as Lily and Naomi entered the Great Hall.

"I don't really care," was James' sullen reply to Remus.

"Prongs! You're supposed to apologize! Go!" Remus practically threw James off his chair as Lily walked past his seat.

"Lily. Imsorryforbeinganannoyingarrogantpratlastnightokay?" James rushed over his apology, hoping to get it over and done with.

Lily was now looking at him with a curious sort of interest. Uh oh. That could not be good.

"I'm sorry. I didn't catch that. Would you mind repeating it? Oh, and make it clearer this time." Lily said, smiling ever so innocently and sweetly back at James.

James turned a magnificent shade of magenta and was about to turn on his heel and head back to his seat when he caught Remus watching his every move and glaring at him with a Don't-you-dare-back-out-now kind of look.

He sighed and resigned himself to his fate.

"I. Am. Sorry. For. Being. Such. An. Annoying. Arrogant. Prat. Last. Night. Lily." James gritted his teeth, clenched his knuckles and made sure to repeat every syllable slowly and clearly.

Naomi, who was standing beside Lily, appeared greatly amused by James' apology.

Lily now seemed satisfied with James' apology and forgave him with a dismissive wave of her hand, indicating that he could go.

"Moony! I am going to kill you for making me do that!" James muttered angrily under his breath as he stormed off back to his seat at the table.

Remus' chair was now empty. Mere coincidence? James thought not.

"Hey, Prongs! After Moony saw you apologize to Lily, he shoved the rest of his breakfast in his mouth and took off, muttering something about Prongs not going to be able to kill him in the library. What do you think he meant by that?" Sirius asked James densely, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"I know only too well, Padfoot. Just eat your breakfast," James gave Sirius the faint shadow of a smile before he immersed himself in the task of properly eating his breakfast.

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"Did you catch the look on his face when you told him to make his apology clearer, Lily?" Naomi doubled over with laughter.

Lily was laughing along with her too.

"Hmmm… but normally you would have made it harder for him, wouldn't you?" Naomi frowned a little. The frown was almost immediately replaced by a mischievous grin. "Going soft on James Potter, are we now, Lily?"

"Wha- No! No!" Lily blushed to the tip of her ears.

"Then why the overreaction?" Naomi was having a thoroughly good time.

"What overreaction? I was merely denying blind accusations!" Lily replied indignantly, regaining some of her composure.

"Yeah. Right." Naomi snorted into her bowl of oatmeal.

"Why don't we crack our heads over the third clue of the crossword puzzle while we're breakfasting?" Lily asked hastily, hoping to change the subject of the conversation.

"Alright." Naomi sipped her pumpkin juice gingerly.

"Let's see…" Lily dug the crossword puzzle out from her bag. "Clue number three: 'Shy, awkward or guilty feelings'. Thirteen letters."

Naomi puzzled over the clue as she spooned some oatmeal into her mouth. The answer came to her in a snap.

"Ay thwinck Ayve gwot iwt Lwilwy," Naomi said, in between a mouthful of oatmeal.

"Huh?" Lily stared at Naomi, not comprehending what her friend had just told her with good reason.

"I said: I think I've got it, Lily," Naomi swallowed her mouthful of oatmeal before attempting to speak to Lily again.

"Oh. What?"

"Don't you see? It's so absolutely obvious! Embarrassment!" It was now Naomi's turn to chide Lily for not spotting the obvious.

"Hey! You're right!" Lily scribbled 'Embarrassment' on the crossword puzzle. "I suppose James inspired you?"

"Yeah. Hey, wait a moment. Since when do you start calling James Potter James?" Naomi asked Lily, grinning like the Cheshire cat.

Lily's cheeks flamed and she slipped the crossword puzzle back in her bag before grabbing Naomi's wrist, dragging her out of the Great Hall and muttering something about them going to be late for Transfiguration.

This only caused Naomi's grin to widen. She had checked her watch and Transfiguration started promptly in fifteen minutes time.

Embarrassment. Seems like James Potter was not the only person to be embarrassed in the Great Hall that morning. No, a certain Lily Evans accompanied him.

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Whoopee! My writer's block is gone and I'm glad to announce that I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. Hee. Don't I just love torturing Lily? Just kidding. But it was fun…

And… review please! (Hehe. I bet you thought I forgot, eh? Not a chance) If I have at least 5 reviews for this chapter, I'll write the next chapter as quick as a jiffy. If I get 0 reviews… well… let's just say you won't see the next chapter of this story till you have white hair. Oh my goodness… have I just stooped to bribery and threats to get reviews? That means I must be getting really desperate for more reviews… so… you know what to do, don't you? (If you still don't know what to do, click the 'Review' option and then click 'Go'. Okay?) X)

Once more… Thanks to all the simply wonderful people who reviewed for the last few chapters. Oh, and I took some of Trinity Day's advice, like editing my summary and getting rid of the 'Just read. I'm not really very good at summaries' part. I also neglected to mention that this chapter's ending line is a bit different from the rest. Why? I don't really know… I just felt like it. :D