Summary: Lily hates James. James loves Lily. What will happen to make her change her feelings toward him?

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Alex and Julia. Heehee.

Chapter 5: Substitute Teacher!

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Two days had gone by since the food fight. But Lily was still pissed off.

"I can't believe I have detention with him!" she whispered to Samantha during Herbology. "I mean look at how immature he is!" she pointed to him as he did the chicken dance at his desk. Professor Petersburg didn't notice. He was too busy helping some Ravenclaw.

"Lily, will you go out with me?" James asked, skipping over to her.

"Go sit down," she commanded him, pointing to his seat next to Peter.

"Aw, come on Lily. Just go out with me!" James sighed. "You know you want to," he added in a seductive voice. Lily couldn't hold back a small smile. A SMALL smile.

"Please go sit down, James."

"Alright..." he turned around and walked slowly back to his seat with his head drooped.

When Professor Petersburg was done helping the boy from Ravenclaw, he continued the lesson. Lily, Samantha, Peter, and Remus were the only ones from Gryffindor listening. Julia and Alex were passing notes and Sirius was sleeping. James continued the chicken dance.

The class ended and it was time for Transfiguration. The 8 of them hurried to the North Tower and were exhausted when they got there. They climbed the ladder and James pushed the door open. Professor Gusto wasn't there yet. Lily, Samantha, Julia, and Alex sat at the table right next to the Marauders. Sirius tapped Julia on the shoulders and turned back to his table when she turned around. Knowing it was him, she slapped his back.

"Ow!" he said. "What was that for?"

"For tapping me you moron." He laughed and she punched his arm, considerably lighter.

Just as their love/hate fest ended, the trap door opened. A thin woman with waist length, shiny black hair stepped it. James and Sirius's mouths opened as they watched her come to the middle of the room. Lily saw James ogling her, and turned slightly red.

"Hello, class," the woman said in a sweet voice, "my name is Professor Tierney, but you can call me Olive." Her lavender eyes scanned the room as she smiled.

"She's hot," James whispered to Sirius and he nodded violently.

"All right, so I'm going to check that everyone is here..." she said as she took at a list. "Lisa Abbot?" she said and a girl with short brown hair raised her hand. The list went on. Olive took out a quill and pointed to James and Sirius, the only people who didn't raise their hands when she called their names. "Who are you? Are you Sirius Black and James Potter?"

"No, I'm Bob," James said quickly.

"And I'm Joe," Sirius said after him. Olive raised her eyebrows.

"Uh huh... Bob and Joe, eh? Your names aren't on the list." She wrote their names down anyway.

"They're new," Remus spoke up. "They just switched from... uh... Muggle Studies." James and Sirius nodded their heads in agreement.

"They're James and Sirius," Lily said finally.

"Quiet, Lily!" James said to her. She smiled to herself, knowing she had made him upset. He was quite cute when he was mad.

"So which one of you is James and which one's Sirius?" Olive asked the class.

"I'm James," Sirius said. Then he pointed to James. "He's Sirius. I personally think Sirius is a way better name and that James is a dumb name." Many kids in the class laughed at this while James punched him.

"I'd give anything to have the name James, are you kidding me?" James said with fake jealousy.

Olive looked at Lily, expecting her to say that they switched around the names, but Lily nodded. Olive sighed and started attempting to teach the class. James started passing notes to Lily.

James: Will you go out with me? Lily: No J: Why not, my love? L: Do you really want me to answer that? J: No, not really. L: Ok then. J: Will you come to Hogsmeade with me? L: I just told you, I'm not gonna go out with you! J: Oh yeah. L: Now stop passing notes; I want to pay attention to the lesson. J: No you don't. L: Ok, well I still don't want to get ANOTHER detention for passing notes. J: Then why are you still writing? L: I'm just informing you. J: Ok. L: So stop writing to me. J: I will. J: I love you! L: Stop. J: Stop what? L: Stop telling me you love me. J: Why are you still writing to me?

Lily wondered the last sentence James wrote and then scribbled a response.

L: I dunno.

Class ended five minutes later. It was the end of the day. The Marauders hurried out onto the grounds. Lily and her friends strolled to the common room and up to their dormitory. Samantha and Lily sat down on Lily's bed and Alex sat on Julia's bed with her. They talked about 'girl stuff' for a couple of hours. All of a sudden, the dormitory door opened. All four of the girls looked over to the doorway, but there was nothing there.

"What was that?" Lily whispered. The other three girls shrugged their shoulders and the four of them went back to their conversation, a little more quietly. Everything was fine for about ten minutes. Then there was a creek.

"I think someone's there," Alex finally said.

Samantha rolled her eyes. "Are you kidding me, Alex? Do you SEE anyone there?"

Alex looked at her friend in disgust. "Jeez, Samantha, it was just a suggestion. Anyway, do you have a better explanation?" Samantha turned red and shook her head.

All of a sudden, Julia and Alex were laughing very hard and were squirming on the bed.

"STOP IT!" Julia yelled.

"QUIT... TICKLING... ME!" Alex screamed between laughs. As Samantha and Lily sat and watched Julia and Alex being tickled by nothing, Lily had an idea. But as she stood up, she found herself being tickled also. Samantha turned around and saw James tickling Lily.

"James! Stop it!" she said laughing. Then Samantha had the same idea Lily had. She went over to Julia's bed and swung her hand through the air a couple of times before she hit something.

"Ouch," a muffled voice said and Julia started to calm down, though Alex was still being tickled.

"Sirius!" Samantha yelled, figuring out who the voice belonged to. She grabbed the Invisibility Cloak off of his head and found him rubbing his head. Remus was there too, leaning over Alex. Realizing the cloak was off, he stopped tickling Alex. Julia and Alex sat up and leaned against the headboard, breathing heavily.

"I KNEW IT!" Lily screamed as she was being tickled. James finally stopped and she sat down on her bed. "I knew it was you guys," she said panting.

Everyone sat in silence for a couple of minutes, the victims of the tickle torture catching their breath as well as the boys. All of a sudden, Julia jumped off of the bed.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU SIRIUS!" she yelled. This treat was unexpected, and all clueless Sirius could do was run for him life.

"They make such a cute couple," James sighed, referring to Julia and Sirius.

"Well," Lily finally said, breaking the silence (A/N: Wow, silence with James in the room! There's a first!) "I'm gonna go to sleep."

James yawned. "Me two..." he crawled into Lily's bed.

"Get out!" she yelled, pushing him off of the bed and out of the room with his broomstick (A/N: he used it to get into the room if I hadn't already said that). She couldn't help but giggle.

"Well, goodnight," Remus said. As he walked out, he waved back at them and disappeared out the door. Alex sighed and turned red when she realized Lily and Samantha had heard the sigh. Julia came in a couple of minutes later, and they finally went to sleep.

----- Yay! I'm done! Woo-hoo! I broke the record. This is now the longest chapter. Ok so PLEASE review! PLEASE! Thank you!