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, Julia, and Helen. Heehee.

Chapter 19: "Hate" with a Capital "H"

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"Hi!" Sirius said as he jumped onto the couch next to James (A/N: YAY! He said hi! The answer to question #3).

"Hey. What's up?" James asked dully.

"I should be asking you," Sirius responded. James sighed.

"I can't believe Lily has been ignoring me!" James exclaimed. "I wish she'd give me a chance."

"She did, you dolt! And you blew it with that stubborn hair of yours." James touched his hair and glared at his friend.

"Bugger off, Padfoot, you're not helping." Sirius shrugged and bounced up the stairs and hopped into the dormitory.

Later that day, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily, Julia, and Alex were sitting around the fire talking.

"Yeah, I'm staying for break, what about you?" Lily asked Remus. He nodded, not taking his eyes off his feet that were stretched out in front of him.

"Ooh! So am I!" Peter exclaimed.

"So I guess that makes all of us," Alex sighed. She had just returned from the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey had given her a special potion that helped her black eye a bit, though it was still there. "Thank god Helen isn't." Everyone nodded in agreement.

"One more day with her and, I swear..." Sirius hissed through gritted teeth. Julia, who was sitting next to him, put her head on his shoulder and starred into the fire.

"The year's going too fast," she sighed. Everyone sat and starred into the fire.

"HEY EVERYONE!" Helen yelled, breaking the silence. She stomped in back of Lily and shook her soaked hair, getting everyone within 10 inches of her wet.

"Helen, stop," Lily finally yelled after a minute of Helen shaking her hair.

"SORRY!" Helen screamed. "I JUST GOT OUT OF THE SNOW! THE MALFOY GUY PUSHED ME IN. I THINK HE LIKES ME!" and she stomped up the stairs to the dormitory. When they heard the door slam, they burst out laughing.

"She's kidding, right?" Lily laughed.

"Hey, Moony, maybe this means she's over us!" Sirius said, giving his friend a high five. Just at that moment, Helen walked back down with dry clothes on. She gave Sirius and Remus an air-kiss and walked out to dinner. Sirius and Remus sighed.

"Guess not," said a disappointed Remus (A/N: your answer to question #2). Everyone got up and went downstairs to dinner. It went by fast and before everyone knew it, it was detention time.

"Argh, I Hate detention... with a capital "H"," Sirius screamed as they turned down the corridor to Professor McGonagall's office.

"Thanks for the info, buddy," James said enthusiastically as he patted Sirius on the back. Sirius just groaned.

"Nice of you to come," McGonagall snapped sarcastically. Everyone glanced up at the clock.

"We're only 20 seconds late!" Remus whined.

"It's all your fault, Julia," Sirius whispered to his girlfriend.

"MY fault?" she asked puzzled. "Why MY fault?"

----- Muhahaha! Cliffie! Hahahahahaha. While I'm writing the next chapter, ask yourself this:

Why IS it Julia's fault?

-----JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -----

-----As you can see, I have a fake-ending obsession-----

-----On with the story-----

"It's all your fault, Julia," Sirius whispered to his girlfriend.

"MY fault?" she asked puzzled. "Why MY fault?" Sirius shrugged.

"You will be cleaning the dungeons," Professor McGonagall announced (A/N: Yeah, yeah, I'm such a hypocrite... I said before that I didn't wanna do the "clean the dungeons" type detention. But I think I can have fun with this!). There was a sigh of relief from the students.

"WITHOUT magic," she added. The sighs turned into loud, obnoxious groans. She snatched their wands and put them in her desk draw. "I will let you out of detention at 10:00." She handed Sirius, James, and Remus three buckets of water. She gave the bucket of sponges to Lily and the rags to Julia. Finally, she gave the two bottles of soap to Alex and Helen. She then shoved them out of the room and escorted them downstairs (A/N: I wouldn't trust them to walk down by themselves either).

"10:00. This all better be sparkling when I return," she reminded them.

"But the dungeon walls can't exactly sparkle, because it's just stone-," Sirius started but instantly stopped when he aw the look on McGonagall's face. She left them there and it all started out fine.

"Julia, Alex, you guys go by the Slytherin common room," Lily instructed. The two girls exchanged glances and scrunched up their faces, but walked down the hall anyway. Lily examined the four people in front of her. She didn't want to be paired with Helen and James, so the sent them into the Potions classroom. She was left with Sirius and Remus.

About 10 minutes into the detention, Lily felt something cold and wet. She felt up her back and screamed.

"SIRIUS! REMUS! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU TWO DO?!" she yelled as she pulled a wet sponge off of her (A/N: hahaha wet sponge! Once my science teacher let my class have sponge races... it was ACTION-PACKED FUN! hahahahaha). She searched around the hall for a few minutes looking for the two pranksters. When she reached the last suit of armor, they jumped out from behind it.

"SURPRISE!" Sirius yelled as he and Remus jumped from behind it. Remus caught her as she started to fall in shock. When she stood up again, she looked at Sirius and burst out laughing. He was wearing a fuzzy brown wig and a fake brown mustache. It looked suspiciously like Professor Edward's hair...

"I found it lying on the ground," Sirius informed the giggling girl.

"EW, Padfoot, that's disgusting!" Remus cried as he cringed. Sirius shrugged.

"I think I look rather dashing," Sirius said as he fixed the falling mustache.

"You guys are daft," Lily said as she calmed down. She shook her head and went back to cleaning. Remus and Sirius followed.

About a half hour later, James and Helen were about halfway done with cleaning the classroom.

"This sucks," James moaned as she scrubbed Professor Edward's desk. Helen was sitting on a table as she washed it.

"I'M BORED! I'M GONNA GO SEE SIRIUS AND REMUS!" Helen announced.

"Oh no you don't," James said as he pulled her shirt collar. "You're helping me clean this hell hole." Helen mumbled something that James couldn't understand and started cleaning the shelves, knocking something over.

"Woops..."

James groaned. "What did you do now?" He walked over and panicked. "WHAT THE HELL, HELEN?!"

"SORRY I SAID!" Helen yelled.

"You never said sorry!" James yelled back.

"YES I DID!"

"NO YOU DIDN'T!"

"YES I DID!"

"NO YOU DIDN'T!"

"OH YEAH, I DIDN'T SAY IT!" Helen realized. She grabbed a paper towel and dropped it over the liquid. She had spilled a bottle of green juice onto the shelf and it was now burning a hole. Needless to say, the paper towel was gone in 5 seconds.

They rushed around trying to figure out a way to stop it from eating the whole shelf.

"The one way is to get out wands," James finally said. Helen shook her head.

"I AM NOT GOING TO GO UPSTAIRS! SIRIUS AND REMUS ARE DOWN HERE!"

James sighed and rushed out of the room, Helen right behind him.

"HI!" she yelled when she saw her two favorite boys. The yelped and ran down the hall, leaving James and Lily alone.

"Lily!" James yelled as she turned to walk away. "I need your help."

Lily turned around. "With what?" she spat. James quickly explained. He managed not to ruffle his hair, even if he had the hugest urge to in the middle of his explanation.

Lily sighed. "Fine. I'm only because I don't want to get in trouble." And with that, she turned towards the staircase, James following closely.

----- Yay! Sorry, I know I usually post in the morning but I didn't get the chance to. Soooooo I hope you liked the chapter. You will find out where Lily and James are going (though its really obvious and I'm sure you've figured it out already) next chapter! REVIEW!

By the way, how do you get things bold and italic?