Author's Note: Okay, this chapter is… I don't know, I haven't written it yet and I just type whatever comes to mind.

Title: Role Reversal

Rating: PG

Spoilers: There aren't too many spoilers in chapters 1-12. The whole story has some spoilers, but how else do you write a fanfic? The chapter with major spoilers is "Old Friends".

Summary: James and Lily make a bet. Lily has to pull a bunch of pranks and James can't do any.

Disclaimer: I, of course, do not own Harry Potter or its characters. If you're reading this, you should already know whom it belongs to anyway.

Setting: This story is set in MWPP years. If you don't know what that means, you probably shouldn't be reading this fanfic.

!!! = setting change

italics = emphasis

italics = thoughts

-Change of Heart a.k.a. Insanity-

A few hours later (because they had fallen asleep at midnight) at about five o'clock, Lily woke up. She didn't open her eyes yet. I don't want to get up.

Too bad. You have to.

No, I don't.

Yes, you do.

This is payback for my telling you to shut up before, isn't it?

You got it.

Lily felt something warm beneath her. It was breathing. Okay, this is definitely not my pillow. Time to wake up, Lily. She opened her eyes, and when she saw James, the memory of her horrible dream came back to her. She groaned and put her head back down onto James's chest.

The redhead suddenly noticed something. Cow pajamas? The sixteen-year-old boy was wearing white pajamas with large black spots, resembling the markings of a cow. That's so cute! Cow pajamas…

Lily absentmindedly (and very, very sleepily) traced patterns on James's chest as she thought about her dream and the conversation she had had with James. The boy soon noticed that he was being drawn on and opened his eyes. "Stop it, Evans. That tickles."

Lily jumped in surprise. "Sorry," she said, blushing. James grinned.

"One thing," she continued, "Er, cow pajamas?"

Now it was James's turn to blush. In those pajamas, he looked like a sunburned cow. (AN: Do cows get sunburn?)

"Um… er… It was cold last night and these are my warmest ones."

"Don't worry. I won't tell anyone. But you do realize that I can blackmail you now."

James just stared. Lily giggled, then stood up and gathered her blankets together. "I'm going to go see what time it is," she stated. "See ya, Potter."

!!!

Lily looked at her clock. 5:15. It would be a while before everyone else woke up.

She looked at her friends. Sarah was dead to the world. She was sound asleep and clutching her favorite stuffed animal, a lion. She had gotten it years ago as a gift for getting into Gryffindor, and now it was her favorite. Her hair was all tangled and her pajamas were wrinkled.

Veronica didn't look quite as rumpled as Sarah. Her hair wasn't even messy. She was lying on her side.

I have to tell her that Remus likes her, Lily thought. I hope they get together. That would be great.

Lily laid back and let her mind wander. She didn't think about anything in particular. I hope I never have a dream like that again. Did I finish my History of Magic essay? What prank should I pull next? Does James like me? I wonder where Peter keeps running off to. Is… Wait. Back up. Does James like me? Where'd that come from?

It came from over here.

Oh no. You again? And why did I use the name James instead of Potter?

Because you know he's not as bad as you say he is.

Go away.

I can't. I'm you.

Then leave me alone.

Also impossible.

I just realized that if this were an actual conversation I was having with myself out loud, people would think I was crazy.

Maybe you are.

Aah! Will you just let me be?

Fine. But I'll be back. You can count on it.

Lily rolled over and screamed into her pillow.

!!!

I'm insane. That's it. I'm only thinking about Evans because I'm insane.

Oh, who are you kidding, James? You know it's more than that. I mean, you may be insane, but that's not why you can't stop thinking about her.

Oh, what do you know?

Everything you do. I'm you.

I'm having a conversation with… myself…

Yep.

James groaned. I'm insane and talking—

Thinking.

—thinking to myself.

Haha.

Stop it!

But I can't stop it. You're the one who's thinking it.

He went upstairs to his dorm and tried to concentrate on a book about Quidditch until his friends woke up.

!!!

Sarah woke up to find one of her friends mumbling incoherently with her face buried in a pillow. She saw the other one getting dressed.

"Don't ask," Veronica said. "She was like that when I got up."

"Ah." The shorter girl got out of bed and walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth.

!!!

Sirius pulled open the hangings of James's bed and demanded, "Where were you last night, young man?"

"What are you talking about?" James asked groggily. He had fallen back asleep after reading about five pages of his book.

"Well, I woke up at around two o'clock to go to the bathroom, and I noticed that you weren't there. So where were you?"

"I couldn't sleep and I was hungry, so I went down to the kitchens."

"No, you didn't."

"How do you know?"

"Because you always take your Invisibility Cloak with you when you leave at night, and it was still in here. I checked."

James was slightly astonished at the effort Sirius had put into worrying about him. "I wasn't anywhere. I just—"

Remus interjected, "We have to get to breakfast. I'm hungry."

"Me too," said Peter.

Thank you, Moony, James thought silently.

As the four boys walked down the stairs, Sirius said, "Come on, Prongs. I'm your best friend. You can tell me."

"Sorry, Padfoot. There's nothing to tell."

"Jimmy, I know there must be something."

"There's nothing, and don't call me Jimmy."

!!!

Veronica and Sarah had to drag their friend down to breakfast. She kicked and screamed the whole way.

"I… told you… I'm not… hungry!" Lily said as she struggled against her friends' grasps.

"Lily, you have to—ow!—eat something!" Sarah said as the green-eyed girl kicked her.

"Sarah's right. You didn't eat anything last night and you look worn out," the other girl informed Lily, dodging a kick.

"But I don't want to!" Besides, James might be there, and I really don't feel like seeing him right now. Oh, God. There I go using his first name again! What's wrong with me? "Let go of me!"

"No!"

The trio had reached the Great Hall. Veronica used her foot to push the door open, and they pulled Lily over to the Gryffindor table. Sarah forced Lily to sit, then turned around to find a lot of stunned faces. "What? Mind your own business. Eat your food." She and Veronica seated themselves on either side of Lily, who just looked down at her plate.

The Marauders entered and sat down across from the girls. "What's wrong with Lily?" Remus asked.

"We don't know," the dark-haired girl replied.

"She won't tell us anything," the blonde added.

Sirius looked puzzled, Remus and James looked concerned, and Peter just started shoveling food into his mouth.

The sixth years, with the exception of Lily, all started eating. "Lily," Sarah said in a warning tone.

The redhead sighed, then slowly started to consume the food on the plate in front of her.

What's the matter with her? James thought. I hope that dream she had isn't what's bothering her.

Lily didn't look at James all throughout the meal. In fact, the only time she did look up was when an explosion was heard from the Hufflepuff table. A girl's waffles had exploded on her. "Mine," Lily said quietly, declaring that she had done her prank for the day.

When the meal was over, the three girls walked to Charms class together. Lily was quiet the whole way there.

!!!

James sat in the back of the classroom next to Remus. Professor Flitwick was explaining something or other. James wasn't paying attention because he had already learned how to perform that spell. Instead, he was watching Lily, who was being uncharacteristically quiet. Charms was her favorite class, and she always participated. Today, however, she sat there like a lump, only moving to turn a page in her book or swish her wand when she was directed to.

Something's bothering her, and I'm going to find out what it is.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Author's Note: Insane, no? Haha. I like the parts where they're arguing with themselves. Yes, Lily's being very out of character. I have a reason. It's something I didn't write in the story yet. You'll find out later. Adds an element of mystery, I think. Also, tell me which title you like better, Change of Heart or Insanity or just leave it there with both.