Title: Life Goes On and People Grow Up

Author: Evil-Angel-911

Summery: Things have changed for both Lily and James. It's there 6th year and life has turned upside down. Will they make it through alone? Or will they get some help?

Disclaimer: I am not the genius that is JK Rowling. Any character you recognize is completely hers.

Chapter: 5 – Why boys love Mirrors and the Prefects' Bathroom

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(I am SO SO SO sorry for how long this took to update and I just reread my story. It's not sounding so good so far again sorry but I will try to make it better! avoids rotten fruit I said sorry, gets hit with fruit now it will just take longer since now I have to wash this off!)

Lily woke to the dime light of the sun bursting through the gap in her curtains. She blinked a few times and let her eyes adjust to the sunlight. She slowly lifted herself from her bed and began getting ready for class. She looked around the empty dorm and felt her spirits slid down. It wasn't a dream. Everyday Lily had woken and wondered if it all was a dream only to face the reality that it was real.

Lily decided she wanted to relax a bit and decided a nice trip to the prefect's bathroom was just what she needed. She grabbed her towel, bathrobe and bathing supplies and walked out of her dorm. She walked down the staircase silently because it was still quite early. She moved towards the portrait and walked out not realizing she was being watched.

Remus sat the common room thinking hard when Lily walked down looking radiant as ever, even if she did look a little lost, but that was to be expected. She walked gracefully towards the portrait and walked out. James, who was also in the common room, watched her go. Remus stood and went to the dorm. He needed a shower badly. His muscles hurt horribly from a duel Sirius and He had had in the dorm last night. Sirius had won (barely).Remus decided the prefect bath sounded perfect so he made his way down to the bath.

Lily took off her robes and let herself slowly into the bubbles in the oversized pool tub. She felt all her worries disappear as the smell of the bath consumed her. No worries, that felt great. Just then a door swinging Lily heard she let her eyes rise above the bubbles to see Remus frozen by the edge of the tub. Lily head shot up out of the water. "REMUS!" she yelled. She willed herself to calm down. "What are you doing here?"

"Well I was going to take a bath but you seem to have beaten me here!" he said calmly. Lily thanked the person who had though of these bubbles and relaxed a bit. "Um… Now that you're not going anywhere," Remus said smiling, taking a seat on the chair by the bath, "How are you?"

Lily scowled. Remus wanted to talk and she was stuck, unless she wanted to give Remus a show. Either way, Remus was happy. 'Too bad Prongs isn't here for this.' Remus though laughing. "I'm fine." Said Lily, making sure her… self was completely covered by the bath. "Would you mind leaving so I could get out of the tub?"

Remus smiled mischievously and Lily realized why he was a marauder. "I do mind actually! I'm quite content where I am." He reached a hand into his robe pocket and pulled out a mirror. It was the mirror James had given him in 1st year for Christmas. He could finally pay him back for it. "James." He called into the mirror. Soon James face appeared in the mirror.

"Yes Moony old buddy!" he called with a smile. He was changing in the dorm. He had just finished his shower.

Remus laughed. "I have Lily held captive. You and Sirius have any plans of action?"

"What?" James smile had vanished. He turned the mirror so he could see Lily's head peaking out of the water. Her face was almost as red as her beautiful hair. James eyes widened. "Moony, Give the mirror to Lily and get out of the bathroom you perv! I'm the one with a major crush on her and I'm smart enough to not hold her captive in a bath tub!" Lily blushed even more when she heard James' comment on his crush on her. Moony handed Lily and mirror and walked out smiling. He knew Prongs was jumping for joy in his head.

And he was. James was having a really hard time controlling his joy. He was watching Lily take a bath… well, almost but it was close enough for any boy! "Sorry about Remus!" James said when lily had faced the mirror. "He gets confused when he sees pretty girls in bathtubs. He walked in on my mom's bath once, he had to be dragged out by my dad and me. I've never seen my mom so embarrassed." Lily started to laugh. Just seeing her smiling face was great for James.

"Potter." Said Lily, "Mind if I call you James on a trail basis. See if the sky falls down?" James smiled and nodded. "Also one more thing. I need to turn you face down so I can change."

James laughed. "The other side is Sirius' mirror." Lily flipped the mirror and sure enough there was Sirius' face.

"Hello Lily-kins! How's your bath going?" said Sirius with a huge smile. Lily was one of the… no wait, the hottest girl in Hogwarts history, let alone the smartest and nicest.

She turned back over to the James' side. "I'm really close to having 7 years of bad luck." Lily sighed. "You better do as I say. Close your eyes. Sirius is getting covered up. Who knows what would happen if I left him face up? I'd probably have pics taken."

James turned behind him seeing Sirius grabbing his cameras. "I think you're right. Here I'll put my mirror in my pocket. Just call my name when you're ready."

Sirius came up behind James and jumped on him. Lily watched the mirror turn a dark color figuring he had put it in his pocket. James picked the mirror off the black floor. Lily had laid the mirror behind her and wrapped the towel around her already. James eyes almost fell out of his head, as did Sirius'. James shoved the mirror into his pocket before Sirius could get his camera.

"Common Prongs. Just one picture of the pretty girl! You can have a copy!" Sirius pleaded trying to wrestle the mirror out of James' pocket.

Lily heard all this and was cracking up laughing on the bathroom floor. She was all dressed but it was funny listening to them.

"No Sirius! Show some respect!"

sound of door opening

"What's going on?" Remus' voice called.

"Lily dressing!" said Sirius.

"Shut up."

sound of Remus trying to get to mirror

Lily grabbed the mirror and ran with her stuff towards the tower. She ran into the common room and sprinted up to her dorm and dropped off her stuff. She them rushed over to the 6th year boys dorm. She opened the door. "What's going on?" she asked politely.

"LILY DRESSING!" screamed Sirius and Remus. It was quite a sight to see. James was being tackled and jumped on as Remus and Sirius struggled to get into James' pocket. It was a mix of legs and arms and hair and every body part. It took a moment for them to recognize the voice then all movement stopped. All heads turned to Lily. "Hi Lily!" said all the boys including Peter who was sitting on his bed watching the battle.

Lily picked out the Mirror from her pocket and said "James." James took the mirror out of his pocket. "Thanks." She kissed the mirror where James check had appeared, through the mirror at Remus, and walked out, leaving the smell of the prefect's bathroom behind her.

James was in total shock. "She kissed me! Sort of." A smile lit his face and he skipped out of the dorm room with his friends staring at his back. He was VERY love sick, and they didn't want it any other way.

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What do you think? Short but sweet. I liked my little funny thing. Just so you know, Lily has known about Remus being a werewolf since second year when she read the 3rd year DADA book for fun.

I want to thank my reviewers and ask for more reviews. No clue what to write next. Wish me luck!

Melissa