Okay, let's look on the bright side. It took me less than a year to update! Yeah! Go me! And now I'm going to apologize as I duck flying hexes for having taken so much time to update. Also, I would like to say that I had quite a bit of this written before my computer got a virus and deleted all of my files. Also, this was a very hard chapter to write because the characters are starting to act a little differently, so I was afraid that would be out of character (it was really hard to keep them in character), and this is the first chapter that Peter actually is in. And I promise that I will post the chapter in less than 12 months. Thanks to everyone who's reading this!!!!! You may want to go back and read the previous chapter so you can remember what is happening (James got in a fight with Anna and Remus).

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Chapter 13

Remus and Anna's words were still ringing in James's ears when he entered the Common Room. 'She hates you!' 'She's using you!' 'Don't you think her memory should be back by now? 'All those lies that she told him! Before, James had always considered Anna to be the nicest of Lily, Max, and Anna, but now she seemed to be the worst. And why was Remus sticking up for her? 'She hates you!' 'She's using you!' 'Don't you think her memory should be back by now?' Why wasn't her memory back by now? Was it common in memory loss to regain a little right away, and then have long periods before the rest comes back? What would Lily do when it came back? And would it be better to tell her before she found out?

During all of his thoughts, new ones pushed their way up to James's mind. James was now thinking of what it had been like when he and Lily were friends, and what is was like to be with her now. They'd been getting along so well, and they really seemed to like each other. Would this be enough to make Lily forgive him when she got her memory back?

"No," James admitted aloud, shocked that he had done so.

"First sign of insanity is talking to yourself. What's wrong, Prongs?" James looked up and saw that Sirius was now sitting in the chair next to him.

"I was thinking about," James began, but stopped quickly and decided to ask Sirius a question instead, "have you seen Remus and Anna lately?"

"Do you usually give that much thought about where Remus and Ani are?" Sirius asked smiling.

"They're probably off doing something we don't want to know about," came another new voice.

"Wormtail?" Sirius asked sounding shocked. "When did you get here?"

"I've been here the whole time," he said looking slightly offended, and then he added curiously, "Why do you want to know where Anna and Remus are?"

"I saw them earlier," James replied with a strange look on his face.

"If you know where they are then why did you ask?" Peter asked curiously.

"Peter, you idiot, they might have moved!" said Sirius as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"No, I don't want to know where they are," James told them, and quickly continued before either one of them could say something else. "I just wanted to know if you've talked to them lately."

"No," responded Sirius looking interested. "Why?"

"I ran into them earlier, and they seem to think that Lily has her memory back, and she's still dating me because it's all part of some huge prank," James said bitterly.

"They might be right, Prongs. I'm not saying that they are," he added seeing the look on James's face. "But Lily didn't really like you that much until not too long ago. And you know her best friend is Max, and she's like the evil, psycho queen."

"Yeah," Peter agreed. "And things really would not be looking too bright if Lily has her memory back, and knows that you lied to her."

"I didn't lie to Lily!" James protested furiously. "Sirius did!"

"What did Sirius do?" asked a voice that didn't belong to Peter, Sirius or James.

James, Sirius and Peter looked up at the new speaker and noticed that Lily and Max had just entered the Common Room.

"What did you do, Sirius?" Max asked again in a more persistent voice, this time directly addressing Sirius.

"I haven't done anything," Sirius replied pretending to look shocked and offended.

"Lily, were you in the library earlier today?" James asked suddenly turning his head and looking directly into her eyes.

"No," she said quickly, averting his gaze for a second, but then looking back at him. "Max and I stole some food from the kitchens, and went up to the Owlery. Why?"

"I was looking for you earlier, and I thought you might be there," James responded hurriedly, still looking at Lily's face. He was wondering what it would be like when she got her memory back. Would she be more angry or hurt? Would she want revenge? How would she act towards him?

"Lily," said James suddenly. "I need to talk with you. Do you want to take a walk?"

"Alright," replied Lily looking a little shocked, but walking with James out of the Common Room nonetheless.

The two of them walked randomly around the halls in a sort of awkward silence for a few minutes until Lily broke the silence.

"What did you want to talk about?" questioned Lily, trying to hide the apprehension that she was feeling.

James did not answer Lily right away he was seemed to be thinking about what to say next. "Do you remember when we were in the hospital wing, and you asked me why I was nervous when I asked if you regained any of your memory?"

"Yes," Lily responded slowly, clearly wondering where this was going.

"Then Sirius came in, and," James started, but was cut off by Lily.

"James, I remember," she said a little sharply. "What did you want to tell me?"

"We weren't dating before then. We weren't even friends," James told her, stopping suddenly to see her reaction, expecting her to say something instead of staring at him with a stunned expression on her face (as she was doing now). "That's why I was nervous. I was afraid that you were going to be mad at me when you got your memory back."

Lily finally seemed to have found her voice and managed to stutter out the words, "Why didn't you say anything before now?"

"I guess, I was just afraid that you would be angry, and you would hate me even more then you did before you lost your memory. And Sirius was," James was saying so quickly that he did not hear Lily repeat Sirius's name as though she had just understood something.

"Sirius was telling the truth when he said that we got into a fight at the end of third year, but we never did make up. And I am sorry that I didn't tell you the truth sooner."

"James, I," Lily tried to cut in with the look of shock on her face increasing each second.

"No, Lily, let me finish. I really am sorry, and if you don't want to date anymore, I understand. But..." James let the last sentence trail off, and looked at Lily expectantly for several minutes. "You can say something now."

But Lily didn't say anything. She just stared at James with that same look of shock, as she opened and closed her mouth wordlessly.

"I thought as much," replied James to her silence, with sadness in his voice and face. Feeling defeated, James turned around and walked as fast as legs would take him, and did not stop until he was safely back in the dormitory and in bed.

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