Hey everyone! Sorry if it's taken me awhile to update but I've been out of town for two and a half weeks. So I haven't really had the chance to type up this new chapter. Sorry again. Oh, and one more quick note this is the LAST chapter. And I have an epilogue that I'll post and I'll answer any questions that you may have in it.

Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling, and James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Hogwarts, and so on do not belong to me. The only things that I do own are the characters Max and Anna.

Chapter 16

"James!" gasped Lily. She was completely taken aback. Lily felt a flooding sensation of despair go through her. This was it. James was going to break up with her! He would never speak to her again! He probably wouldn't even look at her after this! Why hadn't she just told him the truth like Anna had told her to?!

"You forgot your Charms notes," said James with his voice shaking as he held them up, and Lily could see that his hands were also shaking rather violently.

"James," Lily began looking at her feet as a tear coursed down her cheek. She couldn't bear to look him in the eyes. His beautiful hazel eyes! He would never look at her the same way with them again, and the tears fell harder down the sides of her face.

"One hell of an actress, aren't you Lils?" he spat venomously at her.

"No, James! It wasn't act!" sobbed Lily softly, but James hadn't seemed to have heard her.

"You were going to dump me tomorrow at the Quidditch Cup! You were going to humiliate me, and," James paused as realization dawned upon him. "And Remus and Anna were right! You've been planning this all along! You've had your memory back for months!"

Lily nodded still crying, and unable to say anything. James felt sick and humiliated. Why had he just told Lily that he loved her? She'd probably been laughing at him she left the Common Room.

"I told you I loved you, Lily!" shouted James and as hard as he was trying he could not disguise the pain and sorrow in his voice.

"I love you too," choked Lily through her tears, finally looking him in the eyes, and saw that they were wet too.

"No, you don't," said James shakily as Lily, but slowly becoming steadier. "And I'll save you the trouble of breaking up with me tomorrow. It's over, Lily."

Lily opened her mouth to say something...anything in her defense. But James had already turned around and was heading back to the Common Room at a rapid pace. Lily followed him through the Common Room and up to the Boy's Dormitory, completely unaware that the entire Common Room's eyes were on them as she followed him up the stairs.

"You're not supposed to be in here, Lily," James said coolly.

"Since when do you care about the rules?" asked Lily unevenly attempting a small smile but it faltered at the look on James's face.

"I mean it, Lily. Leave," said James turning around to stare out the window, as he felt his eyes begin to water and burn. He wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of knowing that she had ever meant anything to him. He hated everything about her at the moment, but it was mingled with love. And James had never been feeling more angry and confused then he did at that very moment.

"I'm sorry, James," cried Lily.

"That you got caught, you mean! You're sorry that you got caught, and didn't have the chance to humiliate me!" said James bitterly.

"No, that's not it," sobbed Lily.

"Oh! Then you're sorry you had to date me for so long, is that it?" asked James turning around, his resolution not to look at her giving away.

"No, James!" Lily pleaded.

"Evans, will you leave me alone. You got your wish; you've played the best prank ever. I don't want to see you anymore. Leave, Evans."

Lily felt a terrible lurch in her stomach as James called her by her last name. She stared at James for a few seconds before leaving the Boy's Dormitory aware that whole Common Room's eyes were on her, and could see her tear-streamed face. She rushed up to her own dormitory, got into bed, and pulled the hangings shut. She didn't feel like answering any questions tonight.

Although Lily woke up quite early the next morning she stayed in bed until she was sure that everyone was at the Quidditch match. She was quite surprised when she saw that Anna was sitting on the floor next to her bed on the other side of the dormitory.

"I was wondering when you were going to wake up," said Anna with a distant voice rivaled only by the look in her eyes.

Lily sat up thoroughly wishing that Anna had just gone to the Quidditch match. Lily didn't feel up to talking to anyone right now.

"Don't you want to watch Remus in the Quidditch match?" asked Lily hoping that Anna would get the hint and leave. Last night kept playing over and over again in Lily's head. She could feel her eyes stinging and burning.

"He won't miss me," said Anna, her voice breaking slightly.

"Does the whole school know?" asked Lily suddenly.

"You know what rumors are like at Hogwarts. They spread like wildfire," said Anna sadly.

"Yeah," said Lily dully, feeling oddly numb. "James hates me, doesn't he?"

"No," lied Anna. "He's just feels angry because you lied to him, so he really thinks that you hate him."

"I love him," said Lily softly.

"I know. I tried to tell him that last night. I told him about our conversation we had a few months ago. Then him and Remus and all them got mad at me. They thought that I knew the whole time," finished Anna her voice breaking again. Lily looked over at her and saw that her eyes were red and swollen. Lily then realized that she had been crying the while time that they had been talking.

"I'm sorry," Lily began hopelessly. It was bad enough that she had ruined hers and James relationship, but Anna didn't deserve to suffer too.

"Sirius broke up with Max last night after he found out. She seemed a little shocked," commented Anna quietly.

"I'm sorry. Remus shouldn't have broken up with you because of me," apologized Lily.

"It's fine," said Anna. "At least there's only one week of school left."

"Yeah, one week," muttered Lily as tears poured down her face.

That one week of Hogwarts was the longest Lily ever faced. Lily didn't think that she had cried as much in her entire life as she did in that last week of school. Her only friend was Anna now because Max was angry at her for falling love with James, and James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were angry at her for lying to James.

The whole school seemed to know exactly what happened, and Lily now had to endure snide remarks, or be completely ignored. However, Lily preferred it when people would make rude comments. Because they took her mind off what had happened that night which was all that ever entered her mind anymore. That night kept replaying over and over again in her head, and ways she could've made it better during the days. And the nights were no better. For every night Lily found herself plagued by the same dream of what had happened that night.

Every day Lily kept looking for an opportunity to talk with James privately. But every time she saw him he was either accompanied by Sirius, Remus, Peter, or (much to Lily's disgust) a girl that Lily knew to be a sixth year Ravenclaw.

"He doesn't really like her," Anna told Lily consolingly as James and the Ravenclaw girl passed their compartment on the train as they were heading home. "He loves you, Lily. I know he does!"

"Well, it's working. I was supposed to spend the summer with him." complained Lily grumpily. Although she felt slightly guilty because she knew that Anna had to be going through just as much pain as she was.

"You still could," said Anna thoughtfully.

"What am I supposed to do? Show up on his doorstep, and say "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Potter, I'm your son's ex-girlfriend, and I only started dating him as part of a prank, but now I'm in love with him?" suggested Lily sarcastically.

"You may want to leave out the part about the prank," said Anna with a weak smile.

"Ha ha. Very funny," said Lily remembering the time that James had said the exact same thing to her and Sirius. "Do you have a plan?"

"Well, let's hear it then," came Max's voice. Lily and Anna looked up, surprised to see her standing in the doorway.

"I'm sorry, you guys. I shouldn't have tried to force you to dump James, and I should have been more supportive. And you were right about Sirius, Lily. I do care about him," admitted Max grudgingly, as she sat down next to Lily.

"Max apologized, admitted she liked Sirius, and Lily fell in love with James Potter! This has been the craziest year ever," said commented Anna.

"Yeah," agreed Lily with her first smile in a week. "You had a plan, Ani?"

"Well, not so much a plan as a vague concept," said Anna hazily.

"You had a vague concept then, Anna?" asked Max smirking.

"Well, why don't we just find James and try and explain what happened. Then they start dating again, and Lily spends the summer with him."

"Or if that doesn't work, we could stun him, kidnap him, use the Imperius Curse to force him to date Lily until she's bored and dumps him, or she wants to marry him," suggested Max.

"Or we could do it the way that isn't illegal, and won't land us a cell in Azkaban," remarked Anna dryly.

"That's less fun though," said Max sulkily crossing her arms.

"I think I prefer Anna's way actually," said Lily. "I'm going to go find James."

"Why?" asked Max who was now standing up looking out the compartment.

"Have you not been listening?" asked Lily incredulously.

"No. I mean he's coming this way," said Max.

"Really?" asked Lily jumping to her feet and saw that James was coming towards them. And this time, thankfully he was alone.

"James, can I talk to you?" Lily asked as he approached.

"We've already had this conversation, Evans," said James coldly.

Lily flinched at James calling her by her last name again, but didn't let it shake her. She was going to tell James the truth. She was going to make him understand what had happened.

"You said a lot of things, James. I don't recall me getting to say much," replied Lily very aware that Max and Anna were still standing there.

"Max, don't we have to..." Anna trailed off as she got out of her seat.

"Right," said Max catching on. "Remember if Anna's plan doesn't work we can always use the Imperius Curse."

"She was joking about the Imperius Curse, I think," said Lily nervously.

James simply folded his arms, and said, "You said you had something to say, was that it?"

"No," said Lily feeling slightly annoyed. "James, it's just... how did you fell when you found out that I lied to you?"

"How do you think I felt, Lily?! I trusted you! I love you!" James shouted as he felt his temper rising.

"And how do you think I felt when I found out that you lied to me in the Hospital Wing?" yelled Lily so loudly that she was sure that the people in the next compartment over had heard her.

"I told you the truth," hissed James.

"It took you long enough! I already had my memory back when you said it," ranted Lily passionately.

James looked rather taken aback by this new piece of information. "Why didn't you say anything? Why did you say that you wanted to keep dating me?"

"Because I was still planning on dumping you then," said Lily irritably.

"I knew it!" shouted James with a voice so icy that it could have froze water.

"You don't know anything, James Potter. It started out that way and then something changed!"

"What changed?" asked James, his voice much warmer than it had been earlier.

"Remember what I said last week in the Common Room? I meant it," Lily told him heatedly.

"You love Sirius?" James asked smiling playfully at Lily. Her heart gave a giant leap. It felt so good to see James smile at her like that again.

Lily laughed and said, "James, you prat, I love you."

"I love you too," he said right before he pulled Lily as close as he possibly could to him and kissing her passionately.

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