"James wait up." Lily tells him. He keeps walking down the alley. "Come on James, let me explain."
"Why should I?" he asks. He walks faster. Lily runs to catch up. (Why does she hate me, he wonders, I haven't done anything to her). Lily reaches him.
"Stop." she says. She moves in front of him and grabs his shoulders so he can't move. "James come on, I don't hate you."
"Then why did you say you did?" James asks. I'm so mad right now, I shouldn't have to deal with all this stress, he tells himself. He looks away from her and sees Sirius and Eloise coming.
"I'm sorry, I was mad. I have a problem with saying things I don't mean when I'm mad." Lily says. "James, what you said was pig-headed and arrogant. James, I'm sorry."
"Fine Lils, whatever. Sirius and Eloise are coming."
"James…" Lily says. Sirius and Eloise reach them.
"Guys are you still fighting?" Eloise asks them. They shake their heads. "So where to next then?"
"Gringotts." Lily says.
"Lils I told you, we're not going there. My parents are paying." James tells her again.
"Fine." she says. Why's he being so pig-headed again, she wonders. Eloise shakes her head. Those two are going to get together; they're perfect for each other, she thinks. They go to a small café not far down the street. They find a table and Lily, Sirius and Eloise sit down. James goes to the counter and orders four Butterbeers. He goes back to the table and hands everyone their drinks. He sits beside Lily. Eloise and Sirius start making out right there at the table.
"Get a room." James says to them. He turns to Lily when they don't say anything. "God they can be annoying."
"Look who's talking Potter." she jokes with him. "Hey, what time is it?" Lily noticed that it was getting a little dark out. James looks at his watch.
"5:00. Crap, I told my mom we'd be home for supper." he tells Lily. He turns to Sirius and Eloise again. "Guy's we gotta go…guys?" He shakes his head. James smacks Sirius over the head. Eloise and Sirius break apart.
"What was that for?" he asks James. James shakes his head and laughs, Lily giggles. Eloise looks at her.
"We gotta go mate, told my mom we'd be home for supper."
"Ok Prongs. We should get going too." Sirius tells him. Lily gives James a look. Why did he call him Prongs, she wondered. James laughs. They all get up and Lily and James go one way, and Sirius and Eloise go the other.
"So Lils, what was that look for back there?" James asks Lily. Does she know bout us, he asks himself. She couldn't unless…wait did she see us? He remembers one full moon when he, Sirius and Peter helped Remus when he changed into a werewolf.
Flashback
Remus was under the Shrieking Shack already. James, Sirius and Peter were under James' invisibility cloak. They snuck out of school at night to go visit Remus, again. James thought that he saw someone standing by the school, but shook his head. No one's allowed out her at night, it's just a shadow of a plant or something, he thought, my eyes are playing tricks on me. They reached the Whomping Willow and James threw off the cloak. They all changed into their animagi, James was a stag, Sirius was a dog, and Peter was a rat. Peter went and prodded the stub at the bottom of the tree and a hatch opened. They all crawled in and went down to Remus.
End Flashback
"No reason James." she tells him. Crap, I can't tell him I know, Lily thinks, what would happen if I did? Wait does he know I know?
"Ok."
"Wait…actually there is a reason. But you probably know already."
"Maybe, but what was your reason?" James asks. She knows, what will I tell Remus?
"I know about you and Sirius and Peter." Lily says. She and James reach their point. They use floo powder and go pack to Potter Manor. James pulls her up to his room before she can say anything. He wants to make sure no one can hear them talking. When they get in he sits her down in a chair by the fire.
"You know?" he asks. Lily nods. "You can't tell anyone about this Lils. We'll get into so much trouble. No one was supposed to ever find out."
"But James animagi? You're not registered; you guys are doing this illegally. Why do you keep doing things like this? Doing all this shit for the fun of it, nothing else was illegal though, I couldn't believe you were animagi."
"Listen Lils you have no idea why we did that…"
"Then why? If you're doing something illegal then you must have a really, really good reason. Or you could just be really, really stupid. Which is it?" Lily asks him. James looks at her seriously. Should I tell her, would Remus tell her? Would he mind if I told her, James wonders.
"We have a really good reason, we do. I just don't know if I can tell you. I would be betraying a friend and I can't do that."
"You don't mind spilling anyone else's secrets." Lily says angrily. She remembers when, in first year, she told James a secret and he told everyone. He yelled it out in the Great Hall at supper one night. That night was the night I first started hating him, she remembers.
"How many times do I have to apologize for that? I've told you so many times, I didn't know that was a secret. I thought that you wanted to know about your family. I don't see why you wanted to hide that your uncle was the great George Monty." James tells her. Lily's uncle was the most famous wizard singer in the history of wizardry (like the Beatles, but wizards).
"Everyone kept coming up to me after that asking if I could get his signature for them. I didn't even know about him being so famous until you blabbed it to everyone. I thought that he a bum, even after he knew I was a witch he didn't tell me. I was so angry at you for that. I thought that you would keep it to yourself."
"I'm sorry; no one remembers that now anyways. Can't you just forget about that?"
"Tell me your secret, I won't tell anyone. Is it about Remus?"
"How did you guess? Ok, do you promise you won't tell anyone, this is a huge secret?" Lily nods. She looks confused. What could be so big, she wonders. James' voice goes down to a whisper, "Remus is a werewolf." Lily is shocked, Why didn't I put two and two together, I mean I'm top of the class in most of my classes, she thinks. James looks at her. Oh crap, she won't be able to keep this to herself. She'll tell Jenna, I shouldn't have told her. Why, why, why? Oh yeah, I can't explain why I do anything with Lily, he tells himself. "Lils…you won't tell anyone will you?"
"No…of course not. I can't believe it. I mean I see all the clues now. I can't believe I didn't put two and two together. Wow…So Sirius, Peter and you help Remus on the full moons." Lily says. I didn't know they could be so nice and sweet. She yawns. She looks tired, James thinks.
"Yeah." He says and looks away from Lily. Nothing is said for a bit. James looks over at Lily, she's asleep. She looks so peaceful, he thinks, she'll be uncomfortable when she wakes up. Maybe I should move her. James gets up from the seat he was in. He goes and picks Lily up in his arms and starts carrying her into her room. The second they enter the room Lily wakes up. She groggily puts her arms around his neck and kisses him. "Lils if you wanted to kiss me all you had to do was say so."
"You're full of yourself." She yawns. Lily doesn't tell James to put her down; she doesn't remove her arms from his neck, James doesn't put her down. Why do I kiss him when I wake up? I don't mean to. It's probably just because my defences are down; I don't know what I'm doing. Or do I?. James lays her down on the bed. He starts to leave. "James…" she calls him back. He turns around.
"Yeah?" he asks.
"Do you think my dad could find me here? I don't want him to; he might make me go home." Lily says. James shakes his head.
"He won't find you here. Do you want to have supper up here, you seem really tired." He asks. She nods. He goes downstairs and tells the house-elves. By the time he gets back to Lily's room she's asleep. He starts to leave again. Lily flares around, she seems like she's in distress. She whimpers, James turns around and goes to the bed. He sits beside her and holds Lily immobile so that she doesn't hurt herself. The second he touches her Lily stops flaring and whimpering. He holds her until he falls asleep too. It's only about 7:00 pm, but they both had a rough day.