A/N: Ok. I know my story doesn't quite live up to my summery but it will. Thanks to those of you who reviewed! I will try to make this chappy longer because my last one was really, really short.

Disclaimer: I own Richard Troder, Amelia Dunkin, and Gregory Thomas. They are minor characters though, so I really don't own anything.

Chapter Two:

'Lily,' Emmeline looked at Lily, her brown eyes glittering with sympathy. 'He was just trying to talk.'

'Right,' Lily said sarcastically, 'just wants to talk. Then how come every time we do talk it ends up with him asking me out?'

Lily collected a flask full of the bright orange glob that was residing in her cauldron.

'I'd be flattered.' Marlene chimed in.

Alice didn't look at any of them and muttered 'Scorgify' so that all the orange contents in her cauldron disappeared and left it sparkling. Alice, who had a boyfriend who graduated two years ago, had not said one word about any guy in 7th year since he left. She also stayed up most nights writing endless letters to him and complained to them about him not being there.

Lily sighed and packed up her things before leaving the classroom with the other three. Marlene, seeing the look on Lily's face, said, 'Let's change the subject.'

Lily followed her friends out of the dungeon and she wondered why they were taking James' side all of a sudden. Why did Emmeline look so sympathetic when she had stuck up for him?

She found her seat next to Marlene and sat down for her Transfiguration lesson. James was sitting at the other end of the classroom muttering something to Sirius and smiling. Did he really know what time the meeting was? Was she overreacting? Did he think that she was this rude and sarcastic...?

!WAIT!

Since when did she care about what James thought of her?! She didn't! She couldn't!

Throughout the lesson Lily had to force herself to look at her parchment instead of James.

Lily began to feel scared about how much Potter was intruding on her mind. Was he looking at her? Was he paying attention in class? Why was she wondering all of a sudden about what he was doing?

Lily snapped out of her trance when Professor McGonagall asked Lily an unexpected question. Lily blushed as Professor McGonagall suggested that she pay attention to her class and for the rest of the period, Lily made sure to pay attention and not allow anymore embarrassment from McGonagall.

By the end of the day (which was a long and stressful transition from summer) Lily had completely forgotten about James until she realized that she was suppose to be at the Headmasters office in less than five minutes. She cursed and quickly left the common-room, praying that she had not missed anything important.

When she reached Dumbledore's office, James was already sitting down, looking blankly around the room. Lily had been in the Headmasters office before, she had been a prefect, and it seemed James had also been there before, but for different reasons. Lily apologized to Professor Dumbledore and took a seat next to James, feeling foolish for being late for her first instructions.

Lily wished she had a quill with her. All the responsibilities Dumbledore went through seemed to be swarming around her as she tried to make mental notes of all the things she was required to help with. Her mind, however, went blank when the Professor said something unexpected.

'You are to patrol the corridors every evening from nine till ten checking for any misbehaving or out-of-bed students...'

Lily had heard that the Head Boy and Girl had patrol duties, but that had slipped her mind. Any weak-in-the-knees feelings she had had before towards Potter quickly vanished. Spending an entire hour walking around the school every night with Potter was beginning to sound unbearable. She could be catching up with homework or something... And would he STOP RUNNIG HIS HANDS THROUGH HIS HAIR?! Lily watched James with disgust as he absentmindedly ran his fingers through his hair for the fifth time during this meeting.

Finally, the Headmaster had finished his speech and Lily and James began walking back to Gryffindor Tower. James was silent the entire time. Lily was even madder at him for being quiet. She was back in her bad mood and she would have loved to tell him off for something, but he did not give her anything to criticize, which made her hate him even more.

When they approached the Girl and Boy Dormitories James said good night and headed up to his sleeping quarters and left Lily fuming silently at him for being such a gentleman.

James was in a good mood. Quidditch try-outs were in the afternoon and the weather was perfect and Lily had not yelled at him within fourteen hours. The only thing, it seemed, that was keeping his morning far from perfect was the fact that his best friend kept asking him the same question over and over and over again.

'So...?'

'So...what?' James asked, tearing his eyes away from his plate to look at Sirius.

'You said yesterday that you would try to reason with her, you know, ask her what you did wrong and apologize.'

'And...?' James asked looking down at his plate. He had been quiet the previous night and had not apologized. He was torn between feeling guilty that he had not apologized, and his pride that he had been able to keep his mouth shut all the way back to the common-room, without asking her out.

'You're bloody impossible!' Sirius was losing his patience. He had been asking James the entire morning and James had yet to answer him fully.

James continued eating his toast, ignoring Sirius. He did not know why he wasn't talking to Sirius about it. After all, it wasn't that big of a deal.

Sirius groaned and looked over at Lily. She didn't look as mad as she had yesterday. Maybe James had apologized, he thought.

'Fine,' Sirius grumbled, 'I'll just ask her...'

'It's not that big of a deal.'

Sirius snorted, 'Why won't you tell me then?'

'Fine. We didn't talk about anything. I just said goodnight to her when she headed up to her dorm.'

Sirius raised his eyebrows, 'Is she still mad at you then?'

James shrugged. Was she?

'Why didn't you apologize? Just last night you were going on about how you didn't want her to be mad at you at the beginning of the year...'

'She was in a bad mood.' James reasoned. 'I just thought it would be better if I was just quiet.'

Sirius sighed. James, annoyed, did not know why. '...Anyway,' Sirius said changing the subject, 'Beautiful day for Quidditch!'

That afternoon James strode out to the Quidditch field along with the other members of the team. They had lost two members the previous year one chaser and a keeper. The number of people who had signed up to try-out was great; each would have been eager and proud to play for James' team.

The first try-out was by a small third year named Richard Troder. He was not that great, considering that Marlene (A/N: she's a chaser) scored multiple goals and he seemed scared of the high speed quaffle when it was coming straight towards him. James was kind to the boy and said politely, "Maybe next year," not mentioning that next year he would leave Hogwarts, no longer being captain.

However, two very talented witches seemed good enough for chaser and James had difficulty choosing one of them. In the end, he chose Amelia Dunkin as chaser and Gregory Thomas as Keeper. Both seemed up to scratch with the rules and certainly had great talent. James had no doubts that with some training, his new team could win the upcoming match against Slytherin with ease. He walked back to the castle, grinning.

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