POV: Lily

"James!" Sirius exclaimed, "didn't see you there!" Sirius stood up and walked over to James. Sirius muttered something into James ear, but I did hear Sirius mutter, "She's all yours."

"James, did you apologize to Snape?" I asked. "I know that's like apologizing to Malfoy, but I said only if you apologized."

"I did," James said. "Do you still have to go to the owlery?"

"I never had to," I said slowly. "Just one of my little tricks to get you to apologize. James, why exactly do you do those things because of boredom? You should only do that sort of thing if you're defending yourself or someone else!"

"I've always tried, he just never seemed to tell me off for it, so I thought he liked being humiliated," James said.

"James!" I exclaimed. "You are just so funny. Funny looking."

"And your just so gorgeous. Gorgeous looking," James said.

I groaned and said, "Do you ever give up?"

"No," he said with a wide grin. "Shall I walk you to the common room?"

"If you must," I said and linked arms with him. From that moment on, James and I weren't seen separated and I hung out with his friends Sirius, Remus, and Peter Pettigrew.

POV: James

Lily, Sirius, Remus, Peter, and I walked down the streets of Hogsmede. Lily was holding my hand and pointed at silly things going on, while Sirius made faces every time Lily giggled. Remus was laughing at what Lily said and then Sirius' faces. Peter just followed us, like usual.

The five of us walked to a park nearby and Sirius took out a flattened pie tin. "I nicked it from the kitchens. It actually is very fun to toss around. Remus and I discovered this when we stole a pie from the three broomsticks," he said and gave Remus a huge grin.

"That sounds fun," Peter said.

"We probably shouldn't wear our robes, since we have classes tomorrow," Lily said and took off her robe. She straightened out her skirt and jumper. The rest of us took off our robes and formed a circle. Sirius tossed the tin at me and I caught it in a run. My tie was flying all over the place and the group were laughing. I tossed the tin at Peter who missed and scrambled to get it. He threw it at Remus and Remus groaned.

"Could you throw any worse, Peter?" Remus asked and tossed the tin at Lily. She caught it and threw it right at me and I easily caught it.

POV: Lily

"Above your cauldron you should have a silvery mist rising. We should have learned the Drought of Peace earlier, but we had too much to do," the potions master, Professor Albert said. "I'm going to be testing these potions on you all, so, hopefully each of you have done a good job. Ms. Evans here seems to be the only one who has appeared to do this. Why Malfoy, you can stay late and redo yours if you would like."

"Yes, Professor Albert," Lucius Malfoy said. Lucius Malfoy gathered his long silvery blonde hair and smiled at Narcissa Black. Narcissa raised her eyebrows and grinned.

"Miss Black, this is N.E.W.T. level Potions, not Love Potions, get back to work," Professor Albert exclaimed.

"I hate my cousin," Sirius whispered to me. James dropped potions sixth year, so Sirius and I usually sat together. "She helps add the bad reputation to the black family. It's bad enough who my parents are..."

I smiled at Sirius and whispered back, "You're the only decent member in your family."

"I'm just decent?" Sirius asked jokingly.

"Sirius, you're excellent!" I said and Professor Albert turned around.

"Mr. Black, you're excellent?" Professor Albert said.

"Why yes, sir, I am!" Sirius said with a laugh.

Professor Albert laughed along and then glared, "Back to work, Black, Evans."

Lucius scribbled a note on a piece of paper and blew it over to me. The paper unfolded and I stared. Lucius had written, "Potter won't be too happy that you're flirting with his best mate, will he? Wait until I tell him." I showed Sirius the note and he scowled.

"This is the last time Lucius or Snape tries to ruin my friendship with James." I looked at Sirius and groaned.

POV: James

"Oh, of course, Lucius. I should definitely believe you when you say my girlfriend is cheating on me with my best friend," I said and gave him a look.

"Maybe you shouldn't have given up Potions... then you would open your eyes and see that Severus Snape and Evans have been sneaking around," Lucius. "Black doesn't even have any idea. Your black, not mine," Lucius added with a sneer.

"What?" I asked myself when Lucius walked away from my house table. Lily entered the great hall and was shooing someone away.

She jogged over and sat next to me.

"So?" I said.

"So, what?" Lily asked.

"Who were you talking to out there?"

"It's none of your business who I talk to!" Lily exclaimed angrily.

"As long as it wasn't Severus Snape, I don't care," I said.
"So what if it was, Severus Snape," she exclaimed, "It's none of your business!!"

"It was Snape?!?"

"It was!" Lily exclaimed. "And if you would like to know, he's taking me to Hogsmede next Saturday!"

"What?" James said quietly.

"You have been so suspicious lately, I'm fed up!" Lily practically screamed and heads turned.