Chapter 3

POV: James

Sirius walked over to the table, "I don't know what just happened," he whispered, "But... I have to talk to you about Lily. You are so overprotective, soon she'll be going for other guys."

"I already know about Snape," James whispered back, "Let's get out of here, everyone's still staring."

The two walked out of the great hall and Sirius started shouting, "James, I can't believe you! I'm Lily's only friend right now! She has no girlfriends, because all the other girls are jealous that she's gorgeous and has you, and now she doesn't have you! And it's all your fault! The girl is practically friendless... unless you count darling Severus."

"I never questioned her until now, because Lucius told me she was sneaking around with Severus," James exclaimed.

"You should feel real guilty, Potter," Sirius exclaimed and stormed off.

POV: Lily

"He hasn't apologized yet," I cried to Sirius a week after the scene in the great hall.

"I haven't talked to him either, if that helps. He's really unhappy and eventually he'll have to apologize," Sirius said.

"It doesn't help either that the Hogsmede weekend was terrible."

"What did you think, Snape can romance a girl? Giving him a galleon to kiss you in front of James worked, but the thing is that Snape didn't want to stop," Sirius said with a laugh.

"I hit him on the head with my money bag and he swore at me. That's when I found you and then James came over with Peter and you know the rest..."

"I do know that, let's go to the great hall for dinner."

"Can you bring me up something? I don't want to talk to Lucius, Snape, or James."

"Fine," Sirius said to me and walked out of the portrait hole.

I climbed the staircase up to Sirius' dormitory and sat down on his bed. James opened the door and was about to turn around, but changed his mind. He walked slowly in and sat on his bed so that he was facing me.

"Lily," he said.

"James," I said coldly.

"Are you and Severus an item?" James asked.

"No," I said, "We didn't have much in common."

"Oh," James said. "Well, erm..."

"Are you going to say something or just babble on?"

"I just wanted to say..."

"What?" I asked. "I'm waiting for Sirius to bring me some food. Have you talked to him, both of us think ill of you at the moment."

"Look, erm... I'm... erm... sorry..." James said in a strange voice.

"Oh?" I said in a cool voice, "It took you a week to say that?"

"Yes," James said.

"Well, I guess I could..."

"What?"

"Forgive you."

James jumped right off the bed and kissed me. He gave me a huge grin and skipped out the door.

"Guessing you forgave, James?" Sirius said, walking through the door. He handed me two pieces of bread and a chicken leg. They were wrapped neatly in a napkin and I looked at Sirius.

"Wow, Sirius, you are quite a little folder," I said.

"Oh, golly gee, miss, you're too kind," Sirius said, pretending to be embarrassed.

"I bet in 30 years there will be two boys at Hogwarts, who do more pranks then you and James," I said.

"Yeah, and they'll have orange hair and be beaters on the Gryffindor Quidditch team," Sirius said.