A/N: I had serious writer's block with Beyound Unseeing Eyes, and I my mind kept wandering to this story. Don't worry, I am half way through my last chapter of B.U.E but I just needed to start this story.

I am looking for a beta reader so if your intrested... e-mail me.

Disclaimer: Own nothing but Marie and Parish... and a fire cracker. :D

Summery: James seemed to turn his attitude toward life around, and Lily has finally given him a chance. Yet her Chance come with a hitch, he must live seven days without any dates. Can James keep his cool, or will Lily finally play Hogarts' former player.

Seven Days Without You

"Next?"

"Potions... you?"

"Transfiguration... Advanced."

"Ouch."

The two girls walked down the hall, their arms full of books, smiles on their faces, moving with the crowd. Lily Evans shuffled her books together and moved her thick aburn hair over her shoulder, as she frowned toward her Irish friend, Marie Pratt.

"Ouch is right. I have to take it with James Potter."

Marie winced, not because she was sorry for Lily's situation, but because of the tone of voice she used saying Potter's name.

"Why do you hate him so much?" she asked knowing it was a useless question, but asking it all the same. Lily stepped around a second year as they made their way toward the stairs, bringing Lily in front of Marie for a few moments.

"Because He's arrogant, self-centered, stuck up, rude, and- Maire Pratt! Are you making fun of me!?" Marie, who had been mouthing Lily's words mockingly behind Lily's back, covered her face with her book, her blue eyes twinkling with laughter over the top of it.

"I'm sorry!" she giggled with a amused grin spreading across her face.

Lily rolled her eyes, "Mar, If you know the awnser so well, then why ask the question?"

Marie shrugged as they stood by the Transfigration classroom. "Well, James hasn't... bugged you (about anything) since school started this year. And well he's always been nice to yo- er us... Kinda."

"Nice? Mar, they changed your hair to purple last year."

Marie tugged on a tiny golden ringlet that lay on her forhead with a sigh, "Yes... but it was a pretty purple. We were going out at the time, and 'All is fair in Love and War'..." Marie sing-songed as Lily rolled her eyes once more.

"It's more War than Love."

"He only dated me to make you mad..." Marie said with raised eye brows. She had know full well at the time, but went with it anyway. James' flattery was hard to ignore. "He likes you... I mean really." Marie said her voice sobering.

"Really?" Lily's voice dripped with sarcasm, "Well I don't like him... at all."

Marie opened her mouth to say something when sombody very famliar ran down the hall.

"Parish?" Marie and Lily said together, as their small friend ran up to them, her long braid flopping from one side of her waist to the other. Her wide brown eyes shining with mischeif could only mean one thing. Trouble. And what was in her hands proved the point even further.

Sissors and black hair.

She had been running, her breath short and hurried. However, being a runner she calmed down quickly enough to say in a over excited voice, and with laughter,

"He is going to kill me!"

Both Lily and Marie's eyes widened as they suddenly relizied who's hair Parish held in her hand. The shiny soft dark hair could only belong to-

"TALBERT!" Both Marie and Lily jumped, and Parish sported her trade-mark ear to ear grin. "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"

Parish shook her head softly, as she called down the hall "Such a temper... It was only a hair-cut."

"WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU-" A steady stream of threats came from down the hall, and Parish just rolled her eyes. Siruis Black's tall figure came from down the hall, and after Parish Talbert.

Parish darted away from her two friends as Siruis made his way down, "You got to catch me first, Black." With that said she dropped the hair and sissors on the ground and sprinted away, faster than any seventh year in the school.

Siruis Black, hair shorn, with furious look on his face, ran past. Remus Lupin and James Potter, brusting with laughter fallowed.

"That was pricless!!" James laughed, as he came up to the two girls, "Talbert she..." He was overcome by laughter, and Remus fallowed.

Lily raised an eyebrow, and Marie looked shocked. "What... um happened?"

Remus and James looked at each other, before bursting out into laughter again. Remus was the first to gain some control over his laughter.
"S-she... Oh..." He gripped his side, leaning on James with his other arm. "We were waiting outside for our next classes, laying on the qudditch benches. Siruis..."He chuckled, "Had his hair hanging off the end and well..."

Marie laughed into her hand, and Lily (who was smiling) rolled her eyes.

"She is going to get into so much trouble!" Marie said with a broad grin, 'But arn't you two upset at her? Siruis is your best friend after all."

James waved her off, finnally catching his breath. "Nah... Talbert is okay. Well, from us two. She might want to watch out for Si though."

Remus chuckled, and said under his breath, "Or big black dogs for that mattered."

The boys started laughing again at Remus' comment. Lily and Marie looked at each other before Marie glanced at her watch.

"Well, I have potions and I don't Professor Kevorkian to kill me. So I got to be going." Lily nodded, "Same here I have Trans- Oh right." James was grinning broadly, "You have it too..."

"Yup!" James said, and Lily waited for some witty remark -that showed just how big James' ego really was- but it didn't come. A completely confused Lily was caught off gaurd as James grabbed her arm and led her into class.

James Potter had a chance to... well to be James and he didn't?

Nobody else seemed to notice. Marie and Remus went off the potions, and James sat down in the back of Transfiguration. Nobody saw...

Nobody but Lily.

Advance Transfiguration went by like a breeze. Before she knew it was shuffled out with the rest of the students, still engulfed in this thought. It was so small, but then why did it bug her so much?

When James acted differant, it usally ment something was up. But maybe James just didn't feel witty today. That wasn't like James. Lily sat down for dinner. Did James just forget... no. Not James Potter.

Lily bit into her sandwich, as Marie sat down on one side, Parish on the other. Parish bore her trademark grin, and Marie was warning her about Siruis. Lily's eye was caught by James who had run into a first year. Instead of just apologizing he helped him pick up his books.

Lily was even more confused, she had never seen James do anything like that before. Never in the six years she knew him did she see him ever do anything like that. Before she could think anymore on the subject, the annoying little voice came into his head. Just because you havn't see him do it before, dosn't mean he hasn't. Have you ever seen him kis-

Lily shook that thought away. Bad thought Lils.

"No..." she spoke aloud. Parish groaned, "Just like you to take her side Lily."

It suddenly dawned on Lily she had missed her friend's entire conversation. But obviously it was about "Siruis' haircut" this morning. Parish hadn't been punished... yet.

"You watch Parish... Siruis has a nasty temper. And loads of muggle-hating relatives."

Parish pointed her fork at Marie, "Yes, but he dosn't like them... so I don't have to worry about that."

Marie poked her food, "Yes, but he pulls alot of idea's from them."

Parish stuck her tounge out at Marie. "I'm not scared of any old Black. Temper or not."

Marie stuck her tounge out too. "Don't come crying to me when it happens."

Parish took one more large bite out of her roll and said (with her mouth full) "I'm done here... see you all tomarrow."

Siruis stuck out his foot as she passed, but Parish merely hopped over it and stuck out her tounge again. James and Remus laughed, and Siruis glared at the muggle-born witch. Parish flipped her long thick braid over her shoulder and fluttered her eye lashes comicly.

As she left the Great Hall Siruis suddenly got a very evil, very 'Siruis' grin on his face. He leaned forward Lily watched as James began to grin and Remus' frowned. Peter was trying to lean over to hear and fell in his soup. Lily sighed, every thought about the seemingly "new" James dissapearing. When he got this look, it was the same get-in-trouble-James she had grown to hate.

Lily and Marie left the great hall some time later, and slipped up into bed. Parish was already asleep when they got up there. The small seventh year gripped a tiny rag doll as she slept.

Marie leaned over to Lily, "She looks almost innocent when she sleeps..."

Lily nodded with a grin, "Almost."

Truth was Parish was loud, annoying, and a real pain in the rear, but when she was worried or upset, she began to tug on her hair, and her spit fire attitude disapeared. A combination of olive skin, high cheek bones, almond shaped eyes with long dark lashes and thick brown hair made her a heart throb in second year. Now, nobody could look past the pranks, the attitude and her revenge. Boys advoided her as a date, but she was always picked first at any sport. Small, and fast made her perfect for seeker. Still, she had (like Lily) a fierce temper and a big mouth. Also, she wasn't on the best terms with the Murauder's which made all the girls dislike her greatly. She was constantly making enimies with new girls and getting on Siruis' Black's nerves... along with most of the school as well.

Marie handed Lily the candle as she went to pull the covers over Parish. No matter how much the two fought, Marie made peace. Unlike the strikingly beautiful Parish, the only thing that made Parish stand out was her hair. Soft ringlets, golden in color played around her shoulders and in her eyes. Otherwise she was average. Average hight, blue eyes, fair skin, with the occional acne. But her attitude shone through most of all. She was caring and very sweet. Although she was more soft spoken and slow to anger, she was very quick to remind her two best friends of how she had been right in the past. "I told you so" came out of her mouth as second nature, though an unspoken apology was also one of her specialties. She had sent Siruis a joke sack after Parish had sent him a pack of singing gummy bears, that fallowed him around all day singing, "Siruis and Snape sitting in a tr-" Marie although not as beautiful as Lily or Parish, was peace maker of the group, weather she was fighting or not.

Lily herself was the leader of the group. Parish and she had latched on first day, both being muggle born. Marie had come almost a whole month later after Lily had yelled down a Slytherian for calling Pure-blood Marie a mud-blood lover. Marie and Parish stood beside her, and helped defend her when it became a fight. They had spent three weeks detention with Professor Kevorkian, and Parish had feathers for another week afterward. Some things just form fast friends. Like Parish Lily had long thick hair, though it wasn't nearly at long or as dark. It was a wonderful shade of dark red that Lily hated, but everyone else love. It fell in soft waves near mid back, that took Lily hours in the morning to make. It did mean she could never wear pink, but to her this wasn't such a loss. Green fit her much better as it matched her green eyes. Something about herself that Lily could honstly say she loved. Parish once made the joke that Lily should have been sorted into Slytherian so her house colors could match her eyes. Marie returned with the fact that her hair matched Gryffendor. As for the Murauders, she never got along with them. James had been a prat to her since first year, and Siruis wasn't much help. It was becuase of Lily that Parish had made it her goal to annoy Siruis. So that Lily would only have to deal with James... who had been enough.

Lily smiled at her two friends, and handed Marie the light as she went down to her own dorm room. The Three girls had never shared a room durning their years at Hogwarts. Marie slept in a room two rooms down, while Parish and Lily shared a Room with Molly Prewett here.

Lily pulled her long red hair into a pony tail and climbed into bed. Had she not been so tired she was have noticed the soft thud outside her door. But as soon as her head hit the pillow, her green eyes closed and sleep claimed her.

The next morning as sunlight streamed into every nook and cranny at Hogwarts, a shrill scream emitted from the Gryffendor girls' dorm rooms.

"SIRUIS BLACK, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!"

(TBC...)