~

Roxie watched James as he watched Lily. The emotion that he displayed in his eyes would have gone unnoticed to anyone who didn't recognise what was going on.

She had tried to talk to Lily about last night, ask her about what to do with Sirius and also to sly a question in about the moment she had interrupted her in. But Lily seemed oblivious, she was so absorbed in her potions that she hadn't even noticed James walk in, she had even noticed the shouting.

She smiled wickedly to herself, 'I cant wait to see her face when she remembers about James. Finally I'll be able to talk to her about it and get her to act rather then be so shy.' She grinned to herself, their plan was starting to come together, maybe that night in Hogsmeade was useful after all. Sirius would be so happy, she felt her heart wrench. 'Oh Sirius.'

~

It was nearly the end of the lesson and Lily still hadn't turned around to look at James. I mean no one concentrated that hard in Potions, granted that it was an extremely complicated potion, but still, come on!

He finished up writing a note, and determined to make her acknowledge his existence he launched the note across the classroom and watched as it hit Roxie on the head and bounce to the floor. Roxie bent to pick it up.

'No, no, no! Lily's meant to pick it up! Not you Roxie…okay, just please don't read it please don't...bollocks.'

Roxie unfolded the letter but he didn't see her reaction as he was behind her. He watched her nudge Lily and slyly passed her the note under the table.

"What's this?" Lily asked Roxie, finally broken out of her potions reverie.

"It's for you, just read it." So she did. And as she did Lily watched Lily's eyes widen in shock and recollection, her face flush beetroot red, then go sickly white.

Dearest Lily,

You have not acknowledged my existence today for the following reason(s):

a) You are too absorbed in work and haven't actually noticed me coming in late and Monoghen shouting at me.

b) You have decided to ignore last night and pretend everything didn't happen.

c) You are too embarrassed to accept what you said to me and the fact that you kissed me and enjoyed it (don't say you didn't because I know you did)

d) You don't remember a thing from last night and now you are only just remembering it

e) All of the above (if that works, I'm not too sure if it does, but I like to think it does)

Circle one and throw back

Yours,

James P

Lily stared at the parchment wide eyed with shock. She remembered it all so clearly. Why hadn't she remembered it before she remembered Roxie coming up to her…to them…but why hadn't she remembered what she had said and done?

'Merlin I'm stupid.'

She circled 'a' and 'd' and carefully checked the coast was clear before she lobbed it back over. She cringed as she watched the note nearly land in his potion.

James picked up the note and rolled his eyes dramatically at Lily as she nearly landed the note in his potion. He took a deep breath and unfurled the note.

'You are too absorbed in work and haven't actually noticed me coming in late and Monoghen shouting at me.' And 'You don't remember a thing from last night and now you are only just remembering it' where circled.

A/N: THE UPLOADING WENT STUPID AGAIN, I DUNNO, I GUESS THAT FF.NET JUST DON'T LIKE ME OR SOMETHING! LOL! HERE'S THE REST OF CHAPTER 9!! SORRY ABOUT THIS GUYS!

'Well,' he thought to himself, 'at least she isn't ignoring the fact that it happened. That's a positive start.' He scribbled another note down before throwing it back with better aim then Lily had previously.

Lily picked up the note and this time Roxie hadn't read it but she knew what the content would be as she watched her friend's eyes gain a worried glaze.

Lily read the note expecting James to have written a sly comment. But he hadn't. All it said was:

Lily,

Come with me to Hogsmeade weekend trip, we really need to talk, you know it and I know it, we have a lot of stuff to sort out between us.

Yours,

James P

Lily just sat staring at the piece of parchment and finally expelled a breath she didn't know she had been holding.

She remembered the kiss as clearly as anything now. She remembered the torrent of emotion that she had finally let win her over and to be honest with herself she loved every minute of it. Old emotions that she had buried for James back in fourth year had started to emerge from her depths. It scared her. She didn't want to end up with a broken heart again. She had loved him, more then he knew, more then anyone had known. There was only one thing for it.

'Okay.'

Yours,

Lily

A/N: WOOWOO! ANOTHER CHAPTER OUT! AGAIN I WANT TO SAY SORRY FOR THE DELAY BUT AS I'VE SAID LOADSA TIMES, AS LEVELS SUCK AND ARE REALLY HARD! LOTS OF REVISION AND WORK! SO WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CHAPTER? GOOD? BAD? UGLY?

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