That evening Lily sighed as she trudged into the common room. And, to her annoyance, Andrew came up to her, wanting to talk. Instead, Lily shoved him off.

"Forget it Andrew, you do nothing but annoy me and I can't take it anymore," she yelled very loudly to make her meaning clear. Having got the attention of everyone, she nodded her head and left for her dorm.

James looked a bit confused, but happy she'd told Andrew off. That meant she was single yet again.
"Wow, Lily telling someone off that's not you," said Sirius aloud.

"Yeah, right," said James sarcastically. But Prongs had to admit he was happy. Maybe she might consider......'No,' he thought to himself as he heard a voice play back in his head: "I guess we can be friends. However, attempt to impress me it's over, for good." Groaning, he headed back up to bed. A promise was a promise and he had to keep it.

Lying now, he went back to remembering his and Dumbledore's chat about odd things starting to occur. Something about something soon to take place, yet nothing more would Dumbledore say about it. James was never one to snoop. However, he had to admit this was starting to interest him a great deal.

"James, you in here?" asked Remus as he entered the dorm.

"Yeah," muttered James, rolling over to his left side.

"Ok, just wanting to make sure you were ok," said Remus quietly before leaving the dorm again, probably off to check on Sirius and Peter before his turn on duty.

Slumber met James and he dozed off all too soon. Thoughts of past and present swirled around in his head. Drifting through a some sort of space/time continuum, he found himself landing in a field, cuts covering him. He tried to get up, something willing him to move. Trembling, he got a decent balance but clutch at his arm, feeling pain and agony. All around him he could here a laugh. An high and shrill laugh, chilling........

"Lily, are you in here?" asked Emma. Lily was indeed there, searching through her magazine. Emma closed the door and walked over to her. "Listen, I know that was, embarrassing...."

"You better believe it," muttered Lily.

"-But you could have been nicer to Andrew, don't you-"

"No, I think I should have been a lot meaner than I was," she replied, closing the magazine. "How are things with Sirius?"

"Oh, well, I dumped him today," admitted Emma. "The prat."

"Sorry to hear that, well, now you can have Andrew," replied Lily.

"Now way! Kevin is much cuter than Andrew." At this comment both girls grinned.

"Well, I better get a bath," said Emma, heading off to the bathroom. Lily sighed and went back down to the common room, to think by the fire.

What was going on with her life? She'd just had the opportunity to date one of the cutest boys of all Hogwarts and dumped just like that. Most girls would kill for that chance. Sure, he was a good kisser, but there was something about him, something she didn't like. Well, there was also something else too.......Something she would deny countless times but wouldn't deep down inside.

Suddenly, there was something to interrupt her thoughts. Sounding like a shriek from the boys dormitory.