DISCLAIMER: I'm a fanfiction author. That means that I borrow someone else's characters and write about them. I also don't own them because they're not mine...

DEDICATION: This chapter is dedicated to a co-creator of raspberry cheesecake for bothering me to write this... She knows who she is...

James sat in his room during Easter holidays. Sirius getting his own house had made him rather bored during holidays. James hadn't resisted sending Sirius a large box of chocolates that, when eaten, would cause various weird symptoms including literally bouncing off the walls. They were also incredibly delicious. James was just about to write his fourteenth owl to anyone just for something to do when two owls burst into his room. One he recognized as Sirius's owl, but the other was a beautiful, unfamiliar snowy owl. They appeared to be trying to deliver their letter first. The snowy dropped her letter in his lap a moment before Sirius's owl did.

"Silly Harold," Sirius said, petting Sirius's owl as he perched in front of him, obviously waiting for a reply.

James ripped open the letter and grinned as he read the contents.

JAMES! My most favourite person in the entire universe! Padfootly, what did you put in those chocolates? It was brilliant! I was bouncing off the walls, shooting red sparks from my mouth, glowing electric blue, my hair was purple, my arms turned into large green parrot wings, and I was speaking angry cat. Maybe I wasn't supposed to eat half the box, but it was so much fun! Can we feed them to people? Just imagine the Gryffindor common room, James, full of people bouncing off the walls, shooting red sparks from their mouth, glowing electric blue, with purple hair, green parrot wings for arms, and speaking in hisses! I think Harold is becoming slightly territorial and competitive with other owls, so if anyone else is trying to send you a letter, I'm sorry! He might also do weird things to the other owl's letters, as he seems to be giving off weird magical energy. I hope he doesn't cause too much trouble... but that's exactly why I'm not shipping him off, is that he has such great potential trouble-maker. Maybe we should induct him into our FMC? See you back at Hogwarts. Sirius Black, owner of the best owl ever.

(A/N: FMC stands for Full Moon Club, which I didn't feel I could allow Sirius to be throwing around in letters.)

James laughed once more before ripping the other letter open. It was in a very feminine hand. He wondered if Harold had mutated the handwriting, but then read the beginning and almost fainted.

James, you might wonder why I, Lily Evans, of all people, would be writing you over holidays, but I can explain everything, I hope. The fact remains that I am in desperate need of assistance. You are probably very aware that most sixth year Gryffindor girls are blond, beautiful, and brainless. I appear to be the only exception and try to avoid being blond while attempting to have a brain. Perhaps being a non-conformist has causes other people more problems than I experience, but I currently am in a rather difficult situation. You see, they're envious of the fact that you actually speak to me.

They actually aren't as brainless as I originally thought. Mandy, their leader of a sort, has decided that I'm either going to convince you that you hate me or I'm going to go out with you. I tried to ignore their threats, but it's really getting to be too much for me. I know this will be awkward for both of us, but would you pretend to be my boyfriend? I know that you don't want this, but perhaps if we did this and got to know each other better, then we could really go out or just become really close friends. I would really like to get to know you better and I will openly admit my jealously for Sirius that he knows you so well.

Speaking of Sirius, please keep quite that our relationship isn't genuine, if you decide to try it. Please don't tell even Sirius, I would feel better if only the two of us knew.

Please consider my request and feel free to decline. If you do feel more inclined to reject than accept, please tell me some good pranks I can play of them and perhaps some good anti-hex charms would be useful if you know any.

Thank you for reading and have a nice holiday, Lily.

James's mouth open and shut once, twice, thrice. Then Sirius's letter popped into his head. Harold could have changed the letter, the stupid bird! Sirius grabbed Lily's letter and Harold and marched downstairs and presented them to his mother.

"Mum, can you tell if this bird changed this letter?" James asked.

James's mother waved her wand twice, frowned, and then looked at Harold, "He tried to, but decided it would be better to have the owl deliver it in original form."

"Thanks Mum!" James said, hugging her before racing back up to his room to write a response to Lily and Sirius.

Lily, if you aren't Padf-serious I'm going to start researching evil hexes and Mandy will seem like a gentle breeze next to my fury. Not meaning to threaten you or anything, just telling you the natural consequences of poorly planned action. You're asking me for a favour? Of course! Please feel free to act as the dominant one in the 'relationship' and to 'end' it whenever you desire to do so. For the time being, I would happily stand in as your pretend-boyfriend if you desire me to do so. I also would jump at the chance to get to know you more. I hope that you are not offended by my flaunting the fact that you're my 'girlfriend' doesn't bother you, but no one will believe me if I don't gloat to at least Sirius. I hope your holidays go well. James.

James reread it, decided it was somewhat adequate, and sent it off with the snowy owl. He then wrote a reply to Sirius.

Hey Stupid. Your owl is the biggest bother ever... it turned out that Lily Evans was writing me a letter asking me to go out with her. I had to have my mum see if your owl had rewritten it. The chocolates are a secret, but I'll tell you at Hogwarts, I don't trust your owl with it, or my owl, or Lily's owl, or any owl. So feel privileged that you are worthy of the information. I like these house pranks that just make people laugh, but not actually embarrass anyone too much. I hope our minds continue to work in such a brilliant way and maybe someday scheme the downfall of the great Slytherin dynasty, or perhaps assist in the grand plot. I hope you are well and plotting, James Potter, boyfriend of the illustrious Lily Evans.

James reread that letter and sent it off as well. It seemed very soon that he was on the Hogwarts Express going back for school. When he entered the doors of the Great Hall for dinner Lily got up, kissed his cheek, grabbed his hand, and sat down next to him.

"Have a good holiday, James?" Lily asked.

"It was a bit boring, I missed Hogwarts," James said.

"There wasn't anything to miss here, it was just as boring as your holiday must have been," Lily said.

"You were here, though," James said.

Lily laughed, and squeezed James's hand gently before starting to eat.

"Did that just happen?" Sirius asked from his other side.

"Did it look like it did?" James replied, unable to keep from grinning.

They were interrupted by Mandy walking over and simpering, "James! Lily! Congratulations. I'm so proud that you two have worked out your differences because you really deserve someone who really loves you, James."

"Are you implying that Lily isn't good enough for me?" James asked.

"No, rather that Lily better appreciate you," Mandy said.

"Appreciate? I thought you would insist on nothing short of loving him so much that I would give my life for his happiness!" Lily said, rather annoyed.

"I should hope that someday he finds someone who is that unselfish," Mandy replied before she walked off.

"She's jealous," Lily said softly.

"Then I hope she finds someone lovely to love," James said.

"James, don't I get an 'I missed you' or is Lily the only one who gets your attention now?" Sirius asked from James's other side.

"Sirius! I missed you! Have fun eating chocolates?" James asked, turning to Sirius.

"Those were brilliant, I hope you can enchant more for us to eat in the tower," Sirius said.

"I'll teach you, but only because I love your owl," James replied.

"His owl?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, his name is Harold and he someone has weird magical powers to change other owl's letters when they're delivering them," Sirius explained.

"Speaking of Harold, have you seem Remus or Peter yet, didn't they stay?" James asked.

"Remus stayed at Hogwarts, but Peter left the first day of holidays," Lily said.

"I think he'll have to explain himself," James said.

"Where's Remus?" Sirius asked.

"No clue," Lily said.

Just then Peter walked in and sat across from them. "Welcome back."

"I missed you," James said.

"Have you seen Remus?" Sirius asked.

"No, I haven't," Peter replied.

"That's because I haven't seen you at Hogwarts since the day James and Sirius left! Where were you, Peter?" Remus said.

"At my parents' house," Peter replied, but for some reason he didn't seem entirely believable.

"Enjoyed yourself?" Remus asked.

"Yeah..." Peter said.

"He looks thrilled to be back," Lily whispered in James's ear.

"Are you two together?" Peter asked, looking slightly apprehensive.

"Yeah," Lily said affectionately.

"Congrats," Peter said, but was really thinking "THINK WORMTAIL! THINK! THEY CAN'T BE TOGETHER! NO NO NO NO NO!! STOP THEM OR CONVINCE THE DARK LORD IT IS GOOD THAT THEY ARE TOGETHER!!"

(a/n: YAY! Congratulate the poor author named me for managing to write a chapter... Anyway, I'm really sorry for the REALLY big gap, but I will eventually finish this story, so don't worry.)