Name : What No One Knew

By: Softballsweeti11

Disclaimer: Let me ask you something, if I did own Harry Potter, would I spend all my time here, on fanfiction, writing disclaimers about how I don't own it? NO! I would be swimming in a giant pool with 15 waiters to cater to my every whim!! So, if you are so clueless as to not see that I don't own Harry Potter; please do not read my story as you're pea-sized brain would not be able to comprehend the text. Thank you for listening to heart-felt rant and not interrupting, please enjoy my story and DON'T SUE!!

Summary: (Set in the marauders' 7th year) Marauders- Peter, Remus, Sirius, and James, but there was another, one other, Head Girl and James's best friend, Lily Evans. And though James doesn't realize, Lily is desperately in love with him, though he remains oblivious to her secret pine for him. Britney, James' girlfriend on the other hand, has definitely noticed this. Being the wench she is, she of course retaliates.

Chapter 3

The Letter

"James! Wait UP!!!"

"What? Oh…hi Lily. What's up?" James gloomily asked an out of breath Lily.

"What's up? I'll tell you what's up! You've been sulking around for the past, what, 4 periods? What's up with that? Huh?" Lily had now regained her fiery self, she was very upset. James, the love of her life, was acting like no one else was around all the time!

"Why do you care?" James asked her moodily.

"I care because you are my best friend and I'm worried that something is wrong, so just tell me what's bothering you!" She commanded.

James looked at her with a very sad face and said, "Come with me, I'll tell you, but I don't want everyone in the whole damn school to know, you've seen how fast gossip travels around here." With that he walked away leading up to a room they had found in 3rd year, it was again, somewhat like a mini common room after the marauders had redone it. Ten minutes later, he stopped in front of the portrait of Baghdad the Bad, said the password (Jellied Slugs) and entered, Lily close behind. He sat down on a comfy red loveseat and so did Lily.

"It means a lot to me that you care about me, and worry about me, too, I guess, because that's the one thing I really need right now, a friend. Not Sirius, because he took it as hard as me, he's like my brother, now more than ever, since he moved in with us last summer. He just went up to our dormitory and he's probably still up there for all I know. I joined him for a while up there, he loved my parents as much as I did, and vise versa." James said slowly. Lily caught on and hoped he wasn't going to say what she thought he would. And he didn't, he pulled a letter out of his pocket, unfolded it, looked at it for a second or too, then handed it to Lily. As she read, the familiar feeling of tears rolling down her cheek came in full force.

Dear Mr. Potter,

          We regret to inform you that Mr. and Mrs. Potter were subjects of an attack on Wilbellrien Road on 19, December this year. A funeral will be held for them on the 20 of December at Godric's HollowCemetery. Dumbledore will-

Lily looked at James; she couldn't bear to read any more. James leaned his head against her shoulder and cried, not sobbing, but just cried, his tears identical to hers. She tried to soothe both him and herself, she leaned her head on top of his and rubbed his back.

"It'll be okay…everything will be fine…Don't worry love, I'm here." She said. James noticed that she called him 'love' but didn't pay to much attention to it. He didn't actually mind, not at all, you could even say he like hearing her call him that.

He mumbled something against her shoulder, she picked his head up and he repeated, "Where will I stay, what will I do?" Lily didn't need to think twice, "You'll stay at my house this summer and then next summer we'll have graduated. My parents won't mind, they leave for Aruba the day after we get back and won't be back until August 22nd. And my sister Petunia is staying at her friend's house all summer because she wants to avoid me and 'any of my freak friends'." James was still crying, though silently now and at the sight of him Lily burst into sobs and she then buried her face into James's shoulder. They just sat there crying for the rest of the night, until they eventually fell asleep.

It was Remus who found them all snuggled up on the loveseat in the afternoon (It was Saturday, thank goodness) and decided to wait a little longer before waking them up. After five minutes of waiting, Lily awoke to find a smirking Remus and a peacefully sleeping James, all that was disturbed when she screamed at the sight of Remus watching her and James sleeping on a 'loveseat'. James immediately woke up and jumped about a foot into the air at the sight before him.

"Well, about time you two woke up, though I am sorry I ruined your chances of a morning snog." Remus commented with a grin and a glint in his eyes.

"It wasn't like that. We. - Nothing…-you thought what? "James stuttered while Lily's jaw scraped the floor. "We…I'm with BRITNEY!"

At the mention of Britney's name, Lily then got up, glared at James and stalked off through the portrait.

James looked at Remus confused and genuinely baffled. "What'd I do?"

"It wasn't what you did, it's what you said. Though…what did you two do?" that marauder grin flying back onto his face.

"Nothing happened, at all." James defended.

"Maybe that's the problem, nothing happened, did you snog her?"

"No!" James shouted.

"Did you at least kiss her?" Remus inquired.

"No." James said, calming down. "Why?"

"You're so blind James."

"What? No I'm not, not with my glasses at least."

"Not in that way!" Remus said.

"Then in what way?" James asked.

"If you honestly can't see, I'm not going to tell you. It's not my place. All I can do is hope you can realize, and tell you, to think stripes, lots of stripes." Remus left James to swim in his confused thoughts.

A/N does anyone get what's going on? I mean, it's so obvious! HEEHEE!!