Iris here! I'm sorry it took so long to update this chapter, but with school and junk it's pretty tough. Apologies aside...here is your chapter!

James sat by himself in an armchair by the fire. Sirius had gone to talk to Jessica. James cringed; he hoped nothing like that ever happened to him.

"James Potter, would James Potter please report to Professor McGonagall's office."

James stood up. "I wonder what this is all about," he asked himself.

"What did you do now James," Sirius called across the common room.

"Nothing I don't think, but then again maybe someone here can read my mind." The common room laughed. James stepped out of the Gryffindor Tower and ran smack dab into Lily.

"Oh James, I wanted to talk to you-"

"I can't right now Lil. I've got to go to Professor McGonagall's office."

"Oh, well maybe later." James nodded.

"Okay Lil." He was halfway down the hall until he realized that she hadn't asked him why he was going. That was weird; he had expected Lily's reaction to his statement to be exactly like Sirius's.

"Weird. I wonder what she wanted to talk to me about."

"Potter," said a voice behind him.

"Professor McGonagall I was just going to your office-"

"Potter you passed my office."

"I-oh, yeah I did."

"Anyway Potter," she said leading James into her office.

"I want you to meet our new exchange student from America. Her name is Morgan Jackson." James looked up and his eyes met the eyes of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

"Except for Lily," a voice in the back of his head said.

"Hi James it is nice to meet you," said the girl.

"Oh it's my pleasure."

Professor McGonagall interrupted and said, "James I expect you to show Ms. Jackson around our school, Escort her to the feast tonight, take her to your classes, things like that."

"It would be my pleasure," James said. Morgan blushed.

"All right Potter, Ms. Jackson, you may go now." They walked out into the hall.

"I'll take you up to the Gryffindor Tower so you can get changed. The feast starts at seven, so I'll meet you in the common room at 6:45?"

"That sounds good," she said. They continued up to the Common Room in silence.

After James had left, Lily had entered the common room. Sirius looked up.

"Lily!" he yelled across the room. "Could I talk to you?" Lily walked over to Sirius.

"Hey Jessica," she said to the pretty raven haired girl sitting next to Sirius. "What can I do for you Sirius?" Sirius looked at Jessica and Jessica nodded.

"Actually I wanted, well both of us really, wanted to talk to you."

"Yes," said Lily sitting down.

"Not down here, can we go up to our dorm."

"Sure," said Lily wondering what could be wrong. They stood up and Lily and Jessica started up the girl's stairs while Sirius started up the boy's (if a boy tried to climb up to the girl's dormitories, the stairs would melt into a kind of slide, as James once found out when he tried to get up to his old girlfriend's dorm). Sirius snuck through the nifty little house elf door, connecting the boy's and girl's dormitories. Lily was sitting on Jessica's bed hugging Jessica as Jessica cried. Sirius looked from Jessica to Lily and decided to not let his presence be known quite yet.

"How did it happen?"

"It just happened. I-we didn't mean for it to happen and now-now that-I might be..."

"Pregnant," Lily said gently. Jessica nodded and began to cry again.

"What-what am I going to do?" Jessica said sitting up.

"The question is what are you and Sirius, going to do?" Lily and Jessica looked up startled as Sirius's voice came from behind them.

"Well whatever the consequences Jess," he said going around the bed and taking Jessica's hands in his. "I will be there for you and our maybe baby." Jessica smiled through her tears.

"I love you Sirius Black."

Lily took her leave so that the young couple could talk alone.

"Great," Lily thought to herself. "I've got to go back to Hogsmeade and pick up one of those test things." She was halfway down the stairs when she heard James's voice.

"Guys I want you to meet Morgan Jackson. She's an exchange student from America." People were introduced and there was loud talking from all sides of the common room. She peeked over the banister into the common room and saw James standing beside a pretty girl, with light brown corkscrew curls and clear green eyes. Lily quickly saw that she was not going to be able to talk to James tonight and pushed the thought to the back of her mind. She continued down the stairs.

"Hey Lily!" James called over the heads of the people surrounding them. Lily nodded in his direction. "Come meet my new friend." Lily smiled obligingly.

"Hi I'm Lily Evans," she said holding out her hand.

"Hi!"

"I'm guessing you'll be in my dorm. I wouldn't go in there right now though, it's occupied." Morgan nodded looking from Lily to James, seeing something that sparked her interest.

"James," said Lily.

"Yes." She stood on tiptoe and whispered in his ear. "Could I use your cloak again?"

"Why?"

"I have to get something for Jessica there."

"Hold on." He excused himself from the throng of people and pulled Lily out after him. "Is this about Sirius's and Jessica's consequential fling?"

"Yeah how did you know?" asked Lily surprised.

"Sirius told me. I have one of those things that you're going to go get." Lily stopped walking towards the boy's dormitories.

"You what!"

"Shhhhh!" said James pushing her gently forward.

"I collect 'em."

"What! You collect pregnancy tests!" said Lily lowering her voice to a whisper. James nodded and pushed her into the dorm and again began digging in his trunk.

"Here. See?" Lily began to laugh uncontrollably.

"James-James, this-this isn't a pregnancy test," she said trying to breath. "It's-it's a-a thermometer." James snatched the thermometer out of her hands.

"It's not? Oh this is bad this is bad." Lily gasped.

"Oh James don't tell me you've been giving them out to girls." James nodded. If possible Lily began to laugh even harder.

"I don't know who is dumber: you or the girls. This is just too much," she said collapsing on the bed. James's lips twitched and he was also laughing. Sirius walked into the room and found Lily lying on James's bed laughing and James leaning on the bed post almost crying.

"What the hell?"

"Oh Sirius," said Lily sitting up as James also collapsed on the bed. "James," she began to laugh again. "James has been handing out thermometers to girls who say they might be pregnant." Sirius laughed.

"I'll be right back. I have to go and stop Jessica from testing to see if she's pregnant." Lily fell back onto James's stomach with another bought of laughter.

After they caught their breath James and Lily stood up.

"I better go and check on Sirius and Jessica," said Lily.

"Yeah and I've got to go and meet Morgan in the common room."

"Oh," said Lily turning around. "I thought you and I might go down to the feast together."

"Professor McGonagall said that I was to escort her to the feast, but don't worry, I can escort you too."

"No, that's okay," said Lily as she walked out of the door.

Jessica, thankfully hadn't used the thermometer as a pregnancy test, Sirius had stopped her before she got that far. Lily had promised to go with Jessica the next Hogsmeade visit to get one if her period still hadn't started and stay with her as she took the test. But that incident with the thermometers was the only time Lily laughed the rest of the night.

The feast was amazing, as was the fireworks James had set up for an after show (they were orange and black and made all sorts of formations and pictures in the air. Even Snape and Malfoy were impressed), but it just wasn't as fun without James there. He sat and talked with Morgan the whole time, Remus and Hannah had never even shown up, and Sirius and Jessica were cuddling.

Lily seriously thought of going to go and sit with Snape and Malfoy, just to get attention, but then thought better of it.

Instead she went up to her dormitory, changed into her nightgown and laid her head on her pillow. All thoughts of love were pushed to the back of her brain and she slept.

I am not trying to imitate et cetera Ms. Rowling and would like to tell those who try to go to therapy. There is one and only one J.K. Rowling. Period. Thank you for reading my story please tell me what you think.

Iris