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"Lily, we have to go." Alice said the next morning at breakfast as she stood up and progressed to the door.

"Ok, you go ahead, I'm coming." Lily said, quickly finishing her toast. Alice nodded and made her way to her first class. After a moment Lily stood up, but as she stood up she accidentally bumped into someone, knocking them to the ground

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't see you" Lily said apologetically. The short boy looked up at her and said

"It's alright, Evans." Lily stretched out her arm and helped him to his feet while saying

"No, Pettigrew, I should be watching where I'm going."

"Evans!" A voice yelled, Lily looked in the direction the voice came and saw James Potter and Sirius Black making their way towards her. Lily rolled her eyes and sighed in annoyance

"What Potter?" She said as they reached her

"We saw what you did to our friend now." James said with a straight face

"It was an accident, Potter." Lily said

"Was it really, Evans?" Sirius said "How do we know your telling the truth?" Lily narrowed her eyes as she looked at Sirius

"Sirius, it was an accident-" Peter said

"Shut up, Peter." Sirius said, silencing Peter at once,

"It was an accident, and you can't tell him to shut up" Lily said outraged

"We can tell him whatever we want to." James said, pushing Peter out the way

"And it wasn't an accident." Sirius said annoyingly

"Yes, it was!" Lily said slowly and loudly as her eyes bulged with anger.

"Tell you what, Evans," James said folding his arms across his chest "We'll forget about this whole little incident if you give me a kiss." James said taking a step closer to her, Lily looked like she was about to blow as she said

"NEVER! I would never, ever kiss you, Potter!"

"Aww, come on Evans, Stevey-poo will never know" James said in Mock, Lily had reached her limit, she was so angry that she looked like she was about to kill James and Sirius, her face was red, her eyes were bulging, not a very pretty picture, but instead of screaming Lily huffed, picked up her books, wheeled around and stalked off to Transfiguration. James and Sirius looked at each other before bursting into fits of laughter

"That w-was so great." Sirius said between laughs

"Did you see how angry she got?" James said, laughing hysterically, Sirius nodded, unable to say another word as he was laughing so hard. A few seconds later Remus walked up to the two who were still laughing and asked

"What happened? What did you do?" Sirius stopped laughing after a moment and said

"Moony, I'm hurt, why would you ever think we would do something?"

"Because it' you." Remus said plainly, with a chuckle, James, still laughing lightly said

"You know, Padfoot, he does have a point there." Sirius smiled and looked down at Peter who was now seated and helping himself to some toast.

"So, are you going to tell me?" Remus asked, curious to know what they had done, Sirius nodded and said

"Let's go to class, we'll tell you on the way." Sirius and Remus made there way through the great hall, James looked down at Peter, who was sitting at the Gryffindor table, and said

"Are you coming, Wormtail?" Peter nodded with his mouth full of food. James chuckled, and then the two followed Sirius and Remus to their first class, Transfiguration.

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"Argh, that Potter, one day, I swear, I'll hex him." Lily muttered to herself as she stormed through the castle, she reached the class and saw Alice seated near the front. Lily walked in, dumped her book on the table and sat down next to Alice, Alice looked at her and asked

"Why are you so angry?"

"Black and Potter, I hate them so much!" Lily said through gritted teeth, Alice sighed and said

"What did they do this time?" Lily glared at her book, and said

"I accidentally bumped into Peter, then Potter and Black are saying I did it on purpose, and then Potter says he'll forget about the little incident if I give him a kiss!" Lily just about screamed in anger. Alice stared at her for a moment then said

"I don't why you get so upset, he does it nearly everyday, it's nothing new." Lily glared at her and said

"Sure, you can say that, because your not there victim." Lily spat "I swear they're here to make my life a living hell!"

"Oh rubbish, they do it because they get a reaction out of you." Alice said simply, Lily huffed, knowing Alice was right, but how could Lily not get angry? Alice opened her book and started reading. Lily slouched in her seat with her arms folded across her chest. After a moment the door opened and laughter came drifting into the room, Lily turned around to see who had entered and saw Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew. Lily groaned and faced the front of the class again. Alice had also turned around, but unlike Lily, Alice smiled

"Ooh, look who just walked in." Alice said to Lily, who just rolled her eyes in reply

"Do you think I care?" Lily said in annoyance,

"Oh, come on, Lily, show a bit of enthusiasm." Alice said

"No, why should I?" Lily said, her arms still folded across her chest,

"Oh, never mind." Alice said, looking at Sirius again, who had taken his seat at the back along with the other marauders. Sirius looked at Alice and winked, Alice blushed and started giggling, Lily rolled her eyes again. Soon the students were joined by Professor McGonagall and class began. The rest of the day went on, the marauders continued to torment Lily, changing her quill into a small snake causing Lily to scream in fright. By the end of the day Lily was annoyed and tired. She and Alice were sitting at the fireplace in the Gryffindor Common Room, Alice was reading her book and Lily was writing a letter to Steven, telling him about Potter, and how much she missed him. Lily sent the letter that night before retreating to bed.

The week passed with no reply from Steven, Lily figured he must be busy, so she wrote another letter, but there was still no letter from him for two weeks. Lily sat waiting, hoping he would send just one letter, but disappointment filled her heart every morning when morning post flew in. But Lily kept her sadness to herself, not wanting anyone to know she was sad. The marauders continued to prank her, tormenting Severus Snape. Lily could only bottle up her feelings for so long, and soon, she'd have to let them out.

Two weeks after returning to Hogwarts after Christmas Break, Lily and Alice were sitting outside, the air was cold, and snow covered the grounds, Lily stared up at the castle

"Lily, are you ok?" Alice asked her, Lily looked at her and replied

"Yes, why wouldn't I be?"

"Well, you haven't been yourself lately." Alice explained, Lily smiled and said,

"Don't worry, Alice, I'm fine." Alice smiled and looked around the grounds; she saw a crowd of people, standing inn a circle, pointing at something

"What do you think is happening there?" Alice asked Lily, Lily looked at the crowd of students, she saw a tall boy with glasses and messy, black hair, standing in the center. Lily narrowed her eye and said

"Potter, come on, lets stop them." Lily said, getting to her feet and walking towards the crowd. Alice stood up and followed Lily.

"Potter!" Lily called, the crowd separated, letting Lily through. The four marauders were standing in the middle, along with a boy that had soap in his hair, Lily recognized him as Severus Snape, his wand lying a few feet away. James's hand immediately flew to his hair.

"What do you think your doing?" Lily shrieked, James' free hand had immediately jumped to his hair

"Washing Snivellus's hair, of course." Sirius said simply, Lily glared at Sirius and said

"Leave him alone!"

"Come on, Evans, you must admit it's about time someone washed Snivellus' hair." James said, Remus stood to the side, his shoulder's shaking with silent laughter

"As Prefect, I'm telling you to dry his hair, now!" Lily said, pointing to Snape, who was shivering

"I can take care of myself, mudblood." Snape said, Lily looked down at him with hurt, but didn't say a word.

"Apologies to Evans!" James yelled at Snape, pointing his wand threateningly at him

"Make me." Snape said,

"Gladly." James said, but Lily stopped him

"Don't, Potter!" Lily yelled. James looked at Lily, a smile suddenly cracked on his face, and before Lily could say another word, something cold ran down Lily's back. Sirius had just poured some cold water down Lily's back. Everyone standing there started laughing, Alice just stood there, staring at everything that was happening.

Lily stood there, shaking with rage; and James had a smirk on his face, oh how he loved to make Lily angry. But then something happened that wiped the smirk off James's face, a single tear had formed in Lily's eye, James watch Lily's anger change to sadness, and the tear run down Lily's cheek. Like I said, James loved to make Lily anger, he found it amusing the way she would throw a fit and scream at them, but he had never reduced her to tears, and suddenly, it wasn't so funny anymore. More tears escaped Lily's eyes as she turned and ran back to the castle. James watched her run, his heart suddenly aching; he hated seeing tears in Lily's eyes, he didn't know what he did wrong, but he couldn't let her cry, he had to make it right, and without another thought, he ran after Lily.

James ran as fast as he could, he ran into the great hall, he had lost her, but he was determined to find her

"Evans!" he called, but no answer, James ran out the great hall, up some stairs and down a corridor, he stopped running when he heard someone crying in a classroom. James gently pushed the door open and saw Lily, sitting on the floor in the corner, hugging her knees, her hair hiding her face. James felt his heart sink as he heard her cry

"Evans?" he said softly, closing the door behind him

"Go away." Lily cried, not even bothering to look up, James' ignored that comment and walked towards her, he knelt down in front of her and said softly

"I'm sorry, Evans." Lily shook her head, still not looking at him "I really am." He said "I didn't mean to make you cry."
"Then why do you do these things, Potter." Lily asked, James had to strain his ears to hear Lily, he wasn't sure how to reply to that question, all he could say was

"I don't know." He watched Lily cry, hating every moment, he wanted to see her laugh, smile.

"I'm really sorry." He said again, gently moving her hair away from her face, Lily looked up at him, her face tear stained "I'm sorry." He whispered again, looking in her eyes. Lily didn't know what made her do this, but she threw herself forward, wrapping her arms around James' waist, crying into his chest. After James over came his shock he gently wrapped his arms around Lily and let her cry. James was unsure of what had just happened, but just sat with Lily,

"Why did he have to go?" Lily mumbled, James heard this and looked at her curiously

"Who?" He asked calmly

"Steven." Lily cried, "He doesn't even write." James rested his cheek on the crown of Lily's head. James realized that Lily was hurt, and Steven was the one that hurt her

"I won't let anyone hurt you again, Lily." James whispered to her "I promise."

A/N: Yay, I finally updated! I quite like this chapter, it took me forever to type, but I like it. My midterms are over, but now I have to start choosing my courses for next year! One thing over then the next starts typical.

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