Author's Note: I think there's only one person reading this here, so I'm going to write this just for you and me, typewritter 15, and thank you for the reviews!

Last time, he asked her for another chance. He asked, "So, what do you say?"

She looked at him with a strange sort of gaze and gave a heavy sigh.

"Fine," she breathed.

Tom drew breaths of relief and hugged her.

"I can't help it, Tom. I can't help loving you."

"And I can't help loving you either."

"Well, I'm going to head back to my own dorm room, Tom."

She began walking out the door when Tom softly called her name.

"Lily."

She turned around. "Yes?"

"I'm sorry," he whispered.

She gave him a small nod, then turned back and headed out the door.

Before going to bed that night, Tom lied down and stared at the ceiling, thinking. He always spent his time thinking. He realized that Lily was a much stronger person now. She was no longer shy, gullible, or afraid. She had the guts to go up to him and was willing to break the relationship off. If someone was afraid, it was Tom. Even though he did admit he loved her, he was still terrified at the fact that he admitted it. He could not believe he had done such a thing. He knew Lily was still unsure about her decision to give him another chance. Perhaps she felt pity. Or perhaps she was sorry. Lily was nowhere near evil and intended to be as far away from evil as possible. She wasn't afraid of evil anymore, she just hated it.

The next early morning, Lily was walking in the hallway on her way to the Great Hall when James approached her.

"Have you talked to Tom yet? Or do you hate me now for telling you the truth about him?"

"I don't believe in hate," was her response.

"But have you talked to him? Or have you decided to ignore what I said last night?"

"Both."

"I don't understand."

"I talked to him last night and he admitted that he really was going to use me."

At that moment, James felt excited yet sad at the same time. He was sad for Lily, sad that she really did know the truth, but excited because he thought he would have a chance at love with her.

"So...it's all finished between the both of you?"

"No."

James felt his heart melt a bit.

"I don't understand."

"He's a changed person now, James."

"Changed? But it was just yesterday that he told Romulus Malfoy-"

"I don't think he had much of a choice. He HAD to tell Malfoy something that would please Malfoy. I think it was just pretend."

"You think?"

"I'm positive."

"Positive? You came up with that idea yourself? The idea that he lied to Malfoy?" James asked, incredulous.

"It makes sense, doesn't it? Why would he be so sad about me leaving him if he doesn't love me?"

"Because," James spat, "if you do leave him, he can't use you anymore nor can he use your powers."

"I don't believe it. I believe he really does love me."

And with that, Lily turned away to go eat breakfast at the Great Hall.

Tom awoke in his bedroom that same morning, and decided not to leave his bed straight away. He wanted to think some more. He loved Lily. He really did. Of course he did! But that did not mean he was completely good. He was still evil because he had the desire to kill, the desire to kill James Potter.

"That stupid James Potter," Tom muttered out loud, "how dare he go tell Lily about me? How dare he spy on me? He must be killed...soon..."

Tom was out in the hallway, heading to the Great Hall for some breakfast when he bumped into James, who was also on his way there.

"You!" Tom shouted, pointing his finger rudely at James.

James backed up a certain distance. He really was afraid of Tom.

"Why are you putting your nose where it doesn't belong, Potter?! You eavesdropped on my conversation with Romulus yesterday, how dare you?!"

James froze and went completely white. He couldn't move. He was stiff with fear.

"Let me tell you something, Potter! If you try to meddle with my relationship with Lily again, I will personally hunt you down and torture you so much that you will beg for death!"

Tom's eyes were filled with venom, anger, and violence, and so were his words. He stared at James quite agressively and he looked like he was ready to kill anyone who would cross his path.

"I know you're jealous," Tom continued. "You want to steal Lily away from me but let me tell you, you'll die before you can even reach her."

Tom then left to go eat breakfast, leaving James standing there, still frozen with fear.

Lily was walking to class with two of her Gryffindor friends. On her way to class, she was chatting with them until James walked up.

James, who looked terrified and furious at the same time, spat, "Can you believe your boyfriend, Lily Evans?! He threatened to kill me!"

"For what?"

"For eavesdropping on him when he was talking to Malfoy. For telling you about it!"

"I'm sure he wasn't serious."

"Wasn't serious?! Who are you trying to fool, Lily?! His eyes were gleaming with such...with such...malice!"

"He can be angry sometimes, yes. It happens."

"He told me to stop meddling with your relationship with him, and to stop putting my nose where it doesn't belong!"

"Well he's right, you know," Lily said casually.

James stood there in both disbelief and shock. He could not believe that poor, vulnerable, kind, and gentle Lily was telling him off like that, that she didn't care about what Tom did to him. Has Lily grown into a fierce woman who stood up for herself? Or has she grown into an evil monster, a powerful dark witch? And if she has grown into either of those two things, was it because of Tom's influence?

"That Tom is a bad influence," James muttered to himself, slowly shaking his head in shame. He then walked to class, which was the same as Lily's.

Ever since Lily's relationship with Tom, quite a few Gryffindors have avoided her. Gryffindors and Slytherins absolutely hated each other. Lily and Tom's love were somewhat regarded as Romeo and Juliet's love. Few people understood how and why they were romantically involved and most people found their relationship strange. The Slytherins however, did not exactly avoid Tom. They knew that he would immediately notice their attempt to avoid him and he would confront them about it. Most people in his house idolized him yet feared him. And there was good reason to. He was the smartest of the grade, perhaps even of the school. He was brilliant, handsome, and cunning. Yet they feared him because he was powerful, insane, and menacing. Nobody else besides Slytherins knew that he was this kind of person. Most Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws thought he was just a popular student among the Slytherins, and were convinced that he was intelligent and bright, a very good student. They did not suspect more about him except for the fact that he was a Slytherin. They weren't quite sure why or how he was put there, but that wasn't important. It was just the fact that he was a Slytherin.

The Slytherins did not understood why, of all people, Tom Riddle had to be the one dating some vulnerable nobody. They didn't question him but accepted the fact with secret bitterness and secret hatred.

Author's Note: I hope you're not disappointed. Yes, I know this chapter ended sort of badly but I felt like posting up something as soon as I could. Well actually, the whole chapter was pretty bad so forgive me!