A.N. / This chapter will be a lot of Lily's POV (Point of View) and James's POV (Point of View). When Lily and James are talking about Lily trusting him, they are talking at the same time…in case you don't figure it out. I'm back with the new chapter…so read and review!!!

Chapter 10

Lily arrived in Dumbledore's office to see him smiling at her. She'd landed on the floor again…oh how she hated Floo Powder.

"Having troubles Miss Evans?" Lily shook all the soot off of her and looked really agitated. Finally she gathered herself up and stood up straight, "No Professor I'm fine…"

James came flying in from the fireplace and knocked Lily back down on the ground. James began to chuckle, but Lily was furious now. "James!" Lily screamed at him and he got up helped her up and backed up. "Didn't you see me there?!"

"No, Lils I was on my way down a fireplace……you?"

Lily rolled her eyes, "Okay Professor, we're back…so now what?"

Dumbledore laughed at the two teenagers, they were complete opposites…but something about them flared in the other. James the wonder boy of the school. Quidditch hero and captain, smartest in his class, popular, always in trouble, a Marauder, and most likely would be the Head Boy of his class.

Lily on the other hand: didn't know a thing about Quidditch, she was the smartest girl in her class and would be Head Girl, she was prefect and would be next year also, she was a model student, and tried to keep away from the popular crowds as much as possible.

"How are you doing Lily?" Professor Dumbledore asked offering Lily and James the seats in front of his desk.

Both students sat down in the chairs that Professor Dumbledore had offered to them. "I'm alright Professor, better than I was before. Thank you for allowing James to come along with me, it meant a lot to me."

Albus Dumbledore smiled at the two, "No problem at all Miss Evans and Mr. Potter. I understand how hard it is to lose a loved one, especially one that is very close to the heart." Dumbledore paused and turned to James, "Sarah has been looking for you, and she's very worried about you. She had no clue that you went with Miss Evans. She came up to my office just yesterday upset; she thought something had happened to you."

James chuckled a bit, "That's Sarah for you, and I imagine that she contacted Mum and Dad when she found out that I was with Lily?"

Dumbledore nodded, "You don't have to worry James, your parents are doing alright and doing a good job on the field. A bit worried?"

James nodded, "Yes, I just don't what Sarah and I would do if we lost them…and Sirius too. My parents are more like Sirius's parents, then his own parents."

"Yes, I am fully aware of this James." Dumbledore asked with a twinkle in his eyes, "Did you like the Potters, Lily?"

"Yes, sir. They were very nice, and I thought it was funny that James thinks about me a lot and talks about me to his mum and dad." She giggled, Albus chuckled, and James laughed while turning bright red.

"Well, Lily…James. I suggest the two of you go up to Gryffindor Common Room, and the two of you will start your classes back up. Be sure your at breakfast tomorrow morning, I will be announcing something that the Head Boy and Girl thought would be fun for the end of the year.."

"Yes, sir." They both said getting up and leaving the room, James still carrying both of their bags.

Going down the hallway, James and Lily didn't say a word. Then a girl with straight raven colored hair ran towards James and jumped on him, which made Lily and James's bags fall to the ground.

"JAMEY!" She yelled throwing herself around him, "I missed you so much! Why didn't you tell me you'd left?" James spun the girl around a few times and then stopped and lowered her to the ground.

"I'm sorry Sarah, but I told Sirius to tell you. I had to go help out a friend in a time of need."

Sarah nodded, "That's what Professor Dumbledore told me," she turned and looked at Lily. "Is this the girl you helped out?" James nodded, "She's really pretty," she tried to whisper but Lily still heard her.

"Yes she is," James answered back.

"Well?! Are you going to introduce me?" Sarah asked outraged.

James chuckled and turned to Lily she looked really confused. "Lily, this is my little sister Sarah Potter."

"Sarah…I didn't know you had a little sister?" Lily asked smiling at the little girl.

"This is her first year," James said smiling, he turned back to Sarah. "Sarah, this is Lily Evans.

Sarah giggled, "So you're Lily Evans? Jamey talks about you all the time at home. About how beautiful you are, but he said you don't like him. Why don't you like my brother?"

Lily giggled, James's little sister was so cute. Lily leaned down so she was Sarah's height. "You're right; I use to not like James. But, James and I are friends now. He's been really nice to me, and we are really good friends."

Sarah smiled, "Good. James is right, you are really pretty."

Lily blushed; it seemed James could be human with her and without her.

James picked up Sarah, as she was four years younger than him and very light, and looked at her in the face. "It's after dinner, and you little Miss First-Year, why aren't you in the Common Room?"

"I was waiting up for my favorite big brother!"

James chuckled, "I'm your only big brother…actually I'm your only brother."

Sarah giggled, "I think I should leave the two of you, alone," Sarah responded looking at the two older teenagers in front of her.

"No, because I don't want stinky old Filch to find you and try to give my baby sister detention for nothing, if he asks we'll tell him you're with us."

When the two Potters and Lily got back in the Common Room, Sarah leaned up and kissed her brother on the cheek. "I need to go find my friends now, bye!"

She ran off and he turned to Lily, "Wow! She's been so worried about me, and she sees me for five minutes and she wants to go see her friends."

"Ah, so is the life of a First Year." Lily giggled.

"Think it's funny do you?" James said starting to wrap his arms around her and Lily felt a kiss coming in.

"LILY!" Lily turned much to James disappointment, it was Cassidy. "Lily!" Lily let go of James and ran to her best friend.

"Great," James said aloud to no one in particular. "I've been rejected by two lovely women in the time of one minute to their best friends."

Sirius came and slugged his best friend in the shoulder, "Ah, buck up Potter. Sarah is just a little girl, and your luck Lily even talks to you."

"He is true, you know?" Peter said quietly.

"Aww, stuff it Wormtail." James said bitterly, "That's all I need to know. The two out of the three women I love most in this world rather females over me."

Remus and Sirius couldn't help but laugh, Peter completely confused.

Lily's POV

"Lily! It's so good to see you!" Cassidy said hugging her best friend. "You have no clue how much Gabby, Alice, and I have missed you. We've been talking about you none stop, hoping you've been alright with your Grandmother's death, and Petunia being a pest to you. Then we all know how much you hate James Potter, it must have been killing you to stay two nights and three days with him."

"Well, actually…"

"It's okay. Go on upstairs; I'll get your things. Paris and Heather are out snogging some new guys, and you need to talk to Gabby, Alice and me."

"But…"

"No, buts about it Lily. Now go, I'll get your things." Cassie said pushing Lily up the staircase.

Lily sighed, but gave in.

Cassidy made her way to where James had entered the portrait hole with Lily. James was still standing there, but he was talking to his best friends: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.

Cassidy bent down to pick up Lily's stuff, when James's hand stopped her. "What are you doing?" James looked around the room and didn't see Lily. "Where's Lils?"

"I'm getting Lily's things; she needs to talk to her friends. Who's Lils? A new girlfriend?"

"I thought Lily and I were going to hang out some, and Lils is my nickname I've given Lily."

"Lils?" They all asked, except James, at the same time.

"Why Lils, it kind of sucks Potter." Cassidy said giving him the honest truth.

"I liked it."

"Whatever," Cassidy said picking up Lily's things and marching up to the fifth year girls' dormitory.

Still Lily's POV

Gabriella was sitting on Cassidy's bed which was across from Lily's, and Alice was sitting on Lily's bed.

When Lily entered her room that she shared with her three best friends, and two enemies. Gabby and Alice jumped off the beds and hugged Lily as tight as they could and yelling, "LILY!" Lily smiled; it was good to have people that loved you.

Her parents, Cassidy, Gabriella, and Alice. Wow, it wasn't a lot but it would be good enough. 'You forgot James,' said a voice in her head. 'You know he loves you.' Lily pushed those thoughts out of her head.

"Come, come sit." Alice said sitting on Lily's bed and motioning for Lily to join her.

"I know it was your Grandmother's funeral and memorial, but I want to know how it was for James and you." Gabby said smiling and rubbing her hands together.

"What do you mean how it was for James and me?" Lily asked really confused.

Cassidy came in and sat Lily's bags at the end of Lily's bed, "You all didn't start without me did you?"

"Huh? Start without you?" Lily asked looking at her friends really confused.

"Well, we know you were really upset about your grandmother, and we are all really sad about what happened. She was such a nice lady when we met her, and we knew you were really close with her." Alice said, "But, you hated James Potter with a passion and all of a sudden he's going with you to your grandmother's funeral…and spending the weekend with you…what happened to all of the hate?"

Lily sighed, she knew she was going to have to tell them sooner or later…she preferred the later. "Well…"

James's POV

James was in his dormitory with all of the Marauders; Amos was in detention for being late for Potions, the other inhabitant of their dormitory.

"So why did Lily come to you in the first place? We all know how much she hated you." Peter spoke up sitting on his bed straining his neck to see what was going on.

James threw a shoe at Peter, "Shut up Wormtail, I know perfectly how she use to hate me."

"Whoa! You said 'use to,' Prongsie…what's up?" Sirius asked.

"Well…"

Lily's POV

"I had just gotten my letter from Petunia and I was really upset about my Grandma Rose's Death. Gabby, you and Alice were off with your boyfriends; and Cassidy you tried comforting me, but I just needed to be alone. You'd gone down to the Common Room, and I didn't want Heather and Paris to hear me crying so I ran down to the Room of Requirement…"

James's POV

"So I was talking to Cassie with all of you around and I looked at the Map and saw where Lily was. I had to get to her, and I just knew she was hurting. When I entered the Room of Requirement, that's where she was at. It was a big bedroom and she was crying her eyes out. She tried to shove me away and tell me to leave her alone, but I wouldn't I knew she needed someone. So I stayed and comforted her."

Lily's POV

"So I gave in and let him comfort me, and I started to tell him about my Grandma Rose and I let him read that awful letter that Petunia wrote me. He so outraged when he saw what she'd written me, and he told me that he'd go to the funeral with me…since I didn't have a boyfriend, and he figured I needed a date to lean on. I told him I wouldn't date him, and he agreed…we'd just act like it to make my sister mad…that James is hotter than Vernon."

"Oh, yes…James is a doll!" Gabby giggled, so did the rest of the girls and Lily just shook her head as she giggled silently.

James's POV

"So she fights with me about me going with her, but she finally gives in…when she realizes all that I want is to be there for her. So we go to Dumbledore the next day and he says that I can go. Lily owls her mum and she says I can go too, but we have to sleep in separate rooms…."

"Understandable," Remus said shaking his head.

"What?! Are you kidding me?" Sirius asked as if this was an outrage.

James went on, "So on Friday when we finally get to her parents house, Lily shows me where Vernon, Lily's sister's boyfriend, and I will be staying…."

Lily's POV

"So James meets my parents, and they all get along really well. Then he meets Petunia and Vernon, and he despises them very much. Petunia said that she and Vernon were sharing a room, and she didn't care what I said…so I had to share a room with James…but there were two different beds."

James's POV

"You slept in the same room!" Sirius sounded pleased, "There you go you old dog!"

"Didn't you hear what the man just said?" Remus asked worrying if Sirius really had any brains left upstairs. "They had to, Lily's sister was being a prat."

"Anyways," James said starting again. "So we have to share a room, but nothing happens. I'm there only to make her sister jealous, which the nasty bat hit on me, and to support her when she starts to get depressed again."

"Aww, that's no fun…she didn't at least kiss you?"

Lily's POV

"I did kiss him," she said blushing and all of her friends' eyes bugged out.

"I knew it!" Alice said happily hugging Lily.

Gabby just giggled, and Cassidy smiled saying "That old dog."

"He was just being so sweet, and I couldn't resist. The night after the Memorial, I was really upset and James crawled in bed to hold me…after I was calmed down, he went to get out of the bed…but I begged him to stay.

James's POV

"She what?!" Remus asked amazed that Lily Evans would do this…to James.

"Yeah, so I stayed…not because I've fancied her forever…or my hormones, but because she needed me and her eyes were full of pain. So the night after the funeral she was still upset, and we shared my bed."

Lily's POV

"So what happened?" Alice asked wondering really badly.

"Nothing, we just cuddled, and kissed. That's it."

"No way!" Gabby squealed. "There has to be more."

"Come on you guys," Cassie said. "You know Lily, that's all. I'm surprised there was even that…just days ago you hated Potter."

"Yeah, I know." Lily blushed.

"Now you fancy him," Gabby giggled.

"Now, I never said that!" Lily gasped.

"You didn't have to," Alice and Cassie said at the same time.

Lily threw her arms up in the air, "You guys are impossible." She walked downstairs and to the Common Room. She wasn't mad at her friends, but it wasn't like she really was falling in love with James. Sure she fancied him, who wouldn't. After you could see that he wasn't that arrogant, but golly he was gorgeous!

Lily entered the Common Room, to see one soul up in an armchair near the fire.

James's POV

The guys had been taking the whole thing with Lily too serious, Lily would never like him…or love him the way he loved her. They were just friends, James had been a very good friend to her this weekend. He didn't expect anything in return, except friendship.

The guys were taking it way out of hand, especially Peter and Sirius. Remus only congratulated James and went back to reading his book.

James was staring into the fire that he'd started by the arm chair he was sitting in…he heard a noise coming from the Girls' Staircase. He turned his head to see who it was…the last person he expected to see tonight…the Lovely Lily Evans.

James got up and meet her at where she was standing, "Lily." He whispered, "What are you doing down here…I thought you were upstairs with your friends."

"I…I was, but their talking about stuff that I didn't want to. I wanted to come into the Common Room, start a fire and watch it."

James smiled, "I already started it, but you can join me watching it." James motioned for her to go ahead of him, she nodded and did so.

They sat in silence for about thirty minutes until James finally said something, "Lily do you hate me?"

Lily quit fiddling with her fingers on the fabric of the love seat she was sitting on. "What?" She asked taken off guard.

James got up and sat beside her on the love seat, "I know you hated me just days ago, and I want you to be honest with me…do you still hate me?"

Lily looked taken back, but she smiled at him and it gave him hope. "James, of course not. What you did for me was so sweet, I can never thank you enough. I owe you so badly."

"No you don't." James said pushing it aside.

"Yes, James I do." Lily said smiling and looking into his eyes, her green eyes were making him melt and he wanted to kiss her so badly…but she didn't seem to want to so he wouldn't pressure her.

"No, Lils."

"James, please. Ask whatever you want, and I'll repay you."

"Fine, but I don't know of anything…could I get back to you?" She nodded and smiled.

Lily started to yawn and looked at the time, "Dear me! It's so late and we've got classes in the morning…we better go to bed."

James nodded, stood up and offered his hand to her to help her up. She took it and stood up, they were so close together…she could feel butterflies in her stomach…as could he. Their faces were getting closer and closer.

"OY! JAMES YOU STILL DOWN HERE?!" Came the very annoying voice, at the moment, of none other than Sirius Black. He walked up to them and saw what he'd just interrupted. "Oh, sorry guys. Go ahead; I'll just see you in the room." Sirius said walking back up the stairs.

"I should go," Lily said feeling that the moment was over.

"Yeah, I'll see you at Breakfast then?" James asked and Lily nodded. He pecked her on the hand and then on the cheek and walked to his staircase as she walked up to her's.

James's POV

James got back upstairs and began to change into his pajamas.

Sirius walked out of the bathroom and back into the room, "So, did you two kiss again?"

"No," James said bitterly. "A certain, dog, prevented that."

"Dude! Prongsie, I'm sorry…I didn't expect it…I just thought it happened because of her emotions at her mum's house over her grandmother."

"Yeah, so did I." James spoke up, "But, she really seemed like she wanted to…as if she trusts me…and she doesn't trust too many people."

"Well," Remus began, while setting down his book. "She's going to trust you after what you did for her. That's something big Prongs."

"Yeah, I guess your right." James said getting into bed.

Lily's POV

Lily came back into the room, all the girls were sleeping…Heather and Paris still weren't back.

'What whores,' Lily giggled to herself. She got in her pajamas and snuggled in bed. But, it was a little weird for her to go to sleep, without snuggling up to the handsome James Potter.