A.N. / I know last chapter was really sad and here's the next chapter! Read, review, and enjoy!

Chapter 27

"Why do you keep saying that he is yummy? He's not yummy…" Remus asked looking at his girlfriend in awe.

"Remus is yummy, so why are you putting my friend down about calling that old man yummy?" Sirius nodded over and over again, he knew that he was right.

Remus turned to Sirius looking at him as if he was a crazy man, "Never and I repeat never call me 'yummy' ever again in our entire lives. Got it?"

Sirius nodded and Cassidy couldn't help but laugh at her boyfriend, "I've got to ask you…why on Earth would you call Remus yummy?"

"Well…"

"Not a smart question to ask him Cassidy, because the sad thing is that he'll actually give us an answer." Remus said shaking his head.

"Hello? Is no one worrying about what we've just seen?" Sarah asked looking at them all in outrage, "Lily just cheated on my brother! That slut! I mean I thought she really cared for him! I actually looked up to him."

"Okay honey," Cassidy said stepping in front of Sarah. "First off, James had no memory of anyone and it breaks Lily's heart that he doesn't remember her or show any compassion towards her. Second, Lily must have just found out that your brother James is now dating Paris, that slut, instead of Lily."

"What?"

"Uh huh, and third I bet that Lily ran into the first pair of arms she could run into."

"And it just so happened to be our ex-substitute teacher that Lily had a hard time choosing him over my brother, but in the end she ended up with James?"

"Yes, and now James has memory loss and is dating that slut Paris and has heartbroken Lily so she ran into his arms." Alice wrapped up.

"What do we do?" Gabriella asked.

"Hide!" Peter hissed, "Their about to pull away and their going to see us and think we were spying on them!" All the kids scrambled into the nearest classroom.

Tyler pulled back from the lip lock he'd just been thrown into by Lily, "Wh…what do you think you're doing?"

"What?" Lily asked feeling now more hurt than earlier, "Am I a horrible kisser?"

"No, no not at all." Tyler whispered breathless, "But I don't understand this Lily." Tyler saw a bench a couple of feet down from where they were standing. "Let's go sit on that bench and talk about it."

"I'm not ready."

"Lily you were ready enough to grab me and begin to snog me, then I really think we are ready enough to talk."

"I can't Tyler! It's too new, I'm heartbroken!"

"So you throw yourself at me? Second best am I?"

"No, no Tyler you are not. I'm sorry I made you think that, and maybe I did rush things by throwing myself at you. Oh geez you must think me a common whore."

"Nah," Tyler said sitting on the bench and motioning for her to join him. "You were just upset, but I'm glad you happened to fall into my arms and not some bastard that would treat you wrong and try and have his way with you."

"Still friends?" Lily asked with a weak smile.

"Are you kidding me? Lily I will always be your friend, I'm lucky to have such a lovely lady that would want to be friends with plain old me."

"You're not plain, and any girl would be special to have you as a boyfriend."

"And I'd say the same about you, but change a bit of the words." Lily couldn't hand chuckling at him.

The weeks pressed on and James's memory still hadn't returned. Lily's heart was broken and it was very rare that you didn't see Lily locked up in her room or off in the Library studying away. More like studying to hide all her pain. Tyler owled Lily everyday to see how she was doing, and he was being a very supportive and great friend.

Cassidy, Alice, and Gabriella tried to get Lily to open up but she just wouldn't at all.

Then Paris and Heather weren't making this transition any better fore Lily at all. In fact they were the main reason that Lily stayed locked up all the time. James was being very coldhearted, but then again he really didn't know how badly she felt or how badly he was hurting her. As James had no memory of ever dating her. Although he was starting to get use to the other Marauder's and actually doing things with them.

"So let me get this right? You live with my mum, dad, sister, and me in our Mansion?" James asked Sirius slowly again.

"Yes James!" Sirius practically yelled, "I've told you this more than five times now! My parents were really bad people and only wanted to hurt Muggles and they wanted me to follow after my brother and become a Death Eater. So I got sick and tired of them talking crap on me and I ran away. You talked to your mum and dad about it, and then they agreed that it would be fine if I moved in."

"So you live with us?"

"Yes. And when we go home for the Christmas holidays I'll go home with you and Sarah. Got it?"

"Yeah, I guess." James looked around the room, "Where's Paris?"

Sirius rolled his eyes at James, "Man you have to forget that whore and focus your eyes on Lily."

"Who?" James asked a bit confused.

"You know…your actual girlfriend."

"Yeah, Paris."

"NO! Lily Evans!"

"Oh red?"

"Red?" Sirius asked giving James an odd look.

"Yeah the redhead? The skinny pale one?"

Sirius looked at his best friend in awe, "This is too weird."

"What do you mean?"

"I've never heard you talk this badly about Lily. Hell you use to worship the girl until she finally gave you a chance and she accepted and started to date you."

"So you're serious about this? I actually use to date her?"

"YES!"

"But Paris said…"

Sirius rolled his eyes at his best friend, "You've really got to stop listening to what that slut tells you. Yes you use to date Lily. You've been in love with her since you first landed your eyes on her our first train ride to Hogwarts, our first year here."

"Wow, sounds like we have some history."

"Well, Lily hated you forever. And then you were really there for her and you showed her how much of good friend you could be."

"James?" Came a cheesy voice behind them that just burnt Sirius's throat.

"Paris," Sirius said through gritted teeth.

"Let's go and wonder the grounds," she said ignoring Sirius as he was one of, Lily's friends.

The rest of the term ended and Lily was only too glad. She was ready to go home and be with her family. She'd been too upset to tell her family about her breakup with James, but she knew they'd have to find out sooner or later. She decided she'd tell her mum on their ride back from picking Lily up from the train station. Then Abigail could tell Blake when Lily wasn't around and Lily's parents would threaten Vernon and Petunia with their lives not to taunt Lily about it.

On the train ride back home Cassidy, Sirius, Remus, Gabriella, Alice, and Frank all shared a compartment with Lily. The girls wanted to be close to Lily and the boyfriends followed them. Besides none of the Marauder's wanted to share a compartment with Paris and James, the human vacuums.

Peter and Amy were only where Merlin would know.

Lily was glad to have her friends surround her, but she felt a bit left out. All her friends were happy in a relationship and Lily was all alone in the world and she never felt more hopeless.

Lily had one thing to look forward to, Tyler and made Lily promised that the two of them would go and have some Butterbeer in Diagon Alley together. Lily said she'd go because she needed to pick up some Christmas presents anyways. When Tyler asked her why she just didn't go to the Hogsmede trip she'd been able to go to on last Saturday. Lily had told him she was too afraid she'd run into James and Paris together and that she didn't want to break down where anyone could find her again, and most likely this time there would be more than one person around.

Yes that's right, no one had brought up with Lily that they'd seen Tyler and Lily together and they'd all decided that was the best way to stick by it. Lily would get to upset, and the only reason Lily could keep cool at feeding times and in classes was because she was very attentive in class…yes more attentive than usual. Or she had her nose stuck in a book so she didn't have to see Hogwarts's new couple.

In a distant land….

"Seer!" A cold voice screamed.

The Seer jumped almost out of her skin, 'Can her ever just call me and not yell at my like a common dog?' She said shaking her head and entering the room her master was in.

"Master you called me?"

"Of course I did Seer. Tell me!"

"They have broken up."

Voldemort began to cackle and the Seer rolled her eyes behind her master's back, he was too immature at times. "Yes! I knew that fall to the ground would do it!"

"What are you talking about? It's not like you pushed him to the ground."

"You're right, but it is I that have the Imperius Curse on him to think that he is in love with Paris…and only Paris. That he thinks that the Mudblood is absolutely hideous."

The Seer nodded, "True. But let me remind you that it wasn't you that put that curse on him it was Lucius Malfoy."

"Shut up!"

The Seer rolled her eyes at her master, "How long do you think Potter will be able to fight the curse…you know once he actually gets his memory back."

At King's Cross Station…

The train had finally come to a stop, "Well I guess I'll see you guys after the holidays." Lily said shuffling her feet.

"Your don't want to see us during the entire holiday?" Sirius said in mock outrage.

"I didn't think that you'd…"

"Stuff it Evans. Look we'll all meet up Boxing Day at Diagon Alley and just hang out, okay?"

"That's cool," Lily smiled.

"You mean you're not going to the Potter Christmas Eve or New Years Eve party?" Peter asked actually sounding surprised and then he got a shove in the stomach from Remus. "Oh yeah…sorry."

Lily shook her head, "No…don't apologize." She smiled, "I should be going…my mum and dad will be looking for me." Lily then transfigured her hairclip into a dolly to push her trunk.

"What the hell is wrong with you Wormtail?!" Sirius asked outraged at Peter.

"What?"

Cassidy took her anger out on Wormtail, again. "She is still upset about the whole thing with James! Hell I think we'd all agree that we'd be as upset as Lily is."

"You act as if she loved him."

"Well none of us actually know that Wormtail!" She yelled at him, "Lily never confided in any of us to tell us something that personal. She was always studying or hanging out with James. And now she's a complete mess!"

"Well she didn't look too upset in Smith's arms," Wormtail said in a smug way and then he got a punch right in the nose from one Cassidy O'Brian.

"You bitch!" He yelled at her.

"You pussy!" She yelled back.

"Don't you talk about my girlfriend like that Wormtail!" Sirius yelled.

"Amy? You're not going to defend me?"

Amy shrugged her shoulders, she was a lot like Peter…she only followed the crowd. "You kind of got what you deserved. Oh! There's mum! Owl me!" She ran off without kissing him goodbye.

"Don't think things are going too well for you and Amy," Remus commented.

"Stuff it Wolf boy!" Peter said storming off.

"Wolf boy?" Cassidy, Alice, Frank, and Gabriella asked confused.

"What does that mean Remus?" Gabriella asked her boyfriend and he turned gray.

Meanwhile…

Lily was walking through the Platform, and looking for where you go and enter the Muggle World. Lily didn't pay attention to anyone around her, because she had no family in the Wizarding World and she really couldn't take seeing any of the Potters.

"Lily!"

Lily turned around wondering who on Earth in the Wizarding World would be calling her. She'd already said goodbye to her friends and she knew it wouldn't be James. Lily smiled when she saw the person approaching her.

"Tyler!" She said smiling and went up and hugged him.

Tyler pulled back to see the gorgeous woman in front of him, "How are you doing?"

Lily sighed, she knew he'd been worrying about her even though in her letters back to him she told him she'd be alright. "I'm okay. You know I've been better, but it just takes time."

Tyler nodded, "So where are your parents?"

Lily giggled at him, "Have you forgotten my background so easily. Too many Bludgers hit you upside the head?"

"That's right. I forgot your Muggleborn. Sorry about that."

"No it's fine don't apologize…wait a minute shouldn't you be practicing for your next game."

Tyler shook his head no, "I quit."

Lily's eyes bugged out of her head, "You quit?! That's unbelievable! But I thought you loved Quidditch."

"I do, but I realized it's not a job for me…more like a hobby. Playing it professionally just wasn't for me."

"So what are you doing now?"

"Going to school to be an Auror."

Lily's smile grew and it hadn't been that huge since the last time she talked to James before his accident, but she wasn't thinking about James at the moment. "Tyler that's great!"

"Yeah grandfather is really proud of me, although he'd be proud of me no matter what I did. Whether I became a bum or not."

"Well I hope you don't become a bum."

"Oh crap! We've been talking forever! My family is waiting for me outside! Would you like to meet them Tyler?"

"I…I don't know. I don't want to impose…"

"Tyler you are a good friend to me and I'm sure my mother would love to meet you. Please for me! I know my awful sister Petunia and her horrid boyfriend Vernon will be there and you don't have to talk to them if you don't want to."

"Sure I'd love to meet your family."

"Great!" Lily said with another smile. It was crazy how much Tyler made her feel so much better…it was as if he was her guardian angel and he was here to save her.

"Here let me get that."

"Tyler I can push my own trunk."

"I'd like to show you and your parents that I have chivalry, let me do this."

Lily shrugged her shoulders, "Alright whatever."

"Lily dear!" Abigail squealed running towards her youngest daughter, "Oh I've missed you so much! We all have!" Abigail pulled out of the hug to exam her daughter, "Your father had to work late today and that's why he's not here. Petunia and Vernon are meeting their Wedding Planner."

Lily began to choke, "W…Wedding Planner?! Are you freaking serious?!"

"Yes isn't it wonderful!" Abigail smiled and not noticing the horror that had floated onto Lily's face. "Their going to wait a year and a half. After you graduate from Hogwarts, and you'll be a Bridesmaid."

"WHAT?! I don't want to be on of her bridesmaid!" Lily screeched and got on going people to stare at her.

"Lily, really now! You've got to be and Petunia will be one of yours when you get married. I know how the two of you for some odd reason can not get along anymore, but at least I'm not saying the two of you have to be one another's Maid-of-Honor." Abigail began to look around and noticed a young man standing behind Lily that she'd never seen before. "Did you pay this young man to bring your trunk here? Why didn't James just do it…speaking of James…where is he?"

Lily felt her world starting to crumble and Tyler could see it in her eyes. "No Mrs. Evans, Lily and I are really good friends. My name is Tyler Smith nice to meet you."

"Are you a Wizard too?" She whispered.

Tyler nodded, "Yes but I do not attend Hogwarts. I graduated from a Wizarding School in America a few years ago."

"Well how old are you?"

"Twenty-one."

Abigail would have normally freaked out, but since they were only friends and Lily was still dating James, everything was alright.

"Lily dear you didn't answer me, where's James."

"I don't know."

Abigail gave her daughter a questioning look, "What do you mean you don't know? You should know where your boyfriend is at. You've almost been dating for a year."

"Wrong mother. We would have been dating two months."

"What do you mean 'would have'?"

"We broke up."

"Why?"

"James fell off his broom on a Quidditch Game and suffered some memory loss. He doesn't remember me and he denies being my boyfriend. He's now dating Paris, the school whore."

"Oh dear!" Abby began to hug her daughter, "Why didn't you owl me and tell me. I'm so sorry, if I would have known."

"It's okay, I'm fine. I'm fine. I've had a good friend help me get through this."

"Who Cassidy?"

"No."

"Gabriella?"

"No."

"Alice?"

"No."

"Then who?"

"Tyler?"

Abby turned to the young man standing next to her sixteen year old daughter, "How nice of you. You should come and have tea with us one day."

"How about tomorrow?" Lily suggested. Abigail didn't like this, she was only saying this to be nice…she didn't really want this twenty-one old man anywhere near her sixteen year old daughter…but then again Lily was an adult and she could do what she wanted.

Abigail put up a fake smile, "Sounds lovely. How about you show up at about three in the afternoon Tyler?"

"That can be arranged Mrs. Evans."

She smiled and put her arm around Lily, "Well we will be going. See you tomorrow Tyler."

"Goodbye Mrs. Evans. Bye Lily!"

Lily got out of her mother's arms and ran to Tyler to give him a huge hug, "Thanks for being such a good friend. And you do know if you don't want to come tomorrow you don't have to."

"Are you kidding me? Anytime I can see the lovely Lily Evans will be a treat!"

Lily giggled, "Alright see you tomorrow."

The car ride back home wasn't as pleasant as when her mother had met Tyler.

"Lily are you absolutely crazy?! Isn't the boy you told me you had a fit deciding between dating him or James."

"Yes mum."

"And now that James had dumped him you're going to see this Tyler as a rebound?! Lily he's much too old for you!"

Lily turned to eyeball her mother, "I don't care what you say! First, he's not a rebound! Second, we're just friends! Third, he's not too old for me! Fourth, I'm an adult. And lastly, it's none of your bloody business!"

"I like James better."

"Because he is near my age?"

"Yes and he's a very nice boy."

"So is Tyler! You're not even giving him a chance!"

"Sounds like he's more than a friend to you Lily, sounds like you've got it bad for this one."

Lily rolled her eyes, "He's just a friend."

"How much did you talk to him after James dumped you for Paris?"

"I ran into him after running out of the Hospital Wing, and I was so upset I kissed him."

Abigail swerved the car, "LILY MARIE EVANS! You didn't!"

"I did! And it's none of your business! Then Tyler would owl me everyday to see how I was doing and I'd owl him back to tell him I was alright."

"Sounds like he's got it bad for you."

"And what if he does?"

"Do you like him Lily?'

"I don't know."

"If he asked you out, would you date him…even though James just recently broke up with you."

"I DON'T KNOW!" Lily didn't speak to her mother any more during the car ride home and she only came downstairs for dinner.

Lily had locked herself up in her bedroom and wouldn't come out for anyone. The truth was Lily was completely confused. Was she really going after Tyler as a rebound off of James. Or could Lily really be seeing her true feelings for Tyler now that James was out of the picture?