A.N. / Hello everyone! I hope you all don't hate me! My computer crashed, so I had to get it all fixed and then I've been working like crazy and when I come home from work I'm too exhausted to even get my little mind a working to even write a thing. I had one day off this week, and this is when I'm writing.


Chapter 33

Lily stared at James and Amelia in disbelief, she didn't expect James to jump on the relationship bandwagon so fast after his breakup with Paris and rejection from Lily.

"Something the matter Lily?" James asked Lily with an arrogant smile crawling across his face that made Lily want to kick James Potter in his shin.

Lily shook herself, "Yeah. I forgot that I had Prefect rounds, I'll just have to write my boyfriend Tyler later on." Lily began to walk out of the compartment, "Oh yeah and by the way congratulations on your relationship with Amelia. Hopefully you can get this one to last longer than your last two." Lily smiled her thousand watt smile and left the compartment.

"I better follow her, I have Prefect rounds to do too." Remus said standing up and leaning over to give his girlfriend, Gabriella, a goodbye kiss before he left.

"Damn!" James swore throwing his wand across the compartment.

"Whoa mate!" Sirius said ducking as the wand came close to his eye, "Trying to make your best mate blind?"

"Sorry Padfoot, I'm just frustrated."

"I see, but you don't have to take it out on the whole damn planet!"

"My plan didn't work!" James yelled outraged and Amelia pulled her hand away from James and began to read her issue of Witch Weekly.

"What plan?" Peter asked clueless.

"The genius plan that old James here figured up," Amelia said from behind her magazine.

"And that would be?" Cassidy asked wondering what old James Potter was up to now.

"Well he believes that if himself and I act like we are dating it will make the guy I want to date and Lily incredibly jealous and once they fall in love with the both of us, James and I cancel our relationship."

"I can't believe you!" Gabriella hissed at James, "Trying to con our friend?! How low of you!"

"What happens if only one of the two the plan works on?" Peter asked all whacked out.

"Then we still call it off," Amelia said shrugging her shoulders from behind her magazine.

"And you agreed to this?!" Alice asked yelling, which was very odd as Alice was usually the quiet one of the group.

Amelia set down her magazine, "Yes. Chris is only attracted by jealousy and James and I are good friends from back when we were little. Lily will cave in time."

"No she won't," Cassidy said shaking her head from across the compartment. "If anyone knows Lily Marie Evans, it's me. Lily is too stubborn and too smart to fall under this ridiculous scam. Both you and James are wasting your time."

"It's down right awful of you to do this!" Gabriella said still outraged and refused to talk to Amelia the rest of the train ride. Which turned out to be brilliant because Amelia really didn't talk to anyone and ended up getting up and going hang out with some of her friends.

When Lily returned to the compartment Amelia was still gone and James was asleep. Lily smiled, because she didn't want to make any contact with neither of them. Lily sat down beside an outraged Gabriella and when Remus returned Gabriella joined him by sitting on the floor. Lily laid down and took up the space where Gabriella was sharing with Lily and soon drifted off into a bizarre dream.

Five minutes before pulling into the train station at Hogsmede Lily woke up screaming and everyone in the compartment was looking at Lily in concern except Amelia Bones, she still had her nose glued to Witch Weekly. James was beside Lily and Lily thought it a bit odd as his girlfriend was on the other side of the compartment.

"Lily are you okay?" James had concern in his eyes and Lily felt her heart do a flip-flop, but she ignored it…she had to.

"Yes James," Lily said rolling her eyes. James felt crushed, the way she said his name hurt him dearly and Lily saw it in his eyes but she turned her attention to Cassidy.

"Why were you screaming?"

"I don't know." Lily shrugged, "All I remember from my dream was a lot of green light and crying." There was a cold shudder as everyone looked from one to the other with concern, but Amelia's nose was still in the magazine and obviously she hadn't heard Lily at all.

"Good thing you changed into your robes before our Prefect patrols," Remus spoke trying to change the subject. "Well be pulling into Hogsmede station within a few minutes.

Lily was grateful to be back at Hogwarts as she missed it so much. Dumbledore talked a bit before the feast began and everyone began to eat. The Head Girl and Boy of the year walked around to all of the school Prefects to tell them the new passwords. Soon dinner was over and the Prefects were directing the other students to their Common Rooms.

When they all arrived in the Common Room, Lily saw everyone sit in their usual spot and Lily didn't feel right with this yet. James's memory was back and she really didn't want him to start pestering her. Lily made up an excuse that she was tired and went upstairs and closed the curtains around her bed as she wrote Tyler a letter about how it was odd to be miserable at Hogwarts. Not being the first time, Lily cried herself completely confused at what she was going to do until she left Hogwarts for another vacation.

January passed by quickly and the sixth years began to get tons of homework to get them ready for the end of term exams, and get ready for their N.E.W.T.s next year. Lily buried herself in her homework, Prefect duties, and letters back and forth to Tyler. February came in nice and frosty and the Hogsmede Valentine's day was just a few days away.

Lily was walking towards the Great Hall for dinner with her nose stuck in yet another letter from Tyler, when she ran into someone and fell, "Sorry."

"You better be sorry Mudblood!" A shrill voice yelled at her, "Now I'll have to burn my clothes because your filthy blood has now touch me."

Lily picked up her things and looked up at the insane resident bitch, Bellatrix Black. "Oh since it's you I am not sorry I ran into you." Lily said rolling her eyes and beginning to walk off.

"How dare you speak to me like that Mudblood!" Bellatrix shrieked.

"Get over yourself Black and go shag Lestrange, that's all we ever see in the hallways anyways."

"Aww, Mudblood is angry because she was dumped for two Purebloods, Waters and Bones. Now the Mudblood has to settle with Dumbledore's grandson?"

"I told you shove it!" Lily yelled, "Why don't you go worship Voldemort some more you damned Death Eater!"

"How dare your dirty mouth mutter my master's name! Crucio!" Bellatrix yelled insanely and Lily instantly felt pain throughout her body. Lily wasn't sure if she was screaming, but if she was she wouldn't be surprised. Lily felt staggering pain and as soon as she thought she'd never feel right again…Lily felt the curse come off of her and Lily collapsed on the floor.

"Pertifucus Totalus!" A voice yelled and there was a sound as if a body fell to the ground. The voice that had yelled the last spell ran over to Lily and rolled her over. "Lily! Oh Merlin! Lily please tell me you can hear me!" Lily couldn't see the face clearly, but she knew it was someone who meant a lot and this person rested their head on her chest and began to cry.

"HELP! HELP! PREFECT EVANS IS DOWN!"

"Shhh! You'll wake her!" A voice yelled at another one.

"Stuff it Prongs! She's been out for three days now." Another voice hissed.

Lily groaned and her entire body ached, and Lily looked around to see James…but it was Tyler beside her bedside and it Lily. She wasn't with James anymore she was with Tyler and he leaned down to kiss her forehead.

"Someone tell Madam Pomfrey she's awake." Lily heard some feet run off and Lily still couldn't see perfectly but she knew it was Tyler beside her bed.

"She's awake!" James's voice said a bit shaky and walked up beside Tyler.

"Move back! Back all of you!" Madam Pomfrey said placing a tray on the bedside table on Lily's left. "Miss Evans do you think you can sit up on your own or do you need some help."

Lily tried but found out she couldn't move her body at all. "I need some help." Tyler went to Lily's right and Madam Pomfrey pulled Lily up on her left side.

"I need to exam you a bit and then you can visit with your visitors. Any questions?"

Lily nodded, "Why can't I see straight?"

"That sometimes happens with this curse. I have some Muggle like glasses to put on your face and I'll tap them with my wand and they'll go to what setting you need to see."

After a full examination Madam Pomfrey's suspicions were right. Lily had two broken ribs, a broken arm, a sprained ankle, and many bruises. Madam Pomfrey gave Lily a few potions to take that tasted like year old rotten eggs, and then Madam Pomfrey left for now.

"What happened to Bellatrix?" Lily said and felt that it was hard to talk and wondered why she hadn't noticed before.

"She got suspended for ten days, had a disciplinary action meeting with her parents, banned from all Hogsmede trips, and two months of detention."

"That's all?!" Lily asked outraged, "That psychotic bitch threw an Unforgivable Curse on me for Merlin's sake!"

"I know," Sirius said after explaining it all to Lily. "But you also forget that her father is one of the Governor's for the school and Bellatrix gets naturally all she wants. I bet all the gold in the world that my Uncle Lamar threatened all the rest of the Governor's to keep Bellatrix in school."

"Who found me?" Lily asked remembering that person saving her life, stunning Bellatrix, and weeping when they saw Lily down and calling for help.

"I did," James spoke up stepping from behind Sirius and Lily had forgotten he was even here.

"Oh," Lily said looking down at her hand in Tyler's and realized how uncomfortable this had to be for James. "Thank you."

James shook his head, "I had to. Your welcome." James then looked around and made up an excuse, "I need to go….I promised to meet Amelia at The Three Broomsticks."

"Sneaking out are you?" Lily asked with a smile on her face.

"No," James answered honestly. "Hogsmede Weekend."

"Oh no!" Lily tried to get up and every shoved her back down into her bed. "No no no no no! It can't be Valentine's Day!" Lily yelled outraged.

"I'm afraid it is love," Tyler said with a kind smile at her and Lily smiled at him and looked up at James…he looked heart broken and left the room. "I ruined our date." Lily whined throwing herself down into her pillow.

"No you didn't, that psychotic bitch did."

"Hey Lils," Cassidy spoke up and Lily looked at her best friend. "Tyler has planned a good Valentine's Day for you right here…so we're going to leave you guys alone and we'll come visit you later on tonight, okay?"

Lily nodded helplessly and Lily saw the bouquet of red roses, candy, and tons of Get Well cards.

"I was worried about you, but I couldn't leave school until yesterday."

"Oh no! How were your exams?"

Tyler smiled, she was always thinking of others. "Great and I know I passed with flying colors."

"Great!"

"So as soon as I was done I came to Hogwarts and haven't left your bed yet. I'm afraid I have to leave on Sunday night."

"Do my parents know?"

Tyler shook his head, "Grandfather didn't know if you wanted them to know or not but he did contact Mrs. Potter."

"James's mother? Why on Merlin?"

"He got her to tell your parents as they can't come to Hogwarts as they are Muggles. Mrs. Potter will be by later on tonight too and she'll give a good report to your parents."

"So since our Valentine's Day is ruined, now what do we do?"

"It's not ruined, we're just stuck here in the Hospital Wing….but don't you worry Lily, tonight will be great.

Valentine's day had been great indeed and Lily had a blast with Tyler all day and Mrs. Potter had come by later on that night and was thrilled to see Lily awake and wasn't mad at Lily for what happened at the party. Lily was relived and Sarah came by after Mrs. Potter left and practically threw herself on top of Lily's bed, Lily chuckled. Lily had always wished for a sweet sister like Sarah.

Lily found out she couldn't leave the Hospital Wing until Madam Pomfrey and Dumbledore agreed on a day which aggravated Lily a lot.

Later on that night Gabriella, Alice, Cassidy, Sirius, Peter, Remus, and Frank all stopped by the Hospital Wing to check on Lily. Lily noticed that James wasn't with them and Sirius made up a lame excuse about him studying in the Library with Amelia.

Lily was sad to see Tyler leave at six on Sunday night, but she knew that she'd see him soon again…hopefully. They'd have Easter Holidays and Tyler graduated Auror school a week before Lily got out of school, so they'd have the whole summer.

At eight thirty Lily was reading her favorite book, 'Charms for a Charming Girl.' Someone opened up the curtain around her bed and Lily was surprised to look up and see James. She hadn't seen him since when he left on Valentine's Day.

"Good Evening stranger."

James chuckled a bit nervous and ran his hand through his hair only to make annoyance to Lily, "Sorry about that."

"About what?" Lily asked innocently.

"About bailing really quickly on Valentine's Day…I just didn't want to get in the way of your Valentine's Day with Tyler."

"It's fine," Lily said smiling.

James's stomach did the usual flip-flop when she smiled at him and it pained him to know that she was with another man, but this is probably how she felt when he was with Paris. He still didn't understand why he had to suffer for what he did when he had no memory.

"Lily these are for you," James handed her some wild lilies.

Lily giggled nervously, "You'd think my boyfriend would know that I hate red roses, but love wild lilies…a bit weird that my ex-boyfriend knows."

"Lily do me a favor."

"Sure," Lily shrugged holding her new flowers in her lap.

"Don't call me you ex-boyfriend…just call me your friend. I already lost you, please don't rub it in my face."

"James…"

"No please let me finish this, I've wanted to run after you the night of the Ball and tell you this but I was afraid you'd slap me in my face because you were so angry with me." Lily looked hurt that he thought she'd slap him in his face, but he did have a point she was quite angry with him for thinking just like that they could get right back together.

"I understand you were worried about me while I was in my coma and that I broke your heart while I had my memory lost and started dating Paris. I began to remember things the day I brought Paris to the dress shop and you were there with Tyler. I asked Sirius who you were and how I knew you."

"When I saw you the night of the ball with Tyler it came back bit by bit. Somehow I knew if I kissed you at midnight instead of your date I'd remember, and I did."

"You were outraged by my tactics and refused to be my girlfriend when I asked you out again. Lily, I realize I hurt you and you may never be able to trust me ever again…but please know that I never meant to hurt you. I still care for you tremendous and even if I didn't I would have saved you from Bellatrix like I did."

"I hope you get well soon and you can forgive me. I'm not asking you forgive me and dump Tyler, I understand you care for him. But I'd at least like to be friends." James leaned down to kiss her forehead and left before she could say a word. James shut the door behind him and leaned against it, "I love you Lily." He sighed and then walked off towards Gryffindor Tower.

Lily had tears rolling down her eyes and she held the flowers that James gave her close, "I love you James." She whispered but knew that he didn't hear her.

Lily was released from the Hospital Wing on February 18th and Lily was ready to run back into James's arms and tell him that she was willing to dump Tyler for them to get back together…that was until she walked into the Great Hall for breakfast and saw James and Amelia Bones snogging.

Lily let out a sob and ran to her first class for the day, she was an hour early and Professor Flitwick looked at her oddly but he saw her put her head on her desk and began to cry and he snuck out before she knew anyone else was present.

February, March, April, and May flew by and Lily avoided James and Amelia at all costs. Lily continued to date Tyler and she was happy but deep, deep down inside she knew she'd be much happier with James Potter. Lily went back to hating James on the outside, but she knew inside she had feeling for him.

All her friends tried to convince Lily the reason she cried to sleep every night was because she was upset because she wasn't with James, but Lily kept denying it and after a while cut herself off from them. The only friend she talked to still was Alice Westbrook because Alice was the only friend that wasn't trying to push Lily back into dating James.

Alice knew how stubborn Lily was and Lily was going to have to have her heart minded before she took James Potter back. Alice could see that Lily still loved James, but she knew there was no way Lily was going to admit it. Cassidy and Gabriella were upset that Lily had pushed them away just because they were dating Marauder's and were associated with James.

Lily had cut complete contact with James, Amelia, Sirius, and Peter.

Amelia had finally lost interest in James and knew that James was only still with Amelia because Lily wouldn't take him back. Amelia liked snogging James and started to form a crush on James and knew that James was only snogging her to try and make Lily jealous.

The Sixth Years began to get ready for the end of term exams as it was only a week away and all thoughts of Lily and James getting back together were gone because of the endless studying. The Sixth Years took their end of term exam a week before school was out along with the first, second, third, and fourth years.

The night of the Farwell Feast the sixth years received their results from their exams. Lily had passed everything with flying colors, but she knew her Transfiguration grade could have been much higher, but she didn't worry about it because her Charms and Potions grade were perfect. Alice had done very well except in Charms, but her Herbology grade made up for it. Cassidy made the usual and was horrible in Potions….as usual and Gabriella's grades were pretty much the same.

James's grades were outstanding, but Potions was the one that hurt him. Sirius did good but not as well as James, of course. Remus did really well in all of them, and wasn't as surprised as the others when he found out James actually did better then himself. Remus knew that James had never studied before this year and the only reason James studied this year was to get Lily Evans out of his head. Peter did…well not horrible, but he could defiantly be seen at the bottom of their class.

The next day the Hogwarts Express left Hogwarts Castle at eleven o'clock and was headed back to King's Cross. Lily busied herself with Prefect duty and Remus did the same so he didn't look like a bad Prefect compared to Lily. James went to sit with Amelia and her friends for once. Sirius and Peter played Exploding Snap all the way back to King's Cross, and Frank jumped in the game every once in a while. Alice, Gabriella, and Cassidy all talked about Lily and how they were worried about her. Alice assured them that Lily was fine and that she was just trying to deal with her relationship with Tyler.

Lily jumped off of the Hogwarts Express as soon as it stopped and said goodbye to Alice, Frank, and a very surprised Cassidy and Gabriella.

Lily was excited to cross through the barrier and see her mum and dad there smiling at her, but she wasn't excited to see her horrible sister standing there scowling at her. Lily also noticed at ring with a small diamond in it on her left ring finger.

Lily loaded the car with her parents and was soon on her way to Surrey with her family and dreaded the summer as all Petunia would talk about was her Engagement to that big loaf Vernon Dursley.