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The next evening around quarter to six Lily headed out of the common room after saying a short goodbye to Meg (Ashleigh was still at the quidditch tryouts) and made her way to the room in which the prefects meeting was to be held. When she arrived the room was empty so she sat down and began to unpack a quill and piece of parchment from her bag.

After a while the door creaked open and James stepped in looking thoroughly pleased about something. He sat down a short distance from her. A few awkward seconds passed in which neither moved nor spoke. But then James who seemed as though he would burst if he didn't speak to someone finally said.

"Your friend Ashleigh is a fantastic chaser. We chose her for the team. It's just a pity we didn't have her last year it would have made winning just that much easier."

"Oh what, finally acknowledging that I have friends are we?" she retorted not looking at him.

"Look I'm sorry about the other day, I don't know what came over me. Will you forgive me?" he said with a hint of desperation in his voice.

Lily looked up at this disgusted by his ignorance "You have no chance of gaining my forgiveness if you are only apologising for the other day. You owe my six years worth of apologies for making my life here hell!"

"I just thought that maybe we should put all that behind us you know and start over this year? It will make our job easier." He said nervously looking down at the table.

"Easy as that hey? Don't you think it is extremely superficial of you that it has taken my becoming thin to get an apology from you." She said coolly sitting back into her chair and folding her arms.

"I've changed this year," he said softly.

"Yeah? Prove it." She said with conviction as the first of the prefects entered.

"Congratulations!" Cried Lily drawing her friend into a tight hug.

"For what?" Ashleigh said pushing her friend away.

"For getting onto the team." She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"How do you know, none of us have been told yet." Ashleigh said looking at her friend curiously.

"Potter told me just before." She replied

"Hang on, you two actually spoke?" said Meg, amazed.

Lily proceeded to tell her two friends of the conversation she had had with James prior to the meeting and they spent the rest of the night discussing it.

"Maybe he was trying to make a fool out of you I mean why would he tell you before he told me?" asked Ashleigh sounding puzzled.

"I don't know but he sounded pretty sincere," replied Lily equally puzzled.

"I sure hope you're right because I really want to be on the team." She said with a loud sigh. "I'm going to bed, I've had enough excitement for one day."

Lily turned back to Meg and changed the subject. "So have you asked him out yet?" She said hoping to catch Meg off her guard.

"I don't know what you are talking about" Meg said stiffly avoiding Lily's gaze.

"I dare you to go and ask him, go on." Lily said, smiling.

"You know if you are going to dare someone to do something you should at least give them all the details." She said trying to retain her counterfeit ignorance.

"He sitting over there by himself." Lily said, looking over in his direction.

"And you think I hadn't noticed" she then realised what she had said and clapped her hand over her mouth. This was exactly what Lily had been waiting for and a smirk grew on her face.

"See you in the morning dearest" Lily gave her a wink and then headed up the stairs to the dormitory leaving a horrified Meg still sitting in the chair by the fire.

Just then Remus got up and made his way over to where Meg was sitting.

He spoke rather nervously to her, making her tense "um… I was just… just wondering if you would… give me a hand with my charms homework" with that Meg breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah sure, but you would probably be better off asking Lily." She said unable to believe her luck.

"Maybe, but she isn't here at the moment." He said.

"She was here only a second ago," She said a little confused.

"I didn't need help a second ago," he replied sounding uncomfortable.

"Fair enough then," she said seemingly unconvinced "What do you need help with?"

Lily was awoken early the next morning by loud chanting and a dull thud. She sat up, rubbed her eyes and pulled the curtains from around her four-post bed. Meg was on the floor in a tangle of blankets and Ashleigh was dancing around the room to her chant of "I got in, I got in, I got in…"

"What's going on?" Meg said groggily trying to untangle herself.

"…I got in, I got in, I got in…"

Meg groaned loudly and slumped back into her sheets.

"…I got in, I got in, I got in…"

"Oh will you shut up!" cried Lily pulling a pillow over her head.

"…I got in, I got in, I got-" Ashleigh's chant was cut off by a flying pillow that hit her square in the face, toppling her off the bed she was jumping on. She poked her head up over the edge of the bed and whispered.

"I got in, I got in!"

The two girls groaned and yelled at her to get out. When she was at the door she turned and yelled

"I GOT IN!" she closed the door just in time to avoid a shower of pillows flying towards her.

Once downstairs, James, who was the captain of the team, made a beeline for her. There was an obvious spring in his step.

"We're having an extra practise tonight at 7. Oh and McGonagall asked me to give you this." He handed her a long thin package.

"Thankyou" she said trying to conceal her excitement. She unwrapped it with trembling fingers and out fell the new shooting star broomstick.

"Can I have a look?" asked James avidly.

"Sure" Ashleigh replied looking ardently at the broom.

"Wow, this is a really great broom" he exclaimed, examining the broom from all angles. "Do you recon I could have a go tonight?"

"Yeah, but at the end." She said hesitantly.

"Great" he said rubbing his hands together enthusiastically.

A/N: Yeah that's another chapter done. don't forget to review!!!