In the chocolate store, Honeydukes, located in Hogsmeade, four teenagers that were most likely not supposed to be there ran out onto the streets.

"We're in effing Hogsmeade! I thought the students were only allowed down here on scheduled days?" The pretty girl asked.

"Well, technically, we're not allowed here. But none of the professors are here and I thought you could use a break from the Hogwarts food." James said as they made their way down the not the crowded street.

"James, I've been eating the food for what? Two weeks?"

Sirius waved a hand dismissively from the other side of Lily. "It's all the same. Now, let's pay Madam Rosmerta a visit." He started to walk faster towards a building that looked like a bar was inside.

The hanging sign that was above the entrance told Lily that they were going in the Three Broomsticks. Inside, there were little tables with all sorts of magical beings strewn around the room. Sirius was at the bar in the middle, shamelessly talking up a woman quite older then he. And it seemed that she was flirting right back.

"Who's that women behind the bar?" Lily asked James and Remus when they sat down at a table in front of the window.

The two young men looked over and then back with small smiles on their faces.

"That's Madam Rosmerta. Sirius has had a crush on her since first year. It's really sad actually. He flirts with her and asks her out, then she'll turn him down because he's to immature." James told her.

"Sounds like someone else I know back at the school." A voice said from behind them. Sirius had been listening and was now giving James a secret look.

"Who back at the school would be so desperate to ask the same person out from when they were eleven, to seventeen? It's stupid." Lily said.

Sirius took a seat next to Remus and across from Lily, glancing between her face and the slightly reddening face of James. "Why do you say it's stupid Lils?" He asked innocently.

"If after almost seven years of constant rejection, they still don't get to just move on, then there is some serious brain damage going on. If they don't like you, they don't like you. Suck it up and move on. Obviously they're not going to change their mind over night about how they feel about a person. I just think it's kind of pathetic." Lily said smartly. "James? What's wrong?"

She hadn't noticed, but sometime in her explanation James had put his head on the table face down. Sirius and Remus were giving him sympathetic looks.

James had never felt so defeated. He had tried for so long to get Lily to date him. Granted, it wasn't exactly as long as Sirius had been mooning over Madam Rosmerta. Still, three years was a long time, and it was mostly full of rejection.

Three years James had tried to get Lily and she just kept saying no. While Sirius was probably just after the older woman for sex, James really felt something for Lily. Even when he didn't know her and she was just some girl with red hair who sat in front of him in all of their classes, he knew that somehow, she wasn't just another pretty girl to look at.

And now she talks to him. Actually blows off the people who she used to hang out with to just have a conversation with him. It felt great. And at the same time awful because he's doing nothing but lying to her. Saying she was good friends with the Marauders. That wasn't true. Saying they had so many good times together. Not really true either. Saying that Lily and him used to date. That definitely wasn't true.

And if she ever does get her memory back…Lily would never talk to him again. No matter how far into the future it gets before she can recall anything of her former life.

I shouldn't have agreed to this, he thought. Out of all of Sirius' crazy and totally insane ideas, this one tops the cake.

And what a place to be having this epiphany. On your first fucking 'date'.

James started banging his head on the table repeatedly.

Stop beating yourself up over stuff you've already done. A voice in his head spoke, that once again, sounded a lot like Sirius. What are you gonna do now? Stop talking to her? Break up with her? You aren't even going out! You heard Professor Mcgonagall and Madam Pomfrey; the chances of Lily getting her memory back are one in a million. It's almost positive to not happen ever! You'll never get this opportunity again. Sirius' voice drifted off and James lifted his head.

"James, are you okay?" Lily asked from beside him.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine." He said, clearing his head. "What should we order?"

"Already taken care of." Sirius said. As soon as he finished talking, a big man with a furry beard (a/n: furry? Where the hell did furry come from?) walked over with four plates of different foods, and four bottles of butterbeer.


After the lunch, Lily, James, Remus and Sirius were back outside, walking in the warm afternoon sun.

"You know, in a few more weeks, it won't be this nice out." Remus said, looking up at the sky.

Lily sighed, "I know it sucks. I hate the cold."

The three boys looked at her in surprise. "You hate the cold? But isn't your birthday in the winter?" James asked.

"Yeah, unfortunately. You sound surprised at this."

"Well yeah." Sirius said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I've never known someone to not like the season that their birthday is in."

"Well, you do now. Hey, what's that store over there?" She asked, pointing to a storefront with all kinds of strange things in the window.

"You don't kno- oh, yeah, forgot. That's Zonko's Jokeshop." James told her.

"Looks interesting. Let's go inside." She grabbed James' hand and pulled him in. Followed by Sirius and Remus.

Inside Zonko's was all sorts of pranking objects. Teacups that bit the drinker's nose, bars of soap that turned hands pink, drinks that made you turn into your least favorite person for three hours, and fake wands.

Lily was amazed at all the stuff in there.

"Is this where you get all of your pranking stuff?" she asked James as they walked down an aisle that was lined with real looking masks.

"We used to live in this store practically. But now, we use our own charms and hexes for pranks. But we'll never turn down the classics, if the time calls for it." He told her.

"What's one of the classics?" She asked.

James looked at her, then walked towards one of the barrels that stood in the corners of the shop. He stuck his hand in and pulled out a brown rock type thing.

"Like dungbombs in the hallway." He said, throwing her the said dungbomb.

Surprisingly Lily was able to catch it easily and it didn't feel like a rock at all. In fact, it was quite mushy and velvety.

"What do you do with it?"

"Just throw it at something, or someone, and it will explode. Making gross smelling gas come out and drench the person with it. It's really funny to sneak them into the Slytherin's food."

Lily rotated the one in her hand curiously.

"Throw one at Remus." She said. At first James didn't think he had heard her right.

"What?"

"Throw one at Remus." She repeated.

"Why would I throw one at him?"

"Because I told you to, and you should trust me."

"I do trust you."

"Good. Now throw one at Remus." She said for a third time. She was quite patient, knowing how absurd she sounded.

Finally making up his mind, James took another dungbomb out of the barrel and finding his friend only a little way away with Sirius, he chucked it.

Lily and James watched it fly through the air, and with a loud splat! It landed on Remus' back. The area around Remus and Sirius was nothing but smoke in an ugly shade of yellow/green. The awful stench was traveling all around the store. The shopkeepers though seemed completely immune to the smell.

Soon the smoke cleared, but the smell was still in the air. Sirius was visible with a huge smile on his face.

"Prongs! That was great! Completely uncalled for, but gr-" splat! Another dungbomb had gone off in the store…right in Sirius' face. Once again the smoke came and James and Lily ran out before Sirius or Remus could think up any revenge.

The couple ran down the street and up a hill that led to the Shrieking Shack. A so-called haunted house.

James and Lily stopped just outside the gate that opened up to the field in front of the house.

"James, I heard this place is haunted. We can't go up there." Lily protested when James went to walk further.

"It's not haunted." He said a little amused. Lily gave him a skeptical look. "I promise! The shrieking shack is a safe place to be. If you ever want to get away, the tops of the towers or the shrieking shack would be the best places." Lily still didn't look totally convinced. James sighed. "Would I lead you into a dangerous situation? Don't you trust me?" He asked, repeating the words Lily had said earlier.

"Yes, I trust you."

"Okay then." James took Lily's hand and laced their fingers together, while leading her up to the scary looking house.

Inside the shack, everything was covered with either dust, or a white sheet. Mostly both. Unusually, the floor was dust free, but not totally clean. It looked like lots of walking had been done and the dust just got carried off to somewhere else.

"Is there any place to sit in here?" Lily asked, eyeing the covered furniture.

"There's a bed upstairs. That's the only thing guaranteed not to make you sneeze or bite you."

"Bite me!"

James didn't reply, just took her hand and led up the creaky stairs. The upstairs, Lily noticed wasn't as clean as the downstairs. On the floor, there was mainly one long streak of hardwood, where it looked like something large had been dragged. Towards the walls there were human and animal footprints, giving Lily the sense this was a familiar place for James or at least one of the Marauders.

They reached a door, all the way down the hall on their right. It opened to what must have been the master bedroom. A king size bed was still in the room with tangled sheets. The room wasn't clean at all and all the furniture was completely destroyed, except for the bed.

Lily took a seat on the bed, followed by James.

"So do you and the guys come here often?" She asked.

"Oh, every once in a while." He said, moving uncomfortably on the bed. Either he wasn't comfortable with the question, or he wasn't comfortable sitting on a bed with Lily. Or maybe it was both.

The two talked about nothings and somethings for surprisingly at least an hour. Holding hands the whole time and James seemed to like to play with their fingers when they were together.

"So why did you want me to throw that dungbomb at Remus?" James asked. Finally getting to the reason they were currently in the master bedroom of the shrieking shack.

Lily's face turned slightly red and she looked away at the wall behind her. "Ummm, well, I guess, ugh. Never mind, I can't say."

"Why can't you?" James asked softly. He had a pretty good idea why Lily would want to get him alone. If that's actually what she had wanted.

"Because it's too…difficult. I guess."

"Why is it difficult?"

"Why are you asking me annoying questions?"

"Why are you avoiding answering them?"

"Why do you want the answers?"

"Because I know why I finally threw that dungbomb at Remus and why I pulled you out of the store. Now I want to know why you threw the dungbomb at Sirius and why you followed me."

Lily watched him, watch her. They just stared at each other. Slowly moving in, with out even noticing.

Lily got tired of the slow moving crap and quite suddenly grabbed James' face and kissed right on the lips. It wasn't romantic and it wasn't special or sensual in any way. It was just two pairs of lips pressed against each other for a few seconds.

They pulled away from each other and you could have fried an egg on Lily's forehead, she was so red with embarrassment.

James chuckled slightly at Lily's blush. "How bout we try that again?" He asked.

Lily nodded and he leaned towards her, much slower then the first time.

James lightly pressed his lips against hers. Lily relaxed into the kiss and eagerly opened her mouth when she felt his tongue on her bottom lip.

Whatever James thought kissing Lily Evans was going to be like, it was nothing compared to this. Her mouth was so warm and her hair between his fingers was soft. Her arms hung loosely around his neck and she played with the longer hair at the back of his head.

Gently, Lily started leaning back and taking James with her. Soon they laid out on the king bed with James on top. His hands roamed to her sides and down to her hips. The little sounds she was making, encouraged him to move his hands even lower.

James slowly pulled away and Lily made to protest but James really needed a breather. A very short breather.

"We should get back to Hogwarts. It's getting late." He whispered.

"Or we could stay here."

"We have class in the morning."

"They won't miss us."

"You are going to willingly skip class?"

"It's better then moving."

James laughed and moved to the side of the red head. She rested her head on his chest and wrapped her arm around his stomach.

Before he wrapped her in his arms, he moved one of the pillows on the bed to behind him and put the sheet on top of them both.

"You're comfy." She mumbled sleepily. James chuckled lightly and when he looked down he saw Lily's eyes closed and noticed her steady breathing.

Leaning back onto the pillow, James closed his eyes and went to sleep thinking not even in wildest dreams did he expect Lily Evans would ever fall asleep in his arms.


A/N: Okay, so the ending sucks and I have to say I'm not too happy with this chapter. I personally think the whole thing is moving to fast. (with J and L) but I'm too lazy to change it and quite honestly, I don't want to re-write the chapter. It's been awhile between updates and I'm v. sorry about it. I'll try to be better at the timing.

I have some stuff planned that might make some twists. Might not. Meh who knows.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed! Please keep it up! (5 updates and I'll update much sooner then I planned!) (hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

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