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James woke up the next morning, with Lily still in his arms and the sun shining through the ripped curtains. He looked at his watch and it was already 10:00. They were supposed to be in transfiguration right now. He made to wake Lily up, but seeing her sleeping peacefully, he decided one day of missed classes really couldn't do any harm.
An hour or two later and Lily woke up. Taking in James' sleeping form and the blanket that was laid on top of them, she guessed that he had already woken up. She smiled when she realized he had let her sleep. Taking after his example, Lily snuggled closer into his chest and rested her head on his shoulder, falling back into a dreamless sleep.
Remus and Sirius could not believe James and Lily. They had missed a full day of classes and couldn't be found anywhere. It was really starting to worry them when neither turned up after the final lesson.
"Where would they go?" Remus asked his friend on their way to put their bags in their dormitory.
Sirius thought for a second.
"Maybe Prongs is getting lucky." He guessed, using James' nickname.
Remus gave him a dirty look and walked into the Gryffindor common room, slamming the portrait door in Sirius' face.
"What did I say?" He heard Sirius yell from the other side. He smiled when he then heard the fat lady's voice yelling at Sirius for letting his friends treat her that way.
"Hey Remus." Remus turned around and was face to face with Clara.
"Hey Clara." He smiled at her and she turned a light shade of pink.
"Me and Gia were wondering if you knew where Lily has been all day." She asked.
"Sirius and I were wondering the same thing. James is missing too." He told her.
Clara gave him a confused look. "They aren't together are they?"
"They left together last night. We haven't seen them since." He confessed.
Carla's eyes got wide and when the portrait hole opened and Sirius came through, she mumbled thanks then ran up the girl's stairs.
"What was that about?" Sirius asked, having just walked over when he spotted his friend.
"She was asking about Lily."
"Those two better stop fucking around and get back to the castle fast or one of the professors are going to notice."
"Sirius! You don't know that's what they're doing!" Remus exclaimed while they made their way to the boy's stairs.
"I may not know exactly what they're doing," Sirius said. "But I do know Prongs, and I'm sure I have a pretty good idea."
After putting away their books and bags and Remus making Sirius do at least some of his homework, they made their way to the Great Hall for dinner.
Just as they sat down and started piling food onto their plates, the noise in the hall suddenly came down to scattered whispering. Remus, noticing the sudden drop in noise level stopped spooning mashed potatoes and looked around. Everyone seemed to be looking up at the doors and sure enough, standing there were James Potter and Lily Evans holding hands and wearing the same clothes that theyhad been wearing the day before.
Remus nudged Sirius and he finally noticed the couple also. It seemed though, that James and Lily didn't notice anything different. Lily was laughing along to some joke James had just told and he was smiling down at her.
Everyone in the hall was speechless. Yes, the whole school knew that James had a crush on Lily, since he asked her out at every possible chance. But it was also a fact that Lily couldn't stand James. No matter what he did, whether it was funny or not. She hated him. And these past few weeks she seemed all buddy-buddy with him and the Marauders, who she also hated. And now they came into the Great Hall for dinner, laughing and holding hands while they had been missing the whole day. Suspicious? Only a little.
Slowly the noise level went back up to normal as James and Lily made their way down the table to where Remus and Sirius were.
"Yes! Mashed potatoes!" Lily exclaimed while getting into her seat across from Remus with James at her side.
The two got food, (a lot since they hadn't eaten since lunch the day before) and started eating like nothing odd was happening.
Sirius and Remus, however, wanted answers. So they sat there. Looking at their friends who were flirting back and forth and eating from each other's plates.
"Well?" Sirius finally said when he couldn't wait any longer. "Don't you two have something you would like to say to us?"
Lily and James looked up from their food and then each other and then back at Sirius.
"What do we have to tell you?" James asked.
"Gee, I don't know. Maybe where the hell you two have been all fucking day!" He said coldly. He definitely hated being left in the dark, and that was exactly what was happening.
"Mr. Black has a very good point." The teenagers looked behind them and saw Mcgonagall giving James and Lily a look that clearly said, 'you had better have a good explanation or get ready for detention for the rest of the year'. "Where have the Head Boy and Girl been all day?"
James opened his mouth to repeat some lie he probably already used before, but Lily beat him to it.
"Well professor, me and James needed to have a Heads meeting and it turned out a lot longer then we thought it would." James winced. That wasn't going to work. No one would believe that. But she wasn't finished. "Then I asked for some extra help in some of my classes because I was still a little behind from, you know, everything. Accidentally we fell asleep early this morning and didn't wake up until after classes had ended. We're really sorry professor and promise not to sleep through classes ever again." She smiled at the end of her apology and waited to see if the older women would buy it.
Lucky for them she did.
"Alright. Don't do it again. And next time you want to have a Head's meeting, please inform me or Professor Dumbledore." With that she turned around and left the hall.
Lily turned around to find three smiling faces in her direction.
"What?" She asked innocently.
"You just lied to a teacher." James said, putting his arm around her waist to bring her closer.
"I did not, I only exaggerated the truth. We did sleep through classes. Just not all of the classes." She said and she smiled when James leaned his head in and kissed the spot where her neck meets her shoulder.
Later that night, after Lily left to go back to the Head's room, James stayed with his friends and the four of them, Sirius, James, Remus and Peter were in the 7th year boy dorms joking around and just having a good time.
"So Prongsy," Sirius asked.
"So what?"
"What were you and the lovely Lily really doing all day and all night?" He asked it with an innocent tone, but they all knew what he was thinking.
"There was none of that, Pads." James told him from the floor that he was laying on.
"None of what? I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You know what I'm talking about. Whatever your sick and perverted mind is thinking of right now. There was none of it."
Remus and Peter shared amused looks. They knew what Sirius was trying to do. He was going to make James say what they did or didn't do out loud.
"James, if you're thinking about what you thought I was thinking about then obviously you must be the one with the perverted mind since you had to have been thinking the nasty thing that I was supposedly thinking of."
James looked confused and so did Peter. But that was no big surprise. Remus smiled at Sirius, who was also smiling, although a bit bigger then Remus' since he knew he was winning against James.
"So, did you two do anything that Professor Dumbled-"?
"We didn't fuck Sirius! We kissed! That was it!" James' patience had run out and couldn't stand to see that knowing smile that Sirius would have if he didn't find out. Plus, James had been planning on telling Sirius anyway. They just didn't have secrets from each other.
"Just kiss? That's it? You're gone for the entire night and all day today and all you did was kiss? It couldn't have taken that long to kiss, ask her out, kiss again and that's it Sirius said skeptically.
"Well, she fell asleep and I didn't want to wake her up. Then I fell asleep and we didn't wake up until the next day when classes had already started." He explained.
"She fell asleep when you were in the middle of kissing her? James, mate, don't go around bragging bout that. Okay?" Sirius said.
"No! She was lying on the bed when she dozed off and we weren't kissing that time!"
"So now there's a bed and still nothing happened! I'm thinking you're about to tell me you had all your clothes off too, but nothing happened."
James was getting tired of going around in circles. It was really starting to get on his nerves when finally someone other then Sirius asked him a question.
"Where were you that has a bed?" Peter said from his bed.
James silently cursed. He had hoped that that question didn't come up. He honestly had no idea how his friends would react if they knew where he had taken her. But he knew that he couldn't avoid the question and should just get it over with.
"The shrieking shack." He mumbled while bending his head down.
"Sorry, couldn't quite hear that, but it sounded like you just said 'the shrieking shack'." Sirius said with disbelief.
James nodded yes, Sirius had heard him correctly. The silent tension could have been cut with a knife. None of the young men dared to move. Three of them cause they were to shocked, slowly moving towards angry, and the other one because he was to worried about which body limb they might chop off if he moved to fast.
"So," Peter started slowly. He didn't like awkward silences and even though he was mad at James, he would rather have everyone yelling then the silence.
"Look," James began, slowly standing up. "I'm pretty sure that you guys are mad at me for taking Lily there, and you have very right to be. But I didn't tell her about anything that we do there and she doesn't know about the names or anything. We were just trying to get away from you guys in Hogsmeade. I swear she doesn't know anything." He said, casting wary glances at them.
Peter seemed fine with this explanation and was searching through his trunk for some chocolate. Sirius was a little less giving to his friend. But he knew that James wouldn't lie to them and he definitely wouldn't betray their trust. Even Remus was looking a little more relieved after this explanation.
"She doesn't know anything right?" He asked James.
"Not a thing." He promised.
Remus nodded his head. "Okay then."
James was immensely pleased that no one had tried to kill him or not talk to him for a month like what happened with Sirius two years ago. Although what he did might have been much worse and much more of a betrayal then James taking Lily to the shack, he still had his worries.
"Thanks you guys. But I should get going. Can't miss class again!" He said while opening the door to leave.
"Make sure you change your clothes in the morning!" Sirius yelled after him.
"And use protection! We don't need little Prongs' running around the school! One Potter is enough for now!" The ending of Sirius' 'advice' was a little muffled, since James closed the door in the middle. But he was still able to hear it and the laughing that followed from everyone inside.
James didn't have to worry about getting caught in the halls just after curfew since he was Head Boy and could say he was patrolling and besides, the halls were completely empty. He went to the Head's room and planned on talking to Lily, but when he got inside, her door was shut and he assumed she was sleeping. He didn't want to wake her up, so he slipped into his own room and after changing and taking a shower, fell asleep.
When James had entered the common room and had assumed Lily was asleep, he was wrong. The red head was actually wide-awake. She couldn't sleep. Not after what happened on her way back from the Gryffindor common room.
She had said goodbye to the Marauders and James got a quick peck on the cheek, then she left for her and James' room.
It wasn't curfew yet. She still had a good fifteen minutes until then, so she wasn't worried about getting caught. But the Hogwarts castle was still a little unfamiliar to her and even though she had gone down to her room everyday since she lost her memory, she had only gotten there from the Gryffindor tower once before, and she had been with James and Sirius. So it's safe to say she hadn't exactly been paying attention to which way they had been going.
Anyway, somewhere by the second staircase and third knight she passed did she realize that she was in fact lost and had no idea how to get back.
She turned around to try to follow her footsteps back to Gryffindor, but instead she slammed into the chest of someone and landed on the floor.
"Sorry, didn't see you." She said while standing back up. She was a little ticked off that the person she had walked into hadn't even helped her up.
But when she was face to face with the person, she knew why. In front of her was none other then Lucius Malfoy. Taking a quick look over his shoulder, she saw Severus Snape also.
"Well, well. If it isn't the little mudblood, blocking my way." Lucius smirked at her.
"Watch what you say, Malfoy." Lily said as she backed up a little bit.
"Oh, that's right. I wouldn't want your boyfriend or his annoying friends to come and attack me." He said, exaggerating on 'boyfriend'.
"Is there something you wanted Malfoy, or do you just enjoy walking into people and then calling them names?" She was tired and her patience was wearing thin. She tried to side step him, but he moved in her way and Snape had moved forward incase his friend needed help.
"Do you even know where you're going Evans? You could ask for help if you're lost." He smirked at her again.
"Were you following me? Did you watch me get lost? You could have said something!"
"And miss having this little chat? I don't think so."
"Malfoy, I swear if you don't fucking move then,"
"Then what? No, I don't think you'll do anything. Besides, I have a question for you."
"That's nice. Why don't you ask me at the prefect meeting next month. I would really like to get to my room now, so if you don't mind." Again she tried to move away from the two slytherins, but again, they got in her way. Getting frustrated, she turned around and started going in the direction she had headed in the first place.
"You know that's the wrong way." Malfoy's voice carried over to her. She could hear the amused smirk that was sitting on his face. God, did that kid ever stop smirking!
"You could help me out and point me in the right direction." She said when she had stopped and turned around.
"Only if you answer the question."
"Fine! What is it?"
"How come you can't find your common room?"
"That's it?" Lily laughed and turned around, only to turn back. "You follow me around the castle, watch me get lost and don't even help so you can ask me why I'm lost. That has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard of in my life." She was walking away again and this time she heard them following.
"Me and Severus here have a possible reason as to why you're lost."
"Oh, really? Please enlighten me."
"Could it possibly have something to do with that little fall you took during quidditch practice?"
That made Lily stop walking. How the hell could he know about that? The professors made sure everyone who had been there wouldn't tell anyone so it wouldn't be the next gossip for the students.
"Who told you about that?" She wasn't going to even try to play dumb, since he already knew what happened.
"No one told me. I was there."
"You're not in Gryffindor."
"Me and Severus were checking out the competition. Nothing illegal. But we didn't hear anything about your condition so we took a few guesses here and there…" He trailed off and he was walking away in the opposite direction. Lily wasn't going to let him go that easily.
"How did you figure it out? Was it obvious?" She followed Snape and Malfoy until they slowed down so she could walk at the same speed.
"We had different scenarios about what happened with you, but we were never 100 percent positive about anything. We were leaning towards one that made the most sense as to why you were acting so differently. Then tonight, when you had walked into dinner attached to Potter, well, there was no denying what happened. You had lost your memory."
Lily was confused. "How would me walking into dinner with James explain it all?"
Here Lucius and Severus laughed. "If you don't know, I'm sure you'll find out soon."
"No, tell me now."
Lucius stopped walking and so did the other two. He stared straight into Lily's green eyes and she was a bit taken back by it. "Does anyone in this school piss you off?" He chuckled a little at her face when he asked that. "I mean, do you honestly hate anyone?"
Lily thought it over a little bit. Yes, people pissed her off. But it was hard not to. The first person that came into mind was Gia and then Carla. But she didn't really spend enough time with them to see if she truly hated them. But the professors certainly made her mad. And she was real close to blowing something up her first few days back to classes so yeah; I guess she knew what it was like to really hate someone. At least for a period of time.
She nodded her head and Lucius smiled. Actually smiled. It wasn't particularly nice, more like a smile if he just got revenge on the person whom he hated to most.
"The person, or people you're thinking about, is it Potter and his friends?"
Lily's eyes widened. Why would he think that? They're the only people she can talk to.
"Of course it isn't them. They're my friends. The only ones at this point."
"Well, let me tell you, that it was obvious what happened to your memory because if I had asked you that same question a year ago. Even in the beginning of this year, you're answer to that would have been a yes." He smirked at her one more time then him and Snape walked away leaving a very confused Lily in the middle of the hallway.
When she realized she was alone again, she panicked that she didn't know where she was. Again, she hadn't paid attention to where they had gone. But when she looked around she saw the familiar portrait of a fat man from the 1500's, with a small mustache and not a lot of hair. It was the portrait that led to the Head common room.
She checked over her shoulder to make sure Malfoy and his friend had really gone and then muttered the password just in case they decided to stay in hearing range.
When she eventually got into bed, she didn't even try to sleep. Only a few minutes later and she heard James walk through the portrait and she was glad that he didn't come in to see her.
Why would James and the guys make me mad? She thought. It just didn't make any sense.
Peter, okay, so she could see where he might piss her off sometimes, but James, Remus and Sirius? No frickin' way could they make her that mad. Why would before, she hate them, and then she loses her memory and poof they're all best friends?
It gave Lily something to think about and it wasn't until a few hours later that she fell into a fitful sleep, dreaming about dating the giant squid and all the prefects with pink hair.
A/N: so that's that chapter. I have to say, the conversation with Malfoy…not to happy with that, but again, I'm just too lazy to change it and I don't think I could do any better then that…so anyway! As always review! And thanks to anyone who pointed out mistakes. I type fast and I forget about different grammar stuff that the spell check doesn't pick up cause it's spelled right. So sorry bout that, I'll try to be better bout reading it over and stuff..
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