A/N- Yay, I wrote another chapter! Aren't you all so very happy? Read and enjoy!

Oh, one more thing: this chapter is dedicated to one of my reviewers, Rebecca.

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Chapter two

"James what do you mean?" asked a 17 years old brunette to the tall guy in front of her, "Just what you heard Jessica, it's not working for me. I think we should break up." said James and ran his right hand trough his jet-black hair, which he could never tame. Not that he wanted to. Why should he when it's one of the things that attracted girls to him? Most of the female population in Hogwarts thought his hair was the most adorable thing ever. Suddenly Jessica burst out crying, "Don't leave me James!" she wept but he was already gone.

James walked a bit around the school. He was lost in thoughts and didn't notice where he was going. It was 2 weeks before graduation and they already took all of their exams. The only thing left to do was wait for the results. James wasn't worried about that at all. Why should he be? He was one of the smartest boys at school. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, his two best friends fell right behind him in grades. He was also head boy. How could he not be? His father, the famous industrial executive Harold Potter, was one of the richest men in the wizarding world demanded it. And what Harold Potter wanted, Harold Potter got.

He continued walking aimlessly until he heard a sobbing sound from one of the classes. Against common belief James wasn't mean. True, he changed girlfriends as often as his socks and seemed heartless at times (the girls didn't think so though, they could never blame him or hate him and more than often, his ex-girlfriends claimed that he still loved them, and were convinced that he was confused and what not), but James always had a weakness for crying girls. And that was what made him go and check out what was going on. He entered the classroom and true to his guess a girl was sitting on one of the desks crying. She had her back to the door and didn't notice him so he came closer to her. Suddenly she turned around and he immediately recognized those green orbs that stared back at him. It was Lily Evans, beautiful, smart, redheaded Lily Evans. She was his fellow Gryffindor and head girl. They were simple acquaintances even though they spent long hours together, first as house mates, then as fellow prefects and now as head boy and girl.

More then once his friends questioned the fact that he never made a move at her. She was what every guy wanted in a girlfriend- beautiful, smart, witty, kind and had a good sense of humor. She had long silky red hair and bright emerald eyes. Her skin was milky and pale and to top it all of she had a figure a girl would die for. But she wasn't all picture perfect, she had a redhead's temper. When she was mad you didn't want to get in her way, she was extremely stubborn (almost as much as James) and was independent (which drove away quite a few guys).

He never went after her for the simple reason that she always had a boyfriend, Amos Diggory, a Ravenclaw in their year. And James, even though he was a total ladies man, would never steal a guy's girlfriend.

Lily was one to always smile, she was never sad, which is why he was so surprised to find that she was the one crying.

"What's wrong Lily?" he asked and put a comforting hand on her back.

"Oh nothing, I'm just fine…" she said and sniffed.

"Lily I've known you for seven years and I have never seen you cry, not once. So don't bullshit me, what happened? You can tell me…"

At this she burst out in a new stream of tears, "Oh James! He left me! I can't believe he left me!" she exclaimed

He put his arms around her and pulled her in to a hug. She leaned her head on his firm chest. "It's O.K Lily, everything will be fine..." he said tenderly trying to calm her down while stroking her hair.

"No it won't be fine! I can't believe he did that to me! After three god damn years!" she spat moving away from his comforting embrace. She immediately felt cold and shivered.

"You're cold, lets get you to the common room." he said and helped her stand up.

"Alright, on one condition." she said with a childish tone and James laughed softly.

"And what's that?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"If you give me a piggyback ride…" she said as her eyes, once again, held their usual twinkle.

He laughed again and nodded, "Alright, hop on." he said and turned his back so she could climb on. She did and he was surprised at how light she was.

They walked around the castle and up the staircases while talking and laughing. It seemed that Lily forgot all about her break up with Amos. "Aren't you tired?" she asked as they neared the fat lady's portrait.

"No, not at all, you're as light as a feather. Besides I'm used to it you know, from Quidditch and all…" he bragged off and she laughed.

But it was too true; James had been on the Gryffindor team since second year and the team captain since fifth. He was a chaser, and a damn good one at that, all the years of Quidditch training really gave him a great body. He had broad shoulders, a six-pack, great abs and strong arms. He loved playing and wanted to go professional. He even received some offers, but his father forbid it. 'You will work in my firm and at time, replace me' he said, James hated working at the firm; he worked there every summer.

"Well here we are..." he said when they reached the portrait.

"Yes here we are…" she repeated.

"Anytime now Lily."

"Oh right, sorry." she said and got off of him. He noticed her cheeks were a little rosy.

"Cheese cake." said James and the portrait flung open to reveal the common room. "After you m'lady" he said and bowed.

"Why thank you my lord." she said and entered the room. It was completely deserted and the only sound came from the roaring fire.

"Well it's late, we better go to sleep." she said and headed towards the head girl dormitory.

"Wait Lily!" he called and she twirled around to face him.

"What is it?" she asked and he took a step forwards.

"I was thinking. It's not good to keep things bottled up inside, let alone sleep with them, so maybe you should tell me how the break up came about."

She smiled a weak smile, "That's very nice of you James, really you're very sweet, but I don't want to trouble you with my problems."

"It's no trouble! Really! I want to help you, and if it's by letting you ramble me to death, then so be it!" he said and pulled her to sit on the couch in front of the fire.

She let out a sigh of resignation, "Alright, well it's actually quite simple. Amos called for me today, and said he needed to talk to me. I though it was about graduation or something of that sort, but imagine my surprise when I found out all he wanted to say was…" she toke a deep breath "That he wanted to break up with me! He said we need to take our separate ways in order to advance in the world, or something like that, said he's still in love with me and that he'd still go out with me to the end of the year ball." she said and tears began to build up in her eyes.

"Don't cry Lily, he doesn't deserve you! You shouldn't even go to the ball with him!"

"I told him I wouldn't and that he could find someone else to hang on his hand. But now I'm afraid no one will ask me, it's only a week before the ball, everyone already has a date…"

"Do you want to go with me?" he blurted out before thinking, it caught her by surprise.

"Sure, why not, it'll be fun." She answered sweetly, blushing slightly.

"That's great!" he said and stood up, "I think I'll go to bed now."

"Yeah, me too, good night James. And thank you."

"G'night Lils, anytime."

A/N- How was it? Good? Bad?

I myself aren't too pleased about it *hits herself*, don't worry. I won't let you down, it will get better soon, I promise!

No worries, next chapter we'll see the Marauders and a little more background to the whole story…

I'm telling you right now: this is not going to be sweet and simple!

I said James is a heartbreaker and I meant it, if you catch my drift…

I want to thank you all for reading and for all the great reviews:

Alexandria Fairchild- Thank you so much! I'm so glad that you liked it, hope you'll enjoy this one!

Mooncancer- Yes! I am going to keep on going (as you can see), don't worry you'll understand everything that was going on, it's all part of the planning *evil grin*.

Rebecca- I dedicated this chapter to you because I know what you're talking about, I hate it when authors leave us hanging, don't worry, I'm not planning on doing that, even if I'll get tired of this story I will never leave it, I'll simple finish it early!

Also, thank you so much!!! A good romance novel? I'm touched, I know this chapter is not good as the last one but that's only because I wan't to get to the good part fast, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Also thank you Bread and Cheese and KV, I hope you'll like this one as well.