Lily's eyes fluttered open to a white ceiling. For a moment she panicked, where was she? The remembered that she was at Rose's house, no this was not her room. Her room at Roses' house had been painted pink, including the ceiling.

She sat up and looked to the left of her where Rose was camped out asleep under a blue comforter. This is Potter's room, Lily though disgusted. The previous day flooded back to her head. The Death Eater, having to stay in Potter's house for the day because it wasn't safe outside the Potter's estate, sleeping on the floor of Potter's bedroom.

Lily flopped back down on her pillow. This had to be the craziest summer of hers yet. Especially since she was spending time with Potter and Sirius, whom were not on top of her favorites list.

The stirring motion next to Lily meant that Rose was waking up. Rose sat up and looked around the room and then to Lily. "Hey," Rose said sleepily. "Good morning."

"Good morning," Lily whispered not wanting to wake up the boys. Lily pulled her red hair in a pony tail the let it fall back down her back.

"Maybe today will be better than yesterday," Rose said yawning.

Lily nodded; anything could be better than what happened yesterday. "Hey you want to wake up the boys?" Rose asked standing up and looking in the direction of the bed, where the two boys were sleeping, both almost about to roll of the bed.

Lily grinned and nodded. She stood up pulling down James' large Quidditch shirt that she had been wearing. The two tip-toed over to the bed.

"One…" Rose said.

"Two…" Lily replied.

"Three!" The girls said in unison. The two sprang onto the boys, who woke up.

"Hey what's this all about?" Sirius said from underneath Rose.

"We're surprise attacking you!" Lily inquired as she sat on James, who was looking around as though trying to figure out where was.

"Oh yea? Well two can play at that game!" Sirius said grabbing Rose's wrist causing the two of them to go tumbling off one side of the bed. James pulled Lily off the bed by her stomach causing her to shriek.

James began tickling Lily's stomach causing her to shriek louder, "Stop James! Eek! Stop!" She said laughing. Lily grabbed her pillow from the ground and began pounding James with it. "Ha take that!"

Rose had done the same on the other side of the bed, beating Sirius with her pillow. "Ah Lily stop you win!" James said after he was lying on the floor and Lily was sitting on his stomach.

"What's that?" Lily said pretending not to hear.

"You win! You win! Just stop," James whined. Lily laughed.

"That's right you remember that!" Lily stood up. And looked over to Rose and was surprised to what she saw. Rose sat on top of Sirius and was bent over kissing him.

"A-hem," Lily said clearing her throat. Rose looked up.

"Oh," she said blushing getting off of Sirius quickly and standing up.

Lily smiled and rolled her eyes and watched as Sirius got up, unlike Rose, he wasn't embarrassed. "So anyone want to go outside?" Sirius asked pushing his hair out of his face.

Lily shrugged, James nodded, and Rose answered yes.

The teenagers gathered on James' backyard patio, "Hey Rose want to uh, go look at the gazebo?" Sirius said. There was no surprise that Sirius want make out with Rose.

"Sure," Rose replied and the two took off in the direction of the gazebo.

Lily was a little mad that Rose had left her all alone with Potter. In any other circumstances Lily would have gone wondering alone but not after yesterday.

"So uh- what do you want to do?" James asked sticking his hands down in his pockets.

Lily shrugged, she didn't exactly feel like spending the day with James but since he did save her from that Death Eater she did figure she owed him a little.

"Want to go to the lake?" James asked as he began to walk on the trail that was set before them on the ground.

"You have a lake?" Lily asked amazed catching up to him in step.

"Sure," James said shrugging as though it were no big deal, "It isn't that big though."

The two walked in silence until a small lake unfolded in front of them. "Wow," Lily breathed. The fresh new sun reflected off the glittering lake. "Can we go swimming in it?" Lily asked still looking at the lake.

"Sure," James replied as he followed Lily down the hill to the foot of the lake, she had already taken of the shirt she was wearing and had thrown it on the ground. Lily was still wearing her bathing suit from yesterday.

James took off his own shirt too, placing it on top of his other shirt, and followed Lily into the water. Lily turned around in time to see James stomach and muscles; she felt her mouth slightly open then closed it. I will not be attracted to Potter, she thought Lily closing her eyes and clenching her fist.

She reopened them and was glad that the water was now covering James' body for she wouldn't have any more of those kind of thoughts anymore. Lily laid down on her stomach on the pebble underneath her. James did the same and they laid side by side, one wanting to talk, then other wishing that they wouldn't talk.

"Evans?" James asked.

"Yea, Potter?" Lily said, they had always been on a last name bases.

"What's the real reason you don't like me?"

Lily looked away and rolled her eyes, this again? Could they not go one day without questions like that? "What's the real reason you like me so much?" Answered Lily with a question.

James said nothing for awhile and Lily figured that he had forgotten the question. But when he finally did speak, "I like you for you, even though you like to yell at me, I know you're doing the right thing, and I'm usually the wrong one. You stick up for people, because it's the right thing to do. You're a lot more mature than any of the others girl and you know what you want and you go and try to get it. And that's why, Lily Evans, I like you."

James stood up and walked out of the lake.