During lunch, Lily was still nowhere to be found.

James was quietly enjoying lunch when Sirius came in, and seeing the confusing look on James's face, ate his chicken to get his attention.

"Hey, what are you doing?" James jumped up finally, after playing with his food for a while.

"Whats wrong with you mate?" Sirius asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You've got that look on your face, something's wrong."

"Do I?"

"Yeah. What was that package you got today? Left without saying a word. Is that why you look so troubled? What was in it?" Sirius bombarded James with questions.

"No, no. It's got nothing to do with the package, it was just...some presents from mum and dad from their trip to Spain." James lied.

"Is it Lily then?"Without giving James a chance to answer, Sirius wenton saying "Look we'vebeen over this a million times. It was ages ago, you have to move on, theres no use inputting yourself through all this torture...go out! meet some more girls!"

"Actually, Lily and I are back together." Jamessmiled.

Ittook Sirius a moment to take in what he had just heard, after all the assumptions he had just made. "What? When did this happen?"

"Last night, we...had a talk."

"Well congradulations!"

"Thanks. I'm planning a special date tonight.I plan on sneaking her off to the shrieking shack and having a romanticdinner...you know...to make up for...well...you know..."

"Yes...I doknow." Chuckled Sirius.

"But listen...don't tell everyone else about this until after the dinner. I don't want anything to be jinxed."

"You've got it!"

James was just putting on one of his best robes when Sirius rushed in.

"I think theres something you need to see." He said, handing James a note.

James's heart fell when he read it.

Dearest James,

I've been doing some thinking, and I have come to realize that this may not be the best for us. I'm sorry...I can't make it tonight.Actually...I won't be able to make it any other night either. I'm sorry, but I'm afraid of getting hurt. You've broken my heart once before, and I'm afraid you'll do it again. I'm scared James, I'm so confused and I don't know what to do. I believe that it is best for BOTH of us if we simply remain friends.

Love always,

Lily

"Where did you get this?" James asked Sirius.

"Ruth gave it to me...I'm...I'm really sorry James." Sirius said as he left James alone in his room.

James looked out the window at the moon, thinking about Lily. Lily was also looking out the window at the moon, thinking about James. It was a funny thing this feeling inside for both of them. Such love was rare to find, yet such pain was hard to describe. It was the pain that Lily went through to write the letter, and the pain that James had felt as he read it.

It was hard even for Lily to pick up the pen, but what she had witnessed in the mysterious room that day was a bad a crime as betrayal. Walking back to Gryffindor Tower the night the Beauxbatons students left, she asked him if there was anything else that she should know. He replied that everything in his heart he had given to her, and there was nothing else. He had told her that his deepest and darkest secrets she already knew, and there was nothing between then anymore. Now Lily knew that he had been hiding the biggest secret he could keep from her.

She's not sure why James had took a page out of "Turning to the Dark Side". She had tried so hard to believe that he was trying to learn about how it is someone turns to the dark side, but her gut feeling had told her that James was evil. She couldn't understand why such a room existed in Hogwarts? A seemingly wicked room in such a purely good school. Then again, Slytherin had his chamber of secrets, maybe this was one of those rooms, because when she tried to find the room again, she lifted up the same tapestry and there was nothing but stone wall beneath it.

James didn't understand why Lily had wanted to break up with him. He wondered why she couldn't at least tell him to his face that it was over. Was she scared of him? No, thats an absurd idea, he thought. Had he done something wrong? Again? How could she kiss him and tell him he loves her one day, and hide from him the next? Love is a confusing thing, he thought. He had a love deep inside of him for Lily, a love that started the moment he had laid eyes on her, and a love which grew with time and finally surfaced not so long ago. Yet now, that love was buried under hatred, and jealousy, and confusion, and...of course...heartbreak.

They both took a breath, and said quietly to themselves, maybe it just wasn't meant to be...