The next morning Lily woke up with a desire to see James, talk to him, just be in his presence again. But then she though no, he's keeping secrets from me, terrible secrets. She wasn't sure who she could trust anymore. James was the one person she could talk to. He was her best friend, and the person she trusted the most, because they were going to fight voldemort together. Everything she thought to be truth were no longer.

She walked downstairs into the common room and saw James sitting on the couch. He sensed her presence and stood up.

"Let's take a walk." He said.

She wanted to say yes, she really did, but she wasn't sure if she should. She opened her mouth to say no, but "okay" came out instead.

They walked to the lake, to the same spot where they had professed their love so long ago.

"So..." James started, but couldn't think of exactlythe right words to say. "Is it...I mean are we...is this...are we really..."

"Yeah..." Lily knew what he meant. "It's really over. I'm sorry James."

"But...but...why? What happened Lily? I thought everything was fine." He was trying to understand, and torturing himself to figure it out.

"Right...WAS..." What else could she say?

"Well what made it...not...fine?" James wanted to cry out, but he decided to stay strong. But Lily could see that he was crying on the inside.

"It's...complicated...I mean..." She wanted to ask him about the mystery room, but didn't want him to know that she had spied on him. He would hate her for that. "Look..."

"What?" He asked softly.

"It's just that we've been together for only a couple months, and we've broken up so many times. I don't think I can put myself through any more pain." She said.

"But you won't have to go through any pain. Nothing has come between us this time..."

"Yet." Lily interupted.

James took her hands in his and said, sincerely, "Nothing will...I promise you that. I will protect you."

"No...no James, not this time. I don't think you can."

"Lily..." He ran his fingers through her hair and put his hand on the side of her face.

"James. If you don't want to hurt me then please...just let me go." She was now crying.

He took his hands off her face and out of her hair and into his pocket. "So...is this really the end?"

"I think so..." She said as she wiped off her tears with her sleeve.

"If that's what you want..."

"Yes..." She turned around and started to leave.

"But wait...Lily..." He called after her.

She stopped but didn't turn around to look at him.

"Why? Why now? What happened please tell me. I deserve an explaination."

She turned her head slightly, and then slowly turned her whole body around to face him.

"We're just...different..."

"Different how?"

"Different as in...different people..."

"HOW?" He screamed as he started to cry.

"We're not the same people."

"We've established that keep going..."

"I'm not the same person that I thought I was...and you're not who I thought you were...James...I don't know who you are! You're not who I thought you were..." She said as she turned and ran back towards Hogwarts.

James stood by the lake and watched her walk away. He wondered what he had done to hurt her, why did she suddenly want to end this once and for all?

But no...there is a situation more important at hand. It was bigger than the two of them. He reached into his pocket where he found 3 strands of long red hair. Then he started towards the forbidden woods and said to himself, "I'm sorry Lily, but I have to do this."

10 minutes into the woods he found a small wodden hut in a little clearing. Inside the hut was a cauldron where he has been making a polyjuice potion for the past month.