What happened in the last chapter

"I'm in love you."

I gasped. He said it. I had been working myself up to tell James for ten days now. But he said it first.

"I – I didn't – I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I'll go and, um," James voice trailed off. Both of us were breathing heavily from the shock of his confession. James started walking towards the door.

Just as he was closing the door on the way out I remembered myself. "I love you too," I said. The door stopped and James turned back to me.

"You love me too?"

A/N: I have decided to change to James P.O.V for this chapter in case anyone starts to get confused.

Chapter Six

"Well, come in," Mrs Evans said, looking fondly on.

The three of us hustled quickly into the house; Petunia came to the bottom of the stairs, saw who had arrived and went straight back up again.

"Hi, Petty," said Lily, sounding slightly disappointed as she watched her sisters retreating back.

"Don't worry about Petunia, darling, with James coming to stay she's feeling a bit left out," said Mrs Evans. "Oh I have missed you darling." Her eyes welled with tears and she pulled Lily into yet another hug. She released her daughter and looked at me with a watery smile.

"Welcome, James," she said, and she pulled me into a tight hug. I went red in the face and hugged her back awkwardly, very glad that Sirius wasn't present.

I let my eyes take in the rooms surrounding me.

It was clear that Lily's family were comfortably well off, if not wealthy. Everything about the decor of the house suggested elegance, without extravagance. Walking into the living room, I noticed lots of paintings although only one of them seemed to have any sort of recognizable shapes in it--it appeared to be a family portrait of some kind; only none of the occupants in the painting moved or spoke. The mantle was almost littered with photographs, all of them--at least as far as I could tell from this distance--of Lily and her sister at various ages. I made a mental note to look at all of them later.

"James." Mrs. Evans voice broke me out of my reverie. "Lily's dad would like to meet with you. He's in his office."

"O...okay." I knew what was coming to me and apparently Lily knew as well, judging by the look on her face.

I knocked firmly on the door to Lily's father study and reluctantly entered when told to do so by a strict sounding voice from the other side of the door. I was beckoned to sit down, for which I was extremely grateful, as my knees were about to give away at any minute.

I watched Lily's father rise out of his seat walk over to a cabinet in the corner of the room. He pulled out a long thin black piece of material. ''Do you know what this is?'' He asked me sharply.

'No sir.'' I answered truthfully, thinking that whatever it was wasn't going to be good.

''This son, is a black belt in Karate.'' Mr Evans explained seriously. ''I was a champion in karate and judo, and if I ever hear that you have hurt my daughter I swear that I will chop you into small pieces with my bare hands.'' I gulped and my eyes widened in shock. ''Clear?'' I just nodded in response, my throat was dry and I couldn't find any words in my head. ''Yes, Steven 'The Slicer' was what they used to call me, because of how I could slice bricks in half so easily.'' Mr Evans continued, to emphasise his point, and although I was filled with a new found fear, I thought Lily had told me her dad's name was John.

'Don't be so nervous, James,' said Mr Evans, clapping me on the shoulder. 'We're glad you're here, and we're glad you're looking out for our little girl.'

Again, I was glad that Sirius was hundreds of miles away, probably snogging Emma in a tiny cupboard in the castle.

"Home AT LAST!" I cried as I walked through the familiar oak doors

"It wasn't that bad with my mum and dad was it?"

"No," I said smiling back at the girl that I loved. "Your parents are lovely, I had a great Christmas." I turned and took both of her hands, looking into her eyes. "You just need to sort your sister out."

'I know. I'm so sorry about her.' Lily looked up apologetically at me, so I bent down to kiss her slowly on the lips. 'It is nice to be back though?' she said pulling me down for another kiss.

"'HEY! You're back! I am so glad to see you." I was suddenly pulled away rom my girlfriend and was being squashed by Sirius

"Gerroff me!" I yelled as I pushed the idiot away from me. As I turned to Lily I saw that similar things were happening to her.

"What the hell do you two think you're doing?" Lily demanded. God I love it when she's angry.

As both Sirius and Emma both started talking at the same time, it was hard to understand what each of them were saying. Lily and I looked at each other, raised our eyebrows and started to take our belongings back to Gryffindor tower as Sirius and Emma turned on each other yelling a the top of their voices.

As we walked away we heard Professor McGonagall come out of the great hall, giving both angry parties detention for disrupting dinner.

"Hey Flower, have you heard of the New Years tradition?" I asked as I plonked myself next to the red-haired beauty.

"The one where the person you kiss at midnight you'll stay with for the next year?" Lily looked sceptically up at me. She sniffed the air around me. "Have you been drinking Firewhiskey again?"

"No!... Alright look, yes I have but it was only one little sip, I promise."

"Okay. I believe you." Although judging by the look on her face, I'd say that she was lying. "What were you saying?"

"Oh yeah!" I retraced my train of thoughts and said: "I though we could, kinda, start that tradition in -" I paused to look at my watch "- a minute and a half."

Lily smiled up at me with her soft green eyes burning holes through mine. "I'd like that."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah." As I leant down to kiss her, she put her hand on my chest and said: "Only if you get rid of you're alcohol breath first."

"Oh right sorry." I said quickly. As I freshened my breath with a wave of my wand, the count down began.

"Ten!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

"Seven!"

"Six!"

"Five!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

My head dipped down to hers and met her lips in a passionate kiss. All around us there was whopping and screams of delight, but none of that mattered to us at that moment. When our lips finally parted I whispered to her softly

"Happy New Year."

A/N: YAY! I know a lot of you will be mad at me for not posting this sooner and you all have good reason to. The following are eight reasons why it has taken 3 months, 2 weeks and 5 days to update:

1. Loadsa work (coursework as well as homework) from school. (I'm doing A levels now and it's all REALLY hard!)

2. I have exams starting on Jan 11th. (Scary!)

3. I have made a new friend, a 2 year old that lives next door to me and always requires my attention.

4. I have really long school days and when I get home I try to relax after I've finished my homework. (This usually means watching 'Friends' or reading my fave fanfics - Lavenderbrown's 'The Final Reckoning' see my profile on (I'm sexy seeker there))

5. I GOT A JOB! (This means that I will get driving lessons in the New Year YIPPEE)

6. The job also means that I have money and can go SHOPPING more often!

7. I have horrible hair which I have to wash in the evenings so that it stays nice and it also takes about 5 hours to tame.

8. I don't feel inspired enough to write The Untold Story. I promise that this is changing as I am writing this reason.

Please except my deepest apologies for my lack of competence in updating.

The next chapter may take just as long and I apologise in advance.

Loadsa luv

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