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A.N.: This chapter is dedicated to the wonderful Marauders. You know who you are. Thanks to all the people reading my fanfic. Hope you like this chapter and sorry it took so long to update. The song in this chapter is by Ryan Cabrera and it is called She's and is from his CD Take It All Away. And without further delay here it is.

Chapter Three A Hogsmeade Visit

Sirius walked over to Kat and whispered, "Hey there." Kat jumped up and squealed. She turned beat red. "Sirius Black NEVER do that again. You are going to be the death of me, with scaring me and pranking me." The she playfully punched him in the arm. Sirius let out a girly moan and whimpered, "That hurt a lot. I'm very delicate and bruise easily. Ouch!"

Lily walked in on the scene and shook her head. Looking around for James she saw his books on the coffee table. She casually walked over to the table and picked up the book, James was supposed to help her with a Transfiguration essay and she decided to get started. Opening the book to page 420 a paper fell out of the pages. Opening it she looked at it and saw what James had been doodling instead of taking notes. It had written all over it: James and Lily, Mrs. Lily Potter, Mr. James and Lily Potter, with love James and Lily and the most disturbing thing of all, lyrics to a song.

She looks into my eyes and I'm alive again

And when she says goodbye, I just die again.

That when my restlessness begins.

Please don't let it win, I'm so tired again.

But underneath the haze one thing still remains the same.

She's the only love I've known, and know she's gone away.

She's the light that brought me to the edge, will I ever love again?

She walked into my life and my world stood still.

She reached into my soul and all my doubts were killed.

That's when my loneliness subsided.

She gave me the will, I could fight it.

But nothing can erase the one thing that remains the same.

She's the only love I've known, and know she's gone away.

She's the light that brought me to the edge, will I ever love again?

So just tell me what I should do.

I left everything for you and I can't hardly breathe.

'Cause I know I lost you from my world.

She's the only love I've known, and know she's gone away.

She's the light that brought me to the edge, will I ever love again?

Will I ever love again?

Lily felt tears spring to her eyes. 'Big girls don't cry. Snap out of it. This is James Potter we are talking about.' But then Lily realized that James had really cared for her and that if she pushes him away far enough he would never come back. She felt someone looking over her shoulder and found Remus and Sirius there.

"He cares more about you then his own parents sometimes." Sirius said quietly. "James loves you with the fairy tale love we don't believe in, the true love. He talks about you in his sleep."

Remus was next. "You know about our little trips in the forest and once we were by a patch of water lilies. When he thought no one was looking he picked kissed it and said, 'Goodnight Lily. Sleep tight and remember I am always there.' We were close enough to hear and Lily, I didn't know how much a person could be loved before I saw how much he loves you."

Then they both left as though nothing had happened. Lily decided that she was going to see if James was the person that his friends claims he was. During Hogsmeade she would test him for his loyalty, respect towards her and then she would decide if she would go out with him or not. 'This will not be another Joey incident.' He was a muggle and he had ended up cheating on her and then asked her forgiveness. Him and his friends were jokesters and had mocked her for going to a 'private school'. They knew nothing of the life she had and after second year summer break Lily had built a wall and was going to keep it up until someone worthy came along.

The Next Day

After sleeping a good night she was ready for James and had spent a great time thinking of what Remus and Sirius had said. As she walked down the stairs she was able to spot James right away. She was standing at the bottom of stairs and was looking unbelievably hot. James was wearing baggy blue jeans, a white long sleeve muggle shirt and a maroon tee on that said "Role Model" across the front. Lily laughed causing James to look up.

"What?" He asked panicked, "Is there something wrong?" And ran a tan hand threw his very messy black hair.

Even Lily had to admit that he was adorable when he did that. "Nice shirt there." She said pointing to his shirt.

"I think it reflects me perfectly. If everyone followed my example we would be the best school in the entire world."

"Right, after we all get detention for blowing up the Slytherin common room, giving Malfoy a pink Mohawk and hanging him and Snape by their underwear out the north tower." Lily gave a little giggle after that.

James thought before answering, like he was thinking about those wonderful ideas. "I would never even think of doing stuff like that!" He exclaimed, putting a hand to his head and leaning back slightly.

Walking the rest of the way down, Lily smiled and clapped her hands, "Way to go Drama Queen!" She gave him a hug. "You have way to much energy this early in the morning."

James smiled and took her hand. "Do you want to have breakfast here or at Hogsmeade?"

Lily looked him in the eyes, "Hogsmeade would be lovely. Should I bring anything with me?"

"No, today is on me so let's get going, because I am hungry."

Lily laughed at his comment, "You're always hungry."

"Yeah well that's beside the point. There is this little café at the left side of town, and I thought that we could go there. It's owned by little French family and they have fresh bagels and nice tea."

So Lily and James started their trek to Hogsmeade and instead of taking the route along the major road they took a little road along the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Lily had never been here before and she spent her time looking around. Here there was peace she could find no where else and was content to share it with James. She looked at James and admired him. He walked quietly beside her and seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. The wind blew his hair out of his hazel eyes and around his head. James looked at her and took her hand in his own. And like that they walked to the café in Hogsmeade.

James got a quite table at The Café on the Corner. The owner, Mrs. Bumble was from Paris and when she moved to Hogsmeade she built a café. For breakfast Lily go coffee and an English muffin with apricot jam, James got orange juice and waffles. They talked about school and about their Christmas plans for that year. After they were both done James paid and took Lily into the very expensive part of Hogsmeade.

"Do you want to get a costume for the Halloween ball? We could get something together and then maybe go together." James looked at her, his eyes were pleading for her to say yes. Things were going so good and he didn't want to blow it but waiting for her was hard and it was taking awfully long.

"Yeah, that's a great idea. Are you sure you can afford it?"

James choked back laughter and had to ask, "Lily do you know who my parents are?"

"No, not really why?"

"We are about the richest family in the wizarding world and I would have thought you, a bookworm, would have read about my family's history."

Lily was busy racking her brain of anything she might have read about the Potter's. Nothing came up so she just gave up. "Sorry but nothing is coming up."

"Well perhaps one day if you come over I will share it with you."

Lily just put the idea in the back of her head for now and together they walked into a costume store. They looked at the racks and shelves of costumes for something that would suit their needs. In the end James had picked out a mask that made him look like The Phantom of the Opera. Lily ended up getting a dress that made her look like she was a royal. She decided that she would go like Anastasia, The Last Grand Duchess of Russia. She loved the movie and Anastasia had always been fascinating to her.

"My fairest Lady, may I pay for your gown and then we are going get you a necklace for you."

"Of course dear sir, or should I say The Angel of Music." He gave her a confused face. "It's a movie called The Phantom of the Opera. I am going to have to show it to you. It's a tragic love story with a somewhat happy ending." And under her breath she cursed Raul for getting in the way of the Phantom and Christine. Lily got a brilliant idea, for the ball they would change their names, she would be Christine and James could be the Phantom.

They went to The Three Broomsticks for lunch and a butterbeer. Soon after lunch they went back to the castle. Lily was tired and James had to go to Quidditch practice.

At about five fifty a hot, sweaty, smelly James walked into the Common Room. He went to take a shower and on his way saw Lily. "Hey do you want to go down to dinner."

Lily looked at him and pushed him away slightly. "Go and shower you dirty boy. Then we can go to dinner."

With that James trotted off to take a shower and Lily finished up her Charms essay. Lily was going to enjoy the Halloween Ball and she was going to give James a surprise.

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