Disclaimer: Again… this is not mine. I'm just having some fun with some of Jo Rowling's characters.

Chapter Two

Lily Evans huffed as she collapsed onto her bed in the seventh years dormitory. It had only been two weeks of school and already James had managed to have her want to kill him. Normally she just was angry with him. This time she hated him.

It was enough that he was made Head Boy while she was Head Girl, but today he had pulled a prank on her! He had learned to never pull pranks on her, and yet he did today. The previous year, he and his friends had calmed down a bit, stopped being so arrogant. Lily thought they might've actually grown up.

Boy was she wrong.

Today proved that. In Potions class, James had managed to cast an enchantment on Lily so that every time she would raise her hand to answer a question, she would blurt out an embarrassing secret or truth. The worst part of it all though, was that one thing she had said involved James.

I really don't hate James, I think he's awfully dreamy. He just gets under my skin. I did have a crush on him though in second year for a month.

Lily had almost died at that moment. She had left class early and thank goodness it was her afternoon class because she wasn't going to leave this dormitory. Never again.

"Lily? Are you up here?"

Melody Bones' voice came floating in as the door opened and the chestnut haired seventeen year old girl walked in and sat down next to Lily who lay on the bed.

"Oh come on Lily… it wasn't that bad," she tried comforting Lily. "You didn't say you loved him or anything or that you fantasized about kissing him."

"That's because I don't," Lily stated. "But he is cute and I did have a crush on him in second year. That damned Potter! I can't wait until the year is over and I never have to see him again! Thank goodness I finally realized what was going on and stopped the enchantment before it went further."

"Further you say?" Melody pried. Lily opened her eyes and gave Melody a look. The redhead was obviously not very prone to revealing more information right now.

"You've got to tell me Lils! I promise I won't tell a soul, not James or even Mitch!" Melody exclaimed. Mitch had asked Melody out at the start of the school year, having had his eye on her since the end of fifth year. Melody had gladly accepted. Lily was happy that hr friends liked each other, but right now she was more concerned with James.

Lily sighed. "You tell anyone and I will murder you," she declared. Melody squealed in delight. She lived for gossip. "I think I actually like James and that's what really bugs me. Why should I like him? He's arrogant, a jerk, a bully…"

"Handsome, charming, popular, sweet and in high demand?" Melody interjected.

Lily gave her another look. "Oh come on! That was the first mean thing I've seen him do since he cast that spell on Snape last year making him walk on his hands all day. I felt kind of bad, but it was a very funny sight. But he's matured! You know he has. And he matured into a right handsome devil."

Melody was grinning. Lily groaned. "I am not going to like Potter if it is the last thing I do!"

Yeah right, Melody thought to herself.

"Everybody will forget," the brown haired girl declared. "I will make sure they do!"

Lily didn't even want to think of what Melody was thinking when she said that. She better not embarrass me further or ask Potter to hurt Snape again or something. I'll kill her.

XxXxX

"James mate… that was quite the prank!"

Sirius Black was grinning madly at James Potter and the two best friends and their other best friends Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were sitting in the seventh year boys' dormitory.

"I swear I wasn't aiming for Lily!" James exclaimed. "I was aiming for Melody, you know that girl's as smart as Lily but she's such a gossip she'd be spilling secrets left and right."

"She's also Lily's best friend and a big majority of those secrets would be Lily's," Remus pointed out. "What was that enchantment you used anyways? It sounds a lot like the truth potion we were studying at the end of last year in Potions…"

"It doesn't matter, I want to apologize to Lily, I really don't want her to hate me," James muttered.

Peter began laughing. "Next thing you know you'll be saying you actually like her!"

James glared at him hard. "What if I do?" he said quietly. Peter stopped laughing and Sirius' grin fell off his face. They were all staring at James with his messy black hair and his hazel eyes behind round glasses staring at each of them in turn. "So what if I like Lily? Is there something wrong with that? She's smart, she's pretty…"

"…And she's the one girl who would say no to you," Remus concluded. "Are you sure you actually like her and don't like her just because she says no?"

Shaking his head, James thought about that for a moment. "No… I really can't help but like her. It's really annoying really, because I can't seem to ignore her face in my head and her voice playing over and over again. I just want to move past her and forget her because I'll never have her."

Sirius grinned again. "Our little Prongsie is all fallin' in wuv!" he mocked.

James rolled his eyes. "Padfoot, I think you're the one of us four who is going to stay fifteen forever. I mean, even Peter is being more mature than you." Peter drew himself up proudly and Sirius scowled.

"I'm going to bed," James finally declared, taking off his glasses and slipping off his shoes. He crawled into his bed and fell asleep.

Remus stared at his friend for a moment before an idea dawned on him. But he would need help. The help of other people… and not just Sirius and Peter.

He motioned to Sirius and Peter to follow him out of the dormitory and into the common room. The common room was rather empty, though it was eleven at night, with just a single fourth year in the corner reading a book.

"I've got a plan guys…" Remus declared. "It's obvious James likes Lily and if that charm was used correctly, and I think it was because it's weird to lie about being afraid of snakes and even telling a long story about an encounter with a snake, that Lily likes James. Now, as the best friends, we need to play matchmaker."

"Aw! Matchmaker!" Sirius mocked. Remus shot him a look.

"James is right Sirius… you're never going to mature are you?" Peter asked, stifling some laughter. Sirius glared at him before turning back to Remus.

"Best friends you say? But that would mean we need to involve…"

"Yep," Remus smirked. "We need to talk with Lily's best friend of course."

XxXxX

"Lily!"

Lily didn't want to wake up, but Melody's voice seemed urgent.

"What is it Melody? I'm trying to sleep," the redhead grumbled as her best friend pulled her out of her bed and threw her cloak over her. Melody began leading Lily out of the room.

"You can sleep tomorrow, this is important," Melody told the half-asleep teenager she was pushing down the stairs and into the common room, and then out of the common room and into the hallway.

"Where are we going?" Lily asked groggily.

XxXxX

"What are you doing to me?"

Sirius had performed the whole body bind spell on James who was now frozen in his bed.

"He needs to be quiet too," Remus added. Sirius nodded and performed a silencing charm on James. Remus then levitated James' body out of his bed, threw a cloak on James, placed his glasses on his face, and began carrying him through the air and out of the dormitory.

XxXxX

There is a broom closet down the hallway from the portrait into Gryffindor's common room. It wasn't used very often and the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, didn't use any of the supplies in there very often.

Earlier that night, Melody and Mitch had gone to clean the closet so that James and Lily could be in there without worrying about spiders crawling all over them. It wasn't a huge closet, but it did have room enough for two people to sit on the ground.

Now, Mitch was standing by the closet, making sure that nobody was coming by to patrol the hallways. It was one in the morning, so the Hufflepuff doubted that anybody would be showing up. Well, except for the people involved in the plan.

Soon enough, Melody arrived, pushing along a half asleep Lily. Lily was wearing blue pajama bottoms and a tight white tank top, the clothes she normally slept in along with a large black cloak Melody had thrown onto her friend before making her leave the dormitory.

"Does she have her wand?" Mitch asked Melody as she ushered Lily into the broom closet.

"Nope, it's back in the dorm," Melody smirked. Mitch smiled as he closed the door and leaned against it. He kissed Melody lightly on the lips.

"This is quite a plan, who cooked it up?" he asked his girlfriend.

"Remus and I both had the same idea and we were both looking for each other because we both needed each other to concoct this plan," Melody explained. "So we ran into each other in the common room and decided on this. Then I went to fetch you because you are Lily's friend too and we needed someone to guard the closet.

"Am I a good guard?" Mitch asked teasingly.

"A very good guard," Melody leaned in to kiss him again.

"Oh the berry best guard!" a high-pitched voice said. Mitch and melody both turned around to see Sirius mocking them.

"Honestly Black, grow up!" Melody exclaimed, smiling nonetheless. Behind Sirius was Remus who was levitating James' frozen body and Peter who was trailing behind them, grinning in the excitement.

"Victim number one is present, victim number two is being thrown in now," Remus declared as Mitch opened the door and he dropped James in next to a sleeping Lily. He undid the spells on James and zapped Lily lightly with his wand to wake her up before closing the door.

Quickly, Melody locked the door with her hand. "He doesn't have his wand does he?" she asked Remus. The latter shook his head.

"What's going on!" James shouted.

"Quiet James!" Melody hissed. "Do you want Filch to find you and Lily locked in a closet together?" She could imagine James' eyes bugging out of his head as he saw Lily next to him.

"What am I doing in a closet with Potter?" Lily called from inside the closet. Mitch, Melody, Sirius, Remus and Peter all shushed her.

"It is now one am," Melody announced. "You two have seven hours to get together or at least get along. We all know you two like each other."

"I hate you Melody," Lily murmured.

"You'll thank me later," her 'best friend' replied. "We'll all be back at eight for breakfast and to let you guys out. If you just sleep, we will lock you in there again another time. We will do this as many times as it takes, but hopefully it will only take one. Have fun kids!"

"But not too much fun," Sirius said suggestively. Both Lily and James blushed in the darkness of the closet.

"By the way, there are some muggle matches and a candle in there if you want some light," Mitch told the two. "It's on the right side… well the right if you're outside the closet facing the door. About five and a half or six feet up the wall."

The sound of footsteps walking away pounded into Lily's head as the situation dawned on her.

She was locked in a closet. For seven hours. With James Potter.

Oh her imagination ran wild, especially with the murder plots she had begun concocting for Melody and Mitch. James was thinking along the same lines, killing Sirius, Remus and Peter.

"Well, let's get some light," Lily finally declared. She stood up and tried to reach the candle. She was almost five and a half feet tall, so her hand barely grazed the candle that was about six feet up in the closet. The matches fell to the floor.

"Need someone taller?" James asked.

"I don't need you for anything," Lily retorted. She leaned down and felt around on the floor for the matches. She finally pulled one out and lit it. The light illuminated her face and James'

Despite the small bags under his eyes, James looks rather handsome as usual. He had a small stubble, and then she realized that his chest was bare, revealing a rather well built body, though lean and thin. All that Quidditch probably, Lily thought to herself.

"Ouch," she muttered as her hand was burnt by the match. She lit a second one and began trying to reach the candle again. From behind her, James took the match from her hand and lit the candle herself.

Lily scowled at him as she turned around. This was going to be a long night.

XxXxX

A couple pages longer this time. And the plan is set and in motion. What shall happen next with Lily and James in the broom closet? We shall see in chapter three! Hey that rhymed!

7-4-05