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A/N: It's finally here: THE LAST CHAPTER! It's terrible, because I'd stopped writing after the bit about Snape and the tutu, and I'd entirely forgotten what I wanted to have happen, so I sort of had to wing it. Anyway, please ignore the typos and inconsistencies; I noticed a couple when I was rereading this and I'm just too lazy to go back and change them. So here it is. Finally.

Remember how I found you there
Alone in your electric chair
I told you dirty jokes until you smiled
You were lonely for a man
I said take me as I am
'Cause you might enjoy some madness for awhile

Now think of all the years you tried to
Find someone to satisfy you
I might be as crazy as you say
If I'm crazy then it's true
That it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way

-You May Be Right -Billy Joel

CHAPTER FOUR: Palmistry, Poetry, and Possibilities

November 14th

The Diary of Lily Evans

3:54 AM

Divination Room, North Tower

James Potter is sweating furiously, and I don't know why.

I wouldn't have noticed, ordinarily, except that we're doing palmistry and he's my partner, of all the idiot people, and his hands are absolutely soggy. It's really quite unpleasant. And he won't let go either.

Hm. Sirius Black just elbowed Potter in the ribs and said something about fondling, at which Potter looked at me and stuffed his hands in his pockets. Black is now cackling madly. One wonders about them.

But, you know, Potter isn't entirely awful either. Perhaps Remus had a point. Perhaps Potter is trying to impress me. Perhaps he's all right underneath.

Nah.

The Jovial Journals of James Potter

3:59 AM

Divanation Room, North Tower

One minute.

Fifty-six seconds.

Forty-eight seconds.

This is the longest bloody minute of my life. One damned minute until the bell. Ring, already! Ring, would you? NO! NO! I take it all back—let this minute never end! Stop time, I tell you! I can't turn back now! The plans are already laid! I can see Alice waiting outside—Arithmancy must have let out early. Oh God. Oh Lord. If I die—if she hexes me beyond repair—take care of my Lily-Flower. I had the best of intentions. I swear I did. Oh Lord. Five seconds left . . . two . . . here goes . . . and here . . . Alice is about to yell it:

"SEVERUS SNAPE IS DANCING IN THE GREAT HALL WEARING A PINK TUTU!"

The Diary of Lily Evans

12:34 AM

Dormitory

He wasn't, actually.

Severus Snape, I mean. Dancing in the Great Hall. He may or may not have been wearing the tutu, though. I actually have no idea where Severus Snape was when Divanation let out today. I mean yesterday, it's past midnight. You see, I was rather preoccupied.

Well, naturally, after Alice shouted about Snape in the tutu, everyone went running to see. Everyone except me. . . and . . . James. James. James. James. Perhaps there is something more to him than what I have already seen.

James.

Anyway, he looked a bit peaky. I was a bit worried he'd be sick all over the table, actually. I picked up my palmistry book and stood up, but before I could go anywhere James (James!) was standing up right in front of me. He swallowed hard. I raised my hand to push him away. "Potter, if you'd be so kind as to get out of my way, I'd be much—"

And then he grabbed my hand. The one that was raised, I mean, not the one that was holding the book, which was good, because then I wouldn't have been able to smack him with it.

"OW!" he yelled, clutching his elbow. "What'd you do that for?"

"Unnecessary and uncalled-for grabbing of the hands, Potter! We finished palmistry today!" I walked past him and I had nearly made it to the door when he lunged ahead of me, slammed it shut, and placed himself in front of the doorway, blocking my exit.

"Oh no you don't, Evans. I've got something to say to you and you are going to hear it if it's the last thing I do," he said. All traces of his prior ill appearance were gone; on the contrary, he was red in the face and looked ruthlessly determined. He cleared his throat. "Ev—Lily," he began.

I gave a start. "What did you just say? Did you just call me—"

"Lily, will you please shut up?" he groaned. "You're ruining it all! Now, where was I—? Oh yes."

And then he did something I never thought he would do. He launched into a poem.

"Lily, my love, your hands are, indeed

The nicest, the prettiest, of any I've seen

O pinky of purity, its beauty no less

Though its nail is well bitten when you're under stress

Ring finger of rapture, how it haunts my dreams

With its help you snap to the Weird Sisters' screams

O dear middle finger, most familiar, my queen

You oft raise it alone in a gesture so mean

Thy pointer of perfection gives me shivers to think

How it tests the heat of your morning's first drink

But your thumb of devotion! It lies over the rest

Without it you'd ne'er pinch me, so this is the best

Lily, my sweet, you are to me

Most precious, one pearl in a thousand seas

Let me hold your sweet hand, let it guide me right

O, Lily, will you go out with me tonight?"

I promptly dropped my book on his foot.

The Musings of a Master Marauder

5:27 PM

Under a Tree by the Lake after Lessons

Well, Remus and Alice and I never got around to pranking James and Lily. After James let me in on the whole poetry thing, we let everyone else in on it, and arranged with Alice that she'd yell something about Snape, embarrassing apparel, dancing, and the Great Hall directly after lessons. Then I arranged it with Remus that we'd ambush Frank Longbottom on his way downstairs and lock him and Alice in the Room of Requirement together.

That'll teach 'em.

As for Lily and James—well, James came leaping up to me just now and said—well, he didn't really say anything: he squeaked, punched the air, did a sort of a jig, and ran off the other way. I'm assuming all is well.

The Jovial Journals of James Potter

7:21 PM Dormitory

SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID—well, she didn't actually say yes, she said "oh, all right, then," BUT IT'S GOOD ENOUGH! We stood there like that forever, and then finally she put her hands on her hips and cocked her head and said it: "Oh, all right, then."

What beautiful words.

I'm about to go down to the kitchens. That's where we agreed to meet. I've got to run.

SHE SAID YES!

The Reflections of Remus J. Lupin

10:56 PM

Common Room

We think they're going to make it. Lily and James, I mean. I think what James said sort of made it okay for them to not hate each other anymore. James is starting to show her that there's something else to him besides the jerk she fights with all of the time, and Lily is starting to see it. James started to see it in Lily when he realized he wouldn't win her over the way he was going about it, but he's really only just beginning as well. They don't love each other yet, but we think they're going to get there.

A/N: Hope you all enjoyed it. Feel free to drop me a review and let me know what you thought. Thanks!