A/N: Sorry this took so long! All I can say is school is evil and I'm broke so I had to get a job, which takes up my weekends, so basically I lost my writing time. Quick not on the title, it comes from the song 'Boys and Girls' by Good Charlotte, I was in a weird mood and though it feet. Anyway, you can flame me if you think the title is way off. Anyway, hope you like this long awaited chapter. Thanks to everyone for getting this far!

Chapter Nine

Boys and Girls

Remus-

Hey, it's Lily, well obviously. I hope my owl will be able to find you, she's a little young and she's never been to your house before, but I though she might be up to it. I just wanted to see how your summer's going. Mine's been pretty boring, mother keeps making me go to more charity events like last year. I told you about those didn't I? The ones were you have to sit around in stuffy dresses, trying not to sleep, as very boring old bold guys give very long speeches. So, we didn't really get to talk much after the last SHC meeting. I just wanted to tell you (again) that I'm here, if you ever need to talk or anything. Well, I've got to go, so write back soon.

-Lily

Lily finished off her letter and tied it to the leg of her owl. She watched as it soared off into the sky, thinking of the sandy haired boy hundreds of miles away. Their last meeting had been a blur, although she had seen it coming, Remus's admitting to being a werewolf had been a little shocking. After the shock had worn off a little, Lily had assured Remus that she was not scared of him and that she wouldn't stop being his friend for anything. Remus had looked a little happier, but Lily had a sneaky suspicion he was still not entirely sure she wasn't going to scream and run away from him.

But that was stupid, Lily told her self, shacking of those depressing thoughts. She walked over to her wardrobe and stared clothes. Her mother had organized a big dinner party for that night, and Lily was under strict orders to impress everyone, especially eligible young man, as her mother had put in. Lily wished she could just take one of the books Mia had sent her for her birthday, a series of muggle romance novels, and hide in a dark corner.

Well, it was no use now, she had to go. Lily sighed, thinking again about her dreams of one day ruling the magical community and got to work picking an outfit. She finally settled on an emerald green robe that matched her eyes nicely and was just putting the final touches on her outfit when her mother yelled for her to come downstairs to greet the guests.

She dragged her heels all the way down, which took a while. So that by the time she had arrived, several of the guests were already there.

"Aw, Lily," Her mother said, shot her a disapproving look, which meant Lily was in for a lecture before the night was over. "Come and greet the Prewett's, their son Gideon is in your year."

"Yes," Lily said, coming over to curtsy in front of the couple, "he's in Gryffindor too."

"Yes, he was just telling us the other night about how you're the top of the class, what subjects are you thinking of taking next year?"

"I decided on Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and Arithmancy," Lily recited. Afterwards she wished she hadn't said that, for the Prewett's went into a long discussion of the pros and cons of these classes for a well-rounded education.

"How are your other children?" Lily asked after a few minutes of this, "I believe you had another son and a daughter?"

"Yes," Mrs. Prewett said, her lips pursing, "our son is fine, he's in Gryffindor too, a couple years above you. And our daughter Molly just had another son."

"Congratulations!" Lily exclaimed, "What's his name."

"Charlie," Mr. Prewett said sharply, Lily got the impression he did not at all approve of this child for some reason. Luckily her mothers stepped in just then to save her.

"Mother?" Lily asked as the Queen guided her mother to a new group of guests, " why don't the Perwett's want to talk about their daughter?"

"Oh, that's a sad story, their only daughter ran off with some penniless muggle obsessed man. They got married their last year of school and ran off to live in this rundown shack and started making babies like crazy. I think Molly just had her second and she's pregnant again. She was such a promising young witch too, I don't know what I would do if I was her mother, it must be so embarrassing. Oh, hello Mr. Crouch. Lily I want you to meet Mr. Crouch, he was just named Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcements. Mr. Crouch I would like you to meet my daughter, Princess Lily."

"A pleasure to meet you," Mr. Crouch said stiffly as Lily curtseyed, "this is my wife Elizabeth and my son Bartemius. My son was just telling me he read a wonderful book the other day, what was it called again?"

"'The Muggle That Knew' by Blenheim Stalk," a sandy haired boy, with a caged look about him said.

"Oh I read that," Lily exclaimed, "it was very good. Did you understand the symbolism Stalk used in that last chapter, about fairytales and television?"

"I though she meant," Bartemius said, starting into a long discussion on the book, well Lily half listened. She was listing to Mr. Crouch and her mother. They were discussing the current political situation.

"I really don't understand the monarch's opposition to the use of unforgivable curses on Death Eaters," Mr. Crouch was saying.

"My husband and I are a reluctant to sink to that level, we believe that the Unforgivables are named for a reason and we will respect the laws of our ancestors," the Queen said coolly, as if this was a long argued topic.

"Yes, but the ministry feels there is no other way to discipline these people, the bill will pass either way, but we would like the monarch's support."

"If it will pass either way, I do not understand why we need continue this discussion, now if you'll excuse me, I see my husband." With that the Queen swept away, leaving Mr. Crouch with peculiar look on his face, as if he didn't quite realize what had just happened.

Lily excused herself from the younger Crouch and started walking to the refreshment table. On the way, she caught snippets of conversations on all sides.

"Another attack on Kent… giants lose on the countryside…"

"My uncle was killed by Death Eaters last week…"

"If princess Lily just married you-know-who, we wouldn't have to worry," a loud voice said from somewhere to her left. Lily stopped in her tracks, and saw a large man with a big mustache talking to a few other men at a table nearby. Pretending to be heading towards someone in that general direction, Lily made her way over to the group of men.

"The union of the Dark Lord and the Monarchy would forever stop the problem of a violent take over," the man was explaining. "If the Dark Lord just married the princess then he would have a legitimate claim to the throne and so would his heirs. Therefore there would be no need to start a war."

"What about the ministry?" One of the men asked.

"Well, they could become like an advising staff, like in the old days," the man argued.

Lily took a step back, how could those men be talking like that? There was no way in hell she was marrying you-know-who, that would just be… gross. What was he, like forty years older then her?

"Mother!" Lily exclaimed, noticing her mother talking to a group of women. Without explanation Lily pulled her over into a corner and repeated the conversation she had overheard.

"Well, I wouldn't lie to you," the Queen said, giving her daughter a serious look, "that had become an option. But only as a last resort and not for many years, that man should not have been discussing it so openly."

"But Mother you couldn't think-" Lily started but was cut off.

"Lily, you are royalty, and with that comes certain obligations. Your first priority is to the Magical Community, and you should be willing to do what ever it takes for you're people. Now, it's growing late and I understand if you want to slip off upstairs."

Lily nodded, not knowing how to reply and silently stole from the ballroom and up the stairs.

"How'd the party go?" a voice called from her left as Lily entered the residential part of the castle. Her sister Petunia was standing there with a beefy teen about her age, who wore a muggle suit. Lily guessed it was her boyfriend, Vernon.

"It's still going on," Lily replied, looking pointy at Vernon.

"Oh, this is my boyfriend, Vernon Dursleys," Petunia said, as Vernon bowed to her, not looking at all pleased with the interruption. "I was just showing Vernon around."

"Well, don't let me intrude," Lily said, turning and walking away. On the way down to her room, Lily heard the door to her sister's bedroom close and faint giggling from inside. Not wanting to think about what her sister was doing inside, Lily took out one of the romance novels she had wanted to read earlier and crawled into bed. Why couldn't life be like these novels? Lily thought sadly, thinking back to the evening. Why did everything have to be so difficult? Why couldn't she help her people without sacrificing herself?

On the Hogwarts express, 1st of September, Lily told Mia and Amelia all about her parents 'plans.'

"That's gross!" Mia exclaimed at once, Amelia nodded fervently.

"I hate Voldemort!" Lily said savagely, wishing she could throw something.

"Here, here," Mia nodded, "if it wasn't for him…"

"What?" Amelia asked.

"Oh, it's just my uncle," Mia said reluctantly, "he was killed by Death Eaters this summer."

"Mia I'm so sorry," Lily and Amelia exclaimed at the same time.

"It's okay," Mia whispered, "I didn't know him that well anyway, it's just he was my uncle. I just saw him a couple months ago and now he's gone, and I'll never see him again. It's just weird."

Lily didn't quite know what to say to that, she'd never really known anyone who died. Inside her a burning hatred for Voldemort was growing, it was all his fault wasn't it. All the deaths and lies and problems, until he showed up, her life had been perfect. What kind of people would follow such evil?

Third year started without any major events. The sorting was long and dull like usual, the only difference in classes was that the third years now had more of them. Both Amelia and Mia were taking Divination and Care of Magical Creatures, but only Jenny Warrington, another girl in her year was taking Arithmancy. The first day of classes started with double potions, with the Slytherins. Lily didn't really mind, she had never harbored any real hatred of the Slytherins and their teacher Professor Slughorn was manageable. He wasn't to hard and never purposely tortured his students. The thing about Professor Slughorn was one of those teachers that had favorites, and Lily happened to be one of them, James Potter on the other hand was not. So, during their first potions class, when Slughorn paired the two together, Lily couldn't really understand why. Slughorn usually paired his favorite together so her praise them at the same time, so Lily had been expecting to be paired with Snape again. Not that she really minded being paired with Snape; he was a very good potions maker who always managed to get them the top grade. It was just that he was so, creepy, with his grassy hair and stuck-up attitude. Lily knew for a fact he would never talk to her if she wasn't a princess.

Not that James Potter was any better; he was just another annoying fan. Looking back Lily couldn't really remember saying more then two words to him. Sure in that bookstore and when he had so rudely bumped into him after that History of Magic class, besides that had she ever spoken to him? Well, not like it really mattered, she could tell from the way he acted. Making friends with Sirius and Remus, probably just to get close to her. Always looking at her, like he knew something she didn't, it was so obvious he just wanted to get close to a 'famous princess,' and brag about it. Why couldn't Slughorn just leave her with Snape?

"Hello," a voice said from behind her, making Lily jump. Standing there in all his glory was James Potter, holding his caldron and potions ingredients.

"Well, are you going to sit?" Lily asked annoyed.

"Of course," James said, sinking into the seat next to her. "I'm James by the way, I don't think we've officially met."

"Lily," Lily said, abruptly, why was he being so… normal? "So, can you chap the beetles and I'll skin the pufferfish."

"Sure," James agreed. For the rest of the period, the two worked in almost complete silence. Only occasionally broken by one clarify a step or asking to pass an ingredient.

It went on like this for almost a month. That was until Slughorn assigned a paper, to be written with your potions partner, ten rolls of parchment, due Monday.

"So, do you want to meet in the library on Saturday to do this," James asked after hearing the assignment.

"How about Sunday?" Lily asked.

"I have Quidditch practice," James replied, starting to back up, "so can we do it on Saturday."

'Typical,' Lily though, 'what if I had had something important to do on Sunday. He only thinks of himself.'

"Sure," Lily said out loud, "ten o'clock at the back table, think you can be on time?"

He wasn't. In fact he was five minutes late, run in sweating and out of breath.

"S-sorry," he choked out, "Sirius turned of my alarm clock, said it was blasphemy to wake up early on a Saturday."

"You're late," Lily said coolly, then went back to her assignment. "Lets see, we have to write ten rolls on the Memory Potion with specific references to what your partner would see if they were administered this potion. Results will be tested in class, when your partner will be asked to take the potion and write down the memories he/she had. Well, this shouldn't be to hard."

"Yeah," James muttered, pulling out some parchment and his textbook. "So what is the memory potion again?"

"We've been learning about it for two days now!" Lily exclaimed.

"I know, I wasn't listening," James said, "So what is it?"

Lily couldn't believe it, the nerve of this guy, he didn't even pay attention in class then expects her to explain everything.

"It's a potion that makes the victim relive their most vivid memories," Lily recited, "like birthdays or something like that."

"So what would you relive?" James asked, his quill posed over the parchment.

Lily thought for a moment, thinking of the day Remus had told her the truth about his family. She didn't want to tell Potter that, but then what could she say? Nothing else really important had happened in her life.

"I guess my tenth birthday," Lily said thoughtfully, "my parents throw this huge ball, that was pretty important. Then there was the day my grandmother died and my dad inherited the throne, I was eight, but it was a really big day. So what about you?"

"The day I got my scholarship," James said at once. 'Figures' Lily though, but didn't comment, just copied, "and the day my brother Harry got married and the day Bonnie was born."

"Who's Bonnie?" Lily asked, copying the rest down.

"Harry, and his wife Ginger's, daughter, she was born last year."

"Is that it?" Lily asked, feeling like James was holding something back.

"I think so," James replied, but Lily still had the feeling he was holding something back.

"Look, I want a good grade on this and if you're not telling me something that ends up costing me some marks…"

"I'm not holding anything back," James said defensively. Why was he getting defensive, she was just asking.

"Okay," Lily said, not really believing him. She looked down at her assignment and realized she had to actually describe these events in detail. "Well, better get the basics out of the way, so I can describe this stuff. Where do you live?"

"Err… in an apartment in Knockturn alley," James muttered, conforming Lily's suspicions.

"What?" James said, obviously picking up Lily's disgust at his home. But what was she suppose to think, everyone knew only trash and Death Eaters lived there!

"Nothing…" Lily exclaimed, "So how many siblings do you have?"

"Five," James replied, "Harry, Elizabeth, Jane, Dean, and Sarah. Look, would you stop looking at me that way."

"What way?" Lily exclaimed, god this guy was so jumpy.

"Like you think my family is scum," James exclaimed, "they aren't, they're good people."

"Sure, and how many of them are Death Eaters?" Lily asked rudely. The look in his eyes told Lily she had hit on the truth. "They are Death Eaters! I knew you were…"

"We're what?" James asked defensively, "look you don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh yes I do," Lily retorted, who did this guy think he was, she was a princess, you don't talk to her like that. "You and your family are all trash and you're coming here spy on us. I see the way you're always looking at me, ruffling your hair, trying to look like you just got off a broomstick or something, trying to impress me. I've got news for you Potter, I'm not impressed, in fact you sicken me. Why don't you just go back were you come from and leave me alone?"

With that Lily grabbed up her belongings and stormed out of the library. The nerve of that, that Death Eater. Yes, he was a Death Eater, come here to spy on her probably. She hadn't been too harsh on him, he got just what he deserved, right? But the look on his face when Lily said some of those things… She should have ignored him, like she was suppose to. Wasn't that the unwritten law, to leave the scholarship students alone, so why did it always seem like she was worrying about Potter. Was it like Mia said, did she have a cras- NO, she wouldn't even think that. He was Death Eater scum, she was way out of his league and always would be, it wouldn't work. Besides the fact that he was an arrogant, little slime ball.

Lily and Remus were sitting alone in the back of the library, like usual, doing their homework, when suddenly Remus broke the silence.

"Err… Lily?" He said, sounding nervous.

"Yes?" Lily said, looking up.

"Well, I've been thinking," Remus started tentatively. "And I was wondering if you wanted to do something, sometime, you know… outside of the SHC."

"Like what?" Lily asked, completely lost.

"Well like a date," Remus said very quickly, "and I know we couldn't do it in public or anything, but I though maybe we could find an empty classroom or something and…."

"Oh Remus," Lily exclaimed, putting down her book.

"Well, it was just a thought, I mean, if you don't want to… you know forget I said anything."

"Remus," Lily protested, "it's not that I don't like you, but I though we were, well, just friends."

As she said it, Lily saw Remus's face falling.

"I'm really sorry," Lily exclaimed, "its just we have such a great friendship and I wouldn't want to ruin it."

"Yeah," Remus muttered, "it was just a thought, but I see what you mean."

With that Remus took up his book again, his hands slightly shaking. Lily felt awful, but knew it was for the best. It would just be wrong to lead Remus on when she just didn't feel that way about him, wasn't it?

It was not like Lily was not interested in boys. She had even started to date this year, a Ravenclaw boy in her year named David Crumb. He sat next to her in Arithmancy. One day after class he had asked if she wanted to go to Hogsmead with him, as third years were allowed to go into the all wizarding village next to the castle. At first Lily was shocked, but then she agreed. David was really cute; he had curly black hair and a really muscular body, which looked like he worked out. She asked him if he did on their date and he said he played ice hockey, a muggle sport his grandfather, who was a muggle, had taught him. It seemed like he was obsessed with this sport, for he kept talking about it all day. Lily was a little annoyed, because this was her first time in Hogsmead and she wanted to see the shops, but all David wanted to do was sit in the Three Broomsticks and talk. Lily tried to find the best of the situation, which was his family. His mother was of noble blood, as was his father's mother, it was just his father's father that was muggle-born, which made one of the few boys acceptable in her mother's eyes. She'd actually gotten an owl from her mother the day after her trip to hogsmead, telling her that 'the royal family approved of the match,' whatever that meant. Apparently there had been an article in Witch Weekly about the date, with pictures. Mia had bought a copy, along with what seemed like most of the school, and kept quoting it at her.

"Princess Lily was spotted cuddling in the Three Broomsticks with a very cute curly haired Ravenclaw on a Hogsmead weekend. Is there love in the air for this princess?" Mia recited, well breaking into giggles. "Well she has the very cute part right, you do know how to pick them Lily."

"Shut-up," Lily groaned, throwing a pillow at her friend, "I'm going to go find David."

On her way out of the common room she passed Sirius Black, who made kissing noise at her and was laughing with his friends at a magazine, she knew was Witch Weekly. Lily ignored him, and the other people in the common room, who were staring at her as she passed. Lily found David in the library doing a potions essay.

"Hi," Lily said, almost shyly, sliding into a seat next to him, she didn't know how he would react to the article. "Um… have you seen this week's Witch Weekly?"

"Oh, yes," David said brightly, "isn't it cool, having our names in the paper."

"You liked it?" Lily asked in shock.

"Well, I wouldn't say liked," David told her, looking up, "it's just cool. I mean, everyone saw it, it's like being famous."

"But, what they wrote about was privet!" Lily exclaimed, getting angry.

"Don't tell me you didn't expect that, my friend Ann overheard me asking you out, didn't you see? She loves this kind of thing; she's the one who probably called the magazine. But it's not like they wrote anything embarrassing."

"It was embarrassing for me, I can't believe your friend would do something like that."

"It's not her fault, she probably didn't know you would care. I though you got this kind of thing all the time. I knew something would happen when I asked you out."

"Is that why you asked me then? To get your name in the paper?" Lily asked, now seething in anger. What was she thinking? Going out with this jerk, she should have seen it.

"No, of course not, but it was a nice bonus," David muttered, "look next time, I'll make sure it doesn't end up in the papers, okay?"

"You know what David, I think it would just be easier if there wasn't a next time. Goodbye!" And with that she stormed out of the library, her eyes growing wet as she ran.

On the way out she passed James Potter, who was laughing about something with a blond kid, Lily thought was named Peter. When he saw her coming her started to say, "Lily, what's-" but faded away as Lily ran down the corridors, looking for a quite black to wallow. 'Jerk' she though to herself, assuming he was laughing at her 'doesn't he know when to mind his own business?' God, how she loathed boys, especially David Crumb and James Potter!

A/N: For all of you who though Lily was a complete jerk in this chapter, I agree with you! I was trying to make her a jerk. She's a stuck up rich brat, who can't have James Potter, so she hates him because of it. It's not logical or romantic, but that's what goes though the minds of girls (I should know, I've heard some of my friends whinnying about similar situations.) Well, I think I made it pretty obvious in the chapter, but you can flame me if you think I completely messed up their characters or something.

A BIG THANK YOU TO: dreamergirl86 (sorry about the cliffhanger, yes I am evil. I don't get what you mean by no James, I've written five whole chapters about him! I guess if you mean Lily and James don't' talk much, you're right, but their lives haven't crossed much, more of that in this chapter), sugur-huny-bun (glad you like it, hope you like this chapter just as much), SlythsRule (thanks), HarrySmith (Yeah, Lily and James will start to like each other, in, well maybe five more chapters. Sorry, it's a love/hate thing, can't help it, that's canon. I loved the snowball thing, glad you liked it too), cec123 (thanks, I actually have a beta, but he hasn't gotten to the first few chapters, so those errors will go away soon),Aurorablu. (Thanks, I'm glad you like it. And yes I am evil about cliffhangers), and Animals are my LIFE (Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Hope you like these chapters too)

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