A/N: Hello all, So here is the tenth chapter! i updated sooner than expected but it's not too long. The next time i update should be sometime in the next week or so, sorry if it's any later, i don't think it will be.

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Lily stood rooted to the spot.

"What?" She muttered disbelievingly.

"Now Lily," James began in a mock stern voice, "I am not going to say it again in fear that it would inflate that already huge ego."

Lily smiled faintly at his joke and looked down at the ground.

"Good-night, Lily." James said softly before tuning around and ascending the steps.

Lily watched him go with a faint longing somewhere inside her but she shoved the feeling away forcefully. Shaking her head slightly, she walked up the stairs to the girls' dormitories.

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Lily grabbed her robe and swung it around herself before slipping on her shoes.

"Okay, I'm ready," She declared, looking around at her three friends who were just finishing getting ready for breakfast the next morning..

"I almost am," Katherine said, shoving her hair out of her eyes before grabbing her own robes. "So Lily, you never told us how your patrol duty went last night."

"Oh, I didn't?" Lily asked, knowing full well she had not shared her previous night activities.

"No, you didn't," Marlee confirmed, opening her wardrobe and revealing a pair of socks, "How was it?"

"Fine," Lily said quickly, suddenly becoming interested in the floor.

"What do you mean 'fine'?" Sara asked, "You were with Potter."

"I know…" Lily admitted, her hair falling about her face as she looked down at the floor even more, but her hair didn't fall enough to cover the blush that was slowly creeping up her neck.

"Lily Evans, you snogged him didn't you?" Sara said as more of a statement than a question.

"What?" Lily asked, finally looking up from the floor to stare at her friend blankly, "No, no of course not."

"Then why are you being so hesitant?" Marlee whined.

"It's just…" Lily began, then decided to stop dancing around the subject, "James actually said something sweet to me, not cheeky or cheesy-well I guess it kind of was cheesy, but it was really nice all the same."

"Really?" Sara asked excitedly, "What'd he say?"

"He said…that I amaze him." Lily said, still in disbelief that he actually said those words.

"Cute." Sara declared.

"Cute?" Lily repeated.

"Yeah, he obviously is trying the gentleman approach, I think it's cute." Sara explained.

"Whatever," Lily laughed, "Let's go to breakfast so we actually have time to eat before class."

They all nodded and left for breakfast.

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"The last class of the day!" Sara sang as she skipped into Potions.

"Oho, Miss Evans!" Professor Slughorn boomed, indicating the redhead standing beside Sara. "How are you this evening?"

"Fine, Professor, and yourself?" Lily asked politely.

"Oh just dandy, hey now that you mention it, I am having another one of my little get togethers soon and if you would like to make an appearance I would be delighted." He said joyfully, patting his stomach as he spoke.

Lily eyed him with an amused look because she never even mentioned his party. "Sure Professor, sounds great."

"Oh good, now where's you're little friend Mr. Black?" He asked, looking past Marlee, Sara, and Katherine.

"I don't know professor." Lily admitted, "But he's in this class so I'm sure he'll be here soon."

"Oh alright," He said, not bothering to hide his disappointment. He turned his attention to the other girls until his eyes fell upon Katherine, "Miss. Nelson!" He beamed, "Goodness I didn't see you there! And how are you?"

"I'm alright, and yourself?" Katherine asked, looking at him with a smile.

"Just great, and you yourself should come to my party. Oh yes, and that Potter fellow. He's got mighty well known parents, right good Auror, his dad is, and his mother, she's very well known among the Ministry and Hogwarts. Ooo…and that Lupin boy, James' friend, his mother's got a great reputation as an investigator." The girls stood and tried to look interested but were failing miserably.

"Professor, class was supposed to start six minutes ago," Lily reminded him gently.

"…and that other bo-what? Oh, oh yes, take a seat everyone!" He boomed, gesturing around the classroom. He began the lesson, while everyone else gazed longingly out the window, in which the weather outside was becoming steadily colder.

"Okay, so we're all going to make a Frog's Tongue Potion, it helps with head aches. Alright, shall we begin? Open your books to page one hundred and seventeen." There was a rustle of books and flipping of pages before silence resumed once more around the classroom, "Okay, well I'm going to be picking the partner you will be with for the remainder of today."

Everyone groaned and cast sidelong glances at people they really didn't want to be with. "Ah yes, let's see, Nelson and Pettigrew," Katherine smiled at Peter warmly and looked back to the professor. "Potter and Blac-no, no not after last time, well then… Potter and Snape, yes, yes that will do."

James spluttered and glanced at Snape coldly who looked as if he were about to vomit.

"Evans and Black, Lupin and Brookfield, Polkin and Render…" The list went on until everyone had been paired up. "Alright then, begin."

"Over here Pretty Lily Flower!" Sirius sang, gesturing to the seat beside him.

"Bye girls," Lily said to her friends before walking over to where Sirius was. "Hey Sirius."

"Hey Lils-ka-boo-"

"Never again," Lily interrupted, referring to the absurd nickname he had decided upon giving her.

"Oh, sorry." Sirius said, then walked over to the cabinet to get the ingredients.

"Hey Lily," Kendra Polkin, the Gryfindor seeker called, walking beside Marlee who was her partner.

Lily waved and glanced around the room to see how everyone else was doing.

Paul, the Gryfindor beater was paired up with a Ravenclaw girl, whilst Ben, a chaser was paired up with a Slytherin boy.

She swept her eyes around the room until they landed on a particularly funny couple. James was seated next to Severus, each of them on the other side of their table, tossing ingredients in the cauldron while keeping a close distance.

"And who are you staring at?" Sirius asked knowingly, having returned from grabbing the ingredients and had traced Lily's gaze to find his friend James.

"James-and no Sirius not like that, and Snape, they're rather funny together." Lily said glancing at them.

"Yeah I suppose so, they'd make a cute couple, huh?" Sirius asked, placing the cauldron on the table whilst Lily relieved him of some ingredients.

"That is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard," Lily said, pealing a Kreio plant before slicing it.

"Well they would," Sirius teased, having just seen James and Snape touch hands for a fraction of a second while trying to put something in their cauldron, resulting in them now wiping their hands unnecessarily on their robes. "Almost as cute as you two."

"Whatever," Lily dismissed, tossing another chunk of the Kreio plant in their cauldron.

"Don't you 'whatever' me, young missy." Sirius scolded, grabbing a glove and putting it on. "You want to hug him…you want to kiss him…you want to…" He paused and tapped a finger to his chin, "I really don't know how the rest of the song goes, I just heard Peter singing it once to his reflection, but you get my drift."

Lily laughed and tossed her third piece of Kreio in. "For your information I don't want to hug or snog him, thank-you very much."

"Why, Miss Evans, I never said snog, I merely said kiss, you dirty little girl." Sirius said, opening a jar of some sort and reaching in his gloved hand to pull out a frog's tongue and tossing in it the potion.

Lily giggled and began cutting a different plant. "Well, you want to hug her…you want to kiss her…" She sang, mocking Sirius almost scarily.

"Kiss who?" Sirius asked interestedly.

"Oh don't give me that, you know very well who."

Sirius opened a powdering substance that looked rather like spice, "Whatever you say, Lils-ka-boo-"

"No more Sirius."

"Oh, sorry. But whatever you say, you have no idea who I want to kiss."

"Oh, I think I very well do know," Lily said, tossing in a sliver of this new plant, "And her name begins with an S and ends with an Ara."

"You don't fool me Lils-ka-boo-"

"Enough."

"Oh, sorry. But you don't fool me, I see you're spelling out Sara." Lily rolled her eyes, "And I'll have you know that I'm only joking when I pretend to like her, sure she's pretty, but she's not my type."

"Because she's denied you before, and you only like girls who worship you?" Lily offered.

"Exactly," Sirius said, then shook his head when Lily's eyes widened disapprovingly, "I'm kidding, Lily."

"Well then why don't you like her?" Lily asked.

"Why don't you like James?" Sirius countered.

"Touche."

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It was right after dinner and James began walking down to the Quidditch pitch with Katherine and Sara.

"I can't wait to be up in the air again." James said, rubbing his broom affectionately with his spare hand.

"James, stop fondling your broom." Katherine laughed.

James pretended to cower and he took a hand off his broom to hold it in the air.

They continued walking to the Quidditch pitch, and once they were down there they saw Paul and Kendra already there.

"Hey ladies," James said.

"Thanks, James," Paul said sarcastically.

"Where is the rest of the team?" Sara asked frantically.

"They'll be here, Sara," Katherine said soothingly.

They waited for a while, and after about five minutes the whole team was down there, one leg swung over the broom and poised for take off.

"Here goes," Said Sara.

"Yeah," James agreed, "Here goes Quidditch practice number one."

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An hour and a half later the whole team was now making their way up to the castle, while rubbing themselves sorely.

"Man, Sara," Paul breathed whilst rubbing his buttocks, "Work us hard enough?"

"Not if you're complaining," Sara snapped.

Once up at the castle everyone trudged to the Gryfindor common room, and with a mere wave of their hand, made their way up to their dorms.

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"Rah-hiseeee and shineee sleeping beaut- never mind, I take that back."

James stirred but sat up with a bolt when he recognized the voice. "Sirius?" He asked disbelievingly, "You're up already?"

"Yeah," Sirius said, his tone a bit hurt, "So what?"

"We always have to wake you up." James explained.

"Do not," Sirius defended himself.

"Do too." Chorused Remus and Peter who were behind Sirius.

"Why are you up so early?" James asked, swinging out of bed and wincing at the soreness in his limbs.

"We're actually all up late, you slept in."

"I did?" James asked, and when the others nodded continued, "Man, Quidditch practice really wore me out."

"Evidently," Peter said.

James threw him a dirty look and got dressed.
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"I'm done," Lily declared, pushing away her empty plate that night at dinner. "Anyone else done who wants to go back to the common room?"

"I will," Marlee and Remus declared, and they both got up, Remus looking particularly white.

"Are you all right, Remus?" Lily asked carefully.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Remus said, sliding off of his seat and following the two girls out to the corridor.

They gave the password to the Fat Lady, "Uber Juber," and entered the common room.

They took seats around the fire and sighed contentedly.

After about fifteen minutes other students began filing in.

"Patrol again tonight," Lily said to James after he entered the common room.

"I know," James said, "I'll see you then."

Lily nodded and went to her dorm to finish up her assignments. She flopped on her bed once she was up there, and retrieved some parchment and a quill. She scribbled something down quickly, and tapped the quill to her chin in thought. After a while she checked the clock and realized it was three minutes till eight thirty, and three minutes till patrol.

She flipped her hair out of her eyes and rolled of the bed, landing on her feet and crossing the room to the door. She wrenched it open and began to descend the stairs to the common room.

James was already waiting, he sat staring at the fire, feeling his eyelids droop considerably more and more until a voice interrupted James from his thoughts.

"Hullo James!" Lily sang once she was close enough to his ear to give him a fright.

"Oi!" James cried, jumping from the couch and spinning around to face Lily. "Don't do that." He breathed.

Lily laughed and spun on her heel towards the portrait hole. "I never would have thought you the scared-y pants type," She called mockingly over her shoulder.

"Yeah, well I'm not!" James called defiantly, jogging to catch up with her. They exited the room and emerged in the empty hall. "Shall we?" James asked, poising his arm for her to hook onto.

"We shall." Lily agreed, shoving his arm back down to his side, "Let's go."

They began walking down the hall, comfortable silence falling over them. It was only broken by shouts and cries of angry voices.

Lily looked at James and they both nodded before sprinting ahead and following the voices.

"I think they're over here," James called urgently, gesturing for Lily to come over, she ran over by him and they rounded a corner.

Regulus Black and Lewis Jenkins stood in the empty corridor, their wands drawn and hatred played in every crease of their narrowed faced.

"Expelliarmas!" James and Lily cried, each of their wands pointed at either boy.

"Now," Lily began angrily, "What is going on here?"

When neither of the boys answered Lily shook her head dissapointedly.

"Okay, detention for a week for both of you for being out after curfew and dueling in the halls." Lily said.

"What!" Lewis cried incredulously, "I have Quidditch!"

"You should have thought about that before," Lily pointed out, her voice snapping.

"Listen…Lily…" James began.

"What?" Lily rounded on him as though begging for help.

"A week is a long time, I'm sure they won't do it again," James said uncertainly.

"Are you doing this because Lewis is on your team or because Regulus is your best mate's brother?" Lily asked coolly.

"Neither," James lied, "I'm just not sure if-"

"OR…" Lily interrupted, "Is this because you have been in their place so many times you feel that what they are doing is just fine?"

"No, not that," James said, "It's just, this is the first time we've caught them, so a week is a pretty harsh punishment."

"But it's only the second week of school!" Lily cried.

"Exactly, I vote two days." James reasoned.

"Five." Lily countered.

"Three."

"Four," Lily said.

"Deal," James agreed. "Don't let us catch you again," He said, his eyes twinkling amusedly, "I'll see you guys later."

They nodded and departed.

"You'll see them later?" Lily asked disbelievingly, "You said that like you were old friends. James, we can't be biased."

"I know, and we were fair." James said firmly.

"I guess…" Lily said uncertainly.

"We did." James confirmed.

They continued walking, and before they knew it, their patrol duty was over and they hadn't had need to bust anyone else.

"Woah, word spreads quickly about the new strict Head Girl, huh?" James teased as they walking back to the common room.

"Hey!" Lily laughed. "I'm not that bad."

"No, you're not." James said, stopping to look at her evenly.

"James…" Lily began.

"You call me James now." He noticed.

"I know," Lily said, wondering where this was going.

"I don't want to ruin what we have, this sort of, kind of friendship, but I was wondering if you'd want to go to Hogesmeade with me." James said, looking at her deeply.

"No." Lily said quickly, and she almost immediately regretted the words, they just slipped out. Say yes, say yes. She thought frantically.

"You won't even consider it?" He asked her, hurt creeping up into his tone.

"No." She said again. She wondered what she was doing but kept reminding herself that he doesn't want her for more than a week.

"Fine," He said, "Okay, Lily, I'm done. I quit. I hope you find the one you're so looking for, and I hope he meets your every need and that you live happily ever after." He looked at her coldly before turning around and sweeping angrily away from her.

"James…" She said quietly, "JAMES! I'M SORRY! YES! I SAID YES!" She cried, but it was too late, he was already gone.

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A/N: Jeesh, I'm such a sap...sorry if it's too much, tell me if it is! I'm usually not, but i really want to get a feel for what their relationship is like before they go out...but they won't for a while. Alsooo...I'll update soon, like i said before, maybe in the next week or so. Anyways, I hope you liked it. Please read and review! I have alot of hits but only so many reviews, so if you like it or even if you want to help it get better, please review! Thanks and love you all, Lilly