Ok, so this is my first fanfic, so please go easy on it. No flamers, please be constructive. Thank You Becky

We had spent our last six years working to achieve our goal of being the number one band in both the Wizarding and Muggle Worlds, and now because of one song The Charmed Life totally kicked arse. Our one hit single then lead to a whole stream of chart-toppers, well, at least four to this date anyways, Walk Away, Breathe, Breathless, and Wild Child. Had all ended up being on the top of the Billboard Charts, but we also had a romantic song, make it to the Number One spot as well, I Don't Want to Miss A Thing.

It was our seventh year at Hogwarts and Dumbledore had caught wind of the success of our two resident bands, The Charmed Life, and the Marauders, which pretty much split the student body into two different factions, except for the fact that the lead vocalist/ guitarist from the Marauders had the hugest crush on me, the lead from the Charmed Life. Oh, by the way I'm Lilah (Lily) Evans. My musical career began at age five when my mother decide that she wanted at least one of her children to learn the piano, and Petunia had no inclination towards it whatsoever, as it turned out I was a natural and by the time I left for Hogwarts at age eleven I was brilliant on piano, guitar, and the drums, the first two being my best. I had also done some vocal work in my several years spent in muggle primary school, where I sang in the choir.

However, upon my arrival at Hogwarts, I met two other girls that were as musically inclined as myself, and hence The Charmed Life was born, I sing and play guitar or piano, Cate Jones plays the bass guitar, and Emma Harris plays the drums for us.

Dumbledore's genius plan to bring joy to the hearts of many during this horrid time in the wizarding world struck me as fabulous and that is why I agreed to it. A sort of battle of the bands between the Charmed Life and the Marauders. It would begin at the start of term feast and end at the Christmas feast in December.

We had been brought to Hogwarts a day early to prepare our equipment for the performance. We had draw straws to see who would go first and it ended up being the Marauders.

It was actually a surprise to me when they took the stage dressed in British punk, but it was surprisingly hot, especially James, again, a surprise. Anyway the let our a few guitar rifts, then set into their hit single, Truly Madly Deeply.

"I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope; I'll be your love, be everything that you need. I love you more with every breath Truly madly deeply do...

"I will be strong I will be faithful 'cos I'm counting on a new beginning.
A reason for living. A deeper meaning.

"I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me...

"And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky, I'll make a wish send it to heaven then make you want to cry… The tears of joy For all the pleasure and the certainty. That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of... The highest power. In lonely hours. The tears devour you...

"I want to stand with you on a mountain; I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever, Until the sky falls down on me...

"Oh can't you see it baby? You don't have to close your eyes 'Cos it's standing right before you. All that you need will surely come...

"I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope I'll be your love, Be everything that you need. I'll love you more with every breath Truly madly deeply do..."

They finished the song with a low, sweeping bow and nodded to us and we took their place on the stage, we began the introduction to our first song in the competition, Breathless.

"Go on go on. Leave me breathless; Come on, Hey... yeah...

"The daylight's fading slowly, the time with you is standing still. I'm waiting for you only; the slightest touch and I feel weak. I cannot lie, from you I cannot hide, and I'm losing the will to try. Can't hide it (can't hide it), can't fight it (can't fight it)

"So go on, go on, come on, leave me breathless. Tempt me, tease me, until I can't deny this loving feeling (loving feeling), make me long for your kiss. Go on (go on), go on (go on). Yeah...Come on…Yeah...

"And if there's no tomorrow, and all we have is here and now I'm happy just to have you, you're all the love I need somehow. It's like a dream although I'm not asleep, and I never want to wake up don't lose it (don't lose it), don't leave it (don't leave it)…

"So go on, go on, come on, leave me breathless. Tempt me; tease me, until I can't deny this loving feeling (loving feeling). Make me long for your kiss. Go on (go on), go on (go on)…"

"Yeah...Come on Yeah-ie, yeah, yeah-ie, yeah...

"And I can't lie, from you I cannot hide, and I've lost my will to try, can't hide it (can't hide it), can't fight it, (can't fight it)

"So go on, (go on) go on, (go on), come on, leave me breathless. Tempt me, tease me, until I can't deny this loving feeling (loving feeling) Make me long for your kiss.

"Go on, (go on) go on, (go on) come on, leave... me breathless
Go on, (go on) go on, (go on) come on, leave... me breathless
Go on, (go on) go on, (go on) come on, leave... me breathless
Go on... go on!"

We ended the song to a roar of applause. Dumbledore stepped up to the mike at that point and announced the competition at that point and the parameters, such as the next concert would be solos by the lead vocalist on Halloween, and that the winner would be announced at the Yule Masquerade Ball after the final performances.

As we were changing to go down to the feast Dumbledore stopped James and me, "Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, I am pleased to inform you both that you will be acting as head students this year and will have a private dorm available for your use.

"Your bands will also have private practice space, which I shall show you tomorrow, you also have a free period set aside for band practice, and an hour after classes for head duties, such as planning for the balls and feasts as well as Prefect Meetings and patrol arrangements.

"Professor McGonagall will show you to your dorm after dinner."

We both nodded, and gave our thanks, and then I turned to James, "Did you really mean what you said in that song?"

"Yeah, how did you know that I wrote it for you?"

"Well, I don't know if it's my ego, or if you truly were watching the entire time."

"No, I wrote the song for you."

"Well, thank you."

He nodded.

That evening in our private dorm I was sitting at the piano working out some music when James came down the stairs. I played out a cord and he came over and sat next to me on the bench with his guitar, "Watcha playing?"

"It's a song I've been working on for a while now, I don't think I'm going to use it for the battle though, I just don't know what kind of a reaction I'm going to get for it, you know?"

"Yeah," was all he said then he started to tune his guitar and mess around playing my music, "Lils, do you mind singing it for me?"

"Nah, why?"

"Just want to hear it the way you want it to sound."

I nodded and began to stroke the keys, "It's called, When the Lights Go Down,

"When the lights go down he'll be filling a pan with a broom in his hand in some dive across town. He'll whipping the bar, mopping the floor, counting his tips, and locking the door, wrestling the devil that tells him to pour another round.

"When the lights go down she'll be calling her friends from her Mercedes-Benz, buts it's too late now. They were there for the fame, the flash and the thrill the drop of a name, the parties the pills. As another star falls from the Hollywood Hills without a sound

"When the lights go down and there's nothing left to be. When the lights do down and the truth is all you see. When feel that hole inside your soul and wonder what you're made of well we all find out…When the lights go down.

"When the lights go down, at the end of the day when that game that I play has gone another round. As I lay there alone in this big empty bed with nothing but thoughts of you in my head I think of the things that I wish I had said when you were still around

"When the lights go down and there's nothing left to be. When the lights go down and the truth is all you see. And I wonder if all my life's about the sum of all my fears and all my doubts. When the lights go down.

"When the lights go down and there's nothing left to be. When the lights do down and the truth is all you see. When feel that hole inside your soul and wonder what you're made of, well we all find out. When the lights go down."

He sat on the piano bench just looking at me, "Wow, Lily, that was really good. Kind of angsty, in a deep, meaningful way, you know, the kind that touches you on the inside?"

I smiled at him in a mildly amused way, "Yeah, I know, that's why I wrote it."

He laughed, "Hey, Lils, I have an idea."

"What?" I asked not sure that I like the sound of that all that much.

"Why don't' you and I collaborate on a song for a single, you know, like you did for that one song."

"We only released that single in the Muggle World, how did you find out about it."

"My dad's friend, Arthur Weasley is obsessed with muggle things, the stereo being one of them. So he went out to a music store in Muggle London to find some music and there in the window was a tullevision or whatever its called and your pictures were on it playing that song you sang tonight."

"That's a music video that they show on the television, or the telly. In the muggle world you release singles to give the audience a taste of what you sound like so that they can see if they like your sound or not. But that's not a bad idea, the question is, do you want to release it to muggles too, because, I'm not sure that they are quite prepared for the Marauders."

He laughed, "Lily, I'm sure that anyone is prepared for the Marauders, we just kind of show up and you deal with it, I mean Hogwarts will never be the same again."

Now our faces were so close that I could his feather across my face. He slowly leaned in and brushed his lips against mine in a testing way, almost as if he thought that I would reject him. The thing of the situation is that I am long over rejecting James Potter and very into the idea of accepting him. So as his lips pressed to mine I felt him trace the outline of my lower-lip with his tongue asking admittance to my mouth. In the heat of the moment I immediately allowed it.

This kiss was unlike anything that I had felt before, it made me vibrate from head to toe, and I couldn't help but think of what it would be like to be held secure in the arms of James Potter all night long.

He continued to kiss me down my jaw line and my neck, and then he started to tease me right at the collarbone. I brought my lips to his ear and began to tease and nip at it. Then suddenly his lips were pressed to mine again and he was making to stand up. I moved with him because I couldn't bare the thought of his lips to be deprived of mine for one second.

Then quite suddenly he lifted me up, and made for the stairs. That was when I sobered, "James, we shouldn't be doing this."

"Huh?" He asked like he hadn't heard what I'd said.

"James, you and I shouldn't be doing this. Not yet anyways."

"Yeah, I guess not. Let's go work on that song."

The Songs in this Chapter are:

Truly, Madly Deeply- Savage Garden

Breathless- The Corrs

And When the Lights Go Down- Faith Hill