A short Lily/James fanfic solely written to ease my boredom. I hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter, or Harry Potter related themes in this story. All of that good stuff belongs to J.K Rowling and Warner Bros. -gets down on knees- Please don't sue me.

Lily/James - Humor/Romance - Hope you enjoy

January 16th 1977

"How'd you do Lils?" A Japanese girl asked, trying to peer over-top, a piece of parchment.

Another girl with blonde hair rolled her eyes, "Must you even ask? She probably got an 'O', leaving us mere mortals behind."

Lily however remained silent, staring at her paper as if it were her death sentence. Her eyes were transfixed on one thing on the piece of the parchment … one thing that threatened to ruin her career as she knew it … and that one thing was …

"An 'A'…?" Lily finally choked out desperately, looking at the huge 'A' scrawled in red ink over her essay.

"What?" Her two friends demanded, gathering around her, and looking at her essay.

Lily nodded grimly. "That's it … it's over! Over! … Now, I'll never get a good job … my Head Girl badge will be taken from me … no one will want to hire me … I'll have no money, never be able to get an apartment … my parents will kick me out … and I'll live in a CARDBOARD BOX ON THE STREETS!" Lily wailed hysterically, almost banging into a suit of armour in the process.

The two other girls, exchanged looks over Lily's head that clearly read: 'She's-going-mental-again'.

True, this had happened before … Lily's rambling that is. But only if she got a comment saying '…This essay would've benefited from you putting in …' accompanied with an 'Outstanding'. But Lily getting an 'Acceptable' … in Muggle Studies, none-the-less was something that had always had a slim-to-none chance of happening --- until now.

"Lily you need to calm down --- take a deep cleansing breath …" Mina instructed with a twinkle in her oriental Japanese eyes.

Lily gave her friend a glare, but breathed in nonetheless; calming down considerably, but still staring forlornly at her essay.

"There now, don't you feel better?" Serena; Lily's other blonde haired friend asked, in a mock-motherly voice.

Lily grumbled something under her breath, and muttered the password to the Fat Lady, who swung open to grant them access to the Gryffindor Common Room. She pushed her way roughly past some second years, and made a bee-line straight for her favourite armchair by the fireplace.

Sitting in that chair was the only thing that would calm Lily down in a moment such as this. She sighed as she saw the tall back of the chair and moved around to the front to sit down in it … unfortunately for her, it also happened to be someone else's favourite armchair as well.

"Potter!" Lily growled in frustration, when she saw the black-haired boy reclining in her armchair. "Get-off!" She hissed between clenched teeth.

James smiled coolly up at her. "You're welcome to sit in it if you want … but I'm not moving anytime soon." He offered gesturing to his lap.

Mina plopped down onto the hearth rug in front of the fire, and Serena took a seat on the couch next to where James was sitting.

Lily gritted her teeth, and pulled out her wand, "Don't make me do something you'll regret, Potter."

James mocked, fright and put a hand over his heart, "No Lily, please don't … I'm begging you …" He put on a high pitched imitation of a girl's voice.

Lily let out a little shriek of frustration, and pointed her wand at James' face, and quickly muttered something. A jet of grey light shot out of the tip of her wand, but James lazily deflected it with a flick of his own wand, and it went flying back at Lily.

The beam of light made contact with Lily's head, and there was a puff of smoke and a shriek. The common room fell dead quiet, and everyone waited with bated breath as the smoke cleared away. As soon as the smoke vanished, there was a split second of silence before everyone … including Mina and Serena, burst out in hysterical laughter.

James was practically hooting with laughter.

Lily frantically transfigured on of the nearby cushions into a mirror and brought it up to look at her face, letting out a high pitched shriek, when she saw her reflection.

Everyone stopped laughing, except James, Serena and Mina. James was still rolling around with mirth, while Serena had buried her face in the couch, but her shaking shoulders were enough proof to show she was still laughing. Mina kept on shooting glances up at Lily as her laughter got louder and louder.

James brushed a tear out of his eye, and looked directly at Lily, "So …er … what exactly were you trying to transfigure me into?" James chuckled, eyeing Lily's hair, which had turned into a poof of grey feathers, on top of her head, and were falling to the floor as she shook with anger.

Lily seethed, "A goose." She answered, raising her chin proudly, as if it were the last possible solution to keep her extremely wounded dignity.

James changed her hair back into it's red waves, and she gave him a look, mingled with a shred of thanks, and a hell of a lot of anger.

"Come, sit down." James said, abruptly taking her hand, and pulling her down into his lap. When Lily made no move to struggle, and didn't harm him, he raised an eyebrow, at Mina, over Lily's head.

"Okay, let me get this straight." He said to Lily, "You're sitting in my lap, and yet, all my body parts remain intact." Lily nodded numbly.

James sat up straighter, "Okay, something's wrong." He declared, concern coming instantly into his eyes.

"You're telling me." Lily mumbled, un-crumpling her essay, and going back to staring at her 'A'.

"You got an 'A'?" James asked, with disbelief. Lily nudged him, hard in the ribs. "And here I was thinking that, the old bat was only being unfair to me." James winced, rubbing his ribs.

"What?" Lily asked, spinning around slightly in his lap.

"Muggle Studies is my easiest class, so basically my surprise was as great as yours when I found out she gave me an 'E'." James told her, emphasizing his grade, knowing it would annoy Lily.

"You got an 'E'!" Lily yelled. "Okay, that's it. I'm talking to her, and demanding a re-do or something! Getting the 'A', I can stand …" Lily said, as Mina gave an audible cough of disagreement. Lily continued as if there had been no interruption, " … but Potter, getting a higher grade on something that me … that's got to be a definite mistake!"

"Hello, I'm sitting right here." James interjected. Lily ignored him and jumped off of his lap, and without another word, headed for her Head Dormitory.

Mina, James and Serena watched her retreating back. "How do you guys stand her everyday?" James asked in a low voice.

"Answer that question, and you've figured out my life." Serena answered, letting her head fall against the couch.

XXXXX

True to her word, Lily arrived first at the door of the Muggle Studies classroom, the next day.

Fifteen minutes before class started!

"Lily, you're not really going to ask for a re-do are you?" Serena asked apprehensively, biting on the tip of her fingernail.

"And let my future go down the drain?" Lily demanded. "I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't asked for my badge yet!"

Serena sighed, and watched as Lily watched the closed door to the classroom with rapt attention. Finally … the door opened, and everyone headed inside. Mina and Serena watched as Lily took her normal seat next to the window, and they went and sat down next to her.

As usual, The Marauders sauntered in last, laughing loudly at something or other. Lily gritted her teeth, and watched as they took their seats. James and Sirius were kind of like the leaders of the group of four. Remus Lupin was basically the sanity of the group, and Peter was … er … Peter was the tag-a-long guy.

James had made it his duty to sit across from Lily, since their first class, so that he could constantly whisper things to her to distract her from her work. He sat down in his seat, and flashed her a smile, his hand running through his hair, unconsciously.

"Settle down!" Professor Lain called from the front of the class. She was like a mirror image of Professor McGonagall, except with a few minor details. Her hair for one was dark brown, she had no glasses, and she was about two heads shorter than their Transfiguration Professor.

When she saw that no one had paid the slightest attention to her, she bellowed, "PAY ATTENTION!" At the top of her little lungs (which weren't that little.)

The class fell silent.

"Good." She smiled sweetly. "Now, continuing from out lesson yesterday --- Miss Evans, a question already?" The professor simpered.

Lily nodded, lowering her hand.

"Well, lets hear it then." Lain said in a somewhat bored voice, paying no attention to Sirius, who was hopping up and down in an imitation of Lily.

Mina threw a ball of paper at his head, and got him to shut up. Lily smiled at her in thanks and cleared her throat lightly.

"Well Professor … the essay we got back yesterday, I feel was graded a tad," She put her thumb and forefinger a millimetre apart, " a tad, bit unfairly."

The Professor, raised her eyebrows, "Do you now, Miss Evans?"

Lily continued, "And I was wondering, whether you would give us a chance … the people who feel that they deserve a better grade, that is … a second chance." Lily finished somewhat lamely.

The Professor seemed to study Lily for a minute before walking out from behind her desk. "Who feels the same way as Miss Evans?" She asked.

James hand shot into the air almost immediately. Sirius poked James in the back of the head, "Prongs." He hissed.

But James paid him no mind, and kept his hand in the air. Some other student hesitantly raised their hands, looking around the room. Lain, nodded, counting under her breath.

"Very well then." She said suddenly. "If you want to make up for it, I have just the project for you. If you complete this assignment then your current mark will be replaced with the mark from this project."

Lily beamed, and nodded her head.

Lain continued, "Since our next unit was on the study of Muggle families, you might as well get a head start. So for this project, you will be required to look after," She picked up an object off of her desk, and pointed her wand at it, transfiguring it into a small doll that looked like a baby, "… like I was saying, you'll be required to look after a baby for a required period of time … the Muggle way. No magic." She emphasized.

Sirius grinned, "This'll be a piece of cake. Just take it and keep it in our dorm."

Lain smirked, "No, its not quite that simple Mr Black."

"What?" Lily and Sirius asked at the same time.

"Looking after a baby in a muggle family requires time, patience, and co-operation to the highest degree. So to test you in these skills, you'll be assigned a partner to take care of this baby with you. Wherever you go, the baby goes, if the baby doesn't sleep, you don't either, you feed it, you change it, you clean it …"

Lily was seriously starting to reconsider as she heard what had to be done. And it seemed like most of the class was doing the same.

Sirius raised his hand slowly, "Is it too late to back out?" He asked.

"Yes." Lain answered simply, "Now, to test your patience and willingness you and your partner will look after this baby for a month. If anything goes wrong it will turn back into this object," She pointed at the small spherical objects on her desk.

"Do we get to pick our own partners?" Mina asked.

Lain put on a mock-thoughtful face. "Let me think about that … No!"

There was a collective groan.

"Now --- for your partners." She walked down the rows, naming off of the partners. "Judy Smith, Ron McLean. Danielle Thomas, Warrington Duke. Mina Sakemoto, Sirius Black. Serena Hudson, Remus Lupin." She paused when she got to Lily's desk.

"So who should you pair with?" She looked around the classroom, and then smiled when she saw who would be suitable for Lily's partner. "Ah, well then we have: Lily Evans and … James Potter."

There was a resounding crash in which the vase next to Lily's next shattered on the floor. "WHAT?"

-Gulps- Well there is the first chapter. Please tell me what you think. If almost everyone who reads this, leaves a review, I'll continue this. But if I have minimal interest, then I won't bother. Was it good? Bad? Really bad? I dunno ... think of something. lol.

-Jasmine x0x