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Chapter 4—A Slight Change of Heart?

"Where have you been?" Lily asked James when he came into their common room. Her books were spread all over the table in front of the couch and she was writing an essay for Potions. His hair was even messier than its usual standards, his face red from the cold November weather outside, and he seemed out of breath

"Quidditch practice." He grinned happily. Lily rolled her eyes and got back to her essay. Sure, she went to the matches, but playing it every single night seemed pointless to her.

"Whatcha workin' on?" He asked, sitting lazily next to her.

"The Potions essay." She answered slowly. "And why don't you go do yours?" She didn't want him sitting there the whole time she worked on hers.

"Already finished it." He shrugged.

"The Transfiguration homework?" She threw out.

"Done."

"Charms?"

"Done."

"How?" She asked, incredulous to his homework ability. He couldn't have had the attention span to do it all at once.

"Simple. Something Sirius and I invented." He answered.

"Potter! Cheating is illegal, especially if you're Head Boy!" She scolded.

"Hey! Hey! I didn't say I cheated! I-It's just a quill that you tell it what to say and it writes it for you!" He told her. Lily smiled slightly, thinking he looked cute when he was defending himself.

"Oh, gosh." She whispered, catching herself thinking that.

"What?" James asked, hearing her.

"N-nothing." She answered distractedly and got back to her essay. James went upstairs to shower and change out of his Quidditch clothes.

Fifteen minutes later, while Lily was still working on her homework in the common room and James still upstairs, Sirius came charging into the room, scaring Lily half-to-death. Sirius laughed at her reaction, because she jumped so much and then shouted at the top of his lungs, "PRONGS!"

"What Sirius? You made me spill my ink all over me!" James came out of his room, looking startled and his shirt covered with ink.

"I'm bored." He told him. Lily just looked at him.

"You mean to tell me, that you came charging into here, just to tell Potter you're bored?" She asked while staring.

"Yep." Sirius answered her and she rolled her eyes again. Sirius turned back to James, who was standing on the balcony. "Let's do something." There was a slight pause. "I'm hungry. Or lets play Quidditch again."

"You have a short attention span, Sirius." Lily told him. James grinned and jogged down the steps.

"C'mon, we're going to the kitchens and then the field." James told Sirius. "Lily, do you want anything?"

"No, I'm going over to the Gryffindor common room to do something with Katie." Lily responded, packing up her school bag and following the guys out to the hallway.

"Lily! I feel like I haven't seen you in forever!" Katie came up to her, giving her a hug.

"I know, all this stupid work and then I don't even stay in the Gryffindor dorm anymore! It's our last year here. I feel like I'm missing out." Lily told her.

"I have an idea! You can stay in our dorm tonight. We have the normal about of beds, so you can stay in your old one. Please?" Katie begged.

"Sure! Now, give me your Potions essay and I'll look over it." Lily grinned at her best friend, who happily handed Lily her essay. "What did you get on the last one? I didn't get the time to read it."

"I got a P, but I read the wrong chapter in the book. You're so lucky Slughorn loves you. The lowest grade you've ever gotten in his class is an A, and that was my fault because I spilled the ingredient in your cauldron. If I ever did that to my own potion, I would get a D." Katie complained.

"I know, I don't know why he's like that. James and Remus get—," Lily stopped when she noticed Katie smirking at her. "What?"

"James? Are you on first name basis now?" She grinned.

"No! Well, yes! But it's just because were living together and hearing Evans and Potter all the time gets annoying." Lily tried.

"No Lily, you, like every other girl in this school, fell for the charm of James Potter." Katie announced.

"No I didn't! We're just friends! Can't I be friends with a guy without liking him?" Lily was getting frustrated.

"Tell me, how many times has James asked you out this year?" Katie asked.

"None. He's different. He doesn't pull as many pranks or ask me out fifty times a week." Lily told her friend.

"Okay, just tell me when the wedding is." Katie joked, resulting in Lily throwing a stray Gobstone at her.

"Here, I'm not doing your essay anymore." Lily shoved the essay back at Katie.

"What? Lilyyyyyyy." Katie started her infamous whine. Lily rolled her eyes and took back the essay, crossing out the incorrect sentences.

"Let's go for a walk. I'm bored." Katie said walked out of the portrait, not waiting for Lily's response.

"Oh! Why didn't you tell me they were playing Quidditch? Let's join them!" Katie spotted James and Sirius playing once the girls 'somehow' reached the pitch. Katie had been leading Lily there.

"Er, no, you can join them. I prefer to watch." Lily didn't want to play.

"No! Lily you're playing with us!" Katie insisted.

"B-but I don't have a broom. So I can't play." Lily tried.

"Oh, no problem, you can use a school broom." Katie told her, dragging Lily roughly across the pitch to the locker room, with Lily whining and groaning all the way. Katie handed her the school broom and dragged her yet again back to the pitch.

"Lily, come on! Just play!" Katie shouted from the air.

"B-but I-I," She stuttered.

"Is little Lilykins scared?" Sirius joked. Once he got no reply, he became serious. "Are you really scared, Lily?"

"Well--,"

"Are you?"

"Yes! I'm scared, okay? I've never flown anything before! I don't even know how to get up!" She cried. At one time all three of them started laughing. James flew down and landed next to Lily, who was crossing her arms and looking stubbornly at the broom.

"Lily, just sit on the broom and hold on with both hands." James's voice sounded still amused as he watched Lily nervously climb on it. She relaxed a little and looked at him, pissed off.

"You're enjoying this aren't you?" She asked him, pursing her lips.

"Yeah, pretty much." He answered.

"Well, help me then, yeah?" She snapped. James grinned, flew down and got behind her and grabbed her hands. She felt a shiver at his touch and closed her eyes out of pure anger at herself.

"Lily, it might help if you open your eyes." James told her.

"Oh, sorry." She blushed.

"Put your hands like this and just kick off with your feet, like this." James kicked off and the broom went up. Lily squealed, half-scared, half-delighted at the feel of being in the air. Since they were only six feet up in the air, James jumped off the broom, trying to land on his feet to show off, but he got off-balance from the hurt of landing on hard ground (a/n—you know when you jump and land on a hard surface and it kills your feet/ankles with this painful feeling thing…that's what I'm trying to say. haha) and fell flat on his arse. Sirius roared with laughter at the sight of it, almost falling off his own broom from laughing too hard. Katie started laughing too, just because it was so pathetic how much he wanted to show off for Lily. James quickly got up, slightly embarrassed, and flew back up to his friends.

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Lily and Katie emerged from the Gryffindor dorm early in the morning, because they couldn't sleep, still wearing their pajamas, which consisted of tank tops and flannel pants. James, Sirius, and Peter were asleep on the couches and chairs. They noticed Sirius had a large cut across his arm and James's cheek was bleeding.

"What happened to them?" Katie whispered. Lily bit her lip. She knew. Over the years, she noticed Remus disappearing once a month, and came back looking tired, with cuts and bruises all over. He always made up excuses, but Lily knew they weren't true. During third year, she figured out that he was a werewolf but never told anyone. If he wanted it a secret, she would keep it one too. Though she couldn't figure out why James and Sirius were cut up and Peter looking extra exhausted, even they knew better than to run around with a werewolf.

"We should let them sleep. They look really tired." Lily told Katie, who smirked.

"Is this really Lily Evans? The girl who, up till this year, hated the Marauders with a passion, and now she's letting them sleep, when she herself could be sitting on the couch?" Katie whispered, pretending to be shocked.

"Oh shut up." Lily snapped and headed back up with stairs until a noise behind them startled them. Sirius rolled off the couch in his sleep and woke with a start.

"Prongs, Prongs." With his eyes still closed, he shook James until he woke up.

"What?" James snapped. ("Oh, look who's grumpy in the mornings." Katie added. She and Lily were hiding in the doorway of the girl's dorm.)

"We've got to get to our dorm so we can heal our cuts." Sirius told him sleepily.

"Why, where are we?" James's eyes were still closed.

"Erm, I guess the common room." Sirius seemed to not have focused his eyes either. "I just know that what I slept on is smaller than my bed 'cause I fell off. Wormtail, wake up!" Sirius snapped at Peter. ("Well look who elseseems grumpy in the mornings." Lily smirked at Katie, who rolled her eyes.)

"When did we get back last night?" Peter asked.

"I think it was around 3." James spoke up, his voice muffled from the pillow covering it.

"My back hurts." Sirius groaned as he got up.

"Your arm is bleeding." James told him.

"Well so is your face!" Sirius threw at him. Katie started laughing and had to shove her fist in her mouth to stop. She and Lily quickly jumped back from the door to not to be seen by the guys. They knew they probably didn't want them to overhear. After the guys went in their dorm, the portrait opened and Remus stumbled through, looking tired and bloody. Katie gasped with horror. Lily felt a huge stab of pity for him. She half wished she didn't know this, because she felt so sorry for him.

Hey! I know, once again it wasn't a very good chapter, but I promise it will get better once James and Lily get together! I hope you thought it was better than I did!

Lots of Love,

HPFan670

Lyny Angell—thanks! haha yeah ever since I read about Slughorn, I pretty much imagined him like that. I cried too reading HBP! I'm also sad that they broke up! They're too perfect for each other! (and even Ron approves! haha) Anyways, thanks again and sorry it took so long to be updated!

Nyte Shade214—thanks! your stories are good too, I reviewed one of them…I like them so I hope you keep going too! hope you liked the chapter.

books4me—thanks for everything you said, that meant a lot. haha I love James and Sirius with their 'pathetic-ness'. Once again, thanks, cause you said lots of nice things! Hope this chapter was good enough for you!

beyonce-85---haha thanks…sorry it took long! No cookies! lol

Also thanks to Mandi M., potterchick1, and Jen-bob-ohio for reviewing!

by the way, has anyone heard the song Just the Girl, by The Click Five? Well, doesn't it remind you of Lily and James? How Lily hated James but he still loved her, etc…haha okay bye