Hello Everybody, I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas/Holiday season. I know I am... I hope this is a nice present for you... (a review would be very nice too you know... wink,wink.) Also, I hope everyone read the large, red note on the home page of Fanfiction, for on Dec. 30 we will be slowed down and updating disabled. Yeah, I'm sad about it too. Anyways, that means we are going to try and cram as much as we can. Have a good holiday. As always, WheezlyGirl!

Lily's Journal

Dear Diary,

Is it physically possible for me, Lily Evans, to have a normal conversation with Potter? Well, now it is. He was... nice when last night. I don't understand. Did he really change this much over summer? Possibly... We just happen to be partners for this potions assignment, which is fortunate because we both are amazing at Potions. Well, I'm above James in class, but still, he can whip up any potion within seconds almost.

Maybe this year won't be so bad afterall, I mean even with James as Head Boy. Too bad we have to share a dorm though... damn.

Well, off to Transfiguration then the dismal, Divination, later days, Lily.

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'Are they actually sitting across from each other without an argument?'

'Potter finally got her now, did he?'

'They aren't fighting! They're talking!'

Whispers all around the Great Hall this morning were flying all over. James and Lily were sitting across from each other in the Great Hall, eating breakfast, and talking quite civilly. James, Remus, and Sirius were all sitting together on one side, while Lily, Michelle, and Faye were on the other side. Michelle and Faye were Lily's best friends since first year.

'Transfiguration... cinch. Nothing too bad. Divination, ahhh sucky, but you can't always get the good schedules. Then Potions, not hard. And finally, Muggle Studies.' James read off his time table as he was eating his bacon.

'We have the same day.' Lily commented agreeably.

'Yeah. Hey are we still partners for Potions?... Thought so.' James asked her.

Remus, Sirius, Michelle, and Faye were all dumbstruck as they watched James and Lily actually getting along. They began to stare.

'What!' Lily snapped at them.

'You're talking nicely to each other. Ouch!' Sirius said, as Faye kicked him under the table.

Michelle was chuckling at Faye who was shaking her head in disgust as Sirius began eating, as usual, like a dog.

'No really, it's not like we haven't talked before.' Lily said looking at the four of them crazily.

'More like yelling...' Remus mumbled, but regretted it when he felt himself be kicked by Lily under the table.

'It's the truth.' Sirius stood up for Mooney.

Lily began looking uncomfortable.

'Are you okay, Lily?' James asked, she suddenly got quiet and cold.

'Potter! Patrols tonight, we start at nine, don't be late.' Lily said, sounding agitated, before getting up and leaving the table. Her friends didn't follow.

'What was that about?' James asked more to himself, confused.

'She was getting back to normal, that's what.' Faye answered.

'You mean that normal is snapping at me?' James asked. He didn't really know why they sat by the three girls, but it was usually because Remus was secretly in love with Michelle, and Faye and Sirius went off and on. Normally, Lily ignored James.

The other two girls went off to pick up their books in their dormitory.

'Hey, guess what! Head Dorms this year... with Lily.' James said, his eyes getting wide.

'What's the password?' Sirius asked, so that when he needed, he could bunk in there.

'Pumpkin juice, you guys can come around anytime. How about we go there now, I mean we've got quite a few hours before we have Transfiguration.' James suggested. The others agreed, and began walking the way to the Head Rooms.

'Password?' The woman in the portrait asked over a wailing baby's cry.

'Pumpkin juice.' James said, before walking into the room.

'What are you doing here!' Came a voice from inside. Lily was lying on the couch watching something on a black box.

'This is the Head Dorms... and I am Head Boy. It's my room too. Hey, what's that?' James asked intersted to what Lily was looking at. He sat down next to her and watched the man on the screen yell, 'Come on down!'

'It's a muggle thing.' Lily answered dully flicking the channel.

'Oh. Cool, what's it called?' He asked.

'A television.' Lily said, finally turning off the T.V. and with a flick of her wand, it vanished.

'Why did you put it away? I was watching...' James protested.

'Because it's mine, and I just conjured it from my home.' Lily said with a blase voice.

'Oh.' James said, trying to keep up a healthy conversation, but even he could tell that Lily was in a mood.

'So, this place is pretty damn nice, huh?' Sirius said, jumping on the couch, completely ignoring the scrolls of parchment lying on it.

'Black! My homework...' Lily said aggravatedly. She pulled his ear, and he got up reluctantly. She picked up her papers and put them in her bag.

'Sorry.' Sirius mumbled, but really he was absorbed in the whole room.

'Jamsie! I've gotta see your room...' Sirius said, jumping up and running to the room with the sign that said 'J. Potter' on it.

'Mooney! You've gotta come and see this! There's a bathroom attached it it...' Sirius shouted. Remus ran up the stairs to check it out, leaving Lily and James alone.

James' eyes were squinting, what was suddenly the matter with her? 'Is... something wrong?' He asked wondering what he did to make her mad this time. They were getting along fine.

'Nothing.' Lily said absentmindedly picking up her school things, preparing to leave.

'We don't have class for another hour.' James said, pointing at her bag and cloak.

'I know...' Lily said, running a hand through her hair.

'Well you don't have to leave.' James said shrugging.

'I want to.' Lily said simply.

'What's with your attitude all of the sudden? Huh? I mean, why so cold Lily?' James said, voicing his opinions.

'Lily?' She questioned, raising her eyebrows.

'I called you that last night and you didn't seem to mind... why 'Potter' so soon?' He asked looking at her strangely.

'Why does it matter to you?' She asked annoyed, pushing the guilt feelings out of her heart.

'I honestly don't understand you... I really don't. Why does it matter to me... my God, you haven't figured that out?...' James said, giving a hollow chuckle.

Lily rolled her eyes. 'All those people were talking this morning about us.' She said glaring.

'Oh, so it's an embarrassment to so much as talk to me in a normal conversation!' James said, almost yelling. Lupin and Sirius could hear them, but just blocked the natural sound of Lily and James arguing out of their mind.

'Not that!' Lily said, firing up.

'Then what is it? You won't dare give me a chance, yet you willingly go out with any other guy in this school!' James asked angrily.

'I can't trust you... so I caught myself before I go falling for any of your stupid charms you put on every other girl in this school!' Lily said bitterly, more to herself it seemed, and she opened up the door of the room and left.

When she got out of there, she leaned against the wall and sunk down low, with a big sigh.

'Boyfriend troubles, my dear? I've had a good share of my own.' The woman with the baby, which was now sleeping, said to her.

'He's not my boyfriend... he just happened to become Head Boy, and now I get to deal with him for the rest of the year.' Lily said nicely to the young woman. She couldn't have been much older than herself.

'Well, I better go. I'm going to work on a Potions project in the library. If the same boy comes out of the room in a little while, if he asks where I went, tell him some place far away from there? Please?' Lily asked the woman.

'Sure.' She said, with a smile. But, seeing as sneaky person she was, she thought that if the boy asked, she wouldn't dare say anything else but the library. Oh yes, by the end of this year, those two would be two peas in a pod.

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'The girl... with the long red hair, yes... Lily, which way did she go?' James asked as soon as the boys left. He cooled down and was ready to go and apologize to her.

'Don't tell her I told you, but she was on her way to the library.' The woman said smiling.

'Thank you so much!' James said, racing off to the library.

When he got there, he tried to slow his breathing, and walked in nice and cool.

He saw Lily sitting alone in a tiny corner, reading a book and seemed to be writing notes on a piece of parchment.

'Well, Potter in the library, this must be a first.' She said as she saw him approaching.

'No, I've been in here. I had to steal Moste Potente Potions in second year.' James said, sounding sarcastic, but really he was telling the truth.

'Oh, I should've known.' Lily said breaking eye contact and looking down at her parchment.

'I'm... er... sorry. I shouldn't have said...' James began, but he was cut off.

'No, don't apologize, listen. Don't speak. I'm telling you now, I will work with you for Head businesses and possibly some other things too. But, I will not under any circumstances accept to go out with you during this period of time. This is strictly work.' Lily said, standing up.

'So... no more... fighting? Or yelling?' James asked, looking hopeful. His eyes put on the puppy look.

'I told you that the Potter Charm doesn't work for me... I'm plain hard to get, and you have to prove yourself before you get anything for your benefit. And by benefits, I mean no more yelling or embarrassing you infront of the entire Great Hall.' Lily said, smiling weakly.

'So...?' James asked.

'Fine, I'll limit the yelling.' Lily said, knowing that if she needed to yell, she wouldn't hesitate.

'Cool.' James said, happy he saved the day, for him at least.

'We've really got to go. Transfiguration.' Lily said, grabbing her books and parchment.

'What is that?' James asked, motioning towards the papers and book she was reading.

'Oh... well... I'm looking up on... er.. cutting myself completely from my family. I really only have another month before I'm seventeen, which means I'm on my own.' Lily said, sort of embarrassed herself.

'Why would you want to never see your family again?' James asked softly and kindly. He had this power over her with that voice, where she felt she could tell him anything in the world.

'Oh... you see, my mum sent me a letter late last night and I'm not invited to my sisters wedding and I quote, 'I (my mum) quite agree, because I'm afraid that normal people will be there, and they can't have a witch at the ceremony.' That's what she told me... so, seeing as I'm not normal enough to be in the Evans family, then I'm now seperated from them completely. I'm just filling out this form and I'll send it to them when I'm seventeen.' Lily said shrugging.

'Oh, well... what will you do when we get out of school?' He said, not knowing exactly what to say in the first place.

Lily chuckled. 'I don't know, maybe me and Faye will get a house together. Her parents are making her move out.' She said.

'That would be fun.' James said.

'Sirius and I want to move in together, but our parents insist that we stay, seeing as they are never in our house anyway.' James said smiling.

'Our parents?' She asked, wondering why he said that.

'Yeah, Sirius' parents disowned him three years ago, he's been staying at our place ever since.' James said happily.

'Oh.' Lily said. They finally got to Transfiguration and went their seperate ways. James sat next to Remus, which was four rows behind Lily. She was sitting by Brady, a Ravenclaw boy, who was completely taken by Lily and heavily flirting.

James' eyes bored into the back of his head. Finally, Remus had enough.

'If you don't stop glaring, Lily will never let it go.' He mumbled. James shook out of the glare and relaxed.

'Potter, what is the transmorgification's compound that completes the form of an animagus?' McGongall asked James, who was completely ready, for they all went through the steps to become animagus'.

'The potion Transanimagi, which is compiled of powdered unicorn horn, which will complete your animagus form.' James said quickly. This was too simple.

McGonagall looked relatively surprised for a few seconds, but recovered and gave Gryffindor twenty points. Lily turned her head slightly around and smiled. James' soared through the rest of the class happily because he made her smile.

The day went by pretty quick, and nine o'clock was there in no time.

'Time for patrols, James.' Lily called out from her room.

'Alright.' He called back, he grabbed his wand and waited for her to come down.

'Ready?' She asked when she met him at the stairway.

'Yeah.' James said.

'So, what big event do we want to do this year?' Lily asked as they walked down the silent corridors.

'Whatever you want...' He said, although his insides were begging him to say 'dance' because he knew that every year the Head Boy and Girl always danced the first dance.

'I think a dance would be cool.' Lily said.

James' stomach was doing the conga. 'Sounds good to me.' He said calmly.

Soon, one thing lead to another, and they got onto the subject of personal lives again.

James soon had a good idea. 'You wanna know one of my secrets?' He asked, his eyes getting wide.

Lily looked unsure. 'Come on...' James coaxed.

'Alright.' She said. He grabbed her hand and she felt a tingling feeling run up her spine. She soon realized he was leading her back to the Head Dorms.

'What?' She questioned.

'Shhs... hang on.' He said before running up to his room and coming down in seconds.

'What's that?' She asked, pointing to the object in his hand.

'Is that an... Invisibility Cloak?' She asked in awe.

'Yeah.' James said, glad she was impressed.

'What did you steal that too?' She asked jokingly.

James took it seriously. 'Look, all that stuff about me being a... player and thief... no, it's not true. I'm not that type of person. Most people make that stuff up. Honest.' He said, wondering why she always got the impression that he was a bad guy.

Lily looked taken back. 'I was only joking. Sorry.' She said, looking at the ground.

'No, I just don't want you getting the wrong idea. Come on, we still have another hour.' He said, grabbing her, yet again by the hand and they ran back to the corridor they left off at. Also, Lily didn't know about the Marauder's Map, and that it was in his pocket at this time.

'I've got something else.' He whispered.

'What?' Lily said, beginning to think that nothing coming from James wouldn't surprise her.

'A map.' He said mischieviously.

'That's all? A map?' She said, laughing at the old piece of parchment he pulled out of his bag.

'Not just a map.' He whispered impressively.

'Oh...' Lily said, waiting for him to show her.

'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.' He whispered, pointing his wand at the map. The ink spread all over the paper like spider webs.

'Wow.' Lily said with wide eyes.

'This shows...' She began.

'Everyone.' James said happily.

'-Everyone?'

'-Everyone.'

'-Where they are?'

'-Yes. What they're doing, every minute of every day.' James whispered mystically.

'That's unbelievable. Where'd you get it!' She asked excitedly.

'Made it, of course.' He said smiling.

'The Marauder's Map? Brilliant. Copy-Cat Spell I presume? Charm that lasts forever.' Lily said, in awe at the piece of parchment.

'It's really quite easy, I mean, just soak the parchment in the ink that you cast the charm on. It shows you every person. Not even Invisbility Cloaks work on it. Or Polyjuice potions. Cool, huh?' James asked, knowing that she would think its cool, who wouldn't.

'We can use it on patrols?' She asked.

'Yeah. But, you can't tell the guys... they wouldn't be too happy with me. They're big on the whole Marauder secret thing...' James said quietly.

'That's so cool! Thanks!' She said.

'But, why bring the Invisibility Cloak?' She questioned.

'Just in case... I hate being caught by the caretaker, even if I am on patrols.' He said smiling.

'Well it's eleven now, times gone by so fast. Check the map one more time and then we can leave.' Lily said.

'Alright.' He opened it up and saw that nobody was in places out of bounds or in any corridors. 'None.' He said. They left together for the dorm.

James and Lily stayed up all night again talking, about nothing really in particular.

'Oh, Lily, I won't be able to make patrols Wednesday.' James said, knowing that it was a full moon.

'Okay, I'll ask Remus if he can help me out then.' Lily said simply.

'No, he won't make it either.' James said quickly and a little suspiciously.

Something dawned on Lily... it was a full moon. 'Oh, alright.' She said nodding her head. Why would James not be able to make patrols, it's Remus with the condition, not him. It was quite easy for her to figure out. Him gone on the full moon and his appearance each morning.

'Yeah. I'm going to bed. Goodnight.' James said, not suspecting anything.

'Goodnight.' Lily said, feeling as if tonight ended the same way yesterday's did.

Before she went to bed, she wrote a diary entry.

Diary,

Today, during breakfast, James and I were having a normal conversation. Everything was going great, except when someone at the table mentioned about how we are acting more strangely than usual... like we were getting along. I just don't understand what popped inside me. I felt like I couldn't trust him, and I felt weird talking to him. I guess I sort of snapped at them and I was really rude to James. Later on he questioned me about it, and I denied everything, although it was true. I was being prejudice with him, before I've even really known. Who knows, maybe James Potter won't be so bad afterall. We'll see. -Lily

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This is the same Authors Note as above, but if you didn't read it, then here it is again... Hello Everybody, I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas/Holiday season. I know I am... I hope this is a nice present for you... (a review would be very nice too you know... wink,wink.) Also, I hope everyone read the large, red note on the home page of Fanfiction, for on Dec. 30 we will be slowed down and updating disabled. Yeah, I'm sad about it too. Anyways, that means we are going to try and cram as much as we can. Have a good holiday. As always, WheezlyGirl!