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Authors Note: I'm so sorry, really I am but this year has beed hectic with school, trips,vacations, deaths, and massive amount of college applications, scholorships and tons of homework. I have a 10 page research paper due Monday and a rough draft due tomorrow and I being the procrastinator that I am have 4 pages done and decided to finish this chapter and post it. Seeing as how it's late and I still have to finish I just want to say thank you for reading and please review. The next chapter should be up by next week since after this paper is turned in I get two days off school in the middle of the week. So enjoy and thank you for your comments.

Chapter 4.

"Guess What?" Abby asked as she jumped on Lily, interrupting her studying time.

"Why do you always have to scare me?" Lily asked as she cleared some of books so Abby had room.

"I have fabulous news," Abby said in a singsong voice.

"Shh!" Madame Prince hissed at Abby as she passed with a load of books.

"Sorry," Lily called out after her, "we were just leaving."

"Don't you want to know my news," Abby asked as they headed towards the Gryffindor tower.

"What is your big news?" Lily asked in a bored voice, "and more importantly do I even care?"

"Lily, I'm hurt why would a say something pointless, hmm?" Abby asked, "Now, the big news is that… we're ready for our prank!"

"What? Really?" Lily asked excitedly.

"Yep, well as long as you and Remus are ready, and the git and Peter" Abby added as an afterthought.

"Well, the prefects have all agreed to help, so they're just waiting for us to give them the word and then they'll tell their respective houses. Except of course Slytherin but that's not surprising and besides they never talk to Potter, so it doesn't really matter," Lily quickly told Abby, "I can't wait! Hold on, so you talked to your uncle already?"

"Yep, and he thought it was brilliant! He did warn me not to go to far, and he only agreed to go along for one day. Also, he said he could only promise that the professors wouldn't ruin the prank but seriously doubted that any would join, but what can you do right?" Abby asked.

"Well, that's a lot more then I hoped for, so I'm sure everything will go fine. So Remus and I are done and now you are too, so all we need is for Sirius and Peter to be done and we are all set." Lily said as they walked through the portrait hole.

"Hopefully they're all ready so we can do this Friday before the Hogsmeade trip on Saturday," Abby added excitedly.

"So you're all done?" Abby asked skeptically.

"Yes, for the hundredth time," Sirius said clearly annoyed.

"Fine then Friday it is, only two days! I'm so excited," Abby said as she began to walk away.

"Good thing too, because James is getting suspicious of all of us talking to each other… Shit, here he comes," Sirius said looking over Abby's shoulder.

"Bye, Black" Abby said as she walked away.

"What was that?" James asked as he watched Abby walk away.

"What was what?" Sirius asked innocently.

"Why was Abby talking to you?" James wondered.

"What is that suppose to mean?" Sirius asked offended.

"Just that she hates you and thinks you're a prat," James said truthfully.

"Gee mate thanks," Sirius said sarcastically.

"I think don't think so, but she does" James said. "So when are you going to ask her out?" James added as an afterthought.

"Why would I? You said so yourself she hates me" Sirius replied, "Besides I don't think I like her any more."

"Sure you don't, keep saying that… Hey check out Lily," James said as he spotted Lily with talking to someone.

"I'm not allowed to, remember?" Sirius responded.

"Who's she talking to?" James said ignoring Sirius' comment.

"7th year Ravenclaw…Jake no Josh something or other… hold on, James, you're going to make it worse!" Sirius said as he tried and failed to get a hold of James, "Here we do again."

"Hey, Lily," someone called out.

Lily spun around at the sound of her name, "Hey Josh," Lily said to the cute Ravenclaw, "How are you?"

"Great, I just wanted to know if you'd go to Hogsmeade with me," Josh asked nervously.

"Um… I can't sorry but I already agreed to…" Lily started

"To go with me," said a voice from behind.

"Go away Potter," Lily said not even bothering to turn around, "Actually I agreed to show Abby around, you know the new girl."

"Are you sure? Josh asked again.

Lily hesitated; it was so tempting to say Yes! I'd love to go but she would not back out on Abby, "I really can't."

"She'll go," Abby said coming up from behind with Remus.

"No, I can't do that," Lily protested.

"Come on Lily, am I really that horrible?" Josh asked.

"No, of course not… I just…nevermind . . .I'd love to go," Lily said wearing a dazzling smile.

"Great! I'll meet you in the Great Hall, okay?" Josh said as he started to walk away.

"Perfect," Lily called after him. Lily spun around once Josh had gone and hugged Abby, "Thank you!"

"Not a problem," Abby said chuckling.

"I guess other guys are interested in me Potter," Lily said snidely and proceeded to walk away.

"Sorry James," Abby added as she noticed how disappointed James looked.

"S'Alright, she's the one who said yes, I've been an idiot," James said staring in the direction Lily left. "I guess it'll be just the three of us," James added.

"You're coming too! Sorry, that didn't sound too friendly did it?" Abby asked.

"It's alright, I won't come with you if you don't want me to," James said gloomily.

"No, I do, it'll be fun," Abby said trying to encourage him.

"I'll come too," Sirius added,

Abby eyed him, "I though you had a date," Remus said.

"Nope," Sirius said quickly.

"Can't wait till Saturday," a giggling Hufflpuff said as she walked by with a group of giggling girls.

"Right," Sirius said quietly.

"Anyways," Abby said, "I'm trying to convince some friends to stop by Hogsmeade, so maybe you'll meet them."

"That could be interesting," Remus said.

"Come on, James," Abby said to a depressed looking James, "it's only one date."

"I know but why? Why him? Why not me? I've must have asked her out a million times," James responded.

"Look, I've known Lily very few days but I can tell she doesn't like you," Abby said.

"Thanks you're doing wonders for my confidence," James said.

"But I know she doesn't hate you, Lily isn't capable of that. You just need to change your approach," Abby added.

"I know. I know I do, but when I'm around her my brain just doesn't work," James said.

"You mean it works?" Sirius asked in an amazed tone and then proceeded to knock on James' head.

"Knock it off," James said beating Sirius' hands away.

"Wake up, Prongs," Sirius said as he threw a pillow across the room at James and hitting the water pitcher, "I'm not telling you again, now get up!"

"Reparo…" James mumbled from somewhere under his covers.

"We're going to leave you, Prongs" Remus said as he tied his tie in front of the mirror.

"Five minutes" James said groggily.

"Fine, Jamie, we'll meet you down in the common room, but if you don't come down in fifteen minuets we're leaving you," Sirius said as he gathered all his books.

"What did you call me?" James asked now wide awake.

"Umm… Jaime" Sirius said slowly.

"Why?" James asked confused.

"Because that's your name," Sirius said unsure why James was acting like this.

"No it's not!" James exclaimed.

"Are you okay, Jaime?" Remus asked concerned.

"Don't call me that," James yelled.

"What's wrong with Jaime?" Peter whispered to Remus.

"I think he doesn't know his name," Remus whispered back.

"I'm right here!" James said exasperatedly.

"We know," Sirius said.

"Look at my trunk, see what it says?" James cried out.

"It says 'J. Potter'" Sirius stated.

"Exactly! Wait, what? No it supposed to say James Potter," James said as he ran to look at his trunk.

"Prongs, it says 'J. Potter' you know for Jaime Potter," Remus said as he watched James worriedly.

"My name is not Jaime!" James shouted, "That's a girl's name!"

"Umm… it can be both a girl's name and a guy's name," Peter said.

"So? It's still not my name," James shouted.

"Okay, then what do you think your name is?" Remus asked slowly.

"James," James said simply.

"Right, you know we've always taken the mickey out of you for being Jaime, that's part of the reasonwhy we made up the nicknames," Sirius said as he tried to reason with James.

"Oh I get it, "You're trying to get me back, right?" James asked with a little concern in his voice.

"You're starting to scare me," Remus said slowly.

"Wait… I know I have…," James started ripping through his trunk pulling out all his contents, "Ah ha! Here it is!" pulling out a pair of boxers.

"Hold on, you write your name on your boxers?" Sirius asked incredulously.

"That's not the point! See it says …. Damn! What is going on here?"

"Jaime," Sirius started but was cut of by James sputtering at the sound of Jaime.

"Prongs… better? Okay, now, your name is not JAMES, okay? It's Jaime," Remus talked to James as if he was a small child, "You're starting to scare us, so why don't you put on your uniform. We'll be right outside so we can all go down to breakfast together, okay?"

Sirius, Remus, and Peter exited trying their hardest not to smile leaving behind a confused James.

"Please tell me this is your revenge, please?" James pleaded as the guys made their way out of the common room.

"Jaime, seriously stop talking like this" Sirius said as he eyed James, "you sound crazy."

"That's not my name!"

"Hi, Jaime," a group of girls said as the walked away giggling.

"This is getting weird, you guys are one thing, but them too?"

"What are you talking about? Girls always say 'hi' and run off giggling like mad," Peter reasoned

"No, they called my Jaime."

"Imagine that, someone calling you by your name," Sirius said his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"No. That's not my name," James protested, "What has gotten into everyone, don't you think I would know my name?"

"You'd think so," Remus whispered to Peter as they left the common room.

By the time they reached the Great Hall, James was ready to shoot himself and as the rest of the guys sat down to eat breakfast, James let his head fall onto the table and began to bash his on to it. "Maybe this is a dream, please let me wake up."

"Well you are a nightmare to the rest of us," said a voice.

"Lily!"

"What, Potter?" Lily asked

"What's my name?"

"Excuse me?"

"My name, please, just say my name?" James asked desperately. Lily looked at the rest of the Maunders and then to her friends.

"Is this a prank?" Lily asked quickly.

"No," James responded.

"Right, I say your name and you'll just laugh your head off as I sprout feathers or my hair turns green," Lily spit out.

"No, I just want to hear… never mind…" James turned his head back to his plate and decided to eat something.

"What are you doing?" James heard Lily say and looked up to see her friends sitting next to them.

"There's no where else to sit the table's full," Abby said waiting for Lily to join them.

Lily looked around to indeed find the Gryffindor table full, in fact the whole Great Hall was full, Way to go guys, make him suspicious Lily thought to herself.

"Why the long face, Jaime?" Taylor asked as she reached for some toast.

"He's a little confused this morning," Sirius answered for him.

"Why?"

"He doesn't remember his name," Sirius responded eying James.

"What?"

"No… I do know my name, it's just that everyone else doesn't" James said quickly.

"That's so typical of you, you think you are right and the entire world is wrong," Lily said.

"No, but I do think I know my own name," James answered.

"Wait, so what do you think your name is?" Abby asked

"I know my name is James, not Jaime,"

"Why can't your name be Jaime?" Abby asked

"One, it isn't my name, and two, it's a girls name," James reasoned.

"There are lots of names that are for guys and girls" Taylor said, "like Alex, Madison, or Ryan."

"Ooh, how about, Angel, Pat, or Charlie" Abby added.

"Blaze, Cameron, Chris, Rylee, or Avery" Remus quickly added.

"Okay I get it there are many unisex names," James said.

"Even my name," Taylor said proudly.

"Caden and Cory"

Nice ones Black," Taylor said.

"Okay, I get it. Stop saying names," James said.

"Jace, Maddox, or Peyton"

"Okay guys knock it off," Lily said starting to get annoyed, "ooh wait Elliot"

"Good one"

"Thanks"

"Rory or Ty" Peter added pleased with being able to add to the list.

"Does anyone care that I'm going crazy over here?" James was starting to get really ticked off by his friends' lack of concern.

"Jamie, seriously, don't mention to anyone that you don't know your name, it could seriously ruin your reputation," Sirius said, "isn't that your owl?" Sirius said as he began to eat.

"Yeah, probably my mom telling me off for not writing home yet," James said as he watched his family's owl land in front of him. James untied his letter and offered him some food from Sirius' plate.

"Hey, that's mine" Sirius complained.

"Shh, eat" James responded as he began to read his mother's letter. After a few minuets James slammed down the letter, "I can't believe this."

"What?" Abby asked turning away from her conversation with Lily.

"I can't believe this," James repeated.

"Give me that," Sirius said as he promptly snatched the letter form James' hands.

Dear Heartless Son,

It has been a over two weeks since you have been at school and I have received zero letters from you, and you know that I miss you terribly and with your father working late and only your little brother's company I need human contact. Now can you please tell me why my first-born son has forgotten his mother, but this said person's best friend has written me three times? Hmm? I write to you, for I have wonderful news well actually two pieces of wonderful news. First, you little brother, now my favorite son by the way, has said his first word! It might be because he misses you terribly or because I am always complaining about you and your lack of thoughtful letters, but his first word was your name! Jaime! You would think that his first word would be "mama" since he spends every last minuet of the day with me but no he says "Jamie." I bet you feel guilty for not writing home now, right?

Now the second piece of news is that this Christmas my brother Dan and his family will be joining us for the holidays. Isn't that wonderful? Now Sirius is of course welcome to spend the holidays with us and you may of course invite darling Remus and Peter to join us. I understand if they would rather spend time with their families, but be sure to ask them to come anyway. Please write back soon or else

Love,

Your forgotten mother

"Oh I see, isn't Dan the one with those annoying twins," Sirius said trying to remember the last time he saw James' family.

"Yeah, but that is not the point. She called me Jaime" James said.

"See, even your mother knows your name" Remus pointed out.

"That—" James started but was cut off be everyone else.

"—is not you your name"

"Right, anyway we have to go or we're going to be late for McGonagall's class," Lily said getting up and grabbing her stuff.

"That's it! I'll ask McGonagall what my name is," James said excitedly

"Yeah, great idea, Jaime, because she wont think your crazy at all," Sirius said sarcastically.

"But I do feel bad for him, I really do," Lily hissed to Abby and Taylor.

"I think it's hilarious, and the best part is he's starting to give in," Taylor said as she turned around to watch McGonagall as she talked to the guys.

"Mr. Potter and Mr. Black do you have your essays?" McGonagall asked.

"Yes, Professor, let me jus finish it up," Sirius said as he added something to his essay.

"No, Mr. Black, you must hand it in as is, you should have finished that before class," McGonagall said as she snatched his essay away, "Mr. Potter, where is your essay?"

James wrote "Jaime Potter" at the top and handed his essay over, "Right here, do you see anything wrong with it?" James asked hopefully.

"No everything seems in order and it is well over the required length, very nice job Mr. Potter."

"Are you sure? Take a look at the top," James suggested.

"You're right there is something wrong," McGonagall said seriously.

"Really?" James said as he smiled smugly at Sirius.

"Yes, you forgot to title your essay," McGonagall said as she handed his essay back.

Lily, Abby, and Taylor couldn't believe what they heard, and were just as astonished to see McGonagall wink at them as she walked to the front of the class to begin their lesson.

The rest of the day Sirius and Remus tried their hardest from laughing, but when Dumbledore greeted them with a very enthusiastic "Good afternoon Jaime, Sirius, Remus staying out of trouble I hope," Sirius and Remus found an excuse to leave a stunned James before their laughter erupted.

"I am losing my mind, that has to be it," James muttered to himself.

"Well talking to yourself is a good sign you're going crazy," Lily said as she started walking with James.

"I'm not in the mood to come up with a comeback," James said quietly.

"You're acting so weird today, Potter, it's kind of weird," Lily commented,

"Just no myself today, literally," James replied.

"I just feel like no one will listen to me or to logic for that matter. I'm not crazy . . . really I'm not . . . I just feel like no one will listen to me, you know?" James asked looking at Lily trying to get someone to understand.

"Yeah, I think I do," Lily said thoughtfully and pretty soon she started feeling guilty for making James feel this way.

"Who won't listen?" James asked as he stopped to face Lily.

"Hmm?" Lily asked as she turned around to look at James since she was now a few paces ahead of him.

"You said you feel the same way, you know, how someone won't listen," James clarified, "Is it me?"

"Yes and no," Lily said after thinking it over.

"Huh?"

"I mean I didn't think of you initially but I guess it could apply to you and you persistent attempts," Lily said with a ghost of a smile tugging at her lips.

"So what were you thinking initially?" James asked.

"What?" Lily responded as she looked up and noticed that James was unusually close to her.

"What did you think of at first?" James repeated quietly as he was close enough to only need to whisper.

"Umm . . ." Lily was having a hard time concentrating as she could smell a vague hint of cologne, mint, and something else shy couldn't place.

James was close enough to count all the freckles on Lily's nose.

Lily eyes flickered from James' eyes to his lip which were only centimeters away, "We can't . . . James . . . "Lily said as her eyes closed but just as quickly as it had happened she felt him pull away, her eyes opened in surprise. She looked into James' eyes as he looked at her with shock.

"What did you say?"

AN: Thanks once agian and please forgive me about the lack of updates. I do plan to continue this story and have the next couple chapters planned out and Chapter 5 started so it will be up soon. I Promise.

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