Disclaimer: alright well I do not own Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Alice, Peter, Snape, Dumbledore, Hogwarts or any other things or places that exsist in the Harry Potter Books. They are JK's…and as much as I would love to be her and have lots of money…I am not..the characters I own are Ellen (who I don't really own cause shes my friend) and Anna...o and professor Albus…unfortunately owning these characters does not make me JK…as much as I wished it did

Chapter 6: Detention

The next day went by very uneventfully, besides the fact that Sirius was crazily happy and was skipping around merrily. In fact you could have put a crown of flowers on his head and he would have looked remarkably like some kind of pixie in a wood.

Ellen on the other hand was very snappy, and almost everybody who talked to her had their head bitten off, especially Sirius. Though this didn't change Sirius' mood, as he was still certain that she liked him, and wouldn't hear otherwise. This just made her 10 times worse, and 10 times more likely for peoples heads to roll.

Dinner came all too quickly for Lily. Her day had been riddled with getting her head snapped off, homework, Sirius dancing and Confusion. The person confusing her, was not someone she wanted to think about. Still, she felt herself thinking about it, and him, because she wanted to fix her confusion.

James had been acting differently. She didn't know if it was just because she felt sorry for him, or because of something else, but he had changed. Ever since he had come back, he had not asked her out once. This was highly abnormal, as he usually asked her out in one form or another at least two times a day.

The famous cocky grin that he usual wore had been wiped off his face, even when he looked at her. It stroked her as odd to see him without it on his face, especially when he wasn't asking her out. When he wasn't asking her out, he was grinning at her, or smirking at her, or talking about her. He hadn't been doing this at all, well, not loud enough for her to hear, which was usually the case.

It was all very confusing for her, and made her oddly distant at the table, which came as a shock for her friends. Though Ellen wasn't paying much attention, as she was too busy glaring at Sirius. Sirius had made up a song, which he was signing terribly out of tune to Ellen about her 'beautiful eyes and her 'gorgeous hair'. This was causing Ellen to almost explode with anger, and both Alice and Anna had to hold her down. James and Remus were attempting to shut Sirius up for his own good, but weren't succeeding.

Lily looked at her watch, and saw she had 10 minutes till detention. She decided to leave now, and be there on time.

Not alerting any of the others of her leaving, she walked off to the library, getting there one minute before the Detention was due to start.

'Ahh Lily, good to see you.' Madame Vivian said, smiling up at her from the desk. Lily loved the library, and as a result spent a lot of her time in there. The librarian knew her very well, as Lily was basically her favourite student.

'Hi.' Lily said smiling.

'I here you got into a little trouble with Mr. Potter?' Vivian said, a twinkle in her eyes.

'You could say that.' Lily muttered.

'Speaking of the devil, Good evening young Mr. Potter,' The librarian said as James walked in. 'A little late I see.'

'So sorry about that Susan, I had to solve a problem at dinner.' James said, smiling. 'Hi, Evans.' He said to Lily, smiling. Lily was shocked. Usually he would have called her Lily, and would have smirked or placed his cocky grin on. Though she was glad he hadn't called her Lily, she felt a pang of emptiness? Lily brushed it off.

'Yes well never mind that! Now, For your punishment. Past that door there is the new books room. We just got some lovely books in for the new school year. I need them catalogued. Now you will need to write into the catalogue books the name of the book, author and date of publishing, in alphabetical order. As soon as you have done all that, you may go.'

'That doesn't sound too bad.' James murmured as they made there way over to the room and opened the door, walking in.

'I take back what I said.' James groaned as he saw the contents of it.

The room was fairly large, and lit by magical fire, giving it a homely glow. There was a desk with 2 huge books the thickness of sizeable matresses, with "Catalogue IV A-K" on the spine and the other with "Catalogue V J-Z" at which point James gasped ' Two catalogues? God save us!' The majority of the room's space was covered up with piled up books of various thickness and age. This was why James realised that they were going to be here for a while, a very long while.

'Well,' James stated, clapping his hands. 'Let's get to work!'

Lily looked at James strangely. She didn't think the words "James" and "work" went together. Still, she nodded and they started.

It was pretty slow going. Lily worked on A-K and James worked on J-Z. Lily was distracted by her thoughts, still trying to be less confused. It wasn't working, and if anything she was becoming more confused. James hadn't said anything since they had come in, and it felt strange to her.

'I was sorry to hear about your dad.' She found herself saying, to bring up some kind of conversation. Not that she wanted to particularly talk to him, or did she? No! of course not!

'Thanks.' James said, smiling at her.

'You got over it pretty quickly though.' Lily mused.

'Yeah, well I didn't know him that well, he was always away so I barely got to see him. I have a better relationship with mum, and she needed my support. I didn't particularly like him that much.'

'I'm sorry to hear that.' Lily said, not really knowing what to say.

'Don't be. It's alright. Still, it was sad, but if I had known him better I might have felt more emotion.' James said, remembering back to the funeral where he was basically the only one not crying, besides Sirius.

There was silence for a few moments, besides the sounds of closing books and quills scratching on paper.

'You've changed, James.' Lily said before she could stop it. It had just come out before she could think about it. She hated it when that happened.

James looked at her, then spoke.

'Really? You think so?' He asked, surprised.

'Yeah.' She said.

'How?' He asked incredulously.

'Well for one you haven't asked me out as you usually do, and you aren't as cocky as you usually are, and you haven't smirked at me. You haven't been as arrogant as usual and you haven't called me Lily.' She said boldly.

James smiled at her. Merlin, he loved how she didn't hold back. She wasn't intimidated of him, and that made her all the more…sexy.

'Thanks.' He said, grinning.

There was silence again and James was smiling to himself. Lily on the other hand, was thinking about what she was going to say next, and how to phrase it.

'Umm, James?' She asked.

James' heart leapt. She had just called him James! Did this mean what he thought it might mean?

'Yeah?' He asked looking up at her.

'You know how you asked me if I wanted to be friends with you, you know, start over?' Lily said. 'Could I take up that offer?'

James grinned, but then frowned.

'Don't do me any favours Lily. If you're just doing this because you feel sorry for me…then there's no point. If you still hate me then there's no use for a friendship, since it would be only coming from one-'

At this point Lily placed her lips on his. James was shocked for a moment at what was happening, then before he could start anything, Lily pulled away.

'side.' James finished breathlessly.

'Does that answer your question?' She asked, a little flushed.

'Are you saying you want to be my Gi-'

'No,' Lily butted in. 'I just wanted you to stop talking nonsense. I mean I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want to. Now what do you say?'

James was speechless for a few moments. One, because Lily was agreeing to be his friend, and two because he was still getting over the fact that Lily had just kissed him.

'Yes!' He managed to cry out.

'Great. So are we going to use first names then?' Lily asked.

'You mean I can call you Lily?' James asked, eyes widening.

'Yes, James.' She said, smiling.

They finished their work in comfortable silence, and left at 10:30. They walked back to the dorm together and said goodnight before they went up their respective stairs.

When James walked into his dorm, Sirius and Remus were there, and awake. Peter was off eating his newest girlfriends face, a fifth year from Hufflepuff.

'So how was detention with Evans?' Remus asked.

'It-great-Lil-Lily!-fri-gre-kiss!Lily-gr-iss!friends-kiss!-nev-wa-ips-again!' James managed to babble.

'Lily griss?' Sirius asked, confused. 'Prongs, your not making any sense.

'Try slowing down.' Remus suggested.

'Lily Lily were friends now! Lily Lily-'

'Lily what?' Remus asked.

'Lily kissed me!' James said before fainting onto the bed.

'Okay then! What a strange one!' Sirius said. 'I vote we wake him up!'

'Why? The poor thing's in a state of shock.' Remus said sympathetically.

'But I need to know something!' Sirius said before dunking a conjured bucket of water on James, who lept from the bed immediately.

'Now, Prongs, you said Lily kissed you. What kissing base was this?' Sirius asked, as if questioning a criminal.

'Kissing Base?' James asked. 'What the hell is that?'

'Well I will explain it to you…it was made up by myself you see! Alright first is just a kiss on the cheek-you know not really meaning much. Second is just a kiss on the lips, no tongue. Third is tongue, no hands though. And home is full out snogging, hands and all!'

James looked at him strangely, as did Remus.

'Well? Which one was it?' Sirius asked.

'Well…by your scale…it would have been second.' James said.

'So you just fainted over that? There wasn't even any tongue!' Sirius said, throwing his hands up.

'But Lily has never kissed him…so it's a pretty big deal if you think about it.' Remus mused.

'I guess…' Sirius said, looking disappointed.

'So how did you manage that?' Remus said changing the subject.

'I don't know. She said I had changed and wasn't as cocky and stuff…and then she asked if we could be friends.'

'So are you going ahead with your plan?' Sirius asked.

'I don't know,' James said distantly. 'I think I will see how the friend thing goes…maybe it will be enough.'

Sirius looked at him strangely.

'You are a strange one.' He stated.

A/N: well I hope you all liked this chapter…lily james action as I promised. Hmmm next chapter…well we'll see lol im not exactly sue yet…I just have to refine an idea! Well Review cause u luv me!

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