Chapter 4

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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed my story! Sorry I took so long to update. I will try to update sooner next time. I saw the 4th Harry Potter movie and I loved it, but it did skip some important parts. Anyways this is a long chapter so you better start reading. Please review!

"James!"

"Jamesies!

"What happened?"

James had taken no more than three steps into the great hall when a pack of Gryffindor girls surrounded him.

"Are you okay?"

"Oh, you poor thing."

"That must have been terrible," said one of the girls while stroking James's hair.

"You're so brave."

"C'mon break it up ladies. Is the bloke really worth it?" said Sirius pushing his way through the mob of girls. "I myself was half hoping Lily would leave him to the monsters. We'd be better off without him don't you think Remus?"

"Truly," Remus replied although he looked thoroughly relieved to see James all in one piece.

"Hey James." said Peter joining the group. He scrunched up his face as if trying to remember something. "Where were you again?"

"Well I'm glad to see that I'm so loved," said James.

Remus chuckled at this. "Where is Lily?" He knew Lily must be alright by the smile on James' face.

"She is fine. She was really tired after that whole ordeal, so after Madam Pomfrey insisted on cleaning a few of her cuts she went up to bed."

"I'm so glad you guys are alright. Everyone was really worried," Remus said.

"I wasn't worried!" said Sirius.

"Ha! James, he was worried out of his mind…kept rambling on about what we would do if you didn't make it out alive, and how you were such a good friend… he practically went into a panic attack!" said Remus.

"I most certainly did not!" Sirius retorted

"Oh yeah, now I remember McGonagall saying something about…hmm … what was it…?" Peter asked.

"Inferius," Remus provided, "A corpse that has been reanimated by a Dark wizard's spell," he finished smartly.

Peter unconsciously dropped the piece of toast he was holding in his hand onto the floor and gave James a huge hug. "You're alive!" he shouted with joy. Peter took a step back and observed James slowly letting everything sink in. "How'd you do it?"

The large crowd suddenly grew silent, clearly wondering the same thing. James looked around; there was not one pair of eyes that weren't focused on him. They were all looking at him intently with curious faces.

"Well…I heard Lily say my name and when I turned around there was a bloody Inferius right in front of her! It grabbed a hold of her but then I…." As James retold the story he realized that the crowd was taking in every word that he said not doubting him for a second, and sure enough the course of the story began to change,"……..and then the dragon sent a fire ball at me! But of course I deflected it and sent it ……..next thing I knew the giant was swinging Lily around like she was a doll, so I fired this really sophisticated spell at the giant and-"

"James, do you even know how to spell sophisticated?" Jade asked. Jade and Casey had become pretty tired of hearing James rant on about dragons and giants. They didn't believe a single word that was coming out of his mouth.

"Yes!"

"Then spell it," Casey said

"S- O-umm-F-I-K-T-E-D" James said. The two girls, Remus, and Sirius burst out laughing.

"Hey! It's been a long night, and besides you are interrupting my story," said James childishly.

"So where was I…ahh yes, the giant…"

(Morning of the first day of school)

WHAM!

"Mr. Potter!" barked McGonagall.

James groaned.

"Next time you decide to run into a wall at top speed I advise you to wear proper gear," she said eying him curiously. "Is there a reason you are running like a maniac without watching where you are going?" she asked.

"They've gone nutters!" James exclaimed, but before he could explain further, a group of about four 6th year girls came skipping towards him.

James groaned again. "Bloody hell."

"I wanna ask him!" one of the girls said.

"No, you already did."

"So, he probably changed his mind."

"No, let me ask!" a third girl said.

"He's going to say no to you, so I should ask him. He'll surely say yes to me."

"Ugh!" the third girl said accompanied by a string of swear words.

"Mr. Potter, get a grip on your self," professor McGonagall said walking away

"Wait! Aren't you going to give them detention or something?" James asked desperately. Professor McGonagall didn't even answer him but instead just shook her head and walked away.

"He likes me."

"How do you know?"

"Because he tripped me in the hall when we were chasing after him."

"Nuh uh. He tripped me!"

"Yes because tripping people clearly means, I love you," Jade said sarcastically as she, Lily, and Casey walked past the group on their way to the Great Hall.

"A little help here guys?" James pleaded.

"Nah, I think I'll let you handle this demon on your own," Lily said. She winked at him as she and her friends continued to the Great Hall.

"WILL YOU BE MY BOYFRIEND?" one of the girls finally blurted out.

"No be mine!"

"No mine!"

"No No NO! I don't want to go out with any of you! And besides… your pants are unzipped," he said to none of the girls in particular. As planned by James, all four girls checked to see if their zippers were down, even though they were all wearing skirts, while he fled the scene chuckling to him self all the while.

"Hey guys," said Julia when the three girls sat down at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall. Julia was their roommate. "I'm really glad that you're okay. What you did is really amazing."

"Thanks. It wasn't just me though, James did mostly everything," said Lily

"I heard he saved your life." Julia said

"Yeah he did. It was a really brave and sweet thing to do," Lily said awkwardly. She wasn't used to complimenting James.

"Lily, are you sure those Inferius didn't do permanent damage?" Jade said. Lily hadn't told Casey and Jade about the kiss yet.

"Wow," Casey said.

"What?" Lily asked innocently.

"That must be the first time you've said sweet and James in the same sentence. Lily, you've just made history!" Casey said.

"I'm telling you, she's got permanent damage," said Jade.

"Oh c'mon you guys, I've said plenty of good things about James before," Lily said. Jade and Casey exchanged amused expressions with each other.

"Alright alright, I've never been quite fond of James, but I think he's starting to grow up some," said Lily.

"So now you are fond of James?" Jade winked. She shielded her self from the expected blow from Lily, but Lily only blushed. Casey gasped.

"So you DO like him?" Casey asked. Lily became even redder.

"Are you two going out?" both Jade and Casey asked at the same time.

Lily shook her head. Casey looked at her suspiciously.

"You snogged him didn't you!" Casey said in an almost accusing tone.

"No!"

"Lily, if there's one thing you're horrible at- it's lying." Jade said.

"I knew it!" Casey said proud of herself. "Oh my gosh! This calls for celebration!" she said excitedly.

"Celebration? You must be talking about me," said James sarcastically, sitting down beside Lily.

"Well, actually…" Jade said. Lily stomped on Jade's foot real hard.

"Hello ladies" said Sirius sitting down before James could say anything about the girls' strange behavior. Remus sat down next to Casey and Peter sat across from James.

"Hey guess what's coming up?" James asked.

"Quidditch tryouts." Jade said.

"You bet. They are going to be this Sunday." James said with a huge smile.

"Boy have I missed quidditch." said Jade.

"I know it," Sirius said.

There was a swooshing noise in the Great Hall.

"Mail time." Remus said. In a matter of seconds a rolled up Daily Prophet was dropped into his hands. Remus unrolled the parchment slowly, and the others tensed for fear that they would see a familiar face on the front page. There was never any good news on the front page anymore. Remus sighed in relief as he read the article on the front page.

"What's the news?" Lily asked

"Any attacks?" James asked.

"Fortunately not," Remus said.

"Do you guys think that the ministry is going to be able to stop this Voldemort guy? It's getting really serious, and I thought they would have caught him by now. We found about him at the end of last term," Casey said.

"Of course they will be able to stop him," James said, but he didn't say this with very much confidence.

"Hey James," Julia said breaking up the moment, "You did an awesome job on those monsters. I just can't believe you were able to defeat Inferius, dragons, and giants."

"Dragons and giants?" Lily asked.

"Yea, James told me about it. Ill see you guys later, I have to go to class," said Julia.

"James!" Lily said.

"Did you hear that? I think it was the bell. Gotta go," James said very quickly hopping out of his seat.

"Do not walk away from me!" Lily said, hurrying after him.

"They are so meant to be," said Jade laughing at them.

"Hey Lily," said James joining her on the way to potion class.

"Hey," Lily said

"How has your first day of school been?"

"Great!" Lily said, "Although, it is kind of strange since people keep congratulating me on vanquishing inferius, dragons, and giants!"

"Inferius just seemed so…boring," James said. Lily couldn't help laughing.

"I would like to have seen you say it was boring when they were dragging us under water!" Lily said. James smiled at her.

"How would you like to do something with me tonight?"

"You mean like a date?" Lily asked

"Yea something like that," James grinned. "I want to show you something."

"I would love to."

"Fantastic," James said just as they entered the potions classroom.

No matter how hard Lily tried to focus on freezing spells, ancient plants, and healing potions, the only thing that would come to her mind was James.

"We're going on a date! I hope he'll ask me to be his girlfriend!" Lily thought.

"Lily," said Casey warningly

"I like him so much. I really do hope he has grown up."

"Lily," Casey said again

"He is immature, but I love him. I love everything about him: the way he smiles, the dimples in his check, he is so smart, when he's thinking he cocks his head to one side, and-"

"Lily! No! Don't put that in there!" Casey yelled

"Huh? What?" said Lily just as she dropped toad legs into her potion.

"Oh no," gasped Casey grabbing Lily by the arm and rearing away from the potion.

"You put the toad legs in before the sage."

Casey, Jade, and Lily watched as Lily's potion turned a deep shade of purple, started to sizzle, and then erupted showering purple gunk over three Hugglepuffs; three Hugglepuffs who were now very upset not to mention soaking in purple gunk.

The second time Lily attempted to make a healing potion she miraculously managed to finish it with an acceptable outcome. As she walked to Professor Curt's desk to turn it in, Severus Snape "accidentally" stuck his foot out just as she was passing by which of course made Lily stumble and sent the potion flying shattering on none other than professor Curt himself.

"EVANS!" the professor roared. A rash was spreading rapidly all over his body.

"Professor I-"

"I will NOT tolerate this kind of behavior in my classroom!"

"But Severus- I-"

"Oh so you think it's funny to play a little prank and then blame it on a fellow classmate?" snapped Professor Curt.

"No! Of course not!" Lily cried desperately

"Detention Evans and ten points from Gryffindor! Learn to take responsibility for your actions. Gryffindors are supposed to be brave wizards not cowards, but … I suppose there's always an exception in the bunch. Class dismissed! Oh and Evans clean up this mess."

"Just my luck! I have to spend my free period cleaning up a mess that's not even my fault. I can't believe I have detention. I never have detention, and today is the first day of school, and I'm Head Girl. I can't get detention when I'm Head Girl.

While Lily cleaned up the mess she thought of James, and her mood brightened.

"He does seem like he has matured. Over the summer he didn't send me one letter asking me to go out with him, and the way he handled those Inferius yesterday; I think he is starting to grow up, but it's only the first day of school. What if he starts acting up again?"

"Did you see what Severus did?" James asked Peter, Remus, and Sirius once they were all out of the potions classroom.

"Sure did," Sirius said.

"I say we get the idiot," James said, "He got her a detention!"

"James, Lily is not going to like this," Remus said.

"Lily and I are on good terms right now, and besides it's not like I'm doing this for no good reason."

"Good terms?" Remus asked.

"Yea, but I don't have time to explain. We have a Slytherin to get." The four boys ran to their dormitory.

"I think I have some stuff we might be able to use for a prank in here from last year," Peter said opening his trunk.

"Great!" James said, his mind already soaring with wild ideas.

"James, are you sure you want to do this?" Remus asked.

"Of course he's sure. A marauder can never pass up the chance to take part in a prank," Sirius said.

"Exactly," James said, "besides I told you Lily and I are on good terms" he winked. Remus rolled his eyes and sighed; it was no use.

"I think I got something!" Peter said yanking fiercely at an item in his luggage.

It was buried under a large pile of Peter's belongings and was caught onto something. It looked like a bag. Peter pulled the bag with so much force that he fell over on his backside.

"Open it," said Sirius. Peter reached his hand into the bag and grabbed hold of something. When he pulled it out the boys all said, "YUCK!"

"UGH! How long have you had that thing?" James asked. Peter had pulled out a sandwich that had accumulated a years worth of mold.

"I don't want to know," Peter said holding the sandwich out at a distance with one hand and holding his nose with the other.

"That thing is deadly," Sirius said.

"Evanesco," Remus said with a swish of his wand and the sandwich vanished from Peters grasp.

"Thank god. It was almost as ugly as James' face," said Sirius.

Peter continued to search through his belongings, littering the floor with robes, books, candy wrappers, and clothing.

"Ow!" Sirius yelled. Peter occasionally nailed one of his friends in the head with one of his belongings while searching through his trunk.

"When's the next full moon moony?" James asked.

"It's this Friday," said Remus gloomily.

"Yes! I can't wait!" said Sirius completely forgetting that Peter had just smacked him in the head.

Remus shot Sirius a look of pure disgust.

"I mean- Yes! I can't wait for it to uhh…pass!...so you can get it out of the way," Sirius said with an innocent smile. Remus shook his head at Sirius, but then he remembered something he didn't quite want to think about.

"Blimey," he said.

"What?" James asked.

"Well, I never told Casey the minor fact that she's dating a werewolf," Remus said. "I've kinda been putting it off since last year," Remus shrugged.

"You're going to tell her?" Peter asked incredulously.

"Don't you think I should?" Remus asked.

"Of course not!" Peter said.

"What do you guys think?" Peter said gesturing to James and Sirius.

"Well mate," Sirius said, "women are bloody hard to figure out. Do u remember Brenda from last year? She asked me to go to Hogsmeade with her and I only agreed because I was being nice. I didn't even like her, and then when I didn't spend the day with her she got mad at me! Can you believe that? I was doing her a favor by saying yes. You do one nice thing for them and then they go all ballistic on you," Sirius said shaking his head.

"Sirius, remind me not ask you for advice on girls ever again," Remus said.

"What did I say wrong?" Sirius asked

James shrugged. "Don't ask me; I've been taking your advice since third year."

"My point exactly," Remus said, but before James could say anything back somebody knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Sirius asked.

"We're looking for James," said a girl's voice. James recognized it as one of the girls that were chasing him this morning. He heard giggles.

"No not them again," James whispered so only his friends could hear him.

"James we know you're in there. Let us in," one of the girls said.

"Uh, James isn't here," James said in a deep voice.

"You're afraid of girls now?" Sirius whispered to James. Sirius opened the door and let the girls file in, watching them intently. Some of the girls began to sit down and make them selves at home.

"You guys should leave. We have some things we need to do," James said.

"Leave? But we were just getting comfortable"

"Yea Prongs don't be a party pooper," Sirius said.

"I'll be in the common room," Remus said. He took a book with him and walked out.

Sirius began to chat with the girls, but he soon became bored of talking to them because the only thing they liked to talk about were the latest fashions, make up, and that sort of thing. They also did not like quidditch, so Sirius could not even stand to talk to them. They wouldn't stop talking though, and they would never take a hint to leave. Sirius looked down and saw the bottle that Peter had hit him with earlier. He picked it up and read: Do you want revenge on somebody? Then Icky Stickeys are the right thing for you. They will annoy your victim for about five minutes, but the mess they leave behind will put your victim through major humiliation for one whole hour. Icky stickeys cannot be vanquished by any spell nor can their aftermath be removed by a spell, so choose your victims well.

"I think I'm going to go join Remus," James said, and he hopped up to leave.

"Oh no you don't," Sirius said and then he mouthed, "Watch this."

"Do you girls want any drinks? We've got butterbeer to go all around," Sirius said.

James rolled his eyes and slumped up against the wall.

"Sure," the girls said.

Four cans of butterbeer came zooming towards them.

"Ill opens those for you," Sirius said with an unusually cheerful voice. With a swish and a flick of his wand he opened the four cans and spilled the contents all over the four girls.

"EWWW!"

"Gross!"

The girls stood up in a fury and left. They practically stampeded out of the room. James could not contain his laughter. He was laughing so hard he was turning blue from lack of oxygen.

"Good one mate!" Peter said as he gave Sirius a high five.

"I got them so good! And look what I found!" Sirius said holding up the bottle of "Icky stickeys".

"What did you guys do to the poor girls?" Remus asked Sirius, James, and Peter when they entered the common room with big grins on their faces.

"They were soaking wet!" Casey said who was sitting next to Remus, and across from Jade.

"Sirius poured a can of butterbeer all over each of them!" James said, "And they deserve it too."

Jade began to laugh hysterically.

"What could four fifth year girls have possibly done to you?" Jade asked.

"They asked him out," Sirius said.

"So you poured butterbeer all over them?" Casey asked.

"Wow James, that's really impressive," Jade said.

"Trust me you would be scared of them too," James said.

Everyone laughed.

"Ahh well, a little fun wouldn't hurt once in a while now would it?" Jade asked.

"Exactly," Sirius said.

"Sorry but we have to run. We have some unfinished business. C'mon Remus," James said.

"Okay, according to the Marauders Map Snape is just leaving the Slytherin common room," Sirius said.

"Perfect. Then we will have no trouble cornering him," James said. The four boys took many twists and turns throughout the castle before they reached they're destination point.

After the boys got into position they heard someone coming. James jumped out with his wand at the attack and everything.

"Oh …hey James," said Jackie, a 5th year Ravenclaw, surprised. "What're you doing?" She asked referring to the fact that he had jumped out at her with his wand ready to attack. "Did you think I was going to be an Inferius or something?" she said laughing at him.

"Well actually I did," James said straightening up, "Dumbledore sent me on a mission to kill an Inferius that was seen around this part of the school, so if you would please tell your friends not to come this way I would appreciate it very much."

"Are you serious!"

"Do you think I would lie about something this serious?"

"Oh my gosh," she said running away.

The boys hid again and soon enough a tall boy with black greasy hair came walking down the corridor. When he was in the middle of the hall way his body was suddenly jerked upward into the air.

"Hey there Snivelly. How was your summer? Bet you missed us." Sirius said. Severus let out a string of swear words.

"Well that's too bad, because we sure missed you," James said swishing his wand upwards which in turn made Severus do a variation of pirouette.

"Practicing for the ballet are you Snivelly?" Sirius asked. Severus glared at Sirius.

"Put me down you blood traitors!" Severus yelled.

"Well if you insist," James said, and he let Severus fall to the stone cold ground.

"Peter open it," Sirius said.

Peter opened the bottle that Sirius had found in their dormitory and out jumped ten little creatures that were each about half a foot tall. He whispered "Severus" to them and they immediately began to attack Severus. He furiously tried to swat them away, but he had no success. The creatures spat in his hair, only their spit very closely resembled pink sticky tack, and did not look easily removable. Sirius and James laughed at Snape's vain attempts to rid the stickeys.

Lily finished cleaning up the mess that she had made in potions class. On her way to the Gryffindor common room she heard voices. She followed them until she saw Remus standing at the end of the corridor where the noise was coming from. She could hear James' voice.

"Lily, you don't want to go over there," Remus said gesturing to the corridor that the other boys were in.

"What is James doing?" Lily asked him.

"It's uh… nothing," Remus said, but just then Lily heard Snape's voice loud and clear. She turned the corner to look. She saw Snape being attacked by little pink creatures, and James and Sirius were taunting him. When Lily turned back to Remus he could tell she was furious.

"Lily, please don't get mad at him. He likes you a lot," Remus pleaded.

"If he likes me so much then why is he doing this? He knows I hate it when he messes with other people!"

"He doesn't mean to hurt you Lily," Remus said.

"Well I don't care, he should think about that before he goes off and does things like this. I thought he was better than that this year!"

"I'm sorry," Remus said.

"Can we go now?" Remus asked. "I think he's had enough torment for one day."

"Alright," James said.

Sirius put on a sad face.

"Don't worry mate- we still get to watch him be humiliated in Defense Against the Dark Art," James said.

"Oh yeah!" Sirius said excitedly.

"The mess lasts for an hour," James said.

"Oh no," Remus thought, "Lily will never forgive him now!"

Lily stalked into Defense Against Dark Arts.

"Is everything alright?" Casey asked.

Lily violently threw her bag down onto the floor, plopped down into a seat next to Casey, and took big breath.

"I'm fine." Lily said stubbornly.

"Oh c'mon Lily, do you really think we're going to let you off that easy?" Jade said leaning forward so she could see Lily around Casey.

"I'm okay, really," Lily said.

"Is this about the detention you got?" Casey asked.

"No. Look," Lily said pointing to the door of the classroom, "You're about to find out why I'm mad."

Just then Severus walked into the classroom and the class erupted into a fit of laughter. His hair was filled with pink goo, and it was apparent that the mess could not be removed by any spell because it looked as if he had tried to cut out some of the goo with scissors. Tufts of hair were sticking out all over the place.

"Class, settle down please," said the professor. He paused for a moment letting the class quiet down. "Hello, I am Professor Rupin Chase; your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Today we are going to review dueling tactics." Close to the end of the class the professor asked, "Could I have two volunteers who would like to duel?"

James immediately shot his hand into the air.

"Alright then. Would anyone else like to join Mr. Potter?" Nobody raised their hands.

"In that case, Lily, why don't you duel him. This way it will be Head Girl and Boy."

As Lily bowed to James she gave him the coldest look she could muster.

"On the count of three," said Professor Chase, "One…two…three!"

Lily whipped around and yelled, "Avis!" A flock of birds started to attack James. A few seconds later James was lifted off the ground and thrown against the cold stone floor.

"What did he ever do to you, huh? What do you get out of messing with people for fun? Why can't you just grow up?" James got onto his feet while dodging a number of spells from Lily, but never once firing one at her.

"Is this about him!" James asked pointing at Severus.

"No James! This isn't about him. It's about you! You are so immature!"

"How can you stand up for him when he just got you a detention? I was just taking up for you!"

"Oh were you? Well I can take care of myself!"

"CLASS DISMISSED! Potter and Evans take your arguments outside my classroom in the future! I want each of you to write an essay on the proper way to duel by next class. Is that understood!" yelled professor Chase.

"Yes sir," said Lily and James in unison. They were both furious. They threw their backpacks onto their backs. As Lily began to stomp out of the classroom James didn't want to let her go. He liked her so much. He took a deep breath, "Lily, wait…,"he said grabbing her by the wrist.

"Wait for what? I'm tired of waiting for you James. I'm tired of waiting for you to grow up. There was nothing between us and their never will be," she yanked her wrist out of his grasp and left.

Once Lily left the Defense Against Dark Arts classroom she just started running, not paying attention to anything or anyone around her. She ran and ran. She stopped running when she reached the lakes edge. She began to break out in tears-collapsing emotionally. She cried there alone for a couple minutes feeling a mixture of sadness, anger, and regret. Then Lily heard somebody coming to join her. She didn't look up, but instead kept her head cradled in her hands. She felt someone sit on either side of her.

"Lily, we're here for you," Casey said. Lily didn't say anything for a moment.

"I just thought," Lily stumbled over her words, "I just thought that he had changed. With this whole Inferius thing, and it's the first day of school and it just felt so rushed and, and I'm just so mixed up."

"Lily its okay," Casey said; her voice sweet and comforting, "People do change sometimes. You didn't do anything wrong in thinking that he did."

"Yea, but this is James we are talking about here. He will always be an immature little git," Lily said.

"Lily it's okay. I thought the little nutcase had grown up too when Dumbledore made him Head Boy," Jade said. Lily smiled.

"There that's much better," Casey said.

"Why don't you tell us everything that happened between you and meanie James in the last two days, starting with the Inferius, and you will feel much better," Jade said.

"Okay," Lily said.

"Wait. You always need hot coco for a good story," said Jade and she transfigured three pieces of tree bark into three cups of hot coco.

"Is this safe to drink?" Lily asked skeptically.

"Who gives a heck," said Jade, and she took a swallow. Lily and Casey laughed at Jade. Lily felt so good to have her friends. She retold the story starting with the Inferius, and ending at the beginning of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"…and you guys know the rest from there," Lily finished.

"Now don't you feel better?" Jade asked.

"Yea," Lily answered, and indeed she did, "Thanks you guys."

"You don't need to thank us. What kind of friends would we be if we just left you here to cry your poor little heart out?" Jade asked.

"My heart? If you are suggesting that that little prat James broke my heart, then you are certainly mistaken," Lily said.

"YAY!" Casey cried out, "We have our Lily back!"

Jade just laughed, and Casey hugged Lily.

"Wow. It's pretty late. We'd better get going," Lily said.

Lily was the first one dressed and into bed. She was absorbed in her thoughts.

"I guess James and I just aren't meant to be," she thought.

"You know you still like him," said another voice in Lily's head.

"I do not. O gosh, stop thinking about him." Lily thought. Then the memory of her kissing James flashed through her head.

Smack!

Jade had just hit Lily over the head with a pillow.

"What are you thinking about?" Jade asked.

"I'm thinking about how good I'm about to get you!" Lily said jumping out of bed and smacking Jade with her own pillow.

"I wanna join in!" Casey said. The three girls proceeded to laugh and play like third years until they each collapsed into a deep happy sleep.

"It's so good to be back at home," thought Lily happily.

A/N: Hope you liked it! Please review. I really want your input!