Chapter 4

The three Marauders sat at a table in the Gryffindor common room finishing up their homework. Remus, as usual, was helping Peter and Sirius with their essays. While Mooney was helping Peter finish up, Sirius was doing some imaginative thinking. An image came to his head that made him laugh out loud. He saw James huddled behind the bathroom door. Then once the fifteen minutes were up, him being thrown headfirst out of the room.

Peter and Remus looked up questioningly, "What?" asked Peter.

Sirius smirked, "Nothing, my imagination is just running away from me," he said. "Just thinking about what's going on with James and Evans." he answered their confused faces.

A snicker escaped the two Marauders with that image. "Well," started Remus. I'm sure that, by now, if James hasn't made Lily curse him, more than likely she won't."

Peter frowned, "How long has it been since we locked them in?" he asked.

Sirius looked at the clock, "Almost two hours." he stated. "Are you done yet, Wormtail?" he asked his slow friend.

He made one last correction then said, "Yep!"

"Now, what are we going to do?" Remus asked.

"I don't know, ask Wormtail."

"I don't know, ask Moony."

"I don't know, ask Padfoot."

"I don't know, ask –"

OK!" Remus interrupted. "Why don't we go check on the two love birds?" he suggested.

"Sounds like a plan," Sirius said.

The trio stood up from the table and walked out of the common room, laughing all the way out

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"So, what do you want to do after Hogwarts?" James asked Lily.

"A healer." She said without hesitation. "What about you?"

"An Auror," he said.

"Really? I would have thought-"

James held his hand up to silence her. He was listening very hard, trying to hear what was going on outside. He finally heard laughter coming form the end of the corridor. "I bet Lily has already killed him!" he heard Sirius laugh.

James got an idea, why not play with them a little bit? They locked them in here; they needed a prank pulled on them. "Hey, Lily, you want to play a game? Start yelling at them to let you out and I won't say anything, so they'll feel bad about it, OK?" he asked.

She nodded with a mischievous smile. And taking a deep breath, and scrunching up her face she started yelling. "BLACK! IS THAT YOU? YOU GET ME OUT OF HERE! RIGHT NOW" she yelled Taking a deep breath, she smiled at James.

He smiled mischievously back.

"James?" Sirius asked sweetly. "Are you still in there?"

"No, he's out right now, can I take a message?" she asked seriously, but trying hard not to laugh.

There was a stunned silence on the other side of the door, followed by whispering. Lily and James took one look at each other, and had to look away, the urge to laugh was too strong. Lily had to bite her hand to keep from laughing.

"Is James alright?" Remus asked from the other side of the door.

Lily looked at him, and a look of decision came on her face, "He looks a bit pale to me. And a bit cold, now that you mention it." she said seriously.

There then came a furious banging from the other side, Lily and James snickered as they heard them trying to get them out of their 'predicament'.

"Sirius!" Remus exclaimed, horrified knowing full in his voice. "We can't open it, the spell we put on it won't let it open till tomorrow"

James could almost see Sirius pale at that statement.

"Dumbledore!" the trio outside screamed, as they ran away from the door.

They waited till their footsteps had gone, then the two people inside started laughing hysterically. They had to hold onto each other to keep from falling down, but in the process; they ended up pulling each other to the floor.

James fell on top of Lily laughing. It took them a few seconds to realize the position they were in. Lily looked into James' eyes as she started realizing that she had a funny feeling in her stomach. As Lily gazed deep into his eyes, she realized that she actually liked him.

James was stunned, he thought that he would know what he was going to do if this came up, but he realized that he didn't know what to do.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Lily was fuming. "WHAT?" she yelled.

James wisely had gotten up before her outburst. James put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.

"Are you all right, Lily?" asked a voice from behind the door.

James and Lily's eyes grew as large as saucers. "Yes," she squeaked.

"Is James alright?" he asked. They could hear the smile in his voice.

"Yes, sir, I'm fine." he said.

"Good to hear." Dumbledore said.

They heard Dumbledore walk away. James looked at Lily, who looked at him, waiting for the explosion that they knew would come.

"James." they head Sirius say. He could hear the steel in his voice.

"Yes, Sirius? he asked timidly.

"WE WENT TO THE HEADMASTER! YOU MADE A FOOL OF US; WE BROKE DOWN THE DOOR TRYING TO 'SAVE YOU'! HOW COULD YOU-"

"Silencio!" Lily whispered.

James smiled at Lily for her thoughtfulness. "Now, where were we?" he asked.

Lily smiled, "I believe we were in the middle of laughing our heads off at your stupid friends." he said

James smirked, "Yeah, I mean how could anyone be that stupid? Anyone could have known that you were faking it. Well, actually, now that I think about it, if I wasn't in here, I probably wouldn't have known if you were telling the truth or not. You're a good liar." he said admiringly.

Lily smiled modestly, "No, I'm not. I just was saying whatever came out of my mouth. But I guess that you could call it lying." She said.

James smiled, "Well, now that we figured out what we were laughing at, what was happening before the other Marauders came?" he asked innocently.

Lily smirked, "Wouldn't you like to continue what we were doing?" she asked knowingly.

James pouted, "Come on, Lily. What were we doing?" he asked.

Lily's features softened. The memory of the feelings came back to her, full force. And when she looked into James' eyes, she felt that she had no control in what she did next. She kissed him.

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