Hey everyone! I'm so happy to have this next chapter up. I'm watching NASCAR Race Day right now. And I'm just waiting for them to interview Jeff Gordon (I am a huge fan :-)) So everyone please root for him…or at least don't wish him ill luck…Well, enough with my Jeff Gordon rambling (even though he is the hottest thing that drives), sorry, on with the story! And a huge thank you to Nita, who has kindly betaed my last few chapters for me and I hope will continue! Thanks, Nita!

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Chapter 7

James woke up slowly. He didn't want to wake up yet, he wanted to go back to sleep. He waited several more minutes, and sensing that he wasn't going to fall back to sleep, he raised his hand and looked at his watch. It read 2:45 am.

'Wow,' he thought. 'I must have been tired.'

Sitting up, he stretched, then looked over at a sleeping Lily Evans. He took this time while she was asleep to really look at her. He'd never been able to watch her sleep before, so he took this chance to just study her. She looked so peaceful with her red hair in her face.

Though still in sleep, she was smiling slightly. He started to wonder what, or whom, she was dreaming about. Thoughts of white dresses and flowers entered his mind and made him smile. James shook his head slightly; they'd only just 'got together', he couldn't think about marriage for a while. Good thing Christmas was on the way. He had plenty of time to work on her. The hair in her face was starting to bother him, so he slowly and gently pushed her hair from around her face and pulled it behind her ear. Lily shifted slightly but her smile grew as she went deeper into sleep.

James sighed with contentment. He felt his heart fill with love for the woman that was sleeping on the floor in front of him. Part of him wanted to wake her up and have a snogging session, and the other part of him didn't want to breathe, lest he wake her up. But even if he didn't breathe, she would probably wake up soon. If she had gone to sleep when he did, or even a little after, she would be up soon anyways. So he decided to get something to eat while he watched his angel sleep.

He got up and walked quietly over to the food bag and opened it. There was no food in it! "Sirius," he said quietly. He must have charmed the bag so that when there wasn't any food being served, then there wouldn't be any food in the bag. James definitely had a bone to pick with Sirius when they got out. Though, when he thought on it, he had many bones to pick with him, maybe he would throw Padfoot one and tell him to 'fetch' it.

He didn't think that Remus would do something as cruel as charming the bag to not give food whenever the person desired, that just wasn't Remus' style. Sometimes he thought that Remus liked Lily, but it was more than likely that he liked having someone he could talk to about school, The other Marauders, James included, didn't like to do school work, let alone talk about it.

James was slightly jealous. He knew that he shouldn't be, but he couldn't help it. Now that he thought on it, Remus did spend a lot of time with Lily. James knew that Remus wouldn't take Lily from him, but maybe he should ask Lily if she liked Remus.

As if she had heard his thoughts, Lily started to stir. James pretended to have just turned around as she stirred.

Lily got up and stretched. She had had a nice nap. As her eyes focused on the room she saw James looking at her expectantly and holding the food bag. "Oh, food. That sounds wonderful!" she said, getting up. She realized that they hadn't eaten since lunch.

But once she got up James shook his head and said, "It's empty."

Lily froze, how could the bag be empty? There had always been food in there every time they had looked. Then Lily realized, they had only looked in there when the bag had said 'breakfast!' and 'lunch!' Lily's stomach at that moment took the time to let her know that it was empty and wanted more food. She groaned. She was hungry now, and there was nothing she could do about it. Or was there?

James saw something light up in Lily's eyes. When Lily turned toward him he saw that it was a mischievous glint. James was a little confused, he had never seen a mischievous glint in her eyes before. But before James could think more on the subject, Lily grabbed him and pulled him to the floor. Looking at Lily's smiling face, he now knew what that glint was about. James forgot all about being hungry, which was probably why she was doing this, and took Lily's face in his hands and pulled her closer.

Lily was smiling slightly as she looked deeply into James' eyes. It was such a wonderful feeling, to be loved. Lily decided that she would take the initiative and closed the space between them. Once James' lips touched hers, they were lost in each other.

James was so happy; he knew Lily loved him, because if she didn't, why would she have kissed him? But, after that thought, Lily had deepened the kiss and all the thoughts that were in his head at that moment just went away. The only thing on his mind was how well Lily kissed.

After a while, they had to separate to get some air. But after a breather they were back at it. It was amazing how long they could go, at least, James was surprised. This continued for a good thirty minutes. Then Lily had to pull away because she was beginning to get tired.

"James," she said. James looked sad that their snogging session had to end so quickly. "Why don't we take a break for a while? We've been at it for a half-hour. I'm getting tired. Why don't we take a nap before we have to get out of here?" she asked.

James was starting to get tired as well, but he didn't know if he would be able to go to sleep after the last thirty minutes. But he knew Lily was tired, so he would agree, so she could get some sleep. But at her words, he remembered that they wouldn't be in the closet forever. The spell would be wearing off in a few hours.

His face must have shown his disappointment because Lily gave him a small kiss and said, "Don't worry, James. I'm not going to leave you when we get out of here. Don't worry."

She took his chin and pushed it up so that he looked up from the floor from where his head had been hanging and into her eyes.

"James, from now on, no matter what you do I will love you no matter what. I might get angry about some of the things that you will do, and might not talk to you for a while, but I will always love you. Remember that."

James smiled. "I know, it's just-" he stopped, trying to collect his thoughts. "It's just that, you finally like me now. I'm just worried that once we get out of this closet, you won't want to be with me anymore."

Lily sighed. "Listen to me James. Old habits will die hard, I know that we will have some problems. It's all because we have been at each other for so long. It will be hard to just throw all those habits away. But don't worry, even if we do have some problems, and I know that we will, I will try to be sure to try my hardest to not snap at you like I used to."

James smiled. He knew that Lily would have a hard time trying to not snap at him. Lily had always taken every opportunity to give him a hard time. The only time that she would even acknowledge his presence willingly was at Quidditch games, and that was when she would be cheering for their team to win, even if he was one of the players.

Lily made herself comfortable on the floor up against the wall, and James went over to join her. Sliding down the wall, he looked over at his new girlfriend. Her head was starting to wobble and her eyes were starting to close. So he gave her a kiss, and laid her across his lap so that she would be comfortable and said, "I love you, Lily. Night."

"Love you too, James. Night," she said very sleepily.

James watched her as she fell asleep in a few seconds. He was starting to get tired as well, so he put his head up against the wall, and trying not to wake her, made himself more comfortable, and said quietly, "I'll always love you," then went to sleep.

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Sighs with relief Well, I'm glad that I've finally got this chapter up. I've decided to make this story a bit longer than the 8 that it would have been if I had decided to keep it as it was going. But I decided to keep going with this for a while, at least until I can't find anything else to write about. So, I hope that I can get some more reviews and some more hits, I'm up to more than 2000 hits! But sadly I've only gotten 19 reviews, but a big thank you to all of you who have reviewed: dracosbabygrl, Weasleygrlz07, mrspadfoot4eva, animiegirl02, Unlikely-to-bear-it, Sweet Southerner, aznphreak1218, NitaPotter, Kruger, and SilverAngel06. I thank all of you for your support and reviews. Thank you soooo much. I appreciate every one of you and your reviews. And remember to PLEASE REVIEW, it does a writer's confidence grow! And remember PLEASE ROOT FOR JEFFY! GO 24! I love the Daytona 500, and I hope he wins. Ok, I'm done, please review!

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