Hey guys, I'm soooo sorry, this chapter isn't even beta'd. But I will get it to Nita and then re-post it. This has been a really bad week for me, so I'm very sorry, I was going to make this chapter longer, but I decided to just get it up…again I'm sorry and here's the chapter.

3-27: I have reposted this chapter, I forgot to add a small detail after James and Lily storm off. It should make a small difference!

REPOSTED NOW:-) THANKS NITA!

Disclaimer: still not mine!

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Chapter 8

James was made aware of someone knocking on the door and then a bright light being shined into his eyes, followed by gasps. Slowly James came to, finally he was able to open his eyes. The sight before him shocked him, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were all standing in front of the door with a look of shock on their faces. James was slightly confused, what were they so shocked about? The reason started to stir in his lap. James looked down and suddenly realized why they were so shocked. Lily was still laying in his lap. But her eyes opened a few seconds later and with one look at the other Marauders and she shot up out of James' lap, trying to straighten her clothes.

Sirius was speechless. The last thing he expected to see when they opened that door was Evans in James' lap. Looking over to Remus and Peter, he saw that they were just as stunned as he was.

James looked at Sirius and smiled. He got up and went over to his friends, dragging Lily along. "Good morning," he told his friends. James was smiling at the stunned look in his friends' faces. As he walked out of the closet, he took a deep breath. He heard Lily do the same. He turned to her and he saw a smirk on her face, hid from his friends. He knew exactly what she wanted to do: they were going to pull a prank on his friends.

All of a sudden Lily turned around and walked up to Sirius, fire blazing in her eyes. Sirius took a step back, wondering what was going on. Lily stomped up to him and with one swift movement she smacked him square on the cheek.

"HOW DARE YOU! LEAVING ME IN THERE WITH POTTER FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS!" she raged at Sirius, who was looking quite scared at the moment. She then turned to Remus and Peter, "AND YOU REMUS! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS! HOW DARE YOU GO ALONG WITH THIS STUPID PLAN TO LOCK ME IN A CLOSET WITH JAMES POTTER WHEN YOU KNOW THAT I CAN'T STAND HIM! AND YOU PETER…well, I don't know what you did, but you went along with it as well, so, HOW DARE YOU TOO!" she finished as she stormed down the hallway towards the library.

The three whiplashed Marauders turned to their friend who was now glaring at them, "Thanks guys. Now she'll never talk to me again!" James said, then he stormed off down the other direction, toward the dormitory.

Remus turned to Sirius very confused. "I thought that they were getting along?" he said.

Sirius turned to the corridor that James had stormed down. "So did I, Moony, so did I."

"Well, we kinda did accomplish our goal didn't we?" Peter asked.

Remus sighed, "In a way. But, I think we all were hoping that Lily would finally get together with James. But I think we botched this up big time."

Sirius stood straight and tall, "Then we'll just have to fix it," he said, looking at his friends. They were all wondering the same thing, 'How could they fix this?'

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Lily practically ran from the library route to the closest route to the common room so she could get back to James. She tried not to make too much noise while running, so that she wouldn't get into trouble. Even if she had a trouble maker boyfriend, it wouldn't mean that she would become one.

She hoped that she would make it back before the other Marauders so that she could get a chance to talk to James, to see what their plan of action would be for the next little while. She got to the portrait in a few minutes and quickly said the password then climbed into the common room, slightly out of breath.

Lily spotted James sitting on the couch with his head in his hands. She wondered if something had happened before she had come in. She walked up to James and put her hand on his shoulder.

James looked up and once he saw who it was, broke out in a huge grin, "Hey, I see you ran back here."

Lily smiled back, "Yeah, are you alright? Why did you have your head in your hands?" she asked.

James smiled wider, "Well, if it was Remus or Sirius, then they would have wanted to know why I was smiling after I had just given them a death glare, wouldn't they?" he asked Lily.

"That's true, James," she said, impressed. "So, how long should we put up this charade? I mean, someone is going to find out, especially Sarah. She knows how much I 'hate' you. So if I start spending time with you, or even finding excuses to go out of my way to see you and get into an argument with you, she'll put the pieces together."

James nodded, then he got an idea, "I've got an idea, why don't we have a spectacular row in front of them and then we'll 'make up' tomorrow at breakfast?"

Lily nodded, "Yeah, that sounds great, but wouldn't that mean that we would have to avoid each other until tomorrow morning?"

James shook his head, "Sadly yes, because we can't afford to be caught if we want this to work. So I'm afraid that we will have to make sure that we aren't in each other's sight because I know if I see you, I'm going to smile."

Event though the last thing she wanted to do was not be able to talk to James, she knew that if they wanted to get the boys back they needed to do this.

"Ok, and I think that's them coming now. So get ready," she said as the trio walked in the door.

The three Marauders climbed through the portrait hole and their first sight was a red Lily and a pale James. Lily started screaming, "HOW DARE YOU EVEN TRY TO KISS ME YOU IMBICEL!" she said as she stormed right up to him and drew her hand back and with amazing force, then smacked James square across his jaw. The force from her slap knocked him into the back of the couch and he toppled over the other side. Lily screamed, "AND LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU!" She then ran up the stairs to her dormitory.

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I know, its short, but again, I just wanted to get it up. The next update will be Sunday, but again, if I get the chapter done before then, it will be up sooner. So, I'm sorry that its so short, but this will just have to keep you for now. I'm sorry guys. Please read and review.

-Jen

ITS RE-POSTED! AGAIN MUCH THANKS TO NITA FOR BETAING MOR ME!