Hey Guys! I've got the chapter up on time this week. I'm still sooooo sorry about not being on time last week. Please forgive me? Well, I'm done babbling for now, read and review. And I hope you like it. And BIG thanks to Nita for betaing my story for me, THANKS NITA!

Disclaimer – Just for the sake of not being sued for all my money ($12.50) I don't own HP! If I did…well lets just say that there would be like 20 books, up until the day of Harry's death (when he's old and gray!)

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Chapter 9

James pushed off from the ground and went into the air. A feeling of peace filled him. He hated lying to his friends, but they brought this all on their own. 'It's only one more day. This time tomorrow Lily and I will be officially together,' he kept telling himself.

He hoped that after he and Lily got together tomorrow, that his friends would forgive him. James stopped in midair; he'd just got an idea. He hoped that after the last argument that they'd had, they wouldn't hold that against him and his idea would work. He flew to the ground as fast as his broom would take him.

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: Flashback:

After Lily had run upstairs, so did James. He ran up to his dormitory and grabbed his broom, which would give him an excuse to stay away from the common room. He just didn't know what to tell his friends. He hoped that they wouldn't be too mad if he started an argument.

He ran downstairs, hoping that his friends would just let him leave so he wouldn't have to lie to them again. But as his luck would have it, his friends were standing right in the middle of the common room, waiting for him. James sighed; he knew that his friends would want an explanation.

"James, what's going on with you?" Remus asked. "You've been acting really strange since we let you guys out. What's going on?" he asked.

James sighed, 'Time for some acting skills,' he thought. "Well, why wouldn't I be acting weird? You locked me into a closet with Lily and then after a while she started to like me! Then once she got caught sleeping on me, she got smacked back to reality, so now she doesn't like me any more!" James screamed.

Sirius took his turn to talk. "Hey, James, you never acted this way before. She's dumped you before and you've never acted this way before," he told him.

James made himself look angry, but inside he knew they were right. 'How to come up with a comment for that…I know!' "Because she really started to like me! She even kissed me! So, you can understand that I'm not exactly the happiest person in the world right now!" he all but yelled. Before either of his friends could say anything he was out the portrait hole and running down the corridor to the Entrance Hall.

: End Flashback:

James finally got to the ground just in time to see his friends running toward him. He waved to them, hoping that they would know that he wasn't mad anymore, even though he wasn't mad in the first place, but they didn't need to know that yet.

"Hey, guys," he said, as they got to him.

"Hey, guys? That's it? No 'I hate you guys, go way!'?" Sirius asked.

James cringed, he knew he deserved that. He knew what he had to do. "I'm sorry guys, I know I overreacted a little bit. But-"

"A little?" Remus butted in.

"OK, a lot. But I was just so mad that Lily had gone back to hating me," he told them. He hoped that they would buy this crummy story. If they did, well, they were definitely more gullible than he thought.

The Marauders looked at each other, and then looked back at James. "Alright, James," Remus said for them. "You're forgiven. But think of it this way, now you know that you don't have any chance with her, so you don't have to try and get her to go out with you anymore."

James looked at the ground; they were right. Though, seeing how he and Lily were actually together, he needed to act like they weren't and that they were right, which meant that he would have to pretend to loose interest in Lily Evans. He was definitely glad that they only had to continue this charade until tomorrow morning. He just had to find an excuse to stay outside, or at least, not in the common room until tonight. He looked up at his friends. "Ok, why don't we play some Quidditch?" he asked.

The other Marauders were a little confused; why would James want to play Quidditch? Then they realized what had just gone through their heads, and laughed. "Sure!" they all said at the same time. The Marauders all laughed at themselves; they knew each other so well, that they could finish their sentences.

All tension gone, the other Marauders pulled out their wands and summoned their brooms. There was a crash and they all looked up to see the new broken window, and there were three brooms soaring towards their owners. They all caught them and mounted. Sirius and James had been giving Remus and Peter lessons for 4 years now, so they had gotten lots better since their first time on a broom. "Let's go!" Peter said. Then they all took off from the ground as a group.

Remus produced a quaffle out of thin air with his wand. He threw it to Sirius, and with that, the teams had been picked: Sirius and Remus against James and Peter. They were almost even, seeing as how James and Sirius were the experts out of the four. Sirius flew toward Peter, who had been made keeper. Even though he wasn't very good at being a chaser, he was a great keeper. Peter had been on a soccer team before he found out that he was a wizard, and he had been goalie, so when they played, he was always keeper.

Sirius went right and aimed for the right goalpost, but then at the last second he swerved left and shot the quaffle toward the center goalpost. Then out of nowhere, Wormtail caught the quaffle and threw it to James, who shot to Remus.

They played for almost 2 hours, and by that point, points had been lost and they were just trying to get the quaffle through, no points involved. James' stomach started to growl; it had to be lunchtime by now. He caught Sirius' eye and mouthed, 'Lunch'. Sirius smiled and nodded, gesturing toward the other two Marauders they all flew toward the ground. As they landed everyone knew that it was lunchtime. Nothing other than food would get James and Sirius out of the air.

They all ran up to the door, bumping and pushing each other on the way. James pulled the door open and walked inside. Just as the Marauders walked into the Great Hall, they stopped. Lily was sitting at the table laughing with her friends. The other Marauders looked at James who stood rooted to the spot, but not for the reason that his friends thought. He was struck with her beauty, and was hard pressed to not smile, but he wouldn't smile, even if his life depended on it. He wanted his plan to go through, and he would show them that James Potter and Lily Evans would be together forever, for better or worse, till death do they part.

He looked over at his friends, shrugged and walked over to the table and sat down, trying not to smile the entire way.

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Hey, guys! I hope that you liked this chapter! PLEASE review, it doesn't have to be long, just a few words at how great or how bad it was…though I'm hoping that the reviews will be on the great side…but if I'm doing something wrong, let me know. Again, BIG thank yous to Nita, she's a great betaer (is that even a word?). And if anyone hasn't heard of the Somewhere I Belong trilogy, then you should definitely check it out, they are excellent! Well, I'm done babbling, so please review!