THIS IS UNBETA'D. I COULDN'T GET AHOLD OF NITA BUT WHEN I DO, IT WILL BE UP.

Hey guys, sorry to have this up so late! Well, I'm not going to lie, I wrote this chapter at the end of the race today…it hasn't been a good week. I decided to wait till today to post because if I had posted yesterday then the chapter would have been so much shorter. So I hope that you don't mind much. Just for future information, if I don't have a chapter up by Sunday, the chapter will be up by Monday, unless otherwise stated. Well I'm going to stop babbling and let you read, please read and review. THANKS TO NITA! If I didn't have her, there would be a lot of mistakes…thanks Nita!

NOTE TO READERS: I will be revising a part of chapter 8. I had accidentally written a small section on a different sheet of paper than what I used for the final copy. So check it out, it's not big, but it will make a bit of a difference.

Disclaimer: It's been, what, 2 months, still don't own Harry Potter. If you want to be technical I only own Sarah, since we don't know if there was a girl named Sarah in the actual story.

Chapter 10

Lily looked up and saw James and the other Marauders come in. She had to look away, the urge to smile and laugh was too strong to resist. She hoped that no one noticed that she had almost smiled. The look that Sarah was giving her was one of suspicion. Lily decided that she had to do something, and quick. She looked right back up at James and gave him a glare. James looked taken aback by her hateful look, but he realized that it was only part of their plan. James looked down at the ground and just followed his friends to a seat near enough to Lily for them to talk, but not close enough that they had to sit next to each other.

Sirius looked at Remus who looked at him and nodded his head. Hey, Fabion, could you come over here for a second, I need to, uh, talk to you about something real quick." Remus told him.

"Yeah, sure. Be right back Giddeon." Fabion said as he got up. Now Sirius was able to try and mend their situation. Since Fabion got up, there was no one else sitting between James and Lily.

'It's now or never. We've got to get these two back together.' Sirius thought. If he had to admit to himself, he wanted James to be happy, even if it meant that he would loose him to his girlfriend. "So Lily," he started, "Why don't you like our dear Jamesy? He actually quite a looker." He told her.

Lily was so close to laughing that she had to take her time in looking up at Sirius, and with a glare being displayed, she knew that she would give off the impression of being absolutely furious. "For your information, Black, I don't like Potter because he is an absolute idiot showoff, who just loves me because of my good looks. His 'love' is nothing more than lust. So let's just leave it at that shall we?" she said, turning back to her lunch.

James didn't have to try his best to look hurt, because he knew that deep inside, he was hurt by her statement. He knew that she had once thought those things, because he knew that she couldn't say anything that venomously without not have felt them first. He knew that what she said wasn't true now, but just to take her lead, he filled his plate with food near him and stood up. "Can you just leave it, Sirius? She has made her point time and time again, now just DROP IT!" he told his friend.

James left the Great Hall and walked to the Common Room. On the way he past Remus and Fabion, who were talking with smiles on their faces. But once they saw his face their smiles dropped, James looked furious. "James what's-" Remus started, but James cut him off.

"Nothing!" he snapped at his friend. James just walked right on past his confused friend, but he stopped a few steps after. He knew that he shouldn't have snapped at Remus, even if it was part of his plan. He turned around to find Remus looking back at him, hurt. "Nothing's wrong, Moony, don't worry about it," he told him, kindly.

Remus didn't look as hurt now, he knew that James didn't mean to snap at him, "OK," he told his friend, who nodded and continued on his way back to the common room.

James took that time to smile, he knew that once he and Lily got together, the sight of his friends' faces would be hilarious. Sirius and Remus' prank would go down in history, especially in his book. He knew that Peter didn't have anything to do with the coming up with the prank, just the exhibition phase of it.

He finally made it to the Gryffindor Common Room, said the password, and went inside. He knew that his friends would come looking for him soon, so he decided to go up to the dormitory and lock the door. So he walked up the stairs and opened the door. James looked around the room, sighing with relief, he wouldn't have to make excuses to get someone out of the room. He closed the door and put the strongest locking spell that he knew upon it.

Realizing that he still had to do his homework, he put his plate on the desk and grabbed his bag, a quill, and some parchment and decided to start on his essay for McGonagall.

After about an hour of work, he finished the essay. Leaning back and nursing his now sore hand, he sighed. 'I don't think I've ever done an essay that fast in all my Hogwarts life,' he thought to himself. He looked at the clock and saw that it was 2:30. He wondered what he could do for about seven hours until he would be tired enough to go to bed. Several ideas ran through his head, but all were shot down. He couldn't prank Severus because Lily didn't like him doing that and he needed more people than just one person, he couldn't go outside and fly because his friends might spot him and want to talk, and he wasn't that desperate that he would go to the library like Remus and read. So he thought on it for a while, but in the end he decided to take his chances and go flying.

James grabbed his broom and turned toward the window, he didn't want to have to walk all the way downstairs to get on his broom when he had a perfectly good opening that he could get out of right in front of him. He took a look around him and walked to the window, unlocked it and pushed it open. Feeling the wind on his face made him want to get back into the air so much, so he mounted his broom and flew out the window, making sure to close it so if his friends came looking for him, he wouldn't leave a clue to his whereabouts. Flying out into the air, he wondered what Lily was up to right at this moment.

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Lily watched James leave in anger. She knew that she said something that deep inside, had upset him. She felt bad, and tried her best not to show it so that no one would noticed. She tried to look as smug as possible to satisfy the stares that she was getting from Sarah, Peter, and Sirius.

"What?" she asked them. They all just shrugged their shoulders and continued eating. "Great, that just totally ruined my appetite. I'm leaving, see you later Sarah," she told her friend.

Lily got up and walked out of the Great Hall and went outside, she always was able to calm herself while outside. She walked over to the lake and sat down, she pulled off her shoes and socks and put her feet in the soothing water. She sat back and sighed, thinking about what might happen tomorrow when she and James made their relationship public. If she had her way, it would be a very public show of their relationship. She smirked at her idea, though then she thought about something else and that smirk left her face and was replaced with a thoughtful expression. It couldn't have come at a better time, because she heard crunching of leaves behind her and turn around to see Remus walking up to her. "Hello, Remus," she told her friend. Remus was the only Marauder that she had gotten along with at first.

"Hey, Lily," he said, sitting down next to her. He seemed to be thinking about something, but reluctant to say anything.

"What's up, Remus?" she asked.

Remus turned toward Lily, "Nothing, I was just thinking about this morning," he told the red head.

Lily frowned, "What were you thinking about?" she asked, but inside she was wary, Remus was good with solving puzzles, could he have figured out that she and James were together?

"Well, it was just curious," he started. "We got you guys out this morning and you two looked extremely happy, then all of a sudden it changes and you guys are back to hating each other. It's just curious to me, that's all," he admitted.

Lily was doing some quick thinking, though was doing a very good job at not showing it. Remus did know something was wrong, because he knew the way that she acted towards James. She had an idea, so she decided to use it, "Well, there's nothing curious going on Remus. I'll admit, I started to tolerate, James, but once I got out of that closet, I knew that he was just going to go back to he old self, and decided to just end whatever had happened in that closet." She told him.

"Oh, well, why didn't you give him a chance? He might have changed, I think he has changed, something's wrong with him, he hasn't been the same since we got you out of the closet. I think he is actually going to change for you, Lily," he told her.

Lily was running out of lies, so she decided to change the subject, "Listen, why don't we go to the library? I still need to finish that essay for McGonagall," she told him, using both of their weakness of the library to her advantage.

Remus thought for a moment, and Lily crossed her fingers mentally, hopping that her trick would work, "OK, I guess we could go. And if you need any help, I can give you some information, even though you probably don't need it." He decided.

Lily inwardly sighed, she dodged that bullet for now, she knew that Remus would want some more information as time went on that day. But she felt that she would be able to answer his questions to his satisfaction without doing too much more lying. As she put her shoes and socks on and she and Remus started walking toward the entrance hall, she looked back at the lake and saw a figure with messy black hair on a broomstick. She smiled, knowing it was James, and turned back around walking with Remus back inside.

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Hey guys, sorry again for being late. Hope you all liked it. Please read and review, got to go I'm watching John Wayne with my dad.

Later, Jen.