Disclaimer: I don't own anything. All characters belong to J.K. Rowling and the story is based on the Korean movie "My Tutor Friend".

Rating: PG-13

Summary: James Potter seems on top of the world: popular, good looks & good grades in almost everything except Arithmancy, and needs it to pass. Lily Evans: studious, temperamental, good girl was appointed to tutor.

Title: Loving My Tutor

Chapter FIVE
Respecting the rules

Usually, most students were quite eager for the weekend to begin: as the week finally took an end, older students would be planning their trip to Hogsmeade and the younger ones would be playing happily outside on Hogwarts' grounds.

The weekend used to be when Lily could relax and take a little bit of time to herself. Unfortunately, this weekend was one she had dreaded throughout the entire week: James kept throwing an evil glare every single time he saw her. She couldn't blame him though; their whole predicament was her fault.

As Saturday finally saw the light of the day, Lily decided she would go see her friends before they headed off to Hogsmeade. She accompanied them to their room in the girls' dormitory after lunch and sat down on the bed that used to be hers as watched as her friends talk excitedly about their trip.

Emmeline was the first one to notice that Lily hadn't said anything all morning. She sat down next to the redhead and looked her in the eye, "Okay, Lily, what's wrong? I know you are trying to hide something from me. You haven't been talking much these days."

Lily looked at her hands and answered quietly, "Nothing…"

"Lily, look at me." ordered the brunette. Lily obeyed and looked into her light blue eyes. "I've been your friend for almost seven years now. You know you can tell me anything."

The other two girls, Marlene McKinnon and Alice Clark, overheard and immediately came to sit next to them.

"You can tell us too, Lily." assured Alice while Marlene nodded and smiled.

Lily smiled sheepishly at them. "Oh, you're going to think I'm so thick… it's nothing really. It's just that McGonagall wants me to tutor Potter each afternoon weekend."

All the girls looked at Lily, uncertain what to say about this new information their friend just gave them.

"And the stupidest part was, Potter suggested that we shouldn't do these ridiculous lessons, since neither of us want to, and that we should just pretend to McGonagall that we do in fact go to these tutoring sessions." continued Lily, "but I stubbornly and irrationally refused his offer and told him that if he didn't show up, I would tattle on him"

Lily rubbed her temples, "I can't believe I actually did that…"

Marlene then hugged her and said, "Don't worry. My stubbornness takes the better of me too sometimes."

"Potter isn't all bad, you know. He is a very nice person inside." Alice tried to assure Lily, but was quite uncertain herself.

"And if Potter annoys you too much, you know I can beat him up, right?" Emmeline winked at Lily. The all burst into laughter, and Lily told them to have fun at Hogsmeade, bid them a good day and made her way back down to the common room and left for her own room.

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Finally, it was three in the afternoon; time for the tutoring session. Lily took her Arithmancy books, her quills, parchments and ink bottles and set them down on the table in the common room. She sat down and waited for James to appear at the door, but even after thirty minutes, he hadn't shown up yet.

Lily tapped her fingers on the table impatiently and started to doodle on one of the parchments. "Where can he possibly be?" she said out loud to herself, yawning. She strolled around the common room, looking at little details from the room she had never spotted before. Lily looked out the window and saw little dark spots, who she assumed to be some of the younger students, moving all around the ground of Hogwarts. She sighed and wished that James would hurry up and get there.

But he didn't. Even an hour later, James still hadn't come. Lily had her head in her arms that were crossed over the table. Her eyes closed by themselves and she fell asleep. When she woke up, she saw James sitting across her looking boringly at her.

"Where were you, Potter!" yelled Lily angrily "I've been waiting for you for the past hour and a half now! Explain yourself!"

James smirked and passed his hand through his hair, making it messier than ever. "How can you be sure it was over an hour, Evans? When I came here, you were asleep."

"How long have you been here?"

"A good ten minutes, now. And you are right, it has been almost an hour and a half." laughed James.

"Anyways, you didn't show up for the lesson. So, I'll have no choice but to tell McGonagall. And that's what you deserve anyways." said Lily furiously, but she didn't know if she were really going to do it.

"Oh please, Evans. First of all, I did show up for the lesson, I am only late. There is still a good fifteen minutes left till the end for the lesson." replied James. "And cut that tough act you're trying to put up with. You know you guilty for not accepting my earlier proposal."

Lily's face turned bright red and didn't know what to say. Then she it hit her: her friends had told him.

"My friends told you that, didn't they?" asked Lily as anger built up inside of her. She was going to kill each and every one of them.

"Not really, Evans. They did tell me, " Lily clenched her fists "but I'd already guessed it. Just looking at you, all week long and it was easy to see that you regret what you did…"

Lily looked up into his eyes, "You were looking at me during the week?"

James sighed, "Not in that way, Evans. Anyways, the fifteen minutes are up. Class is over, I guess." James smiled mischievously. "So now, I'm offering you one last chance to agree to my proposal." He stuck out his hand like the previous time, convinced that this time, she would shake it.

Lily sighed and knew she was going to regret say, yet again "I'm sorry, Potter, but my answer is still going to be 'no'." James looked at her disbelievingly, for she had refused him twice. "You have to understand, I promised McGonagall, and I tend to keep my promises."

James laughed sardonically, "What's your purpose in life? Annoy the bloody hell out of me? Be a teachers' pet?"

Lily looked at him and asked, "What's your point?"

"My point, Evans, is that you're so uptight! You're so stubborn that you don't even hear what you say is nonsense! Heck, you can't even say 'no' to a teacher!" James shouted angrily. Before she could reply, he stormed out of the room, obviously fuming.

Lily sat back down on the chair and answered to nobody, "No, Potter. I just don't want to be a liar… like you."

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Lily took her time to clean up all her materials and go down to the library since everybody was still at Hogsmeade. She didn't know what to feel; she was at the same time mad at James for being a prick, and mad at herself for being so damn stubborn.

Lily tried to read a book, but was too preoccupied by her own thoughts. And again, she fell asleep in the library, waking up only when Madam Pince shook her lightly on the shoulder and told her that it was supper time.

She walked slowly toward the Great Hall which had lighted candles floating near the ceiling that was now showing a cloudless sky, illuminated by the stars. Her eyes travelled around the Gryffindor table, trying to spot her friends, but she was unsuccessful. Lily figured they were probably still at Hogsmeade – even though it was past the curfew. Looking around, she saw Remus, who was sitting with Peter and Sirius, waving at her to come and sit with them.

She smiled back, sighed and resigned to go sit with the Marauders. Happy to see that James wasn't there, she sat down next to Sirius, across Remus and Peter.

While she ate, she listened to all of them talking about the next Quidditch match. Then Remus turned his head to face Lily and asked "How was your day, Lily?"

"It was errr… alright." Lily answered not wanting to explain to Remus what happened this afternoon. The sandy haired boy beamed at her, "I'm happy to hear that."

Out of the blue, Lily asked him "Where's Potter? Isn't he always with you guys?"

This time it wasn't Remus who replied, but Sirius in his stead. "He's probably somewhere with Julie."

"Julie? Who's Julie?" asked Lily as she searched her brain for someone with the name Julie.

"Julie Hayman, James' girlfriend." answered Peter as he took a gulp from his goblet of pumpkin juice. Lily raised an eyebrow, still trying to find a face to fit the name.

"Odd. I've never heard of any one named 'Julie Hayman'…" stated Lily.

"She's a pretty girl with blond girl with dark brown eyes. She's about this tall" Sirius said, standing up and put his hand on his chest to show how tall this Julie was, who was a lot taller than she, Lily, was. "She's in sixth and she's actually quite popular."

Lily thought for a while, and then finally she finally found the missing face. "Is this Julie kind of nasty with the younger students… or should I say everyone that isn't at the height of 'cool' for her taste?" asked Lily bitterly.

The three boys laughed, and Peter was the one who answered Lily. "If by nasty, you meant totally evil, then the answer is yes." Lily giggled and asked them curiously,

"Is she also unpleasant with you guys?" The three boys looked at each other.

It was Peter who answered again, "Well no. She's not around us, since we're James' friends." He paused for a second and added "No wait, correction, she's not annoying around us minus me. She's horribly atrocious with me when James is not around." Lily smiled sympathetically at him.

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After they left the Great Hall, the Marauders invited Lily to join them for a game of Exploding Snap. She gladly agreed and they walked up to the common room. As Remus said the password to the Fat Lady, for the first time of the day, she felt actually happy. She even forgave her friends for telling James about her regrets.

The first thing Lily saw when she entered the common room with the three boys, was James sitting on a couch comfortably, with a blond girl – who Lily assumed to be Julie – on his laps. He hadn't noticed the four of them going into the room and the other boys didn't pay attention to him. Other girls in the room would be sending Julie jealous looks, obviously envying her being James' girlfriend.

The four settled themselves on table further away from James and Julie. Lily finally forgot James and Julie when the game of Exploding Snap started. Lily giggled each time Remus would beat Sirius, who was trying everything possible to find a counter attack.

The game finally ended when Peter beat Sirius, who left pouting, saying that 'he didn't feel like playing anymore'.

Remus and Peter started a game of chess while Lily and Sirius were left to watch them play. Lily turned her head, looking at the common room that she used to call her own. She spotted her friends that were coming in from the entrance. Lily waved at them, and they waved back.

Emmeline seated herself on the empty place next to Lily, trying to avoid Sirius' eyes. Lily still remembered that the two of them had a fling, last year, and it has been pretty awkward ever since. She looked from Sirius to Emmeline nervously, trying to start a conversation to avoid the uneasy silence that had already settled between them.

Lily looked around, trying desperately to find something to say. Her eyes then caught the sight of James and Julie, leaving the common room, his hand around her waist.

"Tell me, Sirius, was the girl that was sitting on Potter's lap Hayman?" Lily asked curiously, pointing the couch they were sitting on earlier.

"Yeah, that's her." Sirius answered monotonously as he tried to also avoid Emmeline's eyes.

"She's quite pretty…" thought Lily.

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When Remus finally came out victorious of the chess match against Peter, Lily decided it was time she went patrolling the corridors before she would go back to her room. She bid them goodnight and walked through the halls, looking for students that were still out after the curfew.

When finally she didn't find anybody, she turned around and started to walk back to her dorm. But as she turned, she distinctly heard a giggle. Curious, she turned the corner, and found a couple, obviously busy with each other. Lily has always felt weird when she had to break up the couple and tell them to go back to their dorm, but she had to do it anyways.

"Alright, you two, stop what you are doing and return to your dorm immediately, it's past curfew."

The tall boy and the blond girl turned to face her, visibly angry. As their faces from away from the shadow, Lily gave a small gasp of recognition: it was James and Julie.

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(A/N): Alright guys, I'm taking a break from the fan fiction world. I've realised that my writing is still a bit immature – somebody had finally the guts to tell me that, that person is my new beta. And since school is starting soon, I need to practise my French more – it has gone down the drains ever since I started the story.

I'm still going to work on my writing skills, improve it, making the sentences and dialog flow easily when you read them. I'll probably repost, but there will be changes, and I do not expect to keep my plot line intact.

Yes, I know, leaving you guys on a sort of cliff-hanger sucks, but do not worry, I will come back. So, I'll just leave you with replies to your reviews.

DarthRoden: Thank you for the compliment, and I don't think they will start to get along any time soon… that would be too cheesy for my taste and that would be moving too fast in any story.

GoddessoftheMaaN: I think you were my first reviewer on – so thanks for reviewing. And I don't fully understand what you meant by "Lily is skipping", but I assume it means you thought she skipped the tutoring lesson; no she didn't since the lesson starts the next weekend. And don't worry; I do not hate you for agreeing with Citnamor Sselepoh. I've got harsher critics than her.

J.E.A.R.K.Potter: They were whispering about Lily because she was skipping down the hall – it's very unlikely she would have normally done that. And thanks for reviewing.

Citnamor Sselepoh: Thank you for the advice, and don't worry, I'm not mad at you at all. Your review is not the harshest I've seen. There are quite harsher critics than you, for example, my new beta.

The all mighty and powerfulM: Thank you for reviewing, and thank you for liking my story.

Prongsie4028: Thank you for reviewing, and as you can see here, James' plan is not that evil – he simply just skipped, but came very late to the class.

Akt5us: Thank you for reviewing!

Julia: Thank you for the review!

WitchyMage: Thank for you for the compliment!

PotterChick958: No, Lily did not get out of tutoring. The tutoring session has not yet started. When Lily was with Remus, James was with McGonagall – so James did not yet know about the tutoring sessions with Lily. Thank you for reviewing!

Weird Not Boring: Don't know what happened to you, you just stopped reading and reviewing, but thank you for the one review you gave me anyways!

Gloria: You reviewed once, but thank you anyways!

Elspeth Renee: Thank you for your one review!