Recap;

I give up. She wins

I'll give him a chance. He wins

Chapter Three

The next morning Lily walked up to the Gryffindor girls' dorm to find Lys and Alice poking at Ella, who was still asleep. Lily, Alice and Lys had all become very good friends with Ella, particularly Lily, the two girls both wanted to be healers when they left school, so they were in all the same classes.

"We are going to be late if she doesn't wake up soon!" whined Alice. Lys just grinned evilly, and conjured up a bucket of iced water.

"One…"

"Two…"

"Three!" both girls yelled, Lys tipping the bucket of water onto Ella's sleeping form.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT FOR!" screamed an enraged Ella, who was by now of course, very much awake.

"That, my friend," replied Alice, "was to wake you up, as you have 10 minutes to be dressed and at class, McGonagall wont thank you for being late."

"But I haven't had breakfast!"

"We know that, so we brought you some toast" Lys handed over the aforementioned toast and she, Lily and Alice hurried off to transfiguration. The three girls found a desk near the back of the room, although they made sure to stay a fair distance away from the Marauders' desks.

Just as the bell rang Ella skidded into the classroom and sat down next to Lily.

"You took your time missy!" whispered Lily as Ella took out her books. McGonagall started to walk around collecting homework; the Marauders strutted into the classroom just as McGonagall reached the girls to collect their homework.

"And where have you three been? Asked Professor McGonagall, James and Sirius put on their most charming faces and James answered.

"Well you see Minnie, we just ran into the minister for magic on our way here, he said he needed our help to collect flubberworm eggs for the good of wizard kind, if we didn't help him the Wizarding world would have simply disappeared, you see he needed to feed the eggs to this magical talking dog so that it would turn back into a pin cushion and the world would be saved...so really we cant be blamed because we just saved everybody from the wrath of the pin cushion dog!" He used a perfectly normal voice, and, if it wasn't for the shear absurdity of the story, anyone would have believed him.

"It's all true Minnie! All of it, and we almost lost Remus!" exclaimed Sirius, at this stage he lean on James shoulder and pretended to sob loudly, "I just don't know what we would have done with out him!" The two boys now had the entire classroom, with the exception of McGonagall, rolling around on the floor laughing. Remus cocked his eyebrow, clearly as unimpressed as McGonagall.

"Detention." snapped McGonagall, and the class stopped laughing immediately. Ella looked at the Marauders strangely then looked at Lily and began to scribble frantically on a piece of scrap paper, which she handed to Lily.

You know you've been looking at James since he walked in, and you laughed at his story, from what I've been told about your history with him, this would seem unnatural behaviour on your part, would it not?

Well, we have agreed to be friends…since we will be working together a lot this year, Lily wrote back, blushing.

Only friends? Ella raised an eyebrow at her friend. Lily stopped the conversation there, she still hadn't told her friends about her resolve to give James a chance, she wasn't sure she had the courage to face the 'I told you so's that she knew would be coming her way.

James looked down at Lily, noticing her blush as she read some note that Ella had passed her. God she's beautiful, thought James, before mentally slapping himself, he was meant to be getting over her for gods sake! James decided that he'd actually take notes for once, to keep his mind off a certain red head.

Lily looked back at James, who was taking notes, very uncharacteristic, thought Lily. So Lily decided to do something uncharacteristic herself.

"Adnotãtiõ" muttered Lily pointing her wand at her notebook.

Strange seeing you taking notes, James. Lily wrote, but the words appeared only briefly on her book before fading and appearing on James's instead. James looked round to see who it could be from and saw Lily looking at him with one eyebrow raised and a skeptical smile on her face.

Strange to see you not doing so, Lily. They were still friends, even if he had given up on her, which he had, right?

Their conversation continued throughout the class, and several more occurred during other classes. By the end of the day they were on very friendly terms, with whispers following them everywhere that other students saw them talking politely to eachother. Lily was confused however, James had not mentioned going out all day but she had seen him flirting with other girls (and couldn't ignore the pang of jealousy she felt each time). Surely, she thought, he hadn't given up on her, had he? Well I'll just have to do something to make sure he hasn't, thought lily, as she walked down to dinner, with Ella.

"You know Sirius has been flirting shamelessly with me since I first sat down at this table." said Ella as she and Lily sat down with the others, "It's driving me mad!"

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"Oh James!" Alice called down the table that Friday.

"Yeah"

"You might wanna clear out of the head dorms tonight!"

"Why?"

"GIRLS NIGHT IN!" chorused Lys, Alice and Ella.

"God save us all," muttered Sirius and James in unison.

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That night the usually elegant looking heads common room had all the furniture pushed to the side of the room and a bunch of mattresses the girls had transfigured from several coushins, were placed in a large circle around a small table, upon which Ella was now placing multiple, large bottles of firewiskey.

"Ummm…Ella? What's with all the booze? You've got like…oh my god! Four bottles of firewiskey?" Lily had just noticed the table's contents.

"Yea, so we can play never ever! I got the biggest bottles I could find, but they sell them much bigger in France."

"Never ever?" questioned Alice as she and Lys walked in, in their pyjamas.

"You guys have never played! Ok well basically, you go round the circle and one person says i never ever been to third base - as an example - and anyone who has, has to take a swig outta their bottle, first one to empty their bottle looses." she explained. The others looked at her in disbelief, "What, you lot chicken?" she said cheekily, her Australian accent becoming more evident.

"Most definitely not!" yelled Lys.

"I second that!" yelled Alice, Lily however was still uncertain, but was soon coaxed into it by her friends.

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"I ne-"hiccup "-ver umm…" Lily swayed a bit, almost dropping her not quite empty bottle; the other girls burst into giggles "umm…had a detention"

"Wow! –" hiccup "- really! –" hiccup "well that's me out." slurred Ella as she emptied her bottle with one last swig.

Unknown to the girls there were four – almost – sober boys watching this highly amusing scene through James' bedroom door, which Sirius had bewitched so that the could see out, but the girls could not see in.

"Ooh! Let's play truth!" suggested Alice; the most sober of the group, this idea was met with several drunken agreements. "Ok, I'll go first…ummm…Lily!"

"Yeah?" Lily had had a lot to drink at this stage.

"Do you actually like James Potter?"

"Mmmhmm I sure do!" Lily slurred, "And I decided to give him a chance…but now he won't ask me out!" Lily pouted and Ella started to laugh her head off, Alice's jaw dropped and Lys actually passed out (probably from a mixture of shock and drunkenness). Lily went into a rant about his gorgeous hazel eyes and how incredibly sexy he was, and how she loved it when he ruffled his hair up.

Ella then started to join in by talking non stop about how much she loved Sirius, with Lys throwing in every now and then that she had a thing for Remus; Alice just stared in shock.

Meanwhile, in James' room James was just staring through the door, completely speechless, Sirius was pinching himself saying "I must be dreaming" over and over again. Remus noticed this and stopped him.

"Nuh-uh mate, this is real"

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Authors Note; Well I really like that chapter, let me know what you think! I got heaps of reviews for chapter two, so thanks for that guys! Incase you thought some of that looked familiar, it's because I really liked some stuff from my old version, so I am keeping it in. Hope that's a long enough chapter for you Cam!

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