Hi is Chapter 3, I was hoping to have it up earlier but it took longer than expected. I would also like to note that none of the characters belong to me they belong to the wonderful JK Rowling!

As they walked along the platform looking for their friends James seemed to be a little happier, he had put his trunk into their normal compartment and had almost forgotten about the feelings that he had when he woke up that morning.

"Moony, Wormtail" Yelled Sirius to get their attention, "There you guys are, we have been looking everywhere for you guys"

"Sorry, we met each other out the front of Kings Cross, we were waiting for you but when we saw that it was 10:50 we thought that you guys were already here" Remus explained.

Just at that moment the whistle blew signalling the imminent departure of the train, the boys rushed to their compartment and settled in for the long journey to their last year at Hogwarts.

At the same time Lily was getting settled into the heads compartment near the front of the train, she knew that James would be down the back with the other Marauder's. She was still angry with him, if he wanted to apologise then he would have to come to her, they had a meeting in a few hours and she hoped that James would come and see her before then, she looked out of the window at the passing scenery and waited for her maybe boyfriend.

A few hours later

James had decided that it was time that he went and saw Lily, but he was a little scared of how she would respond to what he wanted to say to her. While the others were going about setting up their first prank of the year James took out his Invisibility cloak and headed towards where he knew Lily would be, the heads car.

There was nothing eventful on his trip to the heads car, when he got there he stopped, there were voices coming from the inside.

"What he did is inexcusable Lil" came the muffled voice of Alice Prewett.

"I know that Alice, if it was before last year I would have said that it was just James and not worried about it, but now" Lily trailed off

"I know, I know now you are in love with him. That doesn't mean that you have to forgive him for what he did" came Alice's reply.

"I know that I don't have to forgive him, but at the moment I don't think that I could face breaking up with him" Lily replied with sadness in her voice

"I know what that is like, I will talk to you later at the feast, I had better see that Frank isn't getting into trouble with your boyfriend's friends" Alice said as she bid Lily goodbye and left the carriage, leaving Lily to continue to look out of the window.

James took this as his que and entered the carriage, seeing Lily was like breathing fresh air.

"What did you forget Alice?" Lily asked without looking away from the window

"Why do you assume that I am Alice?" Asked James with a slightly cocky grin on his face.

To this Lily turned around and looked at him. This made James feel even happier that he was able to see her beautiful face. The next minute she was in front of him with a murderous look on her face

"You big prat" Lily yelled, "You are a massive arse, I cannot believe that you did that to me… you are arrogant, selfish and a down right pain", she started to hit him at the stage. "I…hate…you…James…Potter" each word punctuated with a hit to his chest, with the last word she finally broke down into tears. All James could do was hold her close to his chest.

"Lily, the prefects will be here in a few minutes why don't you go and get cleaned up and we will talk after" James suggested looking down at Lily.

"Thankyou James" Lily said looking up at him

James couldn't help himself, he leaned down to capture Lily's lips in a brief yet passionate kiss. When their kiss ended Lily quickly left to clean herself up in the attached bathroom.

James decided that he would sit down on the couch and wait for the rest of the prefects to arrive, just as Lily came out of the bathroom the prefects started to arrive. Lily started to gather parchment out of her trunk and a pen (she sometimes couldn't let the muggle influences in her life go) she sat down next to James, close enough to say that they were friends but far enough to say that they were nothing more, this didn't go unnoticed by Remus who made a mental note to ask them about it later.

"Now then, this is the first meeting of several this year, we are going to go over the patrol schedules, Hogsmede visits and any other concerns that you may have" Lily said to the group.

"Ok we know that you are Head Girl" a snippy Slytherin asked with disgust, "But who is Head Boy?" chimed in another Slytherin.

"That would be me" answered James

"You can't be Head Boy, you are always getting into trouble, how are you supposed to set an example for us?" asked a Ravenclaw girl

"I don't know, ask Dumbledore why he chose me" James answered

"Now that is settled, why doesn't everyone pair up with someone not from your own house" Lily said looking at the Slytherins. "Ok, now come forward and write your names on this parchment and choose a folded piece of parchment, this will be the patrol schedule, if something happens in the future such as Quidditch practice we will change the schedule, but only for extenuating circumstances" Lily told the group.

One by one the pairs came forward and in no time the schedule was done.

"Now, we need to supervise Hogsmede visits, this is a responsibility for all of us, I am not saying that you can't have fun and do your own thing but just be on the lookout in case an incident occurs" Lily told the group "are there any questions" she added

No one answered her, the room was silent that you could hear a pin drop

"OK you can all go then, James and I have some more matters to discuss, we will send you an owl with the next meetings time and location once it has been sorted out" Lily said

This had the whole group standing up and rushing out of the carriage quicker than anything the last to leave was Remus, he looked at James who gave him a help me look in return. Remus just smiled at him and left them to discuss whatever it was that had to be discussed.

"James I am very angry with you, you know that right" Lily asked with a calm voice

"I know Lil, I wanted to tell you that I am sorry, I went to your house a few times to talk with you but you were always out, I thought that you had told your mum and sister that you didn't want to talk with me. I know it was wrong and I am sorry that I hurt you. It was Sirius, he didn't think that you had finally given in when I told him that you had said you would be my girlfriend, he told Abagail that I wanted to meet her in the broom cupboard, he told me that you wanted to meet me there so I went. When I was inside he put spell on the door so that I couldn't open it then he went and found you. I swear Lil I would never want to hurt you like that" James said as fast as he could looking down at the floor

"I know James, I just wanted to hear what happened" Lily answered, her hand under his chin to pull his face up.

He is so handsome Lily thought as she looked into his eyes, he looked back into hers and slowly they moved closer to each other, their lips met and Lily finally felt like she was home after such a long time, James had the same feeling. As they kissed they didn't notice their clothing disappear when they broke away, James couldn't help but stair at Lily, when lily looked to see what he was staring up she turned beet red and ran to the bathroom.

"Lil what's wrong you are beautiful" James asked through the door

"What's wrong is all you can ask me" yelled Lily as she opened the door. "Your best friend is what's wrong and the fact that you have seen me in my underwear, please tell me that you didn't have anything to do with this?" Lily asked, she was still embarrassed but this had Marauders written all over it.

"I had nothing to do with it, I swear. I think I remember them saying something about it but I didn't take part in the planning of this one" James replied with worry in his voice, worry that Lily might kill him with one look.

Lily stormed out of the Heads carriage heading exactly for where she knew the ringleader of this prank would be in their usual compartment at the end of the train, she was determined. She didn't care who saw her in her underwear, leaving James in her wake with a gobsmacked look on his face.

When Lily got to the Marauders' compartment she could hear laughter.

"I don't know who was more shocked, Lily or Prongs" came the voice of Sirius Black.

"It was a good idea Padfoot, but you know how mad Lily can get and by now I bet Prongs has told her about what happened with Abagail which means that she will be doubly pissed off with you" Remus answered.

Lily didn't leave any room for Peter to answer because she burst into the room with her wand pointed at Sirius.

"What the hell are you playing at Black. First the prank with James at the end of last year and now this. I ought to hex you into next week" Lily yelled

"Lil what are you doing?" came the voice of James behind her, "I know that you are mad but I think you would regret this later on, Sirius can hold a mean grudge. I also think that this one was meant to cheer me up since I have been in funk all summer" he pulled her into a hug which meant that he also had her restrained to this she broke down.

"Guys could you leave us for a minute, I think that Lil will want a little privacy for a minute" James said to Sirius, Remus and Peter.

They all got up and left leaving James to pull Lily into the compartment and put a spell on it so that no one could see in. he went to his trunk and pulled out some of his smaller clothes that had been hiding at the bottom of his trunk and gave them to Lily.

"Here put these on, then you will at least have some clothes on rather than the whole school seeing you in your underwear" James said to Lily

"Thankyou" Lily answered as she took the clothes from James as he rummaged in his trunk for some clothes for himself.

When they were dressed the others came in, there was little room for all 5 of them which lead Lily to sitting on James' lap which had no complaints from them.

"Lil I am sorry about last year and also today. I took everything a little too far" Sirius said looking down at the floor

"You had better be sorry, I can hold a mean grudge and I will get you when you least expect it" Lily said with a smirk on her face, "I also have the head Marauder on my side as well so you had better watch out"

This earned a laugh from everyone in the compartment and they were left laughing all the way to Hogwarts.

Thankyou to the people who reviewed I hope to get some more in the future. I would also like to take this opportunity to dedicate this story to my friends fiance, who died suddenly a couple of moths ago. he had a love for Harry Potter so from now on I will sign this story of with Peace, Love and Harry Potter in memory of him.

Peace Love and Harry Potter