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Lily made her way out of the castle and toward to the Quidditch pitch. Each step she took she was becoming more certain of her decision.

Once Lily had finally gotten to her destination, she noticed the seven players on their brooms. She tried desperately to get their attention, but they were all too involved with the practice.

So, Lily would just have to wait. She decided to go sit in the stands, hoping that maybe he would see her. However, being the captain of the team, he was too involved trying new tactics for the future games.

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"Lily, what are you doing here?"

Lily looked into the warm eyes of James Potter, the one she came to see. His face was sweaty from flying around and he hadn't bothered to enter the locker rooms with the rest of the team.

"I came to talk to you," she told him, her voice not much louder than a whisper.

"Is it about last night?' James asked.

Lily nodded her head.

"Lils, I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have said that to you," he apologized.

"No, James…" but was cut off.

"Lils I'm really sorry, I made an ass of myself and insulted your boyfriend."

"But…"

"How about we just forget last night even happened?"

"I can't forget, James," she said, her voice was soft again.

James let out a sigh, he wanted her to forget that, he wanted to forget it himself. "Please can we just pretend it never happened, I mean, I just don't want to lose you, as..."

James wasn't able to finish his sentence though, because at that moment Lily leaned in and kissed him. James was shocked at this to say the least, but Lily seemed sure as to what she was doing. So James allowed himself to take in every moment of that kiss. Her lips tasted like strawberries, and it felt to James that they fit perfectly together.

Lily pulled away before the kiss became too intimate, a smile was on her face.

"Lily, as much as I enjoyed that, why did you do that?" James asked.

Lily smiled sweetly at him and replied, "A pretty smart person once told me to follow my heart in situations like this, and I did. I followed my heart and it led to you."

James smiled at her, she was finally going to be his Lily. James leaned forward to kiss her again, but she pulled back. "Lily, what's wrong?" he asked.

"I just realized that I was so excited to see you that I forgot to break things off with Shaun," she told him, her eyebrows were coming closer together, although not in fury, but in an apologetic manner.

James sighed and rested his forehead against hers. "Alright, I'm going to go shower and change, and you go break up with Shaun."

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Lily was dreading going back into the castle, she really didn't know how she was going to breakup with Shaun. He was such a sweet guy, and she didn't want to hurt him.

She saw him sitting in the Great Hall with a couple of his Quidditch friends. Lily sighed, it was now or never.

"Shaun can I talk to you for a second?" she asked, she was hoping that he couldn't sense all the nervousness that she felt.

"Sure," he said as he got up and followed her out of the Great hall.

"Shaun, you are a really nice guy, you know that right? And you're really sweet too," Lily began.

Shaun let out a sigh and asked, "Are you breaking up with me?"

'Why was he being so blunt about it?' Lily wondered. Instead she replied, "Well, yes. It's really not you, it's me. And I'm not just saying that to make you feel better."

"Why?" was all he asked.

"Because, well, it wouldn't be fair to you. I mean, I like you, it's just that James said some stuff to me last night and it really got me thinking, and I'm sorry."

"Potter?" Shaun asked.

"Yes, James got me to thinking and I got all confused and then I realized that as much as I liked being you, I couldn't be without James in my life."

"Can I just ask one thing?"

Lily nodded her head yes.

"What did he say?" Shaun inquired.

Lily was quite astonished at that question, she never expected him to ask that. "Um, well, he said that he loved me."

"Bloody hell Lily, that ridiculous," he shouted at her. "You've only started being friends with him this year, he can't possibly love you."

"Shaun, you're being unreasonable," Lily began, her voice was calm.

"You don't understand, that's what Potter does. He chases after girls that he knows he can't have. Then once he gets them, he dumps them," Shaun yelled.

"Shut the fuck up!" Lily shouted back at him.

"Why because it's the bloody truth and you know it?" he retorted.

"No, because you're speaking like a bloody crazy person. James would never do something like that to me, never!"

"He wouldn't? Well, don't come crying back to me once he's bored of you," Shaun yelled.

Lily was feeling very angry now, Shaun didn't know what he was talking about and it made Lily full of rage. "If you say one more thing, I swear, I'll, I'll…"

"You'll do what?" Shaun asked irately. When Lily didn't respond he continued, "Don't pretend that I'm wrong Lily, you know as well as I do that Potter just wants a good shag, nothing more."

Lily was bursting with anger now, she had never felt this much hatred in her life toward another person. With all her might Lily slapped Shaun across the face. He cheek was bright red, and Lily could tell that his eyes were slightly watering.

"Now, don't you ever talk about James or me like that again," Lily growled at him.

With that said Lily turned on her heel and left Shaun standing there, with a hand print forming on his left cheek.

Author's Note 2: Hope you liked chapter 12, cause let me tell you, that was like my favorite chapter to write! And Lily and James are finally together, so that should make everyone happy! Please review!