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Lily walked into the Great Hall, a triumphant look on her face. She searched for her friends, but only saw Scarlett, and she was sitting with her boyfriend. Lily certainly didn't want to interrupt them, she would never hear the end of it from Scarlett if she did.

Instead, Lily took a seat with the Marauders, with the exception of James because he hadn't showed up to dinner yet.

"Hey Lily, what's new with you?" Remus asked.

"Oh, not much, I just slapped Shaun across the face," Lily replied.

"You did what?" Peter asked.

"He was being rather rude."

"Lilykins, you can't just go around slapping guys cause they're rude, especially not your boyfriend," Sirius told her.

"I didn't slap my boyfriend."

"You and Shaun are over?" Remus asked.

"Yeah, I realized that I liked someone else," she told the group.

They looked at her, expecting for her to elaborate on the statement. When they realized that she wasn't going to, Remus asked, "Who do you like now?"

Lily smiled and replied, "James. Actually, we're going out now."

"You've got to be shiting me," Sirius said.

"No, I'm not, we're going out now."

"Jeez, did it take long enough for you guys to get together? I mean, he's only liked you for forever," Peter added.

"And speak of the devil, here he is now," Sirius announced.

Once James had gotten within hearing reach of Lily and the Marauders, Sirius hollered, "Prongs, you sly dog, getting Lilykins to break up with Shaun and get with you."

Lily blushed as everyone around them looked over at her. Now the whole school would soon know that she and James were officially a couple. Lily was almost dreading how people were going to react; half the female population was going to hate her for taking him off the market.

James came over and sat next to Lily, lazily slinging his arm around her shoulders. "So, I'm guessing you've heard that Lily finally changed her mind about me," James announced.

"Yeah, and we've heard plenty more Prongs. You should really tell Lilykins not to talk about making out with you, especially while we're eating," Sirius told his friend.

"What? I didn't say anything about making out with him. Sirius Black you bloody bastard, you take that back right now, I never did such a thing," Lily yelled, panic in her voice.

The guys all started to laugh at this, all four of them knew that Lily wouldn't say such a thing, it was just fun to tease her.

"You never did such a thing, well what thing is that? Tell us, or make out with Prongs?" Sirius asked, a phony innocence in his eyes.

"Neither one of them!" she shrieked.

"Lils, relax, they're just trying to get a rise out of you," James assured her.

"Oh, right. Well, it wasn't very funny. And don't you dare do that again Sirius," Lily scolded.

"I won't Lilykins, after all, I don't want to end up like your buddy Shaun over there," Sirius replied, pointing his thumb in the direction of the Ravenclaw table.

"What'd you do to him Lils?" James asked, curiosity taking over his face.

Lily turned a vibrant shade of red. "Well, he was saying awful stuff. And then I lost my temper with him after he started calling me a whore, and well, I slapped him across the face. I didn't mean to do it that hard though."

"He called you a whore?" James asked.

Lily nodded her head, uncertain if she even should have brought that up in the first place.

"That bloody bastard, who the fuck does he think he is, calling you that," James had anger written all over his face. His grip around Lily's shoulders tightened, as if he was afraid something was going to happen to her.

"It's really not that big of deal," Lily told him, not wanting him to get in a fight because of her.

"Yeah, not that big of a deal," he repeated back to her. Although his eyes said differently, there was rage mixed in with hurt that she was exposed to that.

"James, it isn't anything really. Besides, I took care of everything," she told him, trying to cool him down.

"Yeah, you're right… Now, I'm starving, and that apple pie looks pretty damn good, so if you'll excuse me," James began, but cut himself off when he took a large bite of his apple pie.

Author's Note 2: Hope you all liked chapter 13! I know it's kind of short, but it wrote itself, and that's as long as it was getting. Anyways, please review!