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The next morning, Lily woke up still feeling betrayed. She hated that James hadn't trusted her enough with the Marauder's secret. But she was mostly upset because she didn't know what else he could have been hiding from her. First the Animagi thing, and who knew what it could be next!

Lily wanted to go for a run outside badly; she wanted to clear her mind from James Potter. But she couldn't do that, during the night a storm had emerged. It had completely flooded the pathways with snow, which made it impossible for anyone to set foot outside until it was cleared.

Instead, Lily had to settle for the warmth of a steamy shower. She entered the bathroom, and cranked the water onto hot. As she stepped into the shower, she could feel the steam invade her lungs. It truly felt like a sauna in there, with the exception of water running down her body.

After about ten minutes, Lily could feel tears burning behind her eyes. And because no one could see or hear her, she let them fall from her eyes, and mix in with the steamy shower water.

This time though, she wasn't crying because of the hurt that she had felt from feeling betrayed. Instead, she was crying because of everything that could have gone wrong during James' triumph of becoming an animagus. If something had ever happened to him, she would have been devastated. Well, back in fifth year she wouldn't have been, but now she needed him in her life. Or if Remus had accidentally attacked James, and James was to die, Lily didn't know if she could handle that. She didn't know if she could handle losing him.

And this made her angry; she loved him, but the risks that he took, that brought this pain to her, made her furious. Lily just knew that one of these days, something would go wrong, and she would end up hating, yet loving James for that. She would hate him for leaving her, and for scaring her. But on the other hand, she loved him for just being himself.

Everything about James seemed to be confusing her so much now. In a way, she wished that she had never found out about the Marauder's secret. She wished that she was still oblivious of their escapades every full moon. Life would be a lot simpler for her that way.

On the other hand though, she felt that she deserved to know the truth a long time ago. She felt excluded form her boyfriend's life. And if she had never known about it, and went on thinking that he led a safe life, she may not love as much as she did.

Lily wasn't able to complete her thoughts though, because she heard the door to the bathroom open. One of her friends must have woken up, and decided to take a shower as well. Lily heard the other shower start up, and then a door close behind it.

Lily sighed, and decided she had better exit her comfort of the steam.

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James was sitting in the Great Hall that day, eating breakfast with Sirius, Remus, Peter, Scarlett, and Gracie. He didn't really feel like eating anything, he felt miserable. He knew Lily was furious at him, and was going to come up to him any day now and dump him officially.

"James, is every thing okay?" Scarlett asked, a look of worry in her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he responded, although his voice told differently.

"Are you sure?" she asked. She looked truly concerned about him.

"Yeah… I mean, well, actually no. Lily's mad at me," he told her.

"What happened?" Scarlett asked.

She and James were really just having the conversation by themselves. Everyone else was busy complaining about the detention that Professor Rander had given them. Of course, they did have every right to complain, because it was an unreasonable punishment. Gracie and Marissa were talking during class, which led to them getting points off. This wouldn't have been too bad if the two Slytherians that had also been talking hadn't gotten off without a punishment. So, Sirius had accused Rander of being prejudice to the Gryffindors, which landed the entire seventh year class in detention.

"I don't want to talk about it," James responded.

"James, you can trust me," Scarlett assured him, while giving him a light squeeze of reassurance on his arm.

"I know, it's just that we had an argument," James told her, completely ignoring his last comment.

"About what?"

"I told her 'no more secrets' which I really regretted afterward," James admitted.

"Oh… I won't pry at what the secret is, but if I were you, I'd try and say hi, but don't try and kiss her or anything. She's probably upset right now, so just give her some time to cool off," Scarlett advised.

"Yeah, that's what plenty of people have bee telling me."

"And, if you want, I'll try and talk to her," Scarlett offered.

"Thanks."

Just then, Lily had entered the Great Hall. She searched for a familiar face, and saw her best friends sitting with the Marauders. She didn't want to deal with James right now; she just wanted to eat her breakfast in peace.

"Morning Lily," James told her as she walked by him.

She turned around to face him and said, "Hello."

James smiled, thinking that maybe she wasn't too angry after all. "Hey, can I talk to you for a second?"

Lily eyed James for just a moment before responding, "Alright."

They made their way over to the opposite end of the table, and all the way over there, Scarlett had shot disapproving looks at James. He wasn't listening to her advice.

When they sat down, James bent forward to kiss her softly on the cheek, but Lily pulled away.

"Listen, James, I may like you a lot, but that doesn't mean that I'm not mad at you right now."

"What?" James asked. He was truly confused. First he thought she would hate him, and then he thought she liked him, and now she had turned down a kiss. There was just no way to understand her.

"Just because I'm your girlfriend, that doesn't mean that I can't be as pissed as hell at you," Lily sternly responded.

"But…"

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got somewhere else to be," Lily told him as she walked away.

James felt his heart both leap with joy and sink with hurt. He was glad that Lily still considered him as her boyfriend, but he wanted her to be with him at that moment. He didn't want her to be upset with him.

Author's Note 2: Okay, hey everyone! Sorry this one is a little short, but I felt awful about not posting for almost an entire week! So here one is, and I promise the next chapter will be out soon! And for all of you who did want to see Sirius prank Zoë in that last chapter, I promise that there will be actual pranking done in later chapters! Anyways, please review!