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Chapter 4 – To give up, or not to give up. That is the question.

-1 month later-

"Yes! Exams are over!" Lily exclaimed after her charms exam. I can finally get away from Potter.

Lily heard someone grumble next to her, and to her dismay, it was James Potter.

"Didn't do so well, Potter?" Lily smirked. Lily knew all too well that he had spent the whole night cramming for the exam, due to the fact that he hadn't studied one word before that. And he probably got Remus to help him too.

He smiled, messing up his already messy hair.

"Why do you always do that?" Lily asked, irritated. I never understand why girls think it's so attractive. Does he not own a comb or brush?

"Why, do you like it?" James asked sheepishly, as his hand went up to his head, once again messing up his already messy hair.

Lily walked off. Thank god for the break. James followed, keeping up easily with Lily.

"So…" James started. "What are you doing over the break?"

Lily scowled. "None of your business."

"Lily dear, haven't you realized that anything that involves you is my business?"

Before Lily could throw another insult, the stairs started moving again and Lily felt herself falling towards the ground. Before she could react, she felt a hand around her waist, steadying her.

"Whoa there."

She turned around, only to see James's smirk inches away from her. James's smirk disappeared as he realized the position that they were in. A group of Hufflepuff girls stopped and stared at strange pair, the star seeker and red head, standing in the middle of the stairs… dancing?

Lily broke away, blushing. "Uhh… I have to go now. Umm… bye James."

"Yea, sure, bye Lily."

I hate gravity. Lily thought as she walked off, still blushing.

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"She called me James again!" James exclaimed to his friends as he explained what had happened this afternoon. "It's the third time this week!"

"Congrats mate!" Sirius boomed, patting his best friend on the back.

"You know, just because you're on a first name basis now doesn't mean that it's time to pick out your wedding cake." Remus said, looking up from his book.

"A wedding cake! Great idea Remus!" Sirius wooped. "Hey Prongsie, don't forget. I'm your best man when you and Lilyflower get married, right? Right? And the flowers at the wedding have to be…"

James wasn't paying attention to what Sirius had just said. Remus was right. He needed to do something more. He wasn't even halfway close to making Lily fall for him. Why is love so difficult?

"… and I'll go snog some of the bridemaids in the closet…"

"Prongs, will you please make Padfoot shut up?" Remus asked, too lazy to go get his wand.

"Yea, he's getting on my nerves." Wormtail added.

"Now, now Wormtail. Just because you're not going to be Jamesie's best man doesn't mean that you're not going to be invited to the wedding! It's going to be…" Sirius was interrupted by a silencing charm that James sent towards him.

"Come on guys, let's go eat. I'm famished from all this thinking. I need brain food." James said, steering towards the door.

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The Marauders entered the Great Hall where everyone was chatting amiably, enjoying their dinner. James's eyes trailed over the a familiar spot, where a certain redhead was always sitting, next to her best friend, Alice Longbottom. But today, she was alone, and as James walked up to her, he noticed that she was reading yet another book.

"Studying for next year's NEWTS?" James said, scaring Lily and making her jump.

Lily scowled. James Potter. With his buddies. Great. She smiled at Remus, who was the only one out of the Marauders that she could stand (she couldn't understand why Remus would hang out with them), and returned back to her book without saying a word to James.

James didn't take this to heart. He made a mental note to confront Remus on their relationship. He sat down next to Lily and pulled to big bowl of mashed potatoes towards him and dug in.

Lily saw this out of the corner of her eye and was, well, disgusted by this. "Do you not have any manners, Potter? Can't you take a plate?"

James looked over. Quickly swallowing the mouthful of potatoes he had in his mouth, he replied, "I would, but then it would mean that the poor house elves will have to wash another plate."

"Oh yes Potter, because I see that you care SO much about the elves, especially your nightly escapades to the kitchen so that the house elves can bring you food." Lily said, rolling her eyes.

"Hey! How'd you know that?" James eyed Lily suspiciously, even though he was only curious on whether or not Lily had been paying as much attention to him as he did to her. As always, with all things involving Lily, he was wrong.

"Remus told me." James glared at Remus. Why is she so nice to Remus? This was really frustrating James. He was about to ask Lily another question but Lily had already gotten up and left the table.

James looked at his friends. Remus was picking at his food absentmindedly, looking at the moon that shown on the ceiling of the great hall. Peter was busy eating and avoiding eye contact with James because he knew that if he said something, there was a 99.9 that it would make James angry and would result in him talking, no, squawking like a parrot for the rest of the day.

"Bad Luck mate." Sirius mouthed, still under the Silencio charm.

James sighed. This was going to take a while.

After dinner, the Marauders went back up to their common rooms and went to bed. James laid in bed, wondering whether or not Lily Evans was going to ever fall in love with him. It seemed hopeless, after all, she had despised him for a long time and cringes at the very mention of his name. She even mentioned once that she'd rather date the giant squid in the lake than him. (Which James later pointed out that he was much more handsome than the squid and the squid was a female, which resulted in yet another glare from Lily.) But still, even when she glared, she was beautiful. Not the blonde cheerleader beautiful, she was… James couldn't describe it. Lily Evans was definitely special, and James was determined to make her fall in love with him. Oh no, the devilishly handsome James Potter, star seeker of the Gryffindor Quidditch team didn't give up that easily.

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