A.N.: Chapter two! I'm sorry this took so very long to write, but someone very close to me died recently, and I haven't been able to write. Enjoy!

"Where is she?" James asked nervously.

"Calm down," Sirius replied. "You sound insane."

"Yeah," Remus added, "she'll be here, stop obsessing."

"Hey guys!" Lily said, hugging each boy in turn.

"Lily!" James said, relieved.

"I missed you!"

"You did?"

"Of course, being asked out isn't the same when it's on parchment." Lily laughed. Sirius and Remus raised their eyebrows.

"I'll explain later, can we go grab a compartment now? I don't want to end up sitting with Slytherins," Lily said, looking skieved out.

The boys laughed and followed her to a compartment in the back, the same one as the previous year.

"So, guys, what will our first prank be?" Lily asked.

"Jell-O instead of pumpkin juice?" Sirius asked, excited.

"No!" The other three shouted.

"Well," James said casually, "we could kidnap Mrs. Norris."

"That's bloody brilliant." Lily exclaimed.

"Really?"

"Yeah!"

"Let's do it!"

"I'm sure James would love that," Sirius muttered under his breath, but Lily heard him. She smiled.

"That reminds me..." She pulled up her bag, and dumped out an entire summer vacation's worth of letters, each of which had a clever way of saying "go out with me" on them.

Sirius picked them up one at a time, and began reading them out loud.

"Are your legs tired, because you've been running through my mind all day, want to hang out?"

"Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven that is, I'll make it all better, let's go out tonight."

"Evans, go out with me?"

"Oh wow, when God made you he was just showing off!"

"We'd make beautiful babies together!"

"Are you Jamacian, cause 'ja makin me crazy!"

"Where are your wings? Cause you must be an angel!"

"What's your sign?"

"I think you know a friend of mine."

"I forgot my phone number, wanna tell me yours?"

"I'm here, what are your other two wishes?"

"I lost my teddy bear, can I sleep with you tonight?"

"Was there an earthquake, or did you just rock my world?"

"I just realized this, you look a lot like my next girlfriend."

"Are you a speeding ticket? Cause you got fine written ALL over you."

"Slow down sugar, I'm a diabetic."

"Girl, I've got my library card, and I am checkin' you out!"

"I'm lost, can I come home with you tonight?"

"Okay! That's enough," James said, blushing. "Hey Lily?"

"Yeah?"

"How come you kept those?"

"I don't know," she answered seriously.

(A week later)

"Hey," Lily said. "James?"

"What's up Lily?" He asked.

"Nothing, I was wondering, do you want to go to Quidditch try-outs together?"

"Yeah! Sirius and Remus are trying out too, so we can all go together."

"Awesome."

(Quidditch try-outs)

"Okay!" Called the Quidditch Captain, "lets start out with beaters!" Sirius raced up to the pitch on his broom. An hour later he called for keepers, Remus tried out. Next, the Captain called for seekers and James tried out, the three boys waited for Lily while she tried out for chaser. The try-outs went really well, all four of them made the team.

(Gryffindor Common Room. Three A.M.)

"Okay," Remus said, "how do we get the cat?"

"Well," Lily answered, "I was thinking that James and Sirius could do something to Filch. Then Remus you cast the Silencio spell on Mrs. Norris, and then I grab her, and we run."

"Brilliant." Sirius smiled.

"See," James said, "My girlfriend is a genius." Lily giggled. "Lily! You are a genius."

"Maybe, but I'm not your girlfriend." She smiled at him.

(The next day)

"Ready James? Sirius?" Lily asked, they nodded. "Go!" The boys ran down the hallway, making noise and setting off sparks from their wands. Filch went running after them, and Remus hit Mrs. Norris with the "Silencio" spell. Lily cast the stunning spell, and grabbed the cat. James grabbed the invisibility cloak out of his bag, hiding Sirius and himself, and Filch ran past them. The four Marauders ran back to the Gryffindor common room. Throwing themselves down onto the floor, Lily spoke first:

"Wow, that was amazing, but, uh, what are we going to do with her?"

"Shave her?" Sirius asked.

"No!" Lily exclaimed, "that's animal cruelty."

"Lily's right," James said quickly, "we can't hurt her, but we could scare Filch, just a little bit."

Lily's eyes lit up, "how?"

"We put her in the Great Hall… stunned."

"Sounds good."

"You two are so boring!" Sirius cried.

"Are not!" Lily and James said together, James smiled, Lily blushed.

The next morning at breakfast, Mrs. Norris was in place, right in front of where Filch sat for meals. He walked in, saw the cat, and began sobbing uncontrollably, Lily caught it on tape with a video camera, or as James called it, the muggle toy that traps moments in time. The Marauders high-fived, Professor Dumbledore looked at them and smiled, he fixed Mrs. Norris and the day continued as normal.

(Potions)

Slughorn walked by the Marauder's table, smiling at Lily, then Remus, and then Sirius as he gave them their grades on the assignment from the day before. He gave James' back, and frowned, the slapped him in the back of the head.

"Mr. Potter," Slughorn said, "would you like a chance to make this up?"

"Yes, sir" James replied.

"Lily, would you please help James today at four o' clock? He'll be needing it, the extra credit will be amortentia, if you help him you won't have to come to class tomorrow." Slughorn smiled broadly. Lily looked at James, he mouthed 'please'.

"Of course, Professor." She smiled.

"Thank you Miss Evans," Slughorn winked at her.

(Four o' clock)

Lily stood over James' potion, doing the work easily, and telling James to shut up.

"Lily" James breathed out "it's my project, I feel bad that you won't let me do any of it."

"James," Lily said, sounding distracted, "you know very well that I don't mind doing it. And besides, Slughorn likes you, he wants your grade up, so he asked me to 'help you,' when really he was saying: 'Lily help your friend, do his work just this once.' I could have said no, but I didn't, so shut up and let me concentrate!"

"Okay" James sank back into his chair, until Lily started talking to him.

"James, smell this."

"Okay."

"What does it smell like?"

"Like the ocean, and flowers, and like lip gloss, and mint chocolate chip iced-cream. What do you smell?"

"Quidditch, it just smells like Quidditch." Slughorn came bustling in.

"Okay, time's up. Perfect potion, looks exactly right, smells exactly right! Excellent, well done, see you both in class the day after tomorrow."

"Wait," James interrupted, "I don't have to come tomorrow either?"

"No, let Miss Evans teach you some more potions, and study for the exam on Friday together."

"Thanks Professor," they called, leaving the dungeons.

(The next day, during potions)

"So, what do you want to do?" James asked Lily as they sat on the floor of the common room.

"We could study for the exam tomorrow." Lily said easily.

"Or, we could do something else…"

"Being?"

"We could play truth." James said, trying to look casual, he failed, miserably.

"No thank you."

"Lily!!" James whined.

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"Fine."

"Really?" James asked eagerly.

"Sure, fine, whatever!"

"Okay, first question: will you go out with me?"

"No!"

"Why?!"

"Its no longer your question!" Lily snapped. "Anyway, why do you ask me out everyday?"

"Because I love you."

"Fine. Your turn."

"Why won't you go out with me?"

"Because we're JUST friends James, really, why do you want something more? What makes me different from any other girl in this school?"

What makes you different is those eyes, and that hair, and that temper and the way you read all the time, and everything you do, James thought. "I don't know, you just are."

Okay, Lily thought, taking a breath, fine James, just freakin fine! "Well then, maybe I'm not so different, maybe you should leave me alone for a while now, okay James?"

James looked in Lily's eyes, and instead of the liquid emerald he usually saw shining, he saw a hard kind of green, not shiny, but not dull, firey, and he could tell Lily just wanted to be left alone. He gulped, "sure Lily, I'll wait." He smirked, and turned, leaving the common room. He counted to three, thinking Lily would come after him, but she didn't, so he walked back to the common room, and Lily looked up at him.

"Was that enough time?" He asked.

"Yes." She smiled slightly at him.

"It was your question."

"Uhm, what is your favorite book?" Lily asked.

"Pride and Prejudice" He answered automatically.

"Since when?" Lily shrieked.

"I don't know, since you started reading it all the time, and I felt left out of your conversations with Remus, so I read it, and actually liked it." He shrugged, trying to look non-chalant, once again, failing, miserably.

"Oh, well, uh, that's cool I guess." They continued on like this for a little while longer, and then they went to Transfiguration.

(End of the year, Kings Cross Station)

"Bye guys!" Lily screamed, hugging her best friends. She walked over to her sister, who hugged her, and waved shyly to the boys.

"So, James, are you going to write to Lily again?" Sirius asked.

"Duh!" James saw his parents, he turned to the other two boys, who were staying with James for a week, and yelled, "Race ya?" The boys took off through the station, knocking into various people they didn't know.

A.N.: Okay, see the review button? Click it, and then tell me what you think. Thanks! Anna.