A/N: OMG!! I am soo sorry that I haven't updated in, like, forever!!! Sorry, again. Well here's chapter 4, I hope you all like it!!

Disclaimer: Do I look like J.K. Rowling to you? (not that you can see me, but trust me, I don't) (and if you can see me…well… I'm scared)

Chapter 4- He's MATURING?!?!

As it turned out, getting Lily busy and James by himself at the same time was much harder than Brooke and Pam had thought it would be. Whenever Lily would go off somewhere, Potter was with his friends. When Potter was alone, Lily would have time to hang out with her friends. It had been a week sense James had asked the girls for help.

James was following the advice they had already given him, and it worked…a little. They weren't friends yet, but they weren't constantly fighting. Lily hated to admit it, but sometimes the conversations that James and she had were… nice.

Pam and Brooke needed to find a way to talk to James. They wanted the two to get together as much as he did, even though he kept saying it was all 'just to be friends'. They had wanted to get James by himself, but saw no possible way of doing that.

One day, Lily said, "I hope you don't mind, but I'd kind of like to just spend the day alone." She didn't want her friends thinking that she didn't want to spend time with them. "I just want to sit outside, and read a book by myself, or something."

"Oh, that's fine, Lily." Pam said. Both of her friends knew that she would sometimes just want to be alone to think for a day, and they didn't mind at all.

"Thanks, you guys," she smiled at her friends before getting up and walking outside.

"Maybe James will be by himself today," Brooke said hopefully.

"I doubt it," Pam replied, and she knew that Brooke thought the same thing.

"Well," Brooke started, "how do you think Sirius and Remus would react?"

Pam gave her friend a skeptical look. "Do you mean telling him what she had said in front of Sirius and Remus?"

"Well, I think Remus would understand," Brooke said, already knowing what the reply would be.

"But Sirius?" They both already knew what his reaction would be. "He would flip!"

"But how else could we tell him? We found all of this out a week ago. There's no other way to do it." And Pam knew that Brooke was right, they had to.

James was sitting with two friends feeling down. Remus and Sirius were playing wizards chess, and James was watching (well, not really paying attention to what was going on). It had been a week, and Pam and Brooke hadn't told him anything. He wasn't mad at them, he knew that they were waiting for a moment when they weren't with Lily and he wasn't with his friends.

He had his head down, thinking, not even looking up when Remus had won his seventh game in a row. He did look up, however, when he heard the common room door swing open.

It was Brooke and Pam. He started feeling sad again. They wouldn't tell him now, he was with his friends.

"James?" When hearing his name he looked up to see who had spoken it. It was Pam. He was surprised; he thought they were here to see Remus and Sirius.

"We need to talk," said Brooke. He was really surprised now.

"But…" he started but Pam cut him off.

"Do you want our help or not?" That shut him up right away.

"Pam…" said Brooke, before saying, "There's no other way to do this. It's been a week, and we've never been able to get you by yourself." This was all completely true. "Do you mind if they here?"

James thought about it. He wasn't worried at all about Remus knowing, it was Sirius he was worried about. He would freak out, everyone knew that. He would think James was mental. But he pushed though thoughts out of his head. This might be his only chance to every become friends with Lily. He nodded. "It's okay," he replied.

By this point, the game of chess was forgotten. James' friends were staring at the three, obviously confused.

"What are you guys on about?" Sirius asked.

"Well, last week, before our 'Girls Night' James came to us, asking for…help." Brooke started nervously.

"Help with what, exactly?" Remus asked them.

"With getting to be friends with Lily." James sighed.

"You mean with getting into her pants?" Sirius asked, half laughing. He had to be kidding.

"Shut up, Sirius!" Pam said, smacking his arm. "He's being serious!" (no pun intended)

"Well, what did she say?" James asked, anxious to find out what she had said.

"Well, she said you did seam different, in a good way." Brooke saw his reaction. His face lit up a little, obviously happy. "And said she might like you as a friend." His face lit up even more.

"But," Pam started, "basically she said you just had to mature. You know don't ask her out so much. Don't pull pranks often. Only if it's funny, not directed at anyone, and wouldn't hurt anyone. Focus more on school. That kind of stuff."

Everyone looked at James, waiting for his reaction to all of this.

"Okay." His answer shocked everyone. "If that's what I have to do, than I'll do it." He smiled, as did everyone else (with the exception of Sirius).

"Glad to see you're finally maturing, Prongs." Remus said, clapping him on the shoulder.

"Yea, I am too, if it means being friends wi-" But Sirius cut him off.

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!" He shrieked at the top of his lungs. "NO, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!!" Sirius grabbed James by the shoulders, and started shaking him, "PRONGS! PRONGS, ARE YOU OKAY? DON'T WORRY, I WON'T LET YOU MATRUE!! I'LL SAVE YOU! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!!!"

"Oh, shut up, Sirius," Remus said, pulling him away from James. "Get over it. It won't be that bad."

"Well," Sirius started, having calmed down a little, "She said you'd have to focus more on your studies, right?" They all nodded. "Well, does that mean that, if I want to see you anymore, we'd have to go to…to…that place?!?!" Now he looked completely terrified at this thought.

"What?" Pam asked. "What the hell do you mean by 'that place'?"

Remus shook his head in disbelief. "Do you mean the library?"

"NOOOOOOO!! NOT THE 'L' WORD!! MOONY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!?!?!"

"God, get over yourself." Pam said. "I officially have the weirdest boyfriend in the world. He has no problem whatsoever hearing or saying Voldemort. But the library… that's terrifying!"

Sirius winced when she said the 'L' word.

"Whatever," said James, completely ignoring his best friend. "Thanks you guys," he said to Pam and Brooke.

"Glad we could help," Brooke said.

"Now, how about we play some Wizards Chess?" Pam suggested.

It's beautiful out here… Lily thought as she walked outside, book in hand. I love autumn!

She sat down under a tree next to the lake. She opened her book and started reading, but soon found it hard to concentrate. She sighed and put the book down. She stared out across the lake and started thinking.

I can't believe how nice James has been lately. She found herself starting to think about James. I mean, he hasn't been fooling around, and doesn't hex every boy that talks to me anymore. Maybe he's maturing…Wait. What did I just say…well think? James hasn't matured! That's impossible! He isn't nice! Nothing could ever make Potter change.

As soon as she'd thought those words, she wished that she hadn't. She knew that wasn't true, and that it was mean. I was never exactly nice to him…she thought. Maybe my friends are right, maybe I should give James Potter a chance. He really does seem different, maybe if I try to be nice to him, we could be friends. Something is defiantly different about him, I wonder what's maid him change…?

She didn't have a clue that the answer to her question was herself, Lily Evans.

A/N: Well there's chapter 4, I hope you liked it! Sorry again that I haven't updated in a really long time. I will try to update faster! Well thanks again for reading! Please review!! if you do, I'll give you a cookie…