A/N: Hello there! So here's the new chapter. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEE review and I'll love you more than summer vacation (which has still not arrived for me. Goddamn finals.) Enjoy! :)

(James's P.O.V.)

Dating Lily Evans is probably the most brilliant thing that has ever happened to me. Though we haven't been on an actual date yet, though, but you know what I mean…whatever, technicalities. But really, it is. You know, I've never been this happy in my entire life. I've never felt this alive.

I learned a few new things about her too. Little things. I knew most of them, which she was surprised about, but I mean, let's face it, I paid very close attention to her all these years I just picked up on a few things. But some things I didn't.

But now, I learned them.

Like how her favorite color is blue (especially sky blue, which is the color of her room back home). Or how her favorite flowers are in fact lilies ("Are you kidding?" "It's cliché, I know, but I can't help it! Wouldn't you love a flower if it were named after you?" "Wait, wait. The flower was named after you?" "Well, of course. What, you thought it was the other way around?"). Or how she has a fear of heights (hence, why she would never try Quidditch. But I promised her I'd get her up on a broom and she'd come down in one piece. She thinks it won't happen. Too bad. It's going to happen!).

Of course, the rumors have been flying around like mad. Not that we expected anything less. There was one that I slipped her Amortentia. There was one that we shagged on the first night, and another that we've been shagging since fifth year (in my dreams). My personal favorite was the one where Lily begged and begged for me to date her until I finally said yes out of pity. Lily's favorite, however, was the one where Lily and Sirius have been shagging for years and he broke things off, so Lily is using me as a rebound. I don't like that one. At all. Sirius seemed to get a good kick out of it, though. Lily and I have been good at laughing most of them off, though.

And we've been spending a lot of time together, which is extremely nice. We spend most of it out on the Quidditch Pitch, or as Lily explained it to me, her "haven of thoughts" (she's mental, that one), or the Common Room once everyone's upstairs. We spend a lot of time talking and joking and laughing, and we still play our chess games, but we also spend a very (very) reasonable amount of time snogging, which, you know, is completely fine by me (very fine, actually. She's one hell of a snogger). And I really enjoy every single moment of it. I always imagined what it'd be like with Lily. But the way we are is so much better than I ever imagined. I feel like she's my best friend, who also happens to be really fit and I could snog her whenever I please.

Anyway, we're at the first prefects meeting since we started dating, and the looks on everyone's faces are pretty priceless. Lily and I both exchanged a look when we first walked in, trying to hide our smirks. The meeting went fine as normal, and everyone left whispering amongst themselves. When the last person left the room, Lily was standing at the desk, organizing papers. I put my arms around her waist from behind her and started to kiss her neck.

"James," she said. "Not here. Not now. Later."

I sighed and stopped kissing her, and I just laid my chin on her shoulder. "Lily, come on. I know you already did all your work because we did it during our free instead of snogging. So let's just use now-"

"And you have to go to McGonagall for your meeting," she sighed, holding one of my hands that was around her, squeezing it. "We'll spend time together after."

"You know," I said, pecking her shoulder. "I could just, you know, not show up. Or go late."

"No, James," she said, but she wasn't letting go of me.

"What's ten…fifteen…twenty minutes late going to do? McGonagall won't care. She adores me."

"Yeah, who doesn't."

"That better not be sarcasm," I said, kissing her cheek gently.

She finally turned around, my hands still around her waist. She put her hands on my shoulders and smiled. "Of course it's not." She leaned in and gave me a short (too short of a) kiss on the lips. "I'll see you after, okay? Common Room?"

"The Common Room is too crowded on Friday nights."

"So the pitch, then?"

"Deal. And wear your hair down. The weekend has officially begun," I said.

"Deal," she smiled.

"Do you need help with those?" I asked her, motioning my head to the papers.

"Nah, I'm almost done. Go to McGonagall, okay? I'll see you soon."

"Fine," I groaned, and then leaned in and kissed her for a few more brilliant moments. Every time her lips touched mine I still felt that electric spark and my stomach still tied itself into all these knots and every time it was just as perfect if not better than every previous one. We parted and she smiled at me as she let go. I said bye and left the room with a grin plastered on my face.

I walked down the corridor a bit and at the corner Snivellus was standing there, wand out, looking more bitter than ever. He was standing in my way.

"May I help you?" I asked, trying to control my temper as my smile faded.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, Potter?" he snarled.

"Um…going to McGonagall's office?"

"I meant with Lily, dimwit," he spat.

What the bloody hell was this git's problem? "I really don't think that's any of your business, Snivellus."

"I think it is."

"Look, Snape. You and Lily aren't mates any more. She's not your concern."

He pointed his wand at my chest. "Don't think I don't know what you're playing at, Potter. I see the way you look at her. Like she's a piece of meat."

"EXCUSE ME?"

"And you don't deserve her," he continued.

"Oh, and you do?" I snapped back. "We all know you've had a pathetic crush on her since first year-"

"Oh, look who's talking!" he shouted.

"Yeah, and guess who's with her now, huh?" I asked as I slowly drew my wand out from my pocket in case he decided to curse me.

I saw anger flicker in his eyes. He started to murmur under his breath, "Sectum-"

"Expelliarmus!" I shouted before he could finish, sending his wand across the corridor, and pointing mine against him now.

I looked at Snape and suddenly he was looking over my shoulder, his face gone even more still than his usual expression. I turned my head around to see Lily standing not too far behind, her arms crossed. I couldn't catch her expression. But I did hear the shakiness in her voice when she said, "How could you?"

Oh bloody fucking shit. I took my wand off of Snivellus as fast as I could and put it in my pocket. I walked over to her. "Lily, it's not what it-"

"I just saw you disarm him and point your wand at him, and you're going to lie to me?"

"I didn't do it for no reason!"

I heard Snape start running away quickly. He was a bloody coward!

"Oh yeah, and I'm supposed to believe that, right?" she asked, tears starting to fall rapidly from her eyes.

"Oh, God, Lily, don't cry. I swear to Merlin I didn't do it for no reason! You have to believe me. Look, I was walking-"

"Save your breath," she said, turning around and walking away.

I ran right behind her and caught her arm. "Lily, just listen!"

"I never should have thought you would change," she whispered.

"Wha…what?"

"You didn't change," she said, louder, shaking her arm out of my grip. "And you never will. God, how could I be so stupid?"

"How could you even say that? I have changed and you know it! And so have you! You think I've just been putting on an act?" I shouted.

She ignored me, looking down. "Just leave me alone. Go to your meeting."

"Just listen to me, please," I said, trying to speak softer and less angry, trying to take her hand. "You told me you'd trust me. Just trust me, Lily. Can't you do that?"

She pushed it away. "Just go," she whispered, and then went off her own way, running again.

Oh Merlin. Our first fight. We've only been together for a week and now we were having rows in the middle of the corridor. I couldn't let this end. This has been the best week of my life, literally. I couldn't let her slip right out of my fingers all because of Snape.

I made my way to McGonagall's, thinking about Lily and how I could fix this. I knew I was a few minutes late, but I didn't care. I entered and she was writing something.

"Oh, Mr. Potter, you're here," she said, putting down her quill. "Take a seat, boy."

I took a seat across from her at her desk. "Good evening, Professor."

"Now, tomorrow's the Quidditch match," she said. "How is the team doing?"

I shrugged. "Quite well. I don't know if we'll be good enough to beat Slytherin, but I sure as hell hope so."

"The Slytherin team is a mess this year since they don't have their star chaser anymore," she explained.

"Ah. Right. Kaplan. He wasn't too bad a bloke, for a Slytherin, I mean."

"Well, yes, I suppose," she said. "I hope you do not disappoint tomorrow, Mr. Potter. I'm really hoping we take home the Cup again, especially with your last year of being captain."

"I hope we perform at our best, Professor," I answered.

"You're being unusually monotone, Mr. Potter. Is there something you'd like to talk about?"

Ha. Like I was going to talk about Lily to McGonagall. "No, I'm fine," I lied.

She raised an eyebrow. "If you're sure," she said.

"I'm sure. Thank you."

"I also wanted to meet with you to discuss your ambitions for when you graduate Hogwarts. You want to be an auror, correct?"

"Yes, I would."

"Well, you would have to apply to a few training schools that only lasts four months. You can go to one where you can just apparate back and forth from your home. But because of its brevity it's one of the most prestigious and hardest to get into. I am sure Professor Dumbledore will ask you and your friends to join the order once you graduate, so if you go to the school I am suggesting you will still be able to attend Order meetings," she said.

"Sounds brilliant," I said. That all did sound rather great. I'm sure the lads would do it too, and probably even Lily also. The thought of going out and finally being able to fight made me excited for a moment.

"Wonderful. I'll let Professor Dumbledore now and I'll give you the application to fill out some time next week."

"Thank you, Professor," I said, standing up. "I'll see you tomorrow at the game?"

"Of course. Best of luck," she said as I waved and left.

I went immediately to the Quidditch Pitch, hoping Lily was there. She wasn't. I didn't have the map on me so I couldn't check anyway. I sat out there for a while, hoping Lily would give me a chance and listen to what happened before chucking me.

I went back to my dorm later that night. Remus and Peter weren't there, but I was surprised to see Sirius there.

"Not out with Carly?"

"She wants sleep for the game, apparently," he sighed. "Why aren't you with Lily? You usually stay out later than this together. It's only ten forty five."

"We had a fight. A few hours ago. She won't even let me talk to her."

"Oi, Prongs, what did you do now? Do you know how hard I worked to convince Lily to be with you?"

"Hey, you're not the only reason we're together, you know," I said.

"Believe what you will, James, but Lily can't just throw away all of my hard work because of something stupid you did!" Sirius shouted.

"She's not throwing it away. We didn't break up…At least, I don't think we did. Yet," I said, sighing, lying down on my bed.

"What did you do?"

"Nothing! Snivellus came up to me and started bothering me about being with Lily and pointing his wand at me and he was muttering the Sectumsempra curse under his breath so Lily obviously couldn't hear him but then I shouted Expelliarmus to disarm him and then I just pointed my wand at him to protect myself and that was it I was going to get up and walk away and leave to McGonagall's but Lily saw me and thought I was just doing it to start up with him."

"This kind of stuff only happens to you, Prongs," Sirius said, laughing.

"It's really not funny."

"I know, sorry," he said. He reached into his drawer. "Want to get sloshed?"

"Not really," I answered.

"Why the hell not? I think this is a pretty good reason to!"

"Because I don't want to be hungover tomorrow for the game, git."

"Oh. Right."

"And we'll probably be drinking after the game when we win," I added.

"And you'll actually get drunk with me?" Sirius asked.

I chuckled. "Sure, Padfoot. We'll get pissed together."

"Don't you think that will make Lily more cross?"

I shrugged. "I guess we'll find out."

The whole team had just lined up at the entrance to the field, waiting for the game to start. It probably won't for another few minutes. All that's on my mind though is Lily. I got up early for breakfast and her friends came in as I was leaving, but she didn't. I just wanted to hug her and kiss her and explain what happened and have her forgive me and have everything go back to normal. But now it was time to think about Quidditch. But I couldn't.

Our team was being very talkative, as usual. I looked around and all of the sudden, I saw her. Talking to Sirius. She looked extremely upset, on the verge of tears. They were speaking in whispers. Lily crossed her arms and listened to whatever Sirius was saying. I had to get over there. I had to talk to her.

I walked over and she was mid sentence but she saw me and stopped talking, causing Sirius to turn around and look at me. He nodded and then gave Lily a look, and then walked away to stand next to Carly, putting his arm around her shoulders.

"Uh, hi," she said, softly.

"Lily, I have to go out there in-"

"I know," she said, interrupting me. "I know. I just…I just wanted to, er, wish you good luck. We'll talk about what happened later."

I felt a wave of relief wash over me. She wasn't so cross. She was willing to hear me out. I hadn't completely destroyed everything. "Well, thank you," I said, moving closer to her. She bit her lip and then gave me a strong hug. I hugged her back closely. When we parted a bit but not entirely, she leaned in and gave me a forceful kiss right on the mouth. When her lips left mine I could feel the prat like smile on my face spreading wider.

"…THE GRYFFINDOR QUIDDITCH TEAM!" The student announcer shouted.

"Go get 'em," she said, smiling and letting go.

I smiled widely at her and waved shortly, and then ran on the field with the team.

"Just let me find Lily," I told him.

"Noooooo," he whined, pulling on my arm.

"Are you drunk already?" I laughed.

"Nah. But YOU CAN'T FIND LILY BECAUSE FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW IS NOT ABOUT LILY. IT'S ABOUT THE TEAM AND OUR VICTORY AGAINST THE BLOODY SLYTHERINS! Right, team?"

"He can go find Lily!" June shouted at Sirius, slapping him. "We have all night to party!"

"Yeah, let him go, Sirius," Carly said.

"Ugh. Fine. You get ten minutes. Then we start the party!"

"We can't start until first, second and third years are in their dorms," Carly reminded him.

He groaned. "Well, then, take all day if I care!" he shouted, sitting down on the couch.

"Oh sure," I said. "You listen to her but not to your best mate?"

"You're one to talk," he said. "Now go!"

"Good luck!" June added.

I walked through the very crowded Gryffindor Common Room. Everyone was shouting, and as I passed people they all slapped me on the back or slapped me five, congratulated me, and screamed either "GRYFFINDOR!" or "SLYTHERIN SUCKS BULLOCKS" or something along those lines. I finally reached her near a more relaxed corner. She smiled wearily at me once I got to her.

"Can we go somewhere a bit more, er, private?"

"Sure," I said nervously. I started walking to the staircase to the boys' dormitories. I stopped once we got there and looked at her. She raised an eyebrow and then sighed.

"Fine, fine. I can't get in trouble for it, right?"

I laughed. "No. Besides, the only people here that can us in trouble are ourselves. And Remus. But it's actually perfectly allowed."

"O-okay," she said. She followed me on the stairs to my dorm.

We walked in and I picked a few things off the floor and threw it on Sirius's bed. Lily sat on my bed. "How'd you know that's mine?"

She smiled slightly. "The Gryffindor blanket."

"Oh, right," I said, sitting down next to her.

There was silence for a moment and then I took her hand. She flinched but didn't move it away.

"I'm sorry," she whispered. "I shouldn't have…I shouldn't have said what I said. I didn't mean it. You have changed. I just…I don't know. I saw what was going on and jumped the gun because I'm still scared, I guess…though I shouldn't be, I know. And this past week has…has really been so wonderful, and I…I was just running for no reason like I always do and I'm so sorry. I want to listen. I should have. I'm sorry, James."

She looked up at me with teary eyes. My heart physically hurt at the sight. "I shouldn't have yelled at you. I'm sorry."

"No, you were right to," she said, squeezing my hand. "I shouldn't have shut you out like that. But I want to listen."

I sighed and told her the story. Once I told her Snape brought her up her gaze left mine and she just looked down for the rest of the story. When I finished, she finally looked back up at me.

"I'm sorry, James. I should have known he would start up with you about this eventually. He always hated the fact that you fancied me," she said softly. "You were just defending yourself. Really, I'm so sorry."

"It's fine, Lily. I forgive you," I said, rubbing her hand with my thumb. "I just…I asked you to trust me. And-"

"I know," she interrupted me. "I…I know. And I do, I promise. I just…I was just being stupid. I thought about it last night and felt awful because you deserve to be trusted. I shouldn't have acted like that. It won't happen again. I'm sorry. I trust you. I swear."

"It's okay," I told her, trying desperately to believe her.

She smiled at me. "You were brilliant out there, by the way."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah," she said. "And you looked brilliant too. Couldn't take my eyes off you."

I smirked, wiggling my eyebrows at her and leaned in closer to her. "Oh, really?"

She swallowed. "Mhm."

I put my free hand on her face and kissed her, causing my stomach to do flips. She kissed me back passionately, putting her hand through my hair. Things got heated pretty quickly, and the bed was a lot more comfortable than the Gryffindor common room couch or the grass on the Quidditch Pitch. I lied down on top of her as we snogged and both our hands wandered each other's bodies. I was two seconds away from attempting to take off her shirt when I heard the door open.

Why me, God? Why?

"Oi, get a bloody room!" Sirius said.

I took my lips off of Lily's for three seconds and said, "We did, genius! Leave!" and then I brought them back to hers, and I was surprised when she didn't fight me even though Sirius was right there, but instead she kissed me back just as much as she was before we were so rudely interrupted. It was a bit strange, because she usually wasn't one for snogging in front of other people, but you know, I was totally fine with it.

"But we need you," I heard June's voice say. June was with him? I felt Lily stop kissing me at the sound of her voice. Nooo, keep kissing me.

"Yeah, but we can't tell you what for because Lily is here and she'll stop us."

She parted from me and I frowned at her. "What are you lot up to?" Lily asked, trying to get me off of her.

"Can't it wait until later?" I asked, trying to lean back into Lily. "We're kind of busy, here."

"No, wait. Why can't I know about it?" she asked them, getting out from under me. I was going to murder them.

"Well, for one thing, you're Head Girl, and you'll stop us," June said.

"James is Head Boy!"

"Yeah, but he participates in these kinds of things, not stops them," said Sirius.

"I won't stop you," she said.

June and Sirius looked at each other. "Should we take her word for it?" Sirius asked.

"Nah, she's just saying that so we'll tell her."

"No, I'm not!" she shouted, standing up and walking over to them. "Tell me! Please!"

"James, control your woman!" Sirius said. Lily slapped his arm. "Bloody hell! Okay, sorry, I take that back?"

"Just tell us. Lily won't stop us," I said.

"Fine," June sighed. "We're going to prank the Slytherin team. And we need your help."

"Oh, no you are not!" Lily said. "They already lost! Why do you need to-"

"Lily, you said you wouldn't stop us!" June shouted. "Pretend you didn't hear about it. James, let's go."

"But-" she tried.

"No buts, missy," said Sirius, patting her head. I got up. "C'mon, Prongs, let's get the show on the road!"

I turned to Lily and gave her a quick kiss. "Be back soon."

"Kay," she said. "Please try not to get into too much trouble, all right?"

"Trouble?" I said, laughing. "I'm Head Boy, for Godric's sake, Lily. Do you really think I'd risk getting in trouble?"

She rolled her eyes and pushed me. "Go before I change my mind!"

"Prongs, pull yourself t-together, m-mate!" Sirius said, hysterical laughing.

"It's just r-really b-bloody funny!" I said, watching the sight. "R-Remus snogging Delia! Who would have ever thought?"

"This is not going to be good," Lily said, sighing.

"Lighten up, L-Lily, love," I said, looking at her. "Maybe they'll date now. We can double next week at Hogsmeade!"

"They're not going to date," she said. "Delia's just still really upset about Michael."

"So Moony's the rebound!" Sirius shouted, laughing. "That's r-rich."

"No it's not!" said Lily. "I always thought Remus fancied her."

"Not f-fancy," I told her. "Maybe thought she was fit, but-"

"James!"

"He's right, Lils," said Sirius.

"Yeah, he won't mind. He's probably enjoying it. He hasn't snogged a girl in… in… well, in a really long time," I said.

"'Sides, they're both piss drunk. I bet ya none of them will remember it by morning," said Sirius. "Right, Prongs?"

"Right, Padfoot," I said.

"You're both piss drunk," Lily said in an annoyed tone.

"It's a celebration, Evans! Let loose!" Sirius shouted, shaking her.

"I'm the only sober one out of all our mates! That isn't right!"

"Yeah, that isn't right," I said, looking at Sirius.

"That means you've got to get drunk now too so you're not left out!" Sirius shouted.

"Um, no thank you," said Lily.

"Prongs, you know what to do to loosen her up, don't you?"

"What the hell is he talking about?" she asked me.

"Nothing, Lily," I said, putting my arm around her. Then I turned to him. "Why don't you go shag Carly, yeah?"

"Yeah, why don't you?" someone said behind us. Then she walked over to Sirius.

"Hey, Carls!" I said. "Great first game, mate. You were way better than Padfoot."

"Padfoot?" Carly asked, sitting on Sirius's lap.

"Don't ask," Lily said.

"So," Carly said to Sirius. "About that shag…"

"The bedroom awaits!" Sirius shouted, pushing Carly off him and then taking her hand and stumbling with zero balance whatsoever to the stairs. "Good luck, mate!" he shouted to me.

I turned to Lily. "Soooooo," I said slowly in a deep, seductive voice, leaning in.

She burst into laughter. "Um, nice try, mate," she said, pushing me away from her.

I moved her hand away from my chest. "Oh, c'mon, we were so rudely interrupted before, and the bedroom is occupado, so let's just snog r-right here."

"James," she said, laughing still. Oh, that laugh. "You're drunk."

"Drunk, sober, tipsy, dead, I'd still want to snog you," I told her, leaning in again. She was about to say something but I caught her mouth with my own, and not-so-gentleman-like stuck my tongue in her mouth. I was drunk. Sue me. So maybe I wasn't up to par with my snogging skills. But I really wanted my girlfriend, so I had the right to snog how ever sloppily I pleased!

She didn't pull away right at that instant, she let me do what I wanted for a minute or so, but then she pulled away, grimaced, and said, "You taste really disgusting."

"Firewhiskey tastes good, Lil. That's the point."

"Not to me," she said. "Go brush your teeth or something."

"Uh, no," I said, and kissed her again. She started giggling while I was kissing her. But I didn't pull away, because that would mean she was winning. But really, in a way, she was winning, because she was snogging me, James Potter, Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Head Boy, marvelously handsome and quite a catch, if I do say so myself.

She pulled away though, causing me to groan. "Lily," I whined.

"People are around us," she said, her face a bit pink. Merlin, she looked so cute. I kissed her again quickly. I couldn't resist. "James."

"Lily, no one's watching. Everyone else is snogging too! Who cares?"

"I care!"

"So let's go somewhere else."

"You tried walking before…that didn't exactly work out."

"What happened?"

"You fell after four seconds."

"Oh. Right. Carry me?"

"No."

"Levitate me!"

"James."

"Get the invisibility cloak and we'll just do stuff under there and no one will notice! Unless, ya know, they sit on us, but…it could still work!"

Lily laughed, and then she leaned in and kissed me, and I happily responded. She pulled away and then reached into her pocket. "Here," she said, putting something in my hand.

"What's this?"

"Gum."

"What's gum?"

"I'm pretty sure they have gum in the Wizarding World, James."

"They probably do. But my mind is blanking. Damn alcohol."

"Just put it in your mouth and chew it. Don't swallow."

"What happens if I swallow it?"

"You die."

"What?"

"I'm kidding!"

"It wasn't funny."

"I thought it was. Now chew!"

So I put it in my mouth and chewed. It was minty. It was okay, I guess. "Why am I chewing this again?"

"So you don't taste so horrendous."

"Gee, thanks."

"Of course. Just chew it for a little more and then we'll see what we'll do. "

So I chewed it a little more and then I started getting tired, and then I lied down and rested my head on Lily's lap and she started playing with my hair, and then at some point or another I took out the gum and threw it in the pale near by, and all I really remember after that is closing my eyes and finding one of Lily's hands and holding it and having her lean down and give me a light kiss on the lips and her lips were so soft and I could smell the raspberry scent all around and she was still playing with my hair and holding my hand when I was thinking about how badly I wanted to kiss her again…

And I guess that's when I fell asleep, really, really happy.

A/N: Okay, a few things. To answer questions I'm assuming people may be thinking: Why the fight already, and why the makeup so quickly? Well, I kind of had this little fight in mind for a while and I always thought it should become in the beginning of the relationship- giving Lily reason with her illogical thoughts of why she should be 'running' from James...but the fight was supposed to make Lily realize she has to stop doubting him and, like he wants, just TRUST him to make the relationship really work. Hence, why they made up so quickly- she realized she was being stupid!Lily. Don't worry, fighting definitely will not be a usual thing. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! i know it was short, but James's chapters usually are- so the next chapter will most likely be a good amount longer. So yay! Thanks for reading and again, please review! The more reviews, the quicker the next chapter comes! :)