You: LYK, ZOMG, UR STILL ALIVE? WTFJRAOIGAHEUEGKJHA!

Okay, so story time. One of my favorite fanfics in the world is "Napa Valley Weekend". Look it up in my favorites. It stopped RIGHT before the ending, and I hate that. I've been begging since like 2005 or something for the author to finish it, so I just finish it in my head. I realize, that for some people, I've been doing the same. I apologize. I've reread the story without going... wow, you suck... to myself, and that, added to the out of the blue reviews I got, is enough sign that I should at least finish it.

I apologize that the fic wasn't longer (in a way), and that it took long to ... be ... short. Uh. Yeah. This is, indeed, the final chapter I'm going to write for Lily & James. I'll probably write more in the future, but as of now, this is it.

My next project (SUMMER!) is going to be Harry/Ginny. Maybe I'll simultaneously write another one. If y'all like that, but I dunno why you would....... ;)

(insert witty disclaimer that I'm not JKR here)

How to Survive James Potter for Dummies

Written and experienced by Lily Evans

Chapter 10: An End

(a crappy end, but an end nonetheless)

Lily & James

The next day, Lily and James sat together on the dorm couch, his arm around her, in a way that didn't feel too different from the days before that. "I say we keep it quiet for about a month," James suggested.

Lily laughed. "They have a bet going, did you know?"

"Well, a lot of them are going to lose money!" James scoffed. "It's not nice to bet."

"Against the rules."

"Defying Head Girl and Boy authority."

"Defying Lily Evans and James Potter."

"The undefiable," James declared.

Lily smiled. "That's not a word, James."

"Doesn't matter! It shows that we are undefiable!"

"And anyway," said Lily, snuggling closer to James, "they'll have their ways of finding out. I wouldn't be surprised if they came bursting in right now, taking a moment to take it all in, then yelling: 'I knew it! Hand over the galleons, Remus!'"

"You say that like Sirius would be the one to burst in," James said suspiciously.

Lily playfully hit him. "As if you think it would be anyone else."

"Touche."

There was a silence, as if the two of them were waiting for Lily's prediction to happen. Lily giggled and said, "They're sleeping. It's the weekend."

"How do you get these things?" asked James, in admiration. "I didn't even think of that."

"Flattery doesn't get you snogging, James, dear," Lily admonished.

James looked in awe. "Okay, you just got a whole lot of my respect for knowing that I wanted to snog you."

"You're a boy. Everyone can guess that," said Lily, exasperatedly.

"I apologize for my predictability, dear, darling Lily. Such things simply cannot be helped," James said innocently. "I am, after all, as you say, a boy."

Lily smiled and kissed him.

The Friends

"Time is up, my friends, Sirius Black has won the bet. Nobody on the planet knows the workings of James Potter and Lily Evans quite as I do," declared Sirius to the group at the Great Hall, as soon as Lily and James sat down.

Alice gawked. "What are you talking about? They haven't even said anything!"

Sirius smiled. "Alice, Alice, Alice. Such a limited mind! I know James snogged her. I just know it. Tell me I'm right, my friends." He turned to James and Lily.

"Not even past breakfast," Lily said, sadly. "I was hoping for a month." This earned a loud, theatrical gasp from Alice and Mary.

Sirius stood up and bowed. "Thank you, thank you."

"Well, they snogged," said Mary, with a touch of desperation. "Doesn't mean..."

"Sorry, Mary," James interrupted her with a smirk.

An exchange of galleons suddenly happened, as Mary, Alice, Remus, and Peter glumly handed over their galleons to Sirius. The latter smirked, pocketing the money and said, "This goes to a good cause, men - and women."

"Good cause!" scoffed Lily. "That just means you're buying new things from Zonko's."

"It seems that you're not the only predictable one, then." Sirius grinned.

James tossed Sirius a galleon. "I guess you deserve that, since I was thinking after Easter." Sirius looked giddy.

Lily smiled and kissed James' cheek. "I guess they all lived happily ever after, then."

That well-known sentence, "They all lived happily ever after", has never been true, because with one person's happiness, another person is not.

Severus watched the exchange from his table, and looked away, crushing his eyes closed, willing for the tears not to come. He had been her friend for so long. Why did such a thing ruin it? He had never felt such hatred for himself, for Potter, most especially for Potter, until that moment. He and Lily, Lily and him. That's how it always was meant to be. Mudblood. It was only a word, and it broke the strongest bond Severus ever had with anyone, anything. Even if Lily forgave him - something he could only wish for - things would never be the same. He stood up, ignoring Yaxley and Avery's calls.

That was it, he supposed. There was nothing more to it. Lily wasn't his. She never was. She belonged to a world better than one with him in it.

I guess surviving James Potter has nothing to do with getting rid of him, diary. It means accepting him, and in a lot of ways, it means accepting change. There are two impossible wishes I have. One is that day never happened. The second is that I knew James Potter for longer, so that time wasted hating him could be spent how it should have been spent. How it is now. Loving (please, Merlin, don't let anyone read this) James Potter. Maybe it is loving, though. I'll find out, I guess.

Love,

Lily

I'm sorry for the hasty ending :( I really hope you enjoyed the REST of the story, though :P Watch out for another fic!