Chapter 2

"Lily if keep staring at the back of his head, a hole is going to burn into it," she had been watching James since they had walked into the great hall, Marlene pinched her arm, "Ow! What was that for?"Lily winced, "Stop staring!" Marlene whispered loudly.

It had been almost a week since the water incident, and James had been acting as if nothing happened,

"Look at him, drinking his pumpkin juice, acting 'innocent'..." Marlene rolled her eyes "Oh the pumpkin juice, the horror!" James, further up the Gryffindor table stood up and began walking towards them with a slightly shorter, Remus Lupin, "Oh Merlin, what does he want," lily whined, putting her head in her hands, "Maybe he came to apologise," Emma joked, Lily lifted her head, glaring at her friend, " very funny Emmeline, you should do stand up" "what's stand..."

"Hey Evans!" James called; Lily slowly turned her head, "What do you want?"Lily Whined, her head still in her hands, "Don't sound so happy to see me Evans," he stated innocently, "Am I ever?"She sighed. James put his hand to his chest, "I'm hurt Evans, truly," he sat down on the bench next to her, and Remus opposite them.

"Moony and I came here to confess to something, the guilt has been driving him...I mean us crazy..." Lily looked up from her plate curious (for once) to hear what James had to say, "So, what have you come to confess then?"

James cleared his throat, "It was me and Moony who got you covered in water," Lily quickly turned round to Marlene with a big grin on her face, "Ha! I told you!" Marlene only smiled,"ok eager beaver, "she handed over the galleon, "here you go,"

"Can I finish what I was going to say now?" James interrupted, "You may continue," Lily nodded. "The water... well... it wasn't meant for you..." Lily looked confused, "what do you mean it wasn't meant for me?" she questioned, "I mean it wasn't meant for you... it was meant for Gilderoy Lockhart," although James' face said he was telling the truth, Lily shook her head, "Are you really expecting me to believe you?" Lily jeered, by this, he looked almost as if he was hurt, "no actually, I don't expect you to believe me, but it's the truth, I didn't see you coming down the corridor, I thought you were Lockhart... I guess I was wrong,"

Emmeline spat out her pumpkin juice, "did I hear that correctly, did you just say you were wrong?"

"Never thought I'd hear that in my lifetime..." Marlene murmured, yet no one heard apart from Emma, who was too busy staring at James shocked by what they had just heard. He ignored their reactions, and continued, "I guess what I'm really trying to say is... I'm sorry."

Lily went still, not keeping her eyes from James, he never apologised, why was he starting now? Normally she was the victim to his and the marauders pranks, was he really telling the truth when he said the prank wasn't meant for her?

"Lily..."

James always seemed to love tormenting Lily, pulling practical jokes on her, coming up with stupid nicknames that would irritate her.

"Lily..."

It was their first week into the seventh year and apart from the water incident, James hadn't tormented her, went out of his way to annoy her... this was all new to Lily; this...to lily... was an all new James.

"Lily!"James grabbed her by the shoulders, "Lily, are you ok? You kind of 'zoned out' for a moment there..." Lily... he called her Lily.

What was this guy playing at?! This had to be a prank lily thought to herself, Sirius was probably sneaking behind her at this very moment and putting a toad down the back of her shirt while James was distracting her... it sounded like something James would do, Lily who had came back to reality, stood up, grabbed a glass of pumpkin juice and poured it over James' head. Before James could say a word, Lily ran out of the great hall and sprinted towards to Gryffindor common room.

"Do I get a galleon for being right?"Emma wondered.