The next morning James came down to the common room to find Lily asleep on the sofa. He smiled at her before gently shaking her shoulder to wake her up. She mumbled something incoherent and blinked her beautiful green eyes open. "Good morning James." She whispered.
"Morning Lily," he smiled at her, "How are you feeling this morning?"
"Tired," she yawned, "I was wondering something last night... does this mean that we're gonna be... like together now?"
James was rather startled by this question and paused for a moment. "Um... only if you want to..." He finally answered.
Lily smiled at him. "I'd love to." She answered before kissing him and he eagerly started kissing her back. When they finally broke apart she smiled at him. "I think we should head down to breakfast, don't you?" James groaned before taking her hand and heading down to the Great Hall for breakfast. The moment they walked in everyone went quiet, staring at their entwined hands. Lily's eyes on the other hand were on the Slytherin table.
"Don't worry," James whispered in her ear "she's not here, nothing will happen to you." They sat down with the Marauders and seeing that Lily didn't want to be fussed over after the events of last night, James decided to change the subject. He noticed Remus is looking a little distracted and whispered to him. "You ok?"
Remus jumped slightly and indicated a group of girls who were watching him and started giggling when he glanced in their direction. "Yeah, just they've been driving me mad since I got back to the common room last night 'Remus Lupin Fan Club' apparently. Honestly I don't know how you and Padfoot put up with that kind of thing for this long." James shrugged as if to say he had no idea how he had managed. "Just hope for their sake they don't catch me at the wrong time of the month. Ya know your fan club are gonna leave you alone now. Apparently because you're now with Lily they're all joining either mine or Sirius' so it will only get worse unless I get a girlfriend then they'll hopefully give up on me too."
"Well I only need one girl, black needs about 120,000,000." James replied, slightly distracted by the beautiful redhead, leaning her head on his shoulder with his hand held in hers. "Anyway I hear there's a new girl starting later today so maybe you might get lucky."
"I doubt it, but anyway let's go to Potions. We don't want to deprive Slughorn of his favourite student for too long do we?" Remus gestured to Lily as he said favourite student. They all headed down to the classroom, practically dragging Sirius along with them so that he would stop flirting with the girl he was sitting next to. Lily kissed James on the cheek and sat down next to her best friend, Emmeline, near the front of the classroom whilst The Marauders sat in their usual seats at the back. "Glad the whole thing with Evans has finally worked out for you Prongs. You've been after her for long enough."
" I know I still can't believe it though" James smiled in Lily's direction and could see she was talking to Emmeline, probably about how they got together.
"Why not? She's been after you for almost as long as you've been after her." Remus replied with a knowing smile. He tried to stop himself laughing at his friend's shocked expression. "It was rather obvious... to everyone else at least."
"Damn... am I really that blind?" James muttered to himself.
"I wouldn't worry too much. She was just as bad as you were. It only twigged for her after what you did for her how much you really care about her" Remus replied. James glanced over at Lily who smiled at him and blew him a kiss. James grinned and winked at her making Remus roll his eyes. "Save it for the honeymoon you two, please." Remus muttered just as a girl walked in.