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Chapter 4- Delightful Debates, Provocative Positions, and Secret Snogging

Give me a kiss before you leave me, and my imagination will feed my hungry heart. Leave me one thing before we part, a kiss to build a dream on.

So the next evening after my amazingly wicked prank, I was innocently sitting in the common room, minding my own business, not doing anything to disturb anyone. Okay so maybe I was being a feisty redhead. What? I can't help that I am a redhead… It's genetic I swear.

Okay anyways, Potter had to bring up my little joke, making it into some big deal. Like he hasn't done worse to me. Anyways, he was saying something about injuring his manlihood. I thought it was already dead by how many times I oh so sweetly rejected him, but no that boy just bounced back. But when I decide to dye his hair, I guess I struck a nerve. Well this discussion led to a full blown cross room argument, in which I would most likely win. Like always. No surprises right? Wrong. At the climax of our argument Black decides to step in. That boy can't go one day with out putting in his 2 cents. Alright, alright, maybe he just wanted a little calm throughout the room. I imagine two people screaming across the room about manlihood doesn't provide a comforting environment. So then we started to have a nice, civil, respectable conversation.

"Could you guys argue somewhere else?"

Ohh, he does not have the right to tell me when and where I can argue. I will argue whenever and with whomever I want to.

"We aren't arguing Black, we're debating." Ha! Can't get past that one can you Sirius? One point for Lily Evans.

"Well then can you debate somewhere else or at least bring it down to a dull roar?" That stupid smirk! Dangit though, he got me. One point for Sirius Black. What can I make up now? Oohh I see a light bulb coming on. Yep it's definitely there.

"Projecting your voice allows more people to hear you and puts you in a position of authority." Wow, am I a genius or am I a genius? That gives Lily Evans a one up on Black. But of course it doesn't end there Black can't take defeat, even if it smacks him in the face. Believe me, I've tried.

"So Evans, do you always find yourself in different positions with James?"

Okay. I hate him. I honestly do. Well at least right now I do. We usually get on pretty well, that is until he starts winning my arguments… So with that, I realize there's only one thing left to do. Act like I won this little discussion. Walk away with what pride I have left after that remark.

"Potter, gather up your idiot friend here and leave. And don't forget about patrol duty tonight. If you leave me patrolling this castle alone… Well let's just say that it'll be more than your manlihood that's injured!" And of course he knows better than to contradict me, so of course he heads up to the boys dorms.

So, later this evening, I will have the distinct pleasure of roaming empty corridors with none other than the James Nathaniel Potter. What a lucky girl you say? Wrong. If you think he's bad when he's with other people… Well he's usually worse when we're alone. But, let's say I give him the benefit of the doubt. Just to see if I get any surprises.

Well, were patrolling the corridors now. It seems a little tense. I suppose he's still irked about that hair thing. I guess I could, I mean it wouldn't be the end of the world if I… Okay I'm going to.

"Listen Potter, I wanted to apologize about that hair thing. I mean I didn't think you'd get mad about so, I just wanted to say sorry." Okay the world's ending I, Lily Evans, apologized to James. Well that's one big step on the maturing ladder, now it's his turn.

"It's okay Lily. It was my fault for starting that whole thing with the green hair. But I must say you did look awfully attractive with that shiny green flowing hair. Matched you're eyes perfectly"

Dang that stupid twinkle in his eyes… drives me insane, and not in a bad way.

Now we've gone two steps up the maturing ladder. Things are going better than I could've hoped for. Especially now, with that last remark; it actually made me giggle a little. Never thought I would be laughing at something James said. He seemed to think the same as he gave me a startled look. I need to break the silence, so he doesn't get any ideas.

"Well listen now that we are growing up a little, I think we might be able to patrol these corridors with out strangling each other. What do you say?"

James gave off that adorable lopsided grin. I admit it, it's quite attractive.

"Works for me. Now since we're going to be finding these rule breakers, I figured we might need some help. This, Lily, is the one the only Marauders' Map."

At this point he took out a piece of parchment. When I caught sight of this I gave him a look that clearly showed I thought he was insane.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." And with those magic words spoken, the parchment filled itself with ink, running across the page, spreading throughout the large piece, and labeling rooms as it went along. It was, well, amazing.

"You Marauders made this? Wow that's amazing. It's even charmed to show everyone in the castle? How you managed to do that with out my excellent skills is beyond me."

"Ahh, we are much more talented than what you give us credit for Miss Evans. Now, fancy trying to find some people out past curfew?"

So, for the next couple hours, we walked throughout the castle, deducted a few points, and gave a few detentions to those lucky bums, which just happened to include Sirius with one of his lovely ladies. I insisted… Although I did have to persuade James in to giving his best mate a detention. Anyways, we found it was a bit past midnight, and we were on our last hour of patrolling.

"Hey Lily, look at this right outside the Great Hall."

I take a quick glance at the map. There standing outside the Great Hall are Dumbledore and McGonagall, seemingly standing very closely together.

"Wonder what they're up to at this hour?"

"Yeah, me too. Care to find out?" And with that the boy surprised me but again, by taking out a shimmering piece of material. Now, I know what this is, but you might not. This is what we witches and wizards call an Invisibility Cloak. Where James got one is beyond me.

"So that's how you and your mates got around so well with out getting caught?"

"Yes, that and the Marauders' Map have kept us out of about 500 detentions, if I had to hazard a guess."

With that, we slip under the cloak and head off to the Great Hall. Upon arrival, we both immediately head for the closest shadowed corner to Dumbledore and McGonagall and try to catch what they're saying.

"Albus, you sure do know how to charm a lady."

"My dear Minerva, I live to please you. Anything to cause you pleasure."

What's this? Dumbledore and McGonagall? Together? Talking romantically? Pinch me and tell me I'm dreaming. Although I would like to say I DO NOT dream about my teachers and their relations. More so about black haired Quidditch playing… okay enough said. I chance a glance towards James, and notice he's trying desperately to not succumb to the laughter spreading across his face.

"Albus, love, as much as I love our meetings, I do think its high time we head off to bed, before any late night students catch us wondering about together."

And with that Dumbledore leans down lowly and catches McGonagall in a kiss. Not a friendly peck either. A kiss, a full blown, snog fest. Now that is enough to make anyone sick. James and I hurriedly escape the corridor, before we are found.

Once we are a good 5 floors up we remove the cloak, look at each other for a split second before we both collapse to the ground with the side- splitting laughter we had been holding in. We must've been like that for 15-20 minutes, because when we both managed to gather enough composure to stand up, it was 12:50, and time for us to turn in for the night.

With out even thinking about what we we're doing, we start for the Heads' dorm, which we both had been avoiding; me, because I didn't want to live with just James, and James because apparently he can't live without me. Now, that we were on what you could say was a friendly level, we both mutually decided we could handle being in that close proximity for a night. I must admit it will be nice to get away from the relentless snoring of Ashley and Alexis, not to mention the constant fighting for the shower and mirrors. When we reach the portrait, James says the password, which he managed to make before I had even the slightest chance. Can you guess what it is? I love James Potter. That was part of the reason I refused to go near the place. Well could've been worse I suppose.

"So umm Lily? I think we might like to keep the...err... interesting turn of events of the night, to ourselves. I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate it if we happened to tell the school."

"Good idea James, I was thinking along those lines. Although, it would be quite humorous to make that relationship public, I imagine it isn't our secret to tell. Well, I had fun tonight, but I'm beat, so I'll head up to bed. Night, James."

"G'night Lily, I had fun too."

Well, the night turned out much better than I would have thought, but it left me a little confused. Does this mean that I am friends with James? Will he actually settle for that? And will I miss getting asked out 500 times a day? No definitely not. Me, miss that? Well I guess I did like the attention he gave me… even if it was a bit annoying. But there isn't much I can do about it, so I'll just have to see how things turn out.

I managed to fall asleep a few moments later, with the last thought that James Potter was one of the only people that managed to surprise me on a daily basis now. So much for predictability.