A/N: Wow I wouldn't be surprised if all of you gave up on me, I haven't updated in so long, this whole month I've had about 4 hours at my house. So sorry I'll try to update sooner.

Disclaimer: No offense to fan fiction but if I owned the Harry Potter Characters (aka I was J.K. Rowling) I wouldn't writing these stories on this site I'd have them published wouldn't you but since I am not this is the closest I'll get.

The next day lily woke up and looked at her clock. It was 4 in the morning. She rolled over but couldn't seem to get back to sleep. James' face when she wouldn't talk to him last night was engraved in her mind and wouldn't go out causing her to sleep a total of 2 hours.

She got out of bed, completely giving up on sleep, and headed out into the common room that separated her and James' bed. She sat down on the couch, took out a magazine.

"Lumos." She muttered softly not wanting to wake James up and began reading through her magazine. About an hour later she had her mind almost completely off James, enough to be able to sleep.

At seven James woke up and got ready for the day of school. He walked out of his room and looked at Lily's door making sure she wasn't going to walk out of it and yell at him. He was outside and into the hall without seeing Lily and walked down to the Great Hall.

Lily rolled over and found herself lying on the couch in her and James' common room she got up and walked into her bathroom and took a shower. She got out and got dressed then gathered all her stuff together to get ready for Transfiguration. Before she left she quickly glanced around the room to make sure she wasn't forgetting anything when she saw her clock and it read 8:23.

"Oh my god I'm 23 minutes late for class!" she yelled to particularly no one. She sprinted out of her room and saw James' invisibility cloak draped over a chair near the couch where she slept on. She picked it up and flung it over her so she wouldn't get into trouble going through the hallways while she was supposed to be in class.

Ryann leaned over to James as they sat in transfiguration practicing changing parts of their face.

"James where's Lily?" she asked with one eyebrow purple.

"How should I know, we're not talking." He said his nose growing to twice it's size causing Sirius to crack up and aim his wand at Remus who's hair turned as red as Ron, Fred and George's already were.

"You don't need to talk to see her, so did you see her this morning?" Ryann said glancing at the door to make sure Lily didn't walk in.

"Well no her door was still closed." James said "Oh my god do you think she slept in too late?"

"No she always sets the alarm. I remember because it was the most annoying thing when we used to room together…anyways back on the subject."

"Wait there she is." James said looking up at the door.

Lily walked in the room up to Professor McGonagall.

"Sorry I'm late professor." Lily said quietly

"Why are you late Ms. Evans?" McGonagall asked.

"Well you see…" she began as the whole class stopped practicing their spells and stared at Lily. Lily blushed she knew she was both going to get into trouble and that she would be made fun of by everyone, mainly the marauders.

"It was my fault." James spoke up knowing that Lily would get in trouble and picked on.

"Excuse me?" McGonagall said. Lily turned around and stared at James.

"Yeah I thought it would be funny to turn off her alarm." James improvised quickly.

"Well Mr. Potter I hope you know that what you did was very wrong and you will serve detention with me tonight at eight." She said, it was so common for her to punish James or any of the marauders (but mainly James and Sirius) that she went back to looking down at the paper she was grading before Lily came in. "Ms. Evans you may take a seat."

Lily walked and took a seat next to Hermione without looking at James or anyone else.

After class was over James and Sirius walked out talking about the normal topic of girls, when Lily came up behind them.

"Sirius can I talk to Potter for a second?" she asked

"Yeah sure." Sirius caught up with the remainder of the group ahead of James and Lily.

"Listen James…" Lily began not looking at James but talked quickly so he wouldn't interrupt. "I want to say thanks for what you did in there." She said. "And I'm sorry you got into trouble."

James looked at her in awe; he hadn't remembered the last time she called him James.

"Oh, yeah well it's okay, I don't care about the detention, and well I figured it was the least I could do after well you know." He said realizing that it was the first time they had talked in a while.

"Yeah well…" she began.

"How about we just forget about that?" James suggested hoping she wouldn't get mad.

"Easy for you to say." She said putting her hand up to the back of her head. "Oh, I'm sorry, that sort of slipped out." She said and laughed.

James chuckled uncomfortably.

"Well anyways thanks again." She said and then walked away towards her next class.

James smiled to no one but himself and proudly strutted around the remainder of the day until his detention where when he strutted in proudly McGonagall yelled at him and he immediately got to work.

While James was doing his detention Ginny, Hermione, Ryann, Amanda and Lily were sitting in the girls' dorm in the Gryffindor common room.

"So Amanda, how'd your date go?" Lily asked.

"What date?" Amanda asked looking at Lily funny.

"The date in which we spent a portion of the night picking out an outfit to wear on." Ryann explained

"FUCK!" Amanda said and got up quickly and headed for the door. "I better go talk to Mike. Quick give me an excuse as to why I didn't show up." She looked around at all the girls for help.

"Well you could say someone was in the hospital wing." Ginny suggested.

"Nah, not believable enough, Lily was just in the hospital wing." Hermione said.

"Oh! Say something dirty to get his mind off of you not being there last night, like that you and Hermione were taking a shower and lost track of the time." Ryann suggested.

"First of all; ew! And second; not every guy is Sirius Black!" Amanda said.

"And why me?" Hermione asked.

"Oh I have an idea…how about you tell the truth and say you forgot." Lily said

The majority of the girls looked at her like she was giving birth to a snake.

"Why would I do that? I really like this guy." Amanda said

"So much that you forgot him." Ginny laughed. Amanda leaned over to Hermione's bed and grabbed and threw a pillow at Ginny.

"Thanks for the help guys." Amanda said sarcastically.

"Anytime!" they all chimed in laughing, as Amanda walked out the door.

"So Lily, you still haven't answered our question of why you were late to class this morning." Ryann said

"Yes I did, I told you, I overslept." Lily said honestly.

"Yeah, Lily Evans oversleeping…so who was the guy?" Ryann prodded.

"What guy?" Lily asked

"The one you slept with." Ryann pointed out as if it was the most obvious thing.

"Wait a second it's not okay for me to oversleep, but it's okay to have sex?" Lily crossed her arms.

"Exactly." Ryann stated plainly and before Lily could answer she opened her mouth to speak again. "I'm bored let's go bother the guys."

"Allright." Ginny agreed knowing she didn't want to be caught in the oncoming argument between Lily and Ryann. She, Hermione, Ryann and eventually Lily got up and headed downstairs to the common room to find it packed with everyone except the guys.

"Let's go check in their room." Ryann said and they all headed up to the guys' dorm which was empty as well.

"They're not here. Let's go check in me and James' room." Lily suggested.

"Wait we have to be sure." Hermione said "They could be hiding."

"Good point, here I got this." Ginny said. "Ow Lily, my bra is too tight will you help me undo it?" she asked in the sluttiest voice she could muster.

Nothing happened.

"So they, meaning Sirius, isn't here." Hermione said, "Let's go to Lily's now."

So they all headed over to the head common room and dorms, Lily muttered the password and they entered. For about five minutes they looked again and again came to the same conclusion; they weren't there.

The four girls plopped down on the couches and sighed.

"Where could they go?" Hermione asked

They sat in silence for a moment when Ginny spoke up.

"Oh my gosh why are we so stupid? I know where they are." She got up and motioned for the other three to follow, they did.

The group of girls followed Ginny until they reached a painting.

Ginny reached forward and rubbed a pear that was lying on a table causing the portrait to swing open and reveal the guys they had been looking for.

"No dude, she's a…oh hey girls." Ron said blushing a shade lighter than the trade Weasley hair color.

"How'd you get in here?" Remus asked stepping forward holding a piece of cake in his hand and taking a big bite of it.

"We tickled the pear." Hermione said looking around at the semi-clean kitchen she was now standing in.

"How did you know that though?" Remus continued questioning. "The marauders and now, Harry, Ron, Fred, and George are the only ones who know how to get in here."

Ginny looked around for a distraction but realized she'd have to create her own she reached over and took a muffin from the table next to her and flung it at the guys, hitting Harry square in the face.

"You are dead." He said stressing every word and taking Remus' cake and flinging it at Ginny who ducked and caused the cake to hit Lily, which led to a full out food fight.

About a half an hour later when everyone was covered in some form of food or drink they stopped and being forced by Hermione, helped the house elves clean up. When they were done they grabbed some of the unthrown food and brought it upstairs into Lily and James' common room and ate it while they waited for James to get back.

"We should scare James." Amanda said when she joined them after talking to Mike.

"Yeah!" Sirius said so excitedly that you'd expect him to wet his pants. "No we should like do a prank and have water fall on his head." Sirius said.

"Oh yeah, let's ruin my and James' common room more and have it be like syrup instead of water." Lily said

"Good thinking Lils." Sirius said and he turned to Fred and George while Lily mentally hit herself for giving him the idea. "What do you guys think?" Sirius asked the twins

They seemed to take not even five seconds to think of a brilliant plan, but hey they were Fred and George.

"How about we do one of those muggle old-fashioned bucket over the door trick and it'll have syrup fall on him, then we'll take pillows and throw the feathers from them all over him and then shove a puking pastilles in his mouth so he's a barfing chicken." Fred explained receiving a high five from his accomplice brother.

Lily gave Fred, George and Sirius a deathly glare.

"And of course we'll clean up afterwards, and not have the house elves do it." Remus sighed pleasing both Hermione and Lily.

"Allright but as head girl I'll pretend I didn't hear it and I'll be in my room pretending I had no idea." Lily got up and headed towards her door.

"Lily are you drunk?" Ryann asked.

"What?" Lily stopped and turned around slightly appalled.

"I mean no lecture no threats just 'clean up and I'll pretend I didn't know.' It's just not you." Peter explained.

"I'm sorry do you want a lecture?" Lily said.

"NO!" Everyone shouted including, shockingly, Hermione however hers was half hearted.

"Allright then don't complain, for your information, I'm just in a really good mood." She said and walked into her room, shutting the door behind her.

"Okay gang let's get to work." Sirius said.

"Dude, we're not Scooby Doo." Ron said

"I know, I'm not a dog." Sirius fought back.

"You probably should rethink that last statement." Ginny laughed.

Lily heard laughter from inside her room. She heard them beginning to work and smiled but not because they were planning to make James a barf chicken. It was because she and James were on speaking terms.

Every other time when she and James fought, she could care less about if they ever were going to get back on speaking terms. This time, however, was different but she didn't know why.

Maybe something changed over the summer, she thought, maybe she wanted to get to know him as a friend seeing as this would be their last year and he had been unusually nice to her. Over the previous years he had constantly asked her out and she thought it was a joke, but him being nice to her made all those years of immaturity seem to no longer be there. Could she possibly like him? Would she possibly say yes the next time he asked her out?

No of course not.

But yes.

"Okay so let's go over this one more time…" Sirius said sounding like a military general. "Peter you pull the robe causing the bucket to fall, now this is crucial so don't mess it up, then the girls, Ron and Harry will toss the feathers at him, Fred will attempt to stun him, watch out he's squirmy, George will shove the puking pastille into his mouth, and I will unstun him, Remus will undo my mistake, then lastly we all point and laugh." Sirius gave and enthusiastic thumbs up.

"Got it." Remus said.

"Shhhh, I think he's coming." Ginny said.

"Places everyone." George said. "Oh Harry, turn off the lights so it's unsuspected."

Harry nodded and flicked his wand so that the lights went out. A few moments later the door opened and a figure stepped in.

"NOW!" Sirius yelled and Peter pulled the rope, there was a muffled scream from under the new fallen bucket. The group with pillows ripped them apart and threw the contents of them towards the scream, because it was still very dark a lot of the feathers missed.

"Stupefy!" cried Fred. Then George ran up and shoved half of the treat under the bucket and into James' mouth.

"Go!" George shouted once he was out of the way.

"Rennervate!" Sirius correctly shouted, Remus turned on the lights and they all looked at a barfing 'chicken' with a bucket over it's head. Many people laughed until Peter spoke up.

"Wait James doesn't have boobs or wear a skirt." They all looked closer at the figure who was still hurling.

"Oh shit." Fred and George said together as James stepped through the door.

"What the hell did you do?" he said in an angry confused voice.

"We thought she was you!" Ginny said James gave her a look.

The 'chicken' spoke up between barfs.

"Make…the barfing…stop!" she yelled weakly. George rushed over and quickly shoved the other end of the treat into the girl's mouth and almost instantly the vomiting stopped.

"So if that's not you who is she?" Sirius asked.

"Oh everyone this is Tammy." He said, she still was covered in feathers and a bucket. James quickly realized that and waved his wand and the feather and syrup was gone. "She's my new girlfriend."

No one said anything realizing what they had done they glanced around.

Tammy lifted the bucket off her head.

"Hi." She said roughly.

"Hi." Everyone replied

Suddenly Harry turned to Ron, Hermione and Ginny.

"Do you know who that is?" He asked "It's Professor Amadahy."

Unknown to everyone else Lily closed the door to her room and layed down on her bed in sadness. A small tear rolled down her cheek.

A/N: It's done and I will update sooner I promise. Even though it's been a while might I remind you to review?