James POV:
He sat there with Lily for the whole train ride, doing nothing but talking. He found it amazing how easily the conversation flowed, and how they never ran out of anything to talk about.
They were talking about NEWTs preparation when Lily jumped up and cursed loudly, managing to get everyone's attention.
'Remus, we were supposed to go to the prefect's compartment hours ago!' she told him.
'Oh crap!' he said and followed her out.'
Lily POV:
They ran into the compartment to find that only Frank Longbottom remained.
'Oh Frank, I'm so sorry, we completely forgot-'
'Lily, its fine,' he smiled at them.
'I take it you've been made head boy?' Lily asked him.
'Would you expect anything less from me, Lily?' they laughed.
'See you around, Frank.' She smiled and they left.
After they left, Remus asked Lily, 'So what's going on between you and James?'
He looked at her as if it was a rhetorical question, and the answer was obvious.
'Absolutely nothing, we're just friends.' Lily told him.
'Suuuure…' Remus muttered, 'Do you two even know how perfect you are together?'
Lily blushed and said 'I have no idea what you're talking about.'
Remus laughed at her and knew that she and James would be together eventually.
They reached the other at last and found that they had less than an hour left of the train ride before they would arrive at Hogwarts.
'Oh Alice,' Lily called as she sat next to James again, 'Guess who's head boy?'
'Enlighten me…'
'Your little lover, Frankie,' Lily teased.
'There is nothing going on between me and Frank!' Alice defended, turning red.
'The lady doth protests too much, me thinks.' James and Lily said at the same time, then high-fived.
'Oh like you two can talk,' Alice murmured, yet it was loud enough for everyone to hear.
Thankfully for the two, no one pressed to topic of James and Lily, and they all went back to their original activities.
James POV:
'You know Shakespeare?' Lily asked him once they were yet again sitting rather closely in their corner.
'Always the tone of surprise, Evans.'
They both laughed and edged closer to each other, their lips centimeters away.
The train stopped abruptly and they all went flying forwards and realized that it was time to leave the train and take the carriages to Hogwarts.
They left the train in their robes and walked down from Hogsmeade station. As James walked with the marauders and Lily walked with Alice and Marlene, Sirius began to question him.
'Well that was an interesting train ride,' Sirius smirked.
James figured it would be best if he just played innocent, 'Padfoot, whatever do you mean?'
'Don't bullshit me, Prongs, I saw what happened.'
'Oh do tell this interesting tale, Padfoot,' Remus piped up, 'Do tell us what happened.'
'Well Moony, Jamesie here almost planted one on Evans.'
Lily POV:
'You almost what!' Marlene shrieked as Lily told them what had happened, 'Well it's about bloody time, Lils!'
'It doesn't necessarily mean anything, guys, I mean maybe the train stopped then for a reason, maybe it's just not meant to happen.' Lily tried to explain.
'Lils, we love you and all, but right now you're crazy. The boy loves you for god sakes, and you know deep down that you love him too.' Alice told her smoothly.
Shit, maybe I do love him, Lily told herself, but surely he can't still feel that way about me after 5 years?
Lily sighed and tried to have a normal conversation with them, although for the whole carriage ride, there was a certain messy haired boy on her mind.
When Lily stepped out of the carriage however, she gasped. How had she never noticed the thestrals pulling the carriage before? But of course, she had never seen death until the Christmas holidays of her fourth year.
'So I'm not going crazy then?' James asked from behind her.
James POV:
'You can see them too…?' Lily asked as he nodded.
'My dad's an auror, one night after a mission he brought one of his department workers home, because they couldn't get him to St Mungo's in time… But they were too late.' James explained to her.
'Oh… I'm so sorry…'
'It's alright, I guess I didn't really know the guy that well… it was just a shock for me.'
The two stood there in silence for a moment before Lily said; 'We should go up to the castle…'
He nodded in agreement and they both set off towards the castle.
They were nearing the entrance hall when Lily said 'It was my dad. During the Christmas holidays of fourth year.'
James hadn't expected this from Lily, he noticed that her eyes were getting teary, so he swiftly wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly.
Reason why I love Lily Evans, number 383; how brave and strong she is. James thought to himself.
'…You okay?' he asked her in a whisper.
'No,' she whispered back.
James watched her as she lifted her head from his chest and their faces inched closer once more, they were millimeters away when the doors of the entrance hall opened and they jumped away from each other.
Thankfully it was only Sirius that had intruded upon them.
'Thought I'd find you eventually, Prongsie.' Sirius told him, 'Evans? Would you like the pleasure of telling me what's going on here?'
'Absolutely nothing, Black,' Lily spoke to him as if he was a three year old of which could barely understand the English language.
'Watch your tone, Evans,' Sirius told her in a teasing voice, 'we wouldn't want Minnie wondering where you are, would we?'
James and Lily began to run inside, Sirius close behind them. They were just outside the entrance hall when James stopped them and pulled something out of his pocket.
'Ah, good idea Jamesie,' Sirius told him.
'That's an invisibility cloak, isn't it?' Lily asked them.
'Maybe it is…,' James said as he put it over himself and Sirius, '..or maybe it isn't.'
He held out the remainder of the cloak to Lily, and she willingly walked into the hall invisibly.
They walked to where Remus and Peter were sitting with Alice and Marlene, and sat down after taking the cloak off very subtly.
Lily POV:
'When did you guys get here?' Alice asked in amazement.
'Alice dear, you must have been too busy staring at Frank to notice us sitting here the whole time.' James told her sweetly.
'Oh, Lily! I forgot to tell you! Frank and I-'
'Confessed your undying love for each other?' Finished James and Lily in unison.
'We're on a roll tonight!' Lily told him as they high-fived.
'Well it was a bit different… but you could put it that way…' said Alice quietly.
'Alice! That's adorable! And it's about time too!' Lily laughed.
She was surprised when everyone around her except for James began to stare at her.
'Lily… we've waited a while to ask this…' Marlene began, 'What's going between the two of you?'
She flickered her gaze to James briefly.
'What? Nothing!' they both said at the same time, high-fiving again.
'See? Those cute little things you do? You're so obviously perfect for each other!' Alice told them.
They both went red and tried to hide it with their hands, Lily tried to distract them by pointing out that the sorting had begun, which had efficiently shut them up long enough for James and Lily to escape by means of the cloak.
With the cloak off, they headed back to the common room and saw that their things had all been brought up; it was good to be home.
Just like on the train, they sat together on one of the lounges, and talked for hours while waiting for everyone to get back from dinner.
'Y'now how people sometimes say third time lucky, Evans?' James enquired.
'Mmhm?'
'Well, third time lucky.' He said as they moved closer to each other once more, their lips touched this time, for a millisecond, when the portrait hole opened and a bunch of fellow sixth years came in, catching them.
Even though they hadn't even achieved a peck on the lips, Lily and James had both still felt fireworks.
James POV:
He had always known he had felt something special for Lily, but he had not been expecting to get fireworks just from being so close to her.
'Well well well, Prongsie, Evans, something you'd like to tell us at all?' Sirius asked with a smirk on his face.
'Nothing at all, Sirius.' They answered in unison yet again, high-fiving.
Sirius and the other two marauders shot him a look, which he knew meant 'We'll talk about this later'. The same thing seemed to be happening with the girls.
There you go, chapter four, I've got about the next ten chapters already written, but I'll only upload one or two a day.
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