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New stuff up on my profile, check it out. Vote on my polls. Anyway, the story must go on! Discoveries will be made, the plot thickens. I'm taking a leaf out of Macbeth. "Fair if foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air." and "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:- Open, locks, whoever knocks!" I've been obsessed with Shakespeare lately. I was already a bit of a Shakespeare nerd, but I like reading it and this fit so well. Anyway, that is my bit of foreshadowing for the day. It may or may not have to do with this chapter. ;) ~May

Chapter 8

"Hey Lily." James stood just off to the side of the train after exiting; Lily had just stepped down and was dragging her trunk behind her.

"Hey yourself, were you waiting for me?" Lily asked scooping her hair away from her face as the heavy trunk landed with a thud on the pavement.

"Over Christmas break, if you need to get away from anything, here's my address. You're welcome any time." James told her, his face turning red; Lily doubted whether James knew it though.

"Oh, yeah. Sure." Lily replied with a smile and took the piece of parchment he extended towards her. "If I had some parchment I'd give you mine… How about I give it to you when I see you next?"

"That's fine." James breathed a sigh of relief, glad she hadn't rejected the friendly message.

"Lily!" Lily could hear her parents calling over the din of the crowd.

"I have to go, see you later." Lily smiled again at James then she disappeared into the crowd of people where her parents were waiting.

"You're getting closer to first base mate." Sirius told James, making James jump from the hand that was clapped on his shoulder.

"Slowly but surely." James paused for a moment wondering if he should tell Sirius about what he'd read in the journal. Not just the song lyrics, he paused for a moment longer before deciding to mention it. "When I was looking through her song journal, just before that song and even in the margins, little hearts were drawn around it. A couple of them had a name in it."

"So she's crushing on someone then?" Sirius turned to face his best mate more fully and James nodded. "What was the name?"

"James." James replied and Sirius nearly fell over.

"Wait, does that mean she finally has a crush on you?"

"I would figure, but the thing is that she thinks it's just a crush and she'll probably get over it."

"You need to change her mind!"

"You don't think I don't know that?" James gave his friend a look who laughed, both Remus and Peter joined them and Sirius stopped laughing.

"What tickled Padfoot's funny bone enough to not tell us?" Remus asked sighing.

"Lily has a crush on Prongs!" Sirius exclaimed excitedly.

"Honestly Padfoot, it's not certain, it's just a hunch." James told him.

"What brought you to this hunch?" Remus raised an eyebrow curious, Peter just sat on the side watching his friends; not sure what he could say.

"In her song journal there are little hearts with the name James in them." James explained turning a furious shade of red again, he cursed his hormones.

"Ah, one would think that then." Remus smiled holding in a laugh that was apparent on his face.

"All of you can just snuff it." James replied irritably dragging his trunk away from them.

"You don't really mean that do you Prongs?" Sirius questioned his friend, giving him puppy dog eyes that were 'amazingly' accurate.

"Yeah I do." James grinned and Sirius rolled his eyes. Peter and Remus merely chuckled following after their friends.

"We should do something for our band over the holiday." Peter suggested making everyone look at him.

"That's not a half bad idea Wormy." James told him honestly and Peter grinned foolishly.

"We should get Lily and her friends to help us too." Peter gave him a wicked smile and James' expression was one of utter shock.

"I don't want to ask too much of her, we're barely even friends." James was flushing again and Sirius was getting annoyed with his friend's reactions, it was like James had an excess of hormones this week.

"Just send her an owl Prongs, I'm sure she'll be itching to get away from her sister." Remus comforted.

"What sister?" James looked up at Remus suddenly, a look of confusion on his face.

"Oh! She didn't tell you." Remus looked down at the ground pulling his trunk along and the rest of his friends were watching me curiously.

"What didn't she tell me?" James asked in a low growl.

"It's her business to tell you." Remus replied then the Potter's, Evanescence and David Potter, appeared waving happily at the group.

"Mum! Dad!" James exclaimed forgetting about Remus' slip up for a moment as he hugged his parents.

"Evvy! Dave!" Sirius pounced on his adoptive parents, he looked like a dog so much that Remus thought he'd shifted for a moment.

"Hello Sirius, James." Evanescence greeted the two boys.

"Why did Sirius get acknowledged before your own son?" James huffed, his father winked at him before moving past the two boys to the other two.

"Remus, Peter, how great to see you!" David greeted and James put on a face of mock rage.

"I think my parents don't even love their own son!" James joked as his mother coddled Remus and Peter.

"At least they love me more." Sirius teased.

"Only my mother, my dad never even noticed you."

"He did not!" Sirius looked outraged.

"Yeah he did."

"I'm naturally loveable though!" Sirius exclaimed and the last few remaining families were giving him strange looks.

"Sure Padfoot." James comforted with a slight teasing, sarcastic edge. Then both boys were rolling around on the ground wrestling, Remus could see their Stag and Dog forms shine through them while they were sparring.

"Do you think they'll ever grow up?" Evanescence muttered to no one in particular, not expecting an answer.

"James will; it's the only way he'll ever get Lily to love him." Remus told her and Evanescence turned to him with a slightly shocked expression.

"IS that really the only reason Lily won't date him?" She questioned.

"He did tease her an awful lot when they were younger, but now, she's starting to fall for him because he's grown up for her." Remus smiled; the kind of smile one wore when one knew that there was true love involved.

"I'm glad he has her then, there is no one like this Lily from the sound of it." Then deciding she'd had enough of the boys wrestling, Evanescence flicked her red hair over her shoulder and headed over to the boys, pulling them apart like only a mother could do.

So turns out there were no reviews on the last chapter. I'm really depressed right now because of it. I shouldn't expect reviews, I mean not every chapter is great and everyone decides to not say anything, but it still hurts you know? Now I sound like a spoiled idiot, anyway, I hope you enjoyed the above chapter. Check out my profile for important information. Please leave me a review, I really do love them and I always reply. ~May