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The next morning, James was awoke by Sirius jumping on him.
'Padfoot… What are you doing?' James groaned.
'Waking you up, Prongsie,' James found his early morning enthusiasm strange. He usually didn't wake up until he and Remus literally dragged him out of bed.
'What time is it?' James groggily sat up and reached for his glasses.
'7:30,' Remus told him, 'I don't know what's gotten into him,'
'You and Lily!' Sirius exclaimed.
'Me and Lily? Are you insane? She'd never go out with me…' James loved Lily, but he knew she'd never say yes. He failed to realise, however, that Lily didn't hate him anymore. She was confused about her feelings. He tried to be nice yet he failed to see that she was grateful, deep down in her heart.
'Yes she will! And I'm gonna help!' Sirius was acting like a child at Christmas.
'Oh no….' James knew this wasn't going to end well.
James had managed to slip away from Sirius after breakfast. He was walking to class when he heard shouting in one of the classrooms. The door was ajar and he peered through the tiny gap. Two of the younger students were getting shouted at by a large group of older ones. The younger ones looked like first years, the older ones could have been fourth or fifth years.
James stood there for a moment, weighing up his choices. He could walk away and pretend he'd never seen it, or he could barge into the classroom and save the first years. He thought the latter would make him look like a hero, but thats not why he chose it. He chose it because he was a Gryffindor, and Gryffindors are brave.
The older students looked up as he walked through the door. They laughed as he walked in and said, 'Oooh! Its a Quidditch Player. They think they're so strong and handsome.'
The younger students found this moment a distraction and ran out of the room. None of the bullies cared about them anymore.
James whipped out his wand, knowing he would need it. He pointed it at the bullies and put on the scariest face he could, which, to be honest, wasn't that scary. One of the boys snickered. James pointed his wand at him, an incantation on the tip of his tongue, when he heard a voice.
'I knew it was too good to be true,' Lily had walked into the room to find something, and saw James pointing his wand at a fourth year Slytherin and was about to hex him. She scanned the room for what she "needed", realised it wasn't in the room, turned and left.
'Lily! Wait!' James rushed out of the room, following Lily. She was running through the crowds of people heading to class, bumping them, bashing them and flat out running into them. She didn't apologise, just kept running.
That morning, Lily had got up later than usual due to her late arrival to bed. Alice hadn't woken her up, partly because she was still mad at Lily from the previous night and partly because she knew Lily needed to rest.
In her dream, Lily had been in History of Magic, listening attentively to Professor Binns, when he had suddenly turned into James. He then started talking about a girl he was dating, saying she was beautiful and perfect. Lily had started to get jealous. He was about to say his girlfriends name when she woke up.
'Alice,' Lily nervously tried to get her best friends attention, 'Alice!'
Alice stopped what she was doing and turned around, 'Yes?'
'I need to talk to you about Potter,' At this, Alice ran towards Lily and sat down on the side of her bed, her grin getting larger with every moment. Lily couldn't hold in her smile and was soon grinning as broadly as her best friend. She quickly explained her predicament to Alice.
'What's wrong with me? I can't be falling for Potter, can I?' Lily was fretting. During her explanation, she had packed her things. By this stage, they were halfway down the girls staircase.
'I'm afraid you are, Lily. I assure you, he's a good guy. He'll treat you well if you decide to go out with him,'
There was a pause. Lily sighed. She didn't know what to do. Alice smiled, 'Just go for it,' she said and gave Lily a playful nudge.
'I'll see if Remus knows where he is,' Lily said, spotting her prefect partner in the common room. Lily walked towards Remus and Peter, who had just appeared, and stopped in front of them.
'James and Sirius went down early for breakfast,' Remus told Lily, not looking at her.
'Sirius? Early? You've got to be joking!' Lily exclaimed so loud that the whole common room stopped to look at her, 'Carry on,' She said, her cheeks pink.
'What did I hear about me?' A bouncy voice said right next to Lily. She jumped and turned around.
'Sirius! Don't creep up on people like that!' She said, her heart pumping fast.
'Sorry, Lily-flower, but I heard my name just as I was walking in here,'
'I was asking Remus why you were up so early,' She replied.
Sirius' next words took her by surprise. He whispered them in her ear, 'James is in our Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom. I need you to pretend to find something in there, and strike up a conversation with him,'
He winked at her shocked face and bounded up the boys staircase.
Lily found herself wandering towards the room Sirius had told her about. The halls were packed with students, classes were due to start in a few minutes. She got to the door, looked in and said, 'I knew it was too good to be true.' As she had seen James about to hex David, the fourth year Slytherin. She ran through the halls, crying and running into people. She ignored James' shouts of her name, and ran right to Myrtle's bathroom, where no-one would bother her.
A few seconds later, however, she heard the door open and footsteps come towards her.
'Lily, please, it was all a misunderstanding,' James' face was full of sadness, he was on the verge of crying.
'No!' She sent a bat bogey hex at James, who immediately used the counter curse, 'You haven't changed! My friends say you would treat me well, but I know you will just hex helpless students behind my back!'
James, remembering the incident a few days ago, sent the "cat ear" spell at Lily. She felt the familiar sensation of ears protruding from the top of her head. She stopped her rant and stared at him.
'It wasn't what it looked like,' James said in a soft voice, 'I promise,'
A/N: Sorry I left it on a cliffhanger, but it was just too good to resist. The original idea for this chapter comes from oracle987, though it was changed a bit, I hope you don't mind, but I thought it would create better tension this way.