Disclaimer: As I have said in previous chapters, I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!

'It wasn't what it looked like,' James said in a soft voice, 'I promise,'

Lily's lip quivered, 'Take them off,'

'Listen to me Lily, you can't ignore perfectly good reasoning,' James was losing his temper.

'I saw you about to hex David. You're no different than you were before!' After a short pause, she added in a soft voice, 'And to think I was falling in love with you,'

'You w-w-were falling i-in love w-with m-me?' James' heart was pounding hard in his chest, his eyes on the verge of tears. Lily was shocked at his reaction and a look of concern replaced the one of anger, 'I was just trying to save some first-years from being bullied by David and his friends,'

He could no longer hold his tears in. They spilled out of his eyes and down his cheeks. He sank to the floor, leaning on a sink for balance. Lily rushed over to him, forgetting their conflicts for a moment and put her arm around him. She realised from his tears that he hadn't been lying about before.

'How do you think the plan is working?' Sirius asked Remus excitedly. Neither James nor Lily were in class, and it had started 5 minutes ago.

'I have a bad feeling about it,' Remus replied. He decided to see where the two told Sirius what he was doing, and told the teacher he was going to the bathroom. He wandered through the corridors, looking in broom closets and empty classrooms.

He was about to give up when he heard sobbing coming from Myrtle's bathroom. He opened the door and, sure enough, there was someone crying. He saw James sitting on the floor, tears streaming down his cheeks. Lily was there, with her arm around him, whispering comforting things into his ear. On her head were the same pair of cat ears that she had had a few days ago. Neither of them heard him open the door, so he slowly closed it and walked back to class.

When he got back, Sirius assaulted him with questions, 'Did you find them? Were they kissing? Or hugging? Was he asking her to marry him? Were the riding the giant squid? Are they -'

'What was that last one?' Remus said, with a confused smile.

'I'm not exactly sure, I was making them up as I went along,'

The pair of Marauders started laughing hysterically at something that was not particularly funny. Everyone in the class stopped what they were doing and looked at Sirius and Remus. They suppressed their giggles and cleared their throats. Slowly, everyone went back to what they had previously been doing. Remus then explained to Sirius what he had seen, and Sirius' face went from gleeful to forlorn.

'It's the first time I've seen James cry,' Remus looked worried. Sirius patted him on the back and didn't say anything.

James calmed down after a while. He then realised that Lily's arm was draped over his shoulder, and snuggled into her embrace. Lily recoiled at this, because she wasn't expecting it.

'Sorry,' James mumbled as he stood up.

'No, I'm sorry. I took my hand away. Also, I'm sorry I didn't believe you about David. It was silly of me to assume you were picking a fight,'

James smiled weakly, 'Are you really falling in love with me?'

Lily had forgotten she had said it and started to feel very nervous, 'I, um, I meant, er, um-'

She was cut off from her incoherent babble when James wrapped his arms around her, 'Because I fell in love with you years ago. And I don't plan on stopping loving you any time soon,'

At this, he leaned his head down and pressed his lips to hers, but only for a moment. When he broke away, Lily answered his original question, 'Yes, I am.'

She smiled and gave him a small hug and a kiss on the cheek, 'We need to get to class.'

'But we look filthy!'

Lily quickly fixed that with a spell.

'You are the most amazing witch in the entire world,' James said to her, resulting in her face turning red. She reached for the door handle.

'Lily!' He gestured towards her head.

'What?' She sounded worried. She thought there was something really wrong with her head. When she got to the mirror, however, she smiled.

'Do you want me to take them off you?' James was confused. He thought she hated them.

'No. They remind me of you, and how much I love you.'

She walked up to James and, on her tiptoes, started kissing him. He happily obliged.

James told Sirius that night about how he and Lily got together. He left out the part about the crying, and Sirius didn't tell him that Remus had been spying on them.

Lily had gone to bed after all of her classes, still with the cats ears protruding from her head. The last thing she thought about was James, and that made her feel a whole lot better the next morning.

A/N: It's finished! I'm not entirely happy with the ending. Please tell me what you thought about it. I don't have any other fics planned at the moment but stay tuned just in case I have a brilliant idea. Thank you to everyone who liked my story, you gave me loads of confidence in my writing.

Happy Reading! :)