For the next few weeks Morgan and Alice switched off to do patrol with James. It had been about two weeks since Halloween night, and Lily and James were acting incredibly cold towards on another. At first it was just the guys in his dorm, then Lily and the girls caught on. Lily still felt increadilby guilty for kissing James, even though it wasn't really her fault. So instead, Lily would pair up with Remus or Joshua Davies, the Ravenclaw prefect. They had become really good friends, and Lily couldn't believe her and Josh hadn't hit it off a few years ago.

She was somehow mad at James. She knew why, but she didn't know why she was mad over it. She stayed away from him as much as possible though. It didn't help that they were working on the same Snargaluff stump together in Herbology, it was their term's project. There were only Sirius and Lauren to separate them. Sirius and Lauren were still mad at James too, for making Lily cry and all, but they sucked it up and sat next to him at their table.

"Can you pass me my Dragon Hidegloves?" James asked smugly, as if knowing his extra expensive,high end gloves would impress any of them. The thing was Sirius had the same gloves, also they knew he had rich parents who were both highly respected Aurors. They just all figured all of his stuff was like this and had learned to ignore it over the past six and a half years.

"Here," Lily said coldly, thrusting the gloves into his cold hands.

"Thanks," he muttered, inserting a gum shield just like the others.

"So Lily, are you going with anybody to Hogsmeade this Friday?" asked Lauren through her own gum shield.

"No, but I was thinking about asking out Josh Davies. You know the Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain," Lily replied thoughtfully, pulling on gloves and safety goggles of her own.

At this James almost choked on his own laughter.

"Josh? Josh Davies?"

"Yeah. What's it to you?" Lily replied coolly.

"Oh nothing," he said regaining his cool. "It's just that We're playing Ravenclaw on Friday. You can't date him! He's- he's- he's the enemy!" James spluttered, while Lauren was busy sticking her hand into the stump, trying to pry out a pod.

"The enemy?" Lily asked icily. "The enemy? What about inter-house unity? Just because he's from a different house doesn't mean he's the enemy. The only people I would even consider being enemies at this school are the Slytherins, you should know that much. Besides what do you care if I date him or not. He's just a guy,"

"Hey! Don't those clouds look pretty?" Sirius said, trying to break the growing tension at the table, while tring to help Lauren.

"Oh yeah, look that ones all puffy! It looks like a bunny!" exclaimed Lauren catching on to her boyfriend's idea, but to no avail.

"Yeah, but he'll be expecting for you to cheer for Ravenclaw because he's the captain," he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Psh, yeah right. You know I'll cheer for Gryffindor. I'm not that low. Just because I helped you cheat on your girlfriend accidentally, doesn't mean I'm a slut," unfortunately today they had Herbology with the Ravenclaws. Now not many people were paying attention to their little feud, Josh included. Others on the other hand that loved gossip, and James' fan girls who just hated Lily with a passion were. Josh didn't hear the part about Lily wanting him to ask her out, but everybody else heard everything from the first mention of Josh Davies.

"Have you told Renee yet?" she said a little more quietly noticing everybody looking at her.

"No,"

"Well you should 'ya know."

James snorted with laughter.

"Yeah right. Like I'm going to tell my girlfriend I cheated on her,"

"If you don't do it I'll do it for you,"

"Not even you are that mean Evans,"

"Try me,"

"No,"

"Renee! Can you come over here for a second? James wants to tell you something,"

Renee's scowl turned into a bright smile at James' name, and she started skipping over to their table. Sirius and Lauren were pretty scratched up already, from doing all the work. By now they had gotten out two pods. Now there was a bowl full of green wriggling worms in the middle of the table.

"Miss Abercrombie! Please get back to work," Professor Sprout snapped.

"Hold on,"

"Miss Abercrombie," she said warningly.

"I said hold on!"

An offended Professor Sprout let out a small indignant humph, and set off towards the other side of the classroom.

"What did you want to say to me Jamie?" she asked beaming, James had never invited her over to his table before.

"Oh. I erm-"

Lily on the other hand had explained this around five times already, so she just kept her cool.

"James didn't tell you?" she asked innocently.

"James didn't tell me what? Spit it out Evans," her demeanor changing instantly at the sound of Lily's voice.

"James kissed me!" she blurted out, but immediately regretted it. Renee just slapped her hard on the cheek. The cold from the air, and the crisp smooth surface of her glove didn't make it any better.

"Say it again Evans. I dare you,"

Lily sighed as if this was a chore.

"James-kissed-me," she drawled. Renee drew her hand back to slap her again, and Lily braced herself for the impact. It never came though.

"Don't ever touch Lily again," Sirius said menacingly, Lauren's wand drawn along with the rest of the Gryffindor girls who were at a nearby table.

Tears welling up in her eyes, she addressed James/

"Tell me it's not true James," Renee pleaded quietly.

"Well we did kiss," he said regretfully. "But she was the one who kissed me I didn't have anything to do with it," he said hurriedly.

"WHAT!?" all of the Gryffindors in the room screamed, while Renee and the Ravenclaws let out sighs of relief.

"Ok, good because I thought for a moment she was telling the truth," all of the Gryffindors didn't say anything, just gave their best mega death glares to James and Renee.

James leaned in to give her an apologetic kiss. The kiss was more like a snog and wouldn't had ended anytime soon if Sprout hadn't given them a detention for not working, then another for kissing in the green house. They didn't mind though if anything they were happy to get detention.

That night on Patrol Duty

Lily had asked Josh to fill in for James seeing as he got his arse stuck in detention.

They were patroling next to the Astronomy Tower.

"It wasn't me who kissed him you know," Lily confided.

"Yeah I figured. After these past few weeks of patrolling with you, I've learned you aren't that kind of girl,"

"Thanks you know, for some reason that means a lot,"

"I'll tell you one thing though,"

"What is it?" Lily asked fearing the worst.

"Not many others think that. They pretty much think your a lying banshee," Lily just couldn't supress a loud groan at this.

"A banshee?"

"Yeah," he said sheepishly.

"That was some of the worse things they called you though. I heard a second year call you a broom head. A first year called you a Cauldron Bum,"

"First and second years are talking about me?" she cried mortified. "Don't they have their own little lives to gossip about?"

"Yeah probably. They just find your more interesting," grinned Josh toothily. Lily pushed him playfully into the wall.

"At least all of the Gryffindors believe me,"

"Really? I would have thought they would take James' side. No offense or anything, but he's just more popular,"

"Yeah, and no offense taken. They know James was lying for many reasons actually. Reason one: His best mates aren't talking to him anymore, but hanging out with me and my friends instead. Reason two: Sirius told the whole common room he made me cry. It embarrassed me, but being Sirius he just had to make it a big deal. Lastly reason three: All of the seventh year guys have been pushing James around lately. I think I'm going to need a body guard from all of his fan girls. Who knew they could be so vicious you know?"

"Are you hiring body guards? Because I'd be happy to escort you throguh Hogsmeade, the hallways, patrols,"

"Are you asking me out?" Lily asked accusingly.

"That depend. Would you say yes?"

"Yeah, I would," she said timidly.

"Then no," he said in a totally serious tone.

"No?"

"Nope,"

"Wait. No, no? or No, yes?"

"What?" asked a confused Josh.

"Are you asking me to Hogsmeade or not?"

"Which one is the right answer?" he asked under Lily's playful glare.

"Yes would be the right answer,"

"Ok, then yes,"

"Then yes,"

"Are you accepting my invitation then?" he asked, "Just to make sure," he added hurriedly.

Lily cornered him against the wall, stood on her tip-toes and kissed his lips gently.

"I'm going to take that as a yes,"

"You would be correct. Come on let's get back to the common rooms. Nobody is even out this late at night. I mean we have tests in most classes tomorrow anyways," she said tugging on his hand.

Right as they got up to the seventh floor, by the entrance to Gryffindor Tower they heard a racket. It was undoubtedly coming from a broom cupboard.

Lily just rolled her eyes, and told Josh she'd handle it and should go up to bed. Giving him another kiss goodnight, she walked up to the broom cupboard and knocked.

"We're kind of busy in here!" said a gruff voice, soon a shill shriek could be heard from the other occupant.

She just knocked again, hoping to get her point across. Another girlish shriek of pleasure rang through out her ears. The scream was shrill enough to make her skin crawl. Yeah she totally knew what their point was, Lily thought.

Lily thought, I guess this is the only way. A threat.

"Get your bloody arses out of that cupboard or else you both get a weeks worth of detention," Lily threatened, trying her best to sound stern when really she was trying not to laugh at their tactlessness.

"When do you think we just came from?" asked the girl, followed by a groan of pleasure.

"Do I have to blast this door open?"

No response. Lily took that as a yes. She gave the unknown couple five seconds to gather their bearings. They didn't make any noise to suggest they heard her either.

Bracing herself Lily chose a blasting charm. Closing her eyes she flicked her wand and thought very hard, 'Reducto!'.

The cupboard around the couple disintegrated into dust. Her eyes still closed and lips pursed she addressed the two.

"You know, next time you hear somebody say they're going to blast the door off of where ever you are. I would suggest thinking that they have amazing charm work and will accidentally disintegrate the whole place to nothingness," she said sweetly. Finally opening her eyes, her jaw dropped at the surprise of the mystery couple. I mean she had a good idea who it was, but she didn't expect herself to be right. She just couldn't contain her laughter anymore. The sight of James half naked along with Renee was just to funny. Renee was rushing to button up her blouse again, while James was just pulling his robe over himself.

"What's so funny Evans?" James snarled.

"Nothing Potter, Abercrombie, it's just that I didn't think anybody would be so stupid to go, well do the deed, in the broom cupboard closest to Gryffindor Tower. You know for Head Boy and a Prefect, you two are prett darn stupid. I mean you should know this is one of the most frequently patroled spots," Lily snorted full of mirth.

"Your just jealous," Renee said snootily.

Lily's laugh faded.

"Why is that Abercrombie?"

"Evans, we've had this conversation before. I mean it's clear that you want James to yourself. They're no point hiding that. Besides the fact that I'm prettier than you, more popular, and more sought out bothers you," Renee said putting a hand on Lilys shoulder that she slapped off.

"If that's you idea of kissing up, you have work to do. THIRTY POINTS FROM REVENCLAW AND GRYFFINDOR! There was ten for disobeying an authority figure, "

"Evans if you hadn't realized, your not my authority. We share the position," James said smugly.

"Yeah but the thing with that is, I can still take away points. It's not your night for patrol, seeing as you screwed up the schedule. I am authority to the student body of Hogwarts, which you are both part of. Renee, you can just think of me as you boss. One more wrong move against me, either of you for that matter, your going to be stripped of your badges," at the end of Lily's speech both of their mouths were bound to be catching flies.

"You can't do that!" cried Renee. "I'm going to be talking to professor McGonnagal about this. You're Head Girl right? Aren't they supposed to be nice to their fellow prefects. For all you know we could have been inspecting the broom cupboard," Renee said pointedly.

"Nice try Prissy, last time I checked didn't take two people shrieking and groaning to inspect a brrom cupboard. While your talking to McGonnagall, you should mention that. Now if you would appreciate it I would like to go to bed. Seeing as I can't trust you two, I'm going to have to escort both of you to your common rooms. We'll go to Miss Prissy's here first," she said in a sickly sweet manner.

"Why can't we just go to Gryffindor Tower, it's right there. I can see the Fat Lady!"

"Now now James, what had the poor woman ever done to you. You can't call her fat just because she's over weight. Your Head Boy right?" she asked mocking his girlfriend.

With a few inaudibly mumblings later, they finally arrived back at Gryffindor Tower. By this time Lily had James by his ear, dragging him up the staircase with a stern expression on her face. She deposited him in his dorm and went back down to the common room to go tell the girls about her new Hogsmeade plan.

A/N: For those of you who didn't really like the whole thing with the broom cupboard, sorry but I kind of wanted to portray Renee as that kind of girl. Also since I know many people don't like that sort of thing it will be, very, limited. For those of you who don't mind it, good for you. I also wanted to portray James as somebody that was being an insecure prat, and ran to his girlfriend to fix it all. That of course is just a phase, he'll get over it soon I promise. Also you can see Lily kind of hates both of them at the moment, she likes being the one to rebuddle against wise cracks. Well I have to go to bed now, or this Authors Note would have undoubtedly be longer. Toodles! I'll update in a few days! REMEMBER! SEVEN REVIEWS FOR A POST!! I LOVE REVIEWS!

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