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Nikki woke up to an empty dorm room which was normal. She was use to the sight of four rumpled beds greeting her as she struggled to get out of her oasis of sheets, however today was different. Only three of the beds ere unmade. Lily's bed remained pristine, the quilted cream comforter tuck smoothly under the maroon flannel sheet at the plumped pillows. It appeared as if no one had slept there. 'Well, maybe she made her bed,' Nikki thought, but that didn't make sense because no one in the room ever made their beds- not after first year when Alice came into the dorm room to find a sobbing house elf. Apparently, the little creature was distraught about having nothing to do in the room, so Lily mustn't have come to bed last night.

Nikki threw on some clothes quickly while trying to guess where Lily could be. She brushed her teeth in record breaking time and was out the door not five minutes after waking. She felt responsible for Lily's decisions being the one who found the spell and all. Nikki was about to descend the stairwell when she wisely remembered to mess up Lil's covers. It wouldn't do to have another crying house elf in the room or anyone else notice Lily's unmade bed … if they hadn't already.

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Lily hunched her shoulders forward trying to stretch out her back as she woke up. Her muscles were tight and twinged when she moved, the price paid for falling asleep on a couch. She blinked a few times before scrunching up her face and wiping the dust from her eyes. The room of requirements only contained the still burning fire and loveseat she had fallen asleep on. James slept silently next to her; his head flopped back onto the junction of the back and the arm. Lily slipped out from under his arm that lay across her shoulder and grabbed her shoes before making her way quietly to the door. She wasn't ready to deal with the aftermath of her actions. How was she to have a conversation about her feelings when she didn't even understand them fully herself? How odd it was to think you have someone all figured out only to realize you are completely wrong? Well not completely. Lily leaned against the wall outside the tapestry hiding the room of requirements to put on her shoes when Alice walked up.

"Well, well, well guess I don't have to ask why you didn't come to bed last night. Seems like you found somewhere else to sleep," Alice taunted smiling. "Or not sleep," she added deviously as she stood in front of Lily. "And who is it that has Ms. Evans smiling so?"

"Oh stop!" Lily retorted laughing, "I'm not smiling and even if I was it wouldn't be anyone's business so there." For added effect and because Lily was feeling surprisingly giddy she stuck her tongue out at Alice before walking towards the great hall.

"Are you really gunna make you best mate guess?" Alice asked pouting for Lily's entertainment.

Lily pulled Alice behind a set of velvet curtains that enclosed a private window seat. "Ok, promise not to tell anyone," Lily waited for Alice's ready nod, "it was James."

Alice looked confused for a second, "James Potter?" Lily threw Alice a look that clearly said 'duh'. "But I didn't even know you liked him. I thought you hated him. Don't we still hate him?"

Lily laughed and hugged her best friend, "I don't know honestly. I feel so confused. I mean I thought that I did hate him. I thought he was … well all these horrible things-"

"A liar, manipulator, someone who doesn't care about others, egotistical, pigheaded, and juvenile," Alice supplied restating Lily's previous grievances with James.

"Well, yeah." Lily blushed, but continued, "I don't know. I think I was wrong about him. I got to know him a little and he's nothing like I thought."

"How did you even get to know him? Was it yesterday in class?"

"The other night I was with Remus in the kitchen when James entered and joined us. When I saw him with just him, Remus, and me he wasn't showing off or anything and I just … I dunno kinda say him from a different light and then I went to his room and-"

"Wait you went to is room," Alice cut in too excited to wait, "How come you didn't tell me?" She leaned forward and whispered, "What did you guys do?"

"Not anything nearly as exciting as your thinking, but I feel like I really got to know him and then yesterday I just went for it I guess. I wasn't worried about what anyone thought I just wanted to get to know him better."

Lily tapered off into silence forcing Alice to press her to continue, "And?"

"And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I like James Potter and I have a date with him this Saturday."

"Are you sure?" Alice questioned.

Lily nodded after a brief pause, "Yeah, I think I am."

The smile on Lily's face told Alice enough. She reached across the seat and hugged Lily before standing. "Let's go to breakfast."

"I can't I have to run up to Gryffindor tower first to get my books. Go ahead without me. No use both of us missing breakfast."

"I'll grab you a scone," Alice said as she walked in the opposite direction as Lily.

"You're the best," Lily said over her shoulder as she ran to her room.

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Sirius was pacing back and forth off to the side of the entry way. He needed to talk to Nikki, but he couldn't find her. She wasn't in the Great Hall or in their first class, and he didn't have the map to locate her. Peter had needed it last night to see a girl in Hufflepuff and Sirius hadn't seen him since. Sirius just hoped that once he did manage to speak with Nikki she would know how to reverse the spell. Then he could change Lily back to her boring old self and be done with James Potter once and for all. If the dumb sod wanted to make himself miserable again far be it from Sirius to stand in his way. He was pulled out of his brooding by a familiar head of brown hair. "Whitmore," Sirius called getting Nikki's attention, "come here."

"What's up?" Nikki questioned as she approached Sirius in a more hidden section of the entry way that was secluded from the rest of the hall allowing for private conversation as long as no one was in the secret shortcut from the fourth floor girls restroom to the painting of Laudine, the Lady of the Fountain.

"Do you know how to reverse the spell?" Sirius asked immediately.

"You can't reverse it. Why do you want to reverse it? I thought you wanted Lily to loosen up?"

Sirius folded his arms over his chest and snorted, "I do, but James managed to figure it out and basically threw a fit and ended our friendship so … I don't really give a fuck anymore. I'm just going to figure out how to undo the spell we put on Lily like James said and be-" Sirius was cut off mid sentence by a forcible blow to the back of the head as the painting swung open.

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A/N: This chapter is for my mom on Mother's Day. I am finally writing this chapter because I know how anxious you have been to see what happens. ; p Hope you like it. : )