So Lily and James are probably bugging you guys too. Because they're getting on my nerves! But don't worry it will get better. Soon.

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CHAPTER 13: Alone Together

"Are you going with anyone to Hogsmeade?" Mary asked during Charms.

"Yeah you guys." Lily answered.

"No, I mean has anyone asked you to go with them?" Mary clarified.

"No. Why?"

"Just wondering. Oh, but you should know that some extra people are going to be with us this time."

"Have that essay ready by Monday!" Flitwick called to the students before dismissing them.

"What group?" Lily asked piling her stuff in her bag.

"Just some people. I'll see you tomorrow. I have to go see McGonagall about something." Mary said heading off to McGonagall's office.

"Hey Lily." Ivy said walking out of the class room with her.

"Hi. Do you know who we're going to Hogsmeade with?"

"Oh good, Mary told you about that."

"Yeah, so who are they?"

"Just a few people. I'll be heading off with Jamie and one of them, though. Just a head's up."

"Okay," Lily said a little confused.

"Oh, speaking of which, I'm meeting them in the Library to help them with some things. So I'll see you tonight." Ivy said.

"I'll come with you." Lily suggested.

"No! I mean, it's Transfigurations work and you'll just be bored."

"Well I already finished the essay so I could help you."

"You don't want to do that. Besides you're just about done with all your work, so just relax in the common room and I'll see you at dinner. Maybe a little after." Ivy said.

"But…"

"Really, I insist." With that Ivy went to the Library.

Lily went to the common room by herself only to find out that James was the only other person in there. It was a free period so the younger students were in class, at the lake or sleeping up in the dormitories.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" Lily asked setting her bag down by the couch. James was bent over a piece of parchment.

"Oh, hey." He looked up at her. "I was just writing a letter to my mum. She wrote me yesterday and I've been busy. Well except now."

"Right," Lily said. James nodded going back to his letter. Lily sat down on the couch pulling out a book she'd been trying to read all year but hadn't found the time. She could hear James's quill scratch across the paper.

"So what are you reading?" he asked her after a minute and he had finished.

"Um, just this book." Lily answered.

"Is it any good?"

"It is actually." She replied.

"I'm sorry. I'm taking you away from it huh?"

"No, actually. The main character is being kind of stupid." She closed the book. "It was beginning to get on my nerves."

"Do you know what's funny?" he asked.

"What?"

"Padfoot said that we'd end up alone in the common room. But then I said that that was unlikely. Turns out he was right." Lily looked around at the deserted room.

"He was very right." Lily said.

"It's a little freaky."

"Why?"

"Just Padfoot being right. If you saw his grades you'd understand." He smiled and Lily did too.

"He's not one for school work is he?"

"No. He's not. But he did pass he's OWLs so he's not stupid."

"I figured. He always seemed like a smart guy." Lily said wondering why they were talking about Sirius of all people.

"Hey, do you want to go down to the lake? I'm sick of being inside." James asked suddenly.

"That actually sounds really nice." She agreed.

"So why aren't you with your friends?" James asked her as they headed down the stairs.

"Oh, well Mary went to see McGonagall about something while Ivy and Mary went to the library to do Transfiguration. What about the other Marauders?"

"Well Moony is still in the hospital wing. And Sirius is in detention, but I'm not sure why."

"What about Peter?" Lily asked.

"I don't know. He disappeared after class and I couldn't find him so I just decided to wait in the common room for him. But you showed up instead."

"So you were waiting for him?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, but don't worry about it. I'd rather talk to you." Lily smiled at this looking at the ground. "It's been kind of weird in class though."

"You've noticed that too?" Lily asked.

"It's kind of hard not to. It's just I didn't want to say anything about your dad or that time before you left while other people were around. And then I was hoping that you'd say something."

"Well I couldn't think of anything to say either." Lily said.

"So it left us in awkward silence?"

"I guess so." Lily paused. "How did the first match go?" Lily asked.

"We won actually." James said. "Three hundred and five to seventy six."

"Wow. I can't believe you won by that much."

"Well we're really good."

"Now I can't wait to go to the next game."

"Well it's against Slytherin so it should be very interesting." James said. "Plus during practice Hatchly fell off his broom so I had to get a replacement. Then the replacement got sick. So I had to get a replacement for my replacement. It's been a big messy actually."

"That's unfortunate."

"Yeah. But what about your time home? How did that go?" James asked.

"Well my sister showed up with her husband,"

"You don't like him?" James asked hearing the tone she used.

"No! He's horrible. He's like a whale with bad manners." James laughed. "He is! But anyway, the funeral itself went well. Lots of crying but I got to meet some of the people my dad worked with and heard some funny stories."

"How was your mum?"

"A mess. But she wasn't too bad. You know, she got through the ceremony and held it together enough to plan the funeral. I'm sorry can we not talk about it?" Lily asked.

"Sure. What would you rather talk about?" James asked holding the front door for her.

"Whatever."

"Oh come on! You don't want to suffer through more awkward silences do you?" he asked. Lily smiled.

"No, so tell me something, anything about you."

"About me?" James asked.

"Yes."

"Okay. Well I'm the only child." He began.

"Everyone knows that!"

"Well what do you want to hear then?"

"Something better than that!"

"Alright then. I have a tattoo." He said. "A muggle one."

"I actually knew that too."

"How? The only other person that knows that is Sirius."

"I saw it." She shrugged.

"When?"

"When do you think?" she challenged.

"Alright then. Sometimes when I'm bored I animate it so it flies in little circles on my arm." Lily laughed.

"That's so lame!"

"It looks cool. And it's not like you don't do things that are lame sometimes."

"Okay point taken. What else?"

"How about you tell me something about you?"

"But you're so much more interesting." Lily insisted.

"No I'm not. Come on. Tell me something about you." Lily sighed.

"When I was little my parents made me take swimming lessons." She offered. They were nearing the lake.

"Really? Were you any good?"

"No. The first time I went this little boy pushed me in and I nearly drowned." She had never told anyone that before.

"You did not." James said.

"I really did! It was the first time I ever did anything magical. That I can really remember."

"What did you do?"

"I don't even know. But I was in danger so it was like I could breathe under water. I tried to tell my parents but they didn't believe me."

"That's cute."

"How is that cute?"

"Just that you thought, and don't deny that you didn't, that you were a mermaid." James said.

"Only for like a week." Lily allowed sitting in the grass under a tree. They had arrived at the lake. It seemed to take them forever, but then no time at all to get there.

They continued to take turns telling each other of their childhood. Just funny or sad stories about themselves. Lily learned that James had house elves back home and that his mom loved to cook, but wasn't very good at it. Also that he had met Sirius the same day he had met her.

The sun began to set as they continued to talk, wandering away from childhood to nothing in particular. Like movies and books, even though James really knew nothing about either, to Quidditch and wizard fairy tales that Lily really knew nothing about to things they both knew about. Like Professor Binns was without a doubt the most boring teacher in history and that the Slytherins were all stuck up and things that had nothing to do with school at all.

Lily looked out at the dark lake wondering when the sun had gone down. She looked at her wrist only to remember that her watch had been destroyed by Jamie. Totally by accident, but it left Lily without the time.

"Do you know what time it is?" Lily asked. They had been sitting a while in a comfortable silence.

"Er, no I don't have a watch." James replied.

"How late do you think it is?"

"It's after seven that's for sure. The suns already down." He said pointing out the obvious.

"We missed dinner."

"Are you hungry?"

"A bit. Yeah."

"Then let's go get something to eat."

"But how? Dinner ended hours ago." Lily said.

"Or just one hour ago." James corrected.

"Well either way, where would we get food?"

"From the source of course."

Okay so you probably already know what's going on…I don't want to give it away, but for those of you who have figured it out James and Lily are a little bit slow on the uptake right?

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