This is really just a funny side note: while I was writing Bertie Bott's every flavor beans then the corrector thing told me it was spelled wrong so made the suggestion to change it to Butt's. This is funny because the beans belong to Butt.

REVIEW! And sorry it was just really funny at the time. :P

Chapter 15: Beginning

Lily waited at the tower only seconds before James showed up, appearing out of nowhere on his broom carrying a bag.

"Ready?" James asked her.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"You'll see." He promised. "Now, get on."

"What? No! I don't fly." She backed away.

"Come on. Trust me Lily." He coaxed.

"Is it safe?" she asked wearily. She'd been forced to take flying lessons, but it had ended badly. She preferred to just applaud the people who could ride brooms rather than try herself.

"Of course it's safe." She raised her eyebrows at him. She'd seen him fall off his broom more than once. "There are no bludgers around. You'll be fine." He told her.

"I hate heights." She told him.

"And I'm not a fan of potions. But sometimes you just have to go with it."

"You're comparing potions to a fear?"

"So it went from a hate to a fear?"

"James!"

"Alright, just trust me. I'd never let you fall."

"Tell me what's in the bag."

"No. This is not up for negotiation. Get on the broom and you'll find out what's in the bag."

"That sounds like something negotiable." Lily tried.

"It's not."

"Tell me what's in the bag and I'll get on the broom."

"Get on the broom and I'll tell you what's in the bag." Lily fought a smile as she cocked her head to the side.

"You know I'm not that interested in what's in the bag."

"Yes you are." James argued. Lily shook her head.

"Nope. I couldn't care less." James scrutinized her face.

"I'm not going to win am I?"

"Not likely." She said. He sighed landing the broom.

"This is now the mystery bag." He told her shaking it.

"Okay." She agreed.

"You'll never find out what's in this bag."

"Okay." She repeated.

"Ever. Not even if you needed the contents to live."

"You wouldn't let me die." He struggled for a second.

"That is so beside the point!" He managed. Lily laughed. "Oh that's great now you're laughing at me." This only made her laugh harder. She struggled to compose herself, but was failing miserably.

James sat down against the wall waiting for her to calm herself. "Are you done?" he asked.

"Almost." She assured him. She let out a breath. "Okay. I'm good."

"Really?" he asked. Lily fought off more giggles nodding. He shook his head. "So did you want to know what was in the bag?"

"What ever happened to 'you'll never find out unless you get on the bloody broom'?" she asked him.

"That battle was lost a long time ago." He said waving it away. "And I never said bloody."

"Alright. What's in the bag?" She asked sitting beside him. He sighed looking up before looking over at her.

"Candy."

"Candy?" she asked laughing again.

"Yes candy!" He said indignantly. "And not just any candy either. It's Honeyduke's candy." Lily nodded. He was such a child sometimes.

"Of course it is." Lily said.

"Did you want some or not?"

"I'd love some." She told him. He held the bag open for her, where sure enough it was full of chocoballs, chocolate frogs, Bertie Bott's every flavor beans, licorice wands, sugar quills and pumpkin pasties along with cauldron cakes.

"So we'll need cover up stories." James said. He took a sugar quill and began sucking on it.

"Look at you all top secret spy."

"All what?"

"Never mind." Lily said. James raised his eyebrow with the quill in his mouth.

"What's a spy?"

"Let it go." She told him. "Wait. Why will we need a cover up story? They'll be in Hogsmeade all day today."

"Exactly! They'll want to know what we each did here."

"Studied." Lily suggested.

"Boring." He scoffed.

"Well what are you looking for? Broke into Gringotts and kidnapped a dragon?"

"That's too far fetched. We need something like, 'we went to the library, to,"

"Study? Besides the 'we' thing won't work. Remember we hate each other?"

"This is complicated." He said.

"It was your idea."

"It sounded fun at the time. So let's just go with I didn't see you back here because I was in the boy's dorm and you were at the library."

"Okay."

"That was easy." He complained. Lily rolled her eyes.

"It will get tricky. Trust me. Things like this always do."

Lily got back to the dorm right after dinner having actually gone to the library first to check out a book she wasn't sure she needed. She couldn't believe she was secretly dating James. Although she wanted to be able to tell her friends of that night. The way she and James really had fought and how cute it was. She wanted to tell them about the candy bag and astronomy tower and broomstick and about their plans for the next day. But instead she would be telling them this:

"Hey where were you?" Ivy/Jamie/Mary.

"At the library." And maybe there would be:

"Are you mad at James?"

"Ugh! Yes. He's such a _______ (Insert what ever cruel name comes to mind here) I'm tired. See you in the morning."

Or at least that was the plan. Instead it went like this:

"Hey. Did you ever get more ink?" Mary asked.

"Yeah actually I did."

"Sorry we had to leave you there with James. Did everything go okay?" Ivy asked. As if she didn't know they 'fought'.

"Not exactly we got in a huge row at the Three Broom Sticks."

"Was it bad?" Ivy asked as Jamie sat quietly on the couch with a disinterested expression.

"Yes. There was screaming and everything." Lily said. She was about to call him that cruel name, only she couldn't come up with anything.

"Oh. Why what did he do?"

"Er, he was just you know being James." That worked.

"What did he do specifically?" Ivy pushed.

"I can't even remember. I'm going to bed." Lily made a mental note to be more exact the next time they made plans to fight.

Sunday morning Lily woke up before anyone else so went to the Great Hall by herself. Only she didn't have to because James was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs.

"Good morning." He smiled.

"Hey. How did you know I was coming down?"

"The map." He shrugged. "So did you come down to get some real food?"

"Or just breakfast. And yes." She said reaching him. He took her hand, surprising her a bit.

"So what did you want to do tonight?" He asked walking toward the Great Hall.

"Did you have anything planned?"

"I might have." He grinned.

"What's our cover-up going to be?" Lily asked remembering that mental note.

"Well its Sunday, so you could have a paper due tomorrow."

"Nope. I finished all my papers Friday so I could go to Hogsmeade without the pressure of school work."

"Then you have to tutor a kid for McGonagall."

"That won't work either. Ivy really is tutoring for McGonagall so she knows I'm not." Lily told him.

"Then," he thought for a moment as they arrived. "You went to talk to Flitwick about a Charms essay you wrote and have questions on."

"But I'm great at Charms. They know I wouldn't need help with it."

"Potions?"

"I'm good at that too." She said sitting down. They chose a seat near the middle, where James usually sat with his friends.

"Astronomy?"

"That one is one of my harder courses, but I'm not struggling and we only ever do charts in that class."

"What else are you taking?" He asked. "Just a pick a subject and go talk to that teacher."

"What are you going to be doing then?" she challenged.

"Easy. I really am struggling in Potions so I'm going to the dungeon to talk to Slughorn."

"What about?"

"The homework."

"And what did he say?"

"Come on Lily my friends won't care about that."

"Yeah, but what if they ask. If you really don't want to get caught then these back up stories are going to need to be fool proof. We'll need alibis and quotes and they have to be perfect." Lily said. "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea."

"No. It will work. You don't want to have to go through Jamie hating you right? Plus Ivy and Mary will always be wanted the details of our dates."

"Then why are you doing this?" She asked. She was only truly worried about the Jamie thing. Mary and Ivy she could handle.

"Because I don't want Padfoot getting the pleasure of the 'I told you so' dance. But Moony and Wormtail won't care. They knew it would happen eventually." James said scooping eggs onto his plate.

"The 'I told you so' dance?" Lily asked.

"It's his celebration dance. For when he's right about something."

"What does it look like?"

"Oh I won't even attempt to show you. Besides its far funnier to watch him do it."

"Can't wait." Lily said knowing it was just a matter of time.