James hurried through the common room, trying to get everything just right. The entire room was full of pink carnations, Lily's favorite flower. A huge, flashing banner read, "I'm Sorry, Lily", and he even had a recording of Sirius singing some cheesy love song playing in the background. There was a basket of Honeyduke's chocolates on the table, an extremely long, groveling letter was placed in the midst of the chocolate, and he himself held a necklace he'd wanted to give to her at the ball. He opened the box just to look at it once more and smiled. It was perfect. It was a plain silver chain with a gorgeous, glimmering white lily pendant.

When she entered the common room, he snapped the box shut and tried to push down the nervousness welling up inside of him. She looked around in awe, the pink of the flowers reflecting off of her face, as did the orange light radiating from the banner. She looked at him with a completely bewildered expression before running to him and hugging him.

"I really did not expect this much," she said to him, laughing. "This is absolutely huge! I mean, I really did overreact a little bit, I guess."

"No, you didn't," James said. "And, there's one more thing. I meant to give this to you after the ball, but, given the circumstances..."

He handed her the box gently, and as she opened it she gasped, a huge, slow smile spreading across her face.

"James! This is beautiful!" she breathed, indicating for him to put it on. He smiled as he did so, hugging her when he was done.

"I take it I'm forgiven?"

"Oh, yeah," Lily giggled, giving him a kiss.

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Delilah sat on Sirius's bed, strumming away on her guitar while he listened and attempted to work on his muggle studies essay. Delilah had done it the day before, but being a procrastinator, Sirius put it off.

"Hey, isn't your birthday coming up?" Delilah asked suddenly.

"In a couple of weeks. Why?"

"Hellooo! You're turning seventeen! We've got to do something special!"

"Remus's is a few days after mine, too, by the way," Sirius chimed in tentatively.

"I'm not doing anything for him!" she exclaimed angrily. Sirius winced, knowing she was still bitter about Remus standing up Loraina for apparently no reason.

"I promise you he had a good reason for doing what he did," Sirius said.

"I don't care what his reason was. He broke my best friend's heart. There is no excuse for hurting a girl like Loraina!"

"Delilah, when he gets around to telling you, you're going to regret saying that," he said, waving his finger at her teasingly.

"I don't care," she pouted. "She's my best friend and he hurt her. It's part of my job description to be angry with him. So there!" With that, she stuck her tongue out at him and continued playing her guitar.

"Yeah, yeah. Just play your guitar, woman."

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"Rain, please listen," Remus pleaded, trailing after an obviously annoyed Loraina toward the library.

"I have thrown things at you, I have hit you, I have insulted you, I have even hexed up, Lupin! What does it take with you?!" Loraina shouted, reeling around.

"I won't stop until you forgive me," Remus said simply.

"Looks like you've got a long life of an angry Loraina to deal with then," Loraina huffed, turning back around.

"Please, Loraina..."

"Lupin, really, if you don't leave me alone, I am seriously going to snap and I cannot be held accountable for my actions."

"Hate to say it, Rain, but I think you already snapped," Remus chuckled. When she growled at him like an animal, he stepped back and blocked his face. "Please don't slap me again!"

"Don't call me Rain."

"Why not?"

"Because you've lost the privelage to give me a nickname," she said stubbornly, crossing her arms.

"Loraina, I'm sorry! You know that I"m sorry! I've been following you around for two bloody days! Will you please just forgive me?!"

"No, I won't forgive you. I spent hours getting ready for that stupid ball. I then spent hours crying my eyes out when my fantasy night was completely ruined because my date stood me up. Then he comes around telling me to forgive him but won't tell me why he didn't show! I'm just supposed to trust that it was a good reason, when you already lied to me about something stupid like getting hurt in a prank! How am I supposed to trust you, Remus?"

"I don't know, but please, just try! One more chance!"

"No, Remus," Loraina said sadly, shaking her head. "Maybe eventually, but not right now. I just don't want to talk to you for a while, okay? I need space."

With that, she walked away, and Remus, not knowing what else to do, watched.

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"Delaney, they're back together!" Amber screeched at her best friend. "I thought you were going to help me split up that stupid little group!"

"I thought that I did!" Delaney, otherwise known as Brunette Girl, rushed to say. "I really did! James and Evans were totally over!"

"But they got back together," redheaded Jesabelle put it with a smug smile. "Amber, you should have let me do it!"

"No way! I can still do it!"

"No, you can't!" Amber snapped. "Look, it's obvious that I just need to go after Remus myself. Apparently, he and Parker had a fight or something, and he's been trying to get her to forgive him, but she's not budging."

"Perfect. So..what are you gonna do?"

"Flaunt it," Amber said, hiking up her skirt and winking at her friends with a giggle. "It's what I do best."

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"Lily-kins!" Delilah shouted up the stairs to Lily's room. She then preceded to race up the stairs and swing the door open to reveal Lily practically on top of James, in her bed, kissing him furiously. "Woah-kay! AWKWARD!"

Lily flew off the bed, James sat up in shock, his glasses fell off, and, for good measure, Delilah screamed.

"Delilah!" Lily exclaimed in an offended voice.

"I am so sorry!" Delilah gushed, beginning to gesture awkwardly until she finally settled on pointing to the door.

"I'll just be...going."

"Erm...yeah, me too," James said, equally as awkwardly.

Delilah and James shuffled out of the door, both beat red and not speaking to each other. Lily laughed, embarrassed, and put her face in her hands.

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"You would not believe what he said!" Loraina screeched to her friends. The blonde was obviously quite irritated, pacing around and grasping at her hair.

"What'd he say?" Delilah asked, looking scared.

"He was talking about how he had such a good reason and that I should just give him one more chance! I'm through giving everyone second chances, especially Remus Lupin!"

"Did you tell him that?" Lily asked, leafing through her book. She and Delilah were still rather awkward from their encounter the day before...

"Yeah, I actually did," Loraina said. "It felt really good, to finally say what I'm really feeling instead of hiding behind what people want to hear."

"Let's face it, Raina, it was a one time thing," Lily laughed.

"Yeah, I'll probably never do it again," Loraina mumbled, her cheeks flushing. "But it was fun while it lasted!"

"That's what matters," Delilah chuckled.

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"Moony, why the long face?"

"Loraina," the blonde boy mumbled, running his hands through his hair. "She doesn't want to talk to me. Ever."

"Oh," James said sadly. "Well, on the brightside, we've got our first quidditch match this weekend!"

Remus groaned and dropped his head to the table.

Author's Note: Okay, so this chapter was really, really bad, I get it. But I need to make sure to either resolve or develop on conflicts slightly, and I realized that I had kind of forgotten about Quidditch, so the match will be next chapter.