Hello all! I am past the half way mark in my exams :D 4 down, two to go. So in celebration [and procrastination] I am writing a chapter. Or I'm staring it at least. I have no idea when it'll be up. They seem to be getting longer. It's like a disease. For those of you who are wondering, I have absolutely no idea how this story is going to end (: I wrote a plan and everything, but I think I just want to see how it flows. I hope none of you are procrastinating or not sleeping because of this story. It's a story guys you need your sleep more. BUT I DO appreciate you reading this story it makes my day to read your reviews (:

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Disclaimer: I am not JK don't sue me PLEASE

Previously:

"It's not so hard to guess!" he said as Lily groaned, "Okay it's a phrase,"

"Not helping, how many words is it?"

"Three." Lily looked up, shocked, into James' hazel eyes.

"Number of letters?" she asked quietly, still looking at his eyes.

"Eight," he whispered, leaning his forehead against hers.

"I love you too James."

"You what?" James asked, looking down at her in wonder.

"Isn't that what you were going to say?" Lily said nervously, taking a few steps away from him. James was looking at her with an unfathomable expression in those hazel eyes of his.

"Well yeah, but, I didn't expect you to say it back," James said sheepishly, looking down at the floor, running a hand through his hair. He looked back up at her and Lily saw the depths of his joy in his eyes. She rolled her eyes.

"Thanks you scared me half to death. Just Avada-Kedavra me why don't you?" she teased, and James chuckled, stepping towards her. He grabbed her face in his hands but she pushed him away, "No," she said.

"Lils you just said that you love me and you expect me not to want to kiss you?" he asked incredulously.

"You didn't say it!" she said, "And since you have not said it I am not going to kiss you until you do," she shrugged, and walked around him. James grabbed her arm.

"I love you Lils," he said, smiling at her. Lily felt her stomach flip and her heart inflate as she heard those words. She was so happy. James took a step towards her and she backed up again, "What now Lily?" James whined, and Lily grinned at him.

"You have to do it as romantically as I did," she said, and James rolled his eyes.

"That wasn't romantic"

"It was too! I guessed it. You made me guess and instead of you saying the words I replied. It was romantic. You on the other hand are only saying it so you can snog me. And that is not a good way to say it," she said, and with a wink, she turned around and marched out of the room, leaving James standing there with a dumbstruck expression on his face, which slowly turned into a smirk. He knew exactly how he was going to tell her.

He followed her out of the her room and barged into his, where Lily was sitting on Sirius' bed next to Sirius, "Females, leave," he instructed, pointing at the door. Lily looked up at him and he winked down at her.

"Well that's rather rude," Hestia said, from Sirius' lap.

"Yes Prongs what if we don't want the females to leave?" Remus said from where he was still sitting in the corner with his book.

"The females are leaving," James said, looking at Hestia, who stood up and huffed.

"Lily I need to find you a new boyfriend," she huffed, and grabbed Lily's hand. Lily giggled.

"I need to find you one with manners," she said, matching Hestia's tone.

"Lily this is males we are speaking of. Unless I date Remus I will not find a man with manners," Hestia said, with a wink over her shoulder at Remus, who had blushed. Sirius growled and stood up.

"I'll show you manners," he muttered, heading over to Remus, who took out his wand, just in case. Sirius pounced on Remus, who put up a shield charm, causing Sirius to fall on the floor, "Well played mate," Sirius said, and Remus chuckled.

"Let's go before your boyfriend blows a fuse," Hestia said, winking at James. She started to walk away and then squealed, turning back to Lily, "Remember that thing we were discussing?" she yelled.

"Hestia we discuss a lot of things," Lily said, rolling her eyes.

"The thing about the Marauders," Hestia squealed. Lily looked at her blankly, "Oh Merlin Lily you're useless! Remember that time when I was trying to cheer you up in fifth year after Severus called you a mudblood?" Hestia said, and Lily nodded, "And I made a joke about getting James, Sirius and Remus in a room and asking them a question?" Lily's eyes widened as she remembered, and she started to giggle, and Hestia grinned.

"What were and are you secretly discussing about us?" Remus asked worriedly. James and Sirius were looking at the girls in curiosity. The girls ignored Remus and continued giggling.

"Should I?" Hestia asked.

"I think you should it would be phenomenal," Lily snickered, looking from James, to Sirius, to Remus, who had dumfounded and slightly fearful expressions on their faces. Hestia laughed and turned back to the boys, clearing her throat.

"Which one of you is the good-looking one?" she asked innocently.

"Me," the three boys scoffed together, and then looked at each other with wide eyes.

"That's not true!" Sirius yelled at James and Remus. Remus, who had finally lain his book down stood up.

"Oh and you think it's you with your stupid grey eyes and swishy hair?" Remus challenged.

"Well it cant be you with your sandy hair and stupid blue eyes!"

"You both have a point"

"Oh shut up Mr. I-have-messy-hair-and-hazel-eyes-I'm-so-cool!" Sirius said, rolling his eyes.

"That's rich coming from Mr. I-look-like-I-have-curtains-attatched-to-my-forehead!" James retorted. Remus snorted and they both turned to look at him.

"Don't even get me started," Sirius snorted. The three boys broke off at the sound of choking. They turned around to see Lily and Hestia doubled up with laughter.

"You planned this!" Remus yelled, pointing a finger at the girls, who couldn't stop laughing.

"So…funny!" Hestia managed to gasp out, holding onto the doorknob for support.

"Just like we thought it would be!" Lily laughed. The two girls finally calmed down enough to look at the boys, who were looking at the girls with mischievous expressions, "Oh Merlin."

"You're not going to get away so easily," Sirius said quietly, taking a step towards the girls.

"Wait! Rule! No wands," Remus said.

"Why?" Sirius whined, turning around to look at his friend.

"Well I don't know about you, but I don't want to be against Lily with a wand," Remus said warily.

"I second that!" Sirius raised his hand, and the girls rolled their eyes.

"Fine," Lily said, pulling out her wand. Remus summoned all the wands and put them on James' dresser.

"Now we may begin," Remus said. He turned to smirk at Lily and Hestia, who found themselves surrounded by boys, backed up against the dresser.

"Not the smartest move, don't you think?" Hestia asked, warily, eyeing her boyfriend, who was smirking the largest.

"No not at all," Lily said back to her.

"Idea!" Hestia sung, turning to whisper in Lily's ear. Lily grinned and nodded enthusiastically. The boys eyed them warily, and took a step back, just in case. The girls took a step towards the boys, who took another step back. The girls took two more advancing steps, the boys two more retreating. Hestia and Lily turned to grin at each other, before turning and sprinting out of the door, "Gotcha!" Hestia winked over her shoulder, shutting James' door behind them as they ran out.

"Where do we go?" Hestia whispered, as they sprinted down the hallway, away from James' room. They were at the family room and they could hear the boy's footsteps.

"Follow me!" Lily squealed, and the girls ran down the stairs. They heard the boys' exit the hallway and hurried up. Lily grabbed Hestia's hand and ran out of the back door that lead to the garden of hedges Lily had seen before. They ran into the maze of taller hedges, which were taller than Hestia, who, for the record, was tall.

"Perfect!" Hestia hissed, hi-fiving her best friend. They ran deeper into the maze and decided to stop when they no longer knew which direction they were going in, "They're not going to find us for a while," Hestia said, sinking down onto the floor, gasping for breath.

"Stupid mansion is so big," Lily muttered, leaning against the hedge, clutching at a stitch in her side. She looked around and saw a light near them, "I think we're near the back wall," Lily muttered, and Hestia nodded, "and the entrance is on the other side, so even if they do enter we'll make a quick escape," Hestia grinned up at her best friend.

"Diabolical Lily," she said, and Lily rolled her eyes. They heard a noise and froze.

"Where could they be?"

"They went in the maze"

"Should we wait for them to come out or go in after them?"

"I saw we split up"

"Okay so two in there and one out here?"

"I think other way around so the two out here can grab them"

"Yeah and the one can scare them out"

"I love how they think we're such pansies," Lily muttered, pulling Hestia to her feet quietly, "They're by the entrance so we're safe going out that way." They inched towards the back exit. Lily bravely peered out, and saw that there was no one there.

"Lily! Go! I can see Remus!" Hestia whispered, peering through a hole in the hedge. The two girls snuck out quietly. They could see James and Sirius by the entrance of the maze, "how do we get past?" Hestia whispered. Lily looked around and saw a door close by that led to an underground passage that led back into the mansion.

"We have to get there," she whispered, gesturing to the door. Hestia nodded.

"We'll have to crawl. The short hedges will hide us," Hestia said. The girls nodded and got down on their knees. They made their way quietly to the door.

"I can't find them!" they heard Remus yell from inside the maze. They stopped and Lily poked her finger through the skinny hedge to create a peephole. James and Sirius were still standing outside.

"Need help Moons?" James yelled into the maze, "Let's go," he gestured to Sirius, and the two of them entered the maze. Lily turned around and grinned at Hestia, who was trying not to laugh. They crawled faster to the door. They looked through the hedge to make sure the boys were still inside the maze.

"Prongs! Where are you? Stupid maze," they heard Sirius yell. They grinned at each other and quickly stood up to pull the door open. Thankfully, it was unlocked. They jumped in and closed the door behind them quickly. They found themselves in a long hall with marble floors. There were fire lamps on the walls.

"It's so medieval," Lily murmured as they walked together down the hallway. There was a door at the end. They ran to the door (the hallway was creepy) and Lily slowly pushed it open. She looked around. The ghost was clear. They walked out of the door and found themselves inside the Potter mansion, looking out of the large glass windows that showed them the garden. The boys had just gotten out of the maze. Lily and Hestia grinned at each other.

"Where'd they go?" they heard Sirius yell, and laughed quietly. James, who was looking around, looked at the mansion and saw the two girls. Even from that distance, Lily could see the smirk on his face. He tapped Sirius and Remus on the shoulders, and pointed at them. Lily and Hestia saw the smirks on their faces again.

"Crap," Hestia muttered, as the boys started running towards the house. The two girls, holding hands, sprinted up the stairs. They reached the family room by the time they heard the boys' running footsteps. They were inside the house. Lily grabbed Hestia's hand and ran back towards James' room, "are you crazy!" Hestia said. Lily ran into James' room and shut the door gently.

"Hide!" she whispered to Hestia. Hestia ran and hid in the empty closet. Lily looked around and opened the other closet door, facing James' clothes. She shrugged and jumped in, shutting the door behind her, finding herself in darkness. She started to panic, she had always hated the dark, but found herself surrounded by the smell of James, and she breathed in relief.

"Where are they?"

"They wouldn't have gone into your room Prongs, they're not that stupid."

"You have a point there mate. Lily's room?"

"Doubt it. Too obvious."

"Then where are they?"

Just then, Hestia sneezed.

"Did you hear that?" Lily sent curses at Hestia telepathically. She heard the door to James' room open.

"Their wands are still on the dresser," Lily heard someone, probably Remus, say, standing really close to her closet.

"They don't break rules. It's Lily"

"Touché"

"Well did they come in here?"

"Want to cheat?"

"What would you do?"

"Well there are wands right there, and the girls aren't around to stop us"

"That's cheating"

"I know that's why I asked if you wanted to cheat" Lily bit down on her knuckles, trying not to laugh. She, however, heard a giggle. Damn Hestia for not having self-control.

"They're in here!"

"Where?"

"Where did that giggle come from?"

"It was Hestia's giggle"

"Only you would know Pads"

"Well obviously that's my girlfriends giggle. You'd know if it was Lily"

"Touché"

"Hestia darling?"

"Yes, she's going to reply Pads"

"It was worth a shot"

"They're not that daft"

"They're chicks, what do you expect?" Lily narrowed her eyes at the cupboard door.

"I can feel them both trying to kill us with their eyes"

"Isn't it wonderful?"

"Oh yes, the best"

"What are we going to do when we find them? Just out of curiosity?"

"Well, I was going to snog them senseless"

"Would that really be a punishment?"

"By the wrong person"

"I don't know about you mate, but I don't want to watch one of my best mates snog my girlfriend"

"Yeah Pads you're so stupid. Do you want one of us snogging Hestia?"

"I was referring to Lily. I would be the one snogging Hestia, thank you very much"

"Then that wouldn't count as being part of the punishment. Can I just say that's a stupid punishment? Firstly, snogging is never a punishment, no matter whom you're snogging. The punishment is watching someone snog your girlfriend. And I don't want to be punished so no. And also one of us would be left out. It has to be a punishment that can count as a punishment"

"You know the girls are listening to all of this right?"

"Good. I'm being very chivalrous at the moment"

"Oh yes. Sir Prongs and his stupid horse"

"Why is there a horse?"

"Back on topic!"

"Right. Punishment. How about, we make them our slaves."

"Sexual slaves or regular slaves?"

"Whatever we want?"

"Excellent." Lily gulped as she thought of what they were going to make her and Hestia do. She heard a thud and had to control a squeak. The doors to the cupboard moved and Lily figured someone was leaning on the cupboard.

"What if we don't find them?"

"They'll have to show themselves sometime"

"Oh! New cheating idea that doesn't involve wands so it's not really cheating!"

"Go ahead Pads"

"What if we call Anna and Alan and order them to find the ladies?"

"That's actually a good idea"

"Anna! Alan!" There was a crack and Lily groaned, knowing they would be found out.

"Master called?"

"Anna, Alan, would you do us the huge favor of finding Lily and Hestia?"

"Why?"

"We cannot find them. Alan you look for Hestia, Anna you look for Lily"

"Master James they are in this room" Lily grinned and reminded herself to thank Anna later.

"We know that but we're playing hide and seek and we can't find them!"

"Master James if it is a game I can't possibly help you cheat"

"Anna!"

"Sorry Master James. Alan and I must go. Good luck Miss Lily and Miss Hestia!" she yelled and there was another crack

"Brilliant idea Pads" Lily heard a chuckle and groaned internally

"It came from over there!" She heard footsteps cross the floor and the cupboard door flew open with a bang

"Oh look who it is. Hello Hestia"

"I hate you all" Hestia said, and Lily heard the creak of bedsprings as she sat down on the bed.

"One down, one to go"

"Hestia, as you are our slave as of now, where is Lily?"

"That is information I cannot, and will not reveal"

"Slaves are useless nowadays"

"Doesn't mean you're free though"

"Damn it" Lily rolled her eyes fondly as she heard Hestia curse silently.

"Lily-flower!"

"Well if Hestia was in that cupboard, don't you think we should check this one?"

"That one's full of clothes though"

"So?" Lily held her breath

"I say we check just in case"

The cupboard doors flew open and Lily squinted against the sudden light. She looked down to see who had opened the door to see Sirius grinning slyly at her.

"Hello Lily-flower" he said in a deep voice, and Lily gulped. Sirius reached in and grabbed her hand, but Lily pulled it out of his grip, "Now is no time to be difficult slave" he said, and Lily rolled her eyes, "Oh for the love of Merlin" Sirius said, reaching in and picking Lily up. Lily shrieked as Sirius carried her out of her sanctuary of James smelling goodness and threw her onto the bed next to Hestia.

"I think we did pretty well," Hestia said to Lily and Lily laughed.

"They couldn't even find us when we were in the same room." The grinning girls looked up to see the boys smirking down at them dangerously. Lily stuck her tongue out at James who winked at her.

"So we have found our slaves, what do you want to do first?" Sirius asked, turning to look at Remus and James, "my vote's on sexual favors." Sirius winked at Hestia, who blushed and looked at Lily pleadingly. Just then, an owl flew in, dropping a letter in Lily's lap, before swiftly flying out.

"No letters allowed" James said. Lily rolled her eyes and ripped the letter open.

"Lily-flower you're being disobedient!" Sirius whined, but Lily wasn't listening.

"It's from Gwenog," she said, turning to Hestia, who leaned in closely so they could read it together.

Lily! (And Hestia because I know she owled me that she'd come to stay there)

You will never believe it! So you know how I went for Quidditch tryouts this break? I made it! It's amazing! I made it onto an actually Quidditch team! Isn't that fantastic? Oh I'm going to explode with joy. And it's not even a stupid, unimportant team. I made it onto the Holyhead Harpies! The Harpies! It's intoxicating! Reply soon! Not today though, I'm busy choosing other players (teehee!)

Gwenog Jones (EEP!)

Lily screamed and jumped up as Hestia did the same. The boys stood, dumbstruck, as the girls jumped up and down on Sirius' bed screaming.

"What happened?" Lily threw the letter at them and soon the boys were yelling happily.

"I danced with Gwenog Jones of the Holyhead Harpies!" Remus yelled happily.

"I was Gwenog Jones' Quidditch Captain" James said smugly. Sirius rolled his eyes.

"I snogged Gwenog Jones of the Holyhead Harpies, hence, I win" Sirius smirked, "all the way back in third year" Everyone rolled their eyes.

"I need to go reply!" Lily squealed, grabbing the letter and making to leave the room with Hestia a step behind her, but suddenly the door was shut in front of her, "What?" she asked, turning around to see Remus with his wand.

"As happy I am about Gwenog. I do believe there is parchment, and quills in here. And as you are our slaves you are not wondering out of our sight," Remus shrugged, and Sirius and James snickered.

"I take back what I said about the manners earlier" Hestia mumbled, turning around and lying down on the bed

"Tut tut Hestia is that how you speak to your master? I haven't gotten you trained enough" Sirius said, lying down on top of her.

"I don't want to see that!" Lily exclaimed, shutting her eyes.

"I'll distract you," James said seriously, taking a step closer to Lily.

"No we have a deal," Lily winked, and James sighed. He had forgotten about the deal.

"Well as you're my slave I say deal's broken," James said proudly, but Lily rolled her eyes.

"I declare myself Remus' slave," she said, winking at Remus, who turned bright red.

"So you'd rather snog Moony than your own boyfriend?" James asked, insulted.

"Well my own boyfriend has to bear up to that deal before he can snog me," she shrugged, and sat down at James' desk, writing out a reply.

"Gwenog's letter says not to reply today," Sirius said, resurfacing from whatever he had been doing with Hestia, who walked over to Lily.

"I don't want to be his slave! He's going to snog me until lips are chapped," Hestia whined, sitting down next to Lily, and burying her face in Lily's shoulder. Lily chuckled.

"I like to have things done early," Lily said, and she heard all three boys snort.

"I say slave shouldn't write her letter now," Sirius said.

"I agree!" the other two said, and Lily turned to give her boyfriend the death glare.

"Now, Lily-flower slave. I have already snogged Hestia. I believe it's your turn," Sirius said, taking a step towards her. Lily looked to see James' glaring at Sirius as if he was going to kill him, which he probably would if Sirius dared snog Lily.

"Padfoot," Remus said in a warning tone, eyeing James

"Oh I wasn't going to do it get your knickers out of a knot," Sirius said, turning to stick his tongue out at James whose face broke into a relieved smile. There was a crack in the room and Lily looked to see Anna and smiled at her.

"Thank you for not ratting us out earlier Anna," Lily said, grinning at the elf, who laughed.

"Miss Lily should hide in better places next time," Anna said, "Master James' cupboard smells bad." Lily laughed, as James looked affronted.

"Mistress Potter says it's time for dinner," Anna said, looking over at them all.

"Anna what's for dinner?" Sirius asked.

"Anna doesn't know, you'll have to ask Alan, Master Sirius"

"Anna Banana I am offended. You knew I was here and didn't find out what was for dinner?" Sirius said, mock offended. Anna rolled her eyes and turned to Lily and Hestia.

"Please bring the boys down for dinner. Master Sirius is giving Anna a headache," she said, and disapparated, grinning at Sirius.

"Sirius food!" Lily said, hitting her thighs as she would to a dog.

"Don't tempt me Lily-flower," Sirius said, winking at Lily, and Lily quickly removed her hands from her thighs, "FOOD!" he yelled, grabbing the closest person, Remus, and dragging them out of the room, "LET'S GO HESTIA SLAVE!"

"My boyfriend, ladies and gentlemen," Hestia said, rolling her eyes. She walked out of the room before Sirius could yell anymore, leaving Lily and James alone. Suddenly, Lily found herself back up against the wall.

"I stand by what I said earlier!" Lily squealed.

"Yes I know you do. Prepare yourself, Lily Evans, for romanticness you will never find in anyone else," he winked, and dropped a small kiss on Lily's forehead. Lily rolled her eyes and walked to James' door.

"Surprise me," she winked, before heading out of the door.

The dinner table was crowded, seven out of the eight seats filled, and Lily found herself sitting next to Sirius, which was disgusting as Sirius ate like a dog, "Sirius manners" Emily said, wrinkling her nose in disgust. Lily laughed and looked at James, who was sitting diagonally across from her. She was across from Remus and Hestia had wound up across from her boyfriend. A little ways through the meal, Sirius jumped, and looked over at his girlfriend, who was smirking. Lily wrinkled her nose in disgust, trying not to imagine what Hestia was doing to Sirius.

There was a crack and Lily looked around to see Alan right next to her chair, "Is Miss Lily enjoying her dinner?"

"I am thank you very much," she said, smiling down at the elf, who smiled and disapparated.

"It's official, Alan is in love with you," Mr. Potter declared, and Lily rolled her eyes.

"He is not"

"He is! He keeps checking on you!"

"Are you jealous dear?" Emily asked, turning to look at her husband.

"Oh yes, I've always fancied Alan actually," he said sarcastically, and everyone snorted into their food. Once they had finished dinner, with a lot of bickering between Emily and Daniel, and Emily and Sirius, Alan cleared their plates. He winked at Lily before disapparating.

"I TOLD YOU!" Daniel said, standing up and pointing at Lily, who blushed.

"Wow Mr. P don't bust a vein or anything," Sirius grinned cheekily, and Daniel rolled his eyes, sitting down, ignoring the laughter. When they were about to get up, James cleared his throat.

"I want to say something," he said, looking at his parents, who nodded curiously. Lily felt her stomach turn as James turned to wink at her. James stood up and got up on the table.

"James!" Emily yelled, but Daniel hushed his wife, looking up at James.

"Lily," James said, turning to look down at Lily, who was turning an odd shade of maroon. She felt all eyes turn to her and then look back at James, "I wanted to tell you something," he said, and Lily felt her skin heat up even more, "but I think I'm going to tell it in a different way than you'd imagine," he said, pulling out his wand.

"Lily Evans," he said, pointing his wand at the ceiling. There was a bang and Lily looked up to see six doves fly out of his wand. They flew around the room and dropped, what looked like hearts, on everyone's plates, red on everyone else's, except for a white one on Lily's, before they exploded, which would have been extremely gruesome, had they not exploded in a gust of glitter. Lily looked down at her heart as it dissolved into the plate. Lily stared down in wonder as the heart shattered on her plate and formed many little hearts around it, and then as a hand started to write on her plate, leaving the words 'I love you'. Everyone else's plates read 'James loves Lily'. Lily felt tears in her eyes as she looked up at James, who was looking down at her. He reached his hand out to her and Lily took it, and James pulled her onto the table.

"I love you Lily."