Holaz my fan peeps! Thanks for the amazing response to the last chapter! I love you all! I would so have posted a chapter yesterday, but after I spent the night with my friend, I went fishing with my family and caught the biggest fish! Yay me!

And, wait for it…wait…for…ON WITH THE CHAPTER!

*****

We scoured the Great Hall for my slip.

Searched everywhere.

We even (insert shudder) asked Filch if he'd found it. He laughed at me for losing it.

(Insert second shudder) Yeah, that's how desperate I am.

You see, that clip was a gift from my grandmother. Her grandmother gave it to her when she was young, and Petunia always wanted it. Grandma would never tell who she was going to give it to, but the day I got my Hogwarts letter six years ago, she gave it to me.

Petunia was seriously pissed off.

And now I've gone and lost it.

"Oh, Lily!" Alice cried. "Don't cry, we'll find it!"

"What?" I asked, reaching toward my face. It felt moist. Oh. I had been crying. "My bad," I muttered.

Andromeda and Alice came and hugged me together. "It'll be alright Lils!" Andromeda said. "We will find it. I promise."

I nodded. "Alright," I said. "But breakfast is going to begin soon, and people will start coming in here, so maybe we should change out of our pajama bottoms," I added, looking at my muggle Hello Kitty pajama pants.

Alice laughed. "Yeah," she agreed. "We probably should." She gestured to her Spongebob ones I had bought her for Christmas. She had been incredibly fascinated by them.

Once we had changed, we went back into the Great Hall to see that it was filling up fast.

"Hello Lily," a familiar voice said.

"Good morning, James," I replied politely. That's when I remembered what was coming up. A Hogsmeade weekend. He's going to ask me out. Again. He does every Hogsmeade weekend.

"Lily, I was…" he trailed off. "Have a nice day," he said, smiling. Then he walked over to his seat.

"What the hell?" Alice asked, watching him, confused.

"He didn't ask you out," Andromeda said incredulously.

"Really?" I asked sarcastically. "I hadn't noticed." Alice rolled her eyes.

*****"You didn't ask her out!" Sirius cried incredulously.

"Really?" I asked sarcastically. "I hadn't noticed." Remus rolled his eyes.

"But why not?" peter asked, confused.

"I thought about it," I explained. "I was going to. But then I realized she'd just say no."

"She always says no," Sirius said. "That's never stopped you before!"

"Well, I know, but before I didn't think I might be falling in love with someone else. At first we were just talking about her, then, when we started talking about other things, mystery girl was so amazing. She was like Lily, but she was a version of Lily who actually likes me and doesn't blow up in my face when I say something particularly arrogant."

Remus laughed. "Well, I suppose I'm happy for you. I never thought I'd see the day when you decided not to ask Lily out."

"I give it a week," Sirius muttered under his breath.

I rolled my eyes.

*****

I didn't pay attention in Transfiguration.

He didn't ask me out.

Why not?

That's the question that was swirling around in my head all day.

Why not? Why not? Why not?

It was like a pesky little fly, always there no matter how many times you swat it away.

Why did I care? I shouldn't care. I supposed I'd just gotten used to it.

Oh, who am I kidding. I wanted him to ask me out. Even though I'd have said no. I wanted to know that he still liked me, even if he liked the girl he talked about at the ball more.

Because ever since I saw that other side of him, the witty, funny, caring side of him, I was really starting to like him.

And that was a scary thought.

*****

"Who was she?" I asked Alice. I know she knows who I danced with at the ball. Several people saw her talking to her before she ran off to find Frank.

"I told you," she muttered. "I don't know."

"You do too!" Sirius argued. "Who was it!?"

"Fine!" she cried. "I know! But if you think I'm telling you, you are sadly mistaken."

"Why!?" James asked miserably.

"Because, it's none of your business," she muttered.

"How is it none of my business!?" I practically yelled at her.

"Fine," she said. "But I'm still not telling you."

"Then will you just tell my why she wouldn't tell me who she was? Or why she freaked out when I took off my mask?"

She shook her head sadly. "I can't tell you anything. We were sworn to secrecy."

"We?" I asked.

Her eyes widened and she slapped her hand over her mouth. "I've said too much already!" she cried loudly, running away.

"We?" I asked, turning to Sirius. He shrugged. "We could try Andromeda," he suggested. "They're best friends."

"Why don't we just try and find out using the hair clip?" I asked.

"We have to wait for the right time," he said mysteriously. "And the right way. You see, she might be so desperate to hide her identity that she doesn't take the clip back. Or she might have borrowed it from someone else. Or the wrong person w=might try to claim it."

I nodded, pretending like I understood.

"Fine," I muttered.

Sirius put a sympathetic hand on my shoulder. "All in good time, Prongsie," he said. "All in good time."