James POV

"Prongs!" Sirius called from down the corridor. Classes had ended and I was headed to the Gryffindor common room.

"Yes?" I asked as him and Remus caught up to me.

"We have news!"

"You found out who Mystery Girl is?" I asked eagerly.

"Sort of…" Remus said, trailing off.

"How did you sort of find out who she is?" I asked suspiciously.

"I don't know if we should tell him," Sirius said, looking at Remus.

"What!?" I asked desperately. 'You have to!"

"But…you won't like it," Remus said.

"Tell me," I pleaded.

"It was Lily."

"What?" I deadpanned.

"It was-"

"I heard what you said!" I yelled. "And I'm not an idiot you guys! I know you think Lily'll come around one of these days, but she won't. And telling me that she was the girl from the ball isn't going to help me!"

With that I stormed away.

*****

Sirius POV

"That didn't go well," Remus replied as we watched James stalking away.

I shook my head. "Nope."

"Well, he won't believe us, so how do we do this?"

"We go to Lily," I said decisively.

"Hey Lils," I said, sitting next to her on the couch. Remus sat on the other side of her.

"What do you want?" she asked, not looking up from her homework.

"We want to know why you ran away from James at the ball."

She looked up at me. "I don't know what you're talking about," she said coldly.

"Oh, we think you do," Remus said.

"What do you want?" she repeated.

"We want you to tell James," I said.

"Why?" she asked.

"Because he's miserable," I told her.

"Why would he be miserable over me?" she asked.

"Because he really likes you. And he liked you at the dance, when he thought you were someone else. He's been searching for the girl at the ball since that night, just so he could try and get over you. He didn't believe us when we told him it was you."

"Why should he want to find me?" she asked furiously, standing up. "Why not the 'perfect girl' he spoke so highly of when I was trying as hard as I could not to fall for him. How do you think that made me feel!?"

She started to walk to the girl dormitory, but I grabbed her arm. "He was talking about you!" I told her. "He didn't think you were Lily, so he was talking about you to you!"

She glared at me, her eyes full of fire. "Don't lie to me," she spat, before ripping her arm from my grasp and walking up the stairs so we couldn't follow her.

"That didn't go well either," I said.

Remus shook his head.

"Nope."