A/N: All of the obvious belongs to the Queen. Sorry I haven't written in a while! I just started a new school and I haven't had the time to write! But I'm sick today so here's another chapter Also, I know that James and Lily don't officially get together until their 7th year, but don't worry! I've figured it all out =]

Lily walked up to her dorm with a huge smile on her face. Tomorrow, she's going on a date with James Potter. She had no idea why she was so happy, but she was. After brushing her teeth and changing into some comfy pajamas, she crawled into bed with a huge smile on her face and abruptly fell asleep.

James, on the other hand, ran up the stairs two at a time and jumped onto a sleeping Sirius.

"PADFOOT YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GUESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED! WAKE UP YOU DOG!"

"Mmm go away." Sirius mumbled.

"I ASKED LILY TO HAVE LUNCH WITH ME TOMORROW, or today, AND SHE SAID YES!"

Sirius sat up so quickly that he threw James onto the floor.

"She didn't..."

"She did!"

"Prongs, do you know what his means?"

"YES I KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS YOU IDIOT!"

"YOU HAVE A DATE WITH LILY EVANS!"

"I HAVE A DATE WITH LILY EVANS!"

"THIS CALLS FOR CELEBRATING!" Sirius screamed, opening his trunk and pulling out a bottle of firewhiskey.

"Wait!" James said, causing Sirius to halt.

"I can't be hung over when I have my date with Lily tomorrow."

Sirius nodded, turning to put the firewhiskey back.

"Got any fireworks?" James asked snidely.

Sirius smiled, but before he could get them out, Remus woke up.

"Why fireworks? What could be so important that you need bloody fireworks?"

"Well, kind Mooney," Sirius started, "Our brother here, Mister Prongs, has a date tomorrow."

"Oh cool with-" Remus started, but not before Sirius interrupted him.

"But, this isn't a regular date. This date, you see, is with Lily Evans."

Remus' mouth fell straight to the floor, "You're lying."

James shook his head proudly, "Nope, I asked her and she said yes. And she knows that it's a date."

Remus nodded and went to Sirius' trunk, "This calls for fireworks."

~Lunch time~

Lily walked into the Great Hall and looked around for James, who was nowhere to be found. She did find the rest of the marauders, who all gave her cheeky smiles and thumbs up. She turned around and walked straight into none other than James Potter himself.

"Looking for me?" He asked, and she nodded. She had a pink blush that spread over her entire face and it took all of James' strength not to kiss the bloody hell out of her.

"Lets get on our way then!" He held out an arm to her, which she gladly took, and the two of them walked up to the Astronomy tower.

When they finally arrived at the said date spot, Lily was quite surprised. There wasn't anything magnificent, no fireworks or an entire band, just a small table with sandwiches sitting there.

"Sorry it isn't much, but I wanted it to be special. I mean, I've been asking you out since third year." He said shyly, running his hands through his already mussed hair.

"It's perfect," she said with a smile, squeezing his arm.

He smiled back and led her to the table, even pulled out her chair like a complete gentleman. Their conversation was pretty serious, yes there were some jokes, but they really got to know each other on a deeper level than they had before. Lily realized that she was wrong about him. He wasn't a total prat. He was pretty amazing.

James thought he was dreaming. He was sitting with Lily, getting to know her so much better, her hair was shining in the light and she was glowing like a veela and all he wanted to do was hold her. About half an hour into their date he reached over the table and took her hand in his, padding his thumb lightly over her hand. She blushed promptly at this, which made her even more becoming. She didn't take her hand away the entire lunch and James thought he was going to die from happiness. Sadly, all good things come to an end, and so did their lunch date.

"James this was really great, I had a lot of fun" Lily said , tucking her hair behind her ear and took her bag from behind her chair.

"Yeah it was, thanks for coming."

"Anytime."

"Really?"

"Yeah of course!"

"Okay, well I have a huge paper to finish by tomorrow, want to help me with it tonight? Meet in the common room at 9?" He asked hopefully, praying that he wasn't coming on too strong.

"That sounds wonderful. I'd love to!"
"It's a date then?"

"Ha-ha yes Potter, it's a date."

~9 oclock~

James was sitting in the common room at a small table in the corner, waiting for Lily. He was hoping she didn't forget, that would be quite upsetting.

Ten minutes later, Lily walked down in a pair of sweat pants, a white tank top, her hair piled up in a bun with a pencil sticking out, and a was carrying a huge pile of books. James tried his hardest not to get too turned on but he couldn't help it, she looked so bloody sexy.

"Hi, sorry I look like this, I went for a run earlier with Mary and I had to shower and whatnot."

"No!" he coughed, trying to keep his cool, "It's totally fine. I think you look smashing actually." Smashing James, really? Smashing? He thought to himself. Lucky for him, she smiled widely and flushed a bit.

"Thank you. Shall we get started?"

"Oh, yeah."

They spent the next hour and a half doing their essays and chatting. James talked about the upcoming quidditch match against Hufflepuff, and Lily talked about being a prefect and how her run was earlier today. James offered that they could go running together sometimes and Lily agreed.

It was about 10:45 when they stopped working and just talked.

It was about 11:45 when they saw the time.

It was 12:25 when they decided to go to sleep.

It was 1:00AM when they actually did.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this could be the start of something new.