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I push open the girls' dormitory door and smile at the sight of Alice yelling at Lauren about hogging the shower. Winking at a nervous-looking Lauren, I levitate a pillow and send it flying towards my friends' head, grinning as it smacks her on the head. She shrieks and whirls around, wand aimed at my chest, but relaxes and drops it onto her bed when she sees who it is.
"What do you want Lils?"
"I wanted to talk to you." I point at the door, and she rolls her eyes.
"Yes, I got that, but why? Shouldn't you be with Potter?"
"No...me and Sirius kind of wound him up.."
"Lily! What do you want to me about?"
"Oh, yeah. It's about my Patronus, so I thought I would come and tell you about what Oola really said."
I cast a furtive look at Lauren, who's sifting through her trunk.
She sighs, and marches forward, scooping up her wand and bag, and grabs me by the arm. Dragging me down the stairs, she pulls me towards a deserted corner of the common room and plonking herself down on the sofa. I sit down next to her and smirk as she yells at some third-years' for playing with a Fanged Frisbee that's chasing her cat.

"Sorry, Lils, so what about your Patronus?"
"Well, earlier, when I said I didn't know who my soulmate was...I lied, and I don't like lying."
"So, it's James, right?"
"What?! How do you know?"
"It's kind of obvious, Lils. What two people do you know that Oola would think hate each other, but actually don't? No, better question, what other people would be awesome together and are practically destined to be together?"

Just then, Sirius runs into the common room, and jogs over to us.
"You should definitely go, Evans?"
"What happened?"
"He got mad at me, like nearly Mulciber mad."
"Oh Merlin. Won't he be mad at me?"
"Probably. Just do your green cute eyes look, and he won't be able to stay mad at you."
"My green cute eyes look?"
"Yeah, the one you do to convince Slughorn that we don't need any homework."
"Right." I laugh, and so does Alice.
"Go on then. Quick."
"Why!?"
"He growling when he sees a boy, and I think it's scaring the first-years."
"Where is he?"
"Where do you think?"
"Quidditch pitch?"
"Where else? He's with the team, but he's acting like a slave driver. I kind of feel sorry for them."

I get up, wave at Alice and walk quickly out into the corridor, across the courtyard and out into the grounds, stumbling down the hill to the Quidditch pitch. James is yelling directions at the shivering Quidditch team, and I can't help but feel sorry for the little third-year Seeker, Isabel, who's shivering, huddled up inside her robes.

"James!" I yell, and watch as he turns around, his face darkening as he sees who it is, and I feel my heart sink.
"What do you want?" I rack my brains for a reason to talk to him, then remember something that McGonagall told me the other day.
"Professor McGonagall wants us to organise a Hogsmeade trip for Halloween."
"Can we not do this later?" He said he had something to do later, didn't he?
"You...I mean...I have stuff to do later..." Come on, James, remember!
"Well I have stuff to do now!"
I feel tears prick the back of my eyes.
"Fine."

With that, I turn and storm up to the castle, angrily wiping the tears away from my eyes.
I barely notice as I walk up to the Astronomy Tower, my favourite place to go when I'm upset, and curl up on the floor, leaning against the steel armature of a huge, broken grandfather clock, the cool metal chilling me to the bone. It could have been 10 minutes, or 10 hours, before I hear footsteps coming quietly up the stairs. I try to scramble to my feet, but my legs have fallen asleep, so I stumble, squealing.

Someone catches me under the arms and holds me upright, steadying me until I can stand on my own. "Are you alright, Lily?"
It's Remus.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I turn and look into his worried brown eyes, so different from James', and wipe away my tears. He smiles sadly. "I saw your argument with James. He's being an idiot."
"I'm the one who's being an idiot. I was trying to remind him that he was busy tonight, but he just yelled, just like me last year. There I was thinking that we...no, don't worry."
"Thinking what, Lily?"
"I...thought we could be something. We get so close, and then..." I shrug and bite my lip.
"Then he messes up." he finishes, and I smile involuntarily.
"I mess up too, Remus."
He shakes his head. "Nothing you could do what stop him from-"
"Stop him from what?"
"Lily-"
"Stop him from WHAT?"

He takes a deep breath, and sits down on the flagstone floor, gesturing for me to sit next to him.
"One night, in fifth year, a boy attempted a dangerous prank that could have quite easily got another student killed. Prongs hated that student, with a passion, but he knew that if the student was hurt, it would upset someone he loved. So Prongs went and saved the student's life. The student never thanked Prongs, instead seeing his heroics as an act of self-preservation, as knowing about the prank and not informing a member of staff could have got James expelled from Hogwarts, so they both swore to keep it quiet. So James never got to tell the person he loved what happened, and why he acted as he did, and the person never found out how far James went to make them happy. The person was... that person is you."

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