James Potter and Sirius Black made their way to the sixth year girls' dormitory, butterbeers and wizard sweets in hand. They intended on having an impromptu celebration with the girls, because Emma had just been released from the hospital wing, with no trace of the boils left on her skin. The two teens entered the dormitory, just as Lily was coming out of the shower, wearing only a towel. James glanced at her, and dropped the sweets he was holding; in surprise that she was only wearing a towel. Lily looked up suddenly, searching for the cause of the noise, and screamed, nearly dropping the towel wrapped around her. Emma howled with laughter on top of her bed, and Sirius, trying a new commitment thing, tried his best not to stare at Lily, trying not to betray Emma's trust in him. James gazed at Lily with longing, mentally willing her to drop the towel to the floor. Lily turned redder than she had ever before, and quickly tightened the towel around her body. She suppressed a laugh when she saw James. His eyes were twinkling merrily, his mouth was wide open, and he seemed ready to jump at her, prepared to rip the towel off of her. However, Lily knew James would never do that. He was too much of a gentleman.

"JAMES! SIRIUS! Please just leave for a minute, and let me get dressed!" Lily shrieked, more out of embarrassment than anger. Sirius, now blocking his view of Lily with a pillow, made his way to the door, then stopped to face James. James was obviously not going to move, he was too stunned, and he loved the view. He remained rooted to the floor, gaping at Lily. Sirius groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Prongs. Prongs? PRONGS! MOVE IT! Yes, yes, I know you are obsessed with Lily, but there will be other times! Now come on! Lily's going to die of embarrassment! Now get your butt moving! NOW!"

Sirius turned James around (quite forcefully, mind you), muttered an apology to Lily, and marched out of the room, desperate to resist the temptation of staring at Lily himself. James seemed to get back to his former self (finally). He quickly muttered an apology to Lily (something like "Really sorry, Lily. That was…erm…a typical boy thing for me to do…er…sorry…but I really couldn't help it…er…I'll just go outside now."), and left the room. Lily immediately went to changing (quite silently), and Emma tried to regain her composure, after laughing so hard for such a long time. Suddenly they heard a creak. The door had opened ever so slightly, and they could see Sirius peeking in. Lily laughed, wondering how stupid Sirius thought she was. She had already finished changing.

"PADFOOT! STOP PEEKING AT MY GIRLFRIEND! FIRST OF ALL, THAT'S JUST…THAT'S JUST….WRONG, AND SECOND, I SHOULD BE THE ONE DOING IT, EVEN IF IT IS SO TERRIBLY WRONG!" Shouted James from behind the door. Sirius blushed, a sheepish look on his face. James turned to face the door, his hand covering his eyes. "Erm…sorry Lily. Can we come in now?"

Lily quickly let them into the dormitory, and promptly buried her face in James' chest, much too embarrassed to face the others. James understood, and gently stroked her hair, pulling her closer to him. Lily felt she could always go to James, even when she had done something mortifying in front of him. He was the only one she had ever felt that way with. He cleared his throat. "Erm…Lily?" he whispered. She made the slightest sound (muffled, seeing as her face was still buried in his shirt), to indicate she had heard him. "Er…well…erm…if you don't mind me saying so…erm…that was…nice? And…er…well…sorry I was such a guy." Lily let out a tiny giggle. James smiled down at her, and kissed the top of her head softly. Lily didn't want to leave their embrace. She knew as long as she was in James' arms, she was safe and protected. She felt as if she wanted to be with him forever, and she wanted this moment to last as long as it could.

Meanwhile, Sirius and Emma were making out on Emma's bed. Emma seemed to have forgiven Sirius for his momentary lapse of judgment (peeking through the door at Lily).

James cleared his throat again. "Well, I suppose we should start celebrating now," he grinned. Sirius and Emma reluctantly pulled apart, and passed out the butterbeers and sweets, seeing as James and Lily seemed permanently glued together. Lily adjusted herself on James' lap, so that she was facing Emma and Sirius as well.

"So how long do you expect Jessica will be in the hospital wing?" she grinned, taking a long drink of her butterbeer. As soon as Emma was out of the hospital wing, she had tracked down Jessica Sparks in one of the corridors. Emma came at Jessica from behind, and hexed her, making Jessica fly across the corridor and hit the wall. She continued hitting herself against the wall nine more times, and then, when she was finished colliding against the wall, she grew a large, bushy tail, and she became completely bald. Of course, Emma had gotten a detention for this, but it was definitely worth it.

Emma laughed. "Probably at least a week. She got a lot of bruises from the wall…but I made sure I didn't cause permanent damage."

Sirius gazed at Emma affectionately. "That's my girl. Always causing trouble." Emma blushed, and started to kiss Sirius, who kissed her in return. Lily giggled nervously, and James ruffled his hair awkwardly. James turned his head to look at Lily, and grinned. He pulled her closer, and kissed her passionately, but quickly.

Lily grinned. "Potter, you prat! Now I will have to slap you," she joked.

James laughed. "You wouldn't dare. You love me far too much. Admit it."

Lily smiled at him, looking into his eyes. "I love you far too much."

They each smiled lovingly at each other, and kissed each other passionately, not breaking apart for quite a long time.