A.N. Hey this is my second fic and there will be lots of chapters k?? Go read The* Conversation. THX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~-*-~What if there were 9 months left?~-*-~


Lily Evans, Maria Day and Valerie White were sitting in their compartment talking about what they were planning to do in their sixth year. Lily looked at her friends then turned her head to gaze out the window. Time goes by so fast, when you finally notice it seems that a few years ago was just yesterday. She thought.

Suddenly the compartment door slid open and in came 2 sixth year boys better known as the SO annoying Maurauders. Like usual Sirius Black was goofing around, Remus Lupin was talking with Valerie about, well, stuff, Peter Pettigrew was listening to the conversation between the others butting in every few minutes and, well, James Potter was NOT acting like usual at all.

Instead of having a heated argument with Lily he just sat across her not saying anything and watched the things go by through the window. The door slid open once more and Noe's head peeked in the compartment.

Noe Ling was a sixth year Ravenclaw with origins from China and one of Maria's friends. "Hey Maria, are you coming??" She asked her. Maria nodded and followed Noe out. Valerie stood up and said "I Think I will go to the prefect's compartment. And she went out too. Lily pretended to follow her since peter was gone AND she did not want to stay there alone.

But instead she just stood outside the compartment door listening to the boys' conversation. She did not manage to here lots but this is what she heard.  "9 Months!!" she heard Sirius exclaim.

"How come you never told us?" said Remus.

"So, so" choked Sirius as if he was trying to hold back tears. "It's gonna be y-your last year then?" Lily saw James nod as she entered the compartment. She still had no clue of what was going on.

~*~ Later in the year~*~

Lily and James had managed to get into detention barely 2 weeks after the beginning of the term. It was Friday, really boring and EXTREMELY hot.

But even these circumstances and the fact that they were supposed to be accomplishing their detention did not stop the two prefects to bicker. After a big argument in Potions class and a little accident involving Professor Ewing's robes getting drenched in invisibility potion.

James and Lily were still in a heated argument about the previous *accident'.

"It's your bloody fault that we're here in the first place Potter." Muttered Lily.

James' breathing had started to become shallow but both of them hardly noticed.

"No it isn't, If little Miss I'm-Such-A-Perfect-Prefect hadn't tripped while walking then she wouldn't of have spilled Ewing's cauldron all over him." James replied.

"Well if Mr I'm-Such-A-Good-Catch-Everyone-Wants-Me wouldn't of put his foot in front of me to trip me in the first place then I wouldn't of fell at all."

~*~Flashback~*~

"Miss Evans" called Professor Ewing's Voice. Lily got up and starting walking towards Ewing's desk.

Unknown to her, James who was sitting in the front row stuck his foot out and Lily tripped on it. She fell and while her fall knocked over Ewing's cauldron.

"You're such a stupid bastard Potter," yelled Lily as she lifted herself up from the floor.

"EVANS, POTTER!" yelled Professor Ewing. "You're the stupid one Evans." Retorted James with his usual grin plastered face.

"BOTH OF YOU! DETENTION!!" he bellowed.

"Together" he added as an after thought, Laughing at the shocked and disgusted looks and their faces.

~*~End of Flashback~*~

James turned his back to her and started scrubbing his half of the dishes. "Miss Perfect." Lily heard him mumbling. He was breathing with more trouble than before but ignored it, thinking it was probably just the heat.

Arrgghhh thought Lily.

She lifted the pan in her hands but just as she was going to strike, James fell down on the floor.

OH MY GOD she thought.

She dropped everything that she was holding to the floor beside her and scrambled towards his body.

He looks she thought He looks DEAD!!! A few tears rolled down her cheeks. She fell on her knees beside him and took his head in her lap. James was hardly breathing at all. "Wake up Potter" she said, gently tapping his cheek. He stopped breathing.


"N-no, Potter? J-James… stay awake. Please." What am I going to do? Think Lily, think. YES, the breathing charm we practiced in Flitwick's class.

Holding back thoughts of him dead, she flicked her wand at James' throat and muttered "Respirus". Slowly his breathing came back but James still lay unconscious.

Lily conjured up stretchers and ran towards the Hospital wing with James floating at her side.

"MME POMFREY" She yelled as soon as the doors were open. Pomfrey burst in with a wondrous look but as soon as she saw James' limp body she said "Dumbledore" Lily nodded her comprehension and ran towards his office. When she got to the stone gargoyle she yelled the password (she knows it since she's a prefect) and it stepped aside. Inside, Dumbledore was reading.

He looked up with a smile. "Yes Miss Evans, is anything wrong?" he asked. "James" she breathed.

Dumbledore's smile changed into a frown and both of them started running to the Hospital wing without a word. When the finally reached it James was breathing normally but still unconscious. "What happened?" he asked Lily. "Well we were just washing the dishes and we were arguing and I think he started to breath heavily but I thought it was just the heat or something then he just collapsed on the floor and stopped breathing." Tears were threatening to fall on Lily's cheeks. "It's ok Lily." Said Dumbledore. "And I put a breathing charm on him and..."

"Is he gonna be, well, will he be, ok?" She asked him. "Miss Evans" started Dumbledore. Lily gulped. "That was some great fast thinking, you might have just helped him a lot by performing that charm."

"Professor Dumbledore?" asked madam Pomfrey. "I think that miss Evans should also stay here, well at least for tomorrow because she has a very high temperature."

Lily climbed in the bed beside James' and listened to the two adults' conversation outside the door.

"How much time?" asked Pomfrey. "8 months and 2 weeks" replied Dumbledore. At this Pomfrey broke into tears. "Still no cure?" she asked him again.

"I'm afraid not," he answered.

"The poor boy, the longest a wizard has ever lived when suffering from the marcuriust disease has been barely 5 years and James has had it ever since he was 4."

From this moment on, Lily lay in her bed with her eyes wide open not listening anymore.

The marcuriust disease was the deadliest wizard disease to have ever existed.

The next morning when Lily Woke up, James was still lying on his bed. As soon as she moved Madam Pomfrey came over to her bed. "Good Morning dear, did you sleep well?" Lily took a few sips of this awful syrup that Madam Pomfrey had made.

Lily looked down at James and went over to his bed. If he dies, the last thing he would've heard was me accusing him of that stupid accident. She sat on a chair beside his bed and laid her head on her arms beside him on his bed. She looked at him again and a funny feeling took birth in her stomach. He looks so peaceful when he sleeps, or is he sleeping?

She couldn't bear to look at him any longer and turned her head the other way, her hair fell in a pool on James' bed. A couple of minutes later Lily fell asleep.



At around noon, James woke up. His world was all blurry. Ugh, where am I? Where are my glasses? Who is THAT? he thought looking at the redhead girl asleep on his bed. He searched for his glasses. When he finally found them on the side table he put them on and his blurry view became normal again. Suddenly James' headache became worse than ever.

"Oooohh, I feel like I've fallen 50 feet off my broom" he said clutching his head with his hands. The girl suddenly woke up and was looking at James with a hoping expression. Not recognizing her at once James said "What?" "JAMES!" said the girl and she threw her arms around him and hugged him. James' eyes widened as he realised whom exactly the girl was.

"Whoah!" he said as he pulled Lily Evans a few centimetres from him. He looked in her watery eyes. His heart tied in a knot and he felt a tingling sensation.

Then his eyes became worried and he started asking lots of questions still gripping her arms. "What happened? Why am I here? Did you just call me James? Why are you here? Why are you crying?"

Lily let out a small whimper and James released Lily's arms. "Sorry. I'm sorry," muttered James. "It's ok," breathed Lily. "Well, I'm here because I had a high temperature." Started to explain Lily, "You're h-here because. Well. Yesterday in detention, you, you lost consciousness and…"

Lily's voice trembled a bit but she continued to talk under James' eye. "And I put a breathing charm on you cuz you stopped breathing and, and, I brought you here." finished Lily rubbing her left arm. James took her arm and Lily winced. Gently he lifted her sleeve and looked at the already slightly blue bruise.

 "I'm sorry Lily I'm really, really sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."

 "No it's ok, really." replied Lily.

"Hey" said James. She looked at him. "What?" "You left two questions unanswered." He said. Noticing that Lily wasn't answering he spoke again. "I asked you why did you call me James and why were you crying"

He asked searching her eyes. "I called you James because I was relieved that you were ok and—" said Lily, "I was crying because, because." "You don't have to answer" cut in James. Lily nodded. Actually she did not want to answer at all. "I don't think that James wants me to know," she thought.

 "So" said James. "Are we friends now?" he asked. Lily looked at James and replied, "If I say yes does that mean that I will no longer be victim of any of your pranks?" James laughed. "Maybe" he answered. "Then it's no" she said and got up to go back to her bed but James grabbed her arm before she could go.

 "Wait!" Lily winced at the pain but stopped. "Sorry" apologized James. You should use this last chance to make up for your mistakes.

 "Look Lily, I'm really sorry for everything that I made you go through, it's just that pulling pranks is what I like to do the most and well I don't know WHY I always pulled them on you."

He said. Yes you do, it's because she looks cute when she's angry. James shook his head to get rid of the thought.

What he didn't know what that he had spoken his thought out loud.

And it was at that moment that Madam Pomfrey walked in. "Oh my god, Potter, you're awake! Miss Evans, please go back to your own bed, you're burning hot, what happened you're red all over the face?"

James turned his head towards Lily and saw that she was blushing. 'Oh my god, did I just say that out loud' thought James and blushed himself.

"Did you just." started to say James but was cut off by Madam Pomfrey forcing some disgusting bluish liquid down his throat cut him off.

"UGH! That tastes awful!" he started complaining. Suddenly Madam Pomfrey let three people in and went out. Sirius, Remus and Dumbledore came aside James' bed.

"How are you doing Mr Potter?" asked Dumbledore. James looked at his two friends who looked extremely worried.

"Well I was quite fine before I had to drink that awful blue stuff, really it tastes like shit!" James saw his friends and Dumbledore relax and smile. He grinned and Sirius asked Dumbledore, "What happened exactly?" Dumbledore looked at James and said, "Do they know?"

"Lily doesn't," he said. But Lily knew. And Dumbledore knew that she knew. But the others did not know that Lily knew and that Dumbledore knew that she knew.

The next day both of them went back to Gryffindor Tower in silence.

~*Two weeks later*~

"JAMES POTTER!!"

James' dorm woke up to the sound of a yell coming form the girls' dorms. Sirius got up rubbing his head but grinning all the same. James was still sound asleep.

"I guess he's so used by yelling that he is not annoyed by it," he said out loud.

A couple of minutes after Lily stormed in the boys' dorm.

"Lily, you're confronting rules be entering our dorm, you know it's not aloud for a girl to go in a boy's dorm." Snickered Sirius

Lily plainly ignored Sirius and went over to the bed in which James was currently sleeping.

She bent down as if she was going to whisper something in his ear.

"WAKE UP!!!!!" she yelled directly in his ear.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH WHA? WHA? WHAT HAPPENNED?"

He looked at Lily and grinned. He then blushed.

Lily was still in her nightgown.

"Oh" he stated simply.

Lily smashed his head with a pillow.

Remus got up rubbing his eyes but just as he opened his mouth to talk he received a pillow with the force of a running train.

"Hey!" he whined.

"I didn't do anything. Yet" he said.

"YOU PROMISED," yelled Lily Angrily at James.

She then gave one last yell of frustration and left "ARGH"

'It's not my fault you're so irresistible thought James, out loud, again.

Sirius and Remus looked at James with amused smiles.

"WHAT?" James snapped.

They just stood there grinning maliciously.

"Oh" James just realised that he had voiced his thoughts. Again.

"SHIT! I-It's not what I m-meant," stuttered James.

Sirius snickered.

". I meant t-to pull pranks on.euh"

"Yeah. Right" said Remus.

James looked at him

"Moooonnyyyyy" James said in a voice that made fear creep up on Remus' face.

"What about Valer---" "LALALALALAALALALALALALAAALALALALAAAAAAAAALALALALALA I CAN'T HEEAAAAARRR YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU LALALALALALALA" yelled Remus with his hands over his ears, obviously trying to block out James' voice.

Sirius who was watching everything was laughing his head off.

"What about you?" asked James over Remus' voice, poking Sirius in the sides.

Sirius giggled then stopped abruptly.

James poked him again.

Giggle

Poke

Giggle

Poke

"STOP!!!!!!!" yelled Sirius pleadingly.

Poke poke poke poke poke poke

"I'm late!!" yelled James suddenly.

James ran down the stairs.

He just ran until he reached the castle entrance.

He didn't stop and he reached the forbidden forest then ran some more.

Finally he came to a clearing where a small pond of crystal-like water shimmered.

Over the Pond floated a girl about 7 years of age.

Her eyes were closed and her black hair flowed around her as well as the silver mist.

James approached her and sat down near the pond.

Touching the water his gaze reflected on her as he spoke.

"Hey hunny"

The girl's crystal-blue eyes opened and she smiled.

Then she put on a fake frown.

"You're late" she whispered with her melodic voice.

"Sorry?" James tried.

The mysterious girl came down from her floating place and sat besides James.

"How is it up in heaven?" asked James.

"It's ok really I found my kitten." The angel replied for she was really an angel.

"I miss you," she said.

"I miss you too. You shouldn't have died that day Krista."

"James, you know it's not your fault, don't blame it on yourself."

James nodded. Krista hugged him then disappeared.

James leaned back and fell asleep.

~*~Flash back in dream~*~

9 year old James was running around with his little sister, 7 year old Krista.

Suddenly, deep voices were heard muttering incantations, fire started burning everywhere and everything in sight.

Blocking almost all the entrances and all the windows. "Kris, follow me!" yelled James.

Kris hadn't followed; she had to find her kitten first.

James looked around outside and noticed that his sister was not with him. He ran back inside the house yelling. "KRIS!!"

Suddenly he heard screaming. James followed the screams and hurried. He opened a door and what he saw terrified. It had to be the worst thing for a 9 year old to see.

There was Krista, burning alive. "KRIS!!!!!" James yelled as he saw his little sister drop dead on the floor. He rushed towards her crying and screaming her name. "KRISTA!!!!!"

He wanted to hold her. Tell her that everything would be ok but someone was holding him back. She couldn't be dead, she simply couldn't. He would never believe it.

Aurors had rushed to the potter's house as soon as they had known about You- Know-Who's attack. One of the Aurors was holding back James as he struggled to get to his sister.

Another Auror was rapping the tiny girl's body.

James was not crying anymore. He just stared nowhere in particular trying to make himself believe that Somewhere, Krista was still alive.

~*~ End of Flashback~*~

James opened his eyes groggily.

'Ooh, what time is it?' He looked down at his muggle watch.

'Shit, classes already started!' He got up but fell back down. Again, he tried.

'No! No, no no no no no! This can't happen!' He looked around, there was nothing within his reach that he could hold on.

'Not here, Not Now!' James finally got up on both of his legs and limped his way back to the castle. He came out of the forest.

"Sniff"

He wiped his nose and limped some more. When he opened the Huge Oak doors, nobody was seen in the hallway.

"Nobody noticed I was gone. Maybe nobody won't when I die."

"That's not true." James turned around to face where the voice came from.

Lily was standing there wet and shivering. Her face masked an expression of different emotions. Fear, concern and. relief.

"James, you're hurt. Let me get you to the hospital wing." James nodded in silence. Lily took his arm and put it over her shoulders so that some pressure could be taken off his legs. She had forgotten her wand in the hospital wing.

"JAMES!" Sirius ran towards them.

"What the hell happened?" he took his other arm and repeated Lily's move.

In the hospital wing, Sirius left them saying that he was going to get someone.

"Lily, what happened to you? You are completely soaked--"

"So are you. Get under these covers or you will catch a cold." Lily ordered.

'It amazes me how she can care about others when she is in bad condition herself' thought James.

"Well you haven't exactly been there to see that," said Lily. James stared at her round-eyed.

"You can read minds?" he asked completely surprised.

"No, you said that out loud." She answered him, tucking him in and putting a cold wipe on his forehead.

James stayed silent. After a moment he felt nervous.

"Look" they both started.

"You go first," insisted James.

Lily looked down at her shoes.

"I wanted to know, well." She struggled to find her words. "Since we. Had euh, our share of problems and. never mind."

James stared at her.

"Continue,"

"I wanted to know, can we. Be friends?" she asked completely uncertain.

Seeing that James did not respond, Her eyes filled up with tears. Not daring to let them fall she continued.

"Sorry, I should've-"

"Sure."

"What?"

"I said sure. I would love to be friends and you are right, I never exactly tried talking to you, you were different so I teased you. So now you won't hit me. And I am kind of sorry about the.uhm, wake up call last morning."

Lily sniffled and smiled.

Silence.

"I'm your friend now right?" Lily asked.

James nodded.

"So I have to right to say. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK SPENDING THE WHOLE NIGHT OUTSIDE BY THIS WEATHER???"

James cowered under his covers. That's what his mum would've said to him.

"I was seeing some. Thing." James sneezed.

Lily came over to his bed and lifted the cover from over his legs.

"Don't worry it's not like I am going to rape you or anything I am just checking why you were limping."

James looked at her with a weird look.

"HEY!" protested Lily.

James smirked.

Lily looked at his legs. He had a huge bruise right over his left knee. It was big and there were a few small bruises over his right knee too. She gulped. Lily knew that the bruises were not from being hurt. But he still didn't know that.

'Maybe not that we are friends he will tell me' thought Lily. She went to get something in a near cabinet.

"Why isn't Pomfrey here?" asked James.

"I am taking her place for the week. She has problems with her family. And since I am more advanced than the others Dumbledore let me take her place."

"Oh"

She took out a jar with a blue jelly like substance in it from the cabinet and walked towards the bed.

She opened it and set it on the small table beside her.

James still had his pants on. Realizing what he had to do she blushed.

"Uhm. James, do you have boxers on?" Her face was almost as red as her hair.

James looked at her funny.

"Are you sure that you're not gonna rape me?" he asked. "Yes why?"

" I have to put this on your legs before it gets worse. And well, you need to take your pants off." She blushed some more.

He took off his pants and Lily dipped some of the substance in her heads and started spreading it.

"It's cold!" exclaimed James.

"Yeah," she answered. Slowly, she massaged the substance on his legs making the pain numb partially.

Sirius entered the hospital wing running alongside Remus.

He stopped dead in his tracks when he got a glimpse of the awkward scene.

Remus was not really looking where he was going lets say and just continued walking without noticing the awkward scene.

"Remus!" hissed Sirius grabbing hold of the other's arm before he went any further.

Remus just looked at Sirius and lifted his eyebrow. Sirius nudged him in the ribs and nodded towards the scene.

"Gosh if… goodness… If someone did not know that James was hurt it would look like she was mm-ing him you know? Why isn't Pomfrey here by the way?" whispered Remus.

"She is gone for the week and lily is taking her place. If you didn't notice, her grades are higher than anyone in the school in most of her subjects."

"Feeling intelligent Sirius? Taking advantage of me being, uhmm well… let's just not talk about that ok…" Remus said blushing then he grinned. His eyes twinkled with the usual Maurauder style. This surprised Sirius a LOT seeing as Remus was usually the more conserved one.

And that s c a r e d Sirius.

"What in the whole wide hell are you thinking about Moony?"

Remus grinned again. "I am gonna tell you Sirius but on one condition…"

"Right… I swear."

"Say it better I don't want anyone to know about this until I am uhmm ready…" Remus replied blushing again.

"Gosh… I solemnly swear that I will never ever tell unless I am forced to say it by prongs which will probably happen by the way because I do NOT want to be under the tickling charm for a whole week again for NOT telling him something!!!!!"

"Fine, I get it now. But… don't you think James is enjoying that uhm… rubbing session… a bit too much…" he answered not really asking a question but more like stating a fact.

Sirius turned towards the scene. James had his eyes closed and was wearing a goofy smile, and Lily just concentrated on her hands. Sirius grinned.

"Later on we will go visit him like the good buddies we are. But right now let's go to our dorm and take our things." Said Remus.

"YEAH and then we can get chicken wings!"

---Back in the hospital wing---

Lily had just finished rubbing the gel on his legs when she noticed that James had fallen asleep.

'I forgot that it was also a sleeping gel' thought Lily. She pulled the cover back over his legs and went to the front of the bed. Sitting down on the chair beside James she sighed.

'I am so glad to not be in his place right now, he is soo cute while he sleeps.' she thought. She started playing softly with his hair and noticed another bruise right behind his right ear. She started worrying a bit. Her heart starting beating faster. Who would of ever guessed that she could be worried about someone that she used to loathe. Not that she liked him or anything, just worried a little.

'Is it bad if they appear on his head,' she thought. She massaged some more gel there and put the jar back in the cabinet.

Lily was starting to feel drowsy. The gel's smell was quite powerful. ' I can't go to sleep… now I have to check… on… James…'

~

~~~Lily's dream~~~

~I hate you Evans~

~Evans, you're in my way~

~Get a life Evans~

~Evans~

…Evans

~~~~~~

"Miss Evans…Miss Evans?"

Lily woke up damning the dream that she had and looked up at the presence that had awoke her.

"I-I'm sorry professor, I-"

"You fell asleep because of the numbing gel, I know. Even sometimes when I apply it to my nose I…well that is not the point. I have a student here who got burned in potions class that needs your help miss Evans I don't think that professor Ewing was expecting any accidents so he did not prepare any reversing potion."

"Thank you professor, I think that I can handle it on my own." replied Lily. Dumbledore went out and a first year came in. Most of his left hand was burned and the skin was lifting a bit everywhere and some blood and pus was oozing.

"Poor dear, you were with professor Ewing weren't you? I bet he didn't even give you the anti-burning potion before he let you on your own I can't believe that the headmaster let him become potions master 2 years ago."

The first year nodded and sniffed, wiping his nose with his free hand.

"Sit here, I will be write back I have to write this down on the report," said Lily motioning the bed beside James' and leaving for the office. The boy sat down on the bed and looked intently at James who had just woke up.

"Hey, boy, could you get me my glasses there, thanks. Kevin right? You got burned," said James stating the obvious.

"Duh"

"Don't tell her that I woke up ok, I want to loo… surprise her." croaked James. The first year nodded as Lily came back into view and James half-closed his eyes.

"Here. I will put on this ointment and bandage your hand. You are right-handed right? Well, can you keep a secret?" whispered Lily.

"Yes," answered Kevin.

"I will give you a note allowing you to skip this week's classes even if your wand hand is fine. But you have to come here once a day so that I can check up on your bad one ok?"

"Thanks Miss Lily!" Kevin said jumping to his feet and embracing her.Lily smiled and hugged him back. She knew this boy before for his mum always chose muggle babysitter's in the summer. He took the note from her hands and skipped out of the hospital wing. Lily kept smiling and stood up, walking towards the office.

"You know who he reminds me of?"

She turned around to see James awake and on his side propped on his elbow.

She smiled.

"You" she answered softly.

She walked back towards his bed and sat down on the chair propping her head on he hands.

"You always used to get out of the most tricky situations. Always came up with excuses thought most of the time they really sucked I can't believe you even got to be a prefect must of sl-."

"Hey… Eww!"

Lily grinned.

Then Lily and James just looked at each other for a few minutes, not really having anything to say.

'Should I tell her?' thought James.

"Tell me what?" asked Lily. James groaned hiding his face in his pillow.

'I have to get rid of this habit' he thought again.

"You're not doing any progress. What did you want to tell me?" 'Will he tell me about his sickness?'

"I swear I only think out loud when…" James stopped talking as if he had just realised something and he did not want to think about it. 'Come on James don't say it, don't say it, don't say it think of something else uh FIRED CHICKEN WINGS!!!!! Fried Chicken Wings, Fried Chicken Wings, Fried Chicken Wings…'

"When what? And what is this whole crap about fried chicken wings?????"

James blushed. He wanted to say when I think of you but that would embarrass him much more. Not that he had anything to be embarrassed about, Lily was very beautiful and smart and intelligent and stuff but… It's just life.

Lily cocked her head to her side and got up again to get some paper work.

When she came back she grinned.

"You have a new duty as my friend," She told him.

James sighed.

" Look, don't rub what I'm going to tell you in."

James smiled knowing that he would like doing that but remembered that she was his friend now.

"I know…*sigh*… I know that you're grades are higher than mine in transfiguration and I would really, really like your help…Please…" she said with an irresistible look, according to James. James accepted to help her and they started working on her work.

Sirius and Remus were walking down the corridor when this first year stopped them.

"Are you going to the hospital wing?" he asked them out of breath.

"Yeah, you're the little Conner one huh?" replied Sirius

"Yeah, Kevin Conner. Uhmm… could you give this note to the boy in there please?" he asked.

Remus nodded and took the note suspiciously.

Kevin's grin split from ear to ear.

"Thanks!" he then ran from sight.

Sirius and Remus continued to walk down the corridor.

"Come on Remus, not even James?" asked Sirius pitifully.

"Padfoot. I. Said. No."

"Awww why?" Sirius asked snatching the letter from Remus in the process.

"Because and Give that BACK!"

"Because is not an answer and it's not yours either so I can read it if I want."

"It is so and don't read it!"

"Aww come on Remmy, Prongs doesn't have any secrets that we don't know of!" Replied Sirius opening the letter and reading it.

"Maybe except for that…" he added.

Sirius entered the hospital wing running.

"Lily would you mind leaving for a bit… we would like to talk to James…just a little bit." Asked Sirius.

Lily looked at him weirdly and left the room.

'Now what's wrong?' thought James.

"Something important" said Sirius.

"Great, each time I-"

"Think about Lily," cut in Remus.

"Yeah, I think out loud… No, wait, that's not what I-"

"Meant?" cut Sirius.

James glared at them.

"Yeah well… James, you have some coughing up to do. Mean come on, just read this… this… LIE!"

James took the note from Sirius' hands and read it.

"Yo James Potter,

Faking your sleep is fun huh? And By the Way,

I know. You better be a bit less obvious. You know, about you being completely…"

James stopped dead in his tracks.

"Come on! What did he write, Paddy wouldn't tell me!"

"I won't tell you either."

"Sirius if you don't tell me I am telling Maria a certain something."

"Well if you tell her that I will tell James something else!"

"GUYS! Stop that, you're acting like girls!"

"Talking about girls, tell Remus what lie that boy wrote down!"

James blushed and did not say anything.

"OH GOODNESS GRACIOUS GOSH HELL IT'S REAL!"

"What's real?" asked Remus.

"That Ja-"

"EVERYBODY SHUT UP!" yelled Lily as she entered the room.

"Let me read what is causing so much commotion" said Lily snatching the note. Her eyes darted to the first few sentences.

"Yo James Potter," she read out loud.

"So faking your sleep is fun huh? And by the way, I know, you better HEY give that back!" she said as James snatched the letter away from her quickly.

"I am sorry Lily but it's… euh, well… personal…" He said.

Lily looked at James who was clutching the letter then her eyes darted to Sirius who was snickering. Remus pouted.

"We'll come back Later Prongs," said Sirius dragging a pouting Remus.

"But I wanted to know what the rest of the letter said!" He pouted again.

"Of course If James would care to---" "Shut Up Maxi Pad and get out of here!" yelled James.

Sirius 'humphed' and exited the room with Remus behind him.

Lily went up to James and put her hand on his forehead.

"Your temperature is not that high but it's still higher than average, I suggest you get some rest for the rest of the day, It's already 4:30 Pm. I can't stay I have some paper work and a report to work on, If you need me I'll be in the office." She said and then walked to the office about 5 beds away from his.

James looked at Lily walk away. Could he be really? He stared at the letter in his hands for quite a time than finally decided to read it completely.

Yo James Potter,

Faking your sleep is fun huh? And by the way.

I know. You better be a bit less obvious, you know. About you being completely in love with Lily Evans. Don't tell me that you yourself did not notice it. I bet everyone did already. Oh and, She loves white Roses and Daisies especially. Just in case you wanted the info. Oh and… Everything written here can be used against you! Joking.

-Kevin Conner

P.S. Or Am I Joking and I      s       o   t­  …

James searched the paper carefully and looked at it closely. The rest had been half erased.

He needed to know what was written down on that paper. For about an hour he stared at the paper but could not find out anything. It was 5:45 when James thought about something… I still have my wand.

He smacked himself on the forehead but not too hard. I am soo stupid.

He took his wand and muttered a spell.

'Apparo Effacios'

Slowly the missing Letters appeared Filling in the blanks.

The last sentence read…