A/N-This is the last chapter guys! I think it is anyway. I am ssssoooo sorry guys! I am so sorry I didn't update sooner! Teachers and homework and piano lessons and violin lessons and book reports and math tests and science quizzes and…Well, you get the idea. And then I started watching Inuyasha so I got into that and ideas just shot at me for Inuyasha fics so I started to write those. But I'm back now and here's the chappie you've been waiting so patiently for. Thank you to all who've reviewed this fic ever. I believe this will be the last chapter so enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter characters. They belong to J.K. Rowling (Lucky goose…)

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Lily and Marissa headed down the long hallway, laughing and talking, and gave the password when they had reached the portrait of the Fat Lady. (A/N Sorry for ruining the moment again, but should fat lady be capitalized? I wasn't sure…)

"Hey Lily, Marissa," James and Remus said, catching up to them. They had snuck down to the kitchens and had taken some sandwiches.

"Hi guys," Lily said cheerfully.

They all entered the common to find it dark except for the fire that was always burning in the hearth, so Remus lit the first torch, which then lit all of the others automatically. (A/N-Jeez, it took me forever to figure out how the lighting in the common room works. At first I put that Remus flipped on a light switch and then I figured that just didn't seem right…Anyway, that was the best I could come up with…) only to find Sirius and Carlise on one of the couches, kissing.

As soon as the torches came on, Sirius and Carlise looked up to see who had entered and Sirius winced. Carlise just sat there, looking very confused. Her gaze darted from James, to Remus, to Lily, to Marissa, and then to Sirius, who all had shocked expressions on. Carlise put it all together, well, as much of it together as she could from all of the shocked expressions and everyone's speechlessness, so she excused herself and went up to the girl's dormitory rooms.

James dropped the tray of sandwiches, the plate cracking into pieces with a loud crashing noise. The plate shattering suddenly shook everyone out of speechlessness and everyone tried talking at once. Some shouting, some trying to explain, but Lily said nothing. She just turned and climbed back out the portrait of the Fat Lady.

"YOU TWO-TIMING BASTARD!" Marissa cried, jumping on Sirius and slapping him. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?" she shouted, slapping him again. Remus and James quickly pulled her off of him.

"Listen, Marissa. You don't know the whole story!" James said.

"Let us explain," Remus said calmly.

"I DO NOT NEED AN EXPLANATION FROM ANY OF YOU!" she shouted, positively seething with anger. "AND I KNOW ENOUGH OF THE STORY, THANKS, TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A SON OF A-"

"No, really, listen!" James shouted above her, cutting her off, but only for a moment.

"EXCUSE ME POTTER, BUT I AM NOT THE ONE ANY OF YOU SHOULD BE EXPLAINING TO!" Marissa shouted, storming out of the common room to find Lily.

"That is true you know," Remus said when she was gone. "She isn't the one we, or rather you two, should be explaining anything to. I would like to, once again, point out the fact that you two must be the biggest idiots alive and I'd also like to point out that I was against this plan from the very start. Now, I'm not one for immature and childish behavior but…I told ya so."

James plopped down into a couch, sighing and running his hands through his hair. He groaned, closing his eyes. "This is not good guys…"

"Hey, I am out of this," Remus said, throwing up his hands and sitting on the chair beside James. "I had nothing to do with this but I completely agree with you: this isn't exactly the most pleasant situation."

"Don't you think I know this isn't good?" Sirius snapped.

"Well, what'd you go and do something stupid like that for anyway?!" James asked him, almost shouting.

"I-" Sirius said, but then broke off and frowned. "I don't know. I like her, a lot, but…"

"But…?" James prodded, looking irritated.

"Well, now I think of her as more of a friend. I mean, she has been hanging out with us a lot lately, and I've gotten to know her better and…well now she's more of a friend. And besides, I think she's looking for something different," Sirius explained.

"What? Something different?" James asked, but then he stopped short. He had gotten so used to pretending to be Sirius that he almost forgot he wasn't. But then he thought about what Sirius was saying. She was looking for someone different. She was looking for someone more like…

"You're right…" James said suddenly, realization dawning on him. "But she's not looking for anyone different than what she already had…and she's had me," he said quietly.

"Hoorah! Bravo Einstein! Took you long enough. I knew you'd figure it out soon enough," Remus said, chuckling to himself as if this was the funniest joke ever.

"You knew? I didn't even know until…well until I met her out in the gardens earlier today," James said.

"Yeah I knew," Remus said, still chuckling. "I knew since…well ever since you started talking about how different Lily was and how she wasn't like other girls. You got this sort of far-off dreamy look. I think you even drooled once but I couldn't really tell, you snapped out of it so fast."

"I did not!" James protested.

"Well, maybe I am exaggerating a bit…" Remus admitted. "But hello? You shouldn't be sitting here talking to me and Sirius if you're catching the hint…"

Taking the hint, James jumped out of the seat and hurried out of the common room, but a few moments later, he hurried back in.

"What's wrong now?" Remus asked.

James grinned sheepishly and rubbed his head in embarrassment. "Well I ahh…I don't know where she is."

"Honestly, she wants someone smart and she's getting you?" Remus asked good-naturedly.

"We don't know if she's getting me yet. We don't even know if she feels the same way!"

"Oh come on. She likes the person who wrote the letter and was meeting her in the gardens. That was you…in a way…" Remus said, confusing himself a bit.

James snapped his fingers and rummaged through his book bag, which was still sitting on a table where he left it and pulled out the Marauder's Map. He then pulled his wand from his pocket and said, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He quickly skimmed over the map until he found the emerald green dot. A brief memory of Lily's emerald green eyes peering back at him flashed through his mind.

"She's back out in the gardens with Marissa," James said, and then began to hurry back out the common room, but then paused and ran back, grabbing the map and this time leaving the common room and not coming back so soon. He hurried down the first flight of stairs and down the hallway. He ran the rest of the way down to the front doors, pausing a moment to catch his breath and walked out into the gardens and followed the Marauder's Map until he saw Lily and Marissa sitting beneath a huge tree for shelter from the rain that was still falling. The branches also hid them from view of any teachers who might happen to look down upon the gardens from their window to see two students outdoors past the curfew.

James took a deep, shaky breath as if he were about to jump into a pool of icy water, which he was probably just about to do, and walked over to the tree. At first he just stood there when they appeared to take no notice of him, but then he cleared his throat loudly, making Marissa jump and Lily blinked as if pulled out of a reverie.

"What the hell are you out here for?" Marissa asked, no longer shouting like she was in the common room, but her voice still full of anger. "Why isn't your bloody friend out here instead? Sent you to clean up for him did he? Figures…Wouldn't put it past the damn fool for a minute…"

James sighed. "Marissa, would you mind if I talked to Lily…alone for a minute? I'd like to tell her the whole story about…what happened."

"Yes I mind," Marissa began, but stopped short as she slowly pieced together why James was here and Sirius wasn't, and what James had to do with the whole story. At last she had a vague idea of what James would tell Lily and got up to leave, but Lily grabbed her arm.

"I mind! James, you should just go! I don't want to talk to you. I don't need the whole story. I have the whole story. Tell Sirius to stay the hell away from me. Well? Get your ass out of here!" Lily said when he didn't leave.

"Lily, you can stay out here and catch a death of a cold if you would like to, but I'm going inside," Marissa said huffily, but then added, "Besides, you'll thank me later Lils." With that said, Marissa turned and headed inside.

James sat down beside Lily and there was an uncomfortable sort of silence that hung between them. The silence was so long that James jumped when Lily finally spoke.

"Well?" Lily prompted. "What's the whole story? That Sirius was lying to me? That he never liked me in the first place? That he was just having some fun? That all he ever said was a bunch of crap? You can stop me any time. Am I getting even close? I think I have just about the whole story, don't you?"

"No, you don't have it," James said. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair, something that had fast become a habit in but two or three days. "The whole story? Yeah, Sirius did like you at first. He asked me to help him a bit. Lily…"

"Yes?" Lily prodded impatiently.

"Lily…It wasn't Sirius who…well it wasn't him who…well he didn't…it was…" James said, trying desperately to find a way to explain it. It was very easy to explain. All he had to do was tell her that it wasn't even Sirius who wrote the letters to begin with and it had all been him. It seemed so easy until he was sitting right next to Lily, with her listening and it made it seem like it was harder than surviving the Avada Kedavra curse. 

"Well, out with it or get the hell out of my face," Lily shouted.

"Well, it was me. I wrote…the letter Lily," James finally got out, looking over at the lake, up into the branches of the tree (getting a huge rain drop right in his eye in the process), over at the castle, down at the grass, anything except Lily.

Lily blinked…once…twice… "What? You James? What about…" she said, trailing off.

"The meetings in the gardens? I was hiding in the bushes that first time and told him what to say. That's why he kept messing up. The second time, when he hurried away so suddenly, I went over to pull a few pranks on Lucius in the Invisibility Cloak and he hit me with a body-binding curse. And that last meeting? That…well, that was me," James explained.

Lily gasped. "That was you? What do you mean?"

"I…well I took a Polyjuice Potion and…" James trailed off here but Lily already understood anyway.

Lily suddenly shoved James, hard. James fell off of the root he had been sitting on and was soon on the ground, looking up at the trees branches, getting another rain drop in his eye.

"How the hell could you guys do that to me? How? That wasn't just a simple prank James, that was messing with my feelings!"

"You did that to Sirius too!" James said, a bit angry now. "Remember? I wrote a letter for you too!"

Lily flushed, suddenly remembering that. "But that was different! I thought I really liked him!"

"He thought he really liked you too! What's so different? There's nothing different. But then, a lot of feelings changed Lily!"

"Oh really?" Lily said, standing up and asking in a taunting sort of voice. "Like what? Like 'Oh, that was fun. Let's do it again. Say, James, why don't you just be Sirius? That will really mess with her head.'"

"No, like he began to think of you as more of a friend! And I…" James trailed off, realizing what he almost said.

"And you what? Were having fun?" Lily taunted again.

Now James was really angry. "No! I found out that I had feelings for you! I found out that I loved the way you eyes lit up when you smiled. I found out that I loved the way you always knew what to say. That I loved the way your hair glowed in the firelight and the way you were always finding something to laugh about, even if it was yourself. That I loved the way you were nice to everyone, with a few exceptions of course, them mainly being Snape and Malfoy. That I loved everything that made you Lily." He flushed a deep red. There. He had just poured out all of his feelings to her. He waited for her taunting smile again. He waited for her to explode and shove him again.

But she didn't taunt him or shove him again. She just slowly sat back down as if still taking in all that James had said. "What?" she finally managed to get out.

James sighed. He was sure he was still as red as a tomato and he silently thanked the darkness that prevented her from seeing.

Then, suddenly Lily began to laugh. She laughed enough to make anyone question her sanity, and James nervously searched for an escape route because he was sure that after the laughter would come the explosion.

"I can't believe you're laughing! It wasn't supposed to be funny, it was true!" James shouted irritably, standing up and making to leave but Lily grabbed his arm and pulled him back down.

            "No, no, stay," Lily said, still chuckling slightly. "Whose brilliant plan was that?"

James grinned sheepishly and scratched his head uncomfortably. "Ahh, it was Sirius's originally. Remus added a few hints here and there but he wants me to clearly state that, and this is a direct quote: 'I would like to, once again, point out the fact that you two must be the biggest idiots alive and I'd also like to point out that I was against this plan from the very start.' He also said 'I told you so' but that's the one that was the least important."

Lily stared at him. "You're bold."

James furrowed his brow in confusion. "What? How?"

"Going along with one of Sirius's plans like that. C'mon, Sirius came up with it! You should have known right from the start that it would only lead to trouble."

"I guess I did kind of know it all along. But, he's my best friend. I'd do anything for him and vice versa. And besides, at first, it was decided that I would be writing only one letter and that was it. Then…Well, you get the idea."

Lily stood up and brushed herself off from sitting on the wet ground. "Well, I hope you have learned your lessons," she said haughtily, crossing her arms and looking down at him.

James stood up. "I know I have," he whispered. He was about to raise his head to look up into the branches again, but, remembering the raindrops in his eye, he settled for looking over at the lake and remembered that it was raining. He smiled, remembering something from earlier. He held out his hand to Lily. "Dance with me?"

Lily glanced up and stared blankly at his hand for a moment, but then smiled and took his hand.

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A/N-Wah! Now, unfortunately my friends and faithful reviewers, I believe that is the end! *Takes a bow* I can't think of anything to add to it so…Well, what'd you guys think? This is the first fic I've ever finished and I'm so proud! ^_^ Now review and tell me what you thought of it! I only revised this chapter twenty-two times. Well, I'm exaggerating a bit. I only revised it twenty-one times ^_^ Now review! And I bid you adieu from this fic! Read some of my others!