For all my friends. Oh, how I envy you all and love you all at the same time…

Chapter Five

Two days later as Lily walked into her bedroom she found Ella smirking Lys rolling round on Lily's bed laughing, Never a good combination, she thought, walking over to her two friends. Ella had her wand out and was altering Lily's uniforms; Lily snatched up one of her skirts and looked at it, shocked. The skirt had previously been about two inches above her knee, Ella and Lys had taken about three inches off that, making the skirt considerably shorter. She snatched up another, seeing that it had been altered to the same length as the first. Examining her tops she could see that they would be considerably tighter than normal.

"What? Do you think you have done to my uniforms?" Lily half screamed at the others, this caused Lys to laugh harder, if that was even possible.

"Listen, you told us you want James to ask you out, right?" Lily nodded, so Ella continued, "Well we decided you needed a bit of help, running through your common room in just a towel was a wonderful beginning, so now you need to follow on from that."

Lily sighed, Ella was right, so before dinner she changed out of her normal sized uniform and into the rather smaller version and headed out of the head's dorms. Walking down the corridors Lily noticed, for the first time that sixth and seventh year boys were obviously checking her out. Lily smiled and Ella raised her eyebrows, smiling, she and Lys had thought that maybe their uniforms needed a bit of a make-over as well.

"See, it gets their attention" Lys said, smiling at Remus as he walked past in the opposite direction, Remus smiled back somewhat nervously. Lily end Ella poked Lys in the sides, making their friend emit a high pitched squeal. "What was that for!" Lys asked.

"Lys likes Remus" sang Lily in a quiet sing-song voice.

"Remus likes Lys" continued Ella, Lysandra blushed madly and sped up ahead of her friends, who were trying to catch her whilst continuing their duet at an ever increasing volume. Lys was grateful that they stopped when the three of them entered the Great Hall.

Alice walked over to her friends, examining their uniforms, "Now do you three really think that that is going to go down well with the teachers?" her three friends just smiled like the angels they weren't and went to find a seat. Lily couldn't believe her luck; the seats next to the marauders were empty, so, without hesitation Lily sat down next to James, who without knowing it himself had just been staring at Lily's legs. Lily found it truly amazing what an extra few inches of thigh could do to the male population.

She rolled her eyes when Ella sat down opposite her and Sirius immediately asked her out. Ella once again declined without hesitation. The pair had become the new "Lily and James" as far as the gossips were concerned; it really was exactly the same situation, just different people.

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Dumbledore had announced a Yule Ball, it was the one thousandth anniversary of Hogwarts and, rightfully so, the teachers had seen the need to celebrate at various occasions throughout the year. Much to the girls' delight, the heads and seventh year prefects had been put in charge.

Lily sighed as she walked into the library for her second planning session with James. She was getting frustrated with the situation, despite all her attempts to get his attention James still wouldn't react. Lily had surprised even herself when she discovered that she liked her 'new' self. She had taken to wearing tighter, but not skanky clothes on weekends, and even wore make-up to class now…and still he wouldn't ask her out!

James looked up when she entered the small study room at the back of the library and closed the door. She was wearing tight jeans and a pale green off the shoulder top; She is trying to drive me mad! thought James, he had noticed (whether he showed it or not) that Lily had loosened up a bit, Now she is perfect. He wanted to ask her out so badly, yet he knew that Sirius would never let him live it down if he did, he had told the others he had given up, and he knew that he would never live it down if he gave in.

"Hey James." Lily smiled as she sat down, that smile is so perfect, James thought for about the millionth time.

"Hey."

"So…" Lily went into a long list of the plans she had already made, but James couldn't take in a word of it, he just sat there, staring at what he couldn't have, unless……

James leaned over the long, thin table and kissed Lily, mid sentence. It took a second to register before Lily closed her eyes and began to kiss back. she felt James' tongue slide across her bottom lip, begging to let the kiss become more heated. She was in heaven. Pure simple bliss. But then it stopped, Lily opened her eyes again, wondering why James had stopped.

"Wow" James said under his breath, he had kissed her briefly on the train on the way to school, but that, that was about a million time better. Lily walked round the table and sat on it, right in front of where James had sunk back into his chair.

"About bloody time you snogged me." Lily said, almost laughing, she was surprised by her boldness, and surprised James even more when she sat on his lap. "What took you so long?"

"I told my mates and myself that I'd given up on you, but I guess I just couldn't…"

"James, do you want to go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend?" James looked up, he had never heard better words in his life.

"Actually, what if we just kept this to ourselves for the moment…." Lily looked puzzled, sp James continued, "Sirius would never let me forget that I couldn't stick to what I said…" now Lily looked disappointed. "What if we went tonight instead?"

"But…how can we, we can't get out of the grounds…"

"I'm a Marauder, I have my ways." James said mysteriously and led her out of the library. Lily smiled as she walked with James through the castle's many hallways, holding his hand, until they came to a statue and James took out his wand. He muttered something and a tunnel suddenly appeared in the statue's back. James boosted Lily into the tunnel before climbing in himself.

Author's Note: 1,094 words! Much better than my last chapter if I dare say so. Thank you so much for all your reviews, they make me feel so much better about my writing! So anyway, next chapter will hopefully contain; Lily and James' date, more to do with Sirius and Ella, pranks and Quidditch! Any thing you guys want prank wise and I'll make sure to put it in! but you have to let me know by REVIEWING. The whole telepathy thing just doesn't seem to work as well…….

Love you all!

-.x.-Prongs-.x.-