A/N: Ok here is the long awaited real conclusion of Musical Madness. crowd roars So please, please, please review and I'll be THE happiest person alive. The dialogue from the Lily and James scene is loosely based on another fanfic I did.

Disclaimer: See earlier chapters.

Chapter 16

It was a lazy spring day at the end of May. Eight friends sat underneath a large beech tree by a lake. Tomorrow was graduation. The thought of it hung in the air. No one spoke of it, yet they all knew it was there. And no one wanted to say good bye.

Lily laid her head on James's shoulder and shut her eyes. He put his arm around her. She tried to remember how this felt. To be with the ones she cared about, that is. She tried to remember the smell of the leaves and the newly sprung flowers, and the grass. She tried to remember the smell of James, an indescribable mixture that Lily couldn't get enough of.

She opened her eyes and looked at those around her. Remus had his arms wrapped around Victoria. She was looking out at the lake, lost in thought of her own. Amelia and Sirius were lying next to one another on their backs, holding hands. They were looking at the leaves of the tree. Lily laughed to herself about the way their story had turned out. Their no commitment relationship turned into love, somehow. Their whole relationship could be described as somehow. Because somehow the leveled headed Amelia fell for the obnoxious Sirius and somehow they balanced each other out. And somehow they realized they were in love.

She looked up at James and shook her head. If some one had told her how this year would've ended up she wouldn't have believed them. But Lily was a different person last year. And so was James. That was a good thing. She looked at the diamond ring on her left hand. Last year's Lily would've definitely disapproved of that!

She thought of how it had happened. It was just a week ago today. It was a beautiful late spring night and James asked her to go for a walk. Maybe she should've known something was up then and there, but she didn't. Exams had ended that afternoon and lily just wanted to soak in her last week at Hogwarts. And she wanted to be with James because the end of exams had made her start worrying about the future, the days after they would graduate. They would have to get jobs and take care of themselves and Lily was scared. She liked the way things were and she didn't want to let go of anything, the least of which James.

Anyway, James and Lily were walking around the pond holding hands. They were awkwardly silent. James was very fidgety and kept opening his mouth as if to say something, but then kept shutting it. Lily wanted to tell James all she had been thinking and she did. Yes, really just like that. Because once she got started it all came rolling out and then she started crying and when she realized she was crying she started laughing and then she wiped her face and thanked James for listening to her blubber like an imbecile and for not laughing at her. James just smiled awkwardly and she hugged him and he hugged back.

The truth was James had thought all those things and didn't think she was being silly and he told her this. He wiped a tear from her face and kissed her but she pulled away. "Kissing me won't make it better James," she said with tears in her eyes.

"I know," he replied softly ", But maybe this will." And he reached his hand into his pocket pulling out a black jewelry box. He got down on one knee, opened it and said ", Will you marry me?"

"James… James!!!!! James, we're too young. We don't know anything about ebign married!" she replied, confused.

"No one knows what they're getting into when they get married! And Romeo and Juliet were young!" he countered.

"James," Lily replied in a way only she could that made James loathe her but yet mad his heart skip a beat ", They died."

"Okay bad example," he replied ", What about Corey and Topanga?"

"They got canceled. We don't know how they turned out. They were boring during college and that's about it."

"Ross and Rachel?"

"They were like 30 and had a kid."

"But they were young when they fell in love!"

"No they weren't!"

"MY parents were young!"

"You're parents are one in a million," Lily replied. "James," she said softer ", I love you and I want to be with you but … but…. But I'm not ready to be married."

"I'm not asking you to marry me tomorrow, or this month or this year or in the next five years. Whenever you're ready I am. But I'm not planning on loving anyone but you. Forever."

And then Lily just kissed him. She didn't know what else to do. "Yes," she said. And that was that.

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Anyway, so back to the present, Sirius was getting really tired of sitting and not doing. So he started making out with Amelia. This started a tirade of "Get a room!" shouts. So they stopped. For a moment, it felt like any regular day, like this time tomorrow they'd be sitting in double potions listening to Slughorn not shut up about how awesome Lily is or James would be levitating water balloons at Snape. But suddenly reality set back in and it brought with it the awkwardness of a few moments before.

Victoria couldn't stand it anymore. She stood and said loudly ",How is it that the day I've been waiting for since I got my letter of acceptance is the same day I'm dreading more then anything I've ever dreaded before?" Her voice was choking and she was on the verge of tears. "I mean," she continued, pacing ", I'm closer to you guys then I'm with some of the members of my family. You guys practically are my family! What if we don't stay friends? I… I… ah…"

And then music started and she sang just a few lines of "How Do I live without you?"

And tell me now,
How do I live without you?
I want to know,
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go,
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh how do I live?

And she sat down with her back to the tree, her head buried in her hands. Remus went over to her to comfort her but she turned her back to him. He wrapped his arms around her, giving her no chance for resistance. She fell into his arms, sobbing. "Shh," he whispered into her ear ", It's okay; it's OKAY." And even though she knew his words had no fact or reason behind them, they melted her heart and made her feel like it was going to be fine. She wiped the tears from her cheeks and laughed at her stupidity. Lily crawled over and gave her a hug.

"I can tell you how I KNOW we're all going to stay friends," James said ", because we're the masters of our own destiny. If we make it important to stay friends, we will. I want everyone one of us to make a promise right here and now to stay friends for the rest of our lives, however long that maybe." He stuck out his wand, and the others did too so they were all touching at the tip.

"Here's to friendship, OUR friendship," said Sirius. "Until death do us part," he added with a smirk. Everyone laughed and Lily and James locked eyes, for just a moment.

"We need a code word," said Amelia ", some word to seal the deal, so to speak." They all sat in thoughtful contemplation.

"I got it!" said Brianna excited ", Iuvat!" (A/N: pronounced YOU- wot) They thought about it for a moment.

"I like it," said Remus. They all agreed and with their wands still together said the word. And suddenly light flowed down the tips of their wands towards their hands and disappeared. They all looked at each other as if to confirm that they weren't seeing things.

Then James started singing into what led into a chain of songs from previous chapters.

James: Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
James, Remus, and Sirius: I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you

Lily: This thing called love I just can't handle it
Girls: This thing called love I must get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love

Boys: There goes my baby
She knows how to rock 'n' roll
She drives me crazy
She gives me hot and cold fever
Then she leaves me in a cool cool sweat

All: Well this is it now, everybody get down

This is all I can take

This is how a heart breaks

You take a hit now

You feel it break down

Make you stay wide awake

This is how a heart breaks

Dancing through life
skimming the surface
gliding where turf is smooth
life's more painless
for the brainless
why think too hard?
when it's so soothing
dancing through life
no need to tough it
when you can sluff it off as I do
nothing matters
but knowing nothing matters
it's just life
so keep dancing through...

It's not easy love, but you've got friends you can trust,
Friends will be friends,
When you're in need of love they give you care and attention,
Friends will be friends,
When you're through with life and all hope is lost,
Hold out your hand cause friends will be friends right till the end

The music ended and they erupted in laughter and hugs.

"James," Lily said ", promise me, love, that you'll never sing again?" They laughed.

"So," said Peter ", what does iuvat mean?"

"It means he/she helps in Latin," Brianna replied.

Remus raised his eyebrows. "Very interesting," he said.

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A/N: So here, we go... It's your final chance to review. Review the chapter and the entire story. So thanks. I might write some more fanfics… we'll just see.

- The future Mrs. David Wright … I wish (roflmao)