The beginning of the school year was easy and there had been no recent attacks or threats from Voldemort's crowd, which was very good news.
In the second week of school, while Lily and James were doing rounds, James and Lily were talking about how they really liked Hogwarts and how they were both becoming aurors to protect the school.
"I want to be an auror because Voldemort killed my family. My mum and dad… Bless their souls; they died in the fifth year. Voldemort himself killed them. Not like that's an honor or anything, but they were great. He needed fifty death eaters to back him up; the coward." James said.
"I'm so sorry James… I didn't know. Do you have any brothers or sisters?" Lily asked.
"No. Just Sirius. But my parent's left me a load of galleons, so I had Dumbledore become my co-guardian and now I'm living in my own flat in Hogsmeade. Sirius is living with me too because his family disowned him. Do you still live at home?" James asked, messing up his hair.
"Why do you do that?" Lily asked, "Anyways, I lived at home, but as soon as school is out, I'm going to move into my own apartment in muggle London. It's quite nice. Lauren won't be too far away, she'll be living in Diagon Alley, so I can visit her almost every day."
"Lily, why do you hate me?"
"Hate you? I don't hate you!" She shouted, dropping her wand.
"Then what do you call it?" He asked.
"I'm not sure, but it most certainly is not hatred."
"Then you don't hate me?" James asked eagerly.
"No, I don't." Lily said.
"Okay… I have a proposal for you, Lily." James said.
"It's not a marriage proposal, is it?" Lily asked.
"Not unless you want it to be." James said, smiling.
"No, not really. I'll have to get back to you on that one." Lily said.
"Okay. Well anyways, I was thinking that we should stop calling each other by our last names and consider our relationship… a friendship."
"Alright, James. You win. I guess we're friends." Lily concluded.
"Great!" James said, smiling. Lily felt an odd twist in her stomach… Things were changing… She was falling for him.
A/N: Okie dokie! Now we have chapter three up because I retyped it pretty fast and I changed the coping with Lauren part for next chapter because I really wanted to get this posted! THANX! I NEED REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
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