Jenna yelled and took a step back from the open window, outside which someone was sitting on the windowsill, also yelling in horror.

    "What the hell is g — MERLIN'S BEARD!" Marlene screamed in return from where she was laying on her bed, her eyes catching sight of the person.

     "James! What on earth are you doing here!?" Jenna shouted at her brother, her eyes still in shock.

     "I'm stuck, okay!? I'm stuck!" James yelled back while he was seated on the windowsill outside the girls' dorm, tugging at his cloak which seemed to have been stuck.

"Oh, goodness!" Lily gasped who had rushed out of bed with her wand already in her hand, sighing in relief when she realized that it was just James Potter, and not a mass murderer with a knife.

"Ah, Evans! Good, you're here! Just the person I was looking for!" James said cheerfully as he let out a nervous laughter, all the while sitting on the windowsill and tugging at his cloak.

"Excuse me?" Lily said sternly, folding her arms.

"J.P, what are you doing here!?" Jenna repeated herself, still staring at him with wide eyes, though she was beginning to feel more angry than surprised now.

"Yeah, I would like to know too." Marlene nodded eagerly, her sleepiness vanishing for good as she got out of bed along with Alice.

"And how did you get up here?" Alice mused curiously as she walked toward them. She had her bowtruckle, Woody, sitting on her shoulder, yawning.

"Oh, yeah. Forget Jenna's question. Answer hers first." Marlene gestured her head at Alice with a grin, keen on knowing the whole story.

"Nothing. I'm just here to talk to Evans." James shrugged, as though he wasn't stuck right outside their window on the highest point of the Gryffindor Tower. "A little help wouldn't hurt you lot either," he said, once again pulling his cloak helplessly. "By the way, what time is it?"

"Ten minutes to twelve. Why?" Jenna asked sharply, but her question was once again left unanswered.

"Good. I still have ten minutes to midnight," said James, mostly talking to himself.

"Why? Before your carriage turns into a pumpkin?" Lily said wittily.

James furrowed his brows in confusion. "Huh?"

"Oh, forget it." Lily rolled her eyes. "Wizards."

"Okay, never mind that." James shook his head, finally letting go of his cloak defeatedly. He then looked back up at Lily, a charming smile returning to his face. "You broke my heart today, Evans. But no matter. No matter. I say let bygones be bygones. All I would like to say is that this —" he pointed at the space between then, "is meant to happen. Because I keep thinking that it's fate, trying to bring us together."

"You're stuck at our window in the middle of the night, Potter. What are you even doing here?"

     "Fate, Evans! Weren't you listening!?" James huffed, pinching the bridge of his nose before continuing. "Can someone just help me get inside!?"

Sighing, Jenna brought her wand from her nightstand and pointed it at James's cloak which was stuck, using a spell to at last free him.

"Took you long enough." James scoffed, hopping off the windowsill and into the girls' dorm. He then looked back at Lily, retrieving his arrogant smirk. "I wanted to ask you out on that date we talked about earlier today, Evans. Now what do you say?"

Jenna glanced sideways at Lily. And if looks could kill, James would've fallen right off that window.

Her face becoming red in fury and her hands turning into fists at her sides, she glared over at James. "Oh, you've got sone nerve, Potter! Showing up at our window in the middle of the night, only God knows how —"

"Marlene knows how, too," Marlene said with an amused grin, who was now standing by the window, looking down.

"What?" Jenna said in confusion, walking over the window as well to look outside.

And there, only a feet bellow them, Sirius was hovering in mid-air on his broom. As it seemed, he had helped James up here. Jenna looked over, seeing that down bellow the Gryffindor tower Remus and Peter were standing on the ground. Remus was holding his wand at the ready, so he could use the Arresto Momentum spell in case James would fall.

James obviously couldn't climb the spiral staircase in the common room up the girls' dormitory, because the stairs were enchanted and didn't allow boys up. And apparently risking his life and climbing through their window was James's logical solution.

Jenna shook her head before walking back in the room, where Lily was still glaring at James with hatred, and James was looking back at her with the same amount of arrogance.

Jenna decided not to say anything and not to interfere in whatever situation was going on between her brother and her best friend. Although not indulging to say her opinion or kicking James was specially hard for her at the moment.

"Hadn't I made myself clear enough for you today? I'm not going out with you, Potter!" Lily snapped at him angrily. "Is this some funny joke to you? Why are you suddenly so obsessed to go out with me, when only last year you kept bullying me and my friend!"

"What?" James frowned. "When have I ever given you a hard time? All I ever did was to tease Snivellous, which he had coming, by the way!"

"There! Right there! You've treated my friend horribly, which means you've treated me horribly!"

James scoffed mockingly. "That literally doesn't make any sense."

"Well, it doesn't have to make sense to you! It makes sense to me and that should be enough!" Lily raved. "I'm not going out with you, Potter! Not now, not ever! So whatever sick prank or bet you have going on with your friends, I suggest you quit it right now and get out of our room!"

"Or what?"

"Or I'll call Professor McGonagall!"

James narrowed his eyes at her. "You wouldn't."

"Try me!"

"Lil, I love you, but that will cost Gryffindors at least fifty points," Alice tried to say softly, hoping that they would just solve this disagreements themselves and stop fighting altogether.

"Ugh, fine! Fine, I'll leave!" James hurled the words angrily. "And just for the record, I'm not obsessed, like you said. I don't even care. This is gonna be your loss, Evans. Not mine."

     Lily looked as though she was about to burst out from anger, but before she could say another word, James had walked back toward the window, climbed out of it, and got behind Sirius's broom, flying down together.

     "Looks like I won the bet after all," Sirius said with a smirk as he flew down and smoothly landed the broom on the grass, right beside where Remus and Peter were standing.

     "Oh, just shut up," James grumbled moodily, getting off the broom.

     "Woah, you don't look too happy," Remus observed, smiling knowingly, as though saying I-told-you-so with his eyes. "I gather things didn't go as planned?"

     James only glared at him.

     "Lily was just a girl, James. I'm sure you can ask out anyone else and they would say yes. Why wouldn't they?" Peter tried ro say comfortingly, though he wasn't sure it helped at all.

     "Yeah. Whatever. I don't care anymore." James shrugged. "Anyway, let's go back to our dorm. Or the kitchen. I'm starving."

     "Good idea!" Peter nodded enthusiastically.

     "Fine, but don't forget you have to buy us our Butterbeer for the rest of the year, mate. That was the bet." Sirius reminded him with a smirk.

     "You know I will. I'm a man of my word." James mirrored his grin, walking away with his friends as though the events of that night were already forgotten.

     But that was far from true. He couldn't forget it no matter how hard he tried.