"Lily?" I heard a small voice whisper behind me. I was so involved with attempting to grow legs on a teacup without saying a word, that I almost thought I was imagining things, "Lily? Behind you."

I turned around stealthily so that Professor Flitwick wouldn't catch me. Behind me was Peter looking a little sheepish. Out of his friends, he was the one I knew the least so I was a little surprised that he had decided to speak to me. I sincerely hoped it wasn't a question about me and James, I'd been getting several of them from random people recently.

"What is it?" I asked praying that he just needed help with charms or something.

"Um... I have a message from James." He whispered, gesturing me closer to him. I scanned the room to check Flitwick wasn't watching before tentatively moving closer, "He wants me to ask you if you'll meet him in Class 34 at nine. Don't tell anybody, he specifically said that only you should know as he's trying this new thing where he doesn't announce stuff to everybody."

I could imagine James repeating the last part over and over which made me smile.

"Wait, but how will I get there? We're not supposed to be out of bed that late, I'm a prefect." I said, suddenly worried at the prospect of trouble.

"He's arranged that too." Peter said and I inwardly sighed with relief, "It's a rare, well thought out Potter plan. At least comparatively."

I expected James to find some fun way to tell me more but I was kept in the dark the whole day.

"If he tries any funny business, I will hex him." Marlene said later as we waited in the common room, "Just call my name and I'll be there in a hurry..."

"Class 34 is on the third floor, you wouldn't hear me." I reminded them.

"If you think that would stop us then you aren't as smart as I thought you were, Lil." Mary said, "But I'm sure it will be fine, James is a sweet guy."

"Do you think you'll do any moonlight snogging...?" Alice teased and I blushed at this very likely possibility.

"Maybe..." I giggled.

"If you do, you have to tell us everything afterwards," Marlene said, "And I mean EVERYTH - "

"Lily Evans?" I heard Sirius's voice behind us cutting in. Marlene hurriedly fiddled with her hair, her demeanour suddenly becoming a lot mature than it had been seconds ago.

"Are you supposed to be taking me to James without me getting caught?" I asked sceptically at Sirius who seemed to be holding a weird, brown blanket over his arm.

"What are you going to do, wrap her in that weird cloth thing and carry her over your shoulder?" Marlene said, twirling her hair. Sirius sniggered at this.

"You ladies aren't actually too far off..." He said and I suddenly had the urge to feign illness and cancel. The idea of being carried along the corridors in a dirty brown blanket had been funny before but now that it was a possibility, it was not so amusing. Sirius saw me horrified expression and laughed

"Relax, I'm not coming with you, watch this..." He stuck his hand under the blanket thing and suddenly it was gone. I had no idea what to say although it did explain how they always came in late at night and hardly ever got caught, "It's James's invisibility cloak from his Dad, explains a lot, right? You can go under this to see him, it fits several people so there should be plenty of room for you. Here, try it."

He extended the cloak to me and I took it off him, slowly slipping it round my shoulders. I'd half expected it to fail but it worked perfectly.

"You're sure nobody can see me?" I questioned just before leaving. I hoped this wasn't some awful prank where I would reappear right in front of Filch.

"Positive, it's never failed us." Sirius assured me as I walked out of the door.

Without the threat of being seen, I managed to get to Class 34 quite quickly. It was weird but amazing being invisible, I could see why the Marauders snuck out so much, it was a lot of fun.

Closing the door behind, I slipped into class 34, taking the cloak of me.

"James?" I whispered into the empty classroom. Part of me wondered if he had a second invisibility cloak and was lurking somewhere behind one of the desks, "James? It's Lily."

The room stayed empty which was unexpected. Knowing James, I thought the entire room would have been enchanted and the furniture would have flown around me the second I'd walked in. I hadn't been expecting just a normal dark room.

"Lily, I'm over here." At first I thought I'd imagined his voice as it seemed to be coming from one of the walls until I saw his face peeking through one of the open windows.

"James, what on earth are you doing out there?" I asked him warily.

"It's pretty here, come join me." He said, opening the window so I could climb through.

"If you think that I'm going to join you on a dangerous roof then you have another thing coming..." I hissed, my slight vertigo flaring up.

"It's not dangerous, I wouldn't take you somewhere if I thought there was a threat of death."

"You're James Potter, a lot of things that you deem safe probably have a threat of death." I said but I climbed through the window anyway, "Marlene said she'd hex you if you got any ideas, I'm just warning you."

He laughed at me slightly bewildered, "No, no, nothing like that, I just wanted to do something nice seeing as the last date we had left both our mouths in awful pain."

"You don't count out joint detention as a date? That's rude." I said, widening my eyes in fake shock. For a second he looked a little surprised but then realised I was messing with him.

"If sitting at opposite sides of the room and having to communicate via glances is your idea of a date then I have been trying WAY too hard." He scoffed seating himself next to me.

"So, you brought me to a roof? It's a little cold..." I said a little confused as Peter had suggested that it would be quite elaborate.

"I was going to do something bigger but I thought you might not like it, so I thought I'd keep it small. Here I have some stuff too..." He reached around into the window and pulled out a blanket, wrapping it around my shoulders along with several Honeydukes bags, "I've got the lot here, exploding bonbons just in case, sugar quills, ice mice. I'm really prepared for anything."

"James Potter putting genuine effort into something and not just winging it? I might faint." I teased him just like the old days. Mary was right, my arguing was almost identical to my flirting.

"On the contrary, I put effort into a lot of things, it's just the result is usually so bad that it looks very effortless," He said and as if to illustrate his point, he tossed a jellybean up in the air and instead of it landing in his mouth, it hit him on the nose, "Like that, for example."

I couldn't help but laugh at this, he could be such an idiot but I was only beginning to see that he was a sweet idiot.

"Anyway, I brought you here because I love this place, I go here with Sirius sometimes when it gets too much." He said.

"Damn, James, I thought I was the first person you'd brought here on a date!" I said, faking a shocked expression, "Please tell me Sirius isn't here too, hiding in the corner with some enchanted banjo to serenade us."

"No, nothing like that, you'd better be careful though, he won't be too happy that you stole me away." He said with an element of seriousness.

"Tell Sirius to bring it." I challenged, moving my face into what I hoped was a tough facial expression. It clearly wasn't because James burst out laughing.

"I'll let him know. Anyway, I just wanted to hang out with you, one on one. We always have people around and I just wanted somewhere quiet, you know for deep chats, stargazing and actually getting to know each other - and snogging, if you're up for it." He said quickly adding the last part in.

"Maybe if you're good," I said, tossing him a jellybean which he managed to catch this time.

"Tell me something about you, Lily. Like... what's your family like?" He said.

"Well... there's my dad. I absolutely love him to bits, we go on walking holidays sometimes and stuff just us, we camp too. Tuney hates it and Mum worries about the bugs so it's just us. We sometimes just sit under the stars and it's so quiet. We're meant to be walking near the Black Mountains this summer, I love it."

"So I guess, I made the right call taking you on a prime spot for stargazers?" He said, smoothly putting his arm around my shoulders. I decided to share my blanket with him, draping it around him too and resting my head on his shoulder, "Who else?"

"Well, there's my mum too, I do love her, she's very talented at the clarinet and she tried to teach me once. I was useless but she was patient and kind about it," James was watching me intently, he was a very good listener, " But she worries so much. She worries that she's getting old, she worries that I've left the jam jar open. It drives me nuts sometimes. I guess it's good that she has my dad to balance her out, you know? Opposites attract..."

"Like us..." James said, laughing softly.

"Exactly," I said, my voice suddenly becoming a whisper, "It's weird, it's like my Mum is the paper, like the foundation of our family and I'm the little decorations you stick on top - "

"This is an odd analogy." James chuckled.

" - and my Dad is the glue, holding us together. It just... works."

"What's Petunia then? The little bits of PVA that you peel off your finger?" He said and I almost spat out the ice mouse as it was so accurate.

"Yeah, kind of." Petunia was a hard one, we used to be so close but after I went to Hogwarts she just froze up. She used to play games with me and braid my hair and although I would whine and complain, I didn't mind. I missed her as a sister, "She's just so mean sometimes. I just wish she wouldn't say stuff that she does, it's just unnecessary. Like whenever, I talk about Hogwarts, she tells me I'm a freak - "

"You don't believe her though, right?" James said expecting me to tell him I didn't and it was fine.

"...Maybe. Just a little bit." I said, softly, resting my head back on his shoulder.

"Lily, that's ridiculous. You are literally one of the kindest, smartest and just all round amazing-ist person I've ever met. I would hex for her saying that but she's your sister so I won't." He said, his tone harsh and annoyed. I don't think I'd seen him so annoyed since Fifth year when Snape had called me a 'Mudblood'.

"Thanks, James." I said, reaching up and pressing my lips against his. He took a second before he wrapped his arms around me and kissed me back, his hands running through my hair. We broke apart too quickly for my liking but I wanted to say something, "James, I just wanted to apologise. I've just realised that since I started being nice to you, you've been so accepting of it but I was mean to you. I was mean to you for years and you've just forgiven me like that. You're not as bad as I thought and I'm sorry that I was a cow."

"I knew you'd come around," He said weakly, "It did hurt a little when you said rather go out with a giant squid than me, I will admit. How do I compare, out of interest?"

"Well, you're a better snog and I do enjoy dating somebody that has arms not tentacles," I said, laughing slightly. I wanted to tell him that I thought he was a thousand times better than a Giant Squid and that he gave me butterflies and say over and over again that I was sorry but I couldn't find the words yet.

"Well, that's good, if a Giant squid is better than you, then you're going to have to revaluate you're technique..." He trailed off as I kissed him again.

Old me would probably say how clichéd snogging under starlight and say some crap about ho weird it was that he'd snog me under the watchful glow under the Sirius star but she was far from my mind some clichés are clichés for a reason because they feel so damn good.