Even In The Weirdest Of Ways

Chapter 5

Lily was sitting in her bedroom four post bed, thinking weather she should go down to breakfast or stay in her room, until it was time to go, but her pride won as always, she had, had a horrible night, but she knew that if she skipped breakfast people were going to start asking, and she didn't want to answer, so she got up, and went down to breakfast.

When she got to the great hall, she saw the Marauders laughing as always, but something caught her attention, James was more quiet than usual, his smile seemed force and she couldn't believe what she was seeing in his eyes, it was guilt, James felt guilty. Lily was impressed, she had never seen James show and emotion that made him seemed vulnerable, but there it was. Lily just couldn't believe it, but she realized that she was standing in the middle of the entrance so she started to walk to where Marlene and Alice were sitting.

-"Morning."-Said Lily trying to sound cheerful.

-"Hey Lils."- Answered Marlene. - " I was telling Alice about the possibility of you two coming over for a week over the summer, it would be in the end so we arrived together and everything. What do you think?"

-"That would be amazing!"- Lily said feeling her mood lighten up.

-"Great, so I'll owl you to let you know everything."

After that, the breakfast continued as normally, the girls kept taking and Lily could feel the looks that James was giving her, but she never looked back. After a few minutes the four Marauders got up from their seats, they came over to were they were, Lily didn't want to talk to James because she know that she had been a little harsh the day before, but she was to stubborn to apologize and James did had a little part of the guilt. As they approach Lily started to get nervous, when they reach them Sirius was the first to talk.

-"Hello ladys."- He said sitting next to Marlene, the Marauders took a seat with them Remus sat to one side of Lily and James on the other; the awkwardness between them could be felt miles away.

-"What do you want Sirius?"- Asked Marlene worried for Lily.

-"What? A gut can't sit with his favorite girls in the world?"- He said with a sexy smirk and a wink.

-"Ha! Favorite girls? Don't mock me Black!"- Answered Marlene rolling her eyes.

They continued discussing; James and Lily were both absorbed in their own thoughts and not paying attention to what they were saying. At that moment James was having an internal fight about weather he should talk to Lily or keep ignoring her, he felt really guilty about everything, and he knew that he should really talk to Lily, so taking advantage that everyone was distracted he decided to take a chance.

-"Mm, Lily?"- James started asking. Lily turned to look at him.-"Could we talk? Alone?" Lily took a deep breath and nod. At that moment their group had gone silent no one knew what had really happened, but they knew that it was bad. As Lily and James rose from their seat, they could feel their friends gaze following them; actually the entire great hall was looking at them. As they came out of the great hall Lily saw Severus looking straight at them.

-"Lily, I just wanted to apologize for what happened, I shouldn't have asked you out that way, I shouldn't have been an ass to Severus and least to you, I am really sorry, I regret every single thing I said. And I know that I've been a complete ass hole for five years and I don't deserve your forgiveness but I really am sorry and I am not going to ask for you to forgive me, but please believe I am really sorry. For everything."- James finished, Lily knew that he was being sincere and she thought that maybe, just maybe James Potter wasn't as bad as she thought.

-"I accept your apology James, I know you are sorry."

-"So, just one more thing, do you think we could start over, from cero?"- James asked, his eyes full of hope.

-"I think that would be nice."- Lily answered with a small smile on her face.

-"So, hi I'm James Potter nice to meet you."- James said offering Lily his hand.

-"HAHAHA! Seriously?"- Lily asked.

-"Of course, we are starting over after all so let's start from the beginning."- Answered James

-"Fine then, Lily Evans."-Said Lily accepting James hand.

They shook hands, and turned around to get back to the great hall, as they came in, they saw the curious looks that everyone was throwing at them. As they reached the part of the table where their friends where, James stopped her.

-"I just need to ask you one more thing."- James said.

-"If you dare to ask me out Potter, believe me I will hex your head of."- Lily warned.

-" No its not that, how mad are you at Snape right now?"- James asked.

-"I wouldn't give a damn if the earth opened right now and swallowed him. Why?" - Lily asked with a curios look.

-"Well... we have a sort of end of the year planed for the Slytherins and I was wondering how mad will you get if Snape got the worst part of it?"- James asked in a low voice.

-"Actually at this point I wouldn't be mad at all."- Lily answered.

After that they joined their friends they were all completely confused, but didn't ask, they knew that they still had the train back home. After a few minutes of talking suddenly the four Marauders exchanged glances and Lily knew that it was time for their prank the Great Hall was completely full, and it was all decorated with Gryffindor color, because they had won the house cup once more.

Suddenly some buckets appeared on top of each of the Slytherins and spilled their paint on top of them; the paint was scarlet and gold, after that the great hall burst into laughter, but it wasn't over, suddenly a huge lion face appeared and gave an amazing roar that spilled gold glitter al over the place including the Slytherins, everyone was amazed by it and was cheering loudly, But that wasn't all suddenly the lion started moving towards Snape, suddenly in was just behind him, the lion gave a loud rawr, open its faucets and closed them on Snape after the lion disappeared everyone was looking at Snape he was completely covered in red and gold paint, with feathers of the same colors and he had a sign pasted on his shirt that said:

"GRYFFINDOR RULES AND I'M IN LOVE WITH THE MARAUDERS."

The great hall burst into hysterical laughers, even Lily was laughing, she was impressed for the brilliance of their prank. Lily turned to face the marauders and told them.

-"I have to admit that, that prank was very impressive."-She said with a smile on her face.

After the prank most of the students went back to their dorms to peek up their last things and go back down to the carriages that will take them to the train, and back home. Lily and her friends went back to their room and left the Marauders behind, when they finished packing they went down to get the carriages, they arrived to the Hogsmade station and began to look for a compartment, later on the train ride the Marauders joined them, they were all impressed that James and Lily were having civil conversations instead of shouting at each other.

When they arrived to the King Cross station they all came down the train and said their goodbyes. Marlene promised to write to them telling the dates, and details of the week they were planning of staying at her house. James and Lily each joined their families absorbed on their own thoughts. Lily couldn't believe that her friendship with Severus was over, and James couldn't believe that Lily was giving him a second chance and he was making everything on his power to make it worth it.