Song lyrics taken from Sleeping At Last's Light. Listen to it, it's beautiful!

jamespotter: i will rearrange the stars, pull 'em down to where you are.

username: HOLY SHIT IS THIS A TEASER FOR THE SINGLE I AM NOT TEADY

username: IT'S LILY ISNT IT AND IT'S CLEARLY A LOVE SONG SHJSV

lilyevans_: sending love

username: WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN WHAT WHAT WHAT

username: I AM DYING THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED IN MY LIFE

****

jamespotter: this is it! the single has dropped. thank you all for your support.

lilyevans_: it's wonderful, James :) I'm so proud of you 💞

****

THIS IS IT- THE BIG SINGLE DROP FROM JAMES POTTER

It's been almost two years since the group The Marauders broke apart following the alleged copyright infringement of Peter Pettigrew, the band's ex-bassist, and around ten months since Sirius Black announced his plans to become an actor, Remus Lupin his plans for a career in teaching, and James Potter his ideas for an album of his own.

It's also been a year since James Potter was first spotted out with actress Lily Evans, sparking a hundred and one dating rumours. It seems that everyone on the internet has their own theories as to why the two would have been together, especially since many people thought the pair would make an adorable couple (us included!), including suspicions that it was a career-boosting move by James' management.

However, the meetings have kept on going; some would even call them dates, although nothing has been confirmed by either James or Lily, both insisting they're 'just friends' whenever they've been asked.

And now there's James' much anticipated single about a girl.

And boy, are they brilliant.

I will rearrange the stars / pull 'em down to where you are, Potter sings. The world is brighter than the sun / now that you're here.

Hmm.

****

lilyevans_: well done, James! I've got your new single on repeat, and it's gorgeous. ❤
jamespotter

jamespotter: I'm glad you liked it, Lilyflower.

username: hmm I smell romance

username: the song was so about Lily

username: 'Lilyflower'?

username: you're so whipped

siriusblack: congratulations, mate! jamespotter

remuslupin: took the words right out of my mouth lilyevans_ jamespotter

jamespotter: thank you both remuslupin siriusblack

THESE GUYS AGAIN? groupchat

Padfoot
Hmm

Hmm?

Moony
Hmm.

Now I'm feeling uneasy.

Padfoot:
You've been spending a lot of time with Lily recently, haven't you? And now you've written a love song.

What? I always write love songs.
It's totally my thing.

Moony:
No. It really isn't.

Well, if it was a love song, could you blame me? She's absolutely gorgeous and kind and funny and just all out lovely, alright?

Padfoot:
Well, you better make a move before someone else does, then.
[read by Prongs at 4.45pm]

James sat on his phone, absentmindedly scrolling through Twitter, his mind elsewhere.

Lily.

She was beautiful in the way the sea was beautiful; raw and wild and untouchable. James was so far out of her league it was unbelievable. After all, she was Lily Evans and he was just James Potter, the boy who's band broke up when the bassist stole from the recording studio.

He was the butt of every joke and she... she was something else. Something special.

And yes, he'd written a song for her, meant to be private, just lyrics scrawled on a napkin. But his manager had seen them and fallen in love, declaring that this, this was the single that would send James Potter into solo-career stardom.

And so what if it was about Lily?

It wasn't like she didn't already know. She couldn't not know. James hadn't exactly been subtle, the flirting, the way she would catch him smiling at her with the expression on his face that Sirius affectionately called 'the lovesick puppy'.

Well, anyway, now the whole Internet knew about James' feelings for Lily too.

Perfect.

James sighed and fell back in his seat, rubbing his forehead.

At least the single is doing well, James thought to himself. At least.

*****

Messages between Lilyflower 🌷 and James 💫

Holy crap, James, your single is giving me all the feels
Delivered 1.21am
JAMES
Delivered 1.23am
It's fucking beautiful
Delivered 1.26am
I'M IN LOVE
Delivered 1.30am
Yes, I am awake at 1.30am listening to your new single. Yes, it may be a little sad.
Delivered 1.32am

***

Lily Evans rolled over onto her front in her bed, staring at her phone.

She couldn't get to sleep.

She'd been up for a while, thoughts flying around her head at a million miles an hour. She was starting to regret her last cup of coffee because now she was here, wide awake, thinking far too much, listening to James Potter's single and texting him nonsense.

Biting her lip, she started to type out another message.

You're probably asleep, sorry.

Then another, with the question that was the reason she was awake at- she glanced at the clock- 1.47am.

Who's it about, if you don't mind me asking? Because some people are saying it's about me. And you know, that'd be pretty cool.

"Oh, Merlin," Lily mumbled. "I can't send that, I sound self-obsessed and-"

There was a whooshing sound, and Lily stared at her phone in horror.

Message to James 💫 has been delivered!

Oh, fuck, Lily thought. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose, Lily thought, and started to type again.

Okay, I didn't mean to send that. But you know, it's true. It would be pretty cool, since I've been in love with you for- well, for a while.

Just in case you wanted to know.

Message to James 💫 has been delivered!

Lily closed her eyes and prayed.

****

It was ten o'clock and Lily's messages had been read half an hour ago.

It was safe to say she was freaking out.

She was pacing back and forth, 'wearing a path in the carpet' as her mother would say. She had texted Alice, texted Marlene, considered texting Remus and then decided that that was something she most definitely did not need to do. And now she was freaking out.

James was clearly busy.

Otherwise he would have texted back, right? Because James always texted back. Granted, she'd never sent him a text that was quite like the one she'd sent last night, but still.

Lily opened her phone and checked the messages again.

Read at 9.32am.

Okay. Maybe he just wasn't in to her and didn't know quite how to word it.

Maybe-

There was a knock on the door, and Lily jumped.

It was probably Alice, Lily decided, making her way to the door. Or Marlene, come for moral support.

She opened the door and caught her breath, because James- James- was standing in the doorframe, his hair messy and unbrushed (although, really, when was it ever brushed?) hazel eyes glinting in the sunlight filtering through the windows.

"Did you mean that?" James breathed. He was so close Lily could barely breathe. "What you sent me?"

"Yes," Lily said softly, and then he stepped forwards and kissed her, hesitantly at first, hands gentle as he touched her cheeks, the back of her neck, her shoulders, and then, as she responded, harder, wilder, her hands knotted in his hair.

"I meant it," Lily breathed as they came up for air. His eyes were more green than brown, Lily noticed, and full of heat and passion and love. "I love you."

"The song was about you," James whispered. "Just in case you didn't know. It was."

Lily smiled as she kissed him again, and then smiled even more as he breathed the words "I love you," into her skin.

The song was beautiful, but he was more beautiful still.

This will probably be the last one shot in this book.

(I'm not crying, you're crying.)

So- thank you for being the best readers ever! I love you guys so much, and I'm going to miss you.

(Although, maybe - no promises- I may see if I can do another advent calendar next Christmas as a lovely little surprise for you guys. So don't take this book out of your library, because you never know!)

I love you guys, and thank you for sticking with me!

(Dedicated to greenravenclaw bc she inspired this. I couldn't find a way to add your lyrics in, but they were beautiful!)