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Recipient: violetion
Author: babyhalo19
Pairing: James/Lily
Mod's Note: apologies to babyhalo19 for not posting this with the rest of the stories; see [ here] for more information.
Possibility
James Potter, if she heard that name one more time in the Gryffindor common room, she swear she’d scream. Always the handsome James, the smart James, the prankster James, the James with all the friends, the James that was the best seeker ever, the James that everyone wants to be! Girls would literally fall at his feet in the hallways and say things like,
“James, you are the sexiest wizard I have ever seen! Would you like to have a little “visit” in my dormitory tonight?”
The thing that angered her even more was that he always said no, that he never let his popularity go to his head, and that she knew he would never do that with a girl he didn’t love. It would be soooo much more easier to hate him if he took women for granted, and walked around like he owned the place.
And it wasn’t that she just saw him and said she would hate him, it was that her so called friends have come up with the idea that her and Mr. Potter would make a cute item. She knew she wasn’t more that a person behind him grade wise, and that she would never be grouped with the “freaks” or “unglies“, its just he was TOOO perfect! While her head told her that this was no reason to hate a person, she put that thought in the back of her head.
Lily flipped her long chestnut red hair over her shoulder and bit her quill very hard when James came in. Of all the people she wanted to see at the moment. She feigned busyness, which wasn’t exactly lying, sixth years ALWAYS had homework. James ignored the fact that her head was buried in a book and walked over.
“Hey Tiger.” He said, his brown eyes lighting up from behind his spectacles.
“Tiger? Let me guess...Tiger Lilly ....oh haha......I get that.” She got very annoyed at this comment, thinking he meant it to show how funny her name could be.
“I didn’t mean it in a mean way Lilly, I think it’s cute. I really like your name.” His eyes took a hurt look but then, in a second, it changed to mischief. “Besides, if I wanted to, I would have called you flower, get it, Lilly flower?” He laughed hard, realizing how dumb, but aggravating his joke had been to Lilly.
“You can never quit while your ahead can you?” And with that she whispered “Dominsa Telorpha.” With that his eyes started rolling around his head and he started signing, “Rubber ducky, your the one, you make bath time so much fun!” With that she cast another simple spell so that it could be heard all over the school. Immediately their was roars of laughter as people started yelling, “So that’s what potter sounds like signing!”
Unfortunately it made the girls like him even more with comments like, “Ohh....he has the sexiest voice!” or “That voice lets you know just how manly he is!” Lily could never have a conversation about why she didn’t like him with her friends, they practically swooned at his or Sirius’s or Remus’s name. The only one’s she could talk to about this were guys, they didn’t like the trio that much either since no girls looked at them very often when the “famous three” were around. “Look at them all mighty and popular, what do they have that we don’t have?” That was the common question with the other boys of the school. Lily could never come up with the answer.
James suddenly snapped out of it, and when his eyes fell of Lily, the only thing she read on them was payback. “Well that was fun,” he said with a laugh. “Just watch your back Ms. Evans, you never know what could be right around you.” With that he walked off, smiling pleasantly, inwardly she groaned, what was he gonna do?
She decided to relax with a warm bath, that always helped. She walked quickly out of the portrait hole of the fat lady and went to the prefects bathroom. There were only seven other prefects besides her. There was herself, Bell, Chang ,Finnighan, Spinnet, Weasley, Diggory and of course, what would the world do without Potter?
As she told the password to the knight,(God, she hated this guy, always trying to get you to duel!) she climbed through the tapestry and to her great relief, found the pool empty. She decided to be risky, and climbed into the pool stark naked. Laps back and forth helped her ease her tightened muscles, and she decided to turn on the bubbles. After a few hours, she realized that it must be well after midnight. For once, she didn’t care, and instead poured in a brand new bubble brand which smelled really good. Once she was satisfied with the bubbles, she just laid back and hummed to herself. What she didn’t notice was that green bubbles started forming all around her. She looked downward, and noticed that her whole body was turning green. A black mist appeared in the water, and immediately little words appeared. She looked at it and then shouted “Dammit James!” She looked again, but the note that said TO MATCH YOUR EYES had vanished. She got out of the pool and got a towel around her green self. She was about to collect her things when she heard a voice, and looked up, she was staring into James eyes.
“Why hello Lily, enjoying your bath this evening?”
“ENJOYING MY BATH?! I was until I realized that I was green!” She said this while pointing to her body, which was without a doubt, very green.
“Ohh...now Lily, there’s no need for the attitude, it is a very nice shade of green, really brings out your eyes.” He said smirking, obviously very pleased with himself.
She couldn’t take it anymore, she lunged at him trying to nock him over, but he just merely put out her arms, and in a second she was in her arms. He laughed at how easily she could be caught, and then looked her directly in the eyes. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, especially with the conditions of your ....ahem....clothes,” he said fingering a piece of the towel by her shoulder.
Lily looked down, and for the first time since he arrived, noticed that she was only wearing a towel! “Shit,” she muttered under her breath. How was she supposed to kill him if she was wearing something that had to be held up?? James looked at her with a quizzical expression, then he realized what she was thinking. Lily was expecting some dumb statement, but instead he said, “ I’ll leave so you can get changed , I gotta study anyway, see ya around Lil.”
She normally would have commented on the Lil thing, but was too shocked by him being nice. She muttered a “thanks” as he left the room. She quickly changed into her clothes, but was in such a rush that she didn’t notice the giant KICK ME sign on the back. As she checked her watch and noticed that it was already six o’clock! “What a great way to start the day,” she said aloud as she hurried to grab her books from the dormitory, “I’m already late for breakfast!“
As she walked by groups of people, she noticed everyone burst out laughing. She kept on walking until she had to see what was so funny. She looked around expecting to see some dumb kid, but her eyes caught something flashing on her back. “Kick me..?” she read aloud, it not hitting her, then all at once, “POTTER!” Her rage was serious now, she was gonna do something drastic! She ran to the owleries to get it ready, ohh this was gonna be good!
As the houses were finishing their breakfast, it was time for the owls. James saw one come towards him, and thinking that it was his daily issue of the Daily Prophet stood up to catch it. When he caught it he realized that it wasn’t the paper at all, but a red envelope. Sirius saw it and laughed, “Another piece of fan mail, why you haven’t gotten one since ...wait...lets count....YESTERDAY! Why that must be a new record” “Umm.. Sirius, I don’t think its a normal letter.” He gulped as he turned it over hoping that it wasn’t what he thought it was. As he read the letters he paled, for written in dead black lettering were the words HOWLER. As he was opening it he clearly heard Sirius say, “Ohh shit, what did you do this time?” He was about to reply when, the howler taking on a mind of its own, burst into flame, and immediately started screaming so loud that the whole castle could well hear:
How dare you?!? You rotten pig! I swear I will get you for this! Or actually , I might have already. Don’t give me that dumb look! You’ll see what I mean in a second! Boys...always so impatient! Okay here it goes...girls, are you all listening? Today at 12:00 after potions, Mr. Potter over here is holding a contest out by the womping willow. The girl who can kiss him the best, will have the lucky opportunity of escorting him to the next Hogesmade trip! Isn’t that great?!? Better pucker up James!
Once the letter stopped, girls literally screamed with excitement. Lily saw James look over at her, she beamed at him, and then, just to piss him off more, blew a kiss. She saw his face turn the color of her hair, as he buried it in his hands. He was about to walk to his room, when Sirius came up behind him and said excitedly, "James, buddy old pal, Remus and I were wondering if we could get dibs on second and third.....” he said, his voice trailing off into a big grin. “Fuck off Sirius,” he muttered, trying very hard to get out of the room before he started screaming. Remus coming up behind him, clearly not getting what he meant, shouted as James walked out,” Well how many girls are you gonna keep for yourself? Were your best buds here!” “Remus,” Sirius stated calmly, “I don’t think he meant it like that.” “Oh...” he said dumbly trying to find a way to answer, “I knew that!” “Of course you did Remus.”
After Lily was done with potions, she went to her room to see exactly how this “kissing” game went. She wasn’t surprised to see over 200 girls there, what she was surprised to see was that James wasn’t there, but instead Sirius and Remus trying to get the girls to kiss them instead. She leaned farther out her window trying to see where he was. She almost fell off the window sill, but a hand pulled her back just in time. She spun around, wondering who it could be, and was surprised when she was looking into those clear brown eyes yet again.
“James, why aren’t you out there kissing all of your loyal subjects?” She was trying to be at least a little bit nicer since the howler, she had only a little while later realized just how even she got.
“Don’t you get it Lily?” He said this all while searching into her eyes as if trying to find something. After what seemed like hours, he said something that made her go numb.
“The only person I ever want to kiss is you.”
She sat there in shock looking into his eyes. She didn’t know what to say, it was all too quick. Before she could even start to think straight, he leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips. When their lips parted, he looked at her with a smile and said, “ I think I should go and cancel the contest.”
“Why?” She asked, still in obvious shock of what just happened. “Because I found my first place,” he replied and kissed her again.
After a few moments, she could finally think and decided to ask him the big question on her mind. “Why did you always pull the pranks and get mad and........” He silenced her by putting a finger to her lips. “Because I thought you hated me, which I think you still do, and because you look really hot when your mad at me.” She swatted him on the arm, and tried to express her feelings in words.
She opened her mouth just as the door to the Gryffindor common room opened and Sirius yelled out, “James are you up there?” “Sorry,” James whispered looking upset at the intrusion, "I gotta go.” As he walked out Lily peeked out through the door to see what was so important. “Did I score or what?!?” he said pointing to several hickeys the size of golf balls on his neck. “And look at what else?!” He tore open his shirt to show about 50 girls numbers. “Remus only got 43! He’s pretty mad about that ! Ha, it just proves that I’m more of a hunk than him!
At this comment Lily tried hard to stifle a laugh, but it unfortunately didn’t work. Sirius looked up at the girls dormitories, and smiled a sly smile. “Which reminds me, what ARE you doing here?? Girls are really starting to get ticked out there that you didn’t show. Saying how they spent hours getting ready! There’s got to be a reason, and if I know my best friend, which I do, (James rolled his eyes at this) I’m betting there’s a lucky little lady in there.” He finished his speech very impressed with how quickly he figured it out, his finger still pointed to the girls dormitories.
“What?” James replied dumbfounded, as he couldn’t quite come up with a response. While he said that Sirius noticed something. “Come closer” he said grabbing James by his robes. “What the hel-” He was cut off by Sirius smirking as he looked at something a dark pink on his finger. “You had lipstick on your lips James, and unless you have a shocking little secret about what you do in your spare time, I think you my friend, have just had a very good mid-morning snack!”
“No, GOD, I just realized why guys are always given the reputation of being perverted!”
“Ohh my boy....she turned you down didn’t she? I never thought I’d see the day! James Potter was turned down by a girl! It could be headlines! No one will ever believe it!”
“Sirius, I know I already said this to you today, but you’ve gotten into the habit of me having to repeat things for you so I’ll say it clearly as to not confuse you! FUCK OFF!! And yes, just to satisfy your curiosity, she hates me, and I doubt that she’ll ever change her mind about that! Now can you please leave me alone, I need to study!”
“Study?! Wow, you must have really liked her to now be stu-” “SIRIUS!!!” “Right right, fuck off, I’m already ahead of you on this one! I’ll see you around then! Cheerio mate!”
Lily sighed as she fell onto her bed. She never said she hated him or even not like him. She just wasn’t sure, but as she thought back to her shocked face, she could see why James took it that way. Her head was swarming, he was a damn good kisser, and he could be very sweet. Then again he could be very deceptive and sly. “But wasn’t he doing that because he liked me?” she asked to the air. When no reply came she sank into her bed and cried. There was no fear of anyone intruding since all prefects had their own rooms.
Valentines day was coming up she realized as she sat up after a few hours. Her eyes were puffy and her face all red. Their would of course be a dance and a banquet, and tons of girls in love. Sirius and Remus would no doubt be seeing who could have the most dates at a time without any of them realizing, probably with some dumb thing for the looser to do. She would probably be sipping a butter beer from the sidelines, turning down guys with a frown on her face. James would probably be swarmed with girls all around him making eyes and flirting. The teachers would all no-doubt be too drunk to realize that about half of the couples would be retreating to their dorms early for a little valentines day “treat.”
The days went by in a blur as Lily and James carefully avoided each other. A day before the Valentine’s Day dance, a white owl dropped a letter on the pillow of Lily’s bed with a single red rose. As she went to bed that night she noticed it lying there. She picked it up and looked at it curiously. As she filliped the card open, a smile came to her lips as she read the heartfelt words.
I know I already know the answer to this but I thought I’d ask anyway. I like you a lot Lilly, and I know you don’t feel the same way but I had to get this out. When I wake up I see your smile and when I go to sleep I hear your voice. I don’t know how it happened, but one day I wanted to see how I could annoy you, and the next, I wanted to see how I could make you notice me. Valentine’s day is going to be very lonely without you, as I can’t see myself with someone else. Okay here’s my question, but I already know what you’ll say so here it goes....Will you go to the dance with me? James
She smiled slowly , and to her surprise, found that her heart answered his question immediately. It was late, and she noticed that she was wearing a skimpy little satin nightgown, but she didn’t care, she had to tell him her answer personally.
James woke up slowly, having felt something land on his bed. As his eyes opened, he saw Lily in a revealing little nightgown and a smile on her lips. When he saw her his eyes opened wide as he started to ask why she was here when he was silenced by her finger.
“I came to give you my answer to your questions,” she smiled seductively.
He watched her wide eyed in amazement. She plopped down on his bed and stared at him with wide eyes. He hated those eyes, it was like they could look right through you. A sleeve of her gown started to fall and she quickly picked it up, blushing fiercely. James realized immediately she didn’t mean to come here in those clothes.
“Here,” he said handing her a silky cashmere blanket. “You look like you might need this.”
“Thanks,” she replied taking it rather hurriedly. “What are you doing with a cashmere blanket anyway? I always knew you had some money to throw around, but cashmere?!”
“Aww...shut it! I find it quite comfy thanks! Plus, cashmere blankets aren’t that much! Just don’t tell Sirius,” he added hurriedly. “He’d kill me.” As he looked at her again, the reason why she was here came flooding back to him. “As to why your here........”
She instantly became serious, but then loosened up. “I wanted to answer your invitation personally. I never thought you would have any interest in me when there are millions of other girls.....”she stopped at his disbelieving look. “Okay so a few hundred, you get the point. It’s just their so much prettier, and smarter, and.......” she stopped at another one of his looks again. “Okay, so most of them are pretty dumb, but I can name three girls off the top of my head who have unbelievable looks, and great grades.
“I can think of one,” he said truthfully. “You”
He heard her breath suck in and her voice quiver. “Oh James, dammit you know how to get to a girl! My answers yes...YES!! I will go to the dance with you!” With that she leaned over and kissed him pretty passionately. “Nighty Night Mr. Potter.”
With that she walked out the door leaving him gasping into silence.
Remus having walked into the room to try to see what all the noise was about asked, "What the hell happened here? And is that cashmere?! Wait till I tell Sirius.” At this James summoned his wand, and with a simple flock of his wrist, Remus was bound in his closet, with no way of speaking or hearing anything for the rest of that night.
When he awoke the next morning with a huge smile plastered to his face. It was Valentine’s day, and there was a dance, and he had a date to it. He heard a muffled bump come from the closet, and remembered Remus. He laughed as he flicked his wrist and Remus came tumbling out. “You really gotta warn me man,” he started groggily. “Took me totally by surprise.” At this, to James amusement, he fell backward and started snoring.
As the day wore on, he and Lily snuck smiles each others way at each opportunity. As Lily caught one she thought with horror, “I’m a complete hypocrite! I hated those girls who fell all over James and loved his smile.” But then when she thought about it, she wasn’t being totally hypocritical, he liked her back.
Finally, it was an hour before the dance, or as known to the girls, get ready for the dance time. Almost all the teachers had cut classes for the day, and for those who didn’t, everyone cut them anyway. Lily rushed pashed the lowly first through third years, who were too young to go to the dance. They all frowned up at her, knowing where she was going. The portrait swung open before she even got there. “Why hello Lily dear, getting ready for the dance. I do so wish I could go.”
Lily smiled at her and hurried inside. She didn’t have time to chat! She had to get ready! No guys were in the dorm room, as the girls had put a curse on it for the afternoon, so the girls could walk around as they pleased. She was greeted by her friends Molly, Victoria, and Angela. They rushed over to her and grabbed her hand and pushed her into her room. “Get ready!” They ordered as they shut the door behind them. They grabbed their dresses and immediately started changing. “Dorms are packed, thank god you have your own room!” Angela huffed. She was trying to pry herself into a baby blue dress that was about two sizes too small. “Damn pastries in the morning! Sirius won’t be happy!” “You have to make Sirius happy?! What happens if he’s not?” Lily was appalled by this. To not have pastries in the morning because your “man” might not like it.
“No, not like that. Sirius can actually be a gentleman. He would never say something like that. I can just tell when he’s really happy. I just know that he happens to like skinny women. Is it me or am I getting fatter every day?! I just bought this dress two weeks ago!
“You’re just making things up Ang! God your as skiny as a toothpick! You make every girl in this school except Lil over here look like pigs!” Molly fumbled over her make-up and jewelry, making a point to prove to everyone how big she thought she was. “Ohh Molly! You are skinny! Look at you! Absolutely no skin on those legs!” Lily had to say something, as she was starting to get annoyed. This was how the conversation went for the rest of the hour until it was time for the dance. They all paraded down the stairs with the rest of the girls.
James met her at the portraint entrance, looking dapper in a velvet green dress robes.
"I'm suprised it isn't cashmere."
James ignored her last comment as he took in the sight of her. "You look gorgeous. It makes me want to skip the dance and spend the night snogging you."
Lily laughed, she never did like dances. She leaned in for a kiss and whispered, "That could be a possibility."
Author: babyhalo19
Pairing: James/Lily
Mod's Note: apologies to babyhalo19 for not posting this with the rest of the stories; see [ here] for more information.
Possibility
James Potter, if she heard that name one more time in the Gryffindor common room, she swear she’d scream. Always the handsome James, the smart James, the prankster James, the James with all the friends, the James that was the best seeker ever, the James that everyone wants to be! Girls would literally fall at his feet in the hallways and say things like,
“James, you are the sexiest wizard I have ever seen! Would you like to have a little “visit” in my dormitory tonight?”
The thing that angered her even more was that he always said no, that he never let his popularity go to his head, and that she knew he would never do that with a girl he didn’t love. It would be soooo much more easier to hate him if he took women for granted, and walked around like he owned the place.
And it wasn’t that she just saw him and said she would hate him, it was that her so called friends have come up with the idea that her and Mr. Potter would make a cute item. She knew she wasn’t more that a person behind him grade wise, and that she would never be grouped with the “freaks” or “unglies“, its just he was TOOO perfect! While her head told her that this was no reason to hate a person, she put that thought in the back of her head.
Lily flipped her long chestnut red hair over her shoulder and bit her quill very hard when James came in. Of all the people she wanted to see at the moment. She feigned busyness, which wasn’t exactly lying, sixth years ALWAYS had homework. James ignored the fact that her head was buried in a book and walked over.
“Hey Tiger.” He said, his brown eyes lighting up from behind his spectacles.
“Tiger? Let me guess...Tiger Lilly ....oh haha......I get that.” She got very annoyed at this comment, thinking he meant it to show how funny her name could be.
“I didn’t mean it in a mean way Lilly, I think it’s cute. I really like your name.” His eyes took a hurt look but then, in a second, it changed to mischief. “Besides, if I wanted to, I would have called you flower, get it, Lilly flower?” He laughed hard, realizing how dumb, but aggravating his joke had been to Lilly.
“You can never quit while your ahead can you?” And with that she whispered “Dominsa Telorpha.” With that his eyes started rolling around his head and he started signing, “Rubber ducky, your the one, you make bath time so much fun!” With that she cast another simple spell so that it could be heard all over the school. Immediately their was roars of laughter as people started yelling, “So that’s what potter sounds like signing!”
Unfortunately it made the girls like him even more with comments like, “Ohh....he has the sexiest voice!” or “That voice lets you know just how manly he is!” Lily could never have a conversation about why she didn’t like him with her friends, they practically swooned at his or Sirius’s or Remus’s name. The only one’s she could talk to about this were guys, they didn’t like the trio that much either since no girls looked at them very often when the “famous three” were around. “Look at them all mighty and popular, what do they have that we don’t have?” That was the common question with the other boys of the school. Lily could never come up with the answer.
James suddenly snapped out of it, and when his eyes fell of Lily, the only thing she read on them was payback. “Well that was fun,” he said with a laugh. “Just watch your back Ms. Evans, you never know what could be right around you.” With that he walked off, smiling pleasantly, inwardly she groaned, what was he gonna do?
She decided to relax with a warm bath, that always helped. She walked quickly out of the portrait hole of the fat lady and went to the prefects bathroom. There were only seven other prefects besides her. There was herself, Bell, Chang ,Finnighan, Spinnet, Weasley, Diggory and of course, what would the world do without Potter?
As she told the password to the knight,(God, she hated this guy, always trying to get you to duel!) she climbed through the tapestry and to her great relief, found the pool empty. She decided to be risky, and climbed into the pool stark naked. Laps back and forth helped her ease her tightened muscles, and she decided to turn on the bubbles. After a few hours, she realized that it must be well after midnight. For once, she didn’t care, and instead poured in a brand new bubble brand which smelled really good. Once she was satisfied with the bubbles, she just laid back and hummed to herself. What she didn’t notice was that green bubbles started forming all around her. She looked downward, and noticed that her whole body was turning green. A black mist appeared in the water, and immediately little words appeared. She looked at it and then shouted “Dammit James!” She looked again, but the note that said TO MATCH YOUR EYES had vanished. She got out of the pool and got a towel around her green self. She was about to collect her things when she heard a voice, and looked up, she was staring into James eyes.
“Why hello Lily, enjoying your bath this evening?”
“ENJOYING MY BATH?! I was until I realized that I was green!” She said this while pointing to her body, which was without a doubt, very green.
“Ohh...now Lily, there’s no need for the attitude, it is a very nice shade of green, really brings out your eyes.” He said smirking, obviously very pleased with himself.
She couldn’t take it anymore, she lunged at him trying to nock him over, but he just merely put out her arms, and in a second she was in her arms. He laughed at how easily she could be caught, and then looked her directly in the eyes. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, especially with the conditions of your ....ahem....clothes,” he said fingering a piece of the towel by her shoulder.
Lily looked down, and for the first time since he arrived, noticed that she was only wearing a towel! “Shit,” she muttered under her breath. How was she supposed to kill him if she was wearing something that had to be held up?? James looked at her with a quizzical expression, then he realized what she was thinking. Lily was expecting some dumb statement, but instead he said, “ I’ll leave so you can get changed , I gotta study anyway, see ya around Lil.”
She normally would have commented on the Lil thing, but was too shocked by him being nice. She muttered a “thanks” as he left the room. She quickly changed into her clothes, but was in such a rush that she didn’t notice the giant KICK ME sign on the back. As she checked her watch and noticed that it was already six o’clock! “What a great way to start the day,” she said aloud as she hurried to grab her books from the dormitory, “I’m already late for breakfast!“
As she walked by groups of people, she noticed everyone burst out laughing. She kept on walking until she had to see what was so funny. She looked around expecting to see some dumb kid, but her eyes caught something flashing on her back. “Kick me..?” she read aloud, it not hitting her, then all at once, “POTTER!” Her rage was serious now, she was gonna do something drastic! She ran to the owleries to get it ready, ohh this was gonna be good!
As the houses were finishing their breakfast, it was time for the owls. James saw one come towards him, and thinking that it was his daily issue of the Daily Prophet stood up to catch it. When he caught it he realized that it wasn’t the paper at all, but a red envelope. Sirius saw it and laughed, “Another piece of fan mail, why you haven’t gotten one since ...wait...lets count....YESTERDAY! Why that must be a new record” “Umm.. Sirius, I don’t think its a normal letter.” He gulped as he turned it over hoping that it wasn’t what he thought it was. As he read the letters he paled, for written in dead black lettering were the words HOWLER. As he was opening it he clearly heard Sirius say, “Ohh shit, what did you do this time?” He was about to reply when, the howler taking on a mind of its own, burst into flame, and immediately started screaming so loud that the whole castle could well hear:
How dare you?!? You rotten pig! I swear I will get you for this! Or actually , I might have already. Don’t give me that dumb look! You’ll see what I mean in a second! Boys...always so impatient! Okay here it goes...girls, are you all listening? Today at 12:00 after potions, Mr. Potter over here is holding a contest out by the womping willow. The girl who can kiss him the best, will have the lucky opportunity of escorting him to the next Hogesmade trip! Isn’t that great?!? Better pucker up James!
Once the letter stopped, girls literally screamed with excitement. Lily saw James look over at her, she beamed at him, and then, just to piss him off more, blew a kiss. She saw his face turn the color of her hair, as he buried it in his hands. He was about to walk to his room, when Sirius came up behind him and said excitedly, "James, buddy old pal, Remus and I were wondering if we could get dibs on second and third.....” he said, his voice trailing off into a big grin. “Fuck off Sirius,” he muttered, trying very hard to get out of the room before he started screaming. Remus coming up behind him, clearly not getting what he meant, shouted as James walked out,” Well how many girls are you gonna keep for yourself? Were your best buds here!” “Remus,” Sirius stated calmly, “I don’t think he meant it like that.” “Oh...” he said dumbly trying to find a way to answer, “I knew that!” “Of course you did Remus.”
After Lily was done with potions, she went to her room to see exactly how this “kissing” game went. She wasn’t surprised to see over 200 girls there, what she was surprised to see was that James wasn’t there, but instead Sirius and Remus trying to get the girls to kiss them instead. She leaned farther out her window trying to see where he was. She almost fell off the window sill, but a hand pulled her back just in time. She spun around, wondering who it could be, and was surprised when she was looking into those clear brown eyes yet again.
“James, why aren’t you out there kissing all of your loyal subjects?” She was trying to be at least a little bit nicer since the howler, she had only a little while later realized just how even she got.
“Don’t you get it Lily?” He said this all while searching into her eyes as if trying to find something. After what seemed like hours, he said something that made her go numb.
“The only person I ever want to kiss is you.”
She sat there in shock looking into his eyes. She didn’t know what to say, it was all too quick. Before she could even start to think straight, he leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips. When their lips parted, he looked at her with a smile and said, “ I think I should go and cancel the contest.”
“Why?” She asked, still in obvious shock of what just happened. “Because I found my first place,” he replied and kissed her again.
After a few moments, she could finally think and decided to ask him the big question on her mind. “Why did you always pull the pranks and get mad and........” He silenced her by putting a finger to her lips. “Because I thought you hated me, which I think you still do, and because you look really hot when your mad at me.” She swatted him on the arm, and tried to express her feelings in words.
She opened her mouth just as the door to the Gryffindor common room opened and Sirius yelled out, “James are you up there?” “Sorry,” James whispered looking upset at the intrusion, "I gotta go.” As he walked out Lily peeked out through the door to see what was so important. “Did I score or what?!?” he said pointing to several hickeys the size of golf balls on his neck. “And look at what else?!” He tore open his shirt to show about 50 girls numbers. “Remus only got 43! He’s pretty mad about that ! Ha, it just proves that I’m more of a hunk than him!
At this comment Lily tried hard to stifle a laugh, but it unfortunately didn’t work. Sirius looked up at the girls dormitories, and smiled a sly smile. “Which reminds me, what ARE you doing here?? Girls are really starting to get ticked out there that you didn’t show. Saying how they spent hours getting ready! There’s got to be a reason, and if I know my best friend, which I do, (James rolled his eyes at this) I’m betting there’s a lucky little lady in there.” He finished his speech very impressed with how quickly he figured it out, his finger still pointed to the girls dormitories.
“What?” James replied dumbfounded, as he couldn’t quite come up with a response. While he said that Sirius noticed something. “Come closer” he said grabbing James by his robes. “What the hel-” He was cut off by Sirius smirking as he looked at something a dark pink on his finger. “You had lipstick on your lips James, and unless you have a shocking little secret about what you do in your spare time, I think you my friend, have just had a very good mid-morning snack!”
“No, GOD, I just realized why guys are always given the reputation of being perverted!”
“Ohh my boy....she turned you down didn’t she? I never thought I’d see the day! James Potter was turned down by a girl! It could be headlines! No one will ever believe it!”
“Sirius, I know I already said this to you today, but you’ve gotten into the habit of me having to repeat things for you so I’ll say it clearly as to not confuse you! FUCK OFF!! And yes, just to satisfy your curiosity, she hates me, and I doubt that she’ll ever change her mind about that! Now can you please leave me alone, I need to study!”
“Study?! Wow, you must have really liked her to now be stu-” “SIRIUS!!!” “Right right, fuck off, I’m already ahead of you on this one! I’ll see you around then! Cheerio mate!”
Lily sighed as she fell onto her bed. She never said she hated him or even not like him. She just wasn’t sure, but as she thought back to her shocked face, she could see why James took it that way. Her head was swarming, he was a damn good kisser, and he could be very sweet. Then again he could be very deceptive and sly. “But wasn’t he doing that because he liked me?” she asked to the air. When no reply came she sank into her bed and cried. There was no fear of anyone intruding since all prefects had their own rooms.
Valentines day was coming up she realized as she sat up after a few hours. Her eyes were puffy and her face all red. Their would of course be a dance and a banquet, and tons of girls in love. Sirius and Remus would no doubt be seeing who could have the most dates at a time without any of them realizing, probably with some dumb thing for the looser to do. She would probably be sipping a butter beer from the sidelines, turning down guys with a frown on her face. James would probably be swarmed with girls all around him making eyes and flirting. The teachers would all no-doubt be too drunk to realize that about half of the couples would be retreating to their dorms early for a little valentines day “treat.”
The days went by in a blur as Lily and James carefully avoided each other. A day before the Valentine’s Day dance, a white owl dropped a letter on the pillow of Lily’s bed with a single red rose. As she went to bed that night she noticed it lying there. She picked it up and looked at it curiously. As she filliped the card open, a smile came to her lips as she read the heartfelt words.
I know I already know the answer to this but I thought I’d ask anyway. I like you a lot Lilly, and I know you don’t feel the same way but I had to get this out. When I wake up I see your smile and when I go to sleep I hear your voice. I don’t know how it happened, but one day I wanted to see how I could annoy you, and the next, I wanted to see how I could make you notice me. Valentine’s day is going to be very lonely without you, as I can’t see myself with someone else. Okay here’s my question, but I already know what you’ll say so here it goes....Will you go to the dance with me? James
She smiled slowly , and to her surprise, found that her heart answered his question immediately. It was late, and she noticed that she was wearing a skimpy little satin nightgown, but she didn’t care, she had to tell him her answer personally.
James woke up slowly, having felt something land on his bed. As his eyes opened, he saw Lily in a revealing little nightgown and a smile on her lips. When he saw her his eyes opened wide as he started to ask why she was here when he was silenced by her finger.
“I came to give you my answer to your questions,” she smiled seductively.
He watched her wide eyed in amazement. She plopped down on his bed and stared at him with wide eyes. He hated those eyes, it was like they could look right through you. A sleeve of her gown started to fall and she quickly picked it up, blushing fiercely. James realized immediately she didn’t mean to come here in those clothes.
“Here,” he said handing her a silky cashmere blanket. “You look like you might need this.”
“Thanks,” she replied taking it rather hurriedly. “What are you doing with a cashmere blanket anyway? I always knew you had some money to throw around, but cashmere?!”
“Aww...shut it! I find it quite comfy thanks! Plus, cashmere blankets aren’t that much! Just don’t tell Sirius,” he added hurriedly. “He’d kill me.” As he looked at her again, the reason why she was here came flooding back to him. “As to why your here........”
She instantly became serious, but then loosened up. “I wanted to answer your invitation personally. I never thought you would have any interest in me when there are millions of other girls.....”she stopped at his disbelieving look. “Okay so a few hundred, you get the point. It’s just their so much prettier, and smarter, and.......” she stopped at another one of his looks again. “Okay, so most of them are pretty dumb, but I can name three girls off the top of my head who have unbelievable looks, and great grades.
“I can think of one,” he said truthfully. “You”
He heard her breath suck in and her voice quiver. “Oh James, dammit you know how to get to a girl! My answers yes...YES!! I will go to the dance with you!” With that she leaned over and kissed him pretty passionately. “Nighty Night Mr. Potter.”
With that she walked out the door leaving him gasping into silence.
Remus having walked into the room to try to see what all the noise was about asked, "What the hell happened here? And is that cashmere?! Wait till I tell Sirius.” At this James summoned his wand, and with a simple flock of his wrist, Remus was bound in his closet, with no way of speaking or hearing anything for the rest of that night.
When he awoke the next morning with a huge smile plastered to his face. It was Valentine’s day, and there was a dance, and he had a date to it. He heard a muffled bump come from the closet, and remembered Remus. He laughed as he flicked his wrist and Remus came tumbling out. “You really gotta warn me man,” he started groggily. “Took me totally by surprise.” At this, to James amusement, he fell backward and started snoring.
As the day wore on, he and Lily snuck smiles each others way at each opportunity. As Lily caught one she thought with horror, “I’m a complete hypocrite! I hated those girls who fell all over James and loved his smile.” But then when she thought about it, she wasn’t being totally hypocritical, he liked her back.
Finally, it was an hour before the dance, or as known to the girls, get ready for the dance time. Almost all the teachers had cut classes for the day, and for those who didn’t, everyone cut them anyway. Lily rushed pashed the lowly first through third years, who were too young to go to the dance. They all frowned up at her, knowing where she was going. The portrait swung open before she even got there. “Why hello Lily dear, getting ready for the dance. I do so wish I could go.”
Lily smiled at her and hurried inside. She didn’t have time to chat! She had to get ready! No guys were in the dorm room, as the girls had put a curse on it for the afternoon, so the girls could walk around as they pleased. She was greeted by her friends Molly, Victoria, and Angela. They rushed over to her and grabbed her hand and pushed her into her room. “Get ready!” They ordered as they shut the door behind them. They grabbed their dresses and immediately started changing. “Dorms are packed, thank god you have your own room!” Angela huffed. She was trying to pry herself into a baby blue dress that was about two sizes too small. “Damn pastries in the morning! Sirius won’t be happy!” “You have to make Sirius happy?! What happens if he’s not?” Lily was appalled by this. To not have pastries in the morning because your “man” might not like it.
“No, not like that. Sirius can actually be a gentleman. He would never say something like that. I can just tell when he’s really happy. I just know that he happens to like skinny women. Is it me or am I getting fatter every day?! I just bought this dress two weeks ago!
“You’re just making things up Ang! God your as skiny as a toothpick! You make every girl in this school except Lil over here look like pigs!” Molly fumbled over her make-up and jewelry, making a point to prove to everyone how big she thought she was. “Ohh Molly! You are skinny! Look at you! Absolutely no skin on those legs!” Lily had to say something, as she was starting to get annoyed. This was how the conversation went for the rest of the hour until it was time for the dance. They all paraded down the stairs with the rest of the girls.
James met her at the portraint entrance, looking dapper in a velvet green dress robes.
"I'm suprised it isn't cashmere."
James ignored her last comment as he took in the sight of her. "You look gorgeous. It makes me want to skip the dance and spend the night snogging you."
Lily laughed, she never did like dances. She leaned in for a kiss and whispered, "That could be a possibility."