It was a nice kind of Saturday, sun shining, birds chirping, nobody in the Hospital Wing. Most Gryffindors were outside, taking in the sun that rarely showed during the cold month of October. Most Gryffindors wouldn't be inside (even the ones preparing for NEWTS and OWLS were studying in the sunshine), but for some odd reason neither could explain, James Potter and Lily Evans happened to find themselves in the Common Room. Each had been primly bored and found entertainment in each other. (Oh not like that!)
"Do you have any eights?"
"No, go fish!"
"James Potter! I know for a fact that you have at least one eight because you asked not three turns ago if I had any!"
"You can't prove anything."
"I can and will!" Lily Evans lunged forward, stretching her hand out to reach James cards. The boy in question held his cards above his head, and fell backwards onto the couch with her momentum. They had been sitting with their backs on the armrests, cards in between, facing each other, but not Lily was nearly on top of James. His cards were still held out way above them; her right arm was pressed against his chest, and she reached up with her left. James had his left hand gripped the back of the couch as he tried to keep them up.
"Cheater!" He shouted, throwing his head back. Lily had taught him the muggle card game quickly, and he'd picked it up just as quickly, for he was a fast learner.
"You cheated first!" She protested, pushing his face to the side with her hand.
"Only because I didn't think you'd notice!" He admitted with a laugh.
"Aha!" Lily smacked his chest with her hands, abandoning the attempts to see his cards. She collapsed against him in a fit of giggles, not even trying to hold herself up anymore. She could feel James laughing too. His arm that held the cards dropped to her back, circling around her. Lily looked up to face him, suddenly aware of their positioning. She didn't sit up. She didn't know why she didn't, but...there she was, lying on James Potter. He moved to lightly stroke her face with the back of his fingers; Lily leaned into the touch, just a tad. (Okay, more than a tad, but she would never willingly admit that.) They just stared at each other.
He tried not to feel her body against his.
She tried to ignore the little flutter in her chest when he looked at her with those eyes.
"In the Common Room, mate?" The sound of Sirius Black's voice cut through the fog that had set in James' and Lily's heads. They jumped apart. Lily adjusted her shirt, collecting the cards together again. James fixed his hair-meaning he ran his hands through it and made it messier.
"Sod off, Padfoot." James muttered, waiting for his heart to start beating like normal
"You have a perfectly useable Head Dorm, yet you chose the Common Room?"
"We weren't doing anything." Lily protested, blushing furiously.
"The lady doth protest too much." Sirius smirked.
"Don't quote Shakespeare at me." She rolled her eyes.
"Just choose a room with a closable door next time, Evans." He laughed.
"We weren't doing anything!" Lily and James said together, but that only made Sirius laugh harder. He walked out of the Common Room, laughing all the way.
Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters, places, or whatever. Anything I own is a few OCs that may crop up anywhere throughout these.