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Disclaimer: Roses are red

Violets are blue

I don't own Harry Potter

And neither do you...

I am soo lazy...but I should write a summary, right??

Summary: Lily was chosen to compete for a Miss UK pageant against ninety-nine other women and all's going well...at least until she involuntarily decides to fall for the gorgeous host of the Miss UK pageant...James Potter.

So here goes...

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"WHAT??"

"Yeah! I mean, how cool is that?" But Lily wasn't listening anymore. She was staring at the letter Rinnie brought in.

"I mean, now you can be on TV, show off those killer legs, get rich...and actually meet the James Potter!! I mean, he's like, soooo gorgeous...those dreamy eyes, strong—"

Lily still stared in shock at the letter. It read:

Dear Ms. Lillian Evans,

You have been chosen to compete in the pageant for the title of Miss Europe. You and twenty others are competing for England while the other eighty are from other countries such as France, Germany, Portugal ect...you will be Miss London, from, of course London. We await your response by mail. If you do not respond, you will be automatically entered for the pageant. The pageant will be held from December 20 through January 16. We hope to see you at 7:30 P.M. on December 10 to prepare for the pageant.

Congratulations again,

Melinda Hefford

Melinda Hefford
Miss UK Pageant Corresponder

She?? Lily...in the Miss Europe pageant...man, these people are done in the brain, seriously! But this was so awesome! The only reason Lily actually entered her name in the first place was to get a scholarship, but she didn't actually think it would come true...whoa!

"Lily, Lily!! Are you listening to me? We've got to go shop, I mean, you need to be in good dresses and God knows you don't have any good ones—"

Lily rolled her eyes at the prospect of shopping. She hated it. She just didn't understand how people could just kill hours going through sale racks when they could be outside hiking or something.

"No," Lily shook her head firmly.

"But—if you show up in rags and the other girls look gorgeous...then, then—"

"No," Lily sighed. "Rinnie, you know how much I hate shopping—I just can't stand it. Besides, they don't care. It says I'll be fixed up on the tenth anyways so why bother spending so many galleons on this crap—"

Rinnie shook her head as Lily ranted on about shoppers and how much time and money they spend just doing nothing productive. She didn't share that view of course...shopping was heaven to her, but Lily? She's just another story.

Rinnie had been friends with Lily since she was eleven; they first met on the Hogwarts Express, and had been best friends since, which was surprisingly hard as she herself had been in Ravenclaw while Lily was stuck in Gryffindor. The flat they shared was expensive, even when they split half, but they could afford it...just barely. Lily had recently quit her job in designing because some guy had "felt her up" and she hadn't gotten a new one yet. Rinnie had been trying to reason with her because she alone couldn't support them and that designing job had had high pay and all....

But now, here was the answer to both of their prayers...a scholarship pageant, no pervs, and even if Lily didn't win, she would have plenty of modeling job opportunities.

Well, we'll see

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"BYE LILY!! YOU BETTER OWL ME OR SOMETHING!!"

Lily waved out the window of the limo at Rinnie and yelled back, "DON'T WORRY I WILL!! I'LL EVEN SEND YOU A SOUVENIR OR SOMETHING!!"

Lily sighed back in her seat at the driver told her that it would be quite a long time until they got to the stadium where the Miss Europe pageant would be held.

The past few months were hectic. Rinnie was always muttering around and dragging Lily to any forsaken store and made her try on hundreds of dresses. Her dent in the bank was worse than it had ever been in her entire life!

But she was kind of happy to go...it was exciting and adventurous, just what Lily had been missing these past years. In fact, the last adventure she had had was when she climbed up a tree and fell down from it...that had left a small scar at the base of her ear...a tiny scar...it wasn't that bad!!

Lily subconsciously reached to her ear and took out her compact mirror, examining the scar. When she fell from the tree, her ear hit a branch and she had broken her left leg and arm. The other scars had long since disappeared but this one was to be her companion for life, a reminder her mom had said. And a reminder it was, Lily smiled.

Her life at Hogwarts was not much more exciting; sure there was werewolves, magical staircases, mummies, and banshees, but there was missing something...something that this pageant could fill.

Her heart inexplicably jumped in her throat as she bit back a cry of sheer exhilaration. Until this morning, Lily was calm through the entire process. Today morning, a limo (with a chauffeur of course) showed up at her flat door and led her downstairs to where a limo was waiting. She would've preferred a Porsche but...

Lily looked out through the dark, tinted windows. Her eyes were traveling along the road they passed, as if searching for a sign of relenting. The limo did go a long way, a way where she stretched and ate, and slept...it had been hours already! When were they going to get there??!! At one time, Lily almost rapped on the screen to talk to the chauffeur, but decided against that as they passed the umpteenth stoplight. She didn't want to seem too rude.

She yawned and stretched out her arms, falling back against the seat for the millionth time. Lily stared out at the now pink, red horizon and remembered when she and her mother (not her sister) had just gone out, just the two of them, and watched the sunset together. It was a tradition for them that broke when she decided to go to Hogwarts...

"Miss, miss, wake up! We're here!"

Lily blinked open her eyes and looked up into the face of her chauffeur. She was confused and when she realized where she was, she blushed beet red and laughed. "Sorry, must've fallen asleep."

The chauffeur nodded understandingly. "Yes, miss, it was a long ride. But now we're at Brinkard Star Stadium."

Lily stepped out of the limo and looked around at her surroundings. It was exactly seven o'clock...that meant she had slept for about two hours. The first thing she noticed was that it was huge! The stadium could have fit more than one hundred similar flats inside it and still have room for more!

Lily slightly stumbled on her way to the entrance and out of the corners of her eyes, she saw other identical limos pull up behind the limo she came in, though none of the chauffeurs had to wake up their charges...Lily shook her head to clear it and saw that there was a line full of drop dead gorgeous women in front of her, all waiting to get in. They were all dressed fancily and here she was, with a t-shirt and some jeans....stylish jeans mind you, but still she felt a tad undressed.

How am I going to compete with all that breast and body, man! Some of these women need to lose some breast weight...Lily thought. And she looked closely at the other contestants. Most of them did something to enlargen their boobs, she noticed dully.

She moved her gaze to the entrance. It was absolutely gorgeous and she couldn't wait to see the rest of the stadium. It was intricately carved with vines around it and beautiful glass (or crystal? She couldn't tell) doors with a man standing next to them, shaking each of the girls' hands and smiling. Faking, she noted, surprised. That's weird, a lot of men would die to have that position and he's faking??

Lily looked behind her and now there gathered a group of women looking anxious and fixing their make-up. Prisses...she thought spitefully. No! Bad Lily! Think nice thoughts, think nice thoughts, think nice thoughts...

Lily moved up the line with the other people. When she was almost there, she shockingly noticed that the guy shaking their hands was James Potter, the famous host of Miss Europe. So this was the guy Rinnie was raving about, Lily eyed him. He didn't look that hot...okay cute...but not hot....definitely not hot....no, okay maybe a little...okay a lot....Lily now knew what made Rinnie so smitten with him but she wasn't attracted to him like that—she barely knew the guy! Lily walked forward and reached out to grasp his hand...and she ended up shaking hands with the floor.

That was the only way to describe it. One minute she was reaching to shake his hand, the next, she heard giggle from the women who were behind her. Some hands reached to help her, but she shook them off and stood up herself, cheeks flaming, but back straight.

"Are you okay?" Lily looked up startled, at the voice. It was James Potter and she was not amused to see that he looked like he would collapse from laughter at that second. People make mistakes, okay??

Lily looked at him coldly. So she wasn't graceful, fine. "I'm fine, thank you," she replied a bit stiffly, but didn't shake his hand. James looked at her weirdly, but met her cold gaze unwaveringly.

"Well, that's good then," he said.

"Oh really?" Lily walked passed him, getting stares (and glares) from her competitors. She was not in a good mood.

What the hell is up with them? Don't they have something else better to do than to stare at me?? Lily yelled in her head. This is soooo not my day.

The bellboy lead he to her room, which was inside the stadium, Room 13, all the while glancing and sometimes shamefully staring at her legs. Lily was getting annoyed.

True, she did have a nice body that other women were envious of. A nice body, long legs, skinny, but not too skinny, waist, but all the other contestants were like that too. She had beautiful blood red hair and large emerald green eyes that was surrounded by thick lashes and her teeth, perfect pearly white...(Author Comment: What I wouldn't give for perfect teeth... without the forceful use of braces of course, wimp! I am so afraid of pain...besides, my teeth aren't actually that bad...)

"Okay, I can get to my room myself now. Thank you," Lily said to the bellboy.

"Uh—Are you sure you wouldn't like me too--?"

"No, no, that's perfectly fine. I mean, I'll be fine," Lily smiled and stepped out of the elevator.

"Okay then miss. My name is Charles if you need anything..." Charles said with a wink and a last glance at her legs, which were in tight jeans, but you couldn't really see that much...perv!!

Lily gave a fake smile and hurried down the corridor, almost crying with relief. Damn! That guy was a leech...gross, gross, gross, gross. Lily kept chanting in her head about how much she needed a bath the minute she got to her room...Now where was it?

Hmm...room 9, room 10, room 11...

She looked at all the signs and rounded the corner.

BAM!!

Lily fell over this guy and landed on top of him.

"Ouch ouch damn! Oh I'm sorry!" Lily cried frantically, helping him up. "I really didn't mean it, it was just this fuc—funny day and everything—AHHHH!! IT'S YOU!!"

James cocked his eyebrow. "Yes it's me, got a problem with that?"

"For the host, you are quite rude..." Lily glared.

"Oh that's right, where are my manners? I am terribly sorry my dear woman," James grinned.

"You should be," Lily said huffily.

"And I am," James grinned. "Do you mind helping me to get off the floor?" He had fell when Lily let go of his hand. Lily just sighed. "Pretty please?"

Lily was a sucker for puppy faces, that's how Rita usually made her get to those stupid fancy restaurants (she liked fast food much better) and those gay Oriental Carpets, although the designs were really something. "Oh..." she stamped her foot, unhappily. "Okay---stop that!" James blinked innocently.

"Doing what?"

"That thing you're doing," Lily shut her eyes. "I'm not looking at you."

"Such a shame. Most women would die for a chance to look at yours truly..."

'Arrogant egotistical jerkhead,' she thought savagely.

"After all, not many women are lucky enough—"

'This is soooo bloody annoying...' Lily glanced at her nails and blew off a little dust. 'I wonder what time it is.'

"WELL, UM...look at the time...I gotta get to my room, after all..."

"What are you talking about Miss—"

"London, Miss London," Lily replied. James glanced sideways at her.

"All-all right Miss London, it's only about a quarter to nine," James said.

"Yeah...with my face mask and everything, it's just so hard to get everything done by ten and we have to wake up early tomorrow morning, so...see ya!" Lily flew down the corridor, leaving a confused James behind.

"Face mask?" James inquired to nobody.

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I know, I know, kind of dumb with the Lily and James thing, but it will get better, trust me.

So, here's my end of the chapter survey:

Who do you think is the hottest guy (for the females):

Orlando Bloom

Johnny Depp

Daniel Radcliffe

The guy who plays Draco Malfoy

Chad Michael Murray

Ashton Cutcher (don't know how to spell his name, sorry)

If you think some other guy needs to be on this list or deleted from it, please tell me.

Who do you think is the hottest girl (for the males):

Pamela Anderson

Beyonce

Ashanti

Jennifer Aniston

Any model lying over a sports car

Reese (from Legally Blond, I can not think of her last name right now...)

I know these are not the best choices but I AM A GIRL, OKAY?? I am not good at seeing who's the hottest girl because I am perfectly straight, thank you very much.

Again, tell me if any one else needs to be added or deleted.

THANX