Summary: Lily complains to Alice about James Potter's messy black hair.

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Black Holes of Strawberry

a Siriusly Klutzy story

"It's so annoying," I mumbled as I played with my food at dinner on Wednesday night. My mashed potatoes looked more mashed than should be natural because I fidgeted with my fork too much.

Alice looked at me, then to my potatoes.

"Him again?"

I nodded with a sigh.

It was so hopeless, how pathetic I could be. And this time it wasn't even logical. Sure, the first time it was his eyes. That time was completely understood. He has nice eyes, they're brown but in the sunlight it looks like there are little flecks of gold and sometimes blue. I might have just imagined it that day, it was extremely hot outside, but they were nice while I saw them.

The second time, it was his smile. It's not common to have boys here with nice teeth, but it was like his were just perfect. And he comes from a pure blood family so it's not like he could have had braces or anything.

The third time, it was his bum that had me distracted while I should have been doing my homework. That time, however, I got caught and it was one of the most embarrassing days of my life. There's nothing like having Sirius Black point it out to the whole Common Room.

Now? Now it's his hair. It's messy, black, and long. Not extremely long, like Sirius's. It's just long enough. Perfectly long. Perfect like his perfect eyes, teeth, and bum.

Ugh.

"Lily, you really need to do something about this," Alice said. She looked at my with a sympathetic smile. "It's pathetic. You're hopeless. You're more or less in love. There's no way out. You fell for him. You fell hard and fast."

Leave it to Alice to be kind to me in my time of desperation.

"I wouldn't say I fell fast."

Alice nodded. "I guess it did take you six years."

"But look at his hair!" I sighed when I saw it.

"It's sucking you in, Lily. Again." I ignored her. "Like a black hole. Lils, you're being sucked into a black hole. Of James Potter's hair. Something just doesn't seem right about that. It is kind of odd when his hair starts controlling you."

This got my attention. I snapped up and looked at her.

"You stare off at Frank all the time."

"That's different," she said with a shrug.

"How so?"

"I'm dating Frank and you're pining for Potter."

I opened my mouth to retort but came out with nothing.

Alice smiled smugly at me. "I told you so."

I glared at her and continued to poke at my potatoes with the occasional glance up at James.

Here is a secret: I know that every time he runs his nice hands through his lovely hair, I say I find it annoying. But I really find it sexy.

Alice, of course, knew this from the start but just to humor me, she agreed with me.

It was really annoying when I finally decided to admit this to her and she just laughed and said, "I know."

You'd think I'd have at least one secret. But no. Not with Alice around. I tell that girl too much.

"You're going to go talk to him, right?" she asked me a couple minutes later.

"NO!" I said, appalled at the thought. "Of course not!"

She looked at me, startled.

"Well, why not?"

"I can't just go talk to him. I wouldn't even know how to start the conversation!"

"Of course you would. Here, I'll demonstrate. You be James and I'll be you, alright?"

I looked at her curiously for a second but nodded."

"Okay, here is me being you. Hello, James. Lovely weather we're having, isn't it? By the way, I'm absolutely in love with your hair. What kind of conditioner do you use?"

"ALICE!" I said. I covered my face with my hands, absolutely mortified.

"What? It'd be a great conversation starter!"

Oh Merlin.

"I'm not going to use that as a conversation starter! He'd think I was off my rocker!"

"He caught you staring at his bum. He already thinks you're off your rocker!"

I grumbled and looked back at my plate.

"You're not helping at all."

"Well, if you would have just followed my rules."

"Alice, there's no way I was going declare my love for his hair!"

"Maybe he'd think it was attractive that you had the nerve to go say that."

"Alice, shut up."

She shrugged and went down to her plate once more.

Though, it would be a conversation starter. I could ask him what kind of conditioner he uses and he'd tell me. Then I'd tell him what kind I used and we could have a full blown-

What am I saying? It's completely illogical.

Though I bet it smells like strawberries. He always smells like strawberries.

"You're still thinking about him aren't you?" she asked.

"Actually, I was thinking about fruit," I said as I hid my smirk.

There's no way that could relate to anything we just talked about. I mean, Alice doesn't go around smelling James, does she?

"The fruit that happens to smell like James's head?"

Of course she knew.

"That would be the one," I admitted with a grin.

She just smiled and shook her head.

I laughed and was going to continue to mash up the rest of my already mashed potatoes when a shadow cast over me. I turned around, expecting to see Marlene maybe, or even Remus.

Not James, but that was who it was.

"Hey, Lily," he said. He was holding a bowl. "I was wondering if you got the answer to number fifteen of the Charms homework?" But I wasn't paying attention to a word he was saying. I wasn't even looking at his hair. I was completely concentrated on the bowl in his hands (his nice hands, I mentioned this earlier). Because do you know what was in that bowl?

Strawberries.

He saw how fixated I was on that bowl.

Alice was trying not to laugh noticeably next to me. It wasn't working all that well.

"Uh, Lily?" I blinked back to reality and looked up at him into those nice brown, gold, and blue eyes. He grinned, showing off his nice teeth. (I'm not sure how I remained conscious at this point.) "Do you want one?" he asked. He held the bowl out to me.

I blushed. "Not exactly."

A/n: 26 down, 4 more to go. Yay! Okay, so yeah, I haven't been able to write anything recently. The computer in my room has a ton of viruses (because I'm an idiot with computers) and I've been procrastinating a lot. But in reality, there's no excuse for excuses. So I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. I hope you all don't hate me.

Anyway, reviews are encouraged! They make me happy. And they'll make me happier if I get a lot especially because I have a physics, history, and math test tomorrow and a presentation in Spanish. See, I sacrificed my studying time for you guys!

Much love and a nice boy with a bowl of strawberries just for you,

Siriusly Klutzy