A/N- I own nothing you recognise, therefore, I own basically nothing. Cheers to all my readers and reviewers, especially x_clare_x, former author of High School, Boys, and Tubs of Chocolate Ice Cream, who this chapter is dedicated to. Love you Clare, you rock!! This is also going to be a fairly quickly writen story (I want to have it done by Christmas), so although I know any mistakes in grammer, punctuation, or spelling are inexcuseable, please forgive any. That said, read on! The best is yet to come!
"Hello, Lilykinns," a tall boy with untidy black hair and glasses greeted her. Lily was sprawled on a cozy green sofa in the Gryffindor common room, accompanied by her friends Lila McIntosh, who was sitting on the thick carpet and leaning against the couch, and Robbin Port, seated at the armchair near the fire. James perched on the arm of the sofa, and tucked a stray piece of bright red hair behind Lily's left ear, asking interestedly, "what are you listening to?" referring to the soft chorus coming from the radio on the floor.
Lily sighed and reluctantly told him it was the Twelve Days of Christmas, a popular muggle carol, being sung by Mitch Miller. James appeared fascinated by the muggle music, and listened silently and intently until the song was over. When the last note had died down and 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland' began, James still hadn't broken the silence. It was Lily who broke it, saying, "I think that is without doubt the longest you have ever been quiet."
"hmmm…" said James, he seemed to be preoccupied, perhaps with the effort of thinking. Then he stunned them all by getting up from the sofa and walking up to his dormitory. No-one said anything for a moment; the girls were too deep in shock that they had just witnessed James Potter doing two uncharacteristic things: a) coming into contact with Lily without asking her out, and b) sitting silently throughout a perfectly open conversation time.
"Do you think he's ill?" asked Lila hesitantly.
"Do you think maybe he's gotten over you?" wondered Robbin.
There was another long moment of silence, as Jingle Bells played in the background.
"You know," pondered Lila, "When he isn't being his usual self, he isn't too bad."
"Hmmm…" said Lily. She seemed to be lost in thought.
"I think," said Robbin, "James is a changed man."
Lila giggled, "It was only five minutes! Besides, how do you know he doesn't just have an alter-ego twin?" Robbin and Lila collapsed in laughter, but Lily seemed not to have heard a word of what they were saying. Shooting an annoyed look at the other two, she got up and headed to the dormitory.
A/N- okay, it's a short chapter I know, and I promise the next one will be longer, and will probably be up later tonight. Thanks for reading! If you are of the opinion that this story was worth reading, please take the time to review. I can promice you that it took me a lot longer to write this than it would take you to review this, and therefor it is downright rude to not review a story that someone took the time to provide to you for your pleasure and entertainment. So, that said, if I see any more hits than reviews, I will know that it is truely a cold world out there. So review if you have a heart!