"What? What the heck do you want?" James asked, looking up from his Potions homework.
"Well, if you're going to take that tone with me, forget it," Sirius 'sobbed'.
James carried on with his homework, although he hated homework; he only did it to please Lily. After ten more minutes, Sirius started again
"James. Prongsy. James. James. James. James," Sirius pestered.
"What, my most beautiful and loyal friend ever-and may I add most handsome?" James replied sarcastically, whilst the others tried to hold in their laughter.
"Well, if you're going to take the gay approach to it, you can forget it again," Sirius said, pretending to be taken aback.
That did it. Remus fell off his chair laughing. Peter just looked clueless-like normal, except this time he had his head in a book. Lily had persuaded the Marauders to study for their N.E.W.Ts that were to take place in a few months. As you might imagine, this was hard work on Lily's part. James wanted to play pranks, Sirius wanted to chase girls, Peter wanted to eat, and Remus-well, actually Remus didn't mind studying one bit.
It was a warm day and the Gryffindor common room was packed, mainly with third years and some seventh years. The third years' O.W.Ls were coming up, along with their job-option interviews with their Heads of Houses. Lily, who was fed up with the Marauders' whining, had retreated to the Heads' dorm to continue her studying. James and Lily had been appointed Head Girl and Boy. James had never served as a Prefect, however, so his appointment as a Head came as a shock to everyone-everyone except Lily, who was traumatised by the fact she had to spend the entire year with the guy who had chased her for six years-SIX BLOOMING YEARS-and nagged her to go out with him. So far she had resisted his pleas, but what would happen if she had to share a dorm with him?
Back in the Gryffindor common room, James had given up studying and was saying goodbye to his friends.
"Okay, I'm off to take a shower and then I'm gonna go to bed, so see you tomorrow," James shouted over his shoulder as he exited the common room. He made sure no one was looking and then swiftly pulled out his Invisibility Cloak from within his robes. He quickly threw it over himself and scurried off down the corridor. As he approached his destination, he leaned one finger out of the cloak and gently tickled the pear in a picture of fruit that hung on the wall. The picture swung open, and a sea of bat-like ears and massive round eyes swiveled in his direction. He had reached the kitchen.
"What can we be doing for you today, sir?" a small house-elf asked quietly.
"Oh, I was wondering if you had any food left over from the feast. And you don't have to call me sir. How many times have I told you?" James sighed.
"You are too kind. Yes, we have food left over from the feast. Would you like some?" the same elf asked.
"If you would be so kind," James replied.
The elves scurried off to find a container for the food and quickly packed enough to feed three hungry hippos. They passed the box to James, who accepted it gratefully. James pulled the Cloak back over him and left the kitchen. He wanted to surprise Lily, because with all the studying she'd been doing she barely had time to eat. James was getting a bit worried about her.
Quickly and carefully he made it to the Heads' dorm and clambered in. Unfortunately for him, he tripped over the Cloak and came crashing down atop the box of food. Lily screamed and ran over to the body that lay awkwardly on the floor.
"Oh. It's just you," she scowled. "Well, what are you waiting for? Get up."
"Here, take this," James gasped as he pulled the box out from under him.
"Er, what is it, Potter?" Lily asked suspiciously, hoping this wasn't another of his ways to ask her out. There had been so many ways; he'd even bewitched her sunglasses once to read 'You will marry James Potter one day' on them whenever she wore them.
"It's food. I noticed you haven't been eating a lot these past few weeks, and, well, I was worried about you." James blushed
"Oh, well, cheers, James," Lily stammered.
James stood up and smirked. He wasn't sure if Lily had noticed that she had used his first name. He brushed himself down and sat down next to her. He looked at the girl's red hair and smiled. He was in love...STILL!
"Lily, will you go-" James began.
"No, I won't go out with you. Don't even ask," Lily shouted angrily.
"I wasn't going to say that," James smirked, causing Lily to blush. "What I was going to say is, 'Lily, will you go and get your shower soon so we can go on our rounds?'"
Lily looked at her shoes, wishing she had never said anything. Her face was glowing bright red, she was sure of it. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see James grinning. She knew that he'd used that as a cover-up. He had been doing that often, whether to make her feel embarrassed or to stop people thinking he had just been rejected, Lily wasn't sure.
Lily had her shower and got dressed as quickly as possible. Her round started in five minutes. She magically dried her hair and styled it into a bun, then set off to get James.
"Come on, we have to go. It's time to do our rounds," Lily hissed.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. Chill, woman," James laughed.
As they paced around corridor after corridor, it appeared no one was out of bed. Their rounds didn't end until midnight and it was just before eleven. They sat down for a bit in the Great Hall and nipped to the kitchen for a drink. When they finished their pumpkin juice, James checked the time.
"Aw, it's only half eleven," he said, disappointed. "C'mon, let's carry on patroling.".
Lily agreed. Still they found nothing. At five minutes of midnight they started back to their dorms. As they turned into a deserted corridor, James froze.
"Did you hear that? Just then?" he breathed.
"No, what was it?" Lily mouthed.
"It sounded like voices." James replied the same way Lily had responded.
Lily pulled her wand out and started to move forward, motioning for James to do the same. As they began to walk, the voices got a bit louder, although the people they belonged to were just whispering. The two Heads came to a broom closet, where the voice were even louder. James tip-toed over and opened the closet door.
"Twenty points from-"James stammered when he saw the red-faced occupants.
"Professor Dumbledore? Professor McGonagall?" Lily whispered, rather embarrassed. Well, wouldn't you be embarrassed if you walked in on two teachers kissing?
A/N- so what did ya think?
