A/N: This is for the "I Never on 500 Words" Challenge. Hope you like it.
Everything below is 500 words, I think DocManager mucked it up :P
My Pairing was Lily/James, Prompt: Quill.
Lily Evan's barely ever left her homework to the last minute. She was smart, top of the class occasionally. But somehow she had managed to leave the essay on giant wars that Professor Binn's had assigned them to the last minute. She was sure if she worked through her lunch hour she would be able to finish it on time. Skidding into the library, her eyes whizzed across the room. Spotting an empty desk she sat down. Violently she reached into her bag and pulled out a blank piece of parchment and her notes. Laying out the parchment she realized what she had forgotten. A quill.
Cursing under her breath, she started searching through her bag. She couldn't believe she had been so stupid. Groaning she turned her bag upside down, so the contents spilled onto the floor. Books tumbled to the floor but no quill. She must have left it in her last class, Herbology, but it would take her ages to run down to the Greenhouses.
She swore and started throwing the books on the floor back into her bag.
"Language Evans," a voice said behind her. She didn't need to look to see who it was.
"Did you follow me here?" she asked him icily. James Potter who had been slumped against a bookshelf stood up straight.
"Is it so impossible for me to go to the library in my lunch hour?" he asked her acting hurt.
"Yes," she snarled. She had finished repacking her bag. Spinning around she was ready to leave, but James blocked her path.
"You shouldn't leave so hastily," He told her. "Because look what I've got." He held up a quill between his thumb and forefinger. She made a lunge for the quill, but he held it out of her reach.
"I'll give it to you but there is one condition." Lily knew that the condition wouldn't be to her liking before he said it.
"Go on a date with me." Lily glared at him. He had been pestering her to go out with him for years now. But she had been refusing for just as long. But she really needed the quill. It would take her at least twenty minutes to run down to the greenhouses and back. By which time she could have been halfway through her homework. And Potter wasn't really that bad. Yes, he could be arrogant and extremely big headed. Though on the odd occasion he could be sweet and kind. But he was still the same person who hexed people for no apparent reason. Yet he had never hexed her. And in his own way, he was kind of cute.
"Fine then," she snapped. She had made up her mind. James looked too shocked to speak. "Just give me the quill." She pulled it from his hand, and then went back to her table. When his back was turned, James made a triumphant gesture. As Madam Pince shooed him from the library, Lily smiled to herself.