p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Chapter One/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""The Beginning"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Well hello there. It is September of 2018. I'm in my sixth year at Hogwarts: School of Academic Excellence in Scotland. I decided to keep a journal because if I can't say things to their faces, I want you, beloved journal, to know. Secrets will be told along the journey as I gain your trust and vice versa. This will be a fun year if you really want it to be. Here's what happened today. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ugh, I hate English," I said to my group of friends, Donna, Marlene, and Mary. "McGonagall is always giving us reading assignments!" I shoved my book bag and my purse on the lunch seat next to me./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Well, that is the point of English, right? Aren't you supposed to understand the way that writers write?" Marlene responded, stabbing her salad with her fork while Mary chuckled./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I don't think so. Maybe she just wants to torture us?" My more reasonable friend, Donna, also known as Super-Savage-Bitch-But-I-Still-Love-Her, responded. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""And that is why you're my favorite," I replied, laughing. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Wow, love you too, Lily." Marlene rolled her eyes. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What's for lunch?" I asked. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Uck, tuna casserole," Mary responded. "As if they expect us to eat that garbage." She stuck her finger in her mouth and pretended to gag. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Hey, don't be rude," Donna commented. "I'm the mean one. We all have a reputation to keep up, right?" The three girls turned their heads to her. "So, Lily is The One, the Perfect-Girl, the one the boys always want but they can't ask because they're pussies," I blushed. Is that what the boys really think of me? I thought. "I'm the Super Savage Bitch, Mary is the Perfectionist, and Marlene is Drama Queen." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ouch," Marlene said. "Are you sure that's what we look like to other people?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Unfortunately," Mary said. "Remember we did that poll? Literally everyone called us that. In case you haven't noticed, we're popular."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Of course I know," I responded. "But the thing is...why are we popular?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""If you count in the great boobs and ass, you're pretty and nice to everyone. You're not the typical 'popular girls' like Jocelyn, Katie, and the others. That's why you guys are the Female Alphas, but also a Gamma." We turned our heads to see Benjamin Hardy standing at the foot of our table. "It's true."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What's a Gamma? I mean, I know what a gamma ray is, but...what do you mean?" Mary asked, curiosity glistening in her eyes. I suspected that mine were also like that./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""A Gamma is a nice, Low-Key type of person. An Alpha is the King/Queen bees, it's why you're the Female Alphas. The Marauders are the Alphas, otherwise."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ew," I said. "Do we have to be on the same level as them?" I joked. 'Them' is James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. We had become friends. I looked towards them, James and Sirius were sitting on the lunch table, feet dangling to the floor, while Peter and Remus were sitting respectively on the bench. Even from a distance, you could hear their laughter. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"James was wearing a white button up shirt with the House tie, Gryffindor with maroon and gold, tucked in, and some black dress shoes, also the school uniform. He rolled up his sleeves to reveal strong forearms. Surprisingly, he was 100% following the dress code. I have had a secret crush on him since the middle of sixth year: that's when we became friends. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I literally asked myself, Why would you have a crush on a guy whose hair is a literal rats' nest? No, that's insulting to the rats. And later I added, Why would you have a crush on a guy's middle name is Fleamont? Instead of being Mrs. James Potter, you would be Mrs. James Fleamont Potter! Moving on.../span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sirius was wearing the exact same outfit, but his tie was hanging around his neck with the collar stuck up and his shirt untucked. Peter instead decided to wear a grey vest as opposed to Remus' cardigan./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The girl's uniform was slightly different: Literally the exact same thing but a skirt. For example, I was wearing a white button up with the House tie and a black skirt at a respectable length. Jocelyn McAdams was wearing the Ravenclaw tie and a skirt so short you could practically see her boobs. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"To be honest, I really like the dress code. I know, such an unpopular opinion! But seriously, the white enhances my red hair and green eyes, plus it makes my boobs look good./spanstrong id="docs-internal-guid-d9d5ccdb-7fff-8e16-954c-7c99bc472009" style="font-weight: normal;"/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"See you later,/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Lily Christine Evans/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"My mum bought me this stupid thing. I don't reckon that I'll write in it very much this year. She wants me to express my feelings in here. No thank you, I would rather keep them bottled up. I'll keep them bottled up until I die. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I suppose I should tell you a couple things about myself. I'm 17, I am very tall, at an impressive 6'1, I think it's impressive, I dunno. I'm from Wales, born and raised. I have a Welsh accent, which makes me different from the other boys. I've got three main friends: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. I know that they will always stay loyal to me, no matter what. I have a massive crush on one Lily Evans. I started my crush back in second year, but I was too dumb to realize it was a crush. Now, I would never purposefully call myself dumb, but that was pretty dumb of me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The worst part is: Lily Christine Evans is my friend. That's right: /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"friend/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". I was friendzoned in the middle of sixth year. Fuck me. Well, journal, I don't want you to fuck me, I want Lily to fuck me. We're on first-name terms./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"You see, I'm one of the more 'popular' kids at school. I don't think much of it, contrast to popular opinion. I could literally be in hell and not care because I have my friends with me. It wouldn't be fun, but at least I would have comic relief, courtesy of Sirius. Peter would probably not even care and freak out. I would freak out internally but be sweating like a pig. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"But with the actual probability of me landing in hell is zero to none. Like, seriously James? I think this year is going to be hell./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"'Oh, sweet James! Why would it be hell for you?' You may ask. Well, there's one major thing: I have been named Head Boy of the entire school and I'll give you one guess who is the Head Girl. I'll wait…. OK, it's Lily Evans, if you haven't guessed. It's like living with hell on Earth. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I hate this. Things have always been so awkward between us since I discovered that she was a girl with actual girl parts. Which was in third year. When every females voices started breaking and the males started growing taller. And discovering how to, exactly, handle their male parts correctly. Then, in fifth year, the males' voices started breaking, and the females, I guess, developed more things… especially in the chest area and the below the waist area./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I have to go meet with Dumbledore. Bye. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Kalam; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-James Fleamont Potter (I hate my middle name)./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"So I was in Dumbledore's office, the headmaster. I immediately thought to myself, "What the hell is James doing here?" I literally said, "Hey James. What are you doing here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"To which he replied: "Oh, I'm Head Boy." It hit me like a bag of bricks. I thought, 'James Fleamont Potter is Head Boy? SHIT!' And then I said, "Did you con Remus to give it to you?" I asked. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No, I didn't."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh. So, I heard we get our own dormitories… but we share a bathroom."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yeah, that's right," he pulled the letter that was given to him over the summer, the exact same as mine, "It says here,: 'Mr. James Fleamont Potter'," The tip of his ears automatically went red, "You can read from hear." He said, shoving the letter towards me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alright…" I muttered. And so I read on:/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Congratulations on achievement of Head Boy. Enclosed is the badge needed to identify yourself. Congratulations are also in line as you have also been named as Captain of the Gryffindor Soccer Team. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Moving on, please meet with Headmaster Dumbledore as soon as possible with Head Girl, Lily Christine Evans. The meeting will be about patrolling, setting up schedules, and other Head duties./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Mr. Potter, we expect your best input in this upcoming school year. Choosing you as Head Boy is still highly controversial, but please do not let us down. And please, for the sake of our sanity, try not to ask Lily Evans out. You will have your Head Boy badge revoked. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sincerely, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Minerva "Minnie" McGonagall, Head of the English Department"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm done," I said. "So… let's go to Dumbledore's Office."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Okay." We walked there. Or, rather, we tried to walk there. My stupid said mouth said,/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You know, I wouldn't mind you asking me out one more time." He looked down at me. No, literally looked down at me. He's, what, like 6'1, 6'2? I'm 5'3. That's a whole 10 inches! I don't mind it at all. In fact, I've always gone for the more tall dark and handsome anyway. ANYWAY!, he looked at me, at first confused, then he turned bright red./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh," he said. "I, uh, um..." It seemed as though he was turning redder every second. Who would have thought? Lily Evans made the Head Boy, the Captain of the Gryffindor soccer team, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"the/span span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"James Potter… blush AND be out of words? That's unheard of! Gee, I AM the next Kardashian! James grinned "Well… do you want to go on a date with me?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yes. I do. Yeah. 100%. That would be cool." I said, quickly responding. Oh how the tables have turned. Now /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I'm/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" the one faltering and blush. James grinned even wider./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So, will you mind if I do this?" I was about to ask him 'Do what?', but he swooped down and kissed me. Immediately, a wave of shock and love started from my heart and coursed through my body. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Electricity./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Chemistry./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"That's what this is. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Stop," I said out of breath. "Let's go somewhere else." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I know a place," He responded. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me into a closet. "Don't worry. It's soundproof, " he fixed a loose strand of hair and tucked it behind my ear. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alrighty then." I yanked his tie down and full on french kissed him. /span/p