Author's Note: Thanks to everyone who has read and a special thank you to wisdomiswonder and dreamsme11 for reviewing. I would like to point out that I wrote this chapter on the 29th January 2013, which was my last day of being 13, and I finished it just before the 30th, which incidentally is Lily Potter (nee Evans)'s birthday too. Check the previous chapter for disclaimer.
For the rest of the summer all I could think about was James, which made Petunia's wedding preparations more bearable. Unfortunately for me, James and Remus were unable to visit due to the fact that they can't tame Sirius. Honestly I miss James so much that I honestly couldn't care less if Sirius shows up calmed or untrained.
Today is September 1, the first day of school. I got the letter a couple of weeks ago, I am Head Girl this year, and I wonder who the Head Boy is. Is it Remus, that seems quite probable or maybe, no it's not possible to be Snape, I don't know, I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I'm currently in my Dad's car going to King's Cross Station in London, I could have gone by myself but I didn't want to deprive them seeing me off to Hogwarts for the last time. Petunia didn't come for obvious reasons, and because she was with her walrus. We just parked in front of King's Cross, I help Dad grab my trunk and I hug both my parents, and check that I have everything.
We made our way to the platform. Mum and Dad grabbed onto the trolley and we went through the wall between platform's 9 and 10. It still impresses me; I have had the exact same look on my face on this day for the past seven years, it's quite sad to think that this is my last time going on the train to go to Hogwarts. I looked at the clock and realised that I was late. I was supposed to be here at ten and it's ten thirty now, oops. I say a quick but heart-warming goodbye to my parents and then start to help first years with their trunks.
Ten minutes to eleven, I better get on the train, I said a quick hello to Alice and then she continued to snog Frank Longbottom. I continued down the corridor to the prefect's compartment, and I sat down. About five minutes before our departure, four boys entered the compartment, my heart completely stopped when I saw James standing there looking all James-i.e. All four of them saw me, and the five of us (well not really Peter) exchanged greetings, and then Sirius and Peter left. I looked at James (I tried to control my face to pull a smile, I don't know how successful I was at that) and he smiled and flashed his new shiny Head Boy badge at me. To say I was surprised was an understatement; I was bemused, confused but also quite happy, just because it meant that we would be forced to spend more time together.
James and I did the whole explanation and welcome thing speech, well it was really me because he had absolutely no idea about what I was talking about. I was going to tell him honestly when we had just sent the prefects off, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I went to go and join the Marauders and we exchanged stories about what had happened over the summer. When the food trolley came Sirius grabbed everything he could and more, Remus bought a block of chocolate and he looked pleased, Peter, Wow I didn't realise he wasn't here, he was here a few minutes ago anyway, and James got two chocolate frogs, a liquorice wand and a packet of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. James and I shared his stash between us, because I (stupidly) forgot to grab my money out of my trunk in the rush this morning to get away from the Walrus and Petunia.
Eventually we got to Hogwarts, if it was possible it looked even more beautiful, maybe it was because I knew that it was the last time that I would come to Hogwarts (at least as a student). The four of us went on the carriage and headed straight to the Great Hall. That was when I remembered an important detail in the letter; the Head Boy and Head Girl share a separate dormitory to everyone else. That made me ecstatic; I get to share a dorm with James Potter.
When we entered the Great Hall I saw Danielle Smith jump on James and snog him. My heart felt like it had been ripped to shreds, I wanted to hurt her badly for kissing my man, and it took all of my self-control and probably some of other people have to not rip her to shreds there and then. To my horror he snogged her back, I felt like vomiting, I sat down next to Sirius and Remus. Remus somehow managed to read my mind and answered my silent wonderings.
"After you rejected him so many times, he gave up, and looked for someone else, we never told you, because you wouldn't admit that you loved him back. You always said that you couldn't care less who he dated, the story in your eyes tells a different story Lily." Stated Remus
"Fine, I love James Charlus Potter! Happy?"
"Yes, since Sirius now owes me ten galleons, but you're not happy at all."
"This isn't fair at all," I said before bursting into tears, I couldn't help it, and then an idea struck me. "Can you two please help me break them up?" I asked with what I believed to be an evil smile, Sirius looked up with interest and nodded eagerly after saying:
"He may be my best mate, but I'm still a Marauder and this is payback for him defacing my mirror!"
Remus was hesitant "I don't feel comfortable with this Lily" he began "but it would be fun, so fine, but nothing over the top." He continued sternly
The thought of breaking them up, and having James all to myself makes me really happy, and with two Marauders on my side this operation quite simple. Straight after the conversation was finished James decided to grace us with his and Danielle's presence, and the Sorting Ceremony began. The feast was amazing (like always) and I absolutely loved dessert, there was treacle tart! I love treacle tart and funnily enough so does James.
After the feast James and I went to Dumbledore's office for a debriefing about our duties and directions to the Head's dorm. It was a long walk, although James seemed to know the route a whole lot better than I did. We got there and guessed many lolly treats as the password; eventually we found that it was Redvines. After that worked I laughed and James looked at me as though I had two heads sprouting from my neck. I had bet myself that the next password would be Mars Bar. I mentioned this to James and he looked at me confusedly at the mention of a Mars Bar, and I made a promise to myself to buy him a box of Cadbury Favourites for Christmas.
Dumbledore told us about; how we had to run the prefect meetings, the privileges we get, where our dorm room is and what the password is and etc. The meeting took about an hour and a half and once we were finished we found our way to the Head's dorm. The portrait was big and inside the frame was a couple crossing a bridge over a lake. It was simply magnificent we reset the password to 'menu', well it was my idea but James didn't pick up the hint.
We both got changed into our pyjamas and sat on the couch by the fire, we talked about random things; Quidditch, our families and possible Death Eater plans were discussed. Then I mentioned my sister's wedding.
"Dad and I are going mad, I swear, mum is too, just not as quickly as us."
"Because of your sister's wedding?"
"Yeah, I can't see what she sees in the Walrus." I commented
"The Walrus? What is the Walrus?" he asked
"Oh right, my sister's fiancé, he resembles a walrus in my opinion. Dad agrees with me."
"Alright then. Did you really mean that we could bring a hungry, untamed Sirius to your house? Surely you can't have been that desperate."
"Yes I did mean that" he laughed
"Then that is really quite horrible." We had nothing else to talk about, I realised that I could have kissed him, but he got up and went to bed. Silently I cursed myself for not snogging him right there and then, but eventually I will get to it.
The next morning I got up and dressed as quickly as possible and went down to the Great Hall as quickly as possible to meet Remus and Sirius (don't judge me) before James got there. We discussed plans, many of Sirius' included me randomly snogging guys in front of James, or wearing quite revealing clothing, I am just going to say that I said no. Remus' plans were a whole lot better compared to Sirius', they were simple things; like stuffing up her potions, splitting open the bottom of her bag, walking in on them making out, and taking their time away from them. Only one of Sirius' ideas actually caught my attention for a good reason, the idea was that I create an argument between them. I decided that I could use most of these ideas (well Remus' anyway) to my advantage. James then showed up at the table and we couldn't plot any longer.
In potions I grabbed three rat tails and put them into Danielle's batch of Felix Felicis which made it explode all over James and Danielle, sparking an argument between the two of them, I looked at Remus and I smirked, the plan so far was going nicely. Fortunately for them (not so much for me) they made up, so Sirius ended up splitting the bottom Danielle's bag on the way to Muggle Studies. (Honestly I don't understand why Sirius wants to learn about muggles, but he likes to surprise people and that he does.) Over the next few days we took them away from each other, walked in on them snogging, but still it wasn't working. I had to up the anti, but all I could think of was either injuring myself and ending up in the hospital wing, one of Sirius' other ideas or making Danielle snog someone else. I decided to go with option C. because that was easier than the other two options. I mean Danielle is not the least gullible person on Earth, neither is she very compassionate or empathetic towards others. I let the boys in on the newest part of my genius plan and they were going to bring James at the right moment.
I walked down to the chamber heading into the Great Hall and I found Danielle waiting for James. I simply made a bet with her that if she could somehow get all the boys currently in the chamber to snog her right there and then I would give her two galleons (do not judge me, I was desperate!). There she was snogging all these boys ranging from ages eleven to eighteen, in front of James; he was between complete anger and complete confusion when he saw this. She didn't even bother to notice until he said in a deadly whisper "Danielle, we're over!" she looked weird as if she were trying to comprehend what James had just uttered, I paid her the two galleons that I had owed her and I did a small fist pump in celebration to commemorate my small yet meaningful victory. I was a whole lot happier that day, but it was that night that really made a difference to my life.
Janes and I were sitting in the couch again just talking. I was cold, so he gave me a blanket and fake scolded me for wearing a light cotton shirt and three quarter length cotton pants. For some reason our faces just got closer together, until I leant forward slightly and kissed him, he didn't refuse instead he deepened the kiss until we were out of breath. We snogged on the couch by the fireplace, it made me the happiest I have ever been, as if all my Christmases have come at one time. When we finished all that I could say was "Wow!"
"Let me see if I have this correct, after six years of you saying that you would rather date the Giant Squid than me, you kiss me?"
"Yep" I answered it was the truth after all.
"Finally!" he said (well I think yelled is more accurate) starting to dance around the room in his obvious victory dance.
"Will you James Potter accompany me to Hogsmead on the next trip?" I asked, instead of answering verbally, James kissed me again, I suppose that I should take that as a yes.
So now you know how I got my man James Charlus Potter.
Author's Note: So what do you think, I would just like to take this opportunity to apologise for taking this long to update, but this is the last of this round of chapters so I hope to have another round of chapters soon.
