I get nervous
Author's note: The second instalment of this series of one-shots. Thank you to Aisucold, DigiqueenTMIM and Teagarden for reviewing my first chapter, you all rock! Yes anyways I hope you all enjoy my next chapter, kind of had a writer's block for a while but I semi got things in order. Please R&R!
Song line: 'There's something bout the way your lips invite, maybe its the way that I get nervous when your around.'
Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling, 'The Way' is owned by Clay Aiken or whoever wrote/composed it. I only own the different plot lines that appear, and maybe even OC's that may creep up.
James stirred in his bed as he slowly woke up, he groaned as he opened one eye, only for it to be attacked by the sun light filtering through his bed's curtains.
"Shut up Prongs! Some people are trying to sleep!" Sirius Black's irritated voice flooded through the silence.
James grinned at his best friend's outburst, then he remembered what today was, Valentine's Day, the day for couples, the day for snuggling with the ones you love, the day of lots and lots of chocolate. The day for love.
He grinned to himself as he thought of the one girl he wanted to spend this day with, his girlfriend of twenty-four hours, not that he was counting, Lily Evans, the girl he had been chasing after ever since first year.
Feeling a lot more energetic James opened both eyes and sat up, stretching his arms. Yawning happily he opened his bed's curtains.
"For God's sake! Prongs if you don't stop making noise and cease movement immediately, I swear I'll jam my wand up your backside!" Sirius yelled from his bed.
Hearing another groan from coming from Remus Lupin's, another one of James' best friends the final being Peter Pettigrew, bed made James laugh. It seemed his best friends were waking up.
"Sirius 'Padfoot' Black if you don't shut up, I'll jam my wand up your arse!" Remus semi-shouted through his bed's curtains.
"But it wasn't my fault…oh whatever I'm awake" Sirius said before appearing from behind his own set of curtains, he rubbed his eyes tiredly.
James grinned over to Sirius, who only glared back at him.
Out of no where a pillow came hurtling through the air, hitting Sirius squarely in the face.
"Oof! What the – REMUS!" he growled angrily, grabbing the pillow and throwing it back to it's owner.
"Be glad it wasn't my wand" Remus' voice said from behind his curtains.
James meanwhile was cracking up with laughter at his friends' behaviour.
"Since when are you this violent Moony?" Sirius asked annoyance present in his tone.
Remus appeared from behind his curtains and stuck his tongue out at him.
"When someone is disturbing my sleeping time" he answered with a grin on his face.
James shook his head, still chuckling at his friends.
"But it started because of James" Sirius whined.
"Stop acting like a child! You're already an adult, grow up!" Remus snapped, but he had a grin on his lips.
"You're starting to sound like James' dear Lily" Sirius said, getting out of bed and started to look around for a clean set of uniform for him to wear.
"You guys do realise what today is right?" James asked as he stared out the window with a small smile on his face.
"Yes Prongs it's Monday…oh crap! It's Valentine's day isn't it?!" Sirius practically shouting.
"Yes Pads it's Valentine's day" James stated rolling his eyes.
"You don't have to worry…you have Lily…I'm stuck with all those fan girls" Sirius said, shivering slightly at the thought.
"You usually don't seem to mind Padfoot" Peter said, finally emerging from the depths of his bed.
"No I don't it's only because they always want me to give them something…I need to find a girl" Sirius said, rubbing the back of his head.
"I never thought I would hear those words coming from you Black" a new voice said from the doorway.
All four boys jumped, all of them spinning to see Lily Evans standing there, a smile on her face.
Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Whatever Evans…I just need one to beat off the rest of the girls" he said before picking up some discarded clothing, finding that they were clean and disappeared inside the bathroom.
Lily shook her head before turning to look over at James, she walked over and hugged him.
"Happy Valentine's Day" she said turning her head so she could see James' face.
He smiled down at her.
"Happy Valentine's my dear, sweet Lily" he whispered before leaning down and kissed her.
"Before you two get into a heated make-out session can you please allow the rest of us to get dressed, then you can chuck all sense out the window and kiss each other senseless" Remus mused.
James laughed at his friend, shaking his head.
"Only for you Moony…only for you" he said sticking his tongue out.
Remus then stuck his own tongue right back at him.
Soon Lily and James were left alone in the room, sitting on James' bed side by side.
"Today's a Hogsmeade trip isn't it?" James asked her with a small smile present on his face.
Lily nodded her head softly "Why yes it is" she said.
"I hope you're not expecting me to take you to Madame Puddifoot's…because I'm sorry, but I can't take it in there" James stated slightly embarrassed.
She grinned hugging him tightly.
"Have no fear James…I would've killed you if you brought me there, it's bad enough normally, Valentine's day would be a nightmare" she said laughing at the look of shock on his face.
"C'mon James did you really think all girls want to be taken there?" she asked her face screwed up with slight disgust.
James laughed shaking his head, "Actually I did think that" he said.
"Well now I proved you wrong" she said nodding her head proudly.
"Well I proved you wrong too" he said.
"What? When?" she asked a bemused expression on her face.
"You said you would never ever go out with a 'pig head' like James Potter" James said grinning down at her.
Lily laughed "Okay, okay…you proved me wrong" she said.
A few minutes went by in a comfortable silence.
"So what do you want to do today?" she asked breaking the silence.
James sat there with a slight frown on his face, he knew what he wanted to do but he had to think about it, about when he should do what he planned.
"James?" Lily asked touching his shoulder lightly.
He looked over to her and smiled.
"Well how about we meet up in Hogsmeade later?" he asked.
Lily looked surprised at what he said, and slightly hurt.
'She probably thinks I don't want to spend time with her' James realised, a little to late.
Lily nodded her head stiffly "Okay then…I'll see you later" she said standing up and walking out without another word.
James sighed, he just hopped what he planned would turn out perfect.
The day passed pleasantly for everyone, every couple having been stuck to each other's side.
Valentine cards and gifts were being sent to a good amount of people.
Sirius having had to throw a large pile out, having received so much that it over flowed his school bag, Remus had a fair few causing the boy to blush every time another girl gave him one, even Peter received one, causing the boy to feel elated and joyous.
James however felt like he was going to be sick, Lily hadn't spoken to him since the incident in the dorm room.
Sirius looked over at James with a raised eyebrow.
"Are you alright mate? You look a tad bit green" he said as he inspected his friend's face.
James nodded, "No I'm fine…it's just…Lily hasn't talked to me since this morning" he said faintly.
Sirius sighed "Don't worry…everything will turn out okay" he said nodding his head.
James rubbed the back of his head, "I hope so…" he whispered softly.
Sirius looked heaven wards as if he was annoyed, which he probably was.
"For heaven's sake Prongs, you're James bloody Potter! Have some back bone" he burst out whacking James on the back.
James laughed "But when it's Lily I can't…she's almost to much for me" he said.
Remus turned around having had heard what he had said and grinned.
"Did I just hear you right Prongs? A girl too much for you?" he asked with a faint smirk on his face.
James rolled his eyes "Honestly you're all acting as if I'm usually a cocky, hormone crazed idiot" he said.
Sirius grinned.
"But Prongs that's exactly what you are" he said slapping him on the back once more.
James rolled his eyes "Whatever…I better get my present that I got for Lily" he said.
Sirius nodded his head, "Go on we'll wait for you down here" he said.
James nodded his own head before turning and disappearing into the crowd, heading back towards Gryffindor tower.
Entering his dorm room he spotted a neatly wrapped present on his pillow, he frowned wondering if it was from one of the rabid fan girls that chased after the marauders.
When he reached his bed James saw it was a present with a card next to it, he picked up the card and opened it, it read:
Dear James,
Happy Valentine's Day
Hope you had a good one.
Lots of love from the one and only,
Lily Evans 3
James stared at it, wondering why Lily didn't give the present to him in person, or at Hogsmeade when they met up.
The nagging thought that Lily was still angry about what happened in the morning made James sigh softly, he slowly started to unwrap the present.
He saw inside the wrapping was a small box which he slowly opened, he stared at what was inside, it was a silver necklace, the locket that hanged from it had a red ruby in the centre of it, around the ruby was an intricate design made of gold.
Opening the locket with as much care as he could he looked inside to see one side of the locket was a small moving picture of himself and Lily hugging, and on the other side was an engravement which read 'James and Lily' with a small heart.
James smiled to himself as he opened the clasp of the necklace and placed it around his neck, he touched it lightly, and stood there for a couple of minutes lost in his own thoughts.
The dorm door opened; bringing Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"Prongs hurry up! You've been gone for nearly twenty minutes" Sirius stated.
James laughed but nodded his head, neatly folding the wrapping paper and placed it on top of his bedside table, then the card beside it.
He turned and walked over to his trunk and took out a small box, similar to the one that Lily had given him.
"Well what are we waiting for? The grass to grow?" He asked grinning at his friends who grinned back at him.
Together the four walked out of the dorm and towards Hogsmeade.
The four walked into the Three Broomsticks, Remus, Sirius and Peter all had their Valentine's walking with them.
James walked behind the couples looking around for a particular red head, spotting her across the room he smiled and started walking over to her.
"Lily?" he asked placing a hand lightly on her shoulder.
She turned her head slowly and looked up at him with a blank look.
"What do you want?" she asked airily.
James stared down at her "To talk to you" he whispered.
Lily turned to look at her friends who grinned at her nodding their heads, earlier on James had warned them that he would be taking Lily away at some point to give her his Valentine's present.
"Go on Lils" Alice said motioning for her to go with him.
Lily looked over at her with a raised eyebrow but stood up and followed James to one corner of the pub.
James turned around to face her with a small grin on his face.
"Hey Lily" he said softly.
She nodded her head, "Hello Potter" she said coldly.
He sighed softly "Lily I only told you I would meet you later, because I needed to get ready" he said quietly, almost quiet enough that she almost missed it.
Lily stared up into James' warm brown eyes. He watched as she melted and nodded her head once more with a small smile on her face.
"I'm sorry James…I just thought that you were just leaving me to go find some other girl" she said smiling embarrassedly.
James laughed hugging her "I would never do that to you" he said into her ear.
Lily sighed happily drawing away from him slowly, she then spotted that he was wearing the necklace she had given him, and she grinned up into his face.
"You're wearing the necklace" she said happily.
James nodded his head "Of course" he said. A look of nervousness appeared on his face, making him stare down at the ground.
"James are you alright?" she asked him frowning in concern.
He nodded his head "Fine...just a tad nervous" he said, his voice sounding quite strained.
"Why James?" she asked him.
"Your Valentine's gift" he answered her still looking at the ground.
Lily watched as James reached into his cloak and brought out a small box, the box he had kept in his trunk.
Slowly he showed it to her, when she reached for it he shook his head.
"No let me show it" he said as he carefully opened the box.
Lily gasped at what she saw, it was a ring, it was silver with a small ruby in it's centre piece, on the inside of the ring read 'James Potter and Lily Evans, today until forever'.
She stared up at him with wide eyes. "James? We're too young to get married" she said taken back at the gift.
James laughed at her expression; apparently back to the normal James Potter.
"If I was going to ask you to marry me Lily, I would've been down on my knee" he told her, a smirk appearing.
Lily blushed as she realised he was still standing in front of her.
"Oh" was all she could manage.
"It's a promise ring…a promise that one day we will get married" James said smiling at her now.
"Oh" Lily repeated her blush darkening.
"So will you take it?" he asked a look of nervousness and fear entered his eyes.
Lily looked up at him with a smile before nodding.
"Of course silly! I love you!" she practically shouted causing some customers to turn and look at them.
James smiled as he slowly lifted the ring from it's place in the box, slipping it's container back into his cloak.
He looked into her emerald green eyes as he carefully lifted her hand and slowly slipped the ring on.
"Then it's a promise" he whispered leaning down.
"Sealed with a kiss" she whispered back leaning upwards, until finally their lips met.
And so their promise to each other was sealed.
Author's note: Whoa! That's like the longest one-shot I've ever wrote…anyways how'd it go? I sort of got a writer's block for this chapter so I hope it turned out okay. Please R&R!