Hi guys. Well, hope you like my next chapter. The first chapter was really just an intro, but I know it wasn't that good.
Chapter 2-Mixed Emotions
The train stopped, and everyone hopped out of the carriages. Their luggage was to be bought up to their rooms by magic.
As James passed the compartment Lily and her friends were in, he looked in and saw a bag that looked like the one Lily had been holding when he first saw her that day.
He picked it up and took it with him in the carriage. As everyone went up the steps, he could see Lily's red hair stand out like fire in ashes.
He smiled to himself. He loved her hair. It was so hypnotizing, yet beautiful. He loved the way it just shimmered down her back.
He tried to fight his way through the huge crowd, but was held back by Sirius.
"Prongs, I'm hungry as well, but we all have to wait 'til the sorting is finished, so no matter how fast you go, you still have to wait with the rest of us," he said, a downcast look in his eye.
"I'm not trying to get to the food faster. I'm trying to give Evans back her bag," James sighed, frustrated with the crowd. It was like trying to get through a mosh pit, though James wouldn't have known what that was.
"Well just give it to her when you get in there then!" Sirius replied distractedly, checking out a girl a couple of people away. "Ooh, yep, yep, good angle from here- oh, wait, no, don't move to there-DAMN IT! Oh, sorry mate," he said as he apologised to the boy in front of him, who was rubbing his foot and glaring at Sirius.
James laughed at Sirius, and then looked again to see where Lily was, but she was already inside.
Lily sat down with her friends at the Gryffindor table. She looked around her and sighed contentedly. She licked her dry lips and went to get her lip-gloss out of her bag-HER BAG WASN'T THERE! She had left it on the train!
"Oh my god! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" she said, while hitting her forehead with the heel of her hand.
"Lily, what's wrong?" asked Molly, looking concerned at her friend's sudden reaction.
"I left my bag in the train, and it's already departed!" she exclaimed, a tear forming in her eye.
Just then, she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around and found herself face to face with James Potter, who had her bag!
"Are you looking for this?" he asked, a grin appearing on his face.
She stood up, blushed a little, but smiled. "Thankyou so much James; I thought I had lost it on the train!"
"You're welcome. I saw it in your compartment as I was walking by and thought you might need it. Oh, and don't worry, I didn't look in it," he said, trying to catch her eye with his. He was successful.
They stood there, looking at each other, but a moment later, Sirius bumped into James.
"Come on Prongs. Moony and Wormtail are waiting for us," he said, unaware of the special moment they had just shared.
"I'm coming. Goodbye Lily." He nodded his head at her friends then walked off with Sirius to where the Marauders were sitting.
"Lily, why are you so red?" asked Molly, a mischevious grin appearing on her face when Lily came back to sit with them.
"What? Oh, nothing. Nothing at all," she added; the red becoming brighter on her usually pale skin.
"Why were you and Potter staring at each other like that?" asked Ali, catching the mischevious grin from Molly as a sign that there was something going on with Lily and James.
"I told you. There's nothing going on with either of us. I swear on my grandfather's grave." She looked at all her friends guiltily.
"Whatever," they all said; big grins on their face.
They all sat there eating, bar one. Lily.
She sat there looking at her plate, not wanting to eat a thing because of the guilty conscience her friends had just placed on her.
Molly could see how red she had turned. "Okay, spill. Or I will tickle you until you confess that you DO have feelings for Potter," she added, a smile appearing on her face.
Lily looked up at her, her face going even redder. Molly had never seen anyone so red. Lily looked like a lobster.
"Fine, I might have some feelings for him. SOME, I said. But I'm not sure, okay! I just want to have some dinner and go to bed right now. I am Head Girl, and I need my rest!" she added quickly.
"Just a question, Lily," said Carrie, also sporting a mischevious grin now, "Where have you chosen to sleep?"
Lily blushed. She had sent the consent form back with a big tick on the private Head's room. She loved spending time with her friends, but privacy was a big thing in Lily's idea. Her only privacy for the past six years had been three thick, dark red velvet curtains, which are not very soundproof if your roommates are having a pajama party.
"Well, I, um, I chose the Head's room!" she said quickly, blushing furiously as she said it.
Her friends laughed with satisfaction. "So you know what this means, don't you?" Carrie said, with laughter in her eyes, "You're going to have to spend more time with Potter! Hah!" she added, with a look of defeat in her eyes.
"So Lily, since I am in the Quidditch team, do you want me to talk to James for you?" asked Ali. She was a chaser in the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and was good friends on the field with James.
"No!" Lily said, a little too quickly, and a little too loudly. Everybody at her table looked at her, including the Marauders. She looked at James and saw him smiling at her.
'God,' Lily thought, 'he looks so hot; even his smile is hot. Wait a minute, why am I thinking about his really hot smile? I'm supposed to hate him!'
She looked back at her friends, who nodded to her. Her eyes pleaded with them to drop the subject, but now the whole school was looking in her direction.
She walked over to James, and then whispered, "Could I have a word, James?"
Molly stood up and yelled, "People, what are you all staring at? They are just having a Head meeting!"
People started to go back to eating and chatting about their holidays and other matters.
Lily pulled James outside the Hall. When they got to the doors, she used her wand to close them, and then turned to face James. He put his hand through his hair and messed it up even more than it should have been.
He was looking at her with those intense hazel eyes. She shivered under his gaze, and then looked back into his eyes, trying to keep her composure.
"James, I would like you to understand that just because we're Head's, doesn't mean we are best buddies, okay? But I don't mind if we're friends. "Just," she said quickly, as she could see him hesitating to say something, "as long as you don't ask me out. Friends don't ask friends out, okay?" she added, turning her eyes to the disgusting-looking witch statue near the dungeon door, in embarrassment.
"Lily, I have changed. I know what you mean, and I will respect what you ask for, but I would just like to say that my offers of us going out, AS FRIENDS now," he added quickly, "will not change. I'm glad that you could open your heart for one more person. Friends?" he asked, holding out his hand.
"Friends," Lily answered, a smile appearing at her lips. James loved her lips, and it took much strength to stop him from kissing her. He loved everything about Lily, and had many times gone into too much detail for the Marauders, even Remus, who was the romantic of the group, to handle.
They walked back in, smiling. They said goodbye, and walked back over to their friends. "So, how did it go?" asked Molly, an innocent smile on her face.
"Very good. I told him I just wanted to be friends, and that friends don't ask friends out. He said that he would still have his offer of asking me out, as friends, so I don't really have to worry anymore about the date offers!" she grinned.
Over where the Marauders were sitting, James was blurting out all the details of his success with becoming one of Lily's friends.
"That's great James. Just don't do anything to jeopardize the relationship okay?" Remus added, worried at the excited look on James' face.
"God, I can't believe I've had this much progress in one day than in six years!" James said, pleased with himself.
Sirius, Remus and Peter exchanged glances of worried looks and then went back to eating.
Lily was sitting, eating a plate of roast lamb, roast potatoes and mint jelly, when someone kicked her under the table; she looked up at the person sitting opposite her, Molly, and winced in pain. "What was that for?" she said, annoyed with the pain that her ankle was producing.
"I see you finally gave into the Potter Charm, if that's what you call it," said Molly. She went back to eating her chocolate sundae. Lily groaned at the pain it was causing her, but it soon ceased.
The girls finished their dinner and started to walk out of the Great Hall.
The Marauders saw them leaving and hurried to catch up with them.
"So Evans, what's new?" asked Sirius, cheekily putting his arm around her shoulders. She saw James stiffen at this action, and shrugged Sirius off. "Oh, nothing much. I just had some unknown slimy creature put his arm over my shoulders, but yeah, that's really all that's been happening today."
Everybody laughed, Sirius included, and they all walked up together. Lily could see Ali and Remus hitting it off. They seemed to get on really well. She could see Carrie talking to Peter and she could see Molly talking to James, so she decided to talk to Sirius.
"So Black, how were your holidays?" she asked, a smile appearing at her lips.
"Well, since my family banished me because I was a blood traitor, I spent the holidays at James' house and we partied and went to clubs and stuff. It was pretty cool." He looked at her expectantly, as if he thought she knew what he meant, but she looked at him uncertain of what he was expecting her to say.
"Aren't you going to tell me how you think that is a stupid answer and that I should get some better jokes?" Sirius asked, feeling uncomfortable with the situation.
"No; why would I do that? I can't see anything wrong with that!" Lily quickly said, "Are you serious about the family banishing thing?"
Sirius shrugged, "Yeah. My family is pure-blood supporters of Voldemort. Whatever, I say. Anyway, how were your holidays?" But Lily was cut short by Molly.
"Lils, we have to go bed now, or we'll get up at 2 in the afternoon. Remember the start of last year?" she added, a hint of a smile on her lips. Last year had been heaps of fun for Lily and Molly, as they had both been prefects, so they could patrol the corridors at night if they wanted to.
Most prefects wanted their sleep, so they didn't usually do this, but Molly and Lily had spent most of the night with two of the other prefects, Hufflepuffs, in separate broom closets having snog fests. They didn't do anything that they would regret, so it hadn't meant anything. And it hadn't tarnished anyone's reputation, so they all forgot about it eventually.
They had woken up the next day in the afternoon, and had nearly gotten a detention for missing their first classes. They had never done it again-McGonagall was scary when she was in a bad mood.
They said goodnight to the Marauders, then walked up to their room. Lily said goodnight to the others, then walked back down to go to her own private room, in the Head's quarters. James followed her and finally caught up with her, but they just smiled at each other and said nothing.
"Goodnight Lily," James said; a handsome smile on his face. His eyes were drooping from tiredness, but he kept them open just for Lily.
"Goodnight James," she answered, smiling as well.
They both went their separate ways and went to bed. As Lily lay in her bed, trying to get to sleep, she thought about James. She decided she would make an effort to become good friends with him, but decided that's as far as she would go.
Good friends.
This chapter was started before I got my first reviewer, so please enjoy this. My next chapter will be coming in a few days, but I am going back to school in a week (I think), so I will be updating a little slower in a week or two. Please guys, I really need someone to read my story so I can get a good editing process through.
By the way, I am trying to make James into a big spunk/hottie. Could you please tell me if this is working?