Love Will Guide Us

Love Will Guide Us

Chapter 2

Meetings

"You know, nothing can beat a warm welsh-cake on a freezing cold day," Megan said, swinging her shopping bags on her arm.

"No," the other girls agreed with her.

"Yum," Lily said, nibbling on her own.

"So what've we got left to buy?" Charlotte asked.

"Something for Petunia, for me," Lily said.

"Mark," Megan said, referring to her younger brother.

"I'm done," Alice said.

"You should see what she got Frank," Lily said, winking. As expected Megan and Lottie burst into giggles and wolf-whistles. As they had had so many presents to buy, they'd split into Alice and Lily going one way and Charlotte and Megan the other. And then, as agreed, they'd met up to buy welsh-cakes from their favourite little bakery.

Lily pulled her scarf more tightly around her neck, her hair floating behind her on the bitter wind.

"What?!" Megan asked.

"Chocolate," Alice said.

"You mustn't forget the novelty Christmas boxer shorts, Alice," Lily smirked.

"Keep the hell out of my love life, guys!" Alice exclaimed. She strolled away from them.

"Aw, Al, come on! You know it's just cause you have so much more experience than us!" Charlotte winked at the other two.

"And don't you know it!" Alice replied darkly.

They were moving towards the newer end of the town. It was the place young witches and wizards liked to meet and hang around. There were some lights and a large Christmas tree, which had been set up to decorate the central square. Several other girls from the school were already standing around.

"Alice…" Lily called, "Al, you know she doesn't mean it!"

She stepped forward to grab her best friend's arm but bumped into something rather tall and hard.

"Sirius, must you make a move on every girl you see?" James Potter asked his brother, irately.

His brother turned to him, from where he had been sending his wide, attractive grin to a blonde girl at the other side of the square. "James, unlike you, I can attract girls I want."

James rolled his eyes, swearing under his breath in Welsh.

"I heard that," Sirius said, sharply.

James sighed, but didn't answer. His brother continued to flirt with passing girls; winking at a brunette, blowing a kiss to another blonde.

He was about to repeat his original comment, when he saw something that shocked him.

It was a girl. One like he'd never seen before. She had long auburn hair and was calling for a brunette in front of her.

"What 'bout that one?" Sirius asked pointing to a pretty blonde girl. James didn't reply.

"Prongs? Prongs, what're you looking at?" his brother was unresponsive still and Sirius followed his gaze. "Hmmm… I'm not sure about redheads; they're not your type."

James shrugged, "she's hot."

Sirius laughed, "Go and say hi to her." He gave his twin brother a little push.

James looked from his brother to the brunette indecisively, staying rooted to the spot.

"Come on, Prongs," Sirius said, placing a hand on his shoulder, "you said she's hot, and you promised , if you saw a girl you liked you'd ask her out."
james looked at him, "Okay, yeah…"
"Prongs yn cael cariad newydd, (Prongs has a new girlfriend)," Sirius chanted.

"Byddwch yn dawel! (Be quiet!)" James snarled. He started to walk over to the girl.

He stepped in front of her, but she obviously wasn't looking where she was going, for she walked straight into the hard wall of his chest.

"Ow," she said quietly, looking up at him.

"Sorry," he said softly.

"No, it was my fault. I wasn't looking where I was going," she replied, a light blush tingeing her cheeks.

Lily looked up at him. He was very attractive with dark messy hair, a well structured face with cute round glasses and beautiful hazel eyes. She took a step back as Megan, Charlotte and Alice walked up behind her. Another boy came striding up behind the boy Lily had bumped into. He was grinning widely.

"Hey, I'm Sirius," the other boy said. He had dark grey eyes and tidy dark hair. "This idiot here is my twin brother, James," he said pointing to the first boy. "Do you chicks have names?"

"Well," Alice began, "I'm Alice and this is Charlotte, Megan and…"

James cut her off. "What's your name, beautiful?" he asked Lily.

Lily blushed a deeper shade of red, "It's Lily."

James smiled softly, "and you go to Hyfredffon?"

"Yeah," she returned the smile.

"Great," James said softly. "Where do you live?"

"I actually come from Bristol," she said, "my parents' mansion is there, and I live with them and my sister."

James raised an eyebrow, "you should come to Cardiff with me one day."

Sirius rolled his eyes at his brother; there he went about asking her out.

Lily nodded quietly, "I'd like that."

"Lil," Alice said, "we better are getting back to the school."

Lily nodded slowly, "I'm sorry, James."
He looked at her deeply, "it's okay. I'll owl you, okay?"

"Yeah, that would be great."
James watched her walk off. Her scarf billowed behind her. He sighed; he bet she had a nice body under all the wrappings she was using to protect herself against the harsh winter. But he really wondered if he'd ever get there.

"He was so hot!" Charlotte exclaimed, giggling.

"Which one?" Megan asked cheekily.

"Both!" Charlotte replied.

Lily rolled her eyes and lay down on her bed. She couldn't stop thinking about James. He was attractive and seemed very nice. She was very interested in him, definitely as more than a friend. She wondered if he liked her in the same way.

Alice looked at her, "stop it. James so has a thing for Lily."

Lily gazed at her, "you think?"

"I know so!"

"Yeeeaahhh!" Charlotte and Megan teased.

"Shut up, you two!" Alice said. "Remember who has the boyfriend!"

"Yes, Alice," they said, rolling their eyes.

Lily moved over to the balcony outside their dormitory. She stared up at the sky, wishing James was here to see the stars with her. She could hear the girls giggling. She knew Alice was trying to get her to admit her feelings for the boy that had just walked into their lives. She sighed, there was so much for her to learn about him yet… but one thing was for sure, she really liked him.

My Welsh Dictionary doesn't have the word for sexy in it! I was slightly annoyed...

Anyway reviews please.

I'm sorry this chap was short... but I know where the next one is going! :)

Love JLF xoxo