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Chapter 2

Okay, so now that I've established the fact that Lily likes me, now I just need to come up with a way to ask her out. It needs to be romantic, breath taking, and marvelous enough to get her to admit to liking me. Maybe I should ask Sirius for some advice…

(5 seconds later)

Never mind. I decided that that was a bad idea. He'd just tell me to try and get her in my bed. The retard. He doesn't even know how to treat a girl.

But, anyway, I think I've come up with an idea. I'm going to make her a spectacular dinner and then she'll finally admit her feelings to me. Mwahaha! Hah, just kidding!

When Herbology was finally over, James gathered his things and bolted straight out the door, making him the first person out.

"And he has set a new record, ladies and gentleman! Isn't that just amazing?" Professor Webb said with a laugh. Everyone except one laughed at his joke, the odd one just stared at where he was with a confused look on her face.

By the time James had made it to the castle, the next student to leave had come from the greenhouse. Some people were pointing and laughing at him, while others were trying to guess what he was up to.

James, however, didn't care whether or not people were laughing at him. He sprinted straight into the entrance hall and up the marble staircase. He flew down hallways and bounded up staircases. When he finally reached his destination, he stopped abruptly and turned into an empty classroom.

"This looks good," he said as he glanced around the room. He began to move desks and chairs, piling them up against the walls.

Lily was walking into the castle, talking with her closest friend Kate.

"Hey, Kate, why do you think he ran off so suddenly like that?" Lily asked curiously.

"Umm… who's he?" Kate asked, trying to act all confused.

"Oh, come on. You know who. James, remember Ugh!" Lily finished.

"Hah, oh, right. Hiiiiim. Oh, ummm… I have no idea…" Kate said, trying to sound like she had nothing to hid, but ending up failing quite miserably. She had her fingers crossed behind her back, hoping that Lily wouldn't notice.

"Hmmm…" Lily wondered aloud. She obviously didn't catch anything, so Kate let out a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, James was conjuring items and adding a few last minute touch ups. When he was finished, he stepped back and said "Ah, I'm finally done!"

He walked over to a table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. He let his head fall down on the table due to his exhaustion, and stayed that way for a moment. All of a sudden he sat abruptly upright and whipped out a roll of parchment, a quill, and an ink bottle. He began to write furiously, starting with a "Dear Lily," and cordially inviting her to dinner at seven o'clock p.m.

He began to conclude his letter with a "Love, James," when he heard an obnoxious bang. Suddenly, Peeves flew in through the wall with water balloons, and began to throw them steadily at James.

Peeves eventually ran out of balloons, but succeeded, by the fact that James and his surroundings were now completely soaking wet.

But Peeves decided that he wasn't finished. With a maniacal laugh, he pushed over the table that was freshly set with nice china dishes. The dishes shattered as they hit the ground, which made Peeves laugh even harder. James was standing there in shock, not knowing exactly what to do. Peeves threw a large wooden chair at James, causing him to duck down to avoid a serious injury.

"Thank God for Quidditch!" James said to himself. The chair, however, continued its short journey and smashed through the window.

Peeves had finally decided to end his racketful 'fun' with an "Oops, did I mess up your dinner? Sorry!" He flew out from the opposite wall in which he had come with his infamous laugh.

This left James by himself in the middle of the room with his nearly finished letter in hand. He looked around the room to see the devastation that had become of his three hours labor. He thought for a moment, checked his watch, and then cried out, saying that he didn't have enough time to fix it up again.

Oh, well, I'll just have to do this some other time, I guess." AT this he solemnly walked out of the classroom, disappointed. He kept his slow pace up the whole way back to the common room, where she saw Lily chatting loudly on his favorite sofa. Lily saw him and put her confused look on her face once again. She whispered something into Kate's ear which resulted in Kate turning to look at James. James didn't take any notice of this, and kept walking up the steps to his dorm.

When he climbed up the final steps, Sirius was on his bed, awaiting eagerly for his return. He immediately bombarded James with questions.

"So, how did it go? Did she show up? Did you kiss? Why do you look so disappointed?" He asked all of the questions so quickly that James didn't have enough time to answer the. It wouldn't have mattered if he had time enough to answer them, because he wasn't in the talking kind of mood.

James climbed into bed with all of his clothes on, pulled the curtains around him, and situated himself comfortably.

Sirius, looking slightly disappointed himself, walked from the dorm with a heavy foot. From James' bed you could faintly hear a long sigh.

Well, tonight was a total disaster because stupid Peeves had to come and destroy my little dinner I had spend three hours preparing. Well, I guess that I can just do the same thing tomorrow, but I think I'll do it in the common room while everyone's eating.

James got up very early (for him) the next morning so that he could write lily an invitation to dinner. When he finished, he read it over to ensure that he had used proper writing skills. He read:

My flower,

I'm inviting you to dinner tonight in the Gryffindor common room at six thirty p.m. Please come alone! Show this letter to the 'guard' and he will allow your entrance. I'll see you tonight.

Sincerely,

Your not so secret admirer

He rolled up the letter, gave it to his owl, and told him to give it to 'My flower.' The owl flew off right away to the Great Hall. He looked at his watch and noticed that breakfast had started 358 hours ago. Okay, maybe more like twenty minutes, but that's beside the point. He decided that he might as well go down, so he gathered his things and headed down to the Great Hall.

When he arrived, he noticed that the morning post was arriving. However, he failed to notice that Lily was not at the table at the moment, and he also failed to notice that his owl flew down to a brown, shaggy haired third year girl named Mya Flower.

James sat down in the middle of the table, alone, due to the face that all of his friends wouldn't awake for another hour.

He ate his breakfast in silence, which resulted in him finishing much before he had hoped. He sat back and relaxed, awaiting the arrival of his fellow marauders, until a certain female strolled in, allowing his attention to be lit like a fuse.

She sat down by herself and allowed herself to casually load her plate with a pile of food. James waked down the length of the table and sat across form her.

"Hey, Lily, how are you doing on this wonderful morning?" He asked as casually and normally as humanly possible. Lily shoved another forkful of pancakes into her mouth. She chewed several times and then tried to swallow the immense bite. However, she tried to speak to soon and began to choke on her oversized pancake portion. She went into a muffled coughing fit, which caused James' smile to fade into a worried look of fear and apprehension for the petite girl. He quickly drew his wand, pointed it at Lily, and yelled, "ACCIO FOOD IN LILY'S MOUTH!"

James, who feared that his odd spell wouldn't work, was taken by surprise when a glob of half-chewed pancakes immediately darted out from Lily's mouth and collided with his face. For a moment, he sat there, a little agitated, until he heard the gentle laughter emitting from the girl in front of him. He smiled, admitting that what had happened was in fact, quite funny.

They sat in each other's presence for a while longer, until Lily finally spoke up.

"Um, well, thanks for, um, helping me. That was pretty embarrassing," Lily smiled bashfully, blushed, and then quickly looked down at her food. "And, you may want to go wash your face off," Lily added with a slight giggle.

"Oh, right. Good idea. Well, I guess that I'll see you later," James said with a chuckle. He got up slowly.

"Yep, see you!" Lily said enthusiastically. James smiled and Lily smiled back. James quickly walked to the nearest restroom so that none of his friends saw him with pancake mush on his face.

(later that day)

James was in the common room putting some last minute touches to his exact replica dinner from the night before. He told Remus to guard the portrait hole, not allowing anyone but the girl with the letter through. He sat at the table for a few minutes and then sat straight and tall as he heard someone crawling through the portrait hole.

"It's nice to see you on this wonderful evening," James said enthusiastically.

"Oh, James, how did I know that it would be you? I just knew you'd fall for me sooner or later," said an unfamiliar voice.

"What?" James asked, confused.

The girl finally came through, showing James that it definitely wasn't the girl who filled his dreams. "Why are you here? Wait, who are you?" James asked, still confused.

"Well, silly, I'm here because you sent me a letter this morning. And, duh, I'm Mya Flower, who else would I be?" She said in a snobby voice.

"Whatever," James said, obviously annoyed.

"Well, are you going to sit me—" Mya began.

"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" James growled.

James looked over at the portrait hole as he heard several people crawling through.

"What in the world is going on?" James asked aloud. He suddenly realized what was going on and whipped out his wand. He immediately turned the common room back to the way it normally is, just as the first person crawled through the hole.

Within minutes, nearly the entire Gryffindor house was in the room. He quickly spotted Lily at a nearby table, scribbling down words on a roll of parchment.

He nervously walked over to where she was sitting and stood over her. Lily eventually acknowledged that he was there, asked without looking up, what he wanted.

"Did you hear me?" She said louder. "I said, can I help you?" She looked up to see a strange look on his face that she couldn't decipher. She suddenly snapped, yelling, "What do you want!?!" Lily stared, breathing hard.

"This," James answered. He leaned down and kissed her. Lily instantly leaned into the kiss also; yet it ended just as quickly as it came. "Will you go out with me?" James asked with a grin.

"What took you so long?" Lily retorted, with a grin of her own.

I'm so excited right now. I can't believe that it actually happened. So me and Lily are now dating. Thankfully, she was there after my second disastrous dinner. Stupid owl. Oh well.

And stupid Remus had to pee. What a lame excuse. He couldn't come up with a better one than that after spending seven years with me and Sirius? Man, we haven't taught him much. But boy was I glad that I got to get rid of that dumb Mya girl. What a hooker. Hah, kidding!

So, the next Hogsmeade trip is on Saturday. Woohoo! I'm psyched. I wonder how it's going to go…

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