Chapter 2

AN: I still own nothing…:(

I have decided. It's too dangerous out there. I will stay here safe in my dorm until the Hogsmeade weekend has officially started, then I will leave with the stray group of people who woke up too late. Then he can't ask me out. He can't ask me out if he can't see me, right? He can't can he? No…I will wait right here. Yes…yes that is what I will do…haha…Heheh….HAHAHAHAHA. Oh no. I have begun to let this take over my life. This worries me.
I am lying, huddled under my blanket rocking backward and forward in the foetal position when two people walk into the dorm chatting.
"Lily?" "Hello, Lily?"
Footsteps. A bright light floods my eyes as the curtains around my bed are torn back with a short sharp screech. The open space was filled with two bright faces-
"Rachel! Alice!" I half groaned, half exclaimed. Alice climbed onto my bed and tore my pillow away from me. "What on earth is taking you so long? We've been up for an hour! Have you picked something to wear yet?" She shouted into my ear. "No..Ah…Well…I have this plan to…" I began. "HURRY UP DARLIN WE ONLY HAVE AN HOUR!" I was dragged by my wrist out of bed by an over eager Rachel who had been gushing about her date for the past week, and had spent the whole last night picking an outfit.
"No! Wait! I'm avoiding Potter! You can't make me!" This comment was met with an long silence.
"Why?"
" Because I'm sick to death of being asked out by James Potter. Again and again! You have to support me on this!" I explained.
"Why don't you just accept? He could be worse looking…" Alice said slowly.
"Give it a go, what could hurt?" Rachel nudged me in the ribs and said "Mm have you seen his muscles?"
"Ooh and his eyes!"
"Any girl would take your place you know…"
"What are you worried about?"
"Oh if he asked me I wouldn't even hesitate!"
"He has abs!"
"Cause you would know!"
"Hey don't look at me like that!"
"And he's so funny!"
"He is totally hot!"
"Nah, I think Black…"
"Black, really? But James! Oh my god!"

I can only guess at what my face looked like at that moment, because I swear I half fainted. When I 'woke' I saw Rachel and Alice, now joined by Amberley and Chloe, tearing apart my wardrobe to find a summery dress to wear to match them as a group.
Amberley was holding up a strapless purple dress to the window, as if to decide whether it was too see through to wear without a cardigan, while Alice was examining a pair of strappy white heels. "We can't use that, the rest of us are wearing flats!" "No that dress is too short…" "Oh here we go!" Rachel said finally as she found a white maxi dress with gold patterned beads, which she threw at me along with a pair of gold sandals.

"Seriously guys? C'mon...I don't even know if this fits me."
"Put it on Lills!" And I was pushed into the bathroom by three pairs of hands.
15 minutes later I came out, outfit on, hair straightened. "How do I look?" I asked, with a mock twirl. The group gasped and clapped their hands. "You look fantastic! Come on lets go get breakfast."
"Get me a piece of toast, It's not safe outside yet!" I yelled to their retreating backs.
"Just come out you wuss!"
Its not safe…No not yet. Not safe…must not leave dorm…no…not safe…
I could hear James voice coming from the common room: "Oh LILY FLOWER! I know you haven't left your dorm yet! I'm coming up…"
And I heard the stairs turn into a slide and a loud thump as a large mass hit the carpet. Laughter echoed around the common room as I quickly closed the door, including the booming shouts of laughter from the rest of the marauder group.
I hastily hitched up my dress and climbed out the window before he could figure out how to get up.

I arrived in Hogsmeade an hour late as planned. I didn't see James anywhere on the way. I mean Potter. Ha-ha Isn't that great? I'm delirious. It's probably because I'm hungry. I didn't ever get that toast did I? Yes…waffles indeed haha. Have you ever tried walking on stilts? It's really…a…never mind... Wow, I really need to eat before I pass out.

When I finally realised where I was I had already walked into the three broomsticks and ordered myself some pancakes. It woke me up considerably, and I walk off to find my friends. Rachel would obviously be off with her date, which she would no doubt explain in detail tonight, but the rest of the group would probably have been dragged off to Honeydukes by Amberley who has un unhealthy addiction to sugar quills. I walk down the cobbled road feeling the sunshine and enjoying the warm breeze which lifted some leaves and blew my hair around my face.
It was quite peaceful, listening to people chatter away…
Hang on- Was that Potter's voice? I whipped my head around and saw a messy mop of black hair 2 metres to my right. Oh shit.
I ran and dodged people to escape to the other side of the street. Look, I know it is childish, but once you hate something you do anything to avoid that situation again, no matter how inconvenient or silly.

He saw me. "Hey Lily! I hear they're renting out the shrieking shack for couples…"
"Oh God no!" I ran desperately to the side and into a thin alley skidded across a wet patch and hid behind a few bins. I waited there for about 5 minutes, to be sure that he would be gone, and turned to leave.
I walked cautiously towards the street again, staring so hard at the back of Potters head that I didn't notice the boy sneaking into the alley until I ran into him. "Oh sorry!" I gasped in shock while dodging around him. I looked over my shoulder as I kept walking.
He was a tall boy with short brown hair, with a pigmy owl balanced on his shoulder. He turned back to look at me again and I noticed that he had two different coloured eyes.
He was wearing a white shirt over jeans and was grasping an envelope very tightly in his hand.
"Er- sorry!"
"What's a beautiful girl like you doing hiding behind rubbish bins?"
I blushed and tried to think of a retort. "Uh...I could ask the same for you?"
"Uh well I'm…Posting a letter. My Owl is lift-off challenged. Needs a head start, so I take it up to the roof of this building." He laughed, pointing at an old ladder attached to the brick wall in the corner of the alley. "Right, well. I'll see you round?" I asked. "Andrew. Hufflepuff." He stated, grinning. "I know who you are." And we stood for a while, just chatting.

"Well I better go post this letter or it will never arrive! Um…Yeah…Would…Never mind. See you!"
"Oh, well, bye!" I started to walk away hiding a smile. I reached the light of the street and turned to Honeydukes again. "Oi Lily!" and I felt something hit me in the back. I turned around looking for the guilty face of Potter but he was nowhere to be found. Instead, I found a ball of paper on the ground and reached to pick it up. 'Meet me at five at the lake? –Andrew' I looked back at the alleyway where he had stuck his head out and mouthed 'It's a date'.

I arrived at Honeydukes In 5 minutes to find Amberley buying a discount 30 pack of sugar quills and Alice and Chloe examining the Un-pop able bubble gum (Effect includes: Large purple bubbles that will not pop for over an hour). "LILY! What took you so long? You're an hour and a half late!" Alice shouted , then as an afterthought added "You know? I think I'll get these. Professor Binns won't know what hit him!". I grinned as the other two ran over to join me. "I got distracted." This was met by a confused and questioning look from all three of them, so I rummaged around in my pocket and pulled out the note from Andrew, unfolded it and held it up.

"OH MY GOD THAT IS ADORABLE! WHO IS HE?" "Andrew? Who is he?" "What does he look like?" "AWW That is so sweet!" And the group stole the note from me and ran away, trying to decode the message and figuring out who he might be. "What house is he in?" was shouted from the staircase. "Hufflepuff!" I shot back. "Wait…I think…I think I know an Andrew from Hufflepuff! What was his last name?" "Um, I don't know- He never said!" I said vaguely as I turned over a packet of Gummy ropes (Strong as steel candy ropes!). Chloe shot me a worried look. "Just..um...oh never mind."

I sighed and walked over to the toffee boxes smiling to myself- There were no secrets when it came to Hogwarts, by tonight everyone would know. I don't know whether or not to be glad about that or not yet! But whatever happened, I was excited as hell!

AN: What do you think? R&R! I tried to make this one a little longer.
Thanks for reading :)!