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Chapter Three- It's Amazing

"Oi, Lily!"

Lily jumped up slightly in her seat as her name was whispered from behind her. She had previously been lulling in and out of consciousness as her History Of Magic teacher, Professor Binns, ranted about the first types of wood used to make a wand but the sound of her name being spoken woke her right up.

She turned around slowly as to not attract the attention of her professor to face James Potter. "Yeah?"

"Hi," he said, flashing her one of his infamous grins.

"Hi." She replied, rolling her eyes before turning back to face forward in her seat. She noticed however, during the process, that she was not the only one who had rolled their eyes. Emma sat next to her sporting a disgusted look at James.

"What?" Lily asked her rather defensively.

"Nothing," She replied, turning her as much of her attention as she could muster to the teacher.

Out of the corner of her eye, Lily could see James sticking his tongue out at Emma. She laughed, and Emma turned towards her once more.

"What's so funny?"

Lily shrugged, giving off her best attempt at nonchalance. "I don't know. I'm pretty bored though, I think I'm going to go to the bathroom."

Going to the bathroom was one of the most common things to do during History of Magic. In fact, it was right up there with sleeping from bell to bell. Professor Binns never really seemed to catch on to the fact that a large portion of people just 'went to the bathroom' to save themselves from ennui, however he did occasionally mutter about how kids these days needed to stop drinking so much squashiea juice.

Whatever that is.

Lily left the room a few minutes later after finding a long enough lull in the lecture to raise her hand. She began wandering aimlessly down the hallway for several minutes, and was about to turn back when she heard her name being called from behind her. Turning, her eyes met James, who was meandering towards her like he had all the time in the world. His walk fit his personality, Lily supposed, as when she was with him it felt like she did have all the time in the world.

"Ditching class, I see." He reprimanded, grin still glowing vibrantly from his lips.

"Oh yeah, me being the rebellious person I am I couldn't help it." Was her sarcastic reply.

He chuckled, falling into the pace of her footsteps. "So, where were you headed? My vote is to the kitchens."

"Actually," she replied "I was just going to go back towards class about now."

James shook his head and made a jokingly condescending 'tsk' noise. "My dear Lily, you've still got so much to learn. Follow me."

He continued to walk down the corridor in the direction of the painting of the bowl of fruit, but Lily had not budged. She was caught in between being the good student that she was and having fun. When he noticed she was not beside him, James turned and raised an eyebrow.

"Coming?"

She was frozen in place. As much as she loved going to the kitchens with James, and as deeply as she hated History of Magic, ditching class was highly against her morals. There was a fine line between wandering for a few minutes and gallivanting around the castle all class. "Sorry, but I'll pass."

His grin did not falter. "Oh come on, they've got chocolate cake and strawberries and peanut butter and all of your favorite things."

Alright, so maybe she wanted to join him at the word 'chocolate'. But the thing was, loosing respect for herself trumped not getting to eat cake on the shitty scale. "No thanks, but tell me how it is." She turned in her place and began walking in the opposite direction of James. Although she was really into James being her mate and all, Emma warned her not to let Lily become a follower of him. According to her friend, James Potter turned girls into buffoons and she was afraid that Lily would change herself to please him. So, of course, Lily had to prove her wrong.

She had not made five steps forward when James fell once more into step with her. "You're a goody-goody, you know that?"

She nodded, but didn't respond.

"Usually, I hate goody-goody's." she nodded again. "But I don't hate you."

Lily suppressed the urge to laugh at his confession, trying to keep her face straight and stern so that she wouldn't fall into the trap that Emma was sure he would set up, "Good to know."

"No really," He insisted, grabbing onto her arm to stop her movement. "You're so different from anyone I've ever met."

This time she really did laugh, "Is that your way of kindly saying I'm some sort of freak?"

"Well… yeah." He joked, losing the seriousness of the moment altogether as they began to walk down the hallway once more. "I just thought you should hear it from a friend first."

"How considerate of you. While we're on the topic of honesty, I should probably tell you a few things as well."

"Here we go," he mumbled teasingly, knowing a rant was approaching.

"First off, you're robes. They're always so damn crinkly! Seriously Potter, do you ever iron them?" The look he gave her clearly stated 'no', so she continued. "Well you most certainly should start. Then whenever you eat you've got this horrid habit of chewing loudly. You should probably fix that," He laughed, not at all phased.

"…Then you need to stop getting in trouble so much. It will look horrible when you go to get a job and you've got perfect marks across the board but underneath there's an asterisk with the words 'most detentions Hogwarts has ever seen'."

"Actually," he cut in, "That would be quite the honor."

She rolled her eyes and made to continue but he interrupted once more. "Is there anything you actually like about me?"

Lily thought for an overly staged, good-natured moment. Obviously, there were a million things she could choose from to complement him with; as in all honesty he was one of her favorite people, despite the fact that they hadn't known each other for more then a few months. Yes, she had plenty she could say, but pausing for dramatic effect just seemed like more fun.

"I suppose your hair's alright."

James stopped in his tracks for the second time during this walk, surprised at her declaration. "Seriously?"

Lily raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"That's the one thing I thought you hated most about me." Was his honest comment. His hair was always all over the place and messy, and Lily seemed like the kind of person who would like calm, perfectly placed locks.

"Naw," she corrected, reaching up to toy with it as they stood in their fixed positions in the middle of the corridor just a little ways from the classroom. "You've got amazing hair; it fits you so perfectly."

"So you think I'm amazing?" He asked, grinning. Realizing what she just implied, Lily blushed slightly. However he just laughed and pulled her in closer to him, his hands resting on the small of her back as she continued to run her fingers through the hair on the back of his head, dropping her arms lazily on his shoulders.

"Of course I don't," was her stubborn reply. "Do you think I'm amazing?"

He didn't even need a moment to think. "Obviously,"

"Really?"

"Well…obviously."

Lily grinned contently. "Well then," she said, trying not to sound too pleased with herself. "We should probably get back to class…"

"Yeah," James agreed, but the grin on his face let her know that he had no intentions of moving from that spot.

A/N Ahh, I wish I had my very own James Potter. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Anyway, please review, or I won't update! Hah, that threat could backfire so easily. I'm in an odd mood right now, I only slept three hours last night, and the lack of sleep is definitely taking its toll on me.

Anyway, special thanks to all who reviewed for the previous chapters including IluvvRemusshetlandlace, Johanna Black, sara, Lady Padfoot21, broadway babe, Aurora, and also to ajteel0203 for reviewing both chapters! I reckon I'm about to go right now and check out the stories of all who reviewed. And if you don't have stories… well I suppose I'll just stare at your blank profile page. Hah.

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