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Chapter 4

Lily felt horrible about letting James fall in the mud. James had gone back to camp ahead, caked in mud. When the rest of them got back to the tents Lily went to look for James. She found him in the boys' tent.

He was standing with his back to her when she entered, wearing a pair of surf shorts and black t-shirt. "James, I'm sorry" Lily said, taking a few steps closer.

"Don't worry about it. It's not your fault."

As Lily got closer she could see that he had numerous cuts, scratches and grazes along his arms. Some looked serious. They must have come from the twigs in the mud.

She felt a new surge of guilt. "You're hurt" she said as she stepped next to him and started examining his arms.

"Oh, these, it's, it's just scratch. It's fine." James replied, wiping some blood from a particularly deep cut.

"No, it's not. These need to be cleaned." Lily said. "Sit on the bed, I'll be back in a sec."

Lily fetched the first aid kit from the bathroom. When Lily returned to the tent James was taking a splinter of wood out of his hand.

"Ok, I am just going to use some of disinfectant to clean them."

Lily placed some of the disinfectant on the cotton wool and then on the cuts. She could feel him tense as she rubbed the blood and dirt out of the cuts. She had, after 15 minutes, cleaned all the cuts she could see on his arms and legs.

"Is there any more I need to clean?"

"I think there are some on my back"

James just pulled up the back of his shirt. Lily could see a few cuts on his back and felt absolutely horrific.

"You will need to take off your shirt, otherwise this stuff is going to get on it."

James obeyed and Lily took in a sharp breath! He was HOT!

His chest was a lining of muscles and his stomach, a six pack! It was that type of muscles you see on a soccer player or rugby hunk. Quiddich had served him well.

Lily realized that she was still staring. She quickly occupied herself with the disinfectant bottle, praying that he hadn't noticed. Lily pulled herself together and blushing a deep crimson, carried on cleaning the last of the wounds on his back.

"Thank you, Lily. That feels much better."

"Your welcome, I need to go and make lunch before the others start eating the furniture."

With that Lily leaped to her feet and rushed from the tent.

Voice 1: You did not like that. He's James Bloody Potter, for heaven's sake!

Voice 2: Who are you trying to kid? He's hot!

Lily was standing at the kitchen counter, chopping tomatoes and having a horrible internal battle.

Voice 1: No, I have standards. You do not like him. Do you hear me Lily, you don't.

Voice 2: Six pack, gorgeous brown eyes, that hair…

Voice 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Voice 2: But he's being so sweet and gentlemanly and interesting and normal.

Voice 1: But you can't have a conversation with him, he's too immature.

Voice 2: Didn't you have a conversation with him last night?

Voice 1: Well, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Voice 2: Good thing he ain't a dog then, huh? He's a guy, a really, really cute gu-

Voice 1: No, stop it. He is James Bloody Potter. He's arrogant, self-centered, pompous, manipulative, mean, spiteful, stupid-

Voice 2: -sweet, cute, hot, funny, attractive, charming, yummy-

Voice 1: -selfish, egotistic, narcissistic, conceited, bigheaded, overconfident, vain-

Voice 2: -handsome and gorgeous.

Voice 1: But you won't have anything to do with him.

Voice 2: Yet.

Although Lily did her best to keep her thoughts from drifting to James throughout the lunch, she couldn't help but notice little details, like the way his smiled at her in thanks when she passed him a plate or the way he stacked his sandwich in colour order or how he laughed heartily at Remus' joke about a egg, a hag and a pub owner. But what she couldn't forget most was the tingling feeling that his touch left on her skin as he brushed past her.

What was wrong with her? You only act this way when you've fallen for someone and Lily was quite sure she hadn't fallen for James Potter. Maybe this was the reflection of her liking for somebody else, anybody else.

Lily sat brushing her fingertips over the spot on her hand where James had touched her, unconsciously. When she noticed this, she immediately busied herself with the cleaning up, while the rest went to change into swimwear.

As soon as the dishes were done and everyone had reassembled in the lounging tent, they set off for the farm dam. It was about a ten minute walk from the tents but this time they didn't have to climb over any barbed wire.

Lily did not swim in public, it was a way of life for her and if she did it was in a baggy T-shirt and long shorts. She was, as most girls her age, rather self-conscience of her body.

But somehow today she didn't feel like being slowed down by heavy, wet clothes. Instead she wore her favorite bikini; it was yellow with black trim that Heather had made her buy on a shopping trip, a few weeks ago. She thought she looked okay-ish in it although she still wore a pair of surf shorts over it.

The dam had a wall around it on three sides and the last side gradually sloped to the water. The sloping side was covered in thick beach like sand so they where able to lie on it. The dam's water was crystal clear as it came from an underground source.

Most of the girls spread out their towels on the side, while the guys proceeded to dunk each other. Lily kept the strappy shirt she was wearing over her bikini on, while lazing on her towel talking to Ashley and Stacy about the coming year.

Lily could see James' messy hair disappear under the water as four guy tried to dunk him. Lily smiled to herself as she continued chatting away, every so often throwing a glance in James' direction.

James caught Lily's eye a few times and flashed his most charming smile, making her melt.

After about an hour Lily started to feel like she was frying and dutifully got up to take a quick swim. She checked that no one was looking and slipped of her shirt.

She made a dash for the water and as she started to splash into the water. She was half way in when James and Remus swam towards her, both wearing mischievous grins. Lily knew what they were thinking.

"Don't you dare!" Lily gasped as they both disappeared under the water.

She had barely time to react when two pairs of strong hands lifted her off her feet and rather gracefully dunked her head under the water. When she emerged from the water, James smiled at her wickedly.

Lily said nothing but returned the smile before splashing them both so furiously that they spat out large amounts of water when she finally stopped.

This dunk-splashing continued for a while, both parties having fun. Eventually when Lily started to feel chilly she left the water, being joined by James. Lily lay on her towel absorbing the warm sun rays and talking to James and Kevin Quirke about Quidditch.

Lily playfully teased them by saying that Quidditch was a stupid game and delighting in their stunned face and quick retaliations about the importance of Quidditch on a global scale.

After a while Kevin drifted away and Lily was left talking to James, feeling quite content.

James was being regular again. It was working. Lily was laughing at his jokes and smiling as they spoke about stuff, just stuff. They were only interrupted once by Amy Smith who asked James to help put sun block on her back, while batting her eyelashes at him.

James looked slightly uncomfortable as he rubbed the sun block onto her back and immediately turned back to Lily the moment he was finished. This seemed to annoy Amy as she went to sit with her friends again.

The afternoon quickly faded and as they walked back to campsite James resisted the temptation to reach out and hold Lily's hand, although they were both wishing the other one would just do it.

I'm so sorry i only updated now. i know i said i'd update once a week but we've just moved house so it's still a mission to find my computer under all the boxes.

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