Chapter 4

James was spending a lot of time in the library. The clown make-up was still on his face. It had been 2 weeks since Dallis Siobhan and Remus had cast the charm.

In James' opinion, the clown make-up wasn't too bad as he was used to being Sirius' main target for practical jokes.

In Lily's opinion though, the clown make-up was probably the worst of her problems. For the past 3 years she had been a dignified and proper Gryffindor prefect, now every time she walked out of her dormitory, people in the halls would point and laugh. Also, no one would laugh at James and Sirius since everyone was used to them being the main targets for practical jokes. There was always something odd about James and Sirius.

James was now looking at the book "Counter Charms for he Charmed". He was hoping he could trade Lily the counter charm for a kiss. At the moment he was concentrating hard and mumbling to himself. To anyone else, it would look like he was working for a change.

"No, no, no!" "I don't want to stop tap-dancing legs! Oh this is hopeless!" James muttered as he slammed his book onto the table.

James reached for another book just as Sirius came up behind him.

"Studying I see." Said Sirius casually.

James jumped in his seat.

"Sirius! I didn't know you were here!" exclaimed James.

"Or, are we looking for a counter charm for our dear Lily." Asked Sirius.

"Shhh, I don't want Lily to know."

"I just don't think it's honest," replied Sirius.

"Since when do you care about honesty?" asked James.

Sirius was about to reply when James suddenly jumped up.

"Yes! Found it," he exclaimed as he rushed out the library shoving the book into his bag leaving Sirius alone standing behind his chair.

James ran up to the common room hoping to find Lily there, instead he found Dallis and Siobhan whispering to each other, they stopped as soon as he entered.

"Where's Lily?" gasped James.

"In her room," replied Siobhan, "why?"

"Got something to ask her," said James.

"You'd better not ask her out again, she has enough problems as it is. Problem that are….quite amusing," snickered Dallis.

"Don't worry, I'm not." Shouted James as he ran up to Lily's room.

No later than when James had reached the 5th step, he was thrown backwards down the stairs by some kind of force.

"Oh yeah, we forgot to tell him," laughed Siobhan.

"The four founders thought guys were untrustworthy, so you can't enter our dorms." Dallis giggled.

"No fair," whined James, "you can enter ours!"

James would normally have started cursing but Lily appeared down the stairs.

"So, who tried coming up?" asked Lily.

Siobhan and Dallis pointed at James.

"Well good riddance to the jinxed staircase," stated Lily as she turned her back on James and started to leave.

"Wait. Lily!" yelled James. "I have the counter charm to the charm they-" gesturing to Siobhan and Dallis "-put on us."

Siobhan and Dallis started giggling.

"Really? I was wondering why you were spending so much time in the library, you don't normally work, do you?" asked Lily.

James ignored the insult and continued, "I'm only going to give it to you on one condition though."

"What?" Lily asked timidly

"I'll only give it to you if you kiss me."

Lily was stunned. She was torn between two decisions. She would rather kiss a rat then James Potter…but also she couldn't stand this stuff on her face. So she did something she thought she would never do in a thousand years.

Lily Evans leaned forward and kissed James Potter.