James
"Lily?" I asked when she stopped walking. "Lily are you okay?"
"I…this room…I'm at a loss for words. Come see for yourselves." She stepped inside and immediately I saw why she stopped walking. The common room was beautiful. It was decorated in a red and gold theme, and it had six of the most comfortable looking sofas I'd ever seen. There was a fireplace, three chairs around it and fluffy looking pillows scattered on the floor.
"Wow," muttered Alice as she entered.
"Yeah, I think 'wow' just about sums it up," Remus said. We looked around and saw that there were two large arches at the end of the room. Above one were the words "Head Girl" and above the other were the words "Head Boy".
"Well, I guess we know where we're supposed to go," muttered Lily as she walked though the archway labeled "Head Girl". Remus mimicked her actions with the "Head Boy" archway, and Sirius and Peter and I followed him while Jayne and Alice followed Lily. Frank just stood there looking lost.
"Uh, Frank you should probably come with us," I told him. "Unless you want your toenails painted sparkly pink with nail polish that doesn't come off!" I mock glared at Lily, who was doubled over laughing.
"That was so funny!" she laughed.
"Glad someone can see the humor in it," I muttered as I walked through the arch. Inside, there were five different doors. At the end of the hall, clearly Remus' room, was a big heavy-looking wood door. On the sides leading to it, there were four doors facing each other. Sirius had already entered one, and was bouncing on the bed. Peter was looking around his room, and Frank was just looking awkward.
"Frank, man. You're gonna have to loosen up. You'll be living with us and Sirius' weird behavior. Now, which room do you want?" I asked.
"Um, I don't really care. Why don't you pick. I looked in the first remaining room and gasped. There were pictures of famous quidditch players and a golden snitch carved into the headboard of the bed.
"I choose this one. Hands down." Frank looked relieved.
"Good. I was hoping so. The other room is so cool! It's full of books and potions equipment and a bunch of other cool stuff too! It's really neat!"
"Great, now you and Moony can have a geek slumber party! Maybe you could hold contests to see who can make the best potion the fastest!" I mocked as I jumped onto my bed.
"Moony?" Frank asked.
"Oh, Remus. Sorry, forgot you don't know the nicknames. I'm Prongs, Sirius is Padfoot, Remus is Moony and Peter is Wormtail. You don't have to call us by those names though." I sighed and rolled over on the bed. Yes! I love water beds! Frank nodded and left silently to go explore his geek room and I drifted off into sleep.
"Oh James. I'm so sorry for ignoring your obvious love for me for so long," sighed the girl in my arms. I turned my face down to press a soft kiss into red hair.
"I knew you always loved me," I assured her. "Though it is nice to hear you say it finally." She smiled up at me and I stared into beautiful emerald eyes. Without thinking, I dipped my head down, kissing her gently on full pink lips. I took me slightly by surprise, but she kissed me back. Lily Evans was kissing me back. She stood on tiptoe to whisper in my ear.
"James! Wake up! Jesus Christ man, wake up!" I sat straight up.
"Wha you want?" I asked groggily, rubbing my eyes. Oh shit. It was a dream. Damn it was a bloody dream! "SIRIUS! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"What? Why?" he exclaimed as he jumped off my bed.
"You interrupted my bloody dream you half-wit! Oh my God I'm going to kill you!" I screamed as I chucked pillows at him.
"James! Calm down!" he screamed back. "Oh, wait. What exactly did I interrupt?" he asked, wiggling his eyebrows at me. I hit him square in the face with a pillow.
"Shut up," I muttered. "So, what was so important that you had to wake me up?"
"Lily and company are wondering if we wanted to all meet in the common room to play truth or dare, or spin the bottle or something and get to know everybody. Oh, and I'm bringing Firewhiskey!"
"And Lily suggested this?" I asked skeptically.
"Well, Lily didn't. Okay, so maybe she isn't exactly sure what's going on, but Alice and Jayne and me and Frank and Remus think it's a good idea!" he protested. I grinned.
"Sure. Especially spin the bottle."
"That's my boy." We stood and left walking down to the inhabited common room. Lily was sitting on one of the red and gold pillows on the floor talking to Alice. Frank was sitting on one of the sofas, talking geek to Remus who was thoroughly enjoying himself. Peter was sitting staring off into space sitting by the fireplace, and Jayne was bouncing towards Sirius. Lily glanced up and for a breathless second green eyes met my hazel ones before she scowled and turned away. I smiled. She was so in love with me. Sirius attached Jayne to his hip and walked over to where the center of the room where people were mostly gathered. I followed diligently like a little puppy, and sat down in the circle that was forming. Lily looked across the circle and scowled at me.
"What are we doing?" she asked, being the only one that was completely clueless.
"Oh, nothing much. Talking, getting acquainted, playing truth or dare," Sirius said nonchalantly.
"What? I'm not playing truth or dare with you guys!" Lily screamed.
"Too bad Lilykins!" Sirius pulled out his wand, but before he could rope Lily, Alice and Jayne had grabbed her arms to keep her down. Sirius smiled and pulled out a bottle of veritaserum.
"Sirius! You aren't allowed to have that! And if I follow my Head Duties then I should confiscate that! And so should you, Remus!" Lily yelled.
"Come on Lils! I promise we won't tell anyone anything we find out! Even your deepest darkest secret! That you are really madly in love with James!" Sirius promised.
"Sirius Black! I'm not madly in love with Potter!" she scolded him and I felt slightly disappointed. Why? I already knew what she thought about me.
"Sirius, just start the game. We'll make her play," Alice said.
"Okay. Remus. Truth or Dare?"
"Dare," Remus said confidently. Of course he would pick dare. It's not like he could just tell everyone, 'hey, I'm a werewolf!'
"Okay-dokay! Uh, I dare you to…tell the entire Great Hall that you love Snivellus. Tomorrow at breakfast." Remus scowled at him.
"Fine. Uh, Lily, Truth or Dare?"
"Uh, Truth. I don't wanna be dared to do something weird and humiliating."
"Well you know Lilykins, sometimes the truth is more embarrassing than the dare would have been. Okay, here's my question: Have you ever fantasized about kissing James?" he asked, not knowing about Sirius' plan to get James and Lily together. Lily scowled at him.
"Nnnnnh! Nhhhh! Argh! I can't say it! Why can't I say it?" Lily screeched.
"Lilykins, you drank some of the veritaserum. The truth potion. You aren't allowed to lie!" Sirius crowed gleefully.
"Aghh! Why did I agree to this? Yes! I have fantasized about snogging James bloody Potter!" Lily screamed. "Happy now?" She stood up and stormed out of the room to her own bedroom. I stood quietly.
"I'll see if I can calm her down," I said as I left to find Lily. Sirius smiled encouragingly at me.
"Don screw it up, mate," he told me. "You probably won't get this chance again." I nodded and left.
"Lily?" I called quietly. When she didn't respond, I walked down the hall, and saw three dark wood doors. At the end of the hall was one that was decorated like Remus', so I figured it must be Lily's. I walked down to it and knocked.
"Lily? Are you okay?" I heard something thump against the door.
"What do you bloody want Potter? I'm not going out with you!" she yelled at me. I sighed.
"I wasn't going to ask you out. I wanted to know if you were okay. Is it so hard to believe that I care about your feelings?" I turned to leave, but stopped when I heard the door open.
"Thank you, James," she whispered. I turned around and saw that she was blushing. I smiled at her.
"Er, about what happened in the common room…" she trailed off. I raised my eyebrow.
"I just don't know why I said that," she tried to explain.
"Apparently it was the truth," I smirked. She blushed harder and shook her head vigorously, bright red hair flying in her face.
"NO! I mean, I just…I don't know. I guess you know now that I have thought about kissing you. But it was a long time ago!" I smiled again.
"I'm sure it was. Probably about five whole minutes ago!" I grinned and took a step forwards. "Your hair is beautiful. The moon is shining on it just right. You look like an angel, a beautiful angel with a halo of fire," I murmured as I kept taking steps towards her. She didn't move back, in fact, she didn't look like she could move at all.
"James-" she started to protest, but shut up as I pressed my lips softly against hers. She didn't move away in disgust, in fact she actually kissed me back! She snaked her arms up and wrapped them around my neck, pulling my face down closer to hers. When she finally decided that breathing was a necessity of life, she pulled back and sighed.
"So, was that as good as you fantasized?" I smirked.
"Well, I don't know. I didn't get a good enough taste," she teased back. "Though it was adequate."
"Adequate? James Potter is better than just 'adequate'!" I informed her, pushing her back against a wall and kissing her again. Oh god, she was driving me insane! She was so intoxicating, I needed her, and I realized that now that I almost had her, I couldn't let her go.
A/N: So? What did you guyses think? Did Lily start to love him too fast? Should I have her fall for some new student? Give me ideas people! Oh, and thanks to "Gilligan" and "luv-icecream-hyper" for reviewing! Thankyou! Reviews make my day! Oh, and to my betas, if you're reading this, I'm sorry I didn't send it off to you first, but I really wanted to publish it!
