1Chapter four:

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"Look! This weekends a Hogsmead weekend! How did I manage to overlook that!" yelled Jenny tearing the notice off the board. One magically replaced itself. It was Friday and tomorrow was the day of the visit.

"You've just been busy with school work and that's nothing to be ashamed of!" said Aphrodite indignantly.

"Yeah, yeah...who should I ask this time?" she stated brightly.

"I think you should wait for someone to ask you." said Lily. They walked over to their favorite place by the common room fire and curled up in the three plushiest armchairs.

"Wait for someone to ask me!" yelled Jenny appalled.

"Yes!" replied Aphrodite. Jenny looked to be considering it for a second.

"Maybe. How about you Lily?"

"What about me?" she replied suddenly looking scared.

"You going to ask anybody?" Lily laughed.

"Who would I ask?" she said back exasperated.

"James."

"James!"

"Yes. J-A-M-E-S. James." Lily looked hesitant.

"Only if he asks me."

"No prob." she leaned her head over the edge of her chair directing her voice towards the windowsill where the marauders where chatting. "Oi! Potter!" he turned at his name, "ask Lily to Hogsmead, alright?" He and Lily blushed crimson at the same time.

"Alright. Will you join me in Hogsmead, Lily?"

"Alright." she copied, smiling shyly. He turned back to talk with his friends, a sudden smile lighting his features.

"See? That wasn't so hard was it?"

"No. Not at all." replied Lily sarcastically.

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"Don't you think the ringlets are a little much?" said Lily eyeing her reflection doubtfully on the morning of the Hogsmead visit.

"Absolutely not." replied Jenny matter-of-factly. "I think Aphy did a smashing job on your hair, and me with your make-up if I do say so myself. And I do." she smiled. Lily was wearing a purple, short-sleeved dress that went down to her knees, and she fingered the beautiful amethyst raindrop with the silver chain that adorned her other-wise exposed neck fondly; She had received it the previous morning with another love note and decided now was a better time then any to wear it, as it matched her favorite dress. Aphy had set to work early that morning, spending an hour on Lily's hair, first curling it into ringlets and then pulling the ringlets up in a sort of ponytail.

"You look lovely." said Aphy from her bed. She didn't make much of her appearance, only wore a simple baby blue silk button up, a pair of dark jeans, and diamond studs. She pulled half of her ringlets up into a ponytail so that half was up and half was down. Jenny finished applying mascara to her eyelashes and stood up to her full height inspecting herself in the stand-up mirror. She decided on a blood-red off the shoulder sweater that looked lovely on her tanned complexion, also a pair of dark jeans, and black strapped high heels. She straitened her hair and made some parts fall onto her chest and the rest on her back.

"You two ready yet?" asked Aphrodite in a bored voice.

"Yes." said Lily twirling and watching the frilling end of her dress twirl with her.

"Not quite." replied Jenny who started to apply more lip gloss onto her already reddened lips. The other two girls groaned good-heartedly then Jenny finished and slipped on her thin-framed lenses. They exited the dormitory with their galleons jingling in their purses and entered the common room.

It would be too cliche to say that many people gasped at their entrance, but hey, this story's here for fluff so, CONTINUING!

"Hello James." said Lily sweetly and James just continued to goggle at her appearance. She laughed in her head and took his hand. He smiled, breaking out of his reverie and squeezed her hand softly.

"M'lady?" said Sirius offering Jenny his arm. She looked at him skeptically.

"What are you playing at, Black?" she asked smoothly. He just smiled that charming smile of his.

"Well, if you haven't noticed, those other seventh years over there are eyeing you quite hungrily and pervertedly." he replied matter-of-factly and not bothering with her last comment. She suddenly looked guilty as she took his arm and a plan formed in her head. She stood on her toes and gave him an unexpected kiss on the cheek whispering "thank you Sirius..." then quite loudly and obviously, "thank you Sirius for asking me to be your GIRLFRIEND" with a false smile. He just shook his head at her, laughing, but decided to play along cause it looked fun.

"Your welcome, Jenny, and don't forget that promise I made you!" he said at the same volume.

"And what's that dear?"

"That I'll hex anyone who even dares to look at you!" he replied smirking and the perverted seventh year boys quickly looked away as though nothing had happened and engaged themselfs in conversation. Sirius and Jenny burst out laughing, receiving odd looks form the rest of their common room mates, and their friends just shook their heads laughing.

"Oh Merlin, Padfoot–you two sound like a married couple." said James, wiping at his eyes with his free hand pretending that he was crying with laughter when he really wasn't. That made Lily laugh harder, almost to the point of snorting.

Then, suddenly, Remus pulled Aphrodite aside. She looked at him mildly surprised.

"Hey, I know this is short notice, but I've been trying to work up the courage to ask you and now I finally have." her eyes widened. "I'm not proposing!" she let out the breath she didn't know she was holding with relief. "But I would like to ask you properly if you would like to accompany me to Hogsmead." she smiled and nodded her head.

"Of course." a grin adorned his features and he immediately picked her up and twirled her in the air.

"Its almost feels like you've proposed." she said truthfully. He grabbed her hand, but not roughly, and they ran to catch up with the others.

"I'm glad I chose not to wear stiletto's today!" yelled Aphrodite. Remus turned his head, still running, and gave her a questioning look.

"What's a stiletto?" he yelled back and realized, unfortunately, that a stitch was forming in his side.

"It's–nevermind!" she laughed out and also noticed a pain in her side. They made a mad dash to the giant oak doors at the front entrance of the school and just barely made it into the carriages.

It was a beautiful bright day, with fluffy white clouds that looked like stretched out marshmallows, and the sun poured down warmly, comfortably, and encouragingly as the six friends entered the only all-wizard city in England and made their way into Honeydukes. They explored through all the sugary sweets occasionally 'ooh'-ing and grabbing something off the shelf, adding it to their ever-filling basket when-

"Ooh! I love those!" Lily pointed to a bar of chocolate on the top shelf that read: Alfred's Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Bars. She stood on her tip-toes but couldn't reach them, so she started to jump up over and over again. She stopped and huffed, putting her hands on her hips and squinting accusingly at the bars of chocolate that seemed to be mocking her along with the "Mock Balls" on the shelf behind her that were having a field day, rolling around laughing with their little mouths (and no eyes or nose) at her feeble attempt to reach the beloved chocolate. Before she could jump one more time, a hand reached over her shoulder and easily picked up one of the bars and handed it to her with his eyes twinkling. She glared at him.

"I could have easily reached that James."

"Sorry. It just looked like we'd be here all day if you kept that up." he replied to her rude comment almost good-naturedly.

"Hey! Its not my fault I'm short!"

"Actually it is. And for lying, I get to pay for it." he said snatching it clean out of her hands and walking nonchalantly to the register, setting it down on the counter along with everything else he was buying. The man at the counter nodded to him and handed him the bag of sweets. James turned around to a still-glaring Lily though now she was smiling.

"I hate you."

"Then why did you agree to go out with me?"

"I never said I'd go out with you!" she pointed out.

"True, true-" he replied distractedly. "But if you hated me you wouldn't have agreed to join me here in this lovely place known as Hogsmead, would you?" he said rasing an eyebrow. She started to rase her pointer finger to object then gave up, smiling and snatching back her chocolate, opening it and taking a sweet bite out of it. They left the other four and exited the shop, heading in the direction of The Three Broomsticks. Lily held out her chocolate,

"Want a bite?"

"Sure." he said breaking off a piece and stuck half of it in her mouth. Before she could say anything, though she raised both eyebrows in a sort of shock confusion, he leaned down and put his lips around the part that wasn't in her mouth, lightly brushing her own lips as he did so, breaking off the piece with his teeth.

She slowly swallowed her melting piece of chocolate.

"What was that for?" she asked quietly. He just shrugged and held the door of The Three Broomsticks open for her to enter. She did and quickly stole an empty table as the pub filled with more people. James joined her, taking a seat across from her and neither of them noticed a boy scowling at them from the doorway.

"I'll go order our drinks." said James and left the table in the direction of the bar. Someone, who wasn't James, immediately sat down in the vacant seat that belonged to James. Lily goggled at him for a second, then glared.

"Diggory."

"Lily!" Amos muttered desperately, "I need you back! I love you! Why did you leave me! I thought you loved me back!"

"Well, Diggory" she replied with much restrain to what she really wanted to say. "It may have to do with the fact that I stumbled across yours and Blacks half naked bodies in a broom closet on the forth floor while I was patrolling, one dark and stormy night."

"I don't recall it raining that night..." he said thoughtfully.

"Its to emphasize how I felt after the incident." she replied coldly, holding out every syllable in 'incident'.

He shook his head distractedly, "Nevermind that," he grabbed her hand that was lying on the table, squeezing it a tad bit tighter for her liking. "I thought we were over after that, especially after just witnessing you and Potter outside but, please, just think about taking me back." she looked at him coldly.

"Why do you want me back now?" icicles hanging off of ever word she said, he gave her another desperate look.

"Well–I thought I might still have a chance, if you dumped Potter that is–"

"James."

"Whatever–but now that I see you two it makes my heart hurt and scream in agony and-and-"

"Black dumped you for Malfoy." she said smirking, and also wondering what was taking James so long with their drinks.

"Well...that too." he admitted, studying his and her hand shamefully then grinned. "Come on, lets go somewhere–" He started to pull her out of her seat. She wrenched her hand free, looking at him as if he just spouted another head.

"I will do no such thing!"

"Come on Lils–" She pushed her chair back so hard it fell over and the people around them were looking around in surprise.

"Do NOT call me LILS!" she whipped out her wand and waved it furiously at him sending him flying out the now open door. Some of her hair was falling out of its elegant ponytail by now and she was breathing very fast. She sprinted out the door and just faintly heard a "Lily! Wait!" but she just kept running down the street, receiving many odd looks from passerby's.

Suddenly a hand wrapped around her upper arm.

"LET GO OF ME PERVERT!" She whipped around and suddenly looked sorry seeing James concerned and confused expression.

"I-I'm s-sorry James–"she started, about to cry, when he wrapped his arms around her now shaking body.

"Lets go talk somewhere private, Lily." he whispered soothingly. He kept his arm around her shoulder and led the way into the forest that separated Hogsmead from the lake with the giant squid. He noticed a large rock ahead and led her to it, sitting her down gently and seating himself next to her.

"What happened?" he asked softly. She sniffed, though she had stopped crying the second he wrapped her up in a warm hug. She explained how Amos had taken his seat, told her many different ways that he still wanted her, then how he wanted her to go somewhere with him, and all the while James just listened, his expression turning more steely as she progressed with the story.

"James," Lily said, after the silence that had come, while both of them sat thinking after her narrative. He looked up at her, his brows still furrowed in thought, but gave her his full attention.

"I want you to prank him." his brows furrowed more. "Do something horrible-" she was glaring at nothing and her voice didn't sound like hers. She groaned loudly and put her head in her hands.

"Its weird." she muttered, "Its like-like I want to torture him, make him pay-pay so much-that I kill him." she suddenly sounded scared. "Why am I thinking this?" she whispered fearfully. James face looked nothing BUT concerned now, though there was a little curiosity in his gaze. She kept muttering things like "Why? Why am I thinking these horrible thoughts?" and he suddenly hugged her again and she calmed.

After he released her from his grasp he gently kissed her forehead. She laid her head on his shoulder and he wrapped his arms around her again, this time just the two of them sitting there in their comfortable position and just enjoying each others quiet company.

"THERE you are!" said a voice behind them. They quickly pulled apart to see their four friends smirking at them and Sirius looked ready to burst. At seeing their faces though Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"What happened to you guys?" he asked. Lily looked teary-eyed again and then burst into tears. Sirius looked horrified.

"What did I say!" he yelled as James pulled Lily into another comforting hug to calm her down.

Suddenly a booming voice sounded in his head but was unheard by everybody else:

"We'll talk about this later Padfoot"

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Okay, to answer a few questioning parts:

AT the beginning of this chapter it says that Lily puts on the necklace with the amethyst raindrop; on the last chapter it shows that James asks what her favorite gem stone is and they answer him with AMETHYST, so I am implying that that morning or the day before or whatever that thats the present James gave her for that day.

ALSO, I think I put in the second chapter that Lily's previous boyfriend was Amos Diggory; there you go.

SOMETHING else I think might have confused you was that the Honeydukes was not one of the questions; I thought about it and decided it would just be something nice that James does for Lily, even if he is sort of mocking her height in the process.

I hope that answered any of you reviewers questions, cause otherwise, I cant think of anything else to confuse you.. I hope in the future I can make it more clearer and readable.

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