Chapter 3- You're not allowed to hit me
Sirius led James into the entrance hall to wait for Lily to come out of dinner.
"Ok, look at me." James turned to face Sirius who started prodding him and pulling at his hair and clothes.
"There… Well I suppose that's as good as it's ever going to be. Now what are you going to say to her?"
"I was just going to ask her to go to Hogsmeade with me."
"Ok, that's fine, but I have a few things you need to put in there."
James could tell he wasn't going to like these 'few things'.
"Like what?"
"It's not much. Just, at some point, you need to tell her that you are sorry for being a jerk before and you promise you will try and change. And you need to look like you mean it."
"You want me to say she was right about me being a jerk? No chance!"
"No time to argue Jamie, she's coming. Just do it."
James glanced over at Lily and sighed.
"Ok ok. Sometimes I think you enjoy watching me suffer." He turned away and hurried over to where Lily was standing looking at the house point glasses.
"Hi Lily."
Lily saw him and groaned.
"What do you want now?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to go to Hogsmeade this weekend… with me I mean."
"Now why would I want to do that?"
James mentally started to strangle Sirius. He had put him through all that pain for nothing. Lily still hated him. He was about to walk away when he decided he might as well try one more time.
"Listen Lily, I'm really, really sorry I was a jerk before. You were right, I was stupid. But I'm trying to change. Please give me a chance."
Lily looked him over and decided he was being honest.
"Ok. I'll see you Saturday then." She walked away leaving a stunned James Potter standing in the middle of the entrance hall. He spun round and bounded up to Sirius with a big grin on his face.
"IT WORKED!!! SHE SAID YES!!! I love you! You are the best mate EVER!"
"I know."
James carried on jumping up and down and hugged Sirius hard, squeezing all the air out of him. When he let him go he noticed that he was about to crack up laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"You."
"Why?"
"You want to know a secret?"
James was curious.
"Go on then."
"You aren't allowed to hit me."
"Ok what is it?"
"Well… Lily doesn't care about your hair or your clothes or any of that stuff. You just had to stop being a jerk."
James didn't say anything but his grin slowly started to disappear.
"Now James, you promised you wouldn't hit me. You can't break a promise."
"You mean to say none of this was really necessary?"
"Well… no not exactly…"
"So why did you make me do all that stuff?"
Sirius backed away up the stairs.
"SIRIUS!"
"Well… Honestly… it was just really funny."
James ran up the stairs after Sirius who was laughing and screaming at the same time and jumped on him.
"Prongs stop! You promised!"
James got off him and nodded in agreement.
"You're right, I did. Sorry."
He jogged off in the direction of the common room leaving a confused Sirius lying on the floor gasping for breath.
Sirius didn't see James again until he went to bed and by then he was acting normally again so he got into bed without asking any questions, to tired to notice the secretive looks between James and Remus.
The next morning, Sirius woke up and rubbed sleep out of his eyes. He went into the bathroom to brush his teeth. As he looked in the mirror he noticed that something was wrong. He rubbed his eyes and looked at his face and screamed. Someone had put make-up on his face in the night. He looked like a girl!
He ran into the dorm and jumped on James' bed, yelling at him. James laughed as he wrestled him to the floor and Remus rolled his eyes and turned over to go back to sleep. He would break them up later.
THE END
