Chapter 4 – A Date to make it Right.

James found himself in the strange position of being nervous. Would she show up? After all, it wasn't entirely impossible that she wouldn't just to get her own back from the last time. According to his reckoning it was about 7:30 already. It really was beginning to look unpromising. What he couldn't understand though, was why she WOULDN'T come. After all, it wasn't every day James Potter asked someone out. Twice. Just as he'd almost given up hope though, he began to hear the sounds of her climbing the tower. There was no mistaking that Drill Sergeant march she'd perfected – much like the slow narrowing of her eyes and that ice-cold take-no-prisoners glare. When she reached the top, her face was mercifully missing that glare, instead she seemed perturbed, the pie she was carrying in her right hand making her look even more out of character.

"First of all," she snapped out before he could comment (good thing too because saying anything he was thinking would have landed him in trouble) "WHY exactly am I carrying a pie around?"

"Because," he whipped out his wand, turning the pie into a singled long stemmed red rose. "If you weren't then I wouldn't have been able to do that would I?" He said, handing her the rose.

An amused smile flitted across her face.

"Well," she replied softly, "It appears you were paying attention in transfiguration class after all."

"Of course," James bragged, "Didn't you know I'm the best scholar at this school?" They both laughed.

"What is this J.P?" Lily asked after a moment, without the usual smugness she used when calling him the name. It was – he believed – said with genuine warmth. With Lily Evans though, he could just be imagining.

"What?" He replied amused.

"This," she gestured around them, at the astronomy tower, at the sky above, and mostly at the picnic spread out on the tower floor. "Us being here."

"Well," James answered slowly, "How about we think of it as A Date to make it Right."

"A Date to make it Right," Lily repeated smiling, "You planning on feeding me tonight?" she laughed motioning to the picnic, "Or is this rose all I get?"


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