Chapter 4 The "Date"

The week went by with a blur. Lily hadn't noticed that it was the weekend until her last class on Friday.

She yawned.

"Lily Herbology is….." said Courtney trying to say something positive, "so boring," she had given up looking for a word.

The bell rang.

"Dismissed," said Professor Sprout.

"Thank Merlin," said Courtney as they walked to the castle.

"What are we going to do tomorrow, Slughorn is the only one who gave us homework, us as in the Gryffindors," said Lily shaking her head in anger at the end.

"Give up on it, Slughorn hates Gryffindors, and I don't know we could hang out with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin," said Courtney in deep thought, even though she didn't know about the warning.

"But if we hang out with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin that means we have to hang out with James," said Lily with a worried face.

"Exactly," said Courtney with a huge smile.

"You sneaky little witch," said Lily with a smile on her face.

"Thank you I've always wanted that title," said Courtney sarcastically acting like a princess.

Lily smiled a laugh.

"And you know Sirius Black is pretty cute," said Courtney as they neared the castle.

Lily gave her a your-kidding-right look.

"What, he is cute," said Courtney.

"And you call me boy crazy," said Lily as she stopped looking at Courtney and started looking strait but turned back to Courtney as she finished her sentence.

Courtney's mouth dropped.

Lily laughed and Courtney soon joined in.

Then they reached the Great Hall and sat with Sirius and Remus.

"Hey guys," said Courtney as the girls sat down.

There was an empty seat between Sirius and Remus, so Courtney sat in front of Sirius and Lily in front of the empty seat. Then James came.

"Sorry I'm late guys," said James as he sat in the empty chair.

"No problem," said Sirius.

"So Sirius what are your plans for tomorrow," asked Courtney in a very flirty way.

"I think I'm just going to hang out in the common room, with this really pretty girl," said Sirius while looking into Courtney's eyes.

Remus pointed his index finger to his mouth.

"So…" said James.

"So…" said Lily, Remus seemed very interested in his drumsticks, he was also avoiding everybody's eyes for some reason.

"We have drumsticks again," said James, with a soft smile.

"Yeah we do," said Lily while blushing and smiling. Courtney gave her a go-for-it look. "So… um you have any homework," asked Lily while trying to make a conversation with him.

"I have Slughorn, Sprout, and Flitwick, I just can't get my feather to fly," said James giving a hint.

"Oh," said Lily not getting the hint.

"You wanna teach me," said James giving her yet another hint.

"I'd love to," said Lily blushing deeply she hope no one noticed but James did. This caused him to blush.

Professor McGonagall noticed the two blushing.

"Miss Evans, Miss Haveret, follow me," said Professor McGonagall.

Lily and Courtney got up and followed her. She let them to the other side of the table.

"You may eat here, good bye," said McGonagall as she left them to go to the staff table.

"What was that about?" asked Courtney.

Lily turned to look at Courtney and told her about the warning.

"Can they do that?" asked Courtney in shook.

"They already did," said Lily as she looked at the staff table that was now much closer to her.

"Too bad," said Courtney, Lily looked at her. "Too bad you already made your date," said Courtney as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Lily smiled at the thought of being on a date with James Potter.

"How do I look?" asked Lily as she turned around.

"Amazing, me?" asked Courtney.

"Incredible," said Lily with a smile.

"Come on we don't want to keep the boys waiting," said Courtney.

"So where are you guys going?" asked Lily as she and Courtney went down the stairs.

"We are going for a picnic by the lake," said Courtney while blushing. Lily smiled.

"Ladies," said Sirius, "Courtney are you ready,"

"Ready as I'll ever be," said Courtney as she took the hand Sirius had extended.

"Good luck," said Lily to Courtney.

"You too," said Courtney.

Lily went and sat in her favorite chair by the fire place.

"Ready to umm study," said James as he entered the common room from the portrait hole with a feather in one hand and his wand in the other.

"Yeah, did you bring your wand?" asked Lily.

"Yeah, so how do you do it?" asked James.

"You have to swish and flick and while doing that you say Wingardium Leviosa," said Lily as she put her hand on top of his on his wand.

He blushed which made her blush.

"So like this Wingardium Leviosa," said James, the feather he had brought started to float.

"There you go," she was about to release her hand when he grabbed it with the hand on the wand.

They looked strait into their eyes as he moved closer and closer. Their lips were about to touch. They were an inch away.

"I can't," blurred out of Lily's mouth.

He both moved back quickly as if he had never been rejected.

"It's quite alright," said James but the disappointment in his voice said that he really wanted to kiss her.

"I'm er so sorry," said Lily with tears running down her face.

"Don't be it's quite alright," said James again trying to sound happy. He wasn't very good at it.

"I'm going to go to bed," said Lily as she ran up the stairs, she could feel James's eyes following her.

"So how did it go?" asked Courtney 30 minutes later when she came to the dormitory after her date with Sirius.

"I said I couldn't kiss him, the words just blurred out," said Lily in shock.

"It's called a conscience honey, just kidding, I've always wanted to say that," laughed Courtney.

"I'm going to sleep," said Lily ignoring Courtney's last statement.

She went inside her bed and dozed off almost immediately.

A/N

i was thinking of making the next chapter some years later but how many,and what do you guys think??

REVIEW!! Thanks to FaeryQueenArupa, and i'm afraid of jellyfish for reviewing the last chapter!!

Till next chapter,

Ales