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Summary- James has always been in love with Lily, and Lily has always though that James was a bigheaded toe rag. It is there last year at Hogwarts, and James knows that it is now or never to finally get Lily. James even has the advantage of being head boy and Lily being head girl. Well we all know that he gets her in the end…but here is how he did it.
Chapter 4-Winter
NOTE: It's winter now. I didn't feel like writing all the stuff in between. But Lily and James are friends again, and they are now planning the winter ball. I really don't care about the junk that happens in the middle like during classes and stuff so yeah. I'm skipping ahead.
"I'm thinking muggle formal wear. What about you?" Lily asked James.
"Whatever you want, I'm not quite sure what that is, but I'll trust you." James said.
"Well it's much more dressed up then just dress robes, so people can go full out, and dress up. It will be fun." Lily said.
"Gotcha, so that's that, should we make up posters?" James said.
"Sure, I can ask Kendall to do that, she's good at art stuff." Lily said.
"Great, so is that it?" James asked.
"I think so." Lily said. "Listen I'm gonna go take a walk outside in the snow, wanna come?" Lily asked.
"Really? Sure." James said.
They walked outside, it was snowing, it looked like a fairy tale winter wonderland. James and Lily walked side by side, talking about random topics, enjoying the snow.
"I always used to just take walks in the snow when I was little. I guess I felt I could just get away from everything. All you see is white, and you kind of just feel alone, and away from everything." Lily said.
"Yeah I know what you mean." James said.
They walked silently for a while, then Lily noticed that James wasn't next to her anymore. She looked around and called his name. "James?" And then suddenly she was hit with a snowball.
"Hahahahah, you should have seen your face!" James called from behind a tree.
"You're going down Potter!" Lily yelled, hoisting a snowball at him. It hit him, straight on, in the face. Glasses soaked and all.
"Ooooooh. Look who's talking now!" Lily said, but then she was hit again with a snowball. "Oy! I'll get you for that!" Lily yelled, throwing a snowball at James.
They laughed, throwing snowballs at each other, ducking behind trees. Lily looked around, and didn't spot James anywhere, then suddenly, from behind her, James throws a snowball at her, and it gets all over her hair. She screamed playfully, and ran away, James throwing snowballs behind her.
"Alright, alright! You win, I give up!" Lily said. Then James stopped, Lily turned around and found James' face only inches away from hers. She got pulled into his hazel eyes and said slightly out of it and dreamy. "I give up."
James started to lean in towards her, he was just about to…BAM! Sirius had come outside and had just thrust a snowball at James' head, not knowing what he just interrupted.
"Sorry." James muttered, and then cursed at Sirius to himself. "I'm gonna get you Padfoot!" James yelled, hoisting snowballs at him. Sirius and James threw snowballs at each other for a bit, and then Lily thrust one at James, joining in on the snowball fight.
"Oy! Now both of you are against me!" James yelled, and threw a snowball at her.
James, Lily and Sirius threw snowballs at each other for a while, and then called a truce.
"Guys, I'm frozen, I'm gonna go take a shower and change, see ya later." Lily said and started to head up towards the heads common room.
Once Lily was completely out of site, James hit Sirius upside the head.
"Ow!" Sirius said. "What'd you do that for?" He asked.
"You idiot! Do you know what I was about to do right as you threw that first snowball at my head? And do you know who wasn't refusing?" James asked, half yelling.
"Oy, Prongs, I'm so sorry mate, I didn't know." Sirius said.
"No, no you didn't! Perfect timing mate, perfect timing." James said, walking up to the heads room.
James decided, as he was walking up to the heads room, that he was going to ask Lily to the ball. He couldn't wait any longer. "Truffles." James said, and walked into the common room. He slumped into one of the big chairs by the fireplace and waited for Lily to finish showering.
Lily eventually came out of the bathroom, dressed in a white robe and a towel on her head. She smiled at James and then walked towards her room.
"Hey Lily, could I ask you something?" James said.
"Uh sure, just lemme go change first." She said.
James waited patiently for her to come back out, and when she finally did, she was dressed in a white shirt and green plaid pajama bottoms. Nothing too risky, well of course James thought she looked beautiful in anything.
"So what's up?" Lily asked, sitting in the chair across from James.
"Uh I was wondering, about the ball…" James said.
"Oh I know," Lily said. "We have to go with each other, I just got the owl from Dumbledore."
"What?" James asked.
"The winter ball, head boy and girl have to go with each other. Some tradition or whatever." Lily said.
"Oh right, right, that, yeah." James said, even though he had heard nothing of this. "Well uh…" James said making some excuse. "I was wondering what you are wearing, cause um, I have to kind of match, I guess…?" James said.
"I'm not sure yet, but the trip to Hogsmead is this weekend, so when I pick something out, I'll let you know. Okay?" Lily said.
"Yeah, sure." James said.
"Well I'm gonna go to bed now. Night." Lily said.
"Night." James said.
Lily smiled and left. Although she tried not to show it, she knew that James was going to ask her to the dance. Thank god she had gotten that owl with Dumbledore's letter, or else she would have had no excuse. She also knew what James almost did, when they were outside in the snow. She just couldn't register everything right now, and had to play dumb.
Meanwhile in James' room…
"Uh! Why does nothing go right for me! I actually worked up the guts to try to kiss her, and try to ask her to the ball, but no! Both times, something goes wrong." James said aloud in his room. "Even know the Sirius is the reason I didn't get to kiss Lily, he's bound to know what to do. Where's my cloak?"
With that James found his invisibility cloak, and started to head out to the Gryffindor common room. But before he left, he realized something. "Hey, I'm a head! I don't need permission to be out late at night, I don't need this." He said looking at his invisibility cloak. But as soon as he said that, he immediately did need it. He saw Lily's door opening, and he quickly covered himself under his cloak.
Lily looked around, making sure no one was there, and of course someone was, but Lily couldn't see him. Then she went to the doors in the common room that opened to a balcony, and then led down stairs and outside. Lily opened the doors quietly, and headed down the stairs out to the snow filled Hogwarts grounds.
James was too curious, he had to follow her, Sirius could wait till another time. He grabbed a blanket off of the couch, and headed outside, following Lily.
Lily walked for a while, and then found a tree, the tree right near where her James and Sirius had a snowball fight earlier that day, and just stood in front of it, staring at the frozen over lake.
James waited a bit, and then came over next to her, and put the blanket he brought on her shoulders. She was a bit surprised that he had followed her, but she really didn't care at the moment. She was just staring out at the lake.
"I used to ice skate you know." She said, James looked at her as she said this. "I haven't been in a couple years, but I still remember how to."
"Why not?" James asked.
"Dunno. I just kind of stopped one year. I still have my skates and everything, I bet they still fit." Lily said.
"Well we should go! The lake is frozen over, not that I've ever been ice skating before, but you could show me right?" James said.
"Yeah, yeah I could. I don't know though. I haven't been in so long." Lily said.
"Well it's your last winter here at Hogwarts, if not now, when?" James asked.
"You're right. I should." Lily said, still staring at the lake.
"Listen Lily, I have something to tell you, I was going to tell you before, and I actually don't really need to tell you anymore, but I think I should." James said.
Lily looked over at him, and he was staring down at his feet. "What?" She asked.
"Well you know before, about the ball, well I never actually got Dumbledore's letter, I was going to ask you to the ball, but then you said the thing about how the heads have to go together, so I just went along with it." James said.
"Oh." Lily said, now looking at her feet, as James looked over at her. "Well it looks like we have to go together anyway, so it doesn't matter." Lily said.
"But it does matter!" James said. Lily then looked up at him. "If I had asked you, would you have said yes?" James asked.
"B…but I would have know that we were supposed to go together." Lily said, searching for excuses.
"But what if you didn't, what if we didn't have to go together, would you have said yes?" James asked.
'Damn.' Lily thought. 'Why does he have to do this to me?'
"Uh…I don't know." Lily said, looking away.
"Never mind." James said, and then started walking away.
Lily just watched him walk away. 'Don't do this to him, or yourself,' Lily said to herself. 'You may not want to admit it, but you want to go with him, you really do, and you are already, so why not tell him?'
"I would say yes!" Lily screamed, running towards him.
James stopped dead in his tracks, and turned around facing her. "You would?" James asked.
"If you asked me." Lily said, hinting James.
James sighed with relief. "Would you go to the ball with me Lily?" James asked.
"Yes, I would." Lily said.
James grinned. Lily quickly kissed him on the cheek, and ran away, up to her room.
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