The second Lily even put her foot in the doorway of her dormitory, Chloe nearly tackled her to the ground while squealing into Lily's ear drum.
"Lily!" She exclaimed loudly into Lily's ear causing her to go deaf momentarily.
"Chloe!" Lily screamed back. "What!"
Chloe looked like she had never seen Lily before in her life. "What do you mean what? Tell me about your date with Andy!"
Lily beamed back at the dark haired girl. The date had gone extremely well.
Andy had been very sweet and kind all throughout their outing to Hogsmeade that afternoon. Andy had held her hand nearly all the time as they went from shop to shop. He also kept leaning over and whispering in her ear to say that she was beautiful, all while squeezing her hand in a flirtatious way. Occasionally he would squeeze her petite hand too hard causing a searing pain to run from her fingers to her wrist. Of course Lily did not inform Andy of this fact for she did not want to ruin the romantic mood by bringing up a few moments in pain.
"It was perfect,"Lily admited blushing while pulling her auburn red hair out of her eyes,"Absolutely perfect,"
"Yay! Are you seeing him again?"
"Yeah, he asked if I wanted to study with him tomorrow for that Charms test we having coming up next week,"
"Oh shoot! I forgot about that. But anyway, did you guys kiss?" Chloe exclaimed eager for details.
Lily turned a deep red that clashed with her hair while she stuttered, "N-no. We only went out on one date Chlo. That would be rushing it just a tiny bit don't you think?"
"This is beside the point," Chloe said waving her hand absentmindedly. "I just wanted to ask since I'm extremely nosy and all."
"A bit too nosy," Lily said in a playful tone while sticking out her tongue.
After Chloe asked for every single detail about the date, resulting occasionally Lily's face to progressively resemble a tomato, the two girls decided to walk down to the Great Hall for dinner.
As they reached their Common Room, they noticed both James and Sirius appearing to be having a intense argument while Remus rolled his eyes every once in awhile.
"I'm telling you the truth, Prongsie." Sirius said dead serious.
"You're stating your opinion and your opinion is wrong. And don't call me that!" James added as an afterthought.
"But, Prongsie, I'm right about everything!"
"Since when!"
"Since I say so!"
Lily decided to intervene at this point.
"What are you guys fighting about this week?"
James and Sirius both spun around in mid argument to see the two girls appear behind them. Sirius flew over to them and gave Lily a bone crushing hug resulting in her being unable to breath.
"Bestest friend, Lilyflower! You love me riiiight? Tell Prongsie over there that I'm right!"
"Don't do that Lily! It will make his ego go up even higher than it already is!" James exclaimed.
"Well if you tell me what you guys are having such a heated debate about, I'll agree with who I agree with," Lily said trying to escape Sirius' death grip.
At this, Remus rolled his eyes once again.
"Trust me, it's one of the stupidest arguments they've had in awhile. The only one that beats it is when they fought about who was taller: Professor Flitwick or Jippy that house elf," Remus said.
"It's not stupid, Moony!" James exclaimed. "It's a very serious debate!"
"What IS the debate!" Chloe asked impatiently.
Sirius looked at both of them with a serious face and asked:
"If a bear and a shark had a fight, who would win?"
The two girls looked at each other incredulously. This could not be what they were fighting over so passionately.
"You're being serious right now?" Lily asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Well, last time I looked in the mirror I was," Sirius said innocently.
This time Lily rolled her eyes for both the joke and the subject matter.
"Obviously the bear would win. It can go on both dry land and the water; the shark can't," She said.
"Hah!" James exclaimed while Sirius looked crestfallen. "Pay up, Padfoot!"
Sirius grunted while handing over two galleons.
The next day, Lily rushed through the halls nearly dropping her bag full of books.
She was supposed to meet Andy to study nearly 10 minutes ago. She had been distracted by her friends and had not realized she was late for her study date. She hoped he would not be too annoyed with her for an understandable delay.
Lily spotted Andy sitting in a nearly deserted corner of the library with an open book. Only two silent fourth year Hufflepuffs concentrating intently on whatever they were working on. Lily liked the library minus the eerie silence at times. She usually just got her books and left unless she was meeting someone like now.
"I am so sorry," Lily said apologetically while sliding into a chair opposite the blonde haired Ravenclaw.
"What took you so long?" he asked seemingly nonchalant with a hint of harshness that was barely detectable. He did not even look up from his book.
"Sirius accidentally ate a sweet that turned his tongue purple. James and I had to hold him down to say the spell to fix it, but James accidentally jabbed Sirius' tongue with his wand which made it grow about a foot before we fixed that too," She explained avoiding Andy's intense icy stare since he looked up at her.
"I see. I'm just glad you're here now," Andy smiled sweetly while grabbing her hand. Whatever dark look Lily thought she saw on his face when she first arrived was now gone. Lily must have imagined it.
Lily smiled back flirtatiously while getting her book out of her bag.
"Thank you for not being mad or anything,"
"It wasn't your fault. It was Black's and Potter's," He said shrugging.
Lily frowned a bit since Andy addressed two of her closest friends by their surnames. But she brushed off the comment and began reading her textbook.
"Although, I don't see why that Lupin kid that always hangs around couldn't have just helped them out instead of you," Andy stated pointedly. "He's smart and should have known how to fix it. You wouldn't have needed to and you could have been here on time,"
Lily looked up slightly surprised and answered, "Remus wasn't with us. He was talking to Professor Slughorn about his homework,"
"But you could have just let him fix it later and met me on time," he said pointed out matter-of-factly.
"I guess I could have," Lily admited now realizing she probably should have done that instead of rudely making Andy wait.
"But it doesn't matter," Andy said flashing her a smile that made her blush and forget what they were discussing entirely. "So which spell did Flitwick say would be on this test?"
A week later, a grumpy James said at the Gryfindor table in the Great Hall. He was pushing his eggs around his plate distractedly while thinking of very unpleasant things.
Lily was still dating Andy Richardson. James had seen them walk around the lake nearly every other day on his way to Quidditch practice. It always gave James a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Not even flying could get rid of it. Usually flying on his broom would always make any bad mood vanish instantly. But not this one.
"Hi James!" Lily said sitting next to him causing James to start and drop his fork.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you," She apologized while smiling.
"Suuure you didn't. Just like you didn't mean to throw your purple slug at me in potions yesterday," James teased her.
Lily laughed, "It was accidentally on purpose for you melting my quill!"
"It's not like I meant to, Ms. Lilyflower," He joked.
"That's what you say now, Prongsie," She countered.
"Only Sirius can call me that...wait! I mean no one can call me that!" James exclaimed while throwing his hand up to cover his face in confusion.
"As you wish, James," She laughed at his sudden embarrassed and confused state.
He was about to reply but Andy had called out to Lily, "Hey, Lily! Come sit with me,"
"See you later, James," Lily said squeezing his shoulder in a friendly gesture as she walkd by.
James waved halfheartedly as she left the table to join Andy.
"What were you and Potter so giggly about?" Andy asked as jealousy flashed through his face.
"Nothing, it was just friendly conversation," Lily said innocently.
"You sure?" he asked suspiciously.
"Yes, why?" Lily challenged.
Andy suddenly laughed and said, "No reason I guess. So have I told you lately how much I adore your eyes?"
Lily smiled slightly embarrassed and caught off guard but managed to say, "Why thank you,"
Andy grabbed her hand quickly and started to lead her out of the Great Hall. Lily happily went along with him and pulled herself closer to him as they walked. Andy then put a strong arm around her shoulders to draw them even closer to each other.
Before they reached the doorway, Andy stopped and shot one look of annoyance towards James who was now back to sadly playing with the untouched food on the plate occasionally looking up at them.
"Why'd we stop?" Lily asked slightly confused at the sudden halt.
In reply, Andy cupped her face roughly and brought his lips down on hers.
Lily was shocked momentarily but smiled after a second and kissed him back.
"That's why," Andy said sweetly and turned to lead her back out the Hall.
As he saw all of this interaction, James felt a pain that words can not describe go right through his chest and settle in his heart which was now officially cracking.
*looks around nervously* Hi guys. Long time no see, huh? *ducks a tomato* I'm so so so sorry I haven't updated in quite a few months. I just got super busy plus I had writers block so again I apologize greatly! *ducks another tomato* This chapter wasn't good at all and I'm sorry for that too. Please give me criticism; I need them badly. Again sorry about the long wait!