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Chapter 7

The next morning before breakfast Lily went to visit her friends in the Gryffindor common room. She told the whole story of the patronuses to Alex. She had been fighting against her own will to confide in someone. But when she was done she felt a lot better.

Just then Gwen came down the stairs from the girls dormitories.

"Oh my god guys!! The party is tonight!!" she practically screamed.

"I know!" Said Maddy walking down the stairs behind Gwen. "But only Gryffindors are invited 'cause McGonagall said we couldn't expand the common room. And otherwise there isn't enough room."

"That's too bad." Sighed Alex. She was a real partier.

"Lets get some breakfast." Shayla said startling them all by sneaking up behind. So they all went downstairs for some food.


The music was blaring. There were streamers floating in the air that were bewitched to twirl themselves into different shapes. Sparkling sliver confetti fell from the sky every five minutes or so. Some boys had helped Alex steal lots of food from the kitchens and there was an infinite supply of butter beer. Somehow someone had gotten hold of some fire whiskey and brought it to the party. People were saying that this was the best party thrown all year and everybody was having a wonderful. Alex even played some slow songs.

"Where's Lily?" Alex yelled over the music to Maddy.

"I don't know, I thought she was down here but I can't find her!"

"Lets go look upstairs!"

"Ok."

Alex and Maddy made their was through the crowd and up to the seventh year's dormitory, where all 5 of the girls had gotten ready for the party. They found Lily, in her dress, sitting on the bed looking bored.

"Lily! What are you doing? Your missing Shayla's awesome party!"

"I don't have anything to do down there. You two have boyfriends so you can dance, and Shayla's obviously the centre of attention since its her party."

"If you go downstairs, I bet someone will ask you to dance!" Maddy piped up.

"Yes, all you need is a little bit of mascara 'n stuff and then we'll go down, 'k?"

"'K."

Alex and Maddy used a spell to pile all of Lily's thick hair on top of her head, with a few curly strands falling down. Then they did her make-up. Lily was naturally pretty and didn't need make-up to look gorgeous, but with it she was simply stunning.

Alex and Maddy walked ahead, while Lily put on the small heels that matched her dress. Then Lily walked down to the party.

James had been talking to Sirius about which toilets were most likely to blow up when Lily walked down. He was speechless.

"L-Lily?" He stammered. Before any of the other guys who were staring at her could get a chance, he ran up to her.

"L-Lily? Would you like to dance?" Lily, shocked, was about to reply 'no' when she heard herself say:

"I'd love to dance, James-I-mean-Potter." James couldn't believe that she had just said yes and nothing rude or scornful. In fact she had said she would love to dance.

"Potter, it's not a slow song…" Lily said softly. But Alex say what was going on and immediately switched the music to a slow song.

"It is now!" said James grinning. He looked over at Sirius who winked at him. Lily looked over at Alex who flashed her a huge smile.

They started to dance, as did other couples across the dance floor. This was all making Lily nervous, she had really never done this before. James's heart was swelling inside him ready to burst, he was so happy. He'd been after Lily Evans since fifth year and now he was finally to getting her. Finally.

James put his arms around her waist. Lily awkwardly slid her arms around his neck. They swayed back and forth together. For the first part of the song Lily looked everywhere around the room but James. He knew she was avoiding him. But after a bit Lily started to feel embarrassed. He probably knew she wasn't looking at him on purpose. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I just looked at him once. She thought.

She looked up into his eyes. They were beautiful, a nice shade of amber. James looked back at her and she found that now she had looked she couldn't look away. Lily couldn't believe her self. James pulled her closer to him so they were practically hugging. But she didn't pull away. She felt herself liking this. His body, up against her body, so close. She could feel the warmth of his breath near her ear. She sighed. She could hear the song coming to an end. She wished it wouldn't. James held her tighter; he too sensed that this was ending soon.

"Lily…" he whispered in her ear. But then the song ended and she loosened her grip on him and he released her. Lily stepped away from him, and suddenly the world seemed clearer. As though she had been dancing with James in a little dream cloud where only they existed. She ran away from him and up to Alex's room.

What had she been thinking? It was Potter we were talking about here. Potter! She had danced with Potter. That wasn't supposed to be a good thing. But she had liked it. What was wrong with her? She didn't know. All she knew was that she had danced with Potter and somehow she had liked it.


James, too, had been in his own little world while dancing with Lily. But when the song ended and Lily inexplicably ran away, he came out of his bubble and heard himself say:

"Why did she leave?"

Sirius, as soon as the song ended, came up to James and said:

"Prongs, congrats, you danced with Lils! How was it?"

"What? Oh, right. Umm…it was amazing. We both went into this little bubble and…Well, I wish the song had never ended." James told Sirius in hushed tones.

"Nice. Now how 'bout we get ourselves some Firewhiskey!" With a shout, Sirius ran toward the drinks and gestured for James to come over. James, still in a half in his own little world, reluctantly came out and joined the growing group of Gryffindors crowding around Sirius.


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