A/N: I only felt it fair to warn you that from here on the story has bits of fluff, but it is under romance.

Part Eight: The Date

James walked back and forth in the heads common room. He started to wonder how long it could possibly take girls to get ready for a date. After a few minutes of this, Remus got annoyed and pulled James onto the couch.

"You're going on a date, not getting engaged. Calm down." Sirius sounded partly annoyed and partly amused as he spoke.

"I'm just worried that she won't like our date, and she will never speak to me again." James sounded very worried, but Sirius still felt free to make a joke.

"You sound like a girl."

"I do not!" James sounded indignant.

"Actually, you do, especially with that last sentence that you said. Only girls talk like that." Remus gave James an apologetic look for siding with Sirius against James. James didn't seem to appreciate how they were siding against him.

"Why is everybody against me?!" James pouted and made an angry face like a toddler.

"Because you really talk and act like a little kid." James heard Lily's voice and turned around. He gasped in awe.

Lily was dressed in a pair of blue jeans that were tight enough to show that she was skinny, but loose enough to not be uncomfortable. Her jeans were bellbottoms. She had a tie-dye shirt on that fit her like the jeans.

She was wearing a little bit of makeup, which was more than she normally did. Normally she wore no makeup, so she really looked much more grown up and much better than she did in her robes.

James suddenly felt underdressed. He was just wearing his usual weekend wear. This was a pair of blue jeans and a shirt so baggy that the neckline went down so low that it showed the top of his chest. He hadn't told anybody, even the marauders, that this shirt had been his a few years before he started Hogwarts. He had weighed a lot more back then, but he had started playing Quidditch, which caused him to lose a lot of weight. His parents had enough money that he could replace his old shirts with many new ones, but he didn't want them to. Wearing those huge shirts showed him that he could do anything that he put his mind to. He kept wearing it over the years, especially when he asked Lily out. It had become symbolic of his chasing after her, and now that he got her, he wanted the shirt to witness the moment.

Lily looked at James. In those huge clothes, he looked as skinny as a stick. He didn't look bad at all though, so she wasn't ashamed of being there looking at him. He actually looked really fit, and she had to work to hide the fact that she was impressed. He really didn't look as bad as she had remembered that he had. She started blushing when he looked over and winked at her.

James was worried. All he had done was wink at Lily and she started turning red in anger. He really didn't understand that girl, but he supposed that it was the reason that he liked her so much.

He smiled at her and held out his arm, trying with all of his might to not show how nervous he was. "Shall we?" He was trying to imitate the gentlemen in movies that he had seen his mother watching when his father was at work.

Lily smiled. Who knew that James could act like a gentleman? She linked her arm with his, smiling. She felt like it fit for some odd reason. They started walking and didn't remember to look back for the others until they were outside of the castle, because they were each so absorbed in their own thoughts. When they did look back, they saw all of their friends standing in a circle about 50 meters behind them. The two walked beck because they noticed that Mary and Sirius appeared to be arguing, and the others appeared to be laughing, except for Peter, who looked weird as usual.

When they got back, they felt like they had fallen into a pensive. Sirius was asking Mary to Hogsmeade in the same way that James used to ask Lily, and Mary was turning him down in the same way that Lily used to turn down James. When Lily and James looked around at the other people in the group, they seemed to realize the same thing, and it was probably the cause of their maniacal laughter.

James saw it as a perfect opportunity to get Sirius back. "Good choice Mary. You wouldn't want to go out with a bed wetting thumb sucker." He smirked as Sirius realized what he said, and waited for the attack.

Sirius ran and tackled James. The two started wrestling on the ground and Lily and Alice tried to pull them off each other. They had no success until Remus started telling them that they were ruining Lily's date. As the two of them got up and brushed their clothes off, Lily high fived Remus for breaking the fight up.

James and Sirius apologized profusely to Lily, while she pretended to be angry. She stopped pretending when she couldn't contain her laughter at their reactions anymore. They started pouting, which only made everybody else laugh more. Laughter was like a disease with them, so before they knew it, James and Sirius were laughing too, even though they had nothing to laugh about. They all laughed so hard that they fell down. Peter was standing next to Lily, and accidentally fell down on top of her. She started getting creped out, so she looked at James with her eyes and tried to communicate that she wanted James to get Peter off of her.

James saw Peter fall on Lily and got a little jealous. He wanted to be the one that got to have fun with Lily. He internally breathed a sigh of relief when Lily looked over at him to get him to remove Peter. James stood up, flipped peter over, and picked Lily up in his arms. He ran towards Hogsmeade as Lily screamed for him to put her down. "Alright," he said as he put her down and immediately pulled her towards his chest to kiss her. He felt all the resistance that she had had towards him disappear. He had had his fair share of kisses over the years, but none of them could compare to this in any way. All of his senses wished that he could keep kissing her forever, but unfortunately he had to breathe. He pulled away reluctantly, his face shining with extreme happiness.

Lily could tell that she loved James after that kiss. It was…indescribably good. She didn't even want to put to words the feeling that she had, because words weren't good enough. She was so sad when they pulled away, but she used the opportunity to find another reason to laugh at James, and ran away.

A/N: Okay, I'm sorry that I didn't update over the weekend, but I wasn't allowed on the computer. Also, next chapter is the last chapter; it is an epilogue that begins a week after this chapter left off. I'm going to try to write that in the next few days so that I can post it on Thursday, but I have a lot of tests this week, so please be patient if I can't update until the weekend. Lastly, I would appreciate some reviews, as always, and remember that it is part romance, so don't complain about fluff.