Disclaimer: Anything familiar I don't own! James Potter and co. belong to J. K. Rowling. One scene in this chapter is taken from the movie Dirty Dancing.
Lily and James, Lovers? I Think Not Ch. 10
"Professor McGonagall!" exclaimed Snape "Lily and James were behaving inappropriately in the corridors! Give them a detention!"
"And what were they doing, Mister Snape?"
"They were kissing and snogging!" said Snape
"Excuse me?" asked Lily incredulously
"What?! Despite what you may think Snape, Lily and I are not a couple! It just seems that way." Said James
By now, a crowd was forming to see what was going on.
"Look, everyone, I am going to say this loud and clear. James and I are not a couple!" shouted Lily
"Snape, a detention for lying to me about Lily and James. I won't believe they're a couple unless I see it for myself with my own eyes." Said Professor McGonagall.
In The History of Magic Class
The Griffindor seventh years had class with the Ravenclaws. Professor Binns had instructed the class to wear loose muggle clothes for that class.
"Now class, we will do something different from what we usually do." Said Professor Binns
"Wonder what this is going to be," said Remus "Did you notice McGonagall and Flitwick over in the corner?"
"Yes. I wonder what they're doing here. I hope it's more interesting than falling asleep." said Sirius, yawning. "I got to bed at 1:00 in the morning last night"
"Professor Dumbledore, along with Madam Maxine from Beauxbatons have decided to organize and dance competition." Said Professor Binns "It is my, and some other teacher's duty to teach you the basic moves and steps of swing dancing. There will be teachers walking around as you students dance. They will be watching to see who is the best two people we will enter. It will be one couple per year. Grab a partner and swing dance to what you know now, and we will walk around and place you in groups according to your talents."
Lily stood up and grabbed the first boy she touched. It happened to be Remus. She asked him if he knew how to swing dance, but he said barely. Lily on the other hand, was a Dancing Queen. She has been dancing since she was small. She spent the time showing him and teaching him steps like the rock step, or the cha-cha (Did I spell that right?).
James, on the other hand (You know, the third hand that pops out when you need it), looked around and grabbed Kimmie, who knew somewhat how to swing dance. James could dance and jazz. The one dance he couldn't do well was slow dance. Kimmie had taken classes for one summer when she was small, but forgot most of the steps. James, like Lily, spent the time re-teaching Kimmie how to dance.
"Alright, time is up. I will put you into groups according to you talents. This is the Beginners Group, taught by Professor Binns. These are for people who know little or nothing about swing. When I call out your names, got to Professor Binns. Lupin, Okamoto, Salazan, Pettingrew, Matsucowa, Patil, Weasley, and Thomas. This is the medium group. You are with Professor Flitwick. Grattoan, Chu, Black, Miyashita, Falcon, and Yamane." said Professor McGonagall. "The rest are in the advanced group. If you are here, you know about swing and can dance with style and flair."
Six people went to Professor McGonagall. Lily recognized only James. The rest were Ravenclaws.
"James, I didn't know you could swing." Said Lily, surprised. She thought James was only interested in sports.
"I know how to swing!" he cried indigently. "I have been swinging since I was 5 years old!"
"Yeah," Said Sirius, from the Medium group. "You should have seen him when he was small. He was always dancing with a chair because there was no one to dance with. He even tried to get me to dance with him! Me!"
"Go back to your group Sirius!" said James
"Fine. I'll go so that you and Lily can have some time alone together." Said Sirius, with a grin. He quickly went back to his group so that neither James nor Lily could have a chance to do anything to him.
"Now boys and girls. Please pair up. I will change partners as necessary. We want the best team for the competition after all." Said Professor McGonagall, turning on some music, "Show off your best moves boys and girls. Let's dance!"
"What can you do Lily?" asked James
"Anything you can. I can do whatever you can as well, if not better than you can. Lead and do whatever you want, James, I will pull it off. You can do lifts, jumps, whatever. Just try and keep up with me" she challenged with a leer.
"I certainly will" responded James
At first, he warmed up by doing simple steps with Lily, testing her, trying to find fault in her dancing steps. When he found none, he started doing some more complicated steps, such as the ones that he remembered doing at competitions when he was small. Then he tentatively lifted Lily into the air for a low lift. She stayed in balance. Then he brought her back down and tried a harder, complicated one where Lily was going all the way around his body. She did it. Then he reverted to regular dancing. He made Lily go into a full split around him while he carried her with one hand high above his head. Then he contemplated trying one that he and his former partner could never do. His partner couldn't get enough height to go from one side to another, then to the middle again and up. Lily readied herself to do a hard lift. James was running out of time. The song was drawing to a fast close. He grabbed Lily, swung her around, and prayed she would get enough height to pull this off. He felt Lily in the air to his left, right, and …yes, the middle and up toward James's hips was where she ended up at the end of the song. James had his arms around Lily's back. He had her in the air. Lily was holding onto James by sheer leg power. She had her arms looped around James neck with her upper torso leaning way back, nearly parallel to the ground. They stayed frozen like that for a moment.
Man she
wasn't lying- she is good at swing. -She has got to have good leg power, it takes a lot of power to hang on
and stay in position like that, especially after what we just did. If only I had her for my partner when I was
small. We would have swept all 1st
place trophies. Wait, what am I
thinking?!. So Lily can swing, it
doesn't matter. But oh, the was she
dances. So smooth and graceful. She's
much lighter than my last partner. I
like doing lifts with her cause I can touch parts that I can't normally
touch. For instance her ass. Ahh stop it! She feels so good pressed against me right now. We should do this again some time. Maybe with less clothing on. Lily in a bikini. Yeah. That would work for
Lily. Go away! Annoying little voice.
Wow, he
is good at this. I'm glad I did all
those swing classes mom dragged me into. He's a great lifter. I wish I
could stay like this. We are a little
over dressed though. Maybe if he just
took off his shirt. It would be better
for him so that his shirt wouldn't get dirty. Lily! What are you
thinking?! I need to get a hold of
myself. I have a hold, on James, and
his hips no less. Feels good
though. I can almost understand why all
those girls are following him. What if
he was…
Lily was shaken out of her internal battle with herself by a sound of thunderous clapping in the room. James, too, appeared to be thinking about something, because he shook his head, as if trying to clear his it of something. He gently put Lily down and bowed. Lily curtsied.
"Wow! That was the best swing dancing I have ever seen in my life! You two will have to practice every night for the competition. You will be excused from the exams. Instead, your scores from last year will be taken. I expect nothing but the best practice from you two." Said Professor McGonagall "You may leave now to practice on your own. You are excused from classes for the rest of the day."
"What have I gotten myself into?' asked James
"Ugh. Now I have to spend every day with you." Said Lily "Well, we better get to work if we want to win this."
"Here, come with me." Said James
"Where are we going?" asked Lily, wishing she had brought her wand, just in case he was trying to trick her.
"Somewhere where we can practice alone with out an audience. Heaven knows we've had enough of that."
"Okay, I guess."
Strange. A month ago she would have done all she
could to not follow me. I know she
would have pulled and pushed to get away from me at all costs. And she certainly would never let me hold her
hand. Maybe she likes me. Nah. It could never happen. We could
never be lovers even if we tried. Right?
"Here. This is a room not even Sirius or Remus know about. I found it in my 3rd year." Said James
"Cool!" said Lily. She sat down on a couch in the room.
They talked for hours about lots of things. About how James had found the room, who would go best with who, Snape, Slytherins, pranks, and life in general in that order. When Lily looked at her watch again, It was nearly midnight.
"Let's work right now. Let's go out onto the grounds and practice. It will be nice and cool because it's nighttime. We'll even put a charm around us so that nothing can attack us." Said Lily
"Okay."
James brought a CD player with him.
James and Lily went outside onto the Hogwarts grounds. Lily did a wiggle with her hands that allowed her to do the spell without her wand.
They practiced hard and long. James and Lily did a lot more lifts. They also taught each other what they knew about swing. They danced to a couple of CDs until James said, "It's hot out here no matter what you say. Do you mind if I take off my t-shirt? Don't pass out now."
"As if I would ever pass out over you." said Lily "Do you mind if I take off mine too? Don't worry, it's dark. That way you won't gape like a fish out of water."
She put her shirt in a heap next to James's. They continued dancing until they didn't have a single CD that they hadn't danced to already. They stopped dancing. Neither wanted to stop.
"Do you have any slow songs that you can cool down with?" asked Lily, breathing hard.
"No. But I know something we can use to cool down with. "said James with a grin.
He guided Lily closer to him.
"Use the rhythm of my heart to do this kind of dancing. Hear. Listen to my heart. Dance with the rhythm" said James, guiding her hand to his chest.
Slowly, they started dancing to the rhythm of his heart. You could say it was a heart dance. Lily started to dance and sway back and forth. James guided her and they just moved to the rhythm. They both started dancing closer. James's arms sneaked around Lily's waist and Lily's arms went around her neck.
James could feel her stomach against his and could see, even though it was dark, the muscles of her body. He felt his hormones start bubbling up inside of him. He didn't even try to suppress it. He put all of the passion into the dance, guiding Lily and himself into sensual, new moves.
Lily could not help but looking at James's hard, toned stomach. Just then, James pressed her up against him with a surge of passion. Lily could tell that James's hormones were playing a part in how James was guiding her now. James had a hungry look in his eyes. His eyes were roaming over her body, as her eyes were his. James suddenly dipped Lily and held her there. Lily's hormones were rising and she was starting to match James in her passion. She noticed that James had a look on his face as if he was battling with himself.
I really want to kiss Lily
now. She looks so eatable. I just want to place my hands inside her bra
and … I don't think that would
work. I like this dance that I'm having
with Lily. I don't want to ruin it for
the both of us. So you're enjoying it? No! So why did you just press Lily to you like there's no tomorrow? It's just hormones, that's all. Are you sure? No. I mean yes. Arggh! Get out of my head!!!!!!!!!
Look at
James. He is so cool and in
control. I like him much better than I
liked my last partner. He spun me too
quickly. James manages to give me lot's
of height too. I love the way I feel in
his arms with his arms around me and me pressed up to him so close. Oohh, that felt nice. I'll just show off my leg power with him and
see what he thinks. Wow. He is in control. Totally. I just want to
kiss him. I'm glad I had this dance
with him. I don't really know if I hate
him anymore. Yes, I hate him. No I don't. Yes I do. No I don't. Well, maybe a little. Ha!
"Come on Lily" said James, reluctantly "We need some sleep."
"I don't want to leave." whispered Lily, almost silently
"I don't either." said James
"Come on, let's go." Said James, grabbing Lily's hand.
"I don't want to go to the common room now. My room mates will be pestering me about where I was today." Said Lily
"So will mine. Lets go to our secret room. We can spend the night there. Don't worry, not in that way." Said James, seeing the look of Lily's face "Unless, you want to spend it that way?"
"No thanks" said Lily
They went to the room and crept under a blanket together because neither had their wand with them and they didn't want to go back to Griffindor tower for a blanket. There was already a couch there, so that's where they slept.
In Griffindor Tower
Girl's Dorms
"I wonder where Lily is?" asked Sue
"I don't know" replied Kimmie
Boy's Dorms
"Where's James?' asked Remus
"Probably somewhere with lily. Maybe if we get up early enough, we can find them somewhere and take pictures of them." Said Sirius with a grin.
"Well, that was my longest chapter yet. Ooh! Lily and James have a dancing experience. Could dance change their lives? Read, review, and tell me what you think!