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Gotta Catch 'Em All: Neighbours!AU, Dialogue: "This is literally the end of the world, Weather: Snow, Food: Pumpkin Pasty

Writing Club-

Character Apprecation: 6. (word) Victory

Count Your Buttons: "You know me too well."

Scavenger Hunt: 5. Write about your OTP

Showtime: Les Miserables - The Confrontation - (dialogue) "Men like you can never change."

Word Count: 1251 words

Victory at Last

Lily's heart pumped faster than she had ever felt it. The morning went by in a blur, and if you asked her to recall what happened that day, she would remember only fragments of conversations. Marlene and Emmeline had arrived only moments after she had finished eating breakfast to help her out.

To tell you the truth, they panicking more than she was, trying to make sure she looked perfect.

"No, wear my bright red lipstick, it suits you."

"Why don't you wear that pretty light black and golden knee-length dress of yours?"

"Don't forget to wear that cashmere sweater!"

"Make sure to tell us everything, okay?"

"Can I do your hair? I know the perfect style which will get him drooling all over you."

"Have fun, Lily!"

James couldn't believe it. He had waited for this day since, well forever.

Lily had moved in from the house across from his when they were six.

They had been best friends until the age of thirteen, when their friendship crumbled due to two reasons; First of all, he had become a prat and somewhat of a bully, and they were both spending more time with their other friends.

At the age of sixteen, their parents who were close friends and sick of their broken friendship talked to each of them and told them to become friends again, like they were years ago. James, immediately agreed, although Lily took a little more time to convince. Eventually, James talked to her, saying he had changed, and she agreed.

They became good friends again, Lily realizing James was once again the boy she had known and loved as a child.

Now, they were seventeen and Lily had asked him out just a few days prior. Of course, it wasn't exactly how he imagined it. He had always imagined it would be him who asked Lily out on a date; not the other way around.

"James!"

James spun around, coming face to face with Lily Evans. He grinned because he always did whenever he saw her.

"Yeah?" he asked.

A tinge of a blush appeared on Lily's cheek, and he couldn't help but wonder what she wanted to say.

What she did next surprised him. She stood on her toes and kissed him, straight on the lips, soft but firm. In shock, James didn't move. He stood as straight as a wall, which he would later regret.

After a few seconds, she broke apart from him, "Will you go on a date with me?" she asked.

James roughly kissed her in reply, making up for his lack of response earlier.

When Lily came down the stairs, she found James talking to her father. She knew her father had always liked –adored– James, but she sincerely hoped her father wasn't giving him the 'talk' he gave to each date she had ever had. She knew her father had known James since she was six, but still.

"Hi," he said breathlessly.

Lily looked at James. He was wearing a crisp grey shirt and a pair of denim blue dark jeans.

"Hey," she said, smiling.

James offered her his arm, like a gentleman and Lily felt butterflies flutter in her stomach.

"This is literally the end of the world," James declared.

They had arrived at a small restaurant not so far from their houses, and James was staring at the pumpkin pastry he had ordered for dessert.

Lily laughed, "How so?" she asked.

James gestured to the pumpkin pastry he had ordered, "It's too salty! Pumpkin pastries are supposed to be sweet and delicious, not this."

Lily laughed, slightly throwing her head back, "You can have my chocolate pie," she said pushing the said pie forward, "I love salty things."

"You like salty things?!" James said putting a hand on his chest, "This is the end of the world, Evans!"

"You're being ridiculous, James," Lily said still giggling.

"Am I?" he asked.

Lily rolled eyes, still smiling, "Hurry up and eat," she said.

After they finished eating, they headed outside.

James grabbed Lily's hand, "Close your eyes, okay? I'm going to take you somewhere."

"Why do my eyes have to be closed?"

"It's a surprise!"

"Fine," she mumbled.

"I can see you're peaking," James said as he slid his hands over her eyes.

She grumbled, "I thought you wouldn't notice. You know me too well."

James let out a small laugh, as he walked with her.

He had decided to go to the top of a hill, where they would go sledging. In fact, it was the first place Lily had ever gone sledging.

He remembered Lily had moved from Miami, Florida where there was absolutely no snow. She remembered her excitement when she first saw snow. Their parents had taken them to the very hill they were heading to now, and they had gone sledging the whole day until their parents insisted they go home.

"Here we are," he said.

"Er, why are we here?" Lily asked. "This is the hill a few blocks away from our houses, right?"

"Right," he said, "Although, you honestly don't remember?"

"Am I supposed to?"

James smirked, obviously pleased that he remembered something Lily didn't.

"This is the place where you first went sledging. With me."

"Oh," Lily said.

After a moment, she continued, "How come you remember it and I don't?"

James shrugged, a smirk playing on his face, "Maybe it's 'cause I'm the best person ever and I'll always be better than you."

Lily rolled her eyes, and muttered something just loud enough for James to hear, "Men like you will never change."

Then she said in a slightly louder voice, "Are we going to sledge, now?"

"Yeah! Come on!" James said enthusiastically

"Then," she asked slowly, "how are we going to do it?"

James rolled her eyes at her, "Isn't it obvious? We've only gone sledging thousands of times. First, we go to the top of the hill, then we each get on a sledge-"

James paused for a moment. "Oh. We don't have any sledges."

"Exactly."

"I guess I didn't think that far…"

"I could bribe some kids into giving me theirs," he suggested.

"James!" Lily scolded, "You can't do that to them"

"It's not like they'll care! They're getting money!"

Lily shook her head, making her answer clear, "Why don't we build a snowman?"

James raised his eyebrows at her.

Lily ignored him and grabbed his hand, dragging them to the direction of their houses.

They walked for a few blocks until they reached there.

"Now, where do you want to build it?" Lily asked.

"On your lawn?" James asked.

Lily shook her head, "Petunia will probably destroy it, saying it's too childish or something."

"So, then on my lawn, I guess."

Lily smiled, "Let's get to work."

After they finished, they stood back and (tried to) admire their snowman.

"It royally sucks," James said.

Lily agreed "A six-year-old could have done better."

There hadn't been any packing snow and they had used the idea of holding their snowmen up with sticks.

"Should we destroy it?" James asked.

"Nah. We took so much time and effort. Sirius can do it."

James chuckled, "I'll tell him to after he gets back from his date with Remus."

Lily and James spent a few more hours, walking, talking, lagging and catching snowflakes on the tips of their tongues on the streets.

James smiled. He finally got to go out with his best friend, the girl of his dreams, and he was sure there would be many more dates.

Victory at last, James thought.