Chapter 10.
Piper ran to catch up with James.
"So, asked anyone to the dance yet?"
"No, not yet."
"Anyone In mind?" She asked, knowing what he as going to say.
"Not really no."
"What about Lily? She's not going with anyone."
"I don't think she'll want to go with me. She hates me."
"Don't be so sure, you never know, maybe deep down inside she likes you."
"Oh, I don't think so." He scoffed looking down at her.
"How do you know? You don't know something I don't do you?"
"Me, do I look like I know something?" she said putting on an innocent face. "I just want her to get a date for the ball, and a nice one at that. I just think you should give it a go, ask her."
"I'm not sure. Plus it's easy for you, you've got Remus."
"I know." She said in a dreamy voice. "But still, promise me you'll ask."
"Fine I'll ask but if she says no then I'm going to kill you."
"Okay, fine." She said, she turned away and smiled to herself, happy he had agreed so easily.
"He said yes." She squealed once she saw her sisters.
"Oooohhh, well done sis." Phoebe high fived her sister, glad she got James to agree, now they could all go to the ball together.
"I wonder what the guys will go as." Probably something gruesome.
"Yeah probably, or something stupid like a white sheet that's supposed to be a ghost." Prue said laughing.
"Oh, oh, ghost, I completely forgot. You know our mystery shadow thing. Well I've been searching ever since we saw him, looking in all the library books, even the restricted section."
"Yeah and hurry up with it." Paige said getting anxious.
"Well, I've spent weeks looking and it was right under our noses, the Book of Shadows."
"Oh my god, I can't believe we didn't think to look in it!" Prue exclaimed thinking of how stupid they had been.
"I know, well it says it's the essence of a being, and since it's black a pure evil being at that."
"Yeah so that just leaves every being in the underworld and topside." Phoebe said seeing this information as completely pointless.
"No, only two being in the world are complete evil. One is the Source."
"Ah the forever pain in the butt that keeps sending demons after us." Paige said nodding her head.
"I think you can guess the other one."
"Voldemort." He sisters sighed in unison.
"Yep, the one, the only." She said defeat in her voice.
"Which means.."
"he has a way of getting into the castle." Piper said finishing the question. "Well, since there isn't a vanquish I say we worry about this after the Halloween ball, I can't wait. After that we'll work our butts off, but until then I say we relax."
"Here, here." Phoebe said.
"Fine, but I'm not happy about it. I can't believe he can get in the castle. Do you know what its called?"
"Oh, yeah, umm, it's essen."
"Essen? What kind of name is that?" Phoebe scoffed.
"Well I don't know I didn't make it up." Piper retorted, glaring at her sister, who stopped laughing.
"Sorry."
James walked into the library, he had to do some research to finish his paper in DADA. He saw Lily sitting at a table on her own, and decided now would be the perfect time to take Pipers advice and ask her out.
He had already told Remus and Sirius and they said he should give it a go, though had no suggestions on how to ask.
He walked over and sat down opposite him, Lily looked up and realising it was James blushed lightly.
"Do you mind?" he asked nervously, scared she was going to bite his head off.
"No, go ahead." He pulled some parchment from his bag and started writing, about half way through his sentence he stopped and looked up at her.
"Uhh, Lily I was wondering if I could ask you something?
"yeah, what is it?"
"Well I don't know what you'll say, you'll probably say no and I'll look stupid…"
"You're rambling." She said stopping him before he could say anymore.
"Well. I was just.."
"Yeah,"
"Just wondering, ifyou'dgototheballwithme?"
"What?"
"Do you want to uh, go to the, umm, ball with me on Halloween?" he asked dreading that she was going to laugh in his face. He braced himself for the worse when she answered.
"yeah, I'd love to." She said smiling at him.
"okay then, wait what?" He asked shocked.
"I said yes, I'd love to."
"Great, I can't wait, I guess Piper was right."
Lily smiled and made a mental note to thank Piper for persuading him to ask.
"I guess she was." Lily whispered to herself, she took one last look at James before getting up and leaving the library, smiling the whole way.
Prue was walking around the grounds during her free lesson, when she felt a presence following her. She turned around but didn't see anything, she stayed there for a couple of minutes before turning around and headed to the forest. She leant against a tree and got a book out. Before she had a chance to scream and hand covered her mouth. She was about to use her magic when the 'attacker' turned her around to face him. Realising who it was she pushed him away and hit his shoulder.
"Don't do that." She cried, her heart still pounding.
"Do what?" Sirius asked innocently.
"Scare me to death!" she yelled, she softened her gaze when he pulled puppy dog eyes. "Fine, just don't do it again."
"I won't." he said, feeling guilty, he pulled Prue into his arms and hugged her. "Forgive me?"
"I guess." She said, wrapping her arms around his chest.
He bowed his head down until their lips were nearly touching. Prue felt her pulse start throbbing in her chest as he palms grew sweaty. She started to higher her self onto her tip toes until their lips were less than a centimetre apart. He placed his hands on her waist, his heartbeat also fast inside his chest. She placed her hands on his shoulders and took a deep breath, she closed her eyes and kept hoisting herself up pressing her lips to his. Wrapping her arms around his neck she allowed the kiss to deepen, letting him slip his tongue into her mouth. He let his hands rest on her lower back he pressed his lips more firmly onto hers. The kiss lasted for a few minutes, before Prue pulled away her breathing heavy and a smile on her lips. She fell back against the tree trying to steady her breathing before stretching up and pecking him on the lips.
"I'll see you later." She said before walking back up to the castle, smiling the whole way.
Sirius regained his composure and smiled wickedly. "Wow." He whispered before making his way back up to Hogwarts after Prue.
Piper and Remus were walking down the Gryffindor hallway holding hands and talking about the upcoming ball.
"So what are you going as?" he asked her, curious as to what she would be wearing.
"Ah ah, it's a surprise, you'll have to wait and see." She said, smiling.
He was about to reply when they heard a girly shriek and peeves came flying down the corridor singing and diving through Remus causing him to fall onto Piper, who fell onto the floor, Remus on top of her. He leaned down closer to her face as her breath caught in her throat. Their lips brushed against each others and the kiss deepened, Piper laced her arms around his neck and was about to open her mouth when the caretakers cat came around the corner.
Remus groaned knowing that wherever the cat was the owner wasn't far behind. He jumped to his feet and held his hand out to Piper who grumpily took it.
"Perhaps another time." Remus said smiling. Piper laughed,
"Yeah, I guess."
They heard footsteps coming from the next corridor,
"Come on." She said and grabbed his hand running around the next corner, laughing at the timing of their first kiss.
A/n. Sorry it's not very long, but I wanted to get some romance in even if it wasn't much. Also sorry its taking me so long, I'm just trying to get free time to write. I'll try to have a chapter up each week. Thanks to all who are actually reading this. :P