Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I had a sudden strike of writingness a couple of hours ago, so I finally finished the chapter :)

I hope you enjoy, and I love you all, because I feal very loving right now.

On with the story please:

Chapter 10: Lily's Birthday, part 2

October 29, 5:00

James and Lily walk through the gates and into a big field with a stuffed-bear around James' neck and Lily with face-paint on that makes her look like she has a lion face, singing "It's a grand night for singing; the stars are shining bright…"

"I can't believe there was a fair going on! That was so much fun, Jamesie!" Lily slurs as she pulls off some cotton candy from a cheep paper cone. "I'll pay you back for it when we get back to Hogwarts. Sorry, I forgot my wallet."

"Don't worry about it, Lily. It's your birth-" Lily stuffs some of the pink fluffy food into James's mouth.

He starts to cough. "What was that for???"

"You were about to say the 'b' word," Lily whispers to him.

"Oh… how could I forget… so sorry Lils!" James laughs.

Out of know where, Lily charges towards James and tries to kiss him, losing her balance.

James tugs Lily off of him and holds her at arm's length. "Do not ever volunteer for a beer drinking contest again, Lily," he says sternly, but smiling a little. "Alcohol is not good for you apparently," James says, more to him, then Lily.

She hiccups. "Excuse me!" Lily laughs at herself and covers her mouth

"It's okay Lily…" James looks at his watch. "We need to be somewhere by 3… and since its 3:15… we should probably get going before we're late…"

"Where are we gonna go?"

"I can't tell you that. I'm going to put a sobering charm on you cause I think you will want to remember what's going to happen tonight, okay Lils?"

James points his wand at Lily once she nods her head yes. He mutters a spell under his breath, and Lily slowly turns to her normal self.

"Hi Lily!" James grins. "You are very… amusing… when you are drunk."

Lily blushes.

"You tried to kiss me like ten times at the fair. And you stole a kid's pink balloon."

She smiles. "Seriously? Where is it now?"

"I don't think you got the concept of helium… you let go of it."

"Oh wow!"

"Yep, but we have to go. Can you side apparate with me?"

"Sure?" Lily looks at him suspiciously."

She holds onto his shoulder, and James spins them around, evaporating into thin air.

"SURPRISEEE!!!!!!!!!!" All of the 6th and 7th year students minus Slytherin yell.

Lily screams on the top of her lungs and jumps in surprise. "Ugh! I think I had a heart-attack!" she says as Mary puts a lei over her head and a flower in her hair, and Julia puts a grass skirt over her other skirt.

Everyone else are in luau outfits, and they are all by an ocean, camping out on the sand. Julia, Mary, Sirius, and Remus had put down a couple of big tents, beach towels, big multi-color lanterns, music, Happy Birthday signs, beach toys, and LOTS of other fun stuff earlier today.

"Happy birthday, Lily!!!" Julia squeals, attempting to take off Lily's tank-top and replace it with a bikini top

"Stop it, Julia! Isn't there a changing room or something? James is looking at me like a rapist… because of you."

"No I'm not." He pouts.

"You can change into the swimsuit in that tent over there." Julia hands Lily her green bikini and points to a tent that says 'Birthday Girl and guests invited in by her ONLY!'.

"Okay, thanks." Lily smiles and walks into the tent to change.

"She looks happy. What did you guys do today?" Mary asks James.

"Oh… stuff…" James drifts off mysteriously.

"Come off it, James. We know you didn't do any 'stuff'." Remus puts his fingers into quotations when he says 'stuff' and laughs.

"I wouldn't be to sure. I mean, Lily HAS been warming up to him," Mary says to Remus.

"Ya." Remus immediately agrees with Mary and kisses her on the cheek "I guess it had to happen eventually."

"What had to happen eventually?" Lily asks as she comes out of her tent, newly dressed in a cute green bikini top with brown poka-dots and a grass skirt that is a light green, going to a little bit above the knee. The Leigh and the flower in her hair are white with the inside yellow, and instead of her old skirt underneath the grass one, she is wearing the match to her bikini top.

"Oh… nothing…" James drifts off mysteriously… AGAIN.

"Ummm okay, something is wrong with James," Sirius says. "There is only one way to cure 'Love Confusion That Makes You Not Able to Speak in Full Sentences'."

Lily, Mary, Julia, and Remus snicker. "And what's that?"

"VOLLEYBALL!!!!!! GIRLS VERSES BOYS!!!! I SET UP THE NET ALREADY!!!"

"Why are you shouting, Sirius?" Madeline, a girl from Ravenclaw asks annoyed because she is standing directly where the yells are issuing (A/N Noooo… it can't be! Did I just put a new character into the story? That's a first).

"Urgh! I SUCK at volleyball! And it's my birthday, so we aren't playing!" Lily crosses her arms.

The crowd of people who are in the conversation just stare at her. Then, at the same time James and Sirius run at her, picking Lily up, and dragging her to the volleyball net.

. . . .

"I bet this is a form of torture in some countries!" Lily says as James hands her the ball for her to serve. "It is illegal to put spells on people so that they can't leave the court until James's condition of 'Love Confusion That Makes You Not Able to Speak in Full Sentences' is gone. I will be standing here, playing Volleyball FOREVER because that is a made up disease!"

"We'll make sure you have food, so you won't starve… I don't know why you're pouting. I thought you used to play Volleyball when you were little."

"Stocker."

"Well it's the truth, isn't it?"

"We should really get back to the game. Those girls over there look really concerned for your health."

"I think we'll have to risk it. Tell me why you don't want to play. If it is a reasonable answer, then I will make a miraculous recovery. You won't have to play any more Volleyball, and Sirius will be fine with it because we've already played for an hour."

"Gawd! Why do you have to care so much about everything about me???" Lily sighs as James shrugs. "FINE! In fourthgrade, I got hit in the head with a volleyball while my team was playing a home game. Everyone laughed at me, and I didn't want to get humiliated again, so I pretended that my head wasn't in so much pain that it felt like an elephant was standing on my head while someone was throwing sharp glass at my forehead. I felt completely healed a couple months after the incident. Then, a year after the Volleyball meet, I was at a doctor's check-up, and apparently I had gotten a concussion and it healed all funny. It really freaked me out, and I had to go to the hospital for a long time, too. My Mum and Dad almost didn't let me go to Hogwarts because they were scared I would hurt my head again, and that is the end of my explanation. I don't want to get hurt again," Lily finishes, out of breath.

"Oh… I'm sorry about that," James says quietly. "You don't have to play. I'll go tell Sirius that I feel better in the longest sentence known to man now."

Lily smiles. "Okay. Thanks for kind of forcing me to tell you that. I haven't told anyone that before."

James smiles. "Your welcome… glad I could help."

He walks towards Sirius, who has his arms out on both sides of his body, in the air, saying "Why the hell aren't we playing the game?"

"I think I'm feeling really awesomely fantastic right now, and I don't want to play this stupid excuse for a sport that is muggle invented, when we COULD be making the world's largest sand hole and burying that git McCreaty in it once it's made, because he was hitting on Lily last night after it was soooooo obvious that she was staring at me gooey eyed and I was flirting with her and I almost engaged to Lily." James says, very fast to Sirius.

Sirius thinks about what James just said, then "What did you just say?" Sirius scratches his head in confusion.

"I want to dig a whole."

"Oh."

. . . .

"Who knows how long I've loved you
You know I love you still
Will I wait a lonely lifetime
If you want me to, I will.

"If I ever saw you
I didn't catch your name
But it never really mattered
I will always feel the same.

"Love you forever and forever
Love you with all my heart
Love you whenever we're together
Love you when we're apart.

"And when at last I find you
Your song will fill the air
Sing it loud so I can hear you
Make it easy to be near you
For the things you do endear you to me
Oh, you know, I will
I will."

Girls around James are tearing up, but Lily is the one who is the most emotional. When James gets off of the picnic tables and sets the microphone down on a beach chair by the fire pit, Lily walks up to him.

"Why did you pick that song?" Lily asks quietly.

James shrugs as he walks towards the ocean with a Hollyhead Harpies beach towel in hand. "I don't know. It just seemed to fit in with my life."

"Oh? Who were you singing to at the beach though?" Lily looks at James, who is setting the towel on the sand, a couple of feet away from the salty water. Everyone else is by the dry sand drunk, but Lily and James are completely sober.

"Jesus Lily. Isn't it obvious?" he says frustrated, as he sits down on one side of the towel, looking at the ocean waves and the setting sun. Lily lays down next to him, her legs in a pretzel.

"I just want to see if my theory is correct."

"Girls and their theories," James mumbles.

"I know you didn't write the song, but did you mean what you sang?"

"Karaokeing, not singing."

"Answer my question."

"Yes."

"Seriously?"

"Yes."

"Is this a prank?"

"On who?"

"Me."

"No it is not, Lily."

"Fuck."

"Cause that makes complete sense…"

"I'm just kind of shocked and flustered right now."

"Oh."

"That's my favorite Beatles song, James."

"No it isn't. Your favorite is 'Come Together'."

"After tonight, my favorite song in the world is 'I Will'… I hardly know anything about you and your favorite songs. I don't like that."

"I don't like that either."

They are silent for a minute

"Thank you." Lily says to him.

"For what?"

"Mary and Julia said that it was your idea of having a party for me. Thanks."

"That was random, Lily."

"Today is a bit random. How are the professors of Hogwarts not searching for us right now, anyway?"

"Sleeping potion. When they wake up tomorrow morning, they will think it is today. I don't even think Dumbledore will figure it out."

"You are a genius." Lily states.

James smiles. "Thanks."

"I need to repay you one day. You are so nice, James Potter."

James chuckles sadly

Lily looks at him again, but with an intense stare. She leans in towards him, getting her arms so they are leaning on either side of his legs, on the grainy sand. James tilts his head and moves closer to Lily, staring at her slightly open lips. She fills the distance between them, kissing him soft and passionately. He responds immediately, putting his hands on her smooth, bare back (because she is wearing a bikini) and giving her slow and meaningful kisses on her lips, occasionally playing with her tongue, using his own. When they are out of breath Lily and James break apart, smiling with a mix of shock and love at each other.

After James has enough air supply, he whispers "Finally," to Lily over and over again, each time kissing another part of his favorite, beautiful, face. His Lily's face.

I had the idea of him singing her a Beatles song, and her getting all mushy over it for a while now.

It didn't come out exactly as how I had planned it at first, but I think it turned out good any way.

Originally, James was supposed to be serenading to her in the Great Hall, but I thought that Lily would prefer this approach much more. And just think about it- them telling their children about how James finally got her to kiss him :) HOW ROMANTIC! *ahem* sorry... I am a little over emotional about these kinds of things. Fanfiction is not a very healthy site for me. I'll just get my hopes up too much =] OOHH WELL!

-Maia

P.S.- Can you review? Because I need to know if you think this chapter was okay or not...