A/N. how can you tell if an author loves you? When they spend the entire day shopping and still come home and type. How do you reward this special author? By reviewing of course! Hint hint I was rereading some of the first chapter the other day, and then I read what I've just written for chapter 16 (applause please!) and I was like hehehe, it sounds so funny, like weird, but meh, I don't care! I have several plot ideas for this story, but any others would be appreciated too. I keep getting confused with the seasons too! Because I'm in Australia, and it's nearly summer, but in England its nearly winter and I'd be swimming over Christmas, but they'd be having snowball fights… soo confusing! Any who, I was very disappointed with the feedback from the last chapter… I didn't get much at all::sob:: never fear, lambkins, I'll survive. Yeah, that's another thing, I need another nickname, I mean it's for you guys obviously. But the story is eagerly waiting to be read so here you go…
PS. Just because I've written 16 chapters, doesn't mean that all the characters survive till then… :P
Disclaimer: STOP TAUNTING ME! I don't own Harry Potter ::Sniff:: leave me alone to cry. ::one minute later:: Ooooh shiny::chases shiny coin over cliff:: //splat//
Smirks.
Finally Lily woke up! Hallelujah! She took one look at me, groaned, looked to her right and saw Snape and she yanked her hand out of mine- which I thought was very rude- and she hid under the covers. I'm very shocked. My handsome/gorgeous/stunning/attractive face must have looked rather… ugly due to these expressions! Sorry, Sirius moment, hanging out with him does this to people. I looked at Moony. Surprisingly he didn't look at all surprised, stupid prefect partners. Lily poked her head out of the covers long enough to say
"Go away Sev." Go away SEV?! For a moment I thought she was going to say James or maybe even Potter, but Sev? Snape looks shocked- and is it possible? - disappointed. He stands up and looks down, and he starts to head out the door, but when he reaches the end of the bed I tell him to wait, and to my surprise he does.
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I look down at Lily (or the lump in the blanket that is Lily).
"Whoa, he saves your life and all you can say is 'go away Sev'?" wait, I'm defending Snape? To Lily? I must… wait, I was about to say 'I must be going crazy' but living with Sirius has made me crazy already. Anyway, so Snape narrows his eyes at me and Lily glares at me. Merlin! Is the world against me or what?!
"Shut up James, you don't know what you're talking about!" Lily snaps at me.
"Stay there a sec Snape," I say. I bend down to Lily and say
"Lily, look, I don't know what's going on, either you puking or Snape, and I of all people know he's a snotball, but right now he has just saved your life, so I think you owe him a thank you," man, I really know how to tell Lily off! Lily lifts her head up and gives me a half-smile-half-glare. Wait is that even possible?
"Fine, I'm sorry Snape," she says, giving emphasis to his name,
"Thank you for helping." After a slight pause she says
"Ok, you can go now." Whoa! That was rude even by my standards! I thump the lump in the mattress and this high pitched 'ow' comes out of it but no head. Snape exits, head down and shaking it (his head). Well that was Lily's choice. Maybe I should leave her alone?
"Ok Lils, I'm gonna go so you can get some sleep," I say, starting to get up, Remus and Em following suit. Suddenly I feel Lily grab my arm and I fall, very gracefully back onto the bed.
"No, I want everyone to stay, I don't want to be alone." To my horror, Lily is crying! So I looked at the rest of them for help so Remus put an Engorgement Charm on the bed and added a couple of extra pillows. I leaned over and gave Lily a hug and: SHE HUGGED ME BACK! And that's how we feel asleep.
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I woke up the next morning to be met with the stares (and smiles) of the others. Turning I found out why; Lily was leaning on me, head buried in my chest. Oh how she loves me!
"Bloody bastard," mutters Lily. I'm concerned for a second until I figure out she's sleep talking and not reading my mind and reprimanding me (big word alert!).
"Twinky," I say rather randomly and to the strange looks of the others. All of a sudden Twinky the house-elf (aka the Marauders biggest fan) appears with a curtsy.
"What would sirs like from Twinky?" she asks giving Em and Lily… well, if I saw them on a human, I'd call them looks of pure envy, but hey, I'm good with just 'weird' looks. I ask her to get me 5 plates of whatever they were having in the Great Hall (Sirius had come back from my room the night before…. Merlin that sounded wrong!). Twinky bobs another curtsy and leaves with another //crack//. Sirius starts laughing and I look at him grinning- he'd noticed the death-glares too- Moony's grinning too.
"What?" I ask, the picture of innocence, of course I already know what they're laughing at!
"Did you see the looks she gave Em and Flower?!" Sirius says, still chuckling (or in my opinion giggling but if I even though that he'd tell me off. Bully.) We all start cracking up, well except for Lils, who was asleep.
"Um Em, do you think you could perhaps give us a hand? I think Lily may need to be woken up for brekky?" I ask cheerfully. (A/N. I don't know if 'brekky' is an Australian term, but it means breakfast) Em gives me a really nervous look.
"You do NOT wake Lily up, ok, you just DON'T!" Em says, trying to yell quietly, she was genuinely scared. Dude, I get stuck with someone who's cranky in the morning when I marry her. Damn.
"Ok, ok I get the point," I say. "So how do I get up?" I mean, come on, I need to eat and right now I'm afraid if I eat while Lily is leaning on me, I'll get food in her hair- not good, very not good.
"You should… I have no ideas, Rem?" asks Em. Wait, Rem? Oh I gotta tease him about that one later!
"Oh no you don't, Potter!" I was really concerned when I heard Lily's voice, coz much as I love the girl, reading my mind is just off limits- she might find out what I thought about her in her dress robes in fourth year, which is cringe-worthy! The gorgeousness of Lily still sometimes astounds me. Anyway, then I found out she was just talking in her sleep- phew… aw, how sweet, she dreams about me…
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"I have an idea," 'Rem' says smirking at me. Stupid smirker.
"Why don't you levitate her?" he's still smirking, stupid smirker!
"Well Remus I would, but to get my wand would mean I'd have to get up, which I can't do until I get my wand! If that made any sense. You do it then Mr. smarty-knickers!" I say to the stupid git who is still smirking! So Moony smirks some more (note to self: get Sirius to prank the stupid smirker.) and grabs… my wand from the bedside cabinet! Oh he is so getting it when I get up!
"I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but can you please just get her off me?" I ask plaintively. Moony grins and obliges, while I creep out from under her and onto the other side of the bed. Moony replaces her gently back down and Sirius exists the room, due to the fact he's trying so hard not to laugh.
"Em, may I have a word to 'Rem' please?" I ask innocently, it's not my fault I'm ok, smirking! Ha ha! The tables have turned my friend! Em sends a hex my way which I duck.
"Thanks sweetie," I say, this time ducking two spells (Remus didn't appreciate me calling his soon-to-be girlfriend "sweetie". Neither did Em.) Em looks at me.
"Oh no, no no no, no way, I'm not leaving you two klutzes here with Lily. For all I know, you'll rape her and hold Remus hostage!" Em explodes, very quietly of course. Good to know my friend's soon to be girlfriend likes me and trusts me huh? I smirk at them cheekily and out of habit I ask
"Are you sure it would be rape?" I'm vaguely shocked at myself, but I wait for Em to smirk and assure me that yes, it would be. Any moment now. I look at her and her mouth is open in shock. Moony's is open too.
"You serious? She… she would actually let him?" thanks for that vote of confidence Moony.
"Well, she wouldn't let him do that, but I don't know if she'd object too much if you, I dunno… pashed her… Aw hell, I did not just say that! If Lily asks, do not tell her." With that Em pushes us out the room.
I look at Remus who is looking at me, very shell-shocked.
"She would actually let you kiss her?!" we both rushed to the couches and collapsed onto them. My mind is reeling. Don't get me wrong, this is definitely a good thing but… After six years and I might have got her?
"You haven't got her yet Prongs, until you get a ring on her finger, she's not yours. Or until you two start going out, that'll work too." Moony says, very solemnly. Thanks for that, mate, so appreciate it. Sarcasm!
"Actually I was hoping to talk to you about Em?" I say, concealing my smirk.
"Is the world against me?!" Remus cries, very overdramatically. Geesh, melodramatic much?
"It's just Lily asked about the Halloween ball, and I was wondering if you were planning on asking Em?" I say gently, oh yeah, go the Potternater! Remus starts stuttering, while I ignore the splutters. Problem is if this ball is going to happen… oh crap! Madam thing-a-ma-bob said Lily wasn't to do 'anything' for awhile. And I think this ball counts as 'anything'.
"Ah Remus? Do you think planning a ball counts as 'anything'?" I ask anxiously.
"Oh darn, you got a point!" Remus says, not very regretfully, more relieved. Well, I guess we have the Christmas and grad ones. Plus Halloween feels weird. (Little did James know that on Halloween in four years, he'd be fighting for his life and his son and wife's life against the most powerful wizard in history.)
"Sorry 'Rem', looks like you're just going to have to ask her out yourself." I duck the cushions he sends towards me.
"Look I gotta go, ok?" I ask and Moony nods and goes to sit with Em and Lily. I scrawl a note to Em saying I've gone to the Quidditch pitch and I grab my broom. I've always wanted to try something but Lily's always said no. But she's not here. I grab my broom and take a running jump out the window, only to discover the windows locked. Humph. So I open the window and try again. Now, I'm seven floors up and my broom is in my hand, so I'm free-falling. Ah crap, I can't get onto my broom. I finally manage to get onto my broom and hear cheering below me. I look down and there's the entire Gryffindor Quidditch team! Oops, I forgot about practice. Oh well, at least I made an entrance.
"Oi Potter you prat, I'm captain!" I look down grinning to see Sirius grinning up at me.
"Lucky for you Lily-Flower didn't see that!" he yells up at me, I then pull out of my dive and land. Practice soon begins.
A/N. Phew, 2,030 words! Sheesh, you lot had better review!!!! I'm joking (or am I?) review and I'll… update faster… cough… ok, have fun lol!!