A/N: sorry about this chapter, but I had to have it written before the weekend. Let me know what you think, please! And thanks to all who reviewed. Thanks for your opinions.
"Sure, why? I was just waiting for you," James said with another of his killer smiles. I doubt that he knew that he was making one girl slowly die when he did it.
Lily looked up. James was Soooo close. She could almost feel the heat radiating off of him. "Please don't. You make me uncomfortable," she complained. James blinked.
"Why not?" he asked, as they walked off the dance floor.
"Uh," Lily hesitated. Why didn't she want him to? She wondered. She shrugged. "Let's go for a walk, ok?" She grabbed her wrap and headed toward the doors.
James followed her. They walked in companionable silence for five minutes, then, Lily stopped by the lake's edge. "It's so beautiful at night," she sighed.
I agree, but for other reasons, James thought. He wisely kept that thought to himself.
He placed a hand on her shoulder. She jumped and turned around to look at him. There it was again. Her heart beating, feeling as though it might jump out of her chest.
What the hell is wrong with me? She wondered hazily. Why does he have such an effect on me?
James watched her, seeing the conflict in her eyes as she tried to deny her thoughts. He leaned in and kissed her cheek softly, as though he were afraid she would shatter to a million pieces with the slightest pressure.
She raised a shaking hand to her cheek, feeling it burn as she blushed slightly.
"Do you still hate me?" he asked softly, quietly. She shook her head, feeling rather dazed and confused.
"Good," he replied. He wrapped his arms around her waist, gently. She looked up. God was he tall! She blushed harder as he looked down at her admiringly. Her heart skipped a beat. Serindra and the rest of the girls were right, she thought as he kissed her. Sweetly. Her arms rose and she wrapped them around his neck.
Meanwhile….
Serindra was getting impatient. They should have gone outside by now, but Lily looked rather disconcerted and Serindra didn't know why.
Then, as Serindra started to get very frustrated, the two of them stopped dancing and walked outside. They didn't know that they were being watched by most of the female population.
Remus walked over and put his hand on Serindra's shoulder comfortingly. "Things are going smoother then we thought, eh?" he asked her. She nodded.
"Yep, that's for sure, do you think we should go outside?"
Remus looked at the doors and shook his head. "At least not right now," he said firmly. Serindra agreed.
Sirius turned up at that minute, with a plateful of food and grinned at the two of them. "Sarah got mad at me for not dancing with her, but I was hungry," he explained as Serindra opened her mouth. She giggled.
"Sarah doesn't dance anyway. So I don't see why she's bothered," she said. Sirius looked affronted.
"Why shouldn't she, as I'm the handsomest—" he began, but was cut off by Remus.
"Drop it, Padfoot," he said through clenched teeth. Sirius grinned.
"Why?" he asked as Sandra turned up with Alice and Frank in tow behind her.
"Not in front of the newcomers," Remus said very firmly.
"What's going on? We saw James and Lily head outside," Alice whispered to Serindra as she watched Remus and Sirius bicker.
"Sirius and Remus are bickering over whether Sirius is handsome or not and Lily was looking rather disconcerted before they went outside," Serindra whispered back. Alice nodded in understanding.
"So are you guys going outside now or in a couple minutes?" Sandra asked, looking rather amused, as Remus and Sirius stopped arguing enough to hear.
"No, we are not interrupting James and Lily's moments alone, I've already said this," Remus said heatedly.
"Ok, ok, no need to get annoyed, just thought I'd ask. Jeez," Sandra muttered. "What time did you go to sleep last night, anyways?"
"One o' clock, why?" Remus responded, looking at Sirius as though he were the reason.
"Never mind, Remus," said Serindra as she looked at her watch, "Guys, do you think we should go outside now?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever," Remus said shrugging, still glaring at Sirius. So they went outside.
The six of them decided to walk down by the lake, Alice, Frank, Remus, Serindra, Sirius and Sandra. As they walked along the lake's edge, they spied two people walking along together as well. Then the two ahead stopped walking. "You know, this doesn't look like something we want to walk into, especially if those two are who I think they are," said Serindra with a smirk.
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Lily came up to the girls' dormitory about three in the morning, and she collapsed on her bed fully clothed.
"Soooo, did you enjoy your night with James, Lils?" Serindra asked sleepily. Lily blushed. She hadn't known that she wasn't the only person awake.
"Why?" she asked rolling over. She secretly hoped that no one had seen her and James, especially his fan club.
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about it, except for maybe Sirius, Remus, and the rest of the girls in the morning," Serindra continued. Then, she rolled over and fell asleep.
Lily's POV
Oh, God, am I embarrassed. I thought everyone was asleep. Guess I was wrong. Ah, well.
General POV
Lily rolled over to her left side, and fell asleep. As she did, James was lying in bed, thinking.
As Sirius snored without a thought to bother him, James was thinking about what had happened between Lily and him-self. His memory was still rather fresh, no matter how much he tried to ignore it.
Flashback"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Lily shouted. She'd taken out her wand, and was pointing it at the two boys.
"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you," James said, eying the wand.
"Take the curse off him, then!"
James sighed and turned to mutter the counter-curse. "There you go, you're lucky that Evans was here."
"I don't need help from filthy Mudbloods like her!"
Lily just blinked and said coolly, "Fine, I won't bother in future." She turned to walk away.
"Apologize to Evans!" James roared.
Lily turned to him. "I don't want you to make him apologize, you're as bad as he is!" she shouted.
"What? I would never call you a—you-know-what!" James yelped.
Present
Yes, things definitely had improved between them, he thought as he fell asleep. Definitely.
A/N: thanks again to all who reviewed. I'm really considering continuing through seventh year! Thanks a lot.
Serindraxx