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Rebound

Chapter Eleven

There were several things Lily thought to do when she heard James respond through the door. One was drown herself in their shared bathroom. Another was to remain locked in her bedroom. She could also pretend like she had never said it. But being Lily she went for another option all together. Confronting him as to what he was doing lurking outside her room when he was meant to be at dinner. Anger worked well to hide vulnerability.

Lily wrenched the door open and stood on her tiptoes to reach his eye level. "What the hell do you think you are doing James Potter?" She asked fiercely.

He was taken aback by her tone but recovered in a split second. "Seeing if you wanted a repeat performance of downstairs," he asked with a smirk. "You can't deny you want to."

"And what makes you so certain of that?" Lily replied in the same fierce tone.

"Oh fuck! I like kissing James Potter!"

"Was that suppose to be an impression of me?" she asked, unimpressed at the high pitched squeal he had put on.

James smirked. "You can't deny you said it!"

"You are so arrogant if you think that you can..." She was stopped mid sentence are James crashed his lips into hers. I must not kiss back. I must not kiss back... Oh screw it! She kissed him back fiercely, letting her hands reach up and run through his messy hair. She seemed letting out all her anger into the kiss. It was a good few minutes before they broke apart for air, both breathless and dishevelled.

"That wasn't meant to... what I mean is that it didn't..."

"Lily," James interrupted, placing a finger on her lips to silence her. "Stop trying to analysis and reason everything. It's ok for you to like snogging me you know. We are teenagers, and that means we're allowed to be overly hormonal!" He gave her a small smile which seemed to calm her nerves.

"I know that it's just... well it's so different to... I mean in a good way of course... you know better..."

James chuckled at her attempts to string a sentence together. "I'm going to take your babbling to mean I'm far superior to Anderson." Lily felt her cheeks go red as she dipped her head down in an attempt to hide behind her hair. This just made James chuckle again, before taking her hand and leading her over to the sofa.

"Come on let's sort out patrol schedules or something to take your mind off it before you combust."

The two of them spend the rest of the evening doing menial head duties. But Lily couldn't help but think about how different kissing James was to kissing Anderson. But you don't even like Potter! He's not even your friend! Her brain kept screaming at her. Well I guess that is one think I can change. She thought.

"I think we should be friends." She announced, rather randomly James thought.

"Erm... ok. If you want." He replied eyeing her curiously, trying to make out where she was going with this.

"What I mean is I think we should become actual friends. You know properly hand out, and not just because of some stupid deal." Lily bit her lip anxiously.

"Yeah, that sounds good." He replied with a smile."Friends... I like the sound of that."

Lily's face broke into a grin. "Of course you will have to help me deal with Anderson still. You know keep the charade up in public."

"Naturally," he agreed. "I mean can't have thinking I was just a rebound. We need to convince him that its more than that, you know really get under his skin."

Lily nodded, approvingly. "Of course that means that whenever he is around I may have to kiss you. If that is ok with you."

"Oh I really don't see that being a problem." James replied winking.

Over the next week Lily and James turned the time they spent patrolling together and doing head duties keeping to know each other better. They talked about their families, their childhoods, their favourite foods, in summary they spent the time becoming real friends.

It was while they were patrolling on the Thursday night that they hear what Lily would describe as one of the most obnoxious noises she had ever heard. It was the shrilly giggling of one Hestia Jones.

"Terry really not here anyone could see." She said between giggles.

"Fine," James and Lily heard Anderson reply, "There is a broom closet just around the corner. How about there?"

"Hmm... ok" Jones seemed to whimper in reply.

Lily turned to James with a disgusted look on her face, only to find he was grinning at her with mischievous glint in his eyes. He put a finger to his lip signalling for Lily to be quiet and pulled her around the corner and into a broom closet, shutting the door quietly behind him.

"What are you doing?" Lily asked. "This is where Anderson and the slut are planning on coming any second now!"

"Exactly," James replied, "where better for them to find us in a compromising position then the broom closet they wanted to use!"

Lily had to stop herself from laughing out loud. It was a brilliant plan. Quickly she rumpled her clothes and hair, as James did the same. Suddenly James picked her up and pushed her against the wall. She wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, as he began to kiss his way up hers.

She could feel her eyes rolling into the back of her head as James sucked her ear, and let out a small moan, just as someone opened the door and yelled, "WHAT THE FUCK?"

Authors Note: I am really really really sorry for how long this has taken to write. My loving flatmate managed to, and god knows how she did it, get stones stuck under the keys of my keyboard, meaning I had to take them off etc... I know that doesn't excuse how long this has taken, but I have had a lot going. Please don't hate me! I hope this makes up for my lack of updating.