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It's a Date!

James was headed to Ancient Runes.

Is was quite annoying, actually, that Ancient Runes was all the way on the top floor, in the most remote corner, and the staircases on the way there were the ones that were least willing to budge. The portraits, statues, and suits of armor were just obscene, too. There was at least one really horny suit of armor on the way to class, and, Sir Cadogan came up here often, because, his stash of liquor was up here. And, Sir Cadogan drunk was one thing you did not want to see.

Fortunately, though, he had Ancient Runes first period, leaving him with more time to get to class. It was especially hard, because there was a rickety old rope bridge on the way there. Don't ask how that got there. James had once made the mistake of going to Ancient Runes with Sirius, and he had never done that again. Sirius had brought along his precious oysters, and dropped Bobita off the bridge accidentally. They were very late to class because Sirius demanded to stop and fetch her. And, he completely forgot that he could use the summoning charm. THEN, he had to cuddle Bobita, as he said, 'cooling her nerves'. What the bloody hell?

Suddenly, there was a crash, and a high-pitched scream. James rushed to the source of the noise, hoping it wasn't Lily.

When he turned a bend in the corridor, he saw Henry the Horny (as the students liked to call him; he was the most perverted suit of armor at Hogwarts) on top of a blond girl. He hurried over, and pulled Henry off her. He held out a hand to help her up.

"Thanks," she beamed at him.

"No problem."

"Is there anything I could do in return?"

"You could tell me your name."

"Oh! I'm Camilla. Camilla Brown."

James smirked. "Nice to meet you, Camilla Camilla."

Camilla giggled.

As James turned to leave, she called out, "Wait!"

He stopped, and asked, "Yes?"

"I just want to know. You seem really nice and all, so, will you go out with me?"

James pondered this. He wasn't going to ask out Lily, staying true to his promise. But, was Lily going to ask him out? The reasonable answer was no. Still, James couldn't help wishing she would ask him out. Though, if he went with someone else, would she be jealous?

James finally made up his mind, and answered, "Yes, it would be my pleasure. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get to Ancient Runes."

Camilla nodded, and turned to leave. He heard her giggling a bit back.

But who wouldn't giggle if they were going with James Potter to a dance?

James groaned; he really needed to stop these arrogant thoughts if he wanted Lily.

As he continued on his way to class, he thought he saw a girl with dark black hair slinking out from behind the crevice where Henry the Horny usually stood.

James quickly turned his head. No one was there. He must have been imagining things.

James refocused his attention to getting safely across the rickety old bridge.

"Ow…"

James now had a crick in his neck from turning his head so fast. While reaching up to rub his neck, his foot slipped, and got caught in the bridge. In the middle of the bridge. The weakest link.

James sighed, and started to work his foot out from in between the wooden planks. His hand soon got caught in the roping.

"Shit-takke mushrooms!" he muttered. He had always been brought up to behave like a gentleman, no matter how much it surprised Lily.

From the commotion he was making, the boards his foot was caught between started shifting, crushing James' ankle.

"Ouch! Bloody hell this hurts!"

James was about to give up on being a gentleman, and letting a long string of violent curse words out. Unfortunately for James, though, there was a first year behind him, looking very scared. James never cursed in front of first years. Then, James thought of something.

"Oi! You!" he called to the boy.

The boy was startled, and looked up scared at James. "Me?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, you. Can you help me out?"

The boy nodded, and exclaimed, "Of course I do! I was in boy scouts!"

James looked puzzled, and the boy saw, so he said, "Muggle thing."

"Ah… So, you're a muggleborn, or a halfblood?"

As the boy started working on the roes he said, "Neither, actually. I'm a pureblood."

James looked at the boy's red hair. "You're a Weasley, aren't you?"

"Yep. Bilius Charles Weasley."

"Then how come you had to do the muggle thing?"

"Oh, my older brothers a muggle fanatic."

"You're Arthur's little brother?"

"You knew him?"

"Well, he graduated the year before I came here. But, my dad has my humor, and he loves Arthur. We actually had him and Molly over for dinner a couple times."

"Cool."

"Don't they have a son now?"

"Yeah. I'm an uncle! It's cool."

"I wish I could be an uncle, but, I don't have any siblings. My parents are way to old for that."

"I saw your latest prank on Snape. It was awesome!"

"Thanks, but it was really Sirius who did it."

"I want to be just like you when I grow up."

"Really?"

"Yeah, of course! And you're free."

"Thanks! I got to rush now!"

James ran all the way to Ancient Runes, beating the bell by two seconds.

Professor Vector looked at him, and raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, sorry, Professor. My foot got caught in the bridge."

Professor Vector laughed. "It happens to us all, Potter."

James grinned, and took his seat.

Professor Vector stood, and addressed the class. "Please hand in your skits, class."

The students reached into their bag, pulling out the skits. James cursed under his breath. He forgot the skit.

Lily saw this, and called out, "James! Don't worry! I have the skit!"

James let out his breath, and praised whatever supernatural beings existed for creating Lily. And letting her be a witch. And making her so pretty.

James really had to stop thinking about Lily. NO LILY! He was shouting to himself. Inside his head, of course.

As soon as he had collected the skits, Professor Vector said, "I'm feeling lazy today, and it's not very likely people care if I don't teach today, so you can talk to each other while I grade these."

The class cheered.

Professor Vector would have quieted them, if it weren't for the fact that there probably wasn't anyone within the range of a mile.

Professor Vector turned to his papers.

Mary pounced over to the seat next to Marlene, who sat in front of James.

"Marlene! You won't believe who just asked me to the ball!"

"Wood?" Marlene asked, dryly.

Mary looked at her strangely. "How did you know?"

"I don't know," Marlene started in a tone practically dripping with sarcasm. "Maybe it was because you are always obsessing over him, and he's the only one you would go with to the ball?"

"Oh," Mary replied sheepishly. She was bushing a shade of red that could rival Lily's hair. She bounced off again, no doubt to go tell Lily.

Marlene turned around to face James. "She's completely obsessive over him, you know that?"

James laughed. "It's kind of hard not to notice."

Marlene smiled. But it fell off her face soon. "It kind of stinks, doesn't it?"

"What?"

"That I don't have a date, and everyone else does."

"Really?"

"Yeah! Mary and Wood are going together, there's no doubt that Frank and Alice are, and…"

"Well, what about Lily?"

"She can join me in rejection club."

"Remus?"

"Him too."

"Sirius? Peter?"

Just then, a loud voice cut across the classroom. It was Sirius'.

"I'm going to go with Bobita, Peter. But, you can go with Bob."

"Okay!" Peter responded, also quite loudly.

Marlene looked at James. "Well, I guess that settles that. But, who are Bob and Bobita?"

"Oh, they're Sirius' pet oysters."

Marlene cracked up, and as soon as James realized what he had said, he started cracking up too.

When they settle down, Marlene asked, "What about you, James? DO you want to kjoin me in rejection? Lily's obviously going to turn you down."

"Nah… But thanks for the offer. Besides, I already have a date."

"Really? Lily didn't turn you down? And you asked her? Shame, you were holding a record for how long you can go without asking Lily out."

"I didn't ask Lily."

"She did then? The apocalypse has come early!"

"I mean, I'm going with someone other than Lily!"

Marlene raised an eyebrow at him. "I thought you only had eyes for Lily."

"Some other girl asked me."

"So you're dating someone other than Lily? Hm…" Marlene's eyes scanned the room, in search for his date.

"Actually, she doesn't have Ancient Runes."

"Oh. Who is it?"

"Camilla Brown."

Marlene's face darkened.

"Marlene, are you alright?" James asked worriedly, waving a hand in front of her face.

Marlene perked right back up. "James, I love talking to you, I really do."

James snorted.

"No! I'm serious. For some messed up reason, I can actually talk to you, and it's not that bad!"

James rolled his eyes, and sarcastically replied, "Oh, thanks. That meant so much to me."

But, really, he had liked talking to her too. She was just easy to talk to.

"C'mon," Marlene motioned. "Let's go talk to Lily and Remus. They're probably dying to get some good company."

James looked over to Lily and Remus, who were being ambushed by Sirius, who was showing off Bobita, and the dress he had made her for the ball.

James shuddered. Sirius was the only one who made dresses for an oyster. And James was pretty sure that Bobita was really a male oyster.

Poor Bobita.

The tow walked over, and Marlene shooed away Sirius, who stalked off, sticking out his tongue at Marlene.

"Oh, very mature, Sirius!" she called back at him.

Turning back to Remus and Lily, Marlene asked, "I don't have a date to the ball, and neither do you two, apparently, so, do you want to go with me as friends? A sort of rejection club?"

Lily and Remus laughed.

"I'd love to," Remus replied.

"I'm in," said Lily. She looked up at James. "Are you in?"

James shook his head. "Already have a date."

Lily looked surprised, and hurt?

"Who?"

"Camilla Brown."

Lily looked angry at this, and just as she opened her mouth to speak, the bell rang.

Alice came over. "Frank asked me! Isn't that great?"

"Very," Lily replied, grinding her teeth.

James was puzzled. Why did they both seem to dislike Camilla?

He shrugged and headed for Transfiguration as quickly as possible. He didn't want to be caught by Sirius when Sirius was still on an oyster high. James had never known those existed. Until he met Sirius.

Oh no. Sirius was heading his way with a series of frilly oyster dresses.

AARGGHHHHHHH!!

AN: Just to help you sleep peacefully, oyster highs do not exist. Unless you don't review. Then everyone you know will get one. MUA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! I'M EVIL, EVIL I SAY!! Right, so, just review already. I'm not sure why you're even reading this now that I'm sure I've gone insane. Anyway, why do you think the girls should hate Camilla?