Lily Bud

Year 5 Chapter 49

She met with Ji-James a couple of times over the summer. He was fun to hang out with and didn't look at her strangely when she didn't know some pop culture reverence, but instead gave her a short explanation or showed her. Sometimes Lily would just go over to his house and they would listen to records. It was so relaxing. Never did his hand 'accidentally' brush against her hand when they walked next to each other. He never prolonged any hugs or other touches between them and it was just never awkward to be with Jimmy.

The only strange thing was actual calling him James, when everything in her wanted to say Jimmy. Would it ever stop feeling strange calling him James? It was just that Potter always seem to come to mind when she thought about James and the idea to do any of the things she did with Jimmy with Potter was strange.

Today he took her along to meet some of his classmates, many of them were her old classmates from before Hogwarts. Lily was nervous, even if there was no real reason to be. It was the last day before of August and before returning to Hogwarts.

It was in the evening and somebody had built a small fire. A few bottles were passed around between the teenagers and even something to smoke. It didn't smell like just cigarettes. It was easier to talk to them than it had been on New Year. Everybody just accepted that the posh boarding school she got a scholarship for, forbad everything that was fun, like movies, music and tv. They pitied her before moving on. She heard rumors about people she barely remembered and one of the girls was excited to become an aunt soon.

Soon after they were playing a game of Truth and Dare. It was Lily's turn. She didn't like to take Truth, because half the time she was forced to lie when they asked something about school.

"Dare." Lily said and threw the other girl, Jenny, if Lily remembered right, a challenging look. She giggled.

"I dare you to kiss James, for at least two minutes, on the mouth!" Jenny shouted and everybody laughed or wolf whistled.

Lily felt how she turned red and looked at Ji-James, who just shrugged his shoulders. After Lily shot a glare at Jenny, she took James' hand and pulled him with her out of hearing ranch of the others.

"We don't have to do it, if you don't want to." Lily mumbled and avoided his eyes.

"It's fine, I think." He shrugged again.

"I never kissed anyone!" The words rushed out of her mouth before she could think about it. "So I'm probably not very good at it." Lily felt like her whole body was on fire from the embarrassment she felt.

"Me neither." James whispered back. Lily immediately looked up at those words. They stared at each other for a moment, before starting to giggle.

"I'm kind of curious what all the hype is about…" James confessed to her after a moment. "And you?"

"Kind of…" Lily answered. "Everybody talks about kissing as if it's the greatest thing ever…"

"Do you want to try?" He asked. "It doesn't have to mean anything. Just to see what everybody is going on about…"

"That wouldn't be so bad." Lily bit her lips. "Yeah, let's try."

"Ok."

"Ok."

They stood in front of each other.

"Eh, should I touch you, or something?" James asked with an uncertain voice.

"No, maybe. I don't know… Where?" Lily asked back.

"Don't know…" He said and put a hand on her shoulder and the other held her hand in a loose grip. It felt heavy. "Is that ok?"

"Yeah…" Lily put her hand on his upper arm.

"So now we kiss…"

"Yeah."

Both squeezed their eyes shut and leaned forward and bummed their noses together.

"Ouch…"

"Ok, maybe more like this…" James lifted his hands up and genteelly took her face in his hands. He guided their lips together without anymore bumming.

They pressed their closed lips against each other. It was strange. There was no firework behind her eyes or butterflies in her stomach. It wasn't terrible or disgusting, but that's about it.

After a moment Lily opened one of her tightly squeezed eyes only to see him to the same. They started to giggle. That was interesting. It kind of tingled to feel the vibration of his lips on her lips. Carefully Lily moved her lips against his without opening her mouth. He did the same. That felt better. It was kind of nice. Nothing spectacular or something to brag about, but nice, interesting, new.

They stopped after some time. Slowly they pulled their hands away from each other. For a moment they looked everywhere but each other.

"That was nice, right?" James asked awkwardly.

"Yes, it was." Lily confirmed.

"So we are ok." He said.

"Yes, we are ok." Lily smiled at him and bummed her shoulder into his. "We are friends."

"Yes, friends." James looked as relieved as she felt.

"Let's go back before the others start to tell stories." Lily smiled at him and he smiled back.


A.N

So this is Lily's awkward first kiss. Nothing to write songs about, but it was with someone she trusted. But with the same name James is keep popping in Lily's thoughts. As far as firs kisses go this wasn't too good or bad, but just an experiment between friends. I didn't want Lily's first kiss with either James (Potter) or Snape, because with both it would mean too much to them and that is something Lily wouldn't want. James isn't that high on her list anyway and with Snape she suspects some feelings he has for her and just wants those feelings to go away not encourage them in any way.

And Lily deserves some meaningless fluff once in a while.

What do you think of this chapter and that I brought Jimmy back? Please leave a comment and thank you to those that did! You are brilliant!