"Can i tell you a secret?" james murmured to lily. They were sitting on the couch in the common room. James was fiddling with a snitch and lily was studying. She had tried to convince him to study with her, but gave up quickly, realizing it was a lost cause. James did study, he just studied the bare minimum.
"Hmm?" she murmured back, still as involved in her studying as ever.
"Sirius is trying to land hestia jones."
"That's nice, but how is that a secret. Sirius has gone through three girls in the last week." lily reached over to her parchment on the table and scribbled something in a sloppy script. James loved how sloppy her handwriting was when she wasn't trying. Perfect, proper lily evans had bad handwriting.
"It's not, but people tend to pay more attention to something when you tell them it's a secret."
"That's nice, dear." lily said ironically, flipping to the next page in her ridiculously thick textbook.
"Lily,"
"Hmm?"
James hooked a thumb under her chin and brought her mouth to his. He would never get over how amazing it was that he was actually kissing lily evans.
"James," she complained breaking away "i have to study."
"No, you have to kiss me."
She broke away again, pushing on his chest
"No i have to study. Which, by the way you should also really be doing."
"Evans, we've already been over this. I study only when i absolutely have to."
"Which i think is incredibly stupid." she rolled her eyes and returned to her books.
Only minutes later james couldn't resist and had to pull lily in for one more kiss.
"Lily, darling."
"Hmm?" lily broke away from james, putting a hand to her mouth and looking towards the source of her name. Hestia jones stood in front of her
"Lily, could i speak with you for a moment."
"Can we do it later? I'm studying."
"Oh yes, i can see that." hestia gestured to lily's arm still draped over james' neck "can i just speak with you for a moment?" lily sighed
"Alright, i suppose so." lily stood up and followed hestia halfway across the common room before turning her head back around
"Watching me walk away, potter?" she smirked
"The view is quite nice." he smirked back
"If you're quite done?" hestia interjected
"Sorry." lily smiled guiltily and followed hestia over to two big armchairs on the other side of the common room
"So?" lily asked "what's the deal?" hestia got a girlish look on her face and smiled
"I snogged sirius." she stared at lily's black expression for a few seconds "why aren't you surprised?"
"Hestia," lily said slowly "everybody's snogged sirius."
"Have you?" hestia asked rhetorically
"No, but i snogged james, which is pretty close."
"Oh yeah!" hestia exclaimed "how's everything going with you two? Who would've thought you would actually end up together."
"Well that's what i used to think but ever since the beginning of the year he's just been so… not james. You know? I mean, he obviously is James, but he's not mean james, he's… wonderful." hestia clapped her hands in front of her
"That's so cute!" she exclaimed
"Is that it, then?" lily asked, laughing.
"I suppose so." hestia sighed
"Alright then," lily stood up and walked back over to james. She plopped back down on the couch. He put his arm around her shoulder and she put her head on his shoulder. It just felt so natural to be with him. Like hestia said, who would've thought.
"What was all that about?" james asked
"Hestia snogged sirius."
"Already?" he sounded mildly surprised, but not really
"Oh, yes. Hestia has had a crush on sirius since third year."
"Really?" he sounded slightly more surprised this time "rebellious, no-man-can-tell-me-what-to-do hestia jones has had a crush on sirius black for three years?"
"Oh yes, it's border line stalking, actually." james chuckled
"So," he asked "anyone you fancied for an extended period of time?"
"Oh, why, now that you mention it, i had quite the crush on gordon macavoy for the looongest time." she looked up at james
"Gordon? Gordon? No handsome quidditch players?"
"Gordon is a handsome quidditch player!" lily countered
"Please," james laughed "you can't honestly call what gordon does on the quidditch pitch playing?" lily laughed too. It was true. He was horrible.
"Not jealous, are you, potter?"
"Please. Why would i be jealous, love? I have you and he doesn't." lily smiled and put her head on his shoulder again.
