Sorry it took me so long to update. I've just had a little trouble where I should go next w/ this story...like how the order should go ext, ext. Ummmm ~ thanks soooooo much to all my sweet reviewers ~ I love you guys! LoL ~ I was GOING to do a few lil' messages for some of u guyz who had reviews that I especially liked, but I just figured that it would take too long ~ lol Well......on w/ the show!
Chapter 5: Oops, I Did it Again....
"SIRIUS, YOU IDIOT!" Lily shouted, looking up at Sirius, who was standing on top of a ladder, a bucket of some black substance in hand. "How many time do I have to tell you? NO TRAPS!"
"Pranks? I'm not seeting up any traps," Sirius said innocently.
Lily growled, "Sirius, I have been watching you the entire time. You are setting those cobwebs up right there, with mouth droppings on them, and putting a spell on them, so that when kids walk through, bat droppings will fall on their heads, which is absolutly DISGUSTING!"
"Hehe, um, WRONG!" Sirius cried, although he looked rather guilty.
Lily put her face in her hands, "Sirius, how in HELL am I wrong?"
"Er-"
"YEAH! That's what I thought! NOW, if you don't get down from there RIGHT THIS SECOND and start actually setting up the hall, then YOU ARE OUT! GOT IT?"
Sirius put a puppy dog look on his face, "Fine. All I wanted to do was have some fun and mean ol' Lily-Billy had to ruin it!"
Lily rolled her eyes and walked away, as Sirius climbed down the ladder. They were in the Great Hall, along with James and the sixth year prefects. They were all ecorating the hall for the Halloween feast, which was that night. Sirius had begged Lily to come, until she finally gave in and let him. She was seriously regretting that now. She wandered over to James who was setting up long lines of black, red, and orange holly along the doors.
"Hey, need any help?" She asked, smiling at him.
"Actually, could you hand me my wand?"
"Yeah, sure," She held his wand out to him and he took it.
"Thanks lils."
"Yep, no problem. So, it's just about finished, isn't it?"
"What, the decorations you mean?"
"Yes."
"Yeah, I suppose so."
James and Lily both surveyed their work, it was pretty impressive. Large cobwebs hung from the ceiling and in the corners. The holly with halloween colors hung from all the doors. Live bats flew around and large spiders, which had been Sirius idea, crawled about their webs. There were small pumpkin lanterns floating about, instead of the usual candels, and the four long tales were decked out in huge orange, red, yellow, and black flowers. The head table and chairs actually had the legs of monsters and would, occasionally, decide to move around. A large black banner with "bloody" red writing said, "Happy Halloween" and would shouted out boo or would scream once every few seconds., softly of course, since they didn't want people going mad over it Lily had said. Yes it looked quite splendid.
"Well, I think we're just about finished, don't you?" James asked Lily.
"Um, yes, yes I do. It looks wonderful. Don't you think so?"
"Yea, definatly."
Professor McGonagall walked towards them, a small and very rare smile on her face. Well my dears, the hall looks absolutly lovely! You finished just in time too! The students will be here any minute now! Really, a wonderful job! I think some house points are in order, for the prefects as well."
"Thanks professor."
She smiled at them again and then swept off. As the lights dimmed, the hundreds of students began filing into the Great Hall, gasping in awe at the lovely decorations. Needless to say, the rest of the night went splendedly. The students enjoyed everything, food, music, and decorations very much. The live bats were a huge hit as well. Everyone stuffed themselves silly with food that was beyond compare. That night everyone went to bed tired and absolutly content.
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"Come on James, eat!" Sirius said, shoving eggs in James's face.
"I can't! I'm too nervous," James responded, a look of worry on his face.
It was their first quidditch match of the season, November 7, and James and the rest of his team had only practiced twice. Oops! And although his stomach was growling, loudly, James refused any food.
"It'll make me puke, I can't, I'm too nervous," He said. James was always nervous on his first match, but this was different. Two practices hadn't done much. Especially since they were going up against Hufflepuff, who had been practicing practically everyday.
"Come on James. You'll be fine! I promise," Summer said, smily, she sqeezed his arm.
"Thanks Summer, but I'm still nervous."
They began the walk out to the quidditch field, Sirius talking animatedly about how there was no need to worry, "coz they were the best fucking team to ever live." James looked around for Lily, he had only seen her breifly at breakfast and wanted to see her again. Somehow, he knew it would help him for the game.
Lily was walking with Amos, sadly. She had sat with him at breakfast and was now seriously regretting. All the Hufflepuffs had talked about was the game and how they were going to kick Gryfinndor's ass, much to Lily's disbelif. How could Amos say that to her, when he knew she was a Gryfinndor? It had been a miserable morning, but she decided that she would not let it go any further. She pulled away from Amos and looked up at him.
"Amos, I have to go. I'll see you later."
"Where are you-" He began, but Lily dashed into the crowd, she didn't want to hear anything more. She ran around, pushing her way through people until she saw him, James.
Her and James had become such good friends over the past few days, although, sometimes she wished they were more than friends. They hung out every night in their rooms playing chess, reading, doing assignments, and talking.
"James," She called and his head whipped around.
"Hey Lily Flower, I was wondering what had happened to you!"
"Oh, I was with Amos." She half smiled and hugged him. "I just wanted to wish you good luck and that I'm routing for you, not Hufflepuff. Okay?"
James hugged her hard back, inhaling the scent of vanilla that she had. She buried her head in his neck for a minute and then kissed his cheek.
"Thanks Lily. Your the sweetest person I know."
She laughed, "Where did that come from?"
He shrugged, "Just felt like saying it, I guess."
She smiled, "You idiot. Anyway, I suppose I'll see you after the game, all right?"
"You better belive it," He said, "Right. Bye!"
Lily waved and then joined Coppelia and Frank Longbottom. James walked to the changing rooms with Sirius and Remus. When they got there, he noticed that the whole team seemed to be very worried. A nice pep talk was definatly in order. James clapped loudly to get their attention.
"All right team. I know, that we haven't exactly practiced too much this year," A few people smiled," but, we all know, that Gryfinndor has the best Quidditch team! We've only been beat a few times before, in the past and I know, that we have nothing to worry about. You guys are great. I trust you guys to the point that I would put my life in your hands. So, um. Yeah! Let's go kick some ass!"
The Gryfinndors, who's spirits had been lifted, walked out onto the field with James and stood waiting for the rest of the Hufflepuff team to come out. James and Amos shook hands, death glares on their faces, meant only for each other. Madam Hooch blew her whistle and the two teams shot into the air.
"AND IMMEDIATLY SUMMER SNATCHES THE QUAFFLE AND BEGINS RUSHING TOWARDS THE GOAL POSTS, WITH AMOS DIGGORY CLOSE BEHIND HER," Shouted Alice Button, a seventh year Ravenclaw. Summer threw the ball to Brandon Patrick, a sixth year, who caught it and took up the job of racing towards the goal posts. "AND THERE GOES BRANDON PATRICK WITH THE QUAFFLE, QUITE A SPEEDY MAN! AND HE SHOOTS AND....YES!...HE MAKES THE GOAL! THE SCORE IS NOW TEN TO ZERO, WITH GRYFINNDOR IN THE LEAD!"
The game went on for quite a while longer. Lily watched intently the whole time. Amos would smile at her often, but she payed him no attention. She was watching one person, James. He was incredible. Lily knew she could watch him for hours and never get bored. Since he was the seeker, he was mostly just suppose to hover around the top, but not James. He swooped around, down and up, searching for the tiny golden ball, which he so loved. Once or twice he looked at her, and Lily found her heart skipping beats. Sirius, who played beater, was having the time of his life slamming the bludger towards Amos, which Lily saw. And the funny thing was, she didn't give a shit infact, she was kinda happy.
Needless to say, Gryfinndor won, 320 to 235. Amos's face held nothing but pure hatred as he watched James be lifted onto the shoulders of Sirius. Everyone began rushing out of the huge stadium, they knew a huge party would be in the Gryfinndor Common Room tonight and they definatly didn't want to miss it.
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Lily, after a few seconds of debation with her self, decided not to meet Amos and just go to the huge party in the common room. A wise choice, since Lily, as usual, had an awesome time. There was much dancing and singing. Once or twice a very giddy Sirius got up on the table and told everyone that he and Summer, who had drank one too many butterbeers and was very tipsy, were getting married and that they were having a bunny rabbit, named Jack. Who knew? Lily danced around with Coppelia and some other people for a while. As well as drinking lots of warm butterbeer, having a small food fight with Remus, and singing along with Sirius.
It was about twelve o'clock when she saw James. He was sitting on the couch by the fire, a tired but happy look upon his face. She wandered over to him and sat down next to him.
"Hey dahlin'," He said smiling, "having fun?"
She laughed and nodded.
"That's good," He replied and turned back to the fire.
"You were incredible as always," Lily said to him.
"Really? Incredible? Thanks! I don't think anyone has ever called me incredibe before," he said, completly suprised.
"No, really. I love watching you," Oops. Why did she have to go and say that?
He raised his eyebrows, "You watch me?"
"Why oh why am I nodding my head," Lily wondered to herself. "I can't keep my eyes off of you." What am I doing? Lily you idiot! Why did you tell him that? You fool" Lily scolded herself.
"Wow." James seemed shocked. "I never knew anyone thought that highly of my playing." He said it quietly, he seemed slightly embarresed.
"Well someone does," Lily said softly.
She moved towards him and planted a sweet kiss on his lips. James caressed her lips with his and Lily responded by sucking softly on his lower lip. James placed his other hand on her cheek. When he pulled back, Lily was blushing.
"Oops, I did it again," Lily thought to herself. She was scared about what he would say to her, she was praying that this didn't turn out like the last time they had kissed.
"We shouldn't have done that, you know," he whispered.
"I know," Lily said, her voice just as quiet as his. They looked at each other, solomnly for a few seconds and then Lily smiled. "Well, I'll tell you what, Mr. Potter. We shouldn't have done it...but let it be our secret. Okay?"
James raised his eyebrows, "Our secret? Between you and me?"
"Our secret," Lily repeated, "Between you and me."
James grinned and nodded so hard he thought his head might fall off. Lily gave him another smile and then jumped up from the couch and walked off into the crowd. James, however, stayed on the couch. He leaned his head back and looked up to the high ceiling.
"Our secret," He whispered to himself, "God, I love that girl."
Chapter 5: Oops, I Did it Again....
"SIRIUS, YOU IDIOT!" Lily shouted, looking up at Sirius, who was standing on top of a ladder, a bucket of some black substance in hand. "How many time do I have to tell you? NO TRAPS!"
"Pranks? I'm not seeting up any traps," Sirius said innocently.
Lily growled, "Sirius, I have been watching you the entire time. You are setting those cobwebs up right there, with mouth droppings on them, and putting a spell on them, so that when kids walk through, bat droppings will fall on their heads, which is absolutly DISGUSTING!"
"Hehe, um, WRONG!" Sirius cried, although he looked rather guilty.
Lily put her face in her hands, "Sirius, how in HELL am I wrong?"
"Er-"
"YEAH! That's what I thought! NOW, if you don't get down from there RIGHT THIS SECOND and start actually setting up the hall, then YOU ARE OUT! GOT IT?"
Sirius put a puppy dog look on his face, "Fine. All I wanted to do was have some fun and mean ol' Lily-Billy had to ruin it!"
Lily rolled her eyes and walked away, as Sirius climbed down the ladder. They were in the Great Hall, along with James and the sixth year prefects. They were all ecorating the hall for the Halloween feast, which was that night. Sirius had begged Lily to come, until she finally gave in and let him. She was seriously regretting that now. She wandered over to James who was setting up long lines of black, red, and orange holly along the doors.
"Hey, need any help?" She asked, smiling at him.
"Actually, could you hand me my wand?"
"Yeah, sure," She held his wand out to him and he took it.
"Thanks lils."
"Yep, no problem. So, it's just about finished, isn't it?"
"What, the decorations you mean?"
"Yes."
"Yeah, I suppose so."
James and Lily both surveyed their work, it was pretty impressive. Large cobwebs hung from the ceiling and in the corners. The holly with halloween colors hung from all the doors. Live bats flew around and large spiders, which had been Sirius idea, crawled about their webs. There were small pumpkin lanterns floating about, instead of the usual candels, and the four long tales were decked out in huge orange, red, yellow, and black flowers. The head table and chairs actually had the legs of monsters and would, occasionally, decide to move around. A large black banner with "bloody" red writing said, "Happy Halloween" and would shouted out boo or would scream once every few seconds., softly of course, since they didn't want people going mad over it Lily had said. Yes it looked quite splendid.
"Well, I think we're just about finished, don't you?" James asked Lily.
"Um, yes, yes I do. It looks wonderful. Don't you think so?"
"Yea, definatly."
Professor McGonagall walked towards them, a small and very rare smile on her face. Well my dears, the hall looks absolutly lovely! You finished just in time too! The students will be here any minute now! Really, a wonderful job! I think some house points are in order, for the prefects as well."
"Thanks professor."
She smiled at them again and then swept off. As the lights dimmed, the hundreds of students began filing into the Great Hall, gasping in awe at the lovely decorations. Needless to say, the rest of the night went splendedly. The students enjoyed everything, food, music, and decorations very much. The live bats were a huge hit as well. Everyone stuffed themselves silly with food that was beyond compare. That night everyone went to bed tired and absolutly content.
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"Come on James, eat!" Sirius said, shoving eggs in James's face.
"I can't! I'm too nervous," James responded, a look of worry on his face.
It was their first quidditch match of the season, November 7, and James and the rest of his team had only practiced twice. Oops! And although his stomach was growling, loudly, James refused any food.
"It'll make me puke, I can't, I'm too nervous," He said. James was always nervous on his first match, but this was different. Two practices hadn't done much. Especially since they were going up against Hufflepuff, who had been practicing practically everyday.
"Come on James. You'll be fine! I promise," Summer said, smily, she sqeezed his arm.
"Thanks Summer, but I'm still nervous."
They began the walk out to the quidditch field, Sirius talking animatedly about how there was no need to worry, "coz they were the best fucking team to ever live." James looked around for Lily, he had only seen her breifly at breakfast and wanted to see her again. Somehow, he knew it would help him for the game.
Lily was walking with Amos, sadly. She had sat with him at breakfast and was now seriously regretting. All the Hufflepuffs had talked about was the game and how they were going to kick Gryfinndor's ass, much to Lily's disbelif. How could Amos say that to her, when he knew she was a Gryfinndor? It had been a miserable morning, but she decided that she would not let it go any further. She pulled away from Amos and looked up at him.
"Amos, I have to go. I'll see you later."
"Where are you-" He began, but Lily dashed into the crowd, she didn't want to hear anything more. She ran around, pushing her way through people until she saw him, James.
Her and James had become such good friends over the past few days, although, sometimes she wished they were more than friends. They hung out every night in their rooms playing chess, reading, doing assignments, and talking.
"James," She called and his head whipped around.
"Hey Lily Flower, I was wondering what had happened to you!"
"Oh, I was with Amos." She half smiled and hugged him. "I just wanted to wish you good luck and that I'm routing for you, not Hufflepuff. Okay?"
James hugged her hard back, inhaling the scent of vanilla that she had. She buried her head in his neck for a minute and then kissed his cheek.
"Thanks Lily. Your the sweetest person I know."
She laughed, "Where did that come from?"
He shrugged, "Just felt like saying it, I guess."
She smiled, "You idiot. Anyway, I suppose I'll see you after the game, all right?"
"You better belive it," He said, "Right. Bye!"
Lily waved and then joined Coppelia and Frank Longbottom. James walked to the changing rooms with Sirius and Remus. When they got there, he noticed that the whole team seemed to be very worried. A nice pep talk was definatly in order. James clapped loudly to get their attention.
"All right team. I know, that we haven't exactly practiced too much this year," A few people smiled," but, we all know, that Gryfinndor has the best Quidditch team! We've only been beat a few times before, in the past and I know, that we have nothing to worry about. You guys are great. I trust you guys to the point that I would put my life in your hands. So, um. Yeah! Let's go kick some ass!"
The Gryfinndors, who's spirits had been lifted, walked out onto the field with James and stood waiting for the rest of the Hufflepuff team to come out. James and Amos shook hands, death glares on their faces, meant only for each other. Madam Hooch blew her whistle and the two teams shot into the air.
"AND IMMEDIATLY SUMMER SNATCHES THE QUAFFLE AND BEGINS RUSHING TOWARDS THE GOAL POSTS, WITH AMOS DIGGORY CLOSE BEHIND HER," Shouted Alice Button, a seventh year Ravenclaw. Summer threw the ball to Brandon Patrick, a sixth year, who caught it and took up the job of racing towards the goal posts. "AND THERE GOES BRANDON PATRICK WITH THE QUAFFLE, QUITE A SPEEDY MAN! AND HE SHOOTS AND....YES!...HE MAKES THE GOAL! THE SCORE IS NOW TEN TO ZERO, WITH GRYFINNDOR IN THE LEAD!"
The game went on for quite a while longer. Lily watched intently the whole time. Amos would smile at her often, but she payed him no attention. She was watching one person, James. He was incredible. Lily knew she could watch him for hours and never get bored. Since he was the seeker, he was mostly just suppose to hover around the top, but not James. He swooped around, down and up, searching for the tiny golden ball, which he so loved. Once or twice he looked at her, and Lily found her heart skipping beats. Sirius, who played beater, was having the time of his life slamming the bludger towards Amos, which Lily saw. And the funny thing was, she didn't give a shit infact, she was kinda happy.
Needless to say, Gryfinndor won, 320 to 235. Amos's face held nothing but pure hatred as he watched James be lifted onto the shoulders of Sirius. Everyone began rushing out of the huge stadium, they knew a huge party would be in the Gryfinndor Common Room tonight and they definatly didn't want to miss it.
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Lily, after a few seconds of debation with her self, decided not to meet Amos and just go to the huge party in the common room. A wise choice, since Lily, as usual, had an awesome time. There was much dancing and singing. Once or twice a very giddy Sirius got up on the table and told everyone that he and Summer, who had drank one too many butterbeers and was very tipsy, were getting married and that they were having a bunny rabbit, named Jack. Who knew? Lily danced around with Coppelia and some other people for a while. As well as drinking lots of warm butterbeer, having a small food fight with Remus, and singing along with Sirius.
It was about twelve o'clock when she saw James. He was sitting on the couch by the fire, a tired but happy look upon his face. She wandered over to him and sat down next to him.
"Hey dahlin'," He said smiling, "having fun?"
She laughed and nodded.
"That's good," He replied and turned back to the fire.
"You were incredible as always," Lily said to him.
"Really? Incredible? Thanks! I don't think anyone has ever called me incredibe before," he said, completly suprised.
"No, really. I love watching you," Oops. Why did she have to go and say that?
He raised his eyebrows, "You watch me?"
"Why oh why am I nodding my head," Lily wondered to herself. "I can't keep my eyes off of you." What am I doing? Lily you idiot! Why did you tell him that? You fool" Lily scolded herself.
"Wow." James seemed shocked. "I never knew anyone thought that highly of my playing." He said it quietly, he seemed slightly embarresed.
"Well someone does," Lily said softly.
She moved towards him and planted a sweet kiss on his lips. James caressed her lips with his and Lily responded by sucking softly on his lower lip. James placed his other hand on her cheek. When he pulled back, Lily was blushing.
"Oops, I did it again," Lily thought to herself. She was scared about what he would say to her, she was praying that this didn't turn out like the last time they had kissed.
"We shouldn't have done that, you know," he whispered.
"I know," Lily said, her voice just as quiet as his. They looked at each other, solomnly for a few seconds and then Lily smiled. "Well, I'll tell you what, Mr. Potter. We shouldn't have done it...but let it be our secret. Okay?"
James raised his eyebrows, "Our secret? Between you and me?"
"Our secret," Lily repeated, "Between you and me."
James grinned and nodded so hard he thought his head might fall off. Lily gave him another smile and then jumped up from the couch and walked off into the crowd. James, however, stayed on the couch. He leaned his head back and looked up to the high ceiling.
"Our secret," He whispered to himself, "God, I love that girl."