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Chapter 8:
"Sirius!" A girl shrieked, "What are you doing? That's like, totally wrong!"
"You know what? To bloody hell with this shit," Sirius cursed, throwing his wand down.
His cauldron was bubbling dangerously and big yellow-black slops were falling over the side of it. Sirius was in Potion's class, along with his fellow maurderers Summer, and Lily. Sirius hated the days were he had Potions with the Hufflepuffs, which were Wednesdays, they were absolutely helpless. At least the Slytherins could actually do something correctly.
Sirius sighed, unhappily. Usually he would be working with James, but ever since he and Lily had started going out James was always with Lily. Even their pranking expeditions were becoming fewer by the week. Quickly, he glanced over to Lily and James, who had chosen seats in the back corner. *Their* potion looked absolutely perfect and Professor ------------ had already announced it as "acceptable." So, at the time, James was currently nibbling on Lily's ear and whispering into it. Lily was giggling softly and it looked like she was telling him to "shoosh."
Sirius scowled and looked at his partner. Her name was Cate, or so he thought. She had curly brown hair and pretty blue eyes. She wore small glasses, that gave her the executive look. She was slightly plump and her curves looked too large for her rather small body. Currently, she was standing with her hands on her small hips with her lips pursed giving him a "are-you-going-to-work-with-me-or-not-and-my-god-your-so-hot" look.
"I'm sorry. I'm a bit distracted today."
"Whatever, just try to pay a little more attention."
Sirius continued to observe the girl. She wasn't anything gorgeous like Lily or Summer, but she was kind of cute. And he liked her smile.
"Hey, Cate. Do you want to take a walk with me after class?"
The girl scowled, "My name is Claire."
"Oh," SHIT! Sirius thought in his head, "Of course it is! My memory's not the best."
"Well, maybe if you had been listening to me when I introduced myself, instead of staring at Summer Peter's back, you would have remembered it!"
"Oh, yea, um, well, er, sorry, about that," he stammered. "I...err....really like her hair."
"You like who's hair?" Lily asked, joining the conversation.
"Summer's." Sirius answered, exasperatedly
"What about me?" Summer inquired turning to look at him.
"He likes your hair," Claire blurted.
Sirius felt so embarrassed. But he was pleased when he saw a blush rise onto Summer's cheeks. She self-consciously touched a stand and fingered it
"Really?" She smiled widely at Sirius, "Thanks." She grinned. "I like your hair too sweetie," she teased, jokingly.
Summer winked at him and then turned back around to continue working on her potion. Sirius watched the back of her head and then felt himself become slightly annoyed that some idiotic Hufflepuff got to work with her and not him. Claire high voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Anyway, so what was it that you asked, earlier?" Claire asked.
"Um," What had he asked? "Oh, yes. Do you want to go a walk with me? After class."
"Well, I was kind of planning on going back to my common room and studying...." she trailed off.
"Well, then I'll just walk you to your common room then, how's that?"
"Is that even allowed?" Claire said.
Sirius shrugged, nonchalantly. Alexis giggled stupidly.
"Oh my God, you are *such* a rule breaker!"
Sirius nodded and gave her a weak smile.
"Cool."
There was only about ten minutes of class left, so it all went by quickly. When it finished, all the student filed out, going in their separate directions. Instead of joining his friends at the door, Sirius wrapped his hand around Claire's.
"Hey! Sirius!" James called to him down the hallway.
Sirius ignored him, but continued chatting with Claire.
"Sirius!" James called again, even louder this time. "Come 'ere you ol' dog!" James shouted jokingly.
Sirius chose to ignore his friend again.
"Why is he ignoring me?" James asked to no one in particular.
"He *is* with a girl James." Lily answered.
"That's never stopped him before!" he whined. Giving it one last try he shouted, "SIRIUS BLACK!!!" at the top of his lungs, which cause Sirius to spin around a scowl on his face.
"What the hell do you want?" he snapped.
"I just-" James began.
"Can't you see that I'm SLIGHTLY BUSY HERE!" Sirius growled interrupting him.
Sirius turned back around and began pulling Alexis down the hall, barely giving her a chance to catch up. James's face had fallen and all he could do was stand there, stupidly, and stare after his best mate ignored him. He felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Lily giving him a comforting smile.
"Are you okay?" She inquired.
"No...." James answered truthfully.
"Of course you're not. Come on, I'm sure he's just having a bad day." Lily said, attempting to comfort him.
"No! He's not! Something's wrong. If he was having a bad day he'd talk to me about it. Not ignore me and instead go and snog some girl."
Lily didn't know what to say, so instead she gently pulled on his hand, leading him back to their common room.
Meanwhile, Sirius was still pulling Claire down the hall. It looked rather silly, since she was practically jogging to keep up. She put up with it too, until her knees began to hurt. She stopped short, which almost made Sirius fall. He glared at her, accusingly.
"Don't look at me like that! You said a walk, not a run!"
"Sorry, Claire."
"Whatever, just...slow down," they began strolling down the hall. "So what was that boy yelling about back there?" She asked.
"Who James?" she nodded, "Oh, he uh. He's just being annoying, that's all."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Claire asked sweetly.
As they reached the Hufflepuff Common room entrance, Sirius studied her face. She looked serious about it and he needed to get this off his chest. He nodded.
"See, he's finally going out with the girl of his dreams and I just...I feel like he's been ignoring me. We're best mates, ya know? And we've barely talked, I think he's forgotten about me."
"No." the girl insisted, "He hasn't forgotten about you. I had a friend who did the same thing and I felt the same way. But in the end, I realized that my friend was just caught up in the moment, but she had never really left me or anything. They're always there for you and I'm sure your friend cares about you just as much as before."
There was a slight pause as Sirius took a moment to appreciate the advice this girl had just offered him.
"Thanks so much, that was extremely sweet." Sirius said, genuinely meaning it.
"Your welcome...and if there's anything I can ever do to help, just ask, okay?"
Sirius nodded. Suddenly footsteps sounded through the hall empty he looked up and pulled her, swiftly, into a broom closet. Claire looked at him questioningly, bust Sirius put his finger over his mouth, telling her to keep quite. The two students stood, cramped, and listened to the muttering of Filch, the caretaker as he rambled down the halls. When the sounds of his steps lessened, the two smiled.
"Flich, he'd have my head if he saw me around another house's common room, again."
Sirius smiled and Claire laughed quietly.
"Would you mind if I kissed you?" Sirius asked her suddenly.
Claire looked suprised, but slowly shook her head. Sirius bent his head down to reach her lips and, slowly, he caressed them with his. As he moved his mouth over, a bit harshly, Claire stumbled back, landing on a box. Sirius, did not break the kiss, but pushed his tongue into her mouth demanding that she respond. It wasn't in a mean way though, but as though he needed it.
Claire pushed him away, her breathing heavy.
"Sorry," she apologized, "But I can't breath."
"Oh, Sorry." Sirius said, genuinely meaning it.
"No, it's OK," she smiled. "I've never been kissed that way before," she admitted, shyly.
"Really? Never?"
"Well, I have been kissed, just not like that."
Sirius smiled, pleasantly.
"I'm glad to be the one to introduce you to that then."
Claire laughed and it almost sounded cruel.
"I'm sure you're glad to introduce girls to a lot of things."
Sirius looked taken aback, but he smiled and laughed.
"You're cruel," he stated.
Claire nodded.
"Just honest."
"Honest....right."
Sirius gave her one of his famous grins and then stood up.
"But, I do believe that I promised you a walk to your common room."
He offered her his arm and she grinned, stood up, and took it.
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A week had already gone by and neither James nor Sirius had attempted to talk to one another. Lily tried talking to Sirius, but he brushed her off. They both knew that secretly, they both wanted to talk, but being the silly boys they were, decided that they had far too much pride to be the one to confront the other.
Now, it was Thursday and as Lily sat in the Gryffindor Common Room, she felt herself become desperate. She knew why Sirius was mad at James and she knew it was because of her. Lily felt horrible about it, not to mention selfish, since she knew she couldn't let James go. She glanced around her and spotted Sirius over by the fire talking to Peter. She looked down at her hands, noticing, for the first time, just how small they were. She sighed, wearily. She was being selfish. James and her, she knew, didn't mean as much as James and Sirius. Without each other, they were hopeless. She stood up and began making he way to the boy's dorms, where she knew James was playing Chess with Frank Longbottom.
She climbed the stairs and entered the room. As she had suspected, James and Frank were sitting on a bed involved in a chess game. They looked up as the door opened and she strolled in.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but I really need to talk to James for a few minutes. Do you mind, Frank?" She asked, kindly.
Frank shook his head and jumped off the bed.
"No problem. I should probably go find Alice, myself. See you around James, he moved towards the door, "Don't get into too much trouble you two!" He shouted and left the room.
James' eyes went from the door to Lily and a hungry grin spread across his face. He motioned her over and when she reached the bed, her pulled her to his body quickly, kissing her neck. Lily felt herself giving into him, but she thought better of it and pushed away.
"James," she said, "we really need to talk."
James raised his eyebrows.
"Talk....right."
He pulled her back to him, but she resisted him once again.
"Seriously, James. Stop. This is important."
James nodded, rolling his eyes. He laid down, leaning on his arm.
"OK, talk."
Lily sat down on the bed.
"James, you know how much I love you. But, I don't want to be the cause of you and Sirius stopping your friendship. And I think-"
James cut her off.
"Lily, you are not the reason that we're not talking. He's being a bloody prick. Don't worry!"
"But I DO worry!" Lily insisted. "And it IS because of me. I know these things, James. And he sees you with me and becomes jealous. Think about it, you've barely talked to him since we've begun dating. I mean he LIVES with you for God's sake, you two are practically brothers!" There was a silent pause, filled only with Lily's heavy breathing. "If this is what's going to happen, if we date.....I think we should break it off. I'm not worth loosing Sirius for."
James stared at her, unbelievingly. He cupped her cheek and pulled her down to him, shaking his head. He reached her lips and pressed his against hers and for a moment Lily leaned into the kiss, forgetting everything but the sensation of his mouth against hers. But then she remembered shy she had been there and what was happening, so reluctantly, she pushed away. AS she stood up, she smoothed her robes down and then patted her hair, making it less wild.
"Please, just talk to him....okay James?" She asked in a not-quite-asking way and then just about ran out of the room.
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James didn't know what exactly to do. The next morning, as he watched Sirius sit down at the other end of the Gryfinndor Table with Frank and Alice Burginson, he wondered about what his girlfriend had told him.
*I'm not worth loosing Sirius over*.....*I think we should break it off*
James narrowed his eyes. Sirius was just being an absolute prick. James hadn't done anything wrong, Sirius was just being a brat. So, maybe he had been a little caught up in the sensation of finally being with a girl he had pined for, for three years. James smiled as he thought this and he allowed his eyes to travel to Lily, who sat next to him. She had her book propped up against the pitcher of orange juice and he could see just how much she was obsorbed in the book. He quickly glanced at a page. At the top, the title was written in small script. "The Right Kind of Wrong," it said. He gazed at Lily, her hair, her small hands that were clutching a fork, he pale, but beautiful skin. He felt his heart skip a few beats, God he wanted to kiss her.
Lily sensed someone watching her, she glanced over at James to find that his were the eyes that were watching her. She gave him a small smile and kissed his rough cheek.
"Hey you." She said, "Decided to talk to Sirius yet?"
"I was actually just thinking about it. Until I looked over at you." He answered, truthfully.
"James, cut the charm. This is sort of serious. You know serious? It means important, not funny, needs to be discussed." she joked.
"I know what serious means," he said, a little to harshly.
Lily raised her eyebrows and gave him one of her half smiles. She nodded.
"Okay, no need to snap at me. I just think you should think about it. You know I haven't changed my mind, right?"
James nodded. Lily smiled and rose from the bench.
"Good. Now, eat something for God's sake and then talk to him, for me."
She leaned down, letting her lips tickle his ear as she whispered,
"Maybe I'll give you a treat later, if you do."
She lifted her head back up and walked out of the Great Hall, not giving him one last glance. James grinned. If all he needed to do was talk to Sirius to get one of Lily's lovely treats, he was all for it. Besides, he thought as he looked over at the boy, they really did need to talk
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It was after dinner when James decided he was ready to talk to Sirius. So, as the masses of kids emerged from the hall's huge doors, James searched for and quickly found Sirius. James walked right up infront of him, making him stop.
"I believe you're in my way," Sirius said coolly.
"Shut up. We need to talk, come on."
Sirius shrugged, nonchalantly, and began following him down another hallway. They walked all the way to the Head Boy's dorms in silence, until the got into the room. James spun around on is heel and glared at his supposedly "best mate."
"Well?" He demanded.
"Well, what?" Sirius answered, pretending to not know.
"You know damn well what I'm talking about."
"No, I really don't." Sirius jeered.
"Fuck you Sirius!" James shouted. "What the hell is your problem? You haven't talked to me in days! And now Lily's telling me that we're going to have to break it off if me and her going out means that you're going to be such a moron."
"Why on Earth would she do that?"
"Because she thinks that your acting this way is because you don't like her!" James cried.
"Well maybe it is! Now you know what it's like to be ignored! Ever since you and Lily started going out you've been all over her! You didn't even give me the time of day! You were too busy with Lily," he said, emphasizing her name. "Well, guess what, James. Guess I'm the one who's too busy this time!" Sirius shouted.
"I've been in love with the bloody girl for three years! I've got a god-damned right to act that way!"
"Yeah, well, that doesn't mean you have to ignore your best mate, or your ex-best mate" Sirius added softly, looked down at the floor.
"Sirius, I'm sorry. I haven't talked to you as much as I should have. And I know I've been wrapped up in Lily a lot lately. But you've got to understand how much I love her. I never wanted to ignore you. And you're always going to be my best mate, whether you like it or not.
Sirius looked up from the floor and James swore he saw tears glistening in Sirius's eyes. He smiled and suddenly hugged James.
"Thanks mate, you are the best." Sirius said hoarsely.
James smiled, and pushed Sirius back.
"Let me breath, will you?" He said, smiling.
"Sorry." Sirius replied, sheepishly.
"Don't worry, man. I, er, love you too." James said uncertainty.
Sirius grinned.
"Love me? Well, you're cool too, Prongs, but I uh, don't know if you know this, but...I'm not gay," he said jokingly.
The boys laughed and clapped each other on the back. When they had calmed down James said,
"You know, we're sort of dragging with our pranks this year, what do you say we go fetch the boys and do some tonight?"
Sirius nodded.
"Awesome."
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James flopped happily into a squashy armchair in the Head Common room. His feet hurt from Peter stepping all over them, but it hadn't been Peter's fault. The maurderers had just completed another round of awesome pranks and had been squeezed under James's invisibility cloak all night. It had been easy to get under it when they were little eleven year olds, but now that they were all tall and big, it had gotten a little more difficult.
"And just where were you all night?" a voice asked him.
James looked to his right to see Lily leaning against the doorway to her room in a petal pink silk robe on, which was tied loosely around her. He grinned and motioned for her to come over.
"Out with my fellow pranksters making the Slytherin Common room a scum-bag worthy place." James answer, as Lily slid onto his lap and put her arms, loosely, around his neck.
"Sounds fun," she said casually and pecked him on the cheek. "I'm glad you two made up, now I don't have to leave you."
"Uh-huh," James grunted, as he allowed his lips to travel down her neck.
"Tell you the truth, I was bloody scared that I'd have to break it off with you."
James pulled back and smiled.
"Never. Now c'mere and give me a proper kiss."
Lily giggled, jumped up and flounced over to her bedroom door, where she stopped and winked at James,
"I don't think so!" She said, before disappearing.
James laughed and ran into her room where he snatched her up into his arms. He carried her quickly over to the bed and then dumped her onto and began to tickle her, mercilessly.
"James," Lily choked out between giggles," please...stop, oh my god! Come....come on....James you absolute....prick," she continued to plead until he finally stopped and pulled back. "You asshole," Lily muttered as she pushed herself off the bed and walked over to her large mirror, where she pulled her hair out of it's loose ponytail, took her brush, and began running it through her auburn curls.
James leaned against the bedpost, whatching her, wondering how he had ever deserved her. Lily paused her brushing strokes to smile at him slightly. Suddenly James felt a great urge to touch that hair. He wandered over to her and gently tugged the brush from her grip.
"Here let me." he said
Lily raised her eyebrows in question.
"You looking out for a career in hairdressing or something?"
James ignored the silly comment and slowly he ran the hairbrush through her hair, marveling at the color and shine of it. He brushed the hair to the side, scraping her ear slightly.
"Ouch," Lily said and giggled.
James snapped out of his dream-like state and dropped the hairbrush onto the floor, still staring at her hair. Lily smiled slightly.
"James? You okay?"
James nodded, "Yeah," he paused, "Did anyone ever tell you that you have the most unusual eyes?"
Lily scrunched her noes up, cutely.
"Unusual? Like unusual in a bad way or a good way?"
James shook his head, "No. It a good way. They're gorgeous"
Lily smiled, pleased, "Really? Gorgeous?"
James nodded again, "Stunning."
"Wonderful?" Lily asked
"Enchanting." James said back
"Amazing?" She offered.
"Divine." He said back.
"Oooo! Divine?" Lily exclaimed. She laughed and ran and jumped onto the bed. "My eyes are divine!" She shouted happily, as if addressing the fact to a court.
James sat on the bed as Lily danced around him, shouting, "I'm divine!" She yelled again. "I'm divine, I'm divine."
James laughed as Lily danced around him singing. Lily chuckled along with him. James plopped down and grabbed Lily, pulling her down with him. They sat still for a second, breathless. Lily tilted her head to the side, allowing herself to loose herself in James's eyes. Leaning towards her, James caught her lips in a sweet, breathless kiss. Lily put her hands on his cheeks, while James slid one arm around her waist and let the other play with the small silver necklace she was wearing. James moved his mouth down her neck and then along her jaw. Slowly, he pushed her onto her back and settled himself ontop of her, kissing her long neck again.
He moved his hand down from the small pendant on her neck and down to where her robe was loosely tied together. He pulled one thing out of the simple knot and then proceeded to push the other one aside.
The song "Heaven" was playing in Lily's mind, literally. "Heaven, I'm in heaven. And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak!" Lily giggled to herself. James slipped his hand under her robe. Their kissed lessened as they became more and more breathless. As they pulled away, Lily laughed.
"It is almost two in the morning and here I am kissing you. Come here, get in with me," Lily said, motioning him to come and get under the blankets with her.
James pulled his shirt and his pants off and crawled under the blankets next to her.
"Navy blue with penguins, cute." Lily remarked, nodding her head approvingly.
James grinned, "Thanks. My mum bought them for me."
"Yeah," Lily said. She leaned over and turned off her light and then closed her eyes, "Good night James."
"Good night petal."
About two minutes went by, with nothing but silence in the pitch black room. James shifted, uncomfortably
"Lily?" James called softly into the blackness.
"Yeah?" the girl beside him answered.
"I can't sleep."
Lily giggled, "Neither can I." She turned to look at him. "Come," she motioned for him to come closer. "Keep me warm."
James sighed, happily, and moved next to her and wrapped his arms around her. Lily smiled slightly and kissed his neck, leaving a trail of butterfly kisses. She moved her experienced mouth up to his ear and whispered,
"What am I, James?"
"A stunning, gorgeous, sex goddess?" He replied hopefully and she giggled softly.
"Good job, Mr. Potter."
"So where's my treat for talking to Sirius? You promised me a treat. Do I get one?" He asked.
Lily pulled back and smiled at him.
"Of course, Mr. Potter. I wouldn't give any less."
She grabbed his head, yanked it down to her lips and kissed him deeply. Her tongue swept inside his mouth and teased his own. James groaned in a delighted response and tangled his fingers in her messy and wild hair. Lily straddled him and leaned down to kiss him against, nibbling hungrily on his lower lip. James rubbed up against her, and Lily pushed her pelvis against his. Lily could feel his arousal through his shorts and grinned to herself. *She had made him feel that way*
Now really Lily, gloating over such a thing! Lily giggled very softly to herself.
She sucked on his lower lips once again and then pulled away and grinned wickedly. Slowly, she pulled James's boxers down and tossed them to the side. Again, she settled herself ontop of James kissing him greedily. She allowed her hand to travel down. She stroked his hard on, receiving a pleasurable moan. Lily moved her mouth down his neck and down his chest, leaving hot kisses behind. He tasted good, a bit of sweat with a little salt mixed in there, he tasted wonderful. She glanced up at James before she lowered her mouth to his shaft. Gently she moved her mouth up and down him, careful not to scrape him with her teeth. She allowed herself to experiment with her tounge and her lips and as she did, she suddenly realized how much noise James was making. She giggled, sat up, and put her finger to her lips.
"Shhh, silly."
"My god," he panted, "I can't.....just, just don't stop. Please."
Lily lowered her mouth to his kissing him once again, before she lowered her lips back to him. She went slowly at first and then built speed until she was using everything, mouth, lips, hand. James had his hands tangled in her hair, making it messy. As she continued, she felt the muscles in his body clench up and she knew what was coming. James let out a cry as he released into her. And being the good girl, Lily swallowed it, almost enjoying the taste.
She pulled away and looked down at James, who was panting, his forehead had a few drops of sweat on it. He smiled at her.
"That," he gasped, "was the, the best treat I've ever gotten in my life."
Lily smiled, proud of how good she had made him feel.
"Now, maybe we can sleep."
James nodded.
"Sleep, yeah. Good idea."
Lily crawled back up towards him and snuggled under the blankets, next to him, both falling asleep in each other arms.
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Chapter 8:
"Sirius!" A girl shrieked, "What are you doing? That's like, totally wrong!"
"You know what? To bloody hell with this shit," Sirius cursed, throwing his wand down.
His cauldron was bubbling dangerously and big yellow-black slops were falling over the side of it. Sirius was in Potion's class, along with his fellow maurderers Summer, and Lily. Sirius hated the days were he had Potions with the Hufflepuffs, which were Wednesdays, they were absolutely helpless. At least the Slytherins could actually do something correctly.
Sirius sighed, unhappily. Usually he would be working with James, but ever since he and Lily had started going out James was always with Lily. Even their pranking expeditions were becoming fewer by the week. Quickly, he glanced over to Lily and James, who had chosen seats in the back corner. *Their* potion looked absolutely perfect and Professor ------------ had already announced it as "acceptable." So, at the time, James was currently nibbling on Lily's ear and whispering into it. Lily was giggling softly and it looked like she was telling him to "shoosh."
Sirius scowled and looked at his partner. Her name was Cate, or so he thought. She had curly brown hair and pretty blue eyes. She wore small glasses, that gave her the executive look. She was slightly plump and her curves looked too large for her rather small body. Currently, she was standing with her hands on her small hips with her lips pursed giving him a "are-you-going-to-work-with-me-or-not-and-my-god-your-so-hot" look.
"I'm sorry. I'm a bit distracted today."
"Whatever, just try to pay a little more attention."
Sirius continued to observe the girl. She wasn't anything gorgeous like Lily or Summer, but she was kind of cute. And he liked her smile.
"Hey, Cate. Do you want to take a walk with me after class?"
The girl scowled, "My name is Claire."
"Oh," SHIT! Sirius thought in his head, "Of course it is! My memory's not the best."
"Well, maybe if you had been listening to me when I introduced myself, instead of staring at Summer Peter's back, you would have remembered it!"
"Oh, yea, um, well, er, sorry, about that," he stammered. "I...err....really like her hair."
"You like who's hair?" Lily asked, joining the conversation.
"Summer's." Sirius answered, exasperatedly
"What about me?" Summer inquired turning to look at him.
"He likes your hair," Claire blurted.
Sirius felt so embarrassed. But he was pleased when he saw a blush rise onto Summer's cheeks. She self-consciously touched a stand and fingered it
"Really?" She smiled widely at Sirius, "Thanks." She grinned. "I like your hair too sweetie," she teased, jokingly.
Summer winked at him and then turned back around to continue working on her potion. Sirius watched the back of her head and then felt himself become slightly annoyed that some idiotic Hufflepuff got to work with her and not him. Claire high voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Anyway, so what was it that you asked, earlier?" Claire asked.
"Um," What had he asked? "Oh, yes. Do you want to go a walk with me? After class."
"Well, I was kind of planning on going back to my common room and studying...." she trailed off.
"Well, then I'll just walk you to your common room then, how's that?"
"Is that even allowed?" Claire said.
Sirius shrugged, nonchalantly. Alexis giggled stupidly.
"Oh my God, you are *such* a rule breaker!"
Sirius nodded and gave her a weak smile.
"Cool."
There was only about ten minutes of class left, so it all went by quickly. When it finished, all the student filed out, going in their separate directions. Instead of joining his friends at the door, Sirius wrapped his hand around Claire's.
"Hey! Sirius!" James called to him down the hallway.
Sirius ignored him, but continued chatting with Claire.
"Sirius!" James called again, even louder this time. "Come 'ere you ol' dog!" James shouted jokingly.
Sirius chose to ignore his friend again.
"Why is he ignoring me?" James asked to no one in particular.
"He *is* with a girl James." Lily answered.
"That's never stopped him before!" he whined. Giving it one last try he shouted, "SIRIUS BLACK!!!" at the top of his lungs, which cause Sirius to spin around a scowl on his face.
"What the hell do you want?" he snapped.
"I just-" James began.
"Can't you see that I'm SLIGHTLY BUSY HERE!" Sirius growled interrupting him.
Sirius turned back around and began pulling Alexis down the hall, barely giving her a chance to catch up. James's face had fallen and all he could do was stand there, stupidly, and stare after his best mate ignored him. He felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Lily giving him a comforting smile.
"Are you okay?" She inquired.
"No...." James answered truthfully.
"Of course you're not. Come on, I'm sure he's just having a bad day." Lily said, attempting to comfort him.
"No! He's not! Something's wrong. If he was having a bad day he'd talk to me about it. Not ignore me and instead go and snog some girl."
Lily didn't know what to say, so instead she gently pulled on his hand, leading him back to their common room.
Meanwhile, Sirius was still pulling Claire down the hall. It looked rather silly, since she was practically jogging to keep up. She put up with it too, until her knees began to hurt. She stopped short, which almost made Sirius fall. He glared at her, accusingly.
"Don't look at me like that! You said a walk, not a run!"
"Sorry, Claire."
"Whatever, just...slow down," they began strolling down the hall. "So what was that boy yelling about back there?" She asked.
"Who James?" she nodded, "Oh, he uh. He's just being annoying, that's all."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Claire asked sweetly.
As they reached the Hufflepuff Common room entrance, Sirius studied her face. She looked serious about it and he needed to get this off his chest. He nodded.
"See, he's finally going out with the girl of his dreams and I just...I feel like he's been ignoring me. We're best mates, ya know? And we've barely talked, I think he's forgotten about me."
"No." the girl insisted, "He hasn't forgotten about you. I had a friend who did the same thing and I felt the same way. But in the end, I realized that my friend was just caught up in the moment, but she had never really left me or anything. They're always there for you and I'm sure your friend cares about you just as much as before."
There was a slight pause as Sirius took a moment to appreciate the advice this girl had just offered him.
"Thanks so much, that was extremely sweet." Sirius said, genuinely meaning it.
"Your welcome...and if there's anything I can ever do to help, just ask, okay?"
Sirius nodded. Suddenly footsteps sounded through the hall empty he looked up and pulled her, swiftly, into a broom closet. Claire looked at him questioningly, bust Sirius put his finger over his mouth, telling her to keep quite. The two students stood, cramped, and listened to the muttering of Filch, the caretaker as he rambled down the halls. When the sounds of his steps lessened, the two smiled.
"Flich, he'd have my head if he saw me around another house's common room, again."
Sirius smiled and Claire laughed quietly.
"Would you mind if I kissed you?" Sirius asked her suddenly.
Claire looked suprised, but slowly shook her head. Sirius bent his head down to reach her lips and, slowly, he caressed them with his. As he moved his mouth over, a bit harshly, Claire stumbled back, landing on a box. Sirius, did not break the kiss, but pushed his tongue into her mouth demanding that she respond. It wasn't in a mean way though, but as though he needed it.
Claire pushed him away, her breathing heavy.
"Sorry," she apologized, "But I can't breath."
"Oh, Sorry." Sirius said, genuinely meaning it.
"No, it's OK," she smiled. "I've never been kissed that way before," she admitted, shyly.
"Really? Never?"
"Well, I have been kissed, just not like that."
Sirius smiled, pleasantly.
"I'm glad to be the one to introduce you to that then."
Claire laughed and it almost sounded cruel.
"I'm sure you're glad to introduce girls to a lot of things."
Sirius looked taken aback, but he smiled and laughed.
"You're cruel," he stated.
Claire nodded.
"Just honest."
"Honest....right."
Sirius gave her one of his famous grins and then stood up.
"But, I do believe that I promised you a walk to your common room."
He offered her his arm and she grinned, stood up, and took it.
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A week had already gone by and neither James nor Sirius had attempted to talk to one another. Lily tried talking to Sirius, but he brushed her off. They both knew that secretly, they both wanted to talk, but being the silly boys they were, decided that they had far too much pride to be the one to confront the other.
Now, it was Thursday and as Lily sat in the Gryffindor Common Room, she felt herself become desperate. She knew why Sirius was mad at James and she knew it was because of her. Lily felt horrible about it, not to mention selfish, since she knew she couldn't let James go. She glanced around her and spotted Sirius over by the fire talking to Peter. She looked down at her hands, noticing, for the first time, just how small they were. She sighed, wearily. She was being selfish. James and her, she knew, didn't mean as much as James and Sirius. Without each other, they were hopeless. She stood up and began making he way to the boy's dorms, where she knew James was playing Chess with Frank Longbottom.
She climbed the stairs and entered the room. As she had suspected, James and Frank were sitting on a bed involved in a chess game. They looked up as the door opened and she strolled in.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but I really need to talk to James for a few minutes. Do you mind, Frank?" She asked, kindly.
Frank shook his head and jumped off the bed.
"No problem. I should probably go find Alice, myself. See you around James, he moved towards the door, "Don't get into too much trouble you two!" He shouted and left the room.
James' eyes went from the door to Lily and a hungry grin spread across his face. He motioned her over and when she reached the bed, her pulled her to his body quickly, kissing her neck. Lily felt herself giving into him, but she thought better of it and pushed away.
"James," she said, "we really need to talk."
James raised his eyebrows.
"Talk....right."
He pulled her back to him, but she resisted him once again.
"Seriously, James. Stop. This is important."
James nodded, rolling his eyes. He laid down, leaning on his arm.
"OK, talk."
Lily sat down on the bed.
"James, you know how much I love you. But, I don't want to be the cause of you and Sirius stopping your friendship. And I think-"
James cut her off.
"Lily, you are not the reason that we're not talking. He's being a bloody prick. Don't worry!"
"But I DO worry!" Lily insisted. "And it IS because of me. I know these things, James. And he sees you with me and becomes jealous. Think about it, you've barely talked to him since we've begun dating. I mean he LIVES with you for God's sake, you two are practically brothers!" There was a silent pause, filled only with Lily's heavy breathing. "If this is what's going to happen, if we date.....I think we should break it off. I'm not worth loosing Sirius for."
James stared at her, unbelievingly. He cupped her cheek and pulled her down to him, shaking his head. He reached her lips and pressed his against hers and for a moment Lily leaned into the kiss, forgetting everything but the sensation of his mouth against hers. But then she remembered shy she had been there and what was happening, so reluctantly, she pushed away. AS she stood up, she smoothed her robes down and then patted her hair, making it less wild.
"Please, just talk to him....okay James?" She asked in a not-quite-asking way and then just about ran out of the room.
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James didn't know what exactly to do. The next morning, as he watched Sirius sit down at the other end of the Gryfinndor Table with Frank and Alice Burginson, he wondered about what his girlfriend had told him.
*I'm not worth loosing Sirius over*.....*I think we should break it off*
James narrowed his eyes. Sirius was just being an absolute prick. James hadn't done anything wrong, Sirius was just being a brat. So, maybe he had been a little caught up in the sensation of finally being with a girl he had pined for, for three years. James smiled as he thought this and he allowed his eyes to travel to Lily, who sat next to him. She had her book propped up against the pitcher of orange juice and he could see just how much she was obsorbed in the book. He quickly glanced at a page. At the top, the title was written in small script. "The Right Kind of Wrong," it said. He gazed at Lily, her hair, her small hands that were clutching a fork, he pale, but beautiful skin. He felt his heart skip a few beats, God he wanted to kiss her.
Lily sensed someone watching her, she glanced over at James to find that his were the eyes that were watching her. She gave him a small smile and kissed his rough cheek.
"Hey you." She said, "Decided to talk to Sirius yet?"
"I was actually just thinking about it. Until I looked over at you." He answered, truthfully.
"James, cut the charm. This is sort of serious. You know serious? It means important, not funny, needs to be discussed." she joked.
"I know what serious means," he said, a little to harshly.
Lily raised her eyebrows and gave him one of her half smiles. She nodded.
"Okay, no need to snap at me. I just think you should think about it. You know I haven't changed my mind, right?"
James nodded. Lily smiled and rose from the bench.
"Good. Now, eat something for God's sake and then talk to him, for me."
She leaned down, letting her lips tickle his ear as she whispered,
"Maybe I'll give you a treat later, if you do."
She lifted her head back up and walked out of the Great Hall, not giving him one last glance. James grinned. If all he needed to do was talk to Sirius to get one of Lily's lovely treats, he was all for it. Besides, he thought as he looked over at the boy, they really did need to talk
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It was after dinner when James decided he was ready to talk to Sirius. So, as the masses of kids emerged from the hall's huge doors, James searched for and quickly found Sirius. James walked right up infront of him, making him stop.
"I believe you're in my way," Sirius said coolly.
"Shut up. We need to talk, come on."
Sirius shrugged, nonchalantly, and began following him down another hallway. They walked all the way to the Head Boy's dorms in silence, until the got into the room. James spun around on is heel and glared at his supposedly "best mate."
"Well?" He demanded.
"Well, what?" Sirius answered, pretending to not know.
"You know damn well what I'm talking about."
"No, I really don't." Sirius jeered.
"Fuck you Sirius!" James shouted. "What the hell is your problem? You haven't talked to me in days! And now Lily's telling me that we're going to have to break it off if me and her going out means that you're going to be such a moron."
"Why on Earth would she do that?"
"Because she thinks that your acting this way is because you don't like her!" James cried.
"Well maybe it is! Now you know what it's like to be ignored! Ever since you and Lily started going out you've been all over her! You didn't even give me the time of day! You were too busy with Lily," he said, emphasizing her name. "Well, guess what, James. Guess I'm the one who's too busy this time!" Sirius shouted.
"I've been in love with the bloody girl for three years! I've got a god-damned right to act that way!"
"Yeah, well, that doesn't mean you have to ignore your best mate, or your ex-best mate" Sirius added softly, looked down at the floor.
"Sirius, I'm sorry. I haven't talked to you as much as I should have. And I know I've been wrapped up in Lily a lot lately. But you've got to understand how much I love her. I never wanted to ignore you. And you're always going to be my best mate, whether you like it or not.
Sirius looked up from the floor and James swore he saw tears glistening in Sirius's eyes. He smiled and suddenly hugged James.
"Thanks mate, you are the best." Sirius said hoarsely.
James smiled, and pushed Sirius back.
"Let me breath, will you?" He said, smiling.
"Sorry." Sirius replied, sheepishly.
"Don't worry, man. I, er, love you too." James said uncertainty.
Sirius grinned.
"Love me? Well, you're cool too, Prongs, but I uh, don't know if you know this, but...I'm not gay," he said jokingly.
The boys laughed and clapped each other on the back. When they had calmed down James said,
"You know, we're sort of dragging with our pranks this year, what do you say we go fetch the boys and do some tonight?"
Sirius nodded.
"Awesome."
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James flopped happily into a squashy armchair in the Head Common room. His feet hurt from Peter stepping all over them, but it hadn't been Peter's fault. The maurderers had just completed another round of awesome pranks and had been squeezed under James's invisibility cloak all night. It had been easy to get under it when they were little eleven year olds, but now that they were all tall and big, it had gotten a little more difficult.
"And just where were you all night?" a voice asked him.
James looked to his right to see Lily leaning against the doorway to her room in a petal pink silk robe on, which was tied loosely around her. He grinned and motioned for her to come over.
"Out with my fellow pranksters making the Slytherin Common room a scum-bag worthy place." James answer, as Lily slid onto his lap and put her arms, loosely, around his neck.
"Sounds fun," she said casually and pecked him on the cheek. "I'm glad you two made up, now I don't have to leave you."
"Uh-huh," James grunted, as he allowed his lips to travel down her neck.
"Tell you the truth, I was bloody scared that I'd have to break it off with you."
James pulled back and smiled.
"Never. Now c'mere and give me a proper kiss."
Lily giggled, jumped up and flounced over to her bedroom door, where she stopped and winked at James,
"I don't think so!" She said, before disappearing.
James laughed and ran into her room where he snatched her up into his arms. He carried her quickly over to the bed and then dumped her onto and began to tickle her, mercilessly.
"James," Lily choked out between giggles," please...stop, oh my god! Come....come on....James you absolute....prick," she continued to plead until he finally stopped and pulled back. "You asshole," Lily muttered as she pushed herself off the bed and walked over to her large mirror, where she pulled her hair out of it's loose ponytail, took her brush, and began running it through her auburn curls.
James leaned against the bedpost, whatching her, wondering how he had ever deserved her. Lily paused her brushing strokes to smile at him slightly. Suddenly James felt a great urge to touch that hair. He wandered over to her and gently tugged the brush from her grip.
"Here let me." he said
Lily raised her eyebrows in question.
"You looking out for a career in hairdressing or something?"
James ignored the silly comment and slowly he ran the hairbrush through her hair, marveling at the color and shine of it. He brushed the hair to the side, scraping her ear slightly.
"Ouch," Lily said and giggled.
James snapped out of his dream-like state and dropped the hairbrush onto the floor, still staring at her hair. Lily smiled slightly.
"James? You okay?"
James nodded, "Yeah," he paused, "Did anyone ever tell you that you have the most unusual eyes?"
Lily scrunched her noes up, cutely.
"Unusual? Like unusual in a bad way or a good way?"
James shook his head, "No. It a good way. They're gorgeous"
Lily smiled, pleased, "Really? Gorgeous?"
James nodded again, "Stunning."
"Wonderful?" Lily asked
"Enchanting." James said back
"Amazing?" She offered.
"Divine." He said back.
"Oooo! Divine?" Lily exclaimed. She laughed and ran and jumped onto the bed. "My eyes are divine!" She shouted happily, as if addressing the fact to a court.
James sat on the bed as Lily danced around him, shouting, "I'm divine!" She yelled again. "I'm divine, I'm divine."
James laughed as Lily danced around him singing. Lily chuckled along with him. James plopped down and grabbed Lily, pulling her down with him. They sat still for a second, breathless. Lily tilted her head to the side, allowing herself to loose herself in James's eyes. Leaning towards her, James caught her lips in a sweet, breathless kiss. Lily put her hands on his cheeks, while James slid one arm around her waist and let the other play with the small silver necklace she was wearing. James moved his mouth down her neck and then along her jaw. Slowly, he pushed her onto her back and settled himself ontop of her, kissing her long neck again.
He moved his hand down from the small pendant on her neck and down to where her robe was loosely tied together. He pulled one thing out of the simple knot and then proceeded to push the other one aside.
The song "Heaven" was playing in Lily's mind, literally. "Heaven, I'm in heaven. And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak!" Lily giggled to herself. James slipped his hand under her robe. Their kissed lessened as they became more and more breathless. As they pulled away, Lily laughed.
"It is almost two in the morning and here I am kissing you. Come here, get in with me," Lily said, motioning him to come and get under the blankets with her.
James pulled his shirt and his pants off and crawled under the blankets next to her.
"Navy blue with penguins, cute." Lily remarked, nodding her head approvingly.
James grinned, "Thanks. My mum bought them for me."
"Yeah," Lily said. She leaned over and turned off her light and then closed her eyes, "Good night James."
"Good night petal."
About two minutes went by, with nothing but silence in the pitch black room. James shifted, uncomfortably
"Lily?" James called softly into the blackness.
"Yeah?" the girl beside him answered.
"I can't sleep."
Lily giggled, "Neither can I." She turned to look at him. "Come," she motioned for him to come closer. "Keep me warm."
James sighed, happily, and moved next to her and wrapped his arms around her. Lily smiled slightly and kissed his neck, leaving a trail of butterfly kisses. She moved her experienced mouth up to his ear and whispered,
"What am I, James?"
"A stunning, gorgeous, sex goddess?" He replied hopefully and she giggled softly.
"Good job, Mr. Potter."
"So where's my treat for talking to Sirius? You promised me a treat. Do I get one?" He asked.
Lily pulled back and smiled at him.
"Of course, Mr. Potter. I wouldn't give any less."
She grabbed his head, yanked it down to her lips and kissed him deeply. Her tongue swept inside his mouth and teased his own. James groaned in a delighted response and tangled his fingers in her messy and wild hair. Lily straddled him and leaned down to kiss him against, nibbling hungrily on his lower lip. James rubbed up against her, and Lily pushed her pelvis against his. Lily could feel his arousal through his shorts and grinned to herself. *She had made him feel that way*
Now really Lily, gloating over such a thing! Lily giggled very softly to herself.
She sucked on his lower lips once again and then pulled away and grinned wickedly. Slowly, she pulled James's boxers down and tossed them to the side. Again, she settled herself ontop of James kissing him greedily. She allowed her hand to travel down. She stroked his hard on, receiving a pleasurable moan. Lily moved her mouth down his neck and down his chest, leaving hot kisses behind. He tasted good, a bit of sweat with a little salt mixed in there, he tasted wonderful. She glanced up at James before she lowered her mouth to his shaft. Gently she moved her mouth up and down him, careful not to scrape him with her teeth. She allowed herself to experiment with her tounge and her lips and as she did, she suddenly realized how much noise James was making. She giggled, sat up, and put her finger to her lips.
"Shhh, silly."
"My god," he panted, "I can't.....just, just don't stop. Please."
Lily lowered her mouth to his kissing him once again, before she lowered her lips back to him. She went slowly at first and then built speed until she was using everything, mouth, lips, hand. James had his hands tangled in her hair, making it messy. As she continued, she felt the muscles in his body clench up and she knew what was coming. James let out a cry as he released into her. And being the good girl, Lily swallowed it, almost enjoying the taste.
She pulled away and looked down at James, who was panting, his forehead had a few drops of sweat on it. He smiled at her.
"That," he gasped, "was the, the best treat I've ever gotten in my life."
Lily smiled, proud of how good she had made him feel.
"Now, maybe we can sleep."
James nodded.
"Sleep, yeah. Good idea."
Lily crawled back up towards him and snuggled under the blankets, next to him, both falling asleep in each other arms.