Okay, this is, just as I said in part 14, the last part. Doesn't mean that you'll get rid of me, though. Maybe I'll continue with another story. Depends on your reviews: If there are enough telling me to go on, then I'll do!
Oh, and before you start to read this part, I have to warn you: I'm hopeless at writing romances – I wonder why I'm writing one – so this is awfully soppy and cheesy! I have to admit that I like it soppy and cheesy, though. *g*
Nail a pudding on the wall!
Part 15
"Oy! Prongs!" Sirius waved a hand in front of James' eyes. "You made this quill green?? So your poor cornflower was green in the end?"
James turned slightly pink. "No, I fixed it up, of course. Wasn't too crazy about another visit in McGonagall's office.Though it was a lot prettier in the green of Lil's eyes..."
"Hopeless." Remus shook his head, smirking. "Anyway, why didn't you call us to read your poem before sending it to her?"
"It was one in the morning, so I had the choice between being killed by you and sending it to her without letting you check it."
"We? Kill you?" Sirius faked an offended look. "We wouldn't even hurt a fly. – Except Snape, maybe, but he's worse than a fly."
James grinned. "I take this as a permission to wake you up the next time."
"Aw! We need our beauty sleep!"
Remus pretended to take a very close look at Sirius, then he nodded solemnly. "Right. Padfoot really needs his beauty sleep. Otherwise he'll never get a girlfriend."
"Gee!" Sirius whacked Remus with his plate. "I'm not as popular as Jamie-boy, but I'd say that I'm not among the most unpopular boys in our school, am I?"
"Naaah." James put a comforting arm around Sirius shoulders in a mocking way. "You're second in the school internal 'most-popular'-list."
"Ha! That's what I wanted to hear."
"But the fact remains that in two weeks or so, you'll be the only one of us without a girlfriend, except Peter." Remus grinned evilly."
Catching Remus's eye, James understood what his friend was up to. "Sarah and you… You'd make a cute couple…"
"I wouldn't mind." Sirius put on a dreamy expression. "Doesn't mean that I'm going to fall in love, though!" he added as an afterthought.
"Sure?" James and Remus said at once, echoed by Peter half a second later.
"Oh, shut up! – We'll be late for classes!" Sirius got up quickly, glad to find an excuse to finish this conversation, but he wasn't released yet.
"Since when exactly do you care if we're late for classes?" While following Sirius out of the Great Hall, James examined the face of his friend, exchanging amused glances with Remus.
"Don't try to be the matchmaker!" Sirius had decided to change tactics and was now crawling on the floor, folding his hands and pretending to shiver, exaggerating as he often did. He earned quite a few looks from other students, but Sirius never cared what other people were thinking of him.
"We won't." Remus promised him, a wicked gleam in his eyes. "You can do that all by yourself."
"But… But…" Sirius whined, still on the floor.
"If you're too shy, my dearest Padfoot" James bent down and patted his friend's back, "we'll be happy to help you."
Sirius finally gave up and jumped to his feet. "I don't have much choice, right?"
Remus, James and Peter nodded the more – or in Peter's case the less – emphatically.
The boy with the longish black hair sighed but was smiling at the same time. "If it makes you happy, then I'll try to make her my girlfriend. But" – he raised one hand threateningly – "no plans of you! I remember far too well what we did to get you, Jamsie, and Lil together."
"Er… Do I want to know about it?"
Sirius patted his back, grinning broadly. "You don't, Prongs. Believe me: You don't."
"Then I most definitely do."
"We won't tell you anyway. And now let's go, Snape's cauldron is longing for this firecracker in my pocket."
***
"Hey James!"
James whirled around and sighed. "What do you want, Rita?"
"Oh, just one word for our school magazine. I'm writing an article about you and Lily Evans. Just a few questions." She pulled out a notebook and a quill. "Do you love Lily or is it just because you can't get her as easily as other…"
She was interrupted by James. He grabbed the notebook and the quill from her, anger burning in his eyes.
"Get lost, Rita! Don't dare to write this article, or you won't leave the hospital wing for a long time. The same if you try to ask Lil one of your questions."
Usually, James wasn't one to threat other students, but somehow, he wasn't able to control his feelings whenever Lily was concerned and he was afraid that this article would destroy everything. Besides, he hated Rita Magnus, the most annoying gossip in the whole school and also the most passionate reporter for the school magazine of Hogwarts, 'Hogwarts today or: What you've always wanted to know about our school'. (They had sometimes difficulties to get the whole title into the cover)
The girl looked at him and when she saw that he meant what he had said, she backed down, muttering that the story wouldn't be that interesting anyway.
Sirius laughed when he joined James in reading the article as far as it was written till now.
No title yet ('A new challenge for James Potter', maybe)
James Potter, Captain and Chaser of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, obviously the most popular boy in our school and infamous for his countless relationships that never last for longer than only one day, has found a new challenge in trying to win the heart of Hogwarts' probably prettiest girl: Lily Evans.
Q: Do you really love her, James?
JP: Love? Oh well, I mean, she's beautiful, isn't she?
Q: So sh
"She's got some inventiveness, eh?"
James nodded, a gloomy expression on his face. "She doesn't care in the slightest bit about the consequences for the people she's writing about."
"Let's throw this notebook into Snapie's cauldron and attach the firecracker!"
"Good idea, Padfoot." James' grin was back the moment Snape's cauldron started to produce green-redly checkered bubbles before it exploded.
***
[Next day before breakfast, Gryffindor common room]
"Oooooh…" Sirius pretended to faint while pointing at Sarah and grinning. "Who's this angel? Am I in heaven?"
She stared at him, suspicion in her eyes. "Are you planning to make me do something? Or are you just a little bit more insane than you normally are?"
His grin even broadened. "Neither nor. I just realized that I'm madly in love with you."
Sarah laughed. "Yeah, sure. Do you want me to get Ms Stevens?"
"Nooooo!" He looked offended. "Some time with you is all that I need."
"A bet?" Sarah asked Lily who was watching the scene, smiling. "Someone said that he wouldn't succeed in making a complete fool of himself. And now he's trying to prove the opposite."
Sirius lifted his hands helplessly and turned to Remus, James and Peter who were sitting in chairs, smirking, clapping their hands and crying for more.
"Such treatment I get! All I wanna do is asking her to be my girlfriend, and she says that I'm making a fool of myself!"
"Oh, really?" Sarah grinned. "I'd feel honoured to be your girlfriend, my dearest Sirius."
"Sarah, my one and only love, please tell me that these words are the truth!" Sirius was now kneeling in front of her, reaching for her hands while asking himself silently if this was more than a joke for her. He hoped it was.
Sarah bent down and placed a kiss on his forehead, still grinning. "Would I lie to you?"
She wasn't quite sure what to think of the situation, but probably, it was just one of Sirius' ideas. He had never shown any sign that he liked her as more than only a friend. Coming to her own feelings, it was more complicated. Yes, she liked him, but she didn't know if she liked him in that way.
Her thoughts were interrupted by Remus' amused voice. "When's the marriage?"
"Next week." Sirius smirked.
Sarah burst out laughing. "Although there's nothing I'd love more than marrying you, love, the little fact remains that we aren't allowed to marry yet."
"Oh, yeah." Sirius' face was thoughtful (rare incident!). "Maybe we should take some aging potion, babe?"
"Don't call me babe!" She slapped him playfully and he fell backwards into a chair.
"No abuse in the marriage! Otherwise, I'll file a petition for divorce!"
"No chance there. We aren't married yet."
"Hmhm. Forgot about that."
James rolled his eyes to the sky and adressed Lily, Remus, Jessie and Peter. "Do you think they're ever serious, those two?"
"Probably not."
***
Later that day, Lily, Sarah and Jessie were sitting in their Charms lesson. As they were supposed to learn how to do a fire spell, Professor Flitwick had filled the classroom with glass bowls. Lying in them were feathers, old clothes, wood and other things that the students should set on fire. Lily was by far the best in Charms, so Flitwick had made her task a lot harder than the one of her classmates: Instead of highly inflammable objects, he had filled her glass with stones, therefore it wasn't enough to do the charm one time properly to burn all her things, she had to cast it on every single stone. But she wasn't really concentrating at the moment, her mind was busied otherwise.
"I don't have the faintest idea what to get him. James' birthday's on Sunday!" Angrily, Lily let one of her stones burst into flames.
Sarah was having a harder time to set the boot in her glass on fire, but now she looked up, grinning evilly. "You'll find something, Lil. If not, he'd be perfectly happy if you just give him yourself."
Jessie and Sarah burst into fits of giggles while Lily was considering carefully whether she should laugh as well or if a silencing charm was the better thing to do. After half a minute or so, she started laughing against her own will.
Flitwick sped towards the girls, rubbing his half burned brow. "Everything all right here? – Oh, I see! Very well, Ms Evans, very well, indeed."
He was about to watch Sarah and Jessie do the spell, but he was distracted by a loud bang and rushed to the other end of the room, leaving the girls alone.
Lily, Sarah and Jessie were laughing when they saw a green hair ribbon, the most prized possesion of a girl named Anastacia, in flames. They didn't like Anastacia. In Lily's opinion, she was just as smart as a hen with a loss of memory, only caring about her hair, her make-up, her clothes and so on. And then there was also the fact that she was constantly following James around – although he didn't even notice it. So, all in all, Lily was quite amused to see Anastacia's hair ribbon on fire.
She calmed down quickly however and got her mind back to her most urgent problem at the moment: James' birthday present. "It has to be something good. Not just a book or a few Dungbombs…"
Jessie smiled. "We'll go to Hogsmeade with you, tomorrow, after our Defence lesson, okay, Lil? Then you can search the whole town until you find something good enough."
Lily nodded grinningly. "That's all I wanted to hear. Now that we cleared this up, we can talk about more interesting things. Sirius, for example." She winked at Sarah who turned promptly red.
"Honestly, I don't know it myself. I'm not sure if it's only a joke for him. Knowing Sirius, I think it is."
"What about you?"
"Dunno. Ask me again in – let's say: A month."
"You know that we won't forget that."
Sarah shrugged and turned back to her glass.
***
"Are you happy now?" Sirius stirred his potion and grinned up at Remus, James and Peter. "I am not the one without a girlfriend. How long, Jamie-boy, are you planning to send her those letters?"
"Padfoot, I'm not sure if this is more than a joke for Sarah." James ignored Sirius' question.
"We'll see that, Prongs. And now answer to my question!"
"What question?" James asked though he knew exactly what Sirius meant.
The last one sighed. "Prongs, don't pretend to be dumber than you truly are! When – and most of all how – are you going to tell Lily?"
Remus looked up in interest. That's why he missed that Peter added the completely wrong weed to their potion. "Yeah, for how much time do you want to go on like this? And where do you want to tell her?"
James shrugged unsurely. "I don't know. Maybe the astronomy tower?"
"Under the starry sky…" Sirius grinned personally. "You become quite a little romantic, Jamsie."
"It's Lily. She makes me do all these things." James smiled shyly.
"How come you're no longer afraid that she might turn you away?"
James grinned broadly. "'Cause I'm pretty sure that she's in love with me now, Moony."
"How come? You refused to believe it all the time."
"I won't tell you. All I can say is that someone told me."
"Who?"
"Someone."
"Does this person have a name?"
"Yeah."
"Which?"
"Forget it, Padfoot. I won't tell you."
"Not even if I put this firecracker into our potion otherwise?"
"Nope."
"Damn."
***
Lily and the brown school owl that James used to send his letters, Twilp, soon got used to a sort of routine: Every morning, either after she had woken up or during breakfast, the owl came to deliver another poem, sometimes a single red rose or a lily, once she even dropped a sunflower on her plate. The last one busied Lily's mind the most. There weren't much people who knew that it was her favourite flower, but she still couldn't remember whose handwriting it was.
However, the time passed and there wasn't much that happened. Worth mentioning was James' sixteenth birthday. (After she had driven Sarah and Jessie crazy because nothing they had found had been good enough to give it to James, Lily had finally bought him a set of his own Quidditch balls. Needless to say that he loved it.)
Sarah and Sirius weren't really what one can call a couple. Sometimes, Sirius put his arms around her shoulders or she was tousling his hair while sitting in his lap, but they were doing it in a mocking way, grinning and joking all the time. So no one knew if this was a real relationship, probably, the both of them were even more unsure than their friends. Remus, James, Lily, Jessie and Peter shared the opinion that Sirius and Sarah were simply too shy to admit that this was more than just a joke.
***
Just under two weeks after James' birthday, Lily, annoyed by her – though quietly – snoring friends and James' face that kept her from sleeping, went down into the common room in the middle of the night, a blanket wrapped around her and carrying the Handwriting book along with her. She was a little surprised to find James sitting in front of the fire and her surprise even increased when he blushed and hid something inside his bag the moment he saw her, but she decided to think about his strange behaviour later. Instead, she plopped down into the chair next to him, stifling a huge yawn.
"'lo James."
He grinned at her. "Hi Lil. How come you're awake?"
"Could ask you the same."
"Well, yeah, but I asked first."
Lily smiled. "Just listen to Anastacia and Sarah and you know why I wasn't able to fall asleep."
"Anastacia?"
"Ms 'Oh-my-God-my-nail polish-is-splintered-off!"
"Oh, yeah. Probably putting more time in her looks every day than she put in her studies this whole school year."
"Exactly." Lily laughed, one of those laughs James loved so much: unadulterated, pearling and from the depth of her heart. He looked at her, and before he even thought about it, he had asked her a question that just came to his mind:
"Lily, do you know what you're going to do after graduation?"
She shook her head. "No. Not really. I mean, I know that I want to be an Auror, but that's about it."
"Your parents?" he asked quietly.
Lily nodded. "I hate the thought that people like Voldemort would be out there and I wouldn't even try to stop them. I just want to do something. – What about you?"
James smiled. "The same. I know it's dangerous, being an Auror, but it's worth the risk, I think."
"Where do you want to live?"
"In London. I guess that I'll share a flat with Padfoot, Moony and maybe Wormtail. At least until I can move together with the girl I love."
He was staring at her when he said these words, and she didn't disappoint him: Her eyes widened suddenly and she swallowed the wrong way.
His gaze, those black eyes that were looking straight into her own as if silently telling her a secret made Lily's stomach go funny, she was shaking inwardly, and she knew that she didn't succeed very well in hiding her feelings. She shook her head slightly, but somehow her eyes refused to break the connection with those black Obsidians that were glowing with a suppressed fire.
"But…" Her voice was trembling noticeably, and she cleared her throat to be able to speak like she usually did. "You said that love was just an invention of some hopeless fools, remember?"
He nodded smilingly, still looking her deep in the eyes. "We all make mistakes, don't we?" he said, not showing any outward sign to her that he was fighting in order to keep his hands and his voice calm although his palms were sweaty.
Lily breathed a sigh of relief when he leaned back in his chair, looking quite happy about something. If this had lasted any longer, she wouldn't have been able to control herself anymore, and she doubted that it would be a good idea to throw her arms around his neck right now. Not wanting to pursue the topic any longer, she came to her feet stumblingly, and faked a huge yawn.
"I think I'm trying to sleep now. Night, James." She gave him a weak smile and he reached for her hand to squeeze it tightly, a thing he had never done before.
"Night, Lil." He held her hand a bit longer than necessary, then he watched her vanishing in the staircase to the girls' dorm. Little did she know that he stayed this way for a few minutes, a dreamy look on his face, until he managed to pull himself together and grabbed the blue parchment, the quill and his ink out of his bag to finish the message he had been writing just when Lily had entered:
Dearest Lily,
meet me in the Astronomy Tower, tonight at 1 o'clock. Please?
I love you.
***
"What do you think about it?" James watched his friends, anxiously awaiting their reactions.
Sirius looked around in the astronomy tower and examined the changes his friend had made, and for once, he was speechless. Remus whistled and Peter was grinning like an idiot. (Come to think of it: He is an idiot.)
Recovering from his astonishment, Sirius bounced over to his friend and hugged him. "She'll love this, Jamsie, I know she will!"
He whirled around and jumped onto a chair, stretching himself to have a better look at the roof (the astronomy tower was open to the sky), but James was paying no attention to him as had just caught sight of Peter.
"Hey, Wormtail! Don't destroy it, please! It took me more than an hour to create it."
Peter took two hurried steps back, walked straight into a candle and knocked it over.
Remus shook his head. "Not your day, eh, Pete? First your clash with good ol' Snape and Rosier and now this!"
James went over and put the candle back into place, then he seized Peter's and Remus' arms, dragging them out of the room and calling Sirius, who followed immediately. Together, they walked down the stair and separated afterwards as Sirius wanted to go to the broomshed.
***
"I don't know, Jess." Lily examined her hair in the mirror of the girls' bathroom. "It looks like I spent three hours just with fixing my hair. No." she finally decided and took the hair-slide out of her hair, ignoring Sarah's and Jessie's protesting voices.
She seized a comb and brushed her hair energetically, then turned around to look at her friends. "I'm not going like an overdressed doll! That's not me."
She slipped into a simple white robe and shook back her red waves. When she took a look at her watch, she was surprised that there was still an hour left until she had to go, but she was feeling as if she couldn't sit quiet, not even for a single second. Her hands were shaking, she felt slightly sick and her insides were burning with suppressed hope.
After Lily had paced around in the girls' dorm for two minutes, Sarah caught her and led her to her bed, telling her to lie down. Both Sarah and Jessie sighed when Lily jumped up again only a few seconds later, but as they saw that there was nothing they could do to make her calm down, they shrugged and Sarah went back to do her extra-work for History of Magic (for some reason, Professor Binns had been convinced that she had been planning to throw paperballs through his head – he was a ghost), while Jessie was trying to explain to her chessmen why they weren't allowed to take every piece of their opponent, even if they could reach it.
***
Meanwhile, in the boys' dorm, James, wrapped up only in a bath-towel, hair still wet from his shower, was shuffling through a large pile of clothes that was lying on his bed, muttering to himself from time to time and watched by Remus and Peter. Both were sitting on their own beds, wearing highly amused faces. James didn't even look up when the door opened to reveal Sirius, who looked quite pleased with himself but stood rooted to the spot, disbelief in his eyes, when he spotted the clothes on his friend's bed.
"JAMES! What are you doing?"
James winced and turned around. "Oh, Padfoot. Um… See, er, I'm…"
Remus finished his sentence. "Trying to decide what to wear on his date with Lil."
"Aaaah…" Sirius nodded knowingly, an evil grin playing about his lips as he studied James. "Why don't you go like this, Jamie-boy? This towel really shows your upper part of the body to advantage. Didn't know you've got that much muscles!"
He watched with fascination how his friend turned slowly a dark shade of red and smiled to himself.
James shook his head reluctantly. "Stop kidding, Si, please. I've to go in fifteen minutes and I don't know what to wear. And I still have to brush my hair!" There was definitely a slightly desperate sound in his voice.
Remus got up and laid a calming hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, James. You'll be there in time. Now, go and brush your hair and we'll look after your clothes in the meantime."
"D'you promise me that you won't choose the most terrible ones I posess?"
"Sure." Remus nodded solemnly and pushed a doubtful looking James in direction of the bathroom.
When James came back five minutes later, his hair not as messy as usually but still rather tousled, the clothes on his bed had dissappeared, only his school robe was lying there. He gave his three friends an asking glance.
"My school robe? But I'm wearing it every day!"
"Exactly." The three boys nodded synchronized. Then Remus explained:
"Lil will probably wear her school robes as well, or maybe another very simple robe. She's not one to dress up. And you don't want to look like a dressman, compared to her, do you?"
"Well…" James considered for a moment, the he shrugged. "Guess you're right."
"Okay then." Sirius jumped up. "Dress yourself and go!"
James was looking slightly green now, but he did as he was told and left the room with a last, nervous wave.
***
[15 minutes later]
Both smiling broadly, Sarah and Jessie watched Lily climbing out of the common room. They were about to fall asleep in front of the fire when Sirius, Remus and Peter left the boys' staircase where they had been hiding.
"Get up, lazy bones! You can sleep later. Or do you want to miss the first kiss of our perfect couple?"
"'Course not, Sweetheart!" Sarah got up and walked over to them, Jessie followed her a second later.
"I managed to borrow three brooms from the shed, so we can fly on the roof to watch them." Sirius looked quite smug.
"Three brooms?" Remus thought for a moment. "Okay, I'd say that Jess comes with me" – he ignored Sirius' grimace – "then Sirius can take Peter with him and Sarah's got a broom on her own."
"Hey! Not fair!" Sirius protested immediately. "I want to share a broom with my girlfriend!"
"Peter can't fly his own broom, Padfoot."
"Then Jess can fly by herself."
Jesie grinned. "I'm not good enough, Sa."
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are…"
Sarah was interrupted by Remus, who had taken a look at his watch.
"We don't have the time to discuss this. Padfoot, Sa, please!"
Neither Sarah nor Sirius looked happy, but as they really didn't want to miss their friends' rendezvous, they agreed and Sirius went to fetch the brooms.
***
Lily was slowly climbing the stair to the Astronomy Tower, arguing with herself as one part of her just wanted to turn around and run back to the common room while her other part was curiously wishing for nothing more than to find out who sent the letters. At the moment, the 'turn around'-half had the upper hand and Lily nearly began walking back when her other voice told her not to be silly. She stood still for a second, then she decided that it couldn't do any harm to go and see who was waiting for her, and so she jumped the the last step before she would loose her courage. When she was standing in front of the door, she hesitated for a brief moment, but then she mentally kicked herself, pushed the door open and stepped into the Astronomy classroom with knees that felt like being made of rubber.
Lily took a sharp breath. This was no longer the rather meagre and uncomfortable room she knew: When she had entered, a candle near the door seemed to have caught fire on its own and was now competing with the stars that sparkled in the cloudless sky. The faint light of the candle was brightening up the room a bit, throwing flickering shades on the walls.
As soon as Lily's eyes got used to the dark, she was able to perceive a trace of petals that led to the middle of the room. She followed it and was soon standing in a circle, she was surrounded with blooming bushes. She had no idea how they could have come here, she didn't even know what they were called. Not that she really thought about it, though, she was much to busied in looking around to detect any sign of the person who had created all this. But there was none, although she could feel that she was not alone in the room, that someone was with her. Absent-mindedly, she bent and picked up a single red rose that was lying on the floor, and when she looked up again, the room was no longer lit by only one candle: Hundreds of candles, sparkling in every colour of the rainbow, were distributed all over the room, and now, she could see the tall figure of a boy standing at the other side of the circle around her. A boy with messy black hair…
"James!" Meant as a question, his name came out as a shout for joy, and when he spread his arms, she dropped the rose and didn't even hesitate for a second to throw herself into them.
They stayed this way for a short moment, Lily's head leaning against his chest, her arms around his neck while James' hands were resting on her waist, the girl and the boy pressed against each other as close as possible. Then Lily looked up. Their eyes connected, burning with desire, and didn't let go until their lips met in a long and passionate kiss, as intensive that it shook them both.
Lily stepped back a few inches without letting go of James' hands to look at him, breathing hard.
He smiled sheepishly. "Do you remember?
'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.'"
She noticed that his voice, usually deep and sure, was trembling slightly, his chest was rising and falling very fast as if he had been running, and it made her love him even more.
Lily touched his cheek with her hand and smiled. "Yes, I remember. Half an hour later, I slapped you 'cause you tried to kiss me."
"Will you promise me that you'll never slap me again when I'm kissing you?"
Lily wasn't able to answer him as he silenced her instantly in cupping her face in his hands and raising it to meet his lips.
When they broke apart, Lily needed a few seconds to recover enough to speak.
"I promise, James. Now and forever."
"I love you, Lily Evans."
"I know."
"Hey, the normal answer would have been: 'I love you too, James Potter.'!"
"Have I ever acted like normal people do?"
He grinned. "No. But I want to hear it anyway. Otherwise I'll tickle you."
"No need to." Lily laughed quietly and placed a quick kiss on his lips. "I love you too, James Potter."
***
"I can't believe that we forgot to bring the camera along." Sirius was lying next to Sarah, Jessie, Remus and Peter on the roof, peering down at the kissing couple. "We could have given them the photo of their first kiss for their marriage. Or we could have blackmailed them."
Sarah grinned and grabbed something in her pocket. "What would you do without me?"
Sirius gasped at the camera in her hands, then watched her taking a photo of James kissing Lily, his hands stroking her hair, her arms around his neck, both staring into each other's eyes and oblivious for everything that was happening around them.
When Sarah turned back to grin at Sirius, she found him gazing at her, a strange gleam in his eyes.
He cleared his throat. "Sa, what would you do if I kiss you now?"
She shrugged smilingly. "Dunno. Tell you that I love you? Or maybe I'd slap you. That's if you're not a good kisser."
He smirked. "Let's just try it, okay?"
And before she could think of a reply, he had leaned forward and was kissing her. When he pulled back, he watched her closely.
"So. What will you do?"
Sarah thought for a moment, then grinned at him. "I love you."
"Me too."
"You love yourself?"
"Maybe. But that's not what I meant." He squeezed her hand. "I love you, Sarah."
"You do?"
He nodded solemnly. "I do."
*****
It's finished! I can't believe that I'm really done with this story. What am I going to do in my next History lesson? However, here's the disclaimer, especially for Tropical Fishy, as she's probably the only one who's reading it anyway. *g*
No, I don't own any of the characters (except Sarah and Jessie). What a surprise, isn't it? I'm sure that everyone thought that I'm J. K. Rowling…
And now, I'll come to my 'thank you's, and, as I think that justice is really important: The more often you reviewed, the earlier you're mentioned.
Mille grazie, tausend Dank, merci beaucoup, thanks a lot, muchas gracias, and so on (I'm running out of languages) to Hermione Potter and to the Queen of 'More Remus!': RavenNat. Then, there's sherry, of course.
After these three, we have… lemme see… yep: Elfie, Tsukino Usagi and WolfieGrl (hurry up with your stories!)
Next are calan, Elendil (oui, j'étais à Bruxelles. J'aime cette ville, seulement une petite chose m'énerve: Les conducteurs sont une catastrophe!), Jenn (A German step-father? And you'll move to Germany in a few years? Hopefully you'll live in the South: The weather's a lot nicer! *g*), Kat Solo and Sydney.
The next ones. Amanda (yeah, Steven plays Quidditch. I made him the Ravenclaw seeker, I think. Or was he a beater? *wrinkles up her nose in trying to remember her own story*), Claire, Danika, Kayara J.K.S.F.S.D.C. Potter (What a name!), our dear Queen of the funniest reviews: lone astronomer (A quarter to eight? We start 5 minutes earlier, so don't complain! Oh, and I like French! By the way: You're able to speak German, aren't you), Sara and Stars of Fire (Sorry, I read your idea after this part was written. Otherwise I'd have forgotten about all my good resolutions, and then I'd tried to go on with this story for another 5 parts. And these parts would have been awful, I can promise you that 'cause I'd repeat my own sentences and so on. It's high time to finish this story. - Did this make any sense?)
And now it's time to thank Cassie Lee (No revenge yet. To tell the truth: I forgot about it. Damn! Anyway, I think we're writing Disclaimers coz there's a tiny little voice in our head telling us not to adorn ourself with borrowed plumes. Or maybe we're just stupid? *g*) and Manda.
Amethyst (Sorry, it took me a bit more than a day to write this part…), Author Potter, Commet (Hurry up with Belle Fleur! Pleeeeaaase!), Ferret w/a fez (You're born in Germany? Where? ), Kaleigh Wright, kris, Silence (Strange reviews, really!), Stargazer and of course Tropical Fishy (You can't write during lessons? Why don't you try to cover your ears so that you don't have to hear your teacher any longer? ;-) Then you could write the next parts of Just as long as we're together or Lily Angel earlier!)
The next ones are ***MistyLily*** (Are you also MistyLily?), *R*e*d*w*o*o*d*, Allegria Winselvern, celestina warbeck, Chix, Danielle, Firebolt7 (Almost everyone's able to speak English, I guess that's the reason why it's not important for you to learn another language. Compared to that, it's quite different in Germany. I'm learning three languages, for example. It's much better than Physics or something… No, that was off topic.), Godric Gryffindor, Hahaha, Hawkins, Jennifer, Kerry Potter (That's your real name? Coool!), Lugia 2/Artanis, Piper, Remus's Gurl, Temptress, The Wizened Wizard and TigerFairy.O:P/O:P
And now *takes a deep breath* we have: **LilyPotter**, *Harry's Fave Gal*, *Mew2000*, ~Idgit~, A person, abcdajhsjgcccccccccccsdaf, Adrian, A fan (Oh my, I'm flattened… Really, truly! Thanx… *grins even broader than Sirius ever did* I think I'll write another L/J fic. I loe L/J fics!), Aireon, Allie & Allie-ooop (or is this the same person?), Ashley, Bloom, bunny chan, caddy-ole-lady-hoo, Christa Crabbe, Cocobanya, Cowgirl, dfgsdhdfgs & dsfgsfhd (you aren't the same, by sheer chance, eh?), Emerald (Are you still alive? Please say that you are, I don't want to be responsible for your death... Please?), Emerald Riddle, Erica Lupin, eve6, fan fic freak, ginny 5, Gwen, Hallie_U, hcvxhuvbdfuovouihgv, Hermione, Kali Ma, Kitty Cat, Lily Evans (and Queen Julie for HSL), Liz, loki, Maria Black (You didn't get heart attacks, did youPlease don't!), Me, Myself and I, mezzy, Misty Rious, MistyLily, Nala, niki, operasinger, Princess of the ruby throne, Ron, Sammy5, sgdsdg, Serpantana, Skyflyer (Green Jackets? Not really. I don't even know much about the German Army (I hate everything that has got something to do with Military).), Smily (Vacation-house in Germany? Where? - No, I haven't been in the USA yet, but I'd like to visit it. I'll do one day! But I've visited GreatBritain. Nice country, only a bit cold. But beautiful anyway.), someone, starlit, starr_lily, Susan, SyDnEyBeAgLe, the jewish prongs, Trinity Day and vhjdsdoubgjhsdbvlrhj.