Star-crossed Lovers
Suddenly, out of no where, the girls heard a bundle of giggles pouring from outside the room. Kate swung the door open, and to her disapporval, James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus all toppled into the room, rolling on the floor laughing.
"Ugh," mumbled Lily. She should have known it was them. It nearly always was. After all, Lily and her friends had been at Hogwarts for 7 years now and the Gryffindor 7th year girls had always found themselves as one of the main targets of the the Gryffindor 7th year boys. The boys simply found pleasure in traumatizing the girls, even though they were all best friends. Lily was particularily close with James, and maybe even had a slight crush on him. After all, he was head boy, and she was head girl...
"Haha. Funny joke, guys. Now clean all this up and let us sleep in peace. It's not even daybreak," yawned Kate.
"Hey Jenna, you can come out now! It's ok. It was just a joke," called Lily, over to the fourth four-poster that was continually shaking. Lily always was considerate to Jenna, for she wasn't quite as talented as her, Kate, and Alex. Slowly and cautiously, Jenna pushed down her wall of teddy bears and crawled out from under her bead, chalk white.
"You... you guys... you guys scared me to.. to death!" she managed to say, rather malevolently.
"Our point exactly," grinned a bowing James. "The Marauders, at your service."
"Why don't you take your service and haul it back to your dormitory," said Lily, starting to get rather annoyed. "I need to sleep!" she moaned, falling back onto her pillows.
"Ahh... is wittle Wily tired?" asked James in mock concern.
Lily rolled her eyes at him. She knew what was coming...
"Then let's make all the noise we can!" James bellowed, slapping the walls and stomping the floor. Within seconds, Peter, Remus, and Sirius had also joined in.
Before the boys knew exactly what was happening, they were loaded down with pillows and teddy bears, which the girls had thrown at them to make them shut up.
"Ohh! Thanks guys! I'll take these pillows as an invitation to sleep in here with you. Hey Kate! Can I sleep in your bed with you?" asked an excited Sirius.
Kate simple groaned and turned to her other side. Everyone knew she liked Sirius, but she wasn't about to display her affection in front of her friends. Sirius, however, took her groan as a yes, and bounded into the bed, pushing her against the wall.
Before James knew what the other boys were doing, they too were making their way over to the other girls' beds. Remus was sharing Alex's bed, and Peter was with Jenna. James, shrugged, and looked pleadingly up at Lily.
"Ugh... Okay, fine James. Come on," she mumbled, scooting over.
After about an hour, Lily found she couldn't sleep. She glanced over at Kate's bed, and saw her and Sirius were quite cuddled up with each other. She had her head on his chest, with one arm around his stomach, and his arms were drapped comfortably over her back. Alex and Remus were equally sharing her bed, both silently asleep. Lily almost felt like laughing when she looked over at Jenna's bed. At first Lily thought Peter might have squished her with all his excess fat, but then she realized that Jenna was asleep on the floor. Peter had somehow managed to push her off the bed so he could have it all to himself. What a greedy, greedy boy. Then Lily glanced over to James. When she looked at him, she was quite surprised to see that he was looking at her. He was looking at her with a mixture of warmth and what almost looked like longing. Lily gave him a puzzled expression, and then he snapped out of it.
"Can't sleep?" he whispered, his face nearly five inches from hers. She couldn't help but feel butterflies building in her stomach. After all, James was one of the cutest, smartest, and most desired students at Hogwarts. He maybe was even more to her...
"I guess not," she mumbled, tearing her gaze away from him and looking down at her hands.
"Wanna go down to the common room?" he asked.
"Sure," she replied, looking him in the eye again. Those warm, light brown eyes were just amazing. Soon they were making their way down to the common room, James grabbing a blanket to bring down with them along the way.
Only after they were comfortably situated in one of the larger arm chairs did they begin a conversation.
"James, what would your ideal girl be like?" she asked.
"My ideal girl?" he repeated, uncomfortably. "Well, I guess she would have to be very smart, nice, funny, beautiful... that's always a plus..., but most of all she has to be able to listen to me."
"Sounds sorta like me," laughed Lily. "Just kidding, James," she added.
James looked a bit uncomfortable, like he truly was describing her, but covered it up by asking what her ideal guy would be like.
"He would be exactly like Peter Pettigrew. Wow... What a hunk!!! Every time I see him, I can feel myself drooling over him," exclaimed Lily.
"Really?" said James, shocked and disgusted.
"Of course," she replied, but unable to keep a straight face.
"Haha, nice one, Lil," he laughed. "You really had me there for a second there, though."
"Seriously? You'd actually think I'd stoop down to the level of Peter? That little rat-boy can die for all I care," she said, but immediately clapped her hand over her mouth. "Dang, I'm so mean! I take that back, I don't want him to die... but I wouldn't mind if he moved away or something," she said more to herself than James. Then she looked questionably at James. She had just totally talked horribly about one of his good friends.
"Dont' worry, Lily. I won't say anything to him. As a matter of fact, I quite agree with you," he laughed. "So what would your actual ideal guy be like?"
"He'd have to be smarter than me, athletic, cute, and able to make me laugh," she said firmly. "I think the worst thing is when you are smarter than the guy and they can't even carry out an interesting conversation with you."
"I agree, I agree," replied James, staring into the crackling fire.
Lily layed her head down on his shoulder.
"Thanks for always being there for me, Lily. You listen to me better than anyone I know. You listen better than even Sirius," James said.
"Ahh, it's nothing. Thanks for being my best friend, too," said Lily teasingly. She knew Sirius was James's best friend by far. But, surprisingly, he didn't object to the statement. Instead he replied with something she wasn't expecting.
"Maybe we can be more than friends, Lil."
"Yeah, maybe so," she replied, smiling up at him.
Then he bent down and kissed her on the forehead. "I don't think you know how happy I am to here you say that," he said, before kissing her lightly on the lips.
"And I don't think you know how happy I am actually saying it," she said, her emerald eyes glowing.