Lily/James: Part 4

Lily/James: Part 4

"Hey Prongs," Sirius greeted his friend while seating himself next to him.

"Hey," James replied between mouthfuls of food.

There was silence while Sirius piled up his own plate with food, and tried to think of a way to bring up the topic without James getting pissed at him. Wait a minute. What was he thinking? His main goal in life was to piss his best friend off.

"Hey, Prongs," Sirius said to him rather conspirationally.

"Hmmm?"

"I know something you don't know."

"What's that?" James asked, still seeming disinterested.

"You're in love with Liiiily," Sirius singsonged. James choked on his food and paled. Could have been because his friend had found out. Or maybe there was a bone in the fish he was eating.

"I'm not in love with Lily," James replied.

"Are too."

"Are not."

"Are too."

"Are not."

"Come on Prongs. Just admit it. You're in love with Lily." Sirius stated calmly.

"Shut up Padfoot. It's not true." James looked up and saw Lily and Shane enter the Great Hall holding hands.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly not hungry anymore. "I don't care about her at all."

***

That night, Lily sat by herself in the Gryffindor common room, studying for her Transfiguration test tomorrow. Sofia was off doing something and Shane had a detention with the potions master.

There was a chorus of laughter and Lily looked up to see Sirius, Remus and Peter sit down in front of her.

"Hey Lily," Remus greeted her.

Lily nodded her acknowledgement. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Can't we talk to you?" Peter asked mildly insulted.

Lily smiled sickeningly sweet at him. "Of course you can."

Peter blushed at the attention.

"But really. What are you guys doing here?" She asked again.

"Really Lily. We just wanted to talk to you." Sirius replied. Lily narrowed her eyes at him. He's being too nice.

Sirius looked at the transfiguration textbook in her hand.

"All you ever do is study," He told her like she didn't know.

"Well, if you were awake in class, you'd realize McGonagall told us there was gonna be a test tomorrow."

"Yes. But some other people don't always feel the need to study." Sirius looked pointedly across the room at James who was busy working out new Quidditch plays.

"Yeah. Well, those other people know all about transfiguration."

Peter was becoming visibly nervous. "That reminds me, you promised to help me study for the test." He said to Remus and Sirius.

Sirius brushed that detail aside.

"Don't you know how to have fun?" He asked Lily.

She frowned, "Of course I do!"

"Bet you can't do anything bad." Sirius challenged her, his eyes bright with mischief.

Lily sat up straight, crossed her arms and stuck her nose in the air. "I can be bad!" She said indignantly.

Both Sirius and Remus were highly amused at such a childish act for a sixteen-year-old, but Peter just looked lost in the conversation.

"Ok then," Sirius said leaning forward towards her, "Let's see if you can cheat on your lover-boy."

Lily bit her lip, unsure if she should do that. She did want to break up with him, but she could never find the right time.

Sirius leaned back in his chair and slung his arm around the chair next to him. "Knew you couldn't do it."

"Yes I can!" She immediately consented, her pride not wanting to be bruised anymore.

Remus and Sirius grinned identical smiles at her.

"Ok, let's see it happen then." Sirius said to her.

"Right now?" Lily asked uncertainly. Sirius rolled his eyes at her.

"Of course now, you dimwit."

"Hey!" Lily said indignantly.

Sirius held up his hands in surrender. "Ok, ok. I promise to never call you a dimwit again."

"So you gonna do it already?" Remus asked impatiently.

"Ok ok." Lily said and leaned towards Sirius, ready to kiss him.

Sirius yelped and shot off his chair. "NOT ME!" He shouted. Lily flushed as everyone in the common room looked over at them. Sirius sat back down in his chair and everyone else turned back to what they were doing before.

"Then who?" Lily said crossly. She was starting to lose her patience. All this just because of her stupid pride.

"Him." Sirius and Remus both said pointing to the other side of the room. Lily's jaw dropped at their implication.

Lily shook her head. "Uh uh. No way."

Sirius and Remus looked at each other. "Knew she'd chicken out," Sirius said to him.

That was the last straw. Lily's confidence wasn't very far from being non-existent. So she jumped up, said her curt "Fine" and marched over to James.

Watch out peoples. Here comes a lady with a mission.

***

Lily tapped James on the shoulder and as soon as he turned around, she planted her lips on his.

James looked at her stunned when she pulled away, his glasses were slipping down his nose. This is no time to take advantage of the situation. He repeated to himself.

"What are you doing?" He finally asked her, "You do realise you still have a boyfriend, right?"

Lily looked up at him and flushed. "Why does no one here think I can be bad?!"

James looked across the room and saw Sirius and Remus laughing hysterically on the floor. Finally he understood why she had done that. And frankly, he was slightly disappointed that it wasn't because she had felt the overwhelming need to make out with him.

"Uh… because you're a good girl?" he said lamely, not being able to think of anything else.

Her green eyes flashed angrily. James took a step back, afraid of what she was capable of. She grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the exit.

"I'll show you how much of a good girl I am!"

James looked back at his friends with a frightened 'help' look on his face as Lily dragged him out of the portrait hole.

"Where the hell are you taking me?" He asked her when they had already passed the one- eyed witch.

They stopped in front of the potions storage cupboard, the popular make- out place, since there was always the added excitement of Professor Tole catching you.

"Oh." James muttered aloud.

***

Shane walked along the corridor. He hated having detention with Tole. That guy was a slave driver and now he expected Shane to brew a hard potion that normally took 48 hours in one night.

Shane headed towards the potions storage cupboard to get more of the ingredients. As he neared it, he could definitely make out smacking noises and slight moaning. Grinning to himself, he opened the door to confront the couple.

It took a while before he registered the couple before him.

"LILY!" He was obviously shocked to see his girlfriend there. And with James!

She looked up at him. Her face was flushed and her breathing was uneven.

"Oh god. Shane, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen-"

"Yeah right. You just ended up here against your will? It was you wasn't it?" Shane asked James.

"Well… umm…" James was for once at a loss for words. How could he explain it when he didn't even know himself what happened?

"No it wasn't him." Lily interrupted, "It was me, ok? I dragged him here."

Shane looked at them one last time and then turned around. He didn't exactly care that much. Lily had always seemed preoccupied whenever she was with him. He knew something like this was bound to happen.

Halfway down the corridor, Shane smacked his forehead. How could he have forgotten? The ingredients! Now he'll never get the potion done.

***

Lily turned back to James and smiled.

"That went well." She told him.

"How could you be so calm? You were just caught cheating on your boyfriend and all you can say is 'that went well'?"

Lily shrugged, "Well, yeah. He never really cared about me that much anyway. Besides, I like you better."

"Really?" James asked smiling cheekily.

"Of course," She told him, playfully elbowing him in the ribs.

"Oh. I have something for you." He said, grinning at the absurd situation they were in.

"Really? What is it?"

James took a box out of his pocket and gave it to her. "It's your birthday present. Sorry it took a while for you to get it."

Lily gingerly opened the box. "Oh, wow! It's beautiful." She held up the small silver locket and opened the catch. Inside was a picture of James and Lily in their third year. They were laughing at something together. They looked up at the real Lily and blew kisses at her.

"I am proud to say that I picked it out myself. Not even Sofia helped me."

"Thanks."

"No prob."

Both of them were silent for a while, waiting for the other too make a move. And impatiently, James pulled her into his arms again.

A/N. There we go. That's probably the last part. If you guys want more, tell me. I wasn't planning on writing anymore but my beta reader suggested it. Thanks heaps to Queen C (that's her).

Its basically all Jk Rowling's.