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a few characters are mine.
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CHAPTER 7
Lily woke up that morning earlier than usual, because she wanted to be ready for quidditch, or she hadn't gotten any sleep that night from fear, it doesn't really matter, the fact is she got up early.
Lily wasn't the only one with sleeping problems apparently, because when she went to the common room with her broom she'd gotten that summer, she found James and Sirius talking about Quidditch of course. They noticed her and called her over, Lily was a little reluctant, and they hadn't been speaking recently since the 'Chicken Incident.'
Lily hadn't meant to not speak to them, it just sort of happened. She sat down next to them and smiled as friendly as she could, still remembering the creepy feeling of flobberworms between her toes.
"So, Lily have anything SPECIAL planned today?" James demanded, more then asked.
"Just that whole quidditch tryouts thing." Lily said nodding her head.
"Oh yeah, us too." James said, obviously disappointed.
"If you think I am still out for revenge, don't worry about it today, I have more important things to worry about that getting you back." She informed him.
"Oh, okay." James said a little too relieved.
"So, Lily do you understand how quidditch trials work?" Sirius asked, trying to keep the conversation going in a friendly way.
"No, not really, I was planning on winging it."
"Oh, here me and James will explain it to you, won't we James?" Sirius said while glaring at James.
"We will, I mean, of course, yeah." James said seeing the glare.
So the boys explained to Lily how the tryouts would work, much to James' disappointment. He was still thinking Lily was going to get revenge on him at the tryouts, and Lily could tell.
"James! I'm not going to do anything to you, so stop worrying about it!" Lily said after James kept glaring at her. "God, you obviously don't know me as well as I thought you did!" And with that she took off to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"James, I think you should think before your speak." Sirius said solemnly. James rolled his eyes, and they both decided to leave.
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Lily was very, um, "upset", to put it lightly. She started screaming at first years that would walk in front of her. She couldn't believe James was so stupid! For knowing her a year he should know her better! She stomped into the Great Hall and ate breakfast quickly. When she noticed Sirius and James enter she stood up and left in a hurry.
She decided to go back to the common room to look for Sierra and Jimena. They were on their way to breakfast, and since Lily didn't want to go back THERE, she decided to read some quidditch books at the Library until it was time for tryouts, she really wanted to make it…She now was sort of, but not too much, hoping James didn't make it.
Apparently she wasn't the only one who wanted to read up on Quidditch before tryouts because there were several Ravenclaws sitting in the library, but mostly Gryffindors, since it was THEIR tryout day, all of them studying the only Quidditch books in the library!
Lily changed her mind and feeling even more irritated, and went to the Great Hall, hoping that James and Sirius were gone. Lucky for her, they were gone, and even more lucky for her, Remus was there talking to Jimena and Sierra.
"Hey guys." Lily said sitting down next to Remus.
"Hi." They all responded at the same time.
"Excited about tryouts?" Sierra said starting a conversation.
"Yeah, I could hardly sleep at all last night." 'if any.' "Not trying out Remus?""
"Nah, no time." He said giving her a look of sadness, she returned it with a look of understanding, Remus was worried he couldn't make it to the games because they might fall on the days of the full moon.
"Oh, I see." They all kept talking for a while and decided to go back to the common room, when they got there Lily saw James and left instantly, he was not getting away with it so easily this time, she was going to wait for him to apologize, no more "Quiet Sorrys" Lily decided.
The next couple of hours were spent with Lily being utterly bored, since she was alone in her dorm for all the hours. She decided to send a letter to her parents with Socrates. Then the boredom got so bad she did her homework for the weekend. Finally the time had come.
She picked up her 'Tinderblaster' broom and hurried off to tryouts. (A/N didn't make up the name of the broom; I give credit to HOL or hpgalleries etc…) She kept praying that she wouldn't make a fool of herself all the way there.
Once at the tryouts, to her dismay, she was put in a group with James, since they were both trying out for Chaser. (A/N sorry but don't worry this isn't going to turn into a hate fic more like a rivalish one…)
They were after a few warm up things; they were put onto teams and began to play against each other. Lily was happy, and a little scared that James AND Sirius were on the other team, Lily didn't know how the tryouts were working, but she prayed that it wasn't based on which team one.
James and Sirius were both talented, and luckily for Lily she was too. They ended up tying the game, and no one could score anymore. They were all waiting for the seekers to catch the snitch.
Suddenly her team and James' seekers went hurling towards the ground, both wanting to catch it desperately. The entire game stopped to watch, but unfortunately bludgers don't stop to watch the Snitch being caught.
She saw it coming towards her and let out a scream, but lucky for her (but yet strangely weird) Sirius banged it out of the way, even though he was on the other team.
"Thank you Sirius! That was…close." They watched as Sirius' seeker caught the snitch and the disappointed look on her team's seeker's face. She knew she wouldn't make it, Lily recognized the girl as a third year. The boy who won was another third year, she thought his name was Robert Saratoga. (A/N I know one other person in fanfics that reads this other same series as me, and I'm sure there are more, and for you all I had to put Michael's last name in here!!)
"Tomorrow morning in the Great Hall, you will find a list to see if you made it or not. This was the best tryout year yet!" The captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team announced, his name was Jack Brown a sixth year. (A/N what a boring name, Lavender's daddy though!)
Lily was never going to be able to wait that long, while she pondered what she was going to do while she waited, someone tapped her on the shoulder, James.
"What do you want?" She snapped.
"Just wanted to wish you luck." James said, a little bit hurt, she over looked it, he had done this to her so many times, not apologizing thinking he didn't need to even say it, but this time she wanted him to.
"Well, luck to you too." And she walked off to talk to that third year seeker on her 'team' who was crying. James went to talk to Sirius who was congratulating their "team's' seeker. Who couldn't stop grinning.
Lily talked to the girl, Mindy Ewing, she was feeling very defeated about letting a boy beat her, and Lily to her boys were scum, who couldn't get a clue, and that made her feel better, and Lily too.
"Your so lucky Lily, you've got natural talent and your sure to make it!" Mindy said cheering up. "James Potter will be competition for you though."
"Yeah, I know." She said coldly.
"Don't like him? I thought you two were friends or something?" Mindy questioned.
"Well, I think we still are, but he's just being…well, a boy!" Lily said laughing.
"Well, (A/N do I say 'well' too much?) That makes perfect sense!" Mindy and Lily walked together to Gryffindor tower; the boys were following them up. Lily was starting to really enjoy talking to Mindy when they got to the common room and they went to sit with their different friends.
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The whole Gryffindor house was very tense, waiting for the tryouts to be posted was torture, and Lily didn't hide it and Mindy just laughed at her when Lily started whining for the umpteenth time.
"I want to TIME TRAVEL!!"
"WE know! Now shut up and calm down!" Sierra and Mindy were both standing next to Lily and shoved her on the couch.
"We need to take her mind of Quidditch." Mindy told her.
"I think we should talk about boys!" Jimena said coming over and sitting and making the small couch get very squishy.
"Oh no!" Lily and Mindy both moaned.
"Why not? I know one of them that you happen to have liked for a very long-."
"Shh!" Lily said covering Jimena's mouth. "Or I'll tell them who you like, and that's 10 times worse then the guy I like!"
"Really? How so?" Jimena demanded.
"It's just that fact that he, stuck up, stupid, not caring towards others' feelings, selfish, and totally full of him-." Lily was about to finish when.
"Talking about me again?" James said pushing Lily off the couch, James immediately knew it had been the wrong thing to do. "Sorry Lils." Lily just stood up and sat on the chair across from them, not saying a word.
Lily couldn't believe it! Her two best friends and even Mindy, a third year, were flirting with James! Could they not see what she had so kindly pointed out to them?
Furious, Lily stomped up the stairs to the girls' dorms, ready to put her plan into action, she was going to wait until next weekend, when Jimena and Sierra would help, but she didn't care, she'd planned this all week, and she could do it easily by herself.
She sat on the bed wondering what his reaction would be. She laughed, but it wasn't a happy one, more like a pity laugh.
She knew James would probably just get her back for it but she didn't care, this was worth it.
Lily then decided that all the work learning the charm was going to pay off, and soon…
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The wait and been a long time, but Lily didn't mind, she stayed up late, until 2:00am to be exact and then she headed down to the common room, empty.
She snuck up as quietly as she could to his dorm, opened the dorms in the same quiet manor. She looked for James' bed, the curtains were drawn around it, so she tip toed over to his bed and pulled open the curtains, and was very shocked to see that no one was there!
"Shit!" She whispered. She quickly went and checked the other beds. No one, where the hell were they! (A/N Lily's letting her language slip…hee hee)
She didn't know what to do, where would they go this late at night? She wondered to herself. She didn't think she should hang around the dorm, but she still wanted to get James back.
Suddenly to her dismay, she heard the boys returning. "Shit!" She said muttered and ran for cover under James' bed. She peered up from her hiding spot at the door waiting for them expectantly.
The door opened, but no one was there, but she could still hear the foot steps, and whispers, then before her eyes the four boys appeared. James held a cloak in his hand and quickly put it in his trunk.
"I think tonight went well guys, we actually found something out." James said optimistically.
"Yeah we did." Remus said sadly. "But I still don't think you guys will ever be able to do it."
'Do what!?' Lily wondered.
"Don't worry Remus, we'll help you out." Sirius said reassuringly.
Then it occurred to Lily, did they know he was a werewolf? She hadn't thought anyone else knew, but then again they were his best-friends, what was she thinking of course they knew!
"Hey, Moony-." James started to say.
"Not with the nick name again!" Remus complained.
"Yes, the nick name, now seriously, I was wondering, does anybody else no about you besides us?" Lily was hoping that the answer was no, she didn't know what kind of lies Remus would have to make up to cover for her if they questioned about how she knew, and what circumstances they were under…
"Err…" Remus started to say.
"Who Remus, anyone at school? I mean I thought you were all secretive about this!" Peter spoke up finally.
"Um," Apparently Remus was worried about telling the boys too. "Just Lily, she found out during Christmas break last year! She and Sierra walked in on me at the Hospital Wing!"
"Wait a minute! Does Sierra know?" Sirius asked interrupting.
"No, Lily found out on her own, and-." Remus stopped knowing he should stop right there. Lily was starting to worry.
"Remus you are crazy! Lily could tell anyone! You should have lied!" James whisper/yelled they were yelling at each other in whispers.
"She won't she promised me!" Remus said in a serious voice.
"OH." Was all James could say. "Well you should be careful, that's five people all together who know!" With that the boys quieted down and Lily closed her eyes as they got into their pajamas. How long would it take for them to fall asleep? She thought worriedly…
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(A/N I was thinking of leaving you right there, but I got nice lucky you! Not that that was a cliffhanger!)
Lily sat there for an hour and James apparently couldn't sleep, and since the fact was he was on top of her, (She did not like thinking of that but I was quite true.) she couldn't sleep either. He kept tossing and turning in his sleep.
The other boys were apparently sleeping, since they were quiet and their breathing was even, in that sleepy sort of way.
She finally thought he was never going to go to sleep when she saw a SPIDER crawl across the floor. She wanted to scream, but thought better of it, go away, go away, go AWAY! She used her thoughts to yell at it.
James who had been quiet for the last few minutes sat bolt up right. Lily didn't notice, she was too terrified, it kept getting closer, and it was a HUGE spider! (A/N think tarantula! Spiders are my worst fear that and sharks!!)
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James didn't know what happened, but something deep inside him made him wake right up. He knew something was wrong, but he wasn't sure what it was. He got up from bed thinking that he should take a look around the common room when he placed his feet on the floor he saw this ugly spider, he went and gracefully killed it with his shoe. (A/N my hero!!! Ha, ha!)
Then he felt as if the danger was gone. He cleaned it up with a quick spell and went to bed, and finally went to sleep.
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Lily had never been so relieved in her life, James didn't notice that the spider he had just killed had spilled poisonous blood, that thing with one bite, could have….killed her!
Now, Lily couldn't go through with her prank, she now currently owed James Potter her life! Now that was an awful thought the second one that night.
Lily was finally able to fall asleep an hour later, she decided she didn't want to risk leaving the room until they were gone she just hoped she didn't get caught or was late to class, oh wait she thought, tomorrow was Sunday they were finding out about who made the Gryffindor Quidditch Team!
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Lily woke up groaning, it had not been a comfortable sleep, she looked around the room but couldn't tell if anyone was still in there or not. She started to crawl out of bed, but at the same time James decided to get out of bed, and started stepping down on her.
"Ow! James! What are you doing?!" She shrieked more scared then anything.
"I should be asking you that! What are you doing under MY bed?!" He said getting up, with out stepping on her.
"Oh, erm, there is a very good explanation for this." Lily tried to make up a good lie, but none came to mind.
"Lily! I've been sleeping on top of you all night!" James said, and he blushed, and so did Lily, that didn't sound right in her head, or when someone said it.
"James that sounds…wrong!" Lily accused.
"Yeah, so? Worried some one will hear?"
"James we're twelve, no one would think anything of it!" Lily hissed angrily.
"Maybe, maybe not, hey stop changing the subject!" James yelled
"I wasn't, you were!" she yelled at him.
"So what were, you, um, doing?"
"I was…"Lily explained it all to him, and he wasn't happy about it, not at all. "James just don't get-upset about it okay? Act reasonable, I did when you attacked my room!"
"You did not! You came and jumped on my bed and covered it in junk!" Well, he got her there…
Lily decided that best thing to do was change the subject, "Well, anyway, thanks for saving me from that spider, you didn't notice, but it was coming right at me, and was, well." There's only one thing to do. "It was a Hymperionis, James." James' jaw dropped.
"Wow…You could have died." James paled. He didn't like the idea of Lily dieing, it made him feel funny. "Well, you're welcome for saving your life, or whatever." James said awkwardly.
"Yeah, I'm gonna go get to breakfast, or what time is it?"
"10:00am!" James said shocked.
"Quidditch is posted James lets go!" she screamed excitedly. "Meet me in the common room okay?" Lily started to head to the door she about to turn the door knob, when she stopped and turned around.
"What?" James said looking at her.
"James, it will look not so good if I come down from your dorm, in my pajamas this late in the morning!" She said and turned very red.
"Oh, you're right. Here's I'll take you there in the invisibility cloak-." He stopped.
"I already know about it James, I was here last night when you guys came in." She informed him. Now James turned red.
"Did you err, see us chang-."
"I closed my eyes, don't worry." She said feeling more confident.
"Good." He said relieved. He escorted her to her dorms and they both met back down in the common room 10 minutes later.
"Ready to go?" Lily asked, she was trying to be polite, because of the fact that he HAD saved her life, but she was still mad and wasn't going to let him forget it.
"Yeah, so Lily, if we both make the team, we're going to have a lot of practice you know?"
That hadn't occurred to Lily, all that practice no time to get her homework done…
"Yeah, so we'll get to see each other A LOT more." He said laughing at her face she was still thinking about homework.
"Oh god, I'm going to die! You and Sirius! I don't think I WANT to make the team anymore."
"Don't worry Lil, you'll make it."
"Thanks." She said sarcastically.
They finally arrived to the Great Hall, everyone was gone already. "Err, James where is it?"
"Over there." He pointed at a piece of paper posted on the wall. "Lets go see."
(A/N OMG even I'm getting nervous, I'm still trying to figure out whether or not to let her get on!! This is so hard! I'll ask my mom…)
"James I can't look!!" Lily screeched and covered her eyes. James looked.
"Lily, Lily I'm on the team!!" James yelled! And grabbed her hands and they jumped up and down with Lily's eyes still closed. "Sirius is too!!" James was excited.
"I can't look I don't want to be disappointed when I look and see someone else's name instead of mine." Lily said fright coursing through her.
"Go on Lils, look." James encouraged.
Lily opened her eyes and glanced at the paper….
(A/N I am so cruel! But I just can't figure out whether or not to let her make it…Well how do you like? I have to get a new review from someone for each chapter or no deal! Okay old reviewers are welcome, it won't boost my ego any…Read and REVIEW!!!!)
*~Sierra~*
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CHAPTER 7
Lily woke up that morning earlier than usual, because she wanted to be ready for quidditch, or she hadn't gotten any sleep that night from fear, it doesn't really matter, the fact is she got up early.
Lily wasn't the only one with sleeping problems apparently, because when she went to the common room with her broom she'd gotten that summer, she found James and Sirius talking about Quidditch of course. They noticed her and called her over, Lily was a little reluctant, and they hadn't been speaking recently since the 'Chicken Incident.'
Lily hadn't meant to not speak to them, it just sort of happened. She sat down next to them and smiled as friendly as she could, still remembering the creepy feeling of flobberworms between her toes.
"So, Lily have anything SPECIAL planned today?" James demanded, more then asked.
"Just that whole quidditch tryouts thing." Lily said nodding her head.
"Oh yeah, us too." James said, obviously disappointed.
"If you think I am still out for revenge, don't worry about it today, I have more important things to worry about that getting you back." She informed him.
"Oh, okay." James said a little too relieved.
"So, Lily do you understand how quidditch trials work?" Sirius asked, trying to keep the conversation going in a friendly way.
"No, not really, I was planning on winging it."
"Oh, here me and James will explain it to you, won't we James?" Sirius said while glaring at James.
"We will, I mean, of course, yeah." James said seeing the glare.
So the boys explained to Lily how the tryouts would work, much to James' disappointment. He was still thinking Lily was going to get revenge on him at the tryouts, and Lily could tell.
"James! I'm not going to do anything to you, so stop worrying about it!" Lily said after James kept glaring at her. "God, you obviously don't know me as well as I thought you did!" And with that she took off to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"James, I think you should think before your speak." Sirius said solemnly. James rolled his eyes, and they both decided to leave.
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Lily was very, um, "upset", to put it lightly. She started screaming at first years that would walk in front of her. She couldn't believe James was so stupid! For knowing her a year he should know her better! She stomped into the Great Hall and ate breakfast quickly. When she noticed Sirius and James enter she stood up and left in a hurry.
She decided to go back to the common room to look for Sierra and Jimena. They were on their way to breakfast, and since Lily didn't want to go back THERE, she decided to read some quidditch books at the Library until it was time for tryouts, she really wanted to make it…She now was sort of, but not too much, hoping James didn't make it.
Apparently she wasn't the only one who wanted to read up on Quidditch before tryouts because there were several Ravenclaws sitting in the library, but mostly Gryffindors, since it was THEIR tryout day, all of them studying the only Quidditch books in the library!
Lily changed her mind and feeling even more irritated, and went to the Great Hall, hoping that James and Sirius were gone. Lucky for her, they were gone, and even more lucky for her, Remus was there talking to Jimena and Sierra.
"Hey guys." Lily said sitting down next to Remus.
"Hi." They all responded at the same time.
"Excited about tryouts?" Sierra said starting a conversation.
"Yeah, I could hardly sleep at all last night." 'if any.' "Not trying out Remus?""
"Nah, no time." He said giving her a look of sadness, she returned it with a look of understanding, Remus was worried he couldn't make it to the games because they might fall on the days of the full moon.
"Oh, I see." They all kept talking for a while and decided to go back to the common room, when they got there Lily saw James and left instantly, he was not getting away with it so easily this time, she was going to wait for him to apologize, no more "Quiet Sorrys" Lily decided.
The next couple of hours were spent with Lily being utterly bored, since she was alone in her dorm for all the hours. She decided to send a letter to her parents with Socrates. Then the boredom got so bad she did her homework for the weekend. Finally the time had come.
She picked up her 'Tinderblaster' broom and hurried off to tryouts. (A/N didn't make up the name of the broom; I give credit to HOL or hpgalleries etc…) She kept praying that she wouldn't make a fool of herself all the way there.
Once at the tryouts, to her dismay, she was put in a group with James, since they were both trying out for Chaser. (A/N sorry but don't worry this isn't going to turn into a hate fic more like a rivalish one…)
They were after a few warm up things; they were put onto teams and began to play against each other. Lily was happy, and a little scared that James AND Sirius were on the other team, Lily didn't know how the tryouts were working, but she prayed that it wasn't based on which team one.
James and Sirius were both talented, and luckily for Lily she was too. They ended up tying the game, and no one could score anymore. They were all waiting for the seekers to catch the snitch.
Suddenly her team and James' seekers went hurling towards the ground, both wanting to catch it desperately. The entire game stopped to watch, but unfortunately bludgers don't stop to watch the Snitch being caught.
She saw it coming towards her and let out a scream, but lucky for her (but yet strangely weird) Sirius banged it out of the way, even though he was on the other team.
"Thank you Sirius! That was…close." They watched as Sirius' seeker caught the snitch and the disappointed look on her team's seeker's face. She knew she wouldn't make it, Lily recognized the girl as a third year. The boy who won was another third year, she thought his name was Robert Saratoga. (A/N I know one other person in fanfics that reads this other same series as me, and I'm sure there are more, and for you all I had to put Michael's last name in here!!)
"Tomorrow morning in the Great Hall, you will find a list to see if you made it or not. This was the best tryout year yet!" The captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team announced, his name was Jack Brown a sixth year. (A/N what a boring name, Lavender's daddy though!)
Lily was never going to be able to wait that long, while she pondered what she was going to do while she waited, someone tapped her on the shoulder, James.
"What do you want?" She snapped.
"Just wanted to wish you luck." James said, a little bit hurt, she over looked it, he had done this to her so many times, not apologizing thinking he didn't need to even say it, but this time she wanted him to.
"Well, luck to you too." And she walked off to talk to that third year seeker on her 'team' who was crying. James went to talk to Sirius who was congratulating their "team's' seeker. Who couldn't stop grinning.
Lily talked to the girl, Mindy Ewing, she was feeling very defeated about letting a boy beat her, and Lily to her boys were scum, who couldn't get a clue, and that made her feel better, and Lily too.
"Your so lucky Lily, you've got natural talent and your sure to make it!" Mindy said cheering up. "James Potter will be competition for you though."
"Yeah, I know." She said coldly.
"Don't like him? I thought you two were friends or something?" Mindy questioned.
"Well, I think we still are, but he's just being…well, a boy!" Lily said laughing.
"Well, (A/N do I say 'well' too much?) That makes perfect sense!" Mindy and Lily walked together to Gryffindor tower; the boys were following them up. Lily was starting to really enjoy talking to Mindy when they got to the common room and they went to sit with their different friends.
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The whole Gryffindor house was very tense, waiting for the tryouts to be posted was torture, and Lily didn't hide it and Mindy just laughed at her when Lily started whining for the umpteenth time.
"I want to TIME TRAVEL!!"
"WE know! Now shut up and calm down!" Sierra and Mindy were both standing next to Lily and shoved her on the couch.
"We need to take her mind of Quidditch." Mindy told her.
"I think we should talk about boys!" Jimena said coming over and sitting and making the small couch get very squishy.
"Oh no!" Lily and Mindy both moaned.
"Why not? I know one of them that you happen to have liked for a very long-."
"Shh!" Lily said covering Jimena's mouth. "Or I'll tell them who you like, and that's 10 times worse then the guy I like!"
"Really? How so?" Jimena demanded.
"It's just that fact that he, stuck up, stupid, not caring towards others' feelings, selfish, and totally full of him-." Lily was about to finish when.
"Talking about me again?" James said pushing Lily off the couch, James immediately knew it had been the wrong thing to do. "Sorry Lils." Lily just stood up and sat on the chair across from them, not saying a word.
Lily couldn't believe it! Her two best friends and even Mindy, a third year, were flirting with James! Could they not see what she had so kindly pointed out to them?
Furious, Lily stomped up the stairs to the girls' dorms, ready to put her plan into action, she was going to wait until next weekend, when Jimena and Sierra would help, but she didn't care, she'd planned this all week, and she could do it easily by herself.
She sat on the bed wondering what his reaction would be. She laughed, but it wasn't a happy one, more like a pity laugh.
She knew James would probably just get her back for it but she didn't care, this was worth it.
Lily then decided that all the work learning the charm was going to pay off, and soon…
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The wait and been a long time, but Lily didn't mind, she stayed up late, until 2:00am to be exact and then she headed down to the common room, empty.
She snuck up as quietly as she could to his dorm, opened the dorms in the same quiet manor. She looked for James' bed, the curtains were drawn around it, so she tip toed over to his bed and pulled open the curtains, and was very shocked to see that no one was there!
"Shit!" She whispered. She quickly went and checked the other beds. No one, where the hell were they! (A/N Lily's letting her language slip…hee hee)
She didn't know what to do, where would they go this late at night? She wondered to herself. She didn't think she should hang around the dorm, but she still wanted to get James back.
Suddenly to her dismay, she heard the boys returning. "Shit!" She said muttered and ran for cover under James' bed. She peered up from her hiding spot at the door waiting for them expectantly.
The door opened, but no one was there, but she could still hear the foot steps, and whispers, then before her eyes the four boys appeared. James held a cloak in his hand and quickly put it in his trunk.
"I think tonight went well guys, we actually found something out." James said optimistically.
"Yeah we did." Remus said sadly. "But I still don't think you guys will ever be able to do it."
'Do what!?' Lily wondered.
"Don't worry Remus, we'll help you out." Sirius said reassuringly.
Then it occurred to Lily, did they know he was a werewolf? She hadn't thought anyone else knew, but then again they were his best-friends, what was she thinking of course they knew!
"Hey, Moony-." James started to say.
"Not with the nick name again!" Remus complained.
"Yes, the nick name, now seriously, I was wondering, does anybody else no about you besides us?" Lily was hoping that the answer was no, she didn't know what kind of lies Remus would have to make up to cover for her if they questioned about how she knew, and what circumstances they were under…
"Err…" Remus started to say.
"Who Remus, anyone at school? I mean I thought you were all secretive about this!" Peter spoke up finally.
"Um," Apparently Remus was worried about telling the boys too. "Just Lily, she found out during Christmas break last year! She and Sierra walked in on me at the Hospital Wing!"
"Wait a minute! Does Sierra know?" Sirius asked interrupting.
"No, Lily found out on her own, and-." Remus stopped knowing he should stop right there. Lily was starting to worry.
"Remus you are crazy! Lily could tell anyone! You should have lied!" James whisper/yelled they were yelling at each other in whispers.
"She won't she promised me!" Remus said in a serious voice.
"OH." Was all James could say. "Well you should be careful, that's five people all together who know!" With that the boys quieted down and Lily closed her eyes as they got into their pajamas. How long would it take for them to fall asleep? She thought worriedly…
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(A/N I was thinking of leaving you right there, but I got nice lucky you! Not that that was a cliffhanger!)
Lily sat there for an hour and James apparently couldn't sleep, and since the fact was he was on top of her, (She did not like thinking of that but I was quite true.) she couldn't sleep either. He kept tossing and turning in his sleep.
The other boys were apparently sleeping, since they were quiet and their breathing was even, in that sleepy sort of way.
She finally thought he was never going to go to sleep when she saw a SPIDER crawl across the floor. She wanted to scream, but thought better of it, go away, go away, go AWAY! She used her thoughts to yell at it.
James who had been quiet for the last few minutes sat bolt up right. Lily didn't notice, she was too terrified, it kept getting closer, and it was a HUGE spider! (A/N think tarantula! Spiders are my worst fear that and sharks!!)
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James didn't know what happened, but something deep inside him made him wake right up. He knew something was wrong, but he wasn't sure what it was. He got up from bed thinking that he should take a look around the common room when he placed his feet on the floor he saw this ugly spider, he went and gracefully killed it with his shoe. (A/N my hero!!! Ha, ha!)
Then he felt as if the danger was gone. He cleaned it up with a quick spell and went to bed, and finally went to sleep.
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Lily had never been so relieved in her life, James didn't notice that the spider he had just killed had spilled poisonous blood, that thing with one bite, could have….killed her!
Now, Lily couldn't go through with her prank, she now currently owed James Potter her life! Now that was an awful thought the second one that night.
Lily was finally able to fall asleep an hour later, she decided she didn't want to risk leaving the room until they were gone she just hoped she didn't get caught or was late to class, oh wait she thought, tomorrow was Sunday they were finding out about who made the Gryffindor Quidditch Team!
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Lily woke up groaning, it had not been a comfortable sleep, she looked around the room but couldn't tell if anyone was still in there or not. She started to crawl out of bed, but at the same time James decided to get out of bed, and started stepping down on her.
"Ow! James! What are you doing?!" She shrieked more scared then anything.
"I should be asking you that! What are you doing under MY bed?!" He said getting up, with out stepping on her.
"Oh, erm, there is a very good explanation for this." Lily tried to make up a good lie, but none came to mind.
"Lily! I've been sleeping on top of you all night!" James said, and he blushed, and so did Lily, that didn't sound right in her head, or when someone said it.
"James that sounds…wrong!" Lily accused.
"Yeah, so? Worried some one will hear?"
"James we're twelve, no one would think anything of it!" Lily hissed angrily.
"Maybe, maybe not, hey stop changing the subject!" James yelled
"I wasn't, you were!" she yelled at him.
"So what were, you, um, doing?"
"I was…"Lily explained it all to him, and he wasn't happy about it, not at all. "James just don't get-upset about it okay? Act reasonable, I did when you attacked my room!"
"You did not! You came and jumped on my bed and covered it in junk!" Well, he got her there…
Lily decided that best thing to do was change the subject, "Well, anyway, thanks for saving me from that spider, you didn't notice, but it was coming right at me, and was, well." There's only one thing to do. "It was a Hymperionis, James." James' jaw dropped.
"Wow…You could have died." James paled. He didn't like the idea of Lily dieing, it made him feel funny. "Well, you're welcome for saving your life, or whatever." James said awkwardly.
"Yeah, I'm gonna go get to breakfast, or what time is it?"
"10:00am!" James said shocked.
"Quidditch is posted James lets go!" she screamed excitedly. "Meet me in the common room okay?" Lily started to head to the door she about to turn the door knob, when she stopped and turned around.
"What?" James said looking at her.
"James, it will look not so good if I come down from your dorm, in my pajamas this late in the morning!" She said and turned very red.
"Oh, you're right. Here's I'll take you there in the invisibility cloak-." He stopped.
"I already know about it James, I was here last night when you guys came in." She informed him. Now James turned red.
"Did you err, see us chang-."
"I closed my eyes, don't worry." She said feeling more confident.
"Good." He said relieved. He escorted her to her dorms and they both met back down in the common room 10 minutes later.
"Ready to go?" Lily asked, she was trying to be polite, because of the fact that he HAD saved her life, but she was still mad and wasn't going to let him forget it.
"Yeah, so Lily, if we both make the team, we're going to have a lot of practice you know?"
That hadn't occurred to Lily, all that practice no time to get her homework done…
"Yeah, so we'll get to see each other A LOT more." He said laughing at her face she was still thinking about homework.
"Oh god, I'm going to die! You and Sirius! I don't think I WANT to make the team anymore."
"Don't worry Lil, you'll make it."
"Thanks." She said sarcastically.
They finally arrived to the Great Hall, everyone was gone already. "Err, James where is it?"
"Over there." He pointed at a piece of paper posted on the wall. "Lets go see."
(A/N OMG even I'm getting nervous, I'm still trying to figure out whether or not to let her get on!! This is so hard! I'll ask my mom…)
"James I can't look!!" Lily screeched and covered her eyes. James looked.
"Lily, Lily I'm on the team!!" James yelled! And grabbed her hands and they jumped up and down with Lily's eyes still closed. "Sirius is too!!" James was excited.
"I can't look I don't want to be disappointed when I look and see someone else's name instead of mine." Lily said fright coursing through her.
"Go on Lils, look." James encouraged.
Lily opened her eyes and glanced at the paper….
(A/N I am so cruel! But I just can't figure out whether or not to let her make it…Well how do you like? I have to get a new review from someone for each chapter or no deal! Okay old reviewers are welcome, it won't boost my ego any…Read and REVIEW!!!!)
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