4/6/02
First of all, thanks for all your reviews. I really didn't think was anything special. I think that I am just a hopeless romantic! :c) Anyway, I will keep writing, no matter how many reviews I get. I love to write. (Especially romance!) It will probably be updated every two days or so…depending on time. I work and go to school soo…I will try my hardest for you all! Thanks again…keep reading…it gonna get good.
3 Mustangkels
P.S. Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, they belong to J.K. Rowling. I just like to have fun with the characters.
Chapter 2
Lily woke up the next morning to find the Hogwarts grounds covered in a blanket of snow. She pulled her blankets off her bed and went to go sit by the window. Sitting in the window sill, she looked around her room. None of her roommates were there. "They must be at breakfast already," Lily thought wrapping the blankets around her. She leaned against the window and stared outside. There she saw her friends, Sirius, Remus, Peter and…there was James. She watched how they all played in the snow, bewitching snowballs and chucking them at each other. She had to smile when all the snowballs seem to suddenly change course and head straight for Peter's head. Deciding to be a little mischievous, she opened up her window sill and grabbed a ball of snow. She bewitched it to follow James around (by the side of his face) and wait until he took a swipe at it for it to hit him. She sent the snowball down and it went right to its place beside James' face. James at first flinched when it came so quickly and then ducked…but the snowball followed him. Lily was still watching from her window sill was trying so hard to be quiet. She covered her mouth with her blanket and laughed into it. James was now trying to run away from the snowball from hell, but it stuck right with him. Suddenly, James made a swipe for it. The snowball seemed to have a mind of its own. It backed up, seemingly offended and dove right into his face. Lily burst out laughing and all the boys looked up to the window where she was sitting. James wiped the snow out of his eyes and shook a fist at her. "This—is –war!!" James shouted! He made for the front doors of Hogwarts and Lily continued to laugh loudly. "Hey, you better watch out Lily!" shouted Remus. "You know James is going to get you back for that, right?" Remus yelled laughing. "Yeah, I know…that is what is going to be the fun part, seeing him get away with anything!" Lily said a little too proudly. "I'll be down in a minute."
Lily forgot that James had headed towards the front door. He was now watching her from her dorm room door. He had an evil "I'm gonna get you back" grin on his face. James quietly snuck into her room and hid behind her curtains on her bed. He muttered a couple of phrases and gave a flick of his wand. He laughed quietly, shaking as he thought of what this was going to do to her. He hid himself again, watched and waited.
Lily said a few more words down to the boys in the snow and decided to go get dressed. She hopped off the window sill and then went to close the window. Her arm wouldn't move. She tried again, and again, the blanket wasn't moving. She tried her other arm, it too was tightly kept in her blanket. She let go of the blanket completely and it stayed on her. "Lily in a blanket." James said smiling airily from her bed. Lily turned around so fast, she fell over. She gave out a whimper and tried to get up. Yet, because her hands and arms were securely wrapped in her blanket, all she could do was roll over. James was starting to laugh loudly as he watched Lily roll all over the floor. Lily was panting, she was trying to reach her wand in her robes to try and get out of the blanket. James finally got up and went over to her. He picked her up off the floor and stood her up. Lily's faces was bright red, with angry or embarrassment, he didn't know. He smiled broadly at her, "You had enough?" he said looking her straight in the eye.
Lily straightened up the best she could and look him sharply in the face. As their eyes met, "Yes, Mr. Potter…but don't even think that this is over." She said mischievously. James cocked one eyebrow, "Really? Maybe I will just leave you like this…" "You better not!!" Lily said between clenched teeth. James just smiled at her, but then something happened. He was starting to get a really close look at Lily Evans. Her hair was a bit messy, but that was just because she just got out of bed…and well, she had just been rolling on the floor. James smiled to himself as he stared at her even more. Her face was really beautiful. He could see the fire in her eyes, it was always there, but it seemed to be reeling now. He stared deep into them and before he realized what he was doing, he brushed a stray hair out of her face.
Lily had been watching the expressions cross James' face. She was so angry with him at that moment; she didn't quite see how hard he was staring. She looked deep into those eyes and was startled. James was looking right at her, no, right into her. Lily froze as she stared deeply in those eyes. She could see something in those bright, green eyes. She stared harder and what she found shocked her. She had just seen herself in those eyes. At that very instant, James hand came up and brushed a loose hair off her cheek. She flinched, but never took her eyes off James. She leaned into his hand as it softly grazed her cheek. A funny feeling came over her. It had started at her toes and now had moved into her throat. It was a feeling that she knew that something was going to happen. It was going to be important and special. She could feel her skin tingling and her heart skipping beats.
James' fingers lingered on her face for a few extra seconds than he had meant. What was he saying? He hadn't meant to touch her face at all. It was like his mind wasn't working, wasn't controlling his body. His heart was giving him all the guts he needed to do this with Lily. He felt Lily lean into his fingers as the crossed her cheek. That touch seemed to burn through him. It went through his fingertips, all the way to his toes. He wanted to touch her again. His heart was acting for him, never mind the brain, his heart would be calling the shots.
"HEY! JAMES! LILY!" A shout came from outside the dorm doorway. James jumped and Lily was leaning so far forward, that she fell into James. Lily flushed immediately and James was trying to help her stand straight. "What are you guys doing? Can't figure out the counter curse?" Remus shouted just before he reached the door. It seemed that he was yelling on purpose, because on his heels, was Sirius…and Peter. Lily straightened herself out and her and James had stopped touching. For Lily, it was like someone had suddenly come in and blew out a candle. Lily started laughing, trying to cover a weird moment. James was fiddling with his wand, to flustered to say the counter curse right.
Remus and Sirius busted out laughing at the sight of Lily wrapped tightly in her blanket. Peter came into the room with a puzzled expression on his face like, "what's so funny?" Remus saw James fumbling and did the counter curse. Lily's blanket fell to the floor.
"That could kinda be a turn on." Sirius said looking at the blanket on the floor. "You'll have to teach me that one!" Sirius said raising his eyebrows to James and Remus.
"Well, I just had to show her that I can fight back. Cause, you know, this is WAR!" yelled James trying to be macho. He smiled broadly and put his hands on his hips, like a superhero.
Lily, now with her hands free, pointed at James. "You just wait Potter! I'll get you my pretty!" Lily said with a fake witch laugh. Remus and Sirius laughed.
"Well, can we go down to breakfast now? I'm starving!" Peter said irritably since he was pretty much out of the loop on that one. "Yeah, let's go. Meet you down there Lily?" Remus said looking at Lily still in her pajamas.
"Yeah, I'll be down in a minute." Lily said shooing them out of the dorm room. She closed the door and turned around. She leaned and fell back on the door. She had a smile on her face.
Peter had skipped ahead to go save them seats in the Great Hall. "What was that all about?" Sirius asked jabbing James' playfully in the ribs. "You were up there for like, 15 minutes. I KNOW it doesn't take that long to do a counter curse!" Sirius smiled as if he were silently asking for details. James didn't want to explain what he felt to 'the guys.' He wasn't quite sure of what they might think or say. "Well, we had a moment." James said carefully. "Nothing TOO special," he said seeing Sirius eyes bulge. "Just a moment. Our eyes caught and we were staring." James recounted the event in his head and smiled. "It might have turned into something else, but you guys came in." He said scowling playfully. Remus chuckled out loud, "I knew you guys had a thing for each other…I just couldn't bring myself to say it out loud." Remus smiled childishly and blinked his eyes a couple of times at James. James just smiled back and the entered the Great Hall. Peter had saved them some seats close to the teachers' table. He jumped out and down, waving his hands in the air to get their attention. Sirius rolled his eyes and sighed as they walked over. Just then, Lily came running in and sat down on the other side of the table. Still looking flushed, "Gosh, I am starving. Where's the food?" Lily said trying to cover an awkward second.
For the rest of the day, Lily tried to act as normal as possible, but she couldn't remember how to act normal. With all those emotions running, she wasn't sure if she would come off as trying to hard or not at all. "I guess maybe I will talk to him about it." Lily thought to herself. It was just so hard seeing James, or sitting next to him or even joking with him and the others without looking right into his eyes. She was trying to see if she was still there, in his eyes.
James on the other hand was acting like normal. It probably had something to do with being a boy. He, like Lily, didn't want things to be awkward, so he just went back to being normal. He never told anyone that when he saw Lily that his skin seemed to heat up. James could be 50 feet from her, and still feel that. Fortunately for James, he had to keep up with Qudditch practice, otherwise he would have cracked by now.
The rest of the week went by rather quickly because the teachers must have felt it necessary to give loads of homework. This helped keep Lily and James away from the uncomfortable stage. It was also inching closer to James' birthday. Lily, Remus, Sirius and occasionally Peter, were planning his birthday party.
James had just run off to Qudditch practice as the conversation started.
"So, what are we going to do for Prong's birthday?" said Remus. They rarely used each others nicknames in fear that they would be a rise in suspicion about them. But, they were in the common room and not many others were in there.
"Well, I was thinking of throwing a surprise party. Maybe in here or on the Qudditch pitch after the game." Sirius suggested. "What do you guys think?"
"Well, I like the idea of the Qudditch pitch. We are going to have to run it by Dumbledore," said Remus thinking carefully.
"Yeah, the pitch would be great, especially if Gryfinddor wins." Lily said, "Which I am sure that we will."
"What about you Peter, any suggestions?" Sirius said as they all turned to look at Peter. Peter flinched and looked blankly at them. He had just stuffed 3 chocolate frogs in his mouth. There were wrappers all over the floor around him as he just shook his head in uncertainty. Lily shook her head at the sight of Peter, "what a pig…"she thought.
"Anyway," Lily said breaking the silence, "I don't think that Dumbledore will have a problem with it. Plus, it will be better with just us there after the game and stuff." Lily said thinking quietly about James and being alone.
"Yeah, I agree." Said Remus. "But what else can we do? What about decorations and stuff?" he asked the group.
The group carried on for another hour, carefully planning the party. Peter had very little to say,(which was never really productive, just really silly) as was pretty much ignored by the rest. Lily had suggested putting a few pranks in there to even her score with James, but Sirius and Remus told her that she had to do that on her own time. As the hour passed, they had gotten many ideas on parchment (Peter actually had one good suggestion) and were getting ready to put it all away when James walked in. His hair was shiny from sweat and he was still wearing his Qudditch practice robes.
"Hey, whatcha all doing?" James said wiping the hair out of his face.
"Oh, nothing. Just talking." Sirius said lying badly.
"Sure, right, whatever." James said talking sarcastically. He knew that he wasn't going to get anywhere when Sirius tried to lie to him. He just let it go. "I'm going to go change. Be right back." James shot up to the dorms to change and shower.
"You know, it's been awhile and we haven't pulled another prank of Snappy and Muffy." Sirius pointed out. "So, what can we do to them now?"
"Well, we did the charm where they stick to each other," Remus said thinking out loud, "what about one that repels?" Remus said with a loud laugh. "You know, from common things, like door knobs, quills…stuff like that?"
The group seemed to take a moment to think about how funny it would be and then starting laughing and nodding their heads.
"I think that would be a good one. They wouldn't be expecting that!" Lily said with a chuckle. "I want to be there for this one…the whole thing!!" Lily said pretending to pout. They spent the next two hours working on this prank. James had finally come down stairs about halfway through their brain storming session. He had been watching her from the top of the stairs for awhile, just to take her in. During the prank-pulling pow-wow, James and Lily would catch eyes. They would look for a few seconds, occasionally smile and wink. James could see the curiousness in her eyes. "Maybe she's been thinking about what we could be too…" his thoughts trailed off. He was snapped back to reality when they all burst out laughing at something they were plotting. He didn't know what it was, but got caught up in the laughter anyway.
Lily on the other hand couldn't help but be drawn to his gazes. It was just something about the way he looked at her. Like she was something…important. One of the last times that she looked into his eyes before the decided to go to bed, she looked deep into his eyes. She saw herself there, but she wasn't alone. He was there too.
"Wow, it's late again. I have an early class too." Peter whined. He got up and made his way noisily up the stairs as if he wanted others to follow.
"Yeah, it is late and I didn't finish all my Transfiguration homework." Sirius said yawning. "I'll finish it in the morning." He stretched and headed for the stairs.
Remus, looking very pale, "I better get some sleep too. I am going to have a rough night for the next two nights," Remus said wincing at the thought of a full moon.
"Well, we will be there for Remus, right Padfoot?" James said smiling at Sirius and then to Remus. "Don'tcha worry, okay?" James yawned. "Let's go to bed or we are going to be hating it tomorrow."
The three made their way up the stairs, Lily and James taking up the rear of the crowd. James looked at Lily out of the corner of his eye and saw her doing the same. The boys ahead were in deep conversation about something and James turned to Lily as they reached her dorm room. "Goodnight Lily." He said softly. "God, I want to kiss her." James thought to himself. Instead he grabbed her hand and gave it a quick squeeze and left swiftly. Lily felt herself flush and she was so flustered that Sirius had to yell to get her attention. "Hey…HEY! HEY LILY!" Sirius shouted down the hall (waking everyone else up)
"WHAT?" Lily said irritated.
"Good night!" He said in a mockingly quiet tone. He laughed and Remus waved and they went into the boys' dorm. James turned and waved and disappeared into his room.
Lily didn't move for a few minutes. Her mind was reeling. She gave a big sigh and heading into her dorm. She changed into her pajamas and opened up the curtains around her bed and gasped. There was a single Sterling rose lying on her pillow. It was a rare rose, but her favorite. It was a silver flower, even its leaves were silver and there were no thorns on this rose. She picked up the rose gently and breathed in deeply taking the sweet scent in. She stopped in mid-sniff… "Only two people know that I love this kind of rose…"Lily thought quickly. "And that's my parents!" She said aloud.
First of all, thanks for all your reviews. I really didn't think was anything special. I think that I am just a hopeless romantic! :c) Anyway, I will keep writing, no matter how many reviews I get. I love to write. (Especially romance!) It will probably be updated every two days or so…depending on time. I work and go to school soo…I will try my hardest for you all! Thanks again…keep reading…it gonna get good.
3 Mustangkels
P.S. Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, they belong to J.K. Rowling. I just like to have fun with the characters.
Chapter 2
Lily woke up the next morning to find the Hogwarts grounds covered in a blanket of snow. She pulled her blankets off her bed and went to go sit by the window. Sitting in the window sill, she looked around her room. None of her roommates were there. "They must be at breakfast already," Lily thought wrapping the blankets around her. She leaned against the window and stared outside. There she saw her friends, Sirius, Remus, Peter and…there was James. She watched how they all played in the snow, bewitching snowballs and chucking them at each other. She had to smile when all the snowballs seem to suddenly change course and head straight for Peter's head. Deciding to be a little mischievous, she opened up her window sill and grabbed a ball of snow. She bewitched it to follow James around (by the side of his face) and wait until he took a swipe at it for it to hit him. She sent the snowball down and it went right to its place beside James' face. James at first flinched when it came so quickly and then ducked…but the snowball followed him. Lily was still watching from her window sill was trying so hard to be quiet. She covered her mouth with her blanket and laughed into it. James was now trying to run away from the snowball from hell, but it stuck right with him. Suddenly, James made a swipe for it. The snowball seemed to have a mind of its own. It backed up, seemingly offended and dove right into his face. Lily burst out laughing and all the boys looked up to the window where she was sitting. James wiped the snow out of his eyes and shook a fist at her. "This—is –war!!" James shouted! He made for the front doors of Hogwarts and Lily continued to laugh loudly. "Hey, you better watch out Lily!" shouted Remus. "You know James is going to get you back for that, right?" Remus yelled laughing. "Yeah, I know…that is what is going to be the fun part, seeing him get away with anything!" Lily said a little too proudly. "I'll be down in a minute."
Lily forgot that James had headed towards the front door. He was now watching her from her dorm room door. He had an evil "I'm gonna get you back" grin on his face. James quietly snuck into her room and hid behind her curtains on her bed. He muttered a couple of phrases and gave a flick of his wand. He laughed quietly, shaking as he thought of what this was going to do to her. He hid himself again, watched and waited.
Lily said a few more words down to the boys in the snow and decided to go get dressed. She hopped off the window sill and then went to close the window. Her arm wouldn't move. She tried again, and again, the blanket wasn't moving. She tried her other arm, it too was tightly kept in her blanket. She let go of the blanket completely and it stayed on her. "Lily in a blanket." James said smiling airily from her bed. Lily turned around so fast, she fell over. She gave out a whimper and tried to get up. Yet, because her hands and arms were securely wrapped in her blanket, all she could do was roll over. James was starting to laugh loudly as he watched Lily roll all over the floor. Lily was panting, she was trying to reach her wand in her robes to try and get out of the blanket. James finally got up and went over to her. He picked her up off the floor and stood her up. Lily's faces was bright red, with angry or embarrassment, he didn't know. He smiled broadly at her, "You had enough?" he said looking her straight in the eye.
Lily straightened up the best she could and look him sharply in the face. As their eyes met, "Yes, Mr. Potter…but don't even think that this is over." She said mischievously. James cocked one eyebrow, "Really? Maybe I will just leave you like this…" "You better not!!" Lily said between clenched teeth. James just smiled at her, but then something happened. He was starting to get a really close look at Lily Evans. Her hair was a bit messy, but that was just because she just got out of bed…and well, she had just been rolling on the floor. James smiled to himself as he stared at her even more. Her face was really beautiful. He could see the fire in her eyes, it was always there, but it seemed to be reeling now. He stared deep into them and before he realized what he was doing, he brushed a stray hair out of her face.
Lily had been watching the expressions cross James' face. She was so angry with him at that moment; she didn't quite see how hard he was staring. She looked deep into those eyes and was startled. James was looking right at her, no, right into her. Lily froze as she stared deeply in those eyes. She could see something in those bright, green eyes. She stared harder and what she found shocked her. She had just seen herself in those eyes. At that very instant, James hand came up and brushed a loose hair off her cheek. She flinched, but never took her eyes off James. She leaned into his hand as it softly grazed her cheek. A funny feeling came over her. It had started at her toes and now had moved into her throat. It was a feeling that she knew that something was going to happen. It was going to be important and special. She could feel her skin tingling and her heart skipping beats.
James' fingers lingered on her face for a few extra seconds than he had meant. What was he saying? He hadn't meant to touch her face at all. It was like his mind wasn't working, wasn't controlling his body. His heart was giving him all the guts he needed to do this with Lily. He felt Lily lean into his fingers as the crossed her cheek. That touch seemed to burn through him. It went through his fingertips, all the way to his toes. He wanted to touch her again. His heart was acting for him, never mind the brain, his heart would be calling the shots.
"HEY! JAMES! LILY!" A shout came from outside the dorm doorway. James jumped and Lily was leaning so far forward, that she fell into James. Lily flushed immediately and James was trying to help her stand straight. "What are you guys doing? Can't figure out the counter curse?" Remus shouted just before he reached the door. It seemed that he was yelling on purpose, because on his heels, was Sirius…and Peter. Lily straightened herself out and her and James had stopped touching. For Lily, it was like someone had suddenly come in and blew out a candle. Lily started laughing, trying to cover a weird moment. James was fiddling with his wand, to flustered to say the counter curse right.
Remus and Sirius busted out laughing at the sight of Lily wrapped tightly in her blanket. Peter came into the room with a puzzled expression on his face like, "what's so funny?" Remus saw James fumbling and did the counter curse. Lily's blanket fell to the floor.
"That could kinda be a turn on." Sirius said looking at the blanket on the floor. "You'll have to teach me that one!" Sirius said raising his eyebrows to James and Remus.
"Well, I just had to show her that I can fight back. Cause, you know, this is WAR!" yelled James trying to be macho. He smiled broadly and put his hands on his hips, like a superhero.
Lily, now with her hands free, pointed at James. "You just wait Potter! I'll get you my pretty!" Lily said with a fake witch laugh. Remus and Sirius laughed.
"Well, can we go down to breakfast now? I'm starving!" Peter said irritably since he was pretty much out of the loop on that one. "Yeah, let's go. Meet you down there Lily?" Remus said looking at Lily still in her pajamas.
"Yeah, I'll be down in a minute." Lily said shooing them out of the dorm room. She closed the door and turned around. She leaned and fell back on the door. She had a smile on her face.
Peter had skipped ahead to go save them seats in the Great Hall. "What was that all about?" Sirius asked jabbing James' playfully in the ribs. "You were up there for like, 15 minutes. I KNOW it doesn't take that long to do a counter curse!" Sirius smiled as if he were silently asking for details. James didn't want to explain what he felt to 'the guys.' He wasn't quite sure of what they might think or say. "Well, we had a moment." James said carefully. "Nothing TOO special," he said seeing Sirius eyes bulge. "Just a moment. Our eyes caught and we were staring." James recounted the event in his head and smiled. "It might have turned into something else, but you guys came in." He said scowling playfully. Remus chuckled out loud, "I knew you guys had a thing for each other…I just couldn't bring myself to say it out loud." Remus smiled childishly and blinked his eyes a couple of times at James. James just smiled back and the entered the Great Hall. Peter had saved them some seats close to the teachers' table. He jumped out and down, waving his hands in the air to get their attention. Sirius rolled his eyes and sighed as they walked over. Just then, Lily came running in and sat down on the other side of the table. Still looking flushed, "Gosh, I am starving. Where's the food?" Lily said trying to cover an awkward second.
For the rest of the day, Lily tried to act as normal as possible, but she couldn't remember how to act normal. With all those emotions running, she wasn't sure if she would come off as trying to hard or not at all. "I guess maybe I will talk to him about it." Lily thought to herself. It was just so hard seeing James, or sitting next to him or even joking with him and the others without looking right into his eyes. She was trying to see if she was still there, in his eyes.
James on the other hand was acting like normal. It probably had something to do with being a boy. He, like Lily, didn't want things to be awkward, so he just went back to being normal. He never told anyone that when he saw Lily that his skin seemed to heat up. James could be 50 feet from her, and still feel that. Fortunately for James, he had to keep up with Qudditch practice, otherwise he would have cracked by now.
The rest of the week went by rather quickly because the teachers must have felt it necessary to give loads of homework. This helped keep Lily and James away from the uncomfortable stage. It was also inching closer to James' birthday. Lily, Remus, Sirius and occasionally Peter, were planning his birthday party.
James had just run off to Qudditch practice as the conversation started.
"So, what are we going to do for Prong's birthday?" said Remus. They rarely used each others nicknames in fear that they would be a rise in suspicion about them. But, they were in the common room and not many others were in there.
"Well, I was thinking of throwing a surprise party. Maybe in here or on the Qudditch pitch after the game." Sirius suggested. "What do you guys think?"
"Well, I like the idea of the Qudditch pitch. We are going to have to run it by Dumbledore," said Remus thinking carefully.
"Yeah, the pitch would be great, especially if Gryfinddor wins." Lily said, "Which I am sure that we will."
"What about you Peter, any suggestions?" Sirius said as they all turned to look at Peter. Peter flinched and looked blankly at them. He had just stuffed 3 chocolate frogs in his mouth. There were wrappers all over the floor around him as he just shook his head in uncertainty. Lily shook her head at the sight of Peter, "what a pig…"she thought.
"Anyway," Lily said breaking the silence, "I don't think that Dumbledore will have a problem with it. Plus, it will be better with just us there after the game and stuff." Lily said thinking quietly about James and being alone.
"Yeah, I agree." Said Remus. "But what else can we do? What about decorations and stuff?" he asked the group.
The group carried on for another hour, carefully planning the party. Peter had very little to say,(which was never really productive, just really silly) as was pretty much ignored by the rest. Lily had suggested putting a few pranks in there to even her score with James, but Sirius and Remus told her that she had to do that on her own time. As the hour passed, they had gotten many ideas on parchment (Peter actually had one good suggestion) and were getting ready to put it all away when James walked in. His hair was shiny from sweat and he was still wearing his Qudditch practice robes.
"Hey, whatcha all doing?" James said wiping the hair out of his face.
"Oh, nothing. Just talking." Sirius said lying badly.
"Sure, right, whatever." James said talking sarcastically. He knew that he wasn't going to get anywhere when Sirius tried to lie to him. He just let it go. "I'm going to go change. Be right back." James shot up to the dorms to change and shower.
"You know, it's been awhile and we haven't pulled another prank of Snappy and Muffy." Sirius pointed out. "So, what can we do to them now?"
"Well, we did the charm where they stick to each other," Remus said thinking out loud, "what about one that repels?" Remus said with a loud laugh. "You know, from common things, like door knobs, quills…stuff like that?"
The group seemed to take a moment to think about how funny it would be and then starting laughing and nodding their heads.
"I think that would be a good one. They wouldn't be expecting that!" Lily said with a chuckle. "I want to be there for this one…the whole thing!!" Lily said pretending to pout. They spent the next two hours working on this prank. James had finally come down stairs about halfway through their brain storming session. He had been watching her from the top of the stairs for awhile, just to take her in. During the prank-pulling pow-wow, James and Lily would catch eyes. They would look for a few seconds, occasionally smile and wink. James could see the curiousness in her eyes. "Maybe she's been thinking about what we could be too…" his thoughts trailed off. He was snapped back to reality when they all burst out laughing at something they were plotting. He didn't know what it was, but got caught up in the laughter anyway.
Lily on the other hand couldn't help but be drawn to his gazes. It was just something about the way he looked at her. Like she was something…important. One of the last times that she looked into his eyes before the decided to go to bed, she looked deep into his eyes. She saw herself there, but she wasn't alone. He was there too.
"Wow, it's late again. I have an early class too." Peter whined. He got up and made his way noisily up the stairs as if he wanted others to follow.
"Yeah, it is late and I didn't finish all my Transfiguration homework." Sirius said yawning. "I'll finish it in the morning." He stretched and headed for the stairs.
Remus, looking very pale, "I better get some sleep too. I am going to have a rough night for the next two nights," Remus said wincing at the thought of a full moon.
"Well, we will be there for Remus, right Padfoot?" James said smiling at Sirius and then to Remus. "Don'tcha worry, okay?" James yawned. "Let's go to bed or we are going to be hating it tomorrow."
The three made their way up the stairs, Lily and James taking up the rear of the crowd. James looked at Lily out of the corner of his eye and saw her doing the same. The boys ahead were in deep conversation about something and James turned to Lily as they reached her dorm room. "Goodnight Lily." He said softly. "God, I want to kiss her." James thought to himself. Instead he grabbed her hand and gave it a quick squeeze and left swiftly. Lily felt herself flush and she was so flustered that Sirius had to yell to get her attention. "Hey…HEY! HEY LILY!" Sirius shouted down the hall (waking everyone else up)
"WHAT?" Lily said irritated.
"Good night!" He said in a mockingly quiet tone. He laughed and Remus waved and they went into the boys' dorm. James turned and waved and disappeared into his room.
Lily didn't move for a few minutes. Her mind was reeling. She gave a big sigh and heading into her dorm. She changed into her pajamas and opened up the curtains around her bed and gasped. There was a single Sterling rose lying on her pillow. It was a rare rose, but her favorite. It was a silver flower, even its leaves were silver and there were no thorns on this rose. She picked up the rose gently and breathed in deeply taking the sweet scent in. She stopped in mid-sniff… "Only two people know that I love this kind of rose…"Lily thought quickly. "And that's my parents!" She said aloud.
