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Lily's New Friend
Chapter 4
"You're the biggest creep I have ever met!"
James came into his dorm room where he saw all three of his best friends sitting around the room. Sirius and Peter were playing exploding snap and Remus was sprawled on his bed working on homework.
"Why are you three up here instead of being in the common room? It's only eight o'clock," James asked, looking at the three boys.
"Well, we had to come up here to be sure that we were not killed by Evans," replied Sirius lazily.
"Lily? Why did she want to kill the three of you? We have not played any pranks on her recently," said James very confused.
Sirius looked up and gave Remus a look as if to say, this one is for you. Remus glared at Sirius and said, "She just found out that we had told all the boys that we would beat the hell out of them if they asked her to the dance."
"Now why would you tell all of them something like that?" asked James, very confused by now.
"Well, we didn't want anyone to ask her," said Sirius doing some quick thinking, "because, uh, Remus wanted to go with her."
If looks could kill, Sirius would have been dead. Why did Sirius have to dump this on him? Remus thought.
"But I thought you where going to go with Mandy Munson?" asked James. He was getting annoyed, for he could tell that they where not telling him something.
"Um, so who are you taking to the dance, James?" asked Sirius, changing the subject, for he could tell James was ready to lose his temper. James was looking around with that look that told them that he knew that they where hiding something.
James sat down on his bed and just said in a very dry tone, "Sandria."
"Why so glum, James, she is one of the hottest girls in our year," said Remus.
"Well I really wanted to go with someone… someone else," he said quietly.
All three boys knew to stop right there and not to say anything, so they just left James alone for the rest of the evening.
Lily went the next day with Fran and Adrian to Hogsmead. They went all over and all three of them bought themselves dress robes. Then they headed over to the Three Broomsticks and bought butterbeers. They sat down in one of the booths and then the Marauders came in. Lily looked up and saw James looking at her and she glared darkly at him and looked away. As they were leaving the Three Broomsticks James came over to them and grabbed Lily's arm to stop her.
"Get off me!" hissed Lily, her temper rising.
"Wait, Lily, why have you been giving me dirty looks all day?" James asked quietly.
Lily was boiling with rage, "Because you're you! You're the biggest creep I have ever met! And if you do not let me go right now then you will be very sorry James Potter!"
"Come on Lily, what's this about? What's that supposed to…" said James but then there was a swish and a smack as Lily's hand hit his face. Then he let go and Lily turned without another word and followed after Fran and Adrian into the streets of Hogsmead.
James just stood there looking after Lily, very hurt. When he turned around back to Sirius, Remus, and Peter, they all turned their heads rather quickly away from him and down to the table as if they had not been looking.
Lily was looking in the mirror, "Oh, Lily you look amazing," said Adrian. Lily stood and went over to her two best friends and said, "Thanks, Adrian, come on lets go down and meet our dates."
Even though Adrian's date was a Gryffindor, she had planed to meet him at the bottom of the marble stair case in the front hall of the castle so she could walk there with Lily and Fran. All three were extremely excited and arrived at the stair case a lot sooner than they had expected. "Good luck," they all said at the same time and giggled as they glided down the stairs with Lily in the middle.
James was already in the main hall with Sandria when he saw Lily walk down the stairs; she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. She had her wavy bright red hair up in a very simple but elegant up do. She was wearing white dress robes that sparkled as she walked and when well with her ivory skin. She had only very little makeup and her natural beauty showed out with those bright green eyes that could cast a spell over you. He watched her as she walked over to Samuel and he tucked a lily behind her ear.
"Jamsie, are you listening to me?" asked Sandria. When she got no answer, she followed his gaze over to where Lily was standing with Samuel. Sandria huffed, grabbed James's arm, and led him over the other side of the hall where Amanda and Sirius were standing. Sandria had been awfully upset when she had first seen James after coming down to the hall for the dance. She had made a huge fuss over the now very red hand print on his cheek, and got extremely irritated when he refused to tell her who had given it to him, even though she could very well guess that who, ever it was lived in her dorm and had bright red hair.
At the same time over where Lily and Sam here:
"Lily, you look amazing," said Sam as he tucked a lily behind Lily's ear.
"Thanks, you look very handsome yourself," Lily said with a smile that made Sam's heart flutter.
They talked for a few more minutes, and then the doors to the Great Hall opened and all the students started to pour through the doors and into the seats at the small circular tables placed around the hall. Each table had a small jack-o-lantern on it with different faces.
The food came and went, Lily had hardly noticed that dinner was finished for she was having such a good time with Sam. The band came out in no time and Sam stood and ask, "My I have this dance?"
Lily blushed a deep crimson, and said, "Yes!" in a shy sort of voice.
Sam was a very good dancer and Lily was having a wonderful time as they spun across the dance floor. After a good many songs, Lily said, "Lets take a rest for a second, shall we?"
"Good, idea," replied Sam who was having just as good a time as Lily and was very flushed and thirsty from all the dancing, "Would you like some pumpkin juice, Lily?"
"Yes, that would be very nice," said Lily, who went and sat down at their table.
Sam came back over and sat down, and they slowly sipped their pumpkin juice. After five minutes a Ravenclaw girl came over and asked Sam to dance, and he, being always the gentleman said, "Yes." Lily didn't mind - she didn't like Sam as anything more than a friend, and she really didn't mind the chance of getting to dance with other people. Sam told her they would meet up for the last song if they didn't find each other before then, so she set off to see if her friends were at tables or on the dance floor.
Lily spotted Adrian and John on the dance floor dancing very close together during this slow song, Lily caught Adrian's eyes and gave her a wink that made her grin back at her friend. Then as she walked further around the dance floor, she spotted Fran and Bran sitting at a table. Fran spotted Lily, too, and motioned for her to come over and sit with them. Lily sat and chatted with them for a little bit until Bran asked Fran to dance again, and she was left all alone at the table. Lily looked around the hall and saw a very familiar person also sitting alone some distance away. Lily could see the red hand print on his face from where she had slapped him that afternoon in Hogsmead. She felt very bad about letting her temper get the best of her, but she also thought that he deserved it. He looked up and saw Lily gazing at him, he made up his mind and walked over to her.
"Lily may I sit here?" he asked.
"Yeah, whatever James," Lily replied. She wasn't going to be nice until he apologized.
James sat down with a sigh and said, "I'm sorry Lily. I know that I shouldn't have been about to ask you and then gone and said yes to Sandria right after."
Lily looked up at James and at the hand print on his cheek. She wanted more before she was about to forgive him, for he had really hurt her feelings.
"Come on, Lily, can't you tell I wanted to ask you? It's just that I was nervous, and then Sandria came along and asked and I just kind of said yes automatically. Lily, believe me, I never wanted to hurt your feelings! You're one of my best friends - I would never intentionally hurt you. Please forgive me," he ended, in his opinion, very lamely.
Lily was happy they were still friends, and she decided to let things go and accept his apology.
"Yeah, I'm sorry too, for slapping you," Lily said looking at the bruise.
"I deserved it," said James sheepishly.
"I know," said Lily, smiling at James.
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