A/N Thanks to anyone who reviewed. I hope you guys like this chapter..sorry in advance for any grammar mistakes. Next chapter should be up by next week. In the mean time read my new story 'Seduce a Stranger'. It is very original if I do say so myself ;o)~
Disclaimer: (keep forgetting to put one in) nothing that looks familiar belongs to me.
Chapter 5: The King and Queen of Scam
"James that was amazing," praised Lily as they left the Quidditch pitch.
"Of course it was. I am me after all," said James. Lily shoved him and ran. When he caught up to her grabbed her and tickled he side. After she begged and begged he finally let her go. When she calmed down she linked her arms with his and the set off toward the other side of the castle.
"Seriously, though, that was award-winning. You pulled that off so well that even I was convinced. I bow down to the King of Scam!" she said with a mock bow and much twirling of her hand.
"Yes, well it's a gift," he said with a sigh and laughed at the look Lily gave him. "So what now?" he asked.
"Now we go and have dinner," said Lily.
"Great! I haven't seen the guys all day and we really need to think up some pranks for..." started James.
"No, not dinner at the Great Hall. Dinner at the Tower," she interrupted. James suddenly froze and Lily stopped to look at him.
"The Tower?" he asked in horror.
"Yeah the Tower. That's where all the important people are going to be," said Lily as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"I'm not going," he said firmly and Lily gave him an exasperated look.
"James stop being a baby."
"I'm not going," he repeated with a child like pout.
"Why not?"
"Because,"
"Because why?"
"Because, Because," said James sounding just like a 5-year old.
"James..." said Lily threateningly, tapping her foot and crossing her arms.
"Okay, okay. In my first year I went in there in the middle of the night and there were two 7th years going at it. Happy?"
"Oh James," laughed Lily, "I guess seeing a guy and a girl going at it can traumatize any 11-year old."
"If it was a guy and a girl I would have been fine, but it was two..." James stopped and shuttered. (A/n I'll let your imagination decide what sex it was) "Anyway, I haven't been near that place since." He put his hand to his heart and looked at the night sky. "I still get nightmares about it," he sighed. "I can't believe I just told you that."
"Come on, James," said Lily pulling his arms, "I assure you that that won't happen this time."
"Promise?" he asked with a look of a scared little child. Lily let out an "awww" and gave him a hug.
"I promise," she giggled.
*~~*~~*
"Hey, look what my parents sent me," said Remus as they sat down in the Great Hall. He pulled out a camera from his backpack and placed it on the table. It was a the sort of camera that would produce the picture right away. The only difference was that the pictures would come out moving, just like a wizard camera.
"Cool!" said Sirius, "What are you going to do with it?"
"He's gonna take pictures with it," said Peter with a 'duh' tone to his voice.
"I know that moron," said Sirius as he hit Peter upside his head.
"I'm going to take pictures for the Mysterious Letter," laughed Remus as he watched Peter rub his head. "I think that that was what the newspaper was missing. Actual proof of what I've been talking about. Like the drunken parties and the all night orgies."
"Yeah, go ahead and put pictures like that," said Sirius, "then you'll have every teacher on your ass more so than ever." Remus looked thoughtful at this but then considered that he would never get caught.
"You ever think of changing the name to the Werewolf Chronicles," asked Peter loudly which earned him another hit from Remus as he looked around to make sure no one heard.
"Where's James?" asked Sirius suddenly, looking around for his best bud.
"He said he would come right back after the Quidditch game," said Peter who ducked just in case someone else felt the need to hit him again.
"Oh well," sighed Remus, "we'll see him at the Underground tonight."
"Yeah, there's gonna be a huge party!" said a very happy Sirius.
"Have you guys seen Lily?" asked a voice behind them.
"No, now go away," said Remus when he recognized the voice of the half-vampire.
"Shut up! God, I don't even know why I came here," she huffed.
"I'll tell ya," said Remus as he got up and faced her. "The reason you came here was because you can't resist me," he said confidently.
"Ha! Me? Can't resist you?"
"See I knew one day you would admit it," Remus smiled triumphantly.
"Oh, you finally found out my secret," said Zoe affectionately. She stepped closer to him and ran her hand up his arm slowly. "You don't know how many nights I've spent thinking of you," she whispered looking him straight in the eye. Remus suddenly turned pale and was unable to look away. " And how many times I'd see you sitting across the common room all by yourself and wish I had the confidence to go up to you and tell you how I feel." Peter and Sirius were both looking at her as if she had three heads. They couldn't believe what she was saying, and frankly, neither could Remus. Then Peter and Sirius saw her reach for Remus' camera and they were even more confused.
"Really?" asked Remus breathlessly.
"Really," she affirmed as she leaned in close to him. As they were about to closed the gap between them Zoe suddenly pulled back and snapped a picture of Remus with his eyes closed and lips puckered.
"And you don't know how many times I love watching you make an ass of yourself," she laughed as she took the picture out of the camera and walked away. Remus blinked a few times, still confused about what just happened but was viciously brought back to reality when he heard his so-called best friends laughing.
"Oh—my—God—." said Sirius in between laughs, "she—totally—got—you—"
"That—was—hilarious," agreed Peter, "I—can't—believe—you—fell—for—it—"
"Shut up," Remus muttered as he buried his face in his hands. 'I'm gonna get her for this' he vowed.
*~~*~~*
James took a deep breath and was about to step over the threshold when he stopped and turned around. Lily grabbed his arm and he took one look on Lily's face and decided to go in, instead of face her wrath. He looked around and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for the fact that everyone looked like they were wearing the same thing and had the same style. In fact they looked like copies of each other, and he noticed with some disgust that he was dressed like them, too.
"Let's go James," said Lily and she linked her arm with his and led him to a table with all her 'friends.'
"Hey everyone," said Lily with a voice different from when she talked to James. It seemed higher ad very haughty. Everyone at the table said their falsely happy 'hi's' then looked at James as he sat down. Lily gave them a look that said 'Say anything and your social status dies.' Bryan came and sat down next to James.
"Hey James! How was the end of the game?" he asked.
"Oh right, you wouldn't know. You were to busy with your tongue down Abrealla's throat," he said. Everyone at the table either laughed or blushed and James was automatically welcomed to their group. He only participated in certain topics and during others he just nodded and smiled or shook his head and grimaced.
"Can you believe that Patrick or Paul or Peter or whatever the hell his name is?" someone asked. James head snapped up at the obvious mention of his unpopular friend.
"What did he do this time? Offer to hand wash your dirty boxers?" someone else asked. The tabled roared with laugher, but Lily looked uncomfortable and James looked livid.
"He wanted to know if I wanted to see his collection of muggle comic books and if I wanted to see all his other muggle stuff." Everyone around the table save James laughed and James had to hold back from punching this guy.
"I like his collection," he said and everyone stopped and stared at him. "I think it's pretty cool that he has an interest in other stuff besides make-up, clothes, and how his hair looks with a certain type of gel," he snapped and with that he got up and left.
"What the hell was that?"
"He totally flipped out."
"What a freak."
Lily got up and followed James outside. She saw him pulling his shirt out of his pants and messing up the hair that Lily spent hours trying to tame.
"James! What has gotten into you?" He turned to look at her and glared.
"You wanted me to sit there and let them make fun of my friends?" he shouted.
"Oh like you never made fun of us," she yelled back.
"That's different!"
"How so?"
"We make fun of the self-imposed rulers of the school! Not the lowly working class!"
"So its okay for you to make fun of him, but not for them?"
James sighed and sat down on the ground, "That's not what I meant. Look...I've done everything you said and so far the payback has been minimum."
"I'm sorry for that, but..."
"We've been hanging out with your friends doing stuff you like and hanging out on your turf," he interrupted. Lily scoffed.
"Your turf? Okay," she resolved, "what do you suggest we do?" James smile grew and he pulled her to the opposite side of the village.
*~~*~~*
"Sirius! We have to go now before Filch realizes his cat isn't being tortured by the Slytherins!" yelled Remus through the door to their dorm.
"I'm coming!" he shouted back. Sirius untied the letter from the owl and started to read it. It was like most of the other letters he got from this mysterious girl who called her self Abby. She and Sirius have been sending owls to each other for the past 2 years, but they never had the nerve to meet each other. He remembered the first time he got the owl, which he refers to as the mysterious letter. (It was the basis of Remus' newspaper, something that was written by a mysterious author). He was so excited and ever since then he's been writing to her and picturing what she would look like when they first met. Which was another reason he was reluctant about meeting her. What if he wasn't what she expected? He fell in love with this girl and her personality and he didn't think he could stand her rejecting him then never speaking to him.
He looked over the letter and a something on the bottom caught his eye. It was a single question, but it made his heart flutter:
So, are you going to the ball with anyone?
That was it. She didn't say if she was going with someone or if she wanted to go with him, but he knew al about her and her technics through her letters and he knew what she was getting at. He hugged the letter to his chest and started to dance around the room.
"Sirius what the hell are you doing?" asked a shocked Remus. Sirius froze and felt a blush creeping up his neck.
"We better go!" he said as he stuffed the letter into a drawer and walked out past Remus and Peter.
"Man he's got it bad," whispered Peter. 'When will these guys see what's in front of their faces' he thought looking between the laughing Remus and the blushing Sirius.
*~~*~~*
Lily looked around and wondered why she never stepped foot here before. The Underground was dark and dingy on normal nights, but when they threw a party they knew what they were doing. The room was dim, but there were laser lights everywhere lighting the room with red, green, blue and other colors. People were out on the floor dancing, not grinding and rubbing up against each other, but dancing and having fun. Some of the dancing was really corny, but everyone was having so much fun that they didn't care. In fact, if a dance was crazy enough then everyone would do it and add their own steps to it. On stage was a local band called the Weird Sisters who were going to be big someday according to Remus who frequently wrote about them in his paper. Over to the side was a bar with anything and everything to drink from pumpkin juice to butterbeer to other stronger drinks, though anyone underage was only permitted a 2 glasses of these drinks. Most people weren't there to drink anyway, they were there to relax and have fun.
James saw Lily's eyes light up as she walked in and smiled. She never ceased to amaze him. She was the type of person who was able to adapt to any environment and never let something new bring her down. A fast song came on and she started to dance; not really dance but just shake her head a lot. (A/N if you've seen the movie then you know what I mean) James laughed and she looked at him and smiled. He jerked his head to a table and they made their way toward it.
"Hey girlies," shouted James over the music, "this is Lily." One of the girls looked at Lily and raised an eyebrow. Then in a high mocking voice she said, "Oh yah, we had a slumber party and we, like, painted each other's toenails, remember?"
"You guys..." started James but was interrupted.
"Yeah then we played truth or dare and you admitted to liking Lucius Malfoy before he got rich," said Lily in the same mocking voice.
"I never.." she started.
"Yes you did," said the other girl at the table and she smiled at Lily. James looked at Lily appraisingly and was about to ask her to dance when Sirius showed up.
"Hey James we missed ya today."
"Yeah I kinda got sidetracked," he said looking at Lily.
"Well too bad. You missed 2 great shows of our best friends here making complete idiots of themselves on account of 2 girls," laughed Peter who was rewarded with 2 whacks on the head.
"What happened?" asked James.
"Nothing," said Remus and Sirius in unison.
"Peter you have to tell me what happened later."
"Only if you promise to protect me from these two," he replied rubbing his throbbing head. Then he went onto the dance floor and started a crazy dance that no one wanted to get into.
"Hey Lily wanna dance?" asked Sirius. She looked at James who nodded and she went out and started doing the same dance that Peter was doing. Soon the 3 of them were doing some weird creepy looking dance (A/N I'll let you imagine what kind of dance you want since the one I'm thinking of is to crazy to describe!). James looked at them and couldn't help but look at how happy and amazing Lily looked. She was radiant and her laugh was mesmerizing. He suddenly shook his head, disgusted that he thought such schmaltzy thoughts. He stared at her for a while longer before deciding to join them and their crazy dance.
After 2 songs Lily got thirsty and James offered to get her a drink while Sirius and Peter made "ooo" noises. James was standing behind some girl who was getting a drink and thought that her weird hair colors looked very familiar. She turned around and James was standing face to face with Daphne.
"Hey Daphne," he said politely.
"Hi James," she said looking him up and down still not happy with the fact that he changed his wardrobe.
"Hey there you are Daph," said a voice from behind James. He saw that it was Andrew Anderson. He went up to Daphne and gently kissed her cheek... then her jawbone... then her neck. Daphne was looking at James and James was looking anywhere else but in front of him. He was so uncomfortable that he wasn't able to move.
From across the dance floor Lily was looking for James wondering what was taking him so long with her drink and she saw him standing stiffly while Daphne and some other guy were making out in front of him. 'Time to even the playing field,' she thought. She went up to them and tapped James on the shoulder.
"Hey there you are James," she said softly. She then pulled his face to hers and kissed him. At first James was to surprised to do anything. All ir took was one look at Daphne's face and he immediately knew that the plan was going to work. What he didn't anticipate was the fact that he liked kissing Lily. He closed his eyes to enjoy the feeling he was getting in his stomach. Lily's kiss was soft and gentle yet demanding at the same time. James just yielded to her tongue's command and thoroughly enjoyed himself. When they finally came up for air the first thing James saw was an extremely irritated Daphne and a nonplused Andrew.
"Get a room," Daphne huffed and she pulled Andrew away. James looked down at Lily and smiled at her flushed face. He removed a strand of hair from her face and said softly, "I guess now it's my turn to bow down to the Queen of Scam."
Disclaimer: (keep forgetting to put one in) nothing that looks familiar belongs to me.
Chapter 5: The King and Queen of Scam
"James that was amazing," praised Lily as they left the Quidditch pitch.
"Of course it was. I am me after all," said James. Lily shoved him and ran. When he caught up to her grabbed her and tickled he side. After she begged and begged he finally let her go. When she calmed down she linked her arms with his and the set off toward the other side of the castle.
"Seriously, though, that was award-winning. You pulled that off so well that even I was convinced. I bow down to the King of Scam!" she said with a mock bow and much twirling of her hand.
"Yes, well it's a gift," he said with a sigh and laughed at the look Lily gave him. "So what now?" he asked.
"Now we go and have dinner," said Lily.
"Great! I haven't seen the guys all day and we really need to think up some pranks for..." started James.
"No, not dinner at the Great Hall. Dinner at the Tower," she interrupted. James suddenly froze and Lily stopped to look at him.
"The Tower?" he asked in horror.
"Yeah the Tower. That's where all the important people are going to be," said Lily as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"I'm not going," he said firmly and Lily gave him an exasperated look.
"James stop being a baby."
"I'm not going," he repeated with a child like pout.
"Why not?"
"Because,"
"Because why?"
"Because, Because," said James sounding just like a 5-year old.
"James..." said Lily threateningly, tapping her foot and crossing her arms.
"Okay, okay. In my first year I went in there in the middle of the night and there were two 7th years going at it. Happy?"
"Oh James," laughed Lily, "I guess seeing a guy and a girl going at it can traumatize any 11-year old."
"If it was a guy and a girl I would have been fine, but it was two..." James stopped and shuttered. (A/n I'll let your imagination decide what sex it was) "Anyway, I haven't been near that place since." He put his hand to his heart and looked at the night sky. "I still get nightmares about it," he sighed. "I can't believe I just told you that."
"Come on, James," said Lily pulling his arms, "I assure you that that won't happen this time."
"Promise?" he asked with a look of a scared little child. Lily let out an "awww" and gave him a hug.
"I promise," she giggled.
*~~*~~*
"Hey, look what my parents sent me," said Remus as they sat down in the Great Hall. He pulled out a camera from his backpack and placed it on the table. It was a the sort of camera that would produce the picture right away. The only difference was that the pictures would come out moving, just like a wizard camera.
"Cool!" said Sirius, "What are you going to do with it?"
"He's gonna take pictures with it," said Peter with a 'duh' tone to his voice.
"I know that moron," said Sirius as he hit Peter upside his head.
"I'm going to take pictures for the Mysterious Letter," laughed Remus as he watched Peter rub his head. "I think that that was what the newspaper was missing. Actual proof of what I've been talking about. Like the drunken parties and the all night orgies."
"Yeah, go ahead and put pictures like that," said Sirius, "then you'll have every teacher on your ass more so than ever." Remus looked thoughtful at this but then considered that he would never get caught.
"You ever think of changing the name to the Werewolf Chronicles," asked Peter loudly which earned him another hit from Remus as he looked around to make sure no one heard.
"Where's James?" asked Sirius suddenly, looking around for his best bud.
"He said he would come right back after the Quidditch game," said Peter who ducked just in case someone else felt the need to hit him again.
"Oh well," sighed Remus, "we'll see him at the Underground tonight."
"Yeah, there's gonna be a huge party!" said a very happy Sirius.
"Have you guys seen Lily?" asked a voice behind them.
"No, now go away," said Remus when he recognized the voice of the half-vampire.
"Shut up! God, I don't even know why I came here," she huffed.
"I'll tell ya," said Remus as he got up and faced her. "The reason you came here was because you can't resist me," he said confidently.
"Ha! Me? Can't resist you?"
"See I knew one day you would admit it," Remus smiled triumphantly.
"Oh, you finally found out my secret," said Zoe affectionately. She stepped closer to him and ran her hand up his arm slowly. "You don't know how many nights I've spent thinking of you," she whispered looking him straight in the eye. Remus suddenly turned pale and was unable to look away. " And how many times I'd see you sitting across the common room all by yourself and wish I had the confidence to go up to you and tell you how I feel." Peter and Sirius were both looking at her as if she had three heads. They couldn't believe what she was saying, and frankly, neither could Remus. Then Peter and Sirius saw her reach for Remus' camera and they were even more confused.
"Really?" asked Remus breathlessly.
"Really," she affirmed as she leaned in close to him. As they were about to closed the gap between them Zoe suddenly pulled back and snapped a picture of Remus with his eyes closed and lips puckered.
"And you don't know how many times I love watching you make an ass of yourself," she laughed as she took the picture out of the camera and walked away. Remus blinked a few times, still confused about what just happened but was viciously brought back to reality when he heard his so-called best friends laughing.
"Oh—my—God—." said Sirius in between laughs, "she—totally—got—you—"
"That—was—hilarious," agreed Peter, "I—can't—believe—you—fell—for—it—"
"Shut up," Remus muttered as he buried his face in his hands. 'I'm gonna get her for this' he vowed.
*~~*~~*
James took a deep breath and was about to step over the threshold when he stopped and turned around. Lily grabbed his arm and he took one look on Lily's face and decided to go in, instead of face her wrath. He looked around and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for the fact that everyone looked like they were wearing the same thing and had the same style. In fact they looked like copies of each other, and he noticed with some disgust that he was dressed like them, too.
"Let's go James," said Lily and she linked her arm with his and led him to a table with all her 'friends.'
"Hey everyone," said Lily with a voice different from when she talked to James. It seemed higher ad very haughty. Everyone at the table said their falsely happy 'hi's' then looked at James as he sat down. Lily gave them a look that said 'Say anything and your social status dies.' Bryan came and sat down next to James.
"Hey James! How was the end of the game?" he asked.
"Oh right, you wouldn't know. You were to busy with your tongue down Abrealla's throat," he said. Everyone at the table either laughed or blushed and James was automatically welcomed to their group. He only participated in certain topics and during others he just nodded and smiled or shook his head and grimaced.
"Can you believe that Patrick or Paul or Peter or whatever the hell his name is?" someone asked. James head snapped up at the obvious mention of his unpopular friend.
"What did he do this time? Offer to hand wash your dirty boxers?" someone else asked. The tabled roared with laugher, but Lily looked uncomfortable and James looked livid.
"He wanted to know if I wanted to see his collection of muggle comic books and if I wanted to see all his other muggle stuff." Everyone around the table save James laughed and James had to hold back from punching this guy.
"I like his collection," he said and everyone stopped and stared at him. "I think it's pretty cool that he has an interest in other stuff besides make-up, clothes, and how his hair looks with a certain type of gel," he snapped and with that he got up and left.
"What the hell was that?"
"He totally flipped out."
"What a freak."
Lily got up and followed James outside. She saw him pulling his shirt out of his pants and messing up the hair that Lily spent hours trying to tame.
"James! What has gotten into you?" He turned to look at her and glared.
"You wanted me to sit there and let them make fun of my friends?" he shouted.
"Oh like you never made fun of us," she yelled back.
"That's different!"
"How so?"
"We make fun of the self-imposed rulers of the school! Not the lowly working class!"
"So its okay for you to make fun of him, but not for them?"
James sighed and sat down on the ground, "That's not what I meant. Look...I've done everything you said and so far the payback has been minimum."
"I'm sorry for that, but..."
"We've been hanging out with your friends doing stuff you like and hanging out on your turf," he interrupted. Lily scoffed.
"Your turf? Okay," she resolved, "what do you suggest we do?" James smile grew and he pulled her to the opposite side of the village.
*~~*~~*
"Sirius! We have to go now before Filch realizes his cat isn't being tortured by the Slytherins!" yelled Remus through the door to their dorm.
"I'm coming!" he shouted back. Sirius untied the letter from the owl and started to read it. It was like most of the other letters he got from this mysterious girl who called her self Abby. She and Sirius have been sending owls to each other for the past 2 years, but they never had the nerve to meet each other. He remembered the first time he got the owl, which he refers to as the mysterious letter. (It was the basis of Remus' newspaper, something that was written by a mysterious author). He was so excited and ever since then he's been writing to her and picturing what she would look like when they first met. Which was another reason he was reluctant about meeting her. What if he wasn't what she expected? He fell in love with this girl and her personality and he didn't think he could stand her rejecting him then never speaking to him.
He looked over the letter and a something on the bottom caught his eye. It was a single question, but it made his heart flutter:
So, are you going to the ball with anyone?
That was it. She didn't say if she was going with someone or if she wanted to go with him, but he knew al about her and her technics through her letters and he knew what she was getting at. He hugged the letter to his chest and started to dance around the room.
"Sirius what the hell are you doing?" asked a shocked Remus. Sirius froze and felt a blush creeping up his neck.
"We better go!" he said as he stuffed the letter into a drawer and walked out past Remus and Peter.
"Man he's got it bad," whispered Peter. 'When will these guys see what's in front of their faces' he thought looking between the laughing Remus and the blushing Sirius.
*~~*~~*
Lily looked around and wondered why she never stepped foot here before. The Underground was dark and dingy on normal nights, but when they threw a party they knew what they were doing. The room was dim, but there were laser lights everywhere lighting the room with red, green, blue and other colors. People were out on the floor dancing, not grinding and rubbing up against each other, but dancing and having fun. Some of the dancing was really corny, but everyone was having so much fun that they didn't care. In fact, if a dance was crazy enough then everyone would do it and add their own steps to it. On stage was a local band called the Weird Sisters who were going to be big someday according to Remus who frequently wrote about them in his paper. Over to the side was a bar with anything and everything to drink from pumpkin juice to butterbeer to other stronger drinks, though anyone underage was only permitted a 2 glasses of these drinks. Most people weren't there to drink anyway, they were there to relax and have fun.
James saw Lily's eyes light up as she walked in and smiled. She never ceased to amaze him. She was the type of person who was able to adapt to any environment and never let something new bring her down. A fast song came on and she started to dance; not really dance but just shake her head a lot. (A/N if you've seen the movie then you know what I mean) James laughed and she looked at him and smiled. He jerked his head to a table and they made their way toward it.
"Hey girlies," shouted James over the music, "this is Lily." One of the girls looked at Lily and raised an eyebrow. Then in a high mocking voice she said, "Oh yah, we had a slumber party and we, like, painted each other's toenails, remember?"
"You guys..." started James but was interrupted.
"Yeah then we played truth or dare and you admitted to liking Lucius Malfoy before he got rich," said Lily in the same mocking voice.
"I never.." she started.
"Yes you did," said the other girl at the table and she smiled at Lily. James looked at Lily appraisingly and was about to ask her to dance when Sirius showed up.
"Hey James we missed ya today."
"Yeah I kinda got sidetracked," he said looking at Lily.
"Well too bad. You missed 2 great shows of our best friends here making complete idiots of themselves on account of 2 girls," laughed Peter who was rewarded with 2 whacks on the head.
"What happened?" asked James.
"Nothing," said Remus and Sirius in unison.
"Peter you have to tell me what happened later."
"Only if you promise to protect me from these two," he replied rubbing his throbbing head. Then he went onto the dance floor and started a crazy dance that no one wanted to get into.
"Hey Lily wanna dance?" asked Sirius. She looked at James who nodded and she went out and started doing the same dance that Peter was doing. Soon the 3 of them were doing some weird creepy looking dance (A/N I'll let you imagine what kind of dance you want since the one I'm thinking of is to crazy to describe!). James looked at them and couldn't help but look at how happy and amazing Lily looked. She was radiant and her laugh was mesmerizing. He suddenly shook his head, disgusted that he thought such schmaltzy thoughts. He stared at her for a while longer before deciding to join them and their crazy dance.
After 2 songs Lily got thirsty and James offered to get her a drink while Sirius and Peter made "ooo" noises. James was standing behind some girl who was getting a drink and thought that her weird hair colors looked very familiar. She turned around and James was standing face to face with Daphne.
"Hey Daphne," he said politely.
"Hi James," she said looking him up and down still not happy with the fact that he changed his wardrobe.
"Hey there you are Daph," said a voice from behind James. He saw that it was Andrew Anderson. He went up to Daphne and gently kissed her cheek... then her jawbone... then her neck. Daphne was looking at James and James was looking anywhere else but in front of him. He was so uncomfortable that he wasn't able to move.
From across the dance floor Lily was looking for James wondering what was taking him so long with her drink and she saw him standing stiffly while Daphne and some other guy were making out in front of him. 'Time to even the playing field,' she thought. She went up to them and tapped James on the shoulder.
"Hey there you are James," she said softly. She then pulled his face to hers and kissed him. At first James was to surprised to do anything. All ir took was one look at Daphne's face and he immediately knew that the plan was going to work. What he didn't anticipate was the fact that he liked kissing Lily. He closed his eyes to enjoy the feeling he was getting in his stomach. Lily's kiss was soft and gentle yet demanding at the same time. James just yielded to her tongue's command and thoroughly enjoyed himself. When they finally came up for air the first thing James saw was an extremely irritated Daphne and a nonplused Andrew.
"Get a room," Daphne huffed and she pulled Andrew away. James looked down at Lily and smiled at her flushed face. He removed a strand of hair from her face and said softly, "I guess now it's my turn to bow down to the Queen of Scam."