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Fifth Chapter
Promise To Be Bad.
Breakups and 'friendly' kisses
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"Come in class, welcome and good afternoon." said a cheerful Professor Flitwick as he stood at the door herding his students in. "Hurry, hurry. Take your seats, I have a very exciting lesson planned for today."
Lily was the first person to be seated. Charms was her favorite class and she was good at it. She bent over in her seat to pull last night's homework and a quill out of her bag. When she straightened she found herself staring into the handsome face of James Potter and his surprised friends.
She smiled in greeting. "Hello, James."
"Hey, Lil'. Mind if I sit down?" He asked and set his bag on the desk next to hers.
She shrugged. "It's not my desk."
Sirius and Remus exchanged glances. James usually sat in the back where he could grope Elizabeth without the professor seeing him and deducting points.
"Thanks. Sit down guys."
Remus shrugged and chose the seat behind Lily, Sirius sat behind James.
When Elizabeth arrived, she stared at James who was chatting and laughing happily with his two friends and Lily. He didn't even notice her when she 'accidentally' bumped into his arm as she passed him.
She chose a seat where she could watch him to find out what was going on. Did he know about her? Was he mad? A thousand questions passed through her mind in the few seconds before Professor Flitwick called the class to order.
As everyone busily rote notes about the affects of healing charms, Lily lounged on her desk, she'd already finished her notes. James was still scribbling away and Sirius and Remus were arguing about some formula or another for potions.
Lily pulled out a piece of paper and started to chew on a piece of the corner. It was a way to pass the time. Five minutes of the class period at least. It was sort of an accident that the piece of paper in her mouth flew out and hit the person front of her.
Lily giggled. Flitwick turned towards her. "Something amuses you, Miss Evans?" He squeaked.
"No, sir."
James gave her a questioning look. She shrugged and bit off another piece of paper. This time when it flew from her mouth, it was intentional and hit her target square on the nose.
James jumped as the little spit wad landed on his nose. Wiping it off, he turned to find the culprit. Sirius had seen the whole thing and started to laugh so James thinking it was him, sent a convenient little hex over his shoulder. Smiling satisfactorily, James waited until the end of the period to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Lily asked, but her question was answered by Remus laughing. She turned around.
"Sirius." James wheezed out.
Sirius was no longer the handsome seventh year jock that girls fawned over. He was green. Yes, green with shocking orange hair.
"You look like a giant booger with fungus growing out of it!" Remus gasped.
"What?! Sofie, give me your mirror." He asked desperately.
"Yuck, no!" She slipped by him with a sneer on her face.
Lily grinned and handed him her own mirror and slowly backed away from the hysterical boys, ready to run if they chased after her.
"That's what you get for the spit wad!" James told him.
"James you blind idiot! It was Lily's spit wad! I just thought it was funny." All three boys turned to a grinning Lily.
She waved innocently and said sheepishly. "Bye-bye!" She plunged through the people trying to get out the door.
"Get her!" She heard them call.
She turned to watch as the boys fell to the ground as they exited to class.
Laughing she turned and raced around the corner. She could hear them clamoring a few feet behind her. They were catching up. An easy task for three very athletic boys against a small little girl.
With a final burst of speed she hurtled around another corner and stopped dead. Sirius and Remus ran into her and they all fell to the floor in a heap.
James dodged to the side of the cluster on the floor but he too, stopped and stared at the very involved couple making out in the middle of the deserted hallway.
"Jeez, Lily. Why'd you stop?" Sirius whined.
"Shut up you fool!" Remus had noticed the other people.
"Elizabeth." James said.
At the sound of her name, the absorbed couple broke apart.
"James!" Elizabeth murmured breathlessly and took a step towards him.
He shook his head and stepped away from her.
"James, us, together, is not working out." She told him a little belatedly.
James turned around and walked away still shaking his head, this time with anger and restraint from punching whoever it was she was kissing.
Lily turned to go after her friend but Remus held her back. "Don't. He needs time to cool off. Trust me." She nodded.
"You stupid slut! Why didn't you just say something to him before cheating on him?"
The boy, Corgan Meyers, the Ravenclaw quidditch captain stepped forward, his fist raised. Elizabeth held him back and didn't say anything.
After a moment when it was clear that she still wasn't going to say anything, Sirius shook his head and walked away with Lily and Remus trailing after him.
"Well... What do you guys want to do today?" Remus asked. Sirius who was obviously worried about his friend, just shrugged.
"Lily?" Remus asked her.
"How about we go down to the lake?" She said.
This small statement had an electrifying explosion from Sirius. He grinned and slung an arm around her shoulders. "Yeah! Come one, Remus." Remus laughed followed them.
By the time they reached the shore of the small lake, Sirius had Lily laughing hysterically about some stupid things he'd done earlier that week.
For the rest of that afternoon, the three new friends sat comfortably in a circle laughing, telling jokes and discussing the brilliancy of certain practical jokes played earlier in the years.
By the time it was starting to get dark, the conversation had turned towards lesser subjects.
"Can one of you guys help me up? My legs hurt." Lily asked and held up her arms.
Sirius grinned mischievously at Remus and turned to help Lily. But instead of grabbing her hands, he lifted her slight weight effortlessly onto his shoulders and walked towards the shinning lake waters.
"Sirius? Sirius, what are you doing?" Lily saw the lake looming closer with each step he took. "Put me down."
"Payback, Lils." He said.
"Put me down, Sirius. Damn you, put me down!" She pummeled his back.
"Okay, Lily, I'll put you down." And with that he tossed her into the lake.
"Sirius!" She shrieked before she hit the water. Her screams lifted birds out of their nests in the nearby trees.
"Ohmigod! This is cold." She scrambled to get out of the water but only managed to fall on her butt.
Sirius and Remus were holding onto each other so they wouldn't fall down laughing.
"Sirius! You are so seriously dead!" She said when she was finally able to get out of the lake.
The two boys, realizing the danger now that she was safe on dry land and able to run after them, ran. She charged after them, but since the one she really wanted to get her hands on was athletic and had longer legs, her efforts were futile.
"Arggh!" She screamed her frustration.
Then she had an idea. She stopped chasing them and walked back to the lake and waded in. Then she pulled out her wand.
The two boys were watching her puzzled. Was she hot? Or did she just want to swim? But what about her wand? Their questions were answered with the next words out of her mouth.
"Accio Sirius!"
Sirius tried to run but the spell hit him in the back and against his will, he felt himself being dragged towards a harsher punishment then the cold lake. Lily Evans, when she's feeling mad.
"Lily, I'm sorry. You don't want to do this!" He tried to yell at her.
"Oh, yes I do." She said and let him drop into water in front of her. She let him come up for air before she grabbed his collar and pushed him under again.
Air bubbles surrounded her and she pulled him up again. "Lily!" He tried again but she wasn't finished. She dunked him again and again before she had him practically dunking himself just to please her.
"Much better." She said and swam away from the very angry boy.
He swam after her but she was faster than she was on land (even with her wand in hand) and easily evaded him.
"Come on, you're faster than this." She taunted. Sirius didn't have his wand with him so he couldn't summon her to him.
Finally, Sirius couldn't help it anymore, the situation was just too funny, he laughed and swam back to the shore.
"Aw, come on, Sirius!"
He shook his head. "T-too c-cold." He said through rapidly chattering teeth.
"It's not cold, you big flobber worm!" She called, disappointed. "It's not too cold is it Remus?" She asked when she reached the shore.
He held up his arms to ward her away. "I really don't want to find out."
"You're right. It's freezing." She wrapped her arms around herself and walked with them back to the school. It was wholly dark out now and her stomach was rumbling.
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"And then I held him under. He didn't like it so he started chasing me but he got cold and got out without even catching me." She finished telling James later that evening during detention.
"Sirius is chicken shit." James sneered. He wasn't in a good mood, but with good reason.
Lily respected that but she didn't like that he could just ridicule his friends and she told him so.
"You're right." He said and hung his head. "I'm sorry."
They elapsed into silence once again.
"Two more days, James." She said after a while to break the ice. "Just two more days of this and you'll never have to see my face again. Well... you will, but you don't have to talk to me."
James didn't like the prospect of not being able to talk to her again and said. "Lily, as much as I hate to admit it, I wouldn't be able to not talk to you. You've become one of my friends. Even though you did frame me and land me with detention."
Lily couldn't help it, she rushed up to James and threw her arms around him. He hugged her back. When she pulled away, she looked at him and said, "Thanks so much, James."
She was so close to him but didn't notice the change in his eyes. Before she could do anything, his lips were on hers. She was so surprised that didn't move. He took that as consent and pulled her closer.
She pulled her face away from his. "James I hope that you don't think that--" She was cut off again as he captured her mouth again but this time she kissed him back. His lips were soft and firm at the same time, giving her all the comfort and joy that she needed. She liked the kiss and she definitely wanted it, but not from James. She just didn't like him like that, so reluctantly she pushed him away from her.
"James, stop. I can't do this." She said. James let go of her, the smile that had been on his face when she had responded so well to his kiss, disappeared. "James, I'm sorry about what happened with Elizabeth earlier but I won't let you use me to get back at her."
He shook his head, "Lily, it's not like that."
"Yes it is, James. I saw how hurt you were when you saw Elizabeth and that guy, so don't even pretend that you don't still have feelings for her."
"Lily..."
"Can't we just keep going on as we have? As friends, please?"
James closed his eyes. It was no use trying to tell her how he felt when he didn't even know how he felt.
"Please, James?" She repeated.
He sighed and opened his eyes. " Sure, Lils, as friends."
She grinned and hugged him again. The together they finished their detention and walked back to the common room where they sat with Sirius, Remus and Peter (A/N: I just had to have him in here.) talking and laughing.
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End of Chapter five.
Okay, I know you guys were expecting them to get together but to have them get together now would ruin the whole plot. So cheer up and before you flame me, just remember: they have to get together some time. I wouldn't abuse the harry Potter characters that bad.
Recap:
**James and Elizabeth. Split up, yay!
**James kissed Lily but Lily just wants to be friends.
**Sirius is no longer orange and green. Hee-hee, I thought that was funny.
To the person who said that Elizabeth and Sirius should hook up while James and Lily hook up and then James and Lily catches Elizabeth and Sirius. (Does that make sense? It does to me.) Congrats! That was my original plan but I just do not like Elizabeth.
Anyway, more to come. Lily gets more friends! Hooray!
Also: I need more ideas for pranks. Big ones, small ones... Pranks! I need 'em. So please leave your ideas and I'll do my best to include them.
I'm sorry to the people who asked me to email them with the upcoming chapters. I haven't been doing that so I will try my best to do it. If I don't, then you just tell me. You have my sincerest apologies.
Fifth Chapter
Promise To Be Bad.
Breakups and 'friendly' kisses
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"Come in class, welcome and good afternoon." said a cheerful Professor Flitwick as he stood at the door herding his students in. "Hurry, hurry. Take your seats, I have a very exciting lesson planned for today."
Lily was the first person to be seated. Charms was her favorite class and she was good at it. She bent over in her seat to pull last night's homework and a quill out of her bag. When she straightened she found herself staring into the handsome face of James Potter and his surprised friends.
She smiled in greeting. "Hello, James."
"Hey, Lil'. Mind if I sit down?" He asked and set his bag on the desk next to hers.
She shrugged. "It's not my desk."
Sirius and Remus exchanged glances. James usually sat in the back where he could grope Elizabeth without the professor seeing him and deducting points.
"Thanks. Sit down guys."
Remus shrugged and chose the seat behind Lily, Sirius sat behind James.
When Elizabeth arrived, she stared at James who was chatting and laughing happily with his two friends and Lily. He didn't even notice her when she 'accidentally' bumped into his arm as she passed him.
She chose a seat where she could watch him to find out what was going on. Did he know about her? Was he mad? A thousand questions passed through her mind in the few seconds before Professor Flitwick called the class to order.
As everyone busily rote notes about the affects of healing charms, Lily lounged on her desk, she'd already finished her notes. James was still scribbling away and Sirius and Remus were arguing about some formula or another for potions.
Lily pulled out a piece of paper and started to chew on a piece of the corner. It was a way to pass the time. Five minutes of the class period at least. It was sort of an accident that the piece of paper in her mouth flew out and hit the person front of her.
Lily giggled. Flitwick turned towards her. "Something amuses you, Miss Evans?" He squeaked.
"No, sir."
James gave her a questioning look. She shrugged and bit off another piece of paper. This time when it flew from her mouth, it was intentional and hit her target square on the nose.
James jumped as the little spit wad landed on his nose. Wiping it off, he turned to find the culprit. Sirius had seen the whole thing and started to laugh so James thinking it was him, sent a convenient little hex over his shoulder. Smiling satisfactorily, James waited until the end of the period to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Lily asked, but her question was answered by Remus laughing. She turned around.
"Sirius." James wheezed out.
Sirius was no longer the handsome seventh year jock that girls fawned over. He was green. Yes, green with shocking orange hair.
"You look like a giant booger with fungus growing out of it!" Remus gasped.
"What?! Sofie, give me your mirror." He asked desperately.
"Yuck, no!" She slipped by him with a sneer on her face.
Lily grinned and handed him her own mirror and slowly backed away from the hysterical boys, ready to run if they chased after her.
"That's what you get for the spit wad!" James told him.
"James you blind idiot! It was Lily's spit wad! I just thought it was funny." All three boys turned to a grinning Lily.
She waved innocently and said sheepishly. "Bye-bye!" She plunged through the people trying to get out the door.
"Get her!" She heard them call.
She turned to watch as the boys fell to the ground as they exited to class.
Laughing she turned and raced around the corner. She could hear them clamoring a few feet behind her. They were catching up. An easy task for three very athletic boys against a small little girl.
With a final burst of speed she hurtled around another corner and stopped dead. Sirius and Remus ran into her and they all fell to the floor in a heap.
James dodged to the side of the cluster on the floor but he too, stopped and stared at the very involved couple making out in the middle of the deserted hallway.
"Jeez, Lily. Why'd you stop?" Sirius whined.
"Shut up you fool!" Remus had noticed the other people.
"Elizabeth." James said.
At the sound of her name, the absorbed couple broke apart.
"James!" Elizabeth murmured breathlessly and took a step towards him.
He shook his head and stepped away from her.
"James, us, together, is not working out." She told him a little belatedly.
James turned around and walked away still shaking his head, this time with anger and restraint from punching whoever it was she was kissing.
Lily turned to go after her friend but Remus held her back. "Don't. He needs time to cool off. Trust me." She nodded.
"You stupid slut! Why didn't you just say something to him before cheating on him?"
The boy, Corgan Meyers, the Ravenclaw quidditch captain stepped forward, his fist raised. Elizabeth held him back and didn't say anything.
After a moment when it was clear that she still wasn't going to say anything, Sirius shook his head and walked away with Lily and Remus trailing after him.
"Well... What do you guys want to do today?" Remus asked. Sirius who was obviously worried about his friend, just shrugged.
"Lily?" Remus asked her.
"How about we go down to the lake?" She said.
This small statement had an electrifying explosion from Sirius. He grinned and slung an arm around her shoulders. "Yeah! Come one, Remus." Remus laughed followed them.
By the time they reached the shore of the small lake, Sirius had Lily laughing hysterically about some stupid things he'd done earlier that week.
For the rest of that afternoon, the three new friends sat comfortably in a circle laughing, telling jokes and discussing the brilliancy of certain practical jokes played earlier in the years.
By the time it was starting to get dark, the conversation had turned towards lesser subjects.
"Can one of you guys help me up? My legs hurt." Lily asked and held up her arms.
Sirius grinned mischievously at Remus and turned to help Lily. But instead of grabbing her hands, he lifted her slight weight effortlessly onto his shoulders and walked towards the shinning lake waters.
"Sirius? Sirius, what are you doing?" Lily saw the lake looming closer with each step he took. "Put me down."
"Payback, Lils." He said.
"Put me down, Sirius. Damn you, put me down!" She pummeled his back.
"Okay, Lily, I'll put you down." And with that he tossed her into the lake.
"Sirius!" She shrieked before she hit the water. Her screams lifted birds out of their nests in the nearby trees.
"Ohmigod! This is cold." She scrambled to get out of the water but only managed to fall on her butt.
Sirius and Remus were holding onto each other so they wouldn't fall down laughing.
"Sirius! You are so seriously dead!" She said when she was finally able to get out of the lake.
The two boys, realizing the danger now that she was safe on dry land and able to run after them, ran. She charged after them, but since the one she really wanted to get her hands on was athletic and had longer legs, her efforts were futile.
"Arggh!" She screamed her frustration.
Then she had an idea. She stopped chasing them and walked back to the lake and waded in. Then she pulled out her wand.
The two boys were watching her puzzled. Was she hot? Or did she just want to swim? But what about her wand? Their questions were answered with the next words out of her mouth.
"Accio Sirius!"
Sirius tried to run but the spell hit him in the back and against his will, he felt himself being dragged towards a harsher punishment then the cold lake. Lily Evans, when she's feeling mad.
"Lily, I'm sorry. You don't want to do this!" He tried to yell at her.
"Oh, yes I do." She said and let him drop into water in front of her. She let him come up for air before she grabbed his collar and pushed him under again.
Air bubbles surrounded her and she pulled him up again. "Lily!" He tried again but she wasn't finished. She dunked him again and again before she had him practically dunking himself just to please her.
"Much better." She said and swam away from the very angry boy.
He swam after her but she was faster than she was on land (even with her wand in hand) and easily evaded him.
"Come on, you're faster than this." She taunted. Sirius didn't have his wand with him so he couldn't summon her to him.
Finally, Sirius couldn't help it anymore, the situation was just too funny, he laughed and swam back to the shore.
"Aw, come on, Sirius!"
He shook his head. "T-too c-cold." He said through rapidly chattering teeth.
"It's not cold, you big flobber worm!" She called, disappointed. "It's not too cold is it Remus?" She asked when she reached the shore.
He held up his arms to ward her away. "I really don't want to find out."
"You're right. It's freezing." She wrapped her arms around herself and walked with them back to the school. It was wholly dark out now and her stomach was rumbling.
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"And then I held him under. He didn't like it so he started chasing me but he got cold and got out without even catching me." She finished telling James later that evening during detention.
"Sirius is chicken shit." James sneered. He wasn't in a good mood, but with good reason.
Lily respected that but she didn't like that he could just ridicule his friends and she told him so.
"You're right." He said and hung his head. "I'm sorry."
They elapsed into silence once again.
"Two more days, James." She said after a while to break the ice. "Just two more days of this and you'll never have to see my face again. Well... you will, but you don't have to talk to me."
James didn't like the prospect of not being able to talk to her again and said. "Lily, as much as I hate to admit it, I wouldn't be able to not talk to you. You've become one of my friends. Even though you did frame me and land me with detention."
Lily couldn't help it, she rushed up to James and threw her arms around him. He hugged her back. When she pulled away, she looked at him and said, "Thanks so much, James."
She was so close to him but didn't notice the change in his eyes. Before she could do anything, his lips were on hers. She was so surprised that didn't move. He took that as consent and pulled her closer.
She pulled her face away from his. "James I hope that you don't think that--" She was cut off again as he captured her mouth again but this time she kissed him back. His lips were soft and firm at the same time, giving her all the comfort and joy that she needed. She liked the kiss and she definitely wanted it, but not from James. She just didn't like him like that, so reluctantly she pushed him away from her.
"James, stop. I can't do this." She said. James let go of her, the smile that had been on his face when she had responded so well to his kiss, disappeared. "James, I'm sorry about what happened with Elizabeth earlier but I won't let you use me to get back at her."
He shook his head, "Lily, it's not like that."
"Yes it is, James. I saw how hurt you were when you saw Elizabeth and that guy, so don't even pretend that you don't still have feelings for her."
"Lily..."
"Can't we just keep going on as we have? As friends, please?"
James closed his eyes. It was no use trying to tell her how he felt when he didn't even know how he felt.
"Please, James?" She repeated.
He sighed and opened his eyes. " Sure, Lils, as friends."
She grinned and hugged him again. The together they finished their detention and walked back to the common room where they sat with Sirius, Remus and Peter (A/N: I just had to have him in here.) talking and laughing.
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End of Chapter five.
Okay, I know you guys were expecting them to get together but to have them get together now would ruin the whole plot. So cheer up and before you flame me, just remember: they have to get together some time. I wouldn't abuse the harry Potter characters that bad.
Recap:
**James and Elizabeth. Split up, yay!
**James kissed Lily but Lily just wants to be friends.
**Sirius is no longer orange and green. Hee-hee, I thought that was funny.
To the person who said that Elizabeth and Sirius should hook up while James and Lily hook up and then James and Lily catches Elizabeth and Sirius. (Does that make sense? It does to me.) Congrats! That was my original plan but I just do not like Elizabeth.
Anyway, more to come. Lily gets more friends! Hooray!
Also: I need more ideas for pranks. Big ones, small ones... Pranks! I need 'em. So please leave your ideas and I'll do my best to include them.
I'm sorry to the people who asked me to email them with the upcoming chapters. I haven't been doing that so I will try my best to do it. If I don't, then you just tell me. You have my sincerest apologies.