disclaimer: You should know it by now… If you don't then… BLAH! The quote is from Ocean's Eleven which is a nice little action flick.

author's note: This is reserved for the reviewer omg, I'm sorry you're so offended by my interpretation of Lily and James. So ya know what… fuck a cow, you'll have loads o' fun doing that dahrling! For future notice… all flames are welcome, but I'll use them to make s'mores!

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Uninvited Affection

Chapter 8: "I just did call you a jackass"

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          Petite was the politically correct term for Katherine Lewis. At a mere 5 feet 0 inches, her friends referred to her as 'munchkin'. Now the green-eyed blonde was wearing her fiercest stare and looking at the door to the Gryffindor boys' dormitories. Maybe if she stared hard enough the door would burn down and Sirius Black would be reduced to a pile of ashes. Unfortunately, luck was not on her side. The door whirred open and James Potter stepped over the threshold.

          "I hope that stare's not for me!" He exclaimed his eyebrows up in surprise.

          Katherine's features immediately softened, "Of course not James."

          "Thank god, now which one of my dearest roommates are you going to mutilate?" James asked smirking.

          She blew a strand of chocolaty brown hair out of her face, "Sirius. Is he around?"

          "Yeah, he's in there. I'm off to meet with her Royal Highness Evans, later Kat!" James gave a quick wave, and was out of sight. She put on her fiercest scowl and walked into the room. Upon entering the room she found Sirius draped over a chair twirling a quill between his fingers. He was staring out the window absently.

          "Hey King high-and-mighty." She walked over to his desk and sat down.

          Sirius let out something halfway between a groan and a chuckle. "You sound like James."

          "James refers to you as a king?" Her forehead creased in confusion.

          Laughing he shook his head no. "He reserves the whole royalty bit for Lily."

          "So is she the reason you forgot to meet me in the library…half an hour ago?" Kat twirled a strand of dirty blonde around her finger.

          "Aw, shit, I totally forgot… forgive me?" Sirius gave his best puppy dog face.

          Kat relented stopped herself from being sarcastic. Damn why do his eyes have to be so amazing. "Only if you tell me what is so intriguing it made you forget about me and that arithmacy paper."

          "Promise not to tell?" Kat nodded her head, "Well… you're a good person…what would you do if you made out with your best friends girl?"

          "I wouldn't. Who was it? Delia…or…" A certain Gryffindor prefects name was on her mind, but Sirius cut her off.

          "Lily." He stared miserably at his quill. "Do you think I'm a jackass?"

          Trying to lighten the mood Kat replied, "Well not completely…"

          She smiled and received a good natured grin from Sirius. Well, maybe this won't be too horrible…

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          Lily searched the cluttered dresser for a hair band. There was no way she was going to finish her transfiguration essay with her damn hair falling in her face. She had found a tube of eye shadow, several lip glosses, and her favorite nail polish color but she couldn't find a damn hair band. Chardonnay walked in toweling her hair.

          "Hair band?" Lily asked.

          "2nd drawer to your left." AHA! It was the mother load of hair bands. Tying her hair into a simple ponytail she sat cross legged on the bed chewing her quill while scanning the thick leather bound book to her right and scribbling on the parchment to her left.

          "Hogsmeade is always a blast, you should've stayed last night." Lily could hear Chard's muffled voice say from deep within the closet.

          "I was there for like ten minutes, then it was pathetic; A bunch of guys getting drunk and barfing." Lily replied not looking up.

          "How was your session with James?" Chardonnay asked appearing shortly from the closet.

          "As good as time with him could be." Pushing back the thin glasses on her nose.

          "Lily, Lily, you should take advantage of the opportunity. Like I said before, James is not hard on the eyes…" Chard commented while brushing her hair.

          Lily snorted putting her quill down. "I got married to Jimmy when I was five. It wasn't your normal thing. We had a real four-layer cake and I had a real dress and the works."

          "So I guess you can now add adulteress to your list of charming attributes." Chard said playfully pulling half of her hair into a plait.

          Lily threw a pillow at her and continued. "Do you know that they were planning our wedding while we were in the womb? What if they had ended up with two children of the same sex?"

          "Darling, you would make a very presentable Mrs. James Edward Potter." Chard ducked the pillow Lily had thrown.

           "James Potter is definitely not my dream man." Lily said rolling her eyes.

          "Aw, Princess, you wound me!" Lily inwardly groaned looking at James leaning on the door jam. Exactly how much of that conversation had he heard she thought.   

          Lily scribbled something down on the parchment. "What brings you here Jimmy, dearest?"

          "Seeing as you borrowed my book to write your herbology essay, and now I need it to write mine, I thought I might save you the work of walking up all those stairs." James replied stepping into the room.

          "I finished mine yesterday. Anyways, Lil, I'm off to go drown myself in the lake and get something from the kitchen, care to join?" Chard said finishing up her hair.

          "Love to, but I'll pass this time." Chard sighed and left the room.

          James settled down on the bed. "What's got her in a self-pity mood?"

          "Whatever happened at Hogsmeade last night. She said it was great, meaning it meant nothing to her. I think her hormones are a little edgy right now, so…" Lily broke off her sentence and finished writing on the parchment with a flourish.

          "I see, so I'll see you…tomorrow to finish up the prefect work?" James asked walking backwards out the door.

          "Yeah whatever." She watched him leave before setting down her glasses. Maybe a little pity party in the kitchens wasn't a horrible idea.

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          The tawny owl swept down over James dropping a cream colored piece of parchment on his essay. Chuckling he opened the paper and read,

Dearest love-sick Jamie,

          According to Sirius' last owl he said that you are having a bit of trouble spelled L-I-L-Y. Care to elaborate? Anyways, I'm hoping Hogwarts is going well for you. I've been having a pas-mal time here. School is fun, but when it comes to other subjects such as annoying half French half- English men it hasn't been much fun. I'm penning this note quickly before he shows up and decides to read over my shoulder. Give my love to Lily and Sirius.

Love,

Ara

P.S. I'm coming home for Christmas this year, so…until Switzerland little brother!

          James smiled. Ara's letters were always interesting to read, unfortunately he hated how older sisters were so perceptive sometimes. Am I really that obvious he thought as he wrote back.

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