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Chapter 6

After about 20 minutes of packing up clothes and moving trunks, all of Arabella's stuff was moved into Lily's room. Arabella fell into her bed (a/n: don't worry. It's her own bed) and sighed happily.

"This is great," Bella said. "We can stay up all night and talk if we want to. And nobody would disturb us, and we wouldn't disturb anyone!"

"Yeah," agreed Lily. "Oh on. Classes start in 5 minutes. C'mon, lets go. Otherwise, we'd be late."

And for the first time, Lily was dragging Arabella down the corridors. In fact, it was the first time Lily drags anyone. They arrived just in time for Potions (with the Slytherins). And took the only available seats left: behind the troublemaking Marauders.

Professor Vacarra began taking roll. When she was done, she looked up and made an announcement.

"Today, we will begin a new project. I will partner you up into pairs. You and your partner will have one week to work on it. First, flip to page 315 in Magical Drafts and Potions, where you'll find a list of potions we haven't covered yet. Do research on it and then finally, make the potion. Any questions?" Everybody shook his or her heads. "Good. And now, for your partners…"

James crossed his finger under his desk and prayed that it was Lily who will be his partner. He must be lucky because Professor Vacarra just said "…Potter and Evans." Sirius got paired with Arabella (a/n: lucky for him too!). Remus got paired with Sandra Smith, a Gryffindor and old roommate of Arabella's, with strawberry blond hair and sapphire blue eyes. (a/n: Dirty, rotten) Peter got paired with Snape (a/n: hehehe…sorry…got to stop interrupting …oh and no offense to Snape-likers).

When Professor Vacarra was done partnering up everybody, she said "Alright, you can move to next to your partner now."

James was wondering weather he should get up and move next to Lily or wait and let her move to him, when Lily sat down next to him. Evidently, Sirius had no hesitation and moved next to Arabella right away. Anyway, as Lily sat down, she placed her book on the desk and gave James a small smile. Then she flipped to page 315 and start looking at the list of potions. James snapped out of his trance and did the same.

"Erm, which one do you want to do, Lily?" he asked.

"I don't know," she said quietly. "You decide." (a/n: Sounds familiar? She said the same thing when they chose the password. Sorry for interrupting again. Bad habit.)

"Erm, how about this one, the smiling potion?" (a/n: I'm sorry! I know that was SO lame, but since James wanted to see her true smile, I got to have it there somehow, right?)

"Sure," Lily said.

"Alright, they only have limited information in the book, and since we got to do research, why don't we meet in the library tonight at 8:00 p.m.? Right after dinner?"

"Okay."

Then they read the stuff about the smiling potion in the books and soon it was time for their next class (Transfiguration). The day went by really fast. Soon, all the classes were over and they had a couple of hours before dinner. The Marauders decided to visit Hagrid. They had some tea with him (the rock cakes laid untouched) and talked about their summers.

Meanwhile, Lily and Arabella were in their room doing a bit of homework. Suddenly, Bella asked, "So what potion are you and James doing? Sirius and I are making the burping potion. Sirius reckons it's going to be funny. I couldn't agree more."

Lily shook her head and smiled her beautiful true smile. Only Sirius and Bella would do a burping potion for a project. "James and I are doing the smiling potion."

"Ooh…Hey, look it's dinner time. Let's go." And together they head down to the Great Hall. Dinner went by fast. Soon it was over and time for Lily to meet James in the library. Lily loved the library. She often goes there when she wants peace and quiet or would just like to relax and read. Anyway, she arrived there promptly at 8:00, expecting to set things up while waiting for James, but when she got there, she surprisingly found James sitting there waiting for her at a table.

"Hi, Lily," he said.

"Hi," she replied quietly.

"Erm, let's get started." And with that, they spilt up and search the library. Lily, knowing where everything is, returned about 15 minutes later with 5 books that could be useful. James, however, being a Marauder and had hardly ever entered the library before and didn't know where anything was, returned only two books. They sat down together at the table and opened up the books. Then they took out parchments and quills and start taking notes in silence, only speaking when they needed to ask the other if the information was needed.

"Do we need to know who first created it?" James asked.

"Erm, I don't know. Why don't you just copy it down? Just in case."

"All right."

The night was over before James realized it. *Why so fast?* he thought. James had wanted to spend more time with Lily. Even though they didn't speak much, James felt really comfortable being with and talking to her. Little did he know, Lily was beginning to feel the same way…

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A/N: How was that? Sorry for all the interruptions, okay? I can't help myself sometimes though. A lot of you guys have been asking for more, and I really and sincerely want to, but I have tons of homework to do. I tried to update everyday though, and I have been. But incase I don't, please understand that I had tried. By the way, I want to add a bit to my readers here (especially snowflake) that I'm sorry if I made any grammar or spelling mistakes, okay? Until next time (hopefully tomorrow) please review!