Chapter 6-Hanging out

            This chapter is dedicated to my friend Norah cause today is her birthday and my little sister, Roxanne, because tomorrow is her birthday! Happy Birthday!

            I sighed as I dropped onto my four-poster. Today was not a great barrel fun. All day, even during dinner, guys and girls were asking me what's going on between Lily and me. I, of course, had no answer to this because there wasn't any certain thing between us, I couldn't say yes because Lily would think she's won me over, and I couldn't say no because I wanted Lily to think I may like her. This is the most complicated non-relationship I've ever been in. I wonder if the same thing happened to Lily, and I wonder how she answered. She could've told everyone I'm madly in love with her for all I know.

"Moony, do you feel like playing a game of chess?" I asked him.

"Err yea, sure. I don't need to work on my unfinished History of Magic Essay that's due tomorrow anyway." he said but got his pieces out all the same. He had his things orderly and found them easily; I eventually found my beneath a mix of my and Sirius's clothes.

"Thanks mate. I really don't feel like going down stairs much." I said, setting up my pieces.

"I get it. How's it going with 'Her'?" he said as we started to play. I knew who 'Her' was.

"I don't know. She's hard to read. Sometimes I think I know exactly how she is, but then she turns around and confuses me."

"Really? She was always pretty straight forward to me."

"I don't know, I think she acts differently around me than other people."

"She was always nice to me, and I mean nice. It was kind of weird, now that I think about it. She never acted anything but cheerily nice."

"I have no clue as to why she isn't like that around me, she's pretty much normal."

"Check. Maybe you're the lucky 1000th customer."  He said and moved in a position to take my king.

"Damn. It's funny how you say 'customer'" (A/N I wonder if anyone is going to get this)

"Hah. I guess that meaning works with her too."

"Oh. Check. I can't believe I didn't see that before."

"Damnit."

"Checkmate." I said a few moves later, winning.

"Good game. I've got to do my essay now, though. I'm not doing the best in that class."

"Of course you're not, you slacker." I joked.

"Me? Have you started yours yet?"

"Not exactly. What was the topic anyway?" I asked and sat down to work.

I finished at 12 and decided to go down to the Common Room. It would pretty much be clear and I'd have a few people to talk to since Remus decided to sleep from pre-transformation fatigue. Sirius was with Jemmina, his new girlfriend. Peter, again, was MIA.  I saw a particular red head on the couch in her pyjamas with a book, but decided on leaving her to it and sat a few chairs away with my own book. It was a new one on Quidditch tactics and I was trying to put together a bunch of new moves to stay undefeated like last year.

I was so absorbed in it I didn't even notice when Lily came and sat next to me until she put her hand in my lap. I certainly noticed that.

"I was wondering what would get your attention. Would you mind terribly to talk to me instead of reading your book?" she asked me. Something in her voice told me she would actually be hurt if I didn't want to talk to her; she didn't seem to want to talk just so I'd pay her attention.

"No, I wouldn't mind, I was hoping to find someone to talk to. I never thought I'd find you here reading."

"I love to read, it's one of my favourite things to do, but most of the time I do it when there aren't many people around. You don't strike me as the reading type, either."

"I must confess I'm not. I'm the quidditch type though; I'm reading this for new strategies." I said, holding up my book. She laughed. It sounded like water trickling down a stream.

"I should have guessed. I usually figure out people correctly."

"Oh, really? What have you figured out about me?" I asked, very curious.

"What would be the fun in telling you?"

"Wouldn't it be more fun to tell me and see my reaction?"

"Hmmm...Nope, not really." 

"Fine, just leave me in suspense forever. Tell me something else then. Something not many people know about you."

"Like what?" she asked. She seemed nervous.

"I don't know; something not many people know but you wouldn't mind me knowing."

"Ok, I absolutely love chocolate frogs. I eat at least two or three packages every day." She said with a laugh.

"You do? I've just gotten a pack I haven't opened yet, I'll get it." I said and ran upstairs to get it. I guess I just wanted to be nice, and I didn't want to eat a whole package by myself, which I knew I would end up doing if I didn't share. When I came back I tossed them to her. She tore them open.

"These are raspberry chocolate." She said simply as she bit into one. I unwrapped one too.

"Oh yea, sorry about that, they're my favourite kind." How can someone not like raspberry chocolate ones? They're only the best tasting food in the Wizarding world.

"You don't understand. I love these! I buy all of them when they're stocked. I guess more came in since I've been there last." She said excitedly.

"Of course they did, the last Hogsmeade weekend was two weeks ago." What did she expect?

"I don't wait for Hogsmeade weekends. How else would I be able to eat that many boxes every day?"

"You sneak out to Hogsmeade?" I asked, shocked.

"Don't say it that way, you do too, Mr. Marauder!" she said as she bit into her 4th frog. Mr. Marauder, I like that.

"Well, yes, but I am a Marauder, not Lily Evans, teacher's pet."

"I resent that, just so you know. You aren't even in any of my classes, how do you know I don't get kicked out half as much as you do?"

"You're a funny girl. You, getting kicked out of a class; that's priceless."

"I could if I wanted to." She said, just like a young child.

"Anyone could if they wanted to, but most people just don't have the guts, including you." I said, challenging her.

"I do so! Just watch! I'll bet you 5 boxes of raspberry chocolate frogs that I can get kicked out of at least two classes tomorrow."

"Fine, 5 boxes." I said and she smiled at me. I knew she could do it, but I wanted her to stop trying to be the perfect little student. I could tell she didn't like being that; she just wanted to please someone.

"So, it's your turn. Tell me something about you that not many people know." she said. What's something about me I could actually tell her? Definitely not any Marauder business, but what else is there? I looked at her, trying to think of something.

"Voldemort is after my family." I said. I don't even know why, it wasn't the sort of thing she was asking about. She was probably thinking how weird it was that I'd told her that. Then I felt her hand grasp mine and I looked at her. Her eyes looked solemn but she looked like she understood.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have told you that..." I started but she interrupted me.

"James, it's ok. You can talk to me about this if you want to." I don't know what it was; if it was her, or her voice, or I was just too tired to realize, but I told her all about it. How I was worried about my family, especially my little sister, and that I didn't even know what he wanted from us. We spent about an hour, just me talking and her listening, until I realized how tired we both were. Our conversation was getting to be fuller of yawns than words.

"C'mon, Lily, time for bed." I said, standing up and pulling her up after me.

"Okay." She yawned, but then sat on the chair and leaned back. "I don't think I can make it upstairs." She said.

I gave a sleepy laugh. "You can't sleep down here, I wouldn't trust everyone."

"No, I'll be fine. You go to bed." She said and lay down again.

"Lily, I'm serious. Somebody would do something to you while you were sleeping."

I waited for an answer but she was already asleep. I couldn't just leave her there.  I swear I only did this from being over tired. I scoped her up into my arms and carried her into her room.

 "Thank you" she mumbled as I pulled the blanket over her. I don't know what possessed me to do it, maybe it was how innocent she looked, but I kissed her on the forehead before walking out the door.

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