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CHAPTER VI

"Lily, wait up" James yelled. He had just seen Lily leave Dani and Sirius.

"Oh, hi James" Lily replied

"How is Sirius? He left the great hall pretty upset"

"He still seemed upset, he and Dani are talking right now. I hope they work it out"

"Yeah, how is Dani?" James asked genuinely concerned

"She's ok I guess" she said unsure

"Hmmm, when they work it out maybe they both will be able to get over"

"Yeah, lets hope"

"So do you have a date for the ball yet?" James asked making conversation

"Nope, I haven't had time to think about it and everyone who has asked me have been idiots, why do all the good ones wait to the last minuet to ask?" Lily replied "What about you?"

"No, not yet, I don't know who I want to ask. I'm a good one, that's why I'm leaving it till the last minuet" James said smugly but laughing or trying to suppress his laughter

"Right... you had best watch out, your head is likely to explode if it gets any bigger" Lily said

"I can't help it, I have every reason to get a big head"

"Don't get to cocky there" Lily said rolling her eyes at him.

He laughed while imitating her with a sigh.

"Give me a piggy back ride please?" Lily asked with puppy dog eyes.

"fine" He said bending down low enough for her to jump on

As Lily jumped on, her broom that she had been holding came around James's shoulder and WHAM into his .ummm. lower region.

"Jesus Christ!" James yelled

"Sorry" Lily said jumping off "are you alright?" She asked earnestly

"Just peachy" He said through gritted teeth. He smiled at her though his face was still twisted with pain.

Lily laughed softly. And after seeing James look at her she immediately tried to hide it. Unsuccessfully.

"Lily" James whined "Its not funny"

"I know sorry," She said helping him up from the ground. Still trying to hold her laughter.

They walked a little way in silence Lily still trying to get a hold of her giggles. She looked up at James just as he looked down at her. When their eyes locked they both burst out into uncontrollable laughter.

"What are we laughing at again?" Lily asked through her giggles

"I have no idea!" James replied with the same amount of difficulty

They walked up to the broom shed still laughing.

They put their brooms in the small room and made their way to the Common Room.

"I am so hungry!" James said yawning

"Me to!" Lily replied "Dinner has already started! Its all your fault we're late!"

"Snot" James said with mock anger (A/N: OMG!! Eric just kissed Brook what was that?? Sorry I'm watching The Bold and the Beautiful while typing!)

Lily snorted "Tis!" She replied in the same manner. She then poked her tongue.

"I just love seeing your tongue!" James said sarcastically

"You love my tongue full stop!" Lily replied

"Riiiiiiight, translation 'I so desperately love it when you kiss me'" James said in a high-pitched voice.

"I kissed you once! And I don't intended on doing it again!" Lily said mater-of-factly.

"Fine I will kiss you!" James said. He promptly bent down to kiss her. His lips brushed against hers then he was leaning into thin air.

"James don't!" Lily said looking down.

"Lily, I'm sorry!" He said

"I have to go" She said and then started to walk off.

"Don't!" James called out to her.

"James, this is stupid! Don't mess with me!" Lily said

"I'm not messing with you! I was just mucking around!" James said "So what? You can kiss me when you want to but I cant kiss you?" James said getting worked up

"So that's all it is? I kiss you so you can kiss me!" Lily asked

"This is making no sense! We are fighting for no reason! I am sorry about that! I didn't think you would feel this strongly about it! I know last time and this time didn't mean anything more than what it was intended"

"And what did we intend?"

"Well nothing. No! I kissed you because I thought there might be something."

"You did?" Lily asked timidly

"As much as I have tried to hide it from you and me I cant! That's what I intended!" (A/N: How corny is this fic?? Shit I am so ashamed!)

"I pulled away because I didn't think you meant anything by it! Ok lets just forget this! We are getting nowhere! Lets just shake hands as friends and pretend this never happened!" Lily said firmly

"Sure whatever!" James said evidently disappointed which Lily either ignored or didn't pick up

"Hexe" James said as they reached the Fat Lady (A/N: Hexe, German word for Witch)

"Well see you later" Lily said. She paused for a second as if to say something but instead shook her head and walked up to her dormitory.

James stood fixed for a moment, revising their little discussion before he to shook his head and went to his dormitory.

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Finally it was the day of the ball and the day of the Quidditch game, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff.

Lily was asked to the ball a few days before. The Hufflepuff Captain Amos Diggory, a very hansom, slightly shallow individual. Lily had graciously accepted, as she knew how furious James would be when he found out. Why she cared what James thought was beyond her, but that was the least of her problems for now.

The ground between Sirius and Dani was very lightly tread by their friends, they were all suffering from the pent up anger/sexual tension they experience around on another.

Lily and James's uneasiness around one another was definitely not helping things either. They rarely spoke and when they did it was swift and to the point. Remus and Mary had, countless times tried to persuade them all to forgive but soon realised that they had to work it out in their own time. And when Lily had decided to stop sitting with them they almost gave up any hope they had for amends.

Dani and Sirius could at least hold a civil and decent conversation and did not intentionally avoid one another. Still things could be worse.

James was feeling very stupid. Not only had he, for the first time ever admitted his feelings to a girl, but he was also for the first time rejected.

Well he was going to the ball with that hot little Ravenclaw girl so things were not that bad, but going with Miss Lily would have been much better and he knew it.

"Lily" James said running up to her.

Lily turned slightly to acknowledge his presence and continued. James taking this as a sign to continue continued.

"Umm, we are meeting in the changing rooms an hour early to go through some of our plays. Could I ask you a favour?" James asked looking hopefully at her

"What is it?" She asked reluctantly

"Go check on Charlie, calm him down a bit. His brother told me he was very nervous and he wont see me, you probably have a better chance"

"Fine, where is he?" She said stopping abruptly causing James to double- back

"In his Dorm, number 4"

Lily immediately took off so as to avoid talking any longer.

She made her way back to the common room

"Charlie, Charlie" Lily called while knocking on the door "can I come in? I want to talk to you" She heard movement from inside. She opened the door to let herself in and saw two guilty faces looking up at her.

"Haha, what have we here?" She asked two slightly red 4th years. One she recognised as Charlie and the other she assumed to be a 4th year girl.

"We were just." Charlie started

"Its ok, I just wanted to see how you were feeling, James said you were a little nervous, I'll leave you two to your business" She went to leave but turned to say something else "James wants us there an hour early, that is if you are not to busy!" She walked out laughing leaving two very bemused 4th years staring after her.

"How did we get out of that?" Charlie asked slightly flustered

"No idea" The girl replied.

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AUTHERS NOTES!!!

Sorry this is so short but I wanted to end it here so I could put the Quidditch Match and The Ball in the same chapter! Review!! I will post the ball/Quidditch match when I get hmmm lots more reviews say 5 but the more the merrier I am! And the more inspired!!

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~Sally

P.S. I have to go back to school! Alas no more hols for me but I will try to update about once a week if I can manage it!