Lily walked into the common room that night shortly after James. He was talking to Remus and Sirius and Peter were playing chess. She ignored the smile that James had given her and glared at him instead. What are you doing Lily? Are you completely psycho?? Why are you glaring at him? He's so… Lily thought, then stopped herself at that last part. She shook her head and went up to her dorm.
She crossed the room to her bed and sat down. She was just reaching into the pocket of her robes when Andrea came out of the bathroom with her toothbrush still in hand. "Hey Lils, how was detention with the object of your affection?" she asked with a wide grin.
"What? Potter's not the object of my affection! What are you crazy?" this might have convinced her friend, if only she hadn't blushed.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," Andrea said, walking back into the bathroom to put her toothbrush down. When she returned, Lily had fished the parchment out of her deep pockets and was just opening it. "What's that?"
"Hell if I know," was Lily's answer. She finally had it unfolded the whole way. Andrea sat down behind her, reading over her shoulder.
Lily,
About what I said in the hall today. I really meant that I am changing for you. I realize that you hate everything about me and everything that I am but I'm willing to change all of that for you
Padfoot what are you doing?!
Relax Prongs, It's only a note. It's not like it's a...death threat or anything.
You know, Padfoot, I don't like the look in your eye, and judging by the color Prongs is, I don't think he does either.
You guys are no fun…I wasn't going to do anything too permanent.
Some how, I don't believe you Padfoot…
Tehehe
Wow, that was incredibly girly, Padfootetta,Ohh good one Wormtail.
Well, considering we just wrote all this shit on here, I don't think Prongs is going to give this note to her?
Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony that Mr. Prongs is indeed *not* going to give this masterpiece of Sirius' to Miss. Lily
Lily glanced back at Andrea who was just as shocked as she was. "Well…" she said, her voice trembling slightly. "That was… Different,"
James was sitting in the common room talking with Remus about the next full moon when Lily walked into the common room. He gave her a small smile, he wasn't completely shocked when all he received was a glare.
Shortly after that James went up to the seventh year boys' dorm. He lay back on his bed and stared at the ceiling. You're crazy to even try this you know. a little voice in his head said. She'll never like you, let alone love you. You don't have the slightest chance with Lily Evans. You're better of f with girls like Rebecca Stone. the little voice taunted some more. This was the last thought he had before he drifted off into sleep.
The next day, James noticed Lily giving him strange looks every so often. He wasn't sure what to think. Either Sirius told her something, or she actually liked him, or maybe she was a seer and knew things like that…No James don't be stupid. She's not a seer…She's not even in divination was she?
He decided that he would just ignore the fact that she was watching him. Every time he caught her looking at him he would give her a questioning look, but she would just smirk, roll her eyes and look away. Girls are crazy Prongs. he told himself that night on his way to detention.
When he arrived in the library, he saw Lily sitting at a back table waiting patently for him. As he grew nearer to her, he could see that she had that same smirk on her face that she had all day when she saw him.
He reached his hands into his pockets in an attempt to look nonchalant. He might have succeeded if he hadn't let out a small scream. He looked down at his empty hand in horror. Oh my god the note is gone. WHERE IS THE NOTE?! he screamed at himself inside his head. (Did that make any sense?)
"Hello, Potter," she said, her eyes were laughing; laughing at him. She has the note. Oh god, She has it, he thought franticly. His worst fears were confirmed when she started to speak again. "I got your note yesterday. Very entertaining I must say," she said.
Just play dumb James, just play dumb. "What note?" he asked, trying to look confused, but failing miserably. Shit shit shit! she was reaching into the pocket of her robes, producing a neatly folded piece of parchment from within the plain black fabric. She tossed it to him. He immediately recognized it as the note that Sirius had wrote for him to give to her. He hadn't even bothered to read it before, but now he figured he'd find out what was so funny.
He unfolded the note, and read the contents. He began laughing nervously "Oh thank god, it's only this note…"
"Why what was another note?" she asked, now very curious.
"heh heh, that's a funny story really…" he said not really knowing what to tell her. "We have a lot of planning to do," he said sitting down far away from her at the table.
The rest of the hour and a half detention was spent in an awkward silence that neither could break. James tired to talk every once in a while, but his throat was too dry to even breath, let alone talk to her. He didn't get much work done by the time that the hour was up. In fact he hadn't even filled out one order form completely.
Lily hadn't gotten much done either, she kept thinking about the note, and how James had changed the subject so quickly. She began to feel guilty for thinking that it was funny. What are you doing Lily? Are you completely nuts? the voice in the back of her mind asked as she stared at James who had his head bent over the form we was filling out for the decorations.Ugh, don't be so stupid, I was just staring off into space, not at him, she told herself. And besides, he doesn't like you, that note's proof of it.
The walk back to the Gryffindor Common Room was silent and strained as well until James glanced at Lily and started laughing. She looked at him suspiciously, and then checked to make sure she still had all her limbs, and everything was the right color with no patterns. "What's so funny?"
"Sirius must've cursed the note." He said between small laughing fits. "You're hair, its, its," Lily never found out just what her hair was because they got to the common room, and James ran off yelling 'Padfoot I'm going to kill you,"
Lily noticed the whole common room staring at her, so she glared at them all and walked up the stairs to the dorm. When she got there, Andrea was sitting on her bed, doing a potions essay. She glanced up to say hi to her best friend, and then she too started laughing.
What is going on?" Lily asked, hoping her best friend would tell her. Andrea sighed and pointed to a mirror. Lily walked cautiously over to the mirror, but she saw nothing wrong. Nothing different, her hair was just as it had been when she left for detention.
"Come on Andie, just tell me will ya? I don't see anything," She sat on the end of Andrea's bed, and gave her a puppy dog face. "Please?"
"Oh alright, but only because you look so pathetic, and really quite scary." She said, Lily glared at her and told her to hurry up and tell her. "Lily dear, you're…bald,"
Lily got up and walked over to the mirror, and sure enough there wasn't a hair on her head. The last sound that many heard before they went to sleep was the voice of Lily Evans, "James Potter I'm going to KILL YOU!"
a/n: Well, there's chapter three. I never knew so many people would like this story, but hey, I'm not complaining!
Thanks to: freakyfroggurl22, Marie, clueless, and Ron Weasley. Thanks for the great reviews! They make me feel all nice and happy! Lol
Sorry this is kind of short, I'll try to make the next chapter longer.
-Manda
