Lily removed her glasses and rubbed tiredly at her eyes. Glancing up at the
clock on the wall, she noted it was 1 in the morning. Victoria was sleeping
up in their dorm; she hadn't left the room since early evening, missing
dinner entirely.
Things with James had become even more uncomfortable. 'Fancy telling the boy you're not interested.' A voice scolded from the back of her mind.
'Well, I'm not.'
'Which is you tried to seduce him last week. What's his worst habit?'
'He bites his nails. One nail. The thumb on his right hand.' Lily's eyes opened wide, she groaned and put her head in her hands.
'You know, you're right. You're not interested in him, you love him.'
"I DO NOT!" this last was yelled to the empty common room.
"You don't what?" Lily swiveled around in her chair. Sirius was standing at the bottom of the stairs. He was dressed in a white tank top and a pair of black boxers, sporting the phrase 'Kiss me, I'm Scottish' all over them.
"Hey, Sirius. What are you doing up at 1 in the morning?"
"Could asked you the same thing." He answered, running a hand though his black locks.
"I'm just thinking about stuff, ya know?"
"'Bout Brian?"
"Who? Oh, yeah, Brian." Lily sighed as twisted a curl around one finger.
"What'd mean 'who?' He's your boyfriend for God's sake." Sirius was watching her with new interest, and a sort of confused expression on his face.
"Did you guys pick the new players for the team?"
"Is that what's bothering you?" Sirius asked with a laugh and a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah," Lily lied quickly. 'No, Sirius, its not. I've just discovered I've got a thing for your best friend. Ya know, the guy I am should hate, the one who happens to be good friends with my boyfriend.' Yeah, Lily thought, that would go down real well.
"No worries." Sirius told her, grinning broadly. "I've not seen someone do a dive like that in a long time, so I'd have to say Vikki's most likely gonna make the team." Lily let out a sigh, that might not be what was bothering her, but it did help to know that. "Hey, Remus seemed kinda happy 'bout something at dinner, and I saw Vics leaving our dorm, any idea what's going on between those two?"
Lily perked up. "No, I didn't notice anything."
"Maybe it's just me then." Sirius answered with a shrug. He yawned, "you know what? I think I'm kind of tired, I'm going to bed. Good night, Lily." He turned and trudged back up from whence he came.
Although it had been nice talking to Sirius, it didn't solve her problem. And Lily was left sitting up thinking far into the night.
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James rolled over, trying to block the stream of sunlight coming in the window and into his four poster. He sat up; an image of Lily waking him up flashed into his mind. Although she hadn't been in the best mood, and hadn't woken him up in the best way, she had looked beautiful.
Red gold curls falling around her face, green eyes bright, lips pink and full. James groaned. He really didn't need those thoughts so early in the morning. A loud snore punctuated his thoughts and James pulled back his curtain. Sirius was lying half on - half off his bed, snoring loudly.
James sprang up, he need to see her, couldn't wait till breakfast. He wanted to know what she looked like when she slept, wanted to know how she looked when she first woke up.
Rummaging thought his trunk; James pulled out his invisibility cloak. Leaving the room, James rushed down the stairs, the common room was empty. He hurried up the stairs to the girl's dorm.
"Why does her room have to be at the very top?" he muttered on his way up. Opening the door slowly, he glanced inside, both sets on curtains were wide open. A tangle of red hair fell over the side of the bed on the right. Entering the room, James made his way toward the bed. A large gray, white and black cat was sleeping on the end of the bed, watching him with large yellow eyes.
James' breath caught in his throat. Lily was lying with one arm under her head; the sheets were bunched up around her feet. A purple silk nightdress was bunched around her upper thighs, exposing creamy skin. James reached over and ran his fingers across her upper arm, enjoying the feel of her soft skin.
Pink lips were slightly parted and James couldn't stand it. He sat on the side of the bed and leaned down, kissing her gently. Complete bliss.
'What the hell am I doing?' James mind was ringing. 'She has a boyfriend, one of my friends!'
'Since when do you care?' Lily made a noise in her sleep, something like a moan. James blushed. Cold Shower was in order when he got back to the dorm. In the other bed, Victoria stirred slight and rolled out of bed with a loud clunk; Lily sat up, startled. James fell back, trying to get off the bed, he landed, much like Victoria, with a loud bang. Luckily for him both girls were to tired and disoriented to really notice.
"What's going on?" Lily looked over at her sister who was sitting on the floor rubbing her behind.
"I think I fell." Victoria answered, looking confused. James looked over at Lily, when she was sitting up he noticed that her night dress was rather low cut, exposing the top of her breasts. James gulped and got up quietly and made his way to the door. He bolted down the stairs and up to his dorm.
He pulled off the cloak, tossed it on to his trunk and James ducked into the bathroom. Remus stood by his bed, a towel wrapped around his waist, damp hair falling into his face.
"What's with him?" Remus asked, glancing over at Sirius, who was sorting thought his trunk, trying to find clean clothes.
"I HAD SHOWER NEXT! DAMN IT, POTTER!" Sirius yelled. "I hate it when he does that." Sirius muttered to himself, pushing clothes aside.
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Lily groaned, a rather rude awakening by her sister after only 4 hours of sleep had made her irate. She glanced down at her bacon and eggs and groaned again. Lily really didn't have the energy to eat. Damn Potter, keeping her up.
Speak of the Devil, said young man had just seated himself a few seats away. Sirius was sitting across from him, Remus was next to him and Peter appeared absent.
"OY! DAVIS!" James called down the table.
"Yeah?" Victoria looked up, careful to keep her eyes on either James or Sirius. She couldn't look at Remus right now, not after what had happened last night.
"Just wanted to let you know you made the team." Victoria perked up; a wide smiled covered her face. Lily glanced over at Remus and bit her lip to keep from laughing. The boy was putting his fork onto his plate and into this mouth repeatedly. Unfortunately for him that space on his plate had been devoid of food for a few minutes. He appeared more interested in Victoria, who had moved down the table to talk to Sirius. Lily slid down the bench when Brian joined the group.
A quick good morning kiss and the pair went back to eating, but Brian had situated his arm around Lily's waist. James glowered at the pair and returned his attention to Victoria, Sirius and Remus, who were having an animated discussion about Quidditch.
Lily glanced over at James, drinking in the lines of his face. Black messy hair, beautiful blue eyes, he was taller than she, which was always a plus was, and he was nicely built. He glanced over at her and winked, smiling roguishly at her.
Victoria watched as her sister winked back at James and gave him a rather sexy smile. She shook her head; Lily had a boyfriend, and the last thing she needed to get involved with another guy. These games continued for a few more minutes until Victoria slammed her goblet onto the table. Lily jumped and glanced guiltily at her sister, James appeared confused, but no less guiltily.
"I'm going to class." She growled, grabbing her books and storming out of the Great Hall. Brian glanced up,
"What's with her?" he was totally oblivious to everything that had been going on, being more interested in his breakfast.
"Nothing, I think she got up too early." Lily leaned over and kissed her boyfriend's cheek. She grabbed her books and raced out of the hall after her sister. She found Victoria half way to the Charms classroom.
"HEY! Wait up!" Lily called to her sister, making sure her books stayed in her bag. The brunette spun around.
"What was that all about?" she demanded, "What were you doing with James? You have a flipping boyfriend!"
"Yeah, I know." Lily answered, twisting a curl around her finger and keep her eyes level with her sister. "But Brian, he just... Brian. But James, he's daring, spontaneous, funny, he's everything that girls like." Victoria's eye widened.
"How did I not know about this?"
"Don't take it personally," Lily told her sister hurriedly, "I only just figured out about it last night." Lily's face suddenly broke into a wide grin. "What about you and Remus? I heard from a little bird you two were alone in the boy's dorm. He sure seemed happy last night." Lily wiggled her eyebrows suggestively and Victoria flushed.
"Nothing happened, I promise." Lily raised an eyebrow, looking skeptical. "Really!" Victoria waved her hands to emphasize her point.
"So you like him?"
"Yeah." Lily squealed with delight.
"We can double date!" Victoria brought a hand down to cover her sister's mouth.
"Be quite." She hissed. "We'll talk about this later." Victoria was looking down the hall; she removed her hand and stepped back as the Marauders came down the hall with Brian. Remus stopped to talk to Victoria and Lily gave her a rather hard, yet unnoticed, shove. The brunette fell directly into Remus, the werewolf grabbed onto her, to keep from falling. Both her hands were on his chest, one of his was gripping her upper arm, while the other was on her back.
Victoria gulped, damn his eyes.
"Man," Sirius commented, "you could cut the sexual tension in here with a knife." The pair blushed and jumped apart; almost like they had been burned. Victoria glared at her sister. Remus was simply watching her, drinking in every line of her face and body. She glanced back at him, and blushed under his gaze.
Today was going to be a long day. Thank you so much sister dear.
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Thanks very much to everyone who reviewed; it was quite over whelming. I posted a chapter around one in the morning, and when I check back later, I have over 16 reviews. WOW!
Anywho, guys, you can flame if you want, but I'd rather not have any rude language. It's not classy, and it puts people off writing.
All right then. I haven't even started the next chapter. I hope to have it posted before Friday. I'd like to get ideas from readers. Authors of the best two ideas will be entered into an upcoming chapter (even if the idea isn't used).
Ideas can be posted; I'll let people know if they get it. I'll contract you for character name and description.
Also note, nothing has been edited by my beta reader. She's a wonderful person, just a little slow on the editing. I told her she had eight chapters to edit and her eyes bugged out (best friend, she wanted the job. not idea why). Rather an amusing site. Plus, she owes me; I teach her lots of fun English swear words. I'm British you know, well, I have duel citizenship. never mind, I'm babbling.
I'm asking for 30 reviews. Its only 11 more and it should give me some time to write.
Tata - Lady Starlight
Things with James had become even more uncomfortable. 'Fancy telling the boy you're not interested.' A voice scolded from the back of her mind.
'Well, I'm not.'
'Which is you tried to seduce him last week. What's his worst habit?'
'He bites his nails. One nail. The thumb on his right hand.' Lily's eyes opened wide, she groaned and put her head in her hands.
'You know, you're right. You're not interested in him, you love him.'
"I DO NOT!" this last was yelled to the empty common room.
"You don't what?" Lily swiveled around in her chair. Sirius was standing at the bottom of the stairs. He was dressed in a white tank top and a pair of black boxers, sporting the phrase 'Kiss me, I'm Scottish' all over them.
"Hey, Sirius. What are you doing up at 1 in the morning?"
"Could asked you the same thing." He answered, running a hand though his black locks.
"I'm just thinking about stuff, ya know?"
"'Bout Brian?"
"Who? Oh, yeah, Brian." Lily sighed as twisted a curl around one finger.
"What'd mean 'who?' He's your boyfriend for God's sake." Sirius was watching her with new interest, and a sort of confused expression on his face.
"Did you guys pick the new players for the team?"
"Is that what's bothering you?" Sirius asked with a laugh and a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah," Lily lied quickly. 'No, Sirius, its not. I've just discovered I've got a thing for your best friend. Ya know, the guy I am should hate, the one who happens to be good friends with my boyfriend.' Yeah, Lily thought, that would go down real well.
"No worries." Sirius told her, grinning broadly. "I've not seen someone do a dive like that in a long time, so I'd have to say Vikki's most likely gonna make the team." Lily let out a sigh, that might not be what was bothering her, but it did help to know that. "Hey, Remus seemed kinda happy 'bout something at dinner, and I saw Vics leaving our dorm, any idea what's going on between those two?"
Lily perked up. "No, I didn't notice anything."
"Maybe it's just me then." Sirius answered with a shrug. He yawned, "you know what? I think I'm kind of tired, I'm going to bed. Good night, Lily." He turned and trudged back up from whence he came.
Although it had been nice talking to Sirius, it didn't solve her problem. And Lily was left sitting up thinking far into the night.
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James rolled over, trying to block the stream of sunlight coming in the window and into his four poster. He sat up; an image of Lily waking him up flashed into his mind. Although she hadn't been in the best mood, and hadn't woken him up in the best way, she had looked beautiful.
Red gold curls falling around her face, green eyes bright, lips pink and full. James groaned. He really didn't need those thoughts so early in the morning. A loud snore punctuated his thoughts and James pulled back his curtain. Sirius was lying half on - half off his bed, snoring loudly.
James sprang up, he need to see her, couldn't wait till breakfast. He wanted to know what she looked like when she slept, wanted to know how she looked when she first woke up.
Rummaging thought his trunk; James pulled out his invisibility cloak. Leaving the room, James rushed down the stairs, the common room was empty. He hurried up the stairs to the girl's dorm.
"Why does her room have to be at the very top?" he muttered on his way up. Opening the door slowly, he glanced inside, both sets on curtains were wide open. A tangle of red hair fell over the side of the bed on the right. Entering the room, James made his way toward the bed. A large gray, white and black cat was sleeping on the end of the bed, watching him with large yellow eyes.
James' breath caught in his throat. Lily was lying with one arm under her head; the sheets were bunched up around her feet. A purple silk nightdress was bunched around her upper thighs, exposing creamy skin. James reached over and ran his fingers across her upper arm, enjoying the feel of her soft skin.
Pink lips were slightly parted and James couldn't stand it. He sat on the side of the bed and leaned down, kissing her gently. Complete bliss.
'What the hell am I doing?' James mind was ringing. 'She has a boyfriend, one of my friends!'
'Since when do you care?' Lily made a noise in her sleep, something like a moan. James blushed. Cold Shower was in order when he got back to the dorm. In the other bed, Victoria stirred slight and rolled out of bed with a loud clunk; Lily sat up, startled. James fell back, trying to get off the bed, he landed, much like Victoria, with a loud bang. Luckily for him both girls were to tired and disoriented to really notice.
"What's going on?" Lily looked over at her sister who was sitting on the floor rubbing her behind.
"I think I fell." Victoria answered, looking confused. James looked over at Lily, when she was sitting up he noticed that her night dress was rather low cut, exposing the top of her breasts. James gulped and got up quietly and made his way to the door. He bolted down the stairs and up to his dorm.
He pulled off the cloak, tossed it on to his trunk and James ducked into the bathroom. Remus stood by his bed, a towel wrapped around his waist, damp hair falling into his face.
"What's with him?" Remus asked, glancing over at Sirius, who was sorting thought his trunk, trying to find clean clothes.
"I HAD SHOWER NEXT! DAMN IT, POTTER!" Sirius yelled. "I hate it when he does that." Sirius muttered to himself, pushing clothes aside.
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Lily groaned, a rather rude awakening by her sister after only 4 hours of sleep had made her irate. She glanced down at her bacon and eggs and groaned again. Lily really didn't have the energy to eat. Damn Potter, keeping her up.
Speak of the Devil, said young man had just seated himself a few seats away. Sirius was sitting across from him, Remus was next to him and Peter appeared absent.
"OY! DAVIS!" James called down the table.
"Yeah?" Victoria looked up, careful to keep her eyes on either James or Sirius. She couldn't look at Remus right now, not after what had happened last night.
"Just wanted to let you know you made the team." Victoria perked up; a wide smiled covered her face. Lily glanced over at Remus and bit her lip to keep from laughing. The boy was putting his fork onto his plate and into this mouth repeatedly. Unfortunately for him that space on his plate had been devoid of food for a few minutes. He appeared more interested in Victoria, who had moved down the table to talk to Sirius. Lily slid down the bench when Brian joined the group.
A quick good morning kiss and the pair went back to eating, but Brian had situated his arm around Lily's waist. James glowered at the pair and returned his attention to Victoria, Sirius and Remus, who were having an animated discussion about Quidditch.
Lily glanced over at James, drinking in the lines of his face. Black messy hair, beautiful blue eyes, he was taller than she, which was always a plus was, and he was nicely built. He glanced over at her and winked, smiling roguishly at her.
Victoria watched as her sister winked back at James and gave him a rather sexy smile. She shook her head; Lily had a boyfriend, and the last thing she needed to get involved with another guy. These games continued for a few more minutes until Victoria slammed her goblet onto the table. Lily jumped and glanced guiltily at her sister, James appeared confused, but no less guiltily.
"I'm going to class." She growled, grabbing her books and storming out of the Great Hall. Brian glanced up,
"What's with her?" he was totally oblivious to everything that had been going on, being more interested in his breakfast.
"Nothing, I think she got up too early." Lily leaned over and kissed her boyfriend's cheek. She grabbed her books and raced out of the hall after her sister. She found Victoria half way to the Charms classroom.
"HEY! Wait up!" Lily called to her sister, making sure her books stayed in her bag. The brunette spun around.
"What was that all about?" she demanded, "What were you doing with James? You have a flipping boyfriend!"
"Yeah, I know." Lily answered, twisting a curl around her finger and keep her eyes level with her sister. "But Brian, he just... Brian. But James, he's daring, spontaneous, funny, he's everything that girls like." Victoria's eye widened.
"How did I not know about this?"
"Don't take it personally," Lily told her sister hurriedly, "I only just figured out about it last night." Lily's face suddenly broke into a wide grin. "What about you and Remus? I heard from a little bird you two were alone in the boy's dorm. He sure seemed happy last night." Lily wiggled her eyebrows suggestively and Victoria flushed.
"Nothing happened, I promise." Lily raised an eyebrow, looking skeptical. "Really!" Victoria waved her hands to emphasize her point.
"So you like him?"
"Yeah." Lily squealed with delight.
"We can double date!" Victoria brought a hand down to cover her sister's mouth.
"Be quite." She hissed. "We'll talk about this later." Victoria was looking down the hall; she removed her hand and stepped back as the Marauders came down the hall with Brian. Remus stopped to talk to Victoria and Lily gave her a rather hard, yet unnoticed, shove. The brunette fell directly into Remus, the werewolf grabbed onto her, to keep from falling. Both her hands were on his chest, one of his was gripping her upper arm, while the other was on her back.
Victoria gulped, damn his eyes.
"Man," Sirius commented, "you could cut the sexual tension in here with a knife." The pair blushed and jumped apart; almost like they had been burned. Victoria glared at her sister. Remus was simply watching her, drinking in every line of her face and body. She glanced back at him, and blushed under his gaze.
Today was going to be a long day. Thank you so much sister dear.
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Thanks very much to everyone who reviewed; it was quite over whelming. I posted a chapter around one in the morning, and when I check back later, I have over 16 reviews. WOW!
Anywho, guys, you can flame if you want, but I'd rather not have any rude language. It's not classy, and it puts people off writing.
All right then. I haven't even started the next chapter. I hope to have it posted before Friday. I'd like to get ideas from readers. Authors of the best two ideas will be entered into an upcoming chapter (even if the idea isn't used).
Ideas can be posted; I'll let people know if they get it. I'll contract you for character name and description.
Also note, nothing has been edited by my beta reader. She's a wonderful person, just a little slow on the editing. I told her she had eight chapters to edit and her eyes bugged out (best friend, she wanted the job. not idea why). Rather an amusing site. Plus, she owes me; I teach her lots of fun English swear words. I'm British you know, well, I have duel citizenship. never mind, I'm babbling.
I'm asking for 30 reviews. Its only 11 more and it should give me some time to write.
Tata - Lady Starlight
