A/n: Okay everyone I am soooo writing again! Yehaw! Well I'll continue then
with chapter twelve. And I will start at the beginning, for the beginning
is a very good place to start…! ~Lilz
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The guys decided to just have a lazy day and relax. They sat by the fire, told jokes, and just had a good time. Then Lily and Bea walked in. The boys went dead quiet.
"Hey." Said James getting up. He had been feeling so cheerful ever since he had his chat with Sirius. He was absolutely beaming at Lily; she didn't think she had ever seen him this way before. She couldn't describe it.
"Hey there…" she said, trying not to sound to confused, but she knew it showed in her face. "What's up?" she asked as she exchanged a puzzled glimpse with Bea. Bea just shrugged and gave her a look that said, what are you looking at me for?
"You…" he said still smiling, with a slightly glazed-over look on his face as he stared at her. She laughed, still looking confused.
"James… what are you up to?" she asked suspiciously.
"Nothing, what are you up to?" he asked in a casual voice, and everyone laughed at the look of exasperation on Lily's face.
"James!"
"Lily!" and again everyone laughed at the look on Lily's face.
"Fine… if you won't tell me but you're on about I'm leaving!" she said, thinking that this had gone far past amusing. Had Sirius talked with him yet?
"No, don't leave!" he said snapping out of it at once. "For you to leave, would be like… for… something bad to happen!" he said frowning, and realizing that probably wasn't the most romantic line in the world. The guys looked at him kind of shocked and then started laughing. Everyone else, including James, started to laugh, and before they knew it everyone was hysterical with laughter and rolling around on the floor or in their seats. All the other students were staring at them, but no one seemed to care about that!
Once they had gotten over James' cheesy line they all got back up and settled into seats. Everyone was glancing at each other, but then Lily remembered what had brought on the line.
"So James what were you on about?" she asked him, wearing a quizzical look. He grinned at her and then decides that maybe telling her would be the best thing.
"Sirius talked to me earlier." He said simply, and Lily's stomach gave a leap.
"So… do you… feel the same way I do?" she asked quietly and fearfully. James grinned once again.
"Yes, but probably a thousand times stronger." He said, and for the first time ever, he actually blushed in front of all his friends, and in fact a good portion of the Gryffindor common room.
"Awwww…" said Lily and Bea in unison, and Lily and James just stared at each other for a little bit. Then Sirius decided to speak up.
"Well what are you guys doing just staring at each other? You are now officially a couple and you better start acting like one!" he said in a severe tone, which made everyone laugh, even Remus.
"Ya, you guys! You don't look any more like a couple then me and Peter!" said Remus laughing. "Well… maybe a little bit more, but not by a hell of a lot!" The group of them laughed even harder and the Lily spoke over the noise of the laughing people.
"Fine! You want couple-like? Come on James, let's show the world how couple- like we are." Said Lily standing up, and grabbing James' hand. "Well let's go! It's almost time for dinner…" everyone looked kind of puzzled, but they realized that Lily, as usual, was right. They marched down, James and Lily hand in hand, to the great hall.
"Look you guys, this is nice, but you were holding hands before you were even together! Lils, what are you on about?" asked be in a disbelieving sort of voice. However, Bea did not get the answer she wanted. Lily merely turned around, gave Bea a mysterious sort of grin, and turned back around.
"I give up with you girl!" she said, throwing her arms in the air, out of frustration. Sirius laughed and put his arm lightly around Bea.
"You're so cute when you're frustrated and on the verge of a mental breakdown…" he said quietly, and Bea laughed.
"Oh shut up!" she says giving him a sideways glance. She really did like Sirius, he was really sweet, but no matter what she did she couldn't stop thinking about Peter. She knew that Lily didn't approve of Peter very much, but she didn't care! She looked up at Sirius, who beamed down at her. Then she looked over at Peter, who just sort of returned her gaze, and finally looked away. She looked at her feet, feeling kind of disappointed. Then she decided that Peter was probably not going to pay her any attention if they were to hook up. He obviously didn't care for like Sirius did, and she couldn't make him lover her. She heaved a sigh, which apparently wasn't just in her mind.
"Something wrong?" asked Sirius quietly. She beamed up at him and shook her head.
"No… everything's perfect."
They entered the great hall, which was slowly filling up with students. Bea, Sirius, Peter and Remus all headed towards the Gryffindor table, but Lily had somewhere else in mind. She was dragging James ("Lily where the hell are you going?") over towards the other tables, and finally past Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw to Slytherin. She walked over to the end of the table where Severus Snape was seated alone. He looked up at her with a delighted expression on his face.
"So… has someone come to give me an apology?" he asked his oily voice. Lily grinned.
"No, someone has come to show you that you should just GIVE UP!" she said and James looked at her, still exceptionally bewildered. She pulled James towards her, and wrapped her arms around his neck. She then stood on her tiptoes and kissed him passionately. When she finally pulled away she simply stood back and watched the aftermath. James was wide-eyed and breathing heavily with a dazed sort of smile on his face.
Snape seemed very keen to smack James, but appeared to have been too shocked to move, so he sat in his seat with a look of horror on his face.
Lily could hear cheering from the Gryffindor table, and ooohs and ahhhs from the other tables, with the exception of Slytherin of course.
She smiled at James who put his arm around Lily's waist. He was still looking kind of stunned but somehow he managed to get out just one threat.
"So stay away from my girl! Because as long as I'm around Lily gets what Lily wants." He said threateningly, and they walked away with their arms around each other.
When they got back to Gryffindor table all of their friends looked at Lily apparently lost for words. Bea mouthed soundlessly like a fish out of water, and Sirius just stared at him with a look of almost jealousy. Remus was looking at James as though to say 'Way to go, mate!' and Peter was wearing an expression most resembling Bea's.
When the friends had finally gotten their words back they were all talking at once, asking Lily and James both masses of questions.
"Lily, what gave you the idea to do that?"
"What was it like, mate?"
"Is she good?"
"D-did you s-s-see Snape's f-f-f-face?"
"STOP IT!" yelled Lily suddenly and then a smile came to her face. "We can't answer you all at once!" she said obviously, and the other four looked at their plates, which had moments ago filled instantly with food, and muttering their apologies.
"But what gave you the idea to do it? I mean, it sure did piss him off, but do you really think this will make his mad obsession end?" asked Bea, staring at her friends, still in a disbelieving sort of way as she spoke. Lily heaved a sigh and shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't think it will end it, but I also don't think he will be publicly addressing my as his darling anymore." She said laughing, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"But Lily… I mean… well… WOW!" said James, also in complete shock, but he could not wipe that silly grin off his face. Lily found this very amusing and she laughed once again.
"Was I that good?" she asked sarcastically, but James nodded keenly.
"Ya, actually, you were." He said, his grin, if possible, getting even bigger. The others looked at each other, not knowing what to say. A kind of silence passed over the group, that wasn't exactly awkward. You could tell everyone was recalling the events of the last few moments. After a few minutes Remus seemed to have discovered there was food on the plates.
"Oh." He said shortly and he pointed at his plate. Lily looked at it and began to laugh.
"That IS what we came here for, isn't it?" she said, kind of surprised how all of them had just completely zoned out. Lily began to slowly eat, and everyone else began to do the same.
After they had finally finished eating, they all headed back to the common room. The entire group walked over to the common room in silence, with people exchanging glances that seemed to keep up a style of silent conversation. When they finally approached the Fat Lady was when the first actual word was spoken.
"Lily, can I talk to you for a sec? Do you think you could give us a minute? Thanks." Said James and he watched the others climb through the portrait hole, and made sure that they were well inside the common room before he started to talk.
"You're amazing…" he said, staring into her sparkling green eyes. Lily softly laughed, but looked up at him looking confused.
"That's really sweet of you, but you didn't have to drag me all the way out here to say that!" she said, still frowning with misunderstanding. He smiled at her, and shook his head.
"I know… but I didn't want to do this," he leant forward and lightly kissed her on the lips, "in front of them."
Lily looked kind of shocked, but she smiled. "Sorry to be rushing things… but is that all? I don't want to leave Bea alone with the guys."
"Aw, don't you trust my friends?" he asked, with a look of false hurt in his eyes. Lily laughed softly again, but James seemed to understand her thoughts.
"Well no, that's not all. I just wanted to know if maybe you would be interested in hanging out with me next Friday night. You know, just us." Lily smiled.
"Ya, I'd love that." She said, and so he nodded.
"Alright then, come on honey, let's rescue poor Bea. I'll bet the guys are bugging her." He said rolling his eyes.
"You never know, with Sirius around he might defend her now. And Remus always defended her. I don't think Peter has any reason to trouble her. But I don't know… just want to get back to her."
"And you'll tell her every word I said." He said grinning as Lily mouthed soundlessly and finally shrugged her shoulders.
"Ya." She said simply and they both laughed. James put his arm around and they laughed together as they gave the Fat Lady the password and entered.
The others all looked up and Lily sat down on Bea's lap.
"Shouldn't that be James instead of Bea?" said Sirius, grinning. Bea and Lily both shot him a dirty look, and Lily turned to Bea.
"You know what? We should have another girl talk." Bea considered the matter for a second or two and then she nodded and grinned.
"See you around guys! We'll be back!"
"Oh, off to talk about us now, eh?" called Remus.
"Yup!" Replied Lily, not looking back as they were dashing up the stairs.
Sirius sighed. "Girls… you gotta love 'em."
The guys nodded, but then Sirius added, "But do they EVER stop giggling?"
A/n: Okay then… that's all for today. But knowing me I'll probably be back on an hour later writing more because one thing or another suddenly inspired me! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and R&R as always! ~Lilz
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The guys decided to just have a lazy day and relax. They sat by the fire, told jokes, and just had a good time. Then Lily and Bea walked in. The boys went dead quiet.
"Hey." Said James getting up. He had been feeling so cheerful ever since he had his chat with Sirius. He was absolutely beaming at Lily; she didn't think she had ever seen him this way before. She couldn't describe it.
"Hey there…" she said, trying not to sound to confused, but she knew it showed in her face. "What's up?" she asked as she exchanged a puzzled glimpse with Bea. Bea just shrugged and gave her a look that said, what are you looking at me for?
"You…" he said still smiling, with a slightly glazed-over look on his face as he stared at her. She laughed, still looking confused.
"James… what are you up to?" she asked suspiciously.
"Nothing, what are you up to?" he asked in a casual voice, and everyone laughed at the look of exasperation on Lily's face.
"James!"
"Lily!" and again everyone laughed at the look on Lily's face.
"Fine… if you won't tell me but you're on about I'm leaving!" she said, thinking that this had gone far past amusing. Had Sirius talked with him yet?
"No, don't leave!" he said snapping out of it at once. "For you to leave, would be like… for… something bad to happen!" he said frowning, and realizing that probably wasn't the most romantic line in the world. The guys looked at him kind of shocked and then started laughing. Everyone else, including James, started to laugh, and before they knew it everyone was hysterical with laughter and rolling around on the floor or in their seats. All the other students were staring at them, but no one seemed to care about that!
Once they had gotten over James' cheesy line they all got back up and settled into seats. Everyone was glancing at each other, but then Lily remembered what had brought on the line.
"So James what were you on about?" she asked him, wearing a quizzical look. He grinned at her and then decides that maybe telling her would be the best thing.
"Sirius talked to me earlier." He said simply, and Lily's stomach gave a leap.
"So… do you… feel the same way I do?" she asked quietly and fearfully. James grinned once again.
"Yes, but probably a thousand times stronger." He said, and for the first time ever, he actually blushed in front of all his friends, and in fact a good portion of the Gryffindor common room.
"Awwww…" said Lily and Bea in unison, and Lily and James just stared at each other for a little bit. Then Sirius decided to speak up.
"Well what are you guys doing just staring at each other? You are now officially a couple and you better start acting like one!" he said in a severe tone, which made everyone laugh, even Remus.
"Ya, you guys! You don't look any more like a couple then me and Peter!" said Remus laughing. "Well… maybe a little bit more, but not by a hell of a lot!" The group of them laughed even harder and the Lily spoke over the noise of the laughing people.
"Fine! You want couple-like? Come on James, let's show the world how couple- like we are." Said Lily standing up, and grabbing James' hand. "Well let's go! It's almost time for dinner…" everyone looked kind of puzzled, but they realized that Lily, as usual, was right. They marched down, James and Lily hand in hand, to the great hall.
"Look you guys, this is nice, but you were holding hands before you were even together! Lils, what are you on about?" asked be in a disbelieving sort of voice. However, Bea did not get the answer she wanted. Lily merely turned around, gave Bea a mysterious sort of grin, and turned back around.
"I give up with you girl!" she said, throwing her arms in the air, out of frustration. Sirius laughed and put his arm lightly around Bea.
"You're so cute when you're frustrated and on the verge of a mental breakdown…" he said quietly, and Bea laughed.
"Oh shut up!" she says giving him a sideways glance. She really did like Sirius, he was really sweet, but no matter what she did she couldn't stop thinking about Peter. She knew that Lily didn't approve of Peter very much, but she didn't care! She looked up at Sirius, who beamed down at her. Then she looked over at Peter, who just sort of returned her gaze, and finally looked away. She looked at her feet, feeling kind of disappointed. Then she decided that Peter was probably not going to pay her any attention if they were to hook up. He obviously didn't care for like Sirius did, and she couldn't make him lover her. She heaved a sigh, which apparently wasn't just in her mind.
"Something wrong?" asked Sirius quietly. She beamed up at him and shook her head.
"No… everything's perfect."
They entered the great hall, which was slowly filling up with students. Bea, Sirius, Peter and Remus all headed towards the Gryffindor table, but Lily had somewhere else in mind. She was dragging James ("Lily where the hell are you going?") over towards the other tables, and finally past Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw to Slytherin. She walked over to the end of the table where Severus Snape was seated alone. He looked up at her with a delighted expression on his face.
"So… has someone come to give me an apology?" he asked his oily voice. Lily grinned.
"No, someone has come to show you that you should just GIVE UP!" she said and James looked at her, still exceptionally bewildered. She pulled James towards her, and wrapped her arms around his neck. She then stood on her tiptoes and kissed him passionately. When she finally pulled away she simply stood back and watched the aftermath. James was wide-eyed and breathing heavily with a dazed sort of smile on his face.
Snape seemed very keen to smack James, but appeared to have been too shocked to move, so he sat in his seat with a look of horror on his face.
Lily could hear cheering from the Gryffindor table, and ooohs and ahhhs from the other tables, with the exception of Slytherin of course.
She smiled at James who put his arm around Lily's waist. He was still looking kind of stunned but somehow he managed to get out just one threat.
"So stay away from my girl! Because as long as I'm around Lily gets what Lily wants." He said threateningly, and they walked away with their arms around each other.
When they got back to Gryffindor table all of their friends looked at Lily apparently lost for words. Bea mouthed soundlessly like a fish out of water, and Sirius just stared at him with a look of almost jealousy. Remus was looking at James as though to say 'Way to go, mate!' and Peter was wearing an expression most resembling Bea's.
When the friends had finally gotten their words back they were all talking at once, asking Lily and James both masses of questions.
"Lily, what gave you the idea to do that?"
"What was it like, mate?"
"Is she good?"
"D-did you s-s-see Snape's f-f-f-face?"
"STOP IT!" yelled Lily suddenly and then a smile came to her face. "We can't answer you all at once!" she said obviously, and the other four looked at their plates, which had moments ago filled instantly with food, and muttering their apologies.
"But what gave you the idea to do it? I mean, it sure did piss him off, but do you really think this will make his mad obsession end?" asked Bea, staring at her friends, still in a disbelieving sort of way as she spoke. Lily heaved a sigh and shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't think it will end it, but I also don't think he will be publicly addressing my as his darling anymore." She said laughing, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"But Lily… I mean… well… WOW!" said James, also in complete shock, but he could not wipe that silly grin off his face. Lily found this very amusing and she laughed once again.
"Was I that good?" she asked sarcastically, but James nodded keenly.
"Ya, actually, you were." He said, his grin, if possible, getting even bigger. The others looked at each other, not knowing what to say. A kind of silence passed over the group, that wasn't exactly awkward. You could tell everyone was recalling the events of the last few moments. After a few minutes Remus seemed to have discovered there was food on the plates.
"Oh." He said shortly and he pointed at his plate. Lily looked at it and began to laugh.
"That IS what we came here for, isn't it?" she said, kind of surprised how all of them had just completely zoned out. Lily began to slowly eat, and everyone else began to do the same.
After they had finally finished eating, they all headed back to the common room. The entire group walked over to the common room in silence, with people exchanging glances that seemed to keep up a style of silent conversation. When they finally approached the Fat Lady was when the first actual word was spoken.
"Lily, can I talk to you for a sec? Do you think you could give us a minute? Thanks." Said James and he watched the others climb through the portrait hole, and made sure that they were well inside the common room before he started to talk.
"You're amazing…" he said, staring into her sparkling green eyes. Lily softly laughed, but looked up at him looking confused.
"That's really sweet of you, but you didn't have to drag me all the way out here to say that!" she said, still frowning with misunderstanding. He smiled at her, and shook his head.
"I know… but I didn't want to do this," he leant forward and lightly kissed her on the lips, "in front of them."
Lily looked kind of shocked, but she smiled. "Sorry to be rushing things… but is that all? I don't want to leave Bea alone with the guys."
"Aw, don't you trust my friends?" he asked, with a look of false hurt in his eyes. Lily laughed softly again, but James seemed to understand her thoughts.
"Well no, that's not all. I just wanted to know if maybe you would be interested in hanging out with me next Friday night. You know, just us." Lily smiled.
"Ya, I'd love that." She said, and so he nodded.
"Alright then, come on honey, let's rescue poor Bea. I'll bet the guys are bugging her." He said rolling his eyes.
"You never know, with Sirius around he might defend her now. And Remus always defended her. I don't think Peter has any reason to trouble her. But I don't know… just want to get back to her."
"And you'll tell her every word I said." He said grinning as Lily mouthed soundlessly and finally shrugged her shoulders.
"Ya." She said simply and they both laughed. James put his arm around and they laughed together as they gave the Fat Lady the password and entered.
The others all looked up and Lily sat down on Bea's lap.
"Shouldn't that be James instead of Bea?" said Sirius, grinning. Bea and Lily both shot him a dirty look, and Lily turned to Bea.
"You know what? We should have another girl talk." Bea considered the matter for a second or two and then she nodded and grinned.
"See you around guys! We'll be back!"
"Oh, off to talk about us now, eh?" called Remus.
"Yup!" Replied Lily, not looking back as they were dashing up the stairs.
Sirius sighed. "Girls… you gotta love 'em."
The guys nodded, but then Sirius added, "But do they EVER stop giggling?"
A/n: Okay then… that's all for today. But knowing me I'll probably be back on an hour later writing more because one thing or another suddenly inspired me! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and R&R as always! ~Lilz