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Chapter 4
Lily couldn't explain the thoughts running through her head. However, it did seem like the majority of them wanted her to kiss James. She couldn't fathom that. Although, at the moment, the idea of kissing James again didn't seem all that repulsive. She was still trapped in his eyes. She couldn't even blink. He was moving in, still looking into her eyes, still holding her under his spell. She couldn't let him kiss her again, wanted him to kiss her, hated him, liked him; it was all so confusing! His eyes were closing slightly, she could feel herself leaning in too. Her eyelids were starting to close as well. She couldn't let it happen again, but she wanted it so much! Using up all her effort, she pushed away from him just as their lips touched. "NO!" she yelled with all her might. He was standing there looking hurt and possibly, sad? "Get away from me!!" she yelled, turning on her heel and fleeing.
James stood there for several seconds after Lily had disappeared. Well, that went smashingly, he thought to himself wryly. He didn't understand what she had against him. All he knew was that she was gorgeous, fiery, and had an entirely irritating way of getting under his skin and making him do things he didn't want to do in the first place, like kissing her. He ran a hand through his hair. She was just scared. That was it. She was scared of getting into a relationship, especially with someone like him. He momentarily regretted all the girls he had had flings with in the past. No, wait, that couldn't be it. She was 'with' Adrian, even if that wasn't going to last. He sighed. He'd get Lily Evans if it was the last thing he did. For now, it was time to consult with the Marauders. After he went to Arithmancy, that is.
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Lily didn't know why she had broken away from James, just that she needed to get away from there as quickly as humanly possible. She didn't like the feelings that arose in her when he was around. It freaked her out to no end. She was clearly disconcerted. She needed to talk to someone, to rant wildly. She had to find Jessie. Jessie was the best listener, plus she always had chocolate. Feeling slightly comforted, Lily quickened her pace a bit. She walked around the corner and smack into a guy. Praying like crazy that the guy wasn't James, she looked up. "Adrian!" she cried, visibly relieved.
"Hey, Lily." he said, smiling at her.
"What's up?" she asked, falling into step with him.
"Nothing really. Have you had any run-ins with the all-terrible James Potter?" he teased lightly.
She didn't know why, but she wanted to tell him everything that'd happened with James recently. She quickly squashed the urge as it's not the best idea in the world to tell your potential boyfriend that you've been kissed by the guy you hate and that you're not sure if you hate him anymore. "Not really." she lied. "What about you?"
He laughed, remembering their earlier conversation. "Nah. Where are you headed?"
"Oh, um..." she trailed off. She didn't have the slightest idea where she was going. Damn James! Suddenly she remembered. "Oh! Herbology! Oh shit, I'm late! I've gotta go, I'll see you later."
Adrian looked slightly bewildered by her abrupt exit, but nodded amiably. "Sure, Lily. See ya." He ducked his head a bit and kissed her on the cheek before she ran off down the hall, her dark red hair streaming behind her.
Lily sprinted out the front doors and across the lawn til she reached Greenhouse Four. "Sorry I'm late, Professor Sprout." she said breathlessly.
"Grab an Atomic Dogweed." Professor Sprout said distractedly; a Bug-Eating Viper plant had mistaken a mole on her neck for a bug and she was attempting to dissuade it. "They're over on the table there."
Feeling incredibly lucky that she hadn't gotten into trouble, Lily did as she was told, squeezing into a seat between Jessie and Madeline.
"Where were you?" hissed Jessie.
"Yeah, we were worried-ish." whispered Madeline.
"It's a long story..." Lily responded quietly.
"We've got time." commented Jessie. "Sprout's letting us talk while we do something to these plants. What were we supposed to do, Maddy?"
"Erm, I think we're supposed to be feeding them this fertilizer."
Lily lifted up the bag. "'Napalm for Atomic Dogweeds ONLY'" she read off the label. "We're feeding these things NAPALM?!"
Madeline raised her eyebrows. "I guess that's why we have these fire-proof gloves." she said, throwing a pair to Jessie and passing another to Lily as she put hers on.
Lily opened the bag and peered into it. "It, ah, doesn't look that bad." she said hesitantly.
"Nah," said Jessie sarcastically. "Just a whole lot of fiery coal-like things that break when you touch them, exposing their flaming insides." She had just broken one open and was trying to extinguish the flames that had caught on her gloves.
"Miss Bailey! Did I not tell you to use the tongs when removing the Napalm Fertilizer from the bags?" Professor Sprout's voice froze Jessie mid-breath.
"Er.."
"Use the tongs, Miss Bailey."
"Yes, Professor."
Jessie rolled her eyes and picked up the tongs. "Anyway, Lils, why were you late?"
"Well, it started with James."
"Why am I not surprised?" asked Madeline, smiling. "But if it's his fault, why aren't you in a worse mood?"
"Adrian." said Jessie knowledgably.
Lily blushed. "Yeah. James caught up with me in the hall after I left you guys to get here and I think he was trying to apologize for what happened the other night, but—"
"Wait, slow down!" Madeline exclaimed. "What happened the other night?"
"Think really hard, Maddy." Jessie said, making kissy lips.
They watched as realization quickly dawned on Madeline's face. "Oh! He—oh my god, Lily, why didn't you tell me!? Never mind, carry on."
"Anyway, I think I made things about fifty thousand times worse by yelling at him and then," she blushed again, remembering. "I told him he wasn't that great a kisser anyway."
"Lily!" cried Madeline
"You didn't!" Jessie put her face in her hands.
"I did." Lily affirmed. "Then he said that I shouldn't tell a man, since when is he a man anyway?, that he's a bad kisser because it makes him want to try again...." she trailed off.
"Oh, man, Lily." Jessie was tugging at her hair.
Madeline dropped the bit of Napalm Fertilizer she was holding. "He kissed you again didn't he?!"
"Tried to." Lily amended. "I freaked the second his lips touched mine and told him to get away from me. Then I ran."
"Liiiiiiily!" moaned Madeline, while stamping out the flames that her Napalm Fertilizer had started.
"You're not a subtle person, Lily." Jessie said dryly.
Lily gave a half grin. "I didn't have time for subtle. I went around the corner and Adrian was there. We talked for a bit and then I realized I was late and he kissed me on the cheek and I ran here." Lily smiled, lightly touching the spot where Adrian had kissed her.
Madeline and Jessie exchanged looks. "Lily?" Jessie said hesitantly.
"Yess?" Lily asked dreamily.
"Er, we heard something about Adrian..." Madeline trailed off.
That got Lily's attention. "What about Adrian?" she asked.
"Well," Jessie screwed up her courage and spit it out. "He's gay."
"Or so we've been told." Madeline put in quickly.
"How the hell can he be gay?!" asked Lily, thunderstruck. "He's interested in me and last I checked, I wasn't a guy!" She wheeled on Madeline. "Who'd you hear this from?"
Madeline gulped. Lily could be very scary at times. Over her shoulder Jessie was shaking her head "no," silently signaling for Madeline not to tell Lily.
"I can't remember." Madeline told Lily, cringing a little.
"How can you not remember someone who told you your best friend's crush is gay?!" Lily cried agitatedly.
"Well, we just overheard people talking about it..." Madeline lied.
"At the Ravenclaw table." finished Jessie.
Lily looked suspiciously between Madeline and Jessie. They were hiding something and she was going to find out what.
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Remus took one look at James' face as he walked into the common room and wanted to hurl himself into the fire. "You kissed her again, didn't you."
James sighed for about the millionth time that day. "Yes."
Sirius looked up. "Yeah, Prongs!! Was she any good?!"
"Yeah..." said James trailing off dreamily.
"Padfoot." Remus said warningly. "Try not to encourage him."
"Sorry, Moony, but I had to know."
Remus rolled his eyes. There was such thing as having too many hormones. "Okay so, Prongs, what exactly happened?"
"Er...I tried to apologize...but then she said I wasn't a good kisser...so then I—"
"So you kissed her."
"She said you weren't a good kisser?!" exclaimed Sirius. "Ouch, man. Ouch."
"So I said that she should tell a man that he's a bad kisser 'cuz it'd make him want to try again and she looked like she was going to say something but she kind of looked at me and didn't look away and then I don't know what came over me, I swear, but I started leaning in to kiss her and our lips touched and she FLIPPED!" rambled James very quickly.
"Oh. You didn't actually kiss her then?" asked Sirius disappointedly. "So that means you still owe her a kiss to prove her wrong. Unless of course you actually are a bad kisser, not that I'd know, in which case you'd not be wanting to do any kissing anytime in the near future, but then again—"
"PADFOOT!" exclaimed Remus.
"—what do I know, I've never been told—sorry, what?" Sirius broke off.
"Please. For the love of God. Shut up."
Sirius grinned. "Shutting up now."
"Anyway, James, since apologizing to her face doesn't seem to be working for you, we're going to have to resort to other things." continued Remus.
"Such as?" asked James curiously.
"We'll start with the flowers. Pray she's not allergic."
"Send her lilies!" interjected Peter.
"Yeah, good idea, Wormtail!" exclaimed Sirius, high-fiving him.
"That is a good idea, Moony." said James slowly.
"Okay so there's that down. Here." Remus threw a pillow at James. "Transfigure that into a bouquet of lilies."
James quickly did so, turning the crimson pillow into a beautiful bouquet of tiger lilies complete with baby's breath and a light blue ribbon tied around the stalks.
"Nice job, Prongsie!" said Sirius.
"Yeah, not bad." Remus said thoughtfully. "I think she likes the color blue too. But I'm not entirely sure."
"Bonus points if it is." commented Peter.
"Tiger-lilies...it fits." James said dryly. "She's like a tiger when she's mad."
Sirius laughed heartily at that. "Yeah and it's almost always directed at you."
James gave a sad little half-smile. "Why is that?"
*Wow this is a lot longer than I expected. ::grins:: feel loved. Anyway, since I know you all love cliffhangers SO much (::readers throw tomatoes and other rotten food at author::) here they are! Is Adrian really gay? Will Lily ever find out? Will James' next attempt at apologizing to Lily work? Is her favorite color blue? And, most importantly, will they kiss again? Or, will Adrian ever kiss Lily on the lips? Review, review, review!!*