Chapter 5

James picked Lily up in his arms and carried her through the portrait and up to the 4th year girl's room. He opened the door, to put her on her bed.

To his surprise, all the beds were occupied except one, which was completely void of any of Lily's stuff.

He took her back into the common room, and woke her up.

"Lily. Lily, wake up."

Lily stirred, and then opened her eyes.

"Where am I?" she asked.

"In the Gryffindor common room." Replied James.

Lily shook her head.

" Duh. And where else would I be." She hit her head to show herself how stupid she was. "I thought I was outside of here."

"I brought you in."

"Thanks. Why?"

"I was going out, and saw you, so I just brought you in."

"Where you going?"

"The kitchen. Want to come?"

"You know where the kitchen is?"

"Of course. That's one of the easiest places to find!"

"Ok, let's go."

The two walked out of the portrait hole.

"So why were you sleeping outside?" asked James.

"I didn't know the password." Lily answered.

"And why didn't you know the password?"

"Ms. McGonagall wanted to tell me something."

"And what did she want to tell you?"

"Ok, these questions are getting kind of repetitive. How bout I just tell you what happened, and you don't interrupt?"

"Alright."

"She wanted to tell me that the teachers are moving me up to my 5th year. So now you can't call me little 4th year anymore!"

"So that's why your stuff wasn't in the 4th year dorm."

"You went in the girl's dorm?"

"Well do you think I was just gonna leave you in the common room?"

"I didn't even think about it."

They came to a big picture of a bowl of fruit.

James reached up and tickled the pear.

It giggled and the picture swung open.

Lily's eyes opened in surprise. There were house elves all over the place. Some were sleeping, some were cleaning, and some were cooking.

A couple elves caught sight of Lily and James, and came over.

"Mr. James, how nice it is to be seeing you again." One said.

"We have been missing you over the summer." Said another.

"You have never brought a lady friend to see us before." Yet another said.

"Hi everyone," said James, "This is Lily."

There were lots of voices saying "Hello Miss Lily" at once.

The house elves carried over platters of food and desserts.

"Wow." Whispered Lily to James, "What are they?"

James looked at Lily funny, and then exclaimed "Oh! I forgot you were Muggle born for a second. They are house elves. They are what make the food, and do a lot of other things too. They aren't really supposed to be seen here though."

"Do they get paid?" asked Lily.

James cleared his throat. "No." he rushed on. "But before you say anything Lily, they love working, and get very insulted if you say anything about pay."

"Ok, ok."

When they finished eating, Lily and James said goodbye to the elves, and headed back up to the Gryffindor room.

It ended up that they the same classes, so tomorrow she could and would just hang with James and his pals.

Lily went up the girl's stairs, turned, and said goodnight to James.

"Lily." Called up James.

"What?"

"Do you like Peter?"

"No."

"Who do you like?"

Lily shrugged, and walked into her room.