Chapter 12

"No way in bloody hell James!"

Lily burst into the common room with James running after her.

"Come on Lily; it won't even take that long!" yelled James as he stomped up to his room and slammed the door, Lily doing exactly the same.

"Girl troubles?" teased Sirius.

James grabbed a pillow and hurled it at his friend. Then he shook his head and walked over to Sirius.

"Padfoot." He said, "Lily won't do it."

Sirius jumped up. "She has to! There's no other way we can… you know, beat them!"

James and Sirius had been trying to get Lily to warm up to Snape in order to distract him at the Quidditch game. As much as he hated for Lily to act nice to Snape, he really wanted to win this cup against the Slytherins.

"They did what!" exclaimed Raye.

"I told you." Said Lily, "They want me to go out with "Severus" for a day or two." Explained Lily.

Raye gaped, as well as Kay who was also her roommate.

"I can't believe that James and Sirius would do such a thing just for a Quidditch game," Growled Kay.

As much as Lily hated the idea of being near the royal Slytherin creep, she felt herself just wanting to make James happy.

She stood up. "Fine."

Lily knocked and walked into the boy's room.

"Okay; I'll do it."

Sirius jumped up and shook Lily's hand jovially, and then gave her a hug.

"Thank you Lily!" he exclaimed. "It's just for tomorrow morning until after the game, and then you can dump the slimy git."

"Not that I'd be going out with him in the first place Sally." Said Lily sternly.

James got up. "I'm sorry Lil; I shouldn't be making you do this. You don't have to…"

"Of course I don't have to." Said Lily, "You couldn't 'make' me do this if you tried your hardest!" She leaned over and whispered in his ear, "I'm only doing this because I love you."

James then kissed her on the cheek and said, "Thank you. I'll make it up to you; I promise."

Lily smirked. "You better." She left the room.

"Sirius, I feel terrible." Said James when she left, "It's all for a little Quidditch match?"

"Not just any Quidditch match Jamie," replied Sirius, "THE Quidditch match. The one against Slytherin."

"I still don't think it's right."

"It doesn't matter anymore. She said she was going to, so there's no going back."

That night, Lily sauntered up to Severus Snape after dinner.

"Hi Severus," She flirted. She walked a little closer to him, and whispered, "Will you go out with me?"

Severus blinked stupidly. He had had a huge crush on Lily Evans for a very long time, and here she just walked up to him and asked him to go out with her!

"Sure." He said. "And what did I do to deserve this? Wait a second; weren't you and Potter dating?"

Lily gulped. "We... got in a fight and broke up yesterday."

"Ok. Are you going to cheer for me tomorrow? Or are you still going to root for Gryffindor?"

"You of course!" Said Lily. "I have to do something tonight, but I'll meet you tomorrow morning okay?"

"Ok; see you tomorrow then." Said Severus. He kissed her on the cheek, and she smiled and walked off.

Severus growled to himself when he saw Lily turn the corner and meet up with that Potter and his friends. She had played him.

"So do you think that he bought it?" asked Lily.

"That dork doesn't know the difference between salt and pepper," Said Sirius.

"Of course he bought it." Reassured James.

Lily sighed with relief. Only one more day of being around that... that grrr, she couldn't even come up with a bad enough name for him.

Lily stopped walking for a second and stood still.

"What's wrong?" asked James.

Lily was disgusted. "Oh. My. God. He kissed me on the cheek! Ewwww! Grotesque!"

Lily ran all the way to the Gryffindor Common Room, and into the girl's bathroom to wash her face.

Sirius sat down on the couch laughing. "Ah that's disgusting!"

James sat down beside him. "Oh my gosh she's going to be so mad at me… I can't believe he touched her like that!" James growled.

"Sheesh James, you were the one who said for her to try to go out with him in the first place!" said Sirius.

"No Padfoot. You were the one who suggested that." James turned to Sirius.

"Think of the game Prongs." Sirius slowly backed up, trying to get away from his reddening best friend.

James shook his head. "It doesn't mean anything anymore Sirius; now I just want him away from my Lily."

"Whoa." Said Sirius, "You've got it bad Jamie,"

Lily came out of the bathroom.

"You're going to get it Jamie!"

James ran up to him room to prevent getting pounded by his girlfriend.

Lily glared at Sirius, and he too rushed upstairs.

Lily took a deep breath and went up to her room to tell the other girls what happened.