Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and the rest of the characters that
appears in the book. Only J K Rowling does. I only own the other characters
that DON'T and WILL NOT appear in it. The plot belongs to me too. Oh,
before I forget, the group Unicorns idea was taken from the book Sweet
Valley that was written by Francine Pascal.
Rating: This is a PG-13 story. Those who think they can't stand swearing and cursing please back away and don't read this. Thank you for your cooperation.
Basic Overview: This would be a James and Lily story in their 6th year in Hogwarts. James Potter, leader of the Marauders and Lily Evans, leader of the Unicorns. Lily detests James since 1st year. But will love blossom between these two? We'll find out.
Extras: Nothing much on JJ and Zoe. Sorry for the no detention part as I stated in the last chapter.
Pranksters
Chapter 4: First part of love: Denial
"James! Quick, get up!" hollered an eager Remus who was standing at a door.
James moaned silently and turned away from the yelling, using a pillow to cover his face.
Remus looked at the sleeping figure and nudged Sirius with a cheeky grin. Sirius, who was clad in an astonishing bright red robe, grinned back at his mate and silently tiptoed James' bed. Sirius then took out his wand and conjured up a jug of ice-cold water - which obviously has some ice in it to add on the effect - and tipped it over James whole body. The water came on non-stop, as Sirius charmed it.
When the water and ice fell upon the 'dead' body of James, he quickly rose up and promptly gave a scream.
"WHAT THE FUCK YOU TWO THINK YOU'RE DOING? I'M SOOOOOOOOOOO ALIVE ALL THANKS TO YOU!" yelled a furious black haired prefect.
"Hey, you should be thanking us since we finally made you alive," Remus said with a smirk.
"Yeah, plus you wouldn't want to miss breakfast. We're having pancakes with Lemon syrup today.yum yum," Sirius said.
"Ugh. Please leave me alone and I don't think I want to eat pancakes today," James replied, lying back against his pillow.
Remus and Sirius glanced at each other and shared a confused look. Remus turned back to his leader and asked curiously, "What made Jamsie so dead today?"
"Yeah. He wouldn't even eat his favourite breakfast in the world!" smiled a Sirius.
"Oh puh-lease! Remus, stop calling me Jamsie! And if you want to know what's happening to me, go and ask Filch. Damn it, all because I was walking around past curfew," James replied frustratingly.
"So you got another detention is it? How many points you got taken of Gryffindor? Must be a lot, considering you're a prefect. But shouldn't you be used to detention now? Since you had quite a lot together with us when we pulled some stupid tricks? " Sirius said with a fake knowing look.
"Yes I got another detention. It's rather funny though. Filch didn't take any points from us."
"US?!" Remus and Sirius said together. James widened his eyes at his slipped remark.
'Oh shit! How could I let it slip??? I'm dead.dead meat. They'll tease me to no end!' thought James desperately.
"Umm.I mean me. Yeah me!" said James panicking.
"Uh huh. As if. So tell us who is that 'us' you're talking about huh? Come on, don't be shy," taunted both boys at James.
"I told you it's only me!" James said. He then pulled his pillow and covered his blushing face.
By then, Remus had already climbed unto James' bed and joined Sirius. Sirius pulled the pillow away to reveal a very dark crimson face from beneath.
"Oh come on. We know it's not only you James. Look at your flushed face, it's obvious that you're lying. Tell us who that other person is? Is it a girl? A hot chick in fact?" asked Remus interestingly.
"Fine fine. It's Lily okay? You know Lily Evans, the ringleader of the Unicorns. The one who is bent on making our lives hell like we are to she and her group?" James said giving in.
"WHAT? JJ & ZOE'S leader? The other Gryffindor Prefect?" shouted Remus and Sirius in surprised unison.
"Um yeah!" said James nervously.
Sirius and Remus looked at each other and laughed out heavily.
"Oh my God! Are you serious James? You got Tiger Lily as your detention partner? You're dead man!" cried out Sirius, who was still laughing away.
"Shut up and go have your breakfast!" yelled James frustratingly at his two best mates.
"This is way better than having breakfast. Come on tell us what the two of you were doing last night? I saw you following Lily out of the Great Hall. Did you two do something not explainable?" asked Remus.
"And I thought you care only about snogging Zoe. I guess I was wrong. And NO! We did not do anything!" James replied.
"Are you sure? You came back after curfew as ya know," snickered Sirius.
"Of course!"
"Fine, whatever. I'll go down for breakfast now. Don't want to waste this precious time here finding answers that cannot be found," Remus said wisely. He then added, "Sirius, wanna go?"
"Okay!" Sirius then jumped down from James' bed, straightened his robes and walked out together with Remus.
Once they were out, Sirius silently said to Remus, "Hey Moony, I think we can play matchmaker again."
"Matchmaker? Oh! You mean James and Lily?" Remus replied with enthusiasm.
"Yep. I think they match perfectly. Let's go tell Zoe and JJ. Maybe they'll help us with this thing."
"Oh sure!" Both boys hurried down to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall and sat beside their girlfriends and started telling them of their plans.
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Lily was eating solemnly in the Great Hall for breakfast when two of the 'hated' Marauders came in. Of course, Peter was sitting with his girlfriend Pamela Andrews at the other end of the table. So that means 3 of the Marauders were here.
'So where is the other Marauder?' thought Lily silently to herself. 'Maybe he's dead, oh JOY! Hmm.today we have detention together. Maybe he doesn't want to see me, but why? It's just a detention. Or he just had slept late,' Lily thought. 'Like anyone would tease him about it. I told JJ, Jan & Zoe but they didn't freak out like I thought; instead, they kind of had small smiles on their faces. Wonder why?'
Zoe looked at Lily with an eyebrow raised and then, she snickered. Turning back to her boyfriend, she nudged him and said, "Remus dear, look at Lily. She's off to never-never land. Maybe your plan of bringing James and Lily will work."
Remus looked at the girl sitting on his lap in mock shock. "Will work? I think that it shall work wonderfully you know."
"Okay, it will work wonderfully. Happy now dearie?" laughed Zoe with a lop- sided smile.
Remus smiled and gave a butterfly kiss on the corner of Zoe's lips. "Yes. Hey, why don't we go over to Sirius and talk over this great plan of ours?"
"Oh sure."
Both Remus and Zoe walked over to where Sirius and JJ were seated.
"Hey! Come sit over here!" welcomed Sirius.
"Hello Sirius, hello JJ. Remus and I came over to talk through the plans for the great matchmaking plan for James and Lily," Zoe said while taking a seat.
"Oh! We were talking about the same thing before you came here. So how do you think we should go about doing it? Maybe we could go about doing more group interactions?" said JJ.
"That's a great idea!" cried out Remus.
"What's great?" asked Sirius.
"Group interactions. We could set up more activities together. Have some sort of a double date or some stuff like that!" Remus replied.
The other three thought silently in their heads when suddenly Sirius' eyes lit up mischievously.
"Hey I think I know what to do," said Sirius.
Remus, JJ and Zoe leaned in to hear what their friend had to say and that was when the 'Great plan' was being discussed and went over.
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Lily was still eating her pancakes when she looked at her witch-watch. It pointed 10 minutes before class. She searched for her timetable in her leather bag and looked at it.
'Oh Great. Potions first thing in the morning,' thought Lily.
When she put her timetable back into her bag, she suddenly found out that her Potions textbook wasn't in her bag. She panicked.
'Where is my textbook? Oh dear, 10 minutes to potions and I had to forget my book. Damn it. Where did I put it? Oh yeah, the common room. Must have left it there.'
Lily stood up from the table, grabbed her bag and left the hall in a hurry to retrieve her book from the common room.
She entered the common room and she found her book. She took it and placed it in her bag. She looked at her watch again and found that she still had another 5 minutes to get to the dungeons for potions. Lily turned around and started to run down for potions.
As she turned towards the corridor that led to the potions classroom, suddenly a person who was slightly taller than her knocked into her sending things flying. Lily fell with a 'thump' and cried an "ouch" as the back of her body made contact with the hard cold stone tiles. She then felt a weight upon her body. Lily looked up and saw a very familiar face staring intently at her.
When Lily recognized the guy before her eyes, she suddenly felt her chest tighten as she took in the boy's features. Sharp angular face, eyes that glittered behind the thick glasses and ruffled messed-up hair made the handsome boy.
'I didn't know James was this handsome. He's even taut and lean, I didn't notice this before? Must be all the Quidditch training,' thought the girl beneath the boy.
James looked at the girl lying sprawled on the ground beneath his body. Red hair that look like fire flame, sharp heart-shaped face, button nose and green eyes that showed intelligence made the pretty girl.
'I didn't know Lily was this pretty. Hell, even her skin feels so moist, so smooth and so tender. Well, she's the school beauty queen so of course she would have these qualities,' thought James who was still staring intently at the redhead.
Both of them were still staring at each other, taking in each other's features and qualities that surprised them when suddenly a wolf whistle was heard. Both students snapped out from their trance and blushed furiously before standing up in a hurry. Lily looked at where the whistle was heard and saw a third year Slytherin boy grinning and pointing cheekily at them while whispering to his friends who were around him. Lily was about to scold that boy when she heard a voice.
"10 points from Slytherin. Now don't you ever mention this to anybody, not a soul. Or I'll come after your head with an axe, get it?" said James grimacing.
The Slytherin boy scowled heavily at James and turned the other direction walking off muttering some incoherent words.
Lily looked at James and smiled. "Thanks."
"No problem. Come on, we better get to potions before Professor Apuytre takes off mean points from Gryffindor."
"Yeah sure."
Both kids ran to the classroom and got a seat side by side just in time as Prof. Apuytre came in from the store door.
"Alright class, get out your textbook and parchment. Turn to page 129 and start reading it until the end of the whole chapter. We'll be learning about the Friendship potion," Prof. Apuytre said scanning the whole class with his ice blue eyes. "And don't make a sound!" he added with a huff and sat down on his chair behind his desk.
"Hey Remus, where's my quill that you borrowed yesterday?" James asked turning to his right.
"I threw it away," Remus casually replied.
"You WHAT??? Hey, that was my favourite quill and you threw it away? Ooh I can't believe it. If we weren't in class I'll be strangling your neck already," James replied angrily.
Prof. Apuytre looked over to their side. Lily turned around and nudged James' ribs.
She then whispered, "James, Prof. Apuytre is looking over here. Shut your big mouth up!"
James did quiet down, but still fuming away. Lily looked at him and silently laughed and wondered, 'How does he look so cute when he's fuming. He looks like a 3 year old kid whose parents didn't allow him to get his Christmas presents. His unruly hair makes it even cuter. HEY! Why am I thinking of him like this?'
'Don't deny it dearie, you're attracted to him,' a voice came out from Lily's right side. Lily turned around and was so shocked to see an angel with a golden halo, wings and a silver wand. Her mouth verbally dropped.
'Hey, I thought I made it clear with you that she doesn't like James here?' another voice came out, but was on Lily's left. Lily turned around to the other side and saw a small red devil with a sharp tail, sinister eyes and a super flexible body.
'Well, look at the way Lily here is thinking about him. So innocent so pure,' the angel said.
'Oh great, my conscience is having a fight in my head. Great, just great!' thought Lily while resting her head in her hands propped up against the table.
'It's just all shit angel. Don't be so in it. After Lily goes into a relationship with that guy, the guy would break up with her and leave Lily here to collect the broken pieces of her heart which cannot be healed,' the devil said.
'Well, it's entirely up to her choice. I'm sick and tired of your constant babbling on how to make one bad. Let's ask her,' the angel said exasperated.
'I also hate the way you keep on your innocent pure face. It sucks! Well, Lily, whom do you choose to believe? The angel or me? I bet I'm right!' the devil said with a voice that imitates I-am-so-right-about-this-she-will- surely-choose-to-believe-me.
'I don't know! I don't know. Don't ask me. I sincerely do not know,' Lily thought in pain.
'Well, dear you have to make a choice now. And devil, don't say anything to make her change her mind yet,' the angel said.
The devil looked at the angel and used his metal rake to hit the angel on her head. The angel turned around angrily and started hitting the little devil with her wand.
'Ooh, and I was right that the angel has another face. Haha,' the devil said, earning more whacks from the angel.
While Lily's conscience was having the full-fledged fight with smoke and all, Lily did some thinking. 'I'm James' enemy since day one. I admit that he is handsome and the whole girl population who doesn't know the true him loves him a LOT.'
Suddenly, the devil's head popped out from the whirlwind of smoke and said, 'Go girl, don't believe the angel!'
'Shut up devil!' the angel's voice piped out. The two went back to fighting.
'But what can explain the feeling I get whenever I see him nowadays?' thought Lily.
'That's love dear. You love him!' the angel said.
'ARGH! Don't say anymore. I do not love him and never will all right? I'm his rival and forever will be his rival,' Lily thought with a small hint of depression.
The two who was fighting behind her head stopped their action in surprise.
The devil looked happy after the initial shock and went to clap Lily on her back in glee. It then disappeared with a puff of smoke.
The angel looked sad and went to whisper into Lily's ear. 'I'm afraid you made the wrong choice dear. But the decision is entirely up to you. We can only help. Goodbye.' And with a twinkle, the angel disappeared into who knows where.
"I don't care, and will not care," Lily said while shaking her hand at the smoke, which covered her eyes.
She turned back her attention to the "studious" class before her when she felt a light tapping on her shoulder. Turning around, she saw that James was looking at her curiously.
'Why is he looking at me like that?' she wondered silently. Before she got to her answer, James said something.
"Hey Lily, why were you shaking your head and hands furiously just now? I don' t see anything there other than dust," James said. Then he added with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, "Or maybe you're having a fight with your conscience over how sexy and handsome I am before you felt frustrated. Is it?"
Lily looked at him in pure shock. Trying to hide the shock building inside of her, she answered, "Of course not. You're handsome? When pigs fly then only I'll believe that joke."
Lily let out a small sigh of relief that she could make a quick comeback without any mistake despite the closeness to the truth on what James' said.
The redhead looked at James and saw a glint of cheeky comeback on his face. She looked at his hand where there groped his wand. She rewinded to the last sentence that she said and figured out her mistake. But before James' got a chance to mutter out the spell, Lily said, "Oh no you don't. When I said when pigs fly, I do not mean by using magic. But by nature itself. Now forget about it and read up on the potion!"
"Aww.you're no fun you know Lily," James said slightly disappointed.
"I'm not exactly fun in this case. Now get back to your potion, in which I do seem to know that you don't bother."
"Then why still ask me to do it?"
"Because this is a very important potion."
"I can't see anything important about it," James shrugged, slightly hunching.
Lily slapped James' back. "Stop hunching and study!"
"Fine, hotheaded woman," James retorted.
Lily rolled her eyes in exasperation and turned back to her studies, ignoring every word on what James' had to say.
James' saw that Lily wasn't going to answer his other protests and silently went back to his book.
Professor Apuytre looked at his wizard-watch on his wrist before attending to the class. "Okay, stop reading now and listen to what I have to say."
He waited for the whole class to keep quiet before speaking again.
"The ingredients for this potion is not available in class right now. And also I remember not telling you all to bring your own ingredients for it. Reason because, the ingredients needed is to be gotten fresh and new. So we're all going down to the greenhouses to pick up the fresh ingredients. I'll be assigning you all to your partners before we set off. The partner I assign you to would be your partner for this potion and your other counterpart in getting the ingredients. Okay, let's start from Mr. Black."
The whole class groaned in protest at not being given the choice to choose their partners, especially Sirius.
"I think I ought to have played sick for today. We even have to get Flobberworm fresh. Eew!" Sirius groaned loudly.
"Get used to it buddy!" Remus said smirking his head off.
"Black and Joder!" Prof. Apuytre said.
"Now that wasn't that bad!" Sirius said smiling away.
"Lupin and Fellms! Malfoy and Livurn, Potter and Evans!" Prof. Apuytre continued, ticking off each name he called off the class list that he was holding in his right hand.
"Oh great, stuck with you again!" Lily said in exasperation.
"Umm hmm." James replied.
After Prof. Apuytre finished in pairing up the pupils, he clapped his hands two times and said, "Now, all of you go to the Greenhouse. When any of you see Prof. Sprout there, tell her that I am the one who sent you all there. She'll then lead you to the place where you'll be picking up the ingredients. Ready? Now go before I hex you all into the next century."
Everyone scrambled out of their seats aiming to get to the greenhouse before the professor hexed them. All of them know that he was a mean one with his wand around him.
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A/N: Hey there readers.I'm sorry that I did not update for a long time. I had my exams up.now it is over! Yay!!!!! Okay another apology.I'm sorry that I could not write in the detention part.maybe in the next 2 chapters I hope? Please forgive me greatly. Thank you! Now, please read and review.greatly appreciated for it! ^_^!
Rating: This is a PG-13 story. Those who think they can't stand swearing and cursing please back away and don't read this. Thank you for your cooperation.
Basic Overview: This would be a James and Lily story in their 6th year in Hogwarts. James Potter, leader of the Marauders and Lily Evans, leader of the Unicorns. Lily detests James since 1st year. But will love blossom between these two? We'll find out.
Extras: Nothing much on JJ and Zoe. Sorry for the no detention part as I stated in the last chapter.
Pranksters
Chapter 4: First part of love: Denial
"James! Quick, get up!" hollered an eager Remus who was standing at a door.
James moaned silently and turned away from the yelling, using a pillow to cover his face.
Remus looked at the sleeping figure and nudged Sirius with a cheeky grin. Sirius, who was clad in an astonishing bright red robe, grinned back at his mate and silently tiptoed James' bed. Sirius then took out his wand and conjured up a jug of ice-cold water - which obviously has some ice in it to add on the effect - and tipped it over James whole body. The water came on non-stop, as Sirius charmed it.
When the water and ice fell upon the 'dead' body of James, he quickly rose up and promptly gave a scream.
"WHAT THE FUCK YOU TWO THINK YOU'RE DOING? I'M SOOOOOOOOOOO ALIVE ALL THANKS TO YOU!" yelled a furious black haired prefect.
"Hey, you should be thanking us since we finally made you alive," Remus said with a smirk.
"Yeah, plus you wouldn't want to miss breakfast. We're having pancakes with Lemon syrup today.yum yum," Sirius said.
"Ugh. Please leave me alone and I don't think I want to eat pancakes today," James replied, lying back against his pillow.
Remus and Sirius glanced at each other and shared a confused look. Remus turned back to his leader and asked curiously, "What made Jamsie so dead today?"
"Yeah. He wouldn't even eat his favourite breakfast in the world!" smiled a Sirius.
"Oh puh-lease! Remus, stop calling me Jamsie! And if you want to know what's happening to me, go and ask Filch. Damn it, all because I was walking around past curfew," James replied frustratingly.
"So you got another detention is it? How many points you got taken of Gryffindor? Must be a lot, considering you're a prefect. But shouldn't you be used to detention now? Since you had quite a lot together with us when we pulled some stupid tricks? " Sirius said with a fake knowing look.
"Yes I got another detention. It's rather funny though. Filch didn't take any points from us."
"US?!" Remus and Sirius said together. James widened his eyes at his slipped remark.
'Oh shit! How could I let it slip??? I'm dead.dead meat. They'll tease me to no end!' thought James desperately.
"Umm.I mean me. Yeah me!" said James panicking.
"Uh huh. As if. So tell us who is that 'us' you're talking about huh? Come on, don't be shy," taunted both boys at James.
"I told you it's only me!" James said. He then pulled his pillow and covered his blushing face.
By then, Remus had already climbed unto James' bed and joined Sirius. Sirius pulled the pillow away to reveal a very dark crimson face from beneath.
"Oh come on. We know it's not only you James. Look at your flushed face, it's obvious that you're lying. Tell us who that other person is? Is it a girl? A hot chick in fact?" asked Remus interestingly.
"Fine fine. It's Lily okay? You know Lily Evans, the ringleader of the Unicorns. The one who is bent on making our lives hell like we are to she and her group?" James said giving in.
"WHAT? JJ & ZOE'S leader? The other Gryffindor Prefect?" shouted Remus and Sirius in surprised unison.
"Um yeah!" said James nervously.
Sirius and Remus looked at each other and laughed out heavily.
"Oh my God! Are you serious James? You got Tiger Lily as your detention partner? You're dead man!" cried out Sirius, who was still laughing away.
"Shut up and go have your breakfast!" yelled James frustratingly at his two best mates.
"This is way better than having breakfast. Come on tell us what the two of you were doing last night? I saw you following Lily out of the Great Hall. Did you two do something not explainable?" asked Remus.
"And I thought you care only about snogging Zoe. I guess I was wrong. And NO! We did not do anything!" James replied.
"Are you sure? You came back after curfew as ya know," snickered Sirius.
"Of course!"
"Fine, whatever. I'll go down for breakfast now. Don't want to waste this precious time here finding answers that cannot be found," Remus said wisely. He then added, "Sirius, wanna go?"
"Okay!" Sirius then jumped down from James' bed, straightened his robes and walked out together with Remus.
Once they were out, Sirius silently said to Remus, "Hey Moony, I think we can play matchmaker again."
"Matchmaker? Oh! You mean James and Lily?" Remus replied with enthusiasm.
"Yep. I think they match perfectly. Let's go tell Zoe and JJ. Maybe they'll help us with this thing."
"Oh sure!" Both boys hurried down to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall and sat beside their girlfriends and started telling them of their plans.
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Lily was eating solemnly in the Great Hall for breakfast when two of the 'hated' Marauders came in. Of course, Peter was sitting with his girlfriend Pamela Andrews at the other end of the table. So that means 3 of the Marauders were here.
'So where is the other Marauder?' thought Lily silently to herself. 'Maybe he's dead, oh JOY! Hmm.today we have detention together. Maybe he doesn't want to see me, but why? It's just a detention. Or he just had slept late,' Lily thought. 'Like anyone would tease him about it. I told JJ, Jan & Zoe but they didn't freak out like I thought; instead, they kind of had small smiles on their faces. Wonder why?'
Zoe looked at Lily with an eyebrow raised and then, she snickered. Turning back to her boyfriend, she nudged him and said, "Remus dear, look at Lily. She's off to never-never land. Maybe your plan of bringing James and Lily will work."
Remus looked at the girl sitting on his lap in mock shock. "Will work? I think that it shall work wonderfully you know."
"Okay, it will work wonderfully. Happy now dearie?" laughed Zoe with a lop- sided smile.
Remus smiled and gave a butterfly kiss on the corner of Zoe's lips. "Yes. Hey, why don't we go over to Sirius and talk over this great plan of ours?"
"Oh sure."
Both Remus and Zoe walked over to where Sirius and JJ were seated.
"Hey! Come sit over here!" welcomed Sirius.
"Hello Sirius, hello JJ. Remus and I came over to talk through the plans for the great matchmaking plan for James and Lily," Zoe said while taking a seat.
"Oh! We were talking about the same thing before you came here. So how do you think we should go about doing it? Maybe we could go about doing more group interactions?" said JJ.
"That's a great idea!" cried out Remus.
"What's great?" asked Sirius.
"Group interactions. We could set up more activities together. Have some sort of a double date or some stuff like that!" Remus replied.
The other three thought silently in their heads when suddenly Sirius' eyes lit up mischievously.
"Hey I think I know what to do," said Sirius.
Remus, JJ and Zoe leaned in to hear what their friend had to say and that was when the 'Great plan' was being discussed and went over.
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Lily was still eating her pancakes when she looked at her witch-watch. It pointed 10 minutes before class. She searched for her timetable in her leather bag and looked at it.
'Oh Great. Potions first thing in the morning,' thought Lily.
When she put her timetable back into her bag, she suddenly found out that her Potions textbook wasn't in her bag. She panicked.
'Where is my textbook? Oh dear, 10 minutes to potions and I had to forget my book. Damn it. Where did I put it? Oh yeah, the common room. Must have left it there.'
Lily stood up from the table, grabbed her bag and left the hall in a hurry to retrieve her book from the common room.
She entered the common room and she found her book. She took it and placed it in her bag. She looked at her watch again and found that she still had another 5 minutes to get to the dungeons for potions. Lily turned around and started to run down for potions.
As she turned towards the corridor that led to the potions classroom, suddenly a person who was slightly taller than her knocked into her sending things flying. Lily fell with a 'thump' and cried an "ouch" as the back of her body made contact with the hard cold stone tiles. She then felt a weight upon her body. Lily looked up and saw a very familiar face staring intently at her.
When Lily recognized the guy before her eyes, she suddenly felt her chest tighten as she took in the boy's features. Sharp angular face, eyes that glittered behind the thick glasses and ruffled messed-up hair made the handsome boy.
'I didn't know James was this handsome. He's even taut and lean, I didn't notice this before? Must be all the Quidditch training,' thought the girl beneath the boy.
James looked at the girl lying sprawled on the ground beneath his body. Red hair that look like fire flame, sharp heart-shaped face, button nose and green eyes that showed intelligence made the pretty girl.
'I didn't know Lily was this pretty. Hell, even her skin feels so moist, so smooth and so tender. Well, she's the school beauty queen so of course she would have these qualities,' thought James who was still staring intently at the redhead.
Both of them were still staring at each other, taking in each other's features and qualities that surprised them when suddenly a wolf whistle was heard. Both students snapped out from their trance and blushed furiously before standing up in a hurry. Lily looked at where the whistle was heard and saw a third year Slytherin boy grinning and pointing cheekily at them while whispering to his friends who were around him. Lily was about to scold that boy when she heard a voice.
"10 points from Slytherin. Now don't you ever mention this to anybody, not a soul. Or I'll come after your head with an axe, get it?" said James grimacing.
The Slytherin boy scowled heavily at James and turned the other direction walking off muttering some incoherent words.
Lily looked at James and smiled. "Thanks."
"No problem. Come on, we better get to potions before Professor Apuytre takes off mean points from Gryffindor."
"Yeah sure."
Both kids ran to the classroom and got a seat side by side just in time as Prof. Apuytre came in from the store door.
"Alright class, get out your textbook and parchment. Turn to page 129 and start reading it until the end of the whole chapter. We'll be learning about the Friendship potion," Prof. Apuytre said scanning the whole class with his ice blue eyes. "And don't make a sound!" he added with a huff and sat down on his chair behind his desk.
"Hey Remus, where's my quill that you borrowed yesterday?" James asked turning to his right.
"I threw it away," Remus casually replied.
"You WHAT??? Hey, that was my favourite quill and you threw it away? Ooh I can't believe it. If we weren't in class I'll be strangling your neck already," James replied angrily.
Prof. Apuytre looked over to their side. Lily turned around and nudged James' ribs.
She then whispered, "James, Prof. Apuytre is looking over here. Shut your big mouth up!"
James did quiet down, but still fuming away. Lily looked at him and silently laughed and wondered, 'How does he look so cute when he's fuming. He looks like a 3 year old kid whose parents didn't allow him to get his Christmas presents. His unruly hair makes it even cuter. HEY! Why am I thinking of him like this?'
'Don't deny it dearie, you're attracted to him,' a voice came out from Lily's right side. Lily turned around and was so shocked to see an angel with a golden halo, wings and a silver wand. Her mouth verbally dropped.
'Hey, I thought I made it clear with you that she doesn't like James here?' another voice came out, but was on Lily's left. Lily turned around to the other side and saw a small red devil with a sharp tail, sinister eyes and a super flexible body.
'Well, look at the way Lily here is thinking about him. So innocent so pure,' the angel said.
'Oh great, my conscience is having a fight in my head. Great, just great!' thought Lily while resting her head in her hands propped up against the table.
'It's just all shit angel. Don't be so in it. After Lily goes into a relationship with that guy, the guy would break up with her and leave Lily here to collect the broken pieces of her heart which cannot be healed,' the devil said.
'Well, it's entirely up to her choice. I'm sick and tired of your constant babbling on how to make one bad. Let's ask her,' the angel said exasperated.
'I also hate the way you keep on your innocent pure face. It sucks! Well, Lily, whom do you choose to believe? The angel or me? I bet I'm right!' the devil said with a voice that imitates I-am-so-right-about-this-she-will- surely-choose-to-believe-me.
'I don't know! I don't know. Don't ask me. I sincerely do not know,' Lily thought in pain.
'Well, dear you have to make a choice now. And devil, don't say anything to make her change her mind yet,' the angel said.
The devil looked at the angel and used his metal rake to hit the angel on her head. The angel turned around angrily and started hitting the little devil with her wand.
'Ooh, and I was right that the angel has another face. Haha,' the devil said, earning more whacks from the angel.
While Lily's conscience was having the full-fledged fight with smoke and all, Lily did some thinking. 'I'm James' enemy since day one. I admit that he is handsome and the whole girl population who doesn't know the true him loves him a LOT.'
Suddenly, the devil's head popped out from the whirlwind of smoke and said, 'Go girl, don't believe the angel!'
'Shut up devil!' the angel's voice piped out. The two went back to fighting.
'But what can explain the feeling I get whenever I see him nowadays?' thought Lily.
'That's love dear. You love him!' the angel said.
'ARGH! Don't say anymore. I do not love him and never will all right? I'm his rival and forever will be his rival,' Lily thought with a small hint of depression.
The two who was fighting behind her head stopped their action in surprise.
The devil looked happy after the initial shock and went to clap Lily on her back in glee. It then disappeared with a puff of smoke.
The angel looked sad and went to whisper into Lily's ear. 'I'm afraid you made the wrong choice dear. But the decision is entirely up to you. We can only help. Goodbye.' And with a twinkle, the angel disappeared into who knows where.
"I don't care, and will not care," Lily said while shaking her hand at the smoke, which covered her eyes.
She turned back her attention to the "studious" class before her when she felt a light tapping on her shoulder. Turning around, she saw that James was looking at her curiously.
'Why is he looking at me like that?' she wondered silently. Before she got to her answer, James said something.
"Hey Lily, why were you shaking your head and hands furiously just now? I don' t see anything there other than dust," James said. Then he added with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, "Or maybe you're having a fight with your conscience over how sexy and handsome I am before you felt frustrated. Is it?"
Lily looked at him in pure shock. Trying to hide the shock building inside of her, she answered, "Of course not. You're handsome? When pigs fly then only I'll believe that joke."
Lily let out a small sigh of relief that she could make a quick comeback without any mistake despite the closeness to the truth on what James' said.
The redhead looked at James and saw a glint of cheeky comeback on his face. She looked at his hand where there groped his wand. She rewinded to the last sentence that she said and figured out her mistake. But before James' got a chance to mutter out the spell, Lily said, "Oh no you don't. When I said when pigs fly, I do not mean by using magic. But by nature itself. Now forget about it and read up on the potion!"
"Aww.you're no fun you know Lily," James said slightly disappointed.
"I'm not exactly fun in this case. Now get back to your potion, in which I do seem to know that you don't bother."
"Then why still ask me to do it?"
"Because this is a very important potion."
"I can't see anything important about it," James shrugged, slightly hunching.
Lily slapped James' back. "Stop hunching and study!"
"Fine, hotheaded woman," James retorted.
Lily rolled her eyes in exasperation and turned back to her studies, ignoring every word on what James' had to say.
James' saw that Lily wasn't going to answer his other protests and silently went back to his book.
Professor Apuytre looked at his wizard-watch on his wrist before attending to the class. "Okay, stop reading now and listen to what I have to say."
He waited for the whole class to keep quiet before speaking again.
"The ingredients for this potion is not available in class right now. And also I remember not telling you all to bring your own ingredients for it. Reason because, the ingredients needed is to be gotten fresh and new. So we're all going down to the greenhouses to pick up the fresh ingredients. I'll be assigning you all to your partners before we set off. The partner I assign you to would be your partner for this potion and your other counterpart in getting the ingredients. Okay, let's start from Mr. Black."
The whole class groaned in protest at not being given the choice to choose their partners, especially Sirius.
"I think I ought to have played sick for today. We even have to get Flobberworm fresh. Eew!" Sirius groaned loudly.
"Get used to it buddy!" Remus said smirking his head off.
"Black and Joder!" Prof. Apuytre said.
"Now that wasn't that bad!" Sirius said smiling away.
"Lupin and Fellms! Malfoy and Livurn, Potter and Evans!" Prof. Apuytre continued, ticking off each name he called off the class list that he was holding in his right hand.
"Oh great, stuck with you again!" Lily said in exasperation.
"Umm hmm." James replied.
After Prof. Apuytre finished in pairing up the pupils, he clapped his hands two times and said, "Now, all of you go to the Greenhouse. When any of you see Prof. Sprout there, tell her that I am the one who sent you all there. She'll then lead you to the place where you'll be picking up the ingredients. Ready? Now go before I hex you all into the next century."
Everyone scrambled out of their seats aiming to get to the greenhouse before the professor hexed them. All of them know that he was a mean one with his wand around him.
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A/N: Hey there readers.I'm sorry that I did not update for a long time. I had my exams up.now it is over! Yay!!!!! Okay another apology.I'm sorry that I could not write in the detention part.maybe in the next 2 chapters I hope? Please forgive me greatly. Thank you! Now, please read and review.greatly appreciated for it! ^_^!