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Title: You Wish!
Author: Mstar
Rating: G
Chapter: 2
Summery: To Lily Evans, James Potter was the most arrogant jerk in all of eternity. Just her luck that James had had a crush on her ever since 1st year. Now it was their 7th year at Hogwarts and James' last chance to win Lily's heart.
AN~ If some of the character's seem familiar but aren't in the original 5 Harry Potter books, it's because they're my own creations and I've used them in other fics. Either that or you actually know them, because some of the characters are based on people I know, names and all. '.....' denotes thought.
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Lily Evans, Mary Nease, and Jessi Barr had managed to find an empty compartment on the Hogwarts Express. Just as the train was leaving London, the door to the compartment was opened by James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, the group of boys otherwise known as the Marauders. "Did you miss me?" James asked Lily as he and his friends entered the compartment. "If you mean did I loathe the memory of you, by that, then yes," Lily replied coldly. "And FYI, the only reason this summer wasn't a complete waste, was because I got to escape to Mary's place during the last week, no thanks to you." With that, Lily got up and pushed the 4 boys out of the compartment. She probably wouldn't have succeeded, but she had caught them by surprise.
"CRACK!" "CRACK!" "CRACK!" "CRACK!" James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter had just apparated back into the compartment. "JAMES POTTER!!! If you don't stop stalking me, I'm going to hex you!!!!!!!" Lily shouted. James smiled and replied, "Then you might as well do it now baby, 'cause I'll NEVER stop chasing you." Suddenly, the compartment door was opened by Frank Longbottom, who was a Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. "Hey Lily," he said. "I think you weren't quite loud enough. The people in Russia didn't quite catch all that you said." Everyone but Lily burst out laughing. "Anyway," Frank continued. "What did James do to make you explode?" "He was stalking me!" Lily said accusingly. Frank stared and replied, "I'm not surprised. Oh yeah, do you know who's the new Quidditch captain?" "I can answer that," James replied before Lily could answer. "I am." "Awesome!!!" Frank exclaimed. "Well I got to go; Alice is waiting for me back in our compartment. And if I were you James, I'd leave to before Lily curses you into primordial ooze." With that, Frank left, followed by the Marauders who didn't feel like dueling with Lily, who happened to be 1 of the best Defense Against the Dark Arts students in the whole school (James was probably 1 of the other best D.A.D.A students but HE wasn't going to be jinxing Lily anytime soon).
Pretty soon the train pulled into Hogsmeade Station. Students piled out into the corridors, pushing everybody forward. Being Head Boy and Girl, James and Lily had to see that all the students got into the carriages, while Hagrid dealt with the 1st years. "Midgets over there! Everyone else follow me and Evans!" James yelled. "Potter, don't call the 1st years Midgets!" Lily exclaimed. "Well they are!" James shot back. Lily felt someone tap her shoulder and looked down to see that it was a 2nd year. "For a Head Boy and Head Girl," he said. "Y'all sure argue a lot!" James smiled and replied, "I'd rather me and her not argue at all but-," "He just frustrates me... a lot!" Lily finished for him. When Lily was out of hearing distance, James asked the 2nd year, "So do you think she likes me?" The 2nd year looked at James and said, "I think you're hopeless." Then he marched off. "Midgets," James muttered under his breath. "No respect whatsoever."
After the Sorting, the golden plates on each House table were filled all kinds of delicious foods. A girl, who was 1 of the new Gryffindors, was sitting beside Lily and nudged her gently. "Huh?" Lily managed to say through a mouth full of roasted chicken. "Did you know, that boy over there with the messy black hair is practically drooling over you?" the girl asked. Jessi, who was sitting across from Lily, started giggling. Lily glared at her and answered the 1st year saying, "I know. And if you ever need to practice a hex, use HIM as target practice." The 1st year laughed and said, "Ok! My name's Jenny. What's yours?" "Lily." "What year are you in?" "7th." "Hey! Aren't you the Head Girl? I heard you telling the Head Boy to stop calling us 1st years midgets!" Lily smiled and replied, "Yeah. And the boy who won't stop staring at me every 10 seconds is the Head Boy." Jenny grinned evilly and said, "Even more of a reason for me to use him as target practice!" Lily, Jessi, Mary, and Jenny laughed. "Well, Jenny," Lily said smiling. "If you ever need help with something, just ask me. Especially if you're going to try the curse or whatever out on James." "Is James the Head Boy?" Jenny asked. "Yes," Lily, Mary, and Jessi said in unison. Lily smiled and replied, "Only James could be that pig-headed."
It seemed like the 1st 2 months of school, had passed like lightning. Halloween had been awesome. The was as wonderful as usual. During the 1st week of November, Jenny had taken Lily's words from the 1st day of school to heart. 1 day in the Gryffindor common room, when James wasn't looking, Jenny snuck up and "practiced" the Jelly-Legs Jinx on him. The room had burst out laughing and Lily, Mary, and Jessi had all high-fived Jenny. James looked as mad as a hornet. "Will somebody stop laughing and hand me my wand?!" he shouted. "Either that or perform the counterjinx!!!" Lily finally decided to be nice, and undid the spell. Nobody knew which was funnier: A 1st year succeeding in an attack on a 7th year or James wobbling around on "jelly-legs". "I aught to give you detention for that!" he shouted at Jenny. Jenny just smiled and Lily replied, "As if you haven't done that to someone before? Last time I checked you've done worse without getting in trouble. Mainly because 1 of your best friends is a Prefect, who just 'ignored' it all." At this point she glared at a blushing Remus. "And besides," Lily continued. "At the feast on the 1st day of school, I kind of 'told' her to use you if she ever needed to practice a hex." Then leaving a gaping James, Lily walked up into the girl's dormitory, followed by Jenny who probably didn't want to get in trouble.
The next day was a Saturday and Lily had Quidditch practice at 1 PM. It was the 1st practice of the year and the 1st Quidditch match was against Slytherin on the last day of November. So they had basically 2 months to practice before the match. Lily absolutely dreaded practice. Now that James was the Quidditch captain...
After lunch, Lily and Mary headed out to the field. James and Sirius were already there. James was in a foul mood over what hah happened the night before. "Hey Jelly-Legs!" Lily shouted. "Do you have to do that?" James snapped. Lily laughed and replied, "2 words: pay back." "Pay back for what?" Lily turned around to see Frank and the rest of the team coming up the field. "My summer basically went down the toilet thanks to Potter," Lily answered. Everyone on the Gryffindor Quidditch team laughed except for James. The team was made up of a variety of Gryffindors. James was the Seeker and Sirius was the Keeper. The Chasers were Lily, Mary, and a burly, black haired 3rd year named Anderson Glade, who was new on the team. And last, but not least, the Beaters were Frank Longbottom and a red-headed 6th year named Alec Wattel.
In Lily's opinion, Quidditch was the only thing James took seriously. Whenever he had managed to get a hold on 1, he'd show off in front of Lily with a Snitch. Jared Blackwell, who had been Quidditch captain before James (he had left Hogwarts the year before), had probably spent half the Practice time saying "Potter stop showing off for Evans! She ain't paying you the least bit of attention, so get back to work!!!"
James spent most of the practice making everyone else miserable. It seemed that he had decided to take frustrations from the night before, out on everybody else (with the exception of Lily ^^). After practice Frank said to Lily, "Man! You're lucky James has a crush on you! My arms are aching so bad, I doubt I'll be able to lift a fork!"
Sirius knew exactly what was up with James. He was upset that he had been made a fool of in front of Lily. Usually he manages to do that himself. Sirius rolled his eyes as James marched down anyone who was in his way as they went up to the common room and replied, "James! Chill out!" You're scaring the children!!!" Sure enough, there were a couple of 1st years huddling together and looking at James in terror. James sighed. "You're right. I DO need to calm down."
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AN~ Chapter 2 is finite!!! I have no clue as to how many chapters there's going to be, so don't ask me!!! I LOVE writing comedy/romances!!! To get to know the characters Mary Nease and Jessi Barr a little better, I'd read my other fic: Not Sure Anymore... It's another Lily/James fic. It's not connected to THIS fic but I use some of the same characters. People, can you tell me some good Lily/James fics? They're my faves!!!