Chapter 11: The Brightest Night
Lily burst into tears and ran into the bathroom. James shot up in his chair and ran into the bathroom, not caring if it was the girl's.
"Lily, what's wrong?" James asked, concerned.
Lily slid down the wall in the corner of the bathroom and said something but James couldn't understand one word she said.
"Lily, tell me right now what happened." James demanded.
"I HATE MY POWERS!" Lily screamed and started crying again.
James rushed over to Lily and wrapped his arms around her, rocking her slowing back and forth.
"It's ok Lily, now just tell me what happened."
"Well, I was just sitting down at the table, looking out the window, right, and then this guy walked passed and looked straight in my eyes. When I read his mind he thought, 'What an ugly girl.' So I sat there shocked for a few moments when this girl walked passed and looked at me, so I read her mind and she thought, 'They should get rid of people like her.' So that's when I screamed." Lily took a deep breath and burst into more tears.
"Lily!" James gasped, shocked. "You are not ugly! Oh, my..."
Lily's sobbing continued. "I'm the ugliest person I ever seen!"
"Lily, you are the most beautiful person. I can list a million things I like about you."
"I'm ugly!"
"One: I absolutely love your eyes. They are the prettiest green I have ever seen and they make me weak. Two: I love your red, curly hair. Sometimes I just want to run my fingers through it. Three: I love your gorgeous smile. It makes the whole room shine. Three: I love your personality. You are really nice and can get along with anyone. Plus you are funny."
Lily's tear slowly went away and she looked up at James. "That was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!" Lily hugged James with all her strength.
James hugged Lily back.
James then looked at Lily. "Can I-?"
His sentence was cut off short when Bella opened the door with a worried expression. She ran towards Lily and hugged her making James fall on his back. Bella didn't notice what she interrupted or the fact that she knocked James on the ground.
"Oh Lily! What's wrong? Everything will be okay." Bella gushed.
Lily nodded and buried her face into Bella's shoulder. She then looked up at James and mouthed a, 'Thank you.'
He nodded and then walked out of the bathroom deciding to give the girls some time alone. That was one thing he didn't understand about girls. All their girl talk.
James sat down and no one asked what happened because they knew James wouldn't answer them. Shortly after James sat down Bella and Lily exit the bathroom and sat down with the rest of them. There was a long silence.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm heading back to Hogwarts," Remus said, standing up.
The others stood up and they all walked back up to the castle.
Monday came and went. Bella got a detention for her 'rudeness' in the hallway. Both Lily and James were thinking about what happened in the bathroom and were trying to avoid each other. Remus was worried about the upcoming full moon. Sirius was trying to find a girlfriend who he actually liked and was trying to come up with some new prank ideas. Veronica was becoming more closed from the others and was keeping to herself. The there was Peter who was also quiet and kept to himself. Lily decided to not use her powers unless it was important.
Before anyone knew it, Winter Break came and so did the snow.
***
Lily woke up yawning. Today was Christmas Eve. She smiled to herself. Finally Lily got to sleep in because of Winter Break.
Lily got out of bed and walked into the bathroom. She decided to take a nice refreshing bath. Something she hadn't got to do lately. It's always been quick showers.
After taking off her clothes she slowly sat down in the tub filled with bubbles and closed her eyes breathing in the smell of strawberries. Her favorite scent.
Lily finally finished her bath, got up, and wrapped a towel around her. She went in her room and got dressed. Then she did her hair. She decided, just for today, to make it very long and straight. She put it up in a half, which was braided on each side with a green ribbon going through it. Lily exited the room and headed for lunch because she slept through breakfast.
"Hey, you guys." Lily said, as she sat down at the table.
"Hey," Everyone mumbled, too engrossed in their food.
"I got an idea!" James said. "Let's go outside and have a snowball fight!"
Everyone forgot about their food and ran towards the Entrance Hall, laughing.
They got outside and Lily bent down to pick up some snow. Before she even got a chance to get up, she left a very hard snow ball knock her off her feet.
Lily looked up and saw James laughing his head off.
'Well,' Lily thought, 'we'll see how he likes this.' She rolled up a snow ball and threw it at James.
It was the funniest sight she had ever seen. It had landed in his mouth.
James's eyes were huge and he spitted it out.
The others were too caught up in their own little snowball fight to notice Lily and James.
"Why you little." James ran towards Lily and tackled her and started to tickle her. Lily was laughing her head off. She was a very ticklish person.
"James!" Lily gasped out between laughing. "Do you ::gasp:: want to go to the ::gasp:: Quidditch field?"
James's ears perked up at the word 'Quidditch' and immediately stopped. Lily knew he would stop at the mention of that.
"Sure," he said, smiling.
Lily blushed. It had been a long time since they had actually talked. Lily pushed it aside and decided to enjoy her time with James.
They walked down to the Quidditch field, forgetting all about the others and their snowball fight.
"Do you want to go for a broom ride?" James said going to the broom shed.
"Um, I don't know. I don't like flying too much." Lily said, her voice trailing off.
"Please?" James gave her puppy eyes. Lily had to look away because she knew she would give in if she took one look. "You can ride with me if you want to. Please, we haven't talked in a long time."
Lily glanced over and immediately gave in. "Ok."
"Yes!" James said grinning at Lily. Then he got a broom from the shed and walked back over to Lily. "Ok, you get on first."
Lily put her leg over. Then she felt James get on the broom from behind her.
He slowly started rising.
"James, slow down," Lily said with shaking breath.
"Lily, this is the slowest you can go."
"Oh."
James started to pick up a little speed and Lily started to tighten her grip on the broom.
Without any warning, wind was blowing all around them. Lily looked down and let out a little scream.
"James, I can't even see the ground!"
When Lily turned her head a little around to look at James, he had a worried expression on his face.
"Oh, my God," Lily muttered.
"Don't worry Lily I'm going back down. It looks like a snow storm is coming."
The broom started jerking and she felt one of James's arms wrap around her. They started heading towards the forbidden forest.
"James, stop it!" Lily yelled.
"I can't!"
"What do you mean, you can't?"
"It's going out of control!"
As soon as James said it, they were heading full speed towards a tree in the middle of the forest.
Lily then saw black.
When she woke up she felt strong arms holding her.
She opened her eyes and saw James carrying her.
"James, what are you doing?"
James looked down surprised.
"We ran into a tree. You ended up falling down and I ended up in the tree itself. So then I found you and now I'm trying some place to camp over night, considering I have no clue where we are at and it'll take us at least a day to find our way out and it's almost dark."
"Oh."
James continued carrying Lily and Lily buried her face in James's shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck.
After about 30 minutes, James had found a cave. He gently set Lily down and they walked inside.
After another 10 minutes of walking they found a place to settle down in.
"Finally!" Lily said as she sat down and took her soggy boots off.
"Ew, what's that smell?" James joked around.
"Very funny," Lily said grinning. "So, now what are we going to do?"
"I don't know," James said, "We're just going to have to wait till morning, and then start walking."
Lily nodded and closed her eyes for a few moments.
"Gosh, it's hot in here," She said opening her eyes and looking at James.
"It is, considering outside its freezing." James had a couple of sweat drops on his face.
Lily and James took off their heavy cloaks and set them down. Lily still felt hot.
"I'm sorry, but I'm still hot. Why is it hot in here?" Lily asked James fanning herself.
"I don't know, maybe it's one of those rare caves that are hot. I have read about those in some books."
Lily blushed. "Don't laugh." She then took off her two sweaters and was left wearing a belly shirt with long, flared out sleeves. She was left wearing that and a skirt with panty hoes. "It's the only thing that was clean."
James stared at her shirt, "Why would I laugh?"
"I don't know," She mumbled, covering her stomach.
James was left wearing a sweater and jeans.
James sighed and laid out on his cloak. "At least I'm spending my Christmas Eve with you and not some stuck up person."
Lily chuckled and also laid out on her cloak.
"James?" Lily asked. "Do you ever wonder how it feels like after death? Like, do you still think? Can you see? Can you hear?"
"Sometimes," James answered turning his head and starring at Lily.
"You're different. I mean some girls, if they were stuck in the same situation, would only be talking about their nails, then freaking out about how dark it was, and other stuff."
"Thanks.I think."
James sat up and looked at Lily, glazing at her from head to toe.
"What is it?" Lily said also sitting up.
"Lily I never finished my sentence in the bathroom." James took a deep breath. "I was going to ask if I can kiss you. So, I'm asking again. Can I kiss you?"
Lily blinked. She had dreamed of this all her life since she was eleven and first saw James get on the Hogwarts Express. And now it was finally coming true after everything she went through.
Lily leaned forward and James did the same thing. Glazing into James's eyes, she showily closed her eyes while tilting her head.
A shock ran through them as their lips met. Lily took her hands and putted them on James face as James put his arms around Lily's waist, pulling her closer to him. Lily pulled away slowly and looked into James's eyes. They stayed like that for a few moments, just looking into each other's eyes.
Lily took James's glasses off and she then kissed James's nose, forehead, each cheek, his chin, both of his eye lids, and the corners of his mouth.
James couldn't stand it anymore and let out a moan while he took Lily's lips back to his. The kiss was innocent at first, but then deepened.
James's slowly laid Lily on her back and continued to kiss her. He gave her a quick peck on the lips and started to kiss her neck.
Lily never knew someone could put so much passion into a kiss.
After James was finished kissing her neck he came back up to her lips. Lily ran her fingers up and down his spine, sending chills through James.
"Wow," they both said gasping for breath, letting go of each other's lips, and hugging each other.
"Lily!" James said, hugging her tighter. "That was the best kiss I have ever had!"
"That was my only kiss I ever had," Lily said, giggling.
"Are you serious? I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to kiss you."
"Well," Lily said blushing. "I kissed you once before."
James looked at Lily questioning. "How? I don't remember."
"I stopped time and I was so tempted."
"You little sneak!"
They laid there, just hugging each other and listening to each other's heart beats.
"Lily, will you be my girlfriend?" James broke the silence.
Lily gave James a peck on the lips. "Yes." They kissed each other once last time before falling asleep in each other's arms.
It was the brightest night.
A/N: THERE! The kiss! Alas! Lol, thanks for all your reviews! I love you guys! I can't believe how many I got! Thanks! I'll answer some questions you guys asked in the next chapter because I'm to lazy to do it now. Lol, well, REVIEW!
Lily burst into tears and ran into the bathroom. James shot up in his chair and ran into the bathroom, not caring if it was the girl's.
"Lily, what's wrong?" James asked, concerned.
Lily slid down the wall in the corner of the bathroom and said something but James couldn't understand one word she said.
"Lily, tell me right now what happened." James demanded.
"I HATE MY POWERS!" Lily screamed and started crying again.
James rushed over to Lily and wrapped his arms around her, rocking her slowing back and forth.
"It's ok Lily, now just tell me what happened."
"Well, I was just sitting down at the table, looking out the window, right, and then this guy walked passed and looked straight in my eyes. When I read his mind he thought, 'What an ugly girl.' So I sat there shocked for a few moments when this girl walked passed and looked at me, so I read her mind and she thought, 'They should get rid of people like her.' So that's when I screamed." Lily took a deep breath and burst into more tears.
"Lily!" James gasped, shocked. "You are not ugly! Oh, my..."
Lily's sobbing continued. "I'm the ugliest person I ever seen!"
"Lily, you are the most beautiful person. I can list a million things I like about you."
"I'm ugly!"
"One: I absolutely love your eyes. They are the prettiest green I have ever seen and they make me weak. Two: I love your red, curly hair. Sometimes I just want to run my fingers through it. Three: I love your gorgeous smile. It makes the whole room shine. Three: I love your personality. You are really nice and can get along with anyone. Plus you are funny."
Lily's tear slowly went away and she looked up at James. "That was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!" Lily hugged James with all her strength.
James hugged Lily back.
James then looked at Lily. "Can I-?"
His sentence was cut off short when Bella opened the door with a worried expression. She ran towards Lily and hugged her making James fall on his back. Bella didn't notice what she interrupted or the fact that she knocked James on the ground.
"Oh Lily! What's wrong? Everything will be okay." Bella gushed.
Lily nodded and buried her face into Bella's shoulder. She then looked up at James and mouthed a, 'Thank you.'
He nodded and then walked out of the bathroom deciding to give the girls some time alone. That was one thing he didn't understand about girls. All their girl talk.
James sat down and no one asked what happened because they knew James wouldn't answer them. Shortly after James sat down Bella and Lily exit the bathroom and sat down with the rest of them. There was a long silence.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm heading back to Hogwarts," Remus said, standing up.
The others stood up and they all walked back up to the castle.
Monday came and went. Bella got a detention for her 'rudeness' in the hallway. Both Lily and James were thinking about what happened in the bathroom and were trying to avoid each other. Remus was worried about the upcoming full moon. Sirius was trying to find a girlfriend who he actually liked and was trying to come up with some new prank ideas. Veronica was becoming more closed from the others and was keeping to herself. The there was Peter who was also quiet and kept to himself. Lily decided to not use her powers unless it was important.
Before anyone knew it, Winter Break came and so did the snow.
***
Lily woke up yawning. Today was Christmas Eve. She smiled to herself. Finally Lily got to sleep in because of Winter Break.
Lily got out of bed and walked into the bathroom. She decided to take a nice refreshing bath. Something she hadn't got to do lately. It's always been quick showers.
After taking off her clothes she slowly sat down in the tub filled with bubbles and closed her eyes breathing in the smell of strawberries. Her favorite scent.
Lily finally finished her bath, got up, and wrapped a towel around her. She went in her room and got dressed. Then she did her hair. She decided, just for today, to make it very long and straight. She put it up in a half, which was braided on each side with a green ribbon going through it. Lily exited the room and headed for lunch because she slept through breakfast.
"Hey, you guys." Lily said, as she sat down at the table.
"Hey," Everyone mumbled, too engrossed in their food.
"I got an idea!" James said. "Let's go outside and have a snowball fight!"
Everyone forgot about their food and ran towards the Entrance Hall, laughing.
They got outside and Lily bent down to pick up some snow. Before she even got a chance to get up, she left a very hard snow ball knock her off her feet.
Lily looked up and saw James laughing his head off.
'Well,' Lily thought, 'we'll see how he likes this.' She rolled up a snow ball and threw it at James.
It was the funniest sight she had ever seen. It had landed in his mouth.
James's eyes were huge and he spitted it out.
The others were too caught up in their own little snowball fight to notice Lily and James.
"Why you little." James ran towards Lily and tackled her and started to tickle her. Lily was laughing her head off. She was a very ticklish person.
"James!" Lily gasped out between laughing. "Do you ::gasp:: want to go to the ::gasp:: Quidditch field?"
James's ears perked up at the word 'Quidditch' and immediately stopped. Lily knew he would stop at the mention of that.
"Sure," he said, smiling.
Lily blushed. It had been a long time since they had actually talked. Lily pushed it aside and decided to enjoy her time with James.
They walked down to the Quidditch field, forgetting all about the others and their snowball fight.
"Do you want to go for a broom ride?" James said going to the broom shed.
"Um, I don't know. I don't like flying too much." Lily said, her voice trailing off.
"Please?" James gave her puppy eyes. Lily had to look away because she knew she would give in if she took one look. "You can ride with me if you want to. Please, we haven't talked in a long time."
Lily glanced over and immediately gave in. "Ok."
"Yes!" James said grinning at Lily. Then he got a broom from the shed and walked back over to Lily. "Ok, you get on first."
Lily put her leg over. Then she felt James get on the broom from behind her.
He slowly started rising.
"James, slow down," Lily said with shaking breath.
"Lily, this is the slowest you can go."
"Oh."
James started to pick up a little speed and Lily started to tighten her grip on the broom.
Without any warning, wind was blowing all around them. Lily looked down and let out a little scream.
"James, I can't even see the ground!"
When Lily turned her head a little around to look at James, he had a worried expression on his face.
"Oh, my God," Lily muttered.
"Don't worry Lily I'm going back down. It looks like a snow storm is coming."
The broom started jerking and she felt one of James's arms wrap around her. They started heading towards the forbidden forest.
"James, stop it!" Lily yelled.
"I can't!"
"What do you mean, you can't?"
"It's going out of control!"
As soon as James said it, they were heading full speed towards a tree in the middle of the forest.
Lily then saw black.
When she woke up she felt strong arms holding her.
She opened her eyes and saw James carrying her.
"James, what are you doing?"
James looked down surprised.
"We ran into a tree. You ended up falling down and I ended up in the tree itself. So then I found you and now I'm trying some place to camp over night, considering I have no clue where we are at and it'll take us at least a day to find our way out and it's almost dark."
"Oh."
James continued carrying Lily and Lily buried her face in James's shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck.
After about 30 minutes, James had found a cave. He gently set Lily down and they walked inside.
After another 10 minutes of walking they found a place to settle down in.
"Finally!" Lily said as she sat down and took her soggy boots off.
"Ew, what's that smell?" James joked around.
"Very funny," Lily said grinning. "So, now what are we going to do?"
"I don't know," James said, "We're just going to have to wait till morning, and then start walking."
Lily nodded and closed her eyes for a few moments.
"Gosh, it's hot in here," She said opening her eyes and looking at James.
"It is, considering outside its freezing." James had a couple of sweat drops on his face.
Lily and James took off their heavy cloaks and set them down. Lily still felt hot.
"I'm sorry, but I'm still hot. Why is it hot in here?" Lily asked James fanning herself.
"I don't know, maybe it's one of those rare caves that are hot. I have read about those in some books."
Lily blushed. "Don't laugh." She then took off her two sweaters and was left wearing a belly shirt with long, flared out sleeves. She was left wearing that and a skirt with panty hoes. "It's the only thing that was clean."
James stared at her shirt, "Why would I laugh?"
"I don't know," She mumbled, covering her stomach.
James was left wearing a sweater and jeans.
James sighed and laid out on his cloak. "At least I'm spending my Christmas Eve with you and not some stuck up person."
Lily chuckled and also laid out on her cloak.
"James?" Lily asked. "Do you ever wonder how it feels like after death? Like, do you still think? Can you see? Can you hear?"
"Sometimes," James answered turning his head and starring at Lily.
"You're different. I mean some girls, if they were stuck in the same situation, would only be talking about their nails, then freaking out about how dark it was, and other stuff."
"Thanks.I think."
James sat up and looked at Lily, glazing at her from head to toe.
"What is it?" Lily said also sitting up.
"Lily I never finished my sentence in the bathroom." James took a deep breath. "I was going to ask if I can kiss you. So, I'm asking again. Can I kiss you?"
Lily blinked. She had dreamed of this all her life since she was eleven and first saw James get on the Hogwarts Express. And now it was finally coming true after everything she went through.
Lily leaned forward and James did the same thing. Glazing into James's eyes, she showily closed her eyes while tilting her head.
A shock ran through them as their lips met. Lily took her hands and putted them on James face as James put his arms around Lily's waist, pulling her closer to him. Lily pulled away slowly and looked into James's eyes. They stayed like that for a few moments, just looking into each other's eyes.
Lily took James's glasses off and she then kissed James's nose, forehead, each cheek, his chin, both of his eye lids, and the corners of his mouth.
James couldn't stand it anymore and let out a moan while he took Lily's lips back to his. The kiss was innocent at first, but then deepened.
James's slowly laid Lily on her back and continued to kiss her. He gave her a quick peck on the lips and started to kiss her neck.
Lily never knew someone could put so much passion into a kiss.
After James was finished kissing her neck he came back up to her lips. Lily ran her fingers up and down his spine, sending chills through James.
"Wow," they both said gasping for breath, letting go of each other's lips, and hugging each other.
"Lily!" James said, hugging her tighter. "That was the best kiss I have ever had!"
"That was my only kiss I ever had," Lily said, giggling.
"Are you serious? I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to kiss you."
"Well," Lily said blushing. "I kissed you once before."
James looked at Lily questioning. "How? I don't remember."
"I stopped time and I was so tempted."
"You little sneak!"
They laid there, just hugging each other and listening to each other's heart beats.
"Lily, will you be my girlfriend?" James broke the silence.
Lily gave James a peck on the lips. "Yes." They kissed each other once last time before falling asleep in each other's arms.
It was the brightest night.
A/N: THERE! The kiss! Alas! Lol, thanks for all your reviews! I love you guys! I can't believe how many I got! Thanks! I'll answer some questions you guys asked in the next chapter because I'm to lazy to do it now. Lol, well, REVIEW!