Hello people, I know I haven't updated in like a month.but please forgive me! I really am sorry but I finally updated so here is my story but before you read please read the thing below

READ THIS BEFORE CONTINUING: I have decided to re-do my 3rd chapter a little bit so you MUST read the 3rd chapter before you read this one, otherwise this chapter will make no sense to you. I am sorry I did this to you, but it goes better with the way the rest of the story is going to go.thanks. Oh yeah and also, I've decided that they are in their 7th year and not 4th sorry but I didn't want to go all through 4th year to 7th year! I'm TERRIBLY sorry! Please forgive me!!!

DISCLAIMER-I do not own anything that you recognize therefore do not sue me! thanks

*-*GETTING READY AND GOING TO THE DANCE, BUT NOT QUITE AT THE DANCE YET *-*

It was the 31st of October and the day of the Halloween Dance. Everyone was so excited, especially the girls, they all had already went up to their dormitories to get ready. That was all except, Lily. She didn't need 6 hours to get ready. All she needed was about an hour. So instead of rushing upstairs right after the last class, she decided to walk back to the Gryffindor common room to play a game of Exploding Snap with Remus.

Remus and Lily had been playing for about an hour until Remus looked at the clock on the wall. It was 2 hours before the dance started.

"I'm going to go up to my dormitory and get ready for the dance, okay Lils?" Remus said getting up from the table he and Lily had played Exploding Snap at.

"Are you serious Remus?! Are you like a girl and need 2 hours to get ready for some stupid dance?" Lily asked him sarcastically.

"Very funny Lily. I just want to-"

"Impress your date Nicole. I know I know." Lily said jokingly while rolling her eyes.

Remus laughed and started walking up the stairs to the boys' dormitory.

"Oh, and by the way Lils, to answer your question, no I'm not a girl I'm a guy, you can check if you don't believe me." Remus said jokingly and turned around.

"You sound like Sirius." Lily said laughing.

"Well, I do hang out with the guy." Remus shrugged and walked away.

Lily was left all alone in the common room for about 5 minutes, until the portrait opened, and revealed the charming James Potter. (A/N: sorry but I think James is REALLY charming! Lol)

James noticed Lily and walked over to her and sat across from her at the table she was sitting at.

"Hey Lils!" James said really perky.

"Okay, never do that again." Lily said dully yet jokingly.

"Okay." James said in his normal voice.

"So, why aren't you getting ready for the dance like the rest of the female population at Hogwarts?" James asked teasingly.

"Well, to tell you the truth, I don't need like 60 hours to get ready for a social get together that only lasts for a couple of hours and that are mostly disgustingly dramatic, where everyone basically has a snogfest with one another. Besides, I already know what I'm wearing." Lily said flat out.

"Well, that was a basic flat out honest answer." James said in a joking manner.

"I'm going to go upstairs to my dormitory and get ready for the dance now." Lily said while getting up from her seat at the table.

"Weren't we just talking about how you don't care how you don't need a long time to get ready?" James said raising his eyebrows at her.

"Well, according to the metallic music changing clock over there hanging on the wall, its about 56 minutes until the dance starts." Lily said in a mocking voice pointing to the clock.

"Oh, I knew that" James said.

Lily gave him one of those "sure yea did" looks and walked away from him heading up the stairs to the girls' dormitories.

James watched Lily go up the stairs and couldn't help but love her. James thought about what he just was thinking and shook his head and thought to himself.

No James, you only love her as a best friend. Anways, you have the most perfect girlfriend already, and besides Lily is just your best friend anyways, and that's all she'll ever be, right?Oh, please Alexis. James loves you, he's YOUR boyfriend not that stupid red-head Evans. And if she ever interferes, she's going to wish she never came to Hogwarts.

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Lily was up in her dormitory all by herself since the other three girls had gone downstairs already. Lily was looking at herself in the mirror. What she saw in the mirror wasn't herself. It was some sort of beautiful monster which wasn't Lily. The creature had its hair down instead of up, and she could see its eyes perfectly because it didn't have huge glasses on.

Lily was afraid of going downstairs, because she didn't want to be criticized of the way she looked. She looked at herself in the mirror again, before realizing that the beautiful monster was the REAL her. This was her, Lily Elizabeth Evans.

She walked over to her bed, sat down, and looked at her alarm clock which she charmed to have the background of a snow scene changing to a sunset beach. The clock read 5:55, it was 5 minutes until the whole population of Hogwarts would swarm into the Great Hall for the dance, and criticize one another of how they looked and who they went with. Lily didn't see the point of going, but she had a date for the first time and decided that this could actually be fun for once.

Lily got up from her bed, looked at the mirror one last time, sighed and turned around to the door. She opened it and walked downstairs.

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"Come on James lets go it's five minutes before the dance." Alexis said gently tugging on his arm James looked at his watch, Alexis was right it was 5 minutes before the dance.

"Okay, lets-"

Before James could finish his sentence, he saw Lily walking down the stairs, looking the most gorgeous he had ever seen her before.

Sirius realized this too. He looked at Lily his eyes wide open and his mouth hanging open.

It was true, Lily looked absolutely dead-drop gorgeous.

Lily was wearing a red spaghetti strapped belly shirt that had very small silver stars all over it. She had a black long skirt with black bead stars dangling on the bottom of it. Her belly-button ring was a crescent moon that changed silver to gold with three dangling stars that slowly rotated and changed colors. Her hair was let down in its natural way, which was in loose ringlets on the bottom. She had two strands of her hair in the front pinned back with bobby pins that had black stars on top of them. (A/N: like in What A Girl Wants in the scene where Amanda Bynes is at Peaches and Pears ball, that's how her hair is like Amanda Bynes in that scene.) She had contacts in that revealed her enchanting sparkling emerald green eyes. She was wearing a very natural shimmering tan eye shadow. She painted her nails and toenails black that had a topcoat of red stars, and had on black flat flip-flops.

(A/N: I know I know, that in the 2nd chapter it says dress robes only, but I imagine the dress robes like a bath robe lol and I didn't want Lily wearing one so please bare with me! Thanks)

Lily felt really embarrassed since all the guys and even the girls in the common room just stared at her as she walked down the stairs. She didn't like the attention because she wasn't use to it; she was use to just being the Marauder's friend or the redhead weird Evans girl. She finally reached the bottom of the stairs, which to her felt like an eternity.

"WOW, uh, you look stunning Lily!!" said Sirius in a bit stuttering voice.

Lily cheeks turned a cherry color from blushing.

"Thank you Sirius, you look very handsome yourself." Complimented Lily.

"Oh, these are for you." Sirius said putting out the lily flowers in his hand.

"Since you know your name is Lily I got you lily flowers." Chuckled Sirius nervously.

Lily laughed. She noticed right away that Sirius was really nervous, because when he is he just rambles on and makes no sense.

"Thank you very much Sirius, that was very kind of you." Thanked Lily taking the flowers from Sirius' hand.

"Well, shall we go?" asked Remus standing in back of the portrait.

"Yea." They all said

Sirius held out his arm and Lily put her arm through his.

"Okay, well lets go." Remus said

"James sweetie are you ready?" Alexis asked her boyfriend suspiciously.

"Oh, what, yea I'm ready lets go." James said hesitantly.

James continued to stare at Lily. He couldn't believe that this was his best friend, the girl that he has known since their first year together, the girl he had played pranks with on people, and the girl that he never thought of in his life ever to be beautiful. And here she was standing in front of him looking as gorgeous as possible. Inside of him, he couldn't help but feel a little bit of jealousy.

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well that was my 4th chapter! Sorry it took so long to write I just had MAJOR writers block! But I already started my next chapter were they are at the dance so that should be up very shortly! Well, I hope you liked this chapter and once again I apologize for the wait but please read and review!

ROCk oN!

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