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have been really busy! This chapter starts part way through the last week
of the holiday just before they go into 5th year. So. On with the story..
CHAPTER THREE Fifth Year - The beginning - PART TWO
The next day it was past noon when the girls got up, and when they came downstairs there were two figures sitting at the kitchen table.
'Sirius!' exclaimed Lily, astonished. 'What time did you get here?'
'Oh, about half an hour ago. Poor Jamesy was just telling me he'd been up since eight, all on his own. Aah.'
All during this exchange, Belle had been looking at Sirius with a funny expression on her face. This Lily noticed. 'Oh no. She's falling in love. Again!' She sighed to herself.
'So, what about my hugs then? Asked Sirius. 'It's tradition.'
At which the other three scoffed.
'Oh well.' Sighed Lily, and obliged.
'Yes James-my-man, no resistance. I' getting good.' Boasted Sirius.
'Sirius. A, will you stop with this Jamesy and James-my-man thing. And B, she didn't.'
'I KNOW she didn't complain James. That is because.'
'SIRIUS BLACK!' Shouted Belle. 'She didn't moan about hugging James either. Don't interrupt me!'
'Uh oh,' thought Lily. 'Phase one of flirting Belle style.'
'You may be,' continued Belle, 'one of the hottest, if not the hottest guy in the year. But you are all mouth.'
'Phase two.' Sighed Lily.
'No I'm not!' answered Sirius in a rage.
'Yes, you are.'
'NO! I'm not.'
'Prove it then.' Dared Belle.
'Phase three, dares.' Muttered Lily, not even really listening.
'You what?' asked Sirius confused. (A/N PROBABLY LIKE YOU READERS!)
'Prove that you're not all mouth.'
'How?'
'Kiss me.'
Lily groaned inwardly. She met James' eyes, and he rolled them.
'Um. OK.'
Sirius came forward and kissed Belle, hard on the lips. They broke apart, looked at each other. Then they were kissing again. James got up and motioned Lily to follow him. She did. When she was out of the kitchen, James shut the door behind her.
'Let's leave them for five minutes, then we'll go and throw a glass of water over them.'
'Well that was slightly obvious!'
'What was?' asked James, giving Lily a funny look.
'That they'd end up snogging.'
'Was it?'
'Didn't you see her face when she saw him? She was head-over-heels. Then with her flirting.'
'That was her flirting?' asked James amazed.
'Yep!'
'Gosh, I'd hate to see her angry.'
'Anyway, like I was saying, with her flirting, it was bound to end like that. I mean, no offence, but Sirius would snog anything with legs.'
'No. That's wrong. It has to be female. Well, he's never tried anything with me, and you know how irresistible I am!'
Lily raised her eyebrows, then had to laugh. 'You think we have given them long enough?'
'Yeah.' And James stormed back into the kitchen, grabbed a glass of water, and threw it over Belle and Sirius.
They split apart. And blinked. But they hardly seemed to notice the water at all, as they stared dreamily at each other.
'Right. Come on you two, let's decide what we're going to do this week.' Ordered James.
'OK.' Replied Sirius, still staring at Belle.
'Um. Yes.' Said Belle, shaking herself out of her daze. 'My parents said that we can do whatever we want.'
'Yes!'
'. As long as it's legal Sirius.'
'Damn.'
'Right, well, we are going to get our stuff tomorrow.'
'Are we? When did that get decided?' asked Sirius.
'Yesterday.' Replied Lily matter-of-factly.
'But WHAT are we going to do today?' asked James, exasperated. 'No, scrap that. This afternoon.' And nodded towards the clock, which now read 12:30.
'Well we can go and see the muggle town. Do some shopping.' Suggested Belle.
'Why do girls always want to go shopping?'
'Hey. It's in our genes.' Responded Belle. (A/N SORRY IF YOU TAKE OFFENCE AT THIS, BUT HEY I'M SLAGGING OF MYSELF THEN!)
Belle and Sirius grinned stupidly at each other, causing Lily and James to sigh.
'Well. Shall we go then?'
'Yeah, might as well. I'll just get my stuff.' Answered Belle.
*********************
Half an hour later, Belle, James, Sirius and Lily left the house.
'I hope you two have left your wands behind!' said Lily in a stern voice.
James and Sirius nodded. Then under his breathe James muttered, 'Professor McGonagall, here we come!' Lily frowned at him.
Just then, the sixteen-year-old from next door came out of his house.
'Hi Belle!' he shouted.
'Hi Mike.' She responded.
'How are you?'
'Fine. Oh and these are my friends from school. This is Lily, James, and Sirius.'
'Hi.'
'Hi.'
'Are you going into town?' asked Mike.
'Yeah. I thought I would show them around.'
'Well I'm also heading into town. Would you like a lift off my dad?'
'No!' responded James and Sirius together, a little TOO quickly.
'No thank you.' Answered Belle, glaring at James and Sirius, 'we'd rather walk.'
'Hey, that's alright. Mind if I walk with you?'
'YES!' answered James.
'. That'll be fine.' Carried on Lily, as if James had meant to say that, whilst Belle elbowed him in the ribs.
Mike's smile had begun to become fixed. 'Well, I'll just go and get some money. I'll be back soon.'
As Mike disappeared, Lily and Belle turned and glared at James and Sirius,
'What the hell were you two doing?' stormed Belle.
'Well.well. James, explain.' Stammered Sirius.
James blinked, glared at Sirius and, 'Well, you see, it's all because.of.'he said thinking quickly, '.Sirius.'
'It is?' asked the other three together, before Sirius added, 'Of course.'
'Well you see, this Mike person is a Muggle.'
'Well done James, great powers of deduction.' Said Lily sarcastically.
'Yeah and, Lily your muggle born, Belle lives like a muggle, and I'm always here for most of the holiday. You see, WE all know about muggles and their objects, but Sirius doesn't. He even got kicked out of Muggle Studies.' He finished.
Sirius who had been watching James nodded and added, 'You see, we were scared of him guessing.'
'Oh Sirius.' Replied Belle with sympathy. 'Don't worry, I'll look after you.'
At which Sirius grinned and kissed her. Just then Mike came running out. He did a double take at Sirius and Belle, before saying,
'OK then.'
Belle broke away, and they set off, though not before Sirius muttered to James,
'Remind me to let you tell stories to McGonagall!!'
'What, for the same result?' James asked deadpan.
Sirius thought for a moment, then, 'James! Ugh! That thought will give me nightmares!'
After five minutes of walking, Belle dropped back from Lily and mike to James and Sirius. 'Those two are getting on well.'
James and Sirius both grunted. And Sirius asked,
'Are we nearly there yet?'
'Yup'
Just then they arrived.
'Right,' said Belle going into bossy mode, 'Mike, do you mind showing Lily around, whilst I look after James and Sirius?'
'No that's fine.'
'OK. We're meet back here in an hour then.'
As Lily and Mike wondered away, James turned to Belle and asked, 'So what we up to then?'
'I thought we could introduce Sirius to the muggle world, and just wonder around for a bit.'
'OK.'
**************** Fifty-five minutes later and James was strolling back to where they had arranged to meet Lily. 'Oh what a great day I have had!' muttered James. 'Hanging around all morning, then spending the afternoon watching Belle and Sirius snogging. And Lily is off with this Mike person. Stupid muggles.'
It never occurred to James that he might be jealous, I mean, it was Lily, he was only looking out for her as friend.
Belle and Sirius were walking about 20 yards behind him, holding hand and, in Belle's case, giggling. Then Mike and Lily rounded the corner, this time it was James, Sirius AND Belle who did a double take. They were holding hands to, and Lily kept glancing up at Mike.
'Hiya!' called out Belle loudly. 'Did you enjoy yourselves?'
'Definitely.' Replied Lily.
'Belle, I'm really sorry, but I've got to go home. I promised my dad I'd help him with something.'
'OK Mike. Thanks for showing Lily around.'
'Bye then. And Lily, I'll pick you up at 6 yeah?'
'Yeah, bye!' And Lily and Mike shared a quick kiss, before he walked away.
As soon as he was out of sight, Belle started plying Lily with questions, whilst James looked at Sirius, who shrugged, before going to sit on a nearby bench.
Belle learnt off Lily that her and Mike had just clicked, and after a while he had asked her out to the cinema that night, to which she had agreed.
'Lily!' shrieked Belle. 'Your clothes! You have only got your uniform and a few casual clothes.'
'What am I going to do?' asked Lily in a desperate voice.
'We can try and get something now.'
'Can we?'
'Yep. Let's go.'
'But what about James and Sirius?'
'Oh. I'll give them some money and they can go into McDonalds.'
The boys were asked / told to go and wait in McDonalds and whilst they wondered off with strict instructions to behave themselves, Belle and Lily started looking for clothes.
An hour later they were done, and went to look for the boys. They found them waiting inside McDonalds, and completely fed up. Especially in James' case. As they set off back to the house, he started moaning,
'What took you so long? And why did Lily need MORE clothes anyway?'
'She's going on a DATE! She needs to look her best.' Answered Belle.
'But she's got nice clothes anyway.'
'James, remind me to teach you something about girls sometime this week.'
'But she looks great in what she's wearing NOW!' said James, then blushed.
Belle gave James a funny look, and Sirius and Lily turned back from where they were walking 10 yards away.
'It's all right. We're not arguing.' Said Belle exasperated.
When Lily and Sirius had gone back to their conversation, Belle asked James,
'Why are you so bothered?'
'BECAUSE I have had to watch you and Sirius snogging for an hour, then had to hang around whilst you and Lily shopped for clothes she didn't really need!'
'James, I'm really sorry if you felt awkward. But you're not jealous about Lily and Mike are you?'
'Why would I be jealous?' asked James, a little louder than he intended.
Lily and Sirius looked back again and shrugged.
'OK, you're not jealous, let's catch up with those two shall we?'
****************
At 5 o'clock, Lily went and started to get ready. At 5:30, Belle went to help her. Then at 5:50, Lily came back downstairs.
When James saw her, he felt his mouth drop, and he had to make a mental effort to close it again. She was wearing a blue skirt that fell to just above her knees and a yellow sleeveless top. On her feet were boots, to halfway up her calves and her waist length hair was coiled in a French twist. It was simple, but VERY effective.
'Lily, you look lovely.' Said Sirius, after a poke from Belle.
'Yeah.' Agreed James.
'Thanks. You don't think.'
Just then the doorbell rang, and Belle ran to answer it.
'Hi Mike. Lily's nearly ready, do you want to come in?'
'No thanks. I'll just wait here.'
'I'll just go get her.' Belle came back into the lounge. 'Good luck Lil.' She said giving her a quick hug.
'Can we.?' asked Sirius.
For answer Belle just glared at him, and they followed Lily out to the front door.
'Lily! You look. wonderful!' gasped Mike.
'Thank you.' Replied Lily, blushing a little.
'Shall we go then?'
'Yep. Bye everyone.'
'Bye!' they chorused.
After Lily and Mike had gone, Belle, James and Sirius went back into the lounge,
'So what now then?'
*************
Two hours later..
In the lounge Belle and James were trying to tidy up. They had been playing a game that consisted of seeing how far you could flick sparks from your wand. But on James' turn he had caught the curtains on fire, and whilst Belle tried to help him sort it out, Sirius sat laughing.
Just then they heard a car pull up next door, and they ran to the window.
Outside.
Lily had, had a wonderful time. It was a shame it had to end. Mike had put his arm around her after five minutes and she had snuggled into him. She was disappointed that the evening had to end.
When the car pulled, she got out.
''I'll wait inside.' Said Mike's dad, whom had given them a lift.
'Thank you Mr Turner.' Said Lily.
After his father had gone inside, Mike turned to Lily.
'Did you enjoy yourself?'
'It was wonderful. Thank you so much.'
'That's alright.' He replied. Then, 'Lily, will you be my girlfriend? I know you're at boarding school, but we can write. I would understand if you didn't want to.'
Lily looked at Mike thinking. Would it be possible, she did like him quite a bit,
'YES! I would love it.' She finally answered.
And with that Mike drew her close until their lips met. It was a long passionate kiss. And inside Belle drew James and Sirius back from the window with the words,
'She wouldn't like to think that we were watching.'
'OK.'
'So let's just leave them to it. We'll play cards, yes?'
'Alright.'
Belle, James and Sirius sat down to play cards, and a few minutes later, the front door opened. Motioning to James and Sirius to stay where they were, she dashed out. Seconds later, the boys heard squealing followed by the sound of people going upstairs. They looked at each other, shrugged and carried on the game.
Half an hour later, Belle and Lily came back downstairs.
'Did you enjoy yourself?' Sirius asked Lily.
'It was brilliant.' Was the reply.
'Do you two want to join in?'
'Might as well. Though is there much point? We all know who is going to win.' Replied Belle, starring at James pointedly.
'Why thank you!' he replied making mock bows.
'Let's just play.'
So they played cards. And as predicted, James won the first five games.
'How do you do that?' asked Sirius in envy, 'you ALWAYS win.'
'Skill.' Was James' simple reply.
'Or luck.' Added Belle.
'Definitely luck,' said Lily, 'he's not good looking enough to.'
Just then a pillow in the face cut her off.
'James!!!!!!' Shouted Belle, and Lily once she had escaped the pillow.
Then a pillow hit Belle. 'Oi! Sirius!'
'Sorry he wined, showing he wasn't really.
'That's it.' Muttered Lily. Then turning to Belle whispered something. Both girls turned, drew out their wands, and pointing at the boys muttered, 'Peltus objectous.'
Pillows flew across the room at the boys and hit them. After 30 seconds, James managed to free his wand, and he muttered the counter curse.
'Right, that's it. PILLOW FIGHT!' and grabbing pillows they started.
Soon there were feathers everywhere, and howls of laughter. However, eventually they collapsed, exhausted, and they fell asleep in a huddle on the floor.
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CHAPTER THREE Fifth Year - The beginning - PART TWO
The next day it was past noon when the girls got up, and when they came downstairs there were two figures sitting at the kitchen table.
'Sirius!' exclaimed Lily, astonished. 'What time did you get here?'
'Oh, about half an hour ago. Poor Jamesy was just telling me he'd been up since eight, all on his own. Aah.'
All during this exchange, Belle had been looking at Sirius with a funny expression on her face. This Lily noticed. 'Oh no. She's falling in love. Again!' She sighed to herself.
'So, what about my hugs then? Asked Sirius. 'It's tradition.'
At which the other three scoffed.
'Oh well.' Sighed Lily, and obliged.
'Yes James-my-man, no resistance. I' getting good.' Boasted Sirius.
'Sirius. A, will you stop with this Jamesy and James-my-man thing. And B, she didn't.'
'I KNOW she didn't complain James. That is because.'
'SIRIUS BLACK!' Shouted Belle. 'She didn't moan about hugging James either. Don't interrupt me!'
'Uh oh,' thought Lily. 'Phase one of flirting Belle style.'
'You may be,' continued Belle, 'one of the hottest, if not the hottest guy in the year. But you are all mouth.'
'Phase two.' Sighed Lily.
'No I'm not!' answered Sirius in a rage.
'Yes, you are.'
'NO! I'm not.'
'Prove it then.' Dared Belle.
'Phase three, dares.' Muttered Lily, not even really listening.
'You what?' asked Sirius confused. (A/N PROBABLY LIKE YOU READERS!)
'Prove that you're not all mouth.'
'How?'
'Kiss me.'
Lily groaned inwardly. She met James' eyes, and he rolled them.
'Um. OK.'
Sirius came forward and kissed Belle, hard on the lips. They broke apart, looked at each other. Then they were kissing again. James got up and motioned Lily to follow him. She did. When she was out of the kitchen, James shut the door behind her.
'Let's leave them for five minutes, then we'll go and throw a glass of water over them.'
'Well that was slightly obvious!'
'What was?' asked James, giving Lily a funny look.
'That they'd end up snogging.'
'Was it?'
'Didn't you see her face when she saw him? She was head-over-heels. Then with her flirting.'
'That was her flirting?' asked James amazed.
'Yep!'
'Gosh, I'd hate to see her angry.'
'Anyway, like I was saying, with her flirting, it was bound to end like that. I mean, no offence, but Sirius would snog anything with legs.'
'No. That's wrong. It has to be female. Well, he's never tried anything with me, and you know how irresistible I am!'
Lily raised her eyebrows, then had to laugh. 'You think we have given them long enough?'
'Yeah.' And James stormed back into the kitchen, grabbed a glass of water, and threw it over Belle and Sirius.
They split apart. And blinked. But they hardly seemed to notice the water at all, as they stared dreamily at each other.
'Right. Come on you two, let's decide what we're going to do this week.' Ordered James.
'OK.' Replied Sirius, still staring at Belle.
'Um. Yes.' Said Belle, shaking herself out of her daze. 'My parents said that we can do whatever we want.'
'Yes!'
'. As long as it's legal Sirius.'
'Damn.'
'Right, well, we are going to get our stuff tomorrow.'
'Are we? When did that get decided?' asked Sirius.
'Yesterday.' Replied Lily matter-of-factly.
'But WHAT are we going to do today?' asked James, exasperated. 'No, scrap that. This afternoon.' And nodded towards the clock, which now read 12:30.
'Well we can go and see the muggle town. Do some shopping.' Suggested Belle.
'Why do girls always want to go shopping?'
'Hey. It's in our genes.' Responded Belle. (A/N SORRY IF YOU TAKE OFFENCE AT THIS, BUT HEY I'M SLAGGING OF MYSELF THEN!)
Belle and Sirius grinned stupidly at each other, causing Lily and James to sigh.
'Well. Shall we go then?'
'Yeah, might as well. I'll just get my stuff.' Answered Belle.
*********************
Half an hour later, Belle, James, Sirius and Lily left the house.
'I hope you two have left your wands behind!' said Lily in a stern voice.
James and Sirius nodded. Then under his breathe James muttered, 'Professor McGonagall, here we come!' Lily frowned at him.
Just then, the sixteen-year-old from next door came out of his house.
'Hi Belle!' he shouted.
'Hi Mike.' She responded.
'How are you?'
'Fine. Oh and these are my friends from school. This is Lily, James, and Sirius.'
'Hi.'
'Hi.'
'Are you going into town?' asked Mike.
'Yeah. I thought I would show them around.'
'Well I'm also heading into town. Would you like a lift off my dad?'
'No!' responded James and Sirius together, a little TOO quickly.
'No thank you.' Answered Belle, glaring at James and Sirius, 'we'd rather walk.'
'Hey, that's alright. Mind if I walk with you?'
'YES!' answered James.
'. That'll be fine.' Carried on Lily, as if James had meant to say that, whilst Belle elbowed him in the ribs.
Mike's smile had begun to become fixed. 'Well, I'll just go and get some money. I'll be back soon.'
As Mike disappeared, Lily and Belle turned and glared at James and Sirius,
'What the hell were you two doing?' stormed Belle.
'Well.well. James, explain.' Stammered Sirius.
James blinked, glared at Sirius and, 'Well, you see, it's all because.of.'he said thinking quickly, '.Sirius.'
'It is?' asked the other three together, before Sirius added, 'Of course.'
'Well you see, this Mike person is a Muggle.'
'Well done James, great powers of deduction.' Said Lily sarcastically.
'Yeah and, Lily your muggle born, Belle lives like a muggle, and I'm always here for most of the holiday. You see, WE all know about muggles and their objects, but Sirius doesn't. He even got kicked out of Muggle Studies.' He finished.
Sirius who had been watching James nodded and added, 'You see, we were scared of him guessing.'
'Oh Sirius.' Replied Belle with sympathy. 'Don't worry, I'll look after you.'
At which Sirius grinned and kissed her. Just then Mike came running out. He did a double take at Sirius and Belle, before saying,
'OK then.'
Belle broke away, and they set off, though not before Sirius muttered to James,
'Remind me to let you tell stories to McGonagall!!'
'What, for the same result?' James asked deadpan.
Sirius thought for a moment, then, 'James! Ugh! That thought will give me nightmares!'
After five minutes of walking, Belle dropped back from Lily and mike to James and Sirius. 'Those two are getting on well.'
James and Sirius both grunted. And Sirius asked,
'Are we nearly there yet?'
'Yup'
Just then they arrived.
'Right,' said Belle going into bossy mode, 'Mike, do you mind showing Lily around, whilst I look after James and Sirius?'
'No that's fine.'
'OK. We're meet back here in an hour then.'
As Lily and Mike wondered away, James turned to Belle and asked, 'So what we up to then?'
'I thought we could introduce Sirius to the muggle world, and just wonder around for a bit.'
'OK.'
**************** Fifty-five minutes later and James was strolling back to where they had arranged to meet Lily. 'Oh what a great day I have had!' muttered James. 'Hanging around all morning, then spending the afternoon watching Belle and Sirius snogging. And Lily is off with this Mike person. Stupid muggles.'
It never occurred to James that he might be jealous, I mean, it was Lily, he was only looking out for her as friend.
Belle and Sirius were walking about 20 yards behind him, holding hand and, in Belle's case, giggling. Then Mike and Lily rounded the corner, this time it was James, Sirius AND Belle who did a double take. They were holding hands to, and Lily kept glancing up at Mike.
'Hiya!' called out Belle loudly. 'Did you enjoy yourselves?'
'Definitely.' Replied Lily.
'Belle, I'm really sorry, but I've got to go home. I promised my dad I'd help him with something.'
'OK Mike. Thanks for showing Lily around.'
'Bye then. And Lily, I'll pick you up at 6 yeah?'
'Yeah, bye!' And Lily and Mike shared a quick kiss, before he walked away.
As soon as he was out of sight, Belle started plying Lily with questions, whilst James looked at Sirius, who shrugged, before going to sit on a nearby bench.
Belle learnt off Lily that her and Mike had just clicked, and after a while he had asked her out to the cinema that night, to which she had agreed.
'Lily!' shrieked Belle. 'Your clothes! You have only got your uniform and a few casual clothes.'
'What am I going to do?' asked Lily in a desperate voice.
'We can try and get something now.'
'Can we?'
'Yep. Let's go.'
'But what about James and Sirius?'
'Oh. I'll give them some money and they can go into McDonalds.'
The boys were asked / told to go and wait in McDonalds and whilst they wondered off with strict instructions to behave themselves, Belle and Lily started looking for clothes.
An hour later they were done, and went to look for the boys. They found them waiting inside McDonalds, and completely fed up. Especially in James' case. As they set off back to the house, he started moaning,
'What took you so long? And why did Lily need MORE clothes anyway?'
'She's going on a DATE! She needs to look her best.' Answered Belle.
'But she's got nice clothes anyway.'
'James, remind me to teach you something about girls sometime this week.'
'But she looks great in what she's wearing NOW!' said James, then blushed.
Belle gave James a funny look, and Sirius and Lily turned back from where they were walking 10 yards away.
'It's all right. We're not arguing.' Said Belle exasperated.
When Lily and Sirius had gone back to their conversation, Belle asked James,
'Why are you so bothered?'
'BECAUSE I have had to watch you and Sirius snogging for an hour, then had to hang around whilst you and Lily shopped for clothes she didn't really need!'
'James, I'm really sorry if you felt awkward. But you're not jealous about Lily and Mike are you?'
'Why would I be jealous?' asked James, a little louder than he intended.
Lily and Sirius looked back again and shrugged.
'OK, you're not jealous, let's catch up with those two shall we?'
****************
At 5 o'clock, Lily went and started to get ready. At 5:30, Belle went to help her. Then at 5:50, Lily came back downstairs.
When James saw her, he felt his mouth drop, and he had to make a mental effort to close it again. She was wearing a blue skirt that fell to just above her knees and a yellow sleeveless top. On her feet were boots, to halfway up her calves and her waist length hair was coiled in a French twist. It was simple, but VERY effective.
'Lily, you look lovely.' Said Sirius, after a poke from Belle.
'Yeah.' Agreed James.
'Thanks. You don't think.'
Just then the doorbell rang, and Belle ran to answer it.
'Hi Mike. Lily's nearly ready, do you want to come in?'
'No thanks. I'll just wait here.'
'I'll just go get her.' Belle came back into the lounge. 'Good luck Lil.' She said giving her a quick hug.
'Can we.?' asked Sirius.
For answer Belle just glared at him, and they followed Lily out to the front door.
'Lily! You look. wonderful!' gasped Mike.
'Thank you.' Replied Lily, blushing a little.
'Shall we go then?'
'Yep. Bye everyone.'
'Bye!' they chorused.
After Lily and Mike had gone, Belle, James and Sirius went back into the lounge,
'So what now then?'
*************
Two hours later..
In the lounge Belle and James were trying to tidy up. They had been playing a game that consisted of seeing how far you could flick sparks from your wand. But on James' turn he had caught the curtains on fire, and whilst Belle tried to help him sort it out, Sirius sat laughing.
Just then they heard a car pull up next door, and they ran to the window.
Outside.
Lily had, had a wonderful time. It was a shame it had to end. Mike had put his arm around her after five minutes and she had snuggled into him. She was disappointed that the evening had to end.
When the car pulled, she got out.
''I'll wait inside.' Said Mike's dad, whom had given them a lift.
'Thank you Mr Turner.' Said Lily.
After his father had gone inside, Mike turned to Lily.
'Did you enjoy yourself?'
'It was wonderful. Thank you so much.'
'That's alright.' He replied. Then, 'Lily, will you be my girlfriend? I know you're at boarding school, but we can write. I would understand if you didn't want to.'
Lily looked at Mike thinking. Would it be possible, she did like him quite a bit,
'YES! I would love it.' She finally answered.
And with that Mike drew her close until their lips met. It was a long passionate kiss. And inside Belle drew James and Sirius back from the window with the words,
'She wouldn't like to think that we were watching.'
'OK.'
'So let's just leave them to it. We'll play cards, yes?'
'Alright.'
Belle, James and Sirius sat down to play cards, and a few minutes later, the front door opened. Motioning to James and Sirius to stay where they were, she dashed out. Seconds later, the boys heard squealing followed by the sound of people going upstairs. They looked at each other, shrugged and carried on the game.
Half an hour later, Belle and Lily came back downstairs.
'Did you enjoy yourself?' Sirius asked Lily.
'It was brilliant.' Was the reply.
'Do you two want to join in?'
'Might as well. Though is there much point? We all know who is going to win.' Replied Belle, starring at James pointedly.
'Why thank you!' he replied making mock bows.
'Let's just play.'
So they played cards. And as predicted, James won the first five games.
'How do you do that?' asked Sirius in envy, 'you ALWAYS win.'
'Skill.' Was James' simple reply.
'Or luck.' Added Belle.
'Definitely luck,' said Lily, 'he's not good looking enough to.'
Just then a pillow in the face cut her off.
'James!!!!!!' Shouted Belle, and Lily once she had escaped the pillow.
Then a pillow hit Belle. 'Oi! Sirius!'
'Sorry he wined, showing he wasn't really.
'That's it.' Muttered Lily. Then turning to Belle whispered something. Both girls turned, drew out their wands, and pointing at the boys muttered, 'Peltus objectous.'
Pillows flew across the room at the boys and hit them. After 30 seconds, James managed to free his wand, and he muttered the counter curse.
'Right, that's it. PILLOW FIGHT!' and grabbing pillows they started.
Soon there were feathers everywhere, and howls of laughter. However, eventually they collapsed, exhausted, and they fell asleep in a huddle on the floor.
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AUTHORS NOTE!!!!! Hey everyone. What did you think of that? Thank you so much for reading, but you'll make me even happier if you review. If anyone has any plot ideas, then can you put them in the review please. One thing. The next chapter is going to start at Platform 9 and ¾, on the day they are going back. Thus I will need to write in the Sorting, so if anyone can think of names for the first years, just for the sorting, put them in as well, as well as the preferred house, which would not be definite. How would people prefer me to write the time they are at school? Big long chapters with long waits between them, for each term. Or shortish chapters with important events? Thank you so much, and sorry about the large authors note. The next chapter will take some time, as I haven't even started writing it yet. But I'll do my best! See ya BYE! (REVIEW!!!!)