Hi everyone, heres chapter 7. I'm quite proud of this chapter, I have no idea why but it's one of my favourites. Anyway, please review at the end, you know how it makes me happy. :)
OVER INFLATED JERK
Chapter 7 ~ Crazy Over You ~
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"Who is it then?" Lily said her mood changing instantly.
"Umm-"
"See, I knew she'd been with a guy." Emily said smugly, "Spill."
"See the thing is - well, put it this way - umm-"
"Yeees"
"Well, what terms are you on with James at the moment?" Claire asked.
Lily looked confused. "Well, not too bad, I mean he's trying really hard, I don't hate him anymore. Why? What's he got to do with this?" Then comprehension dawned on her face. "Oh my God, it was him wasn't it, you've been with him."
Claire looked completely shocked, Emily looked like she was thinking. "No, no way, it's Sirius." Claire said quickly, eager to remedy the situation.
"Oh." said Lily, "Well, why didn't you want to tell us that? I don't have a problem with Sirius."
"It's just he's James's friend and all that, I thought you might think I was betraying your trust or something if I went out with your worst enemy's best friend."
Lily started to smile, "I would never think that," she said starting to laugh, "Don't worry, I'm really pleased that your going out with Sirius. "Besides," she said as an after thought, "James and I have got past the hating stage, I think-"
"Speaking of you and James," Emily cut in with a smirk, "I notice you got a little flurried when you jumped to the conclusion that he was going out with Claire. Do you perhaps care a little more than you make out?"
Lily gaped at her. "Don't be stupid." she said. "Potter's dating habits are of no interest to me, I couldn't care less who he went out with." she paused, "And if I did act flurried then it was just because I was worried for Claire's safety, I mean who knows what Potter's capable of!"
"Yeah? Well I think anyone would care if a guy had been chasing them for four years then suddenly gave up, even you and even if it was Potter."
Lily glared at her, "Don't be stupid," she said huffily. She stood up "I've got a heads meeting to go to, so I'll just leave you two deranged idiots on your own. I'll see you later." She got up from her bed and left the dorm leaving Claire and Emily gazing after her.
"Hmm." Said Claire, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say she's beginning to like James Potter."
"Yeah," said Emily gloomily, "But even if she does, he'd be the last person she'd tell. She can't even admit it to herself." Claire smiled to herself, the plan she and Sirius had concocted was to be put into action tomorrow after class.
An hour later, Lily came bouncing back into the seventh year girls dorm, her mood completely changed, "Hey guys, guess what!" she squealed jumping onto her bed.
"What?" Claire said, looking up from what she'd been doing.
"Dumbledore's just told us that there's going to be a Christmas Dance."
"Cool." Emily said. Then her expression changed, "You do realise what this means, don't you Lily?" She said grinning nastily
Lily looked confused then said, "Yes, it means, you might find me dead on Thursday morning seeing I have to organise it Wednesday evening with Potter."
"No, silly," Emily continued, "it means, we will have to take you shopping!"
"What? No way, an evening with Potter's bad enough without having to go shopping as well."
"Lily, darling, just what were you planning to wear to this dance?"
"Umm. my school robes?"
"My point exactly, we'll go the next Hogsmeade Weekend."
"But-"
"No buts. You do want to look nice for James don't you?"
"No, I want to look nice for Amos. I want to look as awful as possible for James so he'll go off me."
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"Say, Lily, have you seen what's in the charms classroom?"
"No, why? Well whatever it is I'm sure it can't be very interesting."
"No, you have to see this."
"Why, what is it?"
"A surprise."
"Oh, I see. It's Potter isn't it. What's he done now?"
"You'll see in a minute. Now shut your eyes."
"Fine, fine, but this had better be - Arghhh - Claire! Let me out." Lily beat her fists against the locked door.
"I will in the morning."
"No, let me out NOW!"
"You'll thank me later, Lily." Claire said solomnly. "It's for your own good."
"How can being locked in an empty classroom possibly help me?" Lily shrieked, verging on hysteria. Claire tapped her nose with a knowing expression on her face. Lily had never wanted to punch someone so much in her life.
"I'll get you later for this." She muttered to herself as Claire walked away
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"I'm telling you Prongs. She's in there, completely naked, there's whipped cream and everything."
"Why would Lily be alone in an empty charms classroom covered in whipped cream and strawberries?"
"She is." Persisted Sirius. "Look, she's even there on the marauders map."
"Yeah but that doesn't mean she's naked."
"Yes, but just supposing that she is." Sirius said next to James's right ear, "You wouldn't want to miss that would you? It's a once in a life time opportunity."
"Wouldn't it sort of be invading her privacy?" James said frowning,
"Since when did you care about privacy Prongs?" Sirius scoffed. "And besides, if she cared about privacy, why would she be naked inside a classroom?"
"Good point. Right, are there strawberries?"
"Of course."
"I am so there...but," he added slowly, "I wouldn't want her to think-"
"Too late!" Sirius cried gleefully shoving James into the classroom, "You don't have a choice now Prongsie, you're stuck in here until morning."
"What the-? Sirius, you bloody arse let me out."
"Look behind you Prongs and all will become clear."
"What - Oh, hi Lily," he said, his hand flying to mess up his hair.
"James." She said curtly "Sirius," she said looking at him murderously, "I swear to God, when I get out of here, you'll wish you had never been born." Sirius grinned cheekily at her, "If you don't let us out right this minute you will suffer a fate far worse than death, - I'll-"
"You'll suffer a fate worse than a fate worse than death." James added.
"Yeah, you too Claire." Lily said glaring as Claire's head popped into view. "I'll blast your brains out so far they'll circle timbuktoo five times. I'll, I'll-"
"Lily, calm down." James said worriedly, she was turning purple.
"And you," Lily said rounding on James, "Take your bloody hand out of your stupid hair. You know I hate it when you do that. Urgh." She stalked off to a corner of the room.
"Bye guys," Sirius said cheerfully. He put his arm around Claire and walked off with her. "I'll bet that by the morning, they'll be the best of friends." He said grinning.
Claire smiled, "Yeah, it's that or we've just made Lily mad and set her on James."
"Hmm, true, well it's a 50-50 chance."
Claire laughed and kissed Sirius. "Go to the dance with me." He said, breaking off the kiss.
"Who else did you think I'd go with?" Claire said smiling.
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"Look Lily, I know the circumstances aren't ideal but there's nothing we can do about it. They've done some sort of charm so we can't unlock the door even with our wands. We're just going to have to make the most of things."
"Easy for you to say, I had a lot of things to do tonight. I had that huge potions essay to do and Dumbledore said I had to start organising the dance."
"With me. We're meant to do that together."
"James, since when have you actually helped me with any of our duties? When we patrol the corridors at night, you're patrolling them under an invisibility cloak with your stupid friends-"
"I don't do that any more." James said in injured tones. "I did want you to notice that, you know. It seems you notice the bad things about me but never the good. It's like you're determined to hate me."
"Don't be absurd." Lily said, although she knew that what James said was partly true. "And please don't lets talk about this. You know my feelings on the subject."
"Fine." James said. He pulled out his wand. "Fine, if that's the way you want it, then that's the way it'll be."
"James, what are you doing?" Lily asked going slightly white.
"I'm doing what you said you wanted to do."
"What do you mean?" She said slightly worried. "Put that wand down."
"I'm sorry Lily, but I have to do this, I-"
"James, are you listening to me? Put that wand down right now!" There was a definite note of panic in her voice now.
"No, I'm sorry but I can't do that." James raised the wand, to be level with his head, then cried "Accio parchment and quill." He said the spell, almost lazily. He turned and grinned at Lily.
"You bastard." Lily shrieked. "I thought you were going to do something stupid."
James shrugged. "At least I know you care now." He grinned at her. All Lily could do was goggle at him.
A few seconds later some parchment and a quill crashed into the glass of the door. Lily giggled despite herself
"Damn." James swore. He walked over to the door, knelt down and said the charm again. This time the parchment came whizzing through the crack beneath the door and the quill came flying through the key hole. James grinned at Lily. She laughed.
"It's a pity the glass didn't break when they came crashing into it. We could have escaped."
"You should be so lucky." He said, glad to have Lily in a good mood again. "Right, so this dance."
For the next hour or so, the two sat planning out the dance scheduled for Christmas Eve. Not arguing, not flirting, just talking, like friends or siblings would do.
"Lily, a month is a long time. We don't have to plan it all tonight."
"I just want to get the decorations sorted," she said not looking up, a tiny frown on her forehead. James thought she had never looked more gorgeous. "We've got the Christmas Trees sorted out and the mistle-toe, obviously-"
"Go with me."
"What?" Lily said looking up at him, startled.
"Go with me."
"I can't I'm going with Amos." She said weakly, lowering her eyes.
"Forget Diggory, look at us Lily, we're good together. Look how much we've got done on this dance. We get on, we have things in common, we're right for each other-"
"Not now James," Lily said tiredly putting her face in her hands. "Don't spoil it, as you said, we get on now as friends but not as anything more. It wouldn't work."
"How do you know?" He shot back. "How will you ever know anything if you don't try Lily? That's what life's about, trying new things, new experiences." He took her hand.
"James don't-"
"No, you listen to me. - You know in life that not everything's handed to you on a silver platter. That's one of the things I love about you, but you're so caught up looking for something else, maybe something in Amos, I don't know, that you're failing to see what's right in front of you. Me, Lily, how can you not see how good we'd be together?"
She stared at him, her mouth half open, then shook her head slightly, "Have, have you ever considered," she began slowly "that you have that problem where you, um, have beliefs that you're meant to be with a person, or that person is meant to be with you? Erotomania or something-"
"Lily, I'm being serious."
"So am I," She said giggling.
"Lily!"
"Alright, look, this isn't easy for either of us, you like me, I don't like you. I don't know how to put this any clearer. We will never be together, and I know it might be hard for you but I really think you should move on."
James paused, then said with such sincerity that caught Lily's breath, "I would move on, Lily, I really would but this is a special case. I know we're meant for each other. You obviously haven't figured that out yet, but when you do Lily, and you will, I'll be here, still waiting for you like I always have been. And by God Lily," he carried on earnestly, "You'd better figure it out soon, or I don't know what I'll do. I'm going crazy over you."
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hi guys, do u like this chapter? do u not like this chapter? Either way, I would love u 2 tell me. If u have any suggestions or constructice criticism I would like to hear that too.
This chapter is quite long for my standards so please review and tell me what u think, cos I don't really know where to go next from here
see you next chapter
~Magical Me~
OVER INFLATED JERK
Chapter 7 ~ Crazy Over You ~
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"Who is it then?" Lily said her mood changing instantly.
"Umm-"
"See, I knew she'd been with a guy." Emily said smugly, "Spill."
"See the thing is - well, put it this way - umm-"
"Yeees"
"Well, what terms are you on with James at the moment?" Claire asked.
Lily looked confused. "Well, not too bad, I mean he's trying really hard, I don't hate him anymore. Why? What's he got to do with this?" Then comprehension dawned on her face. "Oh my God, it was him wasn't it, you've been with him."
Claire looked completely shocked, Emily looked like she was thinking. "No, no way, it's Sirius." Claire said quickly, eager to remedy the situation.
"Oh." said Lily, "Well, why didn't you want to tell us that? I don't have a problem with Sirius."
"It's just he's James's friend and all that, I thought you might think I was betraying your trust or something if I went out with your worst enemy's best friend."
Lily started to smile, "I would never think that," she said starting to laugh, "Don't worry, I'm really pleased that your going out with Sirius. "Besides," she said as an after thought, "James and I have got past the hating stage, I think-"
"Speaking of you and James," Emily cut in with a smirk, "I notice you got a little flurried when you jumped to the conclusion that he was going out with Claire. Do you perhaps care a little more than you make out?"
Lily gaped at her. "Don't be stupid." she said. "Potter's dating habits are of no interest to me, I couldn't care less who he went out with." she paused, "And if I did act flurried then it was just because I was worried for Claire's safety, I mean who knows what Potter's capable of!"
"Yeah? Well I think anyone would care if a guy had been chasing them for four years then suddenly gave up, even you and even if it was Potter."
Lily glared at her, "Don't be stupid," she said huffily. She stood up "I've got a heads meeting to go to, so I'll just leave you two deranged idiots on your own. I'll see you later." She got up from her bed and left the dorm leaving Claire and Emily gazing after her.
"Hmm." Said Claire, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say she's beginning to like James Potter."
"Yeah," said Emily gloomily, "But even if she does, he'd be the last person she'd tell. She can't even admit it to herself." Claire smiled to herself, the plan she and Sirius had concocted was to be put into action tomorrow after class.
An hour later, Lily came bouncing back into the seventh year girls dorm, her mood completely changed, "Hey guys, guess what!" she squealed jumping onto her bed.
"What?" Claire said, looking up from what she'd been doing.
"Dumbledore's just told us that there's going to be a Christmas Dance."
"Cool." Emily said. Then her expression changed, "You do realise what this means, don't you Lily?" She said grinning nastily
Lily looked confused then said, "Yes, it means, you might find me dead on Thursday morning seeing I have to organise it Wednesday evening with Potter."
"No, silly," Emily continued, "it means, we will have to take you shopping!"
"What? No way, an evening with Potter's bad enough without having to go shopping as well."
"Lily, darling, just what were you planning to wear to this dance?"
"Umm. my school robes?"
"My point exactly, we'll go the next Hogsmeade Weekend."
"But-"
"No buts. You do want to look nice for James don't you?"
"No, I want to look nice for Amos. I want to look as awful as possible for James so he'll go off me."
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"Say, Lily, have you seen what's in the charms classroom?"
"No, why? Well whatever it is I'm sure it can't be very interesting."
"No, you have to see this."
"Why, what is it?"
"A surprise."
"Oh, I see. It's Potter isn't it. What's he done now?"
"You'll see in a minute. Now shut your eyes."
"Fine, fine, but this had better be - Arghhh - Claire! Let me out." Lily beat her fists against the locked door.
"I will in the morning."
"No, let me out NOW!"
"You'll thank me later, Lily." Claire said solomnly. "It's for your own good."
"How can being locked in an empty classroom possibly help me?" Lily shrieked, verging on hysteria. Claire tapped her nose with a knowing expression on her face. Lily had never wanted to punch someone so much in her life.
"I'll get you later for this." She muttered to herself as Claire walked away
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"I'm telling you Prongs. She's in there, completely naked, there's whipped cream and everything."
"Why would Lily be alone in an empty charms classroom covered in whipped cream and strawberries?"
"She is." Persisted Sirius. "Look, she's even there on the marauders map."
"Yeah but that doesn't mean she's naked."
"Yes, but just supposing that she is." Sirius said next to James's right ear, "You wouldn't want to miss that would you? It's a once in a life time opportunity."
"Wouldn't it sort of be invading her privacy?" James said frowning,
"Since when did you care about privacy Prongs?" Sirius scoffed. "And besides, if she cared about privacy, why would she be naked inside a classroom?"
"Good point. Right, are there strawberries?"
"Of course."
"I am so there...but," he added slowly, "I wouldn't want her to think-"
"Too late!" Sirius cried gleefully shoving James into the classroom, "You don't have a choice now Prongsie, you're stuck in here until morning."
"What the-? Sirius, you bloody arse let me out."
"Look behind you Prongs and all will become clear."
"What - Oh, hi Lily," he said, his hand flying to mess up his hair.
"James." She said curtly "Sirius," she said looking at him murderously, "I swear to God, when I get out of here, you'll wish you had never been born." Sirius grinned cheekily at her, "If you don't let us out right this minute you will suffer a fate far worse than death, - I'll-"
"You'll suffer a fate worse than a fate worse than death." James added.
"Yeah, you too Claire." Lily said glaring as Claire's head popped into view. "I'll blast your brains out so far they'll circle timbuktoo five times. I'll, I'll-"
"Lily, calm down." James said worriedly, she was turning purple.
"And you," Lily said rounding on James, "Take your bloody hand out of your stupid hair. You know I hate it when you do that. Urgh." She stalked off to a corner of the room.
"Bye guys," Sirius said cheerfully. He put his arm around Claire and walked off with her. "I'll bet that by the morning, they'll be the best of friends." He said grinning.
Claire smiled, "Yeah, it's that or we've just made Lily mad and set her on James."
"Hmm, true, well it's a 50-50 chance."
Claire laughed and kissed Sirius. "Go to the dance with me." He said, breaking off the kiss.
"Who else did you think I'd go with?" Claire said smiling.
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"Look Lily, I know the circumstances aren't ideal but there's nothing we can do about it. They've done some sort of charm so we can't unlock the door even with our wands. We're just going to have to make the most of things."
"Easy for you to say, I had a lot of things to do tonight. I had that huge potions essay to do and Dumbledore said I had to start organising the dance."
"With me. We're meant to do that together."
"James, since when have you actually helped me with any of our duties? When we patrol the corridors at night, you're patrolling them under an invisibility cloak with your stupid friends-"
"I don't do that any more." James said in injured tones. "I did want you to notice that, you know. It seems you notice the bad things about me but never the good. It's like you're determined to hate me."
"Don't be absurd." Lily said, although she knew that what James said was partly true. "And please don't lets talk about this. You know my feelings on the subject."
"Fine." James said. He pulled out his wand. "Fine, if that's the way you want it, then that's the way it'll be."
"James, what are you doing?" Lily asked going slightly white.
"I'm doing what you said you wanted to do."
"What do you mean?" She said slightly worried. "Put that wand down."
"I'm sorry Lily, but I have to do this, I-"
"James, are you listening to me? Put that wand down right now!" There was a definite note of panic in her voice now.
"No, I'm sorry but I can't do that." James raised the wand, to be level with his head, then cried "Accio parchment and quill." He said the spell, almost lazily. He turned and grinned at Lily.
"You bastard." Lily shrieked. "I thought you were going to do something stupid."
James shrugged. "At least I know you care now." He grinned at her. All Lily could do was goggle at him.
A few seconds later some parchment and a quill crashed into the glass of the door. Lily giggled despite herself
"Damn." James swore. He walked over to the door, knelt down and said the charm again. This time the parchment came whizzing through the crack beneath the door and the quill came flying through the key hole. James grinned at Lily. She laughed.
"It's a pity the glass didn't break when they came crashing into it. We could have escaped."
"You should be so lucky." He said, glad to have Lily in a good mood again. "Right, so this dance."
For the next hour or so, the two sat planning out the dance scheduled for Christmas Eve. Not arguing, not flirting, just talking, like friends or siblings would do.
"Lily, a month is a long time. We don't have to plan it all tonight."
"I just want to get the decorations sorted," she said not looking up, a tiny frown on her forehead. James thought she had never looked more gorgeous. "We've got the Christmas Trees sorted out and the mistle-toe, obviously-"
"Go with me."
"What?" Lily said looking up at him, startled.
"Go with me."
"I can't I'm going with Amos." She said weakly, lowering her eyes.
"Forget Diggory, look at us Lily, we're good together. Look how much we've got done on this dance. We get on, we have things in common, we're right for each other-"
"Not now James," Lily said tiredly putting her face in her hands. "Don't spoil it, as you said, we get on now as friends but not as anything more. It wouldn't work."
"How do you know?" He shot back. "How will you ever know anything if you don't try Lily? That's what life's about, trying new things, new experiences." He took her hand.
"James don't-"
"No, you listen to me. - You know in life that not everything's handed to you on a silver platter. That's one of the things I love about you, but you're so caught up looking for something else, maybe something in Amos, I don't know, that you're failing to see what's right in front of you. Me, Lily, how can you not see how good we'd be together?"
She stared at him, her mouth half open, then shook her head slightly, "Have, have you ever considered," she began slowly "that you have that problem where you, um, have beliefs that you're meant to be with a person, or that person is meant to be with you? Erotomania or something-"
"Lily, I'm being serious."
"So am I," She said giggling.
"Lily!"
"Alright, look, this isn't easy for either of us, you like me, I don't like you. I don't know how to put this any clearer. We will never be together, and I know it might be hard for you but I really think you should move on."
James paused, then said with such sincerity that caught Lily's breath, "I would move on, Lily, I really would but this is a special case. I know we're meant for each other. You obviously haven't figured that out yet, but when you do Lily, and you will, I'll be here, still waiting for you like I always have been. And by God Lily," he carried on earnestly, "You'd better figure it out soon, or I don't know what I'll do. I'm going crazy over you."
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hi guys, do u like this chapter? do u not like this chapter? Either way, I would love u 2 tell me. If u have any suggestions or constructice criticism I would like to hear that too.
This chapter is quite long for my standards so please review and tell me what u think, cos I don't really know where to go next from here
see you next chapter
~Magical Me~