Over Inflated Jerk
Chapter 8
While they were sleeping
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Lily woke up the next morning in an unusually good mood. However her happiness quickly evaporated when she realised she was in a rather unorthodox position. She and James had fallen asleep the night before just lying down besides one another but somehow in the night this had changed. They're legs were entwined together and James's arms were around Lily's waist hugging her close to him. It was safe to say that Lily was completely stuck. Not wanting to awake James, who, though she hated to admit looked rather like something sent from heaven while he slept, Lily pretended to be asleep. (If James woke up then she didn't want him to know that rather than get up and wake him she'd chosen to stay in this very inapproprite position.)
This left Lily alone with her thoughts, which was rather unsatisfactory seeing they kept saying ridiculous and worrying things, for example that she liked James. This, Lily reminded herself was so ridiculous it was laughable, not to mention sickening. She was becoming fond of James that was true, but there was absoloutly no hope of anything further than friendship. Infact there wasn't even much hope of that. Every time she and James were alone together he would always make some sort of advance on her and scare her off, or she would be reminded of what a prick he was. Or used to be, no, Lily corrected herself, no he was still a prick. And besides if she ever needed any reassurance there was Amos, every time she thought of him, her doubts in James were put to rest. Lily had dreamed of Amos ever since she'd met him, all those years of loving him from afar, but now she had him and when her thoughts turned to him, James Potter's face was washed away like a sand castle returning to the sea. He was her salvation, the best thing that had ever happened to her and the chances that she'd give that up were zero.
The night before had been, well, entertaining, Lily reflected. She and James had talked into the early hours of the morning before drifting off into a pleasant sleep. Well that was debatable, Lily thought, it depended on whether dreaming about James was in fact dreaming or some sort of nightmare cunningly disguised. And Lily as you would by now expect chose the latter. Anything connected to James had to be bad, right? Especially if it was a dream where Lily was infact married to James. Now that just had to come out tops on the worst nightmare possible board. Lily had also come up with an explanation as to why she should be dreaming about James anyway. It was only natural that he, being the last thing she saw before falling asleep should be on her mind, and the fact that they were married, well that was only because Amos was in her sub-conscious too. It was all very simple and logical, Lily thought, nothing to worry about at all.
James shifted his position slightly and opened his eyes. He blinked, why were he and Lily all tangled up together? Not that he was complaining or anything, it was just a bit ... unexpected. He took it she was asleep seeing her eyes were still closed. Her hair was splashed out over his chest standing out vibrantly against his black robes. He picked up a lock of red hair and played with it thoughtfully admiring it's beauty. Her face was turned angelically upwards towards him, her black lashes stood out enticingly on her creamy white skin and she had several freckles sprinkled delicately across her nose. She was, James thought the most beautiful thing that he had ever encountered on. If he had to make a guess on what angels looked like, Lily Evans was probably as close as you could get.
The night before had been interesting. James didn't know whether to kill Sirius for locking him in a classroom with Lily or thank him. They'd done their fair share of arguing, which was typical of Lily and James but their relationship wasn't going anywhere. James frequently dispaired over what to do, he loved Lily with such a passion he'd thought it impossible. Up until this year James's attraction to Lily had been purely physical and based on the way she was so feisty, but now after following Remus's advice, he had got to know her and found out what an amazing person she was.
Now that James did know her better, he was convinced that they were a perfect match. It might not seem so looking in from the outside, they were always fighting and it seemed that no matter how much James loved Lily, she would never love him back. There was also Amos, James thought, grimacing. Lily was obviously very happy with him, but if only he was out of the picture Lily would surely realise her true feelings for him, James. There was nothing he was more certain of than this. He knew Lily, she was stubborn and strong willed. Once she made her mind up it was hard to persuade her otherwise, and it was quite obvious that she was determined not to like him. Her reasons for this, James wasn't quite sure of. It was perhaps something to do with that over-inflated jerk comment she had made in fifth year. James was quite sure that this was a thing of the past and he was in no way an over-inflated jerk anymore. He was over confident and arrogant at times but that was healthy for a teenage boy. The fact remained that Lily had a fixed image of James stereotyped in her mind. And that image was not good.
It was in fact, James thought glumly, mainly his fault that his main chance to be with Lily was now gone. If he hadn't been so awful when he was younger, then things might be alot different now. He didn't curse Snivellus much anymore, and he hadn't cursed anyone just for fun in ages, but Lily had not noticed this, all she had noticed were the bad things about James, which was bloody typical he thought frustrated.
Lily senseing James was awake, opened her eyes cautiously, emerald met brown and in one dizzying moment their eyes were locked together. Lily shook her head, shaking away the feeling. She rolled off James and sat up.
"Sorry," he said, "I probably thought you were a teddybear in the night or something."
"You have a teddybear?" Lily asked incredulously.
He grinned, "Yeah, don't you?"
Lily laughed softly, she stood up and walked over to the door, "So," she said awkwardly, "When do you think we'll be set free from here?"
James stretched and got up, "Good question," he said, "It all depends on whether Sirius and Claire remember, so..." He paused, "We could be in here for ever, given Sirius's attention span."
"Oh, great." Lily said and went back and sat down. "Do you know what the time is?"
"Yeah, it's just gone seven."
"Does Sirius like to sleep in?"
"Every day."
"Perfect, we really are going to be locked in here for ever."
"Well classes begin at nine, so maybe Flitwick will let us out."
"James, I don't know if this situation happens often with you, but don't you think Flitwick will be just a tad suspicious if he finds us locked in an empty classroom?" James looked confused, "All night long?"
"Oh right," James said thoughtfully, "Now that's a good point."
"Yes," Said Lily, "It is, and seeing Claire could sleep for England it looks like we'll be facing that situation fairly soon."
James snorted, "I doubt Flitwick would even notice us, I bet that if we hid..." He scanned the room thoughtfully, "We need height, Flitwick is only two feet tall so if we hide high up..."
"James there isn't anything high in here, the highest things are the desks. It's all low down so that Flitwick can reach it."
James gazed round the room resignedly, "You're right," He said glumly.
"I know," Lily said, "Do you have a spoon?"
"Pardon?"
"A digging implement, we can dig our way out."
"Lily, as great as that plan would be, why the hell would I carry a spoon around with me?"
"Well given that your favourite thing, apart from stalking me is eating, I'd expect you to carry a full set of cutlery with you everywhere you go."
James laughed, "Well, even if I did, and I don't, I use my hands, I don't think a spoon would get us anywhere, so unless you have a garden spade in your pocket..." he trailed off grinning.
"Ha ha," she said, "I meant you could transfigure the spoon into something."
"Lily," James said, "I really don't think this plan will get us anywhere, and besides," He added thoughtfully, "I think we'd get in a sight more trouble if we dug a hole out of a classroom, than if we'd been locked in it for the night."
"True, and also if Flitwick is the one who finds us, he might give Sirius and Claire detention."
"Good plan."
"So we just wait?"
"We'll have to."
"Great," Lily said grimacing.
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At about eight O clock, Lily and James heard the pattering of footsteps on wooden floor, Lily rushed to the door and peered through the glass as far as she could see.
"What can you see?" James asked.
"Nothing at the moment . . . Whoa, Ok, I didn't want to see that." Lily said as James heard a huge thump on the floor.
"Is it them?" He asked.
"It's them alright," Lily said grimacing and backing away from the door. James took her place there instead, he looked left, he looked right - nothing.
"Try looking down." Lily said seeing his confusion. James looked down. "Oh." was all he said. Claire and Sirius were, well currently involved.
"Oy, you two!?" James shouted through the door. Claire and Sirius looked up and saw his face pressed against the window. They smirked.
"Let us out!" They heard Lily shout from somewhere within the classroom, "Or we'll take away points for public display of affection in the corridors."
Claire and Sirius got up grumbling, "What do you think, Siri?" Claire said in a sickly sweet voice, 'Siri?' Lily mouthed incredulously at Claire. She smirked agian. "Do you think we should let them out?"
Sirius saw James and Lily's murderous faces and gulped, "Um, yeah ok." he said, "As long as they don't hurt us."
Claire muttered the charm which would unlock the door and it swung open. Lily stalked out her nose in the air not giving either of them a second glance.
"Thanks mate," James said stuffing the plans for the dance in his pocket.
"So?" Claire said excitedly, "How did it go?"
James shrugged. "Fine, interesting conversation about spoons," and he rushed off in the direction of breakfast.
Sirius flung his arm round Claire's shoulders. "Did we just make a huge mistake locking those two in together?"
"Nah, if I know Lily she'd have cursed us into oblivion by now if it was so bad, and they haven't killed each other. I'd say it went well."
"So," He said playfully, "now that our work's done, it looks like we have some spare time on our hands,"
"Seems like it," Claire said as Sirius pushed her up against the wall, claiming her lips in another sizzling kiss.
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"He's looking at you again." Emily said shoving bacon into her mouth.
"I know." said Lily like it was nothing out of the ordinary, "I'm used to it by now. It's comforting in a very weird way."
Emily sighed dreamily, "Like having your own guardian angel looking out for you."
Lily eyed her strangely, "you read too many romance novels," She said half smiling, but she didn't contradict her, "Have you seen Amos?"
"No, but seeing he gets up freakishly early and you were locked in a class room until quite late on, I expect you probably just missed each other."
Lily nodded and shoved another spoonful of cereal into her mouth. "I'll see him in herbology anyway." she said, "I wonder how he'll react when I tell him I've been locked in a classroom with James all night."
"You're actually going to tell him?" Emily said, looking at Lily disbelievingly.
"Sure, we tell each other everything, and besides he'll know nothing happened because he knows I hate James."
"You don't hate James," Emily said, "You're just too stuborn to admit otherwise." Lily glared at her. "You're actually incredibly lucky to have someone like James love you the way he does."
"Well even so, I've got Amos. I don't need James." Lily said in her most obstinate voice.
"Well, you're even more lucky then. You have two men crazy about you, I've got no one."
Lily looked at Emily sympathetically, "Oh come on, there are loads of boys who'd love to go out with you, what about Richard Corner? I saw him looking at you the other day."
"Lily, he's like the biggest playboy ever, he'd pull anything as long as it was wearing a skirt." Lily shrugged, but said nothing, "You've got Amos and James," Emily continued, "And now Claire and Sirius are like sex buddies-"
"What!?" Lily exclaimed, shocked "Are they sleeping together already? Why didn't Claire tell me?"
"I don't think she's had the chance, she only told me this morning, apparently they did it last night."
"Oh my God," Lily said, "I can't believe her, they've only been going out for about a week."
Emily shrugged, "But you've seen how into each other they are and it's not like Claire was a virgin or anything."
Lily was shocked by this piece of information but she could tell Emily would rather talk about something else. She decided to quiz Claire about it later, but for the time being she'd have to give all her attention to Emily who was obviously feeling depressed.
It wasn't that Emily was ugly she just wasn't as naturally beautiful as Claire and Lily. She was quite tall and flat chested, with hazel eyes and although her blonde hair was a nice colour it was quite frizzy and out of control, however she was one of the nicest people Lily had ever met and if boys didn't notice that then they weren't worth bothering about.
"Listen," Lily said, "I know you don't have a boyfriend right at the moment, but you know there's someone out there for you, you're the one who reads the romance novels here. I guarentee that you'll meet someone who's just as nice as you."
"Yeah right." Emily said dully,
"Seriously, me and Claire will find you a date for the Christmas Dance and, well, you never know." She grinned at Emily suggestively, "I might even be able to get James to go with you."
Emily smiled at her, "It's nice of you," she said, "but I'd never go with James."
"Why not?" Lily said confused, "I thought you liked him."
"I do, but there wouldn't be any point. He's head over heels for you and I wouldn't want to be the one who stops you from getting together."
"Emily," Lily said laughing. "Me and James are not going to get together,"
"Yes you are," Emily said yawning sleepily, "when you get over Amos, anyway."
"What do you mean?" Lily asked, now slightly annoyed, "Me and Amos are in love, we're not going to break up."
"You will at some point." Emily said grinning, "And then you'll get with James, providing he still likes you by that time of course."
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Hey guys, did you like it? I know it was slightly boring and you all wanted Lily to jump into James's arms and shag him senseless, but that's not going to happen just yet. :) But it is becoming really hard to keep making Lily refuse James, thta girl has will power
Any way please review and tell me your thoughts. The more reviews, the quicker I update.
Chapter 8
While they were sleeping
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Lily woke up the next morning in an unusually good mood. However her happiness quickly evaporated when she realised she was in a rather unorthodox position. She and James had fallen asleep the night before just lying down besides one another but somehow in the night this had changed. They're legs were entwined together and James's arms were around Lily's waist hugging her close to him. It was safe to say that Lily was completely stuck. Not wanting to awake James, who, though she hated to admit looked rather like something sent from heaven while he slept, Lily pretended to be asleep. (If James woke up then she didn't want him to know that rather than get up and wake him she'd chosen to stay in this very inapproprite position.)
This left Lily alone with her thoughts, which was rather unsatisfactory seeing they kept saying ridiculous and worrying things, for example that she liked James. This, Lily reminded herself was so ridiculous it was laughable, not to mention sickening. She was becoming fond of James that was true, but there was absoloutly no hope of anything further than friendship. Infact there wasn't even much hope of that. Every time she and James were alone together he would always make some sort of advance on her and scare her off, or she would be reminded of what a prick he was. Or used to be, no, Lily corrected herself, no he was still a prick. And besides if she ever needed any reassurance there was Amos, every time she thought of him, her doubts in James were put to rest. Lily had dreamed of Amos ever since she'd met him, all those years of loving him from afar, but now she had him and when her thoughts turned to him, James Potter's face was washed away like a sand castle returning to the sea. He was her salvation, the best thing that had ever happened to her and the chances that she'd give that up were zero.
The night before had been, well, entertaining, Lily reflected. She and James had talked into the early hours of the morning before drifting off into a pleasant sleep. Well that was debatable, Lily thought, it depended on whether dreaming about James was in fact dreaming or some sort of nightmare cunningly disguised. And Lily as you would by now expect chose the latter. Anything connected to James had to be bad, right? Especially if it was a dream where Lily was infact married to James. Now that just had to come out tops on the worst nightmare possible board. Lily had also come up with an explanation as to why she should be dreaming about James anyway. It was only natural that he, being the last thing she saw before falling asleep should be on her mind, and the fact that they were married, well that was only because Amos was in her sub-conscious too. It was all very simple and logical, Lily thought, nothing to worry about at all.
James shifted his position slightly and opened his eyes. He blinked, why were he and Lily all tangled up together? Not that he was complaining or anything, it was just a bit ... unexpected. He took it she was asleep seeing her eyes were still closed. Her hair was splashed out over his chest standing out vibrantly against his black robes. He picked up a lock of red hair and played with it thoughtfully admiring it's beauty. Her face was turned angelically upwards towards him, her black lashes stood out enticingly on her creamy white skin and she had several freckles sprinkled delicately across her nose. She was, James thought the most beautiful thing that he had ever encountered on. If he had to make a guess on what angels looked like, Lily Evans was probably as close as you could get.
The night before had been interesting. James didn't know whether to kill Sirius for locking him in a classroom with Lily or thank him. They'd done their fair share of arguing, which was typical of Lily and James but their relationship wasn't going anywhere. James frequently dispaired over what to do, he loved Lily with such a passion he'd thought it impossible. Up until this year James's attraction to Lily had been purely physical and based on the way she was so feisty, but now after following Remus's advice, he had got to know her and found out what an amazing person she was.
Now that James did know her better, he was convinced that they were a perfect match. It might not seem so looking in from the outside, they were always fighting and it seemed that no matter how much James loved Lily, she would never love him back. There was also Amos, James thought, grimacing. Lily was obviously very happy with him, but if only he was out of the picture Lily would surely realise her true feelings for him, James. There was nothing he was more certain of than this. He knew Lily, she was stubborn and strong willed. Once she made her mind up it was hard to persuade her otherwise, and it was quite obvious that she was determined not to like him. Her reasons for this, James wasn't quite sure of. It was perhaps something to do with that over-inflated jerk comment she had made in fifth year. James was quite sure that this was a thing of the past and he was in no way an over-inflated jerk anymore. He was over confident and arrogant at times but that was healthy for a teenage boy. The fact remained that Lily had a fixed image of James stereotyped in her mind. And that image was not good.
It was in fact, James thought glumly, mainly his fault that his main chance to be with Lily was now gone. If he hadn't been so awful when he was younger, then things might be alot different now. He didn't curse Snivellus much anymore, and he hadn't cursed anyone just for fun in ages, but Lily had not noticed this, all she had noticed were the bad things about James, which was bloody typical he thought frustrated.
Lily senseing James was awake, opened her eyes cautiously, emerald met brown and in one dizzying moment their eyes were locked together. Lily shook her head, shaking away the feeling. She rolled off James and sat up.
"Sorry," he said, "I probably thought you were a teddybear in the night or something."
"You have a teddybear?" Lily asked incredulously.
He grinned, "Yeah, don't you?"
Lily laughed softly, she stood up and walked over to the door, "So," she said awkwardly, "When do you think we'll be set free from here?"
James stretched and got up, "Good question," he said, "It all depends on whether Sirius and Claire remember, so..." He paused, "We could be in here for ever, given Sirius's attention span."
"Oh, great." Lily said and went back and sat down. "Do you know what the time is?"
"Yeah, it's just gone seven."
"Does Sirius like to sleep in?"
"Every day."
"Perfect, we really are going to be locked in here for ever."
"Well classes begin at nine, so maybe Flitwick will let us out."
"James, I don't know if this situation happens often with you, but don't you think Flitwick will be just a tad suspicious if he finds us locked in an empty classroom?" James looked confused, "All night long?"
"Oh right," James said thoughtfully, "Now that's a good point."
"Yes," Said Lily, "It is, and seeing Claire could sleep for England it looks like we'll be facing that situation fairly soon."
James snorted, "I doubt Flitwick would even notice us, I bet that if we hid..." He scanned the room thoughtfully, "We need height, Flitwick is only two feet tall so if we hide high up..."
"James there isn't anything high in here, the highest things are the desks. It's all low down so that Flitwick can reach it."
James gazed round the room resignedly, "You're right," He said glumly.
"I know," Lily said, "Do you have a spoon?"
"Pardon?"
"A digging implement, we can dig our way out."
"Lily, as great as that plan would be, why the hell would I carry a spoon around with me?"
"Well given that your favourite thing, apart from stalking me is eating, I'd expect you to carry a full set of cutlery with you everywhere you go."
James laughed, "Well, even if I did, and I don't, I use my hands, I don't think a spoon would get us anywhere, so unless you have a garden spade in your pocket..." he trailed off grinning.
"Ha ha," she said, "I meant you could transfigure the spoon into something."
"Lily," James said, "I really don't think this plan will get us anywhere, and besides," He added thoughtfully, "I think we'd get in a sight more trouble if we dug a hole out of a classroom, than if we'd been locked in it for the night."
"True, and also if Flitwick is the one who finds us, he might give Sirius and Claire detention."
"Good plan."
"So we just wait?"
"We'll have to."
"Great," Lily said grimacing.
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At about eight O clock, Lily and James heard the pattering of footsteps on wooden floor, Lily rushed to the door and peered through the glass as far as she could see.
"What can you see?" James asked.
"Nothing at the moment . . . Whoa, Ok, I didn't want to see that." Lily said as James heard a huge thump on the floor.
"Is it them?" He asked.
"It's them alright," Lily said grimacing and backing away from the door. James took her place there instead, he looked left, he looked right - nothing.
"Try looking down." Lily said seeing his confusion. James looked down. "Oh." was all he said. Claire and Sirius were, well currently involved.
"Oy, you two!?" James shouted through the door. Claire and Sirius looked up and saw his face pressed against the window. They smirked.
"Let us out!" They heard Lily shout from somewhere within the classroom, "Or we'll take away points for public display of affection in the corridors."
Claire and Sirius got up grumbling, "What do you think, Siri?" Claire said in a sickly sweet voice, 'Siri?' Lily mouthed incredulously at Claire. She smirked agian. "Do you think we should let them out?"
Sirius saw James and Lily's murderous faces and gulped, "Um, yeah ok." he said, "As long as they don't hurt us."
Claire muttered the charm which would unlock the door and it swung open. Lily stalked out her nose in the air not giving either of them a second glance.
"Thanks mate," James said stuffing the plans for the dance in his pocket.
"So?" Claire said excitedly, "How did it go?"
James shrugged. "Fine, interesting conversation about spoons," and he rushed off in the direction of breakfast.
Sirius flung his arm round Claire's shoulders. "Did we just make a huge mistake locking those two in together?"
"Nah, if I know Lily she'd have cursed us into oblivion by now if it was so bad, and they haven't killed each other. I'd say it went well."
"So," He said playfully, "now that our work's done, it looks like we have some spare time on our hands,"
"Seems like it," Claire said as Sirius pushed her up against the wall, claiming her lips in another sizzling kiss.
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"He's looking at you again." Emily said shoving bacon into her mouth.
"I know." said Lily like it was nothing out of the ordinary, "I'm used to it by now. It's comforting in a very weird way."
Emily sighed dreamily, "Like having your own guardian angel looking out for you."
Lily eyed her strangely, "you read too many romance novels," She said half smiling, but she didn't contradict her, "Have you seen Amos?"
"No, but seeing he gets up freakishly early and you were locked in a class room until quite late on, I expect you probably just missed each other."
Lily nodded and shoved another spoonful of cereal into her mouth. "I'll see him in herbology anyway." she said, "I wonder how he'll react when I tell him I've been locked in a classroom with James all night."
"You're actually going to tell him?" Emily said, looking at Lily disbelievingly.
"Sure, we tell each other everything, and besides he'll know nothing happened because he knows I hate James."
"You don't hate James," Emily said, "You're just too stuborn to admit otherwise." Lily glared at her. "You're actually incredibly lucky to have someone like James love you the way he does."
"Well even so, I've got Amos. I don't need James." Lily said in her most obstinate voice.
"Well, you're even more lucky then. You have two men crazy about you, I've got no one."
Lily looked at Emily sympathetically, "Oh come on, there are loads of boys who'd love to go out with you, what about Richard Corner? I saw him looking at you the other day."
"Lily, he's like the biggest playboy ever, he'd pull anything as long as it was wearing a skirt." Lily shrugged, but said nothing, "You've got Amos and James," Emily continued, "And now Claire and Sirius are like sex buddies-"
"What!?" Lily exclaimed, shocked "Are they sleeping together already? Why didn't Claire tell me?"
"I don't think she's had the chance, she only told me this morning, apparently they did it last night."
"Oh my God," Lily said, "I can't believe her, they've only been going out for about a week."
Emily shrugged, "But you've seen how into each other they are and it's not like Claire was a virgin or anything."
Lily was shocked by this piece of information but she could tell Emily would rather talk about something else. She decided to quiz Claire about it later, but for the time being she'd have to give all her attention to Emily who was obviously feeling depressed.
It wasn't that Emily was ugly she just wasn't as naturally beautiful as Claire and Lily. She was quite tall and flat chested, with hazel eyes and although her blonde hair was a nice colour it was quite frizzy and out of control, however she was one of the nicest people Lily had ever met and if boys didn't notice that then they weren't worth bothering about.
"Listen," Lily said, "I know you don't have a boyfriend right at the moment, but you know there's someone out there for you, you're the one who reads the romance novels here. I guarentee that you'll meet someone who's just as nice as you."
"Yeah right." Emily said dully,
"Seriously, me and Claire will find you a date for the Christmas Dance and, well, you never know." She grinned at Emily suggestively, "I might even be able to get James to go with you."
Emily smiled at her, "It's nice of you," she said, "but I'd never go with James."
"Why not?" Lily said confused, "I thought you liked him."
"I do, but there wouldn't be any point. He's head over heels for you and I wouldn't want to be the one who stops you from getting together."
"Emily," Lily said laughing. "Me and James are not going to get together,"
"Yes you are," Emily said yawning sleepily, "when you get over Amos, anyway."
"What do you mean?" Lily asked, now slightly annoyed, "Me and Amos are in love, we're not going to break up."
"You will at some point." Emily said grinning, "And then you'll get with James, providing he still likes you by that time of course."
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Hey guys, did you like it? I know it was slightly boring and you all wanted Lily to jump into James's arms and shag him senseless, but that's not going to happen just yet. :) But it is becoming really hard to keep making Lily refuse James, thta girl has will power
Any way please review and tell me your thoughts. The more reviews, the quicker I update.