Where it Began!
Disclaimer – doesn't JKR own the characters and places etc. DUH. People who don't know that must be very crazy. Well anyway my name is Rebeccah Reynolds so I guess that does belong to me. Hehehe!
Chapter 9 Revelations of the Heart!
By Bec Reynold (S/O/A) (Sort of Author)
Lily's POV
Just keep walking, that's all you have to do for now. Stupid legs, stop getting all pins and needles on me now.
THUMP THUMP!
You 'stupid head' why are you stomping your feet? He's going to turn around. Do I want him to turn around? Do I want to see him? Do I want to hear what he's going to tell me? Thank God he's not turning around, I don't know what to do. Okay calm down.
We've reached a tapestry and we've stopped. The tapestry is very ancient looking and very pretty. (It shows King Louis XIV and his mistress Louise de la Valliere at one of Louis' famous fetes. You could see the passion and love in their eyes.) Why is my heart beating so fast?
"True Love" he murmured to the edge of the tapestry. I blushed, why did I blush?
The tapestry swung to the left, revealing a grand and secret staircase spiralling upwards. James took my hand without looking at me and we proceeded up the beautiful staircase. After we took the first step we didn't have to walk anymore. It was moving us upwards, like the escalators at the shops.
SILENCE
"Um. . . . It's a really beautiful staircase. I never even knew it existed" I commented after he had glanced at me "Do you . . . ur. . .um. . .take a lot of girls, I mean do other. . . um, people know about this place?"
"You can spend 7 years of your life with something and not really know it" he replied dryly, looking at me as if he had seen me for the first time "Funny where something's might lead you" he added as we reached the top of the stairs.
"Oh my" I mumbled as I opened my eyes. We were on top of one of the towers, very very high. Did I ever tell James I was afraid of heights? I guess not because he seems not to notice me almost wetting my pants. But it is lovely up here. . . . Lovely to get blown off and fall 100's of meters to your death. Oh no!
"It's beautiful" he told me releasing my hand and walking closer to the ledge. "You can see the quidditch pitch, the greenhouses, even the Forbidden Forest looks beautiful, oh yeah and the lake. I love it up here" I could tell he did love it up here. He looked free and himself. He looked like James Potter, the boy who had chased me for the first 5 years at school and spent the 6th trying to make me jealous and who's spending the 7th doing who knows what.
"Lilykins you looked petrified" he said, immediately walking back to me "What's wrong? Do you feel alright? Are you okay"
"James" I started, but couldn't continue. I sat down on the cold stone tower and just stared at my hands.
"Lily" he replied as he took his seat beside me "You wondering why I brought you up here?"
"No. I'm wondering how many girls you've brought up here" I growled back. It wasn't suppose to come out like that. It just came out, maybe I was voicing out my jealousy, but I have no reason to be jealous.
"I have brought no girls up here. The only people alive who know about it are my dad, mum, sister and the boyfriend she had in her 7th year" he said melancholy.
"Sorry. I didn't mean it to come out like that" I replied "It really is beautiful. You can see the beautiful stars. Look you can see Sirius"
"Where?" he said jumping up.
"Not Sirius-sirius" I explained, tugging his robes to make him sit back down "Sirius. The brightest star in the sun, after the sun. And look it's almost a full moon, I think in about 2 or 3 days"
"In 4" (James)
"Oh" (Lily)
"Lily, please can you listen to me. No interrupting, no interfering just listening. I know you're good at it, but I really really need you to listen. Intently and fully. I just need to tell you alright" he said all in one breath and very panicky.
"Sure. Do you want me to put the silencing charm on me too?" I added jokingly.
"If you really want to" he said seriously. He started pacing around the tower. Thinking very deeply.
"Are you serious?" (Lily)
"No. I'm neither the star nor the human" (James)
"No, I mean about the whole silencing charm" (Lily)
"Um if you want to. I don't want to force you. But it's not like I don't want to hear you talk, it's just easier for me to get it out if I know you can't talk. Not like I don't want you to hear you talk it's just easier for me to get it our if I know you can't talk. Not like I don't . . . ." (James in one breath as he sat down)
"James" (Lily) "You've said that 2 times already, I'll do it so calm down"
"Silenzio" (Lily)
"Thanks" he smiled weakly "Well, here it goes. You know how I was saying just before that you can spend 7 years of your life with something and not really know it. Well I was talking about you and me. Not the castle. You and me. We've spent the past 7 years in the same school, house and classes. But we don't really know each other do we.
He looked at me, intensely, lovingly.
"And how I said it's funny where something's might lead you. I wasn't talking about the staircase I was talking about fate. Us crashing into each other at the start of the year, us being Head Girl and Boy, us having our first kiss together. US! Ever since 1st year I have had feelings for you. I thought they'd just disappear like the other little crushes I've had for other girls, but it never died nor disappeared. It stuck with me. It grew and it's growing.
He paused and I'm starting to swet.
"And it will never go away. I'm afraid that one day you will find someone who you will fall in love with and will be out of my life forever. I don't want that, I want to be with you. And I want you to want to be with me. I went crazy last year. You were seeing Russell for 2 weeks. Those 2 weeks were the worst of my life. Seeing you kiss him, seeing you blush when he asked you to dinner. Seeing you with him made me go, I don't know, but I wanted to make you jealous by going out with tonnes of girls. I wanted to make you feel hurt that I didn't chase you anymore. My plan backfired. You continued to ignore and hate me. THEN you broke up with Russ, then I was relived. BUT then you went out with Nicholas and I didn't know what to do. I was lost, wounded. I had lost you twice in one year.
I wanted to say something, anything, but when I opened my mouth to say something nothing came out. Stupid silencing charm!
"Lily Evans" he looked nervous, but although he was nervous he gave me a weak smile "I brought you up here because of a family tradition. This is the tower where my sister, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, and all the Potters' before me have said that something special to that someone special.
"I LOVE yooooouuuuuu. . . oouuurrr EYES. I mean I love your eyes. They twinkle beautiful at night" he said then became silent and pensive.
I started to say something but nothing came out. I took tapped him on the shoulder. Like the way he tapped me on the shoulder in our first year. He turned towards me, our eyes locking. We just stared.
He leaned closer to my face, I leaned closer to his face, (sound familiar) then our lips met. My mouth opened allowing his tongue to enter. (Hehe, bad at writing kissing scenes, good at kissing, HEHE) It was beautiful, the perfect kiss. The perfect moment. The beautiful night sky above us and the beautiful grounds of Hogwarts below us.
Peter wasn't there to ruin the moment. Yay!
We broke apart reluctantly and he performed the counter-curse. "Oiznelis"
James POV
We kissed. I told her I loved her, no I told her I loved her eyes. She's beautiful. I do love her. Do I tell her? No, not yet. But Dad said this is where he told Mum he loved her. This is where Sharon (older sister) told David (boyfriend in 7th year) she loved him. But Sharon and David broke up during that summer. It's the perfect moment. Why can't you tell her? Because she's not ready to hear it. That's why, she's not ready.
"James. Thank-you" said Lily softly as she stood up.
"Lily" I replied. Instead of standing up I got on one knee, took her hand in mine and looked up at her. She looked just as nervous as I felt "Will you be my girlfriend?" he said quickly.
Her nervous face is brightening up. She's smiling. Yay! Anyway my knee is starting to hurt.
"The other times you've only asked me to go out with you. NOW you're asking me to be your girlfriend" she teased, I couldn't help but return her smile.
"Well I'm taking a really big step here you know. At the start of the term I was on the top of your most wanted list, then I was your friend, then I was a friend who spent a lot of time with, then now I'm asking you to be my girlfriend. So Levans what do you say?" (James)
"Japotter I liked it better when you were nervous" she told me "You looked funnier"
"If you don't give me an answer soon I think I will be nervous" I replied with I hint of anxiety in my voice.
"Yes" (Lily)
"Yes you'll answer me soon or yes you'll be my girlfriend" (James)
"The latter" (Lily)
"You mean-" (James)
"Yes James Potter I will be your girlfriend" (Lily)
"YIPPEE" (James)
I stood up, but as I stood up I grabbed her around the waist and carried her around the tower. She was giggling at me but she kept her eyes closed. I dropped her gently back on the ground and kissed her sweetly and passionately. Words cannot describe the feeling I feel.
10 minutes later, and many stolen kisses between suits of armor, we returned to Gryffindor common room. The 6 classmates we had left earlier in the evening were still there laughing as we took our seats.
"So there you have it" commented Isabella animatedly "Remus tried to catch me with his flying mistletoe but failed. Kingsley Shacklebolt saved me and almost knocked you out too."
Everyone laughed, even Remus. I remember that. It was a couple of days after his transformation and he was still tired, any other day he would have caught Bella.
"Kingsley never liked me from then on" said Remus.
"Kingsley liked me very much after that day" replied Bella with a hint of glee in her eyes "He was my first love"
"Everyone's your first love Bella" remarked Em "You've had more first loves than Lily and Bec had O.W.L's. And they got 10 O.W.L's each"
"I think we all should get to bed" yawned Peter "It's getting late"
"Yeah we should" everyone chimed in agreement, everyone except one.
"I've got a little bit of studying to do" said Bec "I'll be up in 20 or so"
"Do you want me to stay?" asked Remus.
"Don't worry, you need your rest?" remarked Bec "I'll be fine"
Everyone went to the stairs. We said goodnight to the girls and I gave a little peck on the cheek to Lily. No one seemed surprised, I think they knew it was bound to happen. I followed Moony and Wormtail and checked behind me to see where Padfoot was. He was still at the edge of the stairs, staring down at the common room.
"Hey Padfoot" I called "You right buddy"
"Yeah just tired" he replied he caught up with us.
Moments later we had entered our dorm and were fast asleep. At least I thought we were all fast asleep.
S/O/A – Thanks for reviewing. I can't believe how many of you reviewed. Well anyway Elle's still grounded. She gave me that outline of the story for the next few chapters so I guess I'll be writing them too. YAY!
What's up wif Elle? Please don't get angry with me Elle, people wanted to know and I wanted to tell. Hehehe!
Well if you were wondering about the wedding she was having a shotty competition with the guy she liked. Coincidence or what his name was Russell, hehehe, anyhooz she chased them down with beer so she got really really wasted. By 9 o'clock she was throwing up everywhere and trying to pick up 20 year olds. I was there and stopped her, but she's a bit uncontrollable when she's drunk. Her parents were very upset but her sister thought it was quite funny, but her new husband (WOW) thought she was being an irresponsible sister. Her sister's the one who gave them the alcohol anyway. LOL!
Never drink at weddings! LOL. In the end she never hooked up with Russell. They never even danced. She's obviously regretting it now, but what can you do. Move on that's what I say.
Oh yeah and her other story More Than Just Friends was talking about her and Russell. Russell broke her heart one time before too, they weren't going out but she saw him getting with another girl. It crushed her but she still wants him. I don't know why.