Thanks to Val, the only reviewer of the last chapter. Come on guys, I really want your opinion on this story. I have the next few chapters planned out, but after that I don't know what I'm doing yet so feel free to send me anything that you want in the story. If you like my story, tell me. If you hate it, tell me. I just need feedback, good or bad. I need to know how I'm doing with this and whether or not you like it or not. So please review.
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'That Hufflepuff girl, Amelia Bones, her brother Edgar was killed by Voldemort. Edgar's like the twentieth Auror this year to be killed by Voldemort, and now your telling me my sister's one of his followers?" Sammi said, plainly horrified.
As promised, James had explained why Sirius was so touchy about his brother. Lily had immediately run to Sammi to tell her, but now she was almost sorry she did. She could see the horror in her friend's eyes, and she knew it must feel horrible to find out that the only family you have left is a follower of the most evil dark wizard of all time.
"Well no, we're not sure she's a Death Eater, James just said she hangs out with people who almost definitely are."
"Right, well I know Blake can be a bit of a bitch, but she's not that thick." Sammi said, trying to convince herself more than Lily. "I'm pretty sure she doesn't get pleasure out of seeing innocent people die."
Lily bit her lip. "Yeah, you're right. We just need to watch her a bit more closely."
"So…" Sammi said, casting around for a change of subject, "your first official date with James is tonight. We need to make you look extra tantalizing."
"I think I'm going to have to break into Dylan's trunk for this one," Lily said grinning.
She opened up Dylan's trunk and laid all of her clothes on the floor. She and Sammi walked around, trying to pick out which outfit was the sexiest.
Finally, they decided on a tight pair of faded low-rise jeans, with a tight black tube top that ended right above her belly button, to show off the new piercing she had gotten the other day. In her ears were big silver hoops, and her hair was scrunched, slightly curly, slightly straight, and had lots of gel in it to give it that just out of the shower look. Dylan and Toni returned from the library a short while later, and did her makeup. She didn't have much on, because she already has a flawless complexion, but the little bit that she had was done to perfection."
Dylan grinned, "James is going to drop dead when he sees you, Lil,"
"Don't get my hopes up," Lily said, laughing.
Suddenly the door opened and Ashley entered. She looked at Lily, shook her head, grabbed a book off of her bed and walked out.
Lily decided enough was enough and ran out after her.
"Ash, stop, this is getting stupid."
Ashley chose to ignore her and kept walking, but Lily wasn't going to give up that easy. She followed Ashley out of the portrait hole and into the library. Finally Ashley got annoyed and turned around.
"What the hell do you want Lily?"
"Ash, please don't listen to Dylan. We don't think you're immature, or saintly, or anything else that she said. If you really want to know the truth, we all respect you, a lot. You have the most willpower out of anybody any of us have ever met."
"I don't want to be friends with people who make a game out of destroying somebody. What you're doing is horrible, and I can't stand it."
"Ash, think about how many girls he's done this to in the past. He's turned innocent girls into whores and then broke their hearts; I just want him to know how it feels. Think about how many future girls I'd be saving if I did it. He's bound to stop using them for sex when he knows how it feels; if he doesn't then he's even more of a jackass than we thought."
"I know, but…all you're doing is stooping down to his level. If you go through with this you'll be no better than him."
"I know, I just…he needs to know how it feels."
"Yes but, that doesn't make it right-"
"Ashley, please, I miss you, and I hate not talking to you, and Sammi and Toni do too. And I know Dylan does too, even if she won't admit it."
"Alright fine. But I'm not going to pretend I like what you're doing to James, and I'm not going to help you with it in any way. And I'm not taking any more of Dylan's bullshit."
Lily squealed and threw her arms around her friend. "Alright I have to go, I'll talk to you later."
"Bye."
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Lily entered through the portrait hole ten minutes later, and looked around for James.
"Evans, looking hot."
Lily turned around to see Sirius grinning at her. "In your dreams, Black."
James got up from the armchair he was sitting in and walked over to Lily, careful to slap Sirius on the back of the head on his way. "Ready to go?"
"Yep."
They exited through the portrait hole and walked through the corridors hand in hand.
"Er, James, how are we getting to Hogsmeade? It's not a Hogsmeade weekend."
James grinned. "I have my ways, just don' tell anybody, ok?"
"Um, ok."
"Hang on," James said stopping and putting his hand in the pocket of his pants. He pulled out a piece of parchment and quickly checked it over. "Alright, all clear-"
Lily's eyes widened as she stared at the parchment. "Where'd you get that," she gasped, grabbing it out of his hands.
"Sirius, Remus, Peter and I made it last year." James said proudly.
"You made it? It's amazing!" Lily said in awe.
"Yeah, it's pretty useful. Come on, we'd better go before somebody comes."
A few minutes later, James held out his arm to stop Lily in front of a statue of a one eyed witch. He walked up to it, tapped the witch, and said "Dissendium." The statue's hump opened up and again Lily stared in awe.
"How do you know so much about the school?" she said suspiciously.
"Marauders never reveal their secrets," he said with a grin he hoisted himself into the hole. "After I go down, you do the same thing. I'll be at the bottom to catch you."
Before she could answer he slid down, but Lily was too afraid to go after him.
"Come on, Lily," James called up through the shoot. "Just jump in there and slide down, I promise I'll be here to catch you."
"Isn't there another way to go?" she called back pleadingly.
"This is the quickest way. Just trust me alright?"
Lily took a deep breath and climbed into the hole. She closed her eyes, gathering her courage, and then pushed herself down.
She slid a considerable way down what felt like a stone slide, then flew out on the bottom into James. He fell backwards, so that they were both on the floor, and Lily was on top of him. He looked into her eyes and grinned.
"You planned that, didn't you?" she said, laughing despite herself.
"Oh, I hoped for it," James said, pulling her head down so he could kiss her.
As the kiss deepened, Lily caught herself thinking, "Wow, he's good at this."
She jumped up off him, frightened; she despised James and she was supposed to hate the seconds she had to spend with him. She definitely wasn't supposed to enjoy kissing him. "Just because he's a good kisser doesn't mean I don't hate him, it just means he's had a lot of practice…which he has," she thought to herself. Suddenly she snapped out of her thoughts and looked at James; she was going to have to do some quick thinking to cover this one up.
"Don't look at me like that," she said, smirking. "Do you really want to spend our first make-out session on the floor of an underground cave? I mean, it's not too romantic, is it?"
"No," James said disappointedly, standing up. "I suppose you're right…"
"Don't worry," she said seductively, walking over to him and placing her hands on his chest. She craned her neck upwards and whispered into his ear. "We'll pick up where we left off when we get back to Gryffindor Tower tonight."
James grinned. "Alright." He took out his wand, muttered "Lumos!" and instructed Lily to do the same. They walked through a low, narrow, earthy passageway for a while, and then came to the foot of some worn stone steps. They climbed up the steps, and suddenly James motioned for Lily to stop. He slowly lifted up the ceiling above him, which Lily realized to be a trap door. He quickly glanced around and climbed out, and then grabbed Lily's hand to help her do the same.
As she straightened up, James threw a cloak around her. "Is that a-?"
"Yeah, it's an invisibility cloak, my dad gave it to me when I was a kid. But shh, we need to be quiet; the shop owners are still upstairs, they mustn't hear us.
"Ok, but where are we?" Lily whispered.
"Cellar of Honeydukes."
Lily's eyes widened once again, but she decided not to voice her amazement. She had a feeling that throughout the night she was going to see a lot more of James' little tricks, each one more astounding than the next.
My longest chapter yet, over 1800 words! Next chapter is going to be the more of their date, and what happens when they get back to the common room. I know what I'm doing but if you want you could email me what you readers would like to happen. If your ideas are better than mine, I'd rather use yours. And I'll give you credit for them lol. Remember, please review!! -Britt
