A/N:- Hi sorry if I don't follow some of your requests but I have a general direction for this story and I know where I'm going and exactly what I'm going to do but please don't be angry with me if I don't do what you want. I love this chapter and I think Sirius is very sweet in it.

James checked his hair again. He had used an enormous amount of magic to keep it neat and he was quite pleased with the effect. He checked his dress robes again. He wanted to be perfect for Lily. They were opening the ball after all. He looked over to Sirius who was staring at a group of girls.

"Padfoot, what's the time?" James asked. Sirius shrugged and got up.

"I don't know but if April doesn't get down soon I'm going to the ball with someone else." Sirius said.

"You are an unfaithful boyfriend" came April's harsh voice from behind, "You know that?" April was wearing a lovely light blue set of dress robes and her blonde hair had been lightened, by magic, and was completely straight and fell down her back gracefully. Jenny stood next to April, Jenny wore some dark red robes that looked very good against her Asian face and complexion. Sirius grinned at April and gave her a kiss. When he came away a smile was plastered on April's face.

"Come on." Sirius said grabbing April's hand.

"Whoa" James said stopping them from leaving, "Where's Lily?" James asked.

"Oh, you are going to love her look. She is just so amazing tonight." April said looking at Jenny.

"Oh yeah. I can't believe she got that dress robe…" April, Jenny and Sirius wandered off and James didn't catch the end of their conversation. His eyes had been caught by a beautiful girl coming down the stairs from the girl's dorm. She had dark forest green dress robes, which made her green eyes look brighter then they had ever looked. Her hair was up in a loose bun with a few strands of hair hanging out. It didn't look tacky as it should have looked but made her looked even better, especially to James. Two locks of red hair framed her face and she smiled nervously at James. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ears.

"Hi James." Lily said to him. James was breathing quickly and he could feel his heart beating faster. He bit his lip and had to try harder then ever to try and keep his hormones under control but it was getting more difficult. He saw Lily's eyes flick down and she smiled. She looked at James in the eyes and then put a hand up and adjusted a bit of his hair.

"That's better." She said. She looked at James waiting for him to say something. Soon she frowned and started to get worried about him. "Are you ok?" She asked.

"Uh, yeah." James said shaking his head as he came back to his senses. "Fuck, you look so beautiful." Lily grinned again and kissed the corner of James' mouth. James tried to catch her mouth but she moved away just in time. She had found that by giving him a little, like kissing the corner of his mouth, then moving away always kept him wanting more. More she was willing to give but she felt it was a bit too early in their relationship.

"All this, just for you," she said indicating at herself. "You look handsome yourself, Potter." She said. James smiled and took her hand. "Of course you would look better if you were wearing your Quidditch robes and was flying around on a broom and kicking Ravenclaws ass." James looked at her slightly surprised. Lily never showed any emotion for Quidditch and she hated the fact that James could get hurt at any moment while playing or practicing Quidditch.

"Command and it shall be done." James said. He kissed the top of Lily's head and she grinned and stepped out of the portrait hole.

"You look very nice today Lily." Said the Fat lady. Lily smiled and inclined her head.

"Thank you, so do you." Lily said to the portrait. The Fat Lady smiled at her and James and Lily headed down to the great hall. She felt slightly uncomfortable with the stares she was getting from many of the boys of the school. She hadn't made herself beautiful for anyone but James. She felt her stomach doing flips in her stomach. This was going to be their first proper public appearance as a couple. Of course everyone knew they were a couple but for some reason it didn't click with some people and people still made advances on James and Lily. Lily hoped that this would put an end to it. She just wanted to be with James with no one interrupting their conversation every few minutes while in the great hall. All the Gryffindors knew the head students were off limits, having seen them kissing a lot in the common room.

"Now that the Head students are here, we can properly open the ball." Dumbledore said to the students who were gathered in the Great Hall. There were cherubs flying above the heads of the students, occasionally throwing confetti over the students. There were flowers and heart shaped decorations everywhere. Lily felt a surge of pride for the Prefects, they had spent many hours during the night getting it all ready.

"I would like to welcome to the school, the Hobgoblins, who will be providing our entertainment for today" Dumbledore said pointing at a stage that had been erected where the teachers' table usually was. There was a cheer and a small band walked onto the stage. They struck up a slow song, perfect to get the couples dancing.

"Lily, James, you take it from here." Dumbledore said. James gave Dumbledore a salute and put his arms around Lily.

Dumbledore watched as the two head students were joined by other couples. As he had predicted, with a little push and shove in the right direction the two did get together. He had noticed the spark between Potter and Evans two years ago, just after their OWL exams. He had hoped that they would find each other during the sixth year but when that had failed he decided there was only one thing. He wouldn't have normally tried to pair up his students but he felt that without at least a little interference Lily and James' relationship would have never had the chance to blossom. Dumbledore smiled to himself as he sat in a chair at the temporary teachers' table. McGonagall leaned towards him.

"You were right about those two." She said quietly as Lily laughed at something that James had said and put her head on his shoulder.

"They will be needing each other in the next few years." Dumbledore said, "Someone had to do something." Dumbledore watched as Mr. Black twirled Miss. Marsden around and nearly caused himself to crash into the food table.

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"Well done Lily!" said a student in the sixth year. Lily grinned. Everyone had been complimenting her and James on the ball. Lily stood near the stage that the Hobgoblins were performing on and fanned herself with her hand. She was finding James almost irresistible tonight. She didn't know what it was but tonight he had extra sex appeal. It was worrying Lily slightly in a good way, if that was possible.

"Lily!" April said happily. She ran over to Lily and caught Jenny on the way to her and they stopped at Lily.

"How's the ball?" Lily asked

"Charles is amazing" Jenny said, her eyes sparkling.

"Yeah, Sirius is great. He's so sweet. Where's James?" April asked Lily.

"He's gone to get me a drink." Lily said. She glanced across the hall and saw James talking to Peter. Peter didn't look interested in what he was saying. Lily felt her heart start beating faster as soon as she saw James.

"Oh shit." She thought closing her eyes and looking away.

"Excuse me?" April said. Lily looked at her.

"What?"

"Why are you swearing?" Jenny asked. Lily bit her lip slightly.

"Tell us." April said taking Lily's hands. Lily frowned and nodded.

"Well, this may seem really stupid but I'm finding it really difficult to-" Lily didn't know how to word the rest of her thoughts.

"Difficult to what?" April asked, she looked a little overexcited. Lily tried another way of explaining.

"Um…well you know my thoughts on sleeping before marriage, particularly when we're at school and stuff like that. How I don't really think it's very sensible and a bit irresponsible and-"

"Yeah, we know." Jenny said. Lily tried to stop herself looking at James.

"Well, I'm having difficultly controlling myself in front of James and it's worrying me slightly." Lily said. April and Jenny grinned identical grins, which freaked Lily out slightly.

"Oh my god Lily!" April screamed. Both the girls hugged Lily. Lily started slightly.

"What-" Lily started confused.

"You want to sleep with him?" April asked. Lily nodded. "Oh, I'm so proud of you." Lily looked at April confused. Jenny looked at April.

"Proud?" Jenny asked, "don't you mean pleased?"

"No, proud. Don't you get it?" April asked Jenny.

"No."

"Lily wants to sleep with James, that means, as it's Lily, that love has moved on more from just a bunch of chemicals to a proper feeling." April said.

"Please speak English, or Chinese but I think English will be easier." Jenny said. Jenny was smart but she didn't fully understand science, particularly as April had read all this information in a muggle magazine.

"You'll see" April said simply.

"Ladies," came James' smooth voice. Lily felt her heart speeding up again and looked at April slightly nervously. She was scared of this new emotion in her. She'd never felt it before and because she wasn't in total control of herself she hated it but she liked it at the same time. She loved and hated that James could do this to her.

"Don't worry." April whispered into her ear. "Just let it happen." Lily looked at April, that wasn't encouraging advice.

"Lily, your drink." James said giving her a small cup of punch.

"Thanks." Lily said. She started fanning herself with her free hand again as she took a sip from her drink.

"I'm going back to Charles. April rudely pulled me away from him." Jenny said smiling.

"Go you dog." April said grinning. James laughed and went to Lily's side. Lily felt her body shaking with excitement.

"Where's Sirius?" James asked. April nodded towards the food table where Sirius was just climbing out from underneath it.

"He's got a plan." April said. All Lily's emotions drained from her body as she heard this.

"What! No he can't!" She said. Nothing was going to ruin her ball.

"I tried to talk him out of it, honest but- " April started but Lily started for the table but as she took three steps it exploded. There were several screams of surprise and the music stopped. Lily stared as what should have been fragments of wood, glass and food were in fact lots of small red hearts. They suddenly zoomed into the middle of the room and started to form words. Lily, James and April watched curiously. Sirius was nowhere to be seen until a few minutes later surprised April by poking her sides.

"Hi lovely." He said. He gave her a quick kiss then looked at the red hearts. "Watch." He said. April watched the tiny red hearts curiously. They turned and the words they seemed to form became clearer to April. When she saw them she stared wide eyed and happy and absolutely amazed

I LOVE YOU APRIL MARSDEN it said. April's mouth dropped open as people turned to look at her.

"I…what…I-" April was at a complete loss for words. True, she loved Sirius but she didn't know he loved her back. She was speechless. Lily turned to Sirius and April. James' arm was draped around her shoulders.

"Trust Sirius to do everything in style." James said. He turned to the band. "Do you mind carrying on?" he asked. The drummer nodded and started a beat. Everyone looked away and started chatting and dancing again.

"I love you April." Sirius whispered to her. April grinned and turned to give him a deep and passionate kiss.

"Oh I'm so proud." Lily said copying April. April gave her a look when she had finished her kiss with Sirius and Lily started laughing. "That's what you said to me."

"I know. Now go do you thing." April said waving a dismissive hand and going back to kissing Sirius.