*Chapter 3*
The next month and half flew by for Lily. Nothing exciting really happened, She and Alice had taken to hanging around with Dawn and Delia more, and Alice had been spending a lot more time with Frank, but other than that it was classes as usual. She had seen James in the halls, and prefects meetings, but they only exchanges quick friendly hello's. Two weeks before Halloween, the question of how to celebrate the holiday, came up in a prefect meeting.
"We could have the regular feast," Nathan, her fellow 6th year prefect suggested.
"We could, but we were thinking of doing something new," Felicity, the head girl responded.
"How about a Ball?" one of the Hufflepuff prefects asked. Getting groans from all the guys in return.
"A Hogsmead day" Suggested Samantha, a 6th year Gryffindor, Lily was on good terms with. Everyone perked up at the idea.
"How about a dance?" The suggestion had come from Emily Swann, a 5th year muggleborn Ravenclaw. Lily had talked to her quite a few times, she was fun. When James opened his mouth, with a look on his face saying he was going to turn it down, Lily interrupted.
"You mean one like a muggle dance Em?"
"Yeah that's what I meant, we could have a Hogsmead day, and a dance that night, Halloweens on a Friday this year. But the dance should probably only be for fifth year and up"
"Didn't we veto the ball thing?" James asked sounding a bit annoyed.
"We're not talking about having a ball, we're talking about a dance," Lily replied at the confused look on his face she continued "A dance is casual. You don't wear dress robes, there's no dinner, you just go and dance."
"That's a good idea, it'll give us all a break from formality, and your right, muggle dance's are way more fun than balls" Felicity said, "Ok, that's it for today, we'll take it to the headmaster, get it approved, we'll have a meeting on Thursday to plan. Same time and place. See you then."
Lily waked back to the dorms chatting with Emily.
"That was a great idea Em, having a dance."
"Thanks, Some of my muggle friends took me to one over the summer, at their community center, it was a blast."
"I know what you mean; my muggle friends and I go to a lot to." They spent the rest of the walk talking about various things they did with their muggle friends over the summers. When they reached the common room they split up, Lily walked up to her dorm, while Emily went to sit with her friends at one of the tables where they were studying.
"Hey guys" Lily said as she pushed open her dorm door.
"Hi Lily," Dawn said not looking up from her book.
"Hey." Delia answered looking up from her homework, which she was doing sprawled out on the floor. "How was the meeting?"
"Boring, but we might have a Hogsmead day and a dance on Halloween."
"Sounds fun, hey can you give me a hand with this charms essay?"
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The girls were woken up by the blaring of music in their dorm. They had learned this was the only way to wake them up, so they placed a silencing spell on their dorm, and set up the very loud musical alarm clock.
"Why do you build me up (Build me up)
Buttercup baby just to
let me down (Let me down)
And mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all)
You never call baby
When you say you will (Say you will)
But I love you still
I need you (I need you)
More than anyone darlin'
You know that I have from the start"
"ITS HALLOWEEN!!!!" Delia explained jumping on her bed.
"How can you be that hyper in the morning?" Alice grumbled pulling the covers over her head.
"Because it Halloween. Plus you should be excited, today's your BIG DATE with Frank." Delia laughed.
"Oh MY God." Alice cried jumping out of bed and running into the bathroom. Lily laughed at her friends, and swung her feet out of bed, walked over to Alice's trunk and picked out some clothes, in time to make it to the bathroom door when Alice stuck her head out saying "Lily could you... oh thanks" taking the clothes Lily was holding out. Rolling her eyes Lily walked back to her own trunk to get ready.
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"You're coming with us right Lily?" Delia asked after Frank had collected Alice.
"Actually, I promised to help out with setting up the hall, but If I get done in time to go down to Hogsmead I'll meet you there," Lily replied.
"Ok, See you later Lily!" Dawn said, and Lily watched the two girls walk out of the hall. The hall cleared out pretty soon after that, leaving only the small group of prefects who were decorating, consisting of Lily, Emily, James, Felicity, Samantha, and her fellow 6th year Gryffindor prefect Brian Loftus.
"Alright, Lily, you Emily and James, handle the walls, floor and ceiling, Samantha, Brian and I will set up the refreshment tables, just not the food yet, and handle the pumpkins and music," Felicity ordered, taking charge.
"Alright guys, I'm not good with decorating so you tell me what to do and I'll do it." James said turning to the two girls.
"Alright.. How about... can we make the floor, creaky old wood like a barn?" Emily asked. "That sound good lily?"
"Yeah an old barn seems like the perfect place for a dance, Jay your good at transfiguration right, can you do the floor?" when he nodded she continued "and I'll charm the ceiling to look like the roof of a barn, with a few holes where you can see the real ceiling. It will show the night sky during the dance, that will look cool" Looking at Emily she saw the other girl approved, "Emily can you start doing the same thing to the walls? Ill help you when I'm done with the ceiling, then we can do cobwebs, and stuff."
"Alright." James replied, and the three started casting spells. Soon enough the great hall looked like the inside of an old barn, Lily and James had been able to turn a side of the hall into small and large horse stalls, in which the put 'old barn furniture' or chairs James had transfigured to look old and worn, for when people just wanted to sit and talk, varying the size of the stalls they were able to vary the number that would fit in one from two, to about ten.
"Damn..." Emily said, "We did a good job!"
"Yeah it looks Fantastic," Felicity said, as the group stood in the entrance to the hall. The group soon split up. Lily started walking towards the front hall when she heard someone calling her. "Hey Lily wait up!" she turned around to see James making his way towards her. She smiled at him
"Hey Jay! Where you headed?"
"I was going to the kitchens to get some lunch, want to come?"
"Sure, food sounds good."
"Great" he grinned and they started to walk towards the kitchens. "So how've you been? Hexed Snape again?"
"Naw, although at the feast Delia did accidentally hit him with a piece of broccoli." She answered grinning.
"Accidentally?"
"Yeah, so she was waved her hands around, and her fork was in one of them with a piece of broccoli on it, it flew off and hit Snape."
"Damn, wish I'd seen that." He said reaching up to tickle the pear in the painting of a bowl of fruit.
"Yeah, it was pretty amusing," she replied climbing threw the entrance to the kitchen.
"Mr. James! Miss Lily! What can we get you?" asked one of five house-elves who immediately made their way over when the two climbed into the kitchen.
"We haven't had lunch yet, can you find us something to eat?" James asked before the little creatures scurried off.
The two sat down at a table near the entrance of the kitchen.
"So Lily, I know you have an Aunt May, but what about the rest of your family?"
"Well, I'm muggleborn, as you know, Aunt May's a witch though, my fathers sister. My mom stays at home, My dad is a police man, muggle version of an auror basically, and I have a sister, Petunia, but we're not really close, she thinks I'm a freak because I'm a witch." Lily answered shrugging "How about you?"
"Well, you met Kay, she's my only sibling, my mom is a healer and my father is an auror, a good one at that," James replied.
"Here you go" a house elf said bringing them a tray of food
"Thank you Dotty" Lily said before grabbing one of the grilled cheese sandwiched on the tray, and dishing some tomato soup into a bowl. Before dunking the sandwich in the soup and taking a bite.
"You do that to?" James asked doing the same thing "my friends think I'm crazy, but it's really good."
"Yeah" she said smiling at him before taking another bite.
"Alright, so we covered family, what now?"
"We could play 20 questions." She suggested shrugging.
"What's that?"
"oh, well basically, you get to ask me twenty questions and I do the same to you, but we alternate each question."
"Alright, ok, What's your favorite color?"
"Green, Same question."
"Blue. I have to think of the question again?"
"No I'll do it, Favorite food?"
"My mom's banana bread, how bout you?"
"Pizza or chicken nuggets"
"What's pizza?"
"Muggle food, basically its bread with tomato sauce and cheese on it. It's really good. And you just wasted a question" She grinned slyly at him.
"Damn"
"Alright, most embarrassing moment"
he groaned, "you little devil, alright, er... last summer Sirius stayed at my house for awhile, and we were joking around, and ended up wrestling, know what I mean, and well, right after we stopped, but were still kind of tangled, in the process of getting up, my parents walked in, my mom was horrified she thought we were gay, dad seemed to realize what was going on, so he was laughing at the horrified looks on our faces." Lily was almost falling off the chair she was laughing so hard, and James was close to beet red. "your turn missy, same question."
"Damn, I new that was going to come back bite me in the butt. Ok, during the summer I sometimes go to clubs, and dances, with muggle friends, and at one of the dances, I had to go to the bathroom, so I went into what I thought was the girls bathroom, but when I came out of the stall I found out it was a boys bathroom, two guys were there, well.. you get the idea, one of them happened to be a guy I dated during summer awhile ago, the other was one of my friends. He teased me about it the rest of the summer." Now it was Lily's turn to blush, and James's turn to laugh.
When James stopped laughing he took his turn asking the question "first kiss."
"er... John.. the guy from the bathroom, the one that wasn't my friend." Lily said blushing again, causing James to snicker. "How about you?"
"Lisa Thomas. You know the Hufflepuff," James said wrinkling his nose "she came up to me in the hall one day in my third year, and just kissed me."
Lily laughed. "alright... hmm.. favorite time of the year?"
"the fall, perfect flying conditions. You?"
"Winter, I love snow."
"Favorite dessert?"
"hmm... that's a hard one, éclairs are good, but so is chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and then you have cannolis, but I guess id have to say cannolis. Same question?"
"Hold on" James told her while waving over a house elf.
"Can we get you anything else?"
"Can we have a plate of cannolis please?" James asked.
"Oh yes, Glyph will be right back with connolis." The house elf said before running off.
James turned back to Lily grinning. "Same answer." Lily grinned back
"Alright, how about, favorite relative."
"Kay" he answered right away. "You?"
"May, Hey that rhymes. Ok...that's... 7 for me and 8 for you erm... you don't have to answer this if you don't want, it's a bit personal. Can you see the thestrals?"
He paused for a second before replying "yeah I can, and I'm assuming you can too, so if you don't mind who was it?"
"My grandmother, You?"
"Frank's Father."
Lily's mouth formed an 'O' shape before she remembered something "Oh! Today's Frank and Alice's first date! I wonder how it's going."
James laughed "you should of seen Frank this morning he was a nervous wreck, I think he even changed twice."
Lily Grinned "yeah, Alice forgot to bring her clothes with her into the bathroom, she was so excited. They make a cute couple."
James glanced at the clock on the kitchen wall. "Oh man, its 6 already, the dance starts in an hour, I didn't realize we'd been sitting here for 5 hours."
"Oh God, I promised Alice I'd help her get ready, See you later Jay, this was fun," Lily said, racing out of the kitchen.
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"LILY!" three girls cried as she entered her dorm out of breath.
"Where have you been? I thought you we're going to meet us in Hogsmead, I'm sure I saw Emily and Felicity down there, so you got out with enough time to come," Dawn questioned.
"Sorry guys, I lost track of the time, Jay ran into me before I got out the door, and asked if I wanted to eat lunch with him." Lily said digging around in her trunk to find an outfit.
"Jay?" Delia asked.
"James."
"POTTER??? You were with James Potter for at least 4 hours? And you have a nickname for him?"
"sure, 5 and yeah. But if you must question me can it be after I take a shower? I just ran all the way here from the kitchens, and if I'm going to help you with your hair I need to shower now." Lily said entering the bathroom
"Alright, but shower fast!" Delia called after her.
Lily sauntered out of the bathroom twenty minutes later, in dark-blue low rise jeans, and a black tank top, her hair up in a pony tail, already dried with a charm, a few wisps hanging around her face. Putting on some blue mascara and eyeliner she asked "Alright, who wants hair help, we have" she glanced at the clock, which read '6:30' "about 15 minutes before we should start heading down."
After everyone's hair was fixed, and charmed to stay in place, the four girls exited their dorm, and made their way to the great hall.
"So now will you tell us what happening between you and JAMES POTTER." Delia asked emphasizing James' name.
Lily shrugged. "We get along, flirt a bit maybe, but that's all really. Not that I would say no if he asked me out, but we're just friendly acquaintances."
"So why do you call him Jay?"
"Well I ran into him over the summer when I was staying at Aunt May's, she sent me out to get spaghetti sauce, he works at the grocery store I went to, we talked, and when I left I said 'see you later Jay' or something along those lines, and it's just stuck."
When they the Great Hall they found everyone still waiting outside. Dumbledore was standing in front of the crowed. He cleared his throat and everyone fell quite.
"Welcome to the first Halloween dance at Hogwarts. Can we have a round of applause for the prefects who planned it, especially, Felicity Moore, James Potter, Lily Evens, Samantha Turner, Brian Loftus and Emily Swann who gave up part of their day off to set it up. The teachers have decided, the prefects are capable of making sure things do not get to hectic, so the hall will be teacher free. We will be coming in at one to make sure everyone leaves, but until then, Have fun!" At that, the doors to the great hall swung open reveling the dimly lit room that looked like an old barn, and the headmaster swept away.
People rushed in and Felicity said the charm that started the music they had set up before, it was similar to the one in the girls dorm, but instead of just playing one CD, it skipped around the large collection the prefects had been able to collect, a lot of them from Lily and her dorm-mates. Lily smiled at her friends faces when they entered the room.
"Wow Lils, this looks..."
"Fan-Damn-Tastic!" Dawn said completing Delia's sentence.
"Yeah Lils this is amazing!" Alice complimented, as the three friends made their way onto the dance floor, where Alice was immediately found and snatched up by Frank.
"They make such a cute couple," Lily stated as she watched the two walk away into the crowd, and started to dance.
"Yeah they really do" Dawn agreed "Hey, Lily, do you know how to do the worm?"
Lily's mouth turned up into a sly smile "Yeah. Wanna see who can do it the longest?"
Dawn grinned "Bring it On"
Lily laughed as the girls moved towards the edge of the dance floor where there was more room. "Delia, Will you be the judge?"
"Sure, but... er... what's the worm?"
"Oh... well its hard to explain, but, you'll get it when we start, just see who goes the longest."
"Alright. Ready?"
"Yeah"
"Go!" Both girls immediately put their hands down and started. They ended up stopping at the same time, and people had started to look and cheer them on.
"It was a tie."
"Damn" Dawn said "Another round?"
"Yeah sure, but first, anyone else want to try and beet us?" Lily said smiling.
"What's going on?" Felicity asked making her way threw the large oval that had formed around the girls. "Your not fighting are you? Oh Lily... what ARE you doing?"
"Felicity, your muggle born right?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Heard of the worm?"
Felicity's face broke into a smile. "Who won?"
"It was a tie. Now we're seeing if we have any other takers before having another go."
"I'll give it a go!"
"Me to!" Emily said stepping out of the crowd. A few others decided to join to. Then Cindy made her way for the front and sneered. "Evans trying to be the center of attention?"
"No, having a worm competition."
"Hold this" Cindy said handing her drink to a boy standing on the outside of the crowd the circle had expanded as new people joined. Delia was voted judge again. "Ready GO!" and the seven went. A 5th year hufflepuff who had tried dropping out first, followed by Gryffindor, then Felicity, then Cindy, leaving Dawn, Lily, and Emily, Dawn and Lily again stopping at the same time Emily winning. Cindy disappeared in the crowd when she saw she had lost to Lily.
"You're good at that Em" Lily said offering her hand to help the younger girl off the floor.
"So are you!" Emily replied smiling and grabbing Lily's hand to get up. The crowd soon went back to dancing, and Lily, Dawn and Delia made their way threw the crowd to get drinks, before finding an empty stall entering it. The three girls chatted for awhile before deciding to go dance again.
Making their way to the dance floor Delia got asked to dance, by Tyler Gibbs, a Gryffindor in their year, leaving Dawn and Lily to their own devices. Lily and Dawn started singing along with the song as they danced, to the fast paced song.
"never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand what happened to our love
But babe, I'm going to get you back
I'm going to show you what I'm made of"
They danced around singing for a while until a slow song came on and they started to make their way threw couples to the food table deciding not to look like idiots standing in the middle of the dance floor alone, but a tap on her shoulder stopped Lily, and as she turned around to see who it was she found James. She smiled at him. "Hey Jay"
"Care to dance?" he asked.
"Sure" she responded taking a step closer and wrapping her arms around his neck, while he placed his around on her waist.
"You know, we never did finish out game." She laughed at his comment, as they slowly moved in a circle.
"No, no we didn't." she said softly, before the song changed to a faster one, and instead of breaking apart they simply changed their rhythm. Lily started singing along with the song as they danced.
"You have a great voice."
Lily blushed; she hadn't realized she was singing along, it was just a habit. "Thanks." She looked down, and then back up into his hazel eyes. Just as another slow song started, and Felicity's voice was heard announcing it was the last song. The two danced slowly, a little closer than before. When the song ended the two slowly broke apart.
"Good night Jay." She said and turned to walk away, but the caught her arm and spun her around to face him, before kissing her gently on the lips. When Lily returned the kiss he deepened it, dropping his hold on her arm and wrapping his arms around her waist again, while she snaked her arms around his neck. When they pulled apart, Lily's brilliant green eyes were sparkling. She smiled, said again "Good night Jay" before walking out of the hall.
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that was long.... WELL???? How was it??? can you tell I watched pirates of the Caribbean today? (Secretly I watched it 3 times... this is the upside to being sick.. the downside... I'm going to fail my junior year... hopefully I wont... because id cry, and be stuck repeating... which would mean I would have to switch schools because the grade below mine has a whole lot of people I cannot stand in it, and id commit suicide before being stuck with them all the time anyways...) that's where Emily, Samantha and Tyler's last names came from. *grins sheepishly* (I don't think Orlando Bloom is a god or anything... nope not me)
Anyway.. for those of you who don't know... the worm is when you kind of move your body in a wave on the floor, and you move backwards... yeah.. its hard to explain... so hopefully you know.
02-12-04 – I just went threw and fixed it, I was reading through and saw how many mistakes I made. I'll try to get another chapter up soon, but I'm not exactly sure what going to happen... anyways I also forgot to tell you what the songs were, the first one was build me up buttercup by the foundations, you probably knew that though, the second one is Boys of summer, by Don Henley, The Ataris do to quote Dawn (heehee) Fan-Damn-Tasic cover of it, I like their version better, but Don's version would have been out closer to when Lily and James were that age if I'm going to be true to JK Rowling's time line... anyways.. I'm shutting up now
Thanks to:
iamaiceskater08 – James and Lily Fluff kicks ass!
little-aquarianprincess – its 3 chapters now!!!
jenna87
firewalker32
Tyster – Lol, ok I wont feel bad :-)(secretly I'm mad too, shhhhh don't let the secret out though)
The next month and half flew by for Lily. Nothing exciting really happened, She and Alice had taken to hanging around with Dawn and Delia more, and Alice had been spending a lot more time with Frank, but other than that it was classes as usual. She had seen James in the halls, and prefects meetings, but they only exchanges quick friendly hello's. Two weeks before Halloween, the question of how to celebrate the holiday, came up in a prefect meeting.
"We could have the regular feast," Nathan, her fellow 6th year prefect suggested.
"We could, but we were thinking of doing something new," Felicity, the head girl responded.
"How about a Ball?" one of the Hufflepuff prefects asked. Getting groans from all the guys in return.
"A Hogsmead day" Suggested Samantha, a 6th year Gryffindor, Lily was on good terms with. Everyone perked up at the idea.
"How about a dance?" The suggestion had come from Emily Swann, a 5th year muggleborn Ravenclaw. Lily had talked to her quite a few times, she was fun. When James opened his mouth, with a look on his face saying he was going to turn it down, Lily interrupted.
"You mean one like a muggle dance Em?"
"Yeah that's what I meant, we could have a Hogsmead day, and a dance that night, Halloweens on a Friday this year. But the dance should probably only be for fifth year and up"
"Didn't we veto the ball thing?" James asked sounding a bit annoyed.
"We're not talking about having a ball, we're talking about a dance," Lily replied at the confused look on his face she continued "A dance is casual. You don't wear dress robes, there's no dinner, you just go and dance."
"That's a good idea, it'll give us all a break from formality, and your right, muggle dance's are way more fun than balls" Felicity said, "Ok, that's it for today, we'll take it to the headmaster, get it approved, we'll have a meeting on Thursday to plan. Same time and place. See you then."
Lily waked back to the dorms chatting with Emily.
"That was a great idea Em, having a dance."
"Thanks, Some of my muggle friends took me to one over the summer, at their community center, it was a blast."
"I know what you mean; my muggle friends and I go to a lot to." They spent the rest of the walk talking about various things they did with their muggle friends over the summers. When they reached the common room they split up, Lily walked up to her dorm, while Emily went to sit with her friends at one of the tables where they were studying.
"Hey guys" Lily said as she pushed open her dorm door.
"Hi Lily," Dawn said not looking up from her book.
"Hey." Delia answered looking up from her homework, which she was doing sprawled out on the floor. "How was the meeting?"
"Boring, but we might have a Hogsmead day and a dance on Halloween."
"Sounds fun, hey can you give me a hand with this charms essay?"
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The girls were woken up by the blaring of music in their dorm. They had learned this was the only way to wake them up, so they placed a silencing spell on their dorm, and set up the very loud musical alarm clock.
"Why do you build me up (Build me up)
Buttercup baby just to
let me down (Let me down)
And mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all)
You never call baby
When you say you will (Say you will)
But I love you still
I need you (I need you)
More than anyone darlin'
You know that I have from the start"
"ITS HALLOWEEN!!!!" Delia explained jumping on her bed.
"How can you be that hyper in the morning?" Alice grumbled pulling the covers over her head.
"Because it Halloween. Plus you should be excited, today's your BIG DATE with Frank." Delia laughed.
"Oh MY God." Alice cried jumping out of bed and running into the bathroom. Lily laughed at her friends, and swung her feet out of bed, walked over to Alice's trunk and picked out some clothes, in time to make it to the bathroom door when Alice stuck her head out saying "Lily could you... oh thanks" taking the clothes Lily was holding out. Rolling her eyes Lily walked back to her own trunk to get ready.
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"You're coming with us right Lily?" Delia asked after Frank had collected Alice.
"Actually, I promised to help out with setting up the hall, but If I get done in time to go down to Hogsmead I'll meet you there," Lily replied.
"Ok, See you later Lily!" Dawn said, and Lily watched the two girls walk out of the hall. The hall cleared out pretty soon after that, leaving only the small group of prefects who were decorating, consisting of Lily, Emily, James, Felicity, Samantha, and her fellow 6th year Gryffindor prefect Brian Loftus.
"Alright, Lily, you Emily and James, handle the walls, floor and ceiling, Samantha, Brian and I will set up the refreshment tables, just not the food yet, and handle the pumpkins and music," Felicity ordered, taking charge.
"Alright guys, I'm not good with decorating so you tell me what to do and I'll do it." James said turning to the two girls.
"Alright.. How about... can we make the floor, creaky old wood like a barn?" Emily asked. "That sound good lily?"
"Yeah an old barn seems like the perfect place for a dance, Jay your good at transfiguration right, can you do the floor?" when he nodded she continued "and I'll charm the ceiling to look like the roof of a barn, with a few holes where you can see the real ceiling. It will show the night sky during the dance, that will look cool" Looking at Emily she saw the other girl approved, "Emily can you start doing the same thing to the walls? Ill help you when I'm done with the ceiling, then we can do cobwebs, and stuff."
"Alright." James replied, and the three started casting spells. Soon enough the great hall looked like the inside of an old barn, Lily and James had been able to turn a side of the hall into small and large horse stalls, in which the put 'old barn furniture' or chairs James had transfigured to look old and worn, for when people just wanted to sit and talk, varying the size of the stalls they were able to vary the number that would fit in one from two, to about ten.
"Damn..." Emily said, "We did a good job!"
"Yeah it looks Fantastic," Felicity said, as the group stood in the entrance to the hall. The group soon split up. Lily started walking towards the front hall when she heard someone calling her. "Hey Lily wait up!" she turned around to see James making his way towards her. She smiled at him
"Hey Jay! Where you headed?"
"I was going to the kitchens to get some lunch, want to come?"
"Sure, food sounds good."
"Great" he grinned and they started to walk towards the kitchens. "So how've you been? Hexed Snape again?"
"Naw, although at the feast Delia did accidentally hit him with a piece of broccoli." She answered grinning.
"Accidentally?"
"Yeah, so she was waved her hands around, and her fork was in one of them with a piece of broccoli on it, it flew off and hit Snape."
"Damn, wish I'd seen that." He said reaching up to tickle the pear in the painting of a bowl of fruit.
"Yeah, it was pretty amusing," she replied climbing threw the entrance to the kitchen.
"Mr. James! Miss Lily! What can we get you?" asked one of five house-elves who immediately made their way over when the two climbed into the kitchen.
"We haven't had lunch yet, can you find us something to eat?" James asked before the little creatures scurried off.
The two sat down at a table near the entrance of the kitchen.
"So Lily, I know you have an Aunt May, but what about the rest of your family?"
"Well, I'm muggleborn, as you know, Aunt May's a witch though, my fathers sister. My mom stays at home, My dad is a police man, muggle version of an auror basically, and I have a sister, Petunia, but we're not really close, she thinks I'm a freak because I'm a witch." Lily answered shrugging "How about you?"
"Well, you met Kay, she's my only sibling, my mom is a healer and my father is an auror, a good one at that," James replied.
"Here you go" a house elf said bringing them a tray of food
"Thank you Dotty" Lily said before grabbing one of the grilled cheese sandwiched on the tray, and dishing some tomato soup into a bowl. Before dunking the sandwich in the soup and taking a bite.
"You do that to?" James asked doing the same thing "my friends think I'm crazy, but it's really good."
"Yeah" she said smiling at him before taking another bite.
"Alright, so we covered family, what now?"
"We could play 20 questions." She suggested shrugging.
"What's that?"
"oh, well basically, you get to ask me twenty questions and I do the same to you, but we alternate each question."
"Alright, ok, What's your favorite color?"
"Green, Same question."
"Blue. I have to think of the question again?"
"No I'll do it, Favorite food?"
"My mom's banana bread, how bout you?"
"Pizza or chicken nuggets"
"What's pizza?"
"Muggle food, basically its bread with tomato sauce and cheese on it. It's really good. And you just wasted a question" She grinned slyly at him.
"Damn"
"Alright, most embarrassing moment"
he groaned, "you little devil, alright, er... last summer Sirius stayed at my house for awhile, and we were joking around, and ended up wrestling, know what I mean, and well, right after we stopped, but were still kind of tangled, in the process of getting up, my parents walked in, my mom was horrified she thought we were gay, dad seemed to realize what was going on, so he was laughing at the horrified looks on our faces." Lily was almost falling off the chair she was laughing so hard, and James was close to beet red. "your turn missy, same question."
"Damn, I new that was going to come back bite me in the butt. Ok, during the summer I sometimes go to clubs, and dances, with muggle friends, and at one of the dances, I had to go to the bathroom, so I went into what I thought was the girls bathroom, but when I came out of the stall I found out it was a boys bathroom, two guys were there, well.. you get the idea, one of them happened to be a guy I dated during summer awhile ago, the other was one of my friends. He teased me about it the rest of the summer." Now it was Lily's turn to blush, and James's turn to laugh.
When James stopped laughing he took his turn asking the question "first kiss."
"er... John.. the guy from the bathroom, the one that wasn't my friend." Lily said blushing again, causing James to snicker. "How about you?"
"Lisa Thomas. You know the Hufflepuff," James said wrinkling his nose "she came up to me in the hall one day in my third year, and just kissed me."
Lily laughed. "alright... hmm.. favorite time of the year?"
"the fall, perfect flying conditions. You?"
"Winter, I love snow."
"Favorite dessert?"
"hmm... that's a hard one, éclairs are good, but so is chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and then you have cannolis, but I guess id have to say cannolis. Same question?"
"Hold on" James told her while waving over a house elf.
"Can we get you anything else?"
"Can we have a plate of cannolis please?" James asked.
"Oh yes, Glyph will be right back with connolis." The house elf said before running off.
James turned back to Lily grinning. "Same answer." Lily grinned back
"Alright, how about, favorite relative."
"Kay" he answered right away. "You?"
"May, Hey that rhymes. Ok...that's... 7 for me and 8 for you erm... you don't have to answer this if you don't want, it's a bit personal. Can you see the thestrals?"
He paused for a second before replying "yeah I can, and I'm assuming you can too, so if you don't mind who was it?"
"My grandmother, You?"
"Frank's Father."
Lily's mouth formed an 'O' shape before she remembered something "Oh! Today's Frank and Alice's first date! I wonder how it's going."
James laughed "you should of seen Frank this morning he was a nervous wreck, I think he even changed twice."
Lily Grinned "yeah, Alice forgot to bring her clothes with her into the bathroom, she was so excited. They make a cute couple."
James glanced at the clock on the kitchen wall. "Oh man, its 6 already, the dance starts in an hour, I didn't realize we'd been sitting here for 5 hours."
"Oh God, I promised Alice I'd help her get ready, See you later Jay, this was fun," Lily said, racing out of the kitchen.
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"LILY!" three girls cried as she entered her dorm out of breath.
"Where have you been? I thought you we're going to meet us in Hogsmead, I'm sure I saw Emily and Felicity down there, so you got out with enough time to come," Dawn questioned.
"Sorry guys, I lost track of the time, Jay ran into me before I got out the door, and asked if I wanted to eat lunch with him." Lily said digging around in her trunk to find an outfit.
"Jay?" Delia asked.
"James."
"POTTER??? You were with James Potter for at least 4 hours? And you have a nickname for him?"
"sure, 5 and yeah. But if you must question me can it be after I take a shower? I just ran all the way here from the kitchens, and if I'm going to help you with your hair I need to shower now." Lily said entering the bathroom
"Alright, but shower fast!" Delia called after her.
Lily sauntered out of the bathroom twenty minutes later, in dark-blue low rise jeans, and a black tank top, her hair up in a pony tail, already dried with a charm, a few wisps hanging around her face. Putting on some blue mascara and eyeliner she asked "Alright, who wants hair help, we have" she glanced at the clock, which read '6:30' "about 15 minutes before we should start heading down."
After everyone's hair was fixed, and charmed to stay in place, the four girls exited their dorm, and made their way to the great hall.
"So now will you tell us what happening between you and JAMES POTTER." Delia asked emphasizing James' name.
Lily shrugged. "We get along, flirt a bit maybe, but that's all really. Not that I would say no if he asked me out, but we're just friendly acquaintances."
"So why do you call him Jay?"
"Well I ran into him over the summer when I was staying at Aunt May's, she sent me out to get spaghetti sauce, he works at the grocery store I went to, we talked, and when I left I said 'see you later Jay' or something along those lines, and it's just stuck."
When they the Great Hall they found everyone still waiting outside. Dumbledore was standing in front of the crowed. He cleared his throat and everyone fell quite.
"Welcome to the first Halloween dance at Hogwarts. Can we have a round of applause for the prefects who planned it, especially, Felicity Moore, James Potter, Lily Evens, Samantha Turner, Brian Loftus and Emily Swann who gave up part of their day off to set it up. The teachers have decided, the prefects are capable of making sure things do not get to hectic, so the hall will be teacher free. We will be coming in at one to make sure everyone leaves, but until then, Have fun!" At that, the doors to the great hall swung open reveling the dimly lit room that looked like an old barn, and the headmaster swept away.
People rushed in and Felicity said the charm that started the music they had set up before, it was similar to the one in the girls dorm, but instead of just playing one CD, it skipped around the large collection the prefects had been able to collect, a lot of them from Lily and her dorm-mates. Lily smiled at her friends faces when they entered the room.
"Wow Lils, this looks..."
"Fan-Damn-Tastic!" Dawn said completing Delia's sentence.
"Yeah Lils this is amazing!" Alice complimented, as the three friends made their way onto the dance floor, where Alice was immediately found and snatched up by Frank.
"They make such a cute couple," Lily stated as she watched the two walk away into the crowd, and started to dance.
"Yeah they really do" Dawn agreed "Hey, Lily, do you know how to do the worm?"
Lily's mouth turned up into a sly smile "Yeah. Wanna see who can do it the longest?"
Dawn grinned "Bring it On"
Lily laughed as the girls moved towards the edge of the dance floor where there was more room. "Delia, Will you be the judge?"
"Sure, but... er... what's the worm?"
"Oh... well its hard to explain, but, you'll get it when we start, just see who goes the longest."
"Alright. Ready?"
"Yeah"
"Go!" Both girls immediately put their hands down and started. They ended up stopping at the same time, and people had started to look and cheer them on.
"It was a tie."
"Damn" Dawn said "Another round?"
"Yeah sure, but first, anyone else want to try and beet us?" Lily said smiling.
"What's going on?" Felicity asked making her way threw the large oval that had formed around the girls. "Your not fighting are you? Oh Lily... what ARE you doing?"
"Felicity, your muggle born right?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Heard of the worm?"
Felicity's face broke into a smile. "Who won?"
"It was a tie. Now we're seeing if we have any other takers before having another go."
"I'll give it a go!"
"Me to!" Emily said stepping out of the crowd. A few others decided to join to. Then Cindy made her way for the front and sneered. "Evans trying to be the center of attention?"
"No, having a worm competition."
"Hold this" Cindy said handing her drink to a boy standing on the outside of the crowd the circle had expanded as new people joined. Delia was voted judge again. "Ready GO!" and the seven went. A 5th year hufflepuff who had tried dropping out first, followed by Gryffindor, then Felicity, then Cindy, leaving Dawn, Lily, and Emily, Dawn and Lily again stopping at the same time Emily winning. Cindy disappeared in the crowd when she saw she had lost to Lily.
"You're good at that Em" Lily said offering her hand to help the younger girl off the floor.
"So are you!" Emily replied smiling and grabbing Lily's hand to get up. The crowd soon went back to dancing, and Lily, Dawn and Delia made their way threw the crowd to get drinks, before finding an empty stall entering it. The three girls chatted for awhile before deciding to go dance again.
Making their way to the dance floor Delia got asked to dance, by Tyler Gibbs, a Gryffindor in their year, leaving Dawn and Lily to their own devices. Lily and Dawn started singing along with the song as they danced, to the fast paced song.
"never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand what happened to our love
But babe, I'm going to get you back
I'm going to show you what I'm made of"
They danced around singing for a while until a slow song came on and they started to make their way threw couples to the food table deciding not to look like idiots standing in the middle of the dance floor alone, but a tap on her shoulder stopped Lily, and as she turned around to see who it was she found James. She smiled at him. "Hey Jay"
"Care to dance?" he asked.
"Sure" she responded taking a step closer and wrapping her arms around his neck, while he placed his around on her waist.
"You know, we never did finish out game." She laughed at his comment, as they slowly moved in a circle.
"No, no we didn't." she said softly, before the song changed to a faster one, and instead of breaking apart they simply changed their rhythm. Lily started singing along with the song as they danced.
"You have a great voice."
Lily blushed; she hadn't realized she was singing along, it was just a habit. "Thanks." She looked down, and then back up into his hazel eyes. Just as another slow song started, and Felicity's voice was heard announcing it was the last song. The two danced slowly, a little closer than before. When the song ended the two slowly broke apart.
"Good night Jay." She said and turned to walk away, but the caught her arm and spun her around to face him, before kissing her gently on the lips. When Lily returned the kiss he deepened it, dropping his hold on her arm and wrapping his arms around her waist again, while she snaked her arms around his neck. When they pulled apart, Lily's brilliant green eyes were sparkling. She smiled, said again "Good night Jay" before walking out of the hall.
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that was long.... WELL???? How was it??? can you tell I watched pirates of the Caribbean today? (Secretly I watched it 3 times... this is the upside to being sick.. the downside... I'm going to fail my junior year... hopefully I wont... because id cry, and be stuck repeating... which would mean I would have to switch schools because the grade below mine has a whole lot of people I cannot stand in it, and id commit suicide before being stuck with them all the time anyways...) that's where Emily, Samantha and Tyler's last names came from. *grins sheepishly* (I don't think Orlando Bloom is a god or anything... nope not me)
Anyway.. for those of you who don't know... the worm is when you kind of move your body in a wave on the floor, and you move backwards... yeah.. its hard to explain... so hopefully you know.
02-12-04 – I just went threw and fixed it, I was reading through and saw how many mistakes I made. I'll try to get another chapter up soon, but I'm not exactly sure what going to happen... anyways I also forgot to tell you what the songs were, the first one was build me up buttercup by the foundations, you probably knew that though, the second one is Boys of summer, by Don Henley, The Ataris do to quote Dawn (heehee) Fan-Damn-Tasic cover of it, I like their version better, but Don's version would have been out closer to when Lily and James were that age if I'm going to be true to JK Rowling's time line... anyways.. I'm shutting up now
Thanks to:
iamaiceskater08 – James and Lily Fluff kicks ass!
little-aquarianprincess – its 3 chapters now!!!
jenna87
firewalker32
Tyster – Lol, ok I wont feel bad :-)(secretly I'm mad too, shhhhh don't let the secret out though)