A/N: finally! The last chapter! Woohoo!

Disclaimer: not mine lol

Chapter 26

The Ball

By the day of the ball Lily, Sarah, Vicky and Anna (who was going with Ben Summers) were all sorted. Katie wasn't. She hadn't got a date and she didn't want to go, but the others were making her. Sirius was the same. Even Peter had managed to get a date; some Hufflepuff called Jade Ritchie. For most of the day the guys hung around in the common room and put on their robes half an hour before the ball started. Whereas the girls spent the whole day in their dormitory, they only came down in the morning to get breakfast. They had lots of things to do like hair and make up.

They guys got bored very quickly and started making exploding snap towers. Sirius couldn't be bothered and sat sulking in his chair. Anna was the only one who's date was from a different house so she came down first. Sarah was second and Andrew couldn't believe his luck. She laughed and they left. Sirius was looking bored and James and Remus were nervous and kept glancing at each other. Vicky came next and she walked over to Remus.

"Lily'll be down in a minute" she said to James who nodded appreciatively and then she said to Sirius "and Katie should be as well"

"Thanks" he said "I mean, what do I care!" and he went back to his sulking as Vicky and Remus left arm in arm giggling and talking. James was left alone. He was nervous, extremely nervous. More nervous than he was before a Quidditch match and that's saying something. What if she didn't want to go? What if, even worse, she wanted to go but not with him? What if… but James was interrupted from his wonderings when the door of the girls' dormitory opened for the fourth time that evening. It was like some cheesy love film for James. For him time stood still and a bright light emerged from the open door and in the middle of it was Lily. She looked like an angel and he could have sworn he saw wings and a halo. He looked at her dress robes they were green, like her eyes and they made them stand out even more and her hair seem even more red. She was different to all the other girls he'd ever been out with, she was naturally beautiful, and she didn't need make up to look stunning.

Lily smiled that was the exact reaction she'd wanted. She walked down to James and kissed him on the cheek before linking his arm.

"Let's go then!" she said happily.

"Yeah ok!" James managed to stammer out.

"Oh yeah, and Katie says she's not coming down" she said to Sirius.

"WHAT! SHE'S NOT COMING DOWN? I mean, so what! I'm staying here have fun" he said miserably and sank back into his chair.

James and Lily laughed and Sirius was left alone. He kept contemplating whether he should just go and get Katie, it would be more fun than being by himself and even if they didn't go to the ball they could just hang around here. He decided that he should go and get her and was about to shout to her up the stairs when something, rather someone distracted him.

Meanwhile, at the ball, most people had turned up. Peter had left the common room but not turned up at the ball, Anna and Ben were nowhere to be seen and Sophia and Tom Chang were also missing, Rita Skeeter had told everyone that they were in the broom closet on the third floor. James told her not to be so stupid as that is where Kate and Lucius were. Everyone laughed and Rita wrote something down, probably about James.

Remus and Vicky had decided to go outside and get some 'air' and James and Lily were dancing. James was getting jealous. Almost every guy was staring at Lily and he wanted to be the only one who was allowed to look at her. Lily was feeling the same. All of the other girls were eyeing James hopefully and Lily didn't like it at all. It did make her think how lucky she was though, that he was hers and not theirs.

Suddenly the main doors opened. A green light shone out and there was lots of smoke. Three figures stood in the middle but all you could see was their silhouettes. They stood still for a bit before moving. It was Lucius, Kate and Robyn trying to make a big entrance. People didn't care when they found it was them, apart from the Slytherins who applauded them. Robyn went straight to the dance floor and started showing off her dancing skills to anyone who would watch and she gathered a crowd pretty quickly.

Remus and Vicky came back smiling and looking slightly flustered and they started dancing. James and Lily sat down for a bit to take a break.

"Um, Lily?" he started.

"Yes James" she said looking expectantly at him.

"Well, I was wondering, what's going to happen to us after we leave school?" he said looking really serious (don't laugh! It's a bad and overused joke that isn't funny and I actually being serious here. SHUT UP!)

"Well, I don't know really, I know what I'd like to happen though" she said being equally serious.

"What's that?" he asked.
"I'd like us to stay together, I don't want anything to happen to us because I love you James Potter"

"I love you too Lily Evans" and then they kissed. It was perfect and magical and there were fireworks going off in their heads. They smiled at each other and finally went to dance again.

In the common room Sirius looked up to see what the noise was. The door to the girls' dormitory door was slowly opening and Katie's head came out.

"Sirius? What are you doing?" she said surprised that there was someone here "why aren't you at the ball?"

"Probably the same reason you're not" he shrugged.

"What? You don't have a date and you feel thoroughly miserable?" she said sarcastically.

"Yeah, pretty much" he sighed. She came down the stairs and they went to sit down.

"So did everyone else go?" she asked.
"Yeah and they all seemed really happy," said Sirius. Katie felt a bit better when she found out that her friends were having a good time but she wished that she could to.

"Sirius?"

"Katie?" they said at the same time suddenly and both laughed. After some persuasion Sirius asked first.

"I was just wondering whether you wanted to go to the ball?" he said.

"What? By myself?" she asked, being very slow to catch on.

"No, with me" he said. She smiled and said that she'd love too. They both laughed and smiled for the first time in ages and felt much better, like a weight had been lifted off their chests.

"So what were you going to ask me?" Sirius asked on the way.
"Same thing that you asked me!" she laughed. They reached the hall and went in. James and Lily started clapping and soon everyone else joined in, not the Slytherins though. Kate glared at them and Katie kept telling him to ignore her and eventually he did.

The last song of the evening was a slow one by the weird sisters. Lily and James were dancing, well slowly revolving on the spot. James had his arms round Lily's waist and she had her head on his shoulder.

"Lily?"

"Yes James?"

"I love you"

"I love you too"

A/N: cheesy or what! Lol! I like it though! and I hope you did too!