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Chapter 3
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The first week back at school went by in a blur for Lily. Her teachers had given them enormous amounts of homework, saying that they needed lots of practice for their N.E.W.T.'s.
Because of this Lily, Janelle, Kioko, and Brenda, as well as many other seventh years, stayed up almost every night that week in the common room until one in the morning completing their homework.
To Lily's great dread, Friday afternoon dawned quickly upon her. She was dreading the night she was going to have to spend with James in the library all week.
After dinner, Lily took her time getting to the library. After all, she didn't want to get there early and make it look like she was looking forward to the evening. Plus, knowing James, he probably wouldn't get there until 9 o'clock. At least, that's what Lily expected.
Instead, when she arrived in the library at about ten after eight, she found James sitting on a table, already organizing his parchment and quills. James smiled at her when she sat down. Lily, however, did not return the smile. "Hey Lily I-," said James.
"Listen Potter, let's just get this over with," Lily said cutting him off. "I'll cover the notes we have to take, and you find the ingredients we need for the potion," she said bossily. "Alright," James sighed looking gloomily.
For a fraction of a second Lily felt a little guilty for snapping at James for no reason, but only for a fraction of a second. She had much too stubborn a personality to apologize to James Potter.
For the first hour and a half they worked in silence, only speaking to borrow ink or a quill. Finally, Lily said, "Okay, Potter, did you find the ingredients?" James nodded and handed her the list.
Lily rolled her eyes. "THIS IS SO MESSY! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO READ THIS? POTTER ARE YOU EVEN TAKING THIS PROJECT SERIOUSLY?!" Lily shouted accusingly. James groaned. "Lily why are you always so quick to judge me?! And yes I am taking this seriously! So I would appreciate it if YOU WOULD STOP JUMPING DOWN MY THROAT!" James said shouting the last part.
Then he shoved his books into his bag, slung it over his shoulder, and walked out of the library. "POTTER GET BACK HERE WE HAVE TO FINISH THIS PROJECT! POTTER!" Lily screamed. Several people were staring at her.
Madame Pince came rushing up to her looking very flustered. "Get out! GET OUT! There will be no shouting in my library! Out!" she said carelessly handing Lily all her supplies and shoving her out of the library.
"UGH!" Lily said and she was fumingly walking down the hallway. She was angry with James once again. How could he have left when they were in the middle of a project?!? He made her so angry sometimes!!
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"Prongs, my man, what are you doing back so early? I thought you were working on the Potions thingy with dearest Lillian," Sirius said as James climbed through the portrait.
James shrugged. "She started screaming at me again ("Again?!?" said Sirius) Yeah, so I decided that I had enough, and I walked out," James said in a attempted casual voice.
"But Prongs, I thought you were happy about this since you might be able to get to know Lily more," said Remus joining the conversation. "Well, that's what I was planning to do," James said gloomily, "she just keeps screaming at me. Whatever I do always seems to be wrong! I'm so confused! That girl is a lot of work!"
With that, James decided to retire up to his dorm early, too disappointed and too tried to work on any other homework.
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The next day during Potions, Professor Algona addressed the class about their projects. "I would like to remind you that you only have two months to get working on your projects so, if you haven't gotten much done, I advise you do," he said.
Lily began glaring at James who was a couple seats in front of her, but James chose not to look at her. After Potions was over, Lily began walking towards James, and was planning to give him a piece of her mind, but then she received a shock.
"Evans a word," said Professor Algona as she walked past him. Lily, puzzled, walked up to him. "Erm – yes professor?" she asked nervously. "Potter has had a word with me that you to aren't working well together," he began. Lily glanced towards the door, and observed James, who was blushing, trying to quickly get through.
"Therefore," he said. Lily turned back and looked at him. "You two are going to work on your projects separately, not together. I'm not putting you with different partners because I don't want to have to go through all the trouble. I will just have you two work on your own projects." Lily nodded her head.
She was a little embarrassed and felt guilty as she left the classroom. Was she so horrible that James couldn't stand working with her? What was wrong with her? For some reason she could keep herself from being so rude to him.
At lunch, Lily spilled pumpkin juice all over herself, in History of Magic, she received an 'Acceptable' which greatly annoyed her because she was used to getting O's, and in Defense Against the Dark Arts, she realized she had left her homework up in the Common Room.
Unfortunately, Monday was just the beginning of a bad week for Lily. She was struggling with trying to do her Potions project all by herself, she was constantly forgetting homework, Wednesday she forgot about her Charms Club meeting, Friday she slept in late, and worst of all, that empty feeling she was getting inside was started to drive her mad.
Her third and fourth weeks back to Hogwarts were not as bad as the first and second, but they were a lot worse than last year. Last year, her sixth year, was great because Lily was not getting so much homework and didn't have all her extra duties as Head Girl.
However, the Friday of her fourth week at Hogwarts, something happened to Lily that ended up brightening up her whole week. She had dropped her books in the hall, when a male's voice said, "Did you drop this?" and handed her a book.
Lily looked up. It was Emmett Richards. Yippee!! Her stomach did a back flip (which is what always happens to Harry w/ Cho...Like mother like son hehe).
"Oh hey Lily!" Emmett said upon realizing that it was her. "Hi Emmett," Lily said blushing and smiling at him. "Are you having a good week?" he asked. "Not really," she said truthfully. "Oh good I'm not the only one!" Emmett said. Lily laughed.
"Well, I'm glad I ran into you because I've been meaning to ask you about something," said Emmett. "Yes?" Lily prompted him getting butterflies in her stomach. "Well there's a Hogsmede trip two weeks from now I was wondering if – well – if you would like to go with me," he said looking a bit nervous.
"Oh Emmett I would love to!" Lily said grinning from ear to ear. Emmett breathed a sigh of relief. "Great! I'll meet you in the Great Hall before we go! I'll see ya then, Lily!" Emmett said, walking off to his class in a rather buoyant fashion.
At lunch that day, Lily couldn't stop grinning. "Okay, I can't take it anymore!! Lily why are you smiling so much! What happened," said Brenda finally bursting. Lily laughed. "Nothing, it's – nothing," Lily said. Her three friends raised their eyebrows at her. "Come on Lily, you know we will get it out of you somehow," said Kioko urging her on. "Okay, okay," said Lily, "Emmett asked me to go with him on the Hogsmede trip!"
All three of her friends started screaming and clapping. "Yay! Lily I'm so happy for you!" said Janelle. Lily grinned sheepishly. A week before the Hogsmede weekend, excitement was building larger and larger inside of Lily. For the time, she had even forgotten about the emptiness she felt inside herself.
Even when she had a bad day, that night in bed she would find herself grinning upon thinking how much fun she was going to have with Emmett. On Friday morning, as Emmett passed Lily in the hall on the way to class, he said, "Looking forward to tomorrow Lily!" Lily grinned at him, and her friends all giggled.
James, who was walking a little behind Lily, also heard this, and walked around the rest of Friday morning and afternoon looking very depressed. Well, at least he had Quidditch practice so there wasn't the chance that he would run into Lily and Emmett if he had gone into Hogsmede village.
Early on Saturday morning, the four girls were rushing around the dormitory looking for a cute outfit for Lily to wear. They finally settled with something, and then helped her to do her hair and make up.
One Lily's three friends were satisfied with their work, they wished her good luck and quickly ushered her out of the dormitory. Janelle and Brenda then started getting ready themselves, because they were meeting up with some Hufflepuff boys. Kioko was a Chaser on the Quidditch team, and therefore she had to stay at Hogwarts for practice like James.
Lily could feel the butterflies building up in her stomach as she headed into the Great Hall to meet up with Emmett. Lily spotted him in a corner, and thought he looked so cute standing there looking a little insecure. She smiled as she walked up to him.
"Hey Lily," Emmett said rather nervously. "Hi, Emmett," Lily said smiling at him. Once they got past the Caretaker's list they walked out into the pretty sunshine. The nervousness that Lily was feeling a couple minutes ago seemed to have evaporated. She found that she really enjoyed talking to Emmett. He was very funny.
They spent the day in Hogsmede looking through Honeyduke's, Zonko's joke shop, a cute little jewelry store where Emmett bought Lily a bracelet. They decided to spend the last half an hour in the Three Broomsticks where they happily chatted while sipping butterbeer.
As they were walking back to the castle, Emmett reached for Lily's hand, and Lily happily let him hold it. When they reached the doors into the castle, Emmett stopped, and did something that caused Lily's heart to leap with happiness.
"Lily, look, I had a wonderful time today, and I love spending time with you, and er – I was wondering, well – erm – would you – would you be my girlfriend?" Emmett said, looking timid to hear her answer.
"Oh Emmett! Yes I would love to!" with that, she kissed him and practically skipped up to Gryffendor Tower, leaving Emmett standing there grinning from ear to ear.
As soon as she opened the door to her dormitory, her friends as well as the other girls in the dormitory began bombarding her with questions. "Oh Lily how did it go?" asked Brenda eagerly. "Lily did he ask you out?" asked Monica, one of the Gryffendor girls. "What happened?" asked another girl, Whitney.
Lily grinned in spite of herself. "He asked me out," she announced happily, causing all the girls to scream and jump up and down. Lily lied in bed that night, wondering how she could have been so unhappy before, when Emmett Richards, one of the most handsome boys in school, just asked her out.
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Chapter 3
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The first week back at school went by in a blur for Lily. Her teachers had given them enormous amounts of homework, saying that they needed lots of practice for their N.E.W.T.'s.
Because of this Lily, Janelle, Kioko, and Brenda, as well as many other seventh years, stayed up almost every night that week in the common room until one in the morning completing their homework.
To Lily's great dread, Friday afternoon dawned quickly upon her. She was dreading the night she was going to have to spend with James in the library all week.
After dinner, Lily took her time getting to the library. After all, she didn't want to get there early and make it look like she was looking forward to the evening. Plus, knowing James, he probably wouldn't get there until 9 o'clock. At least, that's what Lily expected.
Instead, when she arrived in the library at about ten after eight, she found James sitting on a table, already organizing his parchment and quills. James smiled at her when she sat down. Lily, however, did not return the smile. "Hey Lily I-," said James.
"Listen Potter, let's just get this over with," Lily said cutting him off. "I'll cover the notes we have to take, and you find the ingredients we need for the potion," she said bossily. "Alright," James sighed looking gloomily.
For a fraction of a second Lily felt a little guilty for snapping at James for no reason, but only for a fraction of a second. She had much too stubborn a personality to apologize to James Potter.
For the first hour and a half they worked in silence, only speaking to borrow ink or a quill. Finally, Lily said, "Okay, Potter, did you find the ingredients?" James nodded and handed her the list.
Lily rolled her eyes. "THIS IS SO MESSY! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO READ THIS? POTTER ARE YOU EVEN TAKING THIS PROJECT SERIOUSLY?!" Lily shouted accusingly. James groaned. "Lily why are you always so quick to judge me?! And yes I am taking this seriously! So I would appreciate it if YOU WOULD STOP JUMPING DOWN MY THROAT!" James said shouting the last part.
Then he shoved his books into his bag, slung it over his shoulder, and walked out of the library. "POTTER GET BACK HERE WE HAVE TO FINISH THIS PROJECT! POTTER!" Lily screamed. Several people were staring at her.
Madame Pince came rushing up to her looking very flustered. "Get out! GET OUT! There will be no shouting in my library! Out!" she said carelessly handing Lily all her supplies and shoving her out of the library.
"UGH!" Lily said and she was fumingly walking down the hallway. She was angry with James once again. How could he have left when they were in the middle of a project?!? He made her so angry sometimes!!
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"Prongs, my man, what are you doing back so early? I thought you were working on the Potions thingy with dearest Lillian," Sirius said as James climbed through the portrait.
James shrugged. "She started screaming at me again ("Again?!?" said Sirius) Yeah, so I decided that I had enough, and I walked out," James said in a attempted casual voice.
"But Prongs, I thought you were happy about this since you might be able to get to know Lily more," said Remus joining the conversation. "Well, that's what I was planning to do," James said gloomily, "she just keeps screaming at me. Whatever I do always seems to be wrong! I'm so confused! That girl is a lot of work!"
With that, James decided to retire up to his dorm early, too disappointed and too tried to work on any other homework.
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The next day during Potions, Professor Algona addressed the class about their projects. "I would like to remind you that you only have two months to get working on your projects so, if you haven't gotten much done, I advise you do," he said.
Lily began glaring at James who was a couple seats in front of her, but James chose not to look at her. After Potions was over, Lily began walking towards James, and was planning to give him a piece of her mind, but then she received a shock.
"Evans a word," said Professor Algona as she walked past him. Lily, puzzled, walked up to him. "Erm – yes professor?" she asked nervously. "Potter has had a word with me that you to aren't working well together," he began. Lily glanced towards the door, and observed James, who was blushing, trying to quickly get through.
"Therefore," he said. Lily turned back and looked at him. "You two are going to work on your projects separately, not together. I'm not putting you with different partners because I don't want to have to go through all the trouble. I will just have you two work on your own projects." Lily nodded her head.
She was a little embarrassed and felt guilty as she left the classroom. Was she so horrible that James couldn't stand working with her? What was wrong with her? For some reason she could keep herself from being so rude to him.
At lunch, Lily spilled pumpkin juice all over herself, in History of Magic, she received an 'Acceptable' which greatly annoyed her because she was used to getting O's, and in Defense Against the Dark Arts, she realized she had left her homework up in the Common Room.
Unfortunately, Monday was just the beginning of a bad week for Lily. She was struggling with trying to do her Potions project all by herself, she was constantly forgetting homework, Wednesday she forgot about her Charms Club meeting, Friday she slept in late, and worst of all, that empty feeling she was getting inside was started to drive her mad.
Her third and fourth weeks back to Hogwarts were not as bad as the first and second, but they were a lot worse than last year. Last year, her sixth year, was great because Lily was not getting so much homework and didn't have all her extra duties as Head Girl.
However, the Friday of her fourth week at Hogwarts, something happened to Lily that ended up brightening up her whole week. She had dropped her books in the hall, when a male's voice said, "Did you drop this?" and handed her a book.
Lily looked up. It was Emmett Richards. Yippee!! Her stomach did a back flip (which is what always happens to Harry w/ Cho...Like mother like son hehe).
"Oh hey Lily!" Emmett said upon realizing that it was her. "Hi Emmett," Lily said blushing and smiling at him. "Are you having a good week?" he asked. "Not really," she said truthfully. "Oh good I'm not the only one!" Emmett said. Lily laughed.
"Well, I'm glad I ran into you because I've been meaning to ask you about something," said Emmett. "Yes?" Lily prompted him getting butterflies in her stomach. "Well there's a Hogsmede trip two weeks from now I was wondering if – well – if you would like to go with me," he said looking a bit nervous.
"Oh Emmett I would love to!" Lily said grinning from ear to ear. Emmett breathed a sigh of relief. "Great! I'll meet you in the Great Hall before we go! I'll see ya then, Lily!" Emmett said, walking off to his class in a rather buoyant fashion.
At lunch that day, Lily couldn't stop grinning. "Okay, I can't take it anymore!! Lily why are you smiling so much! What happened," said Brenda finally bursting. Lily laughed. "Nothing, it's – nothing," Lily said. Her three friends raised their eyebrows at her. "Come on Lily, you know we will get it out of you somehow," said Kioko urging her on. "Okay, okay," said Lily, "Emmett asked me to go with him on the Hogsmede trip!"
All three of her friends started screaming and clapping. "Yay! Lily I'm so happy for you!" said Janelle. Lily grinned sheepishly. A week before the Hogsmede weekend, excitement was building larger and larger inside of Lily. For the time, she had even forgotten about the emptiness she felt inside herself.
Even when she had a bad day, that night in bed she would find herself grinning upon thinking how much fun she was going to have with Emmett. On Friday morning, as Emmett passed Lily in the hall on the way to class, he said, "Looking forward to tomorrow Lily!" Lily grinned at him, and her friends all giggled.
James, who was walking a little behind Lily, also heard this, and walked around the rest of Friday morning and afternoon looking very depressed. Well, at least he had Quidditch practice so there wasn't the chance that he would run into Lily and Emmett if he had gone into Hogsmede village.
Early on Saturday morning, the four girls were rushing around the dormitory looking for a cute outfit for Lily to wear. They finally settled with something, and then helped her to do her hair and make up.
One Lily's three friends were satisfied with their work, they wished her good luck and quickly ushered her out of the dormitory. Janelle and Brenda then started getting ready themselves, because they were meeting up with some Hufflepuff boys. Kioko was a Chaser on the Quidditch team, and therefore she had to stay at Hogwarts for practice like James.
Lily could feel the butterflies building up in her stomach as she headed into the Great Hall to meet up with Emmett. Lily spotted him in a corner, and thought he looked so cute standing there looking a little insecure. She smiled as she walked up to him.
"Hey Lily," Emmett said rather nervously. "Hi, Emmett," Lily said smiling at him. Once they got past the Caretaker's list they walked out into the pretty sunshine. The nervousness that Lily was feeling a couple minutes ago seemed to have evaporated. She found that she really enjoyed talking to Emmett. He was very funny.
They spent the day in Hogsmede looking through Honeyduke's, Zonko's joke shop, a cute little jewelry store where Emmett bought Lily a bracelet. They decided to spend the last half an hour in the Three Broomsticks where they happily chatted while sipping butterbeer.
As they were walking back to the castle, Emmett reached for Lily's hand, and Lily happily let him hold it. When they reached the doors into the castle, Emmett stopped, and did something that caused Lily's heart to leap with happiness.
"Lily, look, I had a wonderful time today, and I love spending time with you, and er – I was wondering, well – erm – would you – would you be my girlfriend?" Emmett said, looking timid to hear her answer.
"Oh Emmett! Yes I would love to!" with that, she kissed him and practically skipped up to Gryffendor Tower, leaving Emmett standing there grinning from ear to ear.
As soon as she opened the door to her dormitory, her friends as well as the other girls in the dormitory began bombarding her with questions. "Oh Lily how did it go?" asked Brenda eagerly. "Lily did he ask you out?" asked Monica, one of the Gryffendor girls. "What happened?" asked another girl, Whitney.
Lily grinned in spite of herself. "He asked me out," she announced happily, causing all the girls to scream and jump up and down. Lily lied in bed that night, wondering how she could have been so unhappy before, when Emmett Richards, one of the most handsome boys in school, just asked her out.
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Oh my gosh! You guys thank you all so much for reviewing. Since I got such a great response from my first two chapters, I wanted to put this one up as quickly as I could for you guys!!! Thanks so much!!
