Summary: Lily hates James. James loves Lily. What will happen to make her
change her feelings toward him?
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Alex, Julia, and Helen. Heehee.
Chapter 23: The Wrong Turn
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"... you must be here at 8 pm tomorrow!" Professor McGonagall screeched at Severus Snape, Lucuis Malfoy, and Narcissa and Bellatrix Black. The four Slytherins were caught by Lily and James crawling into the school, obviously intoxicated. The four of them muttered "Yes" and quickly escaped the angered professor's wrath.
"You're gonna get it this time," Malfoy sneered at James as he passed him on his way out of the room. James grinned at him.
"I'm sure you will," James told him sarcastically. He walked back to common room and sprawled himself on the couch. He watched a couple of first years plan a prank, giving them tips every once in awhile. It was a small prank, but he had started out that way too. Finally, he heard someone enter the room and groan loudly. James looked over at the person and burst out laughing.
"What... what the...?" he yelled at her, struggling to get out the correct words.
"Sod off, James!" Lily yelled at him.
"Who DID that to you?" he questioned. She looked at her hair and sighed. It was a bright purple with green polka-dots.
"Sirius's obnoxious cousin, who else? I swear, Bellatrix Black is so gonna pay for this!" and she stomped upstairs.
Later...
"HOGSMEADE TRIP!" Sirius yelled loudly to his three friends. "TOMORROW!"
Remus looked up from his book and sighed. "We KNOW, Padfoot, you've told us."
"I have?" Sirius asked him. He sat on his bed, trying to recall the last time he told them, obviously unsuccessful because he just skipped out of the room and informed the people in the common room.
"Ahh! What's that?!" James asked as a rat snuck its way onto his bed where he was laying. "Wormtail, is that you?" It squeaked and ran out of the room. Girls' shrieks could be heard as they obviously spotted Peter. James got up and walked downstairs to watch. He crossed the room and plopped down next to his favorite... err, purple-head.
"Still didn't get your hair color back?" he asked her.
"What do you think?" she asked him crossly. He smirked and she smiled.
"I do know I spell, my love."
"Oh yeah? Why don't you perform it already?" He muttered the spell and her hair returned to its vibrant red color.
"I noticed you didn't scold me for calling you "my love"," he informed her. She turned red and walked over to her friends.
The next day was the Hogsmeade trip. Lily and her friends strolled into the bookstore and wandered to the back.
"Oh, wow, look at this book!" Julia squealed. Her two friends walked over and looked at the title.
"'How To Keep Your Boyfriend'..." Lily read. "Hmm... sounds... err, interesting..." but Julia ignored the sarcasm and clutched the book tightly to her chest.
"Hey, Sally!" Alex called when she spotted Sally Walsh sitting at a table. She walked over leaving Lily alone with the delighted Julia and her book. Lily muttered something to her that sounded like "back soon" and headed out the door into the snow. She trudged down the street and spotted James and Co. hanging out next to a building.
"Hey," she said in an unenthusiastic tone. They looked up and smiled.
"Hello, Lily-o!" Sirius cried in a sing-song voice. She smiled slightly. He was always so giddy.
"Hi," she breathed. James smiled at her.
"You wanna get a drink?" he asked her. She nodded and they headed into the Three Broomsticks.
"You think they like each other yet?" Sirius asked Remus as they headed into the Quidditch shop with Peter.
"Yeah, they just need to admit it already!" Remus said quietly.
"Hi Samantha!" Peter burst out when he saw the tall girl with her new friends. He quickly turned around to his friends and blushed.
"Hello, Peter," she responded, throwing Sirius and Remus a dirty look. They each returned one.
There were three girls in back of her. One Remus and Sirius recognized as Tracy Greenburg. Her short brown hair had grown a bit since the last time they saw her. The other two, the boys had never noticed before. They had the same look on their face as if they were looking at a pile of dung. They both had dull, frizzy blonde hair that was pulled back into a loose ponytail. They had identical dismal green eyes that bored into Sirius and Remus's.
"Who are Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee?" Remus asked. Sirius tapped him on the shoulder.
"Uh, I was Tweedle Dum and James was Tweedle Dee," he informed Remus in a whisper. Remus rolled his eyes.
"Ren and Jen, they're Ravenclaws," Samantha said matter-of-factly. The twins continued to stare at the two boys, oblivious to the fact that people were talking about them.
"Oh, err, nice to meet you," Remus said politely, holding out a hand. The girls just stared. Remus withdrew his hand and laughed nervously.
"We gotta go," Sirius shot at Samantha. He nodded to Peter and Remus and they departed from the store and headed to the Three Broomsticks. Little did they know, the four girls were following them.
"BOYS!" Helen screamed when she saw Sirius and Remus enter the bar. Before they could turn and run, she was dragging them to her table. Peter walked over to the table were Julia, Alex, and Sally sat. Lily and James sat alone, talking about what they were doing that summer.
"America... I'm SO excited!" Lily exclaimed.
"Where?" James said as he took a sip of his butterbeer.
"Miami..." Lily said in a dreamy voice. "Such a change in climate from here... it's actually warm there..."
The four girls arrived at the bar and took a seat near Lily and James. Samantha glanced over at the happy couple and whispered something to her three friends.
"Ok, ok, you wanna hear a real joke?" Sirius asked Sally as he, Remus and Helen (they convinced her into letting them move to that table) walked over.
"Why, you have a better joke than mine, Sirius?" Julia asked the black haired boy. He grinned.
"Sure do!"
"Yeah, right."
"No, really! I do!"
"For Merlin's sake, you guys, stop arguing! Sirius, tell us the damn joke already!" Alex cried. Sirius cleared his throat.
"Thank you, Alex..."
"You guys fight like an old married couple or something..."
"THANK YOU, ALEX," Julia said through gritted teeth.
Sirius started. "So there was an old man, he was a muggle, see? So anyway, he walked into this wizard on the street and asked for directions, 'k? And the wizard, being a wizard in muggle London, didn't really know where he was going, so he just made up this thing, he was like, 'Just go left and then go right until you..."
"I don't see where this joke is going," Sally sighed to Julia and Alex as she brushed some of her curly black hair out of her face. They watched James and Lily leave. They saw Tracy jump out after them and Samantha soon follow.
"I wonder what's going on," Alex said.
"And so the muggle said, 'You're a wizard, aren't you?'" Sirius exclaimed as he concluded his joke. Helen clapped loudly and Remus rolled his eyes.
"Get it?!" Sirius asked the three distracted girls. They walked out after Lily, James, and Tracy, Sirius yelling "IT'S OK IF YOU DON'T GET IT, I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!" after them.
They walked into the snow and followed the figure of Samantha in the distance. They finally caught up to her in an alley, around the corner from the bench Lily and James were sitting at. They watched as Lily and James got closer to each other. Closer... closer...
Julia, Alex, and Sally had shocked looks on their faces as they watched in amazement as James pecked Lily on the lips. A soft, sweet kiss. Alex and Julia's jaws dropped and Sally rubbed her bright violet eyes to make sure she was seeing this clear. Tracy and Samantha watched and smirked.
"James! I need to ask you something really quick!" Tracy yelled, ruining the romantic moment. He looked up at her.
"Right now?" he asked in disappointment. She nodded ferociously. He sighed, smiled at Lily, and followed Tracy into the book store. Samantha waited a moment before sitting next to Lily.
"Hey!" she said in an all-to-sweet-to-be-real voice. Lily snorted and looked away from her.
"Let's go into the store... I'm sure Tracy and James will be done soon," Samantha said as she walked into the store, Lily following her.
Samantha silently counted the rows of books. "Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..." she said to her self. She quickly looked back at Lily as she reached row nineteen. She smile to herself and casually walked past the twentieth row. She looked down it and spotted them, doing a double-take.
"Oh my..."
Lily looked up at her and followed her gaze to James and Tracy. She gasped in surprise.
Tracy was on top of James, kissing him passionately. Her eyes were squeezed close. His were wide open in surprise, though Lily couldn't see that. Tracy had pulled him to the row, claiming that she needed to find a book for charms... and then she jumped on him, throwing him up against a wall and started... kissing him!
Lily stared at them for a moment before running out of the store, tears flowing down her red face. Samantha smirked to herself as she walked James struggling to get Tracy off of him, without success.
----- Was that a weird ending too? Sorry if it was, I suck at ending a chapter. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter. I was originally gonna get Lily and James together in a Christmas chapter that was probably gonna be this or the next chapter, but I like writing this too much, so I extended it. If I can fit mickey8701's suggestion into the story, it can probably be extended even LONGER! Woo-hoo! Okayyyy thanks to you reviewers. 82 reviews at the moment... I hope that's something to be proud of! Reviews inspire me, so you know what to do! REVIEW! Haha, anyway, I loved the reaction people had when it came to Bellatrix kissing Snape... cracked me up! I really don't know where it came from, I swear!
REVIEW!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Alex, Julia, and Helen. Heehee.
Chapter 23: The Wrong Turn
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"... you must be here at 8 pm tomorrow!" Professor McGonagall screeched at Severus Snape, Lucuis Malfoy, and Narcissa and Bellatrix Black. The four Slytherins were caught by Lily and James crawling into the school, obviously intoxicated. The four of them muttered "Yes" and quickly escaped the angered professor's wrath.
"You're gonna get it this time," Malfoy sneered at James as he passed him on his way out of the room. James grinned at him.
"I'm sure you will," James told him sarcastically. He walked back to common room and sprawled himself on the couch. He watched a couple of first years plan a prank, giving them tips every once in awhile. It was a small prank, but he had started out that way too. Finally, he heard someone enter the room and groan loudly. James looked over at the person and burst out laughing.
"What... what the...?" he yelled at her, struggling to get out the correct words.
"Sod off, James!" Lily yelled at him.
"Who DID that to you?" he questioned. She looked at her hair and sighed. It was a bright purple with green polka-dots.
"Sirius's obnoxious cousin, who else? I swear, Bellatrix Black is so gonna pay for this!" and she stomped upstairs.
Later...
"HOGSMEADE TRIP!" Sirius yelled loudly to his three friends. "TOMORROW!"
Remus looked up from his book and sighed. "We KNOW, Padfoot, you've told us."
"I have?" Sirius asked him. He sat on his bed, trying to recall the last time he told them, obviously unsuccessful because he just skipped out of the room and informed the people in the common room.
"Ahh! What's that?!" James asked as a rat snuck its way onto his bed where he was laying. "Wormtail, is that you?" It squeaked and ran out of the room. Girls' shrieks could be heard as they obviously spotted Peter. James got up and walked downstairs to watch. He crossed the room and plopped down next to his favorite... err, purple-head.
"Still didn't get your hair color back?" he asked her.
"What do you think?" she asked him crossly. He smirked and she smiled.
"I do know I spell, my love."
"Oh yeah? Why don't you perform it already?" He muttered the spell and her hair returned to its vibrant red color.
"I noticed you didn't scold me for calling you "my love"," he informed her. She turned red and walked over to her friends.
The next day was the Hogsmeade trip. Lily and her friends strolled into the bookstore and wandered to the back.
"Oh, wow, look at this book!" Julia squealed. Her two friends walked over and looked at the title.
"'How To Keep Your Boyfriend'..." Lily read. "Hmm... sounds... err, interesting..." but Julia ignored the sarcasm and clutched the book tightly to her chest.
"Hey, Sally!" Alex called when she spotted Sally Walsh sitting at a table. She walked over leaving Lily alone with the delighted Julia and her book. Lily muttered something to her that sounded like "back soon" and headed out the door into the snow. She trudged down the street and spotted James and Co. hanging out next to a building.
"Hey," she said in an unenthusiastic tone. They looked up and smiled.
"Hello, Lily-o!" Sirius cried in a sing-song voice. She smiled slightly. He was always so giddy.
"Hi," she breathed. James smiled at her.
"You wanna get a drink?" he asked her. She nodded and they headed into the Three Broomsticks.
"You think they like each other yet?" Sirius asked Remus as they headed into the Quidditch shop with Peter.
"Yeah, they just need to admit it already!" Remus said quietly.
"Hi Samantha!" Peter burst out when he saw the tall girl with her new friends. He quickly turned around to his friends and blushed.
"Hello, Peter," she responded, throwing Sirius and Remus a dirty look. They each returned one.
There were three girls in back of her. One Remus and Sirius recognized as Tracy Greenburg. Her short brown hair had grown a bit since the last time they saw her. The other two, the boys had never noticed before. They had the same look on their face as if they were looking at a pile of dung. They both had dull, frizzy blonde hair that was pulled back into a loose ponytail. They had identical dismal green eyes that bored into Sirius and Remus's.
"Who are Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee?" Remus asked. Sirius tapped him on the shoulder.
"Uh, I was Tweedle Dum and James was Tweedle Dee," he informed Remus in a whisper. Remus rolled his eyes.
"Ren and Jen, they're Ravenclaws," Samantha said matter-of-factly. The twins continued to stare at the two boys, oblivious to the fact that people were talking about them.
"Oh, err, nice to meet you," Remus said politely, holding out a hand. The girls just stared. Remus withdrew his hand and laughed nervously.
"We gotta go," Sirius shot at Samantha. He nodded to Peter and Remus and they departed from the store and headed to the Three Broomsticks. Little did they know, the four girls were following them.
"BOYS!" Helen screamed when she saw Sirius and Remus enter the bar. Before they could turn and run, she was dragging them to her table. Peter walked over to the table were Julia, Alex, and Sally sat. Lily and James sat alone, talking about what they were doing that summer.
"America... I'm SO excited!" Lily exclaimed.
"Where?" James said as he took a sip of his butterbeer.
"Miami..." Lily said in a dreamy voice. "Such a change in climate from here... it's actually warm there..."
The four girls arrived at the bar and took a seat near Lily and James. Samantha glanced over at the happy couple and whispered something to her three friends.
"Ok, ok, you wanna hear a real joke?" Sirius asked Sally as he, Remus and Helen (they convinced her into letting them move to that table) walked over.
"Why, you have a better joke than mine, Sirius?" Julia asked the black haired boy. He grinned.
"Sure do!"
"Yeah, right."
"No, really! I do!"
"For Merlin's sake, you guys, stop arguing! Sirius, tell us the damn joke already!" Alex cried. Sirius cleared his throat.
"Thank you, Alex..."
"You guys fight like an old married couple or something..."
"THANK YOU, ALEX," Julia said through gritted teeth.
Sirius started. "So there was an old man, he was a muggle, see? So anyway, he walked into this wizard on the street and asked for directions, 'k? And the wizard, being a wizard in muggle London, didn't really know where he was going, so he just made up this thing, he was like, 'Just go left and then go right until you..."
"I don't see where this joke is going," Sally sighed to Julia and Alex as she brushed some of her curly black hair out of her face. They watched James and Lily leave. They saw Tracy jump out after them and Samantha soon follow.
"I wonder what's going on," Alex said.
"And so the muggle said, 'You're a wizard, aren't you?'" Sirius exclaimed as he concluded his joke. Helen clapped loudly and Remus rolled his eyes.
"Get it?!" Sirius asked the three distracted girls. They walked out after Lily, James, and Tracy, Sirius yelling "IT'S OK IF YOU DON'T GET IT, I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!" after them.
They walked into the snow and followed the figure of Samantha in the distance. They finally caught up to her in an alley, around the corner from the bench Lily and James were sitting at. They watched as Lily and James got closer to each other. Closer... closer...
Julia, Alex, and Sally had shocked looks on their faces as they watched in amazement as James pecked Lily on the lips. A soft, sweet kiss. Alex and Julia's jaws dropped and Sally rubbed her bright violet eyes to make sure she was seeing this clear. Tracy and Samantha watched and smirked.
"James! I need to ask you something really quick!" Tracy yelled, ruining the romantic moment. He looked up at her.
"Right now?" he asked in disappointment. She nodded ferociously. He sighed, smiled at Lily, and followed Tracy into the book store. Samantha waited a moment before sitting next to Lily.
"Hey!" she said in an all-to-sweet-to-be-real voice. Lily snorted and looked away from her.
"Let's go into the store... I'm sure Tracy and James will be done soon," Samantha said as she walked into the store, Lily following her.
Samantha silently counted the rows of books. "Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..." she said to her self. She quickly looked back at Lily as she reached row nineteen. She smile to herself and casually walked past the twentieth row. She looked down it and spotted them, doing a double-take.
"Oh my..."
Lily looked up at her and followed her gaze to James and Tracy. She gasped in surprise.
Tracy was on top of James, kissing him passionately. Her eyes were squeezed close. His were wide open in surprise, though Lily couldn't see that. Tracy had pulled him to the row, claiming that she needed to find a book for charms... and then she jumped on him, throwing him up against a wall and started... kissing him!
Lily stared at them for a moment before running out of the store, tears flowing down her red face. Samantha smirked to herself as she walked James struggling to get Tracy off of him, without success.
----- Was that a weird ending too? Sorry if it was, I suck at ending a chapter. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter. I was originally gonna get Lily and James together in a Christmas chapter that was probably gonna be this or the next chapter, but I like writing this too much, so I extended it. If I can fit mickey8701's suggestion into the story, it can probably be extended even LONGER! Woo-hoo! Okayyyy thanks to you reviewers. 82 reviews at the moment... I hope that's something to be proud of! Reviews inspire me, so you know what to do! REVIEW! Haha, anyway, I loved the reaction people had when it came to Bellatrix kissing Snape... cracked me up! I really don't know where it came from, I swear!
REVIEW!