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, Tracy, Alex, Julia, Helen, and Sally. Heehee.
Chapter 28: Christmas
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James sat in the back of the room with a horrorstruck look on his face as he stared ahead. It was Transfiguration class, and McGonagall was giving the usual lecture. She was so caught up in it that she didn't even notice the something that had caused James to go pale...
The two-person table right in front of James was occupied by non other than Lily and Amos. It wasn't the fact that they were sitting together that caused James to stare in awe. They were making out.
James stared... and stared... to the point where he was rocking back and forth slightly on his chair. His lip was bleeding as he was biting it to keep himself from screaming. Back and forth... back and forth...
"AHH!" he screamed as he feel backwards of the chair.
"AHH!"
"James?" a voice muttered. James sat straight up and looked around wildly.
"James? You're sweating, Prongs, what happened?"
"Why'd you scream?"
James looked down at himself. He was drenched in sweat. His lip was bleeding slightly. He also noticed that he was in his 4-poster bed.
"It... it was just a dream..." he reassured himself. "It didn't really happen..."
"What didn't really happen, Prongsie boy?" Sirius muttered. He sat down on the bed and Remus did the same. Peter was sleeping soundly in his bed.
"I-I had a dream," James murmured. He wiped is damp forehead.
"Ooh, what was it about?" Sirius asked, now very interested.
"Lily... Amos... chair..." James stuttered.
"What?" Remus asked after he yawned. "Where they kissing or something?" James nodded slowly. He looked over to his bedside table to see the time. But that wasn't all he saw. There were two people standing there. A certain redheaded girl and a brunette boy... kissing...
"AHHH!" James screamed as he sat straight up in his bed.
"James?" Remus grumbled from his bed. "That you?"
James scanned the room. That had been a dream too. Sirius was sleeping, his left hand hanging off the side of his bed. Peter was also in a heavy sleep. Remus was rubbing his eyes as he sat at the side of his bed. James pinched himself and it hurt a lot.
"James why'd you scream? And why are you all sweaty...?" Remus asked as he trudged over to his friend's bed.
"I had a dream. I-I was in class and Lily and Amos were... were... kissing," James muttered. Remus took a seat next to him.
"Go on-"
"-And then I woke up - well, at least I thought I woke up - anyway, so I woke up and you and Sirius were asking me questions about the dream... and... Lily and Amos were right over there-," he pointed to the dormitory door, "- kissing. And, well, then I woke up."
Remus raised his eyebrows and sniggered a little. "Weird," he muttered. He walked back to his bed. "Happy Christmas."
James woke up again a couple of hours later.
"Who woke me?" he muttered as he turned back over. He heard footsteps and Sirius threw wrapping paper on him.
"Presents!" he whispered and he left to go back to his pile. James threw his heavy covers off and instantly shivered. He threw on a big sweatshirt and charmed it to be extra warm.
Sirius was kneeling on the floor next to a bunch off wrapping paper and opened presents. His white tee shirt had tape all over it as well as his blue sweatpants that he wore to sleep.
"Hey, Prongs, look at this!" he whispered. James walked over to him and sat down cross-legged. Sirius handed James a very sparkly rose. James could smell it from his bed and it smelled wonderful. It was blood red and had a soft glow to it.
"It's from Julia," Sirius explained. "Says it'll last forever!" He took the rose back and smiled at it. "I kinda feel bad," he said as he opened his next present, which was from Remus. "All I got her was a '100 Way to Trick a Teacher and Not Get Caught' book..."
James snorted as he stood up again. He stretched. "I'm gonna go take a shower. I'm not in the mood for presents yet-"
Sirius looked up at him, flabbergasted. "Not in the mood for presents? Who heard of such a thing?!" James smiled and left to shower.
"Lils, present time!" Julia said as she bounced happily to her friend's 4- poster.
"One more minute..." Lily muttered into the pillow.
"Why are you so tired?" Alex called from her bed. "You went to sleep relatively early!"
Lily sighed and turned her head to them. "I had a weird dream last night."
Julia raised her eyebrows and kneeled down next to Lily's bed. "What happened?"
"It's not important," Lily murmured and she turned her head away.
"Of course it's important, I mean it kept you up!" Julia sighed. "Fine, if you don't want to tell us, it's ok." And she strolled back to her gifts.
"Fine!" Lily yelled at her retreating figure. Julia stopped and walked backwards to her bed. "Uh huh?"
Lily sighed. "It all started last night..."
-----FLAAAAAASHBACK!-----
"So will you give me another chance?" James asked.
"Err..."
"What do you mean, "err"?" he asked as he pulled back.
"There's one problem," she sighed. "I'm dating Amos Diggory."
James continued smiling for a moment but then the news sunk in. She was dating Amos Diggory... His smile faded.
"Uh, come again?"
"I said that I'm already seeing Amos," Lily repeated. She felt herself go red and looked at the floor.
James just stood there. His mouth was open slightly and his face was drained of color.
"A-A-A-A-A-Amos?" Lily nodded. She looked up.
"I'm gonna go to bed, James," she said. And she walked upstairs.
"Oh my gosh!" Lily said as she closed the door behind her. "I feel so bad!" She sighed and walked over to her wardrobe. She took out her pajamas, changed, and slipped into her bed. She tried to fall asleep but couldn't.
"Uhg!" she moaned as she toasted and turned. She finally drifted off to sleep.
Her dream wasn't as confusing as her usual ones. Actually, it was quite clear...
Lily walked through a dark corridor. She found herself being pulled to the end. There was a door there that was opened a bit. A sliver of light poured out of it.
Lily looked down at her attire. She was barefoot and was wearing a soft, silky dress that came down a bit past her knees. It was sleeveless and was a light blue color. Her hair wasn't up in the usual messy bun, but was flowing down her back.
She kept walking until she came to the door. She opened it and the light filled the hallway in back of her. She stepped through the door and found herself in a garden. She heard a noise to her right but as she turned to see what it was, she woke up.
-----END FLASHBACK!-----
"I wonder what the noise was!" Alex mused as she listened to the story from her pile of presents. Lily shrugged.
Some twenty minutes later, Lily was finished with opening her presents. She received a necklace from her parents, a cotton swab from Petunia, and piles among piles of candy from Alex, Julia, and Sally. Amos got her a ring.
"It's so shiny!" Julia said as Lily examined the piece of jewelry. It was bright silver. "Sirius got me a '100 Way to Trick a Teacher and Not Get Caught' book," she sighed. Alex snorted.
"Remus got me a necklace and matching earrings," she said as she showed her friends.
Lily gasped. "They're lovely!"
After breakfast, James sat by himself in the library. 'What a lousy way to spend Christmas,' he thought to himself. 'Lily-less.'
James shifted in his seat. He flung his legs onto the table and slouched in his chair. He heard voices and grabbed his book to make it look like he was reading.
"Did you like my gift?" a boy's voice asked. James recognized it... Amos! James guessed whom he was talking to and was right.
"Yes I did," Lily said. James assumed they were sitting at the next table. He glanced over the top of his book quickly and watched them. Amos was sitting really close to Lily. Too close for James's liking...
"How about mine?" Lily asked. "How did you like it?"
"Loved it, of course! My favorite class had always been Muggle Studies, I'm glad you bought me the book on muggle products!" He touched her bun and sighed. "Your hair is so pretty, why don't you ever wear it down? It's always in a messy bun!"
Lily frowned slightly. "I dunno... I like it this way." Amos sighed again.
"What's that?" he asked, pointing to a red book that was falling out of her bag. He sure was nosey.
"Just my diary," she said as she glanced around the room, looking for a way out of the boring conversation. Amos raised both his eyebrows.
"Ah. I see."
He ruffled his hair just like James when Lily looked at him. She blinked a few times, her eyes a bit wider than usual. James did everything in his power to keep himself from pouncing. Amos smiled. "What?"
"Err, nothing," Lily said as she turned her attention back to the far wall. Amos reached over and lightly brushed a loose strand of hair behind her ear. She pretended not to notice.
'Uhg, why is he being so annoying?' she asked herself. She looked over at Amos and smiled.
"I'm going to go to my common room. I'll see you at lunch," she said calmly. Amos smiled and ruffled his hair again. "Ok, then there's no point in me staying here by myself," he responded. He got up and left. Lily watched him leave out of the corner of her eye and shook her head when he disappeared. James sniggered slightly as he watched her sigh in relief. She packed her bag and walked away, not noticing her diary falling out of it.
Later that day...
"Mistletoe!" Julia cried as she, Alex, Remus, and Sirius entered the Great Hall for dinner. She grabbed Sirius's collar and pulled him into a deep kiss. Alex and Remus kissed too, though not as intensely. James entered to find himself the only one without a partner.
"Ahem," he said, interrupting the couples. They separated.
"Get Lily!" Sirius suggested. James turned a little red and so did Lily who appeared next to him.
"Excuse me, Black," she said in a fake angry voice. He stuck his tongue out at her.
Everyone walked to the table to find Amos sitting there with Helen. She was explaining how great Sirius and Remus were to him.
"...AND THEY'RE SO CUTE, DON'T YOU AGREE?" she yelled in his ear. He smiled slightly.
"I think you're forgetting that I'm a boy," he told her. She huffed and moved a few seats down.
"Amos!" Lily said in surprise. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with the other Hufflepuffs?"
He messed up his hair again. "It's winter break!" he told her. "I thought it would be nice if I joined you for some holiday dinner."
She smiled politely and sat down next to him. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer. She bit her lip.
They started chatting and eating. Amos went on and on about how much he loved Lily. It made her kind of sick.
"You're just so beautiful!" he repeated. She nodded.
"I know, you told me already. Twice."
Amos reached up to run his fingers through his hair YET AGAIN but Lily grabbed his arm before it could return to his hair.
"What are you doing?" he asked her. She grinned.
"Palm reading!"
He smiled. "Ok, tell me what my future will hold."
"Erm, I see... I see a girl. She has brown hair. And a- er- a son. Yeah, I see a son!" she said as she looked up at him. One eyebrow was raised.
"You don't see a beautiful girl with soft, red hair?" he asked her. "What about a cat?"
"No girl that looks like that and I see a, uh, blue cat," she made up out of nowhere. He withdrew his hand and smiled.
"Thank you, Lily," he beamed.
After dinner, Amos strolled into the library. He forgot a book he needed for a potions report when he was there earlier. He walked over to the table where he and Lily had been sitting and sat on it, searching the shelves for a suitable book. He spotted one, right next to a red book. He grabbed the potions book and brought it back to the Hufflepuff common room.
He entered the warm, cozy room and sat down on a big black couch. He opened the book to see if it was the right one and found himself reading something else.
----- Uhg, I'm sick. Yuck. A review will probably make me feel better, you know. Anyway, I'm sure you guessed what he has. I think I made it kinda obvious. Anyway, please review. I paused "Trapped!" so I can finish writing this. I have another Lily/James fic in mind, which I already wrote the first chapter of. Ok? So REVIEW! It makes me happy when you do.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Tracy, Alex, Julia, Helen, and Sally. Heehee.
Chapter 28: Christmas
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James sat in the back of the room with a horrorstruck look on his face as he stared ahead. It was Transfiguration class, and McGonagall was giving the usual lecture. She was so caught up in it that she didn't even notice the something that had caused James to go pale...
The two-person table right in front of James was occupied by non other than Lily and Amos. It wasn't the fact that they were sitting together that caused James to stare in awe. They were making out.
James stared... and stared... to the point where he was rocking back and forth slightly on his chair. His lip was bleeding as he was biting it to keep himself from screaming. Back and forth... back and forth...
"AHH!" he screamed as he feel backwards of the chair.
"AHH!"
"James?" a voice muttered. James sat straight up and looked around wildly.
"James? You're sweating, Prongs, what happened?"
"Why'd you scream?"
James looked down at himself. He was drenched in sweat. His lip was bleeding slightly. He also noticed that he was in his 4-poster bed.
"It... it was just a dream..." he reassured himself. "It didn't really happen..."
"What didn't really happen, Prongsie boy?" Sirius muttered. He sat down on the bed and Remus did the same. Peter was sleeping soundly in his bed.
"I-I had a dream," James murmured. He wiped is damp forehead.
"Ooh, what was it about?" Sirius asked, now very interested.
"Lily... Amos... chair..." James stuttered.
"What?" Remus asked after he yawned. "Where they kissing or something?" James nodded slowly. He looked over to his bedside table to see the time. But that wasn't all he saw. There were two people standing there. A certain redheaded girl and a brunette boy... kissing...
"AHHH!" James screamed as he sat straight up in his bed.
"James?" Remus grumbled from his bed. "That you?"
James scanned the room. That had been a dream too. Sirius was sleeping, his left hand hanging off the side of his bed. Peter was also in a heavy sleep. Remus was rubbing his eyes as he sat at the side of his bed. James pinched himself and it hurt a lot.
"James why'd you scream? And why are you all sweaty...?" Remus asked as he trudged over to his friend's bed.
"I had a dream. I-I was in class and Lily and Amos were... were... kissing," James muttered. Remus took a seat next to him.
"Go on-"
"-And then I woke up - well, at least I thought I woke up - anyway, so I woke up and you and Sirius were asking me questions about the dream... and... Lily and Amos were right over there-," he pointed to the dormitory door, "- kissing. And, well, then I woke up."
Remus raised his eyebrows and sniggered a little. "Weird," he muttered. He walked back to his bed. "Happy Christmas."
James woke up again a couple of hours later.
"Who woke me?" he muttered as he turned back over. He heard footsteps and Sirius threw wrapping paper on him.
"Presents!" he whispered and he left to go back to his pile. James threw his heavy covers off and instantly shivered. He threw on a big sweatshirt and charmed it to be extra warm.
Sirius was kneeling on the floor next to a bunch off wrapping paper and opened presents. His white tee shirt had tape all over it as well as his blue sweatpants that he wore to sleep.
"Hey, Prongs, look at this!" he whispered. James walked over to him and sat down cross-legged. Sirius handed James a very sparkly rose. James could smell it from his bed and it smelled wonderful. It was blood red and had a soft glow to it.
"It's from Julia," Sirius explained. "Says it'll last forever!" He took the rose back and smiled at it. "I kinda feel bad," he said as he opened his next present, which was from Remus. "All I got her was a '100 Way to Trick a Teacher and Not Get Caught' book..."
James snorted as he stood up again. He stretched. "I'm gonna go take a shower. I'm not in the mood for presents yet-"
Sirius looked up at him, flabbergasted. "Not in the mood for presents? Who heard of such a thing?!" James smiled and left to shower.
"Lils, present time!" Julia said as she bounced happily to her friend's 4- poster.
"One more minute..." Lily muttered into the pillow.
"Why are you so tired?" Alex called from her bed. "You went to sleep relatively early!"
Lily sighed and turned her head to them. "I had a weird dream last night."
Julia raised her eyebrows and kneeled down next to Lily's bed. "What happened?"
"It's not important," Lily murmured and she turned her head away.
"Of course it's important, I mean it kept you up!" Julia sighed. "Fine, if you don't want to tell us, it's ok." And she strolled back to her gifts.
"Fine!" Lily yelled at her retreating figure. Julia stopped and walked backwards to her bed. "Uh huh?"
Lily sighed. "It all started last night..."
-----FLAAAAAASHBACK!-----
"So will you give me another chance?" James asked.
"Err..."
"What do you mean, "err"?" he asked as he pulled back.
"There's one problem," she sighed. "I'm dating Amos Diggory."
James continued smiling for a moment but then the news sunk in. She was dating Amos Diggory... His smile faded.
"Uh, come again?"
"I said that I'm already seeing Amos," Lily repeated. She felt herself go red and looked at the floor.
James just stood there. His mouth was open slightly and his face was drained of color.
"A-A-A-A-A-Amos?" Lily nodded. She looked up.
"I'm gonna go to bed, James," she said. And she walked upstairs.
"Oh my gosh!" Lily said as she closed the door behind her. "I feel so bad!" She sighed and walked over to her wardrobe. She took out her pajamas, changed, and slipped into her bed. She tried to fall asleep but couldn't.
"Uhg!" she moaned as she toasted and turned. She finally drifted off to sleep.
Her dream wasn't as confusing as her usual ones. Actually, it was quite clear...
Lily walked through a dark corridor. She found herself being pulled to the end. There was a door there that was opened a bit. A sliver of light poured out of it.
Lily looked down at her attire. She was barefoot and was wearing a soft, silky dress that came down a bit past her knees. It was sleeveless and was a light blue color. Her hair wasn't up in the usual messy bun, but was flowing down her back.
She kept walking until she came to the door. She opened it and the light filled the hallway in back of her. She stepped through the door and found herself in a garden. She heard a noise to her right but as she turned to see what it was, she woke up.
-----END FLASHBACK!-----
"I wonder what the noise was!" Alex mused as she listened to the story from her pile of presents. Lily shrugged.
Some twenty minutes later, Lily was finished with opening her presents. She received a necklace from her parents, a cotton swab from Petunia, and piles among piles of candy from Alex, Julia, and Sally. Amos got her a ring.
"It's so shiny!" Julia said as Lily examined the piece of jewelry. It was bright silver. "Sirius got me a '100 Way to Trick a Teacher and Not Get Caught' book," she sighed. Alex snorted.
"Remus got me a necklace and matching earrings," she said as she showed her friends.
Lily gasped. "They're lovely!"
After breakfast, James sat by himself in the library. 'What a lousy way to spend Christmas,' he thought to himself. 'Lily-less.'
James shifted in his seat. He flung his legs onto the table and slouched in his chair. He heard voices and grabbed his book to make it look like he was reading.
"Did you like my gift?" a boy's voice asked. James recognized it... Amos! James guessed whom he was talking to and was right.
"Yes I did," Lily said. James assumed they were sitting at the next table. He glanced over the top of his book quickly and watched them. Amos was sitting really close to Lily. Too close for James's liking...
"How about mine?" Lily asked. "How did you like it?"
"Loved it, of course! My favorite class had always been Muggle Studies, I'm glad you bought me the book on muggle products!" He touched her bun and sighed. "Your hair is so pretty, why don't you ever wear it down? It's always in a messy bun!"
Lily frowned slightly. "I dunno... I like it this way." Amos sighed again.
"What's that?" he asked, pointing to a red book that was falling out of her bag. He sure was nosey.
"Just my diary," she said as she glanced around the room, looking for a way out of the boring conversation. Amos raised both his eyebrows.
"Ah. I see."
He ruffled his hair just like James when Lily looked at him. She blinked a few times, her eyes a bit wider than usual. James did everything in his power to keep himself from pouncing. Amos smiled. "What?"
"Err, nothing," Lily said as she turned her attention back to the far wall. Amos reached over and lightly brushed a loose strand of hair behind her ear. She pretended not to notice.
'Uhg, why is he being so annoying?' she asked herself. She looked over at Amos and smiled.
"I'm going to go to my common room. I'll see you at lunch," she said calmly. Amos smiled and ruffled his hair again. "Ok, then there's no point in me staying here by myself," he responded. He got up and left. Lily watched him leave out of the corner of her eye and shook her head when he disappeared. James sniggered slightly as he watched her sigh in relief. She packed her bag and walked away, not noticing her diary falling out of it.
Later that day...
"Mistletoe!" Julia cried as she, Alex, Remus, and Sirius entered the Great Hall for dinner. She grabbed Sirius's collar and pulled him into a deep kiss. Alex and Remus kissed too, though not as intensely. James entered to find himself the only one without a partner.
"Ahem," he said, interrupting the couples. They separated.
"Get Lily!" Sirius suggested. James turned a little red and so did Lily who appeared next to him.
"Excuse me, Black," she said in a fake angry voice. He stuck his tongue out at her.
Everyone walked to the table to find Amos sitting there with Helen. She was explaining how great Sirius and Remus were to him.
"...AND THEY'RE SO CUTE, DON'T YOU AGREE?" she yelled in his ear. He smiled slightly.
"I think you're forgetting that I'm a boy," he told her. She huffed and moved a few seats down.
"Amos!" Lily said in surprise. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with the other Hufflepuffs?"
He messed up his hair again. "It's winter break!" he told her. "I thought it would be nice if I joined you for some holiday dinner."
She smiled politely and sat down next to him. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer. She bit her lip.
They started chatting and eating. Amos went on and on about how much he loved Lily. It made her kind of sick.
"You're just so beautiful!" he repeated. She nodded.
"I know, you told me already. Twice."
Amos reached up to run his fingers through his hair YET AGAIN but Lily grabbed his arm before it could return to his hair.
"What are you doing?" he asked her. She grinned.
"Palm reading!"
He smiled. "Ok, tell me what my future will hold."
"Erm, I see... I see a girl. She has brown hair. And a- er- a son. Yeah, I see a son!" she said as she looked up at him. One eyebrow was raised.
"You don't see a beautiful girl with soft, red hair?" he asked her. "What about a cat?"
"No girl that looks like that and I see a, uh, blue cat," she made up out of nowhere. He withdrew his hand and smiled.
"Thank you, Lily," he beamed.
After dinner, Amos strolled into the library. He forgot a book he needed for a potions report when he was there earlier. He walked over to the table where he and Lily had been sitting and sat on it, searching the shelves for a suitable book. He spotted one, right next to a red book. He grabbed the potions book and brought it back to the Hufflepuff common room.
He entered the warm, cozy room and sat down on a big black couch. He opened the book to see if it was the right one and found himself reading something else.
----- Uhg, I'm sick. Yuck. A review will probably make me feel better, you know. Anyway, I'm sure you guessed what he has. I think I made it kinda obvious. Anyway, please review. I paused "Trapped!" so I can finish writing this. I have another Lily/James fic in mind, which I already wrote the first chapter of. Ok? So REVIEW! It makes me happy when you do.