Lily& James' Best years
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter etc. I only own Millicent, Kayla and umm. an ugly school picture which I'm eager to burn- no really, now- I think my picture turned out pretty good, though I didn't brush my hair before taking it so- right, the story.yeah.
Pink-Butterfly5 - I believe you wanted some more. I hope this was enough!
Chapter 4- The Dance
"Hey James, I heard you finally got Lily to go out with you, and it only took you about three years, ha?" Steve Daver grinned at James.
"Well, I guess you could say it that way, but it wasn't easy, I have to be a gentleman and everything." said James.
"A gentleman? You?"
"Hey, I have my gentleman side somewhere.It's just in the laundry." James laughed with Sirius and Steve.
They stopped in their tracks.
Professor Flidman, their cruel potion teacher was walking down the hall towards them.
"Potter, Black, did your homework this time, I hope?" Flidman looked at them with that terrible look of his saved for Gryffindors only.
He hated Griffindors, and in return, they all hated him back.
Fridman was the head of the Slytherine house.
The two best friends grinned at each other then looked back at their teacher, and then, as if the were one person they did possibly the funniest thing they did in a month (and since James didn't do a lot since Lily hated it so much, or so she said, It wasn't very hard to give it that title). They saluted.
"Sir yes sir." They practically yelled, everybody were laughing in the hall, and looking at them.
Professor Fridman was shocked and looked very much irritated.
They did not break any rules, did not call him names and did not really insult him, so he couldn't really take off points from Gryffindor but they did amuse the students in the hall, and on his expense.
He walked away, Sirius and James still saluting to the place where he stood half a minute ago.
"Thank you, thank you!" Sirius and James were bowing to their crowd.
"Potter, deflate that head, I need to talk to you." Lily came marching down the hall, James grinned at her.
"Yes ma-." James raised his hand to salute again but she caught it.
"And James Potter, don't even think of saluting to me." She said, and then she smiled slightly
"Well, what do you want to tell me, Evans?"
"Please Potter, you can call me Lily." He just stared at her.
"Yeah, and you can call me James."
"Right, sorry." She said. "well, anyway, now that we all know our names. oh, yeah, Sirius, heard you're going out with my best friend, and after seeing you without a shirt she just couldn't stop talking about you, must have been very nice in the boys' dormitories because she came laughing and screaming and telling everybody you were even hotter without a shirt on or something like that.oh, and same to you, of course." Lily grinned at James.
"Oh, and there she comes. "Millicent was walking strait to Sirius.
"Hey Millicent, we were just talking about you." Sirius told her, grinning.
"Well then, I hope beautiful was said at least twice then." She smiled at the bunch.
"So, what did you want to tell me?" James asked Lily who looked strait at him when he started to talk.
"Oh, just wanted to talk to you four." She smiled. "And we need to go over some more rules. I will not dance with other guys if you really care but I don't want you to just watch some girls and not dance at all, alright?"
"Yeah, but I might watch you the whole time, though. It's real hard not to." He smiled.
"Kiss up later." She snapped, and then a smile she couldn't stop crept to her face.
She looked at him. She had the desire to kiss him but it did not seem appropriate to kiss him before the dance or, for that matter, in the hall.
***
It was 6:30 already, Kayla was dressed and doing her hair. It was one hour until the dance started, but all the girls in the dormitories were almost ready. Lily dried her hair. She straitened it so it was a little straighter than everyday and was braiding in into a difficult French braid. She looked at the mirror. Good. She didn't look as if she put in three hours just to make her hair look perfect, because then she'd look pathetic, but if she just looked nice, and even a little more than nice she would look as if she wanted to be with James, but just the right amount.
Millicent was getting dressed, her hair was down and it looked wonderful.
"Nice dress!" Lily told her as she pulled it on.
"Yes, it's beautiful!" Kayla examined Millicent's dress. Millicent always had the best cloths. Her parents were rich, but very nice, which was very extraordinary in Lily's opinion, Millicent was a pureblood but was not mean to muggle borns, like Lily, and would never call anybody a 'Mudblood'.
Kayla was a half-blood. She had a witch as a mother and a wizard for a father but her father was Muggleborn and so was her mother's mom.
When Lily first heard this it confused her but now it seemed very easy to understand.
Kayla's parent had money but did not have too much spare money, as to Lily, her parents were about the same.
"Hey Lils, fabulous dress!" said Kayla as soon as Lily put her dress on. It was a long white dress which was relatively tight in the top area and loosened a little on it's way to the bottom.
"James won't be able to take his eyes off you." said Fortune Greenberg, their fellow fifth year.
"Never is, is he?" Millicent laughed.
"Woo, going with James Potter, are you Lils?"
"And I thought I'll never see the day. I have to take pictures." Lane Hancock grinned, she was a sixth year.
"Well, he is a lot nicer now so I thought I'd give him a chance." Lily smiled back at the girls.
"Yeah, and girl, let me just tell you that you look HOT." Diane Preds said, she always said what was on her mind, and never stopped to think what people would say.
Lily admired her for that. Diane was wearing a very spicy kind of red.
It was very much like her.
"What do you think?" Millicent asked, holding up two pairs of shoes.
"Well, since your dress's red, I would have to say.these." Lily picked a pair of black shoes with high heels, though it wasn't too high, Millicent, Lily and Kayla all hated those horrible, about 12" heel shoes.
Millicent grinned.
"Not to mention you want these for yourself." Millicent pointed to the other, baby-blue pair. Lily chuckled.
***
"Well, we should probably go get dressed." said Remus. They were sitting under the beach tree by the lake, their favorite tree.
"Yeah, I s'ppose you're right." said James.
"Worried you'll be late?" asked Sirius, grinning at his friend.
James did not answer. They reached the castle and were in the entrance hall when they bumped into Snape.
"Why, snivellus, always horrible to see you." Greeted Sirius.
"That good mood isn't going to last long, black." Spat Snape, taking out his wand.
"Mr. Snape! I hope you know by now that magic in the halls is against the school rules." James heard McGonagall's voice carry from the great hall, he turn around to see her; she was in her regular robes rather than anything else.
James had at least expected her to wear some other cloak.
"Go on, to your house towers. Don't want to be late, do you?"
"No, professor." Said James, going up the stairs, the trio behind him.
"Tell the mudblood hi for me, will you Potter?" Snape hissed so that McGonagall who was already walking back to the great hall couldn't hear.
They all stopped going up the stairs.
"Don't." Remus held James' and Sirius' hands when they reached for their wands.
"You're right, he's not worth it." James decided and they went up the stairs.
"James!" a group of girls greeted him when they arrived at the common room.
"Girls!" he said back.
"Lily looks 'fab'!" said Kayla, beaming at him.
"That's not a big surprise." James smiled.
"Did she put in a lot of time on her hair?" asked Sirius
"What does that have to do with anything?" asked James
"Trust me, it has to do with a lot." said Sirius "Well, how much time would you say she put in her hair?"
"Oh, I'd say about forty five minutes or so." said Kayla.
"Well, that's a good sign." said Sirius. "It could be better, though."
"Whatever. The important thing is for her to agree to date me again." said James.
"Truer words were never spoken." Sirius agreed.
"Right, well, I reckon she won't exactly think that these cloths are very 'gentlemen-like'.
"Right.well, my fellow marauders let's go change."
"James, are you almost ready?" Sirius asked
"Yeah, just give me a minute, Sirius."
"You have 59 seconds." Sirius informed him. "58.57.56.55.54.53.52.51.50.49.48.47.46.45.44.43.42.41.40.-"
"Okay, I see where you're going with this.39, right?" said James, Sirius laughed with him.
"Yeah, yeah, that's just hilarious but Lily's waiting and-"James was already out of the room after Remus mentioned Lily's name.
"Lost him." Sirius stated when they were getting out of the room. In the Common room, James was standing near the fire. Lily was nowhere to be found.
"She'll probably be out any minute." said Sirius.
"Millicent or Lily?" asked James, Sirius shrugged, "Both."
"And here the princesses come." said Remus as Lily, Millicent and Kayla went down the stairs, looking around for a sign of the boys.
"Wow, James, chill! You got a whole night to spend with the girl." Sirius said as James spun around a lot too fast.
"Hey, I can't hide the fact that I waited for this for three year-WOW!" james said as he saw lily, she was still looking for him.
"She does look good, doesn't she?" Peter said, looking at Lily.
"Good? Good? And eyes off!" James made peter look to the floor. Sirius and Remus laughed.
"Prongs, my friend, you got it bad." said Sirius.
"You just noticed?" James was still starring at Lily.
***
"Well, Potter, you know, I might just be glad I came with you." said Lily, it was half an hour after the dance started and James and lily were sitting down in one of the tables.
"I really hope so." James said. She smiled. There was an embarrassing moment after that.
"Want to.take a walk?" asked Lily.
James looked pleased that she offered. "Sure."
"Did anybody else ask you to the dance at all?" James asked.
"Well, you weren't really supposed to know but.about five people asked me out.
"And you said no to all of them because.?"
"Do really want to hear it, don't you?" James looked at her, then nodded.
"Because... I really like you, James." James beamed.
"I really like you too." James returned.
"Yeah, I noticed." they laughed. Then Lily leaned in, eyes closed. James stared, and then smiled to himself. He leaned in too.
James dreamed of this moment but never really thought it would happen. He put a hand on her waist and she smiled to herself.
He couldn't believe it was the girl of his dreams that he was kissing.
***
"I saw you!" Sirius informed you half an hour later.
"Yeah, we all did." Said Remus
"What are you talking about?"
"C'mon, James, we're your best friends, you don't have to hide it from us." said Sirius, Peter looked at him, interested.
"Well, if you saw what happened, what do you want to know?"
"Who made the first move?" asked Remus.
"She did." answered James, then he turned round.
"Hey James." Lily was walking towards him, James looked behind his shoulder. The marauders were still there. 'FINE! LET THEM WATCH' he thought.
Lily looked at the marauders, and then smiled.
"Onto us already?" she asked, James laughed. "Well, I reckon they want you to tell them exactly what happened."
"Yes, we do but Jamsey won't tell us!" said Sirius.
"You don't want to tell them?" asked Lily, then she smiled. "Then maybe we should show them." She grabbed James and kissed him.
Sirius and Remus were laughing, and Peter was hiding himself, embarrassed for some reason. If you didn't know better, you would have thought Peter was a ten-year-old.
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Wow! This chapter was long, wasn't it? And it only took me two days! Claps ARE necessary! It's 8 pages so don't even think of writing-"More", I really like it when you guys want more (and more...and more...) and it's really flattering that you like my story but give it at least 1 day before asking for more...
Love ya, ElizabethMM
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter etc. I only own Millicent, Kayla and umm. an ugly school picture which I'm eager to burn- no really, now- I think my picture turned out pretty good, though I didn't brush my hair before taking it so- right, the story.yeah.
Pink-Butterfly5 - I believe you wanted some more. I hope this was enough!
Chapter 4- The Dance
"Hey James, I heard you finally got Lily to go out with you, and it only took you about three years, ha?" Steve Daver grinned at James.
"Well, I guess you could say it that way, but it wasn't easy, I have to be a gentleman and everything." said James.
"A gentleman? You?"
"Hey, I have my gentleman side somewhere.It's just in the laundry." James laughed with Sirius and Steve.
They stopped in their tracks.
Professor Flidman, their cruel potion teacher was walking down the hall towards them.
"Potter, Black, did your homework this time, I hope?" Flidman looked at them with that terrible look of his saved for Gryffindors only.
He hated Griffindors, and in return, they all hated him back.
Fridman was the head of the Slytherine house.
The two best friends grinned at each other then looked back at their teacher, and then, as if the were one person they did possibly the funniest thing they did in a month (and since James didn't do a lot since Lily hated it so much, or so she said, It wasn't very hard to give it that title). They saluted.
"Sir yes sir." They practically yelled, everybody were laughing in the hall, and looking at them.
Professor Fridman was shocked and looked very much irritated.
They did not break any rules, did not call him names and did not really insult him, so he couldn't really take off points from Gryffindor but they did amuse the students in the hall, and on his expense.
He walked away, Sirius and James still saluting to the place where he stood half a minute ago.
"Thank you, thank you!" Sirius and James were bowing to their crowd.
"Potter, deflate that head, I need to talk to you." Lily came marching down the hall, James grinned at her.
"Yes ma-." James raised his hand to salute again but she caught it.
"And James Potter, don't even think of saluting to me." She said, and then she smiled slightly
"Well, what do you want to tell me, Evans?"
"Please Potter, you can call me Lily." He just stared at her.
"Yeah, and you can call me James."
"Right, sorry." She said. "well, anyway, now that we all know our names. oh, yeah, Sirius, heard you're going out with my best friend, and after seeing you without a shirt she just couldn't stop talking about you, must have been very nice in the boys' dormitories because she came laughing and screaming and telling everybody you were even hotter without a shirt on or something like that.oh, and same to you, of course." Lily grinned at James.
"Oh, and there she comes. "Millicent was walking strait to Sirius.
"Hey Millicent, we were just talking about you." Sirius told her, grinning.
"Well then, I hope beautiful was said at least twice then." She smiled at the bunch.
"So, what did you want to tell me?" James asked Lily who looked strait at him when he started to talk.
"Oh, just wanted to talk to you four." She smiled. "And we need to go over some more rules. I will not dance with other guys if you really care but I don't want you to just watch some girls and not dance at all, alright?"
"Yeah, but I might watch you the whole time, though. It's real hard not to." He smiled.
"Kiss up later." She snapped, and then a smile she couldn't stop crept to her face.
She looked at him. She had the desire to kiss him but it did not seem appropriate to kiss him before the dance or, for that matter, in the hall.
***
It was 6:30 already, Kayla was dressed and doing her hair. It was one hour until the dance started, but all the girls in the dormitories were almost ready. Lily dried her hair. She straitened it so it was a little straighter than everyday and was braiding in into a difficult French braid. She looked at the mirror. Good. She didn't look as if she put in three hours just to make her hair look perfect, because then she'd look pathetic, but if she just looked nice, and even a little more than nice she would look as if she wanted to be with James, but just the right amount.
Millicent was getting dressed, her hair was down and it looked wonderful.
"Nice dress!" Lily told her as she pulled it on.
"Yes, it's beautiful!" Kayla examined Millicent's dress. Millicent always had the best cloths. Her parents were rich, but very nice, which was very extraordinary in Lily's opinion, Millicent was a pureblood but was not mean to muggle borns, like Lily, and would never call anybody a 'Mudblood'.
Kayla was a half-blood. She had a witch as a mother and a wizard for a father but her father was Muggleborn and so was her mother's mom.
When Lily first heard this it confused her but now it seemed very easy to understand.
Kayla's parent had money but did not have too much spare money, as to Lily, her parents were about the same.
"Hey Lils, fabulous dress!" said Kayla as soon as Lily put her dress on. It was a long white dress which was relatively tight in the top area and loosened a little on it's way to the bottom.
"James won't be able to take his eyes off you." said Fortune Greenberg, their fellow fifth year.
"Never is, is he?" Millicent laughed.
"Woo, going with James Potter, are you Lils?"
"And I thought I'll never see the day. I have to take pictures." Lane Hancock grinned, she was a sixth year.
"Well, he is a lot nicer now so I thought I'd give him a chance." Lily smiled back at the girls.
"Yeah, and girl, let me just tell you that you look HOT." Diane Preds said, she always said what was on her mind, and never stopped to think what people would say.
Lily admired her for that. Diane was wearing a very spicy kind of red.
It was very much like her.
"What do you think?" Millicent asked, holding up two pairs of shoes.
"Well, since your dress's red, I would have to say.these." Lily picked a pair of black shoes with high heels, though it wasn't too high, Millicent, Lily and Kayla all hated those horrible, about 12" heel shoes.
Millicent grinned.
"Not to mention you want these for yourself." Millicent pointed to the other, baby-blue pair. Lily chuckled.
***
"Well, we should probably go get dressed." said Remus. They were sitting under the beach tree by the lake, their favorite tree.
"Yeah, I s'ppose you're right." said James.
"Worried you'll be late?" asked Sirius, grinning at his friend.
James did not answer. They reached the castle and were in the entrance hall when they bumped into Snape.
"Why, snivellus, always horrible to see you." Greeted Sirius.
"That good mood isn't going to last long, black." Spat Snape, taking out his wand.
"Mr. Snape! I hope you know by now that magic in the halls is against the school rules." James heard McGonagall's voice carry from the great hall, he turn around to see her; she was in her regular robes rather than anything else.
James had at least expected her to wear some other cloak.
"Go on, to your house towers. Don't want to be late, do you?"
"No, professor." Said James, going up the stairs, the trio behind him.
"Tell the mudblood hi for me, will you Potter?" Snape hissed so that McGonagall who was already walking back to the great hall couldn't hear.
They all stopped going up the stairs.
"Don't." Remus held James' and Sirius' hands when they reached for their wands.
"You're right, he's not worth it." James decided and they went up the stairs.
"James!" a group of girls greeted him when they arrived at the common room.
"Girls!" he said back.
"Lily looks 'fab'!" said Kayla, beaming at him.
"That's not a big surprise." James smiled.
"Did she put in a lot of time on her hair?" asked Sirius
"What does that have to do with anything?" asked James
"Trust me, it has to do with a lot." said Sirius "Well, how much time would you say she put in her hair?"
"Oh, I'd say about forty five minutes or so." said Kayla.
"Well, that's a good sign." said Sirius. "It could be better, though."
"Whatever. The important thing is for her to agree to date me again." said James.
"Truer words were never spoken." Sirius agreed.
"Right, well, I reckon she won't exactly think that these cloths are very 'gentlemen-like'.
"Right.well, my fellow marauders let's go change."
"James, are you almost ready?" Sirius asked
"Yeah, just give me a minute, Sirius."
"You have 59 seconds." Sirius informed him. "58.57.56.55.54.53.52.51.50.49.48.47.46.45.44.43.42.41.40.-"
"Okay, I see where you're going with this.39, right?" said James, Sirius laughed with him.
"Yeah, yeah, that's just hilarious but Lily's waiting and-"James was already out of the room after Remus mentioned Lily's name.
"Lost him." Sirius stated when they were getting out of the room. In the Common room, James was standing near the fire. Lily was nowhere to be found.
"She'll probably be out any minute." said Sirius.
"Millicent or Lily?" asked James, Sirius shrugged, "Both."
"And here the princesses come." said Remus as Lily, Millicent and Kayla went down the stairs, looking around for a sign of the boys.
"Wow, James, chill! You got a whole night to spend with the girl." Sirius said as James spun around a lot too fast.
"Hey, I can't hide the fact that I waited for this for three year-WOW!" james said as he saw lily, she was still looking for him.
"She does look good, doesn't she?" Peter said, looking at Lily.
"Good? Good? And eyes off!" James made peter look to the floor. Sirius and Remus laughed.
"Prongs, my friend, you got it bad." said Sirius.
"You just noticed?" James was still starring at Lily.
***
"Well, Potter, you know, I might just be glad I came with you." said Lily, it was half an hour after the dance started and James and lily were sitting down in one of the tables.
"I really hope so." James said. She smiled. There was an embarrassing moment after that.
"Want to.take a walk?" asked Lily.
James looked pleased that she offered. "Sure."
"Did anybody else ask you to the dance at all?" James asked.
"Well, you weren't really supposed to know but.about five people asked me out.
"And you said no to all of them because.?"
"Do really want to hear it, don't you?" James looked at her, then nodded.
"Because... I really like you, James." James beamed.
"I really like you too." James returned.
"Yeah, I noticed." they laughed. Then Lily leaned in, eyes closed. James stared, and then smiled to himself. He leaned in too.
James dreamed of this moment but never really thought it would happen. He put a hand on her waist and she smiled to herself.
He couldn't believe it was the girl of his dreams that he was kissing.
***
"I saw you!" Sirius informed you half an hour later.
"Yeah, we all did." Said Remus
"What are you talking about?"
"C'mon, James, we're your best friends, you don't have to hide it from us." said Sirius, Peter looked at him, interested.
"Well, if you saw what happened, what do you want to know?"
"Who made the first move?" asked Remus.
"She did." answered James, then he turned round.
"Hey James." Lily was walking towards him, James looked behind his shoulder. The marauders were still there. 'FINE! LET THEM WATCH' he thought.
Lily looked at the marauders, and then smiled.
"Onto us already?" she asked, James laughed. "Well, I reckon they want you to tell them exactly what happened."
"Yes, we do but Jamsey won't tell us!" said Sirius.
"You don't want to tell them?" asked Lily, then she smiled. "Then maybe we should show them." She grabbed James and kissed him.
Sirius and Remus were laughing, and Peter was hiding himself, embarrassed for some reason. If you didn't know better, you would have thought Peter was a ten-year-old.
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Wow! This chapter was long, wasn't it? And it only took me two days! Claps ARE necessary! It's 8 pages so don't even think of writing-"More", I really like it when you guys want more (and more...and more...) and it's really flattering that you like my story but give it at least 1 day before asking for more...
Love ya, ElizabethMM