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Chapter Four: April Showers Brings May Flowers
"April Showers brings May flowers...Prongs does that mean that I just have to work through next month and then I'm free of you" Lily and James were sitting in the window seat of Lily's room. Joanna and Sirius were at detention for Sirius letting a lieden(a bird that has psychic abilities) fly out the window with Joanna holding onto it's tail. Mr. Felagin had to levitate them both back in. Peter and Remus were off studying and Petalis was like normal with her guy.
"No chance Lils. Even if we get out of this predicament I'll still pester you...wait you called me prongs! Where did that come from?" James gave a questionable look at Lily who was smiling out the window.
"Oh....just a little birdy told me" Lily said not looking from the window.
"No seriously tell me where you heard that. This is very important" James leaned towards Lily making her turn her head.
"Geez, didn't know that name meant something...now I'm curious" James gave her a frustrated look, "Alright, I was laying down for the night as usual and you were talking with the guys....I think you thought I was asleep so you guys started to use these weird names...what do they mean anyways?" James relaxed a little and leaned back.
"Oh they're nothing...just names we've used since we were little kids"
"How long have you guys known each other?" Lily knew there was more to the names then he was letting on but she didn't want to push it.
"Well...Sirius I've known since we were four when I meet him at this magical park in our community...Remus I meet when we went to magical development school and we were....seven and Peter...oh we meet him when some kids were ganging up on him...that would be the same year..." James seemed to be thinking about something until he just shook the thought away.
"Magical development school? Isn't Hogwarts like that?"
"No its more like how to deal with hiding your abilities and so the magical community can watch to make sure you're on track. It also teaches how to write, read, and pretty much like muggle schools I suppose. It's usually pure magic kids that go there though..." James looked down when he said the last line and Lily turned her head toward the window. She couldn't understand how this world could be so judgmental to those who don't have a family history in magic. "At least you can come to this one right, but then again if Malfoy gets his way then there won't be such a thing."
"I just don't understand how people can hate those that don't have it genetically...when I got the letter I couldn't believe it was true...it was like a dream had came true or that I was part of a story...and I felt as if I was always a part of this world...but now I feel rejected from the world because I'm normal..." Lily looked like she was about to cry. James had never been in a really serious moment with her before and he didn't like it.
"Hey isn't that your owl?" Lily opened the window and a light blonde owl came in.
"What's it's name anyways...hey name it jamie!" James said trying to cheer her up. He started to get excited and was holding Lily's owl. Lily smiled at his sudden change of mood and was thankful that they were out of that serious moment...it was a moment that she wasn't used to with him.
"I haven't came up with one actually because I've been so busy being connected to you, but I am not naming my owl after my mother!" James gave a shocked face at Lily.
'Your mom's name is Jamie? That's so cool! James Jamie James Jamie hehe." James was moving the owl's wings with the beat of each word. The owl just hooted along with him. Lily shook her head.
"And they wonder about me...hey I'll name her Maya, after that lady in history who swayed everyone with her gleaming blonde hair and her purified blue eyes who can't see what is not true or not hear what is not known" Lily was brought out of her thoughts by the movement of James sticking his finger in his mouth and pretending to gag and then started to make Maya do the same. "Stop making that gesture! You'll teach Maya bad manners!"
"This is an important tutorial for her. She needs to know what to do when you go off talking about these most amazing beings that just woes the world, it's so boringgggggggg! Maya does look hot! But besides that my brain shuts off."
"I still do not understand how you keep up with me in class. Guys only think about the looks never the important things."
"Looks are important! It's the first thing a person sees."
"Typical boy..."
"Like you don't see a person's looks before everything else!"
"Actually I see a person's personality displayed in their looks..."
"HA! See you do see looks first!"
"And in the way they carry themselves. Quite different from what you see."
"Well right now I see a hypocrite who judges by looks!"
"I don't JUDGE BY LOOKS!"
"Ya right! 'Wow! Yalen is sooooo cute and he's captain of the quidditch team which is sooooo awesome! Smoochy smoochy smoochy'"
"I'm not that bad! I mean you have to admit he's totally hot but I don't make those disgusting smoochy faces!"
"Sure...I saw you kiss his picture before and you made exactly that same smoochy face. But hey, James if you were a girl you would too. I mean he is totally HOT!" Both of them turned their heads at the person speaking in the doorway.
"Petalis! Don't agree with her! I was winning this debate." James got shoved off the window seat companied by Lily.
"I was winning this debate, because I actually had accurate reasons unlike you. Mr. I Only Care About Looks And Then My Mind Shuts Off."
"Haha! Typical guy!" Petalis said rolling her eyes.
"That's what I said!"
"AHHHHHHH! I hate these giddy girl talks and I would get up and leave if I COULD!" James folds his arms and leans against the wall with a pouty face on.
"Ah lil Jamies looks so cute with his lil coochy woochy face on" Lily started to pinch his cheeks while Petalis made baby faces at him.
"Hey! Which you guys doing?" Joanna had just came in from detention with a red face on...most likely from yelling at Sirius.
"Oh just playing with lil Jameses. Isn't he sooo cute with that face on. Aren't you my lil cutesy wutesy friend!"
"Hehe I want to join!" Lily was fixing up his hair, Petalis was trying to put makeup on him, while Joanna held him down.
Sirius came walking down the hall to the girls' room. "Dootie do...hmmm.hmm...Joanna!!! Where's my lovely Joanna!!!" At the sound of Sirius' voice, James tried to yell out for him, but Petalis held his jaws shut and continued to put lipstick on him.
Joanna had the opposite reaction to Sirius' voice. Her eyes suddenly got very big and was staring blankly at Petalis till she sighed. "Oh nooo...not him again! I just spent two hours of detention with him. He's beginning to get on my nerves."
"There you are! What are you three girls doing? AHHHHH!" Sirius caught sight of the beautiful new James- anonymous pigtails everywhere that magically twirled in circles, his glasses were off to show his neon glowing purple eyeshadow, his blush that switched colors every few seconds, his lips that were bright red and blue, and for the final effect Petalis and Lily put their signatures on his forehead which moved slowly to the right before disappearing and reappearing on the left side of his forehead.
The girls started to laugh at the expression Sirius had on and forgot to hold James down. This allowed James to pop out between Petalis and Joanna who were blocking him. "HELP ME! They are torturing me and I can't leave!"
Sirius walks over to his friend and pulls him away without any problems since the girls were rolling on the floor laughing except Lily who was force to stand up laughing. "Never leave me alone with them again! The things....the things they did...said....it was horrible!"
Sirius was trying to not laugh at James' appearance."Alright buddy it's ok now...here's your glasses..., the big bad girls... won't hurt you now except for lils here. Don't give me that look...she's kind of attached." The girl's laughter got louder.
"You promise to not leave me alone with them again?" Sirius pointed his wand at James' hair and said "immobililus" so that the pigtails would stop twirling.
"I promise! Well...Lils I can't. She's with you all the time, even when I'm not..."
"Thanks to you! Now my life will always be full of nightmares!" Lily suddenly stopped smiling and hit him.
"Alright kids, I'm going to get Jamsie here cleaned up before he becomes completely humiliated."
James had to have help getting all the hair things and makeup off before he could go into the commons. They made an agreement that she wouldn't call him cooshy wooshy or cutesy wutesy and never corner him again, but Lily also was never going to have to sit through any guy talks or have to stay up because he wanted to.
The next morning, Lily and James went up to her room so she could get her school things and noticed that Maya was still in there. She flew at Lily's head causing them to duck. She dropped a piece of parchment at her feet.
"Oh ya! I totally forgot about why Maya came to visit...I wonder who it's from...It says:
Lily,
I want you to come see the play I'm in, Romeo and Juliet, and I made Juliet! Your father of course isn't thrilled about it but you'd think he'd get used to me acting in romances. I hope you're not too busy with your studying to come down and see it. It's on April 20th . Bring a friend if you want. Love you bunches! Hugs and Kisses, Mom"
"Your mom's an actress! You never told me!" James' jaw was dropped open and seemed in a daze.
"Well she's a dance teacher but she likes to act too...and I didn't think it mattered...stop giving me that look...it's creepy" Lily tried to scoot away from him till she realized that couldn't be arranged.
"A dancer! Cool... Is she hot?" A dorky look started to develop with a slight grin.
"Oh my gosh. Here we go again. I thought you don't judge by looks." Lily raised her eyebrow at him which caused James to start ruffling his hair up in the back.
"I don't...but I still want to know..." He gave a guilty look and started to turn his face to the floor.
"Haha. You're so much fun."
"Well thank you, but is she?" Lily started to move out of the room with her school books.
"She's my mom...ewwww! I'm not even going to attempt to answer that." She started to quicken her pace but James was making it hard since he was dragging his feet next to her.
"Pleaseeeeeeeeee"
"No"
"Pleeasseeeeee"
"No!"
"Please Pleaseee"
"NO JAMESSSSS"
"YES LILYYY"
"NO I WON'T"
"YES YOU WILL"
"Excuse me, Mr. Potter and Miss Evans. There will be no yelling in the corridor. Get to your classes immediately." Mrs. McGonagell said while walking towards Mr. Dumbledore's office.
"Geeez...I think I've gotten on her bad list...everyone's suppose to love me...it's all your fault!" James pushes her.
"Sure blame it on me. I'm the perfect angel...who was on her good list until I met Mr. Detention over here." Lily pushes him back.
"I'm making you a webel."
"Rebel you mean."
"Noooo, webel!"
"Ahhh you're so annoying."
"Hey wait...you never told me about your mother's hotness!"
"Nor will I ever" Lily and James rounded the corner to their history class.
"Ah pleaseee...I'll love you forever!" James said that at the wrong moment and a bit too loud because everyone in the class was staring at them. The other marauders, Petalis, and Joanna were cracking up in front of them.
"And they say they're not together..." said a girl to her friend in the front of the classroom.
"He must of asked her out and she refused..."
"This we've got to tell everyone..."
"IT'S A CURSE PEOPLE! I'M TRYING TO GET LILY TO TELL ME HOW HOT HER MOM IS ALRIGHT!" Lily fell in her chair and dropped her head on the desk. James fell in the chair next to her, realizing what he just said. The class started to bust up laughing. Mr. Binns woke up after hearing this.
"Mr. Potter! What's this yelling about? Miss Evans has already been sent to detention for her outburst which you had to accompany her...don't have me send you again."
"I was forced to go! I didn't have a choice!"
"Everyone has a choice James. I would choose wisely." Lily lifted her head and started tugging on James' arm trying to get him to shut up.
"Sometimes people don't have a CHOICE!" James had enough of dealing with lectures that were caused by Lily and him being stuck together and hated everyone gossiping about them. He immediately stood up ready to let out his three month frustration, but Lily intercepted just in time and covered his mouth.
"Sorry about that...James can get a little carried away...He will calmly sit down and not say another word...right? You will sit right?" Lily started to nod her head at James trying to make him nod with her. She slowly lifted her hand from his mouth.
"I HATE thiszygh" Lily immediately put her hand back on his mouth.
"You better not get me another detention and plus you will miss practice tonight which is the last one before the final match this year. As much as I hate practices, I don't want to deal with you complaining about missing it for the whole night." Lily whispered to him. James nodded his head and he slowly sat down.
"Alright...Now back to the witch guidance during the magical revolution. Amma was the first witch to give her guidance to other witches in her community..."
James scooted down in the chair and started his daily nap and Lily reluctantly scooted down with him. She hated sitting with bad posture, but she didn't want him to get her another detention...which would be the conclusion of their potential fight over it.
James' head sprung up. He grabbed a parchment and started scribbling something on it, then pointed his wand at it. He slipped it towards Lily. Lily gave him a dirty look and looked down.
Thought I'd forget? So are we going to her play? Please Please! You have to go because your mother would be so sad which means I get to come! Hehe How old is your mom?
Lily looked up at the teacher before she wrote down her response. She was trying to write "James give it up. My mom is my mom, so just stop it now before you get hurt", but the only thing showing up on the parchment was "Yes you can gladly come, because you're the greatest guy a girl can have attached to them 24/7 and my mom is very hot and she's really young too."
Lily tried to tear it up but it wouldn't work so she threw it at me. James threw it back at her but she ducked and the parchment ball hit Kyle, Petalis' boyfriend, instead. He thought the parchment was from Petalis. He blushed after reading it and threw a parchment to her. James and Lily started laughing, but Mr. Binns wasn't.
"James I told you that there would be no more disruptions, so you decide to start a parchment ball fight? That was your last chance, so you will now have fun with parchments in detention when you have to write 10 parchments about what my lesson is about. See me tonight at 5."
Lily smacked him with her history book and marched off after the class was over without speaking to him. This was her fourth time getting detention with him, but at least this time it was only one night of it instead of three. Lily didn't talk to him all day long. She even became Petalis' partner in potions class so James had to partner with Remus.
Five o' clock finally came and they still hadn't talked, but James was becoming uneasy. The captain of his team said that practice was at 6 and 10 pages of Mr. Binns lesson would take more than an hour to do. Some how he had to get out of detention and talk Lily into going.
Nothing came to mind until he saw Sirius in the common room. James gave him Pranks To Help You Survive School as a Christmas present, but forgot about it till Sirius brought it down to him.
Lily was talking to Petalis about how cute Yalen is at practice when he is warming up and she can see his muscles since the team only wears shirts and pants usually during practice. Joanna was just rolling her eyes at them since she really did see what was so special about him.
James noticed that Lily's automatic finder was in her book bag, so he quickly took it out before Lily could notice. James attached the square object to his wand as he saw Lily do when she studied and whispered, "How to get out of detention" to it. Then he flicked his wand at the book causing the book to open up and the pages to flip very fast till it reached the chapter that said, Is Detention Keeping You From Your Daily Pranks? If So Then These Spells And Potions Will Keep You Free To Prank Away!
"Let's see...Lose of breath? Causes the person to turn blue and have problems breathing...lasts for ten minutes" Sirius whispered to James.
"Let's not. That won't last long enough and Lily would get too emotional over it." Sirius gave a weird look at him.
"Hey you know that she would give me hell if I did that, so don't give me that look." Sirius just smirked at him and kept reading. "Kicks the wind out...causes a person to first turn pale then the vision to get blurry and then pass out for twenty minutes to an hour..." James looked at Sirius to see what he thought.
"Don't think it would work since the effects don't go away fast...you need your vision and strength up there mate."
"Ok...oh here's one. Catastrophic Vomit...the person will get a stomach ache then periodic vomiting will occur for thirty minutes." Sirius raised his eyebrows at it and looked to see what James thought.
"I think that might work. I have thirty minutes for the vomit to stop and my stomach to calm down. Let's just hope that I don't get broom sick from it..." Sirius and James looked over the instructions.
"Ok. We need ten vomit flavored beans...a glass of spoiled milk...a rotten fish...liver...and jalapenos. Sounds tasty to me. I can go down to the kitchen and get most of the materials...someone must have Bertie's Every Flavor Beans." Sirius jumped up and walked towards the portrait hole.
Petalis had to leave to talk to her boyfriend about something, but Lily noticed that she didn't have her usual excited look on. Remus noticed this too, but just looked back at his Potions book.
Lily turned to James then quickly looked down at her book and started memorizing the instructions to transfiguring a pencil into a spoon. James couldn't stand her ignoring him when he was attached to her. If she was just ignoring him in other circumstances then it would be alright because he could just avoid her, but he couldn't avoid her now.
"Lily, you can't ignore me forever. I know it's killing you to ignore this handsome person that's attached to you." He flashed his arrogant smile at her. Lily just looked up at him and rolled her eyes and continued to murmur transilo penlasus.
"Lily I didn't mean to get us stuck in detention again. I just got a little carried away from the situation we're in. I get tired of everyone gossiping about me and not listening to what I have to say. You've got to be tired of it too." James said trying to get her to look up.
"Yes, that does get tiring, but it's mostly you that tires me James. You worry too much about what people think and about making yourself look good. That's what bothers me. You got mad at the people in our class for gossiping badly about you and you hated that. You can't stop gossip, it just happens. You also hate the teachers making you look bad. Your reputation is what you're worried about most and that's what annoys me." James just looked stunned. Lily said it so calmly and accurately that it surprised him. He knew that she probably knew him better than anyone this year since she was there 24/7, but she knew him too well and it begun to creep him out.
After her speech she looked back down at her book and started to memorize another spell while James thought about what she said and how he wish he could get away from her. He didn't like that she knew him that well. Sirius knew him pretty well, but he still wouldn't allow Sirius to get that close to him. He didn't talk to Lily again till she told him detention was ten minutes away.
As they walked down the hall, James tried to avoid her eyes and Lily didn't understand why he was so out of it all of a sudden. "Hey mate, taking a walk with your one and only...at night." Sirius was walking towards them and James came out of his daze.
"Shut it Sirius." Sirius raised his eyebrows at Lily and then grinned. When he reached James he whispered something in his ear and slipped the potion into his hand, so Lily wouldn't see it.
"Sirius sure needs to get a girlfriend if he is so interested in what we're doing. I don't know why he picks on us, since we bicker constantly. We don't even look like a cute couple and I really don't think I could stand being your girlfriend to be honest."
"What's so wrong about dating me?" James said not liking the way she was talking about him.
"Many things. You're too into yourself to have someone else to care about. Plus, you're too interested in flirting with other girls and can't concentrate on only one." Lily rolled her eyes and went to walk into the class but James wasn't moving.
"Oh and you're such a prize? You are too focused on your studies to want to show other people attention. You are a coward about everything, screaming at a scary movie and getting all afraid about a dog! You act like a know it all and are bossy when it comes to doing things in classes." Suddenly Lily and James were pulled closer together.
"James let go of my arm! I'm standing right here and I can't go anywhere, so why do you have a hold of my arm!" Lily tried pulling away but it felt like they were glued together.
"I can't Miss Let's Blame Everyone Because I'm A Perfect Angel!" Lily gave a sad look at James.
"You're such a jerk. No wonder you don't have a girlfriend. I don't want to be around you anymore!" Their hands magically locked so that it looked like they were holding hands. James and Lily gave shocked and frustrated looks at each other. They tried to pull their hands apart but it felt like they were glued too. Then they resorted to pushing each other away till Mr. Binns caught them and told them to stop flirting and come in.
Mr. Binns floated over to them and gave them ten long parchments and two quills that wouldn't allow them to write in large letters. "James I can't write with my left hand!"
"So it's not my problem princess" James said hatefully sliding down into his chair. Mr. Binns started to begin his lecture and Lily quickly scribbled down his notes. James just kept watching the time and once in a while scribbled something down. He kept grabbing his stomach and rubbing his head to make it seem that he wasn't feeling well. It must have been working since Lily kept looking at him questioningly.
After ten minutes, James decided that he could take the potion and make it seem like he really was getting sick. He started to cough which made Lily give him a dark look. James then turned his head to the right, which was in the opposite direction of Lily, and coughed again. He then quickly took the potion and rubbed his head again. "James don't make him mad again. If you get us another detention than I will tell everyone about your weird names and I mean it too." She stopped her lecturing when he started to cough again. "Why do you keep coughing?"
James just shrugged and looked at his parchment. He continued to write until he felt the blood run out of his face. He felt a little dizzy and his stomach started to ache. 'Yes it's working! Alright I still have forty minutes till practice. Make me throw-up already!'
James started to get a headache then his mouth got dry. He really started to not feel to well. He laid his head on the table facing Lily and he felt so weak that he couldn't move. He was concentrating so much on how he felt that he didn't hear Lily talking to him. All of a sudden, James' head shot up and he threw up all over Lily. "AHHH! Ewwwwwwwwww! James why didn't you say you werenn'tt...ewww it went in my mouth!" Lily was drenched with vomit. James would of laughed if he was feeling better, but he felt miserable.
"Mr. Potter are you alright? Lily take him to the hospital wing. We will have to finish this lesson later." Lily nodded and grudgingly helped James up. She was trying to not whimper or cry, so that James wouldn't feel bad for throwing up on her. James could barely walk and he leaned almost entirely on Lily because he felt too weak to walk. It made it really hard to walk down the corridors though and occasionally he would fall to the floor. Every ten feet, he would throw up which usually landed on her robes or his robes.
The students started to ran away from the two as they walked down the corridors to the hospital wing. Thankfully they were too disgusted to realize that they were holding hands. At least Mrs. Norris kept away from them for once since the aroma of vomit floated through half of the school.
"Ahhh...is that you Lily? What happened to you?"Lily face dropped as she went into a horrible daze as her crush came running towards her in slow motion. Yalen had his broom with him already, probably to get more practice in since tonight was one of the only nights that he would have open because of N.E.W.T.'s coming up.
"Umm... well....James threw up on me during detention" Lily was trying to not stare at him and was trying hard to not stutter or say something stupid. Yalen looked James who was leaning fully on Lily.
"Wow! That don't even look like him...why didn't you levitate him?" Yalen jumped aside as another round of vomit came out of James. "Where is it coming from!!! Man he's drenched the whole corridor"
"Tell me about it. I can't levitate him because I would cause myself to be levitated too" Lily collapsed to the floor from James' weight on her being too much. Yalen begun to laugh at the scene before him and down the corridors. "Don't laugh! This is horrible. I feel like crying!" Lily begun to cry.
"No fear! I just didn't know you two were dating. It's cute. But I'll help you get him to the hospital wing. I just hope he can get over this before practice in...twenty minutes! Ahhh Bloody Hell! Well as long as he gets better before practice than that's all that matters, but this is horrible!" Yalen helped the two up and speed walked them to the wing. Lily didn't have time to object to his statement while she was being dragged along with James down the hall as fast as Yalen could walk.
Mrs. Pomfrey almost had a heart attack when Yalen opened the door and almost hit her when she was walking by. "What happened?"
"James and I were in detention and he started to feel ill and then he started throwing up and he hasn't stopped throwing up for the past thirty minutes!" Mrs. Pomfrey gave a peculiar look at James before going into one of her side rooms. Lily lead James to a bed and they laid down to Lily's dismay. She started to cringe every time James' made a movement, hoping he wouldn't turn and throw up on her.
"James, what exactly did you eat because the smell just makes me want to throw up" James just shook his head and threw up again but this time on Yalen shoe.
"Ahhh! James aim for something else other than people!" Yalen pointed at his shoe than Lily than James and said a spell each time. James' and Lily's robes and hair were suddenly clean.
"Thanks! I felt horrible...wow I don't even smell like vomit. I just hope he doesn't throw up again on me before she cures him."
"Well don't want you smelling out on the field. We need to concentrate today. So James hopefully will be able to practice! He's one of the best players on the team!" Lily gave a disappointed look at Yalen than watched James trying to curl up in a ball but it wasn't working.
Mrs. Pomfrey came out and checked on James' condition. She gave a disapproving look at James holding Lily's hand and than poured a potion down his throat before he could throw up again. James started to throw up but didn't, but still didn't look better. "Hmm...Just as I thought. He thought he could get out of his detention if he used a potion that causes him to throw up. He's just going to have to wait till the symptoms are over, but the potion should help the vomit to slow down. I hope you learned your lesson Potter."
"That couldn't be! I was by him at all times and he had no chance to make a potion unless...Sirius! Oh! What to do with you two!" Lily put her hand to her head. "By the way, do you have any spell to separate me and him? Our hands are magically glued together and I have no idea how to separate us. " James almost seemed passed out except he kept making noises and weird movements.
"There's one spell that can cause this but it's usually an instant thing, not a slow reaction. I'll try it anyways. Separatius Membrano!" Nothing happened except for Lily's attempts to pry their hands apart.
"Sorry dear. It seems someone has created this spell. You'll have to figure it out on your own. What caused your hands to be stuck together this time?" Lily closed her eyes to think then opened them a few moments later.
"Well we stayed the same length apart for a whole month without a change...until we had a fight outside of our class where we were having detention. Then our arms became glued together than we said some insults and pop they were together."
"Alright. Well you seem to be figuring it out nicely yourself. Try doing the opposite from now on than and maybe that will cause the spell to break." Lily looked at James and gave a frown.
"I'll be stuck with him forever!" Yalen and Mrs. Pomfrey laughed but Lily was being serious. James couldn't hear anything. He only felt his stomach and head doing somersaults.
Three days went by and James was still weak and he still had a horrible headache. Mrs. Pomfrey found out that besides the horrible side effects after the potion, he was also allergic to one of the ingredients. Mrs. Pomfrey said she couldn't do anymore for him, so she allowed Lily to take him up to Gryffindor tower.
"So what exactly...did you put in...the potion?" James had problems talking from his sore throat that he's had since vomit day.
"I put what it said. Oh except I added fungibugs which were sadly alive to the potion. I forgot to read it when we were looking at it together." Lily made an "Oh" sound and quickly got out One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi and started to look up something.
"Lils...he said fungibugs...not fun..gi" James said faintly. Lily wanted to be snappy with him for treating her like she was stupid, but it was hard to be mean to a sick person and he looked to weak to fight with anyways.
"I know, but I read something about fungibugs while I was reading about the different fungi. Here it is. It says that the fungi, Gritino, is also a food source to microscopic fungibugs. These bugs help the fungi to grow and have been known to make bacteria and other plants to multiple rapidly. The fungibugs feed off the nectar and create their own little potion which is then transferred back to the Gritino or to a bacteria." James gave a grave look at Lily and then grabbed his stomach. Lily returned the look with a look of concern. "So you aren't allergic to any of the ingredients. It's the fungibugs that are causing you to still be sick."
"You put bugs in his potion! How is that suppose to help him?" Joanna said hitting Sirius over the head before sitting down by him.
"It said to add fungibugs(alive), so I went to the greenhouse and stole some...It seriously said it...I'll show you. Accio Pranks To Help You Survive School." The book floated down the stairs causing some Gryffindors to have to duck out of the way. When it got near Remus grabbed it and opened it up.
"Alright...Chapter 4: Is Detention Keeping You From Your Daily Pranks? If So Then These Spells And Potions Will Keep You Pranking Away?...alright...hmm found it!" Sirius, Joanna, and Petalis jumped up to look. Peter didn't want to get in the way and James was not in the mood to stand up again.
"See! It says it right there. Add 5 fungibugs to the potions before serving!" Remus gave Sirius an annoyed look.
"Did you even read what the instructions were above it? It says that if you want the symptoms to be even more believable and if you want the effects to last longer then add the fungibugs, but the bugs are to help the potion to spread through out the whole body and to cause the potion's effects to multiple. There could be possible side effects to this depending on what they ate!" Everyone gave a dark look at Sirius. Sirius ran towards the portrait hole followed by Remus, Petalis, and Joanna. Even Peter followed them so that he could watch them catch Sirius and get revenge on him. James leaned his head back on the couch and Lily tried to not laugh at the spectacle she saw.
"I have to say one thing. You guys sure make life interesting especially when life seems to be horrible. I mean look at you. You look like a ghost and seem as if a dementor has gotten you! Then to find out that your situation was caused by Sirius reading the instructions wrong and pulling a prank on you by doubling the potion! We want to be mad at him, but it's just too funny." She started to laugh out loud but noticed that James was giving a very pathetic look at her so she stopped. "You'll laugh later I promise."
"Is there...anything...in the book...to fix...th..is?"
"Hmm...it says they only live off of the Gritino and you don't have any in you...so I guess we'll have to wait till they die." James slouched down and closed his eyes.
"How long?" James said without opening his eyes.
"Well the bugs take about ten days to die than the symptoms should vanish in a week or two...oh no." Lily said realizing something she forgot.
"It's not that... bad Lily. I'll finish before... my Quidditch... match and the others... can bring us our homework...I might be able tooooo... go to the classes in a week and.... a half but please don't make me do that.." James groaned and noticed that Lily was about to cry. "Lily?"
"Today is April 10 and my mom's play is the 20th ...We can't go..." James sat up.
"Ohh...well the bugs will die... by.... then and I mighttttt.... have the strength by than... to"
"James you can't even talk besides move and these symptoms could get worse since the bugs' purpose is to multiple the bacteria in you which is your vomit illness. I wouldn't allow you to do that even if we could...she'll understand." Lily tried to smile, but she turned away to look at the fire.
"No we're going...you'll...see" James squeezed her hand that he was glued to and she wiped away the tears that she was trying to hide. She gave him a hug which was making him sick, but he wasn't going to tell her that though.
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Because of the fungibugs, James couldn't move off the couch. He would sometimes play wizard's chess with Remus or Sirius or read Quidditch For The Schoolage. Lily spent most of her time studying and catching up on homework. She realized that from her and James sicknesses that she's probably only been to her classes for a month out of the four months that they've been stuck together.
The marauders, Joanna, and Petalis tried to hang around them as much as they could but most of the time they were off at classes or off doing their usual activities. James told Sirius to keep the pranks up even though he wasn't there, so every once in a while a Gryffindor would come in complaining about their apple having a worm in it or a feather tickling them in charms class.
"Remember how they would bicker about everything and how they couldn't stand to be near each other...whatever happened to that?" Petalis said, leaning on the railing to the stairs watching Lily laughing at James who charmed her cat and Roger's, a chaser, toad to sing and dance.
"That was until someone clever came along and like the smart guy he is, decided to create nec...a spell that would cause James and Lily to grow closer...in many ways. Also, the very handsome and brilliant guy decided to double the potion and put fungibugs in the potion so that James would have to spend all his time with a certain girl named Lily for about two or three weeks. He's absolutely brillant!" Joanna pushed him causing him to fall down the rest of the stairs.
"Wow that must of hurt! I think it's from the size of your head. Next time try to not get such a large ego." She descended the stairs and stepped on him as she walked towards Lily and James.
"I think she likes me!" Sirius started to get a dorky smile on his face as he sat up. Remus and Petalis just gave looks at each other and then left to join the others. Peter just shrugged at him and walked by.
"Sorry to ruin this beautiful and very very cute moment, but you have to get on the train." Lily gave a worried look at James and slowly got up.
"Are you ok? We really don't have to go if you think you will not make it. I don't want you to throw up on my parents they would get the wrong impression of you. I want them to know you for your arrogant self not Mr. Vomit." James shoved Lily with his shoulder. Then his face went blank.
"You know that we look like we are holding hands and we look like a couple?"
"Ya...My parents! Oh no...they won't understand. I told them we were attached by a spell but this really looks bad! I'm not allowed to date till I'm thirteen! My dad is going to kill me... OH NO! Muggles! I can't tell them that I have a spell on me...We have no choice...we'll have to pretend to be a couple." Lily leaned her head on his shoulder not looking forward to tonight.
"Ahh great. There goes first impression...my reputation is ruined...in the wizard world and muggle world." Lily stuck her tongue at him and guided them out the portrait hole.
.. James and Lily unfortunately had to walk slowly down the halls since James still had an upset stomach. Severus was cleaning the floor for some reason and he started cursing under his breathe when he saw them walking.
"Funny...I told you to never grab my hand again to torment anyone and now there is no choice. Got to love irony." James gave an arrogant grin at Severus while they passed him.
As they passed the corridors that were close to the main hall, the people there started to whistle and make comments. "James is there anyway we can walk a lot faster because I really can't stand everyone watching us this way."
"Ahh but it's fun and I don't care what people think. You really need to not be so into your reputation." Lily tried to trip him but it just caused their legs to get tangled up and they both fell. "We've been like this for four months and yet you still forget that we are connected?"
"Do you want to throw up again?" Lily had her fist up like she was going to hit his stomach. James cringed and grabbed his stomach.
Hagrid lead them to a boat and got in another one so that he could make sure they safely got to the train. The lake looked so empty without the other boats on the water, but the train was even more vacant. The train seemed to extend forever and the silence was a little too irritating. They chose to sit in the prefects' compartment since there was no prefects on the train.
There was a bathroom, food counter, and more room to sit and walk in there. Lily wanted to look through the wizard books that were on the counter because she was fascinated by the moving pictures, but James wanted to sleep on the train so he would feel better and be able to stay awake for the play. Lily knew that if he didn't then he would be a pain tonight, so she gave up on the idea.
"So how are we going to do this? We could lay on the floor or try to lay on the seat"
"The floor since we've had to sleep on the couch for months!" Lily tried to look through one of the books, but decided it was pointless and the train was starting to make her drowsy.
'It is 5 at night and the play starts at 7, so the train ride is an hour long and that gives us an hour to get there. That should be fine yawn. I just hope that James won't throw up from the train riii...'
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"Well she said that they would be the only ones on the train...so they should be here somewhere...hmm wait I think they're in here. Lily didn't say she was dating the boy..." Lily's mom opened the compartment door to find Lily curled up next to James and they were holding hands.
"LILY EVANS!" Lily woke up fast and sat up causing James to be slung up from his slumber. "What are you doing!" Lily's father was glaring at James.
"Why are you yelling? We were trying to sleep." Lily started to rub her eyes because she got dizzy from sitting up too fast.
"Matt, calm down. They were just sleeping. Nothing happened. They are only eleven years old!" Lily's mom said to her husband who couldn't stop staring at James.
"I have to explain something to you two. The spell got a little worse...our hands are magically glued together and so is our arms pretty much. We wanted you to know that since I know you two would freak out about me having a boyfriend since I can't date , but no one else can know about the spell, so... pretend like we are a couple." Lily's mom started to laugh, but her dad still wasn't happy with it.
Her father attempted to pull them apart, but realized that it was true- they were stuck together. Lily's mom kept teasing her all the way to the theater. James was enjoying it except for the death looks from her father. He kept asking questions about how the car worked and why did the strange flashing lights make the cars stop and go. He stopped asking questions when her father gave him a threatening glare.
"Lily I don't think I got a good first impression."
Lily was staring out the window at nothing in particular. "Not the one I hoped for. At least they know it's a spell, but my mom's friends and possibly my friends if they come, will think we are together! Tonight is going to be a nightmare."
"For you? I've never been to the muggle world and now my first experience is going to be ruined by being stuck to you. I can't even flirt with muggles because I have to be a boyfriend to you!" Lily used their glued together hands to hit him on his side, but didn't stop looking out the window. James figured she was thinking of something, but didn't want to ask what. "Oh and your mom is cute! Can't wait to see her act...in shakespeare clothes too." Lily looked away from the window and hit him in his side hard with her free hand causing him to start coughing.
"Lily! You'll make him sick again" Lily's mom said looking back at them.
"Haha you got in trouble" Lily threaten to do it again and he quickly stopped laughing.
The theater was a very popular place to go and most people they knew went to the productions. As they got out of the car, Lily felt like she was a magnet to everyone going there. Her friends ran up to her and asked her why she never told them about her boyfriend and how did she convince her dad to let her date.
"So have you two kissed yet?" One of her friends that loved to gossip too much was enjoying finding out every detail about their "relationship". "Of course! I just love my little lillikins so much and her cutsey wutsey nose is so adorable" as he said that he used his free hand to touch her nose. "She didn't want me to date her at first, so I serenaded her at lunch once and we've been together ever since."Lily gave him a fake smile and gripped his hand hard that was magically connected to hers.
"It was so embarrassing that I knew he must be in love with me to embarrass himself in front of the whole school." Lily gave her fake smile at James who was wanting to say something, but decided that it would blow their cover.
"Ahhhh! That's so romantic! I want a boyfriend that would that!" Lily just shrugged.
"What can I say I got sooo lucky" Her friends walked off afterwards mumbling to each other about what they said.
"Lils! Now they think I'm a pathetic loser and you were being too sarcastic" James said sadly watching the girls walk away.
"Actually they're jealous. They totally believed it and like she said 'You are soooo romantic'" Lily laughed and continued to walk towards the theater.
The play begun and her friends kept looking back at her, some with sad expressions and others were giggling. James kept gawking at her mother even though her clothes were modest, he kept talking about how pretty she was.
"James, you are really disturbing."
"Maybe but you're the one that's supposably dating me." Lily stuck here tongue at him and then watched as her mother recited "Oh happy dagger...".
'I wish I had a happy dagger' thought Lily. She knew that she was going to hear about this all summer and that it was going to haunt her for the rest of her life.
When the curtain went down, Lily quickly ran to her mother so she could give her the roses her father bought her to give to her and a hug before she left. Lily's mom even gave James a hug and whispered something in his ear that made his arrogant smile reappear. Lily dragged James away from the theater and was trying to hurry since they had to be back before Filth and Mrs. Norris made their rounds. Dumbledore said they could go as long as they arrived back in time.
Lily and James were trying to walk fast to the car, but James' stomach still felt like he was going to throw up so they were forced to walk at a moderate speed. "Lily!!"
A boy came running up to her in a slow motion. He had the lightest blonde hair that Lily's ever seen besides Lucius' white hair. He had vivid bright blue eyes and had an angelic voice that she hadn't heard since last summer. "Logan?" "Whatever happened to you? You disappeared off the face of the world and your mom said you went to a boarding school, but you never told anyone that you were" Lily's greatest fear for this night unfortunately just came true and she realized that her feelings for him were worse than she remembered them to be.
"It was kind of a last minute thing. I didn't have time to tell anyone." Logan just realized that James was standing next to her and was holding her hand. Lily didn't know what to say. Here was the guy she had a crush on since they were little and he thought she was dating James. She couldn't tell him that he wasn't her boyfriend because it wouldn't make sense that they were holding hands and if she did tell him than she could possibly lose Logan forever.
"I'm James by the way. Lily's boyfriend. Who are you?" James just loved to annoy her and he had a feeling that this was the one person that she was really worried about. Logan face dropped and he looked between Lily and James.
"I'm...Logan. I grew up with Lily since we were little. Her father works with my mother. Well I better get back to my family...I just wanted to say hi. Are you coming back for the summer?" Lily nodded her head with hope that everything might be alright. "Maybe we can do something this summer...as a group" he said as he looked at James before running off.
Lily gave him a dark look and smacked him in the stomach forgetting that he was sick. James instantly threw up.
"James! Are you ok? I forgot about your vomit sickness thing... But you shouldn't have said that!"
"Said...what?" James said trying to recover. "I...just...said you...were...my girlfriend...that's...what you're suppose...to...be..." Lily just gave him a dirty look and grudgingly helped him to the car.
On the train, they picked the last compartment on the train this time...well Lily picked it this time. She knew that the last compartment would cause the ride to be bumpy and that the turns would make James sick. James persisted on not going there but he didn't have a choice since he was too weak to defend himself.
Lily was still mad at him...not because of what he said, just how he said it. It made it sound too real and he didn't want James to say anything. James was slouched down in one of the seats holding his stomach. His face was pale again and with each turn he grabbed his mouth. Lily just ignored him and kept pondering on how to fix her situation with Logan.
"Lily...do you like...Logan?" Lily turned on him and gave him a dark look.
"Of course!" said Lily making it seem as if James should of known this. "I always thought him and me would go out when I was thirteen until you decided to announce to him that we are supposably going out! Now he'll think that I don't like him..." Lily's eyes started to tear up. "Geez..didn't know you... liked him that... much. I thinkkkk.... he would of figured... that we were "dating"... Since we... are really close... together and he saw... our hands locked. There was nothing....oh no another turn...to do." James grabbed his mouth.
"I don't want to talk about it anymore." Lily turned to watch the cows and the peaceful pastures vanish before her eyes as they got closer to Hogwarts.
When they reached the lake in front of Hogwarts. Lily hurried them to the boats since she knew that they were becoming short on time. She didn't realize that her mom's play ran over the estimated ending time. Now they had a few minutes to make it to their tower.
As the boat reached the shore. Lily jumped out and practically dragged James up the stairs to the school and down the corridors. Lily thought they would make it in time as she say the Fat Lady sitting in her portrait staring into her mirror when suddenly Lily ran into something furry.
Lily looked down to see Mrs. Norris staring up at her and an unwanted voice could be heard from the top of the stairs.
"Miss Evans and Mister Potter up late? Thought you would get away with it eh? Sorry your luck has run short" He gave a smirk at them.
"My luck is always short" whispered Lily to herself.
"What's that Evans?" Filth said peering at Lily.
"Dumbledore said I could be out as long as I made it back to my tower before your rounds begun. You just started your rounds right? So I made it back in time." Lily started to walk towards the Fat Lady, but Filth stepped in front of her.
"I started five minutes ago. You didn't make it, so I guess another detention will help you learn to get back to your tower in time" raised his eyebrows and lead them down to Professor McGonagell's office. She was asleep too which wasn't a nice beginning to their meeting.
"Miss Evans you know that you were suppose to watch the time, so you have no excuse. Your punishment and Potter's will be to stay in your dormitories when you aren't in classes, so then you will never be late again." Lily nodded and helped James up and turned to leave when she spoke again. "You really shouldn't be taking Potter anywhere when he is in that state. Honestly, Lily you should know better." Lily just sighed and told her goodnight and left.
She couldn't believe that she got blamed for everything in there and she didn't dare disagree or her punishment would be worse. James begun to laugh when they got outside of her office.
"Shut up James or I will put more fungibugs in your drink at breakfast tomorrow" James immediately stopped which made Lily smile. For James to think he's tough, he sure can't handle being sick.
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Their punishment was hardly a punishment since James wasn't in any condition to leave the tower even if he wanted to. A week went by and he could speak clearly again. He could even walk by himself, but his stomach still hurt at times and once in a while he would have the urge to throw up.
Lily still thought about Logan but didn't want to talk to anyone about it since it was too painful and complicated to talk about. James didn't bring it back up either, probably because he realized how he would feel if the girl from the Christmas Ball saw them holding hands. He decided that he would be feeling the same way as her.
As the final game of Quidditch drew near, James became more and more irritable. For one thing he was afraid of flying fast on his broom with his vomit problem and he knew that he couldn't fly if Lily was still attached to him. They could only stand side by side and he needn't lily to be behind him on the broom. He thought that Lily could be on her own broom, but that wouldn't work very well with other players flying around them and the bludgers that Lily seemed to have a magnetic effect on.
Lily also started to get nervous and frustrated because finals were coming up and she couldn't write with her left hand which was her free hand. She had a quill that could write for her, but they aren't allowed to use it on the test because they have to use an anti-cheating quill.
As time passed, they begun to bicker about little things like staying up late or going to bed early, each wanting to do different things in different locations, Lily getting mad at James for not doing his homework till the morning it was due and James would get mad at Lily for talking to Severus.
Finally the night before the Quidditch match and finals came. James was yelling at everyone and Lily was trying to study as much as she could thinking that she might be able to do verbal finals instead of the written ones and physical ones. Lily and James had this force field around them and if anyone came into it then they would be the next person to get yelled at. Most of the people in the commons went to bed early just to get away from them. Others were daring and went to bed later on. Eventually, Lily and James were the only ones alone in the commons, so they started to think each other were irritating them.
"James quit whistling. I can't concentrate." James started to whistle louder just to drive her nuts. "James I'm going to fail if you don't stop whistling!"
"Well you shouldn't have criticized me than and this spell wouldn't have locked our hands!" James said hatefully wanting to get all of his frustration out.
"It's a two way street! We both have to throw insults to cause the spell to make us get closer, so blame yourself!" Lily said wanting to lash out on him, but not wanting to stop studying.
"No smarty pants! You always think you are soooo smart because you are a muggle that suddenly became a witch. But you're not that smart are you, if you have to study to get good grades when I get the same grades as you and don't study. How about that?"
Lily slammed her book shut. "You are such a hippogriff! You don't want people to get close to you unless you want them too and when they do you freak out and try to get them to go away. I've tried to ignore every selfish thing you've said or did, thinking that it would only make it worse if I said anything. I thought that it wasn't worth getting in a fight with you about it, but since you are wanting a fight I'll give you one! I'm sick of you always worrying about yourself. When I was injured from your stupid Quidditch game, you only worried about your boredom. You wanted to get out of detention just so you could get to your practice, but never thought about how you caused me to miss detention too! Now you are getting mad at me because you might not be able to be in your Quidditch game! You never thought about how I might fail the finals because I can't write left handed!" Lily started to getting really upset and it was the first time this year that she's yelled at someone. She normally doesn't yell at anyone but her sister.
"At least I'm not a know it all that thinks that she is superior to everyone else. Remus is smart but he's not showing off in class! You're such a drama queen too. You scream loud at scary movies, causing the rest of the Gryffindor tower to stay awake. You are such a cry baby too. You cried when you couldn't go see your mother's play when she has many more plays ahead of her. You cry when I threw up on you and you had problems getting me to the hospital wing. Then you cried when you thought you lost your potential boyfriend which you can't even date because you're not old enough and he's a muggle! What are you going to do during the school year? Send him an owl? I THINK NOT! So you shouldn't even try! Another thing you're a hypocrite! You're too nice!! You tutored Severus when you didn't want to and you'd probably go out with him if he asked just because you are too nice to say no! YOU ARE SO ANNOYING! You are yelling at me for starting this fight because I'm nervous about tomorrow's final game, but you are the one who just unleashed all of your feelings from this year just because you are freaked about tomorrow's stupid exams which they will probably let you take later because everyone loves teacher's pet lily!!"
Lily was trying to hold back her tears, so James wouldn't be right but he just seemed so hateful that she finally let the tears fall. After he finished it felt like a magnet pushed them towards each other and Lily felt her necklace move from under her robes to stretch out to James. James' necklace did the same thing, but attached to Lily's like a magnet.
"YOU HAVE THE SAME NECKLACE!" Lily and James both yelled. They tried pulling the necklaces apart but it didn't work.
"So the necklaces is what was causing us to be magnetized together all of this time...but Sirius said that he was responsible for this..." Lily said thinking about it but not wanting to be a smarty pants as James said so she stopped talking.
"I should of known! Sirius gave me the necklace for a Christmas present and I just thought it was a symbol for how the marauders would always pick on you, Petalis, and Joanna."
"That's right! He gave mine to me also on Christmas, but I thought it was just a gift...nothing more! I didn't know you guys that well than...but I should of figured it was for something..."
"I remember there was writing on mine...ya that's what made me think that it was just a symbol...what was it!...Oh ya! Hateful act...they will stay."
"Mine did too! Except it said...With every...the longer..."
"Maybe the words go together and when we figure it out, we will break the spell...With hateful act every they will stay, the longer..."
"I don't think they are scrambled James" She gave him an annoyed look which he gave her a dark look back. "Hateful act with every...no that's not it! With every hateful act...they will stay the longer..."
"No wait you switched the last pair. With every hateful act, the longer they will stay!" James and Lily pulled the necklace but it didn't work. "AHHHH! The sentence doesn't help at all...it didn't break the spell and it doesn't help us figure out how to!"
"Wait! Madam Pomfrey mentioned something about doing the opposite to what we are doing...which was insulting each other...so we just have to be nice to each other and it will break the spell!" Lily's face started to lighten up.
"Ok...I'm sorry for yelling at you...I just was so frustrated about this situation and not being able to do anything about it."
"Ya, I'm sorry too about releasing my frustration on you. You can be ok sometimes when you're not being self centered."
"Ya you're also fun to be around. I never talked to anyone the way I talked to you...you were the only one to know that I don't like to get close to people...I was pretty impressed that you knew me that well."
"I could of had a horrible four or five months, but it wasn't that bad. It's nice that you're not serious all the time especially in the time when I need to have someone to cheer me up." Lily and James looked down at the necklaces and noticed they hadn't moved at all. Lily started to tug on her necklace but it did no good.
They just realized that they were only merely six inches from each other's face. "People can't see us like this! This is going to be so embarrassing!" Lily leaned her head against the back of the couch. "I've ran out of ideas and I'm tired and I just want to be alone."
James watched as he saw her trying to hold back her tears, but he knew that they both were at their wits end. "It'll be alright. We can't go home like this, so Sirius has to tell us eventually." Lily started to smile at the thought of James' parents and her parents having a tug a war with them. James reached up and dried away her tears. "It'll be alright."
Lily hugged him just wanting some comfort to help her deal with what laid ahead for them tomorrow. James hugged her back because he liked to feel that he wasn't alone in this. At least he wasn't regretting tomorrow alone.
Lily let go and went to say "Thank you", but James stopped her by instantly pressing his lips against hers. It happened so fast that Lily was caught off guard and fell back onto the couch. Which caused James to fall on top of her. She pushed James off of her which caused him to fall to the floor...but this time Lily didn't follow.
"Why did you kiss me?" Lily said peering over the couch at him. James laid there in shock.
"I don't know...It happened so fast...I just did it on impulse."
"So...you didn't mean to...you just did it?" Lily said giving James a questionable look. James had a lost face on.
"I really don't know why I did it... Lils I'm serious. I wish I did, but I don't." James got up off the floor and then it hit him. Lily wasn't holding his hand and she wasn't connected to his arm. He looked down at Lily's shocked face and he saw that she figured it out too.
"We're not connected anymore...WE'RE NOT CONNECTED ANYMORE!" Lily jumped off the couch and started to dance and spin her arms around. James laughed at how silly she looked. Lily ran up and grabbed his hands and started to jump causing him to jump with her. "We did it! You can play Quidditch now and I can pass my fails! Freedom!"
They stopped jumping and Lily realized that she was holding his hands and let go. James started to ruffle his hair in the back and looked at Lily with an awkward look. Lily stared at her feet. "Well...I guess we can return to our rooms now and sleep in beds for once in five months." James said looking at the stairs to the room. Lily looked at them too.
"That's going to be nice...so I guess I'll see you later. Bye James." Lily hurried up to her room while James collapsed on the couch.
"Why did I kiss her?" He covered his face with his hands then slowly went up the stairs. High pitched screams from the girls' room announced that the girls had found out that Lily made it to her room...alone. Hollering and shouts came from the marauders' room which also showed that the marauders were glad to have James back...only James. That night they explained what happened except for one key thing...the kiss.
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Lily left the commons early to go to the library to study and she felt vulnerable for some reason. Like she was all alone and lost her sense of security. James had kept Severus and Lucius away from her, but why does she feel afraid.
James left his room late and was a little disappointed to find that Lily was nowhere to be seen. He felt depressed for some reason and even more nervous about the match then he was when Lily was with him.
Lily was always the first one to get to her classes. She didn't even walk with Petalis and Joanna who were walking with Remus, Sirius, and Peter. She saw that James wasn't with them and didn't see him till right before the bell rung. He walked alone which was odd for him to do. This seemed to happen in every class. Lily got through her finals without regrets and was pleased to find out that they were over.
Lily skipped Breakfast, while James ate it sparingly with the others. Lunch was uncomfortable since they both didn't want to tell their friends that they didn't want to sit next to each other, so they sat quietly at the table and barely talked to the others.
James didn't eat supper because he wanted to catch up on his flying and practice with the Quaffle. When the match was about to begin, Sirius, Petalis, Remus, and Peter came down to wish James and Joanna good luck. James looked up at the school.
"She said she wanted to get in more studying for her astronomy final tomorrow...you know how she is" Petalis said knowing what he was thinking.
"Ya...I know her...but it makes no difference to me " James turned and walked into the locker room.
James had a hard time that night concentrating on Quidditch. He wished he could of had more practice in since his muscles weren't used to it and he hadn't flown in over a month and felt out of practice with it. Gryffindor won 50 points, but Slytherin won 180 points. A bludger knocked Joanna out and Madam Pomfrey couldn't get her to wake up in time to save Gryffindor. Strangely, James really didn't care that they didn't win.
The house cup went to Slytherin also for Severus gaining a lot of points for volunteer work and from Professor Felagin, dark arts teacher, rewarding most of the slytherins for setting a "good" example in class, but it was actually because he was the head of Slytherin.
The last day was sad for everyone. Sirius hated his home and didn't want to see his mother this summer. Peter hated his parents also and didn't want to leave James. James got a letter from her mother saying that his father was picking him up and he hated his father. His father was always away on trips which caused the house to be a little peaceful, but when his dad was home it was horrible. Remus felt safe at Hogwarts and when he went home he always was afraid. Not of his parents, but of himself.
Petalis didn't mind going home since her oldest sister was coming home for the summer. Joanna couldn't wait to see her parents, but knew that she would have to give up Quidditch for the summer and pick up dresses instead. Lily couldn't decide how she felt. She didn't want to leave Hogwarts. Maybe because she was afraid that she wouldn't come back to her Hogwarts which felt like her greatest fantasy that she didn't want to lose. She would miss doing magic and seeing the marauders pull pranks on everyone and just having adventures with her friends. Everything was a surprise and at home nothing would be a surprise...life was too ordinary.
Wow! I haven't written in...7 months I think!!! School has been sooooo overwhelming especially with finals and then my internet wasn't working! I missed fanfiction.net so much! This chapter was really loooooooong but I just wasn't liking how the story was processing so I had to change the mood a bit...I have planned out the next six years but it's still a little bumpy so if you guys have any ideas then I will be sooooo glad to see them! I'm a little lost on the next year especially and if you realize a blooper then please tell me. I reread books 1-3 and I realized that this story is a lot different then what it is in the harry potter books...but oh well! It's hard to know everything about them. I love REVIEWS!!! My email site loves to munch on reviews and it's starving at the moment so please feed it!!! hehe Oh and last thing, the next chapter might take away since I'm starting summer school tomorrow and am trying to write a book. And don't forget feed my email address with your beautiful REVIEWS!!! Follow me this way:
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Chapter Four: April Showers Brings May Flowers
"April Showers brings May flowers...Prongs does that mean that I just have to work through next month and then I'm free of you" Lily and James were sitting in the window seat of Lily's room. Joanna and Sirius were at detention for Sirius letting a lieden(a bird that has psychic abilities) fly out the window with Joanna holding onto it's tail. Mr. Felagin had to levitate them both back in. Peter and Remus were off studying and Petalis was like normal with her guy.
"No chance Lils. Even if we get out of this predicament I'll still pester you...wait you called me prongs! Where did that come from?" James gave a questionable look at Lily who was smiling out the window.
"Oh....just a little birdy told me" Lily said not looking from the window.
"No seriously tell me where you heard that. This is very important" James leaned towards Lily making her turn her head.
"Geez, didn't know that name meant something...now I'm curious" James gave her a frustrated look, "Alright, I was laying down for the night as usual and you were talking with the guys....I think you thought I was asleep so you guys started to use these weird names...what do they mean anyways?" James relaxed a little and leaned back.
"Oh they're nothing...just names we've used since we were little kids"
"How long have you guys known each other?" Lily knew there was more to the names then he was letting on but she didn't want to push it.
"Well...Sirius I've known since we were four when I meet him at this magical park in our community...Remus I meet when we went to magical development school and we were....seven and Peter...oh we meet him when some kids were ganging up on him...that would be the same year..." James seemed to be thinking about something until he just shook the thought away.
"Magical development school? Isn't Hogwarts like that?"
"No its more like how to deal with hiding your abilities and so the magical community can watch to make sure you're on track. It also teaches how to write, read, and pretty much like muggle schools I suppose. It's usually pure magic kids that go there though..." James looked down when he said the last line and Lily turned her head toward the window. She couldn't understand how this world could be so judgmental to those who don't have a family history in magic. "At least you can come to this one right, but then again if Malfoy gets his way then there won't be such a thing."
"I just don't understand how people can hate those that don't have it genetically...when I got the letter I couldn't believe it was true...it was like a dream had came true or that I was part of a story...and I felt as if I was always a part of this world...but now I feel rejected from the world because I'm normal..." Lily looked like she was about to cry. James had never been in a really serious moment with her before and he didn't like it.
"Hey isn't that your owl?" Lily opened the window and a light blonde owl came in.
"What's it's name anyways...hey name it jamie!" James said trying to cheer her up. He started to get excited and was holding Lily's owl. Lily smiled at his sudden change of mood and was thankful that they were out of that serious moment...it was a moment that she wasn't used to with him.
"I haven't came up with one actually because I've been so busy being connected to you, but I am not naming my owl after my mother!" James gave a shocked face at Lily.
'Your mom's name is Jamie? That's so cool! James Jamie James Jamie hehe." James was moving the owl's wings with the beat of each word. The owl just hooted along with him. Lily shook her head.
"And they wonder about me...hey I'll name her Maya, after that lady in history who swayed everyone with her gleaming blonde hair and her purified blue eyes who can't see what is not true or not hear what is not known" Lily was brought out of her thoughts by the movement of James sticking his finger in his mouth and pretending to gag and then started to make Maya do the same. "Stop making that gesture! You'll teach Maya bad manners!"
"This is an important tutorial for her. She needs to know what to do when you go off talking about these most amazing beings that just woes the world, it's so boringgggggggg! Maya does look hot! But besides that my brain shuts off."
"I still do not understand how you keep up with me in class. Guys only think about the looks never the important things."
"Looks are important! It's the first thing a person sees."
"Typical boy..."
"Like you don't see a person's looks before everything else!"
"Actually I see a person's personality displayed in their looks..."
"HA! See you do see looks first!"
"And in the way they carry themselves. Quite different from what you see."
"Well right now I see a hypocrite who judges by looks!"
"I don't JUDGE BY LOOKS!"
"Ya right! 'Wow! Yalen is sooooo cute and he's captain of the quidditch team which is sooooo awesome! Smoochy smoochy smoochy'"
"I'm not that bad! I mean you have to admit he's totally hot but I don't make those disgusting smoochy faces!"
"Sure...I saw you kiss his picture before and you made exactly that same smoochy face. But hey, James if you were a girl you would too. I mean he is totally HOT!" Both of them turned their heads at the person speaking in the doorway.
"Petalis! Don't agree with her! I was winning this debate." James got shoved off the window seat companied by Lily.
"I was winning this debate, because I actually had accurate reasons unlike you. Mr. I Only Care About Looks And Then My Mind Shuts Off."
"Haha! Typical guy!" Petalis said rolling her eyes.
"That's what I said!"
"AHHHHHHH! I hate these giddy girl talks and I would get up and leave if I COULD!" James folds his arms and leans against the wall with a pouty face on.
"Ah lil Jamies looks so cute with his lil coochy woochy face on" Lily started to pinch his cheeks while Petalis made baby faces at him.
"Hey! Which you guys doing?" Joanna had just came in from detention with a red face on...most likely from yelling at Sirius.
"Oh just playing with lil Jameses. Isn't he sooo cute with that face on. Aren't you my lil cutesy wutesy friend!"
"Hehe I want to join!" Lily was fixing up his hair, Petalis was trying to put makeup on him, while Joanna held him down.
Sirius came walking down the hall to the girls' room. "Dootie do...hmmm.hmm...Joanna!!! Where's my lovely Joanna!!!" At the sound of Sirius' voice, James tried to yell out for him, but Petalis held his jaws shut and continued to put lipstick on him.
Joanna had the opposite reaction to Sirius' voice. Her eyes suddenly got very big and was staring blankly at Petalis till she sighed. "Oh nooo...not him again! I just spent two hours of detention with him. He's beginning to get on my nerves."
"There you are! What are you three girls doing? AHHHHH!" Sirius caught sight of the beautiful new James- anonymous pigtails everywhere that magically twirled in circles, his glasses were off to show his neon glowing purple eyeshadow, his blush that switched colors every few seconds, his lips that were bright red and blue, and for the final effect Petalis and Lily put their signatures on his forehead which moved slowly to the right before disappearing and reappearing on the left side of his forehead.
The girls started to laugh at the expression Sirius had on and forgot to hold James down. This allowed James to pop out between Petalis and Joanna who were blocking him. "HELP ME! They are torturing me and I can't leave!"
Sirius walks over to his friend and pulls him away without any problems since the girls were rolling on the floor laughing except Lily who was force to stand up laughing. "Never leave me alone with them again! The things....the things they did...said....it was horrible!"
Sirius was trying to not laugh at James' appearance."Alright buddy it's ok now...here's your glasses..., the big bad girls... won't hurt you now except for lils here. Don't give me that look...she's kind of attached." The girl's laughter got louder.
"You promise to not leave me alone with them again?" Sirius pointed his wand at James' hair and said "immobililus" so that the pigtails would stop twirling.
"I promise! Well...Lils I can't. She's with you all the time, even when I'm not..."
"Thanks to you! Now my life will always be full of nightmares!" Lily suddenly stopped smiling and hit him.
"Alright kids, I'm going to get Jamsie here cleaned up before he becomes completely humiliated."
James had to have help getting all the hair things and makeup off before he could go into the commons. They made an agreement that she wouldn't call him cooshy wooshy or cutesy wutesy and never corner him again, but Lily also was never going to have to sit through any guy talks or have to stay up because he wanted to.
The next morning, Lily and James went up to her room so she could get her school things and noticed that Maya was still in there. She flew at Lily's head causing them to duck. She dropped a piece of parchment at her feet.
"Oh ya! I totally forgot about why Maya came to visit...I wonder who it's from...It says:
Lily,
I want you to come see the play I'm in, Romeo and Juliet, and I made Juliet! Your father of course isn't thrilled about it but you'd think he'd get used to me acting in romances. I hope you're not too busy with your studying to come down and see it. It's on April 20th . Bring a friend if you want. Love you bunches! Hugs and Kisses, Mom"
"Your mom's an actress! You never told me!" James' jaw was dropped open and seemed in a daze.
"Well she's a dance teacher but she likes to act too...and I didn't think it mattered...stop giving me that look...it's creepy" Lily tried to scoot away from him till she realized that couldn't be arranged.
"A dancer! Cool... Is she hot?" A dorky look started to develop with a slight grin.
"Oh my gosh. Here we go again. I thought you don't judge by looks." Lily raised her eyebrow at him which caused James to start ruffling his hair up in the back.
"I don't...but I still want to know..." He gave a guilty look and started to turn his face to the floor.
"Haha. You're so much fun."
"Well thank you, but is she?" Lily started to move out of the room with her school books.
"She's my mom...ewwww! I'm not even going to attempt to answer that." She started to quicken her pace but James was making it hard since he was dragging his feet next to her.
"Pleaseeeeeeeeee"
"No"
"Pleeasseeeeee"
"No!"
"Please Pleaseee"
"NO JAMESSSSS"
"YES LILYYY"
"NO I WON'T"
"YES YOU WILL"
"Excuse me, Mr. Potter and Miss Evans. There will be no yelling in the corridor. Get to your classes immediately." Mrs. McGonagell said while walking towards Mr. Dumbledore's office.
"Geeez...I think I've gotten on her bad list...everyone's suppose to love me...it's all your fault!" James pushes her.
"Sure blame it on me. I'm the perfect angel...who was on her good list until I met Mr. Detention over here." Lily pushes him back.
"I'm making you a webel."
"Rebel you mean."
"Noooo, webel!"
"Ahhh you're so annoying."
"Hey wait...you never told me about your mother's hotness!"
"Nor will I ever" Lily and James rounded the corner to their history class.
"Ah pleaseee...I'll love you forever!" James said that at the wrong moment and a bit too loud because everyone in the class was staring at them. The other marauders, Petalis, and Joanna were cracking up in front of them.
"And they say they're not together..." said a girl to her friend in the front of the classroom.
"He must of asked her out and she refused..."
"This we've got to tell everyone..."
"IT'S A CURSE PEOPLE! I'M TRYING TO GET LILY TO TELL ME HOW HOT HER MOM IS ALRIGHT!" Lily fell in her chair and dropped her head on the desk. James fell in the chair next to her, realizing what he just said. The class started to bust up laughing. Mr. Binns woke up after hearing this.
"Mr. Potter! What's this yelling about? Miss Evans has already been sent to detention for her outburst which you had to accompany her...don't have me send you again."
"I was forced to go! I didn't have a choice!"
"Everyone has a choice James. I would choose wisely." Lily lifted her head and started tugging on James' arm trying to get him to shut up.
"Sometimes people don't have a CHOICE!" James had enough of dealing with lectures that were caused by Lily and him being stuck together and hated everyone gossiping about them. He immediately stood up ready to let out his three month frustration, but Lily intercepted just in time and covered his mouth.
"Sorry about that...James can get a little carried away...He will calmly sit down and not say another word...right? You will sit right?" Lily started to nod her head at James trying to make him nod with her. She slowly lifted her hand from his mouth.
"I HATE thiszygh" Lily immediately put her hand back on his mouth.
"You better not get me another detention and plus you will miss practice tonight which is the last one before the final match this year. As much as I hate practices, I don't want to deal with you complaining about missing it for the whole night." Lily whispered to him. James nodded his head and he slowly sat down.
"Alright...Now back to the witch guidance during the magical revolution. Amma was the first witch to give her guidance to other witches in her community..."
James scooted down in the chair and started his daily nap and Lily reluctantly scooted down with him. She hated sitting with bad posture, but she didn't want him to get her another detention...which would be the conclusion of their potential fight over it.
James' head sprung up. He grabbed a parchment and started scribbling something on it, then pointed his wand at it. He slipped it towards Lily. Lily gave him a dirty look and looked down.
Thought I'd forget? So are we going to her play? Please Please! You have to go because your mother would be so sad which means I get to come! Hehe How old is your mom?
Lily looked up at the teacher before she wrote down her response. She was trying to write "James give it up. My mom is my mom, so just stop it now before you get hurt", but the only thing showing up on the parchment was "Yes you can gladly come, because you're the greatest guy a girl can have attached to them 24/7 and my mom is very hot and she's really young too."
Lily tried to tear it up but it wouldn't work so she threw it at me. James threw it back at her but she ducked and the parchment ball hit Kyle, Petalis' boyfriend, instead. He thought the parchment was from Petalis. He blushed after reading it and threw a parchment to her. James and Lily started laughing, but Mr. Binns wasn't.
"James I told you that there would be no more disruptions, so you decide to start a parchment ball fight? That was your last chance, so you will now have fun with parchments in detention when you have to write 10 parchments about what my lesson is about. See me tonight at 5."
Lily smacked him with her history book and marched off after the class was over without speaking to him. This was her fourth time getting detention with him, but at least this time it was only one night of it instead of three. Lily didn't talk to him all day long. She even became Petalis' partner in potions class so James had to partner with Remus.
Five o' clock finally came and they still hadn't talked, but James was becoming uneasy. The captain of his team said that practice was at 6 and 10 pages of Mr. Binns lesson would take more than an hour to do. Some how he had to get out of detention and talk Lily into going.
Nothing came to mind until he saw Sirius in the common room. James gave him Pranks To Help You Survive School as a Christmas present, but forgot about it till Sirius brought it down to him.
Lily was talking to Petalis about how cute Yalen is at practice when he is warming up and she can see his muscles since the team only wears shirts and pants usually during practice. Joanna was just rolling her eyes at them since she really did see what was so special about him.
James noticed that Lily's automatic finder was in her book bag, so he quickly took it out before Lily could notice. James attached the square object to his wand as he saw Lily do when she studied and whispered, "How to get out of detention" to it. Then he flicked his wand at the book causing the book to open up and the pages to flip very fast till it reached the chapter that said, Is Detention Keeping You From Your Daily Pranks? If So Then These Spells And Potions Will Keep You Free To Prank Away!
"Let's see...Lose of breath? Causes the person to turn blue and have problems breathing...lasts for ten minutes" Sirius whispered to James.
"Let's not. That won't last long enough and Lily would get too emotional over it." Sirius gave a weird look at him.
"Hey you know that she would give me hell if I did that, so don't give me that look." Sirius just smirked at him and kept reading. "Kicks the wind out...causes a person to first turn pale then the vision to get blurry and then pass out for twenty minutes to an hour..." James looked at Sirius to see what he thought.
"Don't think it would work since the effects don't go away fast...you need your vision and strength up there mate."
"Ok...oh here's one. Catastrophic Vomit...the person will get a stomach ache then periodic vomiting will occur for thirty minutes." Sirius raised his eyebrows at it and looked to see what James thought.
"I think that might work. I have thirty minutes for the vomit to stop and my stomach to calm down. Let's just hope that I don't get broom sick from it..." Sirius and James looked over the instructions.
"Ok. We need ten vomit flavored beans...a glass of spoiled milk...a rotten fish...liver...and jalapenos. Sounds tasty to me. I can go down to the kitchen and get most of the materials...someone must have Bertie's Every Flavor Beans." Sirius jumped up and walked towards the portrait hole.
Petalis had to leave to talk to her boyfriend about something, but Lily noticed that she didn't have her usual excited look on. Remus noticed this too, but just looked back at his Potions book.
Lily turned to James then quickly looked down at her book and started memorizing the instructions to transfiguring a pencil into a spoon. James couldn't stand her ignoring him when he was attached to her. If she was just ignoring him in other circumstances then it would be alright because he could just avoid her, but he couldn't avoid her now.
"Lily, you can't ignore me forever. I know it's killing you to ignore this handsome person that's attached to you." He flashed his arrogant smile at her. Lily just looked up at him and rolled her eyes and continued to murmur transilo penlasus.
"Lily I didn't mean to get us stuck in detention again. I just got a little carried away from the situation we're in. I get tired of everyone gossiping about me and not listening to what I have to say. You've got to be tired of it too." James said trying to get her to look up.
"Yes, that does get tiring, but it's mostly you that tires me James. You worry too much about what people think and about making yourself look good. That's what bothers me. You got mad at the people in our class for gossiping badly about you and you hated that. You can't stop gossip, it just happens. You also hate the teachers making you look bad. Your reputation is what you're worried about most and that's what annoys me." James just looked stunned. Lily said it so calmly and accurately that it surprised him. He knew that she probably knew him better than anyone this year since she was there 24/7, but she knew him too well and it begun to creep him out.
After her speech she looked back down at her book and started to memorize another spell while James thought about what she said and how he wish he could get away from her. He didn't like that she knew him that well. Sirius knew him pretty well, but he still wouldn't allow Sirius to get that close to him. He didn't talk to Lily again till she told him detention was ten minutes away.
As they walked down the hall, James tried to avoid her eyes and Lily didn't understand why he was so out of it all of a sudden. "Hey mate, taking a walk with your one and only...at night." Sirius was walking towards them and James came out of his daze.
"Shut it Sirius." Sirius raised his eyebrows at Lily and then grinned. When he reached James he whispered something in his ear and slipped the potion into his hand, so Lily wouldn't see it.
"Sirius sure needs to get a girlfriend if he is so interested in what we're doing. I don't know why he picks on us, since we bicker constantly. We don't even look like a cute couple and I really don't think I could stand being your girlfriend to be honest."
"What's so wrong about dating me?" James said not liking the way she was talking about him.
"Many things. You're too into yourself to have someone else to care about. Plus, you're too interested in flirting with other girls and can't concentrate on only one." Lily rolled her eyes and went to walk into the class but James wasn't moving.
"Oh and you're such a prize? You are too focused on your studies to want to show other people attention. You are a coward about everything, screaming at a scary movie and getting all afraid about a dog! You act like a know it all and are bossy when it comes to doing things in classes." Suddenly Lily and James were pulled closer together.
"James let go of my arm! I'm standing right here and I can't go anywhere, so why do you have a hold of my arm!" Lily tried pulling away but it felt like they were glued together.
"I can't Miss Let's Blame Everyone Because I'm A Perfect Angel!" Lily gave a sad look at James.
"You're such a jerk. No wonder you don't have a girlfriend. I don't want to be around you anymore!" Their hands magically locked so that it looked like they were holding hands. James and Lily gave shocked and frustrated looks at each other. They tried to pull their hands apart but it felt like they were glued too. Then they resorted to pushing each other away till Mr. Binns caught them and told them to stop flirting and come in.
Mr. Binns floated over to them and gave them ten long parchments and two quills that wouldn't allow them to write in large letters. "James I can't write with my left hand!"
"So it's not my problem princess" James said hatefully sliding down into his chair. Mr. Binns started to begin his lecture and Lily quickly scribbled down his notes. James just kept watching the time and once in a while scribbled something down. He kept grabbing his stomach and rubbing his head to make it seem that he wasn't feeling well. It must have been working since Lily kept looking at him questioningly.
After ten minutes, James decided that he could take the potion and make it seem like he really was getting sick. He started to cough which made Lily give him a dark look. James then turned his head to the right, which was in the opposite direction of Lily, and coughed again. He then quickly took the potion and rubbed his head again. "James don't make him mad again. If you get us another detention than I will tell everyone about your weird names and I mean it too." She stopped her lecturing when he started to cough again. "Why do you keep coughing?"
James just shrugged and looked at his parchment. He continued to write until he felt the blood run out of his face. He felt a little dizzy and his stomach started to ache. 'Yes it's working! Alright I still have forty minutes till practice. Make me throw-up already!'
James started to get a headache then his mouth got dry. He really started to not feel to well. He laid his head on the table facing Lily and he felt so weak that he couldn't move. He was concentrating so much on how he felt that he didn't hear Lily talking to him. All of a sudden, James' head shot up and he threw up all over Lily. "AHHH! Ewwwwwwwwww! James why didn't you say you werenn'tt...ewww it went in my mouth!" Lily was drenched with vomit. James would of laughed if he was feeling better, but he felt miserable.
"Mr. Potter are you alright? Lily take him to the hospital wing. We will have to finish this lesson later." Lily nodded and grudgingly helped James up. She was trying to not whimper or cry, so that James wouldn't feel bad for throwing up on her. James could barely walk and he leaned almost entirely on Lily because he felt too weak to walk. It made it really hard to walk down the corridors though and occasionally he would fall to the floor. Every ten feet, he would throw up which usually landed on her robes or his robes.
The students started to ran away from the two as they walked down the corridors to the hospital wing. Thankfully they were too disgusted to realize that they were holding hands. At least Mrs. Norris kept away from them for once since the aroma of vomit floated through half of the school.
"Ahhh...is that you Lily? What happened to you?"Lily face dropped as she went into a horrible daze as her crush came running towards her in slow motion. Yalen had his broom with him already, probably to get more practice in since tonight was one of the only nights that he would have open because of N.E.W.T.'s coming up.
"Umm... well....James threw up on me during detention" Lily was trying to not stare at him and was trying hard to not stutter or say something stupid. Yalen looked James who was leaning fully on Lily.
"Wow! That don't even look like him...why didn't you levitate him?" Yalen jumped aside as another round of vomit came out of James. "Where is it coming from!!! Man he's drenched the whole corridor"
"Tell me about it. I can't levitate him because I would cause myself to be levitated too" Lily collapsed to the floor from James' weight on her being too much. Yalen begun to laugh at the scene before him and down the corridors. "Don't laugh! This is horrible. I feel like crying!" Lily begun to cry.
"No fear! I just didn't know you two were dating. It's cute. But I'll help you get him to the hospital wing. I just hope he can get over this before practice in...twenty minutes! Ahhh Bloody Hell! Well as long as he gets better before practice than that's all that matters, but this is horrible!" Yalen helped the two up and speed walked them to the wing. Lily didn't have time to object to his statement while she was being dragged along with James down the hall as fast as Yalen could walk.
Mrs. Pomfrey almost had a heart attack when Yalen opened the door and almost hit her when she was walking by. "What happened?"
"James and I were in detention and he started to feel ill and then he started throwing up and he hasn't stopped throwing up for the past thirty minutes!" Mrs. Pomfrey gave a peculiar look at James before going into one of her side rooms. Lily lead James to a bed and they laid down to Lily's dismay. She started to cringe every time James' made a movement, hoping he wouldn't turn and throw up on her.
"James, what exactly did you eat because the smell just makes me want to throw up" James just shook his head and threw up again but this time on Yalen shoe.
"Ahhh! James aim for something else other than people!" Yalen pointed at his shoe than Lily than James and said a spell each time. James' and Lily's robes and hair were suddenly clean.
"Thanks! I felt horrible...wow I don't even smell like vomit. I just hope he doesn't throw up again on me before she cures him."
"Well don't want you smelling out on the field. We need to concentrate today. So James hopefully will be able to practice! He's one of the best players on the team!" Lily gave a disappointed look at Yalen than watched James trying to curl up in a ball but it wasn't working.
Mrs. Pomfrey came out and checked on James' condition. She gave a disapproving look at James holding Lily's hand and than poured a potion down his throat before he could throw up again. James started to throw up but didn't, but still didn't look better. "Hmm...Just as I thought. He thought he could get out of his detention if he used a potion that causes him to throw up. He's just going to have to wait till the symptoms are over, but the potion should help the vomit to slow down. I hope you learned your lesson Potter."
"That couldn't be! I was by him at all times and he had no chance to make a potion unless...Sirius! Oh! What to do with you two!" Lily put her hand to her head. "By the way, do you have any spell to separate me and him? Our hands are magically glued together and I have no idea how to separate us. " James almost seemed passed out except he kept making noises and weird movements.
"There's one spell that can cause this but it's usually an instant thing, not a slow reaction. I'll try it anyways. Separatius Membrano!" Nothing happened except for Lily's attempts to pry their hands apart.
"Sorry dear. It seems someone has created this spell. You'll have to figure it out on your own. What caused your hands to be stuck together this time?" Lily closed her eyes to think then opened them a few moments later.
"Well we stayed the same length apart for a whole month without a change...until we had a fight outside of our class where we were having detention. Then our arms became glued together than we said some insults and pop they were together."
"Alright. Well you seem to be figuring it out nicely yourself. Try doing the opposite from now on than and maybe that will cause the spell to break." Lily looked at James and gave a frown.
"I'll be stuck with him forever!" Yalen and Mrs. Pomfrey laughed but Lily was being serious. James couldn't hear anything. He only felt his stomach and head doing somersaults.
Three days went by and James was still weak and he still had a horrible headache. Mrs. Pomfrey found out that besides the horrible side effects after the potion, he was also allergic to one of the ingredients. Mrs. Pomfrey said she couldn't do anymore for him, so she allowed Lily to take him up to Gryffindor tower.
"So what exactly...did you put in...the potion?" James had problems talking from his sore throat that he's had since vomit day.
"I put what it said. Oh except I added fungibugs which were sadly alive to the potion. I forgot to read it when we were looking at it together." Lily made an "Oh" sound and quickly got out One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi and started to look up something.
"Lils...he said fungibugs...not fun..gi" James said faintly. Lily wanted to be snappy with him for treating her like she was stupid, but it was hard to be mean to a sick person and he looked to weak to fight with anyways.
"I know, but I read something about fungibugs while I was reading about the different fungi. Here it is. It says that the fungi, Gritino, is also a food source to microscopic fungibugs. These bugs help the fungi to grow and have been known to make bacteria and other plants to multiple rapidly. The fungibugs feed off the nectar and create their own little potion which is then transferred back to the Gritino or to a bacteria." James gave a grave look at Lily and then grabbed his stomach. Lily returned the look with a look of concern. "So you aren't allergic to any of the ingredients. It's the fungibugs that are causing you to still be sick."
"You put bugs in his potion! How is that suppose to help him?" Joanna said hitting Sirius over the head before sitting down by him.
"It said to add fungibugs(alive), so I went to the greenhouse and stole some...It seriously said it...I'll show you. Accio Pranks To Help You Survive School." The book floated down the stairs causing some Gryffindors to have to duck out of the way. When it got near Remus grabbed it and opened it up.
"Alright...Chapter 4: Is Detention Keeping You From Your Daily Pranks? If So Then These Spells And Potions Will Keep You Pranking Away?...alright...hmm found it!" Sirius, Joanna, and Petalis jumped up to look. Peter didn't want to get in the way and James was not in the mood to stand up again.
"See! It says it right there. Add 5 fungibugs to the potions before serving!" Remus gave Sirius an annoyed look.
"Did you even read what the instructions were above it? It says that if you want the symptoms to be even more believable and if you want the effects to last longer then add the fungibugs, but the bugs are to help the potion to spread through out the whole body and to cause the potion's effects to multiple. There could be possible side effects to this depending on what they ate!" Everyone gave a dark look at Sirius. Sirius ran towards the portrait hole followed by Remus, Petalis, and Joanna. Even Peter followed them so that he could watch them catch Sirius and get revenge on him. James leaned his head back on the couch and Lily tried to not laugh at the spectacle she saw.
"I have to say one thing. You guys sure make life interesting especially when life seems to be horrible. I mean look at you. You look like a ghost and seem as if a dementor has gotten you! Then to find out that your situation was caused by Sirius reading the instructions wrong and pulling a prank on you by doubling the potion! We want to be mad at him, but it's just too funny." She started to laugh out loud but noticed that James was giving a very pathetic look at her so she stopped. "You'll laugh later I promise."
"Is there...anything...in the book...to fix...th..is?"
"Hmm...it says they only live off of the Gritino and you don't have any in you...so I guess we'll have to wait till they die." James slouched down and closed his eyes.
"How long?" James said without opening his eyes.
"Well the bugs take about ten days to die than the symptoms should vanish in a week or two...oh no." Lily said realizing something she forgot.
"It's not that... bad Lily. I'll finish before... my Quidditch... match and the others... can bring us our homework...I might be able tooooo... go to the classes in a week and.... a half but please don't make me do that.." James groaned and noticed that Lily was about to cry. "Lily?"
"Today is April 10 and my mom's play is the 20th ...We can't go..." James sat up.
"Ohh...well the bugs will die... by.... then and I mighttttt.... have the strength by than... to"
"James you can't even talk besides move and these symptoms could get worse since the bugs' purpose is to multiple the bacteria in you which is your vomit illness. I wouldn't allow you to do that even if we could...she'll understand." Lily tried to smile, but she turned away to look at the fire.
"No we're going...you'll...see" James squeezed her hand that he was glued to and she wiped away the tears that she was trying to hide. She gave him a hug which was making him sick, but he wasn't going to tell her that though.
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Because of the fungibugs, James couldn't move off the couch. He would sometimes play wizard's chess with Remus or Sirius or read Quidditch For The Schoolage. Lily spent most of her time studying and catching up on homework. She realized that from her and James sicknesses that she's probably only been to her classes for a month out of the four months that they've been stuck together.
The marauders, Joanna, and Petalis tried to hang around them as much as they could but most of the time they were off at classes or off doing their usual activities. James told Sirius to keep the pranks up even though he wasn't there, so every once in a while a Gryffindor would come in complaining about their apple having a worm in it or a feather tickling them in charms class.
"Remember how they would bicker about everything and how they couldn't stand to be near each other...whatever happened to that?" Petalis said, leaning on the railing to the stairs watching Lily laughing at James who charmed her cat and Roger's, a chaser, toad to sing and dance.
"That was until someone clever came along and like the smart guy he is, decided to create nec...a spell that would cause James and Lily to grow closer...in many ways. Also, the very handsome and brilliant guy decided to double the potion and put fungibugs in the potion so that James would have to spend all his time with a certain girl named Lily for about two or three weeks. He's absolutely brillant!" Joanna pushed him causing him to fall down the rest of the stairs.
"Wow that must of hurt! I think it's from the size of your head. Next time try to not get such a large ego." She descended the stairs and stepped on him as she walked towards Lily and James.
"I think she likes me!" Sirius started to get a dorky smile on his face as he sat up. Remus and Petalis just gave looks at each other and then left to join the others. Peter just shrugged at him and walked by.
"Sorry to ruin this beautiful and very very cute moment, but you have to get on the train." Lily gave a worried look at James and slowly got up.
"Are you ok? We really don't have to go if you think you will not make it. I don't want you to throw up on my parents they would get the wrong impression of you. I want them to know you for your arrogant self not Mr. Vomit." James shoved Lily with his shoulder. Then his face went blank.
"You know that we look like we are holding hands and we look like a couple?"
"Ya...My parents! Oh no...they won't understand. I told them we were attached by a spell but this really looks bad! I'm not allowed to date till I'm thirteen! My dad is going to kill me... OH NO! Muggles! I can't tell them that I have a spell on me...We have no choice...we'll have to pretend to be a couple." Lily leaned her head on his shoulder not looking forward to tonight.
"Ahh great. There goes first impression...my reputation is ruined...in the wizard world and muggle world." Lily stuck her tongue at him and guided them out the portrait hole.
.. James and Lily unfortunately had to walk slowly down the halls since James still had an upset stomach. Severus was cleaning the floor for some reason and he started cursing under his breathe when he saw them walking.
"Funny...I told you to never grab my hand again to torment anyone and now there is no choice. Got to love irony." James gave an arrogant grin at Severus while they passed him.
As they passed the corridors that were close to the main hall, the people there started to whistle and make comments. "James is there anyway we can walk a lot faster because I really can't stand everyone watching us this way."
"Ahh but it's fun and I don't care what people think. You really need to not be so into your reputation." Lily tried to trip him but it just caused their legs to get tangled up and they both fell. "We've been like this for four months and yet you still forget that we are connected?"
"Do you want to throw up again?" Lily had her fist up like she was going to hit his stomach. James cringed and grabbed his stomach.
Hagrid lead them to a boat and got in another one so that he could make sure they safely got to the train. The lake looked so empty without the other boats on the water, but the train was even more vacant. The train seemed to extend forever and the silence was a little too irritating. They chose to sit in the prefects' compartment since there was no prefects on the train.
There was a bathroom, food counter, and more room to sit and walk in there. Lily wanted to look through the wizard books that were on the counter because she was fascinated by the moving pictures, but James wanted to sleep on the train so he would feel better and be able to stay awake for the play. Lily knew that if he didn't then he would be a pain tonight, so she gave up on the idea.
"So how are we going to do this? We could lay on the floor or try to lay on the seat"
"The floor since we've had to sleep on the couch for months!" Lily tried to look through one of the books, but decided it was pointless and the train was starting to make her drowsy.
'It is 5 at night and the play starts at 7, so the train ride is an hour long and that gives us an hour to get there. That should be fine yawn. I just hope that James won't throw up from the train riii...'
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"Well she said that they would be the only ones on the train...so they should be here somewhere...hmm wait I think they're in here. Lily didn't say she was dating the boy..." Lily's mom opened the compartment door to find Lily curled up next to James and they were holding hands.
"LILY EVANS!" Lily woke up fast and sat up causing James to be slung up from his slumber. "What are you doing!" Lily's father was glaring at James.
"Why are you yelling? We were trying to sleep." Lily started to rub her eyes because she got dizzy from sitting up too fast.
"Matt, calm down. They were just sleeping. Nothing happened. They are only eleven years old!" Lily's mom said to her husband who couldn't stop staring at James.
"I have to explain something to you two. The spell got a little worse...our hands are magically glued together and so is our arms pretty much. We wanted you to know that since I know you two would freak out about me having a boyfriend since I can't date , but no one else can know about the spell, so... pretend like we are a couple." Lily's mom started to laugh, but her dad still wasn't happy with it.
Her father attempted to pull them apart, but realized that it was true- they were stuck together. Lily's mom kept teasing her all the way to the theater. James was enjoying it except for the death looks from her father. He kept asking questions about how the car worked and why did the strange flashing lights make the cars stop and go. He stopped asking questions when her father gave him a threatening glare.
"Lily I don't think I got a good first impression."
Lily was staring out the window at nothing in particular. "Not the one I hoped for. At least they know it's a spell, but my mom's friends and possibly my friends if they come, will think we are together! Tonight is going to be a nightmare."
"For you? I've never been to the muggle world and now my first experience is going to be ruined by being stuck to you. I can't even flirt with muggles because I have to be a boyfriend to you!" Lily used their glued together hands to hit him on his side, but didn't stop looking out the window. James figured she was thinking of something, but didn't want to ask what. "Oh and your mom is cute! Can't wait to see her act...in shakespeare clothes too." Lily looked away from the window and hit him in his side hard with her free hand causing him to start coughing.
"Lily! You'll make him sick again" Lily's mom said looking back at them.
"Haha you got in trouble" Lily threaten to do it again and he quickly stopped laughing.
The theater was a very popular place to go and most people they knew went to the productions. As they got out of the car, Lily felt like she was a magnet to everyone going there. Her friends ran up to her and asked her why she never told them about her boyfriend and how did she convince her dad to let her date.
"So have you two kissed yet?" One of her friends that loved to gossip too much was enjoying finding out every detail about their "relationship". "Of course! I just love my little lillikins so much and her cutsey wutsey nose is so adorable" as he said that he used his free hand to touch her nose. "She didn't want me to date her at first, so I serenaded her at lunch once and we've been together ever since."Lily gave him a fake smile and gripped his hand hard that was magically connected to hers.
"It was so embarrassing that I knew he must be in love with me to embarrass himself in front of the whole school." Lily gave her fake smile at James who was wanting to say something, but decided that it would blow their cover.
"Ahhhh! That's so romantic! I want a boyfriend that would that!" Lily just shrugged.
"What can I say I got sooo lucky" Her friends walked off afterwards mumbling to each other about what they said.
"Lils! Now they think I'm a pathetic loser and you were being too sarcastic" James said sadly watching the girls walk away.
"Actually they're jealous. They totally believed it and like she said 'You are soooo romantic'" Lily laughed and continued to walk towards the theater.
The play begun and her friends kept looking back at her, some with sad expressions and others were giggling. James kept gawking at her mother even though her clothes were modest, he kept talking about how pretty she was.
"James, you are really disturbing."
"Maybe but you're the one that's supposably dating me." Lily stuck here tongue at him and then watched as her mother recited "Oh happy dagger...".
'I wish I had a happy dagger' thought Lily. She knew that she was going to hear about this all summer and that it was going to haunt her for the rest of her life.
When the curtain went down, Lily quickly ran to her mother so she could give her the roses her father bought her to give to her and a hug before she left. Lily's mom even gave James a hug and whispered something in his ear that made his arrogant smile reappear. Lily dragged James away from the theater and was trying to hurry since they had to be back before Filth and Mrs. Norris made their rounds. Dumbledore said they could go as long as they arrived back in time.
Lily and James were trying to walk fast to the car, but James' stomach still felt like he was going to throw up so they were forced to walk at a moderate speed. "Lily!!"
A boy came running up to her in a slow motion. He had the lightest blonde hair that Lily's ever seen besides Lucius' white hair. He had vivid bright blue eyes and had an angelic voice that she hadn't heard since last summer. "Logan?" "Whatever happened to you? You disappeared off the face of the world and your mom said you went to a boarding school, but you never told anyone that you were" Lily's greatest fear for this night unfortunately just came true and she realized that her feelings for him were worse than she remembered them to be.
"It was kind of a last minute thing. I didn't have time to tell anyone." Logan just realized that James was standing next to her and was holding her hand. Lily didn't know what to say. Here was the guy she had a crush on since they were little and he thought she was dating James. She couldn't tell him that he wasn't her boyfriend because it wouldn't make sense that they were holding hands and if she did tell him than she could possibly lose Logan forever.
"I'm James by the way. Lily's boyfriend. Who are you?" James just loved to annoy her and he had a feeling that this was the one person that she was really worried about. Logan face dropped and he looked between Lily and James.
"I'm...Logan. I grew up with Lily since we were little. Her father works with my mother. Well I better get back to my family...I just wanted to say hi. Are you coming back for the summer?" Lily nodded her head with hope that everything might be alright. "Maybe we can do something this summer...as a group" he said as he looked at James before running off.
Lily gave him a dark look and smacked him in the stomach forgetting that he was sick. James instantly threw up.
"James! Are you ok? I forgot about your vomit sickness thing... But you shouldn't have said that!"
"Said...what?" James said trying to recover. "I...just...said you...were...my girlfriend...that's...what you're suppose...to...be..." Lily just gave him a dirty look and grudgingly helped him to the car.
On the train, they picked the last compartment on the train this time...well Lily picked it this time. She knew that the last compartment would cause the ride to be bumpy and that the turns would make James sick. James persisted on not going there but he didn't have a choice since he was too weak to defend himself.
Lily was still mad at him...not because of what he said, just how he said it. It made it sound too real and he didn't want James to say anything. James was slouched down in one of the seats holding his stomach. His face was pale again and with each turn he grabbed his mouth. Lily just ignored him and kept pondering on how to fix her situation with Logan.
"Lily...do you like...Logan?" Lily turned on him and gave him a dark look.
"Of course!" said Lily making it seem as if James should of known this. "I always thought him and me would go out when I was thirteen until you decided to announce to him that we are supposably going out! Now he'll think that I don't like him..." Lily's eyes started to tear up. "Geez..didn't know you... liked him that... much. I thinkkkk.... he would of figured... that we were "dating"... Since we... are really close... together and he saw... our hands locked. There was nothing....oh no another turn...to do." James grabbed his mouth.
"I don't want to talk about it anymore." Lily turned to watch the cows and the peaceful pastures vanish before her eyes as they got closer to Hogwarts.
When they reached the lake in front of Hogwarts. Lily hurried them to the boats since she knew that they were becoming short on time. She didn't realize that her mom's play ran over the estimated ending time. Now they had a few minutes to make it to their tower.
As the boat reached the shore. Lily jumped out and practically dragged James up the stairs to the school and down the corridors. Lily thought they would make it in time as she say the Fat Lady sitting in her portrait staring into her mirror when suddenly Lily ran into something furry.
Lily looked down to see Mrs. Norris staring up at her and an unwanted voice could be heard from the top of the stairs.
"Miss Evans and Mister Potter up late? Thought you would get away with it eh? Sorry your luck has run short" He gave a smirk at them.
"My luck is always short" whispered Lily to herself.
"What's that Evans?" Filth said peering at Lily.
"Dumbledore said I could be out as long as I made it back to my tower before your rounds begun. You just started your rounds right? So I made it back in time." Lily started to walk towards the Fat Lady, but Filth stepped in front of her.
"I started five minutes ago. You didn't make it, so I guess another detention will help you learn to get back to your tower in time" raised his eyebrows and lead them down to Professor McGonagell's office. She was asleep too which wasn't a nice beginning to their meeting.
"Miss Evans you know that you were suppose to watch the time, so you have no excuse. Your punishment and Potter's will be to stay in your dormitories when you aren't in classes, so then you will never be late again." Lily nodded and helped James up and turned to leave when she spoke again. "You really shouldn't be taking Potter anywhere when he is in that state. Honestly, Lily you should know better." Lily just sighed and told her goodnight and left.
She couldn't believe that she got blamed for everything in there and she didn't dare disagree or her punishment would be worse. James begun to laugh when they got outside of her office.
"Shut up James or I will put more fungibugs in your drink at breakfast tomorrow" James immediately stopped which made Lily smile. For James to think he's tough, he sure can't handle being sick.
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Their punishment was hardly a punishment since James wasn't in any condition to leave the tower even if he wanted to. A week went by and he could speak clearly again. He could even walk by himself, but his stomach still hurt at times and once in a while he would have the urge to throw up.
Lily still thought about Logan but didn't want to talk to anyone about it since it was too painful and complicated to talk about. James didn't bring it back up either, probably because he realized how he would feel if the girl from the Christmas Ball saw them holding hands. He decided that he would be feeling the same way as her.
As the final game of Quidditch drew near, James became more and more irritable. For one thing he was afraid of flying fast on his broom with his vomit problem and he knew that he couldn't fly if Lily was still attached to him. They could only stand side by side and he needn't lily to be behind him on the broom. He thought that Lily could be on her own broom, but that wouldn't work very well with other players flying around them and the bludgers that Lily seemed to have a magnetic effect on.
Lily also started to get nervous and frustrated because finals were coming up and she couldn't write with her left hand which was her free hand. She had a quill that could write for her, but they aren't allowed to use it on the test because they have to use an anti-cheating quill.
As time passed, they begun to bicker about little things like staying up late or going to bed early, each wanting to do different things in different locations, Lily getting mad at James for not doing his homework till the morning it was due and James would get mad at Lily for talking to Severus.
Finally the night before the Quidditch match and finals came. James was yelling at everyone and Lily was trying to study as much as she could thinking that she might be able to do verbal finals instead of the written ones and physical ones. Lily and James had this force field around them and if anyone came into it then they would be the next person to get yelled at. Most of the people in the commons went to bed early just to get away from them. Others were daring and went to bed later on. Eventually, Lily and James were the only ones alone in the commons, so they started to think each other were irritating them.
"James quit whistling. I can't concentrate." James started to whistle louder just to drive her nuts. "James I'm going to fail if you don't stop whistling!"
"Well you shouldn't have criticized me than and this spell wouldn't have locked our hands!" James said hatefully wanting to get all of his frustration out.
"It's a two way street! We both have to throw insults to cause the spell to make us get closer, so blame yourself!" Lily said wanting to lash out on him, but not wanting to stop studying.
"No smarty pants! You always think you are soooo smart because you are a muggle that suddenly became a witch. But you're not that smart are you, if you have to study to get good grades when I get the same grades as you and don't study. How about that?"
Lily slammed her book shut. "You are such a hippogriff! You don't want people to get close to you unless you want them too and when they do you freak out and try to get them to go away. I've tried to ignore every selfish thing you've said or did, thinking that it would only make it worse if I said anything. I thought that it wasn't worth getting in a fight with you about it, but since you are wanting a fight I'll give you one! I'm sick of you always worrying about yourself. When I was injured from your stupid Quidditch game, you only worried about your boredom. You wanted to get out of detention just so you could get to your practice, but never thought about how you caused me to miss detention too! Now you are getting mad at me because you might not be able to be in your Quidditch game! You never thought about how I might fail the finals because I can't write left handed!" Lily started to getting really upset and it was the first time this year that she's yelled at someone. She normally doesn't yell at anyone but her sister.
"At least I'm not a know it all that thinks that she is superior to everyone else. Remus is smart but he's not showing off in class! You're such a drama queen too. You scream loud at scary movies, causing the rest of the Gryffindor tower to stay awake. You are such a cry baby too. You cried when you couldn't go see your mother's play when she has many more plays ahead of her. You cry when I threw up on you and you had problems getting me to the hospital wing. Then you cried when you thought you lost your potential boyfriend which you can't even date because you're not old enough and he's a muggle! What are you going to do during the school year? Send him an owl? I THINK NOT! So you shouldn't even try! Another thing you're a hypocrite! You're too nice!! You tutored Severus when you didn't want to and you'd probably go out with him if he asked just because you are too nice to say no! YOU ARE SO ANNOYING! You are yelling at me for starting this fight because I'm nervous about tomorrow's final game, but you are the one who just unleashed all of your feelings from this year just because you are freaked about tomorrow's stupid exams which they will probably let you take later because everyone loves teacher's pet lily!!"
Lily was trying to hold back her tears, so James wouldn't be right but he just seemed so hateful that she finally let the tears fall. After he finished it felt like a magnet pushed them towards each other and Lily felt her necklace move from under her robes to stretch out to James. James' necklace did the same thing, but attached to Lily's like a magnet.
"YOU HAVE THE SAME NECKLACE!" Lily and James both yelled. They tried pulling the necklaces apart but it didn't work.
"So the necklaces is what was causing us to be magnetized together all of this time...but Sirius said that he was responsible for this..." Lily said thinking about it but not wanting to be a smarty pants as James said so she stopped talking.
"I should of known! Sirius gave me the necklace for a Christmas present and I just thought it was a symbol for how the marauders would always pick on you, Petalis, and Joanna."
"That's right! He gave mine to me also on Christmas, but I thought it was just a gift...nothing more! I didn't know you guys that well than...but I should of figured it was for something..."
"I remember there was writing on mine...ya that's what made me think that it was just a symbol...what was it!...Oh ya! Hateful act...they will stay."
"Mine did too! Except it said...With every...the longer..."
"Maybe the words go together and when we figure it out, we will break the spell...With hateful act every they will stay, the longer..."
"I don't think they are scrambled James" She gave him an annoyed look which he gave her a dark look back. "Hateful act with every...no that's not it! With every hateful act...they will stay the longer..."
"No wait you switched the last pair. With every hateful act, the longer they will stay!" James and Lily pulled the necklace but it didn't work. "AHHHH! The sentence doesn't help at all...it didn't break the spell and it doesn't help us figure out how to!"
"Wait! Madam Pomfrey mentioned something about doing the opposite to what we are doing...which was insulting each other...so we just have to be nice to each other and it will break the spell!" Lily's face started to lighten up.
"Ok...I'm sorry for yelling at you...I just was so frustrated about this situation and not being able to do anything about it."
"Ya, I'm sorry too about releasing my frustration on you. You can be ok sometimes when you're not being self centered."
"Ya you're also fun to be around. I never talked to anyone the way I talked to you...you were the only one to know that I don't like to get close to people...I was pretty impressed that you knew me that well."
"I could of had a horrible four or five months, but it wasn't that bad. It's nice that you're not serious all the time especially in the time when I need to have someone to cheer me up." Lily and James looked down at the necklaces and noticed they hadn't moved at all. Lily started to tug on her necklace but it did no good.
They just realized that they were only merely six inches from each other's face. "People can't see us like this! This is going to be so embarrassing!" Lily leaned her head against the back of the couch. "I've ran out of ideas and I'm tired and I just want to be alone."
James watched as he saw her trying to hold back her tears, but he knew that they both were at their wits end. "It'll be alright. We can't go home like this, so Sirius has to tell us eventually." Lily started to smile at the thought of James' parents and her parents having a tug a war with them. James reached up and dried away her tears. "It'll be alright."
Lily hugged him just wanting some comfort to help her deal with what laid ahead for them tomorrow. James hugged her back because he liked to feel that he wasn't alone in this. At least he wasn't regretting tomorrow alone.
Lily let go and went to say "Thank you", but James stopped her by instantly pressing his lips against hers. It happened so fast that Lily was caught off guard and fell back onto the couch. Which caused James to fall on top of her. She pushed James off of her which caused him to fall to the floor...but this time Lily didn't follow.
"Why did you kiss me?" Lily said peering over the couch at him. James laid there in shock.
"I don't know...It happened so fast...I just did it on impulse."
"So...you didn't mean to...you just did it?" Lily said giving James a questionable look. James had a lost face on.
"I really don't know why I did it... Lils I'm serious. I wish I did, but I don't." James got up off the floor and then it hit him. Lily wasn't holding his hand and she wasn't connected to his arm. He looked down at Lily's shocked face and he saw that she figured it out too.
"We're not connected anymore...WE'RE NOT CONNECTED ANYMORE!" Lily jumped off the couch and started to dance and spin her arms around. James laughed at how silly she looked. Lily ran up and grabbed his hands and started to jump causing him to jump with her. "We did it! You can play Quidditch now and I can pass my fails! Freedom!"
They stopped jumping and Lily realized that she was holding his hands and let go. James started to ruffle his hair in the back and looked at Lily with an awkward look. Lily stared at her feet. "Well...I guess we can return to our rooms now and sleep in beds for once in five months." James said looking at the stairs to the room. Lily looked at them too.
"That's going to be nice...so I guess I'll see you later. Bye James." Lily hurried up to her room while James collapsed on the couch.
"Why did I kiss her?" He covered his face with his hands then slowly went up the stairs. High pitched screams from the girls' room announced that the girls had found out that Lily made it to her room...alone. Hollering and shouts came from the marauders' room which also showed that the marauders were glad to have James back...only James. That night they explained what happened except for one key thing...the kiss.
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Lily left the commons early to go to the library to study and she felt vulnerable for some reason. Like she was all alone and lost her sense of security. James had kept Severus and Lucius away from her, but why does she feel afraid.
James left his room late and was a little disappointed to find that Lily was nowhere to be seen. He felt depressed for some reason and even more nervous about the match then he was when Lily was with him.
Lily was always the first one to get to her classes. She didn't even walk with Petalis and Joanna who were walking with Remus, Sirius, and Peter. She saw that James wasn't with them and didn't see him till right before the bell rung. He walked alone which was odd for him to do. This seemed to happen in every class. Lily got through her finals without regrets and was pleased to find out that they were over.
Lily skipped Breakfast, while James ate it sparingly with the others. Lunch was uncomfortable since they both didn't want to tell their friends that they didn't want to sit next to each other, so they sat quietly at the table and barely talked to the others.
James didn't eat supper because he wanted to catch up on his flying and practice with the Quaffle. When the match was about to begin, Sirius, Petalis, Remus, and Peter came down to wish James and Joanna good luck. James looked up at the school.
"She said she wanted to get in more studying for her astronomy final tomorrow...you know how she is" Petalis said knowing what he was thinking.
"Ya...I know her...but it makes no difference to me " James turned and walked into the locker room.
James had a hard time that night concentrating on Quidditch. He wished he could of had more practice in since his muscles weren't used to it and he hadn't flown in over a month and felt out of practice with it. Gryffindor won 50 points, but Slytherin won 180 points. A bludger knocked Joanna out and Madam Pomfrey couldn't get her to wake up in time to save Gryffindor. Strangely, James really didn't care that they didn't win.
The house cup went to Slytherin also for Severus gaining a lot of points for volunteer work and from Professor Felagin, dark arts teacher, rewarding most of the slytherins for setting a "good" example in class, but it was actually because he was the head of Slytherin.
The last day was sad for everyone. Sirius hated his home and didn't want to see his mother this summer. Peter hated his parents also and didn't want to leave James. James got a letter from her mother saying that his father was picking him up and he hated his father. His father was always away on trips which caused the house to be a little peaceful, but when his dad was home it was horrible. Remus felt safe at Hogwarts and when he went home he always was afraid. Not of his parents, but of himself.
Petalis didn't mind going home since her oldest sister was coming home for the summer. Joanna couldn't wait to see her parents, but knew that she would have to give up Quidditch for the summer and pick up dresses instead. Lily couldn't decide how she felt. She didn't want to leave Hogwarts. Maybe because she was afraid that she wouldn't come back to her Hogwarts which felt like her greatest fantasy that she didn't want to lose. She would miss doing magic and seeing the marauders pull pranks on everyone and just having adventures with her friends. Everything was a surprise and at home nothing would be a surprise...life was too ordinary.
Wow! I haven't written in...7 months I think!!! School has been sooooo overwhelming especially with finals and then my internet wasn't working! I missed fanfiction.net so much! This chapter was really loooooooong but I just wasn't liking how the story was processing so I had to change the mood a bit...I have planned out the next six years but it's still a little bumpy so if you guys have any ideas then I will be sooooo glad to see them! I'm a little lost on the next year especially and if you realize a blooper then please tell me. I reread books 1-3 and I realized that this story is a lot different then what it is in the harry potter books...but oh well! It's hard to know everything about them. I love REVIEWS!!! My email site loves to munch on reviews and it's starving at the moment so please feed it!!! hehe Oh and last thing, the next chapter might take away since I'm starting summer school tomorrow and am trying to write a book. And don't forget feed my email address with your beautiful REVIEWS!!! Follow me this way:
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