turn left turn right

by krcube

LJ. He turns left, she turns right. Through a strange twist of fate, they never meet, yet are supposed to be together. The two are completely unaware of each other, until they chance an encounter and realise the missing pieces of their lives. PURE FLUFF!

6. Oh! They FINALLY meet! JOY!

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Turn Left Turn Right.

Chapter 6: Oh! They FINALLY meet! JOY!!

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Disclaimer: Am not J.K. Rowling. Don't sue.

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Summary: Two people who are destined to be together, (Lily and James) never meet but are always only a few feet away from each other. They live in bliss, ignorant of others, until one day they chance upon an encounter with each other and realise that their lives have missing pieces in it. They part, but then, are unable to contact each other again, leaving two love- torn teenagers desperately trying to find their other half.

11 November 2003

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Squiggles1: Oh well, you didn't review the last chapter, but hey, of course there will always be a special dedication to you. Hope you're not too busy to read this chapter!

On-fire-for-christ: Hehe, well, I'm not all that evil! They meet in this chapter, don't die too soon! =)

Darksarchangel: Hahaha! I re-read it and the "bang" part is erm… quite lame! Nice to see that I'm not that weird!! (hint: Purple and black)

ShorTi: Oh darn! I never knew I've been spelling Hogsmeade wrong all the while. Well, thanks for telling me. =) Yea, they're meeting!!!

Indiangurl: Yes, they run into each other here!

Julyborn09: Yuck! History test! I don't have any idea if you wanted the update before or after Tuesday. It's errm, Tuesday now, so I guess it's just a little late, or a little early. =P

Tribal Leader: Haha, thanks for that, but I seriously don't think it's that good. But, it's appreciated all the same. I just enjoy writing this story.

Peeny_P, LJstagflower4e, blackdragonofdeath13: They meet here, which is what you people have been waiting for so…

So here you guys go!

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Lily walked listlessly down the Hogsmeade main street, none of the spring that usually characterized her walk were present in her steps. Truth to be told, she was well, just bored with dwelling in obscurity. She had tried to let that portion of her mind be overtaken by the endless assignments, trying to be ignorant of what everyone else was doing. But, she couldn't. Her meeting with Bella and Jill had saw to it that she knew what she was missing out on, and frankly, she wanted more of that.

She looked at the number of small buildings that dotted the village square, set against a backdrop of a cloudless and positively sunny blue sky. The cloak she was wearing ensured that she wouldn't be cold in the still chilly spring air. All around there were signs of life, as people started to come out after the cold of winter. She saw as birds happily chirped from rooftops, and women stuck their head out of windows to talk to their neighbours.

Lily sighed. 'Why can't I be happy now?'

Deciding that a visit to her favorite shop wouldn't hurt, she stepped across the cobblestone pavement and entered Flourish and Blotts.

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James felt his anger ebb away slowly as he wandered through the numerous quidditch displays in Quality Quidditch Supplies. Quidditch was, after all, his passion, and nothing would ever change that.

'Well, unfortunately, Sirius does seem to be trying to do so at the moment. Bah!' He thought to himself in irritation. 'I'll know when the right person comes along!'

'Ahh, but will you, really?' A nasty little voice asked him.

'Know what?'

The voice in his head tsked so loudly, and answered a little impatiently, 'Well, know who the right person is? Will you truly know?'

'Of course!' James replied stubbornly. 'I'm not blind you know?'

The voice laughed evilly. 'Oh, sure you're not,' it replied sarcastically. 'For all we know, the person might not be a 'she' at all...' the voice muttered.

James felt his temper rise. 'I'm not gay you know? Do you here me?' He muttered. "I'm not gay!" But unfortunately, he had said that part out loud, and his face flushed as the people around him turned to look at him strangely.

"Of course you're not gay, Jamesie," a girl in Hogwarts robes said into the silence.

"Who are you anyway?" James asked rudely. Then, he stomped out of the shop, swinging the door shut, and spying the door to his right swing shut as well, as a girl in a blue cloak entered Flourish and Blotts.

"Why is everyone being so objective today?" He muttered to himself as he set of down the street, hands jammed in his pockets.

As he walked along the street he passed by a woman pushing a pram along.

"Oh, hey Mrs Lee," he said automatically, greeting on of his mother's friends. "Hey, Alice." And he bent down to tickle her chin.

"Oh, James! How's your mom? Fine yea? Well, lots to do today, best be off now! Bye!"

And he walked on.

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Lily stepped out of Flourish and Blotts holding a new book. It was probably around four in the afternoon, time to head back to school, but she found herself walking down the street, in the direction opposite the school.

"Oh hello, Mrs Lee." Lily said absently, sparing a sweet smile and a greeting at the small chinese lady pushing her daughter along in a pram.

"Hello Alice!" Lily greeted enthusiastically as she bent down to look at the young child.

"Hello Lily! Well, got to go now, lots to do!"

Lily stood up and watched the two leave, and she turned around, stopping to scratch a scruffy mongrel behind his ears, before she started walking away. 

Soon, she came to a fountain. It was a big marble basin with carved ivory figures placed in the centre. Circling the fountain for a place to sit, she became gradually conscious of someone watching her from the opposite. Lily looked up to meet the person's gaze.

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James felt his heart freeze in his mouth as he stared in the girl's eyes. He had strayed over to the fountain after he exited Quality Quidditch Supplies, and at the moment, was unconsciously circling the fountain, the stack of Quidditch cards he had been so excited over forgotten in his hand.

'They're such a deep emerald green,' James thought dimly as he lost himself in them. 'I've never seen anyone with such green eyes.'

He looked at the girl. She was covered in a midnight blue cloak and silver streaks, and her fiery red hair was blowing slightly from the wind. Her emerald eyes watched him silently. And at that moment, James felt that anyone… even Bella, couldn't have held a close candle with the green-eyed beauty opposite him. He quirked a small smile. 'Sirius would kill me if I told him that.'

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Lily started as she locked eyes with the boy. His were a deep chocolate brown that twinkled merrily yet with strength. Unruly black hair stuck out, and the wind was only making it messier. Yet, somehow, the look fitted on him perfectly. He was wearing Hogwarts attire, something, she realised with a start, that she should have been wearing too. The shirt was un-tucked, and the first few buttons undone, with his school tie hanging loosely down, yet, where she had seen so many people failing to look presentable in it, he looked… well… he looked absolutely fantastic.

Lily spared him one last glance before she sat down and placed her book beside her.

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James looked at her from the corner of his eye before quickly sitting down, directly opposite her end of the fountain, his back to hers, and hers to his.

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Lily started to lose herself in the open sky, staring around her, until, suddenly, a loud yell startled her from her reverie.

She turned back, a small frown on her eyebrows, and realised that her book was floating around the Hogsmeade fountain, with its pages coming loose. With a yell she stood up.

'Oh no! Oh no! I just bought that too! What spell now?' She thought frantically to herself. 'Oh no! No wand! I'll just have to do this the hard way.'

But before she had time to act, the boy she was observing had already jumped into the fountain and splashed to where the book was. He quickly started to gather the pages, and climbed out of the fountain to give them to her.

"Well, here, but it's ruined," he said apologetically.

Lily quickly took the pages. "Thanks anyway. Do you have anything to dry it with?"

He shrugged sheepishly.

"No wand, I presume?" Lily asked with a small laugh. "Same here. Pathetic bunch of wizards we are huh?" She continued jokingly.

He laughed pleasantly. "We'll have to make do. Come on." He led her over to a big grass patch, and started to lay the pages out one by one on the grass to dry. Then, he too, flopped out onto the grass.

"Thanks for fishing my book out." Lily said quietly as she sat down beside him. "But you'll need to get dried up."

He opened an eye. "There's no need to thank me. How could I leave you there to battle with the fountain? Well, at least you didn't go in. It's freezing!"

Lily flushed. "I'm really sorry. You're from Hogwarts? We should go up to the castle to get you dried up."

"There's no need to! It takes more than cold water to get me sick! Yea, I'm from Hogwarts."

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James and Lily waited until the pages dried, as they were doing so, both were talking. (They still don't know who each other is. Well, stupid yea.)

"I think they're dried. Come on, let's go!" James said as they quickly gathered the sheets. "I know somewhere that we can go."

Lily laughed at his eagerness. "I think we've overshot curfew."

He got a glint in his eyes. "Well, there's no use for rules to be there if they're not broken, are there?"

He grabbed her hand and led away from the village square and into another part of Hogsmeade.

"I bet you've never seen this place before huh?" He asked.

Lily shook her head.

"I thought so. Well, most people haven't seen it."

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Half an hour later, after wandering around the place, Lily spied a carousal and dragged James across to it.

It was unlike the Muggle contraptions that she had seen, for it was filled with magical beasts. There were about thirty seats in all.

"I love these things!" She squealed happily. "I haven't seen one of these in such a long time! Come on!" She leaped easily onto the moving carousal, and settled herself comfortably onto on of the 'horse', which was in fact, a pure white Pegasus, and watched as James jumped on and clamber aboard a black unicorn with a golden horn and they rode round and round.

(To clear up any confusion, this is sort of in a narrator's view, so their names are used, but, they still don't know who each other are. It will get kind of confusing if I keep using he or she every time.)

"I remember one time, when I was young, we had this class outing..." Lily spoke.

*** Flashback ***

It was a day just like any other, but a six year old Lily Evans was waiting excitedly on the steps of her house, waiting for her school bus to come. After all, it was a school field trip, and six year olds got excited easily enough.

They day proceeded along just well enough, but, sometime around mid-afternoon, disaster struck for the young girl. (it's nothing serious!)

"No!" Lily shrieked as she looked at her assignments that were currently scattered over the surface of the duck pond.

She quickly got onto her stomach to try and retrieve a few of the pieces, before she heard splashing sounds and looked up.

~~ James' Flashback

Six year old James Potter splashed into the pond and started swimming around, collecting the pieces of paper. He climbed out of the pond and quickly handed the stack to the girl, and hurriedly ran away, not once meeting her eyes.

*** End ***

Lily laughed. "Well, after that we sat this carousal, sort of like the one back there, but the Muggle kind. It was funny! He was sitting behind me, and I kept trying to peek back at him! But well, everytime I turned back he would avert his gaze!" Lily laughed.

The pair were now seated outside a café, happily spooning mouthfuls of ice-cream into their mouths.

"No kidding!" James laughed, but there was a thoughtful light in his eyes. "So tell me, what did the guy look like, and what school were you from then?" He asked, trying not to sound too interested.

"Well... he had brown eyes and black hair, kind of like you anyway, well, he looked almost like you, except younger. Well, I can't remember what school I was from then. I just know that we were made to wear identification numbers so the teachers knew who we were. Mine was… Umm.. 21931."

James choked on his ice-cream. "Are you sure?"

Lily frowned at him. "Well, quite."

James started laughing rather loudly. "Well, I remember you now! No wonder you seemed so familiar. I was the idiot who fished your stuff out from the pond, just like what I did just now! I remember your identification number!" He laughed again. "Well, at that moment, I thought you were the most beautiful girl I had ever met, well, I still do in fact!"

Lily blushed at this. "So you're... that guy with the identification number 30126? Right?"

James nodded proudly. "Well, I wanted to get your number on the way back. I somehow got stuck in the same bus as you, but when you were about to get off, I still hadn't worked up the courage to ask."

"Yea, then I asked for yours, didn't I?" Lily laughed as well.

"Then after that-" James started.

"-after that I didn't call you, but well, I didn't forget either. I was walking off the train happily until I realised that I had kept your number in my bag, and my bag was still on the train."

James laughed. "I always wondered why you didn't call. Ok, now, let's be properly introduced. I'm-"

A loud crack cut off his next words, as lightning flashed down near them, and it started raining heavily.

Letting out a hiss of irritation, James grabbed Lily's hand and they ran to an overhanging rock escarpment that sheltered them from the rain and the worst of the winds.

"Bad luck huh? For it to happen now," James said as he stared out at the rain. "It'll probably be over soon, this looks like a normal spring rain. We'll just have to wait this one out."

Lily peered into the rain over his shoulder. "I can't wait! Oh no! I need to get back into the castle now!"

James looked at the sky, which was rapidly starting to darken. "It is kind of late now. Damn. I've got to go too! My friends will maul me when I get back. Well, I'm off."

James made to ran out, but Lily tugged him back. "Quick, you have a C-Globe don't you?"

"Yea," he replied hurriedly.

"Your number?"

The hurriedly exchanged strips of paper, and ran off into the rain, each running their separate way, Lily going right, and James heading left.

(Hmm, I was wondering if I should stop now, but hey, I'm not. Yea, I decided that since I might not update anytime soon, I might as well write something longer. This is kinda short.)

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James entered his head rooms, and he looked up to find Sirius, Remus and Peter seated in the couches.

"Where the hell did you go huh?" Sirius asked angrily, holding James wand. "I know you can take care of yourself, but you can be real stupid at times, and you were gone such a long time, and didn't take your wand with you. What were we expected to think?"

"I'm fine Padfoot! Really, I am. See, I'm standing here, I'm not dead yet," James said. He crossed over the room and sank into the couch beside his friends. "I went to Hogsmeade, here I got you guys these." He pulled out the deck of cards and tossed them onto the table where his friends pounced eagerly onto them.

"Cool! Is that Holga the Hornets Keeper?" Sirius asked excitedly. "Peter hands off that card, it's mine!"

Peter snatched the card over. "No, it's mine!"

And for a good five minutes, they fought eagerly over the cards.

"No, why don't I give you the bludger card, and you give me the Ten point card?" Remus whined to Peter.

"No can do, Moony. This card's mine!" Peter declared.

Then, as one, they seemed to realise that James was being awfully quiet.

"Prongs?... Prongs?" Sirius asked as concern lit his eyes.

"Yea?" James asked distantly, allowing a goofy grin to slide on his face as he remembered the days' events.

His three friends did not miss a beat, as realization dawned on all faces.

"Ok, James, what happened?" Sirius asked as he inched closer to his friend.

Suddenly James laughed, startling them into silence. "Padfoot, you're right, for once!" James declared loudly.

"I am? Oh wait.. Of course I am! I've always been right!" Sirius said indignantly.

Remus and Peter laughed.

"So what's Sirius right about this time?" Remus asked curiously.

"I'm in love!" James said happily, earning strange stares from his friends. "What? Didn't Sirius say that it's a good thing? Well, I've gone and found mine, without Padfoot's help this time, of course," James added dryly.

Identical evil grins split the other three Marauder's faces.

"Ok Prongs, you can't keep this to yourself, tell us now! Who's the lucky girl?" Peter asked, eyes glinting.

"Oh... err," James looked confused for a moment. "I have no idea exactly."

"You… WHAT?!?!" Sirius yelled with a dumbstruck expression.

"Well, I didn't ask for her name," James replied in irritation.

"Why ever not?"

"Cause I forgot."

Sirius pretended to faint. "Oh my god, James, how could you not ask for her name? The potential future Mrs. Potter will remain a mystery. Nevermind… so tell us, how's she like?"

James grinned again. "Simply excellent."

"Andd...?" Remus prompted.

"Well, she has this mightily lovely pair of emerald green eyes that you can just get lost in, and fiery reddish hair, about 5"6? And, she's an angel. The way she acts, and the way she talks, and well... frankly... I like the fact that she didn't have a single inkling of who I was." He said this with some puzzlement on his face.

"No kidding! Prongs, you've got to stop pulling our leg. No one... no one, doesn't know the Marauders," Peter said.

Remus didn't say anything, though he looked doubtful, and James knew that while Remus was as egoistical as his other friend, he was fairly certain that the Marauders were immensely well-known.

However, the one with possibly the biggest head in the lot, Sirius Black, still didn't speak, and he had a frown of concentration on his face.

"Padfoot, your verdict?" Peter asked expectantly.

Sirius waved Peter's question aside and focused his currently black and dark blue eyes onto James. "Huge green eyes you say?" James nodded. "Quite pale, but with a natural glow?" Nod. "Red hair down to her waist?"

James opened his mouth. "Sirius, do you know her?"

Sirius again waved his friend aside, with a thoughtful expression on his face. "I've met her," he announced finally.

"And you didn't tell me?" James cried.

"Well, you didn't want to know at that time, so... I saw no need to," Sirius finished simply.

James shrugged, knowing his friend was right.

Sirius nodded. "Yea, James is correct. She had no clue of how I was when we met. Well, she literally crashed into me, and there were no time for formalities. I didn't get her name." And he saw James hopeful face fall. "Don't worry James. Someone's bound to have seen her somewhere before, if she's as nice as you described. We'll just have to search for her."

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Lily happily sat herself down on her bed, not caring about how wet she was. It could be easily taken care of with a warm bath and a few simple spells. She hummed happily as she stared at the wall, recounting the day's events to every minute detail.

Outside, it was still pouring cats and dogs, but the rain enclosed her in her own world and she felt safe hearing the sound of raindrops hitting the roof steadily.

'Who is he?' Lily wondered to herself.

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"Hey Bella!" Sirius greeted happily as he sat himself down opposite his girlfriend at the Gryffindor table. "Hey Jill!" He smiled at her friend. "I swear you're turning into a Gryffindor."

Bella laughed. "No! My loyalties are with Ravenclaw!"

Sirius pouted jokingly. James, Remus and Peter joined them at that moment, James hair still dripping hair from the afternoon, and looking even more unkempt than usual.

"James!" Jill exclaimed in astonishment. "What happened?"

Sirius grinned at his friend. "He had a meeting with the future Mrs Potter, and guess what? He forgot to get her name. One wonders why he's one of the smartest in our year eh?"

James swatted a hand at Sirius, but laughed anyway. "Hey Bella, Jill."

"James."

"So," Sirius asked. "Any of you know a girl about 5"6, red hair, large emerald green eyes?"

Bella looked at Jill, whose eyes widened.

James noticed the expression that flitted across their faces immediately. "What, you know her?" He asked in excitement.

"Yea..." Bella replied, eyes sparkling innocently. "Umm, she has enormously large green misty eyes..."

'Hmmm, that sounds suspicious,' James thought inwardly. 'That girl did not have misty eyes.'

"And, she had limp red hair, which was probably dyed..." Jill continued.

'Limp?' James asked himself.

"Gee, James," Bella said, eyes twinkling with mirth, and she glanced at Jill, who was trying to stuff a fist into her mouth to stop laughing. "I never knew you fancied Professor Trelawnly that much. If you had said so earlier... we could have brought you there... Jill does take Divination, you know?"

A roar of laughter issued from Sirius', Remus' and Peter's mouths as Bella finished her sentence, and people were turning around to look at them, a few girls waving frantically in their direction.

James glowered at them, barely managing to keep a grin off his face. It was funny, if you thought of it from a different view.

"Good one you two!" Sirius said once he managed to calm himself down enough to speak coherently.

"Some friend you are!" James retorted jokingly.

Bella and Jill exchanged amused glances, but they turned their attention back to James.

"But, honestly James, I know why you're so intent on finding her. She isn't like the rest of them. She is positively sweet, and very obviously, beautiful," Jill said.

James cocked an eyebrow at them. "Oh no! Now this is taking it too far." Still thinking that they were joking.

"No, James, we're not. We've met. That girl? She's Lily."

Opposite them, James face cracked into an enormous grin. Finding her was going to be a breeze.

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There! Woohoo! I'm done! Yea, my exams are probably two weeks from being done, so I guess this may be the last chapter I write until they end. But I will write if I find time to do so. I like this chapter. It was quite humorous writing it.

Well, hope you enjoy it too.

~cube.