The next morning at breakfast, James made sure that he saved a seat for Lily, snapping and practically biting anyone's heads off if they tried to sit in the seat. He even threatened to smack Sirius upside the head if he sat down there. Grumbling, Sirius decided to sit on the left side of Alexa (Remus was on the right, much to Sirius's distaste).
Alexa beamed at him cheerfully, enjoying all the attention that she was suddenly getting. Sirius instantly cheered up, grinning back at her. Glancing around Alexa, Sirius glared at Remus, who just continued to eat his breakfast. It became well known around the castle that Sirius and Remus were fighting over Alexa, but Remus hadn't done anything, really. He didn't even really want to date Alexa, but he'd already agreed to a friendly get- together. Besides, he didn't really think that Alexa wanted to date him, either.
When Lily came into the Great Hall, James looked up and patted the seat next to him, grinning. Lily rolled her eyes and sighed, but sat down anyway.
As she was gathering food onto her plate, James began to ask, "Lily---"
"No," she answered automatically. When she looked up, James was frowning. "What?"
"You didn't even let me finish what I was going to ask!" he protested, pouting. She raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. "I was going to ask if you were okay, but nooo. You have to go an assume that I'm going to ask you out."
"Yes, Potter, I'm fine," Lily, taking a drink of her tea, replied. "And how can I not just assume that you're going to ask me out? You've been asking me out at least three times a day since first year, and whenever you wanted to ask me something, it was always if I would go out with you."
Alexa snorted with laughter into her scrambled eggs at Lily's response, and Sirius, thinking that she was choking, started patting her on the back. She tried to swat his hand away, but now she really was choking because she was laughing so hard, and plus she couldn't breathe with all of Sirius's pounding on her back, knocking the wind out of her.
"Sirius, I believe that Alexa doesn't need your help," Remus said to one of his best friends, who glared, but stopped pounding on her. Alexa nodded her head vigorously, agreeing with Remus.
James coughed abruptly to get Lily's attention back to him. When her emerald green eyes were focused on him, he cleared his throat, and, smirking, asked, "Lily, will you go out---"
"No."
"Why? You haven't eve---"
"Don't finish that sentence, James Potter," Lily said gruffly. "You can never say that I haven't given you chance. Have you forgotten the date that we had?"
"How can I finish even one sentence when you keep interrupting---"
"Hey, Prongs, can you pass the salt?" Sirius called from his spot across the table. James cried out in frustration and hurled the saltshaker at Sirius, who grabbed it from the air, afraid that it was going to hit his face, where James had been aiming it.
Professor McGonagall cast a very stern look in James's direction, and came walking over there. "Mr. Potter, just what exactly do you think you are doing?"
"Professor, I---"
"Save it, Potter. I don't want to hear your excuses. Detention tomorrow night, midnight. Meet me in my office. No arguments."
When the professor walked away, James cried, "Arrrg!" and stormed out of the Great Hall. Lily stared after him, mouth open in surprise. She'd never seen James so angry before. Of course, she rarely saw James angry at all, especially not about a detention. He'd gotten plenty of those before, and he usually just took them with a smug look.
"James hates to be interrupted," Remus explained when he saw Lily's shocked expression.
"Surprisingly, Prongs has almost a bad a temper as you do, Lils," Sirius quipped. He had to duck when Lily threw her blueberry muffin at him. "What is everyone trying to do to me, give me a concussion or something?"
"We could only be so lucky," Lily muttered and Sirius pretended to be very wounded by the words. "And don't be daft, Black. Even if I had been aiming at your head, a muffin couldn't give you a concussion. You'd probably just eat it, anyway. Now give me my muffin back."
Sirius grinned. "Can't. I ate it." (A/N: Boys, I tell you. That is SUCH the typical boy thing to do.) =======================================================================
Lily found James lying outside on his back right beside the lake, staring up at the sky. Lily chewed her lip in thought (it was becoming a habit of hers). Should she go talk to him? She could go and apologize for not listening to him. Surely he was over it by now.
"Hi," she said, flopping down on her knees beside him. He looked at her through the corner of his eyes. "I'm sorry about not letting you finish your sentences back there, and about you getting detention."
James shrugged. "It isn't that big of a deal, I guess," he sighed. "It's just a major pet peeve of mine to be interrupted. I shouldn't have lost my temper, because unlike some people I could mention---but for my own safety, I won't---I don't loose my temper easily."
Lily narrowed her eyes at him, and in a sort of playful voice said, "Watch it, Potter." She suddenly got serious and softly added, "Thanks, by the way, for last night. I, uh, I never really got the chance to thank you for listening to me." She hung her head.
James cocked his head to the side. "I'm glad you told me about it. You'd be surprised at what I good listener I am, you know. You haven't anyone about it, have you?"
"No, I haven't. I don't really talk about it with anyone. I've never really had a reason to talk to someone about it before, to be honest with you."
"So what was your reason for last night, then?"
"I guess I thought that I could trust you. Don't go and get a big head again, Potter. I was just starting to get used you having a not-so-big- head. And don't go yapping about it, either. Please?"
"Now why would I go and do that, Lils?" He reached up and brushed some of her hair away out of her face, and she didn't pull away. "If you ever need someone to talk to, I'm always here for you, no matter what."
"You know something, James, I think this is one of the most civilized conversation's we've ever had," Lily said, smiling a bit. When she looked at him, he was watching her with a weird look on his face. "What?"
"You called me James. You never call me James. Well, there was that one time when---"
"So what if I did call you James? It is your name after all."
"Well, I don't know, I was starting to wonder around you if my name wasn't really just Potter," he answered, grinning at her smugly.
"You're pushing your luck, Potter," she warned.
"Sorry."
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Me: Well, how do you like the new chapter? Personally, I thought it was rather amusing...lol. Okay, just something quick to say: After I get in Remus and Alexa's date, I will be ending this story...---Sobs--- But don't worry; there will be a sequel! It will be about their seventh year, and maybe even up until they die ---Sobs again--- I wish J. K. Rowling had never killed Lily and James off. They had such great potential to be great characters! Okay, sorry. I'm rather attached to them, even if they are characters in a book. That's not that point! Okay, really, I'm done ranting now, so you can review. Go on, push the purple button, you know you like to!