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yea-i'm-awsome892 Bleh, I know I messed up a lot on all the facts from the actual Harry Potter series, but I write this without the books sitting in front of me and I haven't read the books in almost a year so I forgot a lot of stuff. Also, I purposely distorted some of the stuff from the books, so = P. Thanks for point it out though! I didn't know Lily was in Ravenclaw!
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Chapter 2
The next few days passed quickly, with me hardly noticing my surroundings, much less appreciating them. I didn't eat, didn't sleep, rarely talked to anyone, and spent most of my time staring directly in front of me. Unfortunately, during meals, the person sitting directly in front of me (and behind Remus) was Lucius Malfoy, and every time he caught me staring, he would stare right back with that evil glint in his eyes.
Once, Sirius passed me a sandwitch (not to be confused with the muggle food "sandwich"), knowing my knack for these little bite-sized witches made of sand and sprinkled with sugar. It was a childhood favorite, but I wasn't in the mood, and Sirius soon gave up. Looking back on this period of time, I don't quite understand why I was like this, but Angel was my first real girlfriend (those bimbos that I flirted with don't count), and of course this was my first argument with her. After that day when she left me, I had made numerous attempts to apologize and to justify my actions, but she ignored all of them leaving me less and less confident about the direction of our relationship. I stopped going on patrol with Lily so I could spend more time with myself. She was slightly surprised, but I guess she understood since she stopped bothering me.
One day, Angel approached me at the Gryffindor table.
"We need to talk." She calmly stated. I nodded and followed her, hopeful for another chance to make things right again. However, I wasn't sure if I should have been relieved or disturbed by what she said next.
"I can't forgive you for being so sarcastic to me right after my parents died. I can't begin to describe to you how I felt." At this, I gulped. "But I understand your intention, so I'll try to forget that incident and we should continue with things the way they were before it happened."
My reaction to this was very complicated. "She wants to forget the incident without working it out or anything? Wow, I'm getting off easy…too easy…there's gotta be something behind this." Nevertheless, I managed a smile as I took her into my arms again. I tried to convince myself that the worst was over.
I couldn't be more wrong.
Our relationship only went downhill from there. After that day, there was a distinct change in her. Her face was often expressionless. She never smiled or laughed and spoke very little. Hell, every time we snogged it didn't feel any different from when I practiced on my pillow. It was plainly obvious that she was still upset but was trying to restrain herself.
Of course, after that day I started hanging out with Lily more often too. I was back to my old humorous and sexy self (of course ), and she was back to her laughing and cheerful self. Everything between her and me was going well, just as it had before.
Angel's behavior became routine by the time the holidays ended. Our walks weren't as special as they had been since they were often consumed by the silence between the two of us. Meanwhile, my patrols remained the only time when I could see Lily and act freely around her. Although we often saw each other during meals (she sits really close to me, remember?), the most I could do was a quick "hey" and then look away immediately as I didn't want to piss off Angel any further.
Then came the second semester and with it came the spirit of Valentine's Day (which was still about month off, but whatever). One day at dinner, Dumbledore made a quick announcement.
"To all students 4th year and up, the annual Valentine's Day ball is coming up. I would like to ask the Head Boy and Head Girl to lead the prefects in preparing for this event. Thank you." Of course, Remus, Sirius, and I were too busy planning another prank on Severus Snape to notice this announcement (we always depended on the generosity of our fellow Gryffindors to inform us of any events).
Sirius had the pleasure of finding out about this event that same night while he was snogging some girl who brought up the subject. He immediately asked Jennifer Fowler, one of Lily's friends, who said yes. Remus found out from Sirius the very next day about the ball and asked Amy O'Conner, another one of Lily's best friends, and she also consented (funny how fate managed to bring all of us together).
However, nobody had the heart to tell me. The guys didn't tell me either because they thought I already knew or that they just didn't want competition (I understand totally ). The girls didn't tell me either because they thought I already knew or that they thought I was taken (again, understandable). So by the time February rolled around, I still didn't know about the event and, of course, didn't have a date.
Luckily, Lily Evans wasn't taken either. Plus, she was nice enough to inform me of the event only a week before. And the topic came up in an interesting way…
Lily and I were on patrol together that night, and we were talking, laughing, and hitting it off as usual. It was almost amazing how comfortable I was feeling around her, although we were just friends. The topic of our conversation at the time was my pranking history.
"Yeah, so then I charmed one of Snape's letters at breakfast so when his owl dropped his letters into his lap, he had a howler. He had no idea what it was, but being the dim idiot that he is, he opened it and didn't know to back up so he got quite an earful from his mum."
Lily looked a little confused, but that's because I hadn't gotten to the good part yet. "So what happened next?" She asked.
"All of us heard his mum shouting 'SEVERUS SNAPE! HOW DARE YOU NOT WRITE TO YOUR MOTHER LAST NIGHT! YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO WRITE TO ME EVERYNIGHT, NO EXCEPTIONS, NO EXCUSES! DON'T EVER THINK ABOUT MISSING A LETTER AGAIN! OTHERWISE, YOU'LL BE GETTING THE WEDGIE (a/n: did I spell that right?)!' And then I put a charm on it so that Snape's clothes would disappear little by little until he was left in his whitey-tighties. But it didn't stop there. Sirius charmed his underwear to magically stretch out and pull itself over his head. Unfortunately, his underwear couldn't last that long, stretched out like that, so it tore, and now he has a big gaping hole in that pair of underwear that he wears everyday. The entire Great Hall was laughing at him. It was hilarious. Finally, Snape managed to pull his underwear off his head, and I swear I saw tears in his eyes. It was one of the best…"
I looked down to see that Lily had collapsed on the floor in giggles. She had tears in her eyes as she held her stomach and struggled to breathe.
"Oh come on, Lily, that wasn't that funny. I still haven't told you about that time when Sirius turned Snape into a woman…"
Lily stopped laughing and looked at me. "James Potter, I did not need to know that. Ugh! Just the thought makes me wanna puke." At that, she slumped against the wall and made gagging noises. I played along and patted her back so that she could "puke it all out". Instead, much to my surprise and dismay, I got a small burp out of her. Squealing, she covered her mouth before slapping my arm playfully. "Sorry, I guess I had a lot to eat today."
"What are you talking about?" I retorted. "That burp was pathetic. Let me show you how it's done," and then I readied myself momentarily before emitting a rumbling BURP. Lily turned away, holding her nose.
"Ewww…that was gross. Honestly, James, you need to learn some manners"
"What are you talking about? You're not much better with these so-called manners," I added with a wink.
"That's because you forced it out of me! It wasn't my fault!"
"Well you had it waiting there otherwise nothing would have happened."
Lily opened her mouth to say something, then paused to think.
"Haha, gotcha!" I sniggered. Lily rolled her eyes at me, and we continued our patrol.
After sometime, it appeared that Lily was feeling tired. So, being the gentleman that I was (and still am), I offered to carry her to her dorm. She was reluctant at first, but gave in because we happened to be very far from the Gryffindor common room and she didn't want to walk all the way.
When we got through the portrait hole, I let her down. That's when she asked me, "Are you going with anyone to the Valentine's Ball?"
I shook my head no, readying myself for what was going to happen next.
"Then will you go with me?" She looked at my hopefully.
My breath caught in my throat.
Mwahahahaha, gotta love cliffhangers = P. Glad so many of you guys like this story = P. Sorry about the wait. I've been very busy, but I'll try my best to get the next chapter out soon!