The Diary
Chapter 3: The Entry and the Invitation
Lily woke up early the next morning and no matter how much she tossed and turned she could not fall back to sleep, so she got up, took her shower and got dressed; it was still very early. She decided to make use of her time and write in her diary.
She walked over to her trunk, opened it, rummaged to the bottom of it and pulled out a little leather bound book. Then, she grabbed her wand off her night stand, school bag and left the room.
She cuddled onto a couch near the fire that was dying from having to burn all the wood during the night, yet it still gave off a lot of heat and she was comforted by the warmth that it was giving off.
When she got cozy she reached into her bag and grabbed her quill and ink. Dabbing the quill in her ink well, she wrote:
Dear Diary,
I haven't written to you in a long time. I've had a lot of work to do. Something happened last night though; James Potter wants to meet me and talk. He says he wants to get to know me better. I wonder where he's going to take me. I'm not even sure what to call this: a meeting or a date. I hope a meeting. I really don't like Potter that way. I mean, of course he's drop-dead gorgeous, but I don't really have feelings for him. I got to go; someone's coming.
Love always,
Lily Evans
Lily slammed her diary shut and shoved it into her bag. She looked down at her watch; it read 5:30. She wondered who would be up around this time. Not wanting to look like she was just doing nothing, she bit her quill and tried to place a look preoccupation on her face.
"Oh…umm…hi, Lily. I, uh, didn't know you where down here." The voice that spoke to her was a voice that she knew only to well.
"Hi, Potter; sleep tight?" she said sarcastically as she flashed him her famous grin.
"Please, call me James; heck, call me Prongs or even Jamsie-Wamesie, but please can we get over the last name thing?" Jamsie-Wamesie? Where did that come from? He regretted that he had said that and that feeling of regret expanded as she spoke her next few words.
"Well, Jamsie-Wamesie, how come you're up so early?" She motioned for him to sit down next to her.
He obliged. "I couldn't sleep. You?"
"Me, too. I don't know, I think I'm excited, well I mean I feel excited. I just don't know why." Why did I say that? It just came out, I couldn't even control it; Lily thought to herself.
"Wow that was really random."
"I know," she laughed aloud, "I don't know why I said it."
There was long pause; neither knew what to say to the other.
"So…ummm..," James began, "when do you want to get together?" When he finished saying it, it felt like there was a great weight that was lifted from his back. That was why he couldn't sleep. He kept on thinking about her and where they would go and what they would do.
"Oh, umm, I don't….I'm not sure. Any day is good, but Wednesdays. I have Arithmancy and it's really tough…"
Lily couldn't finish because she was cut off. "Uh, Lily did you forget that we have it together?" he felt his heart sink. How could she forget that her worst enemy was in all her classes? He had actually been in all of her classes since first year.
Lily blushed. How could she forget that? She looked up to answer him, but when she did her eyes met his. She glanced into his chocolate orbs and suddenly looked away. Why would she even consider getting lost into his deep brown eyes?
James felt his heart stop as his eyes caught her emerald gems that she called her eyes. Why was he so entranced by her? Was it…no, he shook himself. I refuse to believe it. He pulled away at the exact same moment Lily did.
Lily blushed and told him before he could notice her cheeks turning crimson that she was going to the grounds. She said good-bye, gathered her things and left.
James ran upstairs and grabbed his invisibility cloak. He didn't know why but he had to follow her. He felt it in his gut and he always went with his gut instinct even if the choice was going to get him into trouble.
He jetted out of his dorm, into the common room and left into the hallway. He could see Lily about 50 yards away. He put on his cloak and jogged up behind her. He walked slowly making sure that if he did make a sound that it would be very faint so she wouldn't know that anyone was behind her.
When they reached the grounds, she headed straight for the lake. When she reached it she sat down and took of her shoes and socks. She dipped her toes into the water. It was refreshing to her even if it was freezing. Then she put both of her feet in the water. She always loved putting her feet in the lake. It always helped her clear her head and right now was as good as any. She was so confused about James and why the sudden change of heart. She had to admit though she was sick of the pranks that they pulled on each other.
James settled himself next to a tree that was the closest to Lily. He just stared at her.
James saw a small smile glide across her face. She was so innocent, so beautiful. Wait, what was he saying? His thoughts were abruptly ceased as he saw Lily being pulled into the lake.
He knew exactly what it was. The giant squid was pulling her into the water. He saw her reach for her wand, but it was no good; she was to far away.
He ran toward her and pulled out his wand, which was neatly stuffed into his pocket. He didn't care that the invisibility cloak had flew off of him. He just had to save Lily.
"Stupefy! Stupfey!" screamed James as a blue light burst out from the end of his wand. The squid let go of Lily and sunk back into the depths of the lake. Lily was now fully thrashing in the water.
"James, help! HE…..LP!" she said while swallowing water.
James ran into the water and grabbed her. He swam her safely back to the shore, where she immediately started spitting up.
James walked over to where his cloak was and picked it up. He then turned around and walked back to Lily. He grabbed her bag and put it on his arm. The he picked up a still breathing hard Lily and started walking back toward the castle. James held her as a father would hold his new born baby girl.
She rested her head on his chest. She was too tired to object about all the attention he was giving her.
James noticed that she was shivering, so he held her tighter and draped his invisibility cloak on her.
It didn't help much, but he was sure that he saw a small smirk creep across her face as she pulled to cloak closer to her face.
"Lily, do you want to go to the Hospital Wing?"
"No, just take me to Gryffindor Tower." She said shivering. She felt so safe, so secure and she didn't want the feeling to ever leave her.
When James reached The Fat Lady, she said, "Quidditch," and the doorway to the Gryffindor Common Room emerged.
James didn't put her down until they reached the door of the girl's dorm.
"I'm going to take a quick bath, put on some fresh clothes and then I'll be back in the common room. I hope I see you there." Lily said shyly as a smirk crossed her face.
James couldn't help it; he blushed. To cover it up, he looked away, "Umm…okay. Well, then maybe I'll see you there." He turned around and started walking to the boy's dorm.
"James?!"
He stopped abruptly and whipped around when he heard his name. "Yeah?"
"Thank you. You saved my life. I'll never forget it." She said sheepishly.
James turned a violent shade of red. He couldn't hide it. So he just replied, "It was nothing," and turned away and walked into his dorm.
Did I just see James Potter blush? No, it couldn't be, Lily thought. She pushed it out of her mind she didn't want to think about it.
She went to her bed and grabbed fresh clothes, walked to the bathroom and started a bath.
Immediately, the hot water relaxed her. It felt so good to be in hot water and not scared as she was earlier, but in freezing cold water. She quickly warmed up, washed herself, and got out. She dressed and dried her hair and left it down.
She walked out of her dorm and into the common room. She was hoping to see James and her heart jumped when she did. He was sitting by the fire under a blanket looking blankly into space.
She walked over to him, sat next to him, got under the cover and cuddled next to him.
"James, I don't know how to thank you. You are so brave…" she began.
"Lily, don't worry about it, really. It was nothing. I would have done it for anyone, well, everyone except Malfoy and Snape.
She giggled and kissed his cheek. "You don't know how happy I am that you were there...which reminds me, why were you there? Did you follow me?"
James heart skipped a beat. "Well, I…ugh..."
"Oh well, it doesn't really matter does it. I'm just happy that you were there. If you weren't there I might have been lying in a giant squid's stomach."
"Don't even think about that, Lily. Try to get some rest. It's already been a hard day and it barely just begun.
Lily knew he was right, but she didn't feel like going to her bed to sleep, so she laid down next to James, resting her head on his lap.
James smiled and then Lily fell into a deep sleep. He was caressing her hair when he fell asleep.
"Prongs!?" said Padfoot.
"I think he's out of it and WHY is he down her with Lily?" Moony said in a quizzical voice.
"Well, we have to wake them up. I mean they have to eat breakfast and then we have classes." said Jessica. She was standing next to Sirius, who had his arm around her.
"Alright you guys can go down to the Great Hall, I'll do it." stated Moony.
"What are you kidding me?! I wouldn't miss this for the world." Padfoot stated blankly.
"Prongs..." Moony said shaking him, "you have to get up. Breakfast is going to start any minute."
"Mom, give me five more minutes," said James, "please." Everyone started to laugh. Sirius was on the floor rolling around; he couldn't take it. He thought it was hilarious.
"JAMES!" Moony screamed, "I am not your mother!" Remus shook him harder and then suddenly James' eyes flew open.
"What's wrong?" he stated blankly. He made a move to get up, but there was this dead weight on him. He looked down to see Lily, who had just started to awaken from her friends acts.
Lily looked at James and smiled. She felt so much better then she did. She felt safe with James. "Thank you," she whispered.
He nodded. "Why were you guys together sleeping, anyway?" asked Moony.
"Oh well..." started James, but he was cut off.
"We both couldn't sleep and we came down here and we started talking and fell asleep." She said looking at James as if to say don't say anything please.
James knew what she meant and didn't say anything more.
"Okay, well I'm off to get some breakfast," Lily said. "Who's coming with?" She looked at James.
"Nah, I'll be down in a minute though. Save me a seat." As he said that Lily put a little depressed look on her face, but she said nothing more and walked out of the room; followed by Lauren, Emma, Jess, Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
The moment they left, James ran upstairs into the boy's dorm room. He grabbed a quill and a small piece of parchment from his nightstand. He scribbled 9 words on it.
Meet me in Three Broomsticks next Hogsmeade weekend.
Jamesie-Wamesie
He didn't even stop until he reached the Owlery. He called upon Angel, his Tawny Owl, from a high beam in the ceiling. He tied the note to her leg and told her what to do with it.
She flew off and he headed toward the Great Hall for a spot of breakfast.
When he got there he wasn't surprised to see that Jess and Sirius were sitting next to each other, but he did find it surprising that James' friends were sitting with Lily's friends and they were getting along. He smiled to himself. I guess I should have known this was coming he thought to himself as he walked over the Gryffindor Table and took the only empty seat near his friends. The seat next to the one he took was empty but there was food on the plate meaning that it was taken.
He didn't really think much of it; he was too busy shoving his face with the scrambled eggs, waffles and pancakes that were on his plate.
While he was eating he noticed a red haired girl sit down, but he was too busy to know where. Then, the Post came; he looked up to find Angel. She found him when she landed in front of the person who was sitting next to him. He didn't really think anything of it. He figured that Lily was sitting next to the person that he was sitting next to.
A few seconds later he heard a whisper in his ear. It scared him half to death. "I'll be there. What time?"
He jumped and turned around. It was Lily; she was sitting next to him. "Oh, Lily you scared me. I didn't even know you where there."
Lily giggled and said, "I know, I wanted scare you and see your reaction, so now seemed as good a time as any to answer your message. Wow, I guess you were hungry." She said as she looked at James' plate which was now almost empty.
James blushed. "Yeah, I was really hungry." Did I just blush, he thought to himself. I have to stop doing that.
Did he just blush? Wow, that's like the second time today. "Well, when do you want to meet?" she asked.
"Oh...umm...well I was thinking that we could go in the morning and have the whole day." he told her. "I mean if that's okay with you, that is?"
"Oh, that's perfect." She said smiling at him.
He smiled back and immediately changing the subject. He didn't want her to change her mind. They continued talking, but the conversation never really went anywhere because they were both very shy toward one another, not yet knowing much about the other.
Well, this is why Lily and I are getting together; I want to get to know her. She has an aura around her and it makes her radiant. I don't know why I didn't see it before. James said to himself quizzically.
After about ten more minutes in The Great Hall, Gryffindor 6 years left for Transfiguration.
Lily walked with her friends as they talked about the cutest boy and who they would try to put the next move on, but Lily had her mind on other things: like when the next Hogsmeade weekend would be and why James actually wanted to meet and get to know her more. She couldn't help, but think that it was some kind of joke. All she knew was one thing. She was excited about her next trip to Hogsmeade. She didn't know why but she was having a funny feeling that she was going to have a great time.
After a short time of walking, they rounded a corner and stepped into the Transfiguration classroom. Prof. Flamel was already in the front of the room and ready to begin the lesson. Lily headed towards her seat and sat down. After two minutes the bell rang for everyone to be in their lesson. Everyone has taken their seats and Flamel.
"I have something to tell everyone and I'm sure you will be very happy to hear it. This weekend will be a Hogsmeade weekend. You all know the rules, but I will repeat them for those of you who are careless." He stated bluntly and gave a crude look at the back of the room where a group of four boys were sitting. Everyone in the class turned their head and Lily recognized the group to be the Marauders. She smiled for she knew that they were forever breaking and bending the rules. "The earliest a student may leave to visit Hogsmeade is 9:30 am, students that do not have a permission slip to visit the town are prohibited to go, and all students will return to the castle at 9:30 pm or earlier, but no later. Now after that is said let me continue with the les-"
But before Prof. Flamal could finish his sentence, the class erupted in talking, laughing and Lily knew only to well that it was because her house mates wanted to know what everyone of their friends were going to do while visiting the town.
Lily did not talk, for she knew that Flamel would be very aggravated when he finally got his class to calm down. She looked causally around the room and spotted two pieces of folded parchment soaring through the air toward her.
She noticed that one was coming directly toward her and the other was leaning a little to the left. She grabbed the one that was coming toward her and Jessica grabbed the one that went to the left.
Lily unfolded her note hastily and read:
Meet me next Saturday in the Common Room at 9.
James
She smirked then turned to James and nodded in approval. He grinned back and then turned to Sirius. She stuffed the note in her bag hoping no one noticed that the most popular boy in Hogwarts just wrote her a note. She then heard a faint giggle coming from Jess. Lily looked over she was still staring at her note and wearing a smile that was from ear to ear.
"What does it say, Jess?" Lily asked quickly
Jess handed the note to Lily and then looked at a crimson Sirius and nodded excitedly still wearing the huge smile she had on when Lily took the note from her. As Jess was nodding in acceptance to his question, Lily could see Sirius' face change from an extremely apprehensive look to a look of utter joy and contentment. Lily had to smile to herself she thought it was adorable how her friend was acting over one of her ex-bitter rivals. After shaking herself from her thoughts she looked down into her hands and read:
Would you like to have dinner in Hogsmeade with me on Sunday? You don't have to answer now or anything. Just tell me whenever you feel like it.
Sirius
Lily smiled; she had to admit that the once called Padfoot adored her friend, and even though they were rivals for all of their past years at Hogwarts, Lily was happy for Jess.
"SILENCE!" Lily jumped at the words. It kicked her back into reality and she realized that she was sitting in the Transfiguration classroom. She hastily shoved the note back into Jess's hands and focused her attention on Prof. Flamel.
Finally, an hour later the bell rang for the end of her Transfiguration lesson. The room was filled with sighs and yawns. It was apparent to Lily how many people had fallen asleep while Flamel was giving his usual lecture before they start a new spell. This week they would be learning how to turn an inanimate object into a living one.
Well, I thought it was quite interesting. I guess I'm the only one that was actually listening in that class, then. Even Jess fell asleep. Was it even that boring? Lily said to herself as she packed her things up into her bag.
She started to walk out with Jess and Emma when she heard a boy call her name. She turned to see a boy with black messy hair looking down and her.
"Yes?" she replied smiling up at James.
"Well, I just wanted to say that my note in Transfiguration might have been a little confusing. I actually changed where we are going to meet for our…well…I mean to say…I guess our-"
"…Meeting?" Lily replied, hoping that was the word that James was searching for and if not that it was something that meant the same thing. She didn't want to go out on a date with James-Pretty-Boy-Potter. She just didn't like him like that; she just wanted him to be her friend for now.
"Yeah, that's it. Well, before I said that we were going to meet in The Three Broomsticks. Well, I changed my mind. Is it okay if we meet in the common room and walk there together?" James asked apprehensively, hoping that Lily wouldn't be suspicious of his changing of the plan.
"James, that's fine. I actually wanted to walk their together." She said, while showing her famous grin that made James blush for the third time that day.
"Good, I thought for a moment that you were going to be…well never mind that, I'll see you during lunch then?"
"Yeah, that's fine. See you then." What had he wanted to say before he stopped himself? Merlin, this boy is so confusing.
Well, it's been like how long since my last update? Hehehe...evil smirk… okay so a couple things to do before I end…
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Disclaimer: I don't anything in my story. They were all created by the wonderfully talented J.K. Rowling. The only thing that I own is the plot.
Rating: I think that I am going to change this story's rating to R but for now it is still PG-13. It is rated for language that will come soon in other chapters and possibly for mature themes! So you are warned!
Author's Note: I know it took me a very long time to update and I'm sorry, but I had a slight case of writer's block! But I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I will be working very hard to get the next chapter up very soon. AND PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW! (and I do take flamers because I think that I need the critiquing, so please review and visit girl4BRITISHguys fanfiction, see if you like it! Personally, I think it's great!) Thank you all for your support!
Also, on a further note, I did have a specific font for what James, Lily, and Sirius wrote, but now it is just italicized writing in my regular font! GRRRR DAMN No, I wouldn't so that. So okay I'm done now and again PLEASE REVIEW!