Chapter 5 - To be a Gryffindor
The clock flashed 7:00 and it's piercing whistle brought Lily out of her deep repose. She buried her face back into the pillow and smacked then nightstand next to her several times before actually reaching the clock to turn off the alarm. Smiling, Lily pulled her face out of the pillow, threw the covers off her and jumped to the floor.
She strolled over to the mirror to take a look at her reflection. One strap of her plain white tank top had slightly slid down her right shoulder. A strip of tanned skin was visible between the tank top and white, loosely-fitting pajama pants. Her hair fell around her face in waves and her green eyes were exceptionally sparkly (and awake) for seven o'clock in the morning.
"Well now, dearie, don't you look cute?" the mirror told her.
A smile graced her lips as she took the compliment with dignity. "Why thank you very much. You are exceptionally astute today." She spun away from the mirror and over to her closet to pull out her clothes for the day. Unclipping one of the uniform skirts, she threw that on her bed and walked over to the window, which she proceeded to lean her upper body out of.
"It feels warm enough," she commented to herself and went back to the closet. Lily pulled a button-up white blouse with short sleeves and threw that next to her skirt. Looking at the clock, which read 7:07, she grabbed her clothes off the bed and bounced out of her room.
Pulling the door shut behind her, Lily made her way up the rest of the stairs to the balcony. She looked over the edge and into her Common Room: the fire was still crackling merrily away. Turning away from the balcony, Lily reached out her unoccupied hand to open the bathroom door.
Just as she grabbed the handle, the door quickly pulled open, knocking her off-balance. Trying to catch herself, Lily dropped her clothes and threw her hands forward.
Strong arms wrapped around her waist as she threw her arms around his broad shoulders.
"Are you okay?" Lucius asked, enjoying the feeling of her soft body in his arms. "I didn't know you were out here, I figured that you'd still be sleeping."
She smiled into his shoulder. "No, I can never sleep before the first day of classes." Inhaling the scent of his soap, Lily sighed; it felt so good to be held again.
Neither of them moved until Lily realized that the only thing covering Lucius was a towel wrapped around his waist. She blushed and pulled away. "Sorry about that," she said, directing her eyes to the floor.
He closed the distance between them and moved a hand up to her chin. Pulling her chin up, he forced her eyes to look at his while he leaned over. His lips gently brushed her ear as he whispered, "Don't be sorry." Lucius slid past her and out teh door, leaving a breathless Lily behind.
The door closed behind her as she slid to the floor, clutching her newly wrinkled clothes to her chest. She let out a breath she had been holding in an attempt to calm her raging hormones.
"What I need is a good, cold shower to calm myself," she said aloud as she pulled herself off the floor, grabbing onto the sink to support her weak knees. Almost as if responding to her words, water started to sprinkle out of the showerhead. Pulling off her pajamas, Lily climbed into the giant shower and she let out a squeal as the ice-cold water hit her body.
He closed his eyes and fell backwards onto his bed. Her body had felt so good to him. I should have kissed her when I had the chance, he thought. She had been absolutely beautiful in her white pajaas with her lean, flat stomach showing. He picked himself up off the bed and threw on some comfortable clothing.
"I need and early-morning flying session," he said to himself as his lower abdomen tightened from thoughts of Lily.
After whispering the charm to iron her skirt, Lily buttoned the blouse to just above her bra. She hung her towel on the bar to dry and headed back to her room. Looking at the clock (7:43), movement outside of her window caught her eye.
Lily made her way over to the window. She saw Lucius flying around the Quidditch pitch. He cloak flapped around in the wind behind him as he zoomed around the three hoops. She watched him for a few more minutes before heading down for breakfast.
Jess tapped her foot impatiently: Lily was late for breakfast and Lily never was late for breakfast. When a door opened, she turned to see Lily waltzing into the Great Hall with a dreamy look on her face.
"You had sex with him, didn't you?" Jessica accused, pointing her finger. "I knew it! You are never late for breakfast unless you have a really really good reason!"
Lily's mouth dropped open. "I did not!" she said indignantly, plopping herself down and crossing her arms.
Jess raised an eyebrow and smirked. "Yeah, sure, Lils. So... if you didn't have sex, then why is it you came in here looking like you're on cloud nine?"
She turned her head away. "You know, Jess, I don't know if I want to tell you... not that anything really happened, of course."
The brown eyes looked upon Lily knowingly. "Oh please... we both know that if something happened, you won't be able to keep it a secret for longer than... oh... five minutes. Spill it."
Laughter bubbled out of both of them as Lily prepared to indulge her friend. "Well... you see," she said, "nothing really happened, but something could have."
Jess looked thoroughly confused. "Could you run that by me again?"
"Okay. My alarm went off at seven and I got ready to take a shower."
"You walked in on him naked!" she yelled, making the few students in the Hall give them weird looks.
Lily gave Jess a stern look. "Do you want to know or not?"
She threw up her hands. "Okay, okay! I won't interrupt again!"
"Alright. I was going to open the door when he threw it open, catching me off-guard and making me fall. Well, I didn't exactly fall... more like... stumbled into the arms of a very muscular Slytherin chaser." She held a hand up preventing Jess from interrupting. "There was definitely a little something going on, but I'm not quite sure what. I mean, we just kind of stood there until I noticed the towel wrapped around his waist. Yes, Jess, his towel... the only thing between me and... well... him."
Jess could not find her voice, so she just ended up moving her jaw around.
"Exactly," Lily said. "Then... oh, then... after I pulled away, he leaned in like he was going to kiss me... but he only ended up whispering in my ear."
She looked disappointed. "That's it? You came in looking like you had sex and all he did was whisper in you ear after holding you?"
"Oh come on! The guy is pure muscle. I practically melted when he had his arms wrapped around me. Of course, I do hope he acts on whatever it is that his happening between us."
"You are such a lucky girl, Lils! I hope you two get together soon!"
The doors to the Hall opened to reveal a slightly flushed Lucius Malfoy holding his broom. He glanced quickly at Lily and hurried over to the Slytherin table to grab some food before getting ready to go to class.
Just before he walked in, Lily had put some pancakes on the plate in front of her. She had just begun to pour on the syrup when he walked in and now it completely flooded the plate.
"Lily? Your pancakes are drowning here."
She snapped out of her reverie. "Oh goodness!" she said picking up a spoon and attempting to ladle some of the gravy into a bowl.
After clearing out most of the syrup, Lily inhaled her pancakes as fast as she could, practically bolting from the table and her friend in order to keep her composure around him.
"Lily! Wait!" Jess called out to the back of her retreating friend.
She turned around to wave at Jess, smacking her back against the door, opening it slightly. "I'll see you in class, I've got to get ready!"
Still facing the Hall, Lily pushed open the door until it hit something that squeaked and fell to the floor, groaning. "I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed, "I didn't see you there!" She reached a hand out to help Peter, who only glared at her and pulled himself off the floor.
"Why don't you watch where you're going, Lily?" he snapped at her.
She narrowed her eyes. "Well pardon me for not realizing that the Marauders actually were down at breakfast an hour before classes start."
Sirius looked taken aback. "My dear, beautiful Lily... are you implying that we are complete slackers that wait until the last minute to get everything done?"
"Well..." Lily paused, then smiled, "yes!"
Sirius and Remus both laughed with Lily while James tried to look anywhere else and Peter fumed silently.
Lucius Malfoy came rushing out of the hall behind her holding his broom. "Lily! Oh, I'm glad I caught you." He sent a sly smile towards James and put his other hand on the small of her back. "Dumbledore wanted me to tell you that he wanted us to start getting things ready for a Halloween ball. I figured that if I caught you before class you could think about it during the day and we could discuss it tonight in our Common Room."
"Thank you, Lucius, I'll think about it during History of Magic."
He smiled at her, removed his hand, and headed down the hall, leaving behind the group of Marauders gaping at his back.
James turned to look at Lily, his face red with anger. "So that's it? What exactly did you do last night in your Common Room? Did you have sex with that prat or something?" he snapped. "It's Lucius Malfoy, Lily! The one person who hates all those in Gryffindor! The one person who will most certainly do nothing but hurt you."
"And I'm sure that you're better for me, huh?" she spat at him. "Don't you know you've already hurt me enough. I'm sick of you, James, just leave me alone!"
As she moved to walk away, James grabbed her arm and swung her around to face him. "Gryffindors do not mix well with Slytherins," he growled.
Lily looked up at him with sad-looking eyes. "Then perhaps I wasn't meant to be a Gryffindor."
James let go of her arm allowing her to leave before turning back to his friends. "It is now officially hopeless."