Did you guys know that potter means the same as mess about, perfect for James eh?
HEHEHE well onto the next chapter
It's 10:30a.m. and James still isn't up. Everyone is trying to wake him up but no one can. They have to leave the Leaky Cauldron and don't want to be late for the train. If Lily, James and Jenna don't get there before 11:00 they'll miss the Hogwarts Express. Everyone but Jenna has given up and left the room. They say it's his own fault if he doesn't get there on time. Lily had to finish getting ready so she left James' room. When she gets back it's 10:45 a.m., if they don't leave in a minute they'll miss the train. Lily doesn't want James to miss the Hogwarts Express, but she doesn't want to leave without him.
"Is he still asleep?" Lily asks Jenna as she enters the room. God why won't he wake up, she wonders.
"Yep, nothing I can do will wake him up and we need to leave now." Jenna tells her. Lily nods. She walks over to James and kneels down beside him.
"James…" she whispers into his ear. "James wake up." She shakes her head as she starts to get up. Suddenly James reaches up and kisses Lily. She pulls away. She whispers into his ear again. "Later."
"Well I think he's awake now. James Potter get your arse out of bed we have to be on the train in like two minutes!" Jenna screams at him. He rolls over then realizes what Lily had said to him. He hops out of bed as fast as he can. Did she mean that?
"Ok, out so I can get ready." He tells them. They leave laughing. Once out, Jenna turns to Lily. She stares at her.
"What was that about?" she asks Lily. Lily just looks at her. "Lily what did you whisper to James after he kissed you? That's not the first time I've seen him kiss you, maybe the first time on the lips but that was defiantly not the first time."
"Jenna I'm so confused, what happens when we get to school? Will things be the same between James and me or will things go back to how they used to be? I think I really like him, but I don't want to get hurt. I know people change, but I don't know if I can trust James." Lily rambles to Jenna. Why am I so confused when it comes to James, Lily wonders. James walks out of his room in time to hear that Lily doesn't know if she can trust him. Why doesn't she trust me? Probably because her dad's a bastard, James thinks. He pretends he didn't hear a thing.
"Ok guys, time to go." he says. They all leave James drags his trunks, but the girls had the Chines and Mrs. Potter take theirs. They run to the station making it just on time. They just have time to say good bye to Mrs. Potter and the Chines, and grab their bags. They hop onto the train. "I'm going to find Sirius and Remus. I'll see you later ok?"
"Yeah, whatever." Lily says coldly. She doesn't know what to do, or what to say to him. Things changed between them during the time they spent together, Lily didn't really want to find out if they would change back. Why was Lily so cold to me back there, James wonders. Is she mad at me? Why is she mad at me? What did I do? James walks down the hall towards the same cabin that the Marauders have occupied for the last six years. When he opens the door he's greeted by Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"Hey, what took you so long? We were beginning to wonder if you had missed the train." Remus says to him. James puts his trunks into the overhead storage with ease.
"You know girls; they can just never get enough of me." James jokes. Sirius rolls his eyes. James sits down beside Remus with Peter and Sirius on the other bench. "So guys, how were your summers?"
"Not bad, Jenna and I actually wrote a lot." Remus tells them.
"Looks like you finally got a girlfriend Moony." Sirius says. Remus blushes a little.
"No, we're just friends."
"Right, just like how James and Lily aren't going out either. You know you've got a thing for little Miss. Chine. Ask her out already." Sirius replies.
"Lily and I aren't going out. I don't know what we are right now. Earlier she didn't pull away when I kissed her…" James starts. Sirius interrupts.
"You kissed her again?"
"Yeah, but just a few minutes ago she was really cold to me."
"I didn't know you two had anything going at all. Why didn't you tell me when you wrote?" Remus says.
"I wanted to tell you something she told me in person. Guys, she knows about us."
"What about us?" Peter asks. This is the first time he's piped up since James entered the cabin.
"She knows that we are animagi." James whispers. Bloody hell!, they all think. "She saw us all that last full moon before school ended. I didn't know what to saw when she told me, I thought she knew about Remus too. It turns out she didn't, but she does now. I told her because she was getting so upset that we were doing something illegal, she thought we were really, really stupid. I'm sorry I told her Moony."
"That's ok, I understand. But you understand that the reason you told her was because you didn't want Miss. Lily Evans mad at you right?"
"No I didn't want her mad at all of us." James replies. They all shake their heads at him; they all know that James likes Lily. Everyone's a little upset at him. He gets up and leaves.
Meanwhile in Lily's cabin it's Lily, Jenna, Eloise and Alice. They all were talking about why Lily was at James house for the week. Eloise and Alice get upset because she won't tell them. Finally they let it go. Lily stares out the window and watches as the trees and countryside go by. The candy lady comes by.
"Anything from the trolley dears?" she asks them. They all decline and she leaves. Soon someone knocks on their door. They are laughing at something Eloise said. Lily gets up and opens the door a little, it's James. He looks upset, she stops laughing. Everyone looks at her. She motions that she's stepping outside. She goes out of the cabin.
"Hey what's up?" she asks him. What's the matter with him, she wonders.
"I think the Marauders are upset I told you about Remus. I didn't know you didn't know when I said what I did. You aren't gonna tell anyone are you?" He asks her. She shakes her head.
"You want to come in here and join us?" Lily asks James as she points to the door behind her. He shakes his head. "Ok I'll see you later then." She tells him. He walks away and she goes back in. Whenever Lily sees James she gets a feeling that won't go away. It feels like something that was missing has been put back into place, a piece of her heart that was taken away by him is back. She doesn't understand why this happens; it was never like this before. Back when he teased her and tormented her, things were so much easier then. When she sits down again Jenna looks at her.
"Hey what's with the face?" she asks Lily. Lily looks a little weird to her. Lily's been thinking about James. "Who was that?"
"Oh that was just James." She tells them. They all look at her. They know the way she feels about him, Lily just won't admit it. Alice and Eloise understand they feel the same way about Frank and Sirius. Jenna thinks she feels the same way about Remus, but he's never really that talkative or opens up with anyone, let alone her. Lily looks at them and sees the way they are looking at her. "What? Oh come on guys, it's nothing like that. We're just friends, nothing more."
"Sure Lils, right." Jenna says sarcastically. "Come on I know everything, ask him out."
"James and I are just friends guys nothing more. Just like I told you before. Maybe you should take your own advice and just ask out Remus." Lily tells her. Jenna turns red and sticks out her tongue
"You suck; things are different with me and Remus. I didn't spend a whole week at his house with him. And basically no parents around, I know about his mom." Jenna says. Lily furrows her brow. "Ok…ok. We'll talk about something else. So…ummm…ok someone else change the topic."
"Do you guys realize that next year is our last year?" Alice points out.
"Not for me it isn't." Eloise tells them, they forget that she's a year younger then them.
"So what are you and Sirius gonna do when he graduates?" Jenna asks her. "I mean I don't know what I'd do if I were you. I'd probably end up jealous of all the girls that he'd be with at school after Hogwarts."
"We haven't really talked about it. I don't know what we'll do; I hope we stay together though. I don't know what I'd do if we broke up. It would be incredibly hard if we did."
"I doubt you will. I mean I've never seen Sirius this serious with someone before. He's really into you. I wish some guy was like that with me." Lily says.
"Some guy is you just don't really notice it. Everyone else does Lils; look at the way James is with you. You wouldn't say what you just said if you just looked at James the way he looks at you. Lils you should go talk to him and ask him out. I mean there's so much between you two." Eloise tells her. Lily blushes, she's noticed how James' asks around her and she does feel the same way. Lily just doesn't want to admit to everyone about it.
"Eloise, why do you have to be so smart about everything? Of course I'll just go and ask James out right now, I mean why shouldn't I. Just because he use to torment and tease me is no good reason at all." Lily tells them sarcastically. She shakes her head. After not long they all get changed into their robes. The train arrives at the school. Everyone piles out and climb into the carriages. Lily climbs into the last one left, she's alone, and all her friends had been changed into their robes before she had. They had left without her. James, Sirius and Remus are in the carriage that she climbs into.
"Well hello Lily." they say to her when she gets in. She smiles.
"Hello to you too." She says. "So Remus I've got a surprise for you."
"What?" he asks interested. He has no idea that Jenna likes him; he has no idea that anyone likes him.
"I know who likes you." She tells him. Everyone looks at her.
"W…who?" he stutters.
"Do all you guys promise not to tell a soul, I mean if she finds out I'm dead." They all agree. "Ok well Remus it is none other then Jenna. But like I said you can't tell her or anyone you know. I just want her to be happy, so do you like her?"
"Well…ummm…kinda…maybe."
"So that's a yes?"
"Well he's only liked her since our first year Lils." James tells her. She laughs. James puts his arm around her, she doesn't move it off. He smiles and laughs.
"Well that's great then you can ask her out when we arrive. You may be shy, but Jenna has no idea that you like her too. You gotta ask her out soon please, for me?" she says as she gives Remus puppy dog eyes. He nods. They arrive and go into the great hall for the sorting ceremony and supper. Lily goes and sits with the Marauders and her friends, they all sit together. Eloise is across from Sirius, Jenna is across from Remus, Alice is across from Frank and Lily is across from James. The ceremony starts and McGonagall starts calling out the names.
"Amour, Timothy (HUFFLEPUFF, the hat yells)…Beatty, Sabrina (SLYTHERIN)……Scott, Bethany…" McGonagall lists. All the students go up to the stool sit down and get sorted.
"Gryffindor," the hat yells for Bethany Scott.
"Is that your sister?" Remus asks Eloise. She nods, she watches Sirius stare at her sister. "Wow she looks just like you."
"I know. Siri stop staring at her." Eloise snaps. Sirius looks at her suddenly. Why is he staring at her, he's mine, she thinks.
"Sorry." He whispers. James stares at Lily the whole time. After supper Lily and Remus lead the first years to the common room and their dorms. Later that night the Marauders and Lily and her friends are sitting in the common room. Remus gets up.
"Ummm…Jenna could I speak to you for a minute?" he asks her. She nods and gets up. She follows him out of the room. They go out into the hallway. "Would you…ummm …maybe we could… go out sometime?"
"Ummm…sure I'd love to Remus." She tells him. Inside Jenna's jumping up and down, and screaming. She's so excited.
"Great" he says smiling. They go back into the common room and sit down with everyone else again. Jenna and Remus have huge smiles on their faces. Jenna has no idea why Remus asked her out, she doesn't know that Lily told him. She's wanted this since their first year. Maybe he'll open up to her now; she's always wondered what happens to him when he leaves the school for a night every month or so. I'll ask him later on when I gain his trust, she thinks.
"So what do you guys think about this. I mean next year is our last year. Isn't it a little scary?" Alice says to them all. They all just sit there for a minute. On the one couch is Alice and Frank, Frank is lying down and Alice has her head on his chest. Eloise and Sirius are the same way on the other couch. Jenna and Remus are sitting in the two chairs just kinda looking at each other. Lily and James are sitting on the floor leaning on the couch. They're sitting really close to each other; they don't realize how close they really are.
"I don't know, it is a little, but I mean we still have that year." Lily says. James smiles. "After that who knows where we'll be, maybe all of us will be off to different places. Who can predict where we'll be then?"
"I think that we'll still be together, all of us." James says. "I mean we could be. Right now though we have the whole two years ahead of us, I just wanna enjoy that time."
"Two more years of pranks to be pulled on Malfoy and Snape." Sirius jokes then they all laugh. Lily reaches back and smacks him over the head. Everyone laughs harder. "Hey that hurt."
"Serves you right, you guys really need stop pulling all those pranks on the Slytherins." Lily tells them.
"Come on Lils even you have to admit some of them are really funny." Sirius says. She nods.
"Ok yeah, actually most of them are funny. It's just that pranks can hurt people." Lily says. She holds up James arm and looks at his watch. It's 10:30; she's getting a little tired. She yawns.
"What time is it?" Eloise asks.
"10:30." Lily answers her. Everyone but Lily and James get up. They all want to leave Lily and James alone.
"It's getting late, maybe we should head up." Alice says.
"I'm gonna stay down here." Lily says to them. She climbs onto one of the couches and sits up. "Someone stay down here with me."
"I'll stay." James says. Everyone else goes up to their rooms. James climbs up onto the couch with Lily. She lays her head on his shoulder. This girl is amazing. Why doesn't she feel the same about me as I do her, James wonders. "Lils?"
"Yeah?" She whispers.
"Do you think that maybe we could go out sometime?"
"Are you ever going to stop asking me?"
"Not while I have a breath in my body."
"Then ok, why not. Maybe it won't be so bad, but ya know what I'm getting tired. I think it might be time for bed." She says. Lily gets up and stands in front of James. "Come on get up and go to your dorm." She grabs his hands and pulls him up. They just stand there holding hands. He drops her hands and wraps his arms around her waist. She doesn't pull away. James leans in and kisses her. It's different then any of the other kisses they've shared during the last week. There's more passion behind it, it takes Lily by surprise. At first she just lets him kiss her. Slowly she returns the kiss, they close any gap that there was between them. Neither really understands why this is happening, they just savour it. It heats up; James pulls Lily even closer, if it's possible. She lets out a small moan, her lips part to let his tongue enter her mouth. Lily runs her hands through James' messy hair. He runs his hand up into her hair. After what seems like an eternity they pull apart. They seem like they're about to collapse.
"Well…ummm… maybe we should go up to bed now." James says. He's confused about what just happened. He's never felt that way before.
"Ummm…yeah so I'll see you in the morning then. Night." She says. Lily gives him a quick peck on the cheek and runs upstairs. She's completely dishevelled. As soon as she walks into her dorm room Alice and Jenna bombard her with questions.
"What happened to you?" "Are you alright?" they ask her. "Did anything happen between you and James?" "So you two together now?"
"Guys one question at a time, I agreed to go out with James. Ummm…yeah downstairs…well I'm alright anyways. James and I kinda kissed." Lily tells them. They squeal, and hug her. "So I don't really wanna talk about it, but I was wondering something. Jenna what did Remus want when he pulled you out into the hall?"
"He asked me out." She says she stares down at her feet. "I don't know why. I mean he's never really paid any attention to me before."
"I know why." Lily tells Jenna. "I kinda told him in the carriage. I saw him looking at you when we climbed off the train so I thought that if he knew how you felt he might ask you out."
"If I wasn't so happy about this I'd kill you Lils." Jenna tells her. "Why don't we go to bed now? I think we're all a little tired."
They all get changed into their night gowns and climb into bed. As soon as their heads hit the pillows they all fall asleep. Lily doesn't have one of her nightmares again. She feels so safe and comfortable here. She dreams about the future that night instead. In her dream she's sitting in a rocking chair with a baby in her arms. She's staring down at him with love and compassion in her eyes. Someone comes up behind her and lays a hand on her shoulder. She looks up; she has the same look in her eyes as when she looked at the baby. "Well how's our little Harry?" the man says. Lily recognizes the voice, the hair as it falls across the man's face, the way he looks at her. The man is James Potter. It comforts her to see this in the back of her mind. She wants this to be the future. She falls into a deeper sleep as the dream ends.
Well everyone that's the end of another chapter. I was wondering though, all these writers talk about having betas I don't know what they are...so what are they? Are they kinda like a person who goes over your work to make sure it makes sense and stuff? Does anyone want to be mine? Thanx!