Once everyone had gone, James got up. He hadn't seen Lily leave, but maybe she'd snuck out while he had been talking to one of his friends. Knowing his luck, she'd probably seen him talking to a girl.
He shrugged his shoulders and decided to go to bed and get some sleep. There was no use waiting anymore. She was gone. And even though it was only for two weeks, James felt like it was forever.
So he went back to his dorm, where Sirius and Travis were still asleep and crawled into bed, fully clothed. He didn't sleep though. There was an indescribable force, making him stay awake. Telling him to get up. So he got changed and went down to the Great Hall.
The force was his stomach, rumbling furiously.
***
Lily rolled over and looked around the empty dorm. She decided to get up, but only because she knew she couldn't get back to sleep. James was still on her mind. As she made her way down the stairs, she saw a scruffy haired boy walking up the stairs on the other side. She was going to call out to him.
*What am I doing? That's not James. He goes home for the holidays. It's just someone who looks like him. Or maybe I'm dreaming again.*
So Lily went down to the almost empty Great Hall and ate Breakfast. Still thinking about James and what she would say to him when he got back. Now that she realised that she loved him, things had gotten even more confusing. Did she admit it? Or wait until he made a move? No he would never make a move. He had too much pride.
Her thoughts were disrupted by a loud, surprised voice behind her.
"Lily!"
*Fuck me, I called her Lily. I hope she doesn't notice. Nah, she's too smart, she'll realise*
She turned around.
"James? What are you doing here?"
*Shit, I called him James. He's gonna know something's up. Wait… did he call me Lily?*
"Oh, didn't I tell you? I'm staying for the holidays- well the whole team is. See, our next game is against Slytherin and they've just got some new players," James took a seat next to Lily. "They have really different styles and we could really use the extra two weeks practice."
"Wow! I didn't know you could be serious about anything to do with school." Lily laughed, amazed at how relaxed she felt after spending the whole morning nervous as hell. And that was when she had thought hat James was coming back in two weeks.
"Hey, I'm the Gryffindor captain now. I have to be serious if I want to lead us to the final. We have a great team and I know we can win, so why not be serious about it."
*Hey she hasn't told me to fuck off, and she called me James, and she didn't cringe when I sat next to her.*
Lily smiled and nodded her head in agreement.
"So, Lily Evans. What are you doing here? I though you would be at home, yelling at your sister and parents."
"Hell no. They think I'm here doing extra-curricular activities. They love me when I'm not there. When they don't know what I'm doing, they can pretend that I'm perfect."
*You are*
They stayed there for over an hour, talking and eating. Enjoying each other's company, like two people in love should. Both so amazed, and happy, and desperately wanting to kiss. They were ready.
James looked at Lily's watch.
"Damn, past midday. I really got to go get the other guys and get to work. I've got ten new plays I want them to learn."
"Oh yeah, that's cool." Lily felt disheartened, she knew that as soon as he left, she would go back to feeling confused and despaired.
"It's been really great talking to you. Maybe we should do this more often?"
*Please don't blow me off. PLEASE.*
But Lily didn't blow him off, she had been thinking the exact same thing. She wanted to do it again. She wanted to do it right now, not just the talking. She wanted desperately to do more. She wanted to rip off his clothes and make sweet love to him. She didn't even care that the teachers were less then thirty metres away.
Instead she said. "Yeah, sure. That would be great."
James turned to leave and picked up her glass of pumpkin juice.
"Lily?"
James had stopped and turned back around to face her.
"Do you want to come to practice with us? Just, if you had nothing to do."
He didn't want to be away from her either. He wanted to be as close to her as he could get. So when she accepted and smiled her sweet smile, James heart skipped a beat and he felt as if he was going to float away.
*Fuck me! If I knew being in love was this great. I would've done it a lot earlier*
