Authors Note: Rachel, I hope you appreciate this! Sorry everyone, the chapters are a little confusing. What happened was chapter 27 was too long on its own, and I wanted to post something, so I found a stopping point and broke it into two parts. Then, I retell the story from James's side, explaining the whole thing with the girl that Lily saw. So this is part one of une tres grande fete, chapter 27, told again from James's side. Hope you enjoy! Oh, and also, it has come to my attention that I spelt auror wrong, I said oror, it's supposed to be auror. Sorry everyone, what can I say? I am the worlds worst speller!

Chapter 29

Une Tres Grande Fete Part One

James Point of View

As Lily walked down the staircase, James looked up, their eyes met, and all the emotions

he felt for her that he had been trying so hard over the past weeks to bury came welling up inside

him again. She looked away from him, making her way down the stairs. He started to walk over

to her, but Caroline got there first.

"James, mate, don't you have a girlfriend right now?" Sirius said, shoving him playfully and

breaking his trance. He was still staring at the place Lily had been moments before.

"No, I dumped her." James replied nonchalantly, turning back to Sirius and shoving him in

return.

"Why? Man, you've got to stop this, the last one, Maryanne was it? she was hot! What was

wrong with her?"

"She wasn't Lily." Said James, turning back and scanning the crown for Lily. She looked so

nice tonight in that white dress she had been wearing.

"Come on mate, are you still stuck on her?" Sirius rolled his eyes and through his hands in

the air.

"Yes." James still not looking at Sirius, continued his search for Lily.

"This is sickening, you know that?" Sirius grabbed his shoulder and turned him back to face

him, shaking him by the shoulders.

"No it isn't, I can't help it anyway." James tried to pull away from Sirius so that he could find

Lily in the crowd.

"Hey man, she's looking over here." Said Sirius, pretending to point at someone.

"Really? Where is she?" James said eagerly, looking to where Sirius was pointing.

"No." James walked away from where Sirius still stood, he had found Lily. She was exiting

the main room and going onto to patio. James went over to her and walked up behind.

"Hey." He said, coming up behind her. She turned to see who it was, but upon seeing him

she turned her back again.

"Hello." She said coldly. That hurt. Why did she hate him so much? She had never even told

him, but tonight James intended to get a straight answer.

"Lily, come on, please. What did I do? I don't even know why you hate me. You're the one

who dumped me, remember?" There, that had been nice, but it had also let her know that he

intended to get an asnswer from her.

"Yes, I remeber well, thanks." Why wouldn't she look at him? If she remembered correctly,

she had walked out on him.

"So why are you mad at me?" He was ginuinly confused by this. He was not playing dumb

on purpose, he wanted to know, how could he make it better if he didn't even know what he

had done?

"I just am, James Potter, if you don't know by now, I'd prefer not to have to explain it to

you." What was she talking about? He had not done anything!

"What's that? Code for I don't even know, and I'm just too porud to admit it?" She had put

him on the offensive now, but he didn't care. If she wasn't going to give him an answer, then he

was going to get mad, it was her fault.

"Of course not." She still wasn't looking at him, she looked off at the fairy lights, but

refussed to meet his eyes. Why was she being so mean?

"Well you just fit in perfectly with this theme don't you?"

"What is that supposed to mean?" She looked at him now.

"You're a regualr ice queen. Lily, you can hate me or not, but can you at least be civil? Or

explain why so I can make it better?" That was a perfectly legitimate statement, so why was she

looking so angry and hurt? She had been mean to him for weeks, well now she was going to get

a taste of her own medicine. But he couldn't do it. He had another insult on his lips, but he just

couldn't. She looked at him now, and when he met her sad green eyes the insult died on his

tongue.

"No thank you."

"Will you dance with me?" Why had he said that? Of course she would refuse, so why had

he asked her? He was only setting himself up for rejection. Before she could refuse him, Mrs.

Rupert came out onto the patio.

"Lily, James, what are you two doing out here? You two should go inside and dance, go on.

James, take Lily in to dance," there was nothing james would have liked more, that's what he

had been trying to get her to do, and now Mrs. Rupert was making it look like he was rude for

not having asked her, even though he had. "a pretty young girl like you shouldn't be left

partnerless." She wasn't partnerless! And why was Mrs. Rupert looking at him like that? James

offered her his arm, leading her onto the dance floor.

He bent down and whispered into her ear, "yes Lily, do dance with James Potter." He had

only been doing it to tease her, he didn't mean for it to be mean and spiteful, but from the look of

disgust she gave him, it had not come out the way he had intended. He had intended it as a joke,

he only said it to make her laugh, how did everything he say come out wrong?

"Stop it. Mrs. Rupert just doesn't know that I hate your guts." How did she always manage

to thoroughly miscontrue everything?

"And I don't know why, so seeing as we're stuck together, why don't you explain it?"

"Because I told you I don't want to." They were gliding around the dance floor together, it

felt so good to finally have her back in his arms. He just wished it could have lasted all night.

There was nothing he wanted more than to be with Lily, but as she looked into his eyes she

suddenly stopped dancing. Where was she going? She had just walked away from him in the

middle of the dance, leaving him standing alone on the dance floor. He watched her go out onto

the patio again, and was about to follow her when a came over to him. He did not recognize her,

but she apparently new him quite well.

"James Potter, hello, hi!" Said the girl. She was very short and had short blonde hair. She

grabed his arms and started to dance with him.

"Hi, er, I'm sorry, but, er, do I know you?"

"I don't think so, do you?" She sounded hopeful. "No, of course you don't, I'm in

Hufflepuff, my name's Julietta, it's nice to formally meet you, everyone knows who you are of

course."

"Er, yeah, sure." This was extremely akward. "Er, I think I'll go ut into the hall, it's a little

crowded in here."

"Oh, I agree, where shall we go?" She was not getting the hint. He started to leave te dance

floor, and she followed him. They exited the room together, but halfway down the hall he

managed to loose her.

"I have to go to the bathroom, maybe I'll see you later though."

"Oh, I hope so. I'll just be in the main room. We should dance together later."

"Er, yeah. That'd be fun." He made his escape into the bathroom and sat down in one of the

stalls. James had no idea how long he sat there, it was like he was in some kind of trance. He

heard someone enter the bathroom, take care of their buisness and leave. He stayed there for

another few minutes and then decidded to return to the party and see if it was dinner time yet.

As he exited the stall he saw Snivilus Snape standing there. He did not speak, just nodded. In

some part of him, he was jealous of Snivilus, but only because he had had Lily to himself for two

years. Snape did not nod in return, he just stared at James until he left the room, he was a wierd

kid, Snivilus.

James entered the room and found almost everyone sitting at the tables. He saw Lily sitting

at a table with two women he did not know and his professor. He had not known that professor

Longbottom was going to be here, he needed to ask a question about his essay. He approached

the table and asked professor Longbottom which chapter the reading was in.

"Why don't you sit down James?" Asked professor Longbottom, after they had been

discussing the unforgivable curses for several minutes.

"Well, I don't know where I'm supposed to sit." He replied, was Professor Longbottom

trying to get rid of him subtly?

"Right here." He said motioning to the seat beside himself. James looked and there was a

placecard with his name on it. He sat down beside his professor, not looking at Lily for fear of

upsetting her once again. "So, does everyone here know everyone else?" Professor Longbottom

began introductions, but was interupted halfway through introducing Madame Linch to everyone

by the arrival of the food. There was a lull in convorsation as everyone tucked into their food,

enjoying the magnificent cooking of Georgio.

"So, professor, there is an empty seat to your right, who is supposed to be sitting there?"

James asked, leaning over to see whos name was on the placecard.

"Lindy, my fiance, unfortunately she has been unavoidably detained and will not be joining

us this evening." He replied calmly, although James, upon a closer look, noticed a distinct

redness around his ears and neck.

"I didn't know you were engaged, I was engaged once-" and then she was off, Madame

Linch, it appeared, was a great lover of telling stories to the younger generations in order to

teach them morals and help them, she did not, however, realize the effect this was having on said

younger generations. In a matter of minutes they were staring listlessly into space, Lilys eyes

glazed over, and even Mrs. Fig was drooling slightly. Madame Linch, oblivious to the lack of

interest, continued rambling through desert. Privately, James welcomed this as it prevented any

akwardness between Lily and himself. She never looked him in the eyes once, although he did

catch her giving him several sidelong glances. She looked so pretty tonight, it was almost

overwhelming.

End James Point of View