Author's Notes: OMG! Thank you guys so much for reviewing my story! BTW if you have any ideas or pranks, etc. just tell me, and I'll gladly incorporate any ideas. I don't own any characters...so without further ado, I give you CHAPTER SIX!!! (drum roll)

Chapter 6

'What am I going to do? I kissed James Potter—egocentric, infuriating, James Potter,' pondered Lily as she tossed and turned in her twin bed. It was 3 in the morning, and Lily still couldn't fall asleep. The events of last night, the Halloween Ball, kept replaying in her mind; The way James was so welcoming and considerate—the way he stood up for her—the way Lucius Malfoy, her new infatuation, hurt her with those spiteful words—everything.

She seemed to be in a vortex of emotions, nothing seemed to make sense. What she thought was so clear and concise, seemed to be jumbled and a blur of fervor. Among the things that distressed her, was that Lucius Malfoy, the person whose charm she immediately fell in love with, was the one that caused her the most pain. Looks can be deceiving, and when the perfect words are uttered, it can be outright blinding.

'3:15,' thought Lily, 'and I still can't sleep. In a few hours, I'll go to the library, but until then I may as well relax by the common room fire. Lily got out of bed, took a quick shower, got dressed, and went to the common room. She took her favorite seat, a maroon reclining chair that faced the fire, and fumbled around for a few seconds until she found her wand. "Ignito," she whispered nonchalantly, and the fireplace ignited. Lily sat there, listening to the crackles of the fire, for 3 hours. She was quite confused, because she didn't realize had fallen asleep part of the way through observing the fire.

Before she had time to analyze things further, Paige Parkinson had come down the stairs. "Lily," she said spitefully, "Lucius wants to meet you in his common room. He's been in there all morning, unable to sleep because of what he said to you, and he wants to talk to you."

"That doesn't mean I want to talk to him, or even look at him for that matter, not after what he said to me."

"Oh please," Paige retorted, rolling her eyes and pushing Lily out the door, "like you've never said anything rude, you regretted and felt guilty about later. Just go—besides, you might just get to see your beloved, Potter, while your there." Lily didn't have time to scream all the things that rushed through her mind at Paige because of her last comment, because she was already in the hall.

'I'm going to get that Paige for this. I don't want to talk to Lucius. He called me a mudblood, which proves that he really doesn't care about me. If he did, he wouldn't hold anything against muggle-borns.' Lily was now standing in front of a painting with an emerald-green serpent with silver eyes, slithering on the ground towards a dark red lion, with a golden mane, facing it with teeth bared and growling ferociously, the common room door.

The door swung open and a hopeful blonde stood in the doorway. He extended his hand towards Lily, to lead her inside, but she barged through him and into the common room.

"Lily," he began sounding desperate, "I can explain."

"Really?" she asked sharply, "I can't wait to hear your insane excuses."

"I know that I called you a mud—" Lucius stopped before he finished the word because Lily looked as if she were about to pounce and maul him to death. "I know that by saying what I did, I insulted you, your family, all muggle-borns alike."

"No?" Lily asked, sarcasm dripping from her voice. "I had no idea that you did all that. It's not like that comment was directed towards me or anything."

"Just let me finish."

"And why should I?!"

"Because I just want to make things right between us, or at least not wrong," Lucius said almost shouting."I did thing that muggle-borns were scum and not as good as pure-bloods before I met you." You made me realize that muggle-borns were the same. You were so beautiful and smart—you were the one I fell in love with—you were the one that made me see it doesn't matter what your blood is."

"As touching as that is," she snorted, "it doesn't change the fact that you were so inconsiderate and horrible to me last night."

"Let me make it up to you," Lucius pleaded.

"How?" she asked skeptically.

"A picnic," Lucius concluded.

"How is a picnic going to fix things?"

"It's a very muggle-like thing to do, isn't it?"

"And?"

"And, if I learn more about muggles, it might help me understand and appreciate them and their traditions."

"If I go on this picnic with you, will you leave me alone?" Lily asked.

"If that's what you want," Malfoy said, hanging his head in defeat.

It was noon, and Lily was just leaving her common room to meet Malfoy for their picnic. To her surprise, he was already waiting outside her door, with a bouquet of white roses in his hand.

"For you, my lady," he said with utmost sincerity as he handed her the roses.

"Thank you, Lucius," she replied, smiling slightly.

"Shall we?" he asked as he held out his hand for her to take.

"Yes," Lily responded, taking his hand, "we shall." They walked outside and stopped on the side of the pond. Malfoy, amazingly, didn't use any magic for the picnic. He already had a red and white checkered blanket spread out on the ground, and a brown basket filled with grapes, sandwiches, chips, and mug of steaming hot chocolate. They sat down and talked, their conversation had many gaps and awkward silences, not like when she had talked to James at the Halloween Ball.

They had been sitting down for nearly 30 minutes, when Lucius poured her a large cup of hot chocolate and walked her back to her room. (A/N: so how many of you people can put 2 and 2 together? hint hint hot chocolate think hogsmeade cough tampered with cough ok, I give up.)

"I'm really glad we got to spend some time together," Lucius said sweetly, "You have no idea how much this meant to me."

"The pleasure is mine, Lucius," Lily replied. "I had a great time on our picnic. I still can't believe you didn't use any magic!"

"Lily, I was wondering, would you be my girlfriend?"

"How could I refuse?" she asked. Lily hugged him goodbye, and he went back to his room.

Lucius walked in the door to the common room and was greeted by some interesting things.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, MALFOY!" James bellowed while attempting to charge at him. He wasn't able to because Lupin and Sirius were busy holding him back.

"What's wrong with you?!" Lucius asked snidely. "Black break up with you?" James replied to this with incoherent cursing and Sirius loosening his grip on one of James's arms.

"PADFOOT!" Lucius reprimanded, angrily. "Hold him back—he could kill Malfoy!"

"Merlin forbid," he retorted, scathingly. "I hate this bloody nark. I'm more inclined to help James ambush this bloody git, than help save Malfoy!"

"What would Lily think," Remus hissed into James's ear.

"I—don't—care—what—Lily—bloody—thinks—this—bloody—prat—is—going—to—die!" James glowered as he broke free of them and charged at Malfoy, who bravely squealed and dove behind a chair.

"Speaking of Lily," Lucius taunted, "she just agreed to be my girlfriend."

"WHAT?!" James shrieked. "NO SHE DIDN'T, SHE WOULDN'T. Not after what you said to her. The only way she'd date you, is if you slipped Love Potion...into...her...drink..." he thought aloud.

"What are you going to do about it? She's smitten with me!"

"I'll tell you what I'll bloody do about it; I'm going to kill you! AVADA KE—"

"GO PRONGS!" Sirius shouted encouragingly. "Ow!" he whined as Remus slapped him upside his head.

"JAMES POTTER!" Lupin hollered. "DON'T YOU DARE USE AN UNFORGIVABLE, YOU BLOODY LUNATIC!" Remus then lunged towards James and tackled him to the ground in a vain attempt to wrestle his wand away from him, while Malfoy ran, full-speed, towards his room and slammed the door.

"Calm down," Remus said as he pinned James to the ground.

"Get off of me," snapped James.

"I will when you let go of your wand," Remus retorted.

"Prongs," Sirius said while massaging his head, where Lupin had whacked him, "the sooner you relax, the sooner we can go talk some logic into your one and only."

"Fine," James growled.

"And Remus, mate," Sirius added, "you hit bloody hard!"

"Sorry," Lupin mumbled as he turned red. "I work out."

"Speaking of which, Moony," James gasped, "would you get off me. I can't breathe!"

"Sorry," Remus said as he jumped away from James.

Author's Notes: Just so you people know: this chapter was really short, but just because I want to have an extra-long date and a surprise at the end....so it's going to be really good. Also, I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while b/c I was camping in Erie...and next week is band camp!!! GO CLARINETS! Focusing...anyway I'll try to post before Sunday...

Next Chapter: Lily and Lucius go on a date...Sirius decides to step in...whoohooo foreshadooooooowwwwwiiiiiiiing!!!! hahaha well anyway...

Events to come: Will somebody get sent to the future???? (well of course, why would I ask it if somebody didn't) hehehe it should be funny!