Chapter 3- Truce
Disclaimer- I do not own any characters that you recognise, only the ones you don't. If I were really J.K. Rowling would I be posting stories worth millions on a free Internet site?
(A/N) I just realised I was going to write a special note but I didn't! I just posted the chappie. Oops! I will have an even more special special note for you this Chappie. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Lily burst into a compartment, her emerald eyes full of anger and hate for James Potter.
"Hey Lil, what's up" asked Natalie. Natalie is Lily's long time best friend. She is a pure blood witch but her parents live in the muggle world and she grew up like a muggle. Nat has wavy hair like Lily's but it is ebony black. Her skin is tanned and she gets acne occasionally. Her eyes are a deep chestnut brown. The only thing she doesn't like about her body is her height; she is only 5'2".
" I am going to murder James Potter! One night when he is in bed sleeping soundly I am going to kill him!" Lily's voice was full of hatred as she thought about him, 'and I actually thought that I liked him' a little voice in her head said. This was going to be a long year.
" Well you better make an appointment" Nat replied "unless you want to find him in there with some girl." Nat giggled "book in advance, spaces are limited!"
"Very funny Nat!" Lily said as she smiled at Nat's little joke. She was right though; James did have a girl in his bed every night, well almost every night. She was surprised that there weren't hundreds of pregnant girls walking around after James was finished with them. James and Sirius were both as bad as each other. Rumour has it that they have a bet to see how many girls they can get into bed by the end of the year.
"So why do you want to kill him?" Nat asked Lily with a questioning look.
"Because he was coming on to me in the hall, and being a sleaze in the head compartment, and he is an arrogant prick, and he keeps on ruffling up his hair, and.."
"Whoa slow down! If I said you don't like the guy would I be correct?" Nat said looking Lily straight in the eye.
"YES!" Lily said on impulse. But then she started thinking her heart battling her brain. 'Do I dislike him?' *yes you do he is a prick remember*. 'But I don't HATE him' *well you may as well hate him*. 'But I don't 'cos he doesn't tease me any more, so I don't hate him like I used to.' *well you don't love him* 'no I don't love him' *so can we agree that you dislike James Potter?* 'yes, okay you dislike James Potter' *agreed?* 'agreed'.
"LILY!" Lily came back to reality to find Nat around 2 inches from her face screaming at her.
"Aaah! Nat what are you doing?" Lily screamed pushing her friend away from her face.
"Bringing you back to the real world, you have been staring into space for nearly 5 minutes!" Nat said in an exasperated voice
"You didn't listen to any thing I was saying"
"I'm sorry Nat I have had my head in the clouds today, now what were you saying that I missed out on while I was daydreaming?
"Nothing important, I was just raving on about how hot Sirius is when."
"Did I hear my name being said by one of you beautiful ladies?" Sirius questioned from where he was leaning against the doorframe.
"Because if so," he continued, "I would love to hear you say my name again some where else," he smiled his dazzling smile towards Nat, "my bed perhaps?"
"Sirius Black get out of this compartment now!" Lily yelled at him, his presence reminded her of James, something she didn't want to think about right now.
"Certainly Evans, and would Miss. Jackson care to join me?" he had the same cheeky smile as James on his face.
"No she would not now would you plea."
"Hold on Lily, I do want to go. If you were listening to what I said before you would know that." Nat said cutting in. Lily felt like she had been slapped in the face. Her friend was ditching her for Sirius Black? As Nat left on Sirius's arm she gave Lily an evil look. Nat couldn't believe Lily had almost risked her chances of being with Sirius. She had only liked him for 4 years. With a flick of her hair she left without saying another word.
Lily felt lonely and silly sitting by herself in the compartment so she got up and walked slowly down the corridor towards the head compartment. Even James was better than sitting all alone. As she left the compartment she was just in time to see Sirius pull Nat into a cupboard their lips locked and Sirius's hands roaming. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
MEANWHILE
James rubbed his face as he headed back to the head compartment. He didn't feel like visiting his friends, they would just laugh at the fact that Lily had rejected him. again. This must have been close to the 40th time she had rejected him. So he decided to read 'quidditch through the ages' for the 287th time.
He sat in their compartment and looked around. Their compartment was bigger that all the other compartments but theirs was only for two people. He decided that the compartment was huge so that if the head students were from different houses and didn't get along well they could sit further apart.
But Lily and him were from the same house and she still sat as far away from him as possible. James sighed and put down his book. He stared at the seat in the corner across from him were Lily was sitting last time she was in here. James pictured her sitting there her robes, her flame red hair falling around her china doll face. And those eyes, he wished that when they looked at him they were full of love and admiration.
'Hey James, snap out of it!' a little voice said 'this is Lily. Evans! Great body, nice bum that's it, right!'
"Yeah that's it," he said out loud as if to confirm that all he wanted from Lily was one night or two in his bed.
"What's it?" he heard a voice say, he looked up with his still red face to see Lily had just entered and sat in the spot he was staring at.
"Oh nothing," he said avoiding eye contact "just got a lot of thoughts to sort out in my head,"
"Penny for your thoughts?" she said imitating what he had said to her only ten minutes ago. James gave her a little smile. She returned it.
"Why do you hate me?" he asked suddenly looking deep into her eyes as if he thought the answer was in them.
"I don't" she answered after turning her head so he couldn't read her thoughts through her eyes. James stood up and crossed the compartment to sit next to Lily. Lily shrank away from him a little. He just looked at her; her head was looking towards the floor. Gently as if he were holding a bubble he lifted he head and turned it towards him so their eyes met.
"Then what do you called that horrid look in your eyes that I see every time you look at me?" he said, letting go of her face and turning his to stare straight ahead.
"You were so horrible to me Potter, I used to hate you. But then you stopped being so horrible and I stopped hating you. as much. I guess it is just a reaction that I get when I see you. I block off my senses so should you throw an insult my way it wouldn't hurt me. You hurt me so much Potter."
Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered the insults in the halls, the pranks, and the taunts. And then she thought of Nat leaving her for Sirius. She couldn't hold the tears in any more. Years of emotions came out as she started to cry silently.
For the second time that day James gently turned Lily's head to faces his own. He cupped her delicate little face in his strong hands and wiped away her tears with his thumbs. Her stare caught his and she said.
"Why were you so mean to me James?" 'I called him James! What happened to Potter?' she thought.
"Because I am a Fool." He answered slowly "Lily you have to know that if I knew that what I did to you was going to make your beautiful green eyes cry than I would never have ever said anything horrible to you, I thought I was just having fun." 'When did first name basis start? She is Evans, I am Potter right?'
"You hurt me so much James" her eyes were puffy and red as they looked into his blue eyes as she took in the apology that she thought she would never receive.
"Lily?"
"Yes James?"
"I will never ever hurt you again, I promise."
"Really?" Lily asked looking into his eyes for any signs of sarcasm, when she found none she turned away from his gaze.
"A promise from a Potter can be trusted." Was his reply.
"Then we should make a truce right now, so that neither of us get hurt by the other again." Lily said with a determined tone.
"Okay," James said, " I James Harry Potter, solemnly swear to never purposely hurt Lily Anne Evans." Lily then said
"I Lily Anne Evans, solemnly swear to never purposely hurt James Harry Potter." With that they both smiled at each other. They both thought to themselves 'S/he isn't as bad as I thought.' Just then the trains whistle blew telling them that they were at Hogsmead station. James opened the compartment door for Lily then followed her out to help the teachers get all the students into carriages.
(A/N) Wow I have written 1,712 words! That is my best yet! I was thinking of turning this chapter into two chappies but then I remembered that you said that you wanted longer chappies so here one is! I have been having trouble with writing in present/past tense so if any one has any sort of tips my addy is coo01@whsc.vic.edu.au that reminds me my school is changing my email addy for next year so as soon as I find out what it is I will tell you all. I have 13 reviews! Thanks to my wonderful reviewers:
Lexie13
Zebra Eyez- the phrase is it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all but I changed the 'lost' to 'lust' and the title box wouldn't let me right it all, cos it was to long. So I changed the 'at all' to 'ever' at first I didn't like it but it has grown on me!
Optical Illusions (x2) thanks!
Mintytoothpick
vamperfly
FairySprinkles- MWPP= moony wormtail, padfoot and prongs! Ahhhhhh I get it now.. I was stumped on that one for a while
Ryan Barton
Momo- give me some time, I am planning to put some sex scenes in but they will be romantic and done properly. This is a love story not porno.
Lily Lupin89- thanks for the advice, I try not to be corny but it is so romantic that it is so hard not to.
Okay guys I gotta go thanx for the reviews, keep them coming! Lots 'n' lotsa love Goddess of Gorgeousness (AKA Steph)
Chappie word total-2032 yay!
(A/N) I looked at my story on the net and it was hard to read cos it was too close together, so I went through it again and put lotsa spaces in. hope this makes it easier, so you can read it, enjoy it and review it! (If you review I will give you a brownie.. Mmmmmmm.brownie)
Love Steph
Disclaimer- I do not own any characters that you recognise, only the ones you don't. If I were really J.K. Rowling would I be posting stories worth millions on a free Internet site?
(A/N) I just realised I was going to write a special note but I didn't! I just posted the chappie. Oops! I will have an even more special special note for you this Chappie. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Lily burst into a compartment, her emerald eyes full of anger and hate for James Potter.
"Hey Lil, what's up" asked Natalie. Natalie is Lily's long time best friend. She is a pure blood witch but her parents live in the muggle world and she grew up like a muggle. Nat has wavy hair like Lily's but it is ebony black. Her skin is tanned and she gets acne occasionally. Her eyes are a deep chestnut brown. The only thing she doesn't like about her body is her height; she is only 5'2".
" I am going to murder James Potter! One night when he is in bed sleeping soundly I am going to kill him!" Lily's voice was full of hatred as she thought about him, 'and I actually thought that I liked him' a little voice in her head said. This was going to be a long year.
" Well you better make an appointment" Nat replied "unless you want to find him in there with some girl." Nat giggled "book in advance, spaces are limited!"
"Very funny Nat!" Lily said as she smiled at Nat's little joke. She was right though; James did have a girl in his bed every night, well almost every night. She was surprised that there weren't hundreds of pregnant girls walking around after James was finished with them. James and Sirius were both as bad as each other. Rumour has it that they have a bet to see how many girls they can get into bed by the end of the year.
"So why do you want to kill him?" Nat asked Lily with a questioning look.
"Because he was coming on to me in the hall, and being a sleaze in the head compartment, and he is an arrogant prick, and he keeps on ruffling up his hair, and.."
"Whoa slow down! If I said you don't like the guy would I be correct?" Nat said looking Lily straight in the eye.
"YES!" Lily said on impulse. But then she started thinking her heart battling her brain. 'Do I dislike him?' *yes you do he is a prick remember*. 'But I don't HATE him' *well you may as well hate him*. 'But I don't 'cos he doesn't tease me any more, so I don't hate him like I used to.' *well you don't love him* 'no I don't love him' *so can we agree that you dislike James Potter?* 'yes, okay you dislike James Potter' *agreed?* 'agreed'.
"LILY!" Lily came back to reality to find Nat around 2 inches from her face screaming at her.
"Aaah! Nat what are you doing?" Lily screamed pushing her friend away from her face.
"Bringing you back to the real world, you have been staring into space for nearly 5 minutes!" Nat said in an exasperated voice
"You didn't listen to any thing I was saying"
"I'm sorry Nat I have had my head in the clouds today, now what were you saying that I missed out on while I was daydreaming?
"Nothing important, I was just raving on about how hot Sirius is when."
"Did I hear my name being said by one of you beautiful ladies?" Sirius questioned from where he was leaning against the doorframe.
"Because if so," he continued, "I would love to hear you say my name again some where else," he smiled his dazzling smile towards Nat, "my bed perhaps?"
"Sirius Black get out of this compartment now!" Lily yelled at him, his presence reminded her of James, something she didn't want to think about right now.
"Certainly Evans, and would Miss. Jackson care to join me?" he had the same cheeky smile as James on his face.
"No she would not now would you plea."
"Hold on Lily, I do want to go. If you were listening to what I said before you would know that." Nat said cutting in. Lily felt like she had been slapped in the face. Her friend was ditching her for Sirius Black? As Nat left on Sirius's arm she gave Lily an evil look. Nat couldn't believe Lily had almost risked her chances of being with Sirius. She had only liked him for 4 years. With a flick of her hair she left without saying another word.
Lily felt lonely and silly sitting by herself in the compartment so she got up and walked slowly down the corridor towards the head compartment. Even James was better than sitting all alone. As she left the compartment she was just in time to see Sirius pull Nat into a cupboard their lips locked and Sirius's hands roaming. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
MEANWHILE
James rubbed his face as he headed back to the head compartment. He didn't feel like visiting his friends, they would just laugh at the fact that Lily had rejected him. again. This must have been close to the 40th time she had rejected him. So he decided to read 'quidditch through the ages' for the 287th time.
He sat in their compartment and looked around. Their compartment was bigger that all the other compartments but theirs was only for two people. He decided that the compartment was huge so that if the head students were from different houses and didn't get along well they could sit further apart.
But Lily and him were from the same house and she still sat as far away from him as possible. James sighed and put down his book. He stared at the seat in the corner across from him were Lily was sitting last time she was in here. James pictured her sitting there her robes, her flame red hair falling around her china doll face. And those eyes, he wished that when they looked at him they were full of love and admiration.
'Hey James, snap out of it!' a little voice said 'this is Lily. Evans! Great body, nice bum that's it, right!'
"Yeah that's it," he said out loud as if to confirm that all he wanted from Lily was one night or two in his bed.
"What's it?" he heard a voice say, he looked up with his still red face to see Lily had just entered and sat in the spot he was staring at.
"Oh nothing," he said avoiding eye contact "just got a lot of thoughts to sort out in my head,"
"Penny for your thoughts?" she said imitating what he had said to her only ten minutes ago. James gave her a little smile. She returned it.
"Why do you hate me?" he asked suddenly looking deep into her eyes as if he thought the answer was in them.
"I don't" she answered after turning her head so he couldn't read her thoughts through her eyes. James stood up and crossed the compartment to sit next to Lily. Lily shrank away from him a little. He just looked at her; her head was looking towards the floor. Gently as if he were holding a bubble he lifted he head and turned it towards him so their eyes met.
"Then what do you called that horrid look in your eyes that I see every time you look at me?" he said, letting go of her face and turning his to stare straight ahead.
"You were so horrible to me Potter, I used to hate you. But then you stopped being so horrible and I stopped hating you. as much. I guess it is just a reaction that I get when I see you. I block off my senses so should you throw an insult my way it wouldn't hurt me. You hurt me so much Potter."
Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered the insults in the halls, the pranks, and the taunts. And then she thought of Nat leaving her for Sirius. She couldn't hold the tears in any more. Years of emotions came out as she started to cry silently.
For the second time that day James gently turned Lily's head to faces his own. He cupped her delicate little face in his strong hands and wiped away her tears with his thumbs. Her stare caught his and she said.
"Why were you so mean to me James?" 'I called him James! What happened to Potter?' she thought.
"Because I am a Fool." He answered slowly "Lily you have to know that if I knew that what I did to you was going to make your beautiful green eyes cry than I would never have ever said anything horrible to you, I thought I was just having fun." 'When did first name basis start? She is Evans, I am Potter right?'
"You hurt me so much James" her eyes were puffy and red as they looked into his blue eyes as she took in the apology that she thought she would never receive.
"Lily?"
"Yes James?"
"I will never ever hurt you again, I promise."
"Really?" Lily asked looking into his eyes for any signs of sarcasm, when she found none she turned away from his gaze.
"A promise from a Potter can be trusted." Was his reply.
"Then we should make a truce right now, so that neither of us get hurt by the other again." Lily said with a determined tone.
"Okay," James said, " I James Harry Potter, solemnly swear to never purposely hurt Lily Anne Evans." Lily then said
"I Lily Anne Evans, solemnly swear to never purposely hurt James Harry Potter." With that they both smiled at each other. They both thought to themselves 'S/he isn't as bad as I thought.' Just then the trains whistle blew telling them that they were at Hogsmead station. James opened the compartment door for Lily then followed her out to help the teachers get all the students into carriages.
(A/N) Wow I have written 1,712 words! That is my best yet! I was thinking of turning this chapter into two chappies but then I remembered that you said that you wanted longer chappies so here one is! I have been having trouble with writing in present/past tense so if any one has any sort of tips my addy is coo01@whsc.vic.edu.au that reminds me my school is changing my email addy for next year so as soon as I find out what it is I will tell you all. I have 13 reviews! Thanks to my wonderful reviewers:
Lexie13
Zebra Eyez- the phrase is it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all but I changed the 'lost' to 'lust' and the title box wouldn't let me right it all, cos it was to long. So I changed the 'at all' to 'ever' at first I didn't like it but it has grown on me!
Optical Illusions (x2) thanks!
Mintytoothpick
vamperfly
FairySprinkles- MWPP= moony wormtail, padfoot and prongs! Ahhhhhh I get it now.. I was stumped on that one for a while
Ryan Barton
Momo- give me some time, I am planning to put some sex scenes in but they will be romantic and done properly. This is a love story not porno.
Lily Lupin89- thanks for the advice, I try not to be corny but it is so romantic that it is so hard not to.
Okay guys I gotta go thanx for the reviews, keep them coming! Lots 'n' lotsa love Goddess of Gorgeousness (AKA Steph)
Chappie word total-2032 yay!
(A/N) I looked at my story on the net and it was hard to read cos it was too close together, so I went through it again and put lotsa spaces in. hope this makes it easier, so you can read it, enjoy it and review it! (If you review I will give you a brownie.. Mmmmmmm.brownie)
Love Steph