Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters, I do not own the Carnival Cruise line, I do not own Mexico, but I do own Sirius. Licks lips. I don't? Darn. Fine. I don't own Sirius either.

Author note: I'm sick of writing "Lily woke up", so I'm going to skip the part where she wakes up this time, all right?

A Spring Fling

Chapter Six: Day Four, And Here Comes the Action!

Lily checked her watch, it said 10:00, so Lily had 30 minutes to eat breakfast before meeting James by the pool area.

After telling her mom that she would probably be out for quite some time, Lily headed out to the buffet, heart still jumping around from the night before. She wondered what she and James would do today as she got in the food line, (it wasn't that long), and she wondered how she would act when she saw him again as she sat down at a table by herself and bit into a piece of sausage.

"If he says one more thing about something wizardish," Lily thought, "I am going to have to confront him about it, and if I mess up, well, oops."

Lily wandered out to the pool area and sat on a chair, waiting for James to appear.

After only a couple minutes though, James could be seen walking around the pool. Lily and James locked eyes from across the pool, smiled and waved at each other.

James made his way over to where Lily was sitting.

"Hi." He said.

Lily grinned.

"Hey."

James nodded his head in the direction of pathway, so Lily got up and joined him in a small walk. He ended up buying Lily a drink, and they shared it together. Lily felt kind of uncomfortable sharing a drink, having never done it before with a guy, but she got over it pretty fast and enjoyed the feeling of the nice cold, non-alcoholic drink.

After walking around a bit more, Lily and James thought that they should take a dip in the hot tub, so both separated to go back to their rooms and get their swim suits on. They met back at the pool area a few minutes later, and got in the tub. It was nice and relaxing, but there were a few others in the hot tub as well.

James suddenly got a funny look in his eyes. He got out and said, "Let's go in the pool!"

"Are you crazy?" asked Lily, "It's freezing, I'm definitely not going in there."

James implored her, then walked over and jumped in the pool himself.

Lily saw his eyes flash open as if he were just thrown into a snowstorm with only shorts and a small t-shirt. But nonetheless, ("Probably to try and prove his 'manliness'," thought Lily), he stayed in for a full minute before getting out and jogging back over to where Lily was and sliding into the tub in relief.

"That wasn't so bad." He said.

Lily stared at him in non-belief.

"Okay, so it was pretty bad." James consented. "I thought it would get better if I was in it for a little and got used to it for a bit, but, well, it just got colder and colder."

"Well I said it was cold." Said Lily, feeling rather warm herself, and snuggling down into the warm foaming waters of the hot tub.

"Go in."

"What??" Lily exclaimed.

"Come on, go in!" James tried another tactic, "For me?"

Lily laughed.

"I wouldn't go in even to hide from my mom."

After a little while the two decided to lounge around on a couple of the lawn chairs that were placed along side the pool.

"Hypothetical question." James said, "If I lived in the same town as you, would you go out with me?"

"Yes." Lily said quickly.

"Damn." Said James, "I wish I lived where you did. I mean seriously, you're smart, funny, cute..."

"Well so are you." Lily said.

James looked at her in a funny way. "Don't lie."

Lily opened her mouth in protest but before she could say anything, James interrupted her.

"We should probably go change."

Lily smirked, but agreed. "Let's meet in the couch place after okay?"

They agreed.

When Lily entered the couch area all prettified up, James was already there waiting for her.

"Wow." He said, "That's better."

Lily game him a scathing look.

"Well, I mean, you were pretty before, but,"

"Don't hurt yourself." Lily interrupted.

"I have something for you." James said.

Lily smiled curiously. She hadn't seen anything in his hands when she came, so... what would it be?

James turned, said something under his breath, and when he turned back around, he was holding a rose.

Lily smirked. She just knew it, but pretended to play along, while racking her brain for the name of the Wizarding School in Britain.

"It's beautiful!" She exclaimed, taking it from him. "How did you do that?"

"Magic." James replied.

"Yeah right," Lily said scathingly, "there's no such thing as magic!"

James just grinned. Lily was sure that James had risked it because he thought that she must think that he knew a muggle trick or two, if Lily was just a muggle, she wouldn't suspect a thing.

"Hogwarts!" she exclaimed, before she had realized she had said it out loud.

James looked quizzically at her.

"Hogwarts?" he said, "How'd you come up with that?"

Lily grinned, and she knew she had to risk it. "That's the name of the Wizarding School in Britain, and that's the school you go to."

James eyes bugged out.

"No way." He said.

"You seriously need to learn how to hide it better." Lily grinned.

James looked around to see that no one was watching before exclaiming, "You're a witch?!?"

"Yep!" Lily smirked. "Proud student of the AWSLC, (American Witchcraft School and Learning Center).

"We seriously must be made for each other." Muttered James. He just couldn't help himself. He leaned in and kissed Lily.

"Seeing as this is a very public place, "Lily said, "we should probably go somewhere else, or my parents might very well walk in on us."

James nodded. "I know a perfect place." After standing up, he reached over and took her hand.

Lily's heart gave a little jump. This cruise was giving her a lot of first time things.

James led her up to one of the top decks, (the jogging deck); it was a beautiful day, so Lily didn't mind sitting in the sun, and there were just a couple of people around them. It seemed the perfect place to get away from the parental figures.

"It seems more of a chance that we'd run into one of my family members than yours," said James, "I have so many, and you only have 4 here."

"Yes," agreed Lily, "but my parents are weird like that. They just show up wherever I am."

"Do they use a tracking spell to find you? I would die if my parents were like that."

"No," Lily said, "My parents are muggles. They can't use spells, they just are weird that way."

James laughed. "I actually think my parents use a tracking spell to NOT run into me!"

James sat down on a lawn chair, and Lily nervously set herself on the one across from it."

"No need to sit so far." James muttered.

Lily smiled and moved to sit on James chair. Suddenly, her heart beat a bit faster, and her pulse started pounding. She couldn't stand that there was distance between them right now. Her hand grazed his arm, willing him to make the first move. He seemed to be feeling the same, because James picked up the hint wonderfully. He moved his face towards her and their lips touched.

Lily was expecting a quick peck like before, but James chose to deepen it. Her eyes flew open when she felt his tongue graze her bottom lip, but she willingly closed her eyes again and opened her mouth a bit, letting his tongue freely explore her mouth, occasionally clashing with her own.

It was the most exhilarating feeling that Lily had ever experienced. She felt like she had been caged up all her life, only now to be let out for the first time; she felt that nothing whatsoever could pull her down.

Eventually, the need for air came, and they had to pull apart.

James looked appraisingly at her. "You are a very good kisser." He said.

Lily blushed, but figured now was as good as time as any to ask some personal questions that needed to be asked.

"Personal question." She said, as she cuddled closer to James, and looked over across the sea, "How many girlfriends have you had?"

"Three." Replied James quickly. "How many have you had?"

"None." Lily replied.

James goggled at her and then seemed to have an idea. "Let me rephrase that question: How many boyfriends have you had?"

Lily laughed. "None!"

"I can't believe that!" James exclaimed, "That can't be possible."

Lily shook her head and tried to think of another question to ask.

While thinking, James asked, "When was your first kiss?"

Lily thought for a moment before replying. She decided to answer the question with the first time she had been just kissed. Not a french kiss, but a peck.

"In 4th grade; I was playing truth or dare with one of my friends."

"Uh huh." James looked over on the deck and exclaimed, "Oh no, Whitey!"

Lily looked where he was looking, and was the tall white boy that was in the Spirals room the other night coming towards them.

"Don't let him see me!" James exclaimed.

Lily was confused, but tried to block him from sight, to no avail; the boy named Whitey came over anyways.

"Hey James," he said, "Just telling you that there's gonna be a ping-pong tournament later."

James sat up.

"What time?"

"Umm... 3:00 I think." Whitey replied.

"Alright, thanks." Said James, "See you later."

Whitey shook his head and walked away muttering, "I give you this information, and what do I get? 'See you later' like I have to go or something..."

Lily laughed, and put her hand on top of James' arm, signifying that she was ready for more... and the kissing began again.

Suddenly, Lily got a prickling sensation on the back of her neck, (that had nothing to do with James' hand there), so she broke the kiss and looked around. It seemed all clear, then she spotted her dad coming up the stairs by the dark purple shirt he was wearing. Her mom came right behind him.

"What?" asked James, he could feel her tense up.

"My parents." Lily groaned. "Let's try to go down those other stairs without them seeing us."

They carefully got up and headed towards the next set of stairs. By looking out of the side of her eye, Lily saw that her parents were looking straight ahead, so she and James dashed for the stairs. After going down them, Lily reckoned that they were safe.

"Wow." Said James, "What are the chances that they would go up there while we were there?"

"I told you!" Lily laughed, "They always seem to go where I am!"

Lily then saw that there was a big crowd gathered around the pool area.

"What's going on?" she asked.

As if answering her question, a lady with a megaphone said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our annual 'Hairy Chest' contest!"

"Oh that's gross!" Lily exclaimed.

The lady with the loud speaker went on, "if you're a man and you fancy yourself to have a hairy chest, come on up here and you can be entered in the competition!"

Lily saw a few men walk past her on their way to the stand, chests filled with hair. Lily had to stop herself from gagging; it was a nasty sight to see. For the contest, two ladies ran their hands through the men's hair, while music played. Lily and James stood watching for a little while, laughing and gagging together, until it got a little too boring for their taste, and they went to the ping-pong deck to await the contest that was coming up.

When some more people showed up, Lily knew that she was out of the league, so she didn't even sign up, but pulled up a chair to watch.

Using the elimination process, the last ones left were James, and the games director. Using a spectacular save, James won the game. Lily game him a kiss congratulations, and her mom showed up. Luckily, Lily didn't think that her mom saw the kiss she had given James.

"I was just checking up on you to see what you were doing." She said.

"Well, the contest just ended, so we're probably just going to walk around a bit or something." Lily replied.

"Alright, well, I guess I'll see you for dinner at least." Said Candice, and she walked off.

After watching Candice leave, James showed Lily his "24 carrot gold plastic ship on a stick". It was a plastic model of the Ecstasy placed on a stand.

"Want to go to my room and help me find a place to put it?" he asked.

Lily, having a rather innocent mind, thought nothing of it, and agreed.

Oh my gosh, how could she just agree like that? Oh well, how'd you like it? I managed to type this out in one night, right before my deadline of two weeks, so be happy that I stayed up half the night for you! Thank you:

Star19: Ah! I tried. And hey, I got it out one day BEFORE the deadline! I'm so proud of myself! I pushed this chapter out last night. Whew! Thanks!

Carmel March: Awww, thank you so much! I know, I love it when they kiss! Blushes I bet you liked the little part in THIS chapter! Wink

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Callista Silverheart: Ah man, seems like you had a blast. I have to say, cruise ships are one of the most fun vacations to go on. Espically if your a teen, and you get to go in the teen rooms! ;) Thanks for the awesome review!

Drizzer419: Hey. Man, a hurricane? Must not be fun. Umm... I'm pretty sure that there will be two more chapters. Thanks!