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A Spring Fling
Chapter Nine: Day Four, Promises
"Lily?"
There was a frantic knock on the door.
James snuck a glance at the sleeping Lily before getting up and reluctantly opening the door to Lily's dad.
"Lily is here, right?" Lily dad somewhat franticly said, sticking his head rather forcefully into the room.
James moved back to allow him all the way into the room. "Yes sir. Lily's right here." He directed her dad over to his bed.
Lily's dad took one look at his daughter and sank down onto the next bed, putting his head in his hands.
"I should never have left her out of my sight." He cried into his hands.
James felt kind of uncomfortable, but felt that he had to explain something to the man.
"Sir," he started, not sure exactly of what he wanted to say; "if fate had it that Lily was out there, she was meant to be out there and there would have been nothing you could do to stop it. You should have seen her out there. She helped fight off the death eaters, (bad wizards), and when I got stunned and fell into the pool, she dived in after me and saved my life! Sir, if Lily wasn't out there, I would be dead, and so even if just for that I am terribly grateful that she was out there. Lily is one of the bravest and selfless people I have ever met, so please sir, don't say you wish she wasn't out there. She'll be fine."
Lily's dad, (Matt), looked up at James and wiped his eyes.
"You're right boy. I'm sorry I broke down like this in front of you, but she's my littlest girl, you know? I don't know what I'd do if I lost her. I guess I just never thought that her becoming a witch would put her in such dangers."
James nodded, trying to understand.
"I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but I was thinking of letting her be an exchange student to a wizard boarding school in England next year, but I don't know if I could let her go now that I know about all the dangers, I mean, I don't know if I could be away from her that long." Matt explained.
James' heart jumped. Lily be an exchange student to a wizarding school in England? The only one he new of in England was Hogwarts!
"Which wizarding school?"
"I think it's called Hogbumps, or was it Pigwarts,"
"Hogwarts?"
"That's it!" Matt exclaimed jubilantly. "Now how did you know a thing like that?"
"That's actually my school." Replied James.
"Is it really?" pondered Matt, "Very interesting. So I suppose if I did send her there next year you would take the initiative and show her around and help her make friends?"
"Of course!"
James was getting rather excited now, just the idea that he would practically be living with Lily next year! She would of course be in Gryffindor, but then again maybe Ravenclaw, but that couldn't happen! She would have to be in Gryffindor so he could spend as much time with her as possible.
"Interesting," Matt muttered.
He got up. "Dinner's going to start in just a minute, but I'm guessing that Lily isn't quite up to going, so I'll bring something back afterwards. Thank you for letting Lily rest in here; it must have been quite a shock to see her grandma, well, yeah." He turned to go. "Oh, one more thing; please don't tell Lily about the whole exchange student ordeal, her mother and I were going to tell her as a birthday present."
As Matt left, James felt like jumping up and down on the bed. Lily going to Hogwarts! As he settled down, James thought just how weird it was that he really only knew her for about 3 or so days, when it felt like he had known her for at least 3 months.
Lily stirred and opened her eyes and looked over to see James lying back on the bed next to hers, grinning madly.
"Why are you so happy?" she asked.
James jumped.
"I did know you were awake!"
"No really?" Lily the queen of sarcasm. "So you're happy because you didn't know I was awake?"
"No." James grinned, "But I'm not allowed to tell you. Anyway, you feel okay?"
"I feel fine. Maybe a bit of a stuffy nose, but other than that I think I'm perfectly fine. But really, where am I?"
"Doesn't that seem kind of selfish to say 'where am I' when I'm here too?"
"Fine! Where are we?" Lily stuck out her tongue.
James grinned.
"In mine and my brother's room."
"Oh no!" Lily sat up. "My parents must be freaking out! If they knew I was in here, I'd be so busted."
"Actually, your parents know you're here. You're dad came in and said that he'll be back after dinner with some food for you."
Lily tried to remember why she was in James' room, but when she did, she wished she hadn't. Tears came to her eyes as she thought of her grandma walking out onto the deck and getting, getting, she wouldn't think about it. She put her face into the pillows and started to sob.
James came over to comfort her, and put his arm on her back, not really sure of what he could say.
They stayed that way for some time, until Lily sat up, dried her tears and gave James a hug.
"Thank you James." She sniffed, "You're so nice to me; I can't believe I'll probably never see you again after tonight."
"Don't say that." Said James, "You're just making things worse for yourself. I don't want to think about that. If your dad lets you after he brings your dinner, why don't we go to the Spirals room and act as if none of this ever happened?"
Lily gave a small smile. "You sure know how to put something off."
"I'm pro. That's how I have time to do stuff at school. Don't do homework 'till the last minute. Of course I always get it done on time though."
Lily laughed, "Don't be so conceited James!"
There was a knock on the door, and Matt entered with a plate of food, followed by Sirius and Remus.
"Lily!"
Sirius made an exaggerated move to get over to Lily, and picked her up.
"Oh, you're okay."
He put her down.
Lily was shocked. Was this normal behavior?
James and Remus burst out laughing.
"Only you Sirius, only you." James smirked.
"Alright, alright, let Lily eat." Matt pushed through the guys and set the plate on Lily's lap. "I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with all these guys around my little girl."
"Dad." Lily whined. "Don't be like that."
Matt grinned.
"Fine. Just because you all have a few things in common, being magic. I'm guessing you're okay now Lily?" he asked.
Lily nodded.
"Good. Well, I expect you to be in your OWN room by 9:30 tonight. Goodnight boys." Matt left the room.
"So, are you okay Remus?" Lily asked, "I mean with your sister," she trailed off.
"No." shrugged Remus. "There's no reason I should be 'okay', and I'll probably never get over it, but I'll learn to live with it, just like you."
Lily nodded.
"But I had no idea you were all magic!"
Sirius grinned.
"Yeah, Remus is the best here at hiding it, and I'm pretty good at it, but James here, my gosh. If muggles had any sense at all they would know that James wasn't one every time he opens his mouth!"
Lily giggled.
"I noticed that. But you all know each other? I bet you all go to the same school."
They nodded.
Lily sighed.
"You're so lucky. I wish I went to Hogwarts, or even any boarding school. Believe it or not I actually asked my parents at the beginning of this past school year if I could be an exchange student to a wizarding boarding school next year but they said they don't think so."
"What a bummer, Lily!" Sirius exclaimed, "But tell you what, we'll owl you! Once every two weeks each, right?"
They nodded.
"Alright." Lily agreed. "Thanks! Too bad for the owls though. You won't have an owl half the time."
"Oh you don't have to worry about that." Remus consoled, "We can use the school owls anytime."
Lily looked at her plate. Fish and kale. Some of her least favorite foods. She looked up. "Have any of you eaten dinner?"
They all shook their heads.
"Then let's dump this and get some food at the buffet." She got up from the bed, finally feeling somewhat embarrassed at her appearance. "Just, one second."
She stepped in the bathroom for just a minute, and emerged looking as fresh as if she'd just taken a shower.
James was mesmerized.
Lily rolled her eyes and opened the door to leave, knowing the boys would follow behind her. She left the plate of food on top of the empty plate that was sitting by the next door, and they made their way to the food.
After watching Sirius shove a whole plateful of food into his mouth at once, Lily's appetite somewhat diminished but she still managed to put away a couple ham and cheese sandwiches.
"Well, seeing as it's 9:00 already, do you all want to go to Spirals and see what's going on?" asked James.
They agreed, and wandered over to where the teens were coming in and out of. Music was playing, and so they figured it was either dancing going on or karaoke. Turned out to be both.
They all shoved onto the small dance floor, where only a few others were dancing, while a girl was amazingly good at singing karaoke to "You've Got it Bad".
"You know, it's really ironic that they're playing this song, because I've got it real bad." James whispered in Lily's ear.
Lily turned around to face James and stood on her toes so she could kiss him. When their lips met though, Lily felt a hand slap her rear. She looked over her shoulder and rolled her eyes.
"You're dumb, Sirius."
She turned back and kissed James before going to look in the karaoke book to see if there were any songs that she knew, and yes! There was one that fit her situation exactly, and even matched her pitch.
The DJ announced her:
"And now here's Lily, singing 'When I First Met You'."
"When I First Met You"
"When I first met you,
I looked into your eyes,
And I couldn't help but feel,
Lost in your love;
I knew you were the One,
The moment I saw you,
Yes the moment I saw you for the first time.
And now and forever,
You'll be the one for me, And no one can ever take your place; Because I will love you 'till the very end,
Until the end of all time.
Now we're together, And things are going fine.
And trials there may be, But they will all pass;
Although we may be parted,
For a little while,
A little while's nothing compared to forever.
And now and forever, You'll be the one for me,
And no one can ever take your place; Because I will love you 'till the very end,
Until the end of all time.
I will love you for all time,
I will love you for all time,
And I know, you'll always be mine."
(A.N. Written by me especially for this fic.)
"Wow Lily." James congratulated her, "That was great. I mean, really great."
Lily smiled. "Thanks. I've always liked that song, but I really should go because it's 9:25, and I need to be in the room by 9:30. I'm really cutting it close."
"I'll walk you there." James took Lily's hand and they headed out the room.
"Bye guys!" Lily called back to the others, "Owl!"
When they reached the hall of rooms, James figured they should go their separate ways. He kissed her, took her hands in his own and looked into her eyes while he said, "Lillian Marie Evans, I will see you again."
They let go of each other and walked the separate directions, looking back every few steps.
When Lily got in her room, she felt exhausted, but in the clouds. He was so sweet, and they would write… She would go crazy if James didn't write. Lily washed her face and changed her clothes and then flopped into bed, wondering if she would ever be able to sleep.
ONE MORE CHAPTER!
Sooooo how did you like it??? Oh I'm so excited about this chapter, maybe because I wrote this all in one night, but I really really want to know what you think about this chapter especially. OH! And I pushed out that song in about 15 minutes, I wish you could hear the tune to it… But please tell me what you thought of the song, because I've never written a real song before, and I made it just for this. PLEASE REVIEW!!!
THANK YOUS! (Double thank yous because I didn't have a chance to last chapter.)
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A Spring Fling
Chapter Nine: Day Four, Promises
"Lily?"
There was a frantic knock on the door.
James snuck a glance at the sleeping Lily before getting up and reluctantly opening the door to Lily's dad.
"Lily is here, right?" Lily dad somewhat franticly said, sticking his head rather forcefully into the room.
James moved back to allow him all the way into the room. "Yes sir. Lily's right here." He directed her dad over to his bed.
Lily's dad took one look at his daughter and sank down onto the next bed, putting his head in his hands.
"I should never have left her out of my sight." He cried into his hands.
James felt kind of uncomfortable, but felt that he had to explain something to the man.
"Sir," he started, not sure exactly of what he wanted to say; "if fate had it that Lily was out there, she was meant to be out there and there would have been nothing you could do to stop it. You should have seen her out there. She helped fight off the death eaters, (bad wizards), and when I got stunned and fell into the pool, she dived in after me and saved my life! Sir, if Lily wasn't out there, I would be dead, and so even if just for that I am terribly grateful that she was out there. Lily is one of the bravest and selfless people I have ever met, so please sir, don't say you wish she wasn't out there. She'll be fine."
Lily's dad, (Matt), looked up at James and wiped his eyes.
"You're right boy. I'm sorry I broke down like this in front of you, but she's my littlest girl, you know? I don't know what I'd do if I lost her. I guess I just never thought that her becoming a witch would put her in such dangers."
James nodded, trying to understand.
"I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but I was thinking of letting her be an exchange student to a wizard boarding school in England next year, but I don't know if I could let her go now that I know about all the dangers, I mean, I don't know if I could be away from her that long." Matt explained.
James' heart jumped. Lily be an exchange student to a wizarding school in England? The only one he new of in England was Hogwarts!
"Which wizarding school?"
"I think it's called Hogbumps, or was it Pigwarts,"
"Hogwarts?"
"That's it!" Matt exclaimed jubilantly. "Now how did you know a thing like that?"
"That's actually my school." Replied James.
"Is it really?" pondered Matt, "Very interesting. So I suppose if I did send her there next year you would take the initiative and show her around and help her make friends?"
"Of course!"
James was getting rather excited now, just the idea that he would practically be living with Lily next year! She would of course be in Gryffindor, but then again maybe Ravenclaw, but that couldn't happen! She would have to be in Gryffindor so he could spend as much time with her as possible.
"Interesting," Matt muttered.
He got up. "Dinner's going to start in just a minute, but I'm guessing that Lily isn't quite up to going, so I'll bring something back afterwards. Thank you for letting Lily rest in here; it must have been quite a shock to see her grandma, well, yeah." He turned to go. "Oh, one more thing; please don't tell Lily about the whole exchange student ordeal, her mother and I were going to tell her as a birthday present."
As Matt left, James felt like jumping up and down on the bed. Lily going to Hogwarts! As he settled down, James thought just how weird it was that he really only knew her for about 3 or so days, when it felt like he had known her for at least 3 months.
Lily stirred and opened her eyes and looked over to see James lying back on the bed next to hers, grinning madly.
"Why are you so happy?" she asked.
James jumped.
"I did know you were awake!"
"No really?" Lily the queen of sarcasm. "So you're happy because you didn't know I was awake?"
"No." James grinned, "But I'm not allowed to tell you. Anyway, you feel okay?"
"I feel fine. Maybe a bit of a stuffy nose, but other than that I think I'm perfectly fine. But really, where am I?"
"Doesn't that seem kind of selfish to say 'where am I' when I'm here too?"
"Fine! Where are we?" Lily stuck out her tongue.
James grinned.
"In mine and my brother's room."
"Oh no!" Lily sat up. "My parents must be freaking out! If they knew I was in here, I'd be so busted."
"Actually, your parents know you're here. You're dad came in and said that he'll be back after dinner with some food for you."
Lily tried to remember why she was in James' room, but when she did, she wished she hadn't. Tears came to her eyes as she thought of her grandma walking out onto the deck and getting, getting, she wouldn't think about it. She put her face into the pillows and started to sob.
James came over to comfort her, and put his arm on her back, not really sure of what he could say.
They stayed that way for some time, until Lily sat up, dried her tears and gave James a hug.
"Thank you James." She sniffed, "You're so nice to me; I can't believe I'll probably never see you again after tonight."
"Don't say that." Said James, "You're just making things worse for yourself. I don't want to think about that. If your dad lets you after he brings your dinner, why don't we go to the Spirals room and act as if none of this ever happened?"
Lily gave a small smile. "You sure know how to put something off."
"I'm pro. That's how I have time to do stuff at school. Don't do homework 'till the last minute. Of course I always get it done on time though."
Lily laughed, "Don't be so conceited James!"
There was a knock on the door, and Matt entered with a plate of food, followed by Sirius and Remus.
"Lily!"
Sirius made an exaggerated move to get over to Lily, and picked her up.
"Oh, you're okay."
He put her down.
Lily was shocked. Was this normal behavior?
James and Remus burst out laughing.
"Only you Sirius, only you." James smirked.
"Alright, alright, let Lily eat." Matt pushed through the guys and set the plate on Lily's lap. "I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with all these guys around my little girl."
"Dad." Lily whined. "Don't be like that."
Matt grinned.
"Fine. Just because you all have a few things in common, being magic. I'm guessing you're okay now Lily?" he asked.
Lily nodded.
"Good. Well, I expect you to be in your OWN room by 9:30 tonight. Goodnight boys." Matt left the room.
"So, are you okay Remus?" Lily asked, "I mean with your sister," she trailed off.
"No." shrugged Remus. "There's no reason I should be 'okay', and I'll probably never get over it, but I'll learn to live with it, just like you."
Lily nodded.
"But I had no idea you were all magic!"
Sirius grinned.
"Yeah, Remus is the best here at hiding it, and I'm pretty good at it, but James here, my gosh. If muggles had any sense at all they would know that James wasn't one every time he opens his mouth!"
Lily giggled.
"I noticed that. But you all know each other? I bet you all go to the same school."
They nodded.
Lily sighed.
"You're so lucky. I wish I went to Hogwarts, or even any boarding school. Believe it or not I actually asked my parents at the beginning of this past school year if I could be an exchange student to a wizarding boarding school next year but they said they don't think so."
"What a bummer, Lily!" Sirius exclaimed, "But tell you what, we'll owl you! Once every two weeks each, right?"
They nodded.
"Alright." Lily agreed. "Thanks! Too bad for the owls though. You won't have an owl half the time."
"Oh you don't have to worry about that." Remus consoled, "We can use the school owls anytime."
Lily looked at her plate. Fish and kale. Some of her least favorite foods. She looked up. "Have any of you eaten dinner?"
They all shook their heads.
"Then let's dump this and get some food at the buffet." She got up from the bed, finally feeling somewhat embarrassed at her appearance. "Just, one second."
She stepped in the bathroom for just a minute, and emerged looking as fresh as if she'd just taken a shower.
James was mesmerized.
Lily rolled her eyes and opened the door to leave, knowing the boys would follow behind her. She left the plate of food on top of the empty plate that was sitting by the next door, and they made their way to the food.
After watching Sirius shove a whole plateful of food into his mouth at once, Lily's appetite somewhat diminished but she still managed to put away a couple ham and cheese sandwiches.
"Well, seeing as it's 9:00 already, do you all want to go to Spirals and see what's going on?" asked James.
They agreed, and wandered over to where the teens were coming in and out of. Music was playing, and so they figured it was either dancing going on or karaoke. Turned out to be both.
They all shoved onto the small dance floor, where only a few others were dancing, while a girl was amazingly good at singing karaoke to "You've Got it Bad".
"You know, it's really ironic that they're playing this song, because I've got it real bad." James whispered in Lily's ear.
Lily turned around to face James and stood on her toes so she could kiss him. When their lips met though, Lily felt a hand slap her rear. She looked over her shoulder and rolled her eyes.
"You're dumb, Sirius."
She turned back and kissed James before going to look in the karaoke book to see if there were any songs that she knew, and yes! There was one that fit her situation exactly, and even matched her pitch.
The DJ announced her:
"And now here's Lily, singing 'When I First Met You'."
"When I First Met You"
"When I first met you,
I looked into your eyes,
And I couldn't help but feel,
Lost in your love;
I knew you were the One,
The moment I saw you,
Yes the moment I saw you for the first time.
And now and forever,
You'll be the one for me, And no one can ever take your place; Because I will love you 'till the very end,
Until the end of all time.
Now we're together, And things are going fine.
And trials there may be, But they will all pass;
Although we may be parted,
For a little while,
A little while's nothing compared to forever.
And now and forever, You'll be the one for me,
And no one can ever take your place; Because I will love you 'till the very end,
Until the end of all time.
I will love you for all time,
I will love you for all time,
And I know, you'll always be mine."
(A.N. Written by me especially for this fic.)
"Wow Lily." James congratulated her, "That was great. I mean, really great."
Lily smiled. "Thanks. I've always liked that song, but I really should go because it's 9:25, and I need to be in the room by 9:30. I'm really cutting it close."
"I'll walk you there." James took Lily's hand and they headed out the room.
"Bye guys!" Lily called back to the others, "Owl!"
When they reached the hall of rooms, James figured they should go their separate ways. He kissed her, took her hands in his own and looked into her eyes while he said, "Lillian Marie Evans, I will see you again."
They let go of each other and walked the separate directions, looking back every few steps.
When Lily got in her room, she felt exhausted, but in the clouds. He was so sweet, and they would write… She would go crazy if James didn't write. Lily washed her face and changed her clothes and then flopped into bed, wondering if she would ever be able to sleep.
ONE MORE CHAPTER!
Sooooo how did you like it??? Oh I'm so excited about this chapter, maybe because I wrote this all in one night, but I really really want to know what you think about this chapter especially. OH! And I pushed out that song in about 15 minutes, I wish you could hear the tune to it… But please tell me what you thought of the song, because I've never written a real song before, and I made it just for this. PLEASE REVIEW!!!
THANK YOUS! (Double thank yous because I didn't have a chance to last chapter.)
Brighton Baby: Ah, one of my most faithful reviewers for this fic. I bow to you in gratefulness. Okay. About that co-writing a story with you, I would love to, and I've tried emailing you a couple times, but you won't write back. I'm thinking that you gave me the wrong email. You put that it's at , but is it instead? I'm confused. Thanks sooooo much! (Maybe you could help me write the sequel to this since I'm so horrid at sequel plots?)
Little-angel123452000: Posting, posting… Thanks for the review!
Miracle Girls: Since I'm reading your story, you have to keep reading (and reviewing) mine. Okay? THANK YOU! (You know I'm just playing with you right?)
Star19: Awww, thanks!
E.K.Kropp: Some of my best writing ever? Awww, Blushes Don't go on making me conceited. Thanks for the reviews.
Joe5432: I know you said that you would never be on your account again, but I feel I have to say thank you for reviewing anyway.
Carmel March: Oh I know, Lily went through so much huh? Ahhh, so many plot twists! Thanks for reviewing!
Diaboloist45: Girl, this IS in the Harry Potter section, so of course I'm going to go "all Harry Potter" on you! I'm not sure to say thanks or not… but of course I will. Thanks for reading and reviewing!
Drizzer419: LOL, of course I forgive you! I mean, you DID review didn't you? What do I care if it was a bit late? To be honest, I like it when your kind of late, because usually when I post a chapter, reviews come in all at the same time for 2 or 3 days, and then the rest of the week or two there's nothing, and I get all sad. So when you review, it makes me happy because I get one after all the others! Does that make sense? So thanks! (I know what you mean with school, I do so many after-school activities, that AND school… It gets to be a load.)
Hikaru: Oh thank you so much! I hope you review again! I lurve reviews!
Emily: No problem. My pleasure. Thanks for reviewing.
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