Why me

Chapter 5: Say hi

There Lily stood waiting for James, in a blue tank top and shorts, her lips shining with the cherry lip gloss. She didn't know what she'd expect when she came. She had debated to herself over and over again if she should come before she owled her reply back to James. Finally she had come to a decision; she would give him a chance. One chance to prove to her that his intentions were good; since she still wasn't entirely convinced that they were.

Suddenly Lily saw a boy with messy black hair emerge from behind a store corner, then look at her with wide eyes and sneak back behind it again. Lily quickly realized the boy was James but what was he doing? She pretended not to notice as he quickly glanced at her again and spoke to someone behind him. Lily was confused, why was James hiding from her? After all he was the one that asked her to come to buy school and now he was speaking with someone else, while she looked like fool waiting for him. She was growing angry, maybe she should just leave.

There she was, Lily...the most beautiful girl in the world waiting for him, in her tank top and shorts with her red hair up in a pony tail and her perfect lips. How could she look so innocent and sexy, without trying? Could there be anyone more perfect? Since he had gotten his reply from her owl that said she would come, he had been ecstatic. Too bad Sirius walked in on him dancing with his pillow; hopefully he would not use that as blackmail. He was so happy that she had said yes, that he found himself occasionally smiling and thinking about Lily. He could tell Sirius was getting annoyed of this but he couldn't help himself. Lily had finally said yes to him.

But now he didn't know what to do. He finally got the girl he adored to go out with him, and he was scared to say hello. His hands were sweaty and he was all jittery and he hated it. How pathetic was he?

"Prongs there she is just walk up to her and say hi, after all she already knows you're here", Sirius said.

"She does, are you serious?" James said nervously as he glanced back at her.

"Yeah, I think it's kind of obvious, you've been looking at her every five seconds..."

"But Sirius look at her, she's Lily"

"Yes, Prongs I know who she is... just go, you've never been shy around her before"

Padfoot you don't understand", James said as he grabbed his best friend shoulders and shook him, "this is the first time I have ever gone out with her! Out of the 97 times since fifth year that I have asked her out and this is the first time she has said yes."

"Wow you were counting"

James continued "And this might lead to more times of her saying yes and going out with me which could lead to her being my girlfriend..."

"So stop wasting your time and make it happen mate…she's walking away", Sirius said as he gave James a hard push sending him stumbling from behind his hiding place.

Walking away, James thought. No she couldn't. No he had to go get her back. Oh no she looked angry. Why did he have to mess this up within the first 5 minutes?



"Lily, wait, hold on"

"Oh would you like me to wait another 15 minutes?" she said sarcastically.

"No…no. I'm so sorry about that. It's just that Sirius…he didn't want to be left alone"

"So now he's a baby or something or were you changing your mind about this whole thing" she said defensively. She couldn't believe she was being this mean, but it was what she was used to from the past years. Plus, she was scared. She thought that he might actually have changed about liking her.

"No…of course not. I'm really happy you came. I didn't think…well I…thank you for coming" he said and smiled at her.

"You're welcome" she said, and smiled back hesitantly as they began to walk in the direction of the nearest shop.