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Please fasten your seat belts and keep all arms in legs inside the fanfiction…we are now approaching Chapter 12…
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It was a cold and grey day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Christmas had come and past, as well as New Year's Day. There was a lively celebration at Hogwarts, equipped with wizard firecrackers and sparklers, but the partying soon returned back to the quiet solitude at the near-empty castle.
Students would be returning shortly, and James could not wait until he could see his friends again. Now, that did not mean that Lily's company wasn't enjoyable—for it definitely WAS, in James' case—but he was beginning to miss Sirius' loud and mischievous laugh, Remus' knowing smile, and Peter's timid companionship. Hell, he even missed Juliet to some extent, and her friendly jokes and chatter.
James continued to think about his friends while he was sitting at his desk, one grey evening. He was trying to reorganize his desk—it had gotten extremely messy over the past few weeks—and when emptying out his drawer, he had stumbled upon an old leather-bound album. James recognized that album as a birthday gift he had received from Peter and Remus a couple years back. He began flipping through the album, smiling at some of the pictures and papers that were neatly tucked inside.
There was a few family photos that his mother had sent him ("so you won't ever forget us when you're at Hogwarts, dear"), and some essays that he had received extraordinary marks on. There were also some wizard photographs that were taken spontaneously throughout his school years, mainly the fourth and fifth, when Sirius had managed to take when he borrowed a wizards' camera one year. There were Quidditch pictures and flying pictures, and one that Sirius had taken near the Girls' Bathroom that showed a very irate Juliet charging at Sirius wearing only in a towel. James' couldn't help but smile at all those fond memories.
He shut the album and placed it in a nice spot on his bookshelf. James yawned and turned to look at Lily, who was lying quietly on his bed. She was reading one of the new books she had received for Christmas and, using her newly trained wandless magic skills, was levitating her bookmarker and twirling simply it with her finger. James watched as the marker went round and round in circles as Lily casually turned another page in her book, unbeknownst to James' staring.
James held out his hand, and managed to summon the bookmarker into his grasp. Their wandless magic skills were not very advanced, for they could only pick certain things up and levitate items and such, but it was enough. Only very powerful wizards could train their skills to perform all sorts of spells and charms without their wand, but the fact these teenagers could do some 'tricks' was pretty awesome in amongst itself.
Noticing that her bookmarker was no longer in sight, Lily looked up from her book to James. She smiled and said, "Hey, what's up?"
James shrugged his shoulders and sent the bookmarker whizzing back into Lily's book. Outstretching his palm, Lily grinned as she watched James place the bookmarker onto the page she was reading, shut the book, and send it flying onto his shelf without even lifting his wand that sat on his desk. "Nothing much. I'm tired…and I miss Sirius."
James walked over to his bed and flopped down across it horizontally, with his long legs still flopping over the edge. "I'm suffering from prank- deprivation."
Lily looked down at James. "There, there. These past few days have only served to keep you out of trouble. Wouldn't want you to have to spend your holiday in misery. When Sirius, Remus, and Peter come back, you guys will be back to your antics in no time. You'll be back in detention before you know it."
James chuckled. "Yeah, that's true. The guys should be returning any day now. I hope they come tomorrow."
Lily nodded her head. "I think so, at least, that's what Dumbledore said when he was reading the calendar during the last Prefect's meeting. The train would be arriving a couple days after New Year's." James nodded his head.
The pair continued to talk quietly for the rest of the evening, until Lily got tired and leaned back on James' bed, asleep. Exhausted himself, and semi-conscious, James did not have the strength to carry Lily back to her dorm. Instead, he pushed Lily, who was on top of the covers and facing the opposite direction, over more to the right side of the bed as he slipped into his sheets on the left. He draped his Quidditch cloak that was hanging near his bed over Lily, and slightly shut his curtain, falling soundly asleep once he hit his pillow.
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"All aboard! Hogwarts Express leaving for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! All aboard!" screeched the intercom on Platform 9 ¾, the following morning.
Rubbing his sore, and now deaf, right ear with his hand, Sirius began pushing his trunk through the thick crowds of Hogwarts' students that were boarding the train back to the castle. He waved to Peter, who was rushing up from his right, and the pair boarded the train.
After packing away their trunks, they walked through the train compartments until they found Remus. He had his arm resting on the window, and a sleepy expression on his face. Sirius and Peter sat down across from him just as Juliet entered the compartment, after tucking away her own trunk.
Yawning, Juliet nodded to Sirius and Peter. "Good morning, fellows. See you managed to get yourself out of bed and onto this dreadfully early train too." She yawned again, slumping against the seat cushion.
Sleepily, Sirius nodded. "Yeah, way too early if you ask me. But then again, I'm just gonna sleep on the train." Following Remus' example, he was now fast asleep against the window, Sirius shut and eyes and let sleep overtake him too.
The four friends were silent the entire ride back to Hogwarts, with an occasional snore only coming out of the compartment.
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The train ride to Hogwarts was a relatively fast one. The friends woke up, starting with Peter, about ten minutes before their arrival at the train station, and they managed to change into their school robes and clean themselves up before leaving the train.
It was another fifteen minutes after their got their trunks and headed off the train before their actual ride to Hogwarts. There was a lot of confusion and throngs of people, so everyone was separated from everyone for a while. Inevitably, they found each other again, and took the boat ride back to the castle.
It was a familiar and comforting sight for everyone, and Sirius was especially happy to see James again. They continued to write for the remainder of the holiday, but James was his best friend, and Sirius missed his company.
Turning to Remus, who was sitting next to him on the boat, Sirius smiled as a sudden thought passed through his mind. "Hey, so do you think James hooked up with Lily this holiday? I mean, they were alone together for about the entire time." Remus pondered that thought and nodded, knowingly.
"Probably. The two have a pretty apparent attraction to each other and given that circumstance—alone in the castle for the holiday—they probably got to know each other better, thus changing some details of their relationship." Juliet, hearing their conversation, spoke up also.
"They definitely expressed their feelings to each other. Lily sent a letter to me a couple days ago, and she sounded a lot different in her writing tone—much happier, if you ask me. They just probably want to tell us later, when we got there."
Sirius nodded in agreement. "Yeah, that's true. But knowing James, and his sometime promiscuous ways, he got a lot of snogging-action this holiday…no doubt about it. The man's a lady killer, and I doubt even Lily could avoid his charming ways." Remus and Peter laughed at the "charming ways" remark.
"Hey, she's done it for 6 years," Juliet replied. "It's worked since then." Everyone nodded and continued their ride to the castle, anxious to see their friends again.
Once entering the main entrance of the castle, the groups of students separated into their specific houses as Sirius, Remus, Peter, and Juliet began walking toward to the Gryffindor Tower. Once through the Portrait Hole and through the slowly crowding Common Room, the group split up as Juliet walked toward the girls' room and the guys headed back to their own dorm.
The guys walked into the room and plopped their trunks at the foot of their beds. Sirius rushed over to James bed.
"Yo, Prongs! I'm back! Prongs!" Sirius pulled the slightly closed curtain to wake up his best friend but was greeted with a different sight all together. Lying in James' normal spot was a familiar, pretty redhead with her arm sprawled lazily out and her hair plastered to her face. Sirius opened the curtains a little wider and saw James, whose body was tucked in a tight position and his arms under his head, sleeping soundly beneath Lily's arm.
"Whoa. Hey, Remus, remember I said that James was gonna get lucky with Lily this holiday, I didn't mean THAT lucky." Sirius ushered Remus over and the two continued to stare at the pair as Peter came by also.
"Wow," Remus said, crossing his arms.
Blinking slightly by the sudden intrusion of light, Lily shifted her head and started to squint at the large, dark figures that were hovering above her once sleeping form. She rubbed her eyes and squinted again, finally registering the figures. "Sirius? Remus? That you?"
"In the flesh," Sirius replied.
Lily blinked and sat up. "That's cool you guys came back early. I'm surprised to see you." Lily stretched her arms.
"We're surprised to see you here too, Lily," Peter said softly, from behind Remus. "Especially in James' bed."
"What?" Lily turned suddenly and saw a sleeping James shift subconsciously, grabbing some more comforter. "Oh, I think I fell asleep here last night; we were talking late."
"Right. Talking." Sirius nodded and rolled his eyes.
"Yes, Sirius," Lily said, shaking her head as Sirius started to laugh at her. "As you can see, my clothes are completely on, and I'm not even under the covers." Sirius laughed.
"Naah, I'm just giving you a hard time, Lils. You wouldn't do anything like that…though James might, and I'm gonna bug the shit out of him for this too. But I am now definite that there is something going on between you too...and it ain't just friendly." Sirius waggled his eyebrows, while Remus and Peter nodded their heads in agreement.
Lily smiled sheepishly as she extricated herself from James' bed. James yawned, still asleep, as Lily shut the curtains behind her and started heading back into her dorm room. She chatted with Remus, Sirius, and Peter about their holidays before she left. They all waved as she walked down the stairs.
"Ohhh, James is gonna get it when he wakes up." Sirius said, grinning, rubbing his hands together and walking back into his room.
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"Alright. Tell me everything. EVERYTHING."
Lily let out a small laugh as Juliet jumped onto her bed. Walking into her room, Lily was nearly knocked over by the crushing hug she received from Juliet. The pair expressed their happiness of finally meeting up after the holidays and gratefulness for their presents.
"C'mon, Jules. There isn't that much to tell about. James and I became better friends over the holiday, that's all." Lily smiled and enigmatic smile as she walked over to her dresser. She pulled out her comb and began untangling her crazy, auburn mane.
"Lily, the guy basically expressed his love for you and asked you to be his girlfriend. Can you believe it? JAMES POTTER, spilling his innermost guts to you and practically begging you to be his committed snogging-partner!" Juliet exclaimed.
Lily turned around, rolling her eyes. "Geez, Jules, when you put it like that…it doesn't sound very romantic at all!"
"Sorry, sorry. But you know…we all expected you guys to hook up someday, and that fact that it all happened when we were gone…I want to know what happened. You sound so happy. I want to be happy with you." Juliet replied, lazily tracing a patter on Lily's bedcover.
"I know you do, and I am happy you're my friend. But there isn't that much to tell…James told me what was on his heart, and I told him what was on mine. Luckily, they were the same ideas, and now, I guess, he's my boyfriend. Pretty weird, huh?"
"I think it's absolutely divine. And the fact that James is willing to settle down with you…" Juliet started but was stopped when Lily gave her a hard stare. "No, no, I did not mean that in a bad way at all! James has been such the promiscuous charmer, and now that he is willing to change his ways…just to be with you…that says a lot. You are very lucky." Juliet finished, with a triumphant look on her face.
Lily smiled. "Gee, thanks. I know I am."
Juliet smiled in return. "Alright, on a more important note…so, how is he? I noticed that you came out of his ROOM this morning. And I doubt that you were sleeping in Sirius' bed."
Lily's eye got wide at Juliet's remark, and she waved her arm as a pillow when flying toward Juliet's face.
"Ahhh!" Juliet screamed. "It was just a question!"
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James woke up about ten minutes later, and survived all the questions that the guys were hounding him with. Still somewhat dazed from sleep, James tried to comprehend, let alone answer, all of Remus' and Sirius' questions about his newfound relationship with Lily.
"She's just a special girl…and I really want this work out." James replied, slipping on trousers over his boxer shorts.
"Wow, James. It's just that every time you get interested in a girl, you usually end the relationship before anything, how shall I say, meaningful, ever happens. Or when the girl believes it should be meaningful. And now, here you are WANTING to make it last longer…" Remus shrugged as his finished his statement.
James shrugged in agreement. "Yeah. But it's just that Lily's different, and I don't ever want to hurt her. I feel as if I have this giant need to protect her."
Sirius' voice chimed from his bed. "You hurt Lily and I swear to God I will kill you…"
James smiled. "I won't, Sirius. Ever." They guys began to assemble to leave to go down for breakfast.
The walked down the stairs toward the Great Hall and began getting onto the more relaxed topic of their past holiday plans. Sirius was recounting his hot Christmas with Aimee, and Peter was telling the guys about a new broom he had received from his parents. Thing were getting back to normal. Almost.
A minute or two later, the girls emerged from their room and began heading toward the Hall to join the guys. Lily was waiting as Juliet tied the laces of her shoes.
"Look, there's Remus…and James." Juliet said to Lily. Lily simply smiled. "James really likes you, you know. He really does…to the point where he has completely lost all common sense."
"Yeah, Juliet, I think you've told me that. I am very lucky." Lily replied.
"Yes, but Sirius told me that he wrote some letters to him over the holiday saying that he REALLY loved you. And that's he fallen so hard for you."
Lily nodded her head. "I saw the letters. I know what James said. And you know what? I think that is what I fear the most."
Juliet turned. "What?"
Lily continued on walking toward the Great Hall. "Now that James has expressed his extreme desire for me, I cannot help but feel the exactly the same way too. If not more."
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A/N: Geez, it's been a while. AP testing and everything…so I finally got off my lazy butt and finished the chapter. A tad bit shorter than usual, but more serious and lovey-dovey in tones. I hoped you liked it.
Take care, until next time ff.net readers!
~ Stellar
Thanks a bunch to all of my reviewers!
Anime girl * Slytherin Sweetheart * Krissia * thistlemeg * Felicity Aulia Evans * Mako-Shadows * Parselmouth Majere *
Please fasten your seat belts and keep all arms in legs inside the fanfiction…we are now approaching Chapter 12…
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It was a cold and grey day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Christmas had come and past, as well as New Year's Day. There was a lively celebration at Hogwarts, equipped with wizard firecrackers and sparklers, but the partying soon returned back to the quiet solitude at the near-empty castle.
Students would be returning shortly, and James could not wait until he could see his friends again. Now, that did not mean that Lily's company wasn't enjoyable—for it definitely WAS, in James' case—but he was beginning to miss Sirius' loud and mischievous laugh, Remus' knowing smile, and Peter's timid companionship. Hell, he even missed Juliet to some extent, and her friendly jokes and chatter.
James continued to think about his friends while he was sitting at his desk, one grey evening. He was trying to reorganize his desk—it had gotten extremely messy over the past few weeks—and when emptying out his drawer, he had stumbled upon an old leather-bound album. James recognized that album as a birthday gift he had received from Peter and Remus a couple years back. He began flipping through the album, smiling at some of the pictures and papers that were neatly tucked inside.
There was a few family photos that his mother had sent him ("so you won't ever forget us when you're at Hogwarts, dear"), and some essays that he had received extraordinary marks on. There were also some wizard photographs that were taken spontaneously throughout his school years, mainly the fourth and fifth, when Sirius had managed to take when he borrowed a wizards' camera one year. There were Quidditch pictures and flying pictures, and one that Sirius had taken near the Girls' Bathroom that showed a very irate Juliet charging at Sirius wearing only in a towel. James' couldn't help but smile at all those fond memories.
He shut the album and placed it in a nice spot on his bookshelf. James yawned and turned to look at Lily, who was lying quietly on his bed. She was reading one of the new books she had received for Christmas and, using her newly trained wandless magic skills, was levitating her bookmarker and twirling simply it with her finger. James watched as the marker went round and round in circles as Lily casually turned another page in her book, unbeknownst to James' staring.
James held out his hand, and managed to summon the bookmarker into his grasp. Their wandless magic skills were not very advanced, for they could only pick certain things up and levitate items and such, but it was enough. Only very powerful wizards could train their skills to perform all sorts of spells and charms without their wand, but the fact these teenagers could do some 'tricks' was pretty awesome in amongst itself.
Noticing that her bookmarker was no longer in sight, Lily looked up from her book to James. She smiled and said, "Hey, what's up?"
James shrugged his shoulders and sent the bookmarker whizzing back into Lily's book. Outstretching his palm, Lily grinned as she watched James place the bookmarker onto the page she was reading, shut the book, and send it flying onto his shelf without even lifting his wand that sat on his desk. "Nothing much. I'm tired…and I miss Sirius."
James walked over to his bed and flopped down across it horizontally, with his long legs still flopping over the edge. "I'm suffering from prank- deprivation."
Lily looked down at James. "There, there. These past few days have only served to keep you out of trouble. Wouldn't want you to have to spend your holiday in misery. When Sirius, Remus, and Peter come back, you guys will be back to your antics in no time. You'll be back in detention before you know it."
James chuckled. "Yeah, that's true. The guys should be returning any day now. I hope they come tomorrow."
Lily nodded her head. "I think so, at least, that's what Dumbledore said when he was reading the calendar during the last Prefect's meeting. The train would be arriving a couple days after New Year's." James nodded his head.
The pair continued to talk quietly for the rest of the evening, until Lily got tired and leaned back on James' bed, asleep. Exhausted himself, and semi-conscious, James did not have the strength to carry Lily back to her dorm. Instead, he pushed Lily, who was on top of the covers and facing the opposite direction, over more to the right side of the bed as he slipped into his sheets on the left. He draped his Quidditch cloak that was hanging near his bed over Lily, and slightly shut his curtain, falling soundly asleep once he hit his pillow.
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"All aboard! Hogwarts Express leaving for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! All aboard!" screeched the intercom on Platform 9 ¾, the following morning.
Rubbing his sore, and now deaf, right ear with his hand, Sirius began pushing his trunk through the thick crowds of Hogwarts' students that were boarding the train back to the castle. He waved to Peter, who was rushing up from his right, and the pair boarded the train.
After packing away their trunks, they walked through the train compartments until they found Remus. He had his arm resting on the window, and a sleepy expression on his face. Sirius and Peter sat down across from him just as Juliet entered the compartment, after tucking away her own trunk.
Yawning, Juliet nodded to Sirius and Peter. "Good morning, fellows. See you managed to get yourself out of bed and onto this dreadfully early train too." She yawned again, slumping against the seat cushion.
Sleepily, Sirius nodded. "Yeah, way too early if you ask me. But then again, I'm just gonna sleep on the train." Following Remus' example, he was now fast asleep against the window, Sirius shut and eyes and let sleep overtake him too.
The four friends were silent the entire ride back to Hogwarts, with an occasional snore only coming out of the compartment.
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The train ride to Hogwarts was a relatively fast one. The friends woke up, starting with Peter, about ten minutes before their arrival at the train station, and they managed to change into their school robes and clean themselves up before leaving the train.
It was another fifteen minutes after their got their trunks and headed off the train before their actual ride to Hogwarts. There was a lot of confusion and throngs of people, so everyone was separated from everyone for a while. Inevitably, they found each other again, and took the boat ride back to the castle.
It was a familiar and comforting sight for everyone, and Sirius was especially happy to see James again. They continued to write for the remainder of the holiday, but James was his best friend, and Sirius missed his company.
Turning to Remus, who was sitting next to him on the boat, Sirius smiled as a sudden thought passed through his mind. "Hey, so do you think James hooked up with Lily this holiday? I mean, they were alone together for about the entire time." Remus pondered that thought and nodded, knowingly.
"Probably. The two have a pretty apparent attraction to each other and given that circumstance—alone in the castle for the holiday—they probably got to know each other better, thus changing some details of their relationship." Juliet, hearing their conversation, spoke up also.
"They definitely expressed their feelings to each other. Lily sent a letter to me a couple days ago, and she sounded a lot different in her writing tone—much happier, if you ask me. They just probably want to tell us later, when we got there."
Sirius nodded in agreement. "Yeah, that's true. But knowing James, and his sometime promiscuous ways, he got a lot of snogging-action this holiday…no doubt about it. The man's a lady killer, and I doubt even Lily could avoid his charming ways." Remus and Peter laughed at the "charming ways" remark.
"Hey, she's done it for 6 years," Juliet replied. "It's worked since then." Everyone nodded and continued their ride to the castle, anxious to see their friends again.
Once entering the main entrance of the castle, the groups of students separated into their specific houses as Sirius, Remus, Peter, and Juliet began walking toward to the Gryffindor Tower. Once through the Portrait Hole and through the slowly crowding Common Room, the group split up as Juliet walked toward the girls' room and the guys headed back to their own dorm.
The guys walked into the room and plopped their trunks at the foot of their beds. Sirius rushed over to James bed.
"Yo, Prongs! I'm back! Prongs!" Sirius pulled the slightly closed curtain to wake up his best friend but was greeted with a different sight all together. Lying in James' normal spot was a familiar, pretty redhead with her arm sprawled lazily out and her hair plastered to her face. Sirius opened the curtains a little wider and saw James, whose body was tucked in a tight position and his arms under his head, sleeping soundly beneath Lily's arm.
"Whoa. Hey, Remus, remember I said that James was gonna get lucky with Lily this holiday, I didn't mean THAT lucky." Sirius ushered Remus over and the two continued to stare at the pair as Peter came by also.
"Wow," Remus said, crossing his arms.
Blinking slightly by the sudden intrusion of light, Lily shifted her head and started to squint at the large, dark figures that were hovering above her once sleeping form. She rubbed her eyes and squinted again, finally registering the figures. "Sirius? Remus? That you?"
"In the flesh," Sirius replied.
Lily blinked and sat up. "That's cool you guys came back early. I'm surprised to see you." Lily stretched her arms.
"We're surprised to see you here too, Lily," Peter said softly, from behind Remus. "Especially in James' bed."
"What?" Lily turned suddenly and saw a sleeping James shift subconsciously, grabbing some more comforter. "Oh, I think I fell asleep here last night; we were talking late."
"Right. Talking." Sirius nodded and rolled his eyes.
"Yes, Sirius," Lily said, shaking her head as Sirius started to laugh at her. "As you can see, my clothes are completely on, and I'm not even under the covers." Sirius laughed.
"Naah, I'm just giving you a hard time, Lils. You wouldn't do anything like that…though James might, and I'm gonna bug the shit out of him for this too. But I am now definite that there is something going on between you too...and it ain't just friendly." Sirius waggled his eyebrows, while Remus and Peter nodded their heads in agreement.
Lily smiled sheepishly as she extricated herself from James' bed. James yawned, still asleep, as Lily shut the curtains behind her and started heading back into her dorm room. She chatted with Remus, Sirius, and Peter about their holidays before she left. They all waved as she walked down the stairs.
"Ohhh, James is gonna get it when he wakes up." Sirius said, grinning, rubbing his hands together and walking back into his room.
~*~
"Alright. Tell me everything. EVERYTHING."
Lily let out a small laugh as Juliet jumped onto her bed. Walking into her room, Lily was nearly knocked over by the crushing hug she received from Juliet. The pair expressed their happiness of finally meeting up after the holidays and gratefulness for their presents.
"C'mon, Jules. There isn't that much to tell about. James and I became better friends over the holiday, that's all." Lily smiled and enigmatic smile as she walked over to her dresser. She pulled out her comb and began untangling her crazy, auburn mane.
"Lily, the guy basically expressed his love for you and asked you to be his girlfriend. Can you believe it? JAMES POTTER, spilling his innermost guts to you and practically begging you to be his committed snogging-partner!" Juliet exclaimed.
Lily turned around, rolling her eyes. "Geez, Jules, when you put it like that…it doesn't sound very romantic at all!"
"Sorry, sorry. But you know…we all expected you guys to hook up someday, and that fact that it all happened when we were gone…I want to know what happened. You sound so happy. I want to be happy with you." Juliet replied, lazily tracing a patter on Lily's bedcover.
"I know you do, and I am happy you're my friend. But there isn't that much to tell…James told me what was on his heart, and I told him what was on mine. Luckily, they were the same ideas, and now, I guess, he's my boyfriend. Pretty weird, huh?"
"I think it's absolutely divine. And the fact that James is willing to settle down with you…" Juliet started but was stopped when Lily gave her a hard stare. "No, no, I did not mean that in a bad way at all! James has been such the promiscuous charmer, and now that he is willing to change his ways…just to be with you…that says a lot. You are very lucky." Juliet finished, with a triumphant look on her face.
Lily smiled. "Gee, thanks. I know I am."
Juliet smiled in return. "Alright, on a more important note…so, how is he? I noticed that you came out of his ROOM this morning. And I doubt that you were sleeping in Sirius' bed."
Lily's eye got wide at Juliet's remark, and she waved her arm as a pillow when flying toward Juliet's face.
"Ahhh!" Juliet screamed. "It was just a question!"
~*~
James woke up about ten minutes later, and survived all the questions that the guys were hounding him with. Still somewhat dazed from sleep, James tried to comprehend, let alone answer, all of Remus' and Sirius' questions about his newfound relationship with Lily.
"She's just a special girl…and I really want this work out." James replied, slipping on trousers over his boxer shorts.
"Wow, James. It's just that every time you get interested in a girl, you usually end the relationship before anything, how shall I say, meaningful, ever happens. Or when the girl believes it should be meaningful. And now, here you are WANTING to make it last longer…" Remus shrugged as his finished his statement.
James shrugged in agreement. "Yeah. But it's just that Lily's different, and I don't ever want to hurt her. I feel as if I have this giant need to protect her."
Sirius' voice chimed from his bed. "You hurt Lily and I swear to God I will kill you…"
James smiled. "I won't, Sirius. Ever." They guys began to assemble to leave to go down for breakfast.
The walked down the stairs toward the Great Hall and began getting onto the more relaxed topic of their past holiday plans. Sirius was recounting his hot Christmas with Aimee, and Peter was telling the guys about a new broom he had received from his parents. Thing were getting back to normal. Almost.
A minute or two later, the girls emerged from their room and began heading toward the Hall to join the guys. Lily was waiting as Juliet tied the laces of her shoes.
"Look, there's Remus…and James." Juliet said to Lily. Lily simply smiled. "James really likes you, you know. He really does…to the point where he has completely lost all common sense."
"Yeah, Juliet, I think you've told me that. I am very lucky." Lily replied.
"Yes, but Sirius told me that he wrote some letters to him over the holiday saying that he REALLY loved you. And that's he fallen so hard for you."
Lily nodded her head. "I saw the letters. I know what James said. And you know what? I think that is what I fear the most."
Juliet turned. "What?"
Lily continued on walking toward the Great Hall. "Now that James has expressed his extreme desire for me, I cannot help but feel the exactly the same way too. If not more."
~*~
A/N: Geez, it's been a while. AP testing and everything…so I finally got off my lazy butt and finished the chapter. A tad bit shorter than usual, but more serious and lovey-dovey in tones. I hoped you liked it.
Take care, until next time ff.net readers!
~ Stellar
Thanks a bunch to all of my reviewers!
Anime girl * Slytherin Sweetheart * Krissia * thistlemeg * Felicity Aulia Evans * Mako-Shadows * Parselmouth Majere *