Necklace

"So what can I get you two to drink?" Said the plump waitress at the Three Broomsticks.

"Two butterbeers please." James gave his and Lily's order. The Waitress then walked away to get their drinks.

"How was practice yesterday?" Lily asked him

"It was ok. Getting ready for Hufflepuss...I mean puff." He said with a wicked grin and moved his chair closer to her.

"Well I'm sure you'll do just fine." And she moved her chair closer to him too. He then gave her a soft kiss. She sighed. It was wonderful. James was wonderful. Everything about life was just...wonderful. The waitress brought there drinks over and they drank and talk and soon after they left. James opened the door for her and Lily then said with a sly grin, "Well thanks for the drink, we'll see you later." And was about to start to walk away from him until his strong arms grabbed her around her waist and hoisted her up on his shoulder. She screeched, "JAMES! PUT ME DOWN!" then she laughed.

"Nope. You were gonna ditch me. And I'm not having that." He said with a laugh and started to walk down the street with her slung over his shoulder. As they walked people would just stare and laugh at them commenting on how perfect they were together. He then final put her down when they were in a little courtyard, "James Potter you are in possible!" Lily said with a laugh

"Yeah in possibly in love with you Lily Evans." He said this with a smile and kissed her again.

"Do you think it will always be this perfect?" she asked

"Yeah." And he tucked her hair behind her ear, "You can count on it. Now that we are together...I won't let anything get in the way." He said smiling but in a serious tone. He then kissed her again.

"You know....I have been wondering this for awhile...how did you just make a lily appear out of think air the other day?" He asked and they started to walk around the courtyard hand and hand.

"We'll just keep that my little secret." She said with a giggle, and let go of his hand and skipped ahead of him a little.

"Oh yeah..." he said and started a predator prowl towards here. She tried to turn around and sprint, but he was to fast for her. He picked her up and carried her to a bench and sat her on his lap. "NOW. Tell me or I will do something drastic." He said and wiggled his eye brows at her.

"Nope. Not getting it out of me Potter." She said with a sly grin.

"Well...." He went in to kiss her, and she moved into receive his kiss but then all of a sudden he moved back, "...I guess I will just have to torture you." He then continued to give her slow long butterfly kisses, but not on her lips, like that until finally Lily had had enough.

"WILL YOU KISS ME ALREADY?!" she said in aggravation.

"You going to teach me your trick then?" He asked with a sly grin.

"Fine." She pouted. "But kiss me first" and she puckered her lips. He gave her a smacking kiss on the lips. She then jumped off his lap and continued,

"NOW. I'm afraid the trick wasn't out of mid-air. I'm still working on that...however I had a piece a string in my hand and transfigured it into a flower." She said proudly.

"Really? It was a pretty good trick Evans. Show me?" he asked

"Ok. We need something small..." She said looking around the courtyard, "Ah! Here." She picked up a pebble. "Here now just put this in your hand."

"That's an ugly rock." He said

"What? It doesn't matter what the rock looks like...just open your hand." She tried to explain

"No no. In order to turn something into something pretty. The object that you're turning into something pretty must be pretty. Get it?" he said like it was the most logical statement ever.

"What?" she asked even more confused

"Let's get a petal. Like a rose petal. That is something pretty." He then turned away from her and pretended like he was looking for a rose petal...but in all actuality he was retrieving a small box out of his jacket pocket.

"James." She said laughing, "There are no roses at this time of year. Here just take the damn pebble." James then turned around and he was holding a small velvet box.

"I think the object in here will be small enough." He said in a quiet voice. Lily just stopped and watched him walk over to her. He stood right in front of her holding the box. "Open it." He said. Lily took the box out of his hand, holding it like it was the most precious of pearls, and opened it. In it was the most delicate necklace she had ever seen. It was a simple platinum chain that had a cursive 'L' on it for a charm. It was beautiful.

"James...I can't" she started to say in a stuttering voice "It's beautiful"

"Yes you can." He said with a smile "It's for you. Look at me Lily." She did and he noticed that she looked like she was going to cry. He kissed her. "I love you. And I want you to wear this and when ever you look at it...know that I am in love with you."

"Ok." She said in a soft voice, not knowing what else to say, and smiled at him. "Well, help me put it on then" she said with a slight giggle. He put the necklace on her and she put her hand over the charm.

"James....thank you." She didn't know what else to say but. "I love you. And...oh my god..." and brushed by him jaw dropped

"Can we go back to the "I love you" part...for...a...what is going on over there?" He said trailing his words off.

"I'm not seeing this. I'm not seeing this." Lily kept saying to herself.

"Come here we don't want them to see us." He said quietly and pulled her down behind a bush.

"How could they do that." Still shocked from what she just saw.

"It is their own business, Lil..." he started to say but Lily cut him off.

"No it is not OK! They are kissing the wrong people! Sirius Black and Bella Monroe are not supposed to be snogging on the other side of the courtyard James!"

"Ok Sirius..." Bella pushed away from him. "There gone. And I think they saw us."

"Ok...so remind me again how this is going to get Cassie to want to be with me. Because when she finds out I'm kissing her best friend she's going to..."

"Become extremely jealous." She finished for him with a big smile and walked by him. "Now were did they go" she asked looking around the courtyard.

"I don't know we were a little busy just awhile ago." He said with a wolfish grin

"Shut up Black...do you think Remus will be jealous?" She asked "He just needs to realize that he has stronger feelings for me than Rachael. Then we can be together."

"I don't know. He hides his feelings a lot. We'll just have to see what happens. There's James and Lily right there. Looks like they are making their way towards us. Lets try are acting skills now." He said with a beneficial smile for there audience that was approaching fast.

"Really...I had to 'act' like I was enjoying that kiss Black." She said with a wicked grin

He laughed, "Shut up Bell. I don't think it would help our case if they saw me strangling my 'girl friend'." He leaned in for another fake kiss, but she held him off.

"Oh! Umm...hey Lil hey James." Bella said with phony embarrassment

"James...little busy here." Sirius said and snuck a kiss from her.

"Black!" Bella said and pushed him back softly and giggled for good measure. He then grabbed her by the waist and pulled her up to his side with his arm slung around her shoulders. She cuddled into him.

"What is going on?" Lily said getting right to the point.

"Nothing? Why do you ask Lily?" asked Sirius

"Because last time I checked...you loved Cass and she loved Remus." Lily said narrowing her eyes at both of them. James pushed her behind his back and said, "Never mind her..."

"James! I'm not crazy..." Lily tried saying

"No no. James it's ok. I know this is a little bit of a shocker. But Sirius and I have been talking and hanging out a lot recently. And realized...we had more then friend feelings for each other." Bella explained and smiled up at Sirius. Lily's jaw dropped, Sirius just grinned, and James just glared at his friend because he was upsetting Lily.

"So, is it almost eight." Said Sirius looking at his watch, "Let's go meet the group. Ready baby?" he asked Bell

"Yeah let's go." They started to walk away hand and hand. Then Bella turned around, "You guys coming or what." She said with a laugh.

"Yeah be right there" said James "Lil..." she still wouldn't look at him but continued to glare at the backs of their friends "LILY!" he said snapping his figures in front of her face, "focus now. There we go...good girl. Now look at me. Now we are going to follow them and meet up with the group ok. Try not to freak out while were with them ok." Lily still just stared at him. Then cracked a huge smile.

"You are right. I won't freak out. Because I won't need to...Cassie and Remus will be doing it enough for all three of us." She then laughed and started to walk after her friends "Hey WAIT UP!" she yelled after them

James then said looking up to the sky, "This is going to be a long night." Then followed them.