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Answer to starlitestarbritelilsis question:
I was born in England but I've lived in Australia practically my whole life, mum is british and dad is Australian. hope that answers what you wanted.

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Thanks again, and here's Chapter 3

Chapter 3:

Showers and friends


James woke up early that morning as he wanted to use the bathroom first, he knew girls took ages in the bathroom and he couldn't be bothered waiting. He opened his chest of drawers and pulled out his clothes for the day. He went over to the door that connected his bedroom to the bathroom and tried turning the handle, but it wouldn't open. He heard the shower start and groaned.

"LILY! Hurry up! I wanna use the bathroom now!" He banged his fists on the door. Lily was taking her time, just to annoy him. He sunk down against the door and rested his head back.

"Such a nice warm shower!" Lily started boasting. James took out his wand and unlocked the door, he kicked it open and walked in. "ARGHHH! JAMES! GET OUT YOU FILTHY PERVERT!" Lily started screaming.

"I can't see you Lily," he thought for a second, but if he opened her shower curtain she would probably kill him so he took off the boxers that he had slept in and got into the shower next to hers, closing the curtain behind him and turning the shower on. Lily started muttering rude things about him under her breath.

"You're so lucky that these showers are in Hogwarts and have charms, cause if I got scorched I would hex you so badly!"

"Awww, now that wouldn't have been nice Lils. Especially to the one that you oh so love!"

"I don't love you James! I never have and most likely won't for a long time! And you know I am going out with Calvin now." James scowled at the last bit, he didn't think Lily heard it but she did. He turned off the taps to the shower, not realising Lily had done the same and walked straight out to see Lily with a towel wrapped around her slim figure. Water trickled down her legs and arms, her hair was a darker colour when it was wet. He looked her up and down not realising he was completely nude with water dripping down his muscular body.

"What if I change Lily? Will you consider going out with me at least?" Lily looked down and her eyes widened and shot up straight away, she tried to think of something else.

"Can we talk about this, um, later? Please!?"

"I want to know now Lily!"

"JUST GET A TOWEL OR SOMETHING ON! PLEASE!" Lily ran out the room and into her bedroom. James looked down and gasped, quickly grabbing a clean white towel off the rack and wrapping it around his waist. He quickly got changed in the bathroom, opened the door and headed out into their common room, leaving his boxers on the bathroom floor. He saw Lily sitting on the couch brushing her hair and went down and sat next to her.

"Hey."

"Hi," Lily was relieved that he was changed.

"You know if you were my girlfriend you might see that more often," Lily lightly smacked his arm, "ow! Lily! That hurt!" James smirked.

"Whatever you say James. Ready to go to breakfast?" James stood up off the couch first and offered Lily a hand.

"I'm ready whenever you are pumpkin."

"I'm not a pumpkin!"

"Mmmhmm," James' hand was still lowered and waiting for her to take it. She gave a thinking look at the hand and then stood up, put her brush down and walked out the portrait door. James ran after her and grabbed her hand.

"What are you doing?" Lily questioned him looking down at their hands whilst walking. She tried to pull away but his grip was too firm. "Let go James! People are looking at us!" She whispered fiercely. It was true, people were looking at them and thinking that they had finally got together. She didn't want to gather attention and she didn't want anyone to think that she was with James Potter.

"I know," James winked. Lily raised their hands to her mouth, hot air breathing on his, James thought that she was going to kiss his hand but instead she bit one of his fingers. He pulled his hand away out of hers and cradled it with his other one. "Lily!" He watched as she skipped off towards the Great Hall.

"Hey Lils, how is your new dormitory?" Kady greeted Lily while she buttered her toast.

"Morning Kady, it's gorgeous thanks. Really big too," Lily poured cereal into her bowl and then some milk.

"It must be good, she's sharing it with Jamie boy!" Lily wondered where James was when he came and sat next to her.

"She loves sharing it with me! Now, I think you owe my finger a kiss Lily," James pulled his right index finger up to her.

"No way, who knows where your filthy finger has been!" She gave him a disgusted look.

"Bet you weren't thinking that when you bit it now were you?" He had her now, Kady had started choking on the glass of milk that she had just started to drink. Professor McGonnagal came around to them and handed their timetables out.

"Where's Aria and Remus?" Lily changed the subject hoping that no one would comment.

"They were down here earlier so that they could go off snogging together before class starts. I guess you and James did your snogging before you came?" Sirius enjoyed saying these sorts of things to Lily.

"I do not intend on snogging James anytime soon Sirius," Sirius noticed Calvin Fletshinson coming over so he cast a small spell on Lily's milk that she had just started drinking. No one noticed except James who received a wink from him. James just grinned, catching on.

"Morning Lily! Mind if I join you?" Calvin gave her one of his dazzling white smiles.

"Oh hey Carl! No, I don't mind at all," James and Sirius snorted. Calvin gave her a weird look and then corrected her.

"It's Calvin," he was confused, seeing that she had never forgotten his name in the past.

"Right, sorry Carson."

"It's CAL-VIN!" He was starting to get a little frustrated. He looked at his watch and realised that he didn't have his bag, "Oh, Lily, I'm sorry I have to get my bag so I won't be late for class. By the looks of it we both have Charms next. See you then!" He gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and stood up.

"Ok, bye Claire!" She didn't even know why she kept forgetting his name and changing it. Calvin gave her another weird look and just walked off mumbling. James and Sirius were doubling over laughing and Kady was looking oddly at Lily and on the brink of laughter. "Ok, what did you do James?" James stopped laughing and so did Sirius. Lily gave him an evil glare.

"Why do you think I did it? It was Sirius!"

"It was me Lily," Sirius admitted.

"Oh, well it wasn't funny Sirius," James stared at Lily.

"What, so your not going to yell at him or call him a prat or anything like that!?" James gave her a questioning look.

"Sirius you're a prat, happy?"

"It's an improvement!"

"Well I didn't like it!" Sirius complained.

"Awww, does little wittle Sirius need a huggy wuggy?" Kady grinned at him.

"YES!" Sirius had a hopeful look in his eyes.

"I'm sure you'll live without one, c'mon Lils, best get going to Charms, bye boys!" Kady grabbed hers and Lily's bags, waved and dragged Lily off to class.

"One day those girls will be madly in love with us Prongs."

"So you admit you have a thing for Kady now do ya Padfoot?" James already knew that Sirius had a crush on Kady, he just had to get him to admit it.

"Yup, and I am going to get her!"

"If she dumps Jack that is."

"Oh yeah, forgot about him. Well we best get going Prongs," they got their bags and walked out the Great Hall and headed for Charms.

When they arrived they sat behind Lily, Kady and Aria. Remus was in their row. Peter and Minni were deep in conversation in the far corner of the room.

"Hello lovely ladies," James greeted the girls enthusiastically.

"Hey James," Lily replied with the same enthusiasm which surprised him a little. The other two just nodded to show that they noticed him and went back to talking. Calvin came strolling in and found not so many seats left, he plopped himself down in the front next to a few of his fellow Ravenclaw friends. Professor Flitwick came in to the front and told them to get out their books.

"Open to page 567, I want you to read this and then answer these questions," he levitated a sheet to everyone in class, "if you do not finish it will be done for homework. If you finish early then you may start reading page 423 for your next lesson." Everyone got to work and started as they didn't really want homework. Lily sent Calvin a note apologising and telling him that it was Sirius' doing, he accepted her apology and asked her to the next Hogsmeade trip. Lily then found another note on her table from James, she opened it:

We having a meeting with the prefects this afternoon Love, your James

I know. Lily

Care to give me the answers to your Charms work since you love me so much? Love, your James

Keep dreaming James. Lily

Oh, I will Love, your James

Quit writing letters to Lily, James, it makes it harder to copy her work! Kady

How come you get answers? She won't help me! Love, Lily's James

First, I am her friend, second, you don't need help James, you're just as talented as she is. Kady

I'm her friend too! Thanks for the compliment though. Love, Lily's James

Meet me tomorrow after class, I need to talk to you, it's about Lily. That is if you want her still. I have to go now, Lily has so many answers she is nearly done! Kady

James received the final letter and grinned, Kady was going to help him with Lily. He went back to work doing his questions, they were really easy ones. Lily had finished but decided that she couldn't be bothered to read the other pages that Flitwick and said, which was unusual as she normally would have. James looked up while thinking, noticing Kady take quick glances at Lily's sheet and scribble them down on her own. The bell rang and the students got up and left for their next classes.

The rest of the day went by quite quickly, they managed to get little homework as possible. James waited for Lily at the end of their last class so that they could walk to the meeting together.

"So what do you want to be when you leave Hogwarts Lils?" Lily was slightly surprised that James was being nice and supplying a polite conversation.

"Well I was thinking an Auror or Healer. How about you?"

"An Auror or Quidditch Seeker," Lily wasn't surprised that he would want to be a seeker.

"You're a really fabulous seeker for Gryffindor James," Lily couldn't believe she had said that, normally she would have said something along the lines of him looking like a show off on his broom. Maybe she was getting feelings for him.

"Thanks Lily," James was used to getting compliments from people about his seeker qualities, but to get that coming from Lily's mouth amazed him and made him feel special. They entered the meeting room and realised they were a little late so they started straight away.

"Hello," James greeted the prefects, "We have decided on the Hogsmeade trips and have posted them on your common room boards. Now, we need to organise what sort of Christmas Ball we would like to have. It will be fifth years and up, the younger years will be having their own little party in their common rooms. So, do any of you have ideas on what the Christmas Ball theme should be?"

"I think that we should have a fancy muggle Ball, with muggle dresses and tussedos for the guys," replied the sixth year Gryffindor prefect Mirella Odem.

"You mean tuxedos?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, those."

"I think we should decorate the hall with balloons and streamers, and the head boy and girl should go with each other!" Marty Collins said, the seventh year prefect from Ravenclaw. He was asked by James to say that after Lily had bitten him. Everyone agreed with him and James gave Lily an innocent smile. She sighed.

"Ok, Fancy Muggle Theme Ball, dresses for girls, boys must where tuxedos, is that alright?" She asked everyone.

"And the head boy and girl dance together, yes that's good isn't it?" Everyone agreed when James said that, "Good, meeting dismissed," all the prefects towered out and left Lily and James alone in the room together.

"Can you dance?"

"Of course I can."

"Good."

"Can you?"

"Yes."

"Good."

"Great conversation, hey?"

"Just don't want you to start hexing me."

"I would never do that to you," Lily grinned.

"No, you're too much in love with me to do that, correct?"

"Incorrect."

"Well, it was worth a try." He smiled.

"You've changed, you're a lot better than previous years."

"Guess I saw what I was doing wrong and decided to change so that I had more of a chance."

"Guess you did."

"Considering me?"

"If I was, I wouldn't tell you. It would only enlarger your ego."

"So you are considering me."

"Never said that."

"You implied it."

"I did, but I didn't say it. James…"

"Yes Lily?"

"Let's be friends, ok. Then, we can see how it goes from there."

"Ok, friend," if being her friend first meant he stood a better chance of being with her, then that's what he would do. They headed back to their common room to finish their homework.

Right, I admit that wasn't a great chapter but oh wells. Please review! No Flaming. Helpful advice and ideas are greatly welcome! And don't worry, it won't be all friendly and nice between them, hehehe.