Hello people! Welcome to my latest installment of Feel My Love…written after a long time, I know. Having tons of homework and tests everyday is not exactly a writer's dream so excuse me for the long wait. I spent every available second on this chapter, so I hope you like it.
Disclaimer: As usual, I am not the owner of any characters you may recognize. They all belong to the wonderful J.K. Rowling.
Chapter 3: Gentleman Get Detention? Why?
Lying in bed, Lily was reluctantly focusing all her thoughts on the surprising events of the night. Why did James kiss me? Her thoughts horribly lingered around this one question. Why did I just let him? Did I betray Ray? I love Ray! I declared I did! No, I do! I must stop this with James! Lily looked next to her bed where Piper was sleeping soundly undisturbed by anything. Lily moved around soundlessly in the dark until she finally abandoned all answerless questions and let restless sleep occupy her for the remainder of the night.
James looked around the Boy's dormitory thinking about one of the best nights he had ever had. The beds in the room were empty and untouched. James chuckled as he jumped onto his own untouched four-poster bed. Remus, Sirius, and Peter were still out enjoying themselves on the Ravenclaw Raid. James licked his lips thinking about how it felt to have Lily on them. Her sweet figure had melted into his arms so desperately. James slept magnificently that night.
The alarm clock rang loudly, but it was nothing compared to Diondra's shrieks coming from the bathroom.
"Argh! What's wrong with Dia?" an agitated Grace yelled loudly from her bed.
Lily woke with a start and slowly sat up, painfully remembering the events of the night before.
"Sorry!" Diondra came out of the bathroom in her bathrobe smelling strongly like lemons. "I accidentally turned on the cold water. Oh! Good morning, Lils!" Diondra magically dressed herself and dried her thick blonde hair the same way.
Piper looked at Lily and then at Diondra, who shrugged at Piper's questioning looks.
"Lily hasn't been the same lately." Grace, also up from her bed, added quietly to the wordless conversation.
"Well, she hasn't eaten anything in nearly two days." Piper arranged her books in order and placed them one by one in her book bag.
"We must do something." Diondra put in a serious tone. "We can talk to her today and try to convince her to eat something."
"So, any plans for Snape today?" Grace asked grinning playfully while picking out her outfit.
"His name is Severus!" Diondra yelled. She had never approved of people calling her so-called-love by his last name, although she sometimes did herself.
Lily came out of the bathroom minutes later fully dressed and ready. It only took Grace another ten minutes to get ready and then the four girls headed out for another normal day.
By now, Lily had released her mind of all thought on James and just focused on her classes.
The Great Hall was rather unusually occupied with Gryffindor, Slytherin and Hufflepuff students, but the Ravenclaw table was completely empty.
Where is everybody? Lily thought to herself as Grace wondered loudly. "Where is everybody, or at least one-fourth of everybody?"
"If you mean the Ravenclaws," Diondra started distractedly, "I have no idea. This is rather odd actually."
"What is odd, my dear Dia?" Sirius's voice was unmistakably heard behind Diondra and Diondra spun around surprised. Sirius grinned widely and Diondra narrowed her eyes.
"I suppose you had something to do with this, right?" Piper said from behind Diondra.
"If it's something bad then no way…but if it's something makes you happy, then definitely!" Sirius's reply was disregarded by turned faces but was still listened to and apprehended by the girls.
Piper, Diondra, Grace and Lily ignored the rest of Sirius's comments and sat down at the Gryffindor table all still bearing puzzled looks.
Breakfast appeared instantly as usual, and the girls began eating their pancakes and cereal. But Lily sat there starring at the Ravenclaw table as if someone would pop up out of thin air.
A loud brink of laughter disturbed Lily's starring and made her turn her head towards the end of the Gryffindor table where James and his friends were sitting. James, as if noticing her starring, suddenly made eye-contact and smiled charmingly. God! I can't stand it when he smiles like that! iggnorant bastard.How dare hekiss me!Lily thought to herself shifting her gaze onto her pancakes instead.
A loud burst of laughter erupted as the doors of the Great Hall opened and short figures, the size of midgets came waddling in like penguins dressed from head to toe in hot-pink feathers and nothing else.
"Hey! Sirius, why aren't the girls covered with feathers?" James observed.
"We pulled out of that idea at the last minute, mate." Remus whispered yawning, "Sirius can be quite persuasive especially when it comes to his ladies."
"Who is flavor this week?" James whispered back uninterested.
"Sandra Bennett, no Sarah, but still, she's a good snogger." Came Sirius's voice as he joined them. "Oy! Look at your girlfriend, Prongs. She looks as if a snake bit her head off."
James turned towards Lily and he couldn't help but hide a smile. Sirius's description was quite right; Lily looked so frightened and angry, but mostly beautiful.
"I love the new look. Adopt it." Diondra smirked and commented as Ray passed by over to Lily.
"Shut up, stupid!" Was all that could come out of Ray's high girlish tone.
"Well, that was a creative name for me. Never been called that one if my life. I suppose everyone must think I am stupid just because I beat you in all the subjects and not to mention how much I love to spank your behind in Quidditch." Diondra murmured loudly so the whole hall could here.
"Dia, please don't." Lily pleaded. Diondra shrugged but didn't say anything.
Ray stood by Lily's side waiting impatiently to see what she had to say.
"Ray," Lily began carefully choosing her words before she said them, "I think the spell will wear off in a few hours."
"No, sorry, Lily flower. The spell is good for a month, two if we get lucky." Sirius grinned wide showing all his snow-white teeth (he is standing up).
"I should have known you would be behind all of this!" Ray narrowed his eyes and made a tight fist at his side.
"Heeellllooo!" Sang Sirius, "Wake up and smell the clues, darling Ray! Of course I am the one behind this. Do you honestly believe for one second that a brilliant idea, such as this, could have come from any other evil mind besides mine? Tsk tsk, my dear friend. I expected more from you."
"Hey! The idea of the feather was mine!" Remus yelled out from where he was sitting.
"I will get you for this Black!" Ray said through clenched teeth.
"He didn't do it alone you know! Me and Peter helped, then how come he gets all the credit?" Remus commented again receiving applause and a look of high admiration from the lady population.
Ray couldn't bear the humiliation. He turned on his heels and left without saying so much as a word to Lily.
"That was bloody brilliant!" James said for the millionth time that morning in class.
"Prongs, man, that was nothing, wait until you see what I have planned for tomorrow." Sirius whispered back laying on the desk in History of Magic class.
"What do you mean, for tonight?" James asked confused.
"Prongs, you didn't actually think that the raid was gonna stop after just one prank did you?"
Charms had never seemed as hard as it did that afternoon as James sat there in class trying to figure out how to charm a book to speak.
"Mr. Potter! Please, do not give up. You must try!" yelled Professor Flitwick impatiently.
"I am sorry, Professor. I am trying!" James said politely.
"No, no, no!" yelled Professor Flitwick again, "Your wand work and wave is all wrong! Ms. Evans, would you be so kind and help Mr. Potter with a basic first-year lesson of wand movement please."
James thought he was going to burst with happiness. All those years of stinking at Charms would finally pay off if only he could get Lily to touch and hold his hand.
"Sure, professor." Lily replied politely moving over to where James was seated.
Sirius slid down giving Lily some space in between to sit down.
"Hey." James greeted calmly.
"Hey." Lily didn't smile or make eye-contact. Instead she kept starring at the wand in James's hand. "Try the spell."
James did as told but nothing happened. James shrugged and smiled flirtatiously. "I do try, just can't do it."
Lily sighed and then lifted her wand to demonstrate. "Like this. Parliosa." Successfully the book started speaking a mile a minute spilling out all the contents in the book.
James tried again, but nothing.
"No, James hold your wand like this." Lily griped her wand out to show James to replicate, but James purposefully mixed and twisted his fingers.
"Like this?"
"No," Lily put her wand down and grabbed James's hand gently removing his fingers from around his wand. "Now, like this." She placed them in the right order on the wand and told him to grip it tightly like that.
"Like this?" James smiled innocently as he twisted and mixed up his fingers again.
"No, James, pay attention." Lily grabbed his hand again and corrected his finger positions. This occurred for a few more times each resulting in Lily growing more impatient until finally James decided she had been pushed too far and kept his fingers straight.
"Now say Parliosa." Lily instructed pronouncing the word slowly.
The book suddenly erupted with a booming voice signaling the entire class that James had finally gotten the spell correct. Professor Flitwick was so relieved that he broke out into applause.
"Great job Ms Evans! Very well done! You should help Mr. Potter often. In fact, I know, you will be his peer tutor until he masters all the past years' spells. What do you say Ms Evans?" Flitwick waited for the reluctant but surely coming 'okay' and after a long pause it did come quietly and he beamed.
James felt like he could hug Flitwick to death quite possibly. Even more when he continued on suggesting, more like ordering, Lily to maintain a journal about all their tutoring sessions and that he would like to read at least about five sessions a week. With this came the offer of no homework for Lily until James masters his skills.
"Honestly, we don't give Flitwick enough credit." James said through mashed potatoes that night at the dinner table. "We should do something for him."
"Prongs, we are pranksters. We do humiliating stuff to people, not nice." Sirius replied looking sarcastic, "Although, I am sure that Flitwick has something for Sprout."
"Professor Sprout? The herbology teacher?" Peter whispered surprised.
"Yea, I have seen him lingering near the greenhouses lately." Remus agreed. "But that really doesn't prove a thing."
"Whach aboo dee floush hee geave hur?" Peter said through a mouth full of food.
"Exactly, Peter has got a point." Sirius said a glint of mischief in his eyes.
"Uhh, translation for all those who don't speak Peter please?" Remus asked confused.
"He said 'what about the flowers he gave her?'. Moony listen and learn." James rolled his eyes as Remus shrugged defensively.
"Too true, so it's settled then?" Remus asked, "We are gonna fix them up together?"
"Yesh, too right you are Mr. Moony."
"So tonight, I think we best split up." Remus said. "Peter and I will go to the greenhouses, while you and Sirius can finish phase two of the Ravenclaw raid."
"Shut up! Stop moving, Lily!" Piper struggled to pull the sleepy Lily in the dark.
"Stop, Piper! Let go of me!" Lily wined. "Where are you taking me?"
"Where do you think we're taking you? You haven't eaten anything in forever. We are taking you to the Kitchens." Diondra pushed Lily from behind as Lily struggled to get released.
"No! Come on that's forbidden." Lily protested loudly.
"Shut up before you wake up Flinch and that bloody cat." Grace cried.
The girls had decided that the diet had gone far enough and if Lily wouldn't eat with her own hands then the only thing they could do to help her was to feed her themselves.
"Now, listen to us, Lily." Piper started as she stopped in front of the portrait that led to the Kitchens. "Stop worrying. If you don't eat anything you're going to really regret it. Now, whether you like it or not, we are going to make you eat something."
Lily stopped protesting and entered the now open door to the Kitchens. She remembered the other night with James and blushed.
"Butterbeers for us and a dinner for Lily?" Grace asked the group for confirmation to be able to tell the house-elf waiting so patiently; when they all nodded their heads she continued, "Three butterbeers and a dinner then."
The house-elf returned in moments as the girls took their seats at the large table in the middle of the room. Lily sat quietly remembering every moment with James and blushing more crazily as every second past. Fortunately, her friends didn't notice Lily; instead they were discussing quietly methods of how to make Lily to eat.
"Maybe we can stuff in down her throat?" Grace said quietly. "Or perhaps we can charm her to eat."
"No, how about I just eat everything you give me?" Lily smiled at her concerned friends and saw how relieved their faces looked the moment she said it. "Thanks guys!"
"Aw! What are friends for?" Grace smiled.
"Ouch! Padfoot, that was my toe." James whispered loudly wincing over the pain.
"Sorry. I can hardly see where we are, how in the merlin am I supposed to know where my feet are?" Sirius said defensively struggling with the map in his hands. "Oh! Man, wait until you see this."
"What is it?" asked James.
"It is four beautiful girls coming towards us."
"Who?"
"Really James, I never thought you could be so thick." Sirius laughed, "Who else? It's dear Lily and her friends."
"Wait, let's hide," James said panicking.
"Tell me you did not just say that." Sirius said holding back his laughter. "Jamesie, we are under an invisibility cloak. Therefore they cannot see us."
"Right." James said faintly as he caught a glimpse of Lily laughing heartily with her friends.
"We've got trouble; Flinch is coming." Sirius looked at James and James looked at Lily.
"Well, you know what we have to do." James said sighing.
"No! I don't want detention this week. Hello, I've got a date with Sarah." Sirius waved his hand in protest.
"Sandra." James smirked.
"Whatever," Sirius whispered on, "point is that we should not be doing this."
"Yes, we should." With that James grabbed the invisibility cloak off of them only to receive shocked faces from the four girls that were standing in the corner.
"What are you doing—what is—is that an invisibility cloak?" Diondra said smiling mischievously.
"No time to explain." James walked swiftly over to where they were standing and whispered, "Here, get under this cloak, all of you, and don't talk no matter what. Okay."
"Man, I hate being a gentleman." Sirius whispered loudly just as Professor Flinch entered their part of the corridor.
"And what do we have here?" Flinch smirked.
"Hi! I am a human, and I think he is one too." Sirius said sarcastically pointing to him and James. James grinned and shook his head. "And we are here waiting for you to put us in detention."
"What are you doing at this hour? In the corridor?" Flinch asked ignoring Sirius's comment.
"What do you think we are doing? We were making out." Sirius said with an airy tone.
"Shut up, Sirius." James said grinning widely, "we were just getting parchment from the classroom." He held up the blank map in his hand.
"Sneaking around is suspicious." Flinch said quietly, "I ought to report you to the headmaster."
"Really, Flinch, do you honestly think that this is important enough to take it to Professor Dumbledore? I mean, don't you have some authority in this school? At least you have enough power to give detentions right?" James asked like he cared.
"You're right, lad." Flinch considered these questions for what seemed like forever before he decided to give them (James and Sirius) a week of detentions in the trophy room.
"Bloody bastard," Sirius whispered after Flinch left.
"That was quite rude." Diondra whispered loudly. The cloak was pulled off and the four girls stood quietly. "I like Flinch. I like his cat too."
"And I am the one who just saved you a week of detentions." Sirius moaned. "Is this fair, James?"
"Shut up, Sirius," James said coolly and turned back to the girls. Lily was holding the cloak up to him.
"Thanks." She whispered quietly. "I still have your other cloak too from the other night."
"Oh!" James remembered taking back his possession. "Keep it for awhile. I won't need it until winter starts."
Lily nodded, although she wasn't quite sure whether James was joking or not. Sirius was still wining about the detentions and Diondra was laughing heartily.
"We should get back before McGonagall gets us this time." James suggested.
"Thanks for everything." Lily said at the foot of the Girl's dorm steps where all the boys were standing to say goodbye.
"No worries." James said smiling faintly.
"Yeah, sorry about the detentions," Piper said frowning.
"Ah! Pretty Piper, you don't worry about that. Me and Jamesie are big boys; we can handle ourselves." Sirius smiled charmingly making Piper blush and look away.
"No, sorry, we don't worry about you." Diondra said.
"I wasn't talking to you." Sirius stuck out his tongue and Diondra lifted her hand to smack him but before she got to him, he ran up the stairs to the Boys' Dorm.
"Okay, good night ladies," James waved goodnight and followed his friend upstairs.
Even before he entered the room, James heard the Grace saying to Lily, "What other night were you talking about?"
Lily awoke the next morning feeling fresh and completely awake. Diondra's alarm clock read 5 in the morning. Lily looked around at the snoring beds and chuckled. She got up quietly not wanting to wake anyone up. Convincing herself that she had enough time to get ready later, she grabbed a book off the shelf and went to go read in the common room.
By the time she got down there, there was already somebody present sitting in her favorite seat up the fire sleeping.
"Potter," Lily sighed. He really doesn't look that bad. No Ray, but not bad.
As if sensing her standing there, James opened his eyes and Lily blushed when he smiled at her standing there.
"Hey!" He yawned stretching his arms and getting up.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Lily asked as James stood up.
"I couldn't sleep," James grinned saying. "Looks like you are getting an early start." He pointed to the book in her hand and she chuckled.
"Yeah, I thought I would catch up on my reading a bit. I don't feel like going back to sleep."
"Wanna go grab breakfast?" James offered.
"Uh…" Lily thought deciding what to say. The last time she agreed to go anywhere with James, he ended up kissing her and she ended up with mindless thoughts; keeping all this in mind and the fact that she was pretty hungry said, "Sure, why not?" Before she could collect what she said, James was leading her away and out of the common room.
Really not how I wanted to end it…but I don't know. Do you hate it? Love it? Like it? Please review!
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