James sat at the table in the Great Hall, watching the door intently.
'Prongs? Prongs! PRONGS!'
'Someone say my name?' he asked stupidly, looking around at his friends.
'That Emily chick from Ravenclaw was checking you out. She's a proclaimed virgin, how long do you reckon it'd take you?' Sirius asked with a smirk.
'Padfoot, you have a one track mind. Besides, I'm not interested in that virgin.' James leant on his folded arms, scowling as Lily walked in the Kayla, sitting down with her friends and smiling.
'She should be smiling with me,' he muttered bitterly.
Sirius clapped James on the back. 'Mate, there's a party in the common room tonight. Come to it, it'll get your mind off that sexy little nymph with another sexy little nymph. How about it?'
'I don't want another one. I want that one.' James pouted like a spoilt child that had just been told he couldn't have the toy he wanted.
Sirius gave a bark of laughter. 'Well, you kinda blew it with that one.'
James turned his face towards Sirius and glared at him. Then he sighed and sunk down in his seat, resting his chin on his folded arms. He knew Sirius was right, he had blown it with Lily, and a party would help him get his mind off her, which was what he needed to do. He knew he couldn't hang on in the hope that Lily would give him another chance. He hadn't done anything to deserve one.
'Then again,' he frowned, 'I haven't really done anything to lose my first one.' The crease running over his forehead deepened as he sank into thought. 'It was just a misunderstanding. I – lost – the – woman – I – love – over – a – misunderstanding! That's so unfair it's not even funny! Why can't she accept that there's something else that'd happened here? Yeah, she should be mad I went off with other girls, but she should get over it!! Can't she see I love her?' His facial expression changed from a confused frown into a deep scowl, leaving no question in anyone's mind as to what – or who – he was thinking of.
'Dammit!' he swore silently. 'I need to stop thinking about her. Badly.'
'Padfoot?' he enquired softly.
'Yeah, mate?' Sirius asked in his booming voice.
'Count me in, for this party you're organizing. Who are you organizing it with?'
'My lady friend,' he smirked. 'She's big on parties, and a great shag… fantastic.' He saw out of the corner of his eye Kayla's head twist around suddenly, glaring at him, willing his head to explode.
'And she's hot, too. Delicious even. Body to die for. But the best thing about her, Prongs, is her "no commitment, no strings attached" way of looking at our arrangement. I get killer sex without the nagging and bitching that inevitably comes with a relationship.'
He grinned as Kayla was gritting her teeth at him. She drew her finger across her throat as if to signal "You're-dead" to him discreetly.
'Padfoot, stop teasing him, you know he wants killer sex with the only redhead bombshell in the school, but because of some unfortunate events,' Remus said lightly. 'He now can't have the killer sex he so badly craves.'
James looked up at Remus with a withering glare. 'Thanks, Moony. Really comforting. Now I can sleep at night.'
Remus shrugged lightly and turned back to his food, leaving James to mope about the loss of the gorgeous redhead, Hogwarts' resident Siren. And James knew she had just the voice of a Siren when she sang. She used to sneak into the music room behind the portrait of a witch playing a harp, and he'd sneak in after her in his invisibility cloak, and listen to her play piano and sing. Her voice was the most beautiful he had ever heard, and he would sit there for hours listening to her practice.
He had no idea how Lily knew about this room, but it was her that had allowed him to find it. He was up late in Gryffindor common room reading, and saw her sneak out, so he followed her.
She came to the portrait and whispered 'C-sharp' to it, and pulled open the portrait. She knew about a room that the Marauder's had never seen. Now of course, it was on the map. James had plotted it as soon as he got back to the dorm. But to think innocent Lily snuck out at night, to a room no one knew about. Incredible.
The moment he first heard her voice, when he was only fifteen, that's when he knew he was in love, that's when he knew she was The One, and the only one he would – he could – ever be with.
Her voice reminded him of sweet and sour sauce, how it could be sweet and melodic, sounding girlish, and yet she could make herself sound scratchy and hoarse to suit certain songs she wrote.
Her long fingers, with her short nails that she insisted had to be kept short in order to play the piano effectively, were delicate and definitely feminine. He had seen her fingers defy the laws of movement as they whizzed over the keys of the piano with a grace he had never seen.
These same fingers were clenched around her wand, pointing directly at him. Her bony knuckles were clenched and tinged white. Her lips were drawn tightly into a line and her eyes were set in a stony expression.
'Evans, your facial expression doesn't make the spell work. You have to say the words. They haven't invented self-spelling wands yet. Repeat after me, Invisiblous Imminaseous.'
'Invisi…Invis… I – I can't curse you. What the hell is wrong with me?' she asked, looking distraught. She turned around and pointed her wand at the back of Sirius' head. 'Invisiblous Imminaseous!' she cried, and watched as Sirius disappeared from view, with a slightly fuzzy view through him. 'Why can I curse that thing and not you?!' she demanded.
'Would someone please make me visible again?' came Sirius' voice, almost like an echo.
'Restorous Corporeus!' replied Kayla, looking bored and waving her wand at Sirius' fuzzy frame.
Once restored, he walked up behind Kayla who was now practicing with Lily, as Lily had become peeved at not being able to curse James. He wrapped his lean arms around her skinny waist, causing her to start in fright and the spell to ricochet off the window and hit Laura in the back of the head.
'Sirius!' Kayla whined. 'Look what you made me do! Go practice the spells with Potter, Merlin knows he needs help with his non-dangerous Charms work.'
Sirius chuckled and squeezed her briefly, turning and walking over to help James.
'You and Black?' Lily asked raising an eyebrowand surveying her friend curiously. 'You know he's never gonna stay faithful to you. He's the biggest player alive!'
Kayla blushed and looked away slightly. 'You coming to the dorms tonight to get ready for the party?' she asked quickly.
'Wouldn't miss it for all the jewels in Christendom.'
A/N: Hey hey! TWO NEW CHAPTERS!! I hope you enjoyed reading them. Anyone who can tell me what's going to happen in the next chapter will get a character named after them later in the story! This story is going to be looooong because like I said, I'm enjoying all the fighting and making Lily bitchy! So, read and review, beautiful people!