Lily and James 7th year Chapter 3
a/n: this is a re-post hunnies, i.m workin' on the new chapter now.3

"Well, I'll let you talk to her at dinner, I'm sure she wouldn't mind." said Lily looking proud of herself. May rolled her eyes. The five talk for a while when the train started to slow down.

"Shit!!" said May

"What?" asked Lily.

"We didn't change into our robes!"

"Crap." said Lily, and then she looked at the boys who were dressed in their robes. "Thanks for telling us."

Sirius beamed sarcastically. "Your welcome."

"Funny." said May "Lily we have to change...NOW!"

"Go head, we're not stopping you." said Remus smiling a cheesy smile.

"OUT!" bellowed Lily and May together sending the guys out of the compartment mumbling. Lily and May changed quickly and met Remus, Sirius, and James outside the compartment door. They walked off the train and towards the carriages. Lily watched Remus hold May as she buried her face in the chest of his robes. May had seen her father die at the beginning of the summer holidays, she now saw thresals. Lily felt so sorry for her best friend. But she knew May was tough and would be all right.

They all got into the great hall and sat down.

"MARIA! Over here!" yelled Lily. Maria nodded and walked over sitting across from Lily and next to James.

"Hey Lils, May." said Maria nodding to them as she said their names.

"Maria, that's James," said Lily.

"Yes James just got out of a relationship and is currently looking." said May.

"Oh...?" said Maria grinning, her eyes narrowing devilishly tilting her head down.

"Yeah, Lily said you would be a good candidate," said James looking from Lily to Maria.

"Well I am, if your interested." said Maria pushing her long black hair over her shoulder. "So, are you interested?" Maria asked placing her elbow on the table and her chin on her palm, strumming her fingertips on her cheek.

James snuck his left arm around Maria's back and squeezed her side. "Maybe." he whispered in her ear.

Maria giggled. "James, you such a tease."

"You know it," he said winking to her and kissing her cheek.

Across the room, at the Ravenclaw table, Becky watched as James and Maria flirted. Her eyes narrowed watching them. Her best friend Kiera Knighting, was sitting next to her. Kiera rolled her eyes.

"Becky, you confuse me, you really do. You dump the boy one day, then the next day you're spying on him and getting all jealous. And why you're jealous I have no idea, your dating Lucious Malfoy one of the hottest guys in school (pff!) he's also the captain of the Slytherin qudditch team."

Becky smiled and turned to look at the Slytherin table. Lucious winked at her, she giggled and turned back around. "You're right."

"Sooo...you're going to go out now?" Lily asked Maria and James. "Yep." said James and Maria together in unison. "SCORE FOR LILY! I SO ROCK!" said Lily everyone laughed.

Later that night the 6 were all in the common room talking and having a good time. Then, there was a savage scratching sound at the portrait door.

"What was that?" said May looking at the door and then turning her eyes to Remus "What was it!"

"I don't know," said Remus. The sound came again only more intense and more violent.

"What is going on!" Lily asked clinging tightly to the back of Sirius' robes.

"I don't know. Don't worry, someone should see what it is." he said to her facing the portrait door. The scratching repeated and there was a loud demonic scream, then... it was silent.

"What...happened?" Maria asked burying her head in James' robes.

"I.... don't know." Said James sounding very unsure. For a brief moment James' crystal blue eyes poured into Lily's panicked green ones as she stood behind Sirius looking into James's eyes over Sirius' shoulder. Panic came over the common room.... What was that sound? Who caused it? What caused it? And why couldn't James stop staring at Lily? So many questions were left un-answered and wondered about.

Halloween came and went and the questions alive in everyone's mind were still un-answered. When Christmas started to poke it's head into the castle the answer to one question started to unfold. The mauraders and company were sitting at the dinner table on the day before Christmas break, Headmaster Dressel rose to his feet; he cleared his throat as the hall became silent.

"As you all know," he paused "Christmas, is drawing near. As such" he paused again "We have planned a Christmas ball." The great hall exploded in applause. Headmaster Dressel held up his hands for silence. " The ball is planned for Christmas night, 6 o'clock in the evening, to Midnight. The dance is for everyone, who has dress robes." Professor Dressel sat down and the hall became noise with talk about the ball.

"Oi, Lil." said Sirius "Hogsmeade tomorrow, how bout a date?" he said softly

"Why not?" she said, pushing her lips against his, closing her eyes and tilting her head.

The Next day, Lily, Maria, and May were in their dorm their two other roommates had vacated the dorm for the day. Lily sat on the windowsill looking out at the falling snow; she looked down at the ground around the lake and saw Sirius, James and Remus having a snowball fight. James quickly looked up in her direction he saw her watching him. He watched her and sighed very heavily, breaking his watch on her and aiming another snowball at Sirius' head.

Maria rushed around the dorm room getting certain things she needed, she gathered everything and rushed into the bathroom, 5 minutes later she stepped out, fully dressed, make up fully applied and smelling wonderful. Her hair was pulled in a braid that was resting over her shoulder. "My turn for the bathroom." Said May getting to her feet and walking to the bathroom. Again like Maria, May was out of the bathroom in about, 10 minutes. May's hair was much longer than Maria's so it took her longer to get it under control. For the first time Lily had seen, May was wearing her hair down.

"Okay guys lets go before the guys murder each other with snowballs." said Lily smiling." Lily had already showered and all that good stuff before May and Maria woke up. May and Maria nodded. The trio of girls walked through the halls and down the stairs. When they were outside Lily realized how cold it really was. She shivered and pulled her cloak closer around her.

"Cold Lils?" James asked, as the girls got closer.

"Yeah." replied Lily shivering.

"Alright well we'll go then, the carriages are here so I guess we can go." said Remus. May and Maria nodded.

The six got into the carriage and it rode to Hogsmeade. When they got there everyone piled out. "Hey, Maria come with me into Zinkos! Lily doesn't like going in there." said Sirius.

"Alright." said Maria following Sirius "We'll be right back Lils."

"Up for some coffee May?" Remus asked.

"Sure." said May "We'll see you guys later okay?"

Lily and James nodded as Remus and May walked away. "So, uh...how 'bout a walk." Said James.

"Sure." said Lily smiling. True, she loved Sirius and they had been together for a while and she didn't want that to end, but she couldn't help think, that James and her got along a lot better, they were just more compatible. And Maria and Sirius got along well too. The two started to walk and they just were talking, and it got dark. They were just kind of wondering around, and they made a wrong turn, they were in a dead end.

"Hey Lils." said James turning to look at her. "Yeah James?" She said happily looking up at him. "What would you say, if I did this?" He asked Lily was confused until...
A/n: oh boy oh boy, what a cliffhanger. I know I know I haven't posted in a million bazillion years, but I'm posting now, Kay? I'm posting at my other story too, Evil Deceptions, check it out!