A/n: Hey ya'll!!! I'm so sorry about not getting this up sooner. I had some writers block and no time to type, and those are two sorry combinations when you're trying to get a chapter out! Please read, and I hope ya like it! And for all the grammatical errors, I'm sorry! For one I didn't feel like reading over it…again…and plus I'm only in the 7th grade, I haven't gotten to all the types of grammar!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of J.K. Rowlings characters, etc, etc.
The next morning Lily was up and about getting ready for the first day back. Lily was almost always the first person up in the girls' dorm; she said she had an internal alarm clock. By the time the rest of the dorm began to groan and moan as they slowly picked themselves out of bed, Lily was already showered, dressed, made-up, and ready to go. However, she might as well have stayed in bed until everyone else woke up because she had to wait for Jackie to finish getting ready anyways.
Usually this annoyed the heck out of Lily, but today she was rather glad to have to wait. The epiphany of the night before had definitely not escaped her remembrance, and she was more than happy to not have to face James just yet, or by herself.
So a good hour after Lily had finished her morning routine, Jackie finished hers, and they headed down to the Great Hall for a very brief breakfast. (I say brief because as they walked down to the Great Hall they realized they only had five minutes before classes began.)
When they finally did make it to their destination, Lily was happy to see that the Marauders must have already eaten and gone to class. On some prank most likely, she thought to herself as she and Jackie sat down and hurriedly ate with the rest of the late risers.
Luckily, Professor McGonagall saw them as they entered and walked over to give them their schedules.
"Miss Evans and Miss Morrow, please try to be a little more punctual to breakfast, especially you, Miss Evans. We can't have our Prefects being late to classes can we?" the stern professor inquired as she gave the two girls their schedules.
"No, professor, but I do believe that Mr. Potter will be the one you will have to be worrying about…" Lily replied as she began to look over her classes.
"Indeed," the professor said as she walked off with raised eyebrows.
"What class do you have first?" Jackie asked as soon as McGonagall was out of hearing distance.
"History of Magic, and I assume you get to join me in that oh-so-interesting class?" Lily questioned sardonically.
"Of course," Jackie said with a sigh and a sip of pumpkin juice. Lily then began to notice that the Great Hall's population was slowly dwindling
"Come on, we better be getting to class, we don't want to be late on our first day; we'll miss all the good seats at the back of the class," Lily said standing up and Jackie along with her, and they made the very fast trip to the History of Magic room. Unfortunately, though they weren't late, they weren't early so they ended up being stuck with mediocre seats in the front of the middle of the classroom.
Lily, who in past years found that she stared out the window (if there was one) when she was bored, had really wanted a window seat. As it turns out, a lot of people do the very same thing, and they were all early; so she took the next best option and sat beside Remus (yes, the Marauders were already there, and had been for quite some time) who was sitting beside the window. Soon afterwards class began…
And what a boring class it was.
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Just as she had suspected, Lily found that she was staring out the window by the end of the lesson. She had been in La-La-Lily-Land, and the theme in La-La-Lily-Land today was none other than James Potter.
During History of Magic, she generally at least paid some attention, and sometimes she even took notes; today she hadn't heard one word Professor Binns had said. She was too busy thinking about her relationship with James. I want to be more than friends, but what if he doesn't? but obviously now I can't stay just his friend, because I am positive these feelings won't go away. What if I just tell him? And then he says no, our relationship will never be the same again! Of course after she looked at it from the logical side of things she turned to but what if we were going out? Then she had a perfect holiday think about stuff from the suitable G-rated things she and James could do and other…less innocent fancies.
Anyhoo, Jackie had to shake her out of her wonderful daydreams at the end of the lesson so they wouldn't be late for Transfiguration. They then had to basically run the whole way to Professor McGonagall's room, but they weren't late.
In Transfiguration, Lily and Jackie usually tried to sit at the front of the class because they needed to pay attention. However, as they weren't exactly early again they had to settle for the last two seats, and they weren't even beside each other. Jackie ended up in the front row while Lily reluctantly sat down in the seat next to Remus who was next to the window; I say reluctantly because on the other side of her were Katy and all her snobby friends.
Then McGonagall began to talk…and Lily began to drift off into, you guessed it, La-La-Lily-Land where the topic was, once again, James Potter. When she realized this she immediately began to focus again mainly because if she didn't she wouldn't be able to keep up her grades too well.
Lily managed to keep her thoughts for the rest of the day almost under control. However, every now and then she would find her mind starting to drift back to the topic. It was a problem, and not being able to solve it made it harder to resist.
Although when Potions came around she found herself looking in the direction of James and Remus's table from time to time; and in Care of Magical Creatures she couldn't help but daydream as the professor had paired them together.
It all boiled down to the fact that for the majority of that day, the only thing Lily could concentrate on was James Potter and the fact that she liked him in a more than friendly way.
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The next few weeks proceeded in much of the same manner; a completely boring manner. People had just settled into their school year routine, and nothing important seemed to happen. It wasn't until a completely hilarious prank, pulled by who else but the Marauders, or a Quidditch game, or another inquisitive thing popped up that things started to get exciting.
This year that other inquisitive thing popped up three weeks after the start of the year. Well, technically the entire school didn't know about it…it was really just an inquisitive thing that popped up for Lily.
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Jackie and Lily were sitting and having some girl talk on Jackie's bed up in their dorm. The only other person there was Gwynne Smith, a shy quiet girl, who was currently enraptured in her book, The Man in the Iron Mask.
Like I said, Jackie and Lily were talking when out of the blue, which I suppose really wasn't out of the blue since it was there dorm too, (a/n: ha, it rhymed!!) Katy, Erin, Marie, and Elizabeth walked in. The bad part about this was…they all shared a secretive smile, and whenever they share a secretive smile everyone knows something bad is going to happen; it was merely a question of who it was going to happen to.
Katy stepped forward and directed her speech towards Lily. Lily got a very bad feeling.
"Hello, Lily."
"Katy," Lily said with a nod.
"So…I'll get right to the point," Katy said in a 'friendly' tone, "We think it's absolutely adorable."
"What is 'absolutely adorable'?" Jackie asked, imitating Katy's voice. They decided to ignore this, and Elizabeth stepped forward.
"Why, Lily's crush, of course!" All of the blood, and I really do mean all of the blood, left Lily's face when she heard that. Her mind was screaming how do they know! HOW DO THEY KNOW! However, she answered in what appeared to be a completely calm voice.
"I don't know what you are talking about."
"You don't have to deny it, Lily," Katy said, "We already know, and we think it's wonderful."
"Yes," began Marie, "I must admit that I do have a crush on him as well, but I thought, in a completely unselfish way, why not let Lily have a go at him?"
"Besides, you're always staring at him in class," Erin added.
"Lily, what are they talking about?" Jackie asked, turning towards her best friend. Lily, in all truth, had no idea what they were talking about. She knew for a fact that Katy liked James, not Marie, and she hardly ever stared directly at him during class.
"I don't know what they are talking about, Jackie, because I don't like anybody," Lily said, lying through her teeth. She obviously couldn't say that she liked James right in front of all of them, even if they did already know.
"Anyways, dear," Katy began again, "Since we knew you weren't going to make any moves we decided that we'd set you two up. It's for your own good."
"You what!?!?"
"Yes, you two will be having a little 'study date' Saturday, even though technically, he doesn't know about it yet," Erin said with a forced smile.
"Why? You people don't even like me! Why would you set me up with somebody!?" Lily practically screamed.
"Don't talk nonsense," Marie said. Marie who didn't like James, she liked…Oh no…they don't think I like! Oh shit, they think I like…! Realization dawned.
"You people don't think I like…" but she was cut off by Elizabeth.
"No, we know you like him, and it's perfectly fine to, I mean, he is after all a Marauder."
"Anyway, we've wasted enough time; we're going to go inform him of your date, tata!" Katy said as the four of them left the dorm. As soon as they shut the door Lily turned to Jackie and practically screamed,
"JACKIE! THEY THINK I LIKE REMUS LUPIN!"
"And you don't?" Jackie asked.
"No!
"Then I suggest you go stop them from informing him that you do."
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Unfortunately it was too late by the time Lily reached the common room. She managed to make it in time to see them talking to the Marauders, and for Remus to look over at her in a questioning manner. She then decided it would be a good time to repeatedly bang her head against the wall beside the staircase.
Why me? Why me? Why me?
Jackie then appeared beside her.
"Oh dear, they already asked him…Lily, stop. If you keep doing that you're going to get a concussion," Jackie said trying to hold Lily's head still.
"Why the earth was graced with those four…AAGH! I can't even find the right word to describe them! Their just so…"
"I know, I know, but talking like that about them, however good it feels, will not get you out of this situation, will it?" Jackie asked her like she was a small four-year old. She certainly looked the part with her lower lip slightly protruding.
"No…"
"So what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to go over there and tell Remus that they don't know what they're talking about, and that I don't like him in that way."
"Good."
She took one step, and then turned back to Jackie.
"Wait, Jackie, what if he likes me that way? I couldn't do that; it would be so…mean. It would be something Katy would do."
"Mmm…" Jackie said intelligently, "that is not so good."
"What am I
going to do?"
Jackie never got to answer
that, because just then Katy, Erin, Elizabeth, and Marie walked back over from
where they had been talking to the Marauders.
"Well, Lily, we set it all up. You two will be having a lovely little date tomorrow in the library at eight o'clock," Elizabeth said in an extremely annoying, perky voice. With that the four walked back up to the girls' dormitory to wreak havoc on somebody else's life, or whatever they do.
The only thing Lily could do…was go along with their twisted little scheme.
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So that's why, on Saturday evening at eight o'clock, she was in the library walking over to the table that Remus was already sitting at.
This is going to be very uncomfortable.
Jackie had advised Lily to just tell Remus that she didn't like him, because he had never appeared to show any sign of liking her in that way. Lily then pointed out that if he didn't like her he wouldn't have agreed to the date.
"Hi, Remus," she said as she sat down across from him.
"Hey, Lily."
"So…"
"So…"
I really should tell him that I don't like him…but what if he gets all upset or something? What am I talking about? He's a guy, who probably doesn't even like me in the first place…but still…
However, Lily didn't get the chance to finish arguing with herself, because he then took the liberty to make her decision much easier.
"Listen, Lily, I have to admit, I don't really like you in a girlfriend kind of way."
Lily's face lit up with relief.
"You don't? Thank goodness," she said, and then added to explain herself, except she ended up rambling, "because I really didn't like you that way either. Katy and them are extremely whacked. I mean, you're just a friend. People can be friends and nothing more, right? I don't even like anybody anyways. Well not really, and maybe friends can be more than just friends…sorry, I'm rambling."
"It's alright," Remus said. There was a rather uncomfortable silence after this.
"Did you even think I really liked you in that way to begin with? Because you didn't seem very hesitant about 'sparing my feelings'," Lily questioned to break the silence.
"To tell you the truth, no; you seem to like somebody else to me," he said. Lily began to panic.
"What'd you mean? I don't like anybody," she said.
"Well, I do like somebody else, and, because I think we're friends enough, I was wondering if you'd help set me up with her," Remus asked after looking at her skeptically.
"Sure, Remus, who's the girl?" Lily questioned, glad the subject was off of her.
"Gwynne Smith," he said. Lily smiled.
"Aw…you two would be good together! I'll see what I can find out. Gwynne and I aren't what you might call the best of friends, but she's pretty nice, and I think I could get her to tell me if she likes you," Lily said thoughtfully.
"Really? Thanks, Lily," Remus said with a smile forming.
"So I guess we should I head back to the common room?" she asked.
"Probably, we don't won't to be caught wandering the halls in the dead of night by Filch."
"I know, you've been in that situation enough, I'm sure."
A/n: So??? What'd ya think? Please review and tell me!! Do you think Gwynne and Remus will get together? And will Lily ever tell anyone about her crush on James? You'll just have to wait till I get the next chapter out! And hope that it comes out soon…cause I surely don't know what the plot line of it will be
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