A Hogwarts Cinderella
By Tiger Lily21
Chapter 6
A/N: Yes, it's the long- awaited chapter six! Finally! Just to let you know, if something in this doesn't make sense feel free to tell me and I will explain it as best I can. But Lily and James are kind of writing this themselves now and I just type so we'll have to see if I even get it! Read on!
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From Chapter Five:
"You'll have to kiss him," said Remus.
"Oh fine," sighed Lily. "I'll kiss him but I'm running away as soon as I do. And don't you dare tell him I did it!"
"Why won't you let James know how you feel?" asked Remus.
"I can't," said Lily. "Violet's spies are out to get me and anyways I want to do this my own way. Close your eyes."
Remus obediently covered his eyes. Lily bent over and kissed James gently on the lips. A tingling sensation flowed through her, shocking her. She wrenched her lips away and ran out of the common room.
Chapter Six
"Who kissed me?" asked James groggily as he sat up on the couch.
He looked around but the only person he saw was Remus, sitting on the stairs and trying to keep a straight face.
"Not me," said Remus. "That's sick!"
"Well I know you wouldn't," said James, now grumpy. "What I want to know is who did."
"I just got down here," said Remus. "Who do you think it was?"
"Evans!Evans!Evans!" squwacked Violet the parrot.
"You make even less sense when you're a parrot than you do when you're not," remarked Remust to the parrot.
"Awwk! Definistrate! Definistrate! Awwk!Awwk!" squwacked Violet.
"Huh?" asked James.
" She wants to throw me out a window," explained Remus. "Now who do you think kissed you?"
"Lady Gryffindor?" said James uncertainly.
"It's a possibility," said Remus.
"Yeah, well I wish it was a certainty," said James."If I knew who Lady Gryffindor was I could tell her how much I love her."
Remus looked thoughtful. "James," he asked," Why do you love her?"
"She's beautiful," answered James almost immediately.
"Are you sure?'' asked Remus. "Are you sure you love her because she's beautiful and that she's not beautiful because you love her?"
"I have no idea what you just said," said James. "Could you be more specific?"
Remus sighed. This could take a while.
"James," he said patiently, " You didn't spend enough time with Lady Gryffindor to see how beautiful she was. And if you did you never noticed. You just paid attention to her other good qualities. Like how she made you laugh and how you could talk to her so easily. And how overall wonderful she was. But I want to know,now that you've come to your senses about Violet, do you love Lady Gryffindor because she's beautiful and wonderful or is she that way to you because you love her?"
"Remus," said James, clearly confused," I know you are wise beyond your years but sometimes you really make no sense whatsoever."
"Evans!Evans!Cracker!" squwacked Violet.
That jolted James's memory. Lily. He had carried her up to his bed and slept on the couch last night.
"Where's Lily?" he asked Remus.
" I think she went to the library," said Remus.
James ran out of the common room, headed for the library.
"Well," thought Remus, "maybe Lily can explain it to him."
Lily wasn't in the library. Or the Great Hall. Or anywhere else James checked in the castle. But at last he found her on the grounds by the lake.
"Morning James," she sang out.
James tried to walk at a leisurely pace and not run to her to ask her if she could explain Remus's confusing words.
"Hey... Lily," he panted, reaching the tree she was sitting in.
"Is something wrong?" aske Lily, jumping out of the tree to land beside him.
"It's nothing," said James. " but I got a nonsensical lecture from Remus this morning and I was hoping you could explain it."
"What do I look like?The Official Remus Junk Interpreter?"
Lily did her best to scowl but she couldn't help smiling.
"Uh, yeah," said James. "See, he asked me if I loved Lady Gryffindor because she was beautiful or if Lady Gryffindor was beautiful because I loved her. Aren't those the same thing?"
Lily laughed. "You silly boy!" she said. "They are complete opposites! If you love her because she's beautiful your name should be PrinceStupid. If she's beautiful because you love her then she could be ugly as sin and you wouldn't care because you can only see her transformed by your love for her. Get it now?"
"No," said James flatly. "But it's getting clearer."
"That's the best I can do," said Lily. "Now why don't we go get some breakfast?"
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A month later James still didn't understand, Violet was still a parrot, and Lily was still sleeping in the common room. (She wouldn't let James give her his bed anymore.) One dy SIrius found James sitting in the common room, deep in thought.
" What's the matter with you?" he asked.
"Nothing," siad James. "It's just that I feel so wierd about Lily lately. I don't know what it is."
"You mind filling me in on it?'' asked Sirius, for once in his life not joking.
"I just care about her so much," said James. "I mean, I want to turn those other girls into puddles of slime so she can have her bed back. I want to tell her all my secrets and find out hers. It's so confusing!"
Sirius looked at his friend with a mixture of pity and concern.
"Oh yeah," he said," You got it bad."
"Got what?" asked James.
"Have you ever considered that you like Lily?" asked Sirius.
James looked stunned for a moment then slumped in his chair.
"I... I care about her," he said. "A lot. But I love Lady Gryffindor. She's my ideal, my soulmate. I can't like Lily!"
"Can't help you," said Sirius. "I wouldn't know where to start. I've never been in love before."
"Neither have I," said James. "But I think it's great."
He was remembering a tingling sensation he'd felt a month ago as someone's soft lips met his own in a kiss.
A/N: I know it's short but it is important to the plot and it needed to be put in right away.Plus I think I promised someone a scene with Sirius so there you go.Please review. I would love to hear from you guys. Again, if this confuses you I will be happy to try and explain it for you. Toodles! --Tiger Lily
P.S. Can we try to get the number of reviews to over 100? It would make my day! --TL