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'Padfoot!' cried James the same day their exams had ended, as he trotted up to Sirius, who was standing in the doorway, holding a water balloon.

'Yeah?' said Sirius looking uninterested.

'Managed to choose a date?' James asked.

'Yeah' said Sirius, something James wasn't expecting.

'Wha-?' he started.

'Yeah, I did, I mean she's quite nice and all. So I thought, why not give her a try. Plus she was dying for me to ask her out, honestly, practically fainted when I told her I wanted her to come with me to the Hogsmeade weekend' informed Sirius casually.

'Who is it?' asked James curiously.

'Lisa Jones' replied Sirius offhandedly.

'Lisa Jones!' thought James, picturing the pretty, slim, smart girl in his mind.

She was the prettiest girl in their entire batch and was a Ravenclaw. James scowled at him. Sirius could get a date any time he wanted to, any girl would die to go out with him, while James couldn't find anybody to take with him! He was deep in thoughts about who to ask to when he bumped into Lily Evans, another Gryffindor. Instead of saying 'Sorry' he blurted out:

'Will you go out with me?' without thinking.

'Huh?' said Lily clearly shocked.

It was common news, that James had a crush on Lily since the first day at school. In his first two years, he had been too meek to say anything else. However, later on, when he had become Seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, his popularity boosted. After that, Lily had thought James was too full of himself and had rejected him in the fourth year for the first time. James had been blue for weeks, but then he had got over himself and from then onwards kept looking for excuses to ask Lily out. However, this time it wasn't such. He had merely popped the question out at her due to the confusion in his mind. He waited fearfully for an answer. He was quite sure she was going to refuse like the countless number of times she had in the past.

Lily looked at him like he was out of his mind, didn't answer him and stalked off towards the library. James groaned. 'Now look what I've done!' he thought to himself. 'I guess Lily is just too good to ever be mine' he thought gloomily as he set off towards the Gryffindor common room. 'Stinky Hinkypunk' he muttered at the portrait of a Fat Lady that hid the Gryffindor dormitories behind it. 'You better pay attention to your manners!' the Fat Lady snapped at him, then swung forwards to admit him in the common room. James clambered inside the portrait hole. A merrily cracking fire greeted him. This, however, did not raise his spirits one bit.

Meanwhile, in the library, instead of looking up for notes on Kappas, for one of her junior's Defense against the Dark Arts essay, Lily was staring dreamily into space. Several books she had looked up lay open on the desk and half a roll of parchment dangled over the edge of her table. She was thinking about what James Potter had just said. Although it was old news by now... how James always kept popping the same question at her over and over again, it seemed really different this time. Lily recalled how he had grinned sheepishly, almost lovingly when he had blurted out his proposal. There was an odd sort of a charm in James that she had never noticed before. She almost adored it for a second. 'What are you thinking?' she scolded herself as she tried to divert her attention on her essay again and away from James and his 1000 watt smile. She mentally shook herself for even thinking that way. But after only moments of thinking about James, she found that she couldn't concentrate on the Kappas essay anymore. (She decided to apologize to Elisa, her junior, who was a fourth year Gryffindor) Frustrated, she slammed close the books that lay on her table and rested her face on her hand exasperatedly, her innocent face turned into a small frown. She thought for about half an hour. About the pros and cons of James Potter and tried to remember all the times he had tried to ask her out. This time, however, she couldn't remember one reason why she had possibly refused him. In the end, she came to the conclusion that she would accept his proposal this time, and see how it went, and as she hadn't been able to take her mind off him for days, it could also prove to be best for her and her calmness of mind. Lily stuffed the parchment roll in her bag along with her ink bottle, grabbed some of the books she had looked up, deposited them in her bag, swung it on her shoulder and walked off towards the Gryffindor tower.

How was that? And do you really think the other chapter was small?? Oh, and I still need your suggestions. I'm thinking of discontinuing it, I don't think I've made it as good as it should be!