A/N: Took me a couple days to start writing this because I was kind of short on ideas. Enjoy.
Chapter 4
The next morning James awoke earlier then he was planning on, to do his homework. He took his parchment and quill down to the common room and sat at the end of a couch.
Halfway through writing a paper he heard a light tapping on the floorboards coming from the girl's dorm. He looked up to see Lily walking rather drunklike down the stairs.
James smiled at the sight of her. "Hey Lily, why are you up so early?"
Lily showed no sign of hearing him and walked towards him with a blank stare.
James got a worried look on his face. 'Does she have a curse on her?' he thought.
Lily moved closer and closer to James until she was standing right in front of him. She took a minute to look him in the eye and then slipped her slippers off. Lily delicately laid down on the couch laying her head in James' lap.
James was wide-eyed looking down at Lily confused. "Lily are you alright?" He waited for an answer but gave up when he heard her breathing get heavier.
He figured it would be pointless to try to do his homework with her there. He appreciated the break and set his quill and parchment down. James looked down at Lily thinking about how beautiful she looked.
James watched as her lips parted slightly and she mumbled something that sounded something like his name. He cheered up at the thought. He couldn't fight the urge any longer and began to run his fingers over her face and hair.
He couldn't help but think how fake it felt being with her but how great it felt. Lily's body trembled a bit from being cold and she cuddled in closer to James' body to keep warm.
James' smiled down at her and pulled out his wand. "Accio blanket." With that a warm blanket came floating to him and he draped it lightly over Lily.
James' eyes started getting heavy and he leaned his head back to rest his head on the back of the couch and gave Lily's hair one last touch and feel asleep with his arms wrapped lightly around her upper body.
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An hour later Lily opened her eyes groggily. She shivered a bit still feeling cold and pulled herself closer to what she thought was the couch. Lily's movement woke James and he looked down at her and smiled.
Lily noticed a pair of arms around her and was immediately confused as to where she was and whose arms she was in. She was almost worried to look up at who it was. Lily built up the courage and looked up into the warm eyes of James.
She was mesmerized for a minute staring into the depths of his eyes. 'I wish he would kiss me'
'I want to kiss her so bad right' James thought longingly.
Once their eye contact was broken embarrassment washed over Lily turning her cheeks a bright red. She wanted to run but knew that would ruin everything. Plus she liked being with James alone.
" I… I'm so… so sorry." Lily said biting the inside of her lip not knowing how he would react to all of this.
"It's fine, perfectly fine." James said with his trademark smile.
Lily relaxed at his smile. "So how did I get here?"
"Well I was down here doing homework and you came down walking rather pathetically." He said chuckling. "Then I asked what you were doing up and you laid down and put your head in my lap. So I put my homework down and you shivered and I summoned a blanket for you. I guess I dozed off then. Do you remember any of this?"
"No." Lily said. Then realization sprung on her. "I know what happened! I was sleep walking again."
James looked at her a little disappointed. "Oh so this happened before?"
"Yes it was very embarrassing. It happened over then summer when Andi, Remi, and I had a sleep over at Andi's." Lily said giggling at the memory.
James face lightened up with a smile. "What happened?"
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"I'm ready to hit the sack it's already 5 a.m. and my mom's making us some homemade waffles in like two hours and I really don't want huge bags under my eyes." Andi said through a yawn.
Neither of the other two girls complained and they each curled up in their individual sleeping bags and dozed off.
An hour later Andi woke up from her cat walking across her face three or four times. She looked over to find Lily's sleeping bag empty. Then she woke up Remi to see if she knew where Lily was.
Meanwhile Lily opened her eyes to find herself staring at who she thought to be Andi. Once her eyes adjusted to being open she realized the person she was looking had wrinkles unlike Andi and was a bit more round in the gut.
Lily immediately let in a silent gasp and rolled onto her other side and found herself looking at the gray haired, no shirted, and hairy chested Mr. Adams. To her horror he had his arm draped over her body. She was laying in the middle of Andi's parents bed trapped.
A moment later Andi and Remi came to the door looking in snickering. "Lil what are you doing?" Andi whispered.
"Just help." Lily said feeling embarrassed.
Andi noticed her father's arm draped over Lily's body which caused her and Remi to snicker more. "My dad is a really heavy sleeper just move his arm he won't wake up."
Lily did as Andi said and then looked towards them as if asking what to do next.
"Just get off the bed you git." Remi said still snickering.
Lily scowled and tried to climb off the bed with out disturbing Andi's parents. She failed and her hip roughly bumped Mr. Adams' side causing a lot of jiggling.
Lily managed to move a little ways to Remi and Andi when Mr. Adams woke up.
"Girls what's going on here? Trying to pull some trick on us?" Mr. Adams said a little grouchily.
Lily went a little red and Andi went to her rescue. "Sorry about that dad it was nothing. I love you get some more sleep it's Saturday."
Mr. Adams nodded and took her advice and laid his head down immediately going into a peaceful sleep.
Andi and Remi looked at Lily waiting for an answer as to why she was in Andi's parents' bed. "I was sleep walking, Ok!" Lily said with a little of anger.
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James tossed his head back laughing hysterically at the story Lily told him.
Lily looked him slightly annoyed. "Oh hush I can't help it I sleep walk."
James laugh woke someone up from the guy's dorms and they were now stomping down the stairs.
Sirius appeared looking annoyed but his face lightened at the sight of James and Lily. "Lily Bob, Prongs early morning get togethers very sneaky. You look quite comfortable Lil." Sirius said pointing out the fact that Lily still had her head in James' lap.
Lily bolted upright and her cheeks turned red like they did so often. "Long story, don't ask." Lily said disappointed she had to separate from James.
"Hmm this is very fishy, very fishy." Sirius said stroking his chin trying to get a reaction out of James.
"Shut up, Padfoot." James said giving Sirius an annoyed look.
"Oh touchy are we." Sirius said with a raised eyebrow.
Sirius sat on the other side of Lily and gave James a smirk as he put his hand on Lily's small waist and pulled her onto his lap. Lily and James shared surprised looks.
Lily slipped out of Sirius' grip and scampered over to James and delicately sat on his lap wrapping her arms around his neck. It was Sirius' turn to have a surprised look and James was still stuck with the same look. Lily was surprised by her action too, she wasn't usually the flirty type
A few moments later James wrapped his arms around Lily's waist and pulled her closer to him making Lily giggle. Lily looked around to see James' happy face, Sirius' dejected face, and Tia's angry face.
Lily stopped giggling abruptly at the sight of Tia at the bottom of the girl's staircase. James followed Lily's gaze to Tia and immediately felt angry.
Tia walked across the room crossing one leg in front of the other trying to walk like a model. She gave James a little wave and a wink. Once she was past James, Lily stared after her.
Right before Tia walked out the portrait hole she mouthed a few angry words to Lily 'Stay away.'
Once Tia left there was an awkward silence. Sirius was perplexed at why Lily seemed angry at Tia.
A few minutes later the silence was broken by Remi and Andi coming downstairs. When they reached the bottom both their jaws dropped at the sight of Lily in James' lap.
Lily immediately slipped off his lap but still wanted to be near James so kept their legs touching. Andi went over to the couch and squeezed in between Lily and Sirius giving Lily a stare that said 'you better tell me what happened later!'
Remi sat in a nearby chair waiting for Remus to come down. As if he knew she was waiting he showed up seconds later with Peter along side of him. Peter went to the corner of the common room and did his homework.
Remus laid sprawled out on the floor and motioned for Remi to join him. She gladly got up and laid down next to him using his armpit as a pillow. The seven sat and laid around talking for awhile until Sirius couldn't take it anymore and he needed food.
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After supper Lily was lounging on the couch almost asleep. Just as she started dozing she was shaken very roughly by Andi and Remi.
"Get upstairs now!" Remi demanded.
Lily was frightened by their faces and whimpered a bit. "Shut up Lily, we just want to talk." Andi said laughing at her face.
So the three went up to their dorm room and they all settled on Lily's bed. Lily let out a sigh. "I suppose your wondering about the display earlier this morning."
"That, and the fact that when I woke up shortly after finding myself in my bed you weren't there and didn't come back for a long time." Andi said with her eyebrows raised. "Oh and how did I end up in my bed?"
"Oh well once Remi and Remus went to bed Sirius noticed you were sleeping. I put that spell on the girl's staircase so that Sirius could carry you up to bed." Lily said pausing to see Andi's reaction.
"Are you serious! That's so romantic, kind of." Andi said with a smile and the other two girls laughed. "Oh anyway go on with where you were last night."
"Oh yeah that. Well I stayed down there and James came down then and said he had wanted to talk to me and was glad I was still there."
The other two girls gave Lily huge smiles. "Oh Lily sounds like he really likes you, how cute."
"Oh be quiet and let me finish." Lily said giving them each a playful hit on the arm. "He said he noticed some tension between me and Tia and wanted to know what the problem was. So I told him about that night." Lily said choking up again remembering the night of the ball.
"You told him? How come?" Remi said pretty sure she knew why.
"I don't know I just trusted him. He seemed concerned. But there's something I told him about that night that I never got to tell you two." Lily said biting her lip.
"What! You told him something and not us. What's up with that and what happened?" Andi said very quickly.
"Well I was really vulnerable last night and I told him absolutely everything." Lily said still nervous. "The part I didn't tell you is that the before you guys came and saved me from Tia the night of the fourth year ball she, she tried to killed me."
Remi and Andi gasped. "How'd she do that? Did she do it just because of Tray?" Remi said concerned.
"She was trying to strangle me and was trying to force me over the edge of the stand to fall and yes all this over Tray." Lily said slowly.
"Lily I'm so sorry! I can't believe you never told us though." Andi said pulling her into a hug.
"I know I've been meaning to but it never came up." Lily lied sort of.
"So tell us about the cuddle fest going on between you and James this morning." Remi said trying to lighten the mood.
Lily blushed. "Well I woke up this morning with my head in his lap."
Remi and Andi squealed. "Oh my gosh Lily!" They said in unison.
"Oh hush! I was sleeping walking again." Lily explained and Andi and Remi's faces fell a little. " I told him about this summer and he laughed so loud that he woke Sirius."
"You told him about you and my parents? That was a classic." Andi said cracking up.
"Anyway, Sirius saw me with my head in James' lap and got all weird. So I sat up and he sat next to me and pulled me on his lap I think to make James mad but I'm not sure. Then for some reason I got up and sat on James' lap and put my arms around his neck and he pulled me closer then." Lily said blushing.
"Lily Evans! I never knew you were such a flirt!" Remi said patting her on the back.
"I know it surprised me too. But then things went scary and Tia was standing there and she winked at James and mouthed 'Stay away' to me. She said that about James of course and last night when she talked to me at Astronomy she told me to stay away from James then too." Lily said nervous again.
"I have so many names I want to call her!" Andi growled.
"Yeah but I do have good news." Lily said her face brightening. "James promised me last night that the next pranks on her!"
They all giggled and left their dorm to join the boys in the common room.
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Later the three girls and the four Marauders decided to go for a late night snack in the kitchen.
They all crowded around a table eating mostly sweets and chatting. Peter sat there quietly just listening to his friends crack jokes and of course he laughed along with them. But he had something to say and he was waiting for a pause in there chattering to get a few words in.
Peter cleared his throat and gave a nervous tug at the collar of his robes. "Um, I like someone." His statement was very random to the other six but they all reacted to it.
"Pete! You got a gal in your life, that's great!" Sirius said from beside him with a beaming smile.
"Well we're not together yet but I think she likes me so, soon." Peter squeaked.
"Quit stalling and tell us who she is, you little monkey." Sirius said pinching Peter's cheeks like a grandmother would do.
Peter swatted Sirius' hands away. "Her names Eva Kemp." Peter paused nervous as to what the response was going to be once he finished. "She's a fifth year in um … Slytherin."
Everyone's responses were similar mostly gasps but Sirius' was extremely dramatic. The huge bite of chocolate cake he just shoved in his face was now speckled all over James' face.
"What the bloody road kill are you thinking, a Slytherin!!" Sirius shrieked startling quite a few house elves.
Lily took James' glasses off and cleaned them off with a napkin and handed him one to clean the rest of his face. When she went to put them back on his face she paused to look at his eyes, they seemed so different without his glasses. James returned her gaze and finally Lily slipped them back on his face.
Andi looked at Sirius and put her hand on his to get his attention so he didn't strangle Peter. "Sirius what's wrong?" She said concerned.
Sirius liked Andi's touch and held her hand tightly in his as he spoke. "He can like anyone and I mean anyone just not a Slytherin. I'd rather him be gay then like a Slytherin." Sirius said calming down.
Andi moved in even closer to Sirius now talking in a more flirty voice. "Not all Slytherins are bad. You never know you never met her."
"All Slytherins are bad." Sirius said in a very low voice bringing himself closer and closer to Andi.
Once Sirius and Andi's noses touched Remus couldn't take it he had to make fun of them. "Don't worry guys whenever I talk about hating Slytherins I always want to snog too."
Remi, Remus, Lily, James, and Peter laughed hysterically as Andi blushed and Sirius fumed. "If you all don't shut your traps I'm going to have to beat a lot of people up." Sirius said lightening up a bit as he said it.
"Alright, alright we'll stop." Remus said motioning for everyone to stop laughing but of course Peter let a few more giggles slip. "Anyway Peter congrats with the new girl I wish you luck."
"Thanks." Peter said, happy that someone accepted it.
"Yeah I guess it's ok but don't get involved with her kind, bad news." Sirius lectured.
Then they were interrupted by someone coming into the kitchen. They were all startled a bit but all gave a warm smile as they saw Kyle walk in.
"Hey Kyle, come sit down next to me." Lily said patting the stool next to her. "What are you doing here?"
Kyle sat down next to Lily feeling a little shy. "I heard about tickling some pear and it led to some room and I just wanted to find out where it led." Then he tapped Lily's shoulder and whispered rather loudly. "Is that your boyfriend?" He said pointing to James.
The group chuckled softly at his question. "Not yet." Lily said in the same loud whisper but immediately slapped her hand to her mouth when James looked over at her. "I mean NO!" Lily spit out abruptly after removing her hand.
Lily's cheeks remained red for quite a while but the conversation continued. Once Sirius was filled up they headed back to the common room all starting to feel tired.
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Once they got to the common room Lily laid down on the couch and was out as soon as her head hit the cushion. Andi and Sirius sat close to each other and James and Peter sat in front of the fire.
Remus and Remi were in each others arms dancing to an unheard slow song.
"You two are so corny." Sirius said shaking his head at Remus.
"Oh shut it Padfoot you know you want to be dancing around the room too." Remus said annoyed by his immaturity.
"Yeah come on." Andi said pulling him off his rump and wrapping her arms around his neck.
Sirius went along with it but before he rested his hands on her waist he tickled her sides. Andi squealed with laughter trying to get away from Sirius. Once she got out of his grip he pulled her back and resumed dancing to the soundless song.
Lily awoke from Andi's screams and once everything came into focus she saw James looking down at her with his hand reached out.
"Would you like to dance?" James asked in a charming voice.
"Of course." Lily said in a whisper and wrapped her arms around his neck and laid her head on his shoulder.
James was surprised at how close she got to him but wrapped his arms around her enjoying every second with her in his arms.
A few minutes later the six people pulled apart as if they all heard the song end. The three girls said their good nights and headed for the girls dorms.
Sirius, Remus, and James stood there in awe for a minute and then walked over to Peter who was curled up in a ball sleeping in front of the fire. After a few rough pokes in the side they got him up.
The four boys walked to their room all with a girl on their mind.
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A/N: Well that's chapter 4 I hope you liked it. Next chapter you'll get to meet Peter's crush Eva Kemp and there might be some more Tia action. REVIEWS and suggestions are appreciated.
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A - I think it might be because you see me everyday. I had to use Marcellus I just saw the musical, Music Man and he was my favorite character, but I guess it doesn't fit because I hate Tia… oh well.
