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Lily looked longingly out the window from her bed in the hospital wing. The sun was out and most of the students were outside after classes, enjoying the sun before it turned into winter. How she just wanted to go outside.
The people from the ministry had come a few hours ago to give her the special test. She had passed, which surprised everyone, including herself. The next day Lily was to start classes with the seventh years and every evening after dinner, she had private tutoring with the Head Boy.
The doors to the wing opened and four students walked in.
"Hey Lils. How have you been?" A blonde girl asked.
All four of them took seats around her bed. Lily looked at them all confused.
"Who the hell are you?"
They looked at each other and then the blonde answered again. "I'm Gia. We used to be friends." She said in a voice that sounded like she was speaking to a two year old.
"I'm Carla." A pretty blue eyed brunette said. "I'm you're friend too." She had used the same voice, and it was really getting on Lily's nerves.
"I'm Sirius, this is Remus." A handsome boy added. At least he talked in a normal voice.
"Sorry, but am I supposed to just be all happy and warm when I can't remember any of you?" Lily asked bitterly.
Gia, Carla, Remus and Sirius looked nervous and anxious at Lily's snappy response.
"When is James getting here?" Sirius asked Remus quietly. But not quietly enough since Lily had heard.
"Who the fuck is James? I don't need more of you people confusing me." Lily's face was getting slightly red from her anger, and that was never a good sign.
"James is nobo-."
"Don't listen to Remus, he's just tired. James is actually your boyfriend Lils. And he just had to speak to Mcgonagall, he'll be right here." Gia announced casually.
"Did you just say my boyfriend?" Lily asked. If possible it seemed that she was getting even madder.
"Yeah. Don't worry, he's hot. And funny t-."
"So yesterday I fell off a flying broomstick, I lost my memory from the fall, I'm supposed to stay in all my seventh year courses even though I don't remember ever being here, I have to be head girl, you people are acting like nothing is wrong and that's pissing me off just a little bit, and NOW I supposedly have a boyfriend." The silence that followed was uncomfortable to say the least. But it didn't last all that long. "But of course, it's okay cause my boyfriend is hot. Yep, all my problems completely disappeared because I have a hot boyfriend who's funny too."
No one dared to say anything to the very irate red head. Usually she only let out her anger on the Slytherins or James. This was something new.
"Maybe…we should just…go…then." Sirius suggested cautiously.
"Yeah, maybe you should." Lily snapped back.
She fell back onto the bed pillows as they headed towards the exit. When she heard the door shut, she reached behind her head and grabbing the pillow, shoved it to her face and let out a smothered scream.
Lily threw the pillow across the room then lay on her bed in silence.
"Bad day?" A deep voice came from the foot of her bed.
She gave a startled scream and accidentally fell off the side of the bed. Chuckling, the boy walked over to her and gave her a hand up off the floor.
When Lily was fully standing, she was met with two beautiful hazel eyes behind a pair of wire rimmed glasses.
"I'm James." He had messy dark hair and was much taller then Lily.
"I'm Lily." 'Wow he is hot.' Lily thought. "Wait James? Oh God, are you the boyfriend I'm supposed to have? My day could not get any fucking worse." She said while sitting back on the edge of the bed.
James sat next to her, laughing slightly.
"What the hell are you laughing at?" Lily asked.
"Just glad to know you didn't lose your bitchy personality along with your memory. That would have really sucked."
"You call all your girlfriends bitchy?" Lily teased, easily starting to like this guy.
"Only the ones I really like."
Lily laughed at that and James smiled at her. 'She should smile more, she has a beautiful smile.' He thought.
"So what are you doing here?" Lily asked. "Was it to see me?"
"No, I'm actually having a passionate affair with Madam Pomfrey and happened to run into you on the way to our secret sex room."
"You're secret sex room?" Lily repeated mockingly.
"Oh yeah. All kinds of kinky shit in there."
"She's a little old, don't you think?"
"Well, I already went after Mcgonagall and that didn't work out, she's in denial. Don't worry she'll come around, they always do."
Lily was having trouble breathing from all the laughing.
"That girl was right. You are pretty funny." She told him when she regained her breath.
"Who said I was funny?" James asked curiously.
"I think her name was Cayla? No, Carla. It was Carla."
"Did she say anything else about me?"
"Said you were hot."
"Do you agree?"
"Look, James." Lily suddenly took on a serious tone. "I'm sure we were pretty close and everything, before the, accident. But right now, I don't even know you, so could we maybe hold off on the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing?"
"Whatever makes you comfortable, Lily. And how bout this, I'm you're new best friend okay?" He watched her nod her head and that she was clearly confused by all this, so he continued. "You'll get to know me all over again and sometime I'll ask you out on a date. Then you decide on how you feel about the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing. Deal?"
"Deal."
The two shook hands and smiled at each other. They didn't say anything else. Just sat there in a comfortable silence, still holding hands.
The moment was ruined however, when James' stomach reminded him it was dinner time.
"Are you hungry?" Lily asked, smiling at his flushed cheeks.
"A little. Do you want to go to the kitchens instead of the great hall tonight?" He asked.
The red head nodded yes and both of them stood up and headed for the portrait of fruit, still holding hands.
"You surprised me James." Lily said.
It was an hour or two and the Head Boy and Girl were walking up to their room after dinner.
"Why is that?" James asked, afraid he might have done something wrong.
"When I first found out I had a boyfriend, I wasn't to happy. I had already lost my memory and just having a sucky couple of days. I figured that when I saw you, you'd be all 'let me kiss you' and 'but you love me Lily Billy! Let's go make out and it will all be better'. But instead you acted like someone I had just met, which I technically did. And now, I don't know, I feel like I can trust you no matter what. You know what I mean?"
James just nodded his head, suddenly feeling guilty. 'If only you had figured this out a couple of years ago.' He sighed silently thinking if he should tell her the truth. 'And give up being able to hold her hand with out getting smacked in the face. You don't really want to really go back to the way things were do you?' A voice in his head answered him that sounded a little like Sirius.
Lily sensed his change of emotion and instantly regretted saying anything.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. Just forget it." She started walking faster and James was brought out of his thinking immediately.
"Hey," He caught up and gently grabbed her hand to stop her. "Don't be sorry. I'm sorry, I was just, thinking. I'm glad you feel like you can trust me, even after all you've been through." He pulled her into a hug and was thrilled when she eagerly hugged him back. "Let's go, we're almost at the head's room." He grabbed her hand again and they quietly made their way.
"For the record, you surprised me too." James said from his seat on the couch in the Head Common Room.
"You already knew me. How did I surprise you?" Lily asked only a few inches away from him.
James looked at Lily, who was looking at the blazing fire. The light set off lots of different colors in her hair. She moved her face to look at him when he hadn't answered. James was amazed at the brilliance of her green eyes in the firelight.
'How did I miss those before?' He asked himself.
"James?"
"Right, sorry." He blushed a little, but was fully prepared to blame it on the fire, if she pointed it out. "Well, I honestly was a nervous wreck all day. And when I saw Gia, Carla and the guys when they left the hospital wing, well let's say they didn't help calm my nerves. I thought you would be all 'stupid mother fucker' and 'god dammit I hate you! Why the fuck are you here – stupid shithole!'. But thankfully, you weren't like that at all, and I'm glad."
"Thanks, I guess. I don't really swear that much do I?"
"Only when you have to."
After a few hours talking about school and the students and anything else that came through their heads, it was late.
"I should guh oo ed." Lily said through a yawn.
"Sorry, didn't quite catch that last bit." James teased.
Lily hit him softly on the shoulder. "Shut up. I said I should get to bed. And so should you."
"Yeah. I'll see you in the morning then." James gave her a peck on the forehead then took off for his room.
Lily touched the spot where he kissed her and smiled while standing and stretching her lean body. She walked to her room, "Friends my ass" She mumbled as she shut the door.
Hey there, I know that this took me longer to post but let me explain for future updates, cause this might happen often: Cause my parents are divorced, I go back and forth every other week. I can only use the computer when I'm with my mom, so when it's my dad's week, updates might take a while, or not at all, BUT! Everyday after school I'm at my mom's for a couple of hours, so I can sometimes type something up if it's already written. Now that I have completely wasted time and space I will stop talking, I swear.
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