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Chapter 21: Reactions

Cecily and I made it to the carriages first and sat for more quite a few minutes until Lily came hopping in as if she was floating on air. She paused and looked at us for a moment with an indescribable look in her eyes. Suddenly, she burst like a balloon.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god...!" she squealed over and over. Cecily and I jumped at the outburst and looked at each other for a second not knowing what to do.

"Lily? What's wrong?"

She looked at us.

"Wrong? Nothing's wrong. In fact, I've never been happier in my whole life!" she exclaimed gleefully.

"Why?" I implored. Then I frowned with disappointment.

"Is it William...?" I sighed. She gave me a look as if I was kidding.

"William? Of course not William!" she said and turned directly toward me.

"It happened." She said seriously. I narrowed my eyes a bit.

"What happened?"

"James. Me. Me and James. James and Me...whatever! All I know is that I am in LOVE and he kissed me and I kissed it him and it was beautiful and I have no feelings in my legs." I burst into a smile. FINALLY! Cecily's eyes widened.

"Are you serious? James POTTER?! What happened to your deep loathing toward him?" she asked. Lily swatted her hand.

"I never HATED him... I've realized that. I only thought I did. But he was fifteen and I was fifteen and we both were clueless and here he is now...with no words to describe him..." she answered, trailing off. 'Oh, this is it.' I thought. 'Thank god! It's about time!' I scooted foreword excitedly.

"What about William?"

She shrugged slowly.

"It's a long story. You see, what happened was—"

Lily could go no further, because now Kelsey came waltzing into the carriage. The look on her face glowed and she bit her lip before sitting down next to Lily.

"Kelsey, you will not believe what happened!" Lily exclaimed. She seemed very excited about her now relationship with James. Kelsey grinned.

"Nothing compared to me..." she looked at me.

"Men are soo amazing! He kissed me, Caroline!!!!" she shouted happily. My jaw dropped.

"REMUS?!!"

Her smile grew wider and she nodded.

"And I kissed him back! IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! Oh my god, you have no idea..." she sighed. Lily straightened up.

"I bet I do. Does he have strong lips?" Lily asked. Kelsey creased her brow.

"How can you tell?"

"Did you feel it in your knees?"

"I felt it everywhere." Kelsey said. Lily smiled.

"Yeah, he has strong lips. So does James." She said. Kelsey was about to say something when she whirled to Lily.

"James?!"

Lily blushed and nodded. Kelsey squealed.

"Isn't it incredible to have that FEELING?!" she said. I turned to Cecily.

"Where were we this whole time?"

She laughed and shrugged, while Lily and Kelsey babbled on. Suddenly, right before the carriage lurched foreword, Alice came in. She stood in a small doorway, her hands up.

"People! I am officially in love!"

I gave Cecily another look. Good god.

"What a coincidence. These two hysterical lovebirds are too."

Alice's face lit up. Sitting next to Cecily, she turned to Lily and Kelsey.

"You are?!! With who?!"

Obviously, Lily and Kelsey burst into words that neither Cecily nor I could ever understand. It's love language. This was going to be one fluffy year.

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Of course, Sirius and Peter were the first in their carriage and James was the first to arrive. James looked slightly dumbstruck and sat down without saying anything. This was apparently not particularly normal of James so Sirius butt in.

"What's you're problem? I hope it's because you ditched me because—"

James looked up at him now and he had an exceptionally large grin on his face.

"It happened." He said. Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"What happened?"

James ran a hand through his hair.

"Lily."

"Lily happened? Honestly Prongs, she was born in 1960 just like the rest of—"

"No, WE happened! She—she told me she loved me." He said dazedly. Sirius widened his eyes a bit.

"Are you kidding?"

James shook his head and propped his legs up on the rest of the upholstered seating.

"She kissed me."

Sirius choked.

"Well, did you kiss her back?!"

James shot him a look.

"Of course I did, Padfoot! How daft do you think I am?"

"Is that rhetorical?"

James shot him another look. Sirius leaned foreword.

"I thought she was on a date with William Fortson? What the bloody hell happened?! You can't just stop there! You're making bloody history at the moment!" Sirius exclaimed. James grinned.

"I'm not sure what happened with William, but let me tell you what happened with—"

Remus now came into the carriage. It wasn't long before the carriage began to move and he was thrown into a seat. He also looked as if he was in a daze.

"Good God, what happened to you?" Sirius implored at the look on Remus's face.

"I can't feel my legs." He said with a smile. Sirius was no idiot. Throwing up his hands, he gave Remus the same look he had given James.

"Is it Kelsey?"

Remus glanced at him and his smile grew wider. It was pretty self-explanatory of what had happened to him and Sirius sighed, falling back into the seat.

"Where was I this whole time? Both of you!"

"I find it better that you weren't there," Remus joked. "You would have ruined it."

Sirius gave him a mock gasp.

"I resent that, Moony! I most definitely would have not ruined a moment...what ever happened."

James, Remus and Peter all gave him a look as if he thought they were stupid and Sirius crossed his arms.

"Fine." He said.

"Merlin, she was a damned good kisser," James said. Remus smiled.

"Yeah, same with— wait, who's she?" he said turning to James.

"Lily Evans."

Remus's jaw dropped.

"LILY?! You KISSED her? On purpose?"

"Well, yeah on purpose! She kissed ME too, you know!"

Remus curved his lips into a smile.

"So, you two are..."

James grinned. "Crazy, isn't it?"

"Unbelievable!"

"And it's about bloody time!" Sirius added. "That goes for you also, Remus Lupin."

Remus rolled his eyes, before looking out the window.

I had my first Quidditch practice today. You have no idea how exhausting that sport is. Man, I came in that afternoon into the common room just trying to stay awake. I hadn't even bothered with my Quidditch robes. Alice and Cecily were in there doing homework when I came in. Obviously, Lily and Kelsey were off with their boyfriends somewhere doing God-knows what.

"Hey! How was it?" Cecily asked when I trudged through the portrait. I shrugged tiredly before collapsing onto the closest couch.

"Have you done you're Charms homework yet?" Alice asked. I groaned, rubbing my face.

"No...ugh...when is it due?"

"Tomorrow." Alice said.

"God, I am so tired."

"What did you guys do?"

I must have hit that bludger more than a hundred times. I was about to aim right toward James when he told me to do it AGAIN." I said, lazily taking off my gloves. Alice gave me a small smile.

"Well, since this WAS your first Quidditch practice and I'm sure it'll get easier, but for this one time...wanna copy my Charms?" she said. I looked at her. In high school, it was normal for people to copy their friend's homework, but rarely at Hogwarts.

"Really?!"

She smiled and nodded.

"Oh my god, you are the best friend EVER."

She shrugged.

"I know."

I gave her a look and took the piece of parchment she offered me.

I took me about five minutes to copy it and then I fell asleep right there on the couch.

When I woke up, Sirius Black was standing over me.

"What are you doing?"

"Trying to fall asleep." I said, closing my eyes again. He chuckled.

"Quidditch is tiresome, eh?"

"You can say that again." I mumbled, eyes still closed.

"Quidditch is tiresome, eh?"

I smirked.

"Okay, Black, leave me alone, so I can sleep before James comes in making me hit that damn thing another thousand times."

Sirius scoffed.

"By the way, do you know where James is?" he added.

"Wherever Lily is." I retorted.

"Do you know where Remus is?"

"Wherever Kelsey is."

He sighed.

"Cecily told me to tell you that if you feel up to it, they went down to dinner about 5 minutes ago."

"Okay." I nodded, eyes STILL closed.

"I'll see you later," he said, and I heard him leave the common room. I lay there for a couple of minutes before letting out a groan.

Thanks to Sirius for waking me up and now I can't get back to sleep. Getting up, I lumbered out of the common room and down to the Great Hall, suddenly realizing how incredible hungry I was.

Lily ran her fingers through her hair and dipped her quill into the ink. She was quite unwillingly doing her Potions paper and from what she was writing, it was absolutely horrible. She sighed, and crumpled up the parchment, and threw it aside. Thinking for a second, she began to write again.

"Hey," came a voice behind her. She jumped a bit before turning around.

"Merlin, James. You scared me." She gasped.

James gave her an apologetic smile before sitting down in front of her.

"What are you doing up so late?" he asked. Lily sighed.

"Potions homework." She said, concentrating back onto her paper.

"I thought you already finished it."

"I should have."

James laughed softly. After a few quiet moments, Lily dropped her quill.

"I'm hopeless! I cannot write!"

James smiled.

"You're not hopeless. Let me see." He took her paper and began to read it silently, while Lily looked on.

"Horrible, isn't it?"

James looked up at her and shook his head.

"It's fine. It doesn't really matter as long as you get the facts right. Whipple doesn't care if you're a good writer or not."

Lily gave him a look as if she wasn't certain, but smiled nonetheless.

"You're sure?"

He nodded. Lily sighed.

"I'll take your word for it." She said and continued to write.

"How was Quidditch practice?"

"Good."

"Caroline was exhausted the last time I saw her. She was asleep on the couch still in her Quidditch robes." Lily said. James laughed.

"She should be. I feel bad now since I made her hit that thing over and over. I'm surprised she didn't come over to me and attack me with her bat."

Lily laughed.

"I'm sure she thought about it."

James looked at her and smiled. They continued to talk for several more minutes until James checked his wristwatch.

"I have to go to bed or I'll never get through practice tomorrow." He said, getting up. Lily looked up.

"You're leaving?"

James grinned and looked down at her.

"You don't want me to leave?" he said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, no, not really."

James smiled.

"Sorry. I'll make it up to you. What are you doing after dinner tomorrow?"

Lily thought for a second.

"Oh, we have a meeting with Dumbledore."

James creased his brow.

"We do?"

Lily gave him a look and smiled.

"I told you yesterday."

"Oh, right."

Lily laughed.

James kissed her gently before walking up the stone stairs to the boy's dormitory.

"Good night."

Lily chewed at the inside of her cheek.

Now she couldn't concentrate. That's what James Potter does to you. She bit her lip and caught herself smiling stupidly. All because of James Potter.

A/N: Hey guys! Next chapter. I'm sorry if this ended up kind of short. I couldn't tell when I was typing it. I hope you people like it! Next chapter is the first Quidditch match, so keep reading!!