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A Really Quick Author's Note: SHOUT OUT TO FROZEN IN MOTION! My first reviewer! I love you, love you, love you!! Thanks so much!
Well, third chapter! Hope you enjoy it! This is the start of seventh year. The previous chapters were just an insight on how life was for both of them before Hogwarts and how they met. I didn't really want to forget that part. If you're already bored with this story…please give it a chance. Plenty of people that have already read this would tell you it's really good, unless they lied to me, which I hope isn't the case! Well, enjoy.
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Chapter 3: Seven Years Later~ September 1 ~
"My last year at Hogwarts…" Lily muttered to herself. She was walking up to King's Cross Station with her family (not counting Petunia), for the last time.
"Now, darling, if you forgot anything, please send an owl, and we'll look for it. Have fun at school! And send us lots and lots of updates!" her mum said, getting teary-eyed.
"Mum! We've been through this! You've said goodbye to me for the past 6 years, and now you're crying on this one? Please, I'll be fine!"
Cindy sighed.
"If you say so! And, say hello to James, Tara, and the others for me!"
"Ok, mum, I will. Now, please, it's 10:50! I have to go! I love you so much!" she hugged her mother, then her father.
"We love you too," John answered.
Lily turned toward the wall she was going to go through. With one last glance and smile back to her parents, she disappeared from their sight.
"Lily! There you are!" Tara Walter, her best friend, exclaimed, running over to her. Lily smiled.
"Hi, Tara!" Lily replied, hugging her.
"Come on! James, Sirius, and Remus are waiting for us!"
Lily hadn't seen James for a couple of weeks and missed him terribly. It'd be great to see him again. She headed to the train with Tara.
~ Earlier for James ~
"I can't wait to see Lily today!" James sang. Sirius sighed loudly.
"For the billionth time, I know! I can't wait to see Tara either! Now, please, let me pack!" Sirius pleaded. James wouldn't shut up about Lily though. He missed her so much.
"But I haven't seen her in the longest time!" James pretended to whine, causing Sirius to roll his eyes.
"It's been a month! You really should get out more! I mean, a month is not been…" he cleared his throat, and mocked James, "…'the longest time'."
"Oh, Sirius, shut up! I do not need to get out more! I'm just in love! If I'm away from her for too long, I go crazy!"
"It seems you already have," Sirius muttered.
"I heard that! Come on, it's 10:30. We should go."
"Alright. Let's go," Sirius said, picking up his trunk and owl cage and following James down to his kitchen.
"Mum, dad, we're leaving now! Are you coming to say bye?" James called, hoping his parents would let him leave without too much difficulty.
"Yes, of course! Why wouldn't we?" his mum, Destiny, asked, walking into the kitchen, setting down a book she'd been reading.
"Well, I am 18!"
"Well, that's not much to say, when you can't even make your bed!"
"Mum!"
Sirius tried to stifle his laughter. James did seem to be pretty lazy and irresponsible at times, but he was Sirius' friend anyway.
"Fine, James, Sirius, go on. Have fun at school! Have fun being head boy, James. And stay out of trouble!" she ordered.
"We'll try to!" James responded, trying not to grin.
"Yeah, right. That'll be the day! Now, go on, you have 25 minutes!"
James grabbed some floo powder and threw it into the fireplace.
"Platform 9 and 3/4!" James yelled. He immediately was deported to the platform, and saw the train once again.
"This is my last year at Hogwarts!" he muttered to himself. Sirius came out of the fireplace a second later.
"I hate traveling by floo powder!" Sirius complained.
James glanced at Sirius and rolled his eyes. He started walking toward the train, looking all around for Lily.
"I wonder if Lily's already here…oh, look, there's Remus!" James looked behind him at Sirius, but saw nothing but Sirius' school trunk. He then heard familiar giggle.
'Oh, please!' he thought, walking to where the giggles were coming from. He saw Sirius and Tara, his girlfriend.
"Get a room!" he said, acting disgusted. Sirius jumped when he saw James.
"What? We have to get a room when we kiss, but when you and Lily kiss, you don't?"
"That's right! Lily doesn't giggle," James stated.
"Since when? Just last year, on Valentine's Day, you pulled Lily aside, and started kissing her. You could hear her giggles from the end of the hallway!" Sirius argued.
James remembered that day clearly. She'd been playing hard to get that whole day, but James finally just grabbed her and pulled her into a corner and kissed her. They'd missed the first fifteen minutes of History of Magic, which had gotten them detention together. Of course, they'd just spent that whole night making out whenever their supervisor momentarily left.
"What? No way!" James denied.
"You were probably caught up in the moment, you didn't notice!" Tara piped up. "At least, that's what happens to me!" Tara kissed Sirius again.
"Hey guys!" Remus Lupin said, joining them. Remus was also a very close friend of Lily, James, Sirius, and Tara. "Why are we standing here?"
"No reason. Hey, Tara, got a compartment already? And is Lily here yet?" James asked.
"Yeah, third one from the front, and no, not that I know of. Go inside, and I'll wait for her."
"Thanks. Come on Remus, Sirius." James led them into the compartment. He waited anxiously for Lily to come. After 15 minutes, he was getting worried. It wasn't like her to be this late, especially now that they were both Head Boy and Head Girl. But then he saw the door open, revealing Lily, wearing a pair of very tight jeans and a tee, with Tara behind her. James' heart beat sped up.
"Lily!" James exclaimed. He stood up and gave her a kiss.
"Hello, James!" she whispered happily to him. "I missed you so much!"
"I missed you too, baby!"
They kissed again, and soon enough Lily started to giggle. Sirius cleared his throat loudly.
"Oh…yeah…" Lily said embarrassed, turning a light shade of pink.
"Hello, Lily!" Remus greeted.
"Hello. My mum says hi."
James sat down, and Lily sat right next to him, holding his hand.
"So, how was your summer?" Remus asked, changing seats to sit next to her.
"Great!" Lily answered.
"How touching!" a cold voice sneered.
Lily and James turned around to see Lucius Malfoy, one of their enemies in the Hogwarts house Slytherin, and Severus Snape standing at the doorway.
Lily spoke up, "Oh, Lucius. Give it up already! You've done so much as it is. Why don't you just leave all of us along and get on with your life?" Lily said smoothly.
"No, I don't think I will. Severus and I were wondering, James, how can you hang out with…" he nodded to Lily, "…her? A mudblood?"
James tensed his muscles and squeezed Lily's hand, but Lily squeezed it back, signaling not to loose his temper.
"No, James, ignore him," she muttered. James looked pleadingly at her. "No!"
Lucius continued, "I would think you'd have enough dignity to hang out with people of your…class and not kiss a mudblood here, let alone anywhere else…you surprise me!"
James couldn't take it anymore. His anger was too much to repress. He jumped forward, and Lucius landed on the floor, with James sitting on top of him.
"Don't you ever say that again!" he threatened.
"Or else what?" Lucius sneered.
James punched him hard in the nose, causing a trickle of blood to run down from Lucius' nose.
"James! Stop! Please! Leave him alone!! Get off of him!" Lily yelled helplessly.
But James didn't listen. His intention was killing Lucius right then and there, if it came to that.
Sirius saw Severus Snape grabbing for his wand, but Sirius was too quick. Sirius body-bound him.
"I said take it back!" James repeated.
"Never!"
Lily tried to pull James off of Lucius, trying stop the fight, but out of nowhere, she felt someone's fist touch her cheek roughly
Lucius started to grab his wand, stopped when he looked at Dredea Hancock, his girlfriend, and Lily fighting.
James looked too, just in time to see Lily punch Dredea in the nose. Lily grinned as Dreadea sat down in defeat and turned around noticing the shocked look on James' face. Lily's cheek had started to swell and one of Dredea's rings had cut her cheek.
"What?" she asked innocently.
"You…you…punched her!" he replied.
"She deserved it!! Besides, she hit me first!" Lily debated.
Lucius knocked James over, and stood up.
"I'll get you for this! Come on, Dredea!" He left the room, huffing. Severus, who'd gotten out of the body-bind just watched helplessly as James took Lily's hand. A stab of jealousy rushed through him, but he didn't let it show. How long he'd wanted Lily, but James always beat him to her, unknowingly, of course. No one except Lucius knew of Severus' intense feelings for Lily, and he didn't want that secret coming out any time soon. Severus slowly turned on his heel, following Lucius and Dredea, who were a few compartments ahead.
"See you later, Dredea!" Lily said, coldly, closing the door.
James sat down at his seat, and stared at her, amazed at what Lily had done. She had shown that side to him a few times, but not very often. It was actually quite intriguing.
"What were you thinking, Lily? The Hancock's are one of the most prestigious wizarding families there is!" James told her.
"I don't really care!" she snapped back.
"Fine, fine! But you still shouldn't have done that!"
"Look, there have been just three people in my life that I absolutely hate. My sister, Dredea Hancock, and Samantha Fresta. I refuse to back down from those people. They need to grow up, and stop trying to ruin my life. Samantha already has done that!" Lily explained.
"What have I done?" a light female voice asked. Samantha Fresta stood at the door way of the compartment, with her long blonde hair falling to rest on her shoulders and chest and intent blue eyes staring at Lily coldly.
"What are you doing here?" Lily asked snottily.
"Jealousy isn't very flattering on you, Lily. And besides, there are no rules that say I can't say hi to people," Samantha replied cruelly. She turned her attention to James and smiled flirtatiously.
"Go away!" Lily demanded.
"No!" Samantha walked over to James, and sat on his lap. "Hello, James!" she said slyly, running a hand through his unkempt hair.
"Hello, Samantha," he sighed, wishing she would disappear.
"How was your summer?"
"Wonderful! Lily and I went to Spain together. We had a blast," James answered, enjoying the expression on Samantha's face.
"Oh, well, I'm sure you had fun…"
"Loads. Now, if you will, please get off me!" James lightly pushed her off his lap.
Lily decided to take action, so she got on his lap instead.
They smiled at each other. Lily glanced at Samantha's furious face. Lily decided to make her even more jealous, so she kissed James. He got the picture, and returned the kiss.
"You know, Samantha, jealous isn't very flattering on you," Lily sneered.
Samantha gave an appalled squeak and left.
"What a show!" Sirius exclaimed. "Evans, didn't know you could be so…catty!" Sirius grinned. Tara hit him on the shoulder and laughed.
"I'll take that as a compliment," Lily replied, sitting back down on the seat and engaging in a conversation with Remus.
The train ride went on smoothly from then on, with no outbursts from Slytherins. Friends of theirs kept appearing at their compartment door. Lily didn't see her other friend Raluca, though. Maybe she'd gotten caught up with some other people. Lily and James, in the middle of the train ride, had to go to a meeting for the Heads. When they arrived at the train station in Hogsmeade, a town near Hogwarts, it was pouring out. Puddles had formed along the grass. Lily and Tara climbed into a carriage quickly, along with two other girls: Raluca Apostol and Michelle Carpenter.
"Raluca! There you are! I missed you over the summer!" Lily exclaimed, smiling at the chocolate brown haired girl across from her.
"I missed you too, Lily," she answered.
Lily turned her attention to Michelle Carptenter, who was seated next to Raluca.
"Hi, Michelle! How were you over the summer?" Lily asked, trying to be friendly.
"Fine," she answered, looking out the window. "I hooked up with Sam Reid, in Hufflepuff."
Lily opened her mouth in shock.
"You did!?"
"Yes, but he can be too demanding! He actually wanted me to have a steady relationship! So, obviously, he's gone," she stated, picking off a piece of fuzz on her Hogwarts coat with her long, manicured nails.
"Michelle! He's one of the hottest guys at Hogwarts!!" Tara exclaimed.
"Your point?"
Tara rolled her eyes as the carriage came to a halt, opening its door. Everyone stepped out.
~ James ~
"Hey, George," James said, getting into a carriage with Sirius and sitting down across from a fairly large friend of his in Gryffindor. "Where are Jeremy and Jupiter?"
"Oh, they're with Kelly and Megan. You know, their girlfriends," George answered, rolling his eyes at the word.
"Oh, well, we'll sit with you!" Remus said, joining the three.
"You still with Lily?" George asked James curiously. "The summer did her some good. She's lookin' fine!"
"Yes, I am still with her! Don't go getting any ideas. You must've broken up with Raluca this summer…since you're not with her."
"Right. She said I was getting too…"forward", which I think is totally bullshit! I mean, we went out for 3 years! And then she thinks I'm moving too fast! I bet you and Lily have passed that…obstacle," George said, grinning.
James felt his cheeks go a little pink.
"Oh, my God! You haven't!" George realized, starting to laugh.
"Y – yes, we have!" James lied quickly.
"James! Why didn't you tell me?" Sirius asked offended.
"I don't need to tell you everything!" James shot back.
"How was it?" George asked, leaning forward. "Was she a tiger? She looks like she would be, with that red hair…"
James could feel the heat rising within him, from embarrassment and longing. He really didn't know if she was or wasn't. He wanted to know, but every time he tried, she said no or found a way out of it. Maybe this year she'd change. Maybe after the romantic trip to Spain, she would realize that he wasn't just trying to play her. No, he loved her. He did. But for the time being, James would just have to guess at how she was like.
"It was great. And keep the secret between us, she's a tiger alright! She kept me up the whole night! – "
Before James could continue, the carriage door opened, relieving James a great deal. George gave James a high-five before they got out. James started talking to Remus, who had been quiet the whole conversation, but stopped in mid-sentence when someone covered his eyes with their hands while he entered the great castle.
"Guess who!" someone said, obviously trying to deepen their voice. James pulled the hands off of his eyes, and kissed them lightly.
"Lily," James answered.
"How'd you know?" Lily asked, giggling and wrapping her arms around his chest, leaning against his back, taking in his spicy cologne. Oh, how Lily loved how he smelled. Always the same scent, but she loved it.
Lily opened her eyes and noticed George starring at her in a way that made her feel uncomfortable, making her want to cover herself up, even though she was wearing her Hogwarts uniform and a coat.
"Who else would have done that?" James replied, drawing her attention back onto him.
"Samantha…" Lily answered.
"After what you did on the train, I don't think she's cooled down," James told her.
Lily grinned evilly.
"Let's go into the great hall…"
Lily took James' hand, and they ran into the Great Hall.
P.S. I raised the rating just because, well, these people are seventh years, eighteen year olds… Just in case. I don't want any people who don't like cussing and some sexual affairs reading this since the rating was on PG. Now it's on PG-13… Right, anyway. Next chapter is coming up. All of these have been previously written. So I have plenty of chapters to post. Don't worry that I'm going to run out of them…
Love all you guys!
-Elle