A/N: OK, I'm freakin out, last time I was writing my last chapter I was complaining about how hot it was, and now it's like 40*!! Grr...any ways, enough w/ my problems...wait I'm not done. I have decreed something that any reader of this story should know:
From now on I'm not going to start writing the next chapter until I get an average of ten reviews per chapter. Am I selfish? Yes. Do I really care? No. So for all you people who suck @ math (I'm happy to say I'm not one of them.), this means that before I write chapter 7 I want 60 reviews (cause this is chapter 6...) The reason I'm doing this is to see how many people actually read this, and what people think of it. So even if the review is just something along the lines of 'Cool chapter, please write more' or 'It'd be cool if __________ happened soon', it still counts as review. OR you could simply write 'Good' or 'Bad'. (For all you lazy ppl) So if this means having to go back and review an old chapter (Yes, ppl u CAN review my story 6 times now by reviewing every chapter!!) do it!!!!!! In return for the reviews I will try my best to make longer chapters (Bout 10k) Thanxx.
Now on to the next chapter. I'm upset by the last chapter, it was kinda depressing, so I'll try to make things better! ENOUGH AUTHOR'S NOTES!!
Wait one more! OK, i realized after I uploaded this that I used the word 'notice' like 7 times in two sentences! so I changed that. hopefully it's a tad bit better
Love in the Third Degree
Chapter 6
Chatting With James
Lily looked up from her still full plate of steak and noticed that James was heading back to the Gryffindor tower. Without even thinking about what she was doing, she started to follow him from a good distance, ignoring the strange looks Sirius was giving her.
James didn't seem to realize her following him though, and seemed very out of it, including when a fourth year girl accidentally ran into him. He just continued walking, looking as though he was really thinking about something.
'Potter, thinking? Everyone seems to be acting strange since this bet started...'
As Lily watched him reach the portrait hole, mutter the password, and step through, she thought of what she should do next. Should she just walk up to him and start talking? Use her wand to trip him, then coming rushing to his aid?
But Lily didn't have time to do any of that, James was already shutting the door to his dorm, before she realized she wasn't allowed in the boys' dorms.
'Oh, screw the rules for once!' she thought to herself. 'For once just do something without thinking about it for twenty minutes!' It wasn't her brain telling her this, it was definitely something else inside her, that had only started to come out recently.
Lily certainly wasn't thinking when she quietly hurried up the steps towards James' dorm, then politely knocked on the door.
"Er...James? Can I come in?" she asked uncertainly.
"Get away Evans, I don't need you bugging me or bragging about Sirius right now," he said, sounding slightly muffled through the other side of the door.
She ignored this, and hastily walked into his room.
"What the-? Evans!" James shouted at her as he grabbed the green blanket off this bed in an effort to cover himself. "What are you doing in here? You're not allowed in here!"
Attempting to suppress a giggle as she grinned at James, who was clearing in the middle of getting changed when she barged in (It seemed to Lily that he was only wearing some scarlet boxers and an undershirt.), she brushed him off and went to sit on Sirius' bed. She remembered sitting and listening to him talk about how great his Quidditch sheets were earlier that afternoon. ('My mom added the little dancing broomsticks,' she had told him.)
"Calm down James, I just came here to talk to you." Lily smiled at him as she leaned back onto Sirius' oversized pillow.
"About what? How you stole my best friend? How much I hate you right now?" Now James was glaring so much she couldn't stand to keep in contact with his eyes.
Looking away she said, "Look James, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about everything! I just want to reconcile. I know you hate me, but that doesn't mean I hate you!" Lily was wondering how she was managing to get all this out. It wasn't like she meant it, was it?
"I just want to talk with you, get to know you... maybe even become friends with you?"
"What??! Are you going crazy Evans? Don't you think I remember all the times you acted so better than everybody else? 'Oh, my mum gave me this beautiful new set of quills for Christmas!' or 'Wow, I got a perfect score on my Potions test!'"
For some reason she didn't know, Lily's eyes were started to form tears. 'What's wrong with me?' she asked herself as she fought back the battling tears.
"I never said any of that and you know it! How can you be so cruel!" Screaming at James, she stormed out of the room and down the stairs, and back up to her dorm, now sobbing.
'I know why I started crying... my parents...oh, why did he have to remind me of them? It's barely even been a year! I miss my mum so much! I don't want to spend the rest of my life with Petunia! That'll be too much for me!'
Finally all that Lily had been carrying on her shoulders for the past year had seemed to come out. All her fears of not finding a husband and having to be stuck with her awful sister and her just as horrid fiancé was too much bear. She had barely survived the summer with the two.
She just kept asking herself, 'How could one little sentence bring all of this on? I think I've finally realized that I'm almost 17 and in a little over six months I'm going to be on my own. My parents were married when they were barely even older than me now, and I don't even have a boyfriend...This is all Voldemort's fault! If only my parents were still here, they could help me, give me a shoulder to cry on, some kind words here and there. I could at least owl them...but I can't now. I've got to move on. Live in the present.'
Lily's eyes were now dry, and checking her silver watch she realized that any one of her fellow Gryffindor seventh year girls could come in any minute and see her crying.
'Well, I won't let them see me this way. Toughen up, Evans. Let's get back to the task at hand. I should probably go apologize to James.' She straightened out her slightly ruffled robes, took a deep breath, and went back to James' dorm.
*****
"Who is it?" James asked, sounding the way he usually did around Lily: annoyed.
"It's Lily, and before you say anything I just want to say I came to apologize to you. Now before I come in, are you dressed?"
"Fortunately, yes, this time I am."
Lily walked in to the room for the second time that night, looking around. The room was vacant except for James. Once again, she took a spot on Sirius' bed.
"OK, I just thought I owed you an explanation of why I blew up at you earlier. It's just..." Lily swallowed, and continued, avoiding the surprised look on James face.
"Well, I haven't told this to anyone except Megan, but my parents died a little over a year ago, and when you mentioned my mum, it was like being reminded all over again." James looked like he was going to say something, but she continued.
"And it's not just my parents, it's my sister. I'm so afraid of having to spend my like with her until I can live on my own. I've only got a little over a half year left at Hogwarts, then I'll be back at my sister's until I turn 18. It's just so frustrating!"
There was silence for a few moments and then-
"Er...well, I guess I forgive you then for, uh, yelling at me." He didn't seem to have much to say until, "But that doesn't mean I'm gonna forget about you stealing my best friend. I mean, he used to fun before you came along, but now all he does is talk about you. And I don't want you messing with him, I know you have something up your sleeve if you're being nice to me. I'll make you a deal."
"What kind of deal?" Lily seemed to have some of her spark back.
"You tell me why you're acting nice to me, and *really* nice to Sirius, when you always treated us like fungus before. Oh yeah, and why you kissed Snape," he added, scrunching up his face in disgust.
"And what do I get out of it?"
"Well, first of all I won't put up flyers telling of your 'affair' with the Slytherin slime himself and I won't rat on you for being in a boys' dorm. Because, if those were too some how get confused and mingled that could look really bad for you..." his mischievous grin returning.
Lily studied him. "You wouldn't dare."
"Oh I would and I will. So do you accept or decline?"
"Of course I decline. Not that I have anything to hide," she added a little too hastily.
James looked at her distrustingly. "Fine, have it your way. At this time tomorrow, everyone will know what Lily Evans and Severus Snape were doing all the times they had to stay behind after Potions lessons."
"Oh, do shut up!"
"Make me," he replied squarely.
"Oh, I'll make you all right," she said as she lunged at him. As she was about to slap him in the face, they both landed on his bed with a thud, James holding her wrists, preventing her from doing so. But just then...
A/N: Ok, that's all for now. Must get to bed, tomorrow's Friday!! Yeah! 3 day weekend! Pools open! Memorial Day rocks! Even though RIGHT when the pool opens the temperature drops from 80s to 40s!! Has the world gone mad????
R/R!! (Remember, 60 reviews needed! Share your thoughts!) I know this chapter sucks but whatdaya gonna do? (Some may say rewrite, I say shut the f- never mind!) :)
PS-The next chapter will be called "Irresistible" (best song!!)!
From now on I'm not going to start writing the next chapter until I get an average of ten reviews per chapter. Am I selfish? Yes. Do I really care? No. So for all you people who suck @ math (I'm happy to say I'm not one of them.), this means that before I write chapter 7 I want 60 reviews (cause this is chapter 6...) The reason I'm doing this is to see how many people actually read this, and what people think of it. So even if the review is just something along the lines of 'Cool chapter, please write more' or 'It'd be cool if __________ happened soon', it still counts as review. OR you could simply write 'Good' or 'Bad'. (For all you lazy ppl) So if this means having to go back and review an old chapter (Yes, ppl u CAN review my story 6 times now by reviewing every chapter!!) do it!!!!!! In return for the reviews I will try my best to make longer chapters (Bout 10k) Thanxx.
Now on to the next chapter. I'm upset by the last chapter, it was kinda depressing, so I'll try to make things better! ENOUGH AUTHOR'S NOTES!!
Wait one more! OK, i realized after I uploaded this that I used the word 'notice' like 7 times in two sentences! so I changed that. hopefully it's a tad bit better
Love in the Third Degree
Chapter 6
Chatting With James
Lily looked up from her still full plate of steak and noticed that James was heading back to the Gryffindor tower. Without even thinking about what she was doing, she started to follow him from a good distance, ignoring the strange looks Sirius was giving her.
James didn't seem to realize her following him though, and seemed very out of it, including when a fourth year girl accidentally ran into him. He just continued walking, looking as though he was really thinking about something.
'Potter, thinking? Everyone seems to be acting strange since this bet started...'
As Lily watched him reach the portrait hole, mutter the password, and step through, she thought of what she should do next. Should she just walk up to him and start talking? Use her wand to trip him, then coming rushing to his aid?
But Lily didn't have time to do any of that, James was already shutting the door to his dorm, before she realized she wasn't allowed in the boys' dorms.
'Oh, screw the rules for once!' she thought to herself. 'For once just do something without thinking about it for twenty minutes!' It wasn't her brain telling her this, it was definitely something else inside her, that had only started to come out recently.
Lily certainly wasn't thinking when she quietly hurried up the steps towards James' dorm, then politely knocked on the door.
"Er...James? Can I come in?" she asked uncertainly.
"Get away Evans, I don't need you bugging me or bragging about Sirius right now," he said, sounding slightly muffled through the other side of the door.
She ignored this, and hastily walked into his room.
"What the-? Evans!" James shouted at her as he grabbed the green blanket off this bed in an effort to cover himself. "What are you doing in here? You're not allowed in here!"
Attempting to suppress a giggle as she grinned at James, who was clearing in the middle of getting changed when she barged in (It seemed to Lily that he was only wearing some scarlet boxers and an undershirt.), she brushed him off and went to sit on Sirius' bed. She remembered sitting and listening to him talk about how great his Quidditch sheets were earlier that afternoon. ('My mom added the little dancing broomsticks,' she had told him.)
"Calm down James, I just came here to talk to you." Lily smiled at him as she leaned back onto Sirius' oversized pillow.
"About what? How you stole my best friend? How much I hate you right now?" Now James was glaring so much she couldn't stand to keep in contact with his eyes.
Looking away she said, "Look James, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about everything! I just want to reconcile. I know you hate me, but that doesn't mean I hate you!" Lily was wondering how she was managing to get all this out. It wasn't like she meant it, was it?
"I just want to talk with you, get to know you... maybe even become friends with you?"
"What??! Are you going crazy Evans? Don't you think I remember all the times you acted so better than everybody else? 'Oh, my mum gave me this beautiful new set of quills for Christmas!' or 'Wow, I got a perfect score on my Potions test!'"
For some reason she didn't know, Lily's eyes were started to form tears. 'What's wrong with me?' she asked herself as she fought back the battling tears.
"I never said any of that and you know it! How can you be so cruel!" Screaming at James, she stormed out of the room and down the stairs, and back up to her dorm, now sobbing.
'I know why I started crying... my parents...oh, why did he have to remind me of them? It's barely even been a year! I miss my mum so much! I don't want to spend the rest of my life with Petunia! That'll be too much for me!'
Finally all that Lily had been carrying on her shoulders for the past year had seemed to come out. All her fears of not finding a husband and having to be stuck with her awful sister and her just as horrid fiancé was too much bear. She had barely survived the summer with the two.
She just kept asking herself, 'How could one little sentence bring all of this on? I think I've finally realized that I'm almost 17 and in a little over six months I'm going to be on my own. My parents were married when they were barely even older than me now, and I don't even have a boyfriend...This is all Voldemort's fault! If only my parents were still here, they could help me, give me a shoulder to cry on, some kind words here and there. I could at least owl them...but I can't now. I've got to move on. Live in the present.'
Lily's eyes were now dry, and checking her silver watch she realized that any one of her fellow Gryffindor seventh year girls could come in any minute and see her crying.
'Well, I won't let them see me this way. Toughen up, Evans. Let's get back to the task at hand. I should probably go apologize to James.' She straightened out her slightly ruffled robes, took a deep breath, and went back to James' dorm.
*****
"Who is it?" James asked, sounding the way he usually did around Lily: annoyed.
"It's Lily, and before you say anything I just want to say I came to apologize to you. Now before I come in, are you dressed?"
"Fortunately, yes, this time I am."
Lily walked in to the room for the second time that night, looking around. The room was vacant except for James. Once again, she took a spot on Sirius' bed.
"OK, I just thought I owed you an explanation of why I blew up at you earlier. It's just..." Lily swallowed, and continued, avoiding the surprised look on James face.
"Well, I haven't told this to anyone except Megan, but my parents died a little over a year ago, and when you mentioned my mum, it was like being reminded all over again." James looked like he was going to say something, but she continued.
"And it's not just my parents, it's my sister. I'm so afraid of having to spend my like with her until I can live on my own. I've only got a little over a half year left at Hogwarts, then I'll be back at my sister's until I turn 18. It's just so frustrating!"
There was silence for a few moments and then-
"Er...well, I guess I forgive you then for, uh, yelling at me." He didn't seem to have much to say until, "But that doesn't mean I'm gonna forget about you stealing my best friend. I mean, he used to fun before you came along, but now all he does is talk about you. And I don't want you messing with him, I know you have something up your sleeve if you're being nice to me. I'll make you a deal."
"What kind of deal?" Lily seemed to have some of her spark back.
"You tell me why you're acting nice to me, and *really* nice to Sirius, when you always treated us like fungus before. Oh yeah, and why you kissed Snape," he added, scrunching up his face in disgust.
"And what do I get out of it?"
"Well, first of all I won't put up flyers telling of your 'affair' with the Slytherin slime himself and I won't rat on you for being in a boys' dorm. Because, if those were too some how get confused and mingled that could look really bad for you..." his mischievous grin returning.
Lily studied him. "You wouldn't dare."
"Oh I would and I will. So do you accept or decline?"
"Of course I decline. Not that I have anything to hide," she added a little too hastily.
James looked at her distrustingly. "Fine, have it your way. At this time tomorrow, everyone will know what Lily Evans and Severus Snape were doing all the times they had to stay behind after Potions lessons."
"Oh, do shut up!"
"Make me," he replied squarely.
"Oh, I'll make you all right," she said as she lunged at him. As she was about to slap him in the face, they both landed on his bed with a thud, James holding her wrists, preventing her from doing so. But just then...
A/N: Ok, that's all for now. Must get to bed, tomorrow's Friday!! Yeah! 3 day weekend! Pools open! Memorial Day rocks! Even though RIGHT when the pool opens the temperature drops from 80s to 40s!! Has the world gone mad????
R/R!! (Remember, 60 reviews needed! Share your thoughts!) I know this chapter sucks but whatdaya gonna do? (Some may say rewrite, I say shut the f- never mind!) :)
PS-The next chapter will be called "Irresistible" (best song!!)!