Chapter 5: Prefect's Meeting
There was no mistaking it. James was devastated by the way Lily had reacted to his confession. If it weren't for Sirius and Remus he might have gone into an unrecoverable depression. He was lucky to have such good friends as those two. For the first four days back at class, those three were inseparable, even more so than before.
Lily hadn't taken James' admittance lightly. However, her feelings for him still hadn't changed in the slightest. She had discussed how she felt with Chelsea and Dacota that night.
Lily's POV"Why does it have to be me?"
Chelsea sighed and looked at her best friend. She had not stopped crying for two hours and showed no signs of stopping. Truth be told, her and Dacota were getting tired of comforting her. "You asked that before."
Sensing Chelsea trying to change the mood, Dacota added, "Shouldn't James be the one this devastated? I mean, he is the one in love after all."
Taking a moment to glare up at her friends with her now puffy red eyes, Lily turned on Dacota. "How would you like to find out that the one guy that you despise the most not only has a crush on you, but has since our 1st year?"
Dacota tried to correct her but was abruptly interrupted. "No he does not love me. He can't. He doesn't know the first thing about love, so therefore is no way he can feel it."
"Why don't we just sleep on it and figure something out later. We have potions first thing tomorrow and I, for one, don't want to upset Professor Welling," Chelsea suggested.
Time PassageBefore anyone knew it, homework was piled stock-high (the teachers insisted on getting a head start on preparing them for the NEWT's) and Thursday had rolled around. This day was not looked forward to by either James or Lily because it meant that they would have to face each other at the Prefect's meeting, after which was a Head Boy and Girl meeting.
Lily set down her quill and looked up at Chelsea and Dacota who were busy scrawling down words for their Transfiguration essay. "Ok Chel, it's time we better go. It's already 9:30 and we were supposed to be at the meeting room now."
The only response she got was a grunt. "Come on," Lily tried while picking up her books and shoving her friend.
"But we can't leave Dacota!" Chelsea feebly protested as she too began to pack her books, realizing that she was already defeated.
Giving a wicked smile, Dacota left the table they were sitting at." Oh don't worry about me, I've got a certain Marauder I've got to catch up with." Without so much as a backwards glance, she strode out the library and toward the Gryffindor tower, causing a few 5th years to ogle at her retreating shape.
"At least one of us is allowed to have fun," grumbled and irritable Chel as she was dragged to the Prefect meeting room.
When they arrived, they entered to a large room with a circular table in the center. And a fire place off to one side. Lily quickly scanned the room and noticed everyone had showed up except Remus and Potter.
James' POVRemus pushed along a trudging James in the direction of the Prefect lounge. "But I don't want to go!" he protested while jumping up and down in a toddler like manner.
"But I thought you'd want to see Lily."
James' expression suddenly became sullen and he stopped the little bit of walking he was doing all together. Remus knew that he had to say the name sometime because the marauders had avoided saying it all week. In his opinion the sooner the better. "Mooney, I'm not taking another step."
"Then you leave me no choice," Remus took out his wand and flipped it at James, who was suddenly floating in mid-air.
And that's how they entered the meeting room. James first, floating while sitting crossed legged, scowling, and looking very much like Peeves. Remus second who lowered his wand upon entry, allowing James to return to his feet. The group of people already gathered inside sniggered but abruptly stopped at a glare from James.
Sitting in the Head Boy seat next to Lily, James offered a weak smile. Lily ignored it and instead addressed the people in front of her. "Ok everybody, welcome to the first prefect meeting this year. I'm Lily Evans, this years Head Girl, and this," she added with a gesture to the guy who was slumped next to her, "is James Potter, Head Boy."
There was a small applause for James' name from all the houses except for Slytherin. The female Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw prefects, Laura Ashway and Elizabeth Nelson, were just downright staring at him. James noticed and flashed a cocky smile.
Noticing that soon there would be a topic totally not on subject arising soon, Lily started the one on Hogsmeade. "Well not that that's done, why don't we start picking dates for the first Hogsmeade visit?"
A few students raised their hands and the meeting was soon well under way. By the time it ended it was already 10:15 and they had set the date to be October 15. Just as Lily was about to bring the meeting to a close, the Slytherin prefect Josh Hoit brought up another topic. "What about the formal?"
"Well, seeing as that topic is for me and Potter to discuss, you don't have to worry about it," Lily said with fake cheerfulness. She really wanted to get this meeting over with so she could get through the next one as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, Josh had brought up a murmur on the topic and Laura asked the next question. "Are students under their 7th year going to be able to go?"
Lily's patience was already short with this girl because that judging by the way she was staring at James, was the only reason she wanted to know. Chelsea and Remus were the only 7th year prefects and the other students were already chatting happily about the prospect.
"I don't know Laura, we were going to discuss that after this meeting, which has now ended. Thank you for coming," Lily replied wearing a fake smile.
"But…" Laura started but was quickly cut off by James.
"No buts. Good night," he said before shooing everyone out. Remus gave him a reassuring smile before he turned around to find Lily collapsed back into her chair, sitting over some papers. James inwardly smiled. She had a few strands of red hair escaping her ponytail that nicely framed her face as she bent over.
"I like your hair cut," he weakly attempted to start since they hadn't said a word to each other all night. Everything about her made James weak.
Lily just nodded and said, "Thank god that's over. Now lets just get through this asap because I still have a lot more work to do."
Noticing her deliberate change of topic, James decided to go with it. He ruffled his hair nervously before starting. "Ok, well we have to discuss the formal. What date do you think it should be?"
"How about January 9th? That way students will have something to look forward to after Christmas holiday and if we want to plan another regular dance, it's not too late in the year. I also think that only 7th years should be able to go, unless asked."
"Sounds good to me. Since you've got that planned out, why don't I plan the schedules for patrolling the hallway?" James asked hopefully. He thought that if he could plan them, he could stick himself with Lily the whole time.
Lily had already caught onto his plan though. "I don't think so Potter."
Though slightly set back, James wasn't giving in. "Aww common Lily, You said yourself that you have a lot of work to do and I'm just trying to do my share of duties."
Sighing, Lily caved. "Fine." Just as James was about to let out a whoop she added, "But you have to put each person with every other person at least once."
"Thanks love," James said before realizing that he shouldn't have. Lily flinched at the term love and was now intently reading over her Transfiguration essay. "Sorry Lily," James apologized his heart dropping.
Pretending like nothing ever happened, Lily glanced up at him for a moment before returning to her work. "For what?"
This was going to get on James' nerves, he could tell already. "You can't pretend that it didn't happen," he gently said taking a step to her.
"I can and I will."
Furious now, James left without even giving a reply. He decided to head straight to the Astronomy Tower where he could think some things over.
Lily's POVLily walked into the Gryffindor common room at 11 o'clock; half an hour after her meeting with James ended and was greeted by 3 Marauders, Dacota, and Chel.
"Wow your meeting ran late. Did you and James get a little distracted?" Dacota joked.
Appalled and slightly confused Lily said, "We definitely did NOT get distracted, and James left the room half an hour ago. I stayed behind to do some extra work."
Sirius, who was sitting on the couch with his arm wrapped around Dacota said, "I'm sure he'll be fine."
At that moment James walked in. "Hey everyone. What are you all doing up?"
"We were all waiting for you to come back," Peter smartly answered.
Getting a hopeful look on his face, James turned to Lily. "You too?"
She scoffed and replied, "I just got back, don't get false hopes. Besides, what were you doing wandering around after hours?"
"I'm Head Boy. I can stay out as late as I want," James said arrogantly.
Turning on her heel, Lily walked up the girls' staircase to her four-poster bed. She couldn't bear to be in the same room as James after he had beaten her at a row.
James looked back to his friends sitting in the common room, whom were all waiting for him to make the first move. "How has your guys' night been?"
The group chatted for a while just enjoying being back at school with their friends. They finally decided to go to bed around 12:30.
Time Passage"Wake up Prongs!" Sirius yelled from across the dormitory. "Just because you don't have Evans eating out of the palm of your hand doesn't mean you can skip classes."
James groggily opened his eyes to see light streaming in through the window. He groaned and pulled the pillow over his head trying desperately to keep the light out. "Huh?"
He suddenly felt himself being rolled off the bed and landed with a loud smack on the ground. "We have 8 minutes of breakfast left and then Herbology with Slytherins. I suggest you get a move on," Remus replied before he raced down the staircase.
Jumping off the ground, James scrambled across the room grabbing his robes and ruffling his hair with his free hand. Making it down to the Great Hall in record timing, he had just enough time o grab some toast and bacon before running toward the green houses and starting another day. Only the sight that greeted him was enough to make his blood boil.
End of ChapterAlright there's another chapter..i know it's been forever since I've updated here, but I'll be honest..i got lazy..thanks for reading, and I wouldn't mind if you clicked that little go button at the bottom of the page to leave a review :) as of now I don't know how to insert breaks so I'm sorry, but my fic will be a little old school for a while
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