A/N: Okay sorry it took me so long to update but I went to Oregon and then I was busy with school. Anyway, just a fair warning, I don't think this chapters going to be the greatest. Really sorry and thanks for all the great reviews!
Lily walked around the girl's dormitory picking up the clothes that were strewn everywhere. She happily hummed to herself a merry little tune. Her roommates were looking at her as if she were crazy.
"Is everything okay Lils?" Chloe asked looking skeptically at Holly.
"Yeah, of course," Lily said with a huge smile, "Why?"
"You seem—happy," Holly said slowly.
"Is that a bad thing?" Lily asked confused.
"It's just," Chloe thought for a moment, "Usually you're yelling at us for not picking up our stuff and stupid stuff like that, and now, you're picking up our stuff and you're—humming."
"I guess I'm in a really great mood," Lily said blushing slightly.
"This doesn't have to do with Potter?" Holly said sniggering, "Did you ask him?"
"No, it's not all about him," Lily said stubbornly.
"Did you ask him?" Holly asked again.
"Ask him what?" Chloe said confused.
"To the ball," Lily said picking up another shirt, "Is this mine or Miera's?"
Chloe shrugged, "Yours now, she's practically moved into Dean's dorm."
"Lils," Holly demanded, "Did you ask him?"
"Oh for crying out loud Holly, yes I asked him!" Lily annoyed.
"You did?" Chloe said incredulously, "What about Amos?"
"Who cares about Amos," Holly said excitedly, "That's where you were until midnight last night, isn't it? You were with Potter!"
"Yeah but—"
"You snogged Potter until midnight!" Holly was almost yelling with anticipation.
"Of course I didn't, you're acting like Sirius, we were on patrol! Really Holly, if I ever snog Potter I will kill myself," Lily muttered.
"Oh maybe he'll kill himself over your dead body just like in Romeo and Juliet," Chloe said sighing.
"You're not helping me," Lily glared at Chloe.
There was a great whoop of joy and mirthless laughter from a room in the boy's dormitories. It was unmistakably Sirius and from the sounds of if, he'd thought James and Lily were snogging also.
"Potter's just told the guys that you two were snogging!" Holly smirked.
"WE WERE ON PATROL!" Lily and James' voices yelled in unison from two different rooms.
"Lily's just making excuses because Amos couldn't shut his trap long enough for them to get any snogging in," Holly said victoriously.
Suprisingly, Lily only laughed. She had to admit; her and Amos' relationship had never been very physical. 'Wasn't really all that much at all,' she told herself, 'Not romantic, not physical, not interesting—' she told herself to shut up.
"So what is with you and James?" Chloe asked Lily ignoring Holly's protests.
"Well, I guess my good friend Holly, here, tried to trick me into asking James—"
"It worked didn't it?" Holly pointed out.
"Not exactly," Lily confessed, "I told James that Holly was forcing me to ask him and he said no."
"He said no?" Holly said confused, "Then why were you guys snogging all night?"
Lily glowered Holly only for a moment before continuing, "Then James explained that he didn't want to go with me if I was going to be so rude about it and he told me that Holly and Sirius set us up," Holly looked only momentarily sheepish, "I decided to come up here and teach Holly a lesson, but James stopped me. He asked me if I wanted to go to the ball with him for real, not because Holly said to. And I got caught up in the moment and I said yes, but we're only going as friends."
"Yeah, but why were you out until midnight?" Holly asked Lily.
"I had patrol and we caught four people out of bed for a duel," Lily said bitterly, "We waited until everything was clear before we went to bed."
"Some story," Holly muttered.
"Drop it Holly," Chloe remarked, "James is so adorable isn't he? Asking if you wanted to go to the ball with him for real, wish Remus would ask me."
"He didn't ask you?" Lily asked confused, "You guys are so in love with each other."
"Well he asked me," Chloe said dejectedly, "It's just nothing real big happened."
"What did you expect, fireworks?" Holly snorted.
Chloe glared at her friend, but thankfully Lily said, "If we don't hurry, we're going to be late for charms."
"Oh great," Holly said laughing, "I can ask Potter about his version of last nights snogging episode."
"Sirius is really starting to rub off on you," Lily said exasperatedly, "And I don't mean that in a good way."
Charms was a complete fiasco. Flitwick wasn't feeling quite up to snuff, so he gave his NEWTS class time to review the charms they'd learned in their earlier years at Hogwarts. However, hardly anyone in the room was really doing any practice and Flitwick was either too sick to notice or he didn't care.
"James darling," Sirius said in a strained voice, "I really don't see why you won't dress up with us as the characters from Sesame Street. I mean, Holly and I thought it was a great idea."
"I did not," Holly protested as James gave her a sympathetic look.
"I was thinking I could be Elmo," Sirius plowed on, "And you could be Big Bird or something. Holly wants to be Kermit the frog so Lily can be—"
"Kermit the frog isn't on Sesame Street," Lily said dully, "That's the Muppets."
"You and James could be Burt and Ernie," Remus remarked getting daggers from James.
"If I have to be anyone on Sesame Street it's going to be Oscar the Grouch," Holly muttered as Sirius' face fell.
"Here's an idea," James said thoughtfully, "Why don't we dress up as Snape and Company…"
"I don't think I could make myself so ugly," Sirius said after a moment of consideration.
"I think you could probably manage it somehow," Chloe said grinning.
Sirius ignored her and everyone's laughter, "Holly and I could dress as a Hippogriff."
Holly tried very hard not to roll her eyes, "All you ever think about is quidditch, pranks, muggles, and magical creatures."
"What's wrong with that?" Sirius said looking hurt, "I lead a simple life, and therefore I think simple things."
"More like you can't function well enough to think of anything else," Lily said teasingly, although there was truth in it. Sirius, being extremely bright and handsome, could do any sort of magic or athletic contest, but when it came to pure common sense, he was lost.
"Yeah well," Sirius retorted, "Who's the top person in the class."
"It's not you," James pointed out.
"Right, that's exactly what I was saying," Sirius said lamely.
"To get back on subject," Remus cut in, "Chloe and I were thinking of going to the Ball as Minnie and Mickey Mouse, you know, those muggle cartoons we learned about in Muggle Studies."
"How original," Sirius replied.
"You haven't got any better ideas," James remarked.
"Well, I was just thinking Sirius," Holly said grabbing Sirius' hand, "Why don't we be Han Solo and Princess Leah off of Star Wars? Remember that movie you loved last year?"
"Yeah, that's great!" Sirius said excitedly, "And lots of people at school have seen it because they showed it during class that one time."
"They did not show it during class," Lily butted in, "You guys bewitched it to play in all of the classrooms and we had to watch it."
"She's right mate," James said laughing.
"Well, it's hard to keep track of all my brilliant ideas," Sirius said supplying Lily with a smile.
"I can only imagine," Chloe said gazing at Sirius with a look of suppressed laughter.
James turned to Lily, "Do you have any ideas on what we're going to be?"
"How about Head Boy and Girl?" Sirius grinned at James.
"How about I hex you until you can't see straight," James said not returning Sirius' grin.
"Blimey, don't get in a fret," Sirius said grinning even broader, "Maybe you should go as Oscar the Grouch and Lily can be your trashcan."
Thankfully the bell rang before James could reply or Sirius could suggest any more absurd ideas. The group therefore departed; Sirius and Holly to Muggle Studies, Chloe and Lily to Herbology, James and Remus to Astronomy, and Peter off to Divination.
"Hey Moony?" James asked him that night in the common room, "What should Lily and I be for the ball?"
"I don't know," Remus said thoughtfully, "How about one of those characters from your Greek Mythology? Lily is practically in love with "The Odyssey" and you've been reading that stuff for years—"
"Lily likes "The Odyssey?"" James asked quickly.
"Yeah, she told me that she's read it almost a million times. I reckon that's exaggerating a bit though," Remus joked.
"Yeah," James said not really listening to Remus anymore, "That's a good idea…"
"What's a good idea?" Sirius asked bounding up to them.
"Throwing you out the window," James muttered.
"James and Lily dressing up as Odysseus and Penelope or something for the ball," Remus said drowning out James' comment.
"Er—Who?"
"Greek Mythology," James explained.
"Fascinating," Sirius said clearly not understanding a word of it, "Anyway, I was just wondering if you could give us another day off in quidditch, sugar-pie?"
"You've got tonight off," James said exasperatedly, "And Sunday too."
"Well, I know, but I'm not getting enough time in with my guitar," Sirius said, his face flushing slightly.
"Are you playing for the ball?" James asked.
"Yeah, I thought I might," Sirius said shrugging, "If it's okay."
"It'll be great!" James said grinning, "But we're still having quidditch practice and didn't I tell you only to call me sugar-pie in the dormitory? Could you please restrain yourself from doing in public?"
"Will do, Sweet Cheeks," Sirius said with a mock salute, "Anyway, I'm off to practice guitar, later mates."
"Why do I get the feeling that he's not going to practice?" James asked Remus.
"Probably because he's sitting and helping Holly," Remus replied watching Sirius sit with his girlfriend.
James looked at Remus for a moment, "Never heard of sarcasm then, eh?" Remus only nudged James and pointed Lily out among the crowd. James nodded, "Right then, I'll be back in a bit. Oy, Lily!"
"Yes, Potter?" Lily said looking up from her homework.
"I've got an idea for the ball, like a costume idea," James said taking a seat next to her. When she didn't say anything he plowed on, "Odysseus and Penelope from the Odyssey."
"That works," Lily said writing furiously on her parchment.
James looked taken aback, admittingly, he knew Lily wasn't too happy about going with him, but he expected her to say at least something, "Okay, er, great. Well, do you want to work together on them or buy them…?"
"I don't know," Lily said still writing, "Whatever is fine with me."
"Alright," James said peering down at her paper and walking away. Lily watched his retreating back until he turned back to her, "Hey Evans," Lily looked up at him in her best 'don't talk to me' face, "Glichupo is to change an animal into furniture, not evassco, that's an appearing spell."
She smiled at him, "Thanks Potter, and by the way, I like your costume idea. It sounds really cool so maybe we could look through some shops in Hogsmeade on Saturday together?"
James grinned one of those smiles that charmed anyone and everyone, "Passing on spending time with you Evans? I wouldn't dream of it." Lily grinned and rolled her eyes at the same time.
A/N: Hoped you liked it…I know it's kinda boring but I'm really sorry…anyway I promise better next time.
