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Chapter 4 : Can't help falling in love with you..

The rosy colored sky shawn as the sun slowly got up. Lily grabbed a pillow and covered it over her face; trying to block the sun's morning glory.

She moaned as her sheets got ripped off her " HEY!"

Ash grinned, " Come on sleeping beauty wake up!"

Lily groaned and curled her knees to her stomach and tried to get comfortable, but Ash kept poking her.

"Lee mee alone" she whined.

"Nope!"

Lily swatted away her hand but gave up and screamed," grouch" Ash complained and threw a pillow at her.

" Ohhh you are SO going to get it Miss Taylor!" Lily said getting off the bed.

"Oh and what is miss attitude going to do? Bite me!" Ash screamed and ran down the steps with Lily chasing after her into the common room.

They fell down on the couches and began to laugh when they felt gazes on them. James and Sirius were looking at them with grins plastered on their faces; Lily got up and sweetly smiled at them.

" Like what you see huh James?"

He nodded.

"To bad, can't have it" She said and ran her fingers down her left arm and left him in a puddle of desire.

Lily climbed into bed again, and fell asleep for fifteen minutes when her alarm went off.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP!" She put her pillow over her head and tried to ignore it but it was just getting louder. She screamed and ripped off her covers and threw the alarm against the wall, which kept going even louder. She fumed and gave it a death stare, which didn't REALLY help at all.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP!"

She yelled and ran over to the 'broken' alarm clock and opened the door and chucked it down stairs. That didn't work either; it just made Remus cover his ears on the couch, while talking to James and Sirius.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP!"

She screamed even louder and ran down the stairs and threw it in a fish tank. The boys gave her raised eyebrows; Remus looked up from his book walked over to the tank, grabbed the alarm, which was still beeping madly and pushed the 'off' button.

Lily screamed and ran up the stairs flaring with anger as Remus, James and Sirius laughed.

She curled up again in her comfy bed, but it was useless she was up for the day. She groaned and walked over to the showers.

She checked her bag for shampoo; but none, she groaned and started digging in Ashley's trunk. A letter with blue ink fell to the floor and Lily raised an eyebrow.

She picked it up "What's this?"

She turned it over to its front.. .... To Lily Evans~(heart) ....

" Hmmmm.. This must be that letter James wrote to me" She read and chucked it into the girls' bedroom fireplace, which crackled at the letter.

She turned her head when golden letters came twirling out of the fireplace and neatly placed each other in the air as Lily stood in shock and read his floating letter..

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' Dear Lily, I know you dislike me with every inch in your body; beautiful body I must say. So I decided to put an "affect charm" on the letter so even if you burn or flushed this down Moaning Myrtles toilet, you will still know what I wrote in this letter. I just want you to give me a quick second of your time, so you can finally hear me out once and for all. Lily I think-'

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The golden letters vanished as Ashley opened the door, " Are you going to-"

"Damit Ashley, I was going to finally find out what James is trying to do to me. It's either killing me in madness or stupidity or something in that blasted letter! You know the affect charm wears off, when someone reads the letter not addressed to them!"

Ashley smiled and leaned against the door " What does it matter to you? You loathe him, remember?"

"Just curious" I said calmly.

"Curiosity killed the cat"

Lily put her hands on her hips, " And satisfaction brought it back"

She grinned "Yeah sure"

I rolled my eyes and made my way back over to her trunk. " This is going to be one long year.."

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Lily sat down at a table next to Coral who has eating her food at top speed. She gave a curious look, shrugged it off and began to pour pumpkin juice in her glass.

A girl with ginger colored hair and bright blue shinny eyes, from Ravenclaw walked up to Lily and tapped her shoulder.

Lily spun around," May I help you? Miss?"

"Ginger, it's Ginger. And I thought I should warn you.(the girl leaned closer to Lily) You have no idea what trouble you'll have, if you get to know him"

Lily stared at her, " What? What do you mean HIM?"

"James" The girl said in a snobbish fashion.

Lily raised her eyebrow," I really don't know what you're talking about, and if you want James go ahead, am not going to stop you. He bugs me to hell and I say I quite like it there now"

The girl glared and returned to her table. Lily thought about that for a second, why did that Ginger girl even say something like that? LIKE she, Lily Evans was ever going to fall for James Potter, HA! Lily grinned and returned to her food.

( *~ James point of view)

James sat down at the Gryffindor table and watched a girl walk over to Lily. He looked at the girl; she seemed oddly familiar. He shrugged it off and began to chat to Sirius when the mail came in.

Sirius grinned and watched a fuzzy brown owl fly over to the Slytherin table," Ah nothing like a good howler for our dear friend"

James grinned too and watched the tiny owl drop the letter, he felt a gaze upon him. He turned to see Lily glaring at him. She got up form the table and made her way over to Snape as he sat there.

She smiled sweetly at the Slytherins who muttered stuff like " Filthy mudblood" and " What does her blood kind want over here?" she walked over to Snape and tapped his shoulder.

He turned around and glared at her " WHAT DO YOU WANT?" He sneered. In the corner of her eye she seen James stand up, and he had his wand tightly clenched in his hand. His friends pushed him down and watched Lily too, with the rest of the great hall.

" You probably don't want that- (she pointed to the howler from James and Sirius) so I will gladly rip it for you" She smirked.

"No, go away, I just had a shower and I don't need any substances of a dirty mudblood on me", and he turned around.

The howler exploded," WASH YOUR HAIR! FIX YOUR ROBES! HOW DARE YOU APPEAR HERE WITHOUT WASHING YOUR HAIR! EWWWWWWW!-" Lily ran over to James and smacked his head from behind. He grinned and ruffled his hair as she stormed out of the hall.

"Ohhh, she's really head over heels for you now" Remus smirked.

James grinned and watched her retreat, "Sure is" They laughed.

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Lily ignored him like always, and the days turned to weeks then to months, and before she knew it December was here.

She sat in the Common room in a chair curled up, as the fire crackled and burned. That letter stored itself in her mind for a long time. She tried asking James but he just kept asking her out again and again, so she gave up. Stupid little twit, she thought.

Her eyes gleamed and shined as the fire's image reflexed on them. Her hair was in a lose bun and she had a few hair strands hanging in front. She wore her school skirt and a gray knitted sweater, which was really fuzzy and kept her warm.

The common room was quiet because almost everyone left to go home for Christmas, except the marauders. She groaned when she saw their name on the list. So here sat lonely Lily Evans staring into the fire with her friends all gone home. She sighed, it had only been a day when they left and she missed them already.

There was a sudden blow at the Gryffindor window. She walked over to it and opened the window, when a snowball hit her cheek, which stung. She almost broke into tears when she seen the three Marauders looking up at her.

" Lily, you alright?" Remus said while dropping a snowball.

She shook her head and slammed the window behind her and clasped on the floor; what a rotten week, She sobbed. When James came running into the common room, his scarf around his neck and hints of red pinched on his cheeks and nose from the cold.

He sat down beside the sobbing Lily and tried to calm her, when Remus and Sirius came in laughing. James turned his head and exposed the tear stained Lily and gave them a death stare and picked Lily up in his arms. She tried not to cry, as the horribly shocked Remus and Sirius watched James carry her.

Remus elbowed him and ran after James, who was bringing Lily to the hospital wing. " What do you think you were doing?!" James sneered at Sirius.

"I didn't mean to-!"

"Yes you did! Now look at her! You've given her a bloody bruise for Christmas! She doesn't deserve to be treated that way!" and with that, James ran faster to the wing with a broken Lily in his arms.

He gently laid her down on the bed as the nurse came bustling in, " What happened here?"

"She got an ice snowball thrown at her," he answered while he gently caressed her bruised cheek.

She shivered by his touch and opened her watery eyes. He looked so worried about her; his hands were frozen so she laced his with her clammy one. He looked at their hands and let a weak smile play upon his lips.

" Well it's not too much damage but I shall return with an lee potion, please keep an eye on her James dear" She smiled at him and left the hospital wing.

"I never thought I'd be saying this to you one day, but.. Thank you James" she smiled.

He smiled back at her, " No need, don't worry am going to kill Sirius at what he did to your beautiful face"

Lily scowled, " never do change", while he laughed.

James stopped laughing and looked deep into her eyes, she too stopped her emotions. He stared at her was if no tomorrow, as the nurse came in and smiled at the cute couple. She really didn't want to end their moment- " Here's your lee potion Lily, drink up" She handed Lily a purple bottle and she drank it down.

Lily felt warmth spread between her toes and up to her fingers as the bruise began to fade. James smiled and gave her his hand to get sit up; she gave him a raised eyebrow " Just because you helped me, doesn't mean I'll ever forget to not give you a chance"

He just grinned, " Alright, till then Lily" and kissed her cheek.

Lily fumed and glared at his back, while he smiled and left her in the hospital wing.

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Later that same week the marauders became closer to Lily. James still asked her out and to be his date to the winter ball. Ok course she declined until..

Lily smiled as she packed some snow into a ball, she grinned even wider and hit it at James back. She laughed when he fell into the snow, she screamed and ran for her life as he came after her.

She laughed as he pinned her down on a snow bank, and sat lightly on her waist, while she giggled and struggled.

"Holler Uncle" he grinned down at her.

"Nope" she said, struggling, but she was powerless against him.

Sirius came up to them while wrapping his cloak closer around him, watching James squash the heck out of Lily.

He grinned down at them, " I'll leave you too alone for a while, so you'll get to know each other better" And he walked away laughing.

"HEY! Sirius! Remus! ANYONE! HELP!" Lily giggled and laughed as James kept his best grin on, and tickled her with one hand.

"Oh no Lily, no one seems to care" He smiled.

Lily smiled back at him. She had gotten to know James better and she was starting to trust him more. He still asked her out tons and stuff and she still got mad. But she accepted him as a friend. He WAS Neana's brother too, so she had to get use to him one way or another..

"James, come on" She laughed.

"Nope" he grinned back.

"I'll do anything, just please off!" She laughed harder as he tickled her again.

"Really? Anything huh?" he grinned.

"Well not anything" she grinned back.

" Will you be my date for the ball?" he said while putting on a serious face.

Lily thought for a second, maybe she should give him a chance? He had asked her forever! Maybe, yeah just because he annoys her too much.

"I gue-"

"REALLY!" He jumped up.

Lily laughed and got up off the snow bank " Sure, but just don't make me regret giving you a chance. Got it?"

He hugged her tight and ran off doing back flips and cartwheels in the snow while she just laughed.

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