The New Girl
Chapter 9
(A.N: I am SOOO SORRY! I've been so busy with homework, and my competition I'm having next month I'm going to try and make this the longest chapter yet or make two or three chapters in two days or less! Please forgive me!)
James woke up, feeling very uncomfortable.
He sat up and remembered he had fallen asleep next to Lily's bed last night after she had had that nightmare.
He looked up and saw Lily already awake and smiling at him.
"Hey Lil," he said.
"How are you feeling?"
Lily smiled at him.
"Much better thank you."
They were quiet for a few minutes before Lily decided to break the silence.
"Umm, James,"
She paused, and he looked at her.
"Is there something wrong?" he asked.
Lily shook her head.
"No, it's just I, uh, wanted to thank you for what you did last night. You know, staying by my side all night."
She said quietly looking at her hands, which she realized was still being held my James.
James seeing this as well quickly removed his hand and turned crimson.
"Uh, it was no problem Lily. We were all worried about you, when you had stumbled into the common room with all those injuries. What happened?" he asked worriedly.
Lily hesitated.
ShouldI tell him?
He looked at her with a frown.
"Lily you know you can tell me anything right?"
Lily nodded and was about to say something when the others burst into the room and began bombarding her with questions.
Well that was until Mme Pomfrey kicked them all out and told them Lily needed rest and would be out the next day.
After the group, (minus Lily) had gone back to the common room, everyone turned to James with smirks on their faces.
"What?" James asked nervously.
Sirius' smirk grew.
"Don't 'what' us like that James, you know just as well as any of us why we're giving you this look."
They others nodded in agreement.
"Yeah," said Emily, "We can see it, you've got it bad!"
James looked at them for a moment and then it hit him what they were saying.
"No way! Lily's my friend!"
But as soon as he said that, he new he was lying not only his friends but also to himself.
"Ok, so maybe I do, but-"
"But nothing James," said Remus, cutting him off.
"The only your going to find out if she likes you back is if you ask her to the Halloween Ball next week."
'Remus must read minds.'
Thought James.
It had taken a lot of persuasion, but in the end James had agreed to ask Lily to the ball when she got out of the hospital wing the next day.
Lily returned to the group the next day just after lunch and James was a nervous wreck.
He had been practicing how he would ask Lily to the ball, but when the rest of the group had made excuses to leave and that left Lily and James alone.
Jameshad forgottenwhat he was going to say.
And surprisingly, it was Lily who brought up the subject.
You see Lily had been thinking about how she was going to find out if James liked her back or not.
So Lily being Lily, figured that she could ask him to the Halloween Ball.
So she saw the perfect opportunity when the others left and popped the question.
"So James, do you have a date for the Halloween Ball?" she said casually.
James shook his head, too nervous to talk.
"Oh, well I was wondering if you would like to maybe go with me?"
Lily asked suddenly really nervous,
What if he said no?
James smiled.
"I would love to Lily."
James said letting out a breath he didn't realize he was holding.
"Cool."
Said Lily.
There was an awkward silence before they both laughed and went to the Library to finish some last minute homework.
