The Dinner
A/N: I am so sorry. I meant to post this chapter on Saturday, but I was really sick. I still am. I left school early because I was coughing so badly. I feel really horrible about waiting this long, but I hate typing and when I'm that sick it's the last thing I want to do. I'll get to the story since I made you wait so long. I just wanted to apologize.
Disclaimer: okay you know already if you really need this just look back at the other chapters
James's POV
It was dinnertime at my house. My mum had sent me up to get Lily. She had been in her room ever since she'd arrived. I wondered what she had been doing in there. To be honest, when my parents said Lily would be staying here, I had imagined we would hang out together at least a little, but so far I had only seen her for about ten minutes.
I didn't want to intrude on Lily and whatever she was doing, so I just knocked and called through the door it was dinner. I never would understand girls or what they did in their spare time. I had only dated a few girls in the last couple of years. Sirius is the Casanova of our group. I'm more the lovable dork. It doesn't matter to me though because I have been stuck on Lily forever. It wasn't until a couple of months ago that I realized how unfair it was for me to date other girls when I was in love with Lily. It gave them false hope. It was also about the time I realized Lily would never like me if I kept acting the way I did. She hated me because I always acted arrogant. After I realized this I took a good hard look at myself and hated what I saw. I was everything Lily said I was. It disgusted me. I decided to change. I stopped showing off with the Snitch I'd stolen in third year, hexing everyone I saw, and just plain being arrogant. I even stopped asking Lily out. But the one habit I just couldn't break was messing up my hair. I have been doing it as long as I can remember, and that will never change.
By now I had reached downstairs and been sitting in my chair for about a minute. The table was slowly filling up with food. It all looked so delicious. My mum was the greatest cook in the world, and, she will tell you, the way to my heart is defiantly through my stomach. I love food. The only thing or person I love more is Lily. She came down the stairs right at that moment. Man, she was beautiful. My mum instructed her to sit across from me. My father was already at the table and my mother was putting the last plate of food on the table. She sat down and we finally started eating.
It was very quiet at first, but Lily broke the silence by saying, "James, do you remember Frank Longbottom? He was on the quiditch team with you." She had called me James!
"Yeah, of course."
"He's going to be an auror."
"Oh, really? Isn't he dating your friend, Alice?"
"Yes, she was the one who told me about it. I wrote her a letter yesterday explaining why she couldn't stay for the summer. I got her response a little while ago."
I wondered how scathing Lily's letter was. She most certainly described in detail how horrible I was. Although, after a couple of minutes of easy conversation with Lily, I wondered if her letter had been insulting at all. She was being nice to me. Was tempted to ask her why the sudden change, but didn't. When lily wasn't yelling and flinging insults at me, we actually can talk to each other very easily. It felt nice. We talked like that until eventually Lily asked me to pass the mashed potatoes. I picked up the bowl, but stupidly stood up to hand it to her. She probably could have reached it if I'd stayed seated. As I stood up I knocked into the table and fell forward. The mashed potatoes wound up all over her clothes.
"Potter, you did that on purpose!" she yelled. To make matters worse I rushed over and started to help clean the potato off her shirt, which was apparently completely wrong.
"I can do it myself. That just proves you did it on purpose; you just wanted to touch me," she screamed.
"Now, Lily, I'm sure James didn't do it on purpose. I'm sure it was just an accident," my mum, ever the peacemaker, said.
"No, he did it on purpose. I'm going to my room! I don't want to be anywhere near you, Potter!" And with that Lily ran upstairs.
I slumped back down in my seat as mum started clearing Lily's dished away.
My dad whispered to me, "It was an accident, wasn't it, son?"
"Of course, dad. I would never stoop to such an underhanded to touch a girl!" Although, I couldn't say I was being completely honest. I would never do something like that now, but a few months ago, maybe I would have.
Mum finished clearing Lily's things up and sat down just as I realized what I had to do. I ran upstairs and banged on Lily's door.
"Go away!" she shouted through the door.
"I can either tell you this face to face or shout this through the door. Either way I'm saying this."
"Well, then, I hope you lose you voice shouting through the door!"
"Fine. Look, or actually listen, Lily, I didn't mean to spill the mashed potatoes on you. I stood up and tripped. I'm sorry I didn't mean to it was an accident."
Lily finally opened the door. She had obviously changed into her pajamas, since she wore her robe. I didn't notice that right away though because she looked like she might just kill me.
"Apology not accepted, because you are still an arrogant prat who used the situation to feel me up. Now, go away!"
She slammed the door in my face. I stood there for a couple of minutes debating whether to say something or not. There was no noise coming from the other side of the door. I wondered what she was doing in there. Finally, I decided to just give up trying to apologize and went to bed.
A/N: okay I don't really like this chapter. It's kind of confusing. One thing to clarify, I'm basically assigning all the marauders roles within their group. Remus is the goody two shoe, Peter is the tag along, Sirius is the ladies man, and James is the lovable dork. He's basically never had a real girlfriend, just a few flings. Sirius is a womanizer who's dated every girl in school, though. Okay well, there you go.
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Next Chapter: Is Lily warming up to James? Mmmmmmaaayyyybbbbeeeeeee?