A/n: HEY EVERYONE! I finally have found time to concentrate on the story, but that won't last long either. But anyways, I'm at an airport, not the one that we're suppose to be at though, our actual destination, Taipei, that airport is closed down, so we're at another time, wasting time. Luckily I begged my dad to bring the laptop.
Anyways, this time, the story is gonna be a little fast, as in Lily and James' romance. Its not going to zoom right into kisses and all, but it'll happen sooner than I wanted but still, I don't know how much more time I'll have, so I want Lily and James together ASAP!
Lily and James Sixth Year War
Hogsmede Weekend
The next day came sooner than anticipated, well for Remus actually. Lily wasn't that ecstatic about it either since it meant day with James.
Sirius though, was going to enjoy playing matchmaking with Soph and Bella. But unknown to them was that they didn't need to help Lily and James. Maybe a shove here and there for Remus but otherwise, Remus was very capable. Very capable of freaking out and breaking down due to nervous issues. But lily and James, they had their own magic that haven't started to take affect yet.
Girl's Dorm
"Lily, what exactly in heavens name are you wereing! You cant go out like that! especially what you wore last night!" screamed Soph who practically ripped Lilys wool sweater and sweat pants off her.
Lily stared at her best friend, shocked. Then she grinned realizing what she did yesterday, and sighed, giving into Soph.
Bella was in Lily's closet, finding things, throwing things in every which place possible.
"OK! I GET IT! BELLA GET OUTTA MY CLOSET!" screamed Lily. Obviously tired of what her friends were trying to do.
Then Bella's head popped outta Lily's closet.
"EUREKA!" shouted Bella as she held up two pieces of clothing. One was a black dress that was way to short to be called a dress now. it was pure black and had a crisscross back, thin string stretching from the top or the front, to ALMOST the very bottom of the dress. If properly worn as a dress, the back was a extremely deep cut. The other piece of clothing was a pair of jeans, very much like the one Lily had worn yesterday, but this one had no rips or belts and was a perfect fit. Very well, this, outfit, showed off all of Lily's curves.
Lily just stared at the outfit and Bella as if Bella was crazy. "M-m-m-me? In that?" stammered Lily.
Soph and Bella nodded and shoved Lily into the bathroom and threw her clothes in after her.
At first Lily was reluctant to put it on, but later thought, hey, if I'm ever gonna fall head over heels for James the right way, then I at least havta start with this.
Outside of the bathroom, Soph grinned at Bella and high-fived her. "so how did YOU get that outfit out?" she asked, still smiling.
"Oh, nothing. I mean, we weren't taught to transfigure for nothing!" grinned Bella back.
"Great, phase one, sexy Lily of James, completed." Thought Soph out loud.
"yeah, the problem is though, that Black may be staring at her too now." added Bella.
"Who cares I mean he's part of the-" Soph abruptly stopped as Lily stepped out of the bathroom, looking as beautiful as she ever could.
Bella and Soph stared at her too, not knowing that they could've thrown lily such a good outfit. They never were ones of fashion. But if their fashion skills were called upon, they would do it, and make the best out of it, just the way they are with almost everything.
Lily feeling odd under the stare thought it was something with her and started to panic, "What? Omigosh! Is there something wrong with me? I knew this would never work!" wailed Lily.
Both Soph and Bella immediately snapped out of it and shook their heads violently.
"No, lily, nothing of that matter!" responded Soph, reassuring her friend.
"yeah, we were just staring coz you look beautiful. now, onto make up." jumped Bella at the end.
Just like yesterday, lily needed little makeup, but this time, she got off with a creamy peachy color lipstick. Lily thanked her friends and started for the door when Soph shouted after her.
"SHOES LILY! You're not going on a date, or outing," changed Soph quickly knowing that lily didn't like to think of this as a date, " going barefoot are you!"
Lily immediately stopped, "OH MY! I forgot thank you Soph! she flicked her wand and the same pair of shoes she wore last night appeared. Perfect." She murmured.
Bella rushed after her, handing her a small, black leather purse, "you mustn't go their broke, even if James is going to pay for you. Its not polite to do that. and we, or I, packed you a tube of lipstick, a mirror, and, and, and, nothing else! Well that's it! You're all set to go!"
"Thanks guys! Hope you guys also have fun on your trip!" waved Lily.
Both girls smirked at each other.
"Don't worry about us! You have fun!" they cried after her.
Lily walked gracefully down the steps where James and Remus and Sirius were there. James was waiting and the others were there to keep him company.
As Lily stepped down onto the floor, her heels made a click to the floor, drawing the boys attention. Their heads whipped around to see and two jaws dropped, you can guess who. Remus smiled at lily and commented her.
"You look very pretty Lily. Mind turning around for me?" asked Remus.
Lily nodded and walked towards them, then, almost there, stopped, and twirled around, as if she was a model on a runway show. The little spin forced the guys to stare more, other boys in the common room also started to stare. If James could, Remus thought that he'd be drooling, jaw down a hundred feet, and eyes popped out. Sirius would probably be the same.
Remus, slightly amazed that the Lily he knew was like this, but then again, smiled to himself. James was now definitely falling head over heels for lily.
Lily smiled back at Remus and then smirked at Sirius, and grinned at James ( I know, so many facial expressions).
Lily walked over to the boys, and gave Remus a peck on the cheek and Sirius a hug, drawing his attention.
Sirius looked up as Lily hugged him, "uhm, you look very pretty Lily. Prongs is one lucky man." Grinned Sirius.
Lily laughed and moved onto James who saw Lily give Sirius a hug and glared at Sirius, giving him a death look. Then he noticed that Lily was walking towards him and looked up, removing the glare.
Lily sat down on James lap ( I know, a little fast, but I'm at an airport trying to get a chapter done, please just move with it!) and started talking with Remus. Just some stuff about their Prefect jobs and about their bet.
"So Remus. You got three days left to save yourself from humiliation, and my helping, oh, which could backfire by the way!" smirked Lily.
Remus started blushing and decided that it was best to get rid of Lily as soon as possible in order for him to get to work sooner.
"Uhm, yeah. Say, James, shouldn't you and Lily be heading off?" grinned Remus.
James looked up at his friends, he totally forgot about them, too busy staring at Lily's back, and how pale and gentle and smooth it looked.
"huh!" James head jerked up, " Oh yeah. Lily, would you like to go?" asked James, while gently lifting Lily off him and placing her down softly on the floor. And then continued to offer his arm out for Lily.
Lily looked up at James and their eyes met, Lily smiled a sweet smile that made James want to melt and grabbed James hand.
"Let's go." Smiled Lily, enthusiastic as ever.
James grinned at the happiness in her voice and led them out.
Remus and Sirius grinned at the retreating figures as did Soph and Bella who saw everything from the outside of their dorm door.
James and Lily arrived at Hogsmede soon enough.
Little talk happened but if it did, it was immediately silenced by someone laughing at the other, causing the other to crap up with them.
In their last hour to stay at Hogsmede James asked Lily where she wanted to go next.
"Oh I dunno. Any place is fine. How about uhm…the park?" answered Lily.
"sure, right this way miss." Came James voice as Lily started to crack up in laughter again.
"What? You are a miss aren't you?" asked James, playing with Lily. They had arrived at the park since they were practically infront of it when Lily replied, and now they were sitting on the grass.
"Yes, but-" she didn't get to finish as James started to tickle Lily and she was now unable to speak, giggling like a young school girl.
Then, James leaned down, and their eyes met, again. But this time, passion in each ones eyes. Lily leaned up, as the tickling had ceased and James leaned down more and their lips met.
The kiss was long and passionate. James loved it. As did lily. Their tongues fought within each others mouths after Lily had allowed James access into her mouth.
The kiss ended however, much to James dislike, after Lily pulled away, not because she wanted to, but because of loss of breath. After Lily pulled away, both Lily and James were gasping for breath.
"Wow." Gasped Lily, as she put the word between loud breaths.
"Yeah. Lils, your amazing. Did you know that?" asked James.
Lily blushed. And James grinned.
"You know, just because I kissed you doesn't mean you need to flatter me." Smirked Lily.
James backed out, acting like he was surprised, and let out a fake gasp.
Lily laughed again, but this time controlled it.
"Hey uhm, Lils, can I ask you a question?" question James, and Lily thought she could see a little blushing in his cheeks.
"Yeah…"
"I'm not sure, if uhm, that, uh, this, uh question, is, uh, to your, uhm, liking, but, uh, what, I mean, why, did, y-y-you, k-k-kiss me b-b-b-back?" stuttered James, looking down and away from Lily's face, afraid of her reaction.
Lily gave out a small laugh, "Lets see, well, for starters, I do sorta like you. But I like the real you. I mean, the only reason, I, uh, act as if I hate you, is well, when you act like a phony, and be all arrogant. Well, you can be arrogant, but when you go over the extreme."
"Extreme?" asked James, who brightened up at Lily's reply.
" lets put it this way, I don't like it when you keep trying to asked me out non stop and using you and your Marauder tactics. I like being asked out by the real person, deep down inside you heart. And when we left the others, the real you took over, and that's what I like."
"Real me…" thought James outloud.
"Yeah. Your good looking, you make me laugh, your smart, and well, your you. Your pranks, I like too actually, but when you use them to brag. That's when I get annoyed."
"oh. Say uhm lily. PLEASE don't blow up at me, but I really really really do like you, I mean like with me heart like. And uh, I kinda considered this like a predate, you know. And I have a feeling that the others are part of our getting together and-"
"yeah, I know, Sirius, soph, and bella, I bet they also have part in Remus' little love act…and bet winning-" lily covered her mouth and muttered a small 'oops'.
"Bet? Oh well, I'll find out sometime. But, I wanna ask you out, but I'm afraid you'll-"
"Ask me out." Lily said, testing james.
James looked shocked, then happy. " Ok uhmm, Lils, will you go out with me?"
"I guess so." Lily barely had time to finish her sentence when James jumped up and grabbed her into a huge hug.
"James, breath, cant, let go, plz!" gasped Lily.
James let go sheepishly and muttered sorry.
"Haha, its ok. Say, since our friends are behind this, how about, we go back, and act like they failed."
"You mean back to fighting my dear love?" asked James, acting sad, though lily could tell he like it.
"Yes baby, im sorry, but you do know that It'll be fun." Smirked Lily.
"OK, but do we still get to see each other?" asked James.
"Yep. But we cant let anybody else know." Thought Lily.
"How about, at night. You know like late night." Suggested James, thrilled that he was actually gonna be with the love of his life.
"yeah, sure. Well, we better be going off and meeting with our friends. How about we take separate ways. You know, you go in from like the left, and me from the right, and you first, then me or something like that."
"yeah sure. You start back from here, and I'll loop around zonkos. And-and, oh how much I hate this, we wont talk to each other, send glares and, pretend we hate each other."
"yeah. Come here for a second first" commanded Lily.
James walked over to Lily, and too his surprise, Lily leaned in and gave him a kiss, in which he happily returned back.
Finally, it was james that pulled away.
"We havta go Lily. Cant keep our anxious pals waiting!" smirked James.
Lily nodded and left on their separate ways.
James entered into the pub first, trying to look grumpy and angry.
Three heads, you know whos, looked up, and Sirius muttered "Oh no, Lily must be hard, and to think of how happy she sounded when she left…"
Soph and Bella shook their heads.
James sat down with a sound that was like "HMPH!"
The other three decided not to question, knowing that, James could blow up soon, little did they know that James was soo happy, if he could, he'd float.
Soon after Lily walked in. no expression on her face, and walked towards the table. As soon as she saw that the only seat left as next to james, she immediately barked at Sirius and forced him to sit next to james. And then sat down. If it weren't for their act, lily would have loved to sit at that seat.
Sirius, Soph, Bella stared back and forth at the two.
All five sat in silence until Remus walked in.
Lily looked up as Remus pulled a chair over and sat down. Remus looked sad and yet happy.
"SO….how was it?" asked Lily,
"OH, well, she already has a date to the ball, but I have a date with her next week. Its so confusing. But she says she's going to drop that date and let me!" grinned Remus.
Lily looked down. "oh well. Here are the pictures, and uh…your money." Lily handed over the huge stack of pictures and the money.
Remus grinned. 'no more help!"
The others crowded around, trying to see the pictures, but Remus took them and disappeared out the door of the pub.
Bella and Soph stood up, "C'mon guys, we better be going too. Dinners almost starting." With the word dinner out, James nad Sirius dashed out the door.
The two girls turned over to Lily, wanted details, but Lily, although she urged to tell them, decided not too until she asked James.
Then the girls too left the pub and back to Hogwarts.
A/n: AHH! Someone help me! I forgot what the pub was called with Madame Rosemerta. Please email me and tell me!
Thanks!