Devoted

Chapter 6

Lily's nerves were on edge. She was definitely kind of, sort of liking James a little bit more than a girl with a boyfriend should. Her way of solving this was to avoid him at all costs.

She carefully turned a corner, scanning the crowd in front of her.

"Agh!" Lily let out a muffled scream as she saw him at the end of the hall. She quickly turned around the corner and crouched behind a suit of armor, ignoring the strange looks she was getting.

"Um, Lilybird?" A voice whispered into her ear. "Who are you hiding from?"

Lily fell backwards and crashed into the armor stirring up a lot of noise and dust.

Sirius had jumped away and was now staring at her with the rest of the students.

She blushed crimson, as redheads have a tendency to do, and chuckled nervously. "Hiding? Me? Why would you think such a thing? Let's go to class." She stood up and grabbed Sirius's hand, dragging him down the corridor.

"Lilybird...why were you hiding behind the armor then?"

Her ivory skin flushed again. "No reason, just looking for something," she answered evasively, pushing in the door to their potions class.

As they sat down in their respective seats, Professor Tatory entered the classroom. She was a strict, yet fair teacher that was respected by students and teachers alike.

"Today we will be working on the levitation potion. This brew is very complex and unlike its counterpart charm Wigardium Leviosa, it has a much higher range. I will allow you to choose partners if you wish. There is an odd number of you so one group will have to be made up of three people. You have one hour; directions are at the front of the classroom."

Lily and Sirius paired up and Colleen, Remus, and James decided to be the group of three.

Lily and Sirius began concocting their potion immediately. Sirius added the ingredients while Lily read the directions to him.

"Ok, you've stirred it counter-clockwise seven times so you can add the billywig wing now."

"Yes my beautiful Lilybird!" He replied, smiling cheekily at her. Unfortunately, this somewhat revolting display of affection caused Sirius to throw in the slivers of bicorn root instead, which in turn caused the potion to blow up, completely covering him.

Dozens of tiny blue welts began to appear all over Sirius and he seemed unable to talk.

"Mr. Black, please see yourself to the nurse's office!" Tatory shouted over the murmurings of the class. "One of you in the group of three, pair up with Miss Evans. Back to work everyone, you have forty-five minutes left."

Colleen smiled and got up to help Lily but Remus pulled her back. "Hey, why don't you let James go over there?"

Both James and Colleen looked at him as though he was mad, but reluctantly the latter sat down.

James walked over to Lily nervously; her back was to him. He had been dreaming of their kiss lately. Well, actually they were doing more than kissing, but he wasn't going to start thinking about that...

"Um...Lily..." He muttered, his voice cracking slightly.

She jumped and fell backwards. "What are you doing over here?"

"Well, being your partner, I guess."

Lily blushed prettily. "Oh, yeah, that's fine." She began preparing the ingredients again.

"Lils, are we ever going to talk about what happened? It kind of meant something to me and I think it did for you too."

She squeezed her eyes shut, creating red, swirling dots. "No, we're not going to talk about it, I don't know what I thought about it except that it freaked me out, and don't call me Lils...its what my sister calls...used to call me."

James sighed, "I wasn't kidding when I said I liked you." He whispered.

Lily opened her magnificent green eyes. "What the hell is your problem, James? I am going out with your best friend. Your best fucking friend! And maybe I did enjoy kissing you and maybe it did mean something to me but, argh, I just don't get you."

"So, you liked it!" James gave her a wide smile.

"Oh my gosh!" Lily threw her hands into the air. "This is exactly what I mean!"

"Your potions should be completely brewed by now. Please encase a sample and bring it to my desk for grading." Professor Tatory announced.

Lily looked at her empty cauldron. "And now you've talked away the entire class period. Thanks to you I'm going to be getting a zero today. A zero...I don't get zeros."

"You do today. Come on; let's go up to your dormitory Lily. I really think we should talk about this some more."

Lily looked horrified. "Are you kidding? We still have another class before dinner."

James grabbed her hand. "Why don't you live a little?" He whispered before pulling her out of the class and into the hallway. "You lead the way; I have no idea where it is."

"Fine, but you owe me, Potter." Lily took off at a brisk walk towards her beautiful chambers. James was having a difficult time keeping up.

After a very quick five minute walk, they arrived at the Head Tower.

"So talk, James. You're the one who wanted to come up here and discuss this matter."

He shrugged. "Eh, I didn't want to talk anymore. I just wanted to do this." He pulled her petite frame towards him and kissed her. James could feel her almost melting into the embrace and when he deepened the kiss Lily didn't object. In fact, she snaked her arms around his neck and started kissing him back.

Still locked at the lips, they stumbled over to the cushy sofa, falling onto it.

"I don't know why I'm doing this," Lily murmured huskily. Her lips were slightly swollen and her eyes were a much deeper, more passionate green than ever before.

She drew towards James placing soft, tentative kisses on his lower lip before intensifying things again.

James could hardly believe what was happening. Lily was kissing him without pulling away or objecting. She was actually initiating some of it. He reached over and began to tug at the buttons on her blouse.

Suddenly she pulled away, grabbing his hand. "James, no. I...I...can't. This is going too far. You should probably leave." Lily ran her hand through her mussed spitfire hair.

He nodded and sighed. "You're right. You're always right."

"Oh, so Mr. I'm-so-perfect-and-smart Potter can admit when he is wrong!" Lily laughed, crossing her arms.

James pulled his face into a sad puppy dog look, complete with sorrowful brown eyes. "You know you love me."

Lily drove him towards the exit. "Just a little bit, but don't push your luck! I'll see you later." She gave him a small kiss on his bottom lip before opening the door and letting him out.

She turned around with a small smile. On the other side of the doorway, Lily heard James say, "Hey, you love me a little!"

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Nudge, nudge! A little bit of Lily and James action for those of you who were begging...silly, silly. But don't think that just because they like to kiss each other that I'm going to make it that easy. It's going to take a little while, but in the meantime, new loves will be found, hearts will be broken, backs will be stabbed, and James and Lily will kiss. Until then!

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