Never Got Along
By: neen
author note
Please read this before reading the story! The info might help you out a lot…and takes about one minute!
Set in 5th year as you might notice. It's the beginning of Lily's hate for him
My own character: Penelope Walker. She is a Gryffindor, who is also in 5th year and is basically Lily's best friend.
Yes, James has recently asked Lily out before this opening scene (the 1st time as well) and Lily refused him and gave a reason of studies being more important. Then Lily notices his personality and attitude and greatly hates it.
Chapter Six
"Hey, got a minute?" Lily asked hurriedly, in case people were watching her.
"Lily?"
"Yes, Potter, shut up, before I glue your mouth shut for you," Lily glared at him. James shut up. He knew it was the real Lily.
Lily quickly pulled James aside where people weren't looking. James was ecstatic about Lily talking to him. He was determined not to ruin it. 'Stay modest.' His fingers lingered over his hair and then he rapidly pulled them down.
"You know that payback thing?" Lily asked.
James nodded, "Yes. What do you want me to do now?"
Lily took a deep breath, looking slightly revolted as she asked these next few words. "Will you do me a favor and er—well, will you go to the ball with me?"
James's mouth dropped open and his eyes widened until they couldn't anymore. He couldn't believe his ears. After she rejected him, she now asks him? What concept was this?
"Well?" Lily prompted, her cheeks faintly pink.
James resumed back to normal. "Erm, well, I'd love to, but—" James stopped.
"But" was all Lily heard. The word resounded in her head over and over again. So he had a date already. Great.
"So, er, do you know anyone else that might want to take me?" Lily asked half-heartedly. She couldn't believe how stupid she was thinking that the famous heartthrob, James Potter, didn't have a date. Or as she said in her mind, the so-called heartthrob.
"So you really don't want to go with me?" James asked, and Lily could hear the hurt in his voice.
Lily stared at him, completely confused. "What?"
"Well I don't know. I just agreed and you wanted me to tell you if other people wanted you for a date. What do you want?" James asked, somewhat annoyed.
"But you said you had a date already!" Lily said.
"I never said that!" James exclaimed.
"Yes you did! You said—you said, 'but'!" Lily seethed slightly.
"Oh. That's all you heard? I said, 'I'd love to, but are you sure?'" James explained, smiling.
"Oh," Lily said sheepishly, blushing with embarrassment.
Then she snapped back into her old self. "Remember, Potter, this is not a date. Well, we're going as mere 'acquaintances' if anyone bothers to ask. Understand?"
James nodded. "Okay, so I'll meet you about twenty minutes before the ball. See you."
Lily stared after his departing figure, not quite believing that James had acted so coolly. The old Potter would have been so excited, he probably would have knocked his socks off. Had he really changed?
Meanwhile, James Potter was grinning widely in the boys' dormitory. He was almost levitating with happiness.
"I can't believe it!" James grinned.
"What a nutter! What can make you this excited? Didn't Lily reject you a couple days back? We don't have a sudden Quidditch game, do we? Blast those Slytherins!" Sirius said, becoming excited himself.
James slowly shook his head, still grinning madly.
"Blimey…What's the matter with you? Did Snivelly get a month-long detention?" Sirius grinned as he absently rummaged around for his quill to write out a list of supplies they needed to stock up on at Zonko's on their Hogsmeade trip tomorrow.
"The ball," James murmured, still in a blissful trance.
"The snitch, y'mean? Unless you've been sneaking around playing boring Muggle sports without me. You know I can charm them better than you," Sirius cast James a suspicious glance before bending his neck down to add some more items.
"No, no—I meant the ball as in the dance—you know, in two days," James snapped back into reality at the scratching of Sirius's quill.
"Ah, yes! I need some new dress robes for it. But Prongs, what about it? Got thirteen more invitations?" Sirius smirked as he added 'dress robes' to the list.
"Actually fourteen, if you count Lily's," James grinned widely.
"Fourteen—that's about as good as me, I've gotten sixteen today so far. Wait—you just said Lily?" Sirius dropped his quill which landed with a soft flutter to the ground. "You must be JOKING!"
James continued to grin, "Nope, not really. Shocking, eh? I have no idea what got into her. Maybe my charms are finally kicking in!"
Sirius glanced darkly, "I wouldn't get enthusiastic about the date so soon, Prongsie. Lily dear might be, ah, let's see—pulling a trick on you."
James's grin immediately turned upside down. "Why would she?"
Sirius shrugged. "Just a thought. You can never be too careful."
James snorted at Sirius's words. "I can't believe you're giving out advice on caution!"
Sirius pretended to look offended at his words. "What are you talking about, Prongsie? I'm always extremely, painstakingly, awfully careful! Breaking school rules just to go to Hogsmeade for some extra chocolate? Never!" Sirius shuddered at the thought.
"Ha, ha. You should keep taking the drama classes. They're working," James rolled his eyes.
"Seriously? Well, Madam Willylonker did say that I was improving," Sirius trailed off, grinning.
James could not help but think more about Sirius's comments on Lily's sudden change in heart.
"So you reckon she's not really asking me for a date? She wants to make a fool of me or something?" James asked quietly, disappointment slowly sinking in.
Sirius shrugged again, a solemn looking on his face. "I don't know really. I mean, it's simply weird of her to suddenly come up to you asking for a date to the dance! I clearly remember her rejecting you a couple days back. So why would she ask you herself a few days later? It just doesn't really make sense to me."
James frowned. "You have a point there." He sighed. "I don't know if I'm really ever going to get Lily. It's disheartening being so—so boring like this. I can't believe she goes for this type of guy. What's life without pranks?"
"Well, you can tell with Diggory—doesn't have enough brains to fill up a walnut shell. You have to be thicker Prongs! Why didn't you think of that before? She likes stupid people!" Sirius grinned.
"Shut up, Paddy," James growled. "I don't care. At least she's my date. That's better than going without her, right?"
"Depends," was Sirius's only reply, leaving what was left of James's hope to evaporate.
Author's Note:
Sorry for the delay, but I posted up a new story called Ways To Ask Out Miss Lily Evans and this new chapter…enjoy and please be sure to try Ways To Ask Out Miss Lily Evans! Thanks.
Hmm…I wonder what I should make happen at the ball? Any suggestions?
It's interesting...I have bits and pieces of writing and conversation lines in a notebook, but they don't seem to fit together. I get an idea and write it down. Then I get another new idea and I skip a couple of pages and write it down. I've written about six completely different stories before I decided to use 'Never Got Along' as my first fic here. Sigh. I'm trying to find ways to string it all together, but I think I will have to use two or more stories to use them. So, any more story lines to write?
Thanks, you all are the complete best!
Much love,
neen
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