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.
New character: Celeste Provolone (she is half-veela, like Fleur) – she won't wreck Lily and James's relationship, don't worry…
Chapter Twelve
James sighed as he lay down on his bed that night. There still wasn't a reply from his mum from that morning about the whole crazy arranged-marriage thing. He was beginning to get worried about the fact that Celeste Provolone just might be his future wife.
He shook his head. "No, that can't be—I like Lily. She's going to be my wife if I can help it."
"But there's also the tiny fact that Lily still doesn't like you, even after you've gone through all the trouble to deflate your head," his inner voice argued.
James sighed again. He had been looking forward to the Hogsmeade trip tomorrow to get to know Lily more, but it seemed that he would have to spend the day with Celeste, seeing that Lily wouldn't come near him with a ten-foot broomstick, let alone save him from the dreaded girl. After thinking of ways to sneak away from Celeste for a long time, he finally fell asleep.
"Prongsie, wake up! I need you to decide if these navy blue robes or these silver robes suit me. I want to look impressive for that new Celeste girl," Sirius prodded James impatiently in his ribs to get him to wake up.
"S'matter, Paddy? I'll go with—that one," James said, pointing wildly at a wooden post, rather than one of the two dress robes Sirius was holding up.
"Prongs! There's a fire! Help!" Sirius hollered frantically.
"Water it out—you know the charm," James muttered before turning on his bed.
"Our bathroom's flooding! The water…it's about two feet deep, how do you get rid of it?" Sirius asked, trying to think of more things to wake James up.
"I'm sure the answer's in the library, though I'm not quite sure where that is—ask Lily or something," James yawned and readjusted his pillow and slept on.
What he said gave Sirius an idea.
"Damn! Lily is here in the boys' dormitory, Prongsie!" Sirius yelled, in an effort to wake James up.
"Who? Lily?" James's mind suddenly became clearer as he bolted straight up and looked around.
"Where is she?" James asked.
"Sorry, mate, I lied. I was only trying to get you to wake u—MERLIN'S BEARD! Lily!" Sirius was shocked as he saw the redhead walk into the room.
"Sorry, did I wake anyone up?" Lily asked tiredly. She was still in her dressing gown.
"I didn't happen to have accidentally Summon you here by any chance, now did I?" Sirius asked, fidgeting some now.
"Um, no, I don't think so," Lily looked confused. "Why? Were you talking about me?" Lily asked suspiciously, but a smile was on her face.
"Oh, I just used you to wake up dear Prongsie here—works like a charm, you kn—" But Sirius was cut off as James flew up from the bed after finding his glasses. James elbowed Sirius out of the way, who was scowling terribly at him.
"Lily," he said breathlessly. His hair was even wilder after he had slept in it and his glasses were a bit askew.
Lily hid a grin at his appearance.
"Penelope wanted me to remind Remus about their date today at Hogsmeade. Where is he, anyways?" Lily asked, pretending to look around.
"He's in the bathroom—he's been hogging it since twenty minutes ago," Sirius said, recovering from the lack of respect he got from James.
"Oh, I see. James—meet me at Honeyduke's. G'bye," Lily said quickly before gracefully leaving.
Sirius nudged James in the ribs. "Say, you got a move on, then?" Sirius asked, grinning broadly.
James just grinned stupidly.
"Penelope and Moony. You know, I think that Lily came up here to talk to you and used Remus as an excuse," Sirius said thoughtfully, noticing James turn slightly red.
"You think so?" James asked, his grin widening.
Sirius nodded. "Nice job, mate."
"Thanks," James said, beaming as he grabbed his black satin dress robes.
"So. Which color now, Prongsie?" Sirius asked, shaking his head as he grinned.
"Erm—navy blue, I guess. But the silver will go with your eyes…I sound like some fashion-conscious girl, don't I? Ahh, just go with navy blue," James decided.
"Yes, I was getting quite worried there when you said the bit about my eyes," Sirius said, chuckling.
James shrugged. He was in a good mood. Not even Sirius's teasing could bring him down. Nothing could. Or so he thought.
"Hi, Lily!" James called out as soon as he saw her.
The wind was blowing behind Lily's hair, making it fan out. James smiled. She was beautiful.
Lily gave a small smile after a while.
They sat down on a table after buying chocolates.
As James opened a bar, he heard a voice calling his name.
"James! Zere you are! I have been looking all over for you. Come wiz me, I need to buy some more dress robes. We can also pick out our wedding robes zere too. It's good to be prepared," Celeste said, casting a superior glance at Lily, who looked completely furious.
Lily stood up quickly, knocking her chair over. She didn't seem to care though as she said evenly, a smile forced on her face, "James here is on a date with me, so if you would excuse us." Lily stared pointedly at her.
"Well, James happens to be my soon-to-be husband! I zink zat I have every right to ask him to come wiz me to shop!" Celeste shot back, her silvery hair sweeping her shoulders.
"Accio Sirius!" James muttered quickly, trying to think of a way to solve this problem.
Sirius soon arrived, flying through the air and nearly knocking Lily over.
"What is it, Prongs? I was stocking up on some Dungbombs over at Zonko's! I haven't even paid yet—the owner's going to be furious with me—oh! Hello, Celeste!" Sirius quickly said, beaming.
"'Ello, Sirius," Celeste smiled back as she had clearly been enjoying the attention that Sirius was paying to her these days. She had to admit, Sirius was even better looking than James.
"Sirius, you go with Celeste to buy new dress robes and I'll stay here with Lily," James said tiredly.
"No, that's all right!" Lily said in a shrill voice. "Go on, James—go on! Go get your lovely wedding robes with your lovely wife!" Lily left.
"Would you both like to accompany moi then?" Celeste asked, smiling more brightly now that Lily left.
Sirius agreed heartily right away while James sulked behind the two.
o.O.o.O.o
"And then he left with Celery!" Lily finished, sniffing. "What a jerk! I bet he's all happy right now—shopping for his wedding robes!"
Penelope sighed as Remus looked thoughtful.
"That doesn't exactly sound like Prongs to me. He told me that he doesn't like Celeste much, even as a friend, so I can't see him dying to go pick out wedding robes with her," Remus said after a while.
"I don't care. All I know is that he ditched me," Lily said childishly. "Not that I care if he's over there snogging Celery or if he's looking at matching wedding robes or if he's telling a wonderful joke of his to Celery who's laughing her head off—no, I don't care—don't give me that look, Penelope!" Lily added stubbornly.
Penelope had raised her eyebrows and nearly laughed at how obstinate Lily was being.
"Even if you don't care, I'll make sure I give you a good answer from him tomorrow," Remus promised and the three walked back home after buying some ice cream.
o.O.o.O.o
"And then she dragged me to do stupid fittings with her after picking out at least twenty different dress robes each for me and her, and Padfoot here was gaping at every single gown she tried on like some stupid lovesick puppy—yes, you were, Paddy, and you better admit it—and then she made us look at matching ones—I had to try on a checkered one! How cruel is that? And it was lilac! Of course, Paddy here didn't complain, he tried it on so eagerly after I refused to that he knocked his socks off—oh yes, you did!" James finally stopped ranting after ten minutes.
Sirius was ready to pout before Remus broke in before he could.
"I take that you didn't enjoy this trip as Lily thought you did?" Remus asked, a smile in place.
"Of course not! It was Celeste I was with—now, if it was Lily…" James trailed off, a dreamy look in his eyes as he stared upwards.
"I thought so," Remus said elegantly.
"So how did your date go?" James asked half-heartedly.
"Nice. Lily showed up halfway, nearly bawling when you ditched her for Celeste," Remus said casually.
"That's good. Wait—what? She was crying? Because I ditched her? Oh, Moony, you know that I wouldn't do that to her—she told me to go on and I did! You told me to listen to her and do what she tells me to do, so I did! What else was I supposed to do—stop her?" James asked, a look of skepticism on his handsome face.
Remus nodded. "You were."
"What? But—but—eurgh. Girls are so hard to understand!" James said, extremely frustrated as he plopped down on his bed.
"Wait, but didn't you say that you were going to understand Lily more by reading her diary?" Sirius asked, confused.
James leapt up. "That's right! I haven't checked her diary in so long! Maybe she said something about all this in it! Paddy, you're a bloody genius!"
"Now you figure it out," Sirius said, grinning.
Frantically, he flipped his pillow over and out popped her diary. He eagerly opened it up.
"Aha!" James said triumphantly as he noticed the day's date in the corner. Lily had written in it again.
Author's note:
Sigh. I'm getting somewhat tired of this story and I don't know if people really like this, so I'm not sure if I should continue it or not…
Anyways. I know I have supporters…but…?
Reviewers:
: James'sSnitchBoxersLover : Yep, Lily's jealous…but James hadn't really completely noticed it just yet…he will, though, don't worry. And as for the marriage being resolved soon, perhaps the next chapter! Sorry!
: Prongsie4028 : Ahh, I know what it feels like…there was that time was down and I thought something crazy happened like I lost my memory and I couldn't think of my password…but that's another thing. Well, Lily and Celeste did battle some…and Lily will win, of course! Yay! Haha, it's quite all right, I always enjoy long reviews. Thanks for the effort!
: metalmarc : wow, three reviews! Thanks…clarification first. Actually, I've always thought that James was a Seeker as well (because of the movie and being Harry's father) until like last year when J.K. Rowling apparently said in an interview that James was a Chaser. I liked him being a Seeker better, but I usually try to go with what she says…Sorry about that bit…and as for him letting the others score, I need to clear up on that, I meant that he didn't try to score the Quaffle, letting everyone else have a chance at it…he's definitely not the Keeper…sorry! And as for the freaky French female, well, let's say it's an idea of mine…hope you liked it. And I hope that cleared up things!
: End-of-ur-world : Thanks!
Thanks to ale07, birdgirl1990, chacha-sista, metalmarc, and PaigeLuvsJames for adding this to your favorites and again, thanks to metalmarc for adding this to your alert list!
And everyone, please go check out Ways To Ask Out Miss Lily Evans, my other story…it's got about three more chapters left in it (total 12, I'm thinking) and I would like some feedback on it…thanks!