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Chapter Seven: Happy Birthday Dear Evans

Sirius is in italics

Remus is in bold

Peter is in bold underlined

James is normal

Tomorrow, we head back to school and I get to see Evans!

What a perfect day! I got to meet Evans' parents and they like me! Looks like they forgave me for the note in the Easter egg. (But that was Sirius's fault anyway, the bugger)

Getting the girl's parents to like you is supposed to be the hardest part so at least that's out of the way. Now I just have to get the girl to like me. Her mum, especially, liked me. Guess I just have a way with women.

Anyway, when I offered Evans a hand to help her get on the train, she (Evans) hit my hand instead of taking it. Evans mum seemed very shocked.

"Lily Christine Evans! How dare you be so rude! James is simply trying to be a gentleman; the least you can do is try to be a lady! How many young men would offer you a hand up? Young men like James don't grow on trees, you know! Now take his hand!"

She did take my hand, but she went strait to the lavatory to wash her hands once she got onboard.

I didn't mean to get Evans in trouble, really, I didn't. But I did learn something: Her middle name is Christine. That's a really pretty name, Lily Christine Evans.

I cast a dream spell on Evans tonight so that she'll dream about this morning at the train station, but she'll see it from a different perspective. Just thought I'd let her see the whole thing from an outsider's point of view.

Today when I walked to Arithmancy, I noticed that Evans was sitting all by her lonesome, so I decided to keep her company.

I told her how pretty I thought her name was (I thought she'd like that) except instead of Lily Christine Evans, I accidentally said Lily Christine Potter.

I swear, cross my heart and hope to die, that I did not mean to say Potter; it just slipped out.

She told me to bugger off. What's new?

Evans was just about to switch to another seat when she noticed that all of the other seats were taken. She seemed to feel that she had been tricked in some way and began yelling at me and accusing me of having some grand scheme to keep her from sitting by anyone else.

I didn't have any plan; I just wanted to talk to her. Is that so bad?

The teacher and the class were staring at us by the end of Evans' rant and so I acted like nothing was wrong and waved, which seemed to make Evans even more angry.

Once again, having Evans's friends on my side has paid off.

Today during Herbology, I was paired with Alice and she told me a vital piece of information. Evans' birthday is on April 23rd. This will be a great opportunity for me to impress Evans and to give her something.

What to get her though? What do you buy for a girl who dislikes your very existence, but you're head over heels for her?

Maybe I should get her a nice picture of me in my quidditch robes to place beside her bed. No, she'd chuck it out the window, just like the flowers.

Or maybe, I could ask Alice to find out what Evans' wants most for birthday...

I think I shall go find Alice now.

A picture of you in your quidditch robes? Are you mad?

And you still haven't told us about that date with Hestia. Come on, it couldn't have been that bad.

It can't be worse than my date with that one Hufflepuff. Fess up, James!

Yes, it was that bad now stop asking because I'm never going to tell you. I'm just curious, but do you know what the word 'privacy' means?

What Evans wants for her birthday is a set of books on Charms. They're not cheap, but I have the money and it goes to a worth cause. I'll sneak out to Hogsmeade tonight and buy them at the bookstore there.

I've just had Remus help me wrap Evans's gift. Who knew wrapping paper could be so tricky to manage?

I also made her several magical birthday cards and I'm having Emmeline hide them among Evans's possessions so that she'll find them as her day goes along.

I also made a regular card for her reading: "To a very special flower on her birthday. May it be a memorable day filled with joy. It would be a memorable day if you agreed to go out with me...and filled with joy. Defiantly. What do you say?"

She can't possibly say no!

Okay, apparently she can.

On a better note, Evans seemed to enjoy her new books despite the fact that they came from me. She didn't seem to want to let on that she was pleased with them, but I noticed that she was carrying one of them with her during Potions.

I decided to go all out since today is Evans' birthday and it comes but once a year. And your sixteenth birthday only comes once. I need to take advantage of the opportunity.

At breakfast I stood up and lead the entire Great Hall in a rousing round of the Happy Birthday Song in honor of the special occasion.

In the hallway on our way to out first class, I deliberately walked behind her so that I could cast a spell on her.

Nothing bad, I promise. It was just floating letters above her head that said "Sweet Sixteen".

To top off my perfect day, I was paired with her in Potions. I really only got to be her partner since the professor knows that Evans doesn't like me and likes to make students miserable. That and the last time that Sirius and I were Potions partners we had a bit of fiasco that I really don't want to go into detail about. Let's just say that the entire class spent a good deal of time in the hospital wing.

But hey, if the Professor wants to pair me with the girl of my dreams, who am I to refuse?

Even though it was Evans' birthday, it didn't mean that I didn't get to be annoying. I need my fun too, you know.

I asked her about being kissed. What a fun subject. She's a little touchy about it, but that's okay.

I asked if her she was sweet sixteen and never been kissed. She made some sort of random answer about adding the ingredients to our potion, but I saw her blush.

I knew that she'd been kissed, hello, by me, but I asked her anyway, just for the heck of it.

She told me that she gargled after I kissed her. You know, I don't remember what I did after that kiss. I was so ecstatic I can't seem to remember. I do remember Sirius whacking me upside the head, but I don't think that counts.

Evans wanted to know why I wanted to know about her past experiences in kissing blokes so I told her that I wanted to know because her first kiss came from me. I want to know if anyone else has been kissing my girl.

She avoided the subject and told me to add more ingredients to the cauldron and to bugger off.

I'm beginning to notice that she tells me to bugger off a lot. I sense a pattern....

Cherry: I can safely say that nothing of that nature occurred between James and Hestia. He's just embarrassed because it didn't go well. Yes, the two people talking were sitting right next to each other, and yes it is kind of weird, but here's my "logic". First, it was Remus and James, sorry if I didn't clarify. Secondly, Remus was over at James's house for the day and while was James was out of the room broke into his notebook. Remus was going to write more, but then James caught him and answered in the notebook.

LilliannaRose: Yup, I'm back at school. What fun. Actually, aside from math it's not so bad. I will try to update soon. I've gotten a little busier lately. I'm babysitting and doing stuff at church, plus this school year is supposed to the hardest, but I promise to do my very best.

Queen Of Day Dreams: Nice letter! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it! I can't tell you about the date yet. Sorry, I have to keep you in suspense a bit longer. :-) -ducks the rotten veggies- Sorry I didn't update sooner, but I've been busy and I was sick, so I hope I have a legitimate excuse.

EW4eva: He does miss Lily...too bad she doesn't miss him. :-( She will soon enough though!

Some12: I like to throw in little twists like Sirius writing that one note that Lily thought James wrote. It's fun. In this chapter, I put in a small one in the part where James sat down by Lily and she accused him of having a plan. He didn't, but she thought he did, and so did we...until now.

child-of-scorpio: Yeah, I know these last chapters have been short, and I'm sorry, but I can only add so much stuff. These chapters have to correspond to the chapters of "In This Journal". My parents would have done the same! James really didn't think things through did he? :-)

bluestar: That's rotten luck! I can't say I'm in Florida. When it comes to hurricanes, I'm quite safe. Tornadoes are another story. I thought people would like to see the letter! When I wrote TIJ, I didn't actually plan what was in the letter, so I had to make one up. The part with Arrow and the doorbell was also one of those things I never planned out in my other story, so in this one, I had to think of way for that all to happen. This story is so complex. I hadn't originally planned on writing a counterpart, so some things are going to be hard to work around. Like the part where James lets Lily read his journal...I'm not looking forward to that. Hooray for Michael Phelps! Too bad the Olympics are over. I'm all ready for the winter ones now.

Sarah Warder: There was a reason for two people to be writing in it. You must have missed it, but that's okay, it was easy to miss. James invited Remus (yes, it was Remus) over for the day and Remus broke into James's notebook while James was out of the room. Thanks for the compliments!

misschickapee: Poor James. Well, kind of, but not really. He brings so much of it on himself. I'd like to sleep in, but I have to get up at 6:00 am! You're so lucky!

DOJ: Yup, James is as clueless as they come. He'll get over getting in trouble; Sirius has probably gotten him in more trouble than that before. Come on, it's Sirius! :-)

MWPP Fanatic: It does have a nice ring! His parents are just being parents. They're just trying to instill good values in him. The last part was Remus and Sirius talking. Sorry I didn't clarify that. I'll remember to put the key to what person has what font on each chapter.

tinkerbelldetention101: I don't think I did update faster. Sorry. I wrote the reviews two days before I posted, so...yeah. Yes, James was supposed to be a bit pathetic. I'm glad you liked the note! So did I! Sirius is so great!

Flower of Scotland: I like your new pen name or whatever it is you call it. Yes, school is under way for me. I don't think I'm from anywhere near you if you're from Scotland. (are you?) I live in the United States. I don't want to get to specific, but I'm from somewhere in the Midwest.

Chaosmage28: I don't think you're going to find anyone who likes Peter!

chippagirl: I have no idea what James's new password is going to be! I really don't plan it out. I just come up with them as I write the chapter.

Loves to Read: Thanks! It's good to hear that my story still makes people laugh. My dad would kill boy before I could get to him. Mr. Evans took it very well, I think.

dragonzflame: James doesn't really do anything for revenge. Sorry. I figures that he'd probably gotten Sirius in trouble on more than one occasion, so things even out.

I'm really sorry about this, but I can't respond to every single review anymore. It would like to, I honestly would, but it takes up a lot of time and slows down my updates. If you have a question, I will gladly answer it to the best of my ability or if I want respond to something you said, I'll respond to your review. A lot of you will still get an individual response, and if I notice that some one has reviewed a lot, I'll say something to them. I'm going to put people's "names" in a list with a thank you. It's just that there's only so many ways to say, "Thanks, please keep reading!" I hope you guys all understand.

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