Winning Miss Lily Evans Over

By: neen

Author's note: The sequel to Ways to Ask Out Miss Lily Evans is finally here!…what do you think?

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If you have not read Ways To Ask Out Miss Lily Evans, please do so, because I will refer to some of the events that happened in there in this sequel! Once again, this is the SEQUEL! Please go read Ways To Ask Out Miss Lily Evans if you have not already!

Chapter Two: Pimple Madness

As James sat down for dinner, Remus prodded James in the arm pointedly.

"All right, I know—I'll remember," James said, assuring his friend.

When the dessert platters came out, James took the treacle tart platter and gently poked Lily in the shoulder.

"Hi, Evans. Want some treacle tart?" James asked, smiling brightly.

"No, I'm fine, Potter," Lily said indifferently, and poked at her pudding.

"I'll have one, James," the brunette named Arielle said, giggling as she batted her long eyelashes at him.

"Rubbish—this is your favorite dessert!" James said, ignoring the brunette and added one to her plate. Arielle's eyes flashed dangerously with jealousy.

"Erm, thanks then," Lily said, turning slightly pink from the embarrassment James was unknowingly bestowing upon her.

James grinned at what Lily said and left to sit back down. Lily, at the corner of her eye, saw him give Remus an open thumbs-up as he sat down at his reserved table.

Lily shook her head and sighed, biting into the treacle tart.

"Lily, Jacqueline, look! Who is that guy?" Arielle asked, diverting their attention. She quickly muttered a hex that she was gifted at into the treacle tart.

"Who are you talking about, Arielle?" Lily asked, glancing around.

"Never mind, he left," Arielle lied smoothly and beamed at the two when they turned around.

Lily bit into the treacle tart. Suddenly, her face felt extremely hot and it immediately had a bunch of pimples growing at a rapid rate on her normally clear face. The pimples now covered all the cheeks and forehead.

"Merlin!" Jacqueline said, looking at Lily. "Look, Lily!" Jacqueline handed Lily a mirror.

Lily stared at her reflection and was nearing tears. She left quickly, avoiding the stares and pointing people were openly giving her. Jacqueline followed her. Arielle was glowing with happiness, which was oblivious to the two that had just left.

James happened to catch a glimpse of her crying and pimple-covered face and stood up, shocked. "Blimey! Evans—what's wrong?" James shouted after her, but all he got was a flash of light from Lily's wand, which he expertly ducked.

"Mad, is she?" James asked, looking at Remus and Sirius, bewildered.

"I think something happened," Remus said quietly.

"Of course something happened! She wouldn't have been crying if something didn't," James said impatiently, waving away Remus's comment.

Remus sighed. James wouldn't understand what he meant. "Never mind."

"Reckon I should go check up on her?" James asked.

"Maybe later. She seems to be upset at you at the moment and she'll probably just hex the magic out of you," Remus offered.

"Right, right," James said furiously, staring after Lily, who by now, was long gone.

After dinner was over, James decided it was safe to approach Lily in the Common Room. She had just gotten back from the Hospital Wing, according to the trusty Marauder's Map.

"Evans?" he asked out tentatively, wondering if she was still there. He dared not check the map in case she was.

A cushion hurtled towards his head violently. Thump.

"Ouch! Blimey—who the hell—ah, you, Evans! Nice aim," James had a scowl before but it was immediately replaced by a good-natured grin.

Lily raised her eyebrows. "Since when have you paid me a compliment, Potter?"

"Since now," James said promptly. "What happened?"

Lily gave a small 'hmpth'. "You should be perfectly clear what happened, my dear Potter."

"Ah, I knew I was always near you in your loving heart, Evans," James pretended to wipe a tear. Damn, I'm being too arrogant again. "Er—just joking. But really, what did happen?"

"You hexed the bloody treacle tarts, that's bloody what! You bloody prat!" Lily exploded, swearing heatedly.

James looked puzzled. "But they just came out…unless the house-elves…"

Lily stopped her cursing spree. "What?"

"They were the first platter—I didn't do anything to them! I gave them to you right when they came out—I swear," James said, looking somber as his eyes widened at Lily's wronged accusation. "You didn't fire up a house-elf by any chance did you?"

Lily did not speak, the gears in her great brains working. "You say you did not hex them…then…? No, it can't be—that'd be too mean. She couldn't have possibly done that," Lily paced back and forth slowly, a frown in place as she thought deeply.

"Who?" James asked, as he heard Lily's wonderings out loud.

"Arielle—the dimwitted brunette girl that's always following me around," Lily said bitterly, stopping her pacing.

James's face took on a dark shade. "I wouldn't put anything past her. She was always proclaiming that she was my number one fan…She's a crazy one. Don't you think that she's a bit fishy? Like all this sudden popu—"

"It has nothing to do with you!" Lily blurted out loudly before she could stop herself.

James grinned. "I wasn't going to say that, Evans. But if you really think that—denial. Guilty conscious acting up, isn't it?"

Lily flushed a brilliant red. "Oh really? I only said that because you're so predictably arrogant! I didn't think you would miss a good chance to gloat for something incredibly stupid!" Lily snapped angrily.

James looked taken aback. "I'm predictably arrogant? You mean—you haven't even noticed? Never mind." James shook his head and left the Common Room.

Jacqueline came downstairs and held out a tube of medicine they had gotten from Madam Pomfrey. "Lily—here, I had to find a cotton ball. You need to apply it again."

Lily was still staring at the spot James had been a minute before. "Jackie, there's something weird going on with Potter…"

"What do you mean?" Jacqueline asked, giving a small frown.

"He hasn't asked me out yet," Lily said, frowning as well.

Jacqueline laughed. "Oh, Lily, you should be glad! Didn't you say that you absolutely hated it when he did that every day?"

Lily nodded quickly. "Yes, but…"

"But what? Do you like him?" Jacqueline asked, getting straight to the point.

"NO!" Lily said hastily, shaking her head frantically. "It's just…uncanny not having him pop up every two feet beside me each day."

Jacqueline smirked. "I think you actually miss it, Lily dear."

Lily scowled terribly. "Nonsense! That's complete rubbish!"

"Denial is not good for the mind, Lily," Jacqueline merely said, looking oddly wise as she stared at Lily.

"You're right. Glad I'm not in any," Lily said doggedly and grabbed the tube of medicine and the cotton balls from Jacqueline's hands and went upstairs.

o.O.o.O.o

"…And that's what happened," James finished grumpily to Remus and Sirius.

"Don't give up," Remus immediately said and Sirius nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, I sacrificed about two weeks of my love life and went without some good snogging, so you better be thankful…" Sirius said, trailing off as his mind glazed into a sweet reverie.

Remus cleared his throat loudly, making Sirius jump. "Who's there? I wasn't snogging anyone, I swear, Professor! Florence isn't behind me—no, she's not."

James grinned at Sirius's reaction and Sirius finally came around. "Oh, well, you know, I was just—er, thinking of what I was going to say if something did happen." Sirius said, giving a sheepish grin.

"So you were snogging Florence behind the greenhouses yesterday, just like Jorkins said…Interesting. No wonder you hexed her so bad," James smirked widely.

"Sod off, Prongs," Sirius said eloquently and straightened his robes. "I'm off for a session now."

"A session?" James asked, blinking. "He gets tutored?"

"Snogging session. The day Sirius goes for a tutoring session is when girls no longer pay him any attention," Remus explained.

Remus looked after him and sighed. "I feel bad for the girl."

James snorted loudly. "Yeah, imagine if the girl knew she was frenching a dog."

Remus laughed. "Yes."

"I heard all that!" Sirius bellowed as he left.

"Ah, yes, forgot the canine sense of hearing he has," James said, smiling.

Remus looked at James. "Prongs, what do you think you should do about Lily?"

James shrugged. "I dunno. Let her prance around like a damn peacock with a rod stuck up in her arse—"

Remus had a pained look on his face. "Prongs, you're talking about the girl you like. You know, Lily Evans."

James blinked. "Oh yeah…Sorry, I thought you said Millie—you know that crazily proud Hufflepuff girl."

"Well?" Remus prompted.

"I dunno."

Remus smacked a hand to his forehead in frustration but quickly muttered, "Mosquito," noticing the annoyed look on James's face.

"I thought I heard a slight buzzing," James said, turning pleasant once more.

"You need to find ways to get close to her, Prongs. Otherwise, she might never notice you," Remus said quietly.

"Oh. Okay, sure, I'll try that," James said, shrugging lightly and left for the Gryffindor Common Room.

Remus sighed, watching him go. He hoped things would turn out all right in the end. The very end.

Author's Note:

Sorry, you guys! I've been so busy with about two other stories…so sorry! Hope you liked this one!

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