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 Five: Friends

James spotted Lily in the Common Room as he went back to see how Lily's condition was.

"Hi, Lily. Are you feeling better? Hives gone?" James asked immediately as soon as he walked up to her.

"Yes, much better. I'm fine, thanks," Lily said, giving a small smile.

"Lily, are we friends?"

Lily sucked in her breath and did not speak for a long time. "I don't know, really. It seems like we're more like acquaintances than friends."

"I would like to be friends with you," James said, looking earnest at Lily's face, waiting for her answer.

"All right," Lily said, giving him a shaky smile. She was just glad that James had not asked her out again.

"Thanks, Lily," James said, shaking her hand quickly and smiling vigorously before running up the stairs to the boys' dormitory. Lily could have sworn that she heard him let out a whoop of triumph as soon as he was in the room.

Jacqueline sat up from the chair as she watched the whole event, looking highly amused.

"Well, congratulations, Lily," Jacqueline said, beaming.

Lily blushed. "For what?"

"You got a new friend."

"We're not going out!" Lily said swiftly.

"I know that," Jacqueline said, grinning.

"We're just friends," Lily said more to herself than to Jacqueline.

'It won't be long,' Jacqueline thought to herself.

o.O.o.O.o

"Hi, Lily. Need help?" James asked during Transfiguration class. He was watching Lily struggle with transfiguring her desk into a dog. So far, the table just managed to bark.

Lily faltered. "A bit, I suppose," she said finally, sighing.

"You're doing a good job already—it's just that you need to put more force into the waving. Like this, a nice short jab," James said, taking her hand and stabbed at the table. The table immediately transformed into a cuddly Scottie.

She smiled and cooed at the small dog. "Thanks, James."

James grinned. "You called me James."

Lily stopped petting the dog for a moment. "I suppose I did, didn't I?"

"Thanks."

"For what?" Lily asked, looking slightly surprised.

"For giving me a chance. It means a lot to me," James said softly.

"Oh." Lily looked flushed. "You—You're welcome, James."

James sat back in his seat, looking pleased. He had helped Lily, Lily had called him James, and hadn't said that he was a nosy, nasty prick. Things were going well.

Lily could not get away from the slight, pleasant prickle that had run through her entire body when James had guided her hand. She shook her head, wondering why she was even thinking about him. 'But he's your friend now,' a voice reminded and Lily nodded. That's why she could think about him now. He's her friend.

o.O.o.O.o

"James? Here," Lily held out a wrapped package in her hands as she saw James sitting in the Common Room with Sirius and Remus. After making sure the object was in James's hands, she fled up the stairs.

"What is it?" Sirius asked, eyeing James as he unwrapped it.

It was his broom.

"Say, isn't that your broom, Prongs?" Sirius asked, glancing suspiciously at James.

James nodded.

Remus frowned, trying to piece everything together.

"The broom's not some secret message for you to go to that old broom cupboard for a snogging, is it?" Sirius asked shrewdly.

James shook his head. "I don't think so. I think she just meant to return it from our flying lessons."

There was a complete silence.

"Flying lessons?" Remus repeated.

"So you have been snogging her! No need to lie to us, Prongsie! How come you never told us anything about that, you sly old horse? So, where have you guys been snogging?" Sirius asked, grinning.

"We haven't! We've really been having flying lessons! I swear," James protested loudly to a skeptical looking Sirius.

"We believe you, Prongs," Remus said firmly, though an amused look briefly passed his face, He nudged Sirius in the ribs, who was laughing uncontrollably.

"Ah—yes," Sirius said, between laughs, "We—believe—you, all right!" He chortled loudly.

"Anyways, good thinking, Prongs. That's a sure way to get close to her," Remus praised James over Sirius's loud guffawing.

"Thanks. Too bad the lessons stopped," James said bitterly.

"You're that bad a kisser?" Sirius grinned. "I mean, er—teacher, of course. I'm supposed to believe that you're not going off into the high evening with the moon up and that you're not seizing a chance and kissing Evans, right?"

James threw Sirius a glare. "Right, Padfoot."

Sirius coughed something that oddly sounded like, "Yeah, right."

James ignored him and said to Remus. "You know, I think she doesn't hate me that much anymore. I still don't think I should push my luck by asking her out right now though. Thanks for giving me the tip yesterday, Moony."

"Welcome, Prongs. I hope everything works out for you and Lily."

"I'm going upstairs to put my broom up. I'll be right back," James said and climbed up the stairs.

"Flying lessons, my foot," he heard Sirius say loudly. "You don't really think that they're off for flying lessons, do you, Moony?"

"Have some faith in Prongs, Padfoot. He might be."

"Might. Might! As if," Sirius snorted openly.

James shook his head and entered the room, stashing his broom by his bed and hurried downstairs, resuming their conversation as Sirius whistled loudly and grinned, looking very much like they had just been talking about him before he came down.

o.O.o.O.o

Lily was sitting on her bed in the girls' dormitory, smiling to herself. Jacqueline was lying down in her own bed and laughed as she saw the smile on Lily's face.

"You're in love, aren't you, Lily?" Jacqueline asked knowingly.

Lily startled and blushed lightly. "I—I, well, no, of course not!"

"You like him, don't you?" Jacqueline asked softly.

"Yes—wait, no, who are you talking about?" Lily asked, quickly, as her mind raced. A picture of James Potter smiling brilliantly at her floated to the front of her mind. She hoped very much that Jacqueline was not an accomplished Legilimens. She wasn't, was she?

Jacqueline smiled, looking omniscient. "James, of course. Who else?"

Lily gulped. Perhaps she was. "I—I don't think so." She decided that Jacqueline would be someone safe to tell.

"It's all right, at least you're not completely denying it. Anyways, I keep forgetting that I need to tell you something," Jacqueline said and smiled brightly.

"What is it?" Lily asked, glad that Jacqueline did not press her any further.

"I'm going out with Remus," Jacqueline said, beaming.

Lily grinned. "That's great, Jackie! I knew you liked him! He's really nice."

Jacqueline's cheeks turned slightly red. "Thanks."

"That's just wonderful," Lily said happily.

Jacqueline smiled slyly, "And be sure to tell me when you've made up your mind about Mr. Potter, all right?"

Lily hesitated before nodding. "I'll be sure to tell you first, Jackie."

"Good. There's a Hogsmeade trip coming up, Lily," Jacqueline informed pointedly.

Lily smiled, going back to her daydream of James asking her go to with him to Hogsmeade. "I know."

o.O.o.O.o

"Hi, Lily," James smiled as he saw that Lily had come down to the Common Room.

Remus and Sirius left, on cue, both loudly saying that they had Potions essays to finish or sessions to go to, respectively.

"So, how are you?" Lily asked genially, sitting down in an armchair near James's.

"Fine, except that Sirius is convinced that we've been snogging lately," James said and immediately blushed. "Sorry. I didn't mean anything by saying that."

"It's fine," Lily said lightly and smiled, thinking how cute James looked when he blushed.

"There's a Hogsmeade trip coming up," James said suddenly, looking at Lily.

Lily's heart pace quickened. Did he want to ask her out again? "Yes, next weekend," she said casually, laying back in the chair. Please ask me, ask me!

James paused, trying to find the right words. "D'you want to come with me? Friends, of course," James said quickly, looking at Lily's face.

Lily smiled, though she felt a surprising twinge of disappointment when James said 'friends' firmly. "That would be lovely."

James's face relaxed, and he sighed in relief. "Thanks."

"Most welcome," Lily replied softly, watching James rise from his seat and go into the dormitory with a fluttering feeling in her stomach.

Author's Note:

Yess! Lily and James are friends now! Haha...hope you liked it!

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