Chapter Five: Of Questions, Anger, and Wrong Answers
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Does anyone actually read these? Well, for those who do...Make sure you remember Zach...rubs hands together evilly BOOHAHA!
Little did she know that her smile had the same effect on him as it did on her.
Lily went up to the girl's dorm about an hour later, after many jokes and hilarity, along with a few more akward moments.
"So?" Caroline pounced on her as she walked in the door.
"So? What?"
"I saw you with James. What happened?" Caroline asked, her thirst for gossip taking over.
"Nothing happened."
"Sure. Don't make me cast the Tell-All Charm."
"Fine. I started to work on my homework, he came down and joined me, and we had a great time."
"He was shirtless." Caroline countered.
"So?
"So, why was he shirtless?"
"Because he had just woken up!"
"Uhuh." Caroline replied, eyes narrowed.
As the girls came down the stairs to meet the boys for breakfast, as had become their custom, they saw half the House crowded around the portrait hole.
"What's going on?" Tina asked.
"Hogsmeade weekend, probably." Stella answered. "Oh, you don't know what Hogsmeade is, do you Lily?" she added, as the other girls squealed in excitement.
"Of course...I don't." Lily said, nearly slipping up by saying she did.
"Great! We are gonna have a great time. We'll show you all the sites!" Stella said.
"Come on, girls!" James yelled up at them. "I'd like to eat sometime!"
"You'd like to eat all the time!" Lily shot back, smiling sweetly, as she came through the crowd of other girls. James's breathing sped up at the site of her, as it seemed to do a lot now, and he nervously smoothed his robes Remus noticed this.
"Nervous much?"
"Shut it, Moony." The other boy growled.
"All right, all right. Gonna ask her to Hogsmeade with you?" Remus responded.
"Do you think she'll say yes?"
"Do you think she'll say yes! Hahaha! Padfoot, James is worried that Lily wouldn't say yes!" By now, Remus was doubled up in laughter. Sirius joined him, and it was a good thing the other boys were blocking them from view, because the girls had approached them, and they were desperately trying to cover up their laughter. They suceeded, and accompanied the girls down to breakfast.
Once again Stella, Vikki, and Tina had arranged themselves in such a way that Lily and Caroline had to sit across from James and Sirius. Caroline shot them a half exasperated glare half thankful and Lily smiled and sat down across from James. James gave her a sheepish grin then looked down at his plate. Caroline sat down across from Sirius being very careful to avoid any eye contact. (She had a habit of choking or spazzing out whenever a guy caught her eye.) Sirius watched her sit down, and only realized he was staring when Remus elbowed him quite roughly in the ribs. Sirius shot him a glare and Remus raised his eyebrows. Sirius' ears turned red and he too looked down at his plate.
"Well...You boys are very quiet this morning!" Stell said looking from Lily to James and back again.
"Don't make them talk! It's nice to eat breakfast in peace once in a while!" Vikki said quickly.
"I know what you mean." Remus said looking over at her.
Vicki didn't have time to answer, as Dumbledore stood up and clapped his hands.
"For those of you who didn't already know, a Hogsmead weekend is being planned for the seventh years, as a welcome-back-and-have-a-good-last-year celebration."
"Why is he announcing that? We already knew!"
"He had to announce it because the author of the fanfic was too lazy to come up with something for you to say that would hint at the budding relationship between us."
"We're in a fanfic? Weird..." She looks around her suspiciously.
Everyone unfreezes and comes back to normal. Viki and Remus...uh..."forget" their conversation...
Soon, everyone finished breakfast and headed off to their various N.E.W.T's classes. Lily and James headed off to Potions, which they had double of today, unfortunately, but at least halfway through the class their friends would join them.
"After you" said James sweeping his hand in front of him and bowing. Lily smiled, rolled her eyes and walked into the Potions classroom. The room was dark and smelled of rotting flesh."Just like my time" thought Lily as she sat down near the back of the class. She leaned down and began unpacking her things. She felt something sit down next to her and sensed the warmth of someone's body near to her own. She bit her lip and sat back up. James was sitting next to her and was staring at her. Lily blushed and turned away, but she could feel James' eyes watching her.
"Is this seat taken?" He asked, smiling that smile that absolutely melts her.
"Yes. Scram, Potter. Lily's my girl."
"What the hell? Zach? What's going on, Lily?"
"Uh..." Lily looked from the boy that she liked to Zach, the boy who had asked her out, and said, "Uh...James, Zach asked me to go to Hogsmeade with him outside the Great Hall this morning."
"But...we walked you girls to the Great Hall today!"
"No you didn't, remember, you told us to go ahead, that you'd meet us there..."
James, prompted by Lily, remembered why the boys were late to breakfast. He had delayed, worrying that he was going to make a fool of himself, asking Lily out. Fuck! If I hadn't delayed, then she wouldn't have gone out with him! And he doesn't even like her! He just thinks she's hot! Of course...I do too, but I think I'd like her even if she looked like McGonagall!
"Scram, Potter. This is my seat." Zach said, putting his hands on Lily's shoulders, clearly saying, and my girl.
James, knowing he had been beat, cast one forlorn look at Lily, who looked slightly guilty, and packed up his stuff to sit in the opposite corner. As he settled in his new seat, he watched Lily and Zach laugh and joke until the teacher called the class to order. I thought she cared...
Lily's POV
God, does this guy ever shut up about himself! I mean, he's been talking about his "amazing" Quidditch skills for the last five minutes! I've seen him play, and he's not that good...James, on the other hand...This train of thought quickly led her to a contemplation of how good James had looked last night...No. Bad Lily. Don't go there. See Zach? The nice, cute, somewhat self-centered guy next to you? He's the one you're dating, not James. She forced a laugh at one of Zach's comments degrading another quidditch player, and then thanked Merlin that the potions professor came in then, saving her from having to listen to more of Zach's egotistical ramblings.
A/N: Alrighty, short and sweet. Sorry I haven't updated in a while...I lost my muse. But, thanks to hours of fanfiction reading for lack of anything better to do (not that reading fanfiction is last on my list of things to do, in fact, it's far from it...) anyways... My muse is back, just in time for school to start, and so I'm looking for these two things: someone to nag me to update, and a beta.
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