A/N: Yeah so since its still summer break (school starts on the 22nd) I'm still bored so I'm updating lol. Hope you like this chapter!
Lily exited Charms clutching her books cautiously. She felt bad for hitting Potter; she never should have done it. But how could she apologize, he'd simply take it to his already inflated head.
She glanced a look behind her to see him standing in the doorway looking genuinely reproachfully at her. She stopped a second, shook her head and continued on her way to the common room. She grabbed and armchair nearest the fire and sat down beginning work on her charms essay.
Just as she was putting the finishing touches on a 4 ft. essay, which was really, only supposed to be 3 ft. long James slipped into the chair next to her.
He took a deep breath and said "I know you refused my truce idea but for now when we're like this, do you want to think about changing your mind I mean you don't have to but I thought, I mean, err".
She could see how much effort this was taking as she glanced him over. He seemed to be serious. She sighed. "Fine Potter, but only because we're stuck this way."
He smiled. Is that really what I look like when I smile? "Ok so while we're at it, I need to learn how to be you, he said. And I'll teach you how to be me. We'll be perfect at being each other, and no one should know the difference. As long as Snivelly doesn't squeal we're ok. If he does it spells public humiliation."
She gave another sigh this would take a while. But he seems to be trying. She led him towards the Head Girl room.
"Of course, this is where you'll be sleeping. In the drawer under the mirror is a set of hairclips and a brush, I expect you to brush your hair and tie it neatly everyday. The bed should be made and aired out each morning. Across from the bed is the bulletin board, it has the calendar of every single appointment you have to make," She said gesturing to a gigantic floor to ceiling bulletin board about 8 ft. by 15 ft. on which there was a calendar partly covered by flyers, notes, homework, test dates, and everything else she would need for the rest of the year.
"It's a little messy, but it keeps me organized, so you have to check it everyday for my appointments. There're a couple kids you have to tutor, teachers to help, club meetings to oversee, students you have to talk to about problems and such, homework to finish, and tests to make up, etc." She turned to see how he was handling all this information and he seemed to be taking it all in, although the bulletin board seemed to have awed him.
"Right, and there's the bathroom, for bathroom functions, and there's the sho..." she stopped mid-word and turned to look at Potter horrified. He stared back equally appalled. "You can't go two weeks without taking a bath!"
"I can't take a bath as you!"
"And I can't take a bath as you!"
"But my hair will get oily!" James whimpered.
"Fine we take showers, but we have to promise to respect each others privacy that is, close your eyes the entire way, I'm trusting you ok?" she looked at him hoping to God he wasn't a total pervert.
"Ok yeah and there's the study, all the textbooks and stuff are in there."
"All that is good but what do you do to like hang out?" he asked innocently.
She reddened slightly. "As Lily Evans, you do not hang out, there's no time and…." She turned around mumbling "no one to do it with". James reached out and put a hand on her shoulder, reaching up to do so. At a loss of words they stood there for a few seconds. "Well you'll need to show me your stuff too." She said, promptly back to her brisk manner.
He lead her to the Head Boy room, it was identical to the Head Girl room. "Ok where to start? There's the bed. There's the mirror, and I would appreciate it if you could put these products in my hair, there's the chart for which one at which time. Wash your face with these, shave with these. The chart explains which one for which day. And then er, de-wrinkle and de-lint your clothes everyday. There's the bed, make it every weekend or so. There's the study but the books aren't in there, they're under my bed. Quidditch practice and match times are right next to the other chart I showed you. Uh there's the shower, same rules apply." He looked at her.
She smiled "Easy enough."
"What's that supposed to mean?" he asked, frowning.
"It means that I'll have an easier time than you will, my life is obviously way harder." She said very matter-of-factly.
"Oh really? My life's no walk in the park either!" James chided.
"What is there? Sitting on a broom till your bum is sore, goofing off in all your classes, and snogging a couple girls!"
"All you have to do is teach a couple kids, go to a few meetings and act like a nerd, no social life to deal with at all, no reputation to keep up, it's a piece of cake!"
"Tell you what Potter, I'll make you a bet, by the end of the week whoever admits that the other's life is more difficult will do a favor to the winner, any favor of their choice."
"Yeah fine, I already know what I'm going to ask for!" James said, smirking.
"FINE!" Lily stormed off angrily to lunch.
"Hey mate! How're you feeling?" Ugh, Sirius, what a pain in the… But before she could finish her thought Sirius had thumped her on the back. "Better I hope, because hitting LILY EVANS is very unlike you, not to mention the fact that she's a girl."
"Are you saying girls can't take a hit?" Lily snapped back.
"It's not that man, it's just, etiquette you know?" Sirius said, taken aback.
"And I'm sure YOU of all people are a master at etiquette."
"Well, I mean, you know what we have to deal with those parties and stuff, and remember those er…classes we took?" Sirius replied, still taken aback.
"Which ones?" Lily said curiously.
"The ah, well that is to say… Er…" Sirius had lowered his voice to barely a whisper.
"Are you talking about the ballroom dancing ones, the place mat setting ones, or my personal favorite, the posture ones?" Remus had slid into the seat on the other side of Lily taking no precaution to lower his voice.
"Shut up!" Sirius whispered looking around.
"Oh come on Padfoot, its not so bad!" Remus said, still keeping his normal tone of voice.
"But it's a reputation thing! I'm laid-back, lazy (if you will), and cool. I am NOT a dancer!" Sirius said, loudly causing two third years to jump with fright.
Lily smiled "Oh THOSE classes!" Potter took DANCING! HAHA! "Yeah THOSE CLASSES!" she said speaking in a rather loud voice causing James to look down the table at her in alarm. She smiled wickedly at him pretending not to notice his warning looks as she drained her pumpkin juice. She wiped her lips with a napkin and hurried from the Great Hall.
Just because she wasn't in her own body doesn't mean she couldn't get a head start on studying for NEWTS!
She hurried to the Head Boy's room and pulled Potter's books from under in bed, slapping the dust from the cover. She picked out two or three and took them into the study where she began drawing up detailed notes, tapping occasional sentences with her wand causing them to be highlighted. When she heard a disturbing crash downstairs. She rushed quickly to the Gryffindor common room and saw James standing guiltily next to a large vase, well actually, pieces of a large vase.
"Oh!" Lily said laughing it off. "Reparo!" she said waving her wand, watching the pieces fly together. "Anything else?"
"No…"
"Alright then Potter, don't bug me…"
"Well actually…uh… I have to go the bathroom."
Well, can't expect him to hold it for 15 days. "Just ah, go in, and don't look at anything, sit down, do your business, wipe, all the while not looking at anything. DON'T LOOK!"
"Right," James said sprinting to the bathroom before any accidents could occur. Shutting his eyes tightly he pulled down Lily's skirt squatting so as not to touch the toilet seat. You never know what could be on it.
He did his business quickly, wiping, flushing, and pulling up the skirt. As he was buttoning the top, he opened his eyes, and exited the stall.
He stuck his hands in the basin and opened the tap, scrubbing his hands thoroughly. But as he was walking over to dry his hands a 6th year girl, Macey Collins walked in. "You don't mind do you? I need to change and the dorm is a MESS!" she said, rolling her eyes and smiling.
Before James could say anything the girl had pulled off her shirt. On top of that, she was standing right in front of the towel rack, AND he had forgotten his wand so he couldn't dry that way. Screw it, who cares about wet hands? I'm getting out of here. Before he could leave…
"Does it look unusually red here?" the girl asked.
"Hmmm?" James said, staring at the floor.
"Right here!" the girl said, gesturing at a spot on her bare shoulder.
I may be a lot of things but I'm NOT a pervert! He thought, assuring himself. Quickly, he glanced up staring at only the spot she was pointing at.
"Uh just a little," he said it seemed to be rubbed slightly raw.
"Darn, I just got this new bra and it's KILLING me, that's why I came in here, to change it!" she said wincing and rubbing her shoulder cautiously. "It's especially painful around the assets you know?"
James nodded at the floor trying to look sympathetic just as Macey moved away from the rack. He made a lunge for the towel causing Macey to stare at him. "Uh… Sorry!" James said, making a run for it.
A/N: James' first encounter and he hasn't done anything stupid. Review and tell me what you think!