A/N: This is the longest chapter known to man. Well maybe not the longest but its longer than i like my chapters! I want to give a shoutout to my two new reviewers since i love them...I love all reviewers but cuz i am nervous about surgery tommorow, these two made my morning less stressful.
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Chapter 9
Shopping and boat rides
A/N: This is an extremely long chapter. Once I started I couldn't find a place to stop! I am sure you will love this chapter though.
lily
"We have to find some cute clothes for tonight. Plus how great of a day is it? You can't find better shopping weather." Lily said once they reached diagon.
"But what shall we wear? Is it going to be a romantic thing? Like I should wear a dress sort of thing?" Leah asked.
"I want to wear a skirt and a halter top. Oh, here this store is great!" Lily said and dragged her friends into a shop called Marie Rose's. Anna and Leah could see why Lily liked that store so much. It had the best muggle clothes. Classy yet affordable. What a great combination.
"What should I wear to the movies with Remus?" Anna asked looking through the different mini skirts.
"I totally forgot that your first date with Remus was tonight! Well it's a movie… So it really doesn't matter what you wear." Leah said.
"Leah you are such a tomboy sometimes. I say…. Hmm… wear something well cute. Like a striped polo shirt and a tennis skirt or even short shorts."
"Remus will like the short shorts." Leah laughed.
"He will like you in whatever you wear." Lily said while browsing through the tops. She found a patterned halter that was light blue and decided to find a skirt to match. She knew she wasn't going on the boat ride but she knew she had to get something. I guess I could wear these on my first date with James. If that ever happens… "What do you guys think of this top?"
"Oh my goodness that is SO cute. What do you want to match it?" Leah asked.
"A plain black mini skirt." Anna and Lily said at the same time. Anna handed a black mini she had already been holding, she knew that Lily would want that no matter what top she bought.
"How did you know I wanted a plain black skirt?" Lily asked her friend.
"No matter what top you found you would want a black skirt to go with it. For they are classy and you have been saying that you wanted a black mini for awhile now." Anna said like it was obvious. She had grabbed a pink striped polo and a white ruffled mini.
"WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR? THIS IS LIKE A SEMI-DATE WITH SIRIUS! He will have high expectations since he has dated so many girls… What am I going to wear?" Leah exclaimed.
"Nothing. Sirius would REALLY love that." Lily joked.
"Ha-ha. Very funny. What am I going to wear?" Leah asked. Lily handed her an outfit that she found, knowing that Leah would love it. Leah did love the outfit her friend picked out and the three girls headed to the cashier. After paying they headed to the Ice Cream shop, and the boys passed by.
"Where do you sexy men think your going?" Anna hollered as they walked by.
Sirius pointed at himself and looked innocently. "Guys do you think she's talking to us?" he asked sweetly.
"She must be we ARE the sexiest guys in the area." James said regretting it immediately. Lily will think I am an egotistic jerk again, he thought. But the girls just laughed and beckoned the guys over.
"Are you boys helping Remus pick out a pretty dress for his date?" Lily joked and Anna slapped her.
"We should do that while we're here, he might show up in a wedding dress without our help. No, we are here buying "supplies"" Sirius said pointing to the Zonko's.
"Ah, I see. Well girls we should head back to the house." Anna said before the friends could say more about the upcoming date. Remus looked relived. The girls then left on their brooms, full of shopping bags of course.
James
"Remus, do you know what you're wearing tonight. I think Sirius and I need to put in our two cents." James said after the girls left.
"I really have no idea."
"Off to Gerald's clothes for men!" James exclaimed and took Remus to a shop a lot like Marie Rose's.
"Well considering this is a casual date we need to find a look that makes it seem he didn't buy anything special or that he tried to put an outfit together. But yet still classy, and of course sharp, makes Anna think, 'He cleans up nice' we need to help for mate, you have never been on a real date." Sirius said inside the shop.
"What about a nice band shirt like this Smashin' Buldgers one?" Remus asked.
"No to casual. It is a cool shirt though. I am going to buy it." James said showing Remus to some button down shirts. "Stay away from the big patterns they look corny. Sirius, what are we going to wear tonight?"
"I am also thinking cargo shorts and… a button down. Yeah, you can never go wrong with a button down." Sirius said heading next to Remus.
"Well I am going for a polo. Cargo shorts sound good. Do you think Lily will think it shows off my muscle to much?" James asked.
"She will like the muscle." Remus said. The boys found their clothes and headed back home.
Lily
"How are we going to be ready in time?" Leah exclaimed putting her hair into curlers.
"I think its going to be a tight squeeze." Anna said as she got out of the shower.
"I wish we could use magic. A blow-drying and curling charm would be good right now." Lily said, and then remembered she has to get out of the date. She couldn't go. Maybe I will head over to James's and watch Leah and Sirius's date over there. Lily thought. "Actually, Leah, I don't feel so well. I don't think I can go tonight."
"It's just nerves. It will be fine; it's not a real date…" Leah said rushing over to her friend. Lily barfed. This fake vomit James bought for me worked like a charm, Lily thought.
"She's really sick. Maybe she should just stay home." Anna covered, knowing the plan. "Leah you should go anyway, tell James that Lily wasn't feeling good and you can make plans from there."
"Ok I will still head over there. To bad Lily bought that cute outfit and doesn't even get to wear it." Leah said. "Maybe you can save it for your first real date with James, if that ever happens."
"It will. I can sense it." Anna said.
"Stop talking about me and James and get going. You're both going to be late for your dates!" Lily said and climbed into her bed.
"Wow it is late!" Anna said. Just then the doorbell went off. Anna checked her appearance in the mirror and ran down to answer it. She opened the door to see Remus and Sirius at the door. "Hey guys. LEAH THE GUYS ARE HERE!" Anna yelled.
"What about Lily? I need to talk to her." Sirius said.
"She's sick. She barfed and everything." Leah said coming down the stairs. "Where's James?"
"He fainted from nerves. That's why I needed to talk to Lily, to say that James couldn't come." Sirius explained.
"Well since our friends got sick and left us, we should go on the boat ride anyway. It would be worthless to have that boat for nothing." Leah said. They fell right into the plan. Lily thought overhearing the conversion.
"Anna, we should go or we will be late for this movie thing…" Remus said taking Anna's arm.
"Yeah let's get going. Have fun on the boat ride!" Anna said with a smirk. Her and Remus headed out the door. "It all worked like clockwork. Leah and Sirius will be all over eachother before the night is done." With that the two walked to the cinema.
Back at the manors
"LILY, I AM GOING ON THE BOAT RIDE WITH SIRIUS! I WILL BE BACK LATER TO CHECK ON YOU. DON'T GO TOO FAR!" Leah yelled and left with Sirius. They walked down to the lake chatting along the way. Sirius was really nervous for the first time in his life.
"Oh here's the boat." Sirius said helping Leah into the boat. "I guess I will paddle. I thought James would at least get a motor on this thing."
"More romantic this way, I think James wanted to win Lily over tonight."
"Probably, its nice though." Sirius said paddling the boat to the middle of the lake. He didn't say a word, he was to nervous to say anything to Leah thinking that she might hate him if he said the wrong thing. He just stared at her and she stared at him.
Finally Leah spoke, "Sirius… um… Since we are out here I wanted to say… umm…"
"What do you want to say?" Sirius asked, extremely nervous. He moved closer to her, almost tipping the boat in the process.
Leah couldn't get the words out. How can a girl tell the guy she adores that she loves him, not knowing if he felt the same, she thought? So she did the next best thing, she kissed him.
Sirius got the message loud and clear. His body tingled at the feel of her lips on his. He pulled away and kissed her this time, deepening the kiss. "I think we should head back to the beach before we tip the boat." He said between kisses. They headed back to the shore and Sirius hardly had the boat docked when Leah started kissing him again.
Meanwhile at James's house
"Looks like our plan worked." Lily said. She had went over to James's shortly after the pairs left.
"Since when does a James Potter plan NOT WORK?" James joked. He was happy he could joke without Lily getting mad at him.
"I guess your right. Well no your wrong. You had a plan to seduce me 5th year and it flopped terribly. You need to learn you only can seduce without a plan." Lily said.
"Yes your right. I never did get you to love me." James said disappointed. And I never will. James thought to himself.
Lily decided it was now or never to tell her feelings to him. She knew he still cared by the look on his face. "You are wrong once again. You did get me to love you, just not with a halfwit plan. I can't belive you didn't notice that I have been liking you since I first arrived at the manor." Lily shocked herself when she spilled her heart out to him.
"Really? Remus mentioned it but I couldn't belive him." James said, pulling Lily into a hug. Lily leaned up and kissed James for a moment and pulled away. "This is too good to be true. Pinch me, I'm dreaming." Lily did just that pinched him, right in the behind.
"Your not dreaming. And you have no idea how badly I have wanted to grab you like that." Lily said giving him another kiss. They went like this for awhile and James noticed that Leah and Sirius were headed back up to the manors.
"Oh, no. What do we do?" Lily asked.
"Stay here. When Sirius and Leah come in and see us we will tell them the plan we had." James said.
"But um… we look like we just came from a good snog." Lily said pointing to her messy hair. James chucked a brush at her. "You actually own a brush. I am surprised. I see it doesn't get much use though."
"Just brush your hair. Then you should look fine. I think our friends will be in shock if they saw us together already." James said. Lily did as she was told and hid the brush under the couch. James came and sat down when Sirius and Leah came in.
"James, mate, we came to check on you. Lily, what are you doing here? I thought you were sick." Sirius said.
"Well I wasn't. Have you ever heard of zonko's fake vomit potion?" Lily asked and Sirius nodded.
"What about Zonko's Nervous Faint?" James said and Sirius's mind finally connected the dots, or so he thought.
"You two wanted a romantic night alone, without telling us you were together, so you schemed a plan to get out of an activity to be alone!" Sirius explained.
"Um no. Nice attempt trying to get us together though. We did this to get YOU TWO alone together. We knew that you both liked each other but wouldn't admit it." Lily said.
"Yeah, I knew Sirius must REALLY care about Leah, for I have never seen him at a loss of words or blush EVER!" James added. Sirius wanted to kill his best friend for this. "We are very happy to see that the plan worked. We watched you two snog each other on the boat. Then we stopped watching, for your privacy."
"Or you two were to busy snogging. We saw more then you thought when we were coming up."
"Shit." Lily cussed.
