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Author's note: I am soo sorry this took so long.


Chapter 6
Asking


Is he asking someone other than me? Oh my god! I thought he really wanted to go out with me. Lily if that is the case good you find him highly annoying. Ya, I wont admit it but I kinda enjoy having an admirer. And besides I owe it to Alice to go out with him. Well maybe I am the most beautiful girl in our year. Lily you vain girl. In snow white the wicked witch who wants to be the prettiest women ends up having her plot foiled. I know but, Lily gave up arguing with herself but knew she wanted to go hogsmede with the number one marauder, James Potter.

Lily sat staring at her food unaware of her surrounding and almost forgetting she was in the great hall eating lunch. Marlene was deep in conversation with Alice and judging by their giggling they were sharing Hogwarts latest gossip.

Remus was in the hospital wing due the upcoming full moon's side effects. Sirius was laughing over some prank that they had pulled and Peter was laughing along trying to be cool(which he isn't). The only unoccupied marauder was the infamous James Potter.

"You should eat my little flower, we cant have you wither away into nothing." James said in a concerned voice.

"Huh, what" Said a very clueless Lily.

"I was expressing my concern of you welfare my Little Flower"

"Oh I'll eat, sorry I was spacing, thanks" She said slightly blushing.

Lily did eat but in a neat way, the way one might when the person they want to date is watching them. The sort of neat but at the same time knowing there is only a few minuets before class and you need to eat.


It was only a few moments later that lunch was over and the grifindors had to make their way to the history of magic classroom to hear the boring professor Binns drone on and on. Lily sat diligently taking notes. It wasn't hard to notice the snores coming from her class mates. It seemed that only she, Alice and Remus were taking notes and the entire rest of the class was deep in slumber.

Man is he cute when he is sleeping. My god did you really just think that James, the James Potter is cute. There is something so wrong with you. Remember you find him incredibly annoying. Yes but I will have to date him so I mine as well enjoy it.

If James was dreaming there he was likely dreaming of a certain red headed girl. Dreaming that she would accept just one of his offers. Little did he know his dream would soon come true.


As the next period was announced the slumbering students awoke and made way to the dungeons for potions. Their teacher was strict and had them working right away. Since the potion was difficult she had them working in triplets. As it turned out Lily was working with Alice and James. While the other 3 Marauders worked together, well okay while Remus worked and Sirius goofed off and Peter started sweating and messing up the potion causing Remus to tell him he could do it by himself, in a polite way mind you.

Lily had seen Potter work in potions before, well if you could call it work. He usually goofed off and it was amazing that he was able to pull off getting Os most of the time. Yet to her great surprise today he was doing his fair share work and working fairly hard. He seemed to be focused and hard working.

James wasn't sure why today he was putting effort into his work yet somewhere deep in his heart he knew it had to do with his partner. His thought although was on his work was partly on another task.

James was well aware of the fact that Lily was sick of him asking for a date in the usual way and he should do something unique this time, just what was the question, oh well he would have more time later.

Lily sat in a similar predicament. She as always was working hard. She was noticing changes in James's behavior; he was acting well behaved, he had done what she had always wanted and now she knew she had to repay the favor and go on a date with him but maybe if she asked in a unique way.


Well you can likely see where this is going but read on anyway I promise to try to make it interesting. So now back to our story we find all of this year in the common room after dinner up to there neck in homework.


Alice had grown adapt to Lily's personality after all of these years of living with her. She could half way across the room if she was sad, lonely, excited, thinking, stressed, you name it Alice understood her friend like the back of her hand. It was on this occasions that Alice came to the realization that Lily had something on her mind and needed some real thinking time. It took her little time realize that and even less time to come up with a plan to give Lily what she wanted.

"Lily would you mind coming up to the dorm for a moment I need to show you something." Alice said tactfully not giving any hint to anyone else the real reason. Lily having been friends with Alice for so long understood and gave her an appreciative smile and fallowed her up the stairs after giving her a nod for the show.

Once inside the dormitory it took no more than a few moments to get to the point.

"Okay, Lily I brought you here, well you know why, so just spit"

To anyone other Lily Alice would have made no sense but Lily knew exactly what she intended. She had not meant spit as a teacher would tell you to spit out your gum she had meant tell me what is on your mind. Of course Lily needed no explanation and launched into a full explanation of what was on her mind.

"Well, I don't know how I feel, you see, I don't think I like Potter I mean you know I always thought he was a conceited, arrogant prat. But recently, since the dare, I have been noticing he is good looking, hard working, and nice."

Alice couldn't hold it in any longer. She had been listening to her friends every word and had to laugh.

"It's not funny" Lily said slightly annoyed.

"Yes it is. For starters it has taken you so many years to realize what every other girl in Hogwarts has. As much as this may seem to be new news to you James Potter is one of the best looking men Hogwarts has to offer. You, Miss Lily Evans, are the envy on almost every girl in the school. I can hardly think of many girls apart from your self that doesn't want a date with the famous marauders, yet here you are being asked every day for one and day after day you turn it down. Now after all these years you finally see what all the rest of us already have. And maybe this dare is one of the best things that have happened to you."

"Gee thanks for making me feel gilty"

"With pleasure"

"Anyway that's not the problem."

"I know that this is not a problem it is a good things and maybe-"

"Ugh, no what I mean is that I guess I really want this date but I'm afraid that James has given up on me and is going to ask someone else to Hogsmede. I think he has decided to take what Remus said to heart and go a while without asking me out, like until after Hogsmede and he kinda hinted at that when I was partners with him in transfiguration. So what should I do?"

It took Alice a few moments to process this new information. Finally she came up with a plan

A smile landed on Alice's face.

"To quote you yourself 'spit it'" Lily said wanting desperately to know.

"Well, here it..." And Alice began outlining her plan and when she was done both her and Lily wore identical smiles.

"Lets start now"


James sat in the common room pretending to do homework. Now normally when James was faking working he was coming up with some new plan on how to prank Snape or just Slytherians in general, but not today. Today a certain red head was the focus of his thoughts.

"I am going up stairs." James said in attempt to escape the awkwardness of pretending to work.

Both Remus and Sirius understood that it meant he need to think and quickly fallowed. Marlene had left for the library shortly after Alice and Lily went to the dorm knowing it was better to give them time and that then they would tell her as they always did. Only Peter was left but he was trying to hard with his homework that he didn't realize all of his friends were gone.

Once in the dorm Remus was the first to speak.

"Okay prongs, what's got that head of yours thinking."

"Lily"

"Gee I thought it would be something new today" Sirius said jokingly

"You guys I am serious,"

"No I'm Sirius,"

"Ha ha, okay let me talk for real. Okay so Lily has never done anything so much as given me the time of day right?"

"Now Jamesie after all of these years you are now coming to the realization that Miss Evans doesn't think very highly of you,"

"What did I just say about letting me talk? Anyway since I more than anything want a date with her,"

"Is that why you beg her every five seconds every day?"

"Sirius Orion Black please let me talk. Now as I was saying I really want her to go on a date with me, but I have been trying the same old thing for so long and judging by the fact I have never been on a date with her it's not working. So what I want more than anything is for her to go to Hogsmede with me. Do either of you have any suggestions?"

"I can think of only one thing-"Sirius began

"Well what is it?"

"The imperious curse" Sirius was at this point cracking up and Remus was fighting back a smile but James looked slightly annoyed.

Remus took this as his cue to think of something before James got fed up with them and did something stupid.

"Alright, I have an actual idea, but it will take some work."

Remus described the plan and with that they began work on the plan.


Bonus points to anyone that can guess the plan.

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Thanks to imfeelingthis182, Kooldudet, devilofhumor, tigerlily86, zippyfox, JewelBlossom, Random Reviewer, loopy6, edma emma-iepoo Eisner, Estonahenj, XxModernHippyxX, The strong and bettr than u, WINNER, kicks extra hard, Helen, Me

Imfeelinthis182thank you and when you assume you make an ass out of u and me

Kooldudet! thank you and I used your idea so Lily will ask James just he will also ask her, because a lot of people said Lily ask and a lot of people said James ask and I couldn't decide

Devilofhumor thanks and umm I update so there is no need to hold out your threat right lol. Anyway your stories are really good and you should update soon.

Tigerlily86 thank you and beilive it or not more people wanted Lily to ask James since in all the stories James asks Lily so I tried to be slightly original and have them ask each other.

Zippyfox thanks for your review more people wanted Lily to ask James than James to ask Lily but I thought it wouldn't make since if James just gave up on Lily so this is what I did, I always thought it would be James asking Lily too

JewleBlossom Thank you so much for the review and I agree that it is more appropriate for James to ask Lily but I wanted to have some fun and more people wanted Lily to ask James

Random Reviewer Umm I'm not sure if I want to thank you. It's kinda weird having your teacher read your story, but reviews are always appreciated so thanks but I do hope your life really isn't that bored.

Loopy6 thanks. You were in the majority and most people wanted Lily to ask James, I think it's more interesting this way.

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