What happened next…

Disclaimer: J.K Rowling wrote the books not me. I don't own anything. Except the characters I made up.

Summary: James likes Lily but are his feelings returned? Will Lily ever give in and go out with the marauder or is them even being friends asking too much? These two questions can only lead to confusion, fun, and much more. Rated m for later chapters. R and R.

Author's Notes: Thanks so much for reviewing so quickly. I got five reviews. Now it's not much but I am really happy. If my reviews steadily start getting more and more I will be so happy. I really tried on this story. Thanks so much to anyone who reads it. I would really like to hear from anyone reading. I am glad a few liked the last chapter. I thought people would like it cause theres a kiss in it. I know I always like a bit of romance. Hope you enjoy this new chapter, I think its cute. Please like it. lol.

Chapter 6

The next day began quietly, it was a Sunday and nobody really wanted to do anything really exciting. They all got up at around midday. Lily was the last to get up and finally her friends had had enough and sent James to go find her. He wasn't sure which room she had taken so he knocked on every door and eventually found her sleeping in the end room.

He knew the room she was staying in well and seeing her sleeping in the bed he felt like she had always been there. Her hair splayed out over the pillow and body curled up under the duvet. He walked over to the bed and gently shook her.

"Hey Lily, wake up," he said quietly but loud enough to wake her up. She stirred and opened her eyes. She blinked a couple times and looked at James.

"Hey James why are you waking me up so early?" Lily said with slight irritation showing in her voice.

"It's two in the afternoon Lil's," James said. Lily like how he called her Lil's, it sounded good when he said it.

"Oh, well I guess I better get up then, Lily said sitting up and stretching. She looked out the window and sighed.

"James, I wish I could wake up in your house forever, it's so beautiful," Lily said. Then she realised she basically said she wanted to stay with James forever and her cheeks went a little red.

"I know, its great here. I'm very lucky," James said humbly.

"Yeah," Lily mumbled, "I love my room James, I picked this one, I hope you don't mind." Lily said.

"Why would I mind? I thought you would pick this one anyway. You never choose anything hastily do you? You wait for the right one," James said, the conversation didn't seem to be about rooms anymore. "This room is the best of them all. It used to be where my mum stayed when she and my Dad had an argument. It was weird seeing you sleeping here, it was almost like seeing her. She had red hair just like yours," James said looking at Lily closely, she could see his eyes were quite watery.

"I'm sorry James," Lily said resting a hand on his arm, "I'll move rooms for you if you want?" She offered.

"No, no, I want you to stay in here. This room suits you." James said then he said, "We're all waiting for you downstairs when you're ready. Take your time getting dressed we're not going out today. Everyone just wants to hang out. Oh and Peter left this morning, he got an owl from his mother saying that he had to come home immediately because of a family thing. He said he'd be back as soon as he could. We'll be in the basement when you're ready." James finished then left her to get up and dressed.

Lily quickly showered and dressed, she wanted to be comfortable so she put on her favourite blue hoody top and jeans. The jeans were old and ripped up at the bottom, but Lily loved them. She never usually wore them around other people, just when she was at home slobbing out but she didn't feel the need to impress anyone here. She put on her blue high tops and went down stairs to catch up with the rest of the gang.

She found the basement relatively easily and on her own this time. The basement actually looked fairly normal compared to the rest of the house. It looked like a teenage hang out really. Assorted sofa's around the room, a t.v., and things like a table tennis table and pinball machine.

All the different muggle appliances there were shocked Lily. The Potter's were obviously not traditional and didn't mind having muggle things in their house unlike some pure blood families. Her friends and the marauders were sitting on the sofas.

Remus and Amaryllis were sitting on one sofa, he was playing with her hair and kept blowing on her neck and she was giggling obviously it tickled. Lily looked to her other friend and Cressida was sitting alone on a sofa watching the television and Sirius was sitting on another with James, Sirius looked less than happy. James was watching the television too. Lily looked at what they were watching, it was the O.C. She immediately ran up and sat next to Cressida and watched with them

"I love the O.C." Lily exclaimed instead of saying hello.

"Me too," James said,

"Muggle stuff," Sirius grumbled. He seemed to be less than happy with the current situation with what happened with Cressida last night, but as no one else knew about it apart from Cressida everyone else was wondering why he was so moody. Cressida though, she was paying close attention to Sirius without anyone realising it.

She thought he was acting extremely childish, all she had asked was him to do was prove to her that he didn't just want a summer fling. But obviously that's all he had wanted and was upset his plan for a bit of fun had fallen through. She was glad she had been strong and not given in the night before, she had really listened to what Lily had said and did think she deserved better than to be treated like a piece of meat. She looked away from Sirius and looked at her friends. They were all sitting chatting.

"So are we still going shopping tomorrow?" Lily asked everyone.

"Yeah of course," Amaryllis said.

"Cool, I can't wait." Lily said, " What are you going to do while we shop?" Lily asked directing her question at the boys.

"I don't know," James said, "who's to say we won't come shopping with you." James said grinning.

"Oh you think you can handle a shopping trip with us?" Cressida said joining the conversation.

"What? It'll just be a boring couple of hours telling you that yes, you're bum does look small in that." James said grinning waiting for the response.

"Whatever, you can come if you want," Amaryllis said holding hands with Remus and linking their fingers.

"Okay, we will, I've never been muggle shopping, it will be fun." Remus said.

"Sounds boring to me but okay I guess," Sirius said coming out of his grumpy stupor. They rest of the conversation was mostly the girls deciding on where they were going to go when they went out. The boys started a conversation about quiddich, which soon turned into an argument about the best team in the quiddich league.

Finally when they had given up on the argument they decided to go out and practice quiddich on the quiddich court in the garden leaving the girls to themselves. As the boys left Remus pecked Amaryllis on the cheek, she turned bright red and giggled.

The minute the boys were out of earshot Cressida and Lily jumped on the sofa next to Amaryllis and shot questions at her.

"When did this start?"

"Did it start last night?"

"Did he come onto you?"

"Are you going out now?"

"Is he a good kisser?"

"Guys!" Amaryllis yelled to get them to stop with the questions. "I will answer your questions just give me a chance. It did start last night, I came onto him, I kissed him, no we arent going out, yet, and last but not least yes he is indeed a good kisser," and then Amaryllis rested her head on the back of the sofa and sighed happily.

"Oh my god! This is so great!" Lily squealed grinning at her blushing friend.

"At least someone is having good luck with their love life," Cressida said.

"What do you mean? I thought you and Sirius were getting on okay." Amaryllis said.

"Yeah we were, obviously he thought we were getting on better than I thought we were when he basically jumped me and molested me in a dark corridor," Cressida said looking grumpy.

"What!" Lily exclaimed looking shocked and angry.

"Oh it wasn't like that, everyone walked ahead of us last night and he pulled me into a corridor and started kissing me, I didn't exactly pull away at first and then I did and told him I wanted more than just a fling and walked off. I don't think he was expecting me to turn him down, it's probably never happened before knowing him. Now he's acting like a sulky little baby. I guess it was too much to ask for him to actually be nice and not such a player." Cressida said annoyed at her own weakness with Sirius.

"Look Cressida if he doesn't want to commit he's not worth it, and if he won't commit to you of all people someone no man can turn down then he is basically an idiot," Lily said.

"I agree, there are more fish in the sea," Amaryllis said. " Hey would it be alright if we joined the boys on the pitch."

"Okay, okay you can go see Remus," Cressida said smiling a t her friend.

"Great lets go!" Amaryllis said. She jumped up and went towards the staircase leading upstairs. Her friends were shaking their heads at her laughing. As they walked towards the pitch they were talking.

"'illis?" Lily said.

"Yeah Lil's," Amaryllis said as she skipped along the path.

"You know you and Remus, don't you… don't you ever feel if you act too keen he might lose interest," Lily said carefully trying not to offend her.

"No, its weird I never feel like that, I mean with us its always been that you let them chase us, but with him I wasn't afraid to show how I really felt. I hope you guys find someone like him, I think if you gave them the chance James and Sirius could be like that," Amaryllis said smiling she was glowing with happiness, her friends had never seen her like this before.

"I don't think Sirius will ever be like that Am' he's too self centred. I don't care though, he obviously just isn't the one for me," Cressida said sighing obviously not happy about this decision.

They turned the corner and walked onto the quiddich pitch where the boys were flying about Sirius and Remus throwing the quaffle between them and James flying randomly around obviously trying to catch the small golden ball that kept seekers so busy, the snitch. The three boys did whilst also dodging the illusive bludgers set out to hurt whoever got in their way.

The girls watched them for a while, they were all obviously very talented players and were easily could go professional even at their still young age. But it was clear amongst them that James was the most skilled flyer, he swooped and ducked with such accuracy that he looked like he was born with wings. He caught and let go of the snitch at least four times whilst the girls watched on unnoticed.

Just as the boys noticed the girls standing there, the bludgers did as well, the girls were after all standing on the pitch and the bludgers were coming straight for them. Frozen from shock and fear the girls didn't move and just as the bludger was about to hurtle at Lily's face and she had her eyes closed waiting for it to hit. Nothing happened. She opened her eyes and an inch from her face was the bludger struggling in a large strong hand holding it. She looked up and saw James hovering on his broom holding the bludger.

"Alright Lil's?" James asked smiling trying to make light of the situation.

"Yeah," Lily said her voice high and shrill. "Just great. Thanks." Then she let her friends to the stands and just watched the boys as they carried on playing about.

They sat for a while before Remus left Sirius and flew over to where the girls were sitting.

"Do you want to come flying with me Am'?" Remus asked.

"Sure," Amaryllis said blushing and hopping onto his broom. He immediately sped off quickly and her friends saw her gently hit him and giggle then put her arms around his waist and held on tight as he flew off away from the stadium. The other two marauders were still playing quiddich but soon enough James came up to the girls and said,

"Hey do either of you want a broom ride? You both look kind of bored just sitting there." He said obviously just being polite.

"I will take you up on your offer James, I have to say I have never actually been on a broom before." Lily said smiling.

"What!" James exclaimed.

"What? I've never been on a broom before so what?" Lily said obviously not thinking it as bigger deal as James was.

"I can't believe you've never been on a broom before that's like never breathing. Jump on dear lady and I'll show you how great it is," James said and Lily hopped on his broom and they flew off with him looping and swerving and her scolding him not quite as kindly as Amaryllis had Remus.

Once they were out of site it left Sirius and Cressida all alone. She sat there nervously not looking in his direction. He had landed his broom and was standing in the middle of the pitch staring at his feet. He finally looked and called to her,

"If I talk will you listen to me?" He said loudly so she could hear him from down on the pitch. She looked over to him scowling.

"I suppose it depends on what you have to say," Cressida called back down to him.

"I don't really know, I was thinking about what you said. I really have. I don't know what to do really. If I said will you be my girlfriend would you say yes?" Sirius called again.

"I don't know, it depends on whether I am the only girlfriend really. I am aware of your tendency to have more than one." Cressida said getting up and walking down to the pitch so she won't have to keep yelling at him from the stands.

"Well if I promise you are the only one will you say yes?" Sirius called.

"I don't know, why don't you ask and find out?" Cressida said stepping onto the pitch and making slow steps towards him.

"Cressida stop playing with me and give me an answer," Sirius said pouting a bit.

"Well I would but you haven't actually asked me a question yet," Cressida said her lip twitching. She was now a step away from him and he said quietly, there was no longer a need to shout.

"Cressida, will you be my one and only girlfriend?" Sirius said huffing at the games she was playing with him.

"Well I don't know, I'll have to think about it," Cressida said trying so hard not to laugh. Sirius' face was a picture of disappointment.

"But…" He started but he was cut off by Cressida taking a step closer throwing her arms around him and kissing him firmly on the mouth.

"I thought about it, and I think that I suppose I can give you a chance, but Sirius…" She stopped. He waited for her to say what she was going to say but it didn't come out.

"What?" He asked smiling with happiness.

"It's just now that I have you, I just don't ever want you to leave me because that would really hurt me Sirius, and I don't want to be hurt." She said this all in a quiet little voice. When she finished Sirius picked up one of her hands and took it in his and brought it up to his mouth and he kissed it.

"I would never, ever intentionally hurt you Cressida, I really care about you. I'm just scared, I mean you know me I'm a player I don't usually do relationships, what if I mess up?" He said now showing his insecure side.

"Just don't," Cressida said putting her hand under his chin and pulling him down to kiss her. She kissed him sweetly and gently; he rapped his arms around her and pulled her close as they had their first real kiss on the quiddich pitch.

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