Chapter 12

The next few weeks were heaven for Lily and James and they didn't even kiss again until the end of their third date. It was the weekend before Easter break was about to start so James wanted to go out and celebrate as a group date. James, Lily, Sirius, Carmen, Remus and Liz all met in the great hall at 8 on the Saturday night. Peter had been invited but had declined, muttering something about making up potions homework.
James offered Lily his arm, which she took. "Shall we?" he asked.
"We shall," Lily giggled. They were dressed fancy casual because they had decided to visit the bar and club in Hogsmeade. The girls had been a few times and had always had a great time. The fact that they never checked ID was also a quite appealing attribute.
James and Lily walked through the front entrance, hand-in-hand.
"Hey, Boris," Lily greeted the bouncer at the door as he let them through, and the group headed straight to the bar. Lily took a stool next to James. The bartender spotted her and walked over.
"Hello, Lily. What can I get you all tonight?" he looked around at the group of grinning teenagers.
"Hey, Jimmy. We'll all have our usual and these guys will have a two Firewhiskeys with a shot of lemon and a rum and coke," she said, pointing to the boys.
Jimmy nodded and ran off to make their drinks.
"You are amazing," James commented, kissing her neck.
"Tell me something I don't know," she replied, smiling. "Let's go get a table."

"Ok, we got two firewhiskeys with lemon, a rum and coke, one tequila shooter," Carmen grinned mischievously, " a martini, dry with 2 olives and one pumpkin juice," Liz blushed and took her drink. "Anything else, girls?"
"No thanks!" Lily replied, taking a sip of her martini.

Another round of drinks and a few slightly slurred conversations on some parts later, the group decided to do some dancing.
"Let's show 'em how it's done, Lils!" James said, offering his hand. Lily took and followed him to the dance floor.

Later that night, Lily found herself stumbling back towards the school with James.
"Wow, I really need to learn not to drink so much," she mumbled, grabbing onto him to steady herself. Not many people had seen Lily like this, mostly just her friends. To everyone else she was the sensible, hard-working head girl that never did anything wrong. The truth was, even Lily liked to have a little fun every once in a while.
Thankfully, James had managed to stay reasonably sober and could help direct her as the castle loomed closer and closer.
"Now, here's the Lily Evans I love: Party Girl Extraordinaire!" James joked.
"Haha, very funny...w-woah!" Lily had lost her balance and was rapidly tumbling towards the earth; but she refused to go alone. As she fell, she grabbed James' shirt and pulled him down with her.
Lily landed on her back with James on top of her; she still had a handful of his shirt clutched in her fist. His hands were on her waist.
"James?" she asked.
"What?" he replied. She watched him for a minute and then kissed him. Without hesitating, he kissed her back. She could smell the heavy scent of alcohol swirling around and between them. Lily felt him trying to pry her mouth open when she suddenly jerked away.
"What's wrong, Lily?" James asked.
She pushed James off of her and ran towards the woods, veering wilding off course every few steps.
"Lily!" he chased after her towards the edge of the forest. When he finally caught her she was bent over a tree, clutching her stomach.
"Lily?" he moved a little closer and she didn't move or look at him. Suddenly, Lily grabbed her hair back, aimed her head for the ground and vomited.
"Ohhh," James uttered, half sighing in relief that it wasn't him that had made her run and half in disgust at his dates upchuck reflex.
He walked over to where Lily was now sitting on the ground and leaned down.
"I'm sorry," she managed to utter, not looking up at him.
"It's ok. Now let's get you up to your room before any teachers find out what you've been up to," James said. He slid one arm under her knees and the other around her back. Lily draped her arms around his neck and James lifted her up. "There you go," he cooed as she rested her head on his shoulder and began to carry her back towards the castle.

By the time James had carried Lily back to Gryffindor common room, she was fast asleep in his arms and snoring up a storm. He climbed the girl's staircase and knocked on the top door.
"Just a minute!" he heard Liz yell from inside the room. There was a rustling and then the door opened. Liz saw James standing there holding a sleeping Lily and stood back to let him in.
"Thanks for bringing her back, that one's her bed," Liz said, pointing to the third one over as the door shut behind them.
"Well, she was pretty smashed, I figured it was the decent thing to do," he grinned as he Lily down on top of her sheets and pulled a blanket over her.
"Yeah well, Carmen's just as bad," Liz said, pointing to the next bed over. Carmen was lying with her face in her pillow but James could see that she had lost her jacket and out of the two feet poking from beneath the covers, only one had a shoe on. She also seemed to have decorated most of her body in some sort of pen. James chuckled.
"They'll be better once they've slept it off and had a few pills for the headaches," Liz commented.
"Yeah." James looked at Lily again. "Ok, well, I better let you get some sleep now. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Night," Liz said as she climbed into her own four-poster. James waved and backed out the door, shutting it behind him.

Ok, sorry for those of you who think that Lily is OOC in this but I really wanted some more fun (especially teenage fun, because that what they are!) before I have to start thinking about winding down the fic (don't worry, still a few chapters left!)

Love it when you comment, more soon!

Jes

ps. sorry if is hard to read, but this stupid quickedit refuses to acknowledge any of my spaces! ahhhh! love you for not rioting!