Birthday Kisses ;)
A/N- So I hope no one minds the fact that I'm changing the rating from K+ to T… there really isn't any reason to do so but for creativities sake… ;) If it bothers anyone let me know! I do not write anything near smut because I CAN'T and even if I COULD I don't want to… it's basically a swear-free clean LJ story… that's rated T because the author has too much of an unnecessary conscience!
(This chapter turned out MUCH differently then expected… so sorry the 'To come' things is a bit of a lie again! SRY!)
Dedicated to the HMS/HHS Marauders… Love ya and miss ya!
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Her eyes suddenly opened up- not fair. She was really having a lovely dream about Potter being drowned in the lake by the Giant Squid who kept thrashing him again and again on the back of the head Three Stooges style (after she happened to push him in.)
Why did she wake up now? Taking a look at the alarm clock beside her she saw that it was six fifteen. Six fifteen? Hey- she woke up half an hour before it was suppose to ring. And despite popular belief alarm cloaks worked perfectly fine in Hogwarts. Now it was Lily's internal cloak that one should worry about…
Why the heck did she set it so early… it was Saturday… oh wait a Hogsmeade Saturday…
Hogsmeade? Then why did she set it so early! Closing her eyes in order to let sleep take over her she opened them again a couple of minutes later- having failed terribly and grudgingly walked to the bath room.
What she hated about the founders or whoever controlled the plumbing was that they made the prefect's bathroom so far away from the dormitories of all the four houses. Something about unity being brought to all the school's best and brightest by placing it in the same distance from each other etc. etc. etc… So unity was supposedly brought by walking half a mile to the bathroom each morning in your bathrobe- with morning breath and messy hair? No thank you. You can just keep inter house unity to yourselves (and not like they were great examples...cough Slytherin cough).
Lily hated morning breath. It was just plain icky. Such a terrible sour, messy, thick, gruesome feeling that morning breath is (almost as bad as James-being-drowned-by-a-giant-squid-Potter). And walked out in a half awake state to the normal dormitory bathroom in order to do brush away the morning breath, shower, and get ready for another great Hogwarts Hogsmeade weekend…
Walking around the bed her foot bumped into something. Looking down at what she bumped her foot on she saw a small hill of brightly wrapped presents.
Oh shit-ake mushrooms…
How does she keep forgetting this? How? Happy 17th Birthday Lily… you're finally of age, huh?
Squatting down and examining the vibrantly written Happy Birthday paper she decided her morning breath could wait just a millisecond more.
Even in the wizarding world wrapping paper was quite akin to Muggle ones (minus the flashing and moving words and pictures though Lily thought it just added to the tackiness level) so it took a moment to scan her parents' gift.
Spotting the one present packed in emerald green paper with a red bow, either rejects from Christmas or another one of her mum's quirks. Lily picked up the card first- back in first grade it was a drag- 'The Card first dear, yes now who's it from?'- but now it just came second nature.
Dear Lily,
Happy (insert random number)-th Birthday! Hope you have a great one! etc. Hope all your wishes come true! etc. You deserve it! Etc…
Love your (insert relation to Lily- friend, parents, secret admirer),
(Insert your name, Ex.- Evelyn, Mum and Dad, Great-Great Aunt Ophelia's former college roommate's second cousin twice removed)
Sadly her mum and dad were no better at writing birthday cards- sure her mum could write a novel of a weekly letter she sent to Lily- but in birthday cards… They had no pizzazz… Oh well it made getting to the presents so much faster. Come on even a Lily wanted to get to the presents faster… she was human after all (despite popular belief of being an 'angel' which she slammed in Potter's cocky face back in fourth year. –Did it hurt when you fell down from Heaven Evans? –No Potter but you tell me- it looked like you slammed down on your face…?).
Her parents had given her a tennis bracelet, emeralds. Seventeen years after she was born and her eye color still happened to be a big pun, but it's not like she would complain, emeralds were pretty after all…
Finding Genevieve's gift next she saw that it was a cardigan- three guesses in which color with a pair of matching artificial earrings… by matching you can also once again guess which color. It was really pretty and Lily gave herself a mental reminder to wear it today. A make up set from Emma… she should have known especially when the card said 'Really Lily it couldn't hurt, right?'
Seeing a package wrapped hastily in comparison with Genna and Emma's neat and precise packing she knew it must have been Evelyn's. Ripping off the neon paper she smiled seeing a large art set with the entire colors one could imagine- the type with more brush sizes then was really necessary and were all placed neatly in a large carved wooden box,. Evelyn always said Lily could paint anything if she sat still long enough to do so. Though Evelyn was one to talk who normally made the impression on people who met her for the first time that she was high off of coffee.
"Morning Lils- Happy birthday," said a still sleepy Genevieve coming and squatting down next to Lily.
"You're up early Genna," Lily smiled thanking her for the present as Genna went to rummage through some of the still-wrapped ones.
"This next," she said with a smirk. "It's from your not-so-secret admirer."
Lily groaned taking the package between two fingers as if it would explode at any moment and picked up the card.
Forget whatever she said about birthday cards normally lacking any pizzazz or personal touches- Potter's was the exception- he always was.
Dearest Lily,
I hope your birthday is as fantastic and unforgettable as you are (I know I can make it that way!).
Forever yours (really I'm not kidding Sirius- stop laughing!),
James Potter
P.S. - Lily can you please keep the present this time? Because you know my Manners Mistress said that returning a gift was rude (wait not that you are!) and Evans giving it back as a gift for me is also re-gifting a gift and that isn't correct manors either. And… oh yah- it's not as 'personal' as the present I tried to give to you at 'Christmas'. I swear! I still have that by the way… wait urgh… I hate these stupid finish-your-thought quills! I didn't mean to write that… hey it's not crossing itself out! Hey… wait no… it's starting to write a sonnet! REMUS!
Shall I compare thee to a Quiditch game?
Your voice, as lovely as the commentator when saying my name.
P.P.S- Phew Remus could figure that out! By the way, will you go to Hogsmeade with me Lily? ... Even though I already asked Allison… wait crap Remus it's doing it again!
P.P.P.S- Why can't it be P.S.S.S.? Anyways Lily PLEASE?
P.S.S.S.S.- Had to see how it looked… Anyways Happy Birthday… PLEASE!
"Well Lily," Genna said in an amused voice. "You have to admit- you're suitors have style all right."
"Sure…." Lily grumbled taking the smoothly wrapped (most likely by magic- Potter had no patience or skill) package to reveal a book.
"A book!" Genna gasped in a repulsive and disgusted voice. "He got you a book? Lily last time it was a necklace- an emerald necklace! And now it's a book? He's loosing his touch- or- even worse- Lily yours!"
"Ha ha," Lily said reading the cover out loud. "One Thousand and One Advance Curses, Jinxes, Pranks, Potions and Charms, To Cause Trouble, Deal with Foes, and for Pure Entertainment."
"What a suitable Marauder gift," Genna observed as Lily flipped to the inside front cover.
Happy 17th Birthday Lily… now that you're of age you can finally show those Muggles a thing or two…!
From,
James who wants you to go out with him- Remus it's doling it again!)
P.S. - You wouldn't use it on me right? Right Lily? (Remus I just bought Lily something very dangerous- and yes she so would use something like that- on ME!
"He's an idiot," Lily murmured as Genna burst out laughing waking up Emma and Evelyn saying between hiccups that James was either severely shaken or really liked Lily. "It wasn't that funny anyways!"
"Whatever," said Evelyn shaking her head and tossing her an envelope and said in an amused voice, "It's from Black. I'd open it if I were you."
"One free coupon for a date with Sirius Black (one hour maximum). One coupon for a warning about a prank the Marauders will play on you- expires one month from your birthday. One victory in a fight between you and James. One coupon for having Remus help you with your homework. One coupon for James to stop bugging you to go out with him- Expires tomorrow. One coupon for a free candy out of the bunch that Peter always keeps somewhere in his pockets and claims he doesn't have but we all know he does. And one coupon for getting Sirius Black the hottest boy in school to wave/wink/nod/or greet you." Lily read more disgusted after flipping through each coupon.
"Classy, very classy. You have to admit those guys have class." Emma said rolling her eyes.
"Don't worry I got one for my 17th too… though my options were a bit less …. Potter related." Evelyn said laughing even more if that was possible.
"Hold on Lily you forgot one!" Emma called handing her a bag.
"Oi, its Alice's birthday chocolate- gosh that girl is too nice- never skips a year that one… well might as well get a head start on our Hogsmeade-Lily's- birthday-celebration then!" Evelyn said looking inside taking out the Honeyduke's chocolate bar.
"Ewe… we didn't even brush our teeth yet!" cried Lily rushing to the bathroom.
"Quite obsessive that one- well I don't know about you guys but I am starved," observed Emma popping it open taking a bite as Lily came back five minutes later- fully brushed-showered-dressed-etc.
"'Kay anyways do you know that there are seven types of shampoo in there but only a quarter of a tube of toothpaste? Is it just me or is that-" Lily started until she saw tears slowly streaming down Emma's face. "Emma what's the matter?"
"Lily- it's not fair!" she cried out.
"What Em?" said Genna looking at her and looking back at Lily confused.
"You know Em you'll be seventeen really soon too…" Evelyn tried.
"No it's not that," she choked through tears. "Lily- it's not fair… all he does is think about you. Always. He never notices me- and only as YOU friend! Why not me! Why does he see in you that he doesn't in me?"
And with that she started sobbing on Genna's shoulder and Genna tried weakly, "Who Emma?"
"Him- the one who loves Lily… but Lily- I love him!" Emma said in a thick weak voice.
"Really Emma it was funny and all- but you seriously can't mean James Potter… right?" Evelyn said hastily while Genna shot her warning looks (Evelyn was fighting the urge to burst out laughing…)
"I LOVE HIM!" Emma shouted back bursting into tears again.
"Wait a second… Emma," Lily started. "Are we talking about the same James Potter?"
"Yes- him with those gorgeous calming hazel eyes and that messy hair that was just made to run your hands through…" Emma continued still sniffing looking at Lily with watery eyes.
"Wait a minute," Lily said suddenly in a sharp tone. "Did anyone but Emma take a bite of that chocolate?"
"What does it matter," cried Emma hysterically throwing herself on her bed as Lily bent down and picked up the bar- and peering at it with squinting eyes.
"Yes Lily its raspberry filled, now what about the situation," Evelyn muttered jerking her head towards the uncontrollable yelping coming from Emma' bed.
"Wait a second- it's spiked!"
"Spiked? Great now Lily has lost it too…"Evelyn muttered pacing around the room casting glances at Emma's four-poster bed.
"Yes with love po- that fuc-" swore Lily violently saying unfavorable things (and Lily barely ever swore. "The nerve!"
"What do you mean Lily?" Genna asked poking her head up from where she was hidden behind the curtain- bending next to Emma's bed.
"I mean that James Potter is a basta-" said Lily smelling the filling in the candy bar. "I CANNOT believe this!"
"Oh gosh… really?" said Genna in a concerned tone as Evelyn tried to stop from laughing. "Which one?"
"Nothing very strong but definitely enough for a good deal of damage." Lily muttered feverishly ducking down to look under her bed and pulling out a potion's flask with the signature 'L.E.' written on it that James always doodled randomly on spare parchment paper (and others that aren't so spare such as transfiguration essays).
"Wait do you have an antidote in there? Do you have everything in there? How is it that she has everything in there?" Evelyn said in awe.
"No- but if I add a bit of," Lily bent down and searched for some other ingredient- and apparently finding it- slicing it quickly and adding it to the flask and shaking it like there was no tomorrow (after she put the lid on of course). "It'll work as an antidote- so Genna you make sure that Emma gets this down."
"Yes sure," said Genna gently opening the curtains drawn around Emma's bed gently and coaxed the still sobbing heart broken girl to drinking it. "Lily- hey Lily where are you going… LILY!"
"Oho…I've… er… got something to take care of." Lily said walking out of the door fixing her hair once again as she walked out.
"Lily? Wait she's got that evil glint in her eye… Ev she's going to kill James!"
"Huh? What are you talking about Genna- wait- oh my- you're freaking right, Lily is going to KILL James!"
"And she has every right to!" sputtered an exhausted Emma whose head was hidden in her pillow. "Make him suffer Evans!"
"Em you are not helping," muttered Evelyn as she rushed to see Lily rush out of the door- and poked her head out of it and cried, "Really Lily you don't need to kill him!"
Lily turned around swiftly and gave a hint of a smile and shrugged, before turning back around and speedily walking down the stairs Mr. and Mrs. President style.
"Yes she does!" cried Emma from inside the room.
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The freak put me under a love potion! Well actually poor Emma- but the disrespect! The idiot- the jerk- the pervert meant for me to have it! Well, well… she was going to show him once and for all- and the last time that NO ONE messes with Lily Marie Evans or tries to mess with Lily Marie Evans or one of Lily Marie Evan's friends and gets away with it. He was going to PAY this time. And not yelling or lame jinxes… serious pain.
He probably thought she was under his pathetic spell (the one that was easily reversed with a cold sore serum mixed with a bit of Early Grey tea leaves). Wait he thought she was still under the potion… the potion (shiver)… if she was only doing it for revenge… she could easily make this work to her advantage no problem… Yes… those wasn't too much of a bad idea… irrational, illogical, and too spur of the moment, she'll probably think tomorrow when she has time to really think about it… but no this was finally going to get that freak Potter of her case once and for all…
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The Marauders woke up early today… they had some official 'business' to take care of that night so they planned on getting to Hogsmeade, the sooner the better. Normally it was impossible to get Sirius out of bed five minutes before class starts- so waking up on a Saturday early, would cause him uncontrollable shuddering but when there was pranks and Rosmerta's cooking to think about it was a whole new perspective.
Sure the Marauders sneaked into Hogsmeade tons of times during the month- but never can one go as freely in the only all-magical-town when they had 'Hogwarts students who aren't supposed to be here- but hey they are business' written all over them.
But you weren't supposed to know that and there really isn't no reason to run and tell McGonagall you see because then there was always another way. There was always a way for those four.
So anyways the four Marauders were in a deep, intriguing cultural discussion- mainly the two ring leaders, James and Sirius. About nothing other except the evident differentiations between lilies and lilacs...
"No Prongs you have it all wrong lilies and lilacs are the same flower!"
"No Padfoot you idiot, lilies and lilacs couldn't be more different! And then there are Lilies-of-the-valleys, Water Lilies, Tiger Lilies, and er..."
"Lily Evans…" assisted Sirius.
"Yah… Lily Evanses… hey!"
"Well James ole buddy, ole pal, ole mate, ole mole-"
"Mole?"
"Yes mole. Anyways you are going to feel like kissing me tonight! But the again you may be too busy kissing someone else so I'll take that back."
"Ewe Padfoot, I don't know why I'm going with Allison- it was just a slip of the tongue I swear and she cannot kiss…"
"Too much information, but believe me you'll see- I had double epiphanies the other day!"
"Uh-huh," groaned a very pale sleepy Remus Lupin. "Guy I don't think I can go, when I said yes to Jenna I didn't realize that it was a full moon and well…?"
"Yah- Moony I'll make your excuses- but you so owe me…" James said watching his friend slightly concerned looking like he was at death's doorstep. Years after they'd figured out about Moony's little condition and it still freaked him seeing his friend like that.
"Uh- huh, now back to the point that lilacs and lilies are completely different! It's like comparing Gryffindors and Slytherins-" James started then felt something jerking him up from the bench and pulling at him furiously. Turning to look up he saw that it was a crazed looking Lily (of the Evans variety) dragging him out of the Great Hall forcefully and James staggered a bit but more or less let her drag him to Merlin knows where.
Remus peered up from his Seventies/Eighties rock band concert/bulldozer type headache and groaned, "What did James do this time?"
"Oh it's not James this time," said Sirius with his crazed, conniving, devious look.
"Urgh- Serious…" Remus groaned feeling that his headache was just bound to get a million times worse and it wasn't the moon's deal this time.
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"Evans wait a second," James muttered to the determined Lily (Evans not Valley etc.) knowing that nothing would happen. "What are you taking me?"
"Oh you know Potter," she spit out hoarsely and kept pulling him until they reached an empty classroom dragging him furiously in from behind her.
"Now before you start yelling Lily let me tell you that the stink bomb in the Slytherins' bathroom wasn't-"
But he never got to continue his thought- not only because his sentence was forgotten but also that he found himself unable to talk (in a most endearing way.)
Lily grabbed him by his scarlet and gold tie furiously bringing him close to her and placed her lips upon those of James Potter silencing him immediately- and shocking him to heart attack levels.
What's going on? Wait- is…LILY EVANS doing this? The one kissing me- heck snogging me like there's no tomorrow? Wow… I must be dreaming… He quickly pinched himself harder then he would have normally would (because there was no way that this is anything but a wild dream, a really wild dream) and found that it actually hurt. Hell I'm so not dreaming! Lily Evans is… WOW…
And now when he realized what was happening to him he left any sense of reasoning he had (which was admitingly was very little to began with) and got… well into it…
And it was beyond anything he ever felt… it was like fire. And well he didn't care if he was going to get third degree burns because it was….amazing. So being a seventeen year old boy he couldn't help it, and really if you look hard enough there would be some PG movies with kissing like this… really there is some out there. Yah- like one of those Disney princess deals… yah Disney was trouble all right…It wasn't exactly PG-13… oh what the heck it was pushing PG-13 and really it didn't matter- Lily Evans and it was… wow.
And then she pulled him even closer (if that was physically possible by any law of whatever- well let's just say Newton and company would have been shocked at the possibility) and James thoroughly complied. Suddenly he felt her jerk her knee up and felt instant tear jerking pain where it really hurts for guys- heck it's not even that pretty for girls. Something about too many sensitive nerve endings… darn those nerve endings… And wincing in pain he stepped backwards and saw a beyond furious Evans staring at him.
"What the fu-" he cringed staring at her. She was crazy wasn't she? Mad and he thought looking at her maddeningly beautiful.
"Potter you tell me!" she shrieked slapping him furiously.
"OUCH!" he moaned.
"Well you really don't have much of a stamina for pain, now do you Potter? You are the world's biggest, sickest, ba-" Lily shrieked (back to a banshee like way) and slapping him once again- the slaps really didn't hurt for the fact that his eyes were already tearing up from the pain concerning his family jewels.
"What?" he moaned.
"Really don't you think that I of all people can't sense a love potion!" she muttered with a twisted look on her face in a rare moment of self pride- in front of the way too 'prideful' Potter
"What are you talking about Evans?" he shouted back- but then reasoning suddenly dawned on him. Sirius… Sirius! Anyways you are going to feel like kissing me tonight! But the again you may be too busy kissing someone else so I'll take that back. Oh shi-take mushrooms…
As he was contemplating this recent development Lily was still screaming her head off at him (for good reason he had to bitterly admit… o how it he hated to admit it).
"And Emma," she continued in the same ranting voice.
"Lily- look it wasn't me who put that in there!"
"Uh-huh. Potter you are a sick chauvinistic jerk! And I never want to see your smirking face again! You make you sick! Do you have any idea about anything? I don't know how you manage to walk you are so ignorant!" She ranted on.
"Lily look, I didn't mean to!" he continued!
"Sure- the charming infamous Potter never means to do anything- it just happens! You know what Potter? I'm sick of things just happening to me because of you! So for the last time just leave me alone! I'm sick of your constant being there and you know what I cannot take it anymore! If I'm in the insane asylum before my 18th birthday it'll be YOUR doing Potter! I can't take you anymore so just shove off!" She muttered sending him one less look full of complete one-hundred-and-ten percent loathing beyond loathing and turned around and walked out of the empty classroom in one single stroke.
Well there's a way to control your emotions and speak to him like an adult Lily… well whatever… she thought failing to notice the frustrated and slightly hurt look on his face.
And doing so James once again watched her retreating back and fiery dancing hair… darn that fiery dancing hair…
That always seemed to wave at him saying- taunting him, 'you'll never win Potter' and though he really knew he should get the point and leave her alone (she was just another girl and it's not like he couldn't get any other) another voice in his head said in an amazed tone really admiringly that they really broke the mold when they made her.. She really was something else… and darn it she was beautiful…
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Thanks for the reviews… And you know they really help so much!
AN- YIKES It's different then I thought… it was supposed to go through Hogsmeade and onto the full-moon… but YIKES it took longer then expected to get this far! BTW- I also wanted to say that this story shall be MUCH different then 'Small Steps' including the fact that I DO NOT want it to be rushed (but believe me it won't be boring- because there is always gonna be LJ interaction!) and I don't want James eating out of the palm of Lily's hand (you'll see!)
Like Always,
TajM
TO COME!
-How the sixth year Gryffindors tend to be related and if dating your mum's second cousins cousin's son is incest…
-Sirius's 'brilliant' reasons for placing love potion in Lily's chocolate…
-A Sirius who can only speak Shakespearean terms…
-Some splinching ahead… unpleasant really… and some very unflattering names for the 'Triple D's…' !
-And other hilarious moments to follow and VERY shortly a painful transformation for everyone's favorite werewolf! (From HP not Van-Helsing… gosh!)
And how LJ finally became our favorite MWPP era couple… but that doesn't come until later… and until YOU GUYS HELP me out with does REVIEWS!