Chapter 11 Notice me
"SIRIUS! YOUR GOING TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE!"
Lily woke up with a start. Surely enough, there was a smell in the air that told her one thing: The Marauders were trying to cook.
"REMUS! COME HELP US!"
Lily heard Remus chuckle.
"But watching you guys struggle is so much more fun! James, just a side note, the pancakes are burning."
"Bloody hell!"
Lily giggled and turned over. Emma was awake, too, and smiled at her.
"Are they trying to cook?" Lily asked, raising an eyebrow.
Emma giggled. "Obviously. Let's go see what their doing before they burn the house down!"
Lily and Emma got up and walked over to the kitchen. What they saw made them double up in laughter. Sirius, who was usually very sensitive about his looks, was covered in what looked like pancake mix, while James was trying to cook what looked like eggs, but turned out very liquid-like, something eggs definitely weren't supposed to look like. Remus sat at the table peacefully, watching them with a smile on his face.
He looked over at the girls and smiled even more at their laughter. "Care to join me?" he asked.
The two girls made their way over to the table and sat down.
"Oy! Moony! Letting girls into my presence while I look like this?" Sirius said, very shocked that the girls were seeing him in such a state.
"Well, Sirius, luckily with your good looks, anything, even pancake mix, looks cute on you." Emma said, winking at him.
Sirius grinned at her. "And to think you're the same girl that turned me down last year!" Sirius replied, looking a little indignant.
"Padfoot! Quit flirting and get over here and help me out!" James cried, trying desperately not to burn the bacon.
Lily looked at her friend. "Should we help?"
Emma nodded. "Then they'll be in our debt."
The two walked over and began to and help the boys.
"Oh, wow, you guys are lifesavers." Sirius said in relief, as Emma came over to help with the pancake mix.
"Yeah, well, you owe us, you know." Lily replied, helping James with the bacon. It took about twenty to minutes to clean up the mess and to get things settled down. Finally, Lily and Emma had cleaned up so the five of them were sitting at the table eating away.
"Wow, this is good." Sirius managed between gulps of food. Emma looked a little revolted.
"Table manners, Black." She warned, but couldn't help but smile.
"You know, you three really didn't have to try to make breakfast for us." Lily replied, still smiling at the thought.
"Three? You mean two. Remus only sat here and laughed!" Sirius said indignantly.
"You two were doing fine by yourselves." Remus commented lightly.
"We just really wanted to help you guys out. After..um..yesterday." James said quietly, but could still be heard over Remus's and Sirius's arguing.
"That's sweet." Lily smiled.
James suddenly felt his heart beat a hundred times faster.
"Ooh! Is our little Prongs blushing?" Sirius exclaimed, sounded very girly.
"Ack! Padfoot, men don't blush." James said, sounding insulted.
"Well, then, I guess that explains all the feminine qualities you have." Sirius stated.
After that, James and Sirius had abandoned their food and made their way over to the living room, grabbing pillows from the sofa and having an all out pillow fight.Remus tried to intervene, but ended up getting caught in it himself.
Lily and Emma were laughing at the trio when Sirius and James came up and began hitting them with their pillows. After an hour of this, the five finally got tired, and collapsed on the living room floor.
"This is weird." Lily muttered.
"What do you mean?" James asked.
"Two weeks ago I would've never considered even talking to you, because of what an arrogant jerk you were. And now, two weeks later, I'm having the time of my life with you." Lily said, quite bluntly, but looking at James a bit apologetically.
"I'm not that bad." James replied, glancing over at her.
"I know. I guess it was just your reputation. And the fact that you taunt Snape and make his life miserable-"
"Given the chance, he'd do the same to us!"
"I guess."
There was an uncomfortable silence left after the last statement.
"Well, now what?" Remus asked.
Emma yawned. "Do you guys mind if I go take a nap? I didn't get much sleep last night."
"Yeah, I think I'll go take a nap, too. I'll show you to the guest room." Sirius offered, taking her hand. Emma looked back at Lily, looking a bit pink. Remus said he would do the same, leaving James and Lily alone.
"Um, I'm going to go see if Emma found the room okay." James said, standing up and following the other four. Lily just nodded, deciding not to point out that Sirius had already offered to do that.
Lily sighed and began to wander around the house. After awhile, she found the backyard. Stepping outside, she realized how beautiful it was. It was snowing lightly, and the view just seemed magical. Lily spotted a bench nearby and sat down. There was a little pond in the middle, Lily had noticed it had froze because of the cold. She sat there, thinking. She then noticed how cold it was, and began to shiver.
"Cold?" a voice behind her asked. Lily felt someone put their jacket around her, and looked up seeing James smiling down out her. He sat down next to her.
Lily blinked. "Aren't you going to be cold?"
James shook his head. "I can stand the cold."
Lily nodded and began to space out. They sat in silence for awhile, until James asked decided to ask, "When you said two weeks ago you'd never consider hanging out with me, I was wondering whether you changed you mind?"
For some reason, Lily couldn't meet his eyes. "I'm sorry," she said quietly, "I didn't mean to be so--- blunt. It was just, after last year, in the lake, I thought the only reason you kept on asking me out was because I was one of the few girls you couldn't get. But, I don't know, after spending some time with you, I realize your not as bad as I thought. I'm still not sure if I trust you though."
James cupped Lily's face in her hands and looked directly into her eyes. "Lily, I'm sorry. Yes, I know I've made some mistakes in the past, but I'm not all that bad. You can trust me, I'd really love it if we could be friends."
Lily smiled. "Who would've thought you'd turned into Mr. Sensitive?"
"There's a lot about me you don't know."
"Then tell me."
"What?"
"Tell me some stuff about you, and I'll tell you some stuff about me."
"Well, what do you want to know?"
"Anything."
"You go first."
"Okay, fine. How about...my sister hates me?"
"Why?"
"I'm a witch."
"That's nothing to be ashamed of!"
Lily shrugged. Just then, Sirius and Emma walked up to them, each wrapped in warm jackets.
"James, we need to go to St. Mungo's. To see your mom." Sirius said, looking grim.
James nodded grimly. Truthfully, he had been having a great morning, he wasn't looking forward to facing reality again.
"Lily, Sirius said him, James, and Remus would come to your house afterwards, to see if there's anything we can salvage." Emma whispered, as if not wanting to remind Lily.
"We'll wait for you in the house. We have to wake up Remus." Sirius said, and the two of them had walked away.
About a minute after they had left, Lily got up, but James took her arm, pulling her back down on the bench.
"Can we have this talk again?" James asked.
"Tonight." Lily said quietly.
"You can trust me, you know." James whispered.
Lily looked into his eyes and smiled. "I know. Are you scared about seeing you mom?"
"Yeah. And you?"
"Yeah. I'm glad to see them though."
There was a few moments of silence. James suddenly reached over and have Lily a kiss on the cheek. "I'd never do anything to hurt you or betray your trust." He said quietly.
She only nodded and whispered, "I know." Then said, "So, I'm glad we came to this little understanding. I was getting tired of all those pranks we were playing on eachother."
James laughed. Together, they made their way inside, not really ready to face reality, but knowing they didn't have a choice.
'I'm glad we came to this little understanding, Lily. You won't regret it.' James thought to himself, looking over at Lily.
A/N. Like it? hate it? Cheesy? I don't think this was too great of a chapter, but, I wanted to make the mood alittle lighter. Anyways, please review! There will be some romance with Lily and James, this fic is about them after all! I'm sorry for the romance coming so late into the story. Anyways, review!