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Chapter 9
"I've decided to break up with Daniel." The announcement brought silence to the group. It was a week after Lily and James had returned and they had just gotten out of the hospital wing.
"Really?" James said, a little too eagerly.
"Yes."
"Why?" Abby asked, trying not to smile.
"He's not right for me. Just like when Remus broke up with Melanie the other day. I need some one I'm comfortable with. Some one…I don't know. Some one who's not Daniel."
"That's too bad." Remus said holding back a grin.
"Yeah, now you're single and not going out with anyone one. All ALONE. Free to be asked out be ANYONE. Anyone. Some one who LIKES YOU." Sirius said, hinting to James. He winked at Abby thinking he had done a good job. She smacked her forehead.
"What?" Lily asked confused.
"Nothing. I was merely pointing out now you are BOYFRIENDLESS. NO BOYFRIEND. You do, however, have a BOY who is a FRIEND and maybe would like to be a BOYFRIEND." Remus just wished he would stop before he embarrassed himself or some one else.
"Are you coming onto Lily?" James asked suspiciously. "You already have a girlfriend."
"What? NO! I was just stating that-"
"Stop Padfoot, you're going to embarrass yourself." Remus sighed.
"Well, I better go and do it now." Lily stood up.
"So…do you think Lily will get a new boyfriend quickly?" Abby asked.
"Definitely. She's gotten even hotter, I mean who wouldn't want her. She's sexy, she's smart, she-"
"Padfoot stop. You aren't a good helper." Remus interrupted.
"Do you like Lily?" James asked confused.
"NO! I'm just saying lots of boys do. Look, she's nice and she's friendly but not too friendly if you know what I mean. She's got nice teeth. I know you don't think that is important but you will come your wedding day."
"Sirius, are you thinking of MARRYING Lily?" James asked glaring.
"NO! NO! I was saying-"
"Stop. Just stop while you can." Remus shook his head.
"So…do you know any one who likes her Prongs?" Sirius asked, ignoring Remus and his warnings.
"Why? Trying to eliminate competition?" He said nastily.
"No, I was just wondering. I mean if you do they better scoop her up soon. She won't be available for long."
"Why? Are you going to ask her out?" He shot him a glare that could melt cheese.
"Not at all. I was just saying how much of a great girl she is and how unlikely it is that she will be single for long. She's so perfect. Look at how she walks. She's got style." Abby stared at Sirius and his stupidity. He just doesn't know when to stop, does he?
"Why don't you just go shove you're bloody tongue down her throat instead of sitting here and drooling over her?" James asked clenching his fists.
"What? I was just pointing out-"
"Merlin, Sirius! Are you really stupid enough to continue?" Abby said in surprise any one could be so thick.
"Hey! I was just stating that Lily has-"
"SHUT UP!" James cried. "I can't stand this any more! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!" He stomped his foot.
"What was that about?' Remus asked in shock.
"What?" He said innocently.
"Don't what me. What was that little tantrum about?"
"I just don't like guys talking about her like that."
"Why not?"
"She's my friend."
"Just admit it!" Abby cried. She shook his shoulders and scared him a little. "ADMIT IT! YOU LIKE HER!"
"What? I have a girlfriend!" He protested.
"You dumped her this morning; she lasted 14 whole hours that's even longer than the last 12. Just admit it. You like Lily and you're trying to hide it." Abby said smartly.
"I do not like-" He caught her glare. "Ilikelily." He mumbled.
"WHAT!" She asked in shock. She didn't think he'd admit it.
"Ilikelily." He said louder but just as fast.
"Hmm?" Sirius asked. He actually didn't hear.
"I. Like. Lily." He said slowly.
"Really? You're admitting it? No more hiding your feelings?" Remus asked in disbelief.
"I never hide…fine. I did. You're not to tell Lily. It's just a little like. A silly crush. It will go away." He said, but he wasn't so sure he wanted it too.
"I don't think so. I think it will grow." Abby said.
"Like a flower." Sirius said happily. "Like a Lily!" He laughed like a maniac. At that moment Lily walked in and Sirius laughed even harder.
"What's he laughing about?"
"Like…a…flower." He gasped out. "Like…a…Lily!" He said before laughing again.
"What?"
"Nothing." They said together.
"Anyway I broke up with him. I'm glad that's over."
"You're not the only one." James mumbled.
"What?"
"I think I'll go and soak up the sun." James stood up nervously and rushed out.
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"Sparrow, sparrow, sparrow." Lily said pacing the common room. It was midnight, as always. Three weeks after Lily's break up.
"Turkey, turkey, turkey." He smiled as she twitched.
"Obviously phase four didn't work. Where are we on the cliché count?"
"Well…we haven't tried the overused one of the secret admirers note. Send one to both of them and get them to meet and then they'll realise they're madly in love."
"Good idea." She sat on the couch with her feet in his lap. James grinned at her and started playing with her feet.
"Right. So you write one to Sirius and I'll do Abby. Tell them to meet at the astronomy tower at midnight in three days."
"Excellent. Phase five it is."
"Remember to make the note really sappy and cheesy."
"Would you expect anything else?" Lily smiled at him and had the urge to kiss him. WHOA! Where did that come from? I need to get some sleep.
"You alright?" He asked concerned.
"Yeah. I was just…thinking." She blushed.
'Why were you staring at me?" He asked suspiciously. Lily blushed deeper.
"It's because I love you Jamsie." Lily grinned, playing off her blush as a joke.
"I wish." James muttered.
"What?" James sat up straight and alert.
"I said…er…I like fish."
"James, you're allergic to fish."
"So…I can still like it."
"Right. Ok, so we write heaps of overused lines and then we send them off. They should get the letters in two days."
"That's it." He yawned. Lily smiled at him. He looks adorable. I shouldn't think that. Oh shut up, I'll think he's hot if I want. If I happen to think he's the hottest male to walk this earth so be it.
"Er…well. Good night." She jumped up and kissed his cheek. They both blushed red and Lily darted up the stairs. Why did I do that? What's the problem, I do that all the time. It was different this time.
James was still sitting downstairs with a stupid, goofy grin on. She's so great. He ran upstairs, succeeding in tripping over his feet and tumbling to the bottom. That, however, still didn't shake the grin off his face.
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The owl post flew in and Lily and James were bouncing in their seats.
"Phase five, commencing."
Dearest Abby,
I have often admired you from afar and wondered what it would be like to be with you. You are the sun in my life. You are the air that I breathe. I love you. I have loved you for so long yet I have been too afraid to let you know. If you were to reject y hearte my world would crash. You are the reason I get up in the morning and I can no longer live with out you.
Sweet Abby, please meet me in the astronomy tower at midnight tomorrow.
I'll be waiting,
Love,
Your secret admirer.
Abby grinned and held the letter to her chest. She hoped it was who she thought. Lily and James shared a smile and watched Sirius raise an eyebrow at his letter. He shoved it in his pocket and grinned. He would go; there was no doubt about that. He would go and Lily and James would make sure that they FINALLY came around.
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"Shh. Some one's coming." Lily whispered. It was midnight the next day and they were under the invisibility cloak in the astronomy tower.
"It's Abby." James whispered back. Abby stepped through the door and looked around. She smiled and walked over to the window in the shadows.
"Hello?" They heard Sirius' voice. Abby spun around and they gaped at each other. James was sniggering and Lily was trying to keep him quiet.
"YOU?" They said together.
"YOU WROTE THIS?" Abby burst throwing the letter at him. He skimmed it and his eyes bulged.
"NO!" He gave her his letter. "Did you write this?"
"No way."
"Phew. That's good. I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I like some one else." Lily and James gasped.
"Me too." Abby smiled.
"Who?"
"Who do you like?"
"You promise you won't tell?"
"I swear." Abby smiled evilly looking around.
"Alright…" Sirius sighed. "I like Lily." He said loudly.
Lily felt James tense beside her and he was fuming. His fists clenched and he was glaring murderously at Sirius.
"Really?"
"Yes. Who do you like?"
"James." Lily gasped. WHAT? She can't like him? She can't like James. She can't have him. I won't let her! Lily narrowed her eyes.
Suddenly Sirius and Abby started to laugh. "We know you're there." They stayed silent.
"Lily and James you can come out now."
They still stayed silent.
Sirius walked over and pulled off the cloak. "I brought the map with me." James was still glaring at him and Lily was restraining herself from hurting Abby.
"Will you two stop trying to kill us with your eyes?" Abby asked grinning. "We were only joking." Lily and James let out their breaths. Sirius raised and eyebrow. I SO don't like James. I thought she said Pames. Yes, I like Pames. Lily thought to herself quickly. Oh, who am I trying to kid? Pames. Who the hell is called Pames, anyway? So what if I like James. He doesn't have to know. It'll go away.
"I…er…why does that matter?" Lily said quickly. "I don't care if you like James. No way. Nope, this is me not caring." OH MERLIN! I like James! I'm sick in the head. I like my own friend! SICK!
"Yeah. I don't mind if Sirius has a thing for Lily. It's a free world." James said narrowing his eyes as if daring them to say it was true.
"Well, we don't anyway. I still like some one else." Abby said smiling at the two who were blushing.
"You were acting?" Lily asked confused. "How did you know we were here? And how did you know the letters were fake?"
"Well, Remus found out and…
FLASHBACK
Remus had once again figured out what Lily and James were up to. He knew of the letters and he couldn't let that happen yet. They weren't close enough. He decided to tell Abby and Sirius that Lily and James were setting them up.
"I have and idea." Sirius smiled.
"What?"
"Let's pretend we didn't know and we can't scare them a little."
"Good idea. Like you say you like Lily and I'll say I like James. Of course they'll be listening under the invisibility cloak."
"Nosey little bludgers."
END FLASHBACK
"…Also James wrote his letter on personalised parchment."
"Oops." James shrugged, grinning sheepishly. Lily rolled her eyes but couldn't help think he looked cute when he was embarrassed.
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"SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!" Lily screamed jumping on James' bed.
"As head boy I command you to leave me be."
"As head girl I command you get up and we play in the snow."
"NO!" he grinned covering his head with his pillow. It was the week before the Christmas holidays and there had been a sudden fall of snow the night before. It was four in the morning and Lily had put a silencing charm on the other beds so no one awoke while she got James up.
"YES!" She cried jumping on the bed again.
"NO!" Came his muffled reply.
"GET UP!"
"It's four in the morning." He said taking the pillow away and then putting it back.
"SO?"
"SO NO!" It was muffled again.
"YES!" She leapt up and grabbed his blankets. She ripped them off his bed leaving him in his boxers. Lily blushed and smiled at the sight. He looks so sexy. I just wanna-
"AHH!" James screamed. His head was still covered by the pillow. Maybe if I curl up into a ball she will leave me alone and think I left. He curled up and Lily laughed.
"Don't think by curling up in a ball you will trick me, James Potter." She laughed again at his pathetic attempt. She leapt on his bed again and started jumping. Higher. Higher. Higher.
BANG!
"SHOOT!" She screamed as her head hit the roof of his four poster. She fell to the ground with a loud thump.
"Are you alright?" James asked quickly as he jumped off his bed and knelt beside her.
"Fine." She replied groggily.
"No you're not! You're such an idiot." He held her head up and made her sit.
"You're the idiot!" She cried before leaping up. "Ha Ha fooled you. Now you're out of bed you have to get up."
"You're evil, you crafty minx." He mock glared.
"Hurry up and throw some clothes on or you'll freeze to death outside." Not that I mind if you stay like that.
"Yeah, yeah."
&&&5 minutes later&&&
"I'm dressed!" He called. Unfortunately, lily smiled.
"Let's go." She pulled him out the portrait hole and they were careful to watch out for teachers.
"You know, James, you're always up for anything. That's what I love about you." They stopped. Lily grew flustered and looked at James with wide eyes. "Not that I love you. I mean…I don't. I just-I meant-you just-"
"Yeah. I know what you mean." James said just as nervously.
"I don't like you like that. I just meant-I didn't mean…" She continued waving her arms around.
"Of course you don't." He said blushing. "Neither do I. I mean-you and I…me and you…it would be…"
"Weird…Not that I've thought about it. Ever." She said frantically.
"Yeah, yeah, we're just friends. I never thought about that either. EVER. It never crossed my mind." James rubbed his neck nervously.
"Of course. I knew it wouldn't. I mean…we're friends."
"Right." He finished looking at his feet. "Nothing more."
"Ever." She added glumly.
"Right." He said sadly.
They walked quietly to the doors and Lily pushed it open. As soon as the breeze hit her face she smiled and grabbed James by the hand. She dragged him to the newly frozen lake.
"Look! Were first out here! The snow is fresh!" She grinned.
"The lake is frozen!" He said just as excited.
"We can make snowmen!"
"And go ice skating!"
"And have a snow fight!" They finished together.
"Let's start with the snowmen!" Lily grinned.
"I bet I can make a better one!" He smiled smugly. It was still a little dark so it was harder to see.
"We'll have to see about that!" She grinned. Quickly they dashed off and hurriedly made snowballs for their people.
"I made a snowwoman!" James said thirty minutes later. He looked at the figure proudly.
"Mine's better!" Lily smiled. Hers was right next to his.
"I'll call mine Lily! Lily the snowwoman!" he grinned.
"Then mine will be James."
"That's not me! I have glasses."
"I have red hair!"
"Here." He transfigured a stick into a pair of glasses and put it on Lily's creation. "Much better."
"No wait!" She pulled out her wand and said a charm which coloured the hair they had crafted from snow.
"Now it is you! It has red hair and all!"
"And mine has spiky dark hair and glasses. The hair was very hard to make. He looks just like you."
"I don't look like that! He looks like a nerd." James protested.
"He looks EXACTLY like you."
"HEY!" He cried and pushed her into the snow.
"Not fair!" She cried standing up and shaking off. She pushed him and he skidded out onto the lake.
"LILY!" He cried. "I left my wand by the snowman so I can't make ice skates and I can't get back."
"Sorry!" She called walking away.
"LILY!"
"Hang on, I was just kidding." She grinned. She tossed him his wand and he turned his shoes into skates. He made his way over to her and did the same to her shoes.
"I thought I'd better help you because you're awful at Transfiguration." He smiled.
"I should have left you out there." She stood and made her way onto the ice.
"I'm glad our parent sent us ice skating when we were little." James smiled as they circled the lake.
"I'm better." She grinned as she preformed a double-axle.
"No I am." He did the same but with an exaggerated flourish at the end.
"NO!" She did a complex trick and grinned at him.
"I am ten million times better!" He cried copying her. They did the same for at least half an hour before they decided to stop.
"It's almost five thirty!" Lily smiled.
"I'm never awake before now!" James cried shocked.
"Me neither, but the snow was calling me."
"So you called me?"
"You got it, babe!" Lily said with a cheesy wink. James raised an eyebrow.
"I hate that movie."
"I like it!"
"You only like it cos I hate it."
"So?"
"So you admit it?" James said pointing at her and grabbing a handful of snow secretly.
"You've got me! What ever will I do? You have found me out! I will never-YUCK!" She cried. He shoved the snow in her mouth.
"That's what you get!"
"That's disgusting!" She picked up the snow and rubbed in his hair.
"That's cold!" He grabbed some snow and put it down her top.
"WHAT THE HELL! MERLIN THAT'S FREEZING!" She did the same to him. He quickly pulled of his tops to get the snow out. He stood there topless for a few seconds before Lily started to laugh.
"You idiot! You'll freeze to death!"
"No I won't! You will!" He put more snow down her shirt and she tried to get it out. It was melting on her back so she stripped down to her singlet.
"Now we'll both freeze!" She cried but she wasn't all that cold.
"Oh well." He shrugged. Lily threw a snowball at his face and he returned the favour. He took off hit glasses to wipe them on his pants when he was bombarded with snowballs the chest.
"THAT'S FREEZING!" He cried throwing snow at her. She dodged it and ran behind the tree.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!"
"YES I DO!" He walked around the tree and was hit in the face once again with snow.
"HA HA!" She cried before talking off.
"LILY!" He chased her a bit before she hid behind the snowmen.
"NO JAMES! NO!"
"YES LILY! YES!"
"NO!" She ducked and James leapt over the snowman.
"YOU KILLED YOURSELF!" Lily cried. He was lying on the remains of James the snowman.
"I did. Let me tell you it was a bloody cold death." He stood up and shook himself off.
"I want to try!" Lily laughed. She launched herself at Lily the snowwoman and destroyed her. She sat on the remains smiling.
"Big mistake." James grinned holding a handful of snow.
"Now, now, James! Don't do anything foolish." She said weakly as he came nearer. She tried his technique of curling into a little ball.
"You were right, curling into a little ball doesn't save you." He smiled. She jumped up and took off.
"NOOOOO!"
"LILY! GET BACK HERE!" He chased her to a dead end. She turned and faced him. She was corned. There was the castle and trees or James. "Lily, Lily, Lily." James shook his head. "It seems you have hit a dead end." He smiled.
"Don't be unreasonable James." She held her hand up.
"I won't." He grinned evilly.
"NNNNOOOOOO!" She shrieked.
"Just play along and we will get this done quickly. It will be painless and quick. Terribly cold, though."
"Never." She charged at him. Being taken by surprised he was ploughed into the snow. Lily cast a full body bind on him and stood him up.
"Seem as you felt you should destroy James the snowman we will make a new one." Once he was balanced in the snow she started packing it onto him. James glared as he felt the cold snow go onto his skin.
"Cold?" She asked evilly. She had done his bottom half, now she just needed to do his chest and head.
James suppressed a shiver as her cold hands touched his chest. Although her hands were freezing whenever they made contact he would feel a shot of warmth before being hit with bone chilling coldness. The coldness of being outside was starting to sink in now that he was still.
"Now…time for your head to be covered. I don't think I'll do that. I'm not that mean." She smiled. "Or am I?"
James glared. Lily smiled. He looked very attractive when he was trying to be angry.
"It's awfully cold out here. I'm might just leave…" She trailed off. James widened his eyes. She walked away and took the body bind off. Immediately he broke free of the snow fortress holding him and he chased after her. She was laughing so he caught her easily.
"I'm sorry?" She tried.
"Nuh uh." He shook his head. "You're getting the same treatment."
"YOU CAN'T!"
"I can."
"I'LL DIE! I'M ONLY IN A SINGLET!"
"I had NO top on. You'll survive."
"NO! YOU-" She was silenced by the body bind. He stood her up as she did to him earlier.
"Poor Lily. When will you learn revenge is sweet?" He smiled. He was freezing from just being a snowman and more snow was falling. He knew he'd probably get deathly sick from this but if he did so did Lily.
He slowly packed the snow on her. He took his time when starting so he could touch her with an excuse. He blushed when it came to her chest but managed to do it without copping a feel. When only her head was left he smirked.
"Now you know how it feels?" Lily glared.
"Not too nice is it?" Lily's glare intensified.
"Well-"
"MR POTTER!" Crap!
He whirled around to face an angry Professor Pinxter.
"Yes Professor?" He asked innocently.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE AT SIX THIRTY IN THE SNOW WITH NO TOP ON?"
"Nothing." He said smiling.
"IS THAT MISS EVANS?" She looked at the snowwoman, shocked.
"I believe so." He said smiling at Lily who glared at him. He released her from the body bind and she broke free.
"Miss Evans?"
"Yes?" Lily asked shaking. James was shaking too. The new snow was making them realise how cold it was without proper clothes on.
"Why were you a snowman? Would you care to explain what the two of you are doing out her at six thirty with no shirts on? You will freeze to death!" She said angrily.
"Oops." James tried. He sniffed and put an arm around Lily so she wasn't so cold.
"INSIDE!" Pinxter cried.
"Yes Professor." They mumbled. As they were walking along Lily stuck out her foot and James tripped and fell face flat into the snow.
"Pay back." She smirked.
"Miss Evans!" Pinxter shouted.
"Oops." James stood up and glared. "Don't be angry." She smiled and put her arm around his freezing waist.
"We're going to die being frozen." He said putting his arm around her.
"You're punishment will be that you are not the go to the hospital wing. You will have to wait for your colds that you will surely develop to pass by the muggle way." Pinxter said before marching off.
"Great." James muttered. They walked up to the common room and sat on the couch.
"LILY? JAMES?" Sirius had just come downstairs as they walked in.
"Yes?" They said quietly. The coldness was fading and they were becoming numb because of the sudden warmth.
"What happened?"
"We went outside." James answered. He was starting to feel sick already.
"NOW?"
"No, that would be insane! At four."
"In the morning?" He asked shocked.
"Lily woke me up!" He pointed to the girl who was sleeping against his bare chest.
"Why is she in her singlet and why are you topless?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow.
"Well…we were playing. We went ice skating and made snow people. I made a snow Lily and she made a snow James…" He trailed off grinning at the memory. Sirius smiled.
"And?"
"What? Oh yeah! After wards…I put snow in her mouth and she put it in my top so I took it off. Then I did the same so she took her top off. We destroyed the snow people and I was chasing her. Then she hit me with a body bind and stood me up and packed snow on me." Sirius laughed.
"She made you into a snow man?"
"Yes! We destroyed the other ones and she just did. I tell you it was quite nice. Especially when she came close to touching that area, despite the cold. What I wouldn't give for-" James suddenly realised he was saying that out loud. "I didn't mean that!"
"I think you did!" Sirius grinned at his friend. "Admit it! You still fancy her! You fancy the pants off her!"
"I do not!"
"Then what were you saying… 'It was quite nice. Especially when she came close to touching that area, despite the cold. What I wouldn't give for-' then you stopped. You fancy the pants off her! You'd do anything for her! You got up at four in the morning to play in the snow topless with her!"
"I do not!" He hissed. He was scared Lily would wake up and hear him.
"Prongs, I know you do. Its ok, I won't tell. Just reframe from EVER saying what you almost said before or mentioning THAT area."
"Fine. I like her a lot. I would do anything for her! I LOVE HER OK?"
"You what?" Sirius asked shocked.
"I-nothing."
"You love her?"
"NO!"
"Oh Merlin! You love her! I didn't know! I thought you just liked her and found her attractive…you love her."
"No I don't!"
"James it's ok! You're lucky Lily is a deep sleeper."
"Please don't tell anyone." James pleaded.
"I won't. I'm you're best mate. Merlin, I can't believe it. I knew you would eventually love her but I assumed that would be when you grew up and out of school. I can't believe you're the first to fall in love. I always thought that would be Moony."
"I know. It just happened. I think I've always loved her, I just didn't know it. Then I started to realise and now…what am I going to do?" He looked at the sleeping girl and sighed. "She'll never feel the same way."
"I wouldn't be so sure." Sirius mumbled. "What else happened?"
"Oh! Well I got free and made her into a snow woman, which was VERY pleasant and then Pinxter came and-"
"Pinxter caught you? She's a nasty hag." Sirius laughed.
"Yes. She came and told us off. Lily tripped me and then Pinxter told us as punishment that we had to get over our cold the muggle way and we can't go to the hospital wing."
"You're going to be sick for ages."
"I know! I bet we'll have to do extra assignments and work all day in here. We can't go to class being sick."
"Oh well. More time with Lily for you."
"You're right! Anyway I'm quite tired so I might just sleep here."
"I'll leave you to it." Sirius stood up and walked away. He turned at the stairs and saw James kiss Lily on the forehead. He faintly heard him whisper… 'I love you Lily.' Sirius smiled softly and walked off.
I hope he doesn't get his heart broken.