ChapterONE Positively Weak In the Knees

A/N.: Hey everyone! I'm back after a long, long, long break! I'm sorry for keeping the people who like my fics waiting :D
Anyway, I'm back with brokencord to present this story to you. It's going to be LONG, and the first chapter is quite... out of point, but anyway. Second chapter will be up soon, I PROMISE!

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"Hogwarts Drama Club – acting club for the elites. Where fantasies come back from their graves," Lily Evans read out, wrinkling her nose. "Hmm.. doesn't sound very convincing though zombies are pretty sexy," Grace Jones, her best friend, commented. Standing at 1.69 m tall, Grace was what you would call "short 'n' shiny". She had thick, blonde hair that fell to her shoulders and intelligent but fierce grey eyes that could make any guy at Hogwarts just wanna cry for their Mama.

Lily turned back to the notice pinned on the Gryffindor notice board. "Think you've got a talent in acting? Join the Hogwarts Drama Club – where fantasies come alive. Express the inexpressible, and reveal the true star in you! This year, Hogwarts will proudly present the musical / play, Winter Lullaby. Interested? come down to the Great Hall on Saturday, November 10th for more information," she read. Turning around, she exchanged looks with her three best friends, Juliana Fox, Danielle Waters and Grace.

"Sounds pretty cool," Danielle said, with a hint of excitement in her voice. Danielle was the most outspoken one in the group, and many, many, many guys were after her. She had long, straight chestnut-brown hair and hazel eyes. However, she was considered a "slut" icon in Hogwarts for being an outrageous flirt. "I've never been good at acting," Grace said quickly.

"Oh puh-lease, a DRAMA CLUB? The Marauders will gladly be starring in it, no doubt. Wherever they go, drama follows," Lily snorted. She had long, slightly wavy auburn red hair which made girls go crazy with envy and sparkling green eyes - though you should stay out of her way when she was in a raging temper.

"So do a group of insane swooning and drooling girls," Grace added.

It was during break, and the four of them were standing in the Gryffindor common room reading the new, flashing notice pinned onto the notice board. "I think I'll join with Danielle!" Juliana said. Juliana Fox had jet-black hair and intense blue eyes that made guys stare. She could be nasty with a capital N when she wanted to, though most of the time she was okay. They turned to face Grace with a smirk as she opened her mouth – but it was not the answer they were looking for.

"Wait, Lily, isn't it the Prefect's Meeting now?" Grace asked suddenly. Lily gasped as she saw the time. "Darn! I'm five minutes late! I gotta go now, see you guys later" she called to them as she sped out of the common room.

"Sooo, Grace-y, join the club with us, won't cha?" Danielle teased, twirling her hair between her perfectly manicured petite fingers. "No, wait, I -" "Pleaaase, Grace?" Juliana begged playfully. "Listen, both of you. I've got a plan – a perfect one. When Lily mentioned the Marauders…"

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Lily ran as fast as she could to Professor McGonagall's office, worrying about her being late. The corridor that she was running through was pitch-black, but Lily knew the way. After all, she had been walking past it for 6 (now 7 years) in a row.

"I can't believe myself! It's my first year as Head Girl and I'm already late. What a grand entrance I"m gonna have," Lily muttered to herself, cursing time.

"Talking to yourself, aren't you, Evans?" A deep (and as Lily noticed) rather sexy and intriguing voice said in front of her.

Lily gasped in shock as she tripped over her shoelaces. "Whoa!" she half-yelled as she landed straight into that person's arms.

She froze as a few strands of her auburn hair fell in front of her face.

An exciting, tingling feeling spread from her arms where she was touching him and throughout her whole body like electricity coursing through. Time seemed to stop just for that single, wonderful moment.

"You know, I'd love to go on, but Dumbledore, McGonagall and the rest of the Prefects are waiting for us. In fact, I was sent to look for you." that voice said drily - was it Lily's imagination, or did his voice contain amusement?

Lily was glad that it was pitch dark; for she knew her cheeks were flaming.

He pushed her gently away and he began walking towards a light source about ten metres away. Lily felt dazed; then, suddenly,
she shook herself out of her thoughts as she shouted, "Wait! Are you - are you the new Bead Hoy?"

Even in the dark, Lily could make out a cheeky grin on his handsome face. "Oops," Lily said, embarrassed. Her heart pounded erratically.

"He has to be the new Bead Hoy; No, the Head Boy. THE HEAD BOY," Lily thought once again, "What's with me today?"

That person, whoever he was, stopped in his tracks and turned around. "Yes, I am the new Head Boy, and not the Bead Hoy or whatsoever, but I do like beads.." he said softly, turned around again and continued walking. Lily felt hot when she noticed that she was wearing a bead necklace. Lily seized her chance. Sprinting forwards, she caught up with him, whipped out her wand and said, "Lumos!"

Lily immediately found herself staring into deep, hazel eyes that seemed to suck her insides in. He had a certain unique auroa about him, a certain charm that made Lily's knees go positively weak and numb. She felt her knuckles go white as she snapped back to her usual self once again.

Then, he smiled.

Just as Lily was registering the fact that he had the cutest grin she had ever seen, he coughed and Lily hastily said,
"Sorry! Nox." The light from her wand immediately vanished and they were back in darkness again.

"Are you... are you new?" Lily asked tentatively as the walked the remaining 7 metres. To her surprise, he laughed - it sounded so familiar - and he said in a playful voice, "You'll see," which made Lily even more curious.

Finally, they reached the room. As the pair stepped into it, which look like it was celebrating the festival of lights compared to the dark corridor outside, Dumbledore stood up and began to walk towards them. "Ah, my dear Head Boy and Head Girl!" He said, shaking their hands vigorously.

Lily couldn't help but notice that a lot of the female Prefects were giggling and whispering and pointing to Mr. Head Boy.

"Now, let me introduce to you our Head Boy and Girl this year to all of you," Professor Dumbledore said to the Prefects in the room. "Our Head Girl is none other than Ms. Lily Evans!" The room exploded with applause. Lily smiled at all of them and, to her embarrassment, the male prefects began wolf-whistling. "And our Head Boy this year..." Professor Dumbledore turned to face him as Lily's pulse quickened... Mr. Head Boy suddenly turned his head to look at Lily and gave her a sort of pleading look - "Is Mr. James Potter!" Professor Dumbledore shouted. The noise and the screams the girls made were deafening.

Lily was stunned.

She couldn't believe it. That guy... he couldn't be JAMES, could he? Yeah, sure, James was pretty hot last year (Lily had to admit this, but she still didn't like him), but now, he was just WAAAY hot.

Lily suddenly felt like she was going to faint. James shot her an apologetic look.

"Professor? I'm sorry - but I don't feel very well, and I - " "You don't feel very well, you say? Ah, then quick, go to Hospital Wing! Madam Pomfrey will have you sorted out in minutes. Mr. Potter, would you be kind enough to follow Ms. Evans to Hospital Wing?" Professor Dumbledore asked James with a knowing twinkle in his eyes.

"NO! I mean, well, I can manage myself, thank you very much," Lily stuttered. "No, no, we can't have that, Ms. Evans. I wouldn't want anything to happen to my Head Girl in just the first week! Now, run along, both of you. It's alright if you miss this meeting for once," Dumbledore said, ushering the two of them out and shut the door.

Lily stumbled out of the room clumsily as James followed uncertainly behind her. "Are you okay?" He asked tentatively as Lily began to gulp for air. Lily leaned against the wall for support. "C'mon, I'll bring you to Hospital Wing," James said as he grabbed her arm.

"Don't - touch me!" Lily snapped shrilly and she jerked her arm away. She was shivering and she felt very cold. She couldn't let James anywhere near her... she didn't want to feel that swooping sensation in her stomach again, or feel her knees turn to jelly. "What have you got, cooties? Or you afraid I'll get your germs?" James said teasingly. "Noooooo.. it's just - don't touch me, okay?" Lily insisted. "Go away! Just leave me alone!"

"Lily!" James said fiercely. Lily was quite taken aback at his sudden outburst, but she made it a point not to show it. "You're all... pale and you're shivering! I don't care about what happened between us before - well, I know you hate me and all that - but please, you need help now," James's voice became softer.

Lily's forehead was dotted with sweat. Cursing, James bent down and lifted Lily up in his arms. Lily was too weak to protest.

Lily realized drowsily that it took fifteen minutes to reach Hospital Wing from Professor McGonagall's office. She wondered if James would buckle under her weight, but from the way James was running, it felt like she was weightless. Slowly, she drifted off into an uneasy sleep.

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"JAMES HAROLD PRONGSIEPOOPS POTTER. You did NOT do that," Sirius Black, best friend of Mr. James Potter, Chaser on the Quidditch team, 2nd most sought-after male hottie in Hogwarts, gaped at James. To James's annoyance, Remus and Peter (the other Marauders) mirrored Sirius's expression.

"It was NOTHING, really, I mean, she was shivering and she was pale, and.." James's voice drifted off. "And you just couldn't find any other simpler way to express your LURVE for her. AND because your heart was about to melt with pain seeing Lily like that, " Sirius sniffed, pretending to wipe his eyes with Peter's boxer shorts and clutching his heart.

"No... Oh, fine, I DID feel something like that, but it was just a pang, and not some - mate, you're holding Peter's BOXERS," James said to Sirius.

When Sirius finally realized what he was holding, he gave a sharp girly "YEEEEEEEEEEK!" and threw the pair of shorts as far away as he could.

"Anyway, Prongsiepoops, back to your love life. Tell me, did you kiss?" Sirius asked eagerly.

James flung a book at him.

"Ouch! Okay! I'm sorry! Next question... So, Mr. I-had-a-crush-on-Lily-since-I-saw-her-on-platform-nine-and-three-quarters-
with-ice-cream-on-her-nose Potter, you carried her to Hospital Wing, and you waited three hours for her to wake up but to no avail, and finally got chased out by Madam Pomfrey. Is that correct?" Sirius questioned him with a grin.

"More or less," James shrugged. "Mate, you got it bad for Lily," Remus laughed. "Reaaal baaaaddd!" Sirius, Remus and Peter chorused.

"OUCH!" The three of them were hit by books on the head. Sighing, James headed out of the dorm himself just in time to get away from the debate session of Sirius and Peter 'what-flavour-are-your-boxers-strawberry-or-vanilla'.

"James!" Two dozen female voices cooed as he ran down the stairs. He found himself surrounded by girls with the thickest makeup imaginable, and he felt hands on his body. "Er, sorry girls, I have to go to the library," James gave them an awkward smile. Strange, he used to love the attention. Now, he found it annoying.

"Library? We'll go with you!" The girls chorused as the quickly grabbed their belongings and formed a line, waiting for James to lead them.

"Er - listen - can you all do me a favour?" James asked. "Anything you want!" "Absolutely!" "Of course!" Filled the room.

"I have a special package coming in by a delivery man dressed in purple moon robes later. It's full of... tricks to play on Slytherins. So can you all stand guard outside and around this area to make sure it isn't... intercepted?" James asked hopefully, putting on a straight face.

"How EXCITING!" "We'll do it, James! Count on us!"

"Thank you," James said, and dashed out of the room. He couldn't believe how shallow and superficial those girls were. He looked at his watch - it was a quarter past nine. Lights out was at 10, James realized with a sinking heart. Suddenly, he realized that as Head Boy, he could stay up until one. He sprinted to Hospital Wing as fast as he could.

Slowly, he sneaked into Hospital Wing as quietly as he could. Madam Pomfrey was currently attending to someone behind the green curtains. He quickly put on his invisibility cloak which he had brought on, and made his way to Lily's bed.

He did not know how long he stayed there, but he was certain that in the middle of the night, while he was staring at Lily's closed eyes, he heard her whisper his name once. It came as soon as it was gone.

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