Right Out of a Muggle Storybook

Summary: Basically this is just another cute story of how James Potter and Lily Evans come together. It takes place during the Marauders 7th year at Hogwarts and the students' new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is making them all keep journals during the year. Also, things are especially bound to get interesting with Lily and James paired up as Head Boy and Head Girl...

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Yes, I know how shocked everyone must be…

A/N: Woo hoo! My sixth chapter. So, um………..go ahead, and read it!

Chapter 6: A Charcoal Arm

All that Lily was capable of doing was staring at the common room clock and drumming on the leather-bound parchment book that she was supposed to be writing a journal entry in. It was a rare event for her to have difficulties writing; she usually had no problem with it as it had always been something that she enjoyed, although there were few people who she had confided this secret to. She had kept a diary ever since her eighth birthday: an occasion on which her boisterous Aunt Magdelen (who had been told by Lily's agitated parents to tame down gifts after a disastrous event during Christmas the previous year involving a cage of cornish pixies) presented her with a pretty, pale pink journal with singing and dancing lilies on the cover. Ever since, Lily had been hooked. Lily hadn't been planning on writing anything as private in her Defense Against the Dark Arts journal as she wrote in her own personal diary, but at that moment, she didn't even have the capability to force herself to write anything. She was just far too distracted; there was no way that she'd be able to focus on her homework. The hands on the clock were inching closer to 9:00 o'clock, and Lily's anxiety and dread of spending the evening patrolling the corridors with Potter worsened with every tick. Lily knew that it was silly and that she was being utterly childish. She was almost thinking as immaturely as a Marauder. She should surely be able to handle spending a little time with James Potter. After all, she was the top of her class at Hogwarts, and not to mention Head Girl.

Lily was startled and very much taken my surprise when Emma and Natalie both approached her from behind. They had both gone to the hospital wing earlier, after Natalie had accidentally set Emma's left arm on fire while practicing a particularly difficult new Charms spell for Professor Flitwick's class the next day.

"Hi Lily!" Natalie said cheerfully, grabbing a comfortable chair by her friend.

"Yeah, hi" Emma mumbled moodily, still clutching her slightly singed arm.

"Why are you so cranky?" Natalie asked Emma, honestly confused. Natalie thought for a moment, realization suddenly dawning on her face. "Oh, its that time of the month again, isn't it?" She said, looking pleased that she had figured it out. Emma just looked at Natalie in disbelief, then waved her newly charcoal arm in front of Natalie's face.

"Oh, that" Natalie said, not quite understanding. "I'm sorry. Madame Pomfrey already fixed your arm though"

"It still hurts" Emma whined irritably, being far from her normal cheery self.

It looked as though a fight was going to break out any second between Natalie and Emma. Well, more that Emma was going to start arguing with Natalie while Natalie still tried to figure things out. Still, Lily thought that she had better intervene before anything happened.

"So, Natalie-what were you doing before? Did you really go to the library?" Lily asked her friend. "I didn't even think that you knew how to get there! The last time that I can remember either you or Emma in the library had to have been in first year!"

"Yeah. I was in the library" Natalie clarified with a smile. "I was studying with Amos Diggory for Transfiguration. Isn't he cute? "

"Definitely! Emma said, perking up greatly.

It took all that Lily had not to roll her eyes as Emma and Natalie excitedly started to talk about Diggory's toned arms and his nice hair. The scene was just so typical. After all, witches or not, they were still teenage girls. All three of them were loudly giggling when James Potter walked into the Gryffindor common room.

James had been out on the grounds with Sirius, Remus, and Peter when he had realized that it was getting close to 9:00 o'clock, and had started heading in. He couldn't manage to keep the idiotic smile off his face. He literally couldn't stop grinning when he thought of the fact the he was going to get a chance to spend time with Lily while patrolling the corridors. His friends couldn't help but notice the fact that James looked as though he had just been told that he was being offered a position playing for the Chudley Cannons. Sirius had teased him mercilessly when he had realized what had him so excited.

When James had reached the common room (5 minutes early in fact), he saw Lily laughing with her friends, and his smile widened, if that was even humanly possible at this point. It wasn't often that he saw her so carefree and relaxed. She was usually so uptight when he was around.

"Hi Lily" James said, strolling over to where she was sitting. He could see Lily visibly tense as he sat down in the chair next to her. Lily blushed profusely as James casually draped an arm around her shoulder. She quickly shrugged him off.

"Hello James" She replied rather coolly, trying to regain at least some composure.

Emma and Natalie awkwardly sat with Remus, Sirius, and Peter, who all looked as uncomfortable as the two of them.

"Erm, well we'd better go up to the dormitories" Emma said during the long pause, slowly standing up and grabbing Natalie by the wrist to make her follow her lead.

"Yeah" Natalie said, quickly catching on. "We have classes pretty early tomorrow morning"

"Us too" Remus stated "We'd better get going. We'll see you girls tomorrow".

"Goodnight" Emma and Natalie chimed in unity, as they left for the girls' dormitories. Two seconds later, Remus and Peter both turned in the other direction and walked towards the boys' dormitories. They were almost at the door to the dormitories when Remus realized that Sirius wasn't behind them. Sirius was still sitting by James and Lily, oddly fascinated by the situation. Sirius was willing to bet that Lily was going to explode before too much longer and that was something always fun to watch. However, before that happened, Remus roughly grabbed Sirius and started to drag him to the dormitories, realizing that any attempt to persuade Sirius to leave James and Lily alone would be futile.

"Blimey! What they bloody hell are you doing? I want to stay!" Sirius hollered, obviously quite annoyed at the turn of events. Remus ignored Sirius' whining, and continued to pull him towards the dormitories. Neither James or Lily could help but laugh, and their laughter was successful in breaking the icy tension that had been in the room before. They were now the only two people left in the dormitory, and Lily realized that they should probably leave soon to patrol the corridors.

"So, shall we get going then?" James asked Lily, still chortling. It was almost as if he read her mind.

"Yes, I think so" Lily replied, still not completely at ease with the situation, but already feeling better than she was just five minutes before. James extended his arm out to her, as she ignored him and walked out the door, James following closely behind.

A/N: Hey everone! Thankyou for the reviews that I've been getting. And, as always, I would love If more people time the time to review :)

Sami-Girl, Jane, Sam, and Emily: I'm glad that you guys like the story so far :)

Jillie: I was thinking the exact same thing about the journals. Great minds think alike. Thanks for the nice reviwe, and I am going to try to steer this away from the typical James/Lly fics

Geoff: um...I'm not quite sure that I understood your review. No, I have never been kissed by a girl because I'm a straight female. I don't really know what that has to do with anything though. I am glad that you like my story

Salsagirl626: Hey Annie! Thanks for the reviews and giving me imput on everything. Luv ya lots :)