Chapter 7…. £ily

"Lil, Will you throw my brush to me?" Alice asked.

"Sure." Lily stretched across her bed to reach Alice's night desk, grabbed her brush, and tossed it into the bathroom.

Unlike the boys, roaming the halls and the grounds at all hours of the night the girls were already getting ready for bed. Lily had her robes already ready for her the following morning sat on the truck of her bed along with her school trainers and knee-highs. She lay back across her bed letting her long red hair lean over the edge of the bed, staring up at the canopy of her four-poster having no idea why she was thinking so much about James being Head Boy.

'I just can not believe it.. James Potter… Head Boy! I need to watch out soon Dumbledore will appoint Sirius Black as new headmaster. I shouldn't be worrying about this… I mean I will be busy being Head Girl.. I don't have time..

"Lily!"

"Uh?" Lily said while sitting up looking around seeing Molly staring at her.

"I've been shouting at you for at least a minute, what were you thinking about?"

"Oh… nothing important.. Just day dreaming." She said pulling her long hair over her shoulder.

"Well anyway Alice and I heard some noise in the common room maybe you should go check it out."

"Oh… Sure… I will be right back."

Jumping off her bed and getting her snow white robe to put on she told the girls to stay put. Stepping down the cold stone steps the voices were getting louder and she had only one idea who it could have been.

"Lily! Pleasant evening isn't it?" Sirius said getting up off his seat and bowing.

"Stuff it Sirius… James.. What are you doing? You are Head Boy…. You are supposed to be in bed! Not causing trouble."

Looking at Lily in her bathrobe and her blue star pajamas made him go into a daze, especially the fact she was talking to him as if he was her child or summat.

"Sorry Lily…. We just.. had an idea and…"

"Wanted to roam the halls I know." Lily said putting her hands on her hips.

"Lily, get off the boys case, all we were doing was sitting here talking is that such a crime?" Sirius asked with a nonfriendly tone.

"Well…. No… I just don't want James to mess up his title…"

Before Lily could finish her sentence, she had to think over what she said, had she really said she did not want James to get in trouble? Along Lily being speechless the boys were also, James couldn't believe what he heard and fell over on Sirius shoulder, Sirius just stared at Lily with a 'Did you really just say that?' look, Peter just looked around the room as if he did not hear anything where as Remus just sat with his hands covering his face.

"I… got to go to bed now."

Morning came in a quickened rush, Lily felt she had been awake during the whole night and had gotten no sleep what so ever, by the time she finally got comfortable a blinding candle was pressed in front of her eyes.

"Lily… Lily, you need to wake up!"

"Could you get that candle out of my eyes please?" she bellowed, throwing her blanket to the foot of her four-poster.

"What's wrong with you?" Carried asked holding her candle.

"Nothing… I was just up late thinking."

"About what?" Alice appeared at the foot of Lily four-poster and started messing with her tie with her pj bottoms still on.

"Err…." Lily muttered. "Just thinking about classes is all."

"Oh I'm excited too!"

While Lily got out of bed, grabbed her clothes and headed to the bathroom she knew good and well the classes ahead was not the only thing that was on her mind. Why was James on her mind so much lately, it wasn't normal for someone to think constantly about someone they couldn't stand. 'He was kind of cute when he was apologizing for being up late.' This surely was a new way of thinking, James was actually becoming a different person, and he didn't seem to be as arrogant or anything really. He just acted nice and just a little goofy, but so far he is working up to his title something I would never thought would happen.

With a clatter, hundreds of owls came soaring in from the upper windows, flying all over the Great Hall delivering letters and packages to their owners. While the four houses was eating heartily and trying to get used to getting up so early for classes. Lily was obviously trying to stay awake, her head resting on her hand while her elbow kept dragging across the table almost knocking over her pumpkin juice each time. Meanwhile down at the end of the table the Head Boy was having no trouble staying awake, pulling the feathers out of Sirius' family hawk along with Sirius himself and Peter.

"Stupid hawk… take that back to mother!" Sirius shouted as the hawk flew back out the windows half-bald, with eggs and other types of food in his feathers.

"That should teach her, read the letter again Padfoot." James said while wiping his hands on his pants.

'Blood traitor Son of the Noble House of Black'

"What an old…"

"Hush Prongs let him read."

"As I was saying…"

Blood traitor Son of the Noble House of Black:

What shame it does me to write you this note because of your up bringing
to be coming out of school as a Gryffindor! At least you are no longer in
my home, please note that your daring cousin Bellatrix is heading down
the 'right path' in a few months. Do not write back unless you know
where your loyalty lies.

You're Mother,

"Awful.." Remus said while taking a other bite of his eggs, even though James' hands were all over them.

"I can not believe she wrote that! Well I can but.. you know what I mean."

"I'm glad you got your own place now, which means parties on holidays!" James shouted while jumping up in his seat with fork in hand.

"Lily, you awake?" Alice asked while pushing her arm where her head was still rested. "Lily.."

"Yes Professor McGonagall, I know Head Girl is suppose to…"

"Lily!" Carrie shouted pushing her arm, while her head fell down on the table while her pumpkin juice went flying.

She jumped back up with her hand on her head where it met with the table, where as she heard many Slytherins laughing behind her.

"Uhh.." she moaned as she kept her head lowered and didn't see who had taken a seat beside her.

"You ok, didn't knock those pretty brains loose did you?"

"Oh Alice hush my head is…"

Then it hit her, Alice did not have a boyish voice, she doubted she would have called her brains pretty even, she didn't want to look beside her because she knew who it would have been if she did.

"Eh.. Potter, what you want."

"Wanting to know if you're alright." James said with a concerned look on his face.

"I'm fine, I don't need you checking up on me." While she used a charm to clean up her mess.

"I know you don't." His concerned look turning to a grin. "Maybe that knocked your brain right and now you will go on a date with me."

"Does never mean anything to you?"

"I'm not sure, let me ask my other brain."

Lily didn't know what to think about that, she had no clue what he was about to do, but then when he shouted down the table to Sirius it was obvious.

"Yah mate!" Sirius shouted from down at the end of the table.

"Does 'never' mean anything to me?"

"Nope I don't think so!" with his hands around his mouth, standing up making the whole Great Hall stare.

As Sirius sat back down on his seat James also took his seat and looked lovingly at Lily which had a disgusted look on her face, put she would swear there was a smile inside her mind, not to anyone but herself of course. She wasn't going to admit to anyone that she kinda… sort of thought James Potter was cute in his own way.

"James, not right now I'm very tired."

"Did you stay up all night thinking about me?" he asked taking piece by piece of her bacon and playing with it.

"Of course not, I was thinking about classes." Then when the red headed girl realized what he was doing, she slapped her hand over her eyes and said. "What are you doing with my bacon?"

"Just making you a surprise." James arms was clearly in the way so she couldn't see what he was doing but Lily's friends was in a fit of giggles.

"There you are my beautiful green eyed girl."

"I'm not you're…"

That was all Lily could get to come out of her mouth that was concerted words, James had taken a few pieces of her bacon and broke it into smaller pieces so he could make a perfect heart with the letter 'L' inside of it. She was speechless, she had the thought of wiping her hand across it to mess it up and punch him in the nose, but she couldn't do it.

"Well, do you like it, you can keep it forever." James said smiling, he patted her on the head and walked back to where Sirius and the others were, leaving her speechless while Alice and Carrie stared at her with giant smiles.

Sorry it took me forever and a day to update this story! ive been writing on my other storys too... i LOVE this chapter... its very long as you can see... lol ill have the next chapter up soon... im writin on it right now... i only got a few paragraphs... i also added a new chapter to Stars n Lilies if you wanna go check that out... Later!