One SlowDance
This is my first fanfic so be easy on me! I would like to apologize in advance because my spelling is horrible so I'm sorry if there are any spelling mistakes. Please review so I know whether to post the next chap. Well anyways hope u like it.
N/A- Thanks to my friend gem for proof reading and helping with ideas.
I do not own J.K Rowling's characters or the ending all I own is the plot.
Summary
So what really happened in their final year of school that made Lily changes her mind about James Potter? "You think you're funny, but you're an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter." Did the infamous Potter grow up for the love of his life? (LJ 4eva)
Chapter four – Don't Want To Think About You
Rose's point of view:
With a very full tummy we made our way tiredly to our dormitories not wanting anything more then to lie down and sleep. But I had to take care of one think before I got my much needed beauty sleep.
I looked over to Mel but she was looking anywhere except at me. I could tell she was upset, for what I didn't know. The guys had left us, talking about some prank they wanted to pull by next week. They never give up, really they were just 17 going on 5. Boys will me boys.
We got to our dormitory with out much trouble, Mel however bumped into several people on her way up. She was never one to have her head in the clouds, something must be up! But Mel was never the one to talk unless it got out of hand.
Opening the door that now read 7th year girls, the rhythmic breathing of lily could be heard in the bed next to the window. Is this girl ever going to be able to get a hold of!
I got ready for bed putting my favorite PJ's (singlet top which is black with coral poker dots with the international Barbie logo, and teddy bear 'I love you' written repetitively all over tight ¾ pants).
I looked over at Lily's curtains and through the slightly parted material I could see her soft face, her soft pale skin. And that red hair, the long red hair. She was so beautiful I could see why all the guys went for her, I used to envy her. I know I envied my own friend but she was beautiful, smart, funny, polite and everything a guy could wish for, and I was nothing. But then I had the biggest year of my life last year and things changed. You could say I 'matured' and learnt how to do my hair and make up. And Lily helped me, never getting angry when her crush asked me out; she even helped me though the horrible break up. Lily was the best, best friend I ever had!
"Mel help me out as well! I want to make sure I have an apology ready for her at breakfast, so she can have breakfast in bead" Mel looked at me like I was insane. "Mel?" she ignored me and continued with her unpacking. I stormed over to her and dragged her by the arm out to the deserted common room.
"What is wrong with you?"
"What do you mean? Shouldn't you be asking Lily what's wrong with her?" she just let it all go, she seemed like she had been holding it in for a while. But little did they now that at the marauders had just walked in under James invisibility cloak.
"What are you talking about, she just lost her family and she feeling alone!"
"Oh yeh! She's so alone that she's already shacking up with Potter!" she yelled.
"What the fuck are you talking about? She's not 'shacking up with any one'!"
"Oh no because Lily doesn't date does she!"
I couldn't handle this. I'd had enough of Mel and her stubborn ways, she was my friend but Lily was so much more. I had never really gotten close to Mel like I had with Lily. Come to think of it Mel was a complete and utter slut. "Yeh, the reason she doesn't date anymore is because of you! You're meant to be her 'friend', but you know what, you're just a slut because it was you who made her last boyfriend cheat on her with you!"
James' point of view:
Watching from the portrait hole as the two girls had their yelling match, oblivious to all else around them! "Yeh, the reason she doesn't date anymore is because of you! You're meant to be her 'friend', but you know what, you're just a slut because it was you who made her last boyfriend cheat on her with you!" Well that did clear a few things up that I was curious about.
"So I slept with him, big deal! She should get over it"
"Big deal! Big deal! BIG DEAL! Melissa you slept with him in her bed on there 6 month anniversary! And you think it's not a big deal!" Now things were making a whole lot more sense to me.
"Yes! Yes I do. It's not like she was going to sleep with him. She's still a fucking Virgin!" what's so wrong with being a virgin?
"And your point is? I'm still a virgin and I don't plan on changing it till I met someone special." I looked over at Remus and he seemed to beam at his girlfriend. It looked like he had no problem with having his girl still being a virgin.
"Look I'm fed up with her pushing me away like I'm a piece of crap. I've tried to move on with her and I was patient when she wouldn't let me see her drawings, but having her show Potter!"
"Mel you can't have it both ways! You can't fuck her boyfriend and also be her friend! It doesn't work like that! Sleep on the couch bitch I don't want to see you!" and with that Rose stormed up stairs leaving Mel with us.
------ Later that night------
James' point of view:
I lay on my bed still wide awake. The rhythmical sounds of Sirius' and Peters snores disturbed the otherwise silent room. I got out of bed. There was absolutely no way that I could sleep. All I could do was think about Lily. Her beautiful hair and her bright eyes pierced the blackness that brought my sleep.
Moving over to my desk I opened the draw pulling out the two sheets of paper that Lily had given me on the train. Then turning to my trunk I rummaged through it trying to find some empty photo frame. They were at the very bottom of my trunk. It's brown with gold leafs on it with the sponge effect around the border. It also had green cardboard which had two rectangle boxes over-lapping each other, one bigger then the other.
Looking back at the drawings, I could see that the more accurate drawing out of the two looked like it would fit into the bigger rectangular box of the two. Going back to my desk I got out my album and went straight to the back where I kept all pictures which happened to have the emerald eyed beauty that had captured my heart. I found the one I was looking for, it was taken last year at the end of the year. She had been taking a rest under the oak tree outside. The wind was blowing her hair around as she started out into the blue depths of the lake. Everything seemed perfect when I looked at the picture.
I sighed, I would wait forever for Lily and nothing anyone could say could change my love.
Taking the photo out of the album, I placed it beneath the smaller rectangle which was to the right-hand corner of the frame. I then got my wand out and cut around the sketch making it the right size. It then took its place in the left over box, positioned to the left-hand corner.
Once I had put the frame all back together I turned it over. "Beautiful!" I sighed. It was perfect, she was perfect!
Lily's point of view:
The light of the rising sun had started to shine through the curtains as I lay awake on my bed. I had experienced a bad night sleep but yet I still felt happy. The only thing which was bothering me the most was that I had not stopped thinking about a tall dark haired guy.
James had changed so much since I last saw him, or had I changed? Well something had changed and he didn't seem like the arrogant prat he used to be. Or maybe he was never really that prat. Maybe it was just a mask that he put on, and I was so thick that I couldn't see through it like everyone else.
I looked around the room and I could see that Rose had already gotten up. Her bed was still mess and unmade, I looked over to the other end of the room at Mel's bed but it looked like she had not slept there. It looked like it had not even been touched. The loud bang of the door shutting brought my thoughts about Mel to a stand still.
"Hey, you're up!"
"Yeh, I've been up for a while. How about you?" I couldn't stay angry Rose forever. She was my best friend and she had a reason not to tell me about her boyfriend, even if I would have gotten over the shock.
"Yeh, I've been up a while actually. I couldn't sleep, I felt like such a cow yesterday!"
"Rose, we were both cows yesterday!"
"Lily, I'm really sorry I wasn't there for you and I'm sorry about not telling you about Remus. I know you would have been happy for me, I was an idiot."
She walked towards me with a tray of food. "Is that for me?"
"Yeh, I wanted to do something for you. You're my best friend and I just wanted to try and make it up to you!" She put the tray down on my bed side table and I got up and I threw my arms around her neck, hugging her tight. She hugged me back equally as tight and we started to cry together.
"Well, isn't this just so beautiful?" we looked over to the open door where Mel was standing.
I glanced at Rose and saw that she was glaring angrily at Mel, "Mel, what do you want?"
"I just want to get my stuff. Don't worry, I don't want to interrupt your little make up session." She walked over to her trunk and got some clothes out and walked back to the door, "Have fun!"
"What was that all about?" I looked at Rose in the face.
"We had a fight last night and a few things were said."
"And the few things were?"
"That she had no rite to be your friend after she slept with Dan I sorta told her that she was a slut and she can't have your trust if she believed that she was the innocent one in the whole thing!"
"Oh!" I paused. Really come to think about it, it was all true. I had had enough of Mel I tried to get over the whole Dan thing but I couldn't, but even before that I had never really been close to her. She was more of an acquaintance then a friend. "Thanks for standing up for me!" I told Rose.
"Lily, I will always be on your side. Mel is not even three times the friend you are. You know how much I love to see the good in everybody, but I guess she has it really deep down but I can't be friends with her if she's going to be a bitch."
"How many people do you think overheard your fight with Mel?" I hoped that not many people had because not many know why I hadn't dated since Dan but the fact was I didn't want to get involved with someone that would cheat on me, I was scared!
"Well I dunno, no one was down in the common room but they may have heard from there rooms. But I don't thing that many would have heard."
We sat on my bed talking about the holidays and other girl things while eating the food on the tray Rose had brought up. "Do you want to still go down to the great hall?"
"Yeh I don't see why not. Just let me get dressed and make myself presentable, okay?" I walked to my dresser and put on my school robes then put a minimal amount of make-up on. I like make-up but I didn't need that much. I already had good skin. All that I needed to do was use mascara and eyeliner to bring out my eyes more.
James' point of view:
I constantly looked over to the door to the hall waiting for Lily's arrival; I had spent the whole night thinking of her. This is going to be one long year. Mel entered looking like she had a bad night, but she had put heaps of make-up on to hide that fact. She came and sat with Sirius but we all were a bit uncomfortable with her presence, even Sirius had seen Mel in a different light last night. But it didn't stop him from snogging her. I looked up to the door to see Lily and Rose walk in, hand in hand looking like they had had the best night ever.
I watched there progress down the hall to the Gryffindor table and to my surprise they made there way to where we were sitting.
"Hey guys" came their sing song voices.
"Hey Lily, Rose. Aren't you two a bit late?"
"No not really, we had breakfast already. We just felt like coming down and stuff."
I looked at Lily. She noticed me looking at her and she smiled. She smiled direct at me! Just seeing her smile at me gave me a new hope, so I smiled back at her.
"You girls going to sit down or what?" and Rose slid into the set next to Remus and Lily sat down next to me.
Rose and Remus talked so I was left to talk to Lily. "How you feeling now?"
"I'm feeling, much better actually, thanks"
"You didn't miss much last night..." but I didn't get to say the last part of my sentence because Sarah came up to where we were sitting
"So, Lily and Rose are virgins! Well that's not much of a surprise now is it? It's not like anyone would want to sleep with them. They would much rather have Mel!"
Lily turned the colour of her hair
"Sarah you have know idea what you're saying!" Remus said trying to stand up for his girlfriend.
"Oh yes I do. I heard it all last night. Dan, Lily's boyfriend slept with Mel. That's why Lily doesn't date anymore, because she's scared." Now every one was listening and Lily was going redder then before.
"Go away Sarah before you say something you regret!" but before I could say much more Lily stood up.
"I wouldn't believe everything you hear Sarah. And it's none of you business, but I'm not a virgin!" everyone was now starring at Lily, so she walked out of the hall before anything else could happen. Rose got up soon after to go find Lily and I just sat there still confused.
Lily's point of view:
I walked up the stairs deciding to get my books for my class. "Lily wait up!" Rose came huffing and puffing after me. "Why didn't you tell me you lost your virginity?" she looked confused and slightly hurt.
"Because I didn't! I'm still a virgin I just wanted to make Sarah look like a little gossiper."
"Lily sometimes you are too smart for your own good." She laughed, "You should have seen Mel's face though, and she looked like she just ate a flubber worm! And James! You know Remus told me that they heard the fight last night."
"Yeh I sort of gathered that from the way James was acting when Sarah said that stuff about me being scared."
"Do you like James?" I looked at her and the looked at the floor. Did I like him? "I'm not sure. Maybe, but I'm a little confused at the moment."
"Yeh, well if you need to talk about it I'm here okay" I nodded "come on, we're going to be late for class, and I forgot to tell you that this came for you this morning!" she handed me a letter and we ran up to our dorm to get our books just as the bell went. We franticly ran to the charms classroom.
We walked through the door and I looked around for spare seats. There were two next to each other near the back in between James and Remus. Rose took the one next to Remus and I sat in the one next to James.
"Now that we are all here I would like you to get into pairs and just go over what we learnt last year." I looked over at Rose who was moving closer to Remus.
Obviously she was partnering with him so I looked at James, "ummmm do you want to be my partner?" he looked up at me, this is going to be one long year!
"Yeh, okay" he said smiling at me.
As he got out his books, I opened the letter Rose had given me earlier.
Dear Miss Evans
I would like to inform you that at the start of lunch that you and Mr. Potter have a heads meeting with professor Dumbledore in his office. Please be on time and you will discuses plans for the year ahead.
Yours truly,
Professor McGonagall.
"James did you get the note about the meeting this morning?" I asked looking up from the yellowing parchment.
"Yeh I did. You want to go together after class, since we are together in all our classes?"
"Yeh that would be good! Now onto these spells, what one do you want to revise first?"
The rest of the morning went by quickly. James made it enjoyable. He could always seem to make me laugh. After charms we had transfiguration. Rose wasn't in my class because she hadn't taken up NEWT transfiguration so I sat with James again.
After class we walked to Dumbledore's office, talking about the very interesting transfiguration lesson in which James had mixed up two spells and accidentally made the table into a pig. I had laughed uncontrollably until Professor McGonagall had told me to reverse it and then I wasn't concentrating properly and mixed up the spell and made the pig blow up spraying pork everywhere! Professor McGonagall had said that we should concentrate more. "But you must admit that my pig was pretty cool!"
"Yeh, I have always wondered what a purple pig would look like!" we cracked up laughing again.
"Hey at least I wasn't the one who blew it up! Who would have thought that a purple pigs insides would be green?"
We got to the gargoyle and told it the password and it jumped aside instantly. We made our way up the stone stairs and came to an oak door. We made our way in "welcome Lily and James. I can see you had an interesting lesson this morning!"
"Yes professor it was very enjoyable. I do believe we learnt not to mix two spells together," said James grinning at the headmasters chuckling.
"Well let me just clean you two up and we can have a quick discussion about a special event that I want you two to organize!" He waved his wand and the green substance disappeared and we sat down.
"Now I would like you two to keep this between yourselves, but I would like you to organize a Halloween Dance. Instead of the usually feast I want you to organize a dance for the senior years." Lily grasped and James grinned "It can be any theme and students do not have to wear dress robes; I would actually prefer you to do a traditional muggle dance."
"Are you serious professor?"
He nodded
"Wow this is so cool!"
"Now you can get back to me on the arrangements in lets say, a week!" James and I both nodded. "I would also like this opportunity to tell you that you have to patrol every evening after curfew till we have organized the patrol time-table with the prefects. That will be it for now so I suggest that you two get some food and get to your next class."
I got up and made my way to the door, but Professor Dumbledore called me back, "Lily I'm sorry about your loss, just remember that they were very proud of you. If you ever need anything I'm here or I'm quite sure Mr. Potter will be more then glad to assist." he said with that knowing twinkle in his eyes.
James' point of view:
We made our way down to the great hall, more cheerful then before because of the ball. I looked at Lily. She seemed to be back to her happy self once again, but something was different, it wasn't her appearance but more like her aurora.
We walked in to find Remus and Rose snogging and Mel at one end of the table and Sirius at the other end. "I'll be right back I want to see what's up with Sirius," and Lily nodded in reply and she sat down in the set next to Rose and Remus who parted as she sat down.
"Yo, mate what's up?"
"Not much, I just dunno what to do about Mel. I like her but you know, sometimes she can be a bit bitchy….well I guess she is a bitch. Especially after the things she said to Lily."
"Sirius, Lily isn't going to make you chose between having her as a friend or dating Mel, she's not like that. Yes Mel is a bitch but so is everyone else, we all have our bad qualities!"
"I know. But she's not always like that. Just now, Mel won't shut up about Lily and she's saying that all her friends deserve to die!"
"She starting to sound like Sarah," I laughed.
"Enough about me man, what about you! Lily and you were getting on fantastically in class today, I don't think I've seen here laugh so much" he said, smirking at me.
"I dunno what's going on there. Well at least we're friends now and I can work on getting her to fall in love with me later."
"Don't let her catch you saying that!"
"Saying what exactly is that?" her sweet voice asked from behind me.
"Nothing my Lily flower" I said in a sing song voice that matched hers from this morning.
"What did I say about calling me that?" she said amused.
"That you love the way it rolls of my tough?" I asked with what I hoped to look like an innocent puppy-dog face.
"And Mr. arrogant is back!" Sirius chimed in smirking at his friend's humor.
"Merlin help me! Why did my best friend have to be snogging the only guy in the school that would actually have a proper conversation?" she said half heartedly while sliding into the seat next to me.
"I dunno if I want to sit with a girl that thinks I'm not worthy of a proper conversation!" Sirius whimpered.
"But I'm not just any girl am I? I'm Lily Evans! You should feel privileged to be even talking to me!"
"Now who's the arrogant one?" we all laughed. I had made her laugh again and it made me feel like I was on air! The bell rang and we went down to muggle studies. It was one of those boring lessons where we just learnt theory rather then practical stuff. So I watched Lily take notes, her hair falling in her face every so often. She looked up and saw me staring at her. She blushed and smiled and went back to her work still a bit pink in the face. Nothing much eventful happened in class and I walked out with behind Lily. We walked out to the lake and met Rose there.
One of the younger students had brought out their radio and was listening to the wizarding network top 20.
The familiar tune of Ashley Simpson LaLa hit there ears.
"I love this song" Rose said to Lily.
"Yeh I know! It's so hot!" and Lily stood up and started to sway to the music, her hips moved up and down as she did a little dirty dance and stared to sing the words out loud with the song. Her voice was so beautiful it hit all the right notes and sang in tune.
And with that Rose got up and started to dance. Matching Lily's dance, swaying her hips I looked over at Remus who seemed to be enjoying her dancing very much. They started to sing, taking turns to sing verses, there voice sung in harmony.
As Lily danced see turned around and she caught my eyes staring right in to them she sang the last verse while swaying her hips seductively.
I feel my front of my pants tighten as my heart beat faster as she sway and sang the last line still with locked eyes.
Then the song finished and she turned around and hugged Rose laughing. What was that all about? I looked a Lily, who I noticed was looking at me. She turned away and blushed again. Lily Evan seemed to be blushing an awful lot lately if I wasn't mistaken
(I had to take out the lyrics in this part so if I get lost just look up the lyrics and you will be able to see)
Reviews:
ToXiC PrInCeSs- Lol! Yeh I know we didn't die in the mosh pit but you know someone that did get punched in the face don't you! Anyways the tension will all be gone soon. I think probably a few more chapters and then I will bring them together, and then James' fan club will try break em or sumthing, because once they together it can't all be happy can it!
SweetSouthernGal- glad you liked it!
charmingly-holly- thanks for the review, glad you liked it. Yeh I added the drawing to show mainly Lily's change and how she is getting to trust and let James into her life.
Jessie xxx- thanks for the review!
The all mighty and powerfulM- glad you like it! It means a lot to have my work liked! So far, Lily's just tired but I may work in an illness if I need some crisis'.
Hpjsr- yeh I put that in to show her acceptance of James. Thanks for the review.
Greengrl- thanks for the review. Hope you like this chapter!
Thanks for all the reviews keep them coming!(if u didn't know the song Rose and Lily were singing its La La by Ashley Simpson) I tried to get this chap done as soon as I could and I couldn't help but put a little teasing from Lily in just to make James think. (Because I've had enough of guys making me think:( well I've started on the next chap so hopefully it wont be too long a wait! Luv ya all!
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