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Chapter 5
The next morning James headed to the Head's Rooms. The dance was today and he wanted to be sure that Remus was right. He'd heard the full story from Sirius, but Janet had been known to lie on more than one occasion.
Like Lily would say yes to Snape, as if. Oh please say she didn't turn me down for Snape. I would DIE.
"Hey, Lily." James politely smiled, trade-mark grin firmly in place. "So …"
"So what?" Lily snapped in return, not even looking up from her Transfiguration Homework.
"So… do you have a date for the ball?" James said, eyes firmly fixed on the floor.
Lily finally looked up, with the air of a cat smelling its prey. "You're not asking me out again are you Potter. I thought you were going with Amelia?"
James sighed and looked up. "No, I am going with Amelia. I just wondered if you had a date."
Lily smirked, seeming to analyse the comment, before returning to her homework. "As a matter of fact I do have a date." Please don't' ask who it's with, please.
"It wouldn't happen to be with one Severus Snape, would it?" inquired James, seeing his chance.
Lily jumped. "HOW DID YOU KNOW!" she yelled, accidentally knocking her homework to the ground.
James simply stared. It took him a while, but finally he choked out "You … you … you mean it's TRUE!"
"Not that it's any of your business," she primly replied, picking up her transfiguration homework and cleaning up some of the blotches she had made on it. This, though, was only a way so she didn't have to look in his eyes. She'd always loved his eyes. "But me and Sev are going to the ball together, and," she added, picking up her watch. "I've got to start getting ready. So bye, James." And with that she ran, helter-skelter, up the stairs to her room before James could do more than blink.
"Well…" he thought as he sat on the couch, blinking excessively. "At least I know who she's taking."
He went up the stairs to his own room and began to get ready, in shock over the new developments in his love-life.