Lily and James: Their Summer of Love
Disclaimer: I'm a teenager, I do this for fun. None of the characters except Riley and Payton, are mine! Thank you for your cooperation.
authors note: There won't be a lot of Lily in this one, probably just a little piece. It'll mostly revolve around O:PgtF, and Riley/Sirius, Payton/Remus. So yeah...the bet starts after the weekend. And I'm sorry this took soooo long! I had computer problems so it sucked and wouldn't work! Hope yall like this one.
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Chapter 5: Operation: PgtF and Getting Closer
James rolled his eyes. 'Great, another one of Padfoots plans..' Sighing, he looked warily up at Sirius.
"Padfoot. None of these 'operations' ever work. Don't you remember Operation: Get Prongs and Evans to Admit that they are Madly in Love with Each Other?" (O:GPAETATTAMILWE for short)
Sirius shrugged. "No, not really."
James stared at him open-mouthed.
"She turned my hair green! And not lime green or forest green either. SLYTHERIN GREEN!" he shouted.
They all winced slightly at his sudden outburst, before they all doubled over laughing.
Remus snorted.
"I remember that! She was furious. She thought that you had set all of those 'games' up!" he said, overcome by laughter again.
Riley grinned. "Oh yeah, when she got into the Heads Room for a meeting you had chocolate and whipped cream everywhere 'waiting for her'. You're hair was green for a week!"
"And you didn't even notice that she had charmed all of your robes to say 'I love Severus Snape' until Snape actually vomited all over them!" Payton put in, giggling.
Sirius just grinned. That was actually one of his better operations in his opinion.
"Hey, at least your robes didn't say 'I shag Severus Snape'...Oh wait, that was fourth year, wasn't it?" he said smiling amusedly.
James just glared at all of them.
"Shuddup..."
/break/
Lily's Diary
Dear Diary,
Why does he act like that? I finally figure out that, yes, I do like James. (How did that happen?) But then he goes and keeps being the arrogant, egotistical berk that I've always known...That's it. He isn't like that around just me. When we're alone, there are no cover ups. He doesn't try to be suave or smooth when his friends aren't there. But the second Sirius and Remus walk in, he puts on this whole other act. URGH! WHY DOES JAMES POTTER HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT? OF COURSE I LIKE THE DAMN SOD! Okay...calm yourself Lily. Oh, great. Now I'm talking to myself. That boy's driving me mad! What do I do? Damn, there has to be something...I have nothing. Oh, well. Well, I guess I'll just stay in here all day diary. If you think of something let me know. What the hell am I talking about? Your a sodding piece of paper! Never mind. I'll write later.
Love, (why am I saying love to a diary?)
Lily
/break/
Remus grinned. "Ah, c'mon Prongs. This one might actually be okay with the girls here to make sure he doesn't come up with anything stupid." he said nodding his head at Sirius.
"Hey!" Sirius shouted in indignation at being insulted.
"Fine..." James said, grumpily slouching in his chair.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Anyways. I think we should get started. Obviously Lily isn't coming out of her room at all today, or else she would have been down here already."
The others nodded in agreement and decided to go into the living room. When they got in there, Payton and Riley settled themselves comfily on the couch while James and Remus sat in chairs, leaving Sirius with no place to sit.
"Where am I supposed to sit?" he whined, jumping up and down.
"Sit on the floor."
"But I don't wanna sit on the floor, Jamsie!"
"DON'T call me Jamsie."
Sirius pouted his lip and gave everyone the puppy dog face.
Turning towards Riley he jumped in between her and Payton, getting an abundant amount of yells, curses, and slaps his way. Grinning cheekily, he just wrapped an arm around Riley's waist. When she tried to pull away, he just tightened his grip so she could do nothing but stay like that for the rest of their meeting.
"BLACK, LET ME GO!" she yelled, fuming. If she had red hair, she'd almost look exactly like Lily did when she was mad.
Sirius winked at her. "Nah, I don't think I will thanks. I'm quite comfy here."
As she finally stopped struggling, they had wasted at least twenty minutes of their time for planning.
"Okay!" Remus boomed loudly, causing everyone to jump, except James who was still moping gloomily in his chair.
"Okay. We need a plan."
Riley grinned and sat up straighter. Damn, she loved stuff like this.
"Plan A:" she started before she was rudely interrupted by someone's big fat mouth. Three guesses who.
"Why do we need a Plan A?" Sirius asked loudly.
Riley took a deep breath and closed her eyes. It looked as if she was counting to ten...
"We need a Plan A, because we will probably need a Plan B." she explained as if to a two year old.
"But why would we need a Plan B?"
She bit her lip and looked as if she was this close from punching his face in.
"Because Plan A might fail." she said, as best she could through clenched teeth.
"Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh! I gotcha!" he yelled grinning.
"Anyways, as I was saying. Plan A: We could get James over there to wake his lazy arse up, and help us unless he never wants Lily to admit that she likes him!" she shouted, waking a startled James up.
"Wh-what?" he asked, quickly standing up with his wand out.
Payton laughed.
"Slow your roll, cowboy. We were just waking you up."
James raised an eyebrow at the muggle phrase.
Payton just shook her head. "Anyways, the real Plan A: We can make Lily admit her feelings to James like this..."
Riley didn't hear the rest. She was surprisingly quite comfortable and warm with Black's arm around her. She was all of a sudden very sleepy too...
As her eyes fluttered shut, she leaned her head against Sirius's chest and was surrounded by his nice aroma. It smelled like the outdoors, with a mix of that boy smell and the smell of chocolate. Their chests went up and down in unison with each others, as they steadily breathed. Sighing contentedly, she let herself be wrapped into the warmth and his aroma. Mmmm, I could get used to this...she thought happily.
"RILEY! HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO A WORD I'VE SAID!"
As Riley jumped with a start off of Sirius, and blushed furiously, he inwardly cursed Payton. Why not just one more minute?, he thought sighing. She had fit so perfectly against him. Like a puzzle piece. And she smelled SO good. It was the smell of outdoors, with the mix of that girly smell and the smell of cinnamon. It was the perfect aroma and he could have breathed it in all day.
Breaking out of his reverie, he saw that everyone was staring at the two with smirks on their faces.
Suddenly very uncomfortable and warm, he pulled at his t-shirt.
"Is it warm in here to anyone, or is it just me?"
No one answered, but Riley was also fanning herself with her hand, evidently trying to make her blush go away.
Clearing her throat she sat back again, though at least two feet away from Sirius this time.
"Er—what were you saying again?"
Payton rolled her eyes but had the faintest smirk across her lips.
"We were saying that to get Lily to admit her feelings for James, we have to get them somewhere alone. Like, maybe we could go into town and we could all just...leave them somewhere but make sure that we can still see them from where we are."
Riley nodded absently as she listened to all of this rambling, occasionally saying 'yeah', and 'okay', while she was actually thinking about how comfortable she had been. Sirius isn't all that bad...he's actually kind of cute, she thought, then automatically was disgusted with herself. Ugh. This is Black we're talking about. He's rude and a trouble maker and he thinks everyone loves him...he's sweet, he's cute, he smells really really good and—wait NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! Bad thoughts about Black! Gross thoughts. Oh Merlin, I need to wash my brain out with soap...
Sighing, she looked back up to Payton who was finishing off by saying, "So is everyone clear on what we are doing? This is going to happen tomorrow alright?"
As everyone nodded their heads, they stood up.
When Payton stood, she caught the eye of Remus.
He has really nice eyes... she caught herself thinking. She could just get lost in those beautiful, light, blue eyes. As Remus' eyebrows furrowed, Payton realized she was staring and quickly turned away.
Soon everyone had left the room except for Remus and Payton. Payton felt her cheeks and neck heat up with a blush as Remus touched her arm.
"You alright?" he asked, with concerned eyes. "You seem a bit flushed."
Payton smiled shyly.
"Oh, I'm fine. You know, it's like Sirius said. It is a bit warm in here." she said, pretending to fan herself with her hand, like Riley had done earlier.
Remus just nodded, apparently not hot himself.
"Well, er—tomorrow, since we'll be trying to get Lily and James together...I thought that maybe we could go for a coffee or something..." he said, it being his turn to blush.
Payton, though still red, smiled happily.
"That'd be great!" she exclaimed. Now they could still work on the plan while her and Remus went on a date!
Remus grinned at her and shakily said, "Right then...well I'll see you later."
Payton nodded. "Right.."
As Remus briskly walked out of the room, Payton let out a loud squeal, before flopping back down on the couch.
/break/
Just five minutes after Riley left the living room, she heard Payton squeal. She knew what that meant. Payton had a date. Smirking slightly, she walked down the hall for a while, not wanting to return to her room.
After a couple minutes of walking, she realized that she had never been in this hall before. Although she had been here numerous times for the summer and holidays, she always managed to get lost.
Sighing, she looked at the pictures on the walls as she walked, not paying attention to where it was she was going. There was a picture of James when he was 5, a picture of James when he was 6, a picture of James when he was 7, a picture of James when he was 8, a picture of James when he was—
"OOMPH!"
Oww! Damn that hurt! Who the hell did I land on? Riley thought as she massaged her shoulder. Of course her fall would have hurt a lot more if she were the one on the bottom. Who was that anyways? That smell... Slowly opening her eyes, she dreaded the exact sight that was before her. Sirius Black. Him and his nice gray eyes and his cocky smile. Ugh. She hated him.
"Hey, I could get used to this." he started, grinning cheekily at the compromising position they were in.
Somewhere inside the back of her head, a little voice said 'Me too.' Too bad, she couldn't say that.
Rolling her eyes, she made to get off of him, but he already had his arms tight around her waist.
Narrowing her eyes at him she growled, "Let me go, Black." Though she said that, she couldn't ignore the tingly feeling that was running up her spine at his touch.
Sirius shook his head and with a glint in his eye, childishly said, "Nuh uh."
Riley squirmed for a while, before frustrated, looked up at him again. "Black, you let me go! Or I'll—I'll--."
"You'll what?"
"I'll scream." she said glaring at him.
Sirius just laughed. "Go ahead. Me and James sound-proofed these walls last year. It won't do you any good."
Riley lowered her face so that it was mere inches away from his. Breathing heavily she clenched her teeth.
"Black.." she started in a low, menacing whisper, "I said, let me go."
Sirius couldn't help but recognize how beautiful she looked when she was angry. Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes showed this steely glint, and her breathing became rather heavy. He could actually smell the cinnamon on her breath and he longed to taste it. Her long, wavy hair had fell around her face and tickled his, making her look like an angel.
Sirius was no longer smiling. He was looking deeply into her eyes and his face showed something that was not normal for the regular Sirius Black.
Responding quietly, he said, "And I said no..."
Riley was taken aback by the tone of his words. They weren't harsh or cocky, they were just there. Like he really didn't want to let her go.
Looking down into his eyes, she realized how close their faces were. His eyebrows were furrowed and his eyes looked confused but there was something else showing in his eyes that Riley couldn't quite place. His face was more recognizably handsome than usual, and his full, red lips were slightly parted, allowing his warm breath to tickle her face.
What possessed her to do it, she did not know. But she did it.
Leaning down those mere few inches, she closed the space that was separating their lips from being in full contact. His lips were every bit as soft as they had looked. They were warm and, like his smell, tasted faintly of chocolate. Riley didn't notice when his hands traveled up her back and tangled into her hair. The kiss wasn't how she had thought he would kiss at all. She thought he would be rushed and the kiss would be heated with lust. Instead it was sweet and soft, and passionate. All she cared about at that moment, was that she was in his arms, and she felt safe and warm and—at home.
As the kiss came to an end, Riley didn't want to open her eyes and come back to reality. She didn't want to have to face the questions that would come up.
Letting out a shaky breath, she fluttered her eyes open, only to find that Sirius' eyes too were closed.
"Sirius?" she whispered quietly.
He didn't open his eyes.
"Ssshh...no questions."
He understood. Smiling slightly, she laid her head on his chest and closed her eyes again. She knew that they would sometime have to talk about it. They just didn't have to now. Sighing contentedly again, she let herself be smothered by all the warmth and happiness she felt right at that moment.
Okay, It's done. Yall, this chapter took up 11 pages on Microsoft Word and I'm exhausted but very proud of it. Sorry for the long wait, but my computer was being SO stupid! Since my computer was having so many problems, I seriously don't think I'll be able to get another chapter up but I promise, I will try. Anyways, I really really REALLY like this chapter and I hope yall do too! I luv yall soooo much!
Riley